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STATE PAPERS,
DOMESTIC SERIES.
OF THE REIGN OF
ANNE.
PRESERVED IN THE
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VOLUME I.
1702-1703.
EDITED BY
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CONTENTS.


CORRIGENDA
PREFAOFE -
CALENDAR -
GENERAL INDEX


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(iv)
CORRIGENDA.
Page 48, second paragraph, "The Commissioners" of Trade and
Plantations. More usually called " The Council" &c.
Sometimes they appear as "The Committee of Trade
and Plantations."
72, sixth entry, for "Nortra Senhora" &c. read "Nostra
Senhora" &c.,, 136 and 369-70. The note of Commissions for Chelsea Hospital
is, by mistake, entered both in the Calendar and the
Tables.
144-5 and 504. Grant to Anthony Rowe. Same Error as
foregoing.,, 308, line 6, for " Evens " read " Evans.",, 354, 8 lines from end, for " Lossmore " read " Lessmore.",, 372, line 13, for "Partick " read " Patrick.",,  377, line 18, for "Theoder " read " Theodor.",, 528, line 2, for "(1702)" read "(1703)."   The document
should be dated about May, 1703.




PREFACE.


The documents calendared in this volume commence
in March, 1702, at the accession of Queen Anne, and
carry the story of her reign down to the end of May, 1703.
Whilst the volume was in preparation, the Advisory
Committee, which was recently appointed by the Master
of the Rolls, in the course of its investigations considered
the subject of the Calendar of State Papers, Domestic,
for the reign of Queen Anne; and, as a result of their
deliberations, I was requested to divide the documents
into two classes, and to publish the first class in a Calendar
in chronological order, as I had previously done in other
Calendars; but to reserve the second class, summarise
their contents in Tables, and place those Tables at the
end of each year. The Deputy Keeper of the Records
gave me directions as to which documents should be
placed in the Calendar, and which should go into Tables;
and I have to acknowledge his great kindness and
valuable help in carrying out the change. It involved
re-setting a number of pages which had been passed for
press; but I am convinced that the new method of
calendaring-which is, indeed, not new, but was adopted
in the Calendar of Home Office papers of the reign of
George III-is preferable to the old. It will make this
volume more handy and useful to students than it would
have been had the method of placing everything according
to its date been followed.
The documents which have been, or will be, placed
in the Calendar proper are to be found in the Public
Record Office under the following names and numbers:S.P. Dom., Anne, 1-37; S.P. Scotland (Correspondence),
Series II, 1-6, &c.; S.P. Scotland, Letter Books
1-2; S.P. Ireland, 363-370; S.P. Channel Islands,
2, &c.; S.P. Dom., Military, 3-5, 34, 41, 45;
S.P. Dom., Naval, 6-13, 58, 67-8, 117-122, 138,
139; S.P. Dom., Entry Books 101-105, 106, 107-9,




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110-115,146-147,204,206-208,209-219; S.P. Dom.,
Various, 1, 7, 13, 21. A few informal State letters
have been entered in S.P. Dom., Entry Book 350,
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, &c. and in S.P.
Ireland, King's Letter Book 3, &c. (which are
mostly given up to formal documents), and these
are also placed in the Calendar.
The documents or entries which are, or will be, placed
in the Tables are to be found under the following names
and numbers -
S.P. Dom., Naval, 111-115 (Lists of ships); S.P.
Dom., Entry Books 74-76, 77-79a, 150-151, 162 -173, 167-168, 170-173, 174-175, 237-249, 348-354,
355-359, 387-407; S.P. Scotland, Warrant Books
18-29; S.P. Ireland, King's Letter Books, 2, 3, &c.;
S.P. Signet Office, 14-15, &c.; S.P. Signet Office,
123.
The prefatory notes at the heads of the Tables will give
the reader further information as to the contents of each
Table. I must add, however, that at the outset of the
Calendar a few of the entries, especially those from the
Scottish and Irish books which, according to the above
classification, should be placed in the Tables, have been
given in extenso in the Calendar. This has been done,
firstly, to show the reader what manner of documents of
the period under review are compressed into the narrow
limits of the Tables, and, secondly, in cases where a letter,
which is really a document of State correspondence, has
found its way into a book for the most part devoted to
formal grants and warrants. Thus in S.P. Scotland,
Warrant Book 18, in S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, and
in S.P. Dom., Entry Book 350, there are to be found, as
I have shewn above, here and there, interspersed among
formalities, political letters of great interest. In such
cases, my rule of division gives way, and the documents are placed in the body of the Calendar.
It will be seen that the Tables contain only entries
from the Entry Books with the exception of the "Lists
of Ships" Table. This is from S.P. Dom., Naval 111,
which contains a number of minute reports sent by the




PREFACE.                    vii
Lord High Admiral's Advisory Council to' the Secretary
of State weekly during part of the period of this volume.
Until a short time ago, the Entry Books were set apart in
classes according to the various matters with which they
dealt; but lately all these Entry Books have been collected into one great series (of 448 volumes), and the student
has now to dip into this series according to the subjects
on which he desires information.  For the Secretaries of
States' letters, he must go, as he will find from this
Calendar, to Vols. 104, 105 &c., or to Vols. 204, 205 &c.;
for the Caveats to Vols. 74, 75, and for Commissions in
the Army to Vols. 168, 169 &c., and so on. The arrangement of dividing the Calendar into two parts-the
Calendar proper, and the Tables-will be maintained in
the future; and I have therefore thought it right to
explain it at some length. Though I abandoned the
chronological system with reluctance, I feel sure that' the
change was a good one. As the List of State Papers,
Domestic, was under revision at the time of the preparation
of this volume, my task'of collecting everything that had
to be collected would have been difficult had not two
of the permanent officers, Mr. Lyle and Mr. Johnson,
given me their help. I owe much to both of them.
Owing to various reasons, I have decided not to write
an historical preface to this volume. In the first place,
it deals with fifteen months of our history which are very
well known. In the second, the volume is already bulky,
and is swollen by a large Index of over 100 pages. Lastly,
I think it better to defer such a preface until the second
volume (already far advanced) is published: when
opportunity will be given to review the course of events
between the accession of Queen Anne and the battle of
Blenheim. For a general table of contents of the volume,
I refer readers to the Index under the heads " Nottingham "
and " Hedges."  I need only say here that this volume,
dealing as it does with public affairs and administration
at the moment of the outbreak of a great war, cannot
but be of deep interest to many readers at the present
time. In March 1702, England was in a position not
unlike that in which she suddenly found herself in 1914.




viii
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PREIACE.


She was about to engage in a struggle against a powerful
Continental State, and in the course of that struggle was
drawn into combination with several other States on the
Continent, each with different interests of their own, but
all interested in the maintenance of what Queen Anne
called "The Balance of Europe." There are, of course,
many points of difference between the catse for which
England went reluctantly to war in 1702 and the cause
for which she drew her sword in 1914. These similarities
and differences will, however, readily appear to the
readers of this volume, and will no doubt be emphasised
by them when they come to make public use of its
contents. It is not the part of an Editor to deal with them.
The historian sits in the stalls of the theatre whilst the
drama of history is unfolded before him, and records his
experiences' and conclusions. The annalist may more
jtstly be compared to the humble scene-shifter in the wings,
who, in the intervals between his mechanical tasks, pauses
now and then for a moment to look out from his corner
upon the stage. His only advantage-if such it be-is that
he sometimes sees the actors and actresses when the limelight is not upon them.
I have complied with the directions of the Master of
the Rolls by noting unusual phrases, peculiarities of expression &c., where they occur.
R. P. MAHAFFY.
Chancery Lane,
November, 1915.




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.
ANNE.
1702.
[8 March.  CORONATION OATH taken by QUEEN ANNE as Queen of
St. James'.]   Scotland.
" We faithfully promise and swear by this our solemn oath
in presence of the Eternal God that during the whole course of
our life we will serve the same Eternal God to the uttermost
of our power, according as He has required in His most Holy
word revealed and contained in the Old and New Testaments,
and, according to the same word, shall maintain the true religion
of Christ Jesus, the preaching of His Holy Word and the due
and right ministration of the Sacraments now received and
preached within the realm of Scotland, and shall abolish and
gainstand all false religion contrary- to the same; and shall
rule the people committed to our charge according to the will
and command of God revealed in his aforesaid word, and according
to the lovable laws and constitutions received in this realm
noways repugnant to the said word of the eternal God, and
shall procure to the uttermost of our power to the whole Kirk
of God, and whole Christian people, true and perfect peace in
all time coming; That we shall preserve and keep inviolate the
rights and rents with all just privileges of the Crown of Scotland,
neither shall we transfer nor alienate the same; That we shall
forbid and repress in all estates and degrees, reif, oppression and
all kind of wrong; and we shall command and procure that
justice and equity in all judgments be keeped to all persons
without exception, as the Lord and father of all mercies shall
be merciful to us. And we shall be careful to root out all
hereticks and enemies to the true worship of God that shall be
convict by the true Kirk of God of the aforesaid crimes out of
our Lands and Empire of Scotland. And we faithfully affirm the
things above written by our Solemn Oath."
P. ~, followed by
Declaration of Prince George of Denmark and certain Privy
Councillors of Scotland.
We the undersigned, being summoned by the Queen to be
present at the taking of the Coronation Oath, conform to the


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1702.
settlement of the Crown of Scotland, witness that her Majesty
did in our presence take and sign the above oath.
Six lines: Signed at the Palace of St. James', 8 March, 1701-2,
by Prince George of Denmark, the Dukes of Queensberry and
Argyle, the Marquis of Lothian, the Earls of Seafield and Hindford,
Secretaries of State, the Earls of Mar, Morton and Eglinton,
and Viscount Teviot.
In all pp. 1X. Overwritten with Royal Sign Manual (copy).
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, pp. 92 and 93.
8 March.   The Q!EEN to the PRIVY COUNCIL of Scotland.
St. James.  Announces the death of King William and her own accession.
Proceeds:-We, having heard the claim of right and grievances,
have taken and signed the Coronation Oath in presence of several
of the Privy Council whom we called together for that end. We
authorise you to continue to meet and act as our Privy Council,
as you did in the reign of King William III, until you receive
a new commission therefor under our hand. We also authorise
and require you with the proper care and solemnity to publish
our enclosed Proclamation ordering all our officers of state,
councillors, magistrates &c. to continue in their offices until new
commissions under our hand can be sent down to them. On
this occasion we give you and all our people assurance of our
firm resolution always to protect their religion, laws and liberties,
and also "the establishment Government (sic) of the Church,"
and that we will do everything possible for their happiness and
prosperity. In return for our protection we shall expect your
loyal service, as you gave it to King William.
P. i. Overwritten as foregoing and countersigned (copy) by
Secretary Seafield. Ibid, pp. 93, 94. Enclosing -
Proclamation of Queen Anne.
Announces King William's death.   Authorises all Scottish
officers, civil and military, to continue to act under their
commissions from the late King till new commissions can be
prepared and sent down to them.
P. i. Ibid, p. 95.
Same.     ROYAL WARRANT for the EARL OF MARCHMONT.
King William by his commission, authorised Patrick, Earl of
Marchmont, to represent him in the present Assembly of the
Church of Scotland. The Queen, anxious to favour the Assembly,
and convinced of the sufficiency of the Earl of Marchmont,
ordains a new commission to be passed under the Great Seal
of Scotland continuing him in that place and authority under
her Majesty. Full powers to be inserted in the grant. The
Queen desires all ministers and elders of the said Assembly and
Church, with all others her. Majesty's good subjects, to obey
the Earl of Marchmont as her High Commissioner. This commission to be in force during the ensuing session or till recalled
and discharged. The commission to be extended in the most
ample and best form, and to pass the Great Seal per saltunm without
passing any other seal or register.  This shall warrant the




ANNE.


3


1702.
directors of her Majesty's Chancellery to draft the letter and
the appender of the Seal to append it.
P. 1. Overwritten and countersigned as foregoing, with docquet
at foot.
Pp. 11. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, pp. 95-7.
9 March.   MANCHESTER to the MAYOR OF CANTERBURY.
Whitehall.  You and others [named] have done well in stopping Charles Trant,
an Englishman, and also an alleged servant of the Venetian
ambassador here from going to France. Liberate the servant,
after taking his namie, and send up Trant by the messenger who
bears this, and has my warrant to receive him.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 189.
10 March.  SAME to MR. METHUEN.
Whitehall.  Announces the King's death. Steps are being taken to continue
all things on the same footing as the King put them, and will
no doubt succeed both at home and abroad.      Proceeds:
Enclosed is the Queen's letter of notification of the King's death
to the King of Portugal; and a copy is also sent. Deliver it
as soon as it comes to your hands to the Secretary of State, to be
presented to the King. We shall send new letters of credence
and instructions by the next post, to the Groyne [Corufia].
which leaves this day fortnight.  In the meanwhile, act as
formerly, and take care that the Consul at Lisbon does
so likewise, that the merchants may suffer no inconvenience.
You shall put yourself and servants into the strictest mourning,
for which allowance will be made to you in your next bill of
extraordinaries.
You see plainly by the Queen's Declaration and the addresses
of both Houses of Parliament that it is their resolution "to
maintain the alliances made for abating the exorbitant power
of France." The King's death will make no difference in this
matter: of which you will make the ministers of that Court as
sensible as you can.
Pp. 1I.   Copy.  Signed.  Endorsed: "Notification to the
Ministers of King William's death."
S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 1.
Same.     SAME to the MAYOR OF DOVER.
From whom did the Portuguese envoy's servant who, you
say, went over to France on Sunday morning, have his pass?
Pray send me the pass if you can come at it. Observe my
directions as to stopping all who wish to leave, and watching
all who land from France or French Flanders.
P. W. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 188.
Same.     VERNON to CHIEF JUSTICE HOLT.
The Queen has ordered the Council to meet at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St. James', when her Majesty would have your
Lordship be present and prepared to give your opinion on the
Bill of Rights and the last Act for enlarging the Succession,




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1702.
whether there be anything in those Acts that her Majesty is
required to perform at her first coming to the House of Lords.
P. W. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 337.
Also notes of the like letters to the Attorney-General and the
Solicitor-General. Ibid.
10 March.   MANCHESTER to the LORDS JUSTICES of Ireland.
Whitehall.  I have yours of the 4th and 6th and suppose that the petition
enclosed therein of Col. Gustavus Hamilton should now    be
presented to the Queen. The other papers of Capt. Spraggs,
Lord Mountjoy &c., which you mention are not come to hand.
You will have letters from the Privy Council on the King's death.
P. I. S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 2, p. 471.
10 March.   ROYAL WARRANT to SAME.
St. James.  By orders of 19 February last you were directed to cause
our several regiments of foot in Ireland to be at once recruited
to 12 companies of two sergeants, three corporals, two drummers
and 50 private soldiers, the servants included in each company.
Four regiments of foot from Ireland, to be appointed by
Major-General Thomas Erle, are to be put on board the fleet
for this summer's expedition. For the better and more speedy
recruiting of those regiments you are to cause 40s. a man to
be issued out of the revenue of Ireland to the respective colonels
of the said four regiments for so many privates (the servants
excluded) as by the said orders they are to raise for recruiting
their regiments to the above-named strength. At their embarkation
you shall cause them to be cleared all the arrears then due to
them.
P. S. S.P. Signet Office 14, p. 436.
11 March.   MANCHESTER to the MAYOR OF CANTERBURY.
Whitehall.  Plummer, Percivall and Brown, whom you have stopped on
their way abroad, are to be set at liberty, and Plummer and
Percival are to have back their letters. Permit them to return
here, but not to go towards France. Detain Trant till a messenger
arrives to take him, and continue to prevent persons going to
France till further order.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 190.
12 March.   MANCHESTER'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  (1) To the Mayor and Recorder of Canterbury.
I disapprove your arrest of several servants of public ministers.
It must not be done again in the case of any person who has a
pass from  a minister [resident at the English Court].   If
M. Percivall, the Savoy envoy's steward, is still in Canterbury
give him the enclosed letter. If he is gone return it to me. Do
not open letters found on persons going to France; but, if you
have cause to suspect them, send them to me "to prevent the
clamours that are made for what is newly passed."
P. 1. Ibid, p. 191.




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1702.
12 March.    (2) To Mr. Entwisle.
Whitehall.  Concerning Mary Hamilton's affidavit.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 192.
13 March.   WARRANT by the LORDS COMMISSIONERS of the TREASURY to
Cockpit,        CHARLES, LORD [MARQUIS OF] HALIFAX, Auditor of the
CTreasry        Receipt of Exchequer.
Chambers.
By virtue of her Majesty's letters under the Privy Seal of
13 March, these are to pray you &c. to draw an order to pay
to the Paymaster General of her Majesty's Land forces, or
his assigns, 1,000,0001. by way of imprest upon account for the
pay of such of her said forces as are committed to his care and
for the contingent charges thereof according to the establishment
and pursuant to such orders or warrants as shall be signed by
her Majesty in this behalf. The same to be satisfied out of
such moneys in the Receipt of the Exchequer as are applicable
thereto.
P.;. Signed by Carlisle, 11. Boyle and Richard Hill.
Endorsed generally, and "Warrant. Entered," and with date of
Auditor's order.* 14 March, 1701[2]. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 2.
13 March.   ROYAL WARRANT to the LORDS JUSTICES of Ireland.
We have ordered two regiments of foot to be at once raised
in Ireland for active service, which are to consist of twelve
companies (strength given as in the warrant of 10 March, 1702,
above, p. 4), and are to be commanded by Col. Richard Coote
and Col. Thos. Meredyth; and we have ordered 40s. levy money
to be paid to each man. Give orders for paying 1,1001. to each
of their colonels for levy money for his regiment, and cause
7771. 10s. lid. to be paid to those who provide shipping and
provisions for the transport of the three troops of the Earl of
Arran's regiment of horse and the two troops of dragoons from
Ireland to England, or so much thereof as shall be necessary for
that purpose.
P. i. S.P. Signet Office 14, pp. 436-7.
14 March.   SAME to the COMMISSIONERS of the PRIVY SEAL.
Westminster.  Directing them  to cause letters under the Privy Seal to be
addressed to the Keeper of the Great Seal, ordering him to cause
letters to be made forth patents under the Great Seal as
follows:Form   follows, commissioning John, Earl of Marlborough
Captain-General of all the troops and land forces which are or
shall be allowed by Act of Parliament to be kept on foot, either
at home or serving with the Allies abroad. He is authorised
* After the Auditor of the Receipt got this ordinary Treasury money
warrant he himself made an order authorising the Teller to issue the money. The
date endorsed on the back of these warrants is the date of such order. Charles,
Earl of Carlisle, the Hon. Henry Boyle, Sir Stephen Fox, Richard Hill and
Thomas Pelham were at this date Commissioners of the Treasury (commission
dated 30 Dec., 1701). On May 8, 1702, the Treasury was taken out of commission
and Sidney, Lord Godolphin appointed Lord High Treasurer.




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1702.
to exercise the troops, cause them to be weaponed, have
musters taken as often as he thinks fit, divide the army
into parties, regiments &c., as he thinks fit, resist invasion,
and repress rebellion; to fight with, kill &c., and at his
discretion, to pardon all enemies and rebels; to hold military or
martial courts at his discretion in pursuance of the Act of
King William III,* and to exercise and execute martial law
accordingly. (Details.) The office to be held during pleasure.
Clause enjoining obedience on all subordinate officers. Usual
clause of warranty.
Pp. 31. Draft. Signed, John Nicholas. Endorsed. S.P. Dom.,
Anne 1, 3.
17 March.   MANCHESTER to SEAFIELD.
Whitehall I send copies of letters from  the Lord High Admiral and
Captain Cleveland, and will discuss them with you to-morrow
morning if you will allow me.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 192.
17 March.   The QUEEN to the PROVOST and SENIOR FELLOWS of TRINITY
St. James'.     COLLEGE, near Dublin.
The College statutes forbid any Fellow to be absent from the
College for above 63 days in the year without our dispensation.
Dr. Owen Lloyd, Senior Fellow and Professor of Divinity, asks
leave of absence from now till 1 December next for his health's
sake. Granted. He is excused from residence and from all duties
as Fellow or Professor during that time, and shall during his
absence have all the profits and privileges due to him as Fellow
and Professor, and shall be in no way prejudiced by his absence,
"whereof we have thought fit hereby to give you notice that
due obedience be paid to our pleasure herein accordingly."
P. W. S.P. Signet Office 14, p. 438.
Also note of same. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 163, p. 146.
18 March.   MANCHESTER'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Lord High Admiral.
Lord Secretary Seafield will call on you to discuss the stopping
in Scotland by the Council there of two regiments which were
shipped off from thence. They were stopped out of a desire
for the safety of that Kingdom. P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book
204, p. 313.
2. To Same.
Queen's command:-Order the commander transporting Colonel
Row's and Colonel Ferguson's regiments [those mentioned in the foregoing] to follow the directions of the Council of Scotland. P. I.
Ibid, p. 314.
3. To Seafield.
I have to send the Queen's orders to the Lord High Admiral
to order the commander of the ships, which carry Col. Row's and
Col. Ferguson's regiments, to follow such orders as he shall receive
* 13 and 14 W. and M., c. 2.




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from the Council of Scotland for landing the men or sailing with
them to Holland, as they shall think proper. I have just written
to the Lord High Admiral to that purpose.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 188.


19 March.   4. To the Mayor or Chief Magistrate of Rye.
Whitehall. As the Queen has been pleased to order the post towards
France and Flanders to be opened again, I give you notice of it
that you may not longer stop the French boat of which you
wrote on the 12th or any vessels bound to those parts. Continue
to be careful to examine such persons coming in from France
and Flanders, or going thither, as you have reason to suspect,
and give me notice of it.
P. i. Ibid, p. 193.
5-8. Similar letters to the Mayors of Folkestone, Dover, Romney
and Hastings.   The letter to the Mayor of Dover mentions
the packet-boats, which are to be allowed to go.
In all pp. 2. Ibid, pp. 193-5.
9. Similar letter to the Postmaster General. He may direct
the packets to France and Flanders to sail as usual.
Four lines. Ibid, p. 195.


19 March.   ROYAL WARRANT to the CHANCELLOR and PRIVY COUNCIL of
St. James'.     Scotland.
We have had under our consideration the 17th Act of the
6th Session of the current Parliament [of Scotland], which enacts
that if the House is under adjournment at the time of the late
King's death, his death should not dissolve it; but that it should
meet in 20 days from that time and sit for six months, unless
dissolved or adjourned sooner by his successor, according to the
Declaration of Estates dated 11 April, 1689. According to that
Declaration, the right to the Imperial Crown of Scotland is now
devolved on us, and we are resolved that the Parliament shall
meet as soon as possible, since we repose full trust in their zeal
and loyalty to us and the constitution of the Government, which
they proved in the time of King William III.   Having many
important affairs to settle which we cannot possibly adjust in
so short a time, we require you to adjourn the House from
14 April next, to which it was last adjourned, to 26 May, when
all the members shall attend at Edinburgh in the usual way.
We are fully resolved that our Parliament shall meet on that
day without further delay.
P. 1. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, pp. 97-8.*
Same.     The QUEEN to the SAME.
Your letter gives us a very satisfactory account of your
proceedings. We thank you for your expressions of loyalty,
and expect your care, at the present juncture, in all things which
concern the peace and security of our ancient Kingdom.
* Unless otherwise stated, these Scottish Warrants are overwritten with the
Royal Sign Manual and countersigned by a Secretary of State for Scotland as
mentioned above, pp. 2, 3.




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1702.
We are very sensible of the loss which these Kingdoms have
sustained by the death of King William, " who, under God, was
their deliverer from Popery and arbitrary power." We thank
you for your loyalty to his memory; " and we shall ever think
that those who have been faithful to him will continue to be
so to us, being that it is our Royal resolution and firm intention
to maintain the Protestant interest, and to govern our people
according to their laws and to protect them in all their concerns,
civil and ecclesiastick."  We think it necessary that all persons
in public trust, whether civil or military, should take the oaths
of allegiance and assurance as you and the other Lords of the
Privy Council here have done. We leave the time of their doing it
to your appointment.
We have ordered the Lord High Admiral of England to direct
the commander of the frigates, which have on board the regiments
of Cols. Row and Ferguson to obey your orders either for their
debarquing or sailing to Holland; but unless you find it
absolutely necessary that they continue in Scotland, we expect
that you will not detain them, seeing they are a part of those
troops designed for the assistance of our Allies abroad. But
we empower you to act in this matter as you think best for our
service.
We intend as soon as possible to take the affairs of Scotland
in hand, and to despatch the Duke of Queensberry as Commissioner there and all our other [Scottish] servants who are here.
Give directions to all the Privy Council and our other servants to
attend our service there.
Pp. 1a. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, pp. 99-100.
20 March.   VERNON to the COMMISSIONERS OF TRADE AND PLANTATIONS.
Whitehall.  Queen's command:-To send you enclosed extract of a letter
from Mr. Robinson, her Majesty's Resident in Sweden, together
with a project of a convention between England and Sweden
for regulating commerce during a war. You are to consider
it and report on its conveniency and practicability.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 337.
Also note that the extract and project were entered in the
Book of public Acts.
20 March.   WARRANT by the LORDS COMMISSIONERS of the TREASURY
Cockpit,      to the AUDITOR of the EXCHEQUER.*
Treasury
Chambers.  To pay to Sir Thomas Littleton, Treasurer of the Navy, or
his successor, any sums not exceeding 1,000,0001. in the whole
by way of imprest and upon account for the use and service of
the Navy and the victualling thereof, to be paid out of moneys
in the Exchequer applicable thereto.
P. W. Signed by Fox, Boyle, Hill and Pelham.        Underwritten "Intr."  Endd.   "Warrt. Treasurer Navy, 1,000,0001.
Ent.   Ordd.* 21st March, 1701[2]. Intr."  S.P. Anne 1, 4.
* See the note to the Warrant above, page 5, to which this is similar in form.
Hereinafter the date of these orders endorsed on these Warrants is simply
calendared as "Date of Order " at the end of each Warrant.




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21 March.   VERNON'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Lord Mayor of York.
Acknowledges news of the proclamation of the Queen at
York. Six lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 338.
2. To the High Sheriff of York.
Similar to foregoing. Seven lines. Ibid.
23 March.   SAME.
Whitehall.  1. To the Lord High Admiral.
Queen's command:-To send you the address of the House
of Commons relating to the several abuses in the Victualling
Office. You are to give the necessary orders for remedying
the same for the future.
P. -. Ibid, p. 339. Enclosing the resolution as follows:18 March, 1701(2). Resolved:That it appears to this House that there hath been a great abuse
committed in her Majesty's Brew-House at St. Katherine's
by drawing of the first worts to the defrauding of her Majesty
and prejudice of the seamen.
That the pretence of taking perquisites in her Majesty's Office
of Victualling tends much to the prejudice of the service.
Ordered:-That these resolutions be laid by way of address
before her Majesty by such members of the House as are of
the Privy Council.
P. t. Ibid.
2. To Same.
Queen's command:-To send you an advice received showing
the intention of the French to erect a fortification in Newfoundland. You are to consider it, that care may be taken for the
security of the Queen's subjects in those parts.
P. i. Ibid, p. 340. Enclosing:Deposition of John Fallais, of the Island of Guernsey, taken
9 March, 1701.
Sworn, he said:-Was at Brest about three months since.
Nine three-deck ships and sixteen other men-of-war, of from
thirty to sixty guns, were then fitting out there, but on what
errand he knows not. On 2 March last deponent was at
St. Malo's, and forty-five ships of from twelve to forty guns
were fitting out there for Chapeau Rouge in Newfoundland.
Twenty-five of these vessels were in the road, and almost ready
to sail, and every ship was to carry stones for building a
fortification at Chapeau Rouge to mount upwards of 100 guns.
With copy of Fallais' mark, taken at Poole before Hill
Williams, Deputy-Mayor, and Moses Durell, Sherif.
P. i. Ibid, pp. 340-1.
3. To the Duke of Ormond.
The Queen desires to speak with your Grace at the " Cabinet
Council" which is appointed to meet on Wednesday next at




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1702.
5 p.m. at St. James', in relation to the expedition intended by
the land forces that are to be put on board the fleet.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 206-7, p. 20. Also S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 102, p. 341.
24 March.  ROYAL WARRANT to the LORDS JUSTICES OF IRELAND.
St. James'. By order in Council of 18 December last, it was ordered that
3,000 snaphaunce muskets and 1,000 large pikes should be
delivered out of the stores of the Ordnance here for the supply
of magazines in Ireland. The cost of these, and the freight
thereof, will amount to 3,3161. 10s. Od. This sum is to be paid
out of the Irish Revenue. When you receive the arms, give
the necessary directions for making this payment (and also a
sum for remittance and exchange on the same) to the Treasurer
of our Ordnance here.
P. 1. S.P. Signet Office 14, pp. 438-9.
25 March.  WARRANT of the LORDS COMMISSIONERS of the TREASURY to
Cockpit,      the AUDITOR of the EXCHEQUER.
Treasury
Chambers.  By virtue of the "general letters of Privy Seal " of 13 March,
and in pursuance of a Sign Manual warrant of 24 March, we
require you to draw an order for paying to William, Lord Bishop
of Worcester, Lord Almoner, or his assigns, 3001. without account
or other charge for the charges of 38 poor men and 38 poor women,
for money, shirts, stockings, victuals and all other expenses whatsoever relating to the Maundy, to be paid out of any sums in
receipt of the Exchequer applicable to the uses of the civil
Government.
P. 1. Signed by Fox, Boyle and Hill. Underwritten " Intr."
Endd. generally and with date of order, 27 March. Also Endd.
"Warrant," " Entered" and " Intr."  S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 6.
25 March.  ROYAL WARRANT to the CHANCELLOR and COMMISSIONERS of
St. James'.    the TREASURY OF SCOTLAND.
We understand that after the dissolution of the General
Assemblies in the time of King William, 4001. was always allowed
by him for assisting the ministry to defray the charge of their
public meetings and judicatures and their other concerns in
common. Pay that sum to the Moderator of the Commission,
either out of the readiest of the Bishop's rents or, failing that,
out of the revenue most readily available, to be spent by him
as the Commission shall order, and for which he and the
Commission shall account to the next Assembly.
P. I. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, pp. 100, 101.
26 March.  MINUTES of the COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL.
To write to the Earl of Marlborough that four regiments be sent
from Holland to go on board the fleet, to be replaced by new
raised regiments.
Two companies to be added to the Fusiliers and that regiment
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The 200 dragoons are proposed to be taken out of Floyd's
regiment, which makes up that number without being recruited.
It is proposed that five regiments be sent from Ireland aboard
the fleet, that the Queen's directions for this purpose be signified
to the Lord Lieutenant, and that they be provided with tents
from the Office of Ordnance here.
Three regiments more to be provided with tents, and 600 saddles
and bridles for dragoons to be furnished by the Ordnance.
A list of the train is already before the Office of Ordnance.
100 horses for the train to be provided by the Ordnance.
Shipping for the train horses for six months, per mensem [sic].
Sixteen engineers to be provided by the Ordnance.
Two thousand spare muskets to be added to the train.
Regiments all to have muskets, and their proportion of pikes to be
carried.
P. 1.  Endd.  S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 7.
26 March.  VERNON to the EARL OF ROMNEY.
Whitehall.  The Queen orders me to send you the enclosed demands of
the Duke of Ormond for a sea expedition. You are to consider
them. Let the Queen know what the Office of Ordnance has in
store of these demands, what sum of money will be necessary
for providing the rest and in what time the whole can be got
ready, "the service requiring the greatest dispatch."
I send two papers sent in by the Duke. Please return them
as I have had no time to have copies made.
The Queen expects your report to be laid before her at the
Cabinet Council on Sunday next.
P. ~.  S.P. Dom., Entry Book 206-7, p. 20; accompanied
by:The Duke of Ormond's demands for the Office of Ordnance
for the sea expedition.
1. A train of artillery as is specified in a paper already delivered
to the Office of Ordnance, a copy whereof is annexed.*
2. Officers, ministers and attendants for the train as proposed
in a paper, No. 6.
3. Sixteen engineers to attend the train.
4. One hundred horses, with harness, for use of the train.
5. Shipping and provisions for the train and horses belonging
to it for six months.
6. Tents for eight complete regiments of foot, according to
the new establishment.
7. Each soldier in these regiments is to have a musket, besides
the usual proportion of pikes. Four more regiments which are
to come from Holland are to be provided with muskets and
pikes in the like manner.
8. 2,000 more muskets, making in all 4,000 spare muskets.
9. 600 saddles and bridles for dragoons.
P. 2. Ibid, p. 21.
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26 March.    VERNON'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
The Queen designs five entire regiments, according to the new
establishment, to be drawn out of Ireland to be put on board
the fleet this summer.   Her Majesty desires you to give the
necessary orders for completing these regiments and preparing
them for embarking at once.
P. 3. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 206-7, p. 22.
2. To the Commissioners of Transport.*
The Queen directs you to prepare an estimate for shipping
285 horses, with hay and oats, for three months, and for the cost
of monthly supplies in case they remain out longer. The
estimate is to be ready to be laid before her Majesty by Sunday
next.
P. i. Ibid.
3. To the Lord High Admiral.
Sends petition of Captain John Hooper for consideration and
report. Further pleasure.t
P. a. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 348. Enclosing.Petition of Ilooper to the Queen, shewing that:Petitioner served King William as Captain of the Penzance.
In June, 1696, on the complaint of Robert Haistwell he
was suspended without a hearing by the Board of Admiralty,
and in the following August was dismissed for discharging
men for bribes upon the single testimony of his lieutenant,
who was then actually dismissed the service for notorious
neglect of duty.
Petitioner, now as then, utterly denies this charge, and hopes that,
as his accuser is the only witness against him and is under
the same sentence of the then Board, he may have no more credit
than the Petitioner.
Petitioner has been dismissed from the Navy near six years,
which would have in part, he hopes, expiated any ofence
which might have been proved against him.
Prays for remission of his sentence that he may be employed
in the service.
P. 1}. Ibid, pp. 348-9.
Same.     MANCHESTER to the LORDS JUSTICES OF IRELAND.
Yours of the 19th came here to-day by Nuting.
The Queen is well pleased with what you have done and with
your loyalty and affection to her service. Your address is ordered
to be printed in the Gazette.   I have yours mentioning that
Captain Alexander Stuart of Colonel Cunningham's regiment
of dragoons is dead and recommending Captain Henry Wood
* Called in the MS. "of Transport," " of Transports," " of Transportation"
and "for Transportation."
t Throughout the Calendar I use this abbreviation for " whereon her Majesty
will express her further pleasure," which is the usual and formal ending to
references of petitions.-Ed.




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1702.
to succeed him. I will hand this to the Lord Lieutenant, through
whose hands such things must pass. The " address of the City of
Dublin, and the University there,"* I have received, and will lay
before the Queen.
Pp. 14. S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 2, pp. 472-3.
26 March.    SEAFIELD to the REV. DAVID WILLIAMSON, Moderator of the
Whitehall.      General Assembly of the CHURCH of SCOTLAND.
The Queen received the letters from the General Assembly
which were directed to the late King, and notes with satisfaction
their gratitude for the late King's favour and protection. The
Queen graciously received the address from the Commission
appointed by the last Assembly. Inform the Commission (now
adjourned) of this when it re-assembles; and assure them of the
Queen's determination to maintain the present government
of the Church and give all due encouragement to the ministers
in the exercise thereof.
P. 1. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, p. 102.
27 March.   TREASURY WARRANTS.t
1. To draw an order for paying to Thomas Austin, late Receiver
of Taxes in the counties of Chester and North Wales (and now
Receiver of same for Hampshire) 7761. 14s. 6d. over-paid by him
in respect of the second 2s. aid for the County of Chester in 1700.
The same sum to be at once repaid into the Receipt of
Exchequer on his account of the said aid for the counties of
North Wales. Details.
P. 2. Signed by Carlisle, Boyle, Hill and Pelham. Endd.
Date of order 9 April. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 8.
2. Same for paying John, Earl of Marlborough, or his assigns,
2,6001. without account; 1,3001. for arrears of his salary of 1001. a
week as Ambassador to the States General to 26 Dec. last, and the
rest "in advance " for his salary in that post.  Details as to fund
from which the payments are to come.
P. 3. Signed as foregoing. Endd. Date of order 2 April.
Ibid, 9.
28 March.   The COMMISSIONERS of TRANSPORT to SECRETARY VERNON.
Transrte   In  obedience to her Majesty's commands they send the
enclosed.
P. a.   Signed by   Samuel Atkinson    and Nicholas Roope.
S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 6. Enclosing:A. Estimate for transport of Horses.
Gives the charge of shipping and necessary provisions for
transport of 285 horses for 90 days, and what the same will
further amount to per month, viz:-for three months.
* The phrase is ambiguous as to whether there were separate addresses from
the City and University or not.
t All these Warrants follow the form set out above, pp. 5 and 8, and are, unless
otherwise stated, addressed from the Cockpit, Treasury Chambers, to Lord Halifax,
Auditor of the Receipt of Exchequer. See as to endorsements the notes above,
pp. 5 and 8. The details of the endorsements are not hereinafter given except the
date of the auditor's order.




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1702.
151b. weight of hay a day is allowed for each
horse. This will amount in all to 213 load,
13jcwt. As it must be pressed it will cost
about 31. 10s. Od. per load or....    7481. 2s. 6d.
Ropes to bind the hay........      201. Os. Od.
Oats.-One peck a day each horse is 801 quarters,
18 pecks, at 14s. per quarter, or....  5611. Is. 10ld.
Dry cask for the oats, 2001 tuns, at 20s. a tun. 2001. 10s. Od.
Water cask, 2- tuns to each horse. These
must be new and iron bound and will cost
50s. a tun.......  1,7811. 5s. Od.
285 stalls floored with plank and the horses
slung, will cost 30s. per horse at least, or..  4271. 10s. Od.
Shipping.-For the horses and their supplies
2,280 tons of shipping will be needed. This
will cost at 14s. a tun* a month....  4,7881. Os. Od.
Incident charges........     401. Os. Od.
Also, estimate of what the same service will cost for one month.
P. i. Dated, Transport Office, 28 March, 1702. Endd.  S.P.
Dom., Naval 117, 6A.
28 March.   MANCHESTER to BARON HATSELL.
Whitehall.  Queen's command:-To send you the enclosed petition. You
are to report to the Queen how the fact appeared to you upon
the trial, and how far you judge the petitioner's husband an
object of the Queen's mercy. Further pleasure.
If you will send your report to me I will take care to lay it
before the Queen.
P. j. Followed by:Petition to the Queen of Mary, wife of Luke Mathews.
Luke Mathews is now under sentence of death at Chelmsford
jail, and petitioner shews that:Her husband six months ago listed himself in Captain Venter's
company. Three days later he and others made their escape
out of a boat that was carrying them and others down the river
to embark for Holland.
He was taken and committed to Newgate and lay there till last
week, when he was sent to Chelmsford. There he and two others
who escaped with him were indicted for robbing the boat of a
pair of pistols and an old brass-mounted sword. Of this they
were found guilty and five or six more acquitted. Petitioner has
three small children and is with child, and prays for pardon of
her husband, who would serve at sea.
P. A. In all p. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 196.
Same.     VERNON to the DUKE OF ORMOND.
By the Queen's command, summoning him to a Cabinet Council
to be held at St. James' at 6 p.m. on 29 March in relation to
the expedition of the land forces that are to go on board the fleet.
* The word is so spelt throughout whether used as a weight or a large cask.




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1702.
Five lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 206-7, p. 23.       Also
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 341.
28 March.   ROYAL WARRANT to the CHANCELLOR and PRIVY COUNCIL of
St. James'.     SCOTLAND.
We hear that Allaster McDonald has been thrice tried before
the Commission of Justiciary of the Northern district for robbery,
and that, after the two first trials, he was reprieved by you and
that you had voted to commute his sentence; but that in the
meantime he has been again tried before the Commission on a
similar charge and sentenced to die on April 3. Several of
the Commissioners differed on the matter, and have so reported
to you, and some of the Privy Council of Scotland who are here
think McDonald may be reprieved till the proceedings of the
aforesaid trial are before you. Reprieve him till 10 June next,
and investigate the trial and proceedings, and report to us thereon.
Meantime stop the execution of the sentence.
P. 2. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, pp. 102-3.
30 March.   VERNON to the POSTMASTERS GENERAL.
Whitehall.  To send enclosed to-night to Mr. Edisbury at Harwich.
Three lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 342. Enclosing:Vernon to Mr. Edisbury.
I have received an account of a dangerous person who is coming
from Holland into England on some ill design. His name
is Bernardo Tyrconnell, a Dominican friar, but without
doubt he will take some other upon him. "He is a little
lean man, hollow eyed, a Roman nose, in a light grey or
pearl coloured cloth coat with steel buttons." If he comes
your way, he must be secured, and strictly searched for papers.
Let me know if you get him, that I may send down a messenger
to bring him up.
P. i. Ibid, pp. 342-3.
31 March.   SAME to CAPTAIN NASH.
Whitehall.  I have an account of a priest that is coming over from Holland,
and I believe, upon some design against the Government. It is
likely he may come your way in one of the passage boats: so I
have sent down a messenger with a warrant to apprehend him,
whom you must assist as well as you can.
P. i. Ibid, p. 343.
31 March.   NOTE for the DIVIDEND for MARCH, 1702.
This is a list apparently kept for the purpose of calculating
the fees due to different persons on grants passing the Seals.
The list is preserved for each month, and shews the recipients
of grants or warrants. On the left and right of their names are
two rows of figures, the right column shewing (apparently) the
fees due to the Secretary of State, and the left the fees due to
Lord Privy Seal.*  The first of these lists is given below as a
* See the Note for the Dividend of December, 1702 (below at 31 Dec., 1702),
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1702.
specimen, and the others are calendared shortly, the grants or
items of general interest alone being noted. The sums in the
left column in the original are in this transcript placed first after
the name &c.
Mr. Young, Deanery....  01. 6s. 8d.    11. 6s. 8d.
Lords of the Treasury, dormant
warrant......     13s. 4d.    21. 13s. 4d.
Warrants to be issued on Sign
Manuals......  rem[anent].   rem[anent].
Earl of Ranelagh, warrant..   01. 6s. 8d.    11. 6s. 8d.
Earl of Marlborough, Commission....       01. 6s. 8d.    11. 6s. 8d.
Loans on the Malt, warrant..  rem[anent].    rem[anent].
Treasurer of the Navy, warrant 01. Os. Od.    pro Regina
Treasurer of  the   Ordnance,
warrant.....     same.         same.
Mayor, Jurats &c. of Dover,
grant. Two perpet(uities). Two perpet.     81. 13s. 4d.
Mr. Martyn, Prebendary.. 01. 6s. 8d.     11. 6s. 8d.
Master   of  the    Wardrobe,
warrant......  01. 6s. 8d.    11. 6s. 8d.
Paymaster   of   the   Works,
warrant......        01. Os. Od.    pro Regina.
Col. Dudley, Commission; two
sk(ins) and rev(erse)...  01. 13s. 4d.   31. Os. Od.
Same.         Same..   01. 13s. 4d.   31. Os. Od.
Earl of Northampton, grant [in]
perpet[uity].....      rem[anent].   rem[anent].
Totals......  31. 13s. 4d.  241. Os. Od.
P. i. Endd. "Note for the Divident, March, 1702."     S.P.
Dom., Anne 1, 10.
31 March.   VERNON to the COMMISSIONERS of the TREASURY.
Whitehall  The Queen having the charge of the sea expedition under
consideration, desires me to send the several particulars proposed
by the Duke of Ormond and the Earl of Romney for which
provision should be made. These are:Payment of general officers and contingent charge thereon.
Shipping for 425 horses and provision for these whilst on board.
Sea victuals for 230 dragoons and for general officers and
their servants, and for the officers and attendants of the train
of artillery.
The Queen desires you to consider these particulars and report
your opinion as to how far they may be supplied out of the money
given by Parliament for the service of this year, and what will
still remain to be furnished if any other means can be found for it.
The Earl of Romney has represented that 10,0001. must
necessarily be furnished to the Office of Ordnance within a week
in order to enable them to furnish such particulars for the
expedition as are not in their stores. The Queen wishes you
to consider how this sum may be supplied.




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1702.
P.S.-The Duke of Ormond's demands are enclosed. I have
not the Earl of Romney's list yet, but I think the number of
officers and attendants of the train for whom  he desires sea
provisions is 157.
P. 1.   Entry.   S.P. Dom., Entry Book 206-7, pp. 23-4.
Enclosing:The Duke of Ormond's Memorial to Vernon concerning the
sea expedition.                        per year.
General
Four Aides-de-camp......   7301. Os. Od.
Two Major-Generals...... 1,4601. Os. Od.
Two Aides-de-camp......   3651. Os. Od.
Four Brigadiers.......   2,1901. Os. Od.
Four Majors of Brigade....   7301. Os. Od.
Quartermaster-General.....    3651. Os. Od.
Adjutant-General....      3651. Os. Od.
Judge Advocate........   1821. 10s. Od.
Deputy Paymaster.....          1001. 7s. Od.
Secretary to the General....   1821. 10s. Od.
Chaplain   do.   do....   1091. 10s. Od.
Physician.........     1821. 1Os. Od.
Surgeon..........   1821. 10s. Od.
Provost Marshal and six men....   3651. Os. Od.
Wagon Master........    541. 15s. Od.
Contingencies.......  6,0001. Os. Od.
List of what horses will be necessary for the General Officers &c.
for the sea expedition.
General and four Aides-de-camp......    12
Two Major-Generals and two Aides...     8
Four Brigadiers and four Majors of Brigade..    12
Quartermaster-General........     2
Adjutant-General..........     2
Provost Marshal and six men......      7
Twelve Colonels, 12 Majors and 12 Adjutants..   36
Horses for the artillery........     100
Horses for the dragoons.......             235
Total........    414
Victualling at sea 235 dragoons at [blank] per day for three
months.
Pp. 1a. Ibid, pp. 24-5.
31 March.   VERNON to the LORD HIGH ADMIRAL.
Whitehall.  The Earl of Marlborough writes (on 27 March) that the
21 Dutch ships of the line will be ready by the 20th April, as
well as their eight battalions.
A Committee of the Lords of the Council has been appointed
to meet at this office at 10 a,m, to-morrow and desire your
Lordship to be with them.
P. i. Ibid, p. 26.
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March,     ROYAL WARRANT to the LORD         LIEUTENANT and LORDS
St. James'.     JUSTICES of IRELAND.
On 28 March we ordered a fifth regiment, such as MajorGeneral Thomas Earle should appoint, to be made ready to
embark in the same condition as the four regiments already
ordered. Take steps to pay the colonel of the new regiment
40 shillings a man for so many men (excluding servants) as are,
by our late orders on the matter, directed to be added to each
regiment. Cause the new regiment to be paid all its arrears on
embarkation, and see that it is treated in all ways as the other
four regiments.*
P. J. S.P. Signet Office 14, p. 441.
Same.     SAME to [the LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND].
We have made choice of the Earl of Mount-Alexander, MajorGeneral Thomas Earle, and Thomas Keightly, a Privy Councillor
and Commissioner of Revenue, to manage the affairs of Ireland
during the absence of you, the Lieutenant. Pass a commission
under the Great Seal of Ireland making them Lords Justices
accordingly during pleasure. They shall act according to the
terms of the letters and to any written and signed instructions
which you, the Lieutenant, may think fit to give them. Your
authority as Lord Lieutenant is to continue undiminished. You
shall insert a clause in the letters of appointment prescribing
that they shall not affect the letters appointing you Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, dated 28 Dec., 1700, and also a clause
determining the commission given by King William III to you,
[sic] Narcissus, Archbishop of Dublin, and Henry, Earl of
Drogheda. You shall issue a commission under the Great Seal
of Ireland [to the present Lords Justices?] to administer the
usual oath to the new Lords Justices.
Pp. 1i.   Undated, but noted, "Ent[ered] 31."    Ibid, pp.
439-40.
APRIL, 1702.
1 Ap.     TREASURY WARRANTS.t
To draw an order to pay 30,0001. to Ralph, Earl of Montague,
Master of the Queen's Great Wardrobe, or his assigns, portion
of 100,0001. directed by letters of Privy Seal to be issued to him for
the Great Wardrobe.
P. 1. Signed by Fox, Boyle and Hill. Endd. Date of order,
2 April. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 11.
Same for 5,0001. by way of imprest on account to William
Roberts, Esq., paymaster of the works in Windsor Castle, or
his assigns.
P. i. Signed by Fox, Boyle and Hill. Endd. Date of order,
9 April. Ibid, 12.
* See above at 13 March, 1702.
t See the notes above at pp. 5, 8, 13. These and the following Warrants direct
the payment to be made from the funds in the Exchequer applicable to the use~
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Same to pay to themselves as Commissioners of the Treasury (i.e.
to the Earl of Carlisle, Sir Stephen Fox, Kt., Henry Boyle, Esq.,
Chancellor and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer, Richard Hill,
and Thomas Pelham, Esqs.), or their assigns, 2,0001., being one
quarter of their salary of 8,0001. due Lady Day, 1702.
P. A. Signed by Fox, Boyle and Hill, Endd. Date of order,
1 April. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 13.
1 Ap.     VERNON to the DUKE OF ORMOND.
Whitehall.  Queen's command:-To attend the Cabinet Council at 6 p.m.
this evening at St. James'. Subject-The expedition.
Five lines; in same form on above, pp. 9-10.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 206-7, p. 26. Also S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 102, pp. 343-4.
2 Ap.     MANCHESTER to SIR CHARLES HEDGES.
Whitehall.  Several papers have been laid before the Queen relating to
Robert Colover, who is under condemnation for piracy.  I send
them so that you may report on the case in order that the Queen
may consider whether she may grant Colover a pardon as desired.
Despatch is necessary, because, as is alleged, the holding of an
Admiralty Sessions for the trial of other pirates depends on
the declaration of her Majesty's pleasure in this matter.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 197.
Same.     VERNON'S LETTERS.
1. To the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury.
The Queen commands that, as it is thought necessary to provide
shipping for the transport of 420 horses, and about 400 men
to use them, you will give the necessary orders to the Commissioners of Transports for the shipping and for provisions
for these men and horses. The Queen desires to know in what
time the shipping can be got ready, what the charge of the whole
will amount to for three months or longer, and what will be
the further charge per month.
As it is also necessary that an extraordinary provision of sea victuals be made for about 600 men that will be employed this summer
at sea, above the number that are already taken care of, the
Queen desires you to direct the Commissioners of Victualling
to furnish the necessary supplies accordingly.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 206-7, pp. 26-7.
2. To the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Queen's command:-The five regiments prepared in Ireland
for service are to embark at Kinsale on board such ships as shall
be sent from hence for them. You are to give orders for the
regiments to march towards Kinsale as soon as they are ready.
The Queen desires to know how nearly complete those regiments
are, and when they will be ready to embark,
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1702.
2 Ap.     MANCHESTER to the MASTER of the ORDNANCE.
Whitehall.  A  representation from  the Commissioners of Trade and
Plantations has been laid before the Queen in which they submit
that, for the complete arming of the militia of Virginia, which
is now very necessary, 3,000 cases of pistols, 3,500 carabines
for the horse, 500 firelocks for the foot, and 5,000 swords are
necessary, besides 100 barrels of powder and ball in proportion.
You are to consider and report how soon these may be provided,
and at what cost. The charge will be borne, as is usual, by the
colony, and I desire you to let me know whether Virginia is in
debt to the Office of Ordnance on the like account, and whether
you think there should be a storekeeper in Virginia to receive
the arms, and deliver them out as ordered by the Governor.
The same Commissioners represent that 100 firelocks with 10
barrels of powder and ball must be sent to Newfoundland. You are
to report how soon these can be ready, and what powder and ball
are necessary for the cannon and mortars at Newfoundland;
so that such stores may go there with these small arms &c.
Pp. 1-. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 201-2.
2 Ap.     The QUEEN to the LORD LIEUTENANT and LORDS JUSTICES or
St. James'.     CHIEF GOVERNOR of IRELAND.
An Act for punishing mutiny in England passed in the present
Parliament provides that its own provisions should apply to
any forces then or afterwards on foot whether in Ireland or
elsewhere.
The Act also empowered us, or the General commanding our
Forces, to commission certain officers [details] to assemble
courts-martial for trying mutineers and deserters.  Grant commissions from time to time to any such officers to assemble such
courts-martial as need requires, and to proceed to try, sentence
and inflict punishment on offenders as prescribed by the Act
"and according to the rules and methods of military discipline."
P. i. S.P. Signet Office 14, p. 443.
3 Ap.     VERNON'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1 To the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
I send your Excellency the description of an Irish friar, which
I received from my Lord Marlborough. I have taken steps
to apprehend him if he lands at Harwich, or comes up the river,
but as it is represented that he intends for Ireland, to raise disturbances there, pray send directions to seize him there, either
at landing or wherever he can be found.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 344. Enclosing -
Description.
Father Bernardo Tyrconnell, a Dominican friar, went the
first inst. (April) from Brussels for Ghent, in order to go
from thence to Holland or Zealand, and to embark for London,
where he is to apply himself to the Spanish Consul. He
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to supply him with anything else up to 12,000 guineas. He
is to meet in London with a French refugee, named M. de
Salent, who has actually two sisters in France that receive
a pension from the most Christian King for having changed
their religion. This M. de Salent or Salint is, it seems,
engaged with Father Tyrconnell to form a faction in Ireland
in favour of the pretended Prince of Wales, and to bring
him into the Kingdom during the commotion. He is a little
lean man (&c., as above, p. 15).
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 345.
4 Ap.     2. To the Recorder of London.
Whitehall The Queen has appointed a Cabinet Council to meet at
St. James' to-morrow evening, at which you may have an
opportunity to give her Majesty an account of the last sessions.
Six lines. Ibid, p. 346.
3. To Sir Henry Dutton Colt.
The Queen has been informed that the directions given in
her late proclamation for due observance of the Sabbath have
not been respected, but that " there was last Sunday a great resort
in coffee and chocolate houses and other public houses, even in
the time of Divine Service." Command to you and other Justices
of the Peace, to see the law in this matter put into execution,
and to give orders to the constables accordingly.
P. I. Ibid, pp. 346-7.
Also note of the like letters to James Dewey, Richard Ryder,
Thomas Railton, John    Tulley, William   Stone, -   Negus,
-   Gratwick, -  Leneve, and John Chamberlain, Esqs., and
Dr. Harvey. Ibid, p. 347.
5 Ap.     REPORT of the LORD HIGH ADMIRAL (the Earl of Pembroke
Admiralty      and Montgomery) on the petition of Henry Killegrew, Esq.
Office.
This petition sets out that Killegrew was discharged from the
command of the fleet on 6 Nov., 1693, and has ever since been
out of employment, without any allowance for his support on
shore till, in January, 1699 [1700], the late King allowed him
half-pay as Admiral of the Blue to commence from 1 Oct., 1697.
But as the year before his last command in the fleet he was
allowed the whole pay of Admiral of the Blue for the time he
was on shore, and as other flag officers have since been in like
manner allowed the full of their pay, he prays for'an order for
full pay " on the ordinary of the Navy " as Admiral of the Blue,
from 6 Nov., 1693 (the date when he was discharged from being
a joint Admiral of the Fleet), to 30 Sept., 1697, the day preceding
his allowance, and that his present allowance may be increased
to the whole pay of an Admiral. I have considered this petition
and report:(1) By Order in Council, dated 22 Feb., 1693-4, the late King
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time of peace. These allowances were settled on the ordinary
estimate of the Navy.
(2) As alleged in the petition, the King ordered an allowance
of half-pay to "Mr. Killegrew," as Admiral of the Blue from
1 Oct., 1697, the commencement of the peace with France.
(3) On a representation from the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty, the King, on 18 April, 1700, established an allowance of pay to officers serving at sea, and to others out of employment on shore, instead of the double pay at sea and half-pay on
shore settled by the aforementioned Order in Council of 22 Feb.,
1693-4.
(4) Those allowances were made and still continue to
Mr. Killegrew.
Both these establishments restrain the said allowances to such
flag officers and others as shall be out of employment in time
of peace only, and the said allowances are particularly ascertained
therein.  I cannot therefore advise the   Queen to   gratify
Mr. Killegrew's request, which is contrary to the establishment,
and would be used as a precedent to ground other demands.
The late King, notwithstanding the establishments, did order
allowance of full pay as a Rear-Admiral to the Marquis of
Carmarthen whilst out of employment on shore. He had served
in this post in the fleet. War being now declared with France
and Spain, the allowance to Killegrew cannot be continued
unless the Queen, following the late King's practice, settles some
pension on him.
Pp. 31. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, p. 50.
6 Ap.     VERNON to the LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.
Whitehall  Corrects his last to same of April 2 (above, p. 19). The five
regiments are to embark at Cork, not Kinsale, and the orders
for their march are to be varied accordingly.
P. i. Entry. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 206-7, p. 28. Also in
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 347.
6 Ap.     ROYAL WARRANT to the EARL OF ROMNEY as Master General
St. James.     of the Ordnance.
We think it right that a train of artillery should forthwith
be prepared to go with the land forces embarking under the
command of the Duke of Ormond, and that several bomb-vessels
should be fitted out to attend our fleet for the summer's service.
Cause a train of artillery, consisting of such brass ordnance,
mortars, shot, shells, ammunition &c., as are mentioned in a
schedule hereto to be forthwith prepared and fitted out for sea
accordingly; and cause the stores mentioned in another schedule
hereto to be provided for the service of the bomb-vessels. The
officers, gunners, &c. for the train and bomb-vessels shall
be established in pay according to the annexed lists. The
officers of the train shall be paid out of the Treasury of the Ordnance, and those of the bomb-vessels out of the money appropriated
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1 April. You are empowered to add to or take from (from time to
time) the " natures " of Ordnance, proportion of stores and numbers
of men attending the said train of artillery and vessels.
Pp. 1~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, pp. 15, 16. Followed
by:Schedule I. A list of the officers, ministers and other attendants
appointed to attend the "descent train " ordered to sea
with the Duke of Ormond.
Gives sums paid per day and year to the officers going with
the train.  They are a colonel, major, adjutant, 16 engineers,
a paymaster, commissary of stores, his clerk, nine conductors of
stores, a surgeon and his mate and four pontoon men.
Gives details as to how a company of gunners is made upa captain, first and second lieutenants, two gentlemen of the
Ordnance &c., and pay to each person. Gives also details
as to how a company of miners is made up, and pay to each
person.
Pp. 1. Ibid, pp. 17, 18.
Schedule II. A list of officers, ministers and other attendants
appointed to attend the bomb-vessels ordered to sea.
Gives daily and yearly pay given to two fire-masters, sixteen
fire-workers, thirty-two bombardiers, a commissary and paymaster, his assistant, nine conductors of the stores, a master
carpenter, his mate and fifteen carpenters.
P. i. Ibid, p. 19.
Schedule III. (a) List of mortars, powder, granado shells,
carcasses &c. to be forthwith issued out of the stores in the
Office of Ordnance for fitting out eight bomb-vessels now
going to sea.
This is an elaborate list of artillery ammunition, and other
stores:-Fixed shells, unfixed do., round carcasses, come powder,
tampeons, bavins, hurdles, match, hides, charcoal, bedding,
soap &c. In the case of each item the number or quantity to
be sent out is specified.
(b) List of ordnance, mortars, powder, shot and other stores
forthwith to be issued out of the Office of Ordnance for the forces
now going to sea.
The title of this list shews its contents. These comprise all
things necessary for artillery-the guns themselves, their
carriages, spare parts, round shot, granado shells, ladles. Further
lists follow of lanterns, buckets, Muscovy lights, grease, hammers,
canvas, candles, tarpaulin and many other stores for an army
in the field.*
Pp. 6. Ibid, pp. 20-5.
* To set out these lists in detail would take much space. They are very full and
most instructive as to the thousand and one paraphernalia of a field force in
Queen Anne's day; but their interest is for specialists, and I therefore confine
myself to a general account of their contents, which will indicate to the reader
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1702.
7 Ap.     VERNON'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Baron Hatsell.
Queen's command:-To send you the petition of Philip Devon,
condemned at the last Surrey Assizes.  Report how the fact
appeared to you on the trial, that the Queen may consider the
question of pardon.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 350.
A note adds that the petition sets out that the petitioner
was under 17 and had been but a short time in such bad company.
The Minister and Churchwardens of St. Martin, Vintry, London,
underwrote it with a certificate that petitioner had faithfully
served his master, John Dobbins, waterman, and had not, so far
as they know, committed any crime before.
P. 1. Ibid.
2. To the Lord Almoner.
Sends enclosed petition. The Queen desires that all further
petitions asking charity should go before the Lord Almoner for
his examination and report.
P. ~. Ibid, pp. 350-1. Enclosing:Petition of Baron de Neuville to the Queen, shewing that:Petitioner had a small pension on the Privy Purse, which
was granted by the late Queen in consideration of his being
a refugee and of his son being a page of honour.  The
pension has stopped owing to the late King's death. Prays
for the Queen's charity. Cannot support his family.
P. W. In French. Ibid, p. 351.
3. To Baron Tracy.
Queen's command:-To send you the enclosed petition of
John Banfill, lately condemned at Exeter Assizes.
Report &c. (as above letter to Baron Hatsell).
P. I. Ibid.
A note adds that Banfill's petition says that he was condemned
of felony on very slender evidence, and is a young man with a
wife and several small children, who must perish if his sentence
is executed.
He is anxious to list himself in the service of the Queen: by
sea or land. This is his first offence.
P. i. Ibid, p. 352.
Same.     MANCHESTER to the MAYOR OF RYE.
I had yours of the 5th saying you had stopped James Deering,
of Bartholomew Lane, London, who was going over to France
with the papers which you have sent me. Your action is
approved, and you are to liberate Deering, that he may come
here and be examined, which his employer has promised
he shall do.  Do not permit him, when liberated, to go to
France.
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7 Ap.     PEMBROKE* to CAPTAIN BEAUMONT, commanding the ships in
the Downs.
The French may make some attempt on Holland or Zeland
with their ships of war and land forces. You are therefore, by
the Queen's command, to see that the ships in the margint are in
constant readiness to go over and serve on the coast of Holland.
If you hear from the States General of the United Provinces
or from the States of Zeland that any ships of war are designed
from Dunkerque or any parts of France to make any attempt
on Holland or Zeland, and if they ask you to go over there with
your command, you shall go over and proceed as they desire
from time to time until further order, "it being hoped that
the ships of the States General will be as soon ready to be
employed on this service." Use all endeavours to protect them
from any insults or attempts. As ships join you from time to
time in the Downs, keep them constantly ready for the abovementioned service and give me an account of your proceedings
therein.
Pp. 1. Copy. Certified by Josiah Burchett. Endd. S.P.Dom.,
Naval 117, 7.
8 Ap.     TREASURY WARRANT.
To draw an order to pay any sum not exceeding 40,0001. to
Thomas Lloyd, Paymaster of her Majesty's Works.
P. W. Signed by Carlisle, Boyle, Fox, Hill and Pelham. Endd.
Date of order, 9 Ap. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 14.
8 Ap.     VERNON'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.
Whitehall. To Pembroke.
The Committee of Council that met here this morning have
appointed to meet here again at 7 p.m. to-morrow. They think
it absolutely necessary to speak with your Lordship, and some
of the flag officers and Commissioners of the Navy, in relation
to the charge of the sea expedition. They desire your Lordship's
presence and that you will send Mr. Churchill, Mr. Sargesson
and Mr. Lyddall; also Sir G. Rooke if he is then in town.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 206-7, p. 28.
2. To the Duke of Ormond.
Desires his presence at the meeting mentioned in the foregoing.
Four lines. Ibid, p. 29.
9 Ap.     VERNON'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.
Whitehall.  1. To Baron Hatsell.
Similar to the foregoing references to him (above, p. 24) and
in regard to the sentence passed on John Sanders. P. A.
* The Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Lord High Admiral of England
hereinafter referred to as "Pembroke.'
t These are the Resolution (3rd), Hampshire, Litchfield, Medway and Dover (4th )
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A note adds:-The petition shows that Sanders was condemned
at the last Surrey Assizes held in the borough of Southwark
for robbing on the highway to the value of a guinea. Petitioner
is about 23 and likely in person.  No previous convictions.
Willing to serve by land or sea, or in any of her Majesty's
plantations.
In all p. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 352.
2. To Josiah Burchett.
I have received my Lord Admiral's of the 6th relating to
a licence to be obtained to cut masts and "boltsprits " to be
furnished from New England for the Navy. I find it necessary
to have a copy of the contract. Please procure me one from the
Navy Board.
P. -i. Ibid, p. 353.
3. To the Commissioners of Transports.
Please send me an account of what orders you have received
to provide shipping for bringing five regiments of foot from
Ireland, and when the ships will be ready to sail. I understand
my Lord Admiral has appointed a convoy at Spithead to go
with these ships. The service requires despatch.
P. i. Entry. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 206-7, p. 29.
10 Ap.    MANCHESTER to the LORD ALMONER.
Whitehall.  Sends petitions of Ann Holding and Mary Lewis for consideration and report whether the petitioners are real objects of the
Queen's compassion and bounty.
P. i. Followed by.Note of petitions. Ann Holding is the widow of Captain William
Holding, formerly commander of the London, who served King
Charles II several years as a sea commander. Several sums were
due to him at his death "on account of his half pay, out of the
Exchequer, on the firehearths." She has received nothing and is
left with a family of children.
Mary Lewis' husband was a seafaring man and was blown up
in the Carlisle, leaving her with three small children.
In all p. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 198.
10 Ap.    The COMMISSIONERS of TRANSPORTS to [VERNON].
Trce.rt   As to the ships for bringing five regiments of foot from Ireland,
we have to report: We have already given the Lord High Admiral
an account of what ships we had ready to the quantity of
2,500 [tons] to meet any occasion. We understand he has
ordered the Commissioners for Victualling the Navy to put provisions on board them at once for 3,000 men. When this is
done we will order the ships to Spithead immediately.
P. i. Signed by Atkinson and Roope. Endd. S.P. Dom.,
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10 Ap.    VERNON to PEMBROKE.
Whitehall.  I send enclosed advice concerning four French privateers
seen by a Danish ship 10 or 11 days ago on the Dogger Bank.
One of the members for Hull put it into my hands.
A note adds:-The enclosure was a letter of William Hydes,
of Hull, to William Maister, M.P., saying that a Dane reported
that he had been boarded by the French privateers seen on the
Dogger Bank. They took some deals from him. Dated 9 April.
P. A. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, pp. 353-4.
11 Ap.    MANCHESTER to the MAYOR OF DOVER.
Whitehall.  I had yours, wherein you say you stopped four soldiers, who
had deserted from the English regiments in Flanders, and put
them on board ship to be brought here. Your conduct is
approved, and do the same in the case of other deserters who
may come from Flanders, giving me notice of it, and of the regiments to which the men belonged. I hope we shall find a
way to reimburse you.   Please send me the names of the four
men.
P. S. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 198-9.
12 Ap.    TREASURY WARRANT.
To draw an order to pay 10,0001. to Mr. Charles Shales, the
Queen's goldsmith, or his assigns, for jewels and other things to
be provided by him for the Queen's coronation.
P. i. Signed by Fox, Boyle, Hill and Pelham. Endd. Date
of order, 14 April. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 15.
13 Ap.    VERNON'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Commissioners of Victualling.
Pray let me know whether the victuals ordered by the Lord
High Admiral for 3,000 land troops are on board the transport
ships, and, if not, how soon they will be so.
Four lines. Entry. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 206-7, p. 29.
Also S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 354.
2. To Baron Hatsell.
Queen's command:-To send you the enclosed petition of
Thomas Watercorn, convicted at the last Surrey Assizes. Report
on Wednesday next, when the judges are ordered to attend and
give an account of their circuits, how the fact appeared at the
trial, so that the Queen may consider a pardon. Execution
to be deferred till the report is made.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, pp. 354-5.
Also note.-The petition states that petitioner was convicted
for robbery of a hat, cane, periwig, and 18d. in money. No
previous offences. Seduced by ill company. Prays for a reprieve
that he may serve the Queen in any part of the world.
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3. To Mr. Justice Powis.
Similar to foregoing in relation to George Taylor convicted
at the last York Assizes.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102. p. 355.
Also note.-The petition of Elizabeth Taylor, wife of George
Taylor. sets out that one Letherland who lodged in her and
her husband's house was apprehended for coining, and her
husband was tried with him at the last York Assizes, and convicted as his confederate for having an edger and coining press
in his custody. As to the edger it was proved to have been
in Letherland's custody, and the instrument called a coining
press had lain openly in a back kitchen for two years in sight of
servants &c., and was not believed to be a coining press by Mr.
Harris of the Mint, who went down to see it after the arrest.
Petitioner's husband has a good character, and knows nothing
of coiners.  The petitioner and her children must perish if he
suffers death. Prays for pardon and reprieve. A certificate
of near 100 neighbours was attached speaking highly of Taylor
as a friend and neighbour.
Pp. 11. Ibid, pp. 356-7.
4. To Baron Hatsell.
Similar to the last letter to him (p. 27); in relation to Edward
Hawkins, convicted at the last Essex Assizes.
P. J. Ibid, pp. 357-8.
Note.-The petition shows that petitioner, who was lately
under the command of Captain Waters, was condemned for
making his escape from an officer who wanted to send him to
Flanders.  No  previous convictions.  Asks for a    reprieve
"though banished to the furthermost part of the world."
P. I. Ibid, p. 358.
5. To Lord Chief Justice Trevor.
Similar to foregoing letter to Baron Hatsell and on behalf of
Wm. Mapledoram, condemned at the last Assizes at Taunton.
P. i. Ibid, pp. 358-9.
Also note that, according to his mother's petition, Mapledoram
was convicted of felony and burglary. Good character. First
conviction. Has been respited by the Lord Chief Justice Trevor
till the 21st of April. Prays for pardon. Is young and willing
to serve anywhere.
P. i. Ibid, p. 359.
6. To Pembroke.
The Queen approves of the payment of Mr. Dummer during
the time of his suspension, for which he has lately petitioned.
Give order accordingly.
P. i. Ibid.
Also report of the Lord High Admiral on Dummer's petition.
He has considered it and has referred it to the Attorney General,
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removed, his salary accrued during the period of suspension.
Has no objection to the salary being paid.
P. 1. Dated 2 March, 1701, Admiralty Office. S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 102, p. 360.
14 Ap.    MANCHESTER to PEMBROKE.
Whitehall.  I send, by the Queen's command, a petition of the Royal
African Co. It prays that the Admiral in America may be
advised to procure them satisfaction for a ship of theirs laden
with negroes which, when it put into Havana for provisions,
was seized and disposed of by the Governor. The Queen desires
you to give the Admiral in those seas such directions as you
think fit for procuring satisfaction for the merchants from the
said Governor.
P. A. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 199. Also entered S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 315.
14 Ap.    The COMMISSIONERS of VICTUALLING to [VERNON].
Victualling  We only got orders on the 9th to victual the ships for 3,000
land soldiers. This was at once commenced and has since been
proceeding. We think it will be finished in five or six days more.
P. S. Signed Simon Mayne; John Burrington; Thos. Colby;
H. Vincent; H. Wright. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 9.
15 Ap.    VERNON to PEMBROKE.
Whitehal An account was given this evening "in the Cabinet Council"
of the proposition made by Count Wratislaw. The Queen has
directed "the Lords of the Cabinet Council" to meet and to
consider of an answer to be returned to him. Their Lordships
are to meet here to-morrow evening at six. They desire your
presence, and that you will order such of the flag officers as you
think fit to attend.
P. ~. Entry. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 206-7, p. 30.
16 Ap.    MANCHESTER to the EARL OF STAMFORD.
Whitehall  The Queen is inclined to grant the enclosed petition of
Mrs. Mary Fanshaw, and I am to send it for your report before
she does so.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 200.
Same.     VERNON'S LETTERS.
1. To John Martin, Esq., Lieutenant-Bailiff of Guernsey.
The Queen has considered the letter from you and the jurats
of Guernsey concerning Paul le Guan [or Guen], whom you have
apprehended. If he has committed any crime triable by the
laws of the island, you may prosecute him. If not, you are to
send him back to France and enjoin him at his peril not to
return.
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2. To Bernard Ellis, Esq., the Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey.
Acknowledges report of the Queen's proclamation there.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 361.
16 Ap.    PEMBROKE to VERNON.
Admiralty  I hear that the two largest packet-boats lately employed
between England and the Groyne are laid up at Falmouth.
Pray move the Queen to order the Commissioners for the Post
Office to hand them over for use of the Navy until they have
opportunity to employ them as formerly.
P. i. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 51.
17 Ap.    TREASURY WARRANT.
To draw an order to pay 10,0001. to Sir Benjamin Bathurst or
his assigns on account for the provisions of her Majesty's Coronation dinner and other uses of the Household.
P. A. Signed by Fox, Hill and Pelham. Endd. Date of order,
18 April. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 16.
17 Ap.    WARRANT under the SIGN MANUAL.
St. James.  To the Commissioners of the Treasury to cause payment of
any sum not exceeding 10,0001. to Isaac Newton, Esq., Master
and Worker of the Mint, on account for the use of the Mint. To
be paid out of any receipts of the coinage duty in the Exchequer.
P. A. Overwritten with sign manual and countersigned by Fox,
Hill and Pelham. Endd. Ibid, 17.
Also Treasury Warrant in execution of the above.
P. -. Dated 18 April, 1702. Signed by Fox, Hill and Pelham.
Endd. Date of order, 18 April. Ibid, 18.
17 Ap.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to ROBERT YARD.
Admiralty   Sends, by the Lord Admiral's orders, copies of letters received
from the West Indies, giving accounts of the proceedings of the
French ships there.
P. A. (Signed.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 52. Enclosing:A. Captain Richard Kirkby to [Burchett].
The Kinsale arrived here on 9 February, but the Government
were apprehensive of the motions of the French fleet here
and asked for my stay here till we had ascertained them.
On Thursday afternoon last, a sloop from Jamaica arrived,
having seen them on the 13th with four flags heading W.N.W.
seven or eight leagues to leeward from Guardeloupa. Since
that I have taken the men from the sick quarters who were
unsuspected of infection (I had 60 ashore sick). I must
leave about nine behind, being about to sail to join Admiral
Benbow. Letters by the said sloop report the Spanish flota
at Vera Cruce, having taken their money and plate ashore, and
refuse the conduct of the French.
Admiral Benbow is at Jamaica with 12 sail and the Governor
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ten sail more beside the fireships, storeships and bomb above
three weeks ago. The Kinsale is cruising to windward.
The supercargo of the Blessing sloop has just arrived. He
confirms the report of the French sailing to leeward on the
news of 45 sail being at the Isle of Ash. He could not tell
what they were, but says the French first designed upon this
place, but that, getting news that we were very populous and
preparing for our defence, they changed their minds and went
to attack the Leeward Islands; and later, when they heard
of the news from the Isle of Ash, sailed for that place on the
11th. This sloop was taken by one of their frigates about
five leagues of [off] the island, and detained at Port St. Piers
till the day before they sailed.
Pp. 1W.   Copy.   From   the Ruby, Carlisle Bay, Barbados,
Feb. 21, 170k. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 52A.
B. Captain George Maugham to [Same].
On 7th Nov. we parted from the York in a very violent storm
which lasted 21 days.   We came through it safely and
reached  Nevis.  I there found the Bristol Experiment,
Seahorse hulk, a bomb, ketch and two sloops, all which
sailed for Jamaica next day.   The Benjamin    and  two
store ships have since come.  We have landed our soldiers
without loss.  All are well and the islands very healthful.
We hear that there are 28 French men-of-war at Martineco,
from 44 to 104 guns. It is also reported that the ship of
104 guns struck going in and carried away most of her false
keel, and that her gun deck is much settled and it will take
a considerable time to secure it and that the fleet is very
sickly. There being no good water here, I have been down
to St. Christopher's to water, and am ready to sail to-night
for Barbados.
P.S.-The Strumbelo fireship has just arrived. The Maidstone
is at Antego.
P. J. Copy. From     the Kinsale at Nevis, Jan. 27, 170j,
Ibid, 52B.
18 Ap.     VERNON'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Josiah Burchett.
I spoke lately with the Lord High Admiral about the Baltic
Merchant, which is to carry my son's goods and equipage to
Copenhagen. The ship is staid by contrary winds in Margate
Road, and the master, having heard of French privateers at
sea, does not know whether he should go on when the weather
favours. The Lord Admiral kindly offered me a convoy. Pray
let me know if one may be obtained, that I may inform the master
what he can expect.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 362.
2. To the Attorney General.
Before King William's death directions were given for a
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Lancaster for passing a grant to Lord Rivers of the office of
Constable of Liverpool Castle and also of the office of butler,
with the duty of prizage of the said County Palatine, for 99
years; but, owing to his late Majesty's illness, the warrant was
never signed. Lord Rivers has applied to the Queen for its
signature. Queen's command:-To consider the same and report
what is fit for the Queen to do. Further pleasure.
P. 2. Ibid, p. 365.
3. To the Commissioners of Victualling.
Referring to yours of the 14th:-Are the provisions for the
3,000 men yet on board the transport vessels?     If this be
actually done, let me know, that I may inform the Queen.
Six lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 206-7, p. 30.
20 Ap.    The COMMISSIONERS of VICTUALLING to [VERNON].
Victalling  Yours of the 18th. The provisions are not yet all on board
the transports for 3,000 men. There were not enough men on board
the ships to receive them as fast as we sent them. We told
this to the Commissioners of Transports, as our accompanying
letter shows. We have done all that can be done to expedite
this work.
P. -.  Signed by Mayne, Burrington, Vincent and Wright.
S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 10. Enclosing:A. The Commissioners of Victualling to the Commissioners
of Transports.
In substance as stated in the covering letter. Deals with the
difficulty of loading the provisions.
P. ~. Copy, verified by Cha. Michel. Dated, Victualling Office,
17 April, 1702. Ibid, 10A.
20 Ap.    MANCHESTER'S LETTERS.
Whitehall  1. To the Commissioners of the Privy Seal.
The Queen desires you without further delay to affix the Privy
Seal to the patent appointing Mr. Erle Consul at Lisbon.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 200.
2. To the Mayor of Dover.
Yours of the 18th in the matter of nine deserters. You are
to keep the six men whom you retain in your hands, and any
other deserters who shall fall into them, till you receive orders,
which shall be sent from time to time. Care will be taken to
pay your charges.
P. i. Ibid, p. 201.
Same.     VERNON'S LETTERS.
1. To Josiah Burchett.
The Baltic Merchant is still at Margate. It would be a great
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my son from privateers (see above at 18 April, 1702).   "A
young envoy will be broke, if he loses his servants and equipage."
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 363.
2. To Josiah Burchett.
I saw the Lord Admiral this evening, who said he would direct
the ship intended for Scotland to convoy the Baltic Merchant.
Pray remind him of it. The Baltic Merchant will lie in the Downs
to be more ready for the convoy or, if not, will be at Margate.
P. i. Ibid, p. 366.
3. To Pembroke.
The Queen having read your report on Captain Hooper's case
directs that he be restored to a command in the Navy.
P. i. Ibid.
4. To Same.
Sends a petition of the Russia Company. The Queen desires
a report what may be done for the protection of the Archangel
trade.
P. i. Ibid, p. 363. Enclosing:Petition to the Queen of the Governor and Company of Merchants
trading to Russia, shewing that:
They have great reason to fear that the King of Sweden may
send men-of-war to Archangel this year, as he did last,
"to hinder the trade of the said place in and out, which
should he do, and thereby prevent the bringing of hemp and
other naval stores from thence, which are already provided,"
it will not be possible for your Majesty's navy to be supplied
next year, "since the trade from the Baltic is in a manner
wholly obstructed."
They therefore urge the necessity of taking measures to protect
the trade of Archangel. They consider this to be a matter
of the utmost consequence.
P. I. Signed (copy) by Benjamin Ayloffe, Governor of the
Muscovy Company. Dated London, 15 April, 1702.
Ibid, p. 364.
5. To the Earl of Ranelagh.
The Duke of Ormond having proposed to the Lords of the
Council that there should be an advance of six weeks' pay to
the regiments that are ordered to sea under his command, and
that officers and soldiers be cleared to 1 May, as also that there
be an advance of the contingencies allotted for that service and
that Colonel Lloyd receive 4001. in advance for providing hay
and 3001. on account of the pay of his regiment for providing
them with necessaries; their Lordships ask me to acquaint
you with these particulars in order to their being complied with.
If you have any objection, their Lordships, who meet here
tomorrow at twelve o'clock, can hear it.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 206-7, pp. 30-1.
Wt. 38so,                                            4


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6: To the Commissioners of Transports.
Yours of the 10th told me that the ships allotted to bring
five foot regiments from Ireland wait for their victuals. I hastened
the victuallers, and to-day hear from them that the provisions
would have been all on board by now had the ships been in a
condition to take them in. The service suffers much from this
delay. Pray enable me to tell the Queen when it will be ended.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 206-7, p. 31.
7. To Same.
The Queen commands that you forthwith provide 1,000 tons
of shipping over and above what is already ordered for the
transport of the land forces that are to go along with the fleet.
Five lines. Ibid, p. 32.
8. To Same.
I am to direct you to attend a Committee of the Lords of the
Council to-morrow at 12 at my office.
Three lines; with note of a similar letter to the Commissioners
of Victualling.
In all p. 1. Ibid.
21 Ap.    The COMMISSIONERS of TRANSPORTS to [VERNON].
Transport  We hear that the Commissioners of Victualling say to your
Honour that the    transport ships appointed to fetch five
regiments of foot from Ireland had had all their provisions on
board by that time had they been in a position to take them in.
We assure your Honour that the said ships were actually ready
to take in provisions on the 10th inst.; but we understand that
they have stood still for want of provisions being sent on board,
and have taken them in as fast as ever they came down. Yesterday we were among the ships at Deptford and found that no
provisions had been sent down all day, except one lighter of beer
and part of another. This lay alongside one of the ships for want
of coopers to fill it, as is usual, before it is taken on board. We
should have told the Commissioners of Victualling this to-day
had we not received your Honour's letter.
As ordered, we shall take up 1,000 tons more shipping as soon
as may be, and shall attend the Committee of Council to-day
as you direct.
P.S.-We desire her Majesty's pleasure as to what we must
provide besides the 1,000 tons of shipping for the land soldiers
that are to go with the fleet.
Pp. 1i. Signed by Atkinson and Roope.       Endd.   S.P.
Dom., Naval 117, 11.
22 Ap.    [SIR] R. COTTON and [SIR] THOMAS FRANKLAND [Postmasters
General Post    General] to [VERNON].
We have considered the letter you sent us from the Lord High
Admiral regarding the two vessels employed formerly for carrying
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considerable burden and carried above 20 guns each, and could
not be sailed but at a greater cost than was proper in time of
peace. We therefore proposed to the Lords of the Treasury
that smaller boats might be employed, to which they agreed, and
accordingly these large boats were left aside. We did not,
however, dispose of them, as there was no certainty how the
smaller boats would in all seasons go through the service and as
there had been for some time apprehension of war; wherein
these boats would need to be employed again, if correspondence
should have to be continued directly to Spain or Portugal.
Experience has now shown us that the new boats will perform
the service well enough in time of peace, and we do not object
to the old ones being employed in the Queen's service as the
Lord High Admiral may direct if it be judged that they will not
be needed [for the postal service] in time of war. But it is to be
considered that these vessels were paid for out of the revenue
of this Office and not built or equipped at the charge of the Navy.
Pp. 1. Signed. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 19.
22 Ap.    The COMMISSIONERS of TRANSPORTS to VERNON.
Transport  Send list described below.  The first six are ready to be victualled and the rest will be so in three or four days.
P. ~. Signed by Atkinson and Roope. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval
117, 12. Enclosing:List of nine ships that remain of those hired to carry 5,000
land soldiers with the fleet.
Prince of Orange (Andrew Seile) for 366 soldiers.
Charles (Jos. Stroud),, 269,,
James and Sarah (Thos. Combes),, 239
Asia (Habk. Wiles),, 357
Albion frigate (James Hammell),, 329
Friend's Goodwill (Thomas Cullum),, 333,,
Samuel and Henry (Cornelius Brewer),, 393
St. Nicholas (Arthur Holdesworth),, 276
Providence  (Nich. Willis),, 249,,
P. 1. Dated, Transport Office, 22 April, 1702. Ibid, 12A.
22 Ap.    VERNON'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Commissioners of Transports.
In the 1,000 tons of shipping which you have lately been
ordered to prepare for carrying the soldiers to go with the fleet
you shall take care to provide what is usual and necessary for
accommodating the men on board.
P. a. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 206-7, p. 32.
2. To the Commissioners of Victualling.
The Queen commands you to put the victuals you have lately
been ordered to provide for 600 men on board such transport
ships as are taken up for that service, and to take special care
to appoint a proper agent to take care of the victuals provided
for the land forces that are to serve this year at sea.
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3. To the Earl of Ranelagh.
The amount of the money to be advanced, as already signified
to you, to the Duke of Ormond for contingent charges is to be
such as would accrue under that head in six months. It is to
be paid (by you) to the Deputy Paymaster appointed for this
expedition, who is to pay it out from time to time as ordered
by the Duke of Ormond.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 206-7, p. 33.
22 Ap.    COLONEL COLLIER [Lieut. Govr. of Jersey] to ---
Jersey.   I hear from all who come from England that the Royal regiment
of Fuziliers will be removed and that another regiment will be
sent to relieve it. I hope we may have, as we always have had,
some companies more than " Gaurnsey." We have three garrisons
here, and they have but one. Since the peace we have had six
companies, and they but four. I ask that we may have at least
seven companies out of twelve. We should have a company
of dragoons, and the chief charge for them would be for
transportation. To save this, I offer to raise such a company
myself in this island, where we have enough horses and men
" that knows every corner of the country and most of them
gentlemen."
P. i. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 14.
24 Ap.    VERNON to the COMMISSIONERS of the TREASURY.
Whitehall.  Queen's command:-To furnish Mr. Stanhope, Envoy Extraordinary at the Hague, with 100,000 livres for the use of
Prince Lewis of Baden, which the Queen finds "necessary for
the public service."
P. W. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 367.
Same.     R. YARD to JOSIAH BURCHETT.
Secretary Vernon directs me to send enclosed advice from Paris
for the Lord High Admiral's use.
Four lines. Ibid, p. 371. Enclosing: —
News from Paris.
A letter of 12 April says that M. du Casse will leave at once
with a squadron for the coast of the Spanish Indies.
A letter of 21 April says M. du Casse will leave in a few days.
P. i. In French. Ibid.
Same.     VERNON to CAPTAIN LYSTER.
I send you Burchett's letter about a convoy, and, on reading
it, think you had best return to the Nore. I believe that will
be most agreeable to the merchants you are concerned with,
some of whom I saw to-day.
P. j. Ibid. Enclosing:Josiah Burchett to Vernon.
"The Scotch Secretary of State " has not yet told the Lord High
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and the Lord High Admiral therefore thinks the ship carrying
Mr. Vernon's goods to Copenhagen should repair to the Nore
that she may be more ready to pick up the convoy.
P. a. Dated, Admiralty Office, 24 April. S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 102, p. 372.
25 Ap.    The COMMISSIONERS of TRANSPORTS to VERNON.
Transport  We yesterday applied to the Commissioners of the Treasury
for money for the extra 1,000 tons of shipping which have
been ordered to take the forces with the fleet, and to meet the
cost of fitting them to accommodate the men on board. Their Lordships said they had had no notice of the matter, and asked us to
let you know, that they might have her Majesty's pleasure therein.
P.S.-The seven transport ships preparing to go and bring
back soldiers from Ireland are provisioned, and we shall to-day order
them to go at once to Spithead.
Inallp. i. Signedby AtkinsonandRoope. Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 117, 13.
25 Ap.    MANCHESTER to the POSTMASTERS GENERAL.*
Whitehall.  Several deserters from the Queen's troops in Flanders have
lately found an easy reception on packets between Dover and
Ostend or Newport. Pray direct the commander of the packetboats to stop them when they come to them, exhort them to
return to their duty, and by no means bring them over.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 203.
Same.     VERNON'S LETTERS.
1. To the Postmasters General.
There will be an occasion of sending an express from hence
to-morrow night to Holland.   Give timely directions to the
agent of the packet-boats at Harwich to have a boat ready to
carry over the express when he arrives.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 372.
2. To the Commissioners of Transports.
On receiving yours of to-day I immediately signified to the
Commissioners of the Treasury the Queen's command that the
necessary instructions should be given for taking up 1,000 tons
of shipping and providing what may be necessary for accommodating the soldiers on board.
I am glad the transports for Ireland are provisioned and ready,
and shall inform the Queen and Lord High Admiral, that the
convoy may not fail of orders to sail with the transports when
they arrive at Spithead.
P. A. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 206-7, p. 34.
3. To the Commissioners of the Treasury.
Signifying the Queen's command as described in the foregoing.
Seven lines. Ibid.
* Called in the margin "Postmaster General "; but the letter is headed
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1702.
4. To Josiah Burchett.
Pray inform the Lord High Admiral that the transports for five
regiments for Ireland are ready and provisioned and ordered to
sail at once to Spithead. I doubt not that the convoy will have
orders to sail with them as soon as they arrive there.
I wrote last night to the captain of the Baltic Merchant to
come back to the Nore and wait there for a convoy. I hope
it will not be delayed.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 206-7, p. 34.
26 Ap.    5. To Pembroke.
Whitehal.  The Queen has received information that French or Spanish
privateers have seized several ships on our coast, and near our
harbours, which belong to subjects of the States General. She
commands you to send orders at once to the commanders of the
squadron in the Downs and in other stations that they be very
careful to protect Dutch ships against any.French or Spanish
privateers, to prevent their being taken, and rescue them if
they are taken, as likewise to seize any French or Spanish ship
which may be found offering violence within these seas; and to
give orders for sending out cruisers to protect the subjects of
her Majesty and her allies.
P. i. Ibid, p. 35.
27 Ap.    MANCHESTER'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the [Postmasters General*].
Queen's command:-To stop till Thursday next the packet
that was to have been sent to France to-night. As little notice
to be taken of it as may be.
P. J.  S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 203.
Also a similar letter of 30 Ap. directing the packet to be stopped
till next Monday.
P. t. Ibid, p. 206.
2. To Pembroke.
To order the Commissioners of the Navy, or otherwise to provide
a boom-and other materials for floating and fixing a chain lately
sent over for protection of the harbour of St. John's, Newfoundland. To be sent now.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 316. Also entered S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 206.
3. To the Master of the Ordnance.
Hasten your report as to stores for Virginia and Newfoundland,
mentioned in my letter of 2 April. It is necessary the arms
should be provided.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 204.
4. To the Mayor of Dover.
Yours of 24th and 25th, re fresh deserters. Put all the eighteen
deserters you now hold on board the next ship that comes up
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from the Downs to the Thames. Part with them    to no land
or sea officer, and send to me or Mr. Burchett the name of the
ship and of the captain who receives them. Send your account
that it may be paid.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 204.
5. To the Commissioners of Trade [and Plantations].
My Lords will meet at Mr. Secretary Vernon's office on
Wednesday at six to consider your representation as to the
estate and defence of the Plantations. Pray attend there, and
direct the agents of the Plantations to be present also.
Six lines. Ibid, p. 205.
27 Ap.    VERNON'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Commissioners of the Treasury.
The Lord High Admiral has represented to the Queen that
it would be valuable to have in her service the two biggest packetboats lately employed between England and the Groyne and
now laid up at Falmouth. You are to deliver them accordingly
with their tackle, to be so used till there be occasion to employ
them again as formerly.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 373.
2. To Mr. Edisbury.
This goes with the messenger to Holland, for whom you have
had directions from the Postmaster General. Order the packetboat to sail as soon asjhe arrives.
P. 1. Ibid.
28 Ap.    MANCHESTER to the MAYOR OF DOVER.
Whitehall  I have yours of yesterday and the deposition. I am much
satisfied with your care in the matter. With regard to the six
fresh deserters, act as you were requested with regard to the
last eighteen (see above, pp. 38-9), and do the same with any more
that arrive, though the commanders of the packet-boats have
been ordered not to receive any more on board.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 205.
29 Ap.    VERNON'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Commissioners of the Treasury.
The Queen directs me to send you the enclosed petitions and
report to her what she may fittingly do herein. Further pleasure.
P. I. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 374.
Also note that the petitions enclosed were of:
William  Fanshawe for the continuance of his pension of
4001. a year.
The slain officers' widows, for continuation of their pensions.
Edward Godfrey, continuance of pension of 1001. a year.
George Houlder, "Spaniell keeper to King Charles, King
James and Queen Mary, to enjoy his little house again
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William Williams, prisoner in the Marshalsea, for remission
of his fine.
Mary Norridge, for the settlement of the use of 46,0001.
due to her father Thomas Duncan, for her life, and for
present bounty.
In all p. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 374.
2. To the Lord Almoner.
Encloses several petitions for report as to whether the petitioners are worthy objects of the Queen's charity.  Further
pleasure.
P. i. Ibid, p. 375.
Note. The petitioners are:-Ester Walker, Anne Merry, Anne
Warren (widow), Katherine Baker, Rose Young and Mary King
(widows), Mary Earskine (widow), Eliz. Binghams, Sir John
Magrath, Anne Nayden (widow), Mary Russell (widow), Martha
Bastin (widow), Mary Rayner (widow), Mary Eaton (widow),
John and Anne Meyrick, Hannah Burton (widow), Dorothy
Baroness Dowager of Upper Ossory, Dorothy Jackson (widow),
Elizabeth Ransford (widow), Frances Murray (widow), Jane
Davis, Rebecca Boyce (widow), Elizabeth Meautys; and Alice
Exton, Anne Hathway, Rebecca Palmer, Roberte Cornellious and
Lucy Legg (widows).
P.:. Ibid.
3. To the Marquis of Hartington, Captain of the Yeomen of
the Guard.
Sends petitions enclosed. The Queen desires a report on the
cases. Further pleasure.
P. i. Ibid, p. 376.
Also note that the petitions were of:Thomas Condon, to be restored to his place as Corporal of
the Yeomen of the Guard, or for an equivalent.
Samuel Clark, Esq., to be restored to his place of Clerk
of the Cheque to the Yeomen of the Guard, or other
provision in the Royal family.
James Vansse, to be restored to his place as a Yeoman of
the Guard, or for any other place.
Joseph Troyt, Yeoman usher, and John Franks, Yeoman
of the Guard to King Charles, King James and King
William, for some employ.
P. i. Ibid.
4. To Sir Stephen Fox, Sir Benjamin Bathurst and Hugh
Chudleigh, being Commissioners for the care and charge
of her Majesty's Stables.
Similar to foregoing. P. i. Ibid, p. 377.
Also note that the petitions were of:Eleven of his late Majesty's footmen for payment of the
wages due to them and some provision for their future
maintenance.
Joseph Craigg to be restored to his place of avener to the
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Thomas Swift to be continued one of the farriers.
Edward Hooton to be restored to the place of Page of the
Bedchamber or Keeper of the Mews or other employment.
James Henderson and Thomas Benn, footmen, Thomas
Welsh, coachman, Jarvis Hanton, Robert Richardson,
and Thomas Woodcock, grooms, and Robert Johnson,
chairman to King James, desire admission into her
Majesty's service.
P. -. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 377.
5. To the Earl of Marlborough.
Similar to foregoing. P. i. Ibid, p. 378.
Also note that the petitions were of:Captain Thomas Hyde, for reversion of the post of the
Deputy-Governor of the Tower or some other present
employ.
Captain William Courtney for a captain's half-pay till a
vacancy occurs, or some present supply.
Robert McNeal for a post in the army, or to be a gentleman
pensioner.
Thomas Rose to be employed in the army.
Lieutenant Wroth for the first vacant troop in the Earl
of Oxford's regiment.
Captain James Hamilton for a hearing.  He was turned
out of his troop some years since by Colonel Wynn.
P. i. Ibid.
6. To the Lord Steward.
Similar to foregoing. P. i. Ibid, p. 379.
Also note that the petitions were of:Adrian Van Brahel, Yeoman of the field to the late King,
to be continued in his employment, for which he gave
5001. to Mr. Himans by his late Majesty's order about
three years ago; or other provision.
William Fielder for a cart-taker's place. He was cart-taker
to the Duke of Gloucester.
P. i. Ibid.
7. To Mr. Combes.
As you so much desire it, I send you your petition with
Dr. Oxenden's report on it. I do not know whether he will
make it more favourable.
Four lines. Ibid, p. 380.
8. To Rear-Admiral Fairborne.
I have, through the Lord High Admiral, your report that
you have seized one John Levingston, who came in a boat from
" Diep," on suspicion of some ill-design against the Government.
I have sent a messenger to bring him up here to be examined and
dealt with as the law directs. Hand him over to the messenger.
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9. To the Earl of Ranelagh.
I send you a statement of the demand of the King of Denmark
made by virtue of the last treaty with that Crown. I received
it from Mr. Hooke, secretary to Prince George of Denmark,
and I have shown it to Mr. Cadogan, who has made the comments which you will find written in English. I think it is beyond
dispute that 100,000 crowns are owing to Denmark under the
treaty of 1696, and it is clear that 75,000 are due for two quarters
subsidy ending the 15th March last.  Since I understand from
Mr. Blathwayt that these payments are to come from your
Lordship, please consider of what consequence it is to make
good all contracts with those who furnish us with troops, and
accordingly move the Lords of the Treasury for power to answer
these demands.
P. 3. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 381. Enclosing:The State of the Debt to Denmark.
The King of Great Britain owes:Crowns.
1. Arrears of subsidy due under the Treaty
of 1696.........100,000
Compensation......       200,000
300,000
One half [was to be paid?] when the troops marched and
the other half six months later at Amsterdam.
2. For levying men:3,320 horse at 80 crowns each.... 265,600
6,174 infantry at 30 crowns each.... 185,220
Total 450,820, of which    the half
[which is claimed] is.... 225,410
3. Two quarters' subsidies since 15 June,
1701, to be paid in specie at Hamburg..  75,000
The King further owes under the Treaty of
15 August, 1689, for the transport of
troops, in specie........ 240,000
Of this he paid in 1689 and 1690, 220,500,
leaving due a balance of......  19,500
Under head 1 the King owes still in currency
[en courante]....         200,000
[Mr. 'Cadogan's comment.*]  By the second article in the
last Treaty with Denmark the late King was obliged to pay
whatever sums were due by the Treaty of 1696, half on the
march of the troops and the other half six months after. A
liquidation should have been found at the end of the Treaty,
but no such liquidation was made and only 100,000 crowns
were paid on account.
On the third head there is owing 75,000 crowns.
[Mr. Cadogan's comment.*] By the last Treaty with Denmark
the late King agreed to pay the King of Denmark 150,000
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crowns a year in four quarterly payments. Two quarterly
payments are due as demanded.
Under the Treaty of 15 June, 1701, the King owes 19,500
crowns; or, in all, in currency 200,000 crowns and in cash
94,000.
[Mr. Cadogan's comment.*] By the 8th article of the last
Treaty the late King agreed to pay the King of Denmark
whatever was due by the Convention of 1689 both for transport
of the troops to Ireland and for their pay. A liquidation
was to be made within a year after the ratification of the
Treaty, and the payment then to be made at Hamburg.
In all pp. 2. Partly in French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102,
pp. 382, 383.
29 Ap.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to ROBERT YARD.
Admiralty   Sends enclosed extracts.
P. -. (Signed.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 53. Enclosing:A. Captain Beaumont, Commander-in-Chief of the ships in
the Downs, to [Burchett].
This morning by express I had my Lord Admiral's orders
how to behave ourselves in case of meeting any French or
Spanish privateers that had damaged English subjects or
Dutch ships. I shall obey. This morning a Swedish ship
came in here that had been plundered by their privateers.
lie was let go after they had sent to Calais, but they said to
the master they would have kept him if they could have found
he had any Dutch goods aboard.
P. i. Dated in the Downs, 28 April. Ibid, 53A.
B. Abram Stock to [Same].
The master of the Calais packet which arrived yesterday reports
all their small privateers out. The two Dutch ships whose
capture (by them) I reported have been or will be released
because they came from France. They moor under Blacknesse with their privateers, which they kept there till they
heard from Paris. Other details.
P. i. Dated Dover, 28 April. Ibid, 53B.
Same.      SAME to SAME.
I enclose for Secretary Vernon copy of a letter from    the
Collector at Cowes to Sir Stafford Fairborne, who, on this letter,
ordered the Collector to detain the French caper.
P. J. Add. to Yard as secretary to Secretary Vernon.
Endd. Ibid, 54. Enclosing:A. Thomas Cole to Sir S. Fairborne.
A small French vessel has come in, light, from Plymouth as
per his light bill from St. Malo to take in drapery here for
" Sherbourgh."  I consulted his Excellency, Col. Dudley,
who bade me inform you and take your orders. Meantime
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he ordered her to stop, the rather as a Dutch dogger has just
come in which was captured by a French caper, taken into
"Deip " and released after four days with a pass to go home,
being laden with French goods.
The French vessel is no doubt a spy; there being no drapery here
for France that I can hear of.
P. 1. Dated, Custom House, Cowes, 26 Ap. S.P. Dom., Naval 6,
54A.
29 Ap.    The JURATS of the ROYAL COURT of GUERNSEY to [the
Guernsey.      PRIVY COUNCIL?].
We have received your lordships' of 14 January with a request
to say why we did not allow the appeal of William Dobree from
a sentence given in favour of Peter Gosslin in the Royal Court on
14 December, 1700.
Litigation against Gosslin, eldest son of his late father, Peter
Gosslin, by those that were seized of the real estate of the
heirs of Thomas de Rozell, has long been proceeding. Details
as to the litigation, which has been on foot since 1690. On
27 July, 1695, the Court ordered Dobree to answer Gosslin's
action for the warranty of the rent of 6 quarters 11 bushels of
wheat that Thomas De Lisle, as guardian of Daniel de Beauvoir,
demanded of him. This judgment was affirmed on appeal.
Dobree appealed to the Privy Council, but his appeal was not
prosecuted, and Gosslin again sued him on 14 December, 1700,
for rent and arrears, and got judgment.  Dobree, being refused
leave to appeal, appealed "by way of deliance."
An eldest son is never received to quit or renounce for himself
and his co-heirs except they be present and consent. We could
not, under the circumstances, admit a second appeal.
Pp.  1X.  Copy.   Signed  (copies) by  four Jurats, "the
lieutenant-bailiff being recused in this case," Thomas De
Lisle, John Renouf, James De Beauvoir and W. Marchant.
Signed also by the clerk[?], Peter Carey. Not addressed. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 15.
30 Ap.    NOTE for the DIVIDEND* for April 21-30, 1702.
Mentions the Marquis of Normanby's office, the Hadleigh
charter and Mr. Skeene's two offices. Totals, 1!. Os. Od. and
21. 13s. 4d.
P. I. Endd. as in title. S.P. Dom., Anne, 1, 20.
30 Ap.    VERNON to JOSIAH BURCHETT.
Whitehal.  I send the letter of the Swedish Resident concerning a Swedish
subject, William Gerdes, who was lately pressed into the Queen's
service. Pray move the Lord High Admiral for Gerdes' discharge.
Four lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 102, p. 384.
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1702.
[April.]   NOTE by JOHN MORRIS, Messenger.
I carried a letter from Monsieur Savery to Monsieur Corbusier,
but he returned it sealed and refused to read it. I am told that
Corbusier is a Papist and a very ill man. Captain Baker says
he assisted Goodman in his escape to France.
P. i-. Undated, but found with papers of April, 1702. S.P.
Dom., Anne 1, 21.
MAY, 1702.
[2 May.]   MR. MACKY'S Memorial in relation to the intercourse of letters
between ENGLAND and FRANCE.
During the last war England forbade all correspondence
immediately between England and France on account of King
James residing there, in order to prevent a correspondence
between him and his adherents in England; but, the intercourse of letters being open between France and Holland, it is
well known that correspondence passed as easily between
England and France (through Holland) as if our packet-boats
had gone. Italian and French letters came under cover to
Antwerp and Amsterdam, and the only result was that our merchants paid double for their letters; the Dutch had the benefit
of the postage, "and had intelligence of all Italian trade and of
prices carried into France at least two days before us."  "If,
therefore, we are to enter again into such a war as will oblige us
to throw up all correspondence with France, it will be reasonable
that the Dutch be obliged not to send any post to Flanders as
well as we no pacquet boat."
The going of the packet-boats during the war, besides the
benefit of carrying of letters, will save the nation at least 7,0001.
a year, which it lost last war in hiring ships for exchange of
prisoners, besides the expense of prisons and of merchantmen in
waiting for an exchange to be made. The French will be glad
of it, for it will save them the 12 livres a man, which they paid
for all their prisoners who were brought to them.
If we continue to exact that sum it will almost defray the
charge of the packet-boats, which (for hire of the boats and seamen's wages and provisions) is under 1,6001. a year.
If there is such a war as makes it impossible for anyone, or
any letters, to pass from England to France without the penalty
of high treason, then some persons at Dover should be joined in
commission with Mr. Macky, the present manager of the packetboats, to inspect the passage and take care that these boats carry
nothing but prisoners.
P. 1. Endd. as in title, and with date, 2 May. Ibid, 22.
2 May.    Note that Sir Charles Hedges became Secretary of State on
this day.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 350, p. 212. Also S.P. Dom., Entry
Books 204, p. 317; 101, p. 207, and elsewhere in other Entry Books.
Same.     Note that Daniel, Earl of Nottingham, was sworn Principal
Secretary of State on this day.
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1702.
2 May.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall  1. To the Postmaster General*.
To send away promptly the enclosed letters to the several
ports.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 207.
2. To the Mayor of Hull.
A war is about to break out between these kingdoms and
France and Spain. I send you news of it that you may warn the
shipping in and about Hull. We hear that great numbers of
French and Spanish privateers are at sea.
Also note of the like letters to the Mayors of Newcastle, Dartmouth, Topsham, Plymouth, Falmouth, Bideford, Bristol, Dover,
and Liverpool.
In all p. J. Ibid.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM and HEDGES to PEMBROKE.
Please to order the Commanders at Portsmouth and Plymouth
to send away enclosed letters (to the Lieutenant Governors of
Jersey and Guernsey, Isle of Wight and Scilly) to announce the
coming declaration of war with France and Spain.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 317.
4 May.    SAME to the LORD CHAMBERLAIN.
Whitehall  The Queen's Declaration of War must be proclaimed this
morning with the usual ceremonies. Please give orders to the
officers under you that they may be ready to do it before noon.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 209.
Same.     SAME to the EARL MARSHAL.
Simitar to foregoing.  Within an hour you shall have her
Majesty's warrant for so doing, "which is yet too early to
get signed by her Majesty."
P. *. Ibid.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM to SIR ROBERT COTTON and SIR THOMAS FRANKLAND,   Postmaster General."*
Queen's command:-That the mails for France and Flanders
now lying at Dover, be dispatched in a Dover packet-boat for
Helvoetsluyce, and that when the boat returns to Dover it be
not sent abroad any more till further order. Also the Corunna
packet-boat is not to sail this next ordinary, or till further order.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 1.
4 May.    JOSIAH  BURCHETT to    WILLIAM   AGLIONBY, Secretary  to
Admiralty      Nottingham.
Office.
Sends, by the Lord Admiral's orders, letters describing the
seizure of the French caper near Portsmouth and of a French
vessel that was stopped at Cowes. They are to be laid before
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the Earl of Nottingham as Principal Secretary of State. Desires
to know if the Earl of Nottingham wishes to send any packets
by the vessels which are shortly to leave with despatches for
the West Indies and the Plantations, and, if so, when his packets
will be ready.
P. i. Signed. Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 55.
Enclosing:A. Captain Culliford, Commander of the Hastings to the
Secretary of the Admiralty.
Seeing the squadron sail out at St. Helen's I made the best of
my way after them, and that evening, the ebb being done, I
anchored a little to the westward of the Reculvers, and the
Rear-Admiral off Dunnose. I saw a small vessel come in
from out at sea, which anchored between the Reculvers and
Dunnose. She turned out on examination [details] to be
a French privateer. My lieutenant in the pinnace fired
on her when she tried to sail away, and took her.  I did my
utmost to get up with the flag, but could not do so, owing
to wind and towing the captive, till yesterday. I anchored
with the sternmost of them then of the Highland of St. Albans.
My cable parted in a great sea. I came then for this place
and received orders to clean. I shall secure the prisoner
and her crew, but will allow nothing to be embezzled. They
say they were looking for Dutchmen on our coast, having
war proclaimed against them on the 24th April (O.S.), and
that they and three other privateers had on 28th captured a
Dutchman, but they would not say with what she was laden.
There are ten privateers, with 2 to 6 guns each out of "Diepe."
Asked for French news, they say they knew of none but
that they had no wars with England. The vessel has two
pattereroes and several sorts of small arms.
Pp. 1. Extract. Dated, 2 May, 1702, Portsmouth. Ibid,
55A.
B. Thomas Cole to
On 24th last the Susannah of and for Cherbourg came into the
road. She is from   St. Malo, but last from   Plymouth,
Michael Dober, master. At Plymouth they pretended that
they wanted to go to Topsham to take in drapery, in order
to which Lavalle Poittavin, the pretended merchant, was
to go by land to prepare the goods, but in truth he went for
London.
When the vessel came in here the like pretences were made;
and the master is likewise gone for London. There was a
report [details] at Plymouth that for something Poittavin
had done, the [French?] Government had offered a price for
him. I reported the matter to Sir S. Fairborne, Commanderin-Chief at Spithead, who ordered me to detain the vessel
pending a message from the Lord High Admiral. I have
had no such message yet; and Sir S. Fairborne is gone to sea.
P. 1.   Copy.   Dated, 2 May, 1702, Custom   House, Cowes.
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1702.
Latest date  LIST of WINCHESTER SCHOLARS to be elected of New College,
4 May.        Oxford, by recommendatory letters.
1689, 12 Apl., Edmund     Killingworth;  21 Nov., 1689,
Abraham   Stanyan;   9  October,  1690, Richard   Glasse;
26 September, 1691, William Bradshaw; 8 September, 1692,
Harry Parker; 1 November, 1693, Benjamin Colinge; 26 April,
1694, Same; 4 April, 1695, Henry Thomas; 16 December,
1695, Seth Eyres; 31 December, 1695, Charles Franklyn;
14 January, 1695-6, Nathaniel Trotman[?]; 30 July, 1696,
Powle Garrway; 26 November, 1696, William Goddard;
27 January, 1696-7, Henry    Overton;   22 March, 1696-7,
Hugh   Briggs;   169-, John Fortrye;    29 November, 1697,
John Sheldon and Mr. Oakley;      18 May, 1699, Thomas
Andrews; 30 May, 1699, Nicholas Fen; 28 January, 1699-1700,
William   Harrison;  23   June,  1700,  William   Egerton;
14 November, 1700, Richard Roberts; 5 December, 1700,
Richard Pyle; 4 May, 1702, William Egerton.
The text of the first letter in favour of Killingworth is given.
It sets out that the King has received "a good character" of
his "proficiency in learning and good manners," and wills and
requires the Warden and other electors of New College "to
make choice of him.... for New College," Oxford, at the
next election.
Of the other letters only the date is given, but it is stated
whether they were signed by King William (or Queen Mary, who
signed the letters for Bradshaw and Parker in 1691 and 1692)
and countersigned. The last letter, for Egerton, was signed
by Queen Anne and countersigned by Mr. Secretary Hedges.
Pp. 2X. Endd. as in title. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 23.
Also an entry of the Queen's letters in favour of Egerton dated
4 May, 1702. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 163, p. 77.
4 May.    The COMMISSIONERS of TRADE and PLANTATIONS to HEDGES.
Whiehall.  As principal Secretary of State you are one of the Commissioners of Trade and Plantations. We shall be glad of your
assistance at this board whenever your other affairs will
permit.
P. I. Signed by Robert Cecil, Philip Meadows, William
Blathwayt, John Pollexfen, and Matthew Prior. Endd. S.P.
Dom., Anne 1, 24.
5 May.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to WILLIAM     " EGLONSBY,"* Secretary to
Admiralty      Nottingham.
Office.
Sends the Lord High Admiral's report on the case of Mr. Killegrew to be given to the Earl of Nottingham.
Five lines. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 56.
Same.     PEMBROKE to NOTTINGHAM.
Asks that orders be sent to the Corporation of Kinsale to relieve
the labourers employed in the Naval service at that port (who
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have also to act as watchmen to prevent embezzlements) from
service on guards. The Custom House officers are exempt,
and it may be prejudicial to the public that these labourers
should be compelled to do guard duty.
P. i. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 57.
5 May.    ORDERS by PEMBROKE to SIR JOHN MUNDEN.
News has come from Spain that about 2,000 men are designed
for the West Indies, and with the Duke of Albequerke, who has
been appointed Vice-King of Mexico, who was expected at Corunna
on 8 May (N.S.), but that on 29 April, though the men were ready
there, the eight or nine ships to convoy or take them were not.
These vessels were " suddenly " expected from France.  It is
desirable to intercept or destroy these ships in the harbour.
You are to take eight third-rate ships, the most suitable you can
find at Spithead, two fireships and the yacht that attends the
Commissioner of the Navy at Portsmouth, borrow men from
other ships to man these vessels, have them furnished with all
necessary stores and provisions, and, so soon as the weather
serves, to go to such place off Corunna as may enable you to
send in and find out what is going on there. If you find these
ships still at Corunna or thereabouts, you are to do your best
to take or destroy them. Having done your best against them,
you are to return and cruise in the Soundings, awaiting further
orders; and you are to send in to Plymouth an account of your
service. If you find, on getting to Corunna, that these ships are
not there, you are to cruise on and off between Cape Finisterre
and Corunna, so as to be best able to intercept these vessels on
their way to Corunna, or on the way thence to the West Indies.
Conceal your ships and intention as far as possible; and continue
your cruise there so long as you have any prospect of doing any
service as aforesaid, or till further orders. If, on going to Corunna,
you find that these ships have gone, and gone too far to give you
a chance of overhauling them, you are to bring your fleet back
to the Soundings and cruise there for the protection of the trade
of her Majesty's subjects and of her Allies, sending in a report
on your actions and describing the place where you will cruise.
While so cruising do your utmost to protect her Majesty's and
her Allies' ships, and take, burn, &c., those of France and Spain.
Pp. 21. Copy, with copies of signature of Lord Admiral
Pembroke, and countersignature of Josiah Burchett, and a note
"Perlect in Cur.   13 die July, 1702. V. Bathurst, Ju(dge)
Adv(ocate)."* Endd. Ibid, 58.
5 May.    PEMBROKE to NOTTINGHAM.
Admfiralt  Sends enclosed relating to detention of hostile vessels. Desires
directions as to how the crews should be dealt with.
P. J. Signed. Endd. Ibid, 59. Enclosing: —
* Probably this is one of the documents used in the court martial on Sir John
Munden.
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1702.
A. John    Sansome, Secretary   to the   Commissioners  of
Customs, to ---The Commissioners, having received the enclosed order for
seizing the ships and goods of the Spanish and French
Kings' subjects, and all mariners of the said Kings, immediately employed one of their officers on the river to do so,
so far as it might appertain to the officers of the Customs.
The officer's return is enclosed, showing that there were several
mariners in the three ships which he seized. The Commissioners have no power to detain men and suppose it is
in the power of the Lord High Admiral to do so.    They
desire direction in the matter.
P. 1.   Copy.   Dated, Custom House, London, 5 May, 1702.
S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 59A. Enclosing -
AA. Certificate of Richard Hill.
Having received from Mr. Sansome, junr., a copy of the Queen's
Order in Council, I seized the St. Joseph, J. B. Marossa
master, bound to Ostend, and the St. Jacob, Alderon Deross
master, bound to Bridges [Bruges], both belonging to the Spanish
Netherlands and laden with bale goods, tobacco, sugar &c.;
also the St. Tannando, Thomas Sampsone master, with
"cauranges," wine and olives, bound inward from   Sevill.
The order directed me to seize the men also, and I ask for
further directions on this point.
P. 1. Copy, with names of 18 foreign sailors in the margin.
Ibid, 59AA.
5 May.     HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.
Whitehall.  1. To Baron Hatsell.
The Queen desires that George Coffin or Corfield be reprieved
for a week more whilst the warrant for his pardon, which the
Queen has granted, is being prepared.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 208.
2. To the Mayor of Dover.
I have yours of the 3rd and 4th about escape of some deserters.
I can only repeat the Earl of Manchester's directions regarding
them. Part with none of them to any officer, but send them
by sea to the Thames.
P.. Ibid.
6 May.     PEMBROKE to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty
Office.   A small French ship, with rozin, was seized at the Nore on
the 4th May. As rozin is much wanted in the fleet, pray move
the Queen that it may be applied to that service.
P. J. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 60.




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6 May.    ACT for enabling the QUEEN to appoint COMMISSIONERS to
[Royal Assent.]  treat for a UNION with SCOTLAND.
(This is 1 Anne, c. 8.  See Statutes of the Realm, Vol. 8,
pp. 48-9.)
Pp. 1.' S.P. Scotland, Series I1, 2, pp. 1, 2.
6 May.    PROPOSALS by COLONEL THOMAS CARY, of Carolina.
For safely carrying the Queen's declaration of war to her
foreign plantations, I ask, first, for protection for my master,
mate and 12 men belonging to the "Mairmaid " galley of Calolina
[Carolina], being about 120 ton, "lying at Redriff [Rotherhithe]
hole and mounted with ten guns and as good a saylor as any
goes to sea."
Secondly, That I may have convoy from the Downs to
Plymouth or the Land's End, and that I may have H.M.'s
despatches in a short time. I will then undertake D.V. to deliver
them as soon as can be.
P. i. Signed. Endd. as in title. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 14.
[Same.]    SEAFIELD'S MEMORIAL to the QUEEN.
It is humbly represented to your Majesty that the Parliament
of Scotland addressed the late King and represented that it was
contrary to the privileges of the Kingdom of Scotland to impress
there seamen from on board Scots' ships. Accordingly the King
appointed the Lord High Admiral to grant protections to all
such Scottish ships, and the men on board them, as should have
certificates from the Secretaries of State, and ever since that time
the Secretaries have given certificates and the Lord High Admiral
has granted protections, and the aforesaid Order of Council has been
duly observed, and commerce between the two nations has been
continued. But, there being four ships now in the river belonging
to Scotland, and manned by Scotsmen holding the Lord High
Admiral's protection, the whole crews of some of them and some
of the crews of the others were yesterday imprest, which is an
injury to the merchants and a manifest contempt of authority.
It is desired that the Queen will in Council give orders for their
liberation and to prevent such disorders for the future.
P. J. Endd. as in title and with date. Ibid, 15.
7 May.    NOTTINGHAM to the DUKE OF ORMOND.
Whitehall.  The Lords of the Committee of Council desire yout presence
at the Secretary's office at 11 a.m. to-morrow.
Three lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 1.
Same.     HEDGES to PEMBROKE.
An expedition to Corunna has been approved by the Queen.
Command:-To order Sir J. Munden to go on the expedition with
the equivalent of eight 3rd rate ships. Despatch is necessary,
and a part of the force equal to five 3rd rates to leave at once if the
whole is not ready.
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7 May.    JosIAH BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  I have perused the instructions to Vice-Admiral Benbow,
commanding in the West Indies, and send such part of them
as is proper for your information.
P. A. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 61.
Same.     PEMBROKE to SAME.
I hear that the merchants trading to Barbados will to-night
present a memorial at the Privy Council asking for a convoy
for their ships coming thence, which are now laden and ready
to come. I can think of no other course for their protection
than that the ships cruising in the Soundings be ordered to look
out for them and bring them in, unless Vice-Admiral Benbow,
when the ships now going to Jamaica join him, is able to detach
one to convoy them. I will give him a conditional authority
to do this.
P. t. Signed. Endd. Ibid, 62.
[8 May.]   PETITION of MARY VERNON to the QUEEN, showing that:Petitioner, being very young and consumptive, in the year
1685 went to France for her health, on the advice of her physicians.
In 1686 her father died, leaving his estate in Ireland much encumbered, and petitioner was forced to continue in France for a
maintenance, which she received from a charitable relative till
lately.
Though petitioner was never in Ireland, she was in 1697 outlawed there for high treason. All such outlawries were afterwards
by an Act of the Irish Parliament made irreversible, and not
pardonable by the Crown.
Petitioner's estate, to which she is entitled, is, by the late Act
of Resumption of the Irish forfeitures, vested in trustees to be
sold. Petitioner was wholly ignorant of the proper method of
proceeding, and that it was her duty to make her first address
to your Majesty for relief. She was advised to apply to the
House of Commons for a Bill to reverse the outlawry and
enable her to claim her estate, which is accordingly passed
there.
Prays for pardon for having taken this course, which she took
through want of good advice and not of duty, and for the Queen's
assent to the said Bill, and recommendation thereof to the House
of Peers.
P. i (large). Signed. Endd. " R. May 8, 1702." S.P. Dom.,
Anne 1, 25.
8 May.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1 To the Lord Almoner.
I send several petitions asking for her Majesty's charity.
Her Majesty desires that, in future, all such petitions should be
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2. To the Commissioners for Victualling the Navy.
Queen's command:-You are to send an account in writing on
Tuesdays and Fridays of your proceedings in victualling her
Majesty's ships. One of your number is to attend at Lord
Secretary Nottingham's office at the Cockpit at 10 a.m. on those
days.
Note of similar letter to the Commissioners of Transports in.
matters of transportation. P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101,
p. 210.
8 May.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall  1. To Seafield.
Pray send the names of the Scotch ships out of which men
have, you say, been pressed, and pray let me know how many
men were pressed, that I may signify the Queen's pleasure to
the Lord High Admiral to discharge them.
P. -|. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 2.
2. To the Attorney General.
Encloses the Lords' address about the late King's papers'
Queen's command:-To prosecute all such persons as are so
criminal as mentioned in the said address.
P. J. Ibid, Enclosing:Order of the House of Lords of 4 May, 1702, in the matter of
an alleged discovery among the late King's papers of some
papers tending to the prejudice of the Queen. See Lords'
Journals, Vol. XVII, p. 114.
Pp. 1. Ibid, pp. 3, 4.
3. To the Procurator General of the Admiralty.
A small French ship laden with rozin was seized in the Thames
and ordered up the river. Queen's command:-To proceed
against the ship in the manner usual in the Court of Admiralty.
P. ~. Add. to "Geffery Glazier, gent., Procurator General
of the High Court of Admiralty of England, at Doctor's Commons."
Ibid, p. 4.
[8 May.]   JOSIAH BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  In the Lord High Admiral's absence I opened and read your
letter. Sir John Munden has been ordered (by express sent last
night) to sail with second rates if he can have them quicker
than thirds, or with five third rates if he can at once get so many
together. He is to wait for no further provisions if he has two
months' supply at full allowance: and probably the ships have
much more than this. His orders were peremptory, and I hope
his next will report him ready to sail.
P. -. Signed. Endd. with date. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 63.
Same.     SAME to VWILLIAM AGLIONBY.
Pray ask for the Queen's pleasure as to whether the crew of the
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collector of Customs at Cowes desires orders therein. Please also
submit the enclosed statement regarding affairs in the West
Indies.
P. -. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 64. Enclosing:A. Note from Cowes.
On the 4th the Clover Blade, Nicholas Ofdris master, of and
for Middlebo[urg], put in here. She left Staches, one of the
Caribbee Islands belonging to the Dutch, this day six weeks.
It was then said that the English and Dutch fleet under
the command of Admiral Benbow were at Jamaica. On
29 January, N.S., five English ships sailed there from
Nevis, where Ofdris then was. They stayed at Nevis one night.
The French fleet was supposed to be about Martineco and said
to be 40 sail.
P. W. Copy. Dated, Cowes, 6 May, 1702. Ibid, 64A.
B. Thomas Cole to (Josiah Burchett?).
The master of the French vessel lately stopped at Cowes has
returned from  London. He will not own that he saw
Pottavin there. The crew wish to go home.   May they be
released?
P. -. Copy.    Dated, Cowes, 6 May, 1702.      Ibid, 64B.
8 May.     JOSIAn BURCHETT to WILLLAM AGLIONBY.
Admiralty   Captain Spann, commander of H.M.S. the Sorlings, has been
at the western ports and in Ireland, in an endeavour to get men
for the fleet, and sends me a letter of which I enclose an extract.
P. ~. Signed. Endd. Ibid, 65. Enclosing:A. Extract as mentioned.
I applied to the Lords Justices of Ireland and the Lord Mayor
of Dublin as enclosed [missing] show. There were 600 or
700 seamen in and about Dublin, and half of these would
have sufficed for the trade of the place; yet neither myself
nor my officers were to imprest a seaman on shore on pain of
imprisonment, arraignment, and being condemned to death,
as Secretary Dawson told my lieutenant. I am told that
the lawyers and judges of Dublin have advised that the Lord
High Admiral of England has no power to imprest men in
Ireland.  If so, with submission, English seamen may
evade the obligation to serve by merely stepping over to
Ireland. This is done, and a proof of it is that, at Cork,
I took a man out of a gentleman's pleasure-boat that actually
belonged to the Royal William. He had a ticket of leave
from Admiral Churchill, which had expired. I have him
and his ticket. I am  credibly informed that there are at
Cork 300, at Waterford 300, and Youghal 200, at Kinsale
150, and in Dublin 700 deserters from the Royal Navy. They
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Notwithstanding the attitude of the Irish Government, I have
procured 65 good English sailors to serve in her Majesty's
fleet under Admiral Hopson. I have been much threatened
by the Secretary (in Ireland), but never imprest a man
without first letting the Government or chief magistrate know.
Pp. 2k. Dated, 5 May, 1702, H.M.S. The Sorlings, in High
Lake. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 65A.
8 May.    PEMBROKE to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  I have yours of the 5th enclosing extract of one from Brigadier
Selwyn, Governor of Jamaica. In these he shows his uneasiness
at two points gained, as he says, by Vice-Admiral Benbow from
the Commissioners of the Admiralty before he left. They are:1. Obliging such vessels as are commissioned by the Governor
to make a distinction in their colours.
2. A permission to the Vice-Admiral to press (with the consent
of the Governor) seamen and landsmen that have served at sea.
The first of these points was fully considered by the Admiralty
on a report from the Council of Trade and Plantations, dated
9 July, 1701.   After consideration, the Admiralty proposed
to their Excellencies that ships commissioned by Governors
abroad ought to be allowed to wear Jacks to distinguish them
from private ships, but should have, on the Jack, a mark to
distinguish them from the Royal Navy. This resolution, and a
draft of such a Jack, were approved by their Excellencies in
Council of 31 July, 1701. I cannot see what hardship it entails
on privateers there, or on those fitted out from here, which must
be distinguished from the ships of war.
The other point arose from frequent complaints by Sir William
Beeston, late Governor of Jamaica, and was settled before
Governor Selwyn left England, and approved by him. ViceAdmiral Benbow has now to have the Governor's assent before
he presses men, which was, in former times, not required. As
pressing men in ships or on shore in the harbour of Jamaica is
strictly against his instructions, it is probable that he has had to
press them to take the place of sick or dead men. I will specially
urge on him in my next that neither the people on shore may
suffer nor the public service by discouragement given to the
privateers by taking their men. It may also be well to write to
the Governor to assist the Flag Officer with men for his squadron,
at all events when there shall be occasion, lest that part of the
service under his care should suffer.
I agree with the Governor that it would be a very good thing
if recruits for the squadron at Jamaica could be sent out by
merchant ships trading there; but the need of men for home
defence and for service elsewhere makes it very unlikely that
we shall be able to do this.
Pp. 21. Signed. Add. Endd. Ibid, 66.
8 May.     SEAFIELD to NOTTINGHAM.
Whitehall.  Return of the Scotchmen impressed [see above, p. 51, at 6
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embargo which we desire may be taken off. Touching this the
Duke of Queensberry and I desire to "wait of " your lordship;
and, as we hear you are engaged at five, will wait on you at
seven "precislie." We will bring the instructions which we
were desirous your lordship should see and peruse.
P. J. (Hol.) S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 16.
8 May.    LIST OF SHIPS PROVISIONED at BLACKSTAKES and the NORE.
Victualling Three first-raters, four second-raters and 11 third-raters. Names
London. and complements given in each case. All these are provisioned
with water, beer and bread, except the Barfleur. [Details.]
These are all the great ships ordered to be victualled at the port
of Chatham for this year's service for four months.
P. 1. Examined 8 May, 1702, by Robert Stephens. Endd.
Ibid, 17.
8 May.    BERNARD ELLIS to [NOTTINGHAM].
Guernsey.  I have received yours of the 2nd (re declaration of war) and
accordingly by beat of drum gave notice to all French merchants
and masters of vessels to leave after despatching their affairs
with the inhabitants. The Orford and Essex arrived to-day
with news of the declaration and bringing nine companies to
relieve the force here. They are very thin at present and without
arms. When coming in, the Orford took a 20 ton French vessel
with brandy and rosin, which, the magistrates tell me, has been
formerly prohibited, and restitution made, though in time of
war. I humbly wish you success in your office.
Pp. 1. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 16.
8 May.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  and 2. To PEMBROKE.
1. Command:-To direct the Commissioners of the Navy at
Portsmouth to send an account of the fleet there and at Spithead,
when it will be ready to sail and what stores, men &c. it lacks.
Also to provide small frigates to keep up communication
between England and the fleet, and send news home once a
fortnight. [Details.]
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 325.
2. Command:-To take steps to suppress the French and Spanish
privateers on the coast, which are doing great harm to British
commerce. P. W. Ibid, p. 318.
9 May.    ABSTRACT of a LETTER from CAPTAIN DURLEY from on board
Spithead.     the Blackwall at Spithead.
On 3 May we spoke with several Swedes and Danes from
Burdeux [Bordeaux] and St. Martin's, but last from Camrett
(Camaret) Bay ten days ago. They said that the French were
fitting out all their ships at Brest.
On the 4th I spoke with one Severeen Anderson, master of
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They said the French were fitting out ships as fast as they can.
I also spoke ships [details] which saw seven French men-of-war
at Malaga. Yesterday, 5 May [sic], they met a French privateer
aboard an English pink, and they let her go.
P. i. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 67.
9 May.    JosIAH BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
Admraty    Sir John Munden reports to-day that he has put the eight
vessels which he takes with him in a condition by unmanning
all the first, second and third rates that he will leave at Spithead,
and hopes to sail this morning.
P. i. Signed. Add. Ibid, 68.
9 May.    ROGER PINCKNEY to HEDGES.
New Inn.  About two    years since, at Exeter City Sessions, before
Sir Edward Seymour, Bart., Recorder, Edmund Diston, alias
Cox, and Peter Dyer, were tried and convicted, one of them
for robbery and the other for burglary, and were sentenced
to death.  However, on some circumstances offered on their
trials, Sir Edward reprieved them till further order; and they
petitioned the King for a pardon. King William referred the
case to Sir Edward, who, I am told, made a report in favour
of them, but those papers are mislaid. They pray for a warrant
that they may be inserted in the next Western Circuit pardon,
else they must inevitably perish in jail.
P. i. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 26.
Latest date, PETITION of HENRY BLAND and SAMUEL HOLDEN, Merchants,
10 May.       shewing that:Petitioners had resided at Narva for some time before that
city was besieged by the Czar of Moscovia in 1700. During the
said siege petitioners landed a quantity of English manufactures
in the river of Narva, having first obtained leave from the
King of Sweden to pass with the said goods into Moscovia.
The King of Sweden, however, having attacked the Moscovia
camp and raised the siege, all the petitioners' said goods were,
after being carried into petitioners' own warehouse in the city of
Narva, seized by the Swedes. A quantity of cloth and kersies,
to the value of about 6001. sterling, was actually taken from
them by force.
However, on a letter from his late Majesty, the King of Sweden
caused justice to be done to petitioners, granting them an allowance out of the Customs on such goods as they should import
into the city of Narva. By letters dated 2 May, 1702 [copy
annexed], the General Customs Office at Stockholm gave orders
accordingly to the Customs House at Narva.
Nevertheless petitioners have not been paid, and have long
waited for payment.*
They pray for an order to the English Minister at Stockholm


[


S...


* So this petition must be later than May, 1702. It is placed here, as this. i
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to ask for payment of the said debt, together with a reasonable
sum for interest.
Pp. 1. Copy. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 27.
Also copy of the letter last referred to herein, dated 10 May, 1702.
P. A. Endd. Ibid, 27A.
About     The QUEEN'S LETTER to the PARLIAMENT OF SCOTLAND.
10 May.*   After the great loss which these nations and all Europe have
sustained by the death of our dear brother, we were much
encouraged "upon our entering into the administration of the
Government" by the hope of having your continued fidelity,
of which you gave " so signal proofs in the reign of our glorious
predecessor."
We wish greatly that we could have met you in person "that
from our own mouth we might have given our own people full
assurance of our sincere intentions towards their true wellfare
and happiness "; but, being prevented by the multiplicity of
important affairs, we would not delay your meeting any longer.
"And that nothing may be wanting on our part for the satisfaction of our subjects, whose affection we shall always look
upon as our greatest security, and value above all other advantages,
we give you full assurance that we are firmly resolved to maintain
and protect them in the full possession of their religion, laws
and liberties and of the Presbiterian government of the Church
as at present established.
"It pleased God to make the late King the great instrument
of delivering our people from Popery and arbitrary power and
of restoring to them their ancient rights and privileges, and,
through the same Divine Grace, we shall through the whole
course of our reign aim at nothing more than the preserving to
them these advantages, and contribute as much as in us lies for
their further security in the enjoyment of them.
"The exorbitant power of the French King threatening the
liberties of all Europe, and his owning the pretended Prince of
Wales as King of these our dominions, influencing also Spain
to concur with him in that indignity, tending visibly to the
subversion of the Protestant religion and to the ruin of our
subjects in all that is dear to them, have obliged us, in pursuance
of an express article of the Treaty entered into by the late King
and our Allies, to declare war in this as well as our other dominions
against France and Spain." We expect your concurrence, not
doubting but you are affected with the same sense of those wrongs
and indignities and the other just causes of war as appeared
in the many loyal addresses presented by our subjects on the
declaration of war.
We therefore earnestly recommend to you the providing of
competent supplies for the war and the provision of sufficient
forces to support the settlement which you now enjoy.
"The late King did before his death very earnestly recommend to his Parliament of England the consideration of the
Union of the two kingdoms of Scotland and England, which
being so necessary for the security and happiness of both, we
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did at our accession to the Crown again seriously recommend
the same to them; and they having proceeded to empower us
by an Act of Parliament to name Commissioners to treat of an
Union, we doubt not but you will do what is necessary on your
part; and we shall contribute our utmost endeavours towards
the accomplishment thereof and shall esteem it our happiness
to establish the nation upon so sure a foundation."
We have appointed the Duke of Queensberry to be our Commissioner and represent us during the sitting of our Parliament,
knowing his ability, which you also know. We have empowered
him to give our consent to such laws as you pass for your security,
civil and religious. We desire you to give him entire trust and
credit. "It will be very satisfying to us that effectual methods
be taken for promoting religion, virtue and true piety and
suppressing vice and immorality, for advancing and encouraging
trade and for employing and providing for the poor." Being
now in the beginning of our reign we have recommended nothing
but what is for the security and happiness of Scotland. We
hope you will despatch with unanimity what comes before you.
"And we expect, by your prudence and conduct, this session
of Parliament shall be brought to such a happy conclusion as
shall lay the foundation of that firm union and true understanding
between us and our people as is necessary for the happiness of
both."
Pp. 21. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, pp. 123-5.
11 May.    (ANONYMOUS) to HEDGES.
[London.]  I am informed that Nicholas Wolstenholme, of Enfield, Esq.,
uttered some scandalous words against the Queen. As I do not
desire to be thought an evidence, I send the names of those who
heard the words spoken and will, if sent for, justify them on oath.
"Your most humble though unknown servant."
The words were-If the Queen were King James' daughter,
I am sorry she is crowned.
Persons' names that heard him:
Francis Francia, in Leadenhall Street.
John Barker, junr., in Tower Street.
Mr. Burton, in Billiter Square, of the Custom House.
John Potts, oilman, in Gracechurch Street.
Erasmus Norwich, of Edmonton, junr.
Mr. Dove and Mr. Harvy, both of Berry Street, in Edmonton.
P. 1. Add. Endd. " Ignot. May 11, 1702," and " Criminalia,
1702." S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 28.
11 May.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
WhitehaU.
Whitehall. To Pembroke.
Queen's command:-That the ships and goods of Spanish
and French subjects which were seized by virtue of an Order
in Council of 2 May last be discharged. Please give the necessary
directions accordingly.
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2. To Seafield.
In what station is Harris, the surgeon mentioned in your
memorial, employed? The Queen will discharge him.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 5.
3. To Pembroke.
The Queen heard your report re Henry Killegrew, late Admiral
of the Blue, and considered what was further said by your lordship and the other Lords of the Committee on Sunday last. The
Queen's command is to give him a pension of 7001. a year, settled
in such manner on the Navy as you think best, in consideration
of his long and faithful service.
P. i. Ibid, p. 6.
Also note that this letter was not sent, but a warrant entered
in the warrant book.
4. To Thomas Cole at the Custom House at Cowes.
As the master of the French vessel which you stopped admits
having seen Pottavin, Queen's command:-To detain the ship
and crew till further order. If the master will discover where
Pottavin is, that he may be apprehended, it will be an argument
to induce her Majesty to let the ship go.
P. i. Ibid, p. 7.
11 May.    JosTAH BURCHETT to WILLIAM AGLIONBY.
AdOficlt   Sends an extract of letters received from Admiral Benbow.
P. i. Signed.   Add.   Endd.   S.P.   Dom., Naval 6, 69.
Enclosing.A. Extract as mentioned above.
We have had information that M. Cotelogon, who commanded
the French squadron at the Havanna, has joined Chattereno
(Chateau-Regnaud) at Martenico and are put to sea. The
inhabitants of Barbados are in great apprehension of his
coming there. If a war comes, nothing here can stand
against him, for he has 40 sail of as good ships as there are
in France. I cannot go there "unless I take this island
in a tow." If he comes here we will give him the best reception
we can. The country here has given us possession of two
merchant ships to act as fire ships.
Since writing above, I hear the French were seen off the south
west of Porto Rico four days ago-40 sail and three flags.
They have not attempted anything to windward.
This morning Captain Vyall died.
P. 1. Dated on board the Bredah, 9 Feb., 170k. Ibid, 69A.
11 May.    CAPTAIN SWANTON to [NOTTINGHAM].
Ht.M.S.
Asistance,  I have yours of the 7th with the Declaration of war. If
Spithead. appointed to command the squadron to Newfoundland, I shall
do my best to execute your lordship's orders and send reports
from time to time.
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11 May.    COLONEL COLLIER to [NOTTINGHAM].
Jersey.   I got yours of 2 May, re impending declaration of war, on
the 7th. I took steps to publish the news and to tell the masters
of French boats and barques to go away at once, or they would
be made prisoners of war. [Details.] On the 9th, Captain Norris
arrived on H.M.S. Orford with five companies of Colonel Mordaunt's
new-raised regiment, and with the actual Declaration. I put it in
force at once, and seized three barques and two shallops for the
Queen, and imprisoned the masters and all the men (27) pending
further orders. I have ordered 10d. a day to the masters and
5d. a day to the men for their maintenance. Please send me
orders in the matter.
Pp. 1~. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 17.
12 May.    SAME to [SAME].
Jersey.   A French gentleman having some trouble in his country has
lived here three years and cannot return till his affairs are settled,
which, now war has begun, he despairs of. He is a Protestant,
well born, and hates the King of France's actions; but will not
be known for fear of being ruined. Other details.
Our boats at St. Malo were stopped on the 5th and set free
on the 10th. The masters and passengers say that they did not
know war had been proclaimed, but knew it was unavoidable;
so the merchants of the town, having some 100 sail in Newfoundland,
have fitted out two ships to go there and bring them news of the
declaration. Our boats were held up till these two ships had
got away, lest we should have news of their going; but arrived
last night. The merchants at St. Malo fear a bombardment,
and some of them have removed their goods. A strong guard
is kept on the coast and there is a camp at La Houg, near Cherbourg, with 15,000 horse, foot and dragoons. Privateers are being
fitted out at St. Malo, and some of them are ready to go to sea.
P. 2. Signed. Endd. Ibid, 18.
12 May.    -  DUMMER to NOTTINGHAM.
London.  I am the adventurer of four vessels of above 100 tons burden
employed between this place and Rotterdam. They are much
used and thought to have done more than was ever done
before for the commerce of the two nations.  The Lord High
Admiral in his last general orders for impressing seamen to man
the fleet excepted them particularly from being disturbed thereby.
Nevertheless the service thereby intended for transporting
the officers of the army now going abroad, and for other conveniences to her Majesty's subjects trading to Holland, is
prevented, and myself nearly ruined, by the expense I am at
by reason of the present embargo, in keeping the companies
of these vessels in enforced idleness. Pray relieve me of this
burden. I was in hopes it might have been taken off before this,
so did not trouble your lordship before.
P. 1. (Hol.) Add. Endd., "Order given herein at the Great
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12 May.    MEMORIAL to the LORDS of the COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL.
Transport  We, Samuel Atkinson and Nicholas Roope, appointed [Commissioners] for transportation of the Queen's forces in obedience
to the Queen's command, report that:In pursuance to the Lord High Admiral's order of 3 March
last, we have hired 5,000 tons of shipping to carry 5,000 land
soldiers with the fleet, and have provided bedding and accommodation for the men.
On 2 April his Excellency signified to us that the Commissioners
of Victualling were ordered to put provisions for 3,000 men
aboard 2,500 tons of shipping, and that the ships, when victualled,
were to go to Spithead and await orders.
On 25 April, the said provisions being on board, we gave the
masters of the said 2,500 tons of shipping (seven ships) orders
to go to Spithead at once.
The remaining ships, we think, will be ready to sail in three or
four days.
By order of the late Lords of the Treasury, we have taken
up 1,000 more tons of shipping for the aforesaid service, which
will be ready to proceed in a day or two afterwards.
On Friday last we informed the Commissioners of Victualling
of our taking ships to carry 420 horses [details], and shall have
them provisioned (hay excepted) by Friday next. Hay is being
pressed night and day.
Pp. 1i. Signed by Atkinson and Roope. Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 117, 18.
Same.     LIST of TRANSPORT SHIPS.
These are the ships which are to accompany the fleet with
5,000 land soldiers and 420 horses on board.
Thirty-five names. The names of masters, tonnage and, in some
cases, the number of men and horses to be carried are given.
Pp. 2. Signed as foregoing. Endd. Ibid, 19.
12 May.    WILLIAM  AGLIONBY   to the   PROCTOR  GENERAL    of the
Whitehall.     ADMIRALTY.
The name of the French ship you are to proceed against is
Notre Dame de Bayonne.   The master's name is Saubant du
Resty.
P. I. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 6.
Same.     HEDGES' LETTERS.
1. To the Lord High Treasurer.
Queen's command:-To remind him of the payment of 6,250
crowns due in consequence of a Treaty lately made between
the Queen, the States General and the Elector of Triers (Treves).
Four lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 212.
2. To Sir George Rooke.
Some of the Lords of the Council are to meet to-morrow at
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relating to the fleet. You are to attend with a list of the fleet,
and report on the state of it, and what part of it is designed
for the expedition, and how the detachment under Sir John
Munden mav be supplied if the Dutch ships should arrive.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 212.
3. To the Duke of Ormond.
To attend the meeting mentioned in the foregoing and inform
the Board on the readiness of the forces under his command
for the expedition to embark. Six lines. Ibid.
4. To the Attorney General.
I desire your prompt report on the petition of the aldermen
of St. Albans, which was sent you some days ago.
Four lines. Ibid, p. 213.
5. To Pembroke.
Summons to a meeting of the Council. P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 204, p. 318.
6. To Same.
Sends memorial of M. Toger Wegerstoff, the King of Denmark's
Commissary. Command:-To      release the ten Danish ships
from embargo, provided they have no English seamen aboard.
Details. P.:. Ibid, p. 319.
12 May.    PEMBROKE to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  The Commissioners of Victuals write re the appointment of
a proper agent to look after the victuals provided for the land
forces that are to go on the expedition.  I have considered
the matter, and a sufficient salary has been settled on Mr. Bowles,
the agent, and his clerks, particularly 201. for his chief clerk,
which should secure a properly qualified man. I think that this
additional charge may be saved, and that, when the fleet separates, Mr. Bowles may go with one part of it, and his chief clerk
with the other.
P. i. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 70.
12 May.    MEMORANDUM of a COUNCIL OF WAR.
On board the
Rusell    Present:-Sir John Munden, Rear-Admiral of the Red,
at sea.  Captains Simcock, Price, Townsend, Fairfax, Elves [Elwes],
Walker, Wakelin, Barker, Cotton, Soanes, Keck, Balchen.
The service for which the squadron was designed was communicated to all. It was unanimously resolved that to go into
the Groyne with the squadron was impracticable, "we being
all strangers to the going in, as also to the formidable strength
of the place, there being foul ground and but a narrow entrance,
as appears by the Waggoner, and that if the squadron could
get in there was no appearance of coming out again,... but
with different winds "; especially with so many ships. Such an
attempt, instead of being an advantage, would probably result
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However, that the expected service might be most conveniently
executed, it is thought best to lie with the squadron so as not
to be discovered 15 leagues north-west from Cape Prior, the
eastern-most cape at the entrance of the Groyne, to send in a
small frigate and smack to see if the ships are there; if they are,
to wait for them and intercept them as they come out, but if not
then to cruize off Cape Prior so as to intercept the men-of-war
expected from France.   If it turns out that the ships have gone,
then to go to the other station according to orders.
Pp. 1|.   Signed by all the captains.  Endd.   S.P. Dom.,
Naval 6, 71.
12 May.    NOTTINGHAM to the EARL OF ROMNEY.
Whitehall.  The town of Weymouth has asked for stores as per enclosed
list. Queen's command:-To report if such things were granted
them in the late war, if they were, the Queen will consent; but,
if not, report what should be granted them. Further pleasure.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 5.
Also list of the stores desired "for the better security of the
borough of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in any attempt
of the enemy ":Twelve leaker (sic) land carriages, 300 leaker shot, 400 pound
shot, four chests of partridge shot in cases, sixteen barrels of
cannon powder, four barrels of priming powder, 1 cwt. of
matches, 100 small arms, 2 cwts. musket shot, 50 live Granada
shells.
P. i. Ibid.
13 May.    WrLLIAM    NENT   and   others  (traders  to  the  Spanish
London.        Netherlands) to
We ask for passes for the two billenders undermentioned.
The St. Jacob, of Bruges, Adrien de Raes master, cleared at
the Customs House in London long since with goods the growth
and product of England for Ostend in Flanders.
The St. Joseph, of Bruges, Jean Baptista de Marese master.
Both ships were cleared at London and Gravesend before the
declaration of war, as witness our hands.
P. ~. Signed by Willaim Nent, Charles Bollengur, Louis de
Dorper, Francis Andre, John and John de Berdt [sic] for
John Yong. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 30.
13 May.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to WILLIAM AGLIONBY.
Admiralty   I send a copy of a letter from Mr. Randolph, sent me by
Mr. Popple, Secretary to the Lords of the Council for Trade. If
the terms on which the master of the vessel purposes to carry
the packet are accepted, pray ask his lordship* to obtain the
Queen's orders for the ship to proceed in spite of the embargo.
His lordship's despatches for the Government of Jamaica will
be sent by the first ship.
P. 1. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 72. Enclosing:A. Copy as mentioned above.
I received your lordship's commands to send forward a letter
from  the Earl of Nottingham  to Benjamin Bennet, Esq.,
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Lieutenant Governor of the Bermudas, by the first ship.
There is at present no vessel bound directly thither.
Colonel Thomas Carey, sole owner of the brigantine Joseph
of Carolina, has proposed to take it if he have protection for
James Norman, his master, a Bermuda man, Christopher
Hall, the mate of the brigantine, and seven sailors. He will
undertake to deliver the letters, wind and weather permitting,
and the danger of the sea and enemies excepted.
P. 1. Dated, 12 May. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 72A.
13 May.    HEDGES to the LORD HIGH TREASURER.
Whitehall.  Queen's command:-You are to order the Customs officers
to assist the officers of the fleet in procuring seamen to man
the fleet and in putting them on board, especially at Bristol,
Plymouth, Newcastle, Yarmouth, Hull, Chichester, Bredhamston
(Brighton), Hastings, Ferversham (Faversham), Folkestone,
Shoreham, Colchester and Rye, or elsewhere where such men
may be found.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 213.
14 May.    NOTTINGHAM to the MAYOR OF BRISTOL.
Whitehall  Requiring his assistance in the matter of impressing men for
the fleet.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 7-8.
Also list of thirteen other places to the mayors of which similar
letters were despatched.
P. 1. Ibid, p. 8.
Same.     HEDGES to SIR GEORGE ROOKE.
The Lords of the Committee of Council direct that you order
the thirteen men-of-war that are now ready in the river to proceed
to Spithead with all speed.  You are forthwith to take such
measures as you think necessary to make up the number of ships
for the expedition to thirty. You are further to take care that
the great ships at Portsmouth and Spithead, except the Royal
William and St. George, which must be manned, be brought
into harbour, leaving on board each a proper number of men.
The rest of the men are to be put for the present into other ships
not designed for the expedition, that they may be in condition
for service. The seamen are to be assured of being restored
to their respective ships.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, p. 1.
14 May.    PEMBROKE to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  Sixty French prisoners were set ashore at Weymouth on the
11th from ships taken by the Deptford and Newport, and the
officers of those ships desire to be told what to do with the prisoners.
Pray get orders from the Queen for receiving them and other
prisoners into Dover Castle and the forts at Portsmouth, Plymouth
and other places along the coast, and to secure them there till
a commission for their exchange can be settled.
P. i. Signed. Endd. S.P. Pom., Naval 6, 73.
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14 May.    HEDGES to SEAFIELD.
Whitehall.  Sending an enclosure.
Two lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 213.
15 May.    DEPOSITION of FRANCIS FRANCIA and JOHN BARKER, of London,
Merchants, ROBERT BURTON, of London, Gentleman,
and JOHN POTT, of London, Grocer.
Sworn before John Ellis, they say that:About 18 April, they were with Mr. Nicholas Wostenholme
at the Bell at Edmonton*, kept by one John Calvert. Among
other discourse Mr. Pott said, "We have now a lawful and
rightful Queen of our own country, King James' daughter, and
I like her the better and thank God for her." Mr. Wostenholme
then said he did not know whether she was King James' daughter
or not, but, if she was, he liked her the worse. Erasmus Norris,
of Edmonton, Mr. Robert Harvey and a Mr. Dove were present.
P. i. Signed by the deponents and countersigned by John
Ellis. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 31.
15 May.    PEMBROKE to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  Some time since, when the Perrigrine galley was in Rotterdam
with Lord Carmarthen, Mr. Chandelor Billingsly, an officer
belonging to the said ship, in his lordship's absence, fired at a
French ship to make her strike. For this he was confined, and
has since been out of employment, for though the late King
set him at liberty, the then Board of Admiralty did not receive
any order to restore him to a command.
Lord Carmarthen has now sent me a letter in which the
Pensioner of Rotterdam expresses the willingness of the magistrates of the City to pass by Billingsly's indiscretion. I send
you the letter and desire her Majesty's commands on it.
P. 1. Signed. Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 74.
15 May.    MEMORIAL   by  the COMMISSIONERS of TRANSPORT to the
Transport      COMMITTEE of COUNCIL.
Office.
The remaining ships to carry the 5,000 land soldierst are ready and
we shall to-day order them to go to Spithead. Those to carry 420
horses will be ready next Tuesday. The contractor for hay
has not been able to supply it by the agreed date.
P. -. Signed by Atkinson and Roope.t Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 117, 20.
15 May.    HEDGES to the POSTMASTERS GENERAL.
hitehall.  Queen's command:-The packet-boat that goes from Harwich
to Holland to be stopped till further order.
Four lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 214.
* Here spelt "Edminton."
t See above, p. 62.
t Hereinafter, when these Commissioners sign, their letter or memorial is
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15 May.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to WILLIAM AGLIONBY.
Adiraty    The Postmasters General have asked the Lord High Admiral
to allow the Owner's Goodwill to take stores and necessaries for
the packet-boats to Harwich. Pray move the Earl of Nottingham
to obtain and transmit the Queen's pleasure for the vessel to go.
P. A. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 75.
15 May.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Earl of Romney.
Queen's command:-Her Majesty having heard of the condition
of Portland Castle, directs you to send down some powder there
forthwith and do what else you think best in the case.
P. -. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 9. Enclosing:Extract from Mr. Charles Langrish's letter, dated Weymouth,
2 May, 1702.
Portland Castle is in a very dangerous condition and will
be totally rifled unless some special care be taken by
appointing some fit person to look after the same. There
is not a grain of powder in the Castle and the gunner, being
very necessitous, was forced the Sunday before to quit the
Castle and shift for himself. He has left in possession of
the sutler's office that is in the Castle yard a miserable poor
fellow that sweeps chimneys for his living, and two porters,
as so rated in pay, but [these] live not in the Castle; which
is the only garrison. Although the said Mr. Langrish has
the keys of the Castle, yet the windows are open so that any
person may get in and cut away the leads that cover it, which
will certainly be done if timely care be not taken, "as
Weymouth Castle by neglect was demolished."    Portland
Castle is of good use and security to ships that come into
Portland Road, and the only defence which the island hath.
P. 1. Ibid, pp. 9-10.
2. To Mr. Bowls (or Bowles).
You are appointed agent for victualling the fleet when at sea
with an extraordinary allowance to your chief clerk that he may
take care of that business in case the fleet should be divided.
Take care that the person you "pitch upon" is duly qualified,
and inform the Lord High Admiral of his name for his approval.
P. ~. Ibid, pp. 10-11.
3. To the Earl of Romney.
*Queen's command:-To order the officers in Dover Castle to
receive into it all such French and Spanish prisoners as shall
be sent to them and detain them till further order.
P. i. Ibid, p. 11.
Also similar letter, or notes of similar letters, to the Governors,
Lieutenant-Governors, Keepers, or Commanders-in-Chief of the
forts at Portsmouth, Plymouth and Pendennis Castle,
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4. To the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Complaint is made to the Lord High Admiral that the
labourers who are entertained by the officers of the yard at
Kinsale to perform their service at that port, and who are likewise employed as watchmen in order to prevent embezzlements,
are compelled by the Corporation to mount guard in their turn,
although the Custom House officers are exempt therefrom.
Queen's command:-To send orders for freeing them from
that obligation, which keeps them from the proper discharge of
their other duties.
P. i. S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, p. 2.
15 May.    ESTABLISHMENT of pay for the standing forces and garrisons
St. James'.    in SCOTLAND for 336 days from 15 May, 1702.
Gives details of pay for the following:1. "One troop of Guards."
A captain, two lieutenants, a cornet, guidon, quartermaster, four brigadiers, four sub-brigadiers, four
trumpets, a solicitor, kettle-drum and 106 gentlemen.
Total, 122 men and 201. 5s. Od. a day.
2. One troop of Grenadier Guards.
A colonel, two captains, two lieutenants, a cornet, two
sergeants, two corporals, two drums, and 52 grenadiers.
Total, 64 men and 71. 3s. Od. per day.
3. A regiment of Dragoons.
A colonel, lieutenant-colonel, major, quartermaster,
captain, lieutenant, cornet, two serjeants, two corporals,
a drum and 26 dragoons.
Total, 34 men and 31. 8s. 4d. a day.
Five troops more of this regiment, as above.
Total of the regiment, 205 men and 211. 19s. Od. a day.
4. Another regiment of Dragoons at the same rate and
numbers. Total, 205 men and 211. 19s. Od. a day.
5. "Our Regiment of Foot Guards."
A colonel (pay as such), lieutenant-colonel (pay as
such), second lieutenant-colonel (same), major (same),
two adjutants, and a drum major.
Total, 21. Os. 6d. a day.
Each company in the regiment consists of a captain,
lieutenant, ensign, two sergeants, three corporals, two
drums, and 36 sentinels.
Total of a company, 46 men, and 21. 4s. Od. a day,
and of fourteen more companies, 644 men, and
301. 16s. Od. a day.
There is also established a company of grenadiers.
This consists of a captain, two  lieutenants, two
sergeants, three corporals, two drums and 36 sentinels.
Total, 46 men and 21. 5s. Od. a day.
A second lieutenant is added to the colonel's company.
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6. A regiment of Foot.
This consists of:
(a) A colonel, lieutenant-colonel, major and aid (?)
major.
Total, 11. 8s. Od. a day.
(b) Eight companies, each of which is as follows:A captain, lieutenant, ensign, two sergeants, t.wo
corporals and' drum and 27 sentinels. Total, 35
men and 11. 14s. 6d. a day.
Total of seven more companies, 245 men and
4,0571. 4s. Od. a year.
(c) A company of Grenadiers.
This consists of a captain, two lieutenants, two
sergeants, two corporals, a drum and 27 grenadiers.
Total, 35 men and 11. 15s. 6d. a day.
(d) One company more appointed for preserving the peace
of the Highlands.   It consists of a captain, two
lieutenants, three sergeants, two corporals, two drums,
and 60 men.
Totals, 70 and 21. 14s. 6d.
Total of the regiment, 386 men and 6,6191. 4s. Od.
a year.
7. Another regiment, as the foregoing.
Total as before.
9. The regiment at Fort William.
This is made up as the last mentioned regiments except
that (a) there are in all eleven foot companies, and
each foot company has only 25 sentinels, and (b) that
the company of grenadiers has only 25 grenadiers.
Total, 4 regimental officers and 11. 8s. Od. a day,
363 company officers and men and 181. 8s. 6d. a
day, and the grenadier company of 33 officers and
men and 11. 148. 6d. a day.
To this regiment there are further added:A 2nd lieutenant-colonel, chaplain, surgeon and
mate, marshal and storekeeper, gunner, two
matrosses, smith and servant, wright and servant,
[allowance for] drugs and medicines, coal and
candle; frigate and boats, bedclothes, coverings
and blankets.
Total in all, 410 men and 8,2181. 16s. Od. a
year.
10. General Officers.
Major-General of the Forces, Master of Ordnance, MusterMaster, Adjutant-General, Intendant of invalids, Chief
Engineer, Physician-General, Clerk of the court-martial
and Secretary of War.
Total, 41. 15s. 6d. a day.
11. Artillery officers.
A captain, lieutenant and bombardier, corporal, ten
gunners, six practitioners and a commissary.
Total, 20 men and 11. 12s. 3d. a day.




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12. Edinburgh Castle garrison.
A captain, deputy-governor, two lieutenants, two ensigns,
three sergeants, four corporals, two drummers, 120
soldiers, chaplain, master gunner and five gunners,
surgeon, porter, gun-smith, and [allowance for] coal
and candle.
Total, 145 men and 51. 19s. Od. a day.
13. Stirling Castle garrison.
Similar details, only 100 sentinels instead of 120, no
surgeon, porter, or gunsmith; otherwise a slightly
smaller establishment.
Total, 117 men and 41. 11s. Od. a day.
14. Dumbarton Castle garrison.
A captain, lieutenant, ensign, two sergeants, two
corporals, gunner, drum, 50 soldiers, coal and candle.
Totals, 59 men and 21. 7s. Od. a day.
15. Blackness garrison.
Deputy-governor, gunner, porter, coal and candle.
Totals, 3, and 61. a day.
Total of the establishment, 2,934 men and 65,7401. 14s. Od. a year.
Pp. 9. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, pp. 175-83.


16 May.
Whitehall.


NOTTINGHAM to the LORDS LIEUTENANTS.
For helping the Vice-Admirals and press officers and press men.*
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 12-13.
Also note that it was sent for the inland counties to:Bedford.
The Duke of Bedford        for Cambridge.
Middlesex.
Lord Wharton                for aOxford.
The Earl of Abingdon        for Berkshire.
The Duke of Northumberland for Surrey.
The Duke of Devonshire      for Derby.
The Duke of Shrewsbury     for H    f.
Worcester.
The Duke of Newcastle      for Nottingham.
The Earl of Essex          for Hertford.
The Earl of Manchester     for Huntingdon.
The Earl of Rutland        for Leicester.
The Earl of Peterborough   for Northampton.
Lord Sherard               for Rutland.
The Earl of Bradford       for Salop.
Lord Pagett                for Stafford.
The Earl of Northampton    for Warwick.
Wiltshire, Monmouth, Brecknockshire and Radnor were
under the Lord High Admiral himself. Letters to the
Lords Lieutenants of the maritime counties were sent
from Hedges' office.
Pp. 1,. Ibid, pp. 13-14.
* See next entry for text.




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1702.
16 May.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Earl of Stamford.
The Queen finds it necessary that the letters sent you from the
Privy Council for procuring seamen should be put in force at once.
This she desires done, and you are to give all assistance to the ViceAdmirals and others appointed by the Lord High Admiral to
press men in the county where you are her Majesty's Lieutenant.
Her Majesty expects lists to be sent up of the men procured.
P..
Also note that a similar letter was sent to:The Dukes of Bolton, Ormond and Newcastle, the Earls
of Radnor, Scarborough, Romney, Oxford, Berkeley, Pembroke,
Carlisle, Dorset, Lindsey, Burlington and  Rivers, Viscounts
Townsend and Irwin and Lord Cornwallis.
In all p. -X. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 211.
2. To the Postmasters General.
Reversing the order of 15 May re stoppage of the packet to
Holland at Harwich.
Three lines. Ibid, p. 214.
3. To the Lord High Admiral.
Command:-To clear six Danish or Swedish ships of the
embargo, provided they have no English sailors aboard. Details.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 326.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM to JOSIAH BURCHETT.
Please take care of and forward enclosed to Major-General
Selwyn, but not by the vessel that is designed to the Bermudas.
I shall send a duplicate of this and letters to the Governors of
other Plantations to you to-morrow, that they may be all sent as
has been proposed by Mr. Randolph to the Governor of Bermuda.
P. S. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 12.
16 May.    BERNARD ELLIS to LORD SECRETARY NOTTINGHAM.
Guernsey.  Corroborates Colonel Collier's information of the 12th, q.v.
The English ships from St. Malo will pay large duties, being bound
for Southampton with wine and Morlaix cloth. When they
arrived there were six French boats freighted on the sole risk
of merchants here, which they offered to confirm on oath. On
this assurance I said I would do what I could to protect them
and let them return and gave them a guard to save them from
attempted plunder, by men-o-war's men, in the harbour here.
Since getting her Majesty's order of 2 May to the Commissioners
of Customs empowering them to seize and detain all French and
Spanish ships and cargoes, I have had no more to do with them.
I send copies of the French King's orders to M. Pontchartrain
and the Commissioner of St. Malo's letters to me.
Pp. 1. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 19.
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A. M. [de] St. Sulpice to Bernard Ellis.
I send the ships of your island, to which I gave all the time
they needed to settle their business. I hope ours with you
may have the same treatment.
P. ~, in French. (Hol.) Dated, St. Malo, 21 May. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 19A.
18 May.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Postmasters General.
Queen's command:-The     packet-boats that go   between
England and Holland are not to be armed. You must forbid
the masters to carry any goods whatever to or from Holland.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 15.
2-5. To the Lord High Admiral.
2. Queen's command:-She is pleased to pass by the offence
of Mr. Chandelor Billingsly, committed on the Peregrine galley.
He may be employed in the Navy.
P. i. Ibid, p. 16.
3. Queen's command:-To direct the Navy Board to provide
for the French or Spanish prisoners that are or shall be brought
in as was done in the last war with France; and to consider of
some proper place to keep them in, Portsmouth not being thought
convenient for that purpose.
P..Ibid.
4. I send a letter from the captain of La Trompette, brought into
Spithead as prize. Queen's command:-To examine whether
this be not the ship that brought over Poitevin or Levingston.
P. i. Ibid, p. 17.
5. Queen's command:-To take off the embargo on two
Portuguese ships, the Jesus Maria Joseph (Bras. Emanuel de
Carvalho, master), now in the Thames and bound for Portugal,
and the Nortra Senhora de Penha de Franza (Marcos Manuel de
Mocais, master), detained at Portsmouth and bound for London.
P. ~. Ibid.
18 May.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to WILLIAM AGLIONBY.
Admiralty  Sir George Rooke asks how the French prisoners on board
the ships at the Nore are to be disposed of. Pray move the Principal
Secretary of State for orders to the Governor of Sheerness to
receive them, if it is not done already.
Orders were lately sent to the Nore for supplying from the
ships there 50 men, the better to enable the transport ships to
sail from the river. Sir G. Rooke, meeting with this order at
his arrival at the Nore, has acquainted his Excellency that the
complying with it will unman one of the ships, for which reason,
and the want of men for the ships necessary for the intended
expedition, he proposes discharging the transports for the 1,000
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Admiral desires the Queen's commands in this matter. When
this matter of transports for the additional 1,000 men was first
mooted, it was thought by some that the additional men might
be accommodated in the fleet.
In answer to a letter from Lord Nottingham-two vessels
have been appointed to cruize on the coasts of Kent and Sussex
to prevent intelligence to France, namely the Despatch and Fly,
brigantines. They cruise between Arundel and Hastings, and
Hastings and Dover.
Pp. 1. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 76.
18 May.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to WILLIAM AGLIONBY.
Admiralty  The French vessel with rozin on board was seized at the Nore
Office.
on the 4th of this month.  The small French ship Trumpet [or
La Trompette] was captured between 7 and 11 May and brought
into Portsmouth on the 11th.
P. 1. Signed. Endd. Ibid, 77.
18 May.    HEDGES to BLATHWAYT.
Whitehall  As you dispatched on the other side of the water the letters
sent by the late King to the Princes and States invited by him
to enter the Grand Alliance, I desire you to let me know the names
of those to whom they were sent and of those who have assented,
if any assents have come into your hands. Mr. Hugk has given
me a memorial demanding arrears for the King of Denmark
by commission, as he says, from that Court. I send you a copy
of the account and ask you how the matter stands, as you were
formerly well acquainted with it. I send you, as a matter
pertaining to the Army, the Mayor of Dover's account for
expenses incurred in connexion with deserters.  Please procure
him satisfaction.
P. -. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 214.
Latest date, PETITION to the QUEEN of WILLIAM VISCOUNT MONTGOMERY,
19 May.        shewing that: —
Having received a licence, dated 25 Dec., 1688, from the late
King (when Prince of Orange) to travel beyond sea, petitioner
soon after went into France. Recites the provisions of the Act of
1697, making it high treason in certain cases to return from
France without leave from the King or Queen. Proceeds:Petitioner in obedience to the said Act, though not directly
included in the same by reason of the licence aforesaid, retired
with his family into Spanish Flanders. He has lived there
above four years to the great prejudice of his private concerns
and the undoing of his creditors; for, at this distance, he cannot
by sale of part of his estate or otherwise raise money to pay
his debts.
Prays for licence to return to the Queen's dominions.
P. f. Signed. Endd. with order dated at Whitehall, 11 May,
1702, referring the petition to the Attorney General for consideration and report. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 32, followed by:



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Report of Sir Edward Northey, Attorney General, on the
foregoing petition.
Recites the facts. Adds:-After going into France under the
licence of 1688 the petitioner at some time, but I do not know
when, returned into England. On 27 May, 1696, he was at
the sessions of Oyer and Terminer for the City of London indicted
for high treason for adhering to the French King then at war
with the late King and Queen, and endeavouring to procure the
French King to invade England.
The petitioner absconded by reason of the indictment till
15 December, 1696, when, to prevent his being returned outlawed,
he rendered himself and was imprisoned at Newgate. He pressed
for trial, but on affidavit that Cardell Goodman, one of the
witnesses against him, was gone beyond seas, his trial was
deferred; and therefore on 19 June, 1697, he was bailed out of
Newgate. At several later sessions he moved the sessions to be
tried on the said indictment, but was refused, as Goodman was
still beyond sea.
Recites the provisions of the Act of 1697, requiring all persons
who had gone to France &c. to leave the kingdom by 1 February,
1697-8, unless licensed to stay by the King, and forbidding their
return without licence.
Proceeds:-Thereupon petitioner prepared to go, and went,
beyond sea. I think he was bound to do this, as the King's
licence given to him to go beyond seas was not " a licence within
the intent of that Act to go into France." The King's Attorney
being not then ready to try him, his bail was discharged, but
the indictment remains against him, and is an objection to any
persons buying any part of his estate which he may wish to sell
to pay his debts.
The Act of Parliament is the only thing which prevents his
returning, and "I am humbly of opinion that it will not be.
prejudicial to your Majesty or the public," if you grant your
licence to him to return, he giving security as your Majesty
shall direct for faithful behaviour.
Pp. 1I. Signed. Dated, 19 May, 1702. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 32A.
Also entry of the petition and reference. S.P. Dom., Entry
Book, Vol. 239, p. 3.
19 May.   ATH. FROWDE to JOHN ELLIS.
General Post  In the last war the Secretaries of State employed a person at
Harwich to examine passengers and to return an account to them.
If they have thoughts of employing anybody in that way, I
desire to recommend Mr. Henry Bickerton. He speaks French
and Dutch perfectly. Pray recommend him to Mr. Secretary.
P. I. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 33.
19 May.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Wm. Blathwayt.
The Duke of Ormond presented a memorial to the Committee
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for the Provost Marshal at sea.  The Committee agreed that
he should have six as desired.
The additional sergeants and corporals to the detachment of
the Guards which goes to sea are to be forthwith allowed on the
establishment.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 18.
2. To the Lord Treasurer.
On the Duke of Ormond's memorial, Queen's command:That 601. be allowed to the Provost Marshal's men for the sea
expedition for furnishing horses and accoutrements for them,
and also 351. for the provided shackles. Pray order these sums.
P. i. Ibid.
19 May.    PEMBROKE to NOTTINGHAM.
Admffie.t  Poitevin came over from France in the Susannah of Cherbrooke
[Cherbourg], and Levingston was seized near St. Helen's in the
John, hoy, of London.
P.. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 78.
Same.     JOSIAH BURCHETT to WILLIAM AGLIONBY.
Asking that the Queen may be moved to remove the embargo
in the case of certain ships now loaded with butter and cheese,
at Harwich, Hull, Whitby and Stockton-on-Tees. This is asked
at the request of certain wholesale cheesemongers, who supply
cheese and butter for the Navy.  It is desired that the ships,
which will also bring supplies for the city of London, be allowed
to come there.
P. J. Signed. Add. Endd. Ibid, 79.
Same.     SAME to SAME.
Desires that orders for receiving sick and wounded French
and Spanish prisoners, pending exchange, may be sent to the
civil magistrates at Dover, Southampton, Plymouth, Dartmouth
and Falmouth. Such orders have already been sent to the
Governors of garrisons on the coast. The Governors and civil
magistrates should be ordered to send an account to the Navy
Board from time to time of what men are sent to them, whereon
allowance will be made for their support as in the last war.
P. i. Signed. Add. Endd. Ibid, 80.
19 May.    MINUTES OF A COUNCIL OF WAR.
H.5 Slea. usll The Council was held as in margin. Present:-Sir John
N.W. of Cape Munden, Rear-Admiral of the Red, Captains Sincock, Price,
Prior.  Townsend, Fairfax, Elwes, Walker, Wakelin, Barker, Keck and
Balchin.*
On inquiry made, only two persons were able to give an account
of the strength of the Groyne. Lieutenant John Babb, 3rd
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The entry is narrow and foul ground on both sides.
There is a very strong castle at the entrance on the starboard
side, with near 100 guns upon a rock, and platforms between
Hercules' Pillars and that castle.
On the larboard side is a mud fort with 20 guns, and on the
same side a platform near the church, which commands the
harbour; at the easternmost part of the town is a strong citadel,
which commands every angle of the harbour.
Different winds are required for going in and coming out, in so
much that the packet-boats have often to warp out.
Gilbert Dobson, midshipman on the Restoration, has been a
pilot with Biscayers and Portuguese for three years or more during
the late war. He knows the harbours thereabouts well,
and says that:The going in is difficult. It is three cables over (across) with
foul ground on both sides. In the Sound without there is foul
ground, and dangerous to anchor there, it being deep water.
Corroborates Babb as to the forts and difficulties of wind.
Proceeds:-Guns are mounted on the town walls. When Dobson
was last there a French Governor with officers and soldiers were
there and possessed of the fortifications, and were adding to
them by mounting more guns.
On these reports being considered, it was unanimously resolved
that to sail into the Groyne would be to expose the fleet to certain
loss without service to the nation, or injury to the enemy.
As the Dolphin and Salisbury, sent in to look at the Groyne
and get information, have not returned, and as Sir J. Munden
has waited in vain for them at the rendezvous (off Cape Prior)
it is thought advisable to sail to the rendezvous off Cape Finisterre
in hopes to find them there or get information otherwise.
Pp. 2. Copy with signatures (copies) of the Rear-Admiral
and Captains. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 81.
19 May.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.. To the Earl of Romney.
The late King promised the King of Sweden 2,000 barrels of
powder, and the Queen desires to send it. You are to report in
what time that quantity may be ready to be shipt on a vessel that
is now going to Sweden.
P. j. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 216.
2. To the Lord High Treasurer.
The Queen hears that the clothing of the Duke of Schonbourg's
and Brigadier Windham's regiments of horse are embargoed
on the Dutch hoy the Justice, Peter Callier master. Queen's
command:-To order the clearing of the vessel that she may
sail with the first convoy to Holland.
P. J. Ibid.
3 and 4. To the Lord High Admiral.
3. Similar to the foregoing letter.
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4. Queen's command:-To provide convoy for the transport
ships bound from the river to Portsmouth.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 327.
19 May.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall  1. To the Governor of Sheerness.
Queen's command:-To take in all such Spanish and French
prisoners as shall be sent to you. Keep them so that they may
not be able to make any observations to the public prejudice.
P. -. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 19.
2. To the Lord High Admiral.
Reports his having written the foregoing. The Committee
did not approve Sir G. Rooke's suggestion that the transport
ships for the 1,000 men last ordered should be discharged and the
men placed on the fireships &c. The transports must be
manned, but the manner of manning them is left to you.
P.. Ibid.
20 May.    ROYAL WARRANT to the LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND
St. James'.    and to the PAYMASTER-GENERAL and MUSTER-MASTERGENERAL there.
The late King by warrant dated at Kingston on 19 February last
directed that the several regiments of foot then in the army of
Ireland should be augmented in their number by recruiting each
company of each regiment to two sergeants, three corporals, two
drums and fifty privates (servants included), and by adding two
companies to each regiment so that each should consist of twelve
companies. By our warrant of 13 March last we ordered (sets out
the terms of the warrant, for which see above, p. 5).  In order
that the two new regiments and newly raised companies be
paid as well as the others, we direct you to add all of them to
the military establishment of Ireland, and that they be paid
as the rest of the army there are paid under the establishment
of 1 August, 1701.
Further you shall cause the Muster-Master to muster all the
regiments of foot that are to remain in Ireland on the first day
of June next and, in case they shall then appear full and complete,
to allow them the prescribed pay from 1 March last. In the
case of incomplete regiments, you shall order the levy-money
for each deficient man to be stopped and also the subsistence
appointed for them from 1 March.
P. ~. S.P. Signet Office 14, p. 449.
Same.     SAME to the LORD LIEUTENANT and LORDS JUSTICES [OF
IRELAND], the officers of the Exchequer there and all others
whom it may concern.
You inform us that many payments have been made out of
our Exchequer in Ireland by way of concordatums over and above
the establishment, and that the sums so issued in excess between
14 November, 1700, and 31 December, 1701, have been paid out
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satisfied of this, and direct that the said sums be allowed to
the Receiver or Paymaster-General there on his producing
vouchers of the payment thereof, notwithstanding any previous
direction or restriction. The sums so paid in exceess amount in
all to 1,7671. 18s. 9-d., which is made up as follows:1700.                                                   1. s. d.
Ralph Bucknall, clothes for the game-keeper at
the Curragh of Kildare......  11 0 0
Controller of the Ordnance for taking the
remains of stores round the kingdom..  103 2 2
1701.      The Pursuivants-at-arms, for extra attendance,
1 Jan. to     two payments.......    30 0 0
1 Aug.      To - Jordan and Arthur Bush to distribute to
poor prisoners.........   72 17 3
To Simpson's children for discovery of books..  30 0 0
To - Bucknall for firing to the Park Keepers..  9 0 0
To do. for hay for deer in the winter....  10  6 0
To Humphrey May for transcribing the Secretary's books..........   70 0 0
To George Lorinan for carrying of Protestants
out of an island during the siege of Limerick  26 0 0
To Alexander Irwin for bringing in Tories..  21  7 0
To Henry Pratt in part for making a map of
Ireland............   30 0 0
John Bates, game-keeper at the Curragh..  10 0 0
To - Crooke, extra charge for printing rules
for the army and quartering in barracks..  81 16 11
Captain Coward for trunks and charges in
bringing Acts of Parliament......   58 9 2
Henry Ringwood, Keeper of the Records..   25 0 0
To Thomas Price, arrears as town-major(?) at
Dublin............  171 5 0
To Robert Heath for firing in the Wardrobe..  15 6 0
To Thomas Burgh, extraordinary expenses at
Charlemont for drawbridge, gates &c..  120 12 9
To Humphrey May for extraordinary expenses
at the Secretary's office......   58  7 9
Half a year's rent for the Parliament House  90 0 0
To Baron Virazell [Virazeil ] for extraordinary
charity for the French Protestants..    40 0 0
To the partners in the hempen manufacture for
the King's share therein......  128  3 11
To Humphrey May as before......  267 18 6
[Aug.-Dec.]   To Thomas Burgh for extraordinary expenses
for repairs at Limerick, Kinsale &c...  30 0 0
To Thomas Revy for taking a Tory....   11 0   1I
To John Bates, game-keeper....    10 0 0
To Robert Heath, extras in the Wardrobe..  91 8 0
Ralph Wilson, for rent of a store-house in
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1.  s.  d.
To half a year's rent for the Parliament House  90 0  0'
Masons for extra repairs in the Park....    2 15  6
To Henry Ringwood as before......        25 0   0
To Captain Thomas Burgh for sentry boxes.     12  2  9
Pp. 11. S.P. Signet Office 14, pp. 450-1.
1702.
20 May.    ROYAL WARRANT to the LORD        LIEUTENANT and CHIEF
GOVERNOR OF IRELAND.
We have directed that levy-money be paid to the officers
appointed to raise two new companies which are to be added
to each of the five regiments in Ireland designed for our service
at sea this summer; and by our letters of 28 March last we
directed you to give orders to the Muster-Master-General to
cause those other regiments in Ireland that were not to serve
at sea to be mustered on 1 July, with this direction-that if
at that date they should be found complete in all respects he
should close the rolls as such from 1 April, and allow them such
whole musters, the better to enable the officers to make their
levies and recruits; but if any of the companies should be found
defective on the said 1 July, the Muster-Master should respite
not only the men who were wanting but also all other men who
had been raised for that company.   On further consideration
we find it much more convenient for our service to allow to such
regiments the like levy-money as we give to the regiments that
are to serve at sea.
We therefore order that our directions of 28 March last (mentioned above) be not carried out. Instead, issue the necessary
orders to the Paymaster-General to pay 40s. for every private
sentinel taken in to fill up the said regiments and for the two
new companies to be added to each of the said five regiments
(servants excluded), provided the said regiments shall appear
and muster full by the first day of June next. In case they shall
not so appear full and complete at that time, the levy-moneys
so advanced shall be proportionately deducted from the pay
of such officers as shall not have their companies complete.
P.:-. Ibid, p. 452.
20 May.    NOTTINGHAM to the LORD MAYOR [of London].
Whitehall.  I have considered the depositions against James Clifton and
examined him as closely as I -ould and laid the matter before the
Lords of the Committee of Council. They think there is not enough
evidence to detain him as a prisoner. If therefore you have
no other charge against him, take order for his release.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 19.
20 May.    PEMBROKE to NOTTINGHAM.
Admfiralty  Sends a memorial and asks that it be communicated as soon
as possible.
Five lines. Signed.  Endd.   S.P. Dom.,   Naval 6,    82.
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A. Memorial for the Queen in Council.
It has been decided to divide the fleet into two parts, and that
part which is designed abroad will proceed so far as to leave
the greatest naval strength of France on this side of them.
This is quite different from what it was in the last war, when
the Earl of Orford proceeded into the Straits with the major
part of the fleet; for then the greatest naval force of France
was at Toulon and the English and Dutch between England
and them.
I therefore propose to the Queen that steps be taken to hasten
the States General to send (1) their twenty-one ships designed
for the expedition, (2) the other nine of their forty-eight sail
for the line of battle and at least half of their eighteen according
to the agreement in that behalf, as, pending their arrival,
the part of the fleet designed for service abroad cannot be
sent off without danger to the trade and coasts within the
Channel.
P. 1. Dated, 20 May. Signed by the Lord High Admiral.
Countersigned  by  Burchett.   Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6,
82A.
20 May.    REPORT by PEMBROKE.
Admiralty   I have considered the petition of the Royal African Co. referred
Office.  to me by the Queen. It sets out that the French Guinea Company have made a contract at Madrid for supplying the Spanish
West Indies with negroes, in which they are very much supported
and encouraged by the French King. The African Company have
heard that three French men-of-war were cruising early in the year
off the south part of Africa. The petitioners say that they
have forts on that coast which cannot be supported but by
frequent supplies of men and stores, "and are of absolute
necessity for the preservation of the trade of those parts to her
Majesty's subjects and supplying her Majesty's plantations
with negroes "; and that they have therefore fitted out the
ships in the annexed list, which cannot sail owing to the war
with France and Spain. They therefore pray that in place of
the Bonadventure, which is now ready to return home from the
south parts of Africa, the Queen will spare them some frigates
to cruise on the African coast and protect the Queen's subjects
and their trade, and that these ships may go out as a guard to
the others in their list.
I report that the Bonadventure will "suddenly" be coming
home, and a fourth rate and fifth rate will then be left on other
parts of that coast. It is of great importance to the trade of
England in those parts that their ships should proceed, and the
trade would be much encouraged if a fourth rate could be spared.to go there. I cannot find that any ships of war were allowed
them in the last war, but no doubt if the French mean to supplant
them in their trade for negroes they will have ships of war there
for the purpose.  But foreign services have already taken up
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sufficient number to answer the many pressing services which
daily call for them.
Pp. 2j. Signed. Countersigned by Burchett. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 6, 83. Enclosing --
A. List of Ships mentioned in foregoing.
PasName.     Tons. Guns. Men. sengers.  Captains.
Serelion Brigantine 80  10    18    16   George Cockerell.
Royal Africa,,.. 370  30    48    30   Alexander Gates.
Angola Frigate.. 125   12    24    12   Thomas Arnall.
St. Winifrid.. 160    10    24    -     William Owen.
P. i. Endd. Ibid, 83A.
20 May.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to WILLIAM AGLIONBY.
Admffirlt  The Lord High Admiral has sent a ship to Falmouth to bring
the two packet-boats to Plymouth, where they are to be fitted
for the service of the fleet.  Pray have orders sent to the
Postmasters-General to direct their being handed over to the
captain of that vessel, who is advised to give a receipt for them
to the Customs officer at Falmouth.
P. i. Signed. Endd. Ibid, 84.
21 May.    SAME to SAME.
Admiralty  I have yours with the duplicates of letters of my Lord Secretary
Nottingham to the Governors of the Plantations.
I thought my Lord had no other duplicates to send but those
to Jamaica. I will send these despatches to the Commanderin-Chief of the two ships going there with orders to him to take
special care of them; but I do not know how to contrive to
send on the letters to Barbados, New England, Virginia, Pennsylvania, the Leeward Islands, Carolina, and Bermuda. The vessel
that carried the originals to the Continent (which were all
forwarded from Virginia) sailed some time before I knew of his
lordship's intention to send duplicates.  I at present can find
no other vessel to take charge of them, but I can if desired send
those to Barbados and the Leeward Islands to Vice-Admiral
Benbow, with orders to him to forward them. If the vessel
which Mr. Randolph lately proposed to send is permitted to
sail, she may take the letters to Virginia and elsewhere on the
Continent. The Governor of Virginia.will send them on. The
vessel may also touch at Bermuda and deliver there the letters
addressed there and to Rhode Island. I believe the master of
the vessel will take this upon him in consideration of being allowed
to sail. Details.  I desire directions.
The packet to the commander of the Newfoundland convoy
I will send off to-night. I find the merchants very uneasy at
being thus long embargoed, which prevents their repairing to
the western ports and awaiting the convoy there. "Nor do I
find them under less difficulty how to dispose of their fish when
their vessels are loaden, in regard of the dangers they will be
exposed to should they go up the Streights," and the little
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advantage they will get if they sell their fish in Portugal. It is
difficult to know how to instruct the Commander-in-Chief of the
convoy in the matter.
Pp. 21. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 85.
21 May.    DEPOSITION Of WILLIAM HOWARD, of "Convent Garden," Esq.
Says that he was an ensign in the Duke of Norfolk's regiment
and was pricked down for a captain in Colonel Skelton's regiment,
but his commission was not taken out. He does not know the
hand in which a letter which Secretary Hedges showed him was
written, nor the hand in which it was addressed to Captain Lewis
Conyers at the Rose Coffee House, Convent Garden. He owns
that on Friday last he was at the Dog at Richmond, going down
thither by water with Captain and Mrs. Murray and Mr. Conyers.
The rest of the company he did not know, except Mr. John Wiche.
The names of the rest were Mr. Auburn, Mr. Tudor, Mr. Projers,
Major Wythe and Mr. Townsend.   After dinner they drank the
Queen's health and prosperity to her armies by sea and land.
Asked what he meant by an expression in his letter to Secretary
Hedges saying that he had an affair in hand which his imprisonment would greatly prejudice, he says it referred to the fact that,
having lately married, he has a lawsuit depending in the Court
of Chancery with his wife's trustees and guardians for her fortune.
P.S.-He further says that he knows of no design against the
Queen or her government, and declares on his honour that if
he did he would disclose it. Hearing that there was a warrant
against him he came down to both the Secretaries' offices to
surrender the day before he was taken.
In all pp. 1t. The deposition and p.s. signed, and the p.s.
countersigned by John Ellis. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 34.
21 May.    DEPOSITION  of LEWIS   CONYERS, Of "Convent Garden,"
Gentleman.
Was never an officer in any army. Does not know the hand
of the letter or of the address of the letter shown him (&c. as in
preceding deposition). Proceeds:-The meeting at the Dog
at Richmond was an accidental meeting for diversion and not
for business. Believes that the information given against him
to the Secretary of State on which he was " taken up," was given
by malicious people for the putting off a trial in Doctors'
Commons, where his presence was requisite, and the deferring
whereof will greatly damage him.
P.S.-The examinate knows of no design against the Queen
or her government; and says on his honour that if he did he
would disclose it.
In all pp. 1l. The deposition and p.s. signed, and the p.s.
countersigned by John Ellis. Ibid, 35.
22 May.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.
Whitehall.  1. To the Lord High Treasurer.
Similiar to his letter of 18 May, 1702, to the Lord High Admiral
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mand:-The order taking off the embargo shall stipulate that
none of her Majesty's subjects be on board those ships.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 20.
2. To Sir Charles Cotterel.
Queen's command:-That the Venetian Ambassador may
be admitted to a private audience without ceremony by her
Majesty on Sunday next, 24th inst., at about 5 p.m.
Five lines. Ibid.
22 May.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to WILLIAM AGLIONBY.
AOfice.   I send an extract from Vice-Admiral Hopson re pressing men.
The Vice-Admiral adds that the officers of the Customs are
ready to co-operate in the getting of men if they have orders.
Please communicate this to Lord Secretary Nottingham.
P. ~. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 86. Enclosing:Extract as mentioned in foregoing.
The officers who lately went hence to press men at Chichester,
Brighthelmston and Shoreham are returned without having
pressed any, for as soon as they heard of the officers coming,
they fled into the woods and are in such bodies there that
no county gang dares attack them.
P. i. Dated, Spithead, 21 May, 1702. Endd. Ibid, 86A.
22 May.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall1.  1 To the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
The Bishop of Cloyne's petition for continuing the rectory of
Youghal in that see, and annexing Aghada thereto, is referred
by the Queen's command to you for your opinion.
P. i-. With note that the petition and the Attorney General
Rochfort's report on it were sent with this. S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 101, p. 215.
2. To Colonel Morgan.
Queen's command:-Admiral Allemonde has been permitted
to land the land men and mariners on his fleet, for refreshment,
in the Isle of Wight. You shall give them straw for their use
and such other necessities as they want, and use them civilly on
all occasions.
P. *. Ibid, p. 216.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To Mr. Harcourt.
Your report concerning the murder committed in Mayfair
was laid before the Queen in Council. I hear that two of the
persons concerned in the riot are since,taken.  If so they will
probably discover the rest. The justices should examine them
and give me a further report for the Queen, whose directions
for further action I will then receive.
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2. To Josiah Burchett.
Mr. John Baker, of London, merchant, says that he has the
disposal of the Charles galley of Bristol, now there, and that the
galley is ready to sail and will take any express to Jamaica or
Barbados without other reward than the Queen's permission
and protection. The Queen is inclined to this method rather
than to sending an advice-boat at her own charge. [Details.]
Direct Baker to have the ship made ready at once, and that
the Queen will release the embargo on the vessel on Sunday
next, he undertaking to deliver the packets with care and speed.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 21.
3. To the Postmasters General.
Queen's command:-That the packet-boats that used to go to
Corunna go to Lisbon and so continue till further order; and
that you write to some proper correspondent of the Post Office
in France to know of the Postmaster General whether if we
continue to send the packet-boats as usual to Calais they will
continue the intercourse on their side as formerly.
P. i. Ibid, p. 22.
25 May.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to WILLIAM AGLIONBY.
Adomrae.t  Sends copies of letters from the Earl of Nottingham to the
Governors of the American Plantations.
Four lines. Signed. Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 87.
25 May.    NOTTINGHAM to the LORD HIGH TREASURER.
Whitehall.  I have received an account from the Admiralty of the great
difficulties the press-masters have in trying to press seamen,
especially in Sussex, where the men fly into the woods " and gather
themselves into bodies able to resist the country." The ViceAdmiral of that Coast represents that the Customs officers at
Brighthamsted and Shoreham are ready to help in pressing men
if they have orders for that purpose.
Queen's command:-To give orders to the Customs officers
for this purpose.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 22-23.
Same.     ENTRY on the PROPOSALS of WILLIAM PLOWMAN.
Plowman "with a deep sense of his duty to her Majesty at
this present juncture, when the French expect to render themselves absolute masters of the Mediterranean seas," makes the
following proposals:To build a galley of a new invention at his own expense, burthen
320 tons, 26 guns, 120 seamen and 40 marines, to row with
20 oars, which in the Mediterranean, when calms frequently
happen, is necessary.  Plowman, "by a long experience of the
Streights,"* did act so vigorously in opposition to the French
designs in the last war by destroying 13 of their vessels and
annoying the enemy in the Levant and their passage to Turkey,
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where they have a large trade, that they have "on all
occasions persecuted him with implacable hatred as the only
private man that attempted doing them such considerable
damage."
He asks that the Queen will accept of the said galley into
her immediate service, and victual and man the same, to be
employed upon any despatch into the Mediterranean. She
will be of great service to the fleet there and constantly get
intelligence of the enemy's motions and designs, being a fit vessel
to serve with despatches on all occasions. He begs that instead
of any hire, he may have what prizes he takes after deduction
of -,, he allowing the usual shares to mariners and officers as
appointed by law.
By the arbitrary proceedings of the Great Duke of Tuscany,
at instigation of the French, he was detained 32 months in a
dungeon at Florence, and his estate seized and given to the
French, "so contrary to the laws of nations that her Majesty
has demanded satisfaction and reparation of damages."
Plowman prays for a further opportunity to do the Queen and
his country service, "for besides the advantage to the nation in
general it will be of no small moment to let the Italians, Turks,
Algarines, and Barbarians see that where the French think themselves secure and safe we can, with a small expense, spoil their
tranquillity even in sight of their own ports."
Order, 25 May, Whitehall. Referred to the Lord High Admiral
(Prince George of Denmark)* for consideration and report.
Further pleasure.
Pp. 2. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 238, pp. 496-7.
25 May.    EXAMINATION of FRANCIS LAWRENCEt taken before Daniel Smith
Harwith       and Simon Sandford.
(Harwich).
Deponent is commander of a privateer smack the St. Barb,
about 15 tons, of Dunkirk. Sworn, he says:Born in Westbury parish, Gloucestershire. Lived in Bristol
till 1684. In 1686 went to Dunkirk, and has since lived there.
In 1688 his wife and family came over and joined him at Dunkirk.
After the declaration of war between England and France on
15 May, 1702 (English style), he received letters of marte or
reprisal from the French King and to take the ships and goods
* of the King's enemies under Seal of the French Admiralty. Took
(i.e. manned) a smack of 15 tons under this commission and
armed her with 16 men and two boys, and took on board a small
amount of ammunition.   Fell in on Friday night last with
H.M.S. Flamborough, Captain Hughes, which was at anchor off
Southwold. The Flamborough fired on his smack, took her
and brought her into Harwich.
P. 1. Signed by Lawrence and countersigned by Smith and
Sandford. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 36.


* Appointed tle 20th day of May, 1702.
t Here spelt "Lawrance," but signed " Lawrence."




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25 May.   EXAMINATION of DAVID JONES, DOMINICUS WISENEALL, JACOB
Harwich.      MARRELLS and BARTHOLOMEW SEAMANS, taken before
DANIEL SMITH and SIMON SANDFORD.
They confirm generally the evidence given by Francis Lawrance
[see foregoing] concerning the capture of the St. Barb by
H.M.S. Flamborough. Lawrence threw his commission of mark
from the French Admiralty overboard, and would have blown
up the ship if not prevented by Captain Hughes.
P. 1. Signed by the deponents and countersigned by Smith
and Sandford. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 36A.
25 May.   BERNARD ELLIS to NOTTINGHAM.
Guernsey.
A shalop came in on the 23rd from St. Malo, brought by two
[French] men and a boy, bringing an English merchant who had
been given time to clear all his concerns. The merchants there
are so afraid of our fleet that they have withdrawn with their
effects, as have all the richer inhabitants. The poor stay, and a
company in the castle. They have hauled all their ships high
and dry, and only two small privateers are afloat. As security
had been given for return of the men and boy, I allowed them
to return at once; and I hope I have not transgressed in doing
so. I desire orders on such cases to guide me in the future.
Merchant ships which will pay some thousands in duty have lain
here near three weeks awaiting convoy to the Isle of Wight or
Spithead; so we badly need a frigate.
Pp. 1~. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 20.
25 May.   LORD HATTON to SAME.
Kirby.
I have many complaints from Guernsey. One is that the
four companies sent there are very thin and ill-armed, so that
the garrison is weaker than it has been for a long time. Secondly,
the merchants there hoped to have time to get all their ships and
goods from French ports back; but this they will not be given
unless we release a small French bark which was taken in the
very road of Guernsey by the frigates which brought the relieving
companies. Pray let her be released. A frigate is badly wanted
there. [Details.] There  are  causes depending  before the
Committee of Council relating (1) to the election of a jurat,
(2) to the church property, (3) to some forms of their laws and
customs. On these pray hear what Sir Edmund Andros has to
say and act thereon as you think fit.
P.S.-Pray appoint Peter Martin and Robert Lee to be
Commissioners of Prizes in Guernsey, and Lee to take care of
sick and wounded and exchange of prisoners. Priaulx, one of the
candidates for the post of jurat, is a factious and turbulent fellow
and is backed by men of his quality. His opponent is an honest
man.
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24-26May.   PETITION of EDWARD GOULD and others, Legorn [Leghorn]
Merchants, to HEDGES. Shewing that:Some of the petitioners waited on your honour this morning
and have since told the others of what passed at the deputation.
The whole body of your petitioners request that, to avoid
the present danger to their factory at Leghorn, you will move
the Queen to address fresh letters to Sir Lambert Blackwell,
her envoy with the Grand Duke of Tuscany, to supersede the
former. The earlier letters intimated to the Leghorn merchants
to withdraw their goods from the territories of Tuscany.
They desire to be now satisfied in the Queen's name that they
may carry on their trade as before till further orders from the
Queen, there being no place whither they can transport their
large concerns nor security to protect them from loss or injury
during removal.
From the intimation already given, petitioners have become
odious to the people of the country, with whom they must
necessarily deal. Their persons are in danger from the populace
and the concerns of all the Queen's subjects in their hands are
damaged by the necessity of selling for ready money and granting
large discounts to get in their debts under urgency and fear.
Their losses in this way are so great that petitioners believe
they have already suffered more damage than any loss pretended
by William Plowman.
Petitioners reckon that "the English estates " now at Leghorn
amount to not less than 500,0001. They expect from Leghorn
no fewer than 50 ships (some of which have lately arrived), though
without convoy. All these carried out their full ladings of
woollen goods, lead, tin, fish, and other products of the Queen's
dominions. They have also at present several ships in the
Thames lading with valuable cargoes of the same kind for
Leghorn. Many have gone to Newfoundland to catch fish and
bring them to Leghorn, and others gone to Russia and New
England bound further to Leghorn. It is not now possible for
them to recall any of these vessels.
The season is now opening for the new fisheries in divers parts
of the Kingdom, the undertakers for which will be wholly ruined
if the traffic to Leghorn is prohibited, "no other commodious
port of trade remaining to the petitioners in the Mediterranean
Seas."
They pray for a reference of their suit to the Queen and Privy
Council that they may be "directed to such measures as may
be for the safety of their partners and factors abroad, and their
estates and trade now in danger." They are ready, by " councill "
and otherwise to offer evidence to disprove the loss pretended
by Sir Alexander Rigby, Shepard and Plowman.    Petitioners
believe they can disprove their pretences and shew that they are
merely disturbers of the government and ruiners of the trade
of the nation.
Pp. 21. Signed by Edward Gould, Benjamin Burdett, John
Wright, Joseph Jackson, Richard Horsey, Charles Heprh[aw]
and John Lodington. Underwritten with address to Hedges.




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1702.
Dated, 24 May, and Endd. "Read, 26 May, 1702." S.P. Dom.,
Anne 1, 37.
26 May.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Postmasters General.
"The Lords of the Cabinet Council" approve the letter sent
by you to me. Their lordships further desire that it be sent
by a small vessel to the Governor of Calais to forward it to
Paris. You are further to give directions for the two old Corunna
packet-boats which are at Falmouth to be repaired, so that
they may be in readiness to sail as occasion shall require.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 23-4.
2. To Josiah Burchett.
Please lay before his Royal Highness that " the Lords of the
Cabinet Council " think that Commissioners for the sick and
wounded soldiers should be instructed to care for their safe
custody as well as maintenance, and also to arrange for exchanges
as soon as a cartel can be settled. My Lords think it necessary
that his Royal Highness should issue directions for such
instructions, and should consider of proper persons to be on such
a commission.
P. i. Ibid, p. 25.
3. To the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Queen's command:-That such French and Spanish ships as
have been detained by the embargo in Irish ports be kept till the
Queen's pleasure be known.
P. i. S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, p. 14. Also S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 104, p. 24.
Same.     HEDGES to SEAFIEID.
Sends an enclosure (not entered).
Four lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 220.
26 May.    MEMORANDUM on a Cartel for SICK and WOUNDED PRISONERS.
On May 26 the Earl of Nottingham, then Secretary of State,
wrote to Mr. Burchett, Secretary to the Prince of Denmark,
to lay before him that the Privy Council thought that instructions
should be prepared for commissioners of sick and wounded
prisoners, as well for their safe custody as exchange when a
cartel should have been settled. Commissioners are accordingly
chosen, and the Count de Mornay, having been taken on board
a French man-of-war and brought to London, had leave to write
to M. de Pontchartrain about a cartel. M. de Pontchartrain's
answer was sent to the Commissioners of sick and wounded,
who drew up some proposals for settling a cartel at sea. These
were approved by the Queen and sent to the Prince's Council,
with order, if they had no objection thereto, to deliver them
to Count de Mornay for transmission to France.
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26 May.    P.M. to NOTTINGHAM.
Guernsey.
The soldiers sent here to occupy Castle Cornet and garrison
the island are raw and quite unfit for so important a duty. I
am credibly informed that the Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey
would not trust Castle Elizabeth in their hands, but bade the
inhabitants keep it till further order. The inhabitants of this
island would gladly do the same. Their loyalty has been
unquestioned since the time of the Norman Conquest, as testified
in many Royal Charters.
I pray for orders to the Lieutenant-Governor to keep the
officers, and especially the French, in reasonable duty and not
to allow them to interfere, as they usually do, with the people
or their rights. The French officers beat and abused the High
Constables as complained of to King William III.
Pray do not disregard this appeal, which comes from a loyal
English subject and member of the Church of England.
P.S.-If this complaint is overlooked I shall be obliged to
prefer it to some other Minister of State.
P. 1.   (Hol.)  Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands
2, 22.
27 May.    SIR JOHN LOWTHER to the EARL OF CARLISLE.
Whitehaven.
As to the press, many men of this town are now serving in the
fleet, though not taken here in the way proposed. In the great
storm of October last 48 out of the 53 ships then in port [here]
broke their moorings. All drifted ashore, and the damage done
was a great blow to this town. It took up to five months to
repair. Several seamen were driven elsewhere to seek employment, and on January 8, when we were in some forwardness with
our repairs, came the embargo on all ships except coasters. Our
trade with Dublin was ever reckoned as coast-trade.   This
embargo was taken to be a prelude to a press, so all the seamen
left the town; but, no press being put in force, many returned
later. The ships laden were allowed to go for Dublin, with
intention to take the men when they returned; but unexpectedly
most of them were taken by the press ketches at Dublin, which
is a cheaper way than to send them to Newcastle. To take more
here suddenly will lay up all our ships, for we never have more
than one-third of the men our ships require: the men going on
one ship as soon as they return from another: the second loading
while the first is away. When our convoy comes we may get
more, for the high wages offered in war-time always bring out
men whom neither the press-gang masters nor the civil magistrate
can find. When I was in the Admiralty we always thought
that the best way to get men was to keep the coast trade open
and get men as they came to the ports.   I understand that
two small ships ae to attend the orders of the Lords Justices at
Dublin, and no doubt they will send us one of them, for coal
is already very dear there. The coast trade embargo is no help
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to trade to Dublin.  I use another's hand as I have lately had
gout. Please forgive this.
Pp. 12. Signed, and the part in italics autograph. S.P.
Dom., Naval 117, 21.
27 May.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Lord Mayor of London.
By order of the Committee of Council encloses an information of
John Albery against James Taylor, a tanner, for treasonable words.
Four lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 25.
2. To the Commissioners of Trade and Plantations.
The Committee [of Council] have decided that Mr. Dummer's
proposal for corresponding with her Majesty's plantations be
carefully examined. I send it, by their order, for your consideration
and report.
P. 1. Ibid, p. 26.
3. To the Earl of Romney.
Encloses a petition of the inhabitants of the Island of Purbeck,
which was to-day laid before the Committee of Council. My
Lords desire such stores to be allowed to the petitioners as were
allowed the last war.
P..   Ibid.
4. To Mr. Blathwayt.
The Governor of Guernsey has complained that the four
companies of Colonel Mordaunt's regiment, which have been
sent to relieve the garrison there, are very thin and ill-armed,
which makes the garrison weaker than it has been for thirty
years. By direction of the Council, I send you their complaint
that you may take proper steps for recruiting and arming the
said regiment.
P. i. Ibid.
5. To Josial Burchett.
The Governor of Guernsey complains that there is no frigate
appointed to attend that station, which has never been so long
wanting for thirty years. I am to acquaint you with this, that
you may lay the matter before his Royal Highness.
P. i. Ibid, p. 27.
27 May.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to WILLIAM AGLIONBY.
Odffice.  Asking, under order of the Navy Board, for the release of the
Hopewell (George Tickner master) from embargo. She is to bring
hemp from Russia for her Majesty's service, and is embargoed
at Ramsgate or Margate.
P. 1 (small). Signed. Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6,88.
27 May.    NOTTINGHAM to COLONEL COLLIER, Lieutenant-Governor of
Whitehall.     Jersey.
I laid yours of the 11th before the Lords of the Committee of
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prisoners in the last war, and that no more will be allowed now.
You are to send an account to the Navy Board from time to
time of what prisoners come under your care.
As to the vessels which you have detained, you shall have
orders what to do therein.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 28.
27 May.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Sir J. Clarke.
To consider, with Dr. Newton and Dr. Bramston, the
Queen's declaration for encouraging privateers, her instructions
for them and her declaration touching observance of the
article in the Treaty of Ryswick and the laws of nations regarding
ships seized before the declaration of war. To send an opinion as
to amendments therein.
P. s. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 329.
2. To Mr. Clarke.
Sends, by the Committee of Council's order, drafts of commissions for privateers and for the Court of Admiralty to sit in prize
causes; also of declarations and instructions as to men-of-war
and privateers. His Royal Highness to consider them and report,
please, his objections (if any) by Friday morning. The Committee
propose that captor men-of-war get i of a privateer and ~ of a
merchantman. They desire it to be considered whether anything
can be done to prevent the ransoming of prize ships taken by French
privateers.
P. |. Ibid, pp. 329, 330.
28 May.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Josiah Burchett.
The old packet-boats now at Falmouth are very much out of
repair, and the Postmasters have had orders to repair them
promptly, so that they may be used for the same service as in
the last war. As the Admiralty have sent for these boats,
I am to give you this information to be laid before his Royal
Highness.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 27.
2. To the Mayor of Dover.
Dover Castle is not sufficient for all such French and Spanish
prisoners as may be taken.  You are therefore to take care
for the safe custody (elsewhere) of all such prisoners. Send
an account to the Navy Board from time to time of such
prisoners as you take. An allowance will be made to you for
them.
P. i. Ibid, p. 28.
Also text, or note, of similar letters to the Mayors of Plymouth,
Dartmouth, Falmouth, Southampton, and Ipswich.
P. i. Ibid, pp. 28, 29.




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1702.
28 May.    HEDGES to the MAYOR OF DOVER.
Whitehall.  Yours of the 17th.  I am   sure you have by now received
directions as to the men taken out of the Dunkirk privateer.
I send you copy of a warrant for your expenses in connection
with deserters, and the original is here for your agent to call for.
The thirteen Dutch deserters whom you have should be set on
the fleet as it passes by Dover, to be delivered to the Dutch officers
at Spithead. Let me know with what ship and commander
you place them. As to the eight Englishmen who landed at
Dover from Dunkirk you will hear further.
P. I. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 217.
28 May.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  Steps will be taken speedily for a vessel to attend particularly
at Guernsey, and I have told Lord Hatton so. In the meantime
there are three frigates appointed to cruise between the islands
and the French coast.
The commission to his Royal Highness to grant letters of
marque and the instructions relating thereto were considered
this morning.
P. ~. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 89.
29 May.    MEMORIAL of PRINCE GEORGE of DENMARK as Lord High
Admiral of England, &c., and Generalissimo of all her
Majesty's forces.
He has considered of several complaints of the unserviceableness of English canvas, wherewith the sails of her Majesty's ships
are made.   He sends a memorial thereon.    The material was
introduced instead of Holland's duck for benefit of the English
manufacture. Its use may be of great prejudice to her Majesty's
service.
P. i. Signed. "George," and countersigned by Burchett.
Endd. Ibid, 90. Enclosing:A. Complaints of English sail canvas as aforesaid.
From Commissioner St. Loe, Plymouth Yard, 7 November, 1701.
Reports the Berwick and Kent forced in by stress of weather.
They had sprung their main and fore masts, which is supposed
to be due to bad rigging and sails. The sails were of English
canvas.
From Captain Jennings in the Hamoaze, 7 November, 1701.
Same complaints. The English canvas supplied blows
away "like brown paper in a gale of wind."
From Admiral Benbow in the Bredah, Port Royal Harbour,
9 December, 1701.
Wants a new suit of sails for each ship. The English canvas
will not do the service of the third sort of duck. Is assured that
not a single ship has sails which would hold in a gale of wind.
From Same, 24 December, 1701.
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From  Captain Cornewall on board the Exeter at Spithead,
9 April, 1702.
Same complaint. All the sails he had were blown from his
yards even when it was not very bad weather. Had he been
at the time on a lee shore he would probably have lost his
ship. There is not a captain in the Navy who does not
make similar complaints.
From Sir Stafford Fairborne on board the Sterling Castle in
Cork Harbour, 12 May, 1702.
On Sunday last when we came in here the wind was not too
strong for topsails reefe(d), yet every vessel except mine lost
one or both topsails split.  By this means the Bedford,
which was on a lee-shore, was actually put ashore, but luckily
on a soft " owsy " place within the harbour, and, next tide
we got her of. The Eagle had nearly the same fate.  She
did tail upon the " owze," but suffered no damage.  The
only remedy is to give us better sails, whether of Hollands
duck or English canvas.
Pp. 21. S.P. Naval 6, 90A.
29 May.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to WILLIAM AGLIONBY.
Admiralty   Sends news from Sir Stafford Fairborne.
P. i.   Signed. Add.    Endd. Ibid, 91.   Enclosing:A. Extract from a letter from Sir Stafford Fairborne.
Yesterday of Mounts Bay I spoke with a Swede who came
from Ostend on 13 May, o.s.    He said that at that time
eight French men-of-war lay under the Isle of Aix, near
Rochfort, and four sail, the least of 70 guns, were near the
Isle of Oleron ready to sail. They talked of sailing in three
or four days for the Spanish West Indies.
P. i. Dated on the Sterling Castle off the Lizard, 23 May,
1702. Ibid, 91A.
Same.      SAME to SAME.
Asking that the Earl of Nottingham will move for releasing
the embargo on the James pink, Mr. Robinson master, to go for
hemp for her Majesty's service to Russia. The convoy to Russia
is about to sail.
P. -. Signed. Add. Endd. Ibid, 92. Enclosing —
Memorial by the Lord High Admiral.
Vessels engaged in the coasting trade are still hindered by
the embargo. Convoys are now appointing for their security
so far as is practicable. I "humbly ofer my opinion to
her Majesty " that it is reasonable to take off the embargo
from all ships and vessels trading coastwise, as also from
all such as trade to Hamburg, Russia and the East countries.
This is necessary because the said ships bring naval stores
from those parts.
P. I. Dated, 30 May, Admiralty Office. Signed. Countersigned by Josiah Burchett. Endd. Ibid, 92A.




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1702.
29 May.    SIR GEORGE ROOKE to [NOTTINGHAM].
Soygn      I met the fleet off the N. Foreland last night, and hope to be
off Dover. at Spithead to-morrow. The advance does not help us much, as the
transport ships, victuallers and naval store-ships are left behind
and must be kept with this wind.
The Prince George is left behind by neglect of the captain.
I think she should be reduced and the Hampton Court and Content,
which are useful ships, manned with her crew.
Pp. 1i. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 67, 13.
29 May.    The COMMISSIONERS OF TRANSPORTS to the COMMITTEE OF
Transport      COUNCIL.
Office.  All the transports hired to go along with the fleet have now gone
down the river. The pilots would not take down the two biggest
ships till they got a good opportunity. No doubt all the smallest
ships are by now at the Nore, and the rest will be there in a day or
two, "if the wind does not over blow, which is now N.N.E."
Yesterday, the wind favouring, we shipped horse for Holland,
-recruits for the Duke of Schonbergh's, Brigadier Windham's,
Major-General Lumley's and Lord Raby's regiments; and all
Col. Ross' dragoons except forty which did not come in the
morning. In the afternoon, the wind veering round, we thought
it better to ship no more men, so sent back to quarters the
other horses vizt. Lord Teviot's dragoons, the Earl of Arran's
horse, and Colonel Wood's recruits, with above forty of Colonel
Ross' dragoons.
P. 1. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 22.
30 May.    COMMISSION to WILLIAM BLATHWAYT.
St. James'.  Appoints him Secretary of War to all the Queen's forces raised
in England, Wales or Berwick-on-Tweed.  He is to observe all
orders received from time to time from the Queen or the General
of the forces.
P. 1. Copy. With copy of Sign Manual, and counter-signature
of Secretary Nottingham. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 39. Also
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, pp. 21, 22.
30 May.    MEMORIAL by the PRINCE CONSORT [Lord High Admiral] to
Admiralty      the QUEEN IN COUNCIL.
Recommends that, as there are many French prisoners ashore
here, arrangements be made for a cartel for their exchange.
This will relieve the Queen from the charge for their maintenance.
P.  i. Signed. Countersigned  by  Burchett.  S.P. Dom.,
Naval 117, 23.
30 May.    HEDGES to the MAYOR OF RIPON.
Whitehall.  Captain Minshull, of Colonel Stringer's regiment, informs me
that, besides the ordinary difficulty of raising men for the service
of the Queen and public, he finds others in your town by reason
of vexatious actions that are brought against them that have
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are great obstructions to the service, I desire that you, as the
Queen's chief magistrate there, would give all possible assistance
to the officers who are raising men and to the men who enlist.
P. 2. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 215. Entered again,
p. 218.
Also note that a similar letter was written to the Mayor of
York, leaving out the italicised words.
Ibid, p. 215. And the letter in full Ibid, p. 218.
May.      NOTE for the DIVIDENT for MAY, 1702.*
Mentions 51 grants, including Lord Godolphin (office and
revocation), the Duke of Grafton (to pass a recovery),
Mr. Culliford (pardon), Sir George Rooke (offices and gr[an]t
and mark), Earl of Nottingham (office and revocation), Secretary
Hedges (same), Prince George of Denmark (office and revocation),
Bishop of Carlisle (Conge d'elire and also Royal assent), Mr. Fleetwood (prebendary), Dr. Prideaux (deanery). The total in the
left column is 391. 13s. 4d., and in the left 1201. 13s. 4d.
Pp. 1I. Endd. as in title. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 40.
JUNE, 1702.
1 June.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to WILLIAM AGLIONBY.
Admiralty  The store-ships going out to supply Vice-Admiral Benbow's
squadron at Jamaica are now at Spithead, and the convoy ready
to sail with them. The Lord High Admiral directs me to send
you a copyt of the instructions which he is sending out to the
Vice-Admiral, so that if the Queen desires to add any further
directions they may go by this conveyance. Pray submit them.
P. ~. Signed. Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 93.
1 June.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To John Day, Merchant at Bristol.
Directing him to press on as much as possible the departure
of the Charles galley for the West Indies, and to report her
departure.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 23.
2. To Robert Summers, Master of the Charles galley at Bristol.
Take special care of the packets herewith that they may be
delivered according to what Mr. Baker undertook for her Majesty's
service. Have a bullet affixed to them, so that if you fall in
with the enemy they may be readily thrown overboard and
sunk.
P. i. Ibid, p. 29.
Also notes that there were enclosed:
(1) An Order of Council for permitting the Charles to sail
and protecting the men.
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(2) The Lord Treasurer's directions to the Customs officers at
Bristol.
(3) Mr. Sansom's letter to his son, collector of the Customs
there.
(4) Packets to Col. Codrington and Major-General Selwyn as
Governors of the Leeward Isles and Jamaica and to the President
of the Council of Barbados.
These with a letter to John Day, merchant at Bristol, were
delivered to Peter Tom, one of the King's messengers, on 1 June,
at 12 at night.
P. A. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 29-30.
3. To Sir Basil Dixwell.
I have received yours of the 1st, and have read it to the
Committee of Council, as I did also your former letters, of which
good result came: for a company of foot was directed to march
to Dover. I wrote also to the Mayor of Dover that the prisoners
were to be kept in the jail, which has been done. I also write tonight to Mr. Morris to take charge of as many as he can secure.
The expense of entertaining them will be defrayed as formerly.
I am to thank you for your care in this matter, &c.
P. i. Ibid, p. 36.
1 June.    DANIEL SMITH to NOTTINGHAM.
Harwich.  I have delivered to your officer Captain Francis Lawrence
commander of the [St.] Barb.* Here are also the lieutenant, master
and two seamen, who are the greatest evidence for convicting
the said captain. Their examination is before your lordships
and, I conceive, will be of great use at the captain's trial.
P. I. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 41.
1 June.    SIR GEORGE ROOKE to SAME.
Sovra      I arrived here yesterday. We have "but a very melancholy
Spithead. prospect as to men." No tenders from the North and West
bringing men have arrived; though we expected them; so
that [even] wholly unmanning the ships which Munden stripped
will not make the ships intended for the expedition up to their
middle complements.
We are in other matters pretty much to pieces to execute
our great design. The Dutch have four or five of their ships
and almost half their land forces still left behind. We have
a squadron of five ships and one of the best regiments in a remote
and uncertain station cruising in the Soundings. The Swiftsure
is cruising on the coast of Holland and the Pembroke and Exeter
ordered to other services in the Channel. Our storeships and
victuallers and most of our transports are still all behind in the
River. These difficulties can scarcely be overcome, though if
they could be obviated in any reasonable time I should hope
for good success to our expedition if we had a sufficient land
force to execute it; but time is precious, " so that I must repeat
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my opinion that no service can balance the hazard of bringing
our great ships home in the winter season."
We lost some small craft by privateers [details] on our way to
St. Helens: one carrying ordnance stores or water for the fleet.
This comes from having no cruisers to act as outposts.
I heard yesterday of a "Grand-partie " of 200 sail in Conquet
Road coming eastward, and thought it would be a very important
service to intercept them; so sent four vessels [named] to cruise
off Cape de Hague (La Hogue) and wait. Admiral Almonde
has added four of his own. The wind is E., so the 200 sail may
be prevented from coming up. I shall order the detachment
to stay away if it can, by delay, be successful.
I am told that most of the ships of St. Malo are gone to
Newfoundland. If our convoy could be strong enough to take them
it would cripple the privateering from that place for the future.
Pp. 4. Signed. S.P. Dom., Naval 67, 14.
2 June.   The COMMISSIONERS FOR TRANSPORT to the COMMITTEE OF
Transport     COUNCIL.
Office.
Fifteen hundred horse were shipped off for Holland and went
down the river on Saturday, but as the wind has since continued
unfavourable we fear some of them may come up the river again
to revictual.
Movements of the transport ships. They are at Spithead or
(awaiting favourable winds) at the Downs, the Nore or Woolwich.
P. i. Signed. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 24.
2 June.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to WILLIAM AGLIONBY.
Admiralty  I send the drafts of instructions to Vice-Admiral Benbow,
and to the commander-in-chief of the two ships that are to convoy the store-ships to the West Indies, also an order to ViceAdmiral Benbow to detach a vessel to bring home from New
England two mast-ships when laden. The Earl of Nottingham
thinks these should go to the Prince at Portsmouth to be signed,
so I send them.
P.S.-I also send an order for his Royal Highness's signature,
empowering the Judge of the Admiralty to proceed against
prizes.
P. ]. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 94.
2 June.   HEDGES to the DIRECTORS of the NEW EAST INDIA COMPANY.
Whitehall.  The Lord High Admiral has been directed to send a convoy
for the East India Company's ship which has put in at Galway.
Make your application to him if you have anything to suggest
for the speedy performance of this business.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 217.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To the Bishop of Salisbury.
Encloses petition of Thomas Baskervile for a poor Knight's
place at Windsor. The Queen is willing to grant it, but wishes


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first to know whether the next vacancies have been promised
to any other person, and, if so, to whom.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 30.
2. Sir George Rooke.
I have to-day read yours of the 1st in the Cabinet Council.
I am to say that I have writ to the Admiralty to order the tenders
to come away to the fleet with such men as they have, without waiting for more, and particularly to take care to bring
safely from Ireland 150 men, whom Lieutenant Stewart has on
board his ketch. The Lord Treasurer will also give orders that
all the men on the Custom House sloops will be sent to man
the fleet.
My Lords see how inconvenient it is to send away five of the
ships and a regiment destined for this expedition, but care has
been taken for their joining you, and unless you can find some
other expedient for it my Lords cannot propose or execute any.
The Swiftsure will probably return before you sail, or orders
may be left for her to follow you. It is presumed the Exeter and
Pembroke are in your call, and for the store-ships, the Lords have
ordered the master attendant to go constantly to them and
hasten them out of the river.
The rest of the Dutch have arrived and have probably joined
you before this can reach you.
The detachment you have sent to intercept the two hundred
French ships going east from Conquet Bay is much approved.
God grant them success.
P.S.-There are but two transport ships at Woolwich. The
rest are at the Nore. These are designed for eight hundred men,
and have on board great part of the victuals for them. Details as
to the sending on of these men and victuals to the fleet.
In all pp. 1X. Ibid, pp. 30-1 and 33-4.
3. To the Lord Treasurer.
The Committee of Council have considered the great dearth
of seamen and how hard it is to get them. Knowing that there
is a number of men employed in the Custom House sloops which
they think can be of little use, by reason of the number of
privateers, till some means be taken to protect them and the
coast trade against the enemy's attempts, they have directed
me to request you to give orders for sending these men to man
the fleet with proper precautions to prevent their escape.
P. 1. Ibid, p. 32.
4. To Josiah Burchett.
The Committee of Council have heard that the tenders from
the northern and western ports have not yet come to the fleet
with men. I am to say that the Lords think they should do
so at once without waiting for further men; also that Lieutenant Stewart has 150 men on board his ketch in Ireland,
and dares not come away with them for want of convoy, and that
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Pray lay these things before the Admiralty Board, in the absence
of his Royal Highness, that the necessary orders may be given
without delav.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 32-3.
5. To Josiah Burchett.
The memorial concerning English canvas has been read to
the Lords of the Committee of Council. They think that the
fleet should be supplied half with Holland's duck and half with
English canvas.
The instructions for Commissioners of prizes and of sick and
wounded should be forthwith settled, and some proper persons
appointed to execute the same. Pray get orders from his Royal
Highness on these matters, and show him enclosed from the
Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey.
P. 1-. Ibid, p. 34. Enclosing:
Extract from a letter from Mr. Ellis, dated Guernsey, 25 May,
1702.
For want of convoy to the Isle of Wight or Spithead twelve
vessels have lain here three weeks. Their cargoes, it is said,
will pay some thousand pounds in duty. We should have
a frigate to attend this station.
P. i. Ibid, p. 35.
6. To Mr. Ellis, Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey.
We are informed that the inhabitants under your care have
been abused by the officers there, and particularly by the French.
Take care to prevent such abuses for the future, and protect the
inhabitants from any insults, especially from the French officers.
Yours of May 25 has been read to the Lords of the Committee
of Council. They approve what you did in relation to the
shallop from St. Malo. That part of your letter which mentions
the want of convoy at Guernsey has been sent to his Royal
Highness for his directions therein.
P. 2. Ibid.
3 June.    The QUEEN to LORD COMMISSIONER QUEENSBERRY.
Windsor.   We understand that reports are spread about that we are
dissatisfied with the late measures taken by us for the
administration of the Government of Scotland. These reports
are unfounded and injurious to our honour, and we regard those
who spread them as disaffected to our service. We trust in you,
and shall give you all support in discharge of your duties and
for the maintenance of your authority and character.
P. I. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, p. 185.
3 June.   DOCUMENTS relating to the case of JOHN MAPAS.
Report of Sir Edward Northey, Attorney General, on the
petition of John Mapas.
Refers to the English Act of Parliament mentioned in the
petition ("for the relief of Thomas Plunkett, gentleman," &c.).: *.:.:::
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Advises that by the said Act the Queen has power to permit
petitioner to bring a writ of error to reverse his outlawry, if she
so pleases.
P. S. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 42.
Petition to the Queen of John Mapas, shewing that:When ten years old petitioner was outlawed in Ireland for
high treason supposed to have been commited by him when but
seven years old. Petitioner knew nothing of the outlawry till
it was confirmed by Act of Parliament in Ireland and made not
pardonable by the Crown and irreversible for any error. Thereby
petitioner, without committing any crime, is become incapable
of inheriting his father's estate, to whom he is heir apparent,
or of any other acquisitions.
In their last session, the Parliament of England, pitying
petitioner, affixed to a bill then depending before them the
annexed clause for empowering your Majesty to pardon petitioner,
notwithstanding the provisions of the Irish Act. Your Majesty
has assented to that bill, and petitioner prays that you will put
it in execution and grant to petitioner so many writs of error
as may enable him to bring all his outlawries in Ireland under
examination for the purpose of their reversal.
P... Signed. Underwritten with order dated at Whitehall,
3 June, 1702, and signed by Nottingham, referring the petition
to the Attorney General or Solicitor General.
Ibid, 42A.
Copy of the provision in the Act of Parliament of England
above referred to, as follows:Whereas John Mapas of Rochestown, co. Dublin, jun., Gentleman, was at the age of ten years outlawed for high treason,
supposed to be committed by him when he was but seven years
old, which outlawry is, amongst others, confirmed by an Act of
Parliament in Ireland: —
Be it further enacted &c. that the Queen, her heirs and
successors may at their pleasure grant any writ or writs of
error for reversing all and every outlawry and outlawries
of the said John Mapas for high treason; and if any error
or errors therein shall be found and shall be allowed by the
Court or Courts in which such writ or writs of error shall
be brought, all and every such outlawry or outlawries
shall be reversed, any Act made in this Kingdom or in
Ireland to the contrary notwithstanding.
P. |. Ibid, 42B.
Also entry of the petition and order of reference. S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 239, pp. 9-10.
3 June.   DOCUMENTS relating to the case of LAWRENCE FITZGERALD.
Report of the Attorney General. Similar to that in the foregoing
case of John Mapas.
P. i. Signed, Endd, $.P. Dom., Anne 1, 43.
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Petition to the Queen of Fitzgerald, shewing that:Petitioner submitted to and lived peaceably under King William
and Queen Mary in pursuance of a proclamation of the Lords
Justices of Ireland in July, 1691, promising pardon and indemnity
to all who should do so, but was nevertheless outlawed, and his
outlawry confirmed by Act of Parliament in Ireland and made
not pardonable &c. [as foregoing].
Proceeds as in the foregoing and with similar prayer and
reference.
P. 1. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 43A.
Extract from the Act of Parliament of England cited in foregoing.*
The whole pp. 3. Endd. Ibid, 43B.
Also entry of the petition and order. S.P. Dom., Entry RBook
239, pp. 11, 12.
3 June.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Mr. Morris, Marshal of Dover Castle.
As the jail at Dover is as full of French and Spanish prisoners
as it can be, the Lords of the Committee of Council direct you
to receive as many prisoners as shall be brought to you, and to
send an account of your expenses thereon to the Navy Board,
whereon they will be paid as in the last war.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 36.
2. To Mr. Foster, Governor of Pendennis Castle.
The Lordst of the Committee of Council approve your care
in the matter of the French and Spanish prisoners which have
been brought to your castle. Send an account to the Navy Board
&c., whereon &c. [as foregoing].
P. i. Ibid, p. 37.
3. To the Lord Treasurer.
My Lords have had an account from the Lieutenant-Governor
of Guernsey saying that the French at St. Malo have treated
our merchant ships with great justice and civility, sending them
away and assisting them in their voyage to Guernsey. There
are now at Guernsey six French vessels detained by the officers
of the Customs in pursuance of a former order. My Lords think
these should be discharged and allowed to return to France, and
that you should give orders accordingly.
P. i. Ibid.
4. To the Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey.
Consequential to the foregoing. Directs that he protect the
French ships till order is sent for their discharge.  It will
* See the copy of the provision set out in the last entry. The provision in this
case is similar, but recites that Lawrence Fitzgerald of Clonings, co. Kildare,
submitted to the government of King William and Queen Mary, but was nevertheless outlawed for high treason.
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assuredly be sent by the Lord Treasurer to the officers of the
Customs.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 38.
5. To the Mayor of Dover.
Yours of the 30th of Mav re French prisoners. Your conduct in
the matter is approved by "the Lords of the Cabinet Council."
I have writ to the Marshal of Dover Castle to take in as many
prisoners as he can.
P. i. Ibid.
6. To the Earl of Romney.
I have received enclosed from Lord Derby and laid it before
the "Lords of the Cabinet Council." I am to send it for your
consideration and for report what has been done in the former war,
and what should be done now.
P. a. And note of an enclosed memorial asking for powder and
stores for the Isle of Man. Ibid, p. 39.
7. To Josiah Burchett.
The enclosed proposal of M. Jacquau, wherein he intimates
that the late Lords of the Admiralty can justify his diligence and
usefulness in the late war in the method he now proposes, has
been read to my Lords. I am to transmit them for his Royal
Highness's perusal and report, which I will submit, and obtain
further orders.
P. i. Ibid.
3 June.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  As to the tenders that are not come*, there is now at Newcastle
a fourth-rate, the Dover, that has orders to convoy those that
are there. Orders have also been issued to convoy those from
the West and from Ireland-that for Ireland being commanded
by Lieutenant Stewart.
Directions are given to the Navy Board according to the
pleasure of my Lords touching English and Dutch canvas. But
for settling the persons for Commissioners for Prizes, and their
instructions, it cannot be done till his Royal Highness comes to
town.
A ship is going to Guernsey with soldiers and clothing, and
is ordered to convoy to Spithead all vessels bound there.
P. I. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 95.
4 June.    SEAFIELD to HEDGES.
Edinburgh.  I have your letter and information and will make such use
of it as may be fit for the Queen's service. I am sure that those
officers who have been at St. German's during the late reign will
endeavour to be in Scotland, so as to seize any opportunity of
acting against the Government. Every care will be taken to
inquire after them. Pray let me hear from time to time of any
designs of which you may hear against her Majesty's government;
for such news, even though there be no legal proof of it, is most
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useful.  Our Parliament meets on Tuesday next, when I hope
we shall be successful.
P. 3. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 44.
4 June.   JOHN [SHARP], ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, to [NOTTINGHAM].
Bishopsthorp. Archdeacon Nicolson, Bishop-elect of Carlisle, bears this,
and all that can be done here to make him a full Bishop has
been done; so he comes to London to have the rest done there.
Pray introduce him to the Queen to return thanks for her favours
and to kiss her hand, and, after he is consecrated, instruct him
as to doing homage and all else which concerns him. I am sure
you will shew him all respects for his own and Sir Chr[istopher]
Musgrave's sake.
I left a note of those who were to succeed to the Bishop's
preferments, and send a copy of it in fear lest you should have
lost it. For his other living of Addingham which, I find, is in
the gift of the Lord Keeper, and not of the Crown, Lord Thanet,
Sir C. Musgrave and Colonel Grahme recommend James Lamb,
minister of Appleby.  Addingham is a vicarage in Cumberland,
valued in the King's books at 91. lOs. Od. a year. Its improved
value is about 901. a year, and is better than either the archdeaconry or the prebend of Carlisle.
Pp. 2. (Hol.) Followed by notes:1. Joseph Fisher, A.M., Clerk, for the Archdeaconry of Carlisle.
John Atkinson, A.M., Clerk, for the Prebend of Carlisle.
James Lamb, A.M., Clerk, Vicar of Appleby, for the Vicarage
of Addingham in Cumberland, about 10 miles distant.
2. Little Sawkill for Mr. Lamb, if in the gift of the Great Seal.
In all pp. 2k. Endd. Ibid, 44A. The last note on a separate
sheet. Ibid, 44B.
4 June.   SIR GEORGE ROOKE to NOTTINGHAM.
Sovereign,  I will send the Sorlings on at once with despatches received
Spithead. for Mr. Methuen.  As she may meet Sir J. Munden, I have
asked his Royal Highness to send a duplicate of his orders for
coming home. Details as to despatches and blank orders sent
down for his Royal Highness's signature. Proceeds:-I cannot,
as things stand, proceed without the two transports, which
have provisions for 800 men. I might do so if all the fleet were
here, as we should have other stores [details] to draw on; but
many ships are away. We cannot leave further ships behind
[on account of their not being supplied] without making our
sea force, and our land force, too weak. The Duke of Ormond
thinks the latter even now none too strong. I hope the storeships &c. will tide it round with this weather and, when they
come, I will embark the force. " Doing it before we have a prospect
of sailing will but infect and sicken the sea and land men this
hot weather."
In this matter I shall in future address Mr. Secretary Hedges,
as your lordship directs.
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4 June.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Commissioners for Victualling the Navy.
Application has been made to a Committee of the Council
for the post of Commissary to take care of and distribute the
provisions for the land forces that are to serve on board the fleet.
Send me an account whether anything has been done in relation
to such an officer, and how that place is supplied.
P. S. SP. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 219.
2. To the Bailiffs and Jurats of Lydd.
Approves their conduct in arresting Mrs. Chappell when she
arrived from France. The man whom they sent to bring her up
did his duty very well. They are to stop suspected persons.
P. i. Ibid.
3. To M. Spanheim.
Yours of the 1st has been submitted to the Queen.     Her
Majesty directs me to inform the Earl of Marlborough of what
you say touching    "l'heredite fidei-commissaire" [the trust
inheritance]* of the King, your master, with order to use his
good offices in the Queen's name with the States General to get
proper satisfaction for the King of Prussia.
P. ~. In French. Ibid, p. 221.
4. To the Lord High Admiral.
Council's request:-To consider the protection of packet-boats
between England and Holland from privateers. The Postmaster
General complains of the insecurity of the passage.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 332.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To the Attorney General.
I send you enclosed affidavits taken before the Lord Mayor
that you may institute prosecutions according to law. The
bearer will give further information.
P. i, with note that the enclosure was affidavits of one Sebille
and one Bennet against one John Lovell, a proctor, for reproachful
words against Queen and Parliament.
In all p. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 40.
2. To the Earl of Berkeley.
The Queen has given me order to prepare a warrant for renewing your commission as Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire.
I am to tell you also that several gentlemen whose names are
enclosed have been mentioned to the Queen as fit to be Deputy
Lieutenants, and are accordingly approved by the Queen.
The Queen desires that Mr. John Howe should have the troop,
and be lieutenant-colonel of the regiment of horse under your
* The King of Prussia, in the absence of male heirs to William III, had certain
claims as heir general under the perpetual trust created by the will of Prince Ren6
Nassau Chalon. As to these see the Memorandum dated at the Hague 8 May,
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lordship, as he was before he was laid aside and Mr. Ireton put
in his place.
I hope "the Bath " is doing you good.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 40.
5 June.   NOTTINGHAM to the LORDS COMMISSIONERS FOR TRADE AND
Whitehall.     PLANTATIONS.
My Lords think it high time that the Commissions to the
several Governors of Plantations should be renewed. I am to
request you to prepare drafts of such Commissions and of any
instructions you think proper, and submit them, through me, to
my Lords.
P. -. Ibid, p. 41.
Same.     HEDGES' LETTERS.
1. To the Commissioners for Transport.
As all things have been provided for the soldiers that are to
go with the expedition, you are not to put them on shore again
without first letting the Lords of the Council know; and of
this you are to give notice to the Earl of Arran, Colonel Ross
and the other officers concerned.
Six lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 219.
5 June.   The COMMISSIONERS FOR TRANSPORT to NOTTINGHAM.
Transport  Since attending the Lords in Council at your office I [sic] have
been to 'Woolwich and found the transports in a manner
dispatched, but the wind being still contrary the English officers
in general say that, unless they disembark, they will not be able
to take the field this summer, several horses being already dead
and many too sick to keep on their legs. Shall we send them
away or disembark them?
P. A. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 25. Enclosing:A. Same to [Hedges].
Acknowledge his letter of 5 June re disembarking of horses [q.v.].
Will do as desired.
P. i. Signed. Ibid, 25A.
Same.     SAME to the COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL.
The transports sailed on Wednesday last from the Nore for
Portsmouth; but the winds are light and contrary.
The two transports at Woolwich have gone down to Gravesend,
and probably below it. The twenty-six transports bound for
Holland with 1,500 horse have come back to Woolwich to revictual: and are almost ready to leave again.
P. 1. Signed by Atkinson. Endd. Ibid, 26.
6 June.   [The BOARD OF ORDNANCE?] to PRINCE GEORGE OF DENMARK.
We have received your letter of yesterday asking for stores
and powder to make up the supply of several ships fifty rounds.
To comply with what you ask, 2,141 barrels would be necessary,
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much. Such " shot and other petty emptions " as are necessary
must also be sent from this, and cannot, we fear, be sent round
to Portsmouth soon enough to answer the service.
P. ~ (small). Certified a true   copy by Musgrave, Clerk
of the  Ordnance.  Underwritten with  address.  S.P. Dom.,
Anne 1, 45.
6 June.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall  1. To Josiah Burchett.
The Prince of Hess-Darmstadt has desired a frigate to
take him to Lisbon, whither he is going within a week. I am
to let you know of it that his Royal Highness may give "such
orders... for gratifying the Prince of Hess in this his request
as may best consist with the other services of the fleet."
P. S. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 41.
2. To Same.
The enclosed letter from the Lords Commissioners of Trade
and Plantations was read before my Lords to-day. They think
orders should be sent to the Newfoundland convoy as desired;
and I am to tell you so that his Royal Highness may act
accordingly.
Also note.-The enclosed, dated 1 June, was to request that a
frigate or frigates might visit the ports and fortifications which the
French are said to be making at Chapeau Rouge, and destroy the
same.
P. i. Ibid.
Same.     HEDGES' LETTERS.
1. To the Commissioners for Transport.
Your letter of yesterday reporting death and sickness of horses
aboard has been laid before "a Committee of the Lords of the
Privy Council." They vary their order of yesterday against
disembarking horses, and leave it to your discretion to disembark
any you think necessary. Take care that in case of the wind
changing there be no delay for re-embarkation, but that the
transports be sent to Holland as soon as possible.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 263.
2. To Colonel Ross.
Similar in effect to foregoing. The disembarked horses to be
so kept that they may be promptly re-embarked.
P. I. Ibid.
3. To Sir George Rooke.
Mr. Clerke, the Prince's secretary, writes that you say you
have not yet got orders from the Queen to take the land forces
on board the men-of-war that are to go on the expedition. The
Prince directed me to ask for orders to be sent you to take in
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signed by the Queen for that purpose; also extracts of two
letters from Mr. Stepney, the Queen's envoy at Vienna, relating
to the expedition, from which you will see what notions they have
of such a matter at that Court. Do you think of coming to town?
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, p. 2.
Also entry of the warrant as described above.
P. a. with copy of sign manual and counter-signature of Secretary
Hedges. Ibid, p. 3.
6 June.    E. HARRYS to NOTTINGHAM.
I ask for appointment as a Commissioner of the Stamp Paper
Office. Am very poor, and my family need support. The Prize
Office and the [Commission for] exchange of prisoners are not yet
settled. Too ill to attend myself.
P. 1. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 23. Enclosing:Memorandum of measures suggested for the better safety of
Jersey.
Nearness to France. Exposure to attack. If not united within
itself, may be a great source of danger to England.
The defensive force should consist of companies of regulars- one
from each regiment-as many as may be thought desirable.
In case of a dispute between the Governor and the Commander
of the forces the Governor may be surprised and secured if
all the soldiers are wholly devoted to and under their chief
officer, and the island placed at the disposal of such party as
the chief officer chooses. The chief officer often, to get
popularity with the inhabitants, vilifies the Governor and
lays blame for any little miscarriage at his door, and draws
away the " giddy multitude " from their proper obedience
to the Queen's representative. If each company were separate
under separate officers this danger would be averted.
Companies should not remain in garrison in the island above
one year. If they do so, officers and men are apt to take
wives and enter local factions.
A troop of dragoons should be kept in the island, for they can
concentrate much more quickly than infantry at any place
of landing, of which there are many in the island. They
could "amuse " a landing party of the enemy till the foot
came up.
It is essential to the Queen's service that at least three or four
nimble frigates and a fireship should be appointed to cruise
about the island to intercept those frequent coasting French
fleets which, undisturbed, pass there with supplies for their
eastern country and garrisons, and those from the East with
naval stores for their fleet. Security to island's trade. The
commanders should be active men who know      the coast.
Dangerous rocks and tides. I make these suggestions from
local knowledge.
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7 June.   INSTRUCTIONS to SIR GEORGE ROOKE, Vice-Admiral of England
Court of      and Admiral of the Fleet.
St James  With the ships in the annexed list and a squadron of the ships
of the States General (under the command of Admiral Allemond,
who is ordered to accompany you) you are directed, as soon
as the forces under the command of the Duke of Ormond shall
be embarked on your fleet and on the appointed transports,
to proceed with the first opportunity of wind and weather to
Cadiz. There, in such method as may be resolved on by a
Council of sea and land general officers, you are to land the said
forces under the command of the Duke of Ormond, as also those
that are embarked on the Dutch ships, in order to reduce the
said town and island of Cadiz, to which you are to contribute
all you can by an advantageous disposition of your ships and
bomb vessels, so as to render the said attempt most secure and
effectual. But if when you get there you find that there
is such a garrison of disciplined troops in the town, or such a
strong squadron of ships in the harbour, as to make this attempt
impracticable, "you are then to proceed to Gibraltar or take
in your way home Veigo [Vigo], Ponta Vedra, Corunna, or any
other place belonging to Spain or France," which may seem
proper to a Council of War constituted as aforesaid, with respect
to the season of the year for your return home and other circumstances, which may not for the present be foreseen.
As there is no prospect of a correspondence between England
and the fleet, you are to send home a frigate once in 14 days at
least to report your proceedings and success; and you may
expect " a clean one " as often with orders and advices from
hence.
You are on all opportunities and occasions "to take, sink,
burn, or otherwise destroy all ships and vessels belonging to
France or Spain, either at sea or in their ports, and to render the
fleet and forces as offensive as may be to the territories and
dominions of France and Spain.
" You are to put the ships' companies of our fleet at six to four
men's allowance of all sorts of provisions, paying the men for
the same as it becomes due."
In case the joint forces employed in the service take any place
which, in the opinion of a Council constituted as aforesaid, proves
tenable, you are to leave such a number of ships as shall be
judged necessary for the defence of the garrisons left in it.
When the troops are on shore and there is no means of calling
land officers to a Council of War, you may, when it is necessary
to call such a Council, summon the sea general officers only and
act on such resolutions as may be there taken.
You are on all occasions to give all assistance to the land
forces that is consistent with the safety of our fleet under your
command; and "in all other matters which may occur relating
to our service and the annoyance of the enemy and which are
not particularly expressed in these our instructions, you are
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You are to preside at all Councils of War on sea, and the Duke of
Ormond on all that are held on land.
We have sent an advice-boat to Sir John Munden, who commands an expedition to Corunna, to bring us news of the condition of that squadron, of its success and of the enemy there,
and the commander of the advice-boat has orders, if he meet
you on the way home, to give you duplicates of his letters of
advice. You shall act on any such intelligence which you may
receive in respect to the destroying any considerable number of
the enemy's ships for which Sir John's squadron is not sufficient,
or proceeding according to your instructions on the intended
expedition to Cadiz, and act with the fleet under your command
according to your discretion, sending forward the advice-boat
with news of what resolution you have taken on receipt of the
information, and what you propose to be further done from
hence for our service.
You will herewith receive additional instructions from us
which you are not to open till you are under sail. Having
perused them, you are not to communicate them to anybody
till after the success of your efforts at Gibraltar or Cadiz is
known. You may then impart them to the Duke of Ormond
or whoever you think necessary for the carrying on of the service
therein directed.
In all pp. 5. With "Anne R." above and "A.R." below.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 3-8.
7 June.   ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS for SIR GEORGE ROOKE.
Whitehall.  If you succeed in taking Gibraltar or Cadiz you are to make
a detachment of the six following ships which are sheathed, vizt.:
the Boyne,            the Expedition,,, Chichester,,, Yarmouth,,, Cumberland,,, Plymouth.
and cause them to embark on themselves, or on such transports
as may be necessary, all the troops which remain over after a
garrison, as large as is deemed necessary by a full Council of War,
has been placed in the captured place. If you do not succeed
at Cadiz or Gibraltar you are to put on these ships and transports
2,000 men, and as many more as a full Council of War think may be
spared without prejudice to our service coming home, and so as
not to spoil any other service that you may have in prospect
coming home. In either case you shall instruct the Commanderin-Chief of the detached ships to go to Barbados with orders to
disembark the troops on that island, or in some of the Leeward
Islands where they shall be most useful, taking the advice of
the Governor of the Island. Whilst there he is to do what he
can to defend Barbados or the Leeward Islands against any
attempt of the enemy, and to be assistant also in the defence of
Jamaica, and to protect the trade of our subjects in those parts.
He is to consult in this service with the Governors of the said
islands, and to join and assist them in annoying the enemy either
by sea or land, and act in such manner as may be deemed
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officer commanding our ships in the West Indies, he is to show
him his instructions and take orders from him.
Pp. 2, with " Anne R." above and " A.R." below.  S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 208, pp. 8-10.
7 June.   LETTER from one of SIR JOHN MUNDEN'S SQUADRON.
HI.MS. Lan-  We are to-day come to the Soundings to lat. 49~ 30" [N.],
ca8ter [?]*.
Five leagues and are ordered to cruise off Lands End to protect our homeward
w. of Ushant. bound ships, "for we have already seen the French safe into
the Groyne on 28 May."  Opinions differ as to their number; we
saw only eleven vessels.
I hope the Queen will send more ships to strengthen our
squadron; for if this be speedily done it will not be too late to
intercept their going yet; for one of the Spaniards, who is a
prisoner, told me that they had not yet raised the 2,000 men
which the Duke of Albuquerke is to take with him. Other details.
The Dolphin and Salisbury have taken two small French ships.
The Salisbury fought a 70-gun French man-of-war on 15 May,
but was driven off with injury.
"If there be speed in sending another squadron and two
companies of soldiers we shall make brave work with them."
P. 1. Copy. Endd. as in title. S.P. Dom., Naval 67, 16.
8 June.   BERNARD ELLIS to NOTTINGHAM.
Guernsey.  On the 6th an English merchant came from St. Malo via Jersey
and had not been stopped there. Many privateers fitting out there.
Twenty will soon be at sea, including the Saint Esprit of 50 guns.
Their Newfoundland fleet is very numerous-said to be 70 sail.
Any injury to that would affect the town as much as a bombardment, which they still fear. Some small prizes still here
pending your orders.
Pp. 1i. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 24.
8 June.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to SAME.
AdOmirty  I have your two letters of the 6th. Instructions will be given
to the commander of the Newfoundland convoy according to
what is desired by the Commissioners for Trade, &c. There
is no vessel that can be appointed to carry the Prince of HesseDarmstadt to Lisbon unless she is taken off from a service that
is absolutely necessary. The Lord Admiral's Council therefore
submit it to consideration whether Sir G. Rooke may not be
directed to spare one of the frigates for this service that are
appointed to proceed with him, the vessel joining Sir G. Rooke
again after her service is performed.
Pp. 1i. Signed. Endd. with date. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 96.
8 June.   The EARL OF CARLISLE to [HEDGES?].
Gorhambury.  As desired by her Majesty I asked for particulars about
pressing men in the counties where I am Lord Lieutenant.
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Enclosed* will give you details. The writer of it will at all times
do his best to serve the Queen.
P. 1 (small). (Hol.) S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 27.
8 June.   HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1 To the Earl of Romney.
Queen's command:-To furnish the fleet with ten rounds of
powder more than they now have from any available source, with
all possible speed.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 256.
2. To Mr. Blathwayt.
The Queen desires to know what orders have been given
regarding the transport of artillery to Holland and the Earl of
Huntingdon's regiment; and that you give your orders, so far
as necessary, at once for their embarking, that the convoy going
to Holland may not stay for them. The Queen directs that it
should not stay for the horses.
P..  Ibid.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM to the JUSTICES of the PEACE near DARTFORD.
My Lords are informed of abuses committed by the inhabitants
of Dartford by wounding some of Lord Tiviot's [sic] regiment and
refusing them quarters. I am to ask you to examine into this
complaint and take care to prevent all such misconduct for the
future.
P. a. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 42.
Same.     HEDGES' LETTERS.
1. To the Prince's Council.
Command:-To direct Captain Beaumont in the Downs to
come up to the Gun-fleet and convoy transports with horses
to Goree and then return to the Downs. Details. P. i.
2. To the Prince [Lord High Admiral].
Command:-To direct Sir G. Rooke to obey such orders as
he may from time to time receive under her Majesty's hand.
P. i.
3. To the Prince's Council.
Command:-To order the convoy to sail at once with the
stores and guns ready for Holland and not to wait longer for
horses. They are to take the Earl of Huntingdon's regiment
of foot with them. Detailed orders as to transports and convoy
vessels. P. J.
In all pp. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, pp. 338, 339.
4. To Sir George Rooke.
You will herewith receive your instructions, which have been
approved by the Committee of Council and signed by the Queen,
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together with her Majesty's warrant to sail at once, and sealed
instructions which you are not to open till you are under sail.
Yet it is not thought fit that any service of this kind should
be a secret to you, and therefore-proceeds to relate the substance
of the additional instructions as above.* Proceeds: This is to
be kept entirely secret.  The Duke of Ormond knows of it;
and you should certainly know the whole design before you
leave England.
Pp. 11. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 11-12.
5. To Sir George Rooke.
The Lords of the Committee of Council think that no strong
force need be left to convoy such Dutch and transport ships as
may be left behind you, because some of the squadron for the
Channel may see them as far as the Soundings.  "I heartily
wish you all success."
Seven lines. Ibid, p. 13.
8 June.   ROYAL WARRANT to SIR GEORGE ROOKE.
Whitehall.  Our will &c. is that you receive without delay the rest of the
land forces designed for the expedition, and, as soon as they
are embarked, set sail as soon as possible with what ships are
ready on the expedition. Use your utmost diligence, "it being
extremely important to our service that not a moment's time
be lost." If the rest of the Dutch ships are not arrived and
all our transports have not come up when you set sail, you are
not to stay for them, but concert measures with Admiral Allemonde
about a convoy to bring them after you.
P. L. Entry, with copy of sign manual and counter-signature
of Hedges. Ibid, pp. 12-13.
9 June.   J. MACKY to [NOTTINGHAM].
There are many English prisoners in the ports of Dunkirk
and Calais, whose friends are anxious for their relief; and above
900 French prisoners are in the various ports of England at great
charge to the Government. I offer to exchange all the prisoners
immediately by means of five ships which I now have ready in
the port of Dover.
The Governor of Calais told Captain Gibson last Sunday that
Monsr. the Superintendent of the Marines was ready to adjust
the cartel with England whenever we should propose it; so
the first ship which goes might carry over a letter to that purpose
from the Lord High Admiral or your lordship.
If any of the captains of our packet-boats go over, the correspondence may be settled for intelligence, as it was under
Lords Jersey and Manchester and Mr. Vernon.
P. i. (Hol.?) Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 46.
Same.     MEMORANDUM for the LORD HIGH ADMIRAL.
The fleet has not found that advantage in getting men which
was expected from the general embargo, and the merchants daily
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press to have it taken off.  His Royal Highness should move
in Council accordingly.
It seems to be of the greatest importance to destroy the French
ships at Newfoundland, both in regard to their setting out
privateers and to the hindrance it may be to them if they want
to man out a fleet, so many of their seamen being employed in
the fishery there. The Prince should therefore move her Majesty
that the Exeter may be added to the two fourth-rates and two
fifth-rates now designed thither, and that Captain John Leake
be put on board the Exeter to command in chief, with 10s. a
day extra, and instructions for the performance of that service.
The Newfoundland merchants are either to send their ships at once,
or the men-of-war to go without them, as the French fleet is to
return at the end of August, so that this service requires the
utmost dispatch.
Pp. 1|. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 97.
9 June.   The COMMISSIONERS for TRANSPORT to the COMMITTEE OF
Transport     COUNCIL.
Office.
All the fleet transports are at Spithead or Portsmouth except
two. These have been some days at the Nore, waiting convoy.
The horses which lay wind-bound in the river have disembarked
for their refreshment. We have taken up three ships to carry
the two troops of Lord Raby's Dragoons to Holland, and believe
they will be ready to go with the other horse.
P. ~. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 28.
9 June.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Lord Keeper.
The Queen intends to make Lord Bridgewater Custos rotulorum
of Bucks when he comes of age and returns from abroad, and
that meantime Lord Cheyne should have that office. Pray give
orders for preparing a Commission to Lord Cheyne accordingly.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 42.
Also note of Lord Cheyne's Commission. S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 170, p. 27.
2. To Josiah Burchett.
My Lords think that the John, which was lately seized coming
from Dieppe, and John Wyn, her master, should be released.
Pray lay the matter before his Royal Highness for orders
accordingly.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 42.
3. To the Earl of Romney.
My Lords have read the enclosed memorial of Colonel Nicolson,
Governor of Virginia, and desire your opinion on it and report
on the cost. Further pleasure.
Also note that the enclosed prays for 1,000 arms for foot, 400
for horse, suitable furniture and ammunition, to be sent to
Virginia and remain in the country as a magazine.
P. i. Ibid, p. 43.
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4. To the Clerks of the Privy Council.
The Peregrine, brigantine, is not like to go to the West Indies;
so it is not necessary to deliver out the Order in Council for
releasing the embargo on her.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 43.
5. To Josiah Burchett.
My Lords think that better care should be taken of the French
and Spanish prisoners than is now taken in some parts, and that,
to that end, his Royal Highness consider and submit to the
Queen the names of persons to be appointed Commissioners for
the purpose, and that their instructions be prepared forthwith.
P. i. Ibid, p. 44.
6. To Same.
I am to ask you to inform his Royal Highness that several
duplicates of despatches and declarations of war have not yet
been sent to the West Indies, the owner of the Joseph brigantine,
who wanted to carry them, not having been able to sail. Some
other way to send them must be found.
P. }. Ibid.
Also an identical letter to the Commissioners for Trade and
Plantations.
P. i. Ibid, p. 45.
7. To the Postmasters General.
Queen's command:-The two packet-boats used for service
to the Corunna during the late war are to sail to Lisbon as soon as
the letters of next Thursday reach them, and to continue to do so
regularly, as was done during the late war.
P. i. Ibid.
8. To Josiah Burchett.
I send Mr. Dummer's proposal of June 9 to be laid before
his Royal Highness. My Lords desire such measures to be taken
as may be for the public service. Important.
P. J. Ibid, p. 46.
9. To the Earl of Berkeley.
Yours of the 6th. If there was any mistake in mine of the 4th
about Mr. Ireton being your lieutenant-colonel it is not very
material, as the Queen desires Mr. How should be restored to
his post in the militia under you.
I know very well it has been the custom for the Lord Lieutenants
to present the names of Deputy Lieutenants, and no doubt your
lordship will do so to the Queen. In order to this, I gave you
the names of several gentlemen who had been mentioned to
her Majesty as suitable. This has very frequently been done,
and "though very probably her Majesty will approve those of
your lordship's recommendation yet, as she may refuse such
as she dislikes, so if there be any of those gentlemen in the list
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lordship pleases to inform me of it I will very truly represent"
it to her Majesty, "who, no doubt in that case will not employ
them; and unless there be just exception I presume your lordship
will not think it reasonable that her Majesty should be deprived
of their service."
P. |. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 46-7.
10. To the Mayor of Harwich.
Is there, among the prisoners at Harwich, a tall pale-faced
man called Doudle, or of some such name?
P. i. Ibid, p. 47.
9 June.   ROYAL WARRANT to the LORD        LIEUTENANT and CHIEF
St. James'.    GOVERNOR OF IRELAND.
Lord Mohun, who is executor to Charles, late Earl of
Macclesfield, has represented to us that in 1699, while the late
Earl commanded a regiment of horse, he agreed for clothing and
other regimental accoutrements for the use of the said regiment,
and that, before they were ready, the regiment was sent to Ireland
and the clothes &c. sent after them there. There being not
off-reckonings enough due in England to pay for the said clothes,
the Earl was compelled to give to the clothiers his bond with
securities conditioned for payment for them, the clothiers refusing
any assignment on the regiment on account of their going for
Ireland. He prays for our direction that the sum may be satisfied
out of the off-reckonings in Ireland.  This request has been
referred to the Paymasters General of both our Kingdoms, and
they report that they find there is due to William Gratwick and
partners for clothing in the year 1699 and 1700 (over and above
what has been paid or given in debentures) 2951. 12s. lld., and
that the Earl of Macclesfield, when going to Ireland, contracted
for several accoutrements which were sent to Ireland and no
part of them satisfied by either of our Paymasters General,
amounting in all to 8531. 2s. 2d. These sums amount in all to
1,1481. 15s. Id. They find also that a sum  of over 2,0001. is
still due to the said regiment in Ireland for off-reckonings to the
time of the said Earl's death. Order the Paymaster General
of the Forces in Ireland to pay 1,1481. 15s. ld. to Mohun as
executor to Macclesfield for discharge of this debt.
P. 1. S.P. Signet Office 15, pp. 4-5.
Same.     SAME to SAME.
Captain John Porter represents to us that in June, 1701, he
had a commission to be a captain in the regiment under the
command of Colonel Frederick Hamilton, but that it was
superseded by a commission to Captain John Moyle, who alleged
that he had longer standing in the regiment than Captain John
Porter; that, notwithstanding his commission was superseded
and he [Porter] received no benefit thereby, yet his half-pay
was discontinued in Ireland from 15 June, 1701. Pay him,
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or till such other date as it shall appear to you that provision
was otherwise made for him by way of a new commission. Discontinue Moyle's half-pay from the date of his commission.
P.. S.P. Signet Office 15, p. 5.
9 June.   ROYAL WARRANT to the LORD LIEUTENANT and CHIEF
St. James'.    GOVERNOR of IRELAND.
Captain David Stedman has represented that he was the eldest
captain on half-pay in Brigadier Ingoldsby's regiment and had
a captain's commission on filling up the regiment, and raised a
company accordingly; but that, being infirm, he was content
at the desire of Brigadier Ingoldsby to be put on half-pay, and
gave up his commission to the next half-pay captain of the
regiment. Insert half-pay for Captain Stedman, as he requests,
in all future establishments, and let it commence from the time
he gave up his commission as aforesaid and be paid in the usual
way. Details.
P. W. Ibid, p. 6.
9 June.   HEDGES to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Whitehall.  The transports are now at Spithead except a few [details] which
lie at the Nore awaiting convoy or are not yet ready. The Council
desire you to see to providing convoy for these to see them to
the fleet.
The Muscovy merchants say they fear that they will be
interrupted in their trade voyage from Archangel by Swedish
cruisers, which the King of Sweden has at sea to prevent trade
with Muscovy. The Council think that it might be a protection
to our Muscovy merchants (who are going for naval stores for
the Queen's use and service) if they had certificates from his Royal
Highness to say that this was the object of their voyages. They
request you to move his Royal Highness to grant such certificates
if applied for by the Muscovy merchants.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, pp. 339, 340.
10 June.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  As to the duplicates of despatches and Declarations of War
that are to be sent to the West Indies: those for the Leeward
Islands may be put ashore by one of the men-of-war bound for
Jamaica; and the Governor of the Leeward Islands will send
on those to Barbados by the frigate which attends his orders.
These ships may also carry the despatches to the Continent of
North America. Vice-Admiral Benbow will be ordered to forward
them, including those to Bermuda. 'Details.
As to sick and wounded-his Royal Highness has by him a
list of names of the Commissioners and will propose them in
Council to-morrow. They will then only want the authority of
the Council to act, as in the late war, and instructions are now
ready for them which, it is hoped, will render that office of greater
use than formerly.
As to the French at Newfoundland, his Royal Highness has had
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move on it in Council. Orders will be given to attempt what is
possible on the French, but I fear the ships will be too late if they
stay for the merchant ships; nor is it yet certain what course
they will steer with the fish ships when laden. The merchants,
I hear, have petitioned the Queen regarding their affairs.
Pp. 2. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 98.
10 June.   GEORGE CLARKE to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  The Prince has approved of Colonel Ley, Mr. Herbert,
Dr. Adams, Dr. Sherrard and Dr. Morley to be employed as
Commissioners of sick and wounded and exchange of prisoners.*
Four lines. (Hol.) Endd. Jbid, 99.
10 June.   HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall  1. To Sir George Rooke.
I have yours (two) of yesterday and one of the day before.
I will lay them before a Committee of the Council to-morrow
morning, and may get an answer for you. The Duke of Ormond
has received orders to embark the soldiers; and I hope the
transports and victuallers with the provisions for 20,000 men
may be with you as soon as this arrives, if not sooner, if they
comply with what they have represented to my Lords. I have
sent to the Admiralty for a list of the fire-ships, bomb-vessels and
hospital ships which are to go with you, though I suppose you
know their names. We thought there were six sheathed ships
besides the Royal William.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 13-14.
2. To the Prince's Council.
Requires a list of the fireships, bomb-vessels and hospital
ships that are to go with Sir G. Rooke. Sends Rooke's report
on retirement of French privateers. A Committee of Council
meets to-morrow and may desire to confer with the Prince's
Council if they are at their office.
P. j. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 340.
11 June.   DEPOSITION of ROBERT MURRAY.
He is journeyman to William Aime, of Bucklersbury, barber.
Examined, he says:Knows Mr. Shipley, who is steward to the present Lord Mayor
and his master's customer. Shipley often comes to his shop
to be shaved. Some time before King William's death Shipley
was at the shop talking with deponent, who is a Scotsman, about
the affairs of Scotland, and thereupon said to the best of his
remembrance the following words-" I thank God that the race
of the Stuarts is out, and that everybody has their liberty."
Deponent cannot be sure whether Shipley used the phrase
" accursed race " or not, " but that he often talks at this rate
about the'Church of Scotland, and uses unmannerly expressions
of the race of the Stuarts."
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Mr. Williams, a customer, was one day a shaving at the shop,
and a gentleman unknown to deponent came in and asked for
Mr. Shipley, saying "Where is Mr. Shipley, who thanked God
that the race of Stuarts is out; for," said the gentleman, " I thank
God we have now another of the race."
Pp. 1]. Signed, Robert Murray, and countersigned, with date,
by John Ellis. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 47.
11 June,   HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Sir George Rooke.
I send the list of fire-ships, hospital ships and bomb-vessels.
Eight fire-ships are mentioned in it, though you only propose
to take seven. If there are not six sheathed ships besides the
Royal William (which is hot to go to the place designed for the
other sheathed ships), only those which are sheathed are to go to
that place. The Royal William is not mentioned in your
[additional] instructions, and is not to go.
My Lords have been considering in conjunction with the
Prince's Council the questions of raising of seamen, and the
defence of the coasts by such ships as are left behind.
The Prince's Council, being asked for information as to what
is doing in the French ports, said that information on that point
could best be obtained by your sending a frigate to look in at
Brest or elsewhere, as you may have opportunity. You are
the-best judge of this and will, I know, omit nothing that is for
the service.
Pp. 1k. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 14-15.
2. To the Prince's Council.
Council's* request:-To report what men are wanting to
man the fleet, how best to procure them and how best to defend
the coast with the ships which will remain after the fleet has
sailed.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 341.
12 June.   HEDGES to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Whitehall.  To prepare a yacht and convoy to take Count Wratislaw from
the Thames to the Maes. His Excellency will leave as soon as
the fleet has sailed.
P. I. Ibid.
13 June.   CERTIFICATE by R. MEADOWS and JACOB BURY, Officers of the
Custom House,    Customs at Harwich.
Harwich.
We certify that no merchant's goods have been or are imported
or exported into or out of this port in any of her Majesty's packetboats. We will not permit the use of these boats for any such
goods unless licensed by the Queen's authority.
* i e. the Lords of the Committee of Council-the Cabinet. For brevity I usually
describe them here as "' my Lords," a phrase also commonly used in the original
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P. I (small). Signed by Meadows, collector and pro customer,
and by Bury, surveyor and pro comptroller. Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Anne 1, 48.
13 June.   [HEDGES] to MR. HENRY LEGATT, one of the Queen's mesWhitehall.     sengers in ordinary.
To allow Dr. Mendez, M.D., to have access to Sir John Bolles
as often as he thinks fit.
Three lines. Not Signed. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 220.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To Josiah Burchett.
I have the draft of a Commission for the Governor of Barbados
drawn by the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations. As it
contains several clauses relating to the Admiralty, I send it by
order for the perusal of his Royal Highness, and his opinion,
before it is engrossed.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 47.
2. To Mr. Day.
If the Charles galley is not yet out of your reach, please send
the enclosed to Vice-Admiral Benbow and Major-General Selwyn,
to be delivered with care. If she is gone, return them to me.
P. i. Ibid.
13 June.   -      to NOTTINGHAM.
Falmouth.  I send this extract from a merchant in Falmouth to one in
London:
"Yesterday arrived here a smack from    Admiral Munden
before Corunna, who gives us an ill account of his management,
that six French men-of-war and four or five ships with stores
past into Corunna in his sight, and he never attacked them,
though had notice of their being at hand. The master of the
said smack and one of his men have made an affidavit hereof,
which our Major sends forward this post. It looks ill."
P. i. Add. S.P. Dom., Naval 67, 17.
13 June.   SIR GEORGE ROOKE to SAME.
Sovign     Yours of the 6th and 10th received. I am   glad to hear
Spithead. Mr. Methuen's account of affairs in Spain. Accounts from ships
tell me that there are three French men-of-war in Cadiz harbour,
and three others loaded with guns &c. for fortifying the town;
so that I think we shall be able to do little with our land forces
against the town, unless we force the port. If the French have
ships in the port and mortars ashore, it will be very hazardous
to do this, as the mortars " may happen to destroy two or three
of our great ships in a night, lying so near the shore as we must
ride if we enter the port; but "if we could get away and arrive
before they are provided for their defence, I have great hopes
of success. But new difficulties and delays appear every hour.
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from Cowes to tell me he had no provisions aboard for the soldiers,
and that several others were in the same condition. If so it will
take more time to supply them than we have to spare, and it has
certainly been very ill-management that the transports should
come empty and the Victuallers hire ships to bring the provisions
hither that must supply them."
The general officers should be sent down. Till they come
we shall never know all our wants. Our ships here are all
in perfect readiness to sail, and I will keep them so; but we
want five line of battle ships and three frigates, which will
straighten us in our embarkation.
P.S.-I hear the Duke of Ormond has arrived at Portsmouth.
Pp. 3k. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 67, 18.
13 June.   HEDGES to SIR GEORGE ROOKE.
Whitehall.  The news from Sir John Munden (sent you last night) was
laid before the Committee of Council. You are at once to call
a Council of " flag and general officers, both English and Dutch,"
consider the news, and let us have their opinion back at once,
so that the Queen may have it laid before her to-morrow night.
At the Council of War you are to consider how far it is possible
to go into the Groyne with her Majesty's ships. If it is not, you
are to consider where the land men may best be put on shore,
so as to destroy the town and the French squadron; and if that
squadron is still as strong as Sir John Munden states (which
seems probable) you will look upon the importance of this service,
if it can be effected, to be as great as any that is likely to be
effected this year.  If you decide to attempt the Corunna,*
and the French ships there, immediately send away adviceships to find out, and inform us, whether the French ships are
still there or no, and appoint a place for such advice-ships to
meet you.
Pp. 1H. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 16-17.
15 June.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.. To the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Queen's command:-To give the necessary orders for preparing
recruits for the troops that were sent from Ireland to the West
Indies. They are to be ready at Kinsale by the end of August,
by which time there will be ships appointed to transport them.
P. i. S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, p. 15.
2. To Captain Spann, of the Sorling8 frigate at Torbay or
Plymouth.
In spite of Admiral Rooke's order, Queen's command:
Do not proceed to Lisbon with the despatch for Mr. Methwen
till further order from the Admiral or me.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 48.
* "The Corunna" and the old name "the Groyne" are used in the same
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3. To Sir George Rooke.
Informs him of foregoing. Adds:-If you meet Captain Spann
take him with you and return the packet for Mr. Methwen to me.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 48.
4. To the Mayor of Dover.
Queen's command:-You did not do your duty as became
one in your place in allowing the deserters who lately arrived
at Dover to depart, and in not arresting them. If such a case
occurs again, arrest them and report.
P.. Ibid.
5. To Josiah Burchett.
Queen's pleasure:-To let the merchants know that the Newfoundland convoy will sail on the 25th, and that they must not
expect convoy for Newfoundland or the Streights, but only to
Portugal and England.
P. i. Ibid, p. 49.
6. To Mr. Blathwayt.
Queen's pleasure:-To direct all officers of troops in England
to report how far short they are of full strength.
P. J. Ibid.
7. To the Attorney General.
Queen's command:-To prepare a proclamation against next
Council day requiring all magistrates to seize all deserters who
may come from our army abroad into England, also to seize
all persons whatsoever going to or coming from France without
her Majesty's licence, promising a reward of 401. for every person
so seized (going to or coming from France) to the person who
apprehends them.
P. i. Ibid.
15 June.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
Admralty   Sends a draft of instructions for Sir C. Shovell for consideration
at the Committee of Council.
Four lines. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 100. Enclosing:A. Instructions by Prince George of Denmark [to Sir C. Shovell].
It is absolutely necessary for her Majesty's service to prevent
the French ships at Brest, Rochfort and Port Louis from
coming to sea and either going southward after that part
of the fleet which is now gone south with Sir G. Rooke, " or
coming into and committing insults in the Channel."  You
shall therefore take under your command the ships in the
annexed list as well as such others as may hereafter be ordered,
to join you, and, as soon as they are provisioned and supplied,
(" which you are to hasten all that possibly may be "), shall
cruize with them in such stations as may be best for the
performance of that service.  Take care to find out what
preparations they are making at the aforesaid ports and to
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Advices received from  Vice-Admiral Benbow make it seem
likely that M. Chateau Renault will return from the West
Indies into these seas about August next, with the ships under
his command and the Spanish flota from thence.  You are
carefully to look out for him and to use your best endeavours
to intercept him in his passage either to Brest, Rochfort or
any other port in the bay.
The 3rd Suffolk, Revenge, Restoration, Monck and Mary
have been ordered to cruize in the station in the Soundings
herewith sent you for security of trade expected home, but
more particularly several rich ships coming from  India.
I authorise you to take those ships under your command
when necessary and to use- them as you think proper. But
as the security of the foresaid trade is of great value to the
nation, you are, if you take away those ships, to appoint
others to cruise, and meet with and secure the said East India
ships and any others which may be homeward bound from
foreign parts.*
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 100A.
15 June.   HEDGES to SIR GEORGE ROOKE.
Whitehall.
The Burford, being designed for immediate service elsewhere,
cannot go with you, as you suggest, in place of the disabled Revenge.
As you have agreed with the Dutch Admiral to leave two ships
to form a convoy for the forces which are yet to come up, you
may leave the Revenge to refit and act as such, with the Swiftsure,
which is coming from Holland. They will conduct the Dutch
troops and the provisions which are to follow you. Order the
Burford to be forthwith cleaned and graved. The Sorlings
will be stopped by an order from Lord Nottingham. The Duke of
Ormond can inform you that care is taken about the Declarations
that you mention in your letter of the 12th inst. The idea of
sending a ship to scout at Brest was proposed for your opinion
and was not a direction. I send extracts of letters from Madrid
and Mexico, and also an odd story sent by Mr. Stepney from
Vienna. Prints and news will be constantly sent you from
here.
P. 1. Entry. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 17-18.
15 June.   SIR G. ROOKE to NOTTINGHAM.
Royal
Sovereign,  I have sent for the last packet for Vice-Admiral Benbow to
Spithead. Captain Dowglasse at St. Helens and will exchange it as you
order.
You will see the resolution of the Council of War. If you
want news from Corunna, please do not send any of the frigates
which are commanded to attend this fleet. We have already too
* There is nothing but internal evidence to show that these instructions are
for Shovell.  They are undated and were found apart from the letters of
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few cruisers. To diminish the number of them  will distress
the service in many ways.
P. -. Signed (signature partly torn of). Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 67, 19.
15 June.   COLONEL COLLIER to NOTTINGHAM.
Jersey.   Yours of 27th. Allowance to prisoner sailors reduced to
4d. a day. Have sent to the Commissioners of the Navy the
names of captured ships and men. Details.
P. A. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 25.
15 June.   HEDGES to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Whitehall.  The Queen has approved his Royal Highness' report on
manning the men of war that remain here, and desires that
the Attorney General advise as to the best way of carrying it
into effect. If he thinks a proclamation necessary to announce
the allowances of 20s. and 10s. a man, her Majesty will have a
draft prepared to be laid before her next Thursday in Council.
Acquaint his Royal Highness with this.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, pp. 341, 342.
16 June.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Lord Treasurer.
I enclose petition of Brigadier Ferdinando Hastings (which
sets forth his services and sufferings).*  My Lords think him
worthy of compassion, and I am to send his petition, so that
steps may be taken for his relief.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 50.
2. To the Earl of Romney.
There is only one ship now in the river bound for Virginia,
and she will sail for Spithead at the end of the week. My Lords
wish you to put on board of her any arms and ammunition which
are designed to be sent to Capt. LCol.] Nicholson for Virginia, as
there may be no further opportunity to do so for some time.
P. j. Ibid.
3. To Same.
Captain Foster reports that barracks are urgently wanted at
Pendennis Castle, and that it will be very inconvenient for soldiers
to come three long miles in winter to mount guard there, My
Lords think barracks should be provided, and I am to let you
know this that steps may be taken, if you have no objection.
P. J. Ibid, p. 51.
4. To Mr. Blathwayt.
Queen's pleasure:-The three troops of Lord Oxford's regiment
now quartered at Chesham, Amersham, Uxbridge and Fulham,
to be removed and quartered between Windsor and Portsmouth,
and Colonel Gibson's regiment, designed for Ireland, to be kept
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here for garrisoning Portsmouth. Give necessary directions
accordingly.
P. j. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 51.
5. To the Attorney General.
My Lords think that Mr. John Lovell, who has been committed to Newgate for words spoken by him, should be discharged.
Please give the necessary orders.
P. I. Ibid, p. 52.
16 June.  JOSIAH BURCHETT to WILLIAM AGLIONBY.
Admiralty  According to the Queen's pleasure, the notice was sent by
to-night's post to the merchants at the several ports trading
to Newfoundland that the convoying ships will sail from Spithead
on 25 June; and that, when their ships are loaden, they must
not expect to be protected to any other parts than Portugal and
England. We still await her Majesty's pleasure as to the Exeter
joining the convoy and Captain Leake's command-in-chief.
P. i. Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 101.
16 June.  HEDGES to SIR GEORGE ROOKE.
Whitehall  I have received 'yours of yesterday with the resolutions of the
Council of War. They were laid before the Queen, and her
instructions in consequence are herewith. The Lords of the
Cbuncil also saw them, and desire to add that you did very well
in preventing the Council of War from giving any opinion upon
the main expedition. I am further to acquaint you that it is
expected you will at once go to Cadiz and attempt that place;
on which the Queen will speedily send more positive orders.
Mr. Methuen sends us great encouragement about Spain and
Portugal, where[on] more to-morrow.
The Lords propose that you should strengthen your squadron
from the Corunna by adding four or five ships to the 19 mentioned in the resolutions, for if there are any French ships there
they will be in all 16 or 17, as advices show, and not only the 14
that Sir J. Munden saw.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 18, 19.
Same.    INSTRUCTIONS for SIR GEORGE ROOKE.
We have read the resolutions taken at the Council of War
held on board the Royal Sovereign yesterday. You shall pursue
those resolutions so far as relates to the expedition to the Corunna
and joining forces with the squadron, if the French fleet have
left Corunna. In all other matters, follow your previous instructions.
P. i. Overwritten with Royal Sign Manual (copy) and signed
(copy) "A.R." Ibid, pp. 19, 20.
16 June.   COMMISSIONER ATKINSON to the COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL.
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on Saturday. The winds have been very strong and favourable
since then [details].
P. i. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 29.
17 June.   HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations.
The Queen has appointed Commissioners to treat with the
Ambassadors Extraordinary of the States General of the United
Provinces, and their Excellencies have desired that the treaties
hereafter named may be renewed.    Queen's command:-To
peruse the treaties and say what alterations you think desirable
for her service. Act speedily, as the Ambassadors are pressing
for a conference on the matter.
The treaties are:
The Treaty of Peace and Alliance of 1667.
The Treaty of Navigation and Trade of 1668.
The Treaties of Peace and Commerce of 1674 and the article
for 'determining differences between the East India
Companies, 1675.
The Treaty of Alliance of 3 March, 1678[9].
The Treaty of Alliance and the Treaties touching the junction
of both fleets and of ships retaken in the year 1689.
The Treaty of Alliance of 11 November, 1701.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 221-2.
2. To the Earl of Romney.
Please give order to your agent in Holland who has bought
the 2,000 barrels of powder which the Queen is to send to the
King of Sweden, to deliver the same to Mr. Lillienroot, the
Swedish Ambassador at the Hague, or his order, and to take a
receipt from him, and please send me the order to your agent
that I may transmit it to Holland by next post, which is on
Tuesday.
P. J. Ibid, p. 222.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM to JOSIAH BURCHETT.
Queen's pleasure:-That the Exeter be added to the Newfoundland convoy. Acquaint his Royal Highness, so that orders
may issue accordingly.
Four lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 52.
17 June.   ROYAL WARRANT to SIR GEORGE ROOKE.
To sail and make the attempt upon Cadiz so soon as the
detachment to the Corunna has rejoined him. To go at once.
P. i. With copies of sign manual and counter-signature of
Secretary Hedges. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 20-1.
18 June.  SIR GEORGE ROOKE to NOTTINGHAM.
Royal
Sovereign,  Winds westerly and likely so to continue. Orders to the
Spithead. Sorlings..If west wind continues men will sicken of their long
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streight. To ease them has taken 1,000 men above their
complements on to the men-of-war and fireships. Will send
Secretary Hedges copy of the orders given to the detachment.
Pp. 1~. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 67, 20.
18 June.   HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To George Clarke.
I recommend Samuel Eyre to his Royal Highness for employment in providing transport vessels for transporting exchanged
prisoners of war. If so employed, I think he will be able to
get intelligence from France. He frequently got it for me in the
late war.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 352.
2. To Colonel Lee.
I am informed that the apothecary's place to her Majesty's
"elaboratory " in the Savoy is in the disposal of your board.
I recommend Mr. Henry Halsted in case there is a vacancy.
Five lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 263.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM to JOHN HOLLINGBERY, Mayor of Dover.
Yours of the 17th I have read to my Lords. The account of
your doings which it gives is very different from that which
was brought here by report. Your duty for the future in this
matter will be laid down in the Proclamation; and for the disposal
of the prisoners at Dover, her Majesty has also given directions
by an Order in Council.
What concerns her Majesty's service at Dover is as much
in Secretary Hedges' department as in mine, so that you need
not communicate to me what you send to him.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 53.
Same.    HEDGES to SIR GEORGE ROOKE.
Yours (two) of yesterday received. The Lords say you may
take the Burford with you, and, after discourse with Mr. Methuen,
add that you may send any ships which are disabled into Lisbon.
If you do so, give strict orders to the officers to avoid all occasion
of giving any offence to the people of Lisbon. The Commissioners
of the Navy have been directed to take steps at once to create
a credit at Lisbon for such sums as may be necessary for provisions
and repairs for the fleet.  " Here is a great clamour against
Sir John Munden, and some informations I have seen give too
much occasion for it."
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 21-2.
Latest date, NOTE of PROCEEDINGS in regard to the War with FRANCE
18 June.      and SPAIN.
2 May.-Orders issued to the Treasury, Admiralty and Warden
of the Cinque Ports for laying an embargo on all ships and
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Same.-Orders issued to same for seizing and securing in all
the ports of this realm all ships and vessels belonging to French
and Spanish subjects, or having goods or effects belonging to
them on board, and all mariners, wheresoever found, who are
French or Spanish subjects.
Same.-Declaration of War against France and Spain.
10 May.-Orders issued to the Advocate General and Advocate
of the Admiralty to prepare a draft commission authorising
the Lords of the Admiralty to grant letters of mark and reprisal
against France and Spain.
Same.-Order issued to the Advocate of the Admiralty to
prepare a draft of a commission for trial of prizes.
14 May.-Proclamation issued for recalling and prohibiting
seamen from serving foreign Princes and States.
31 May.-Declaration for the encouragement of ships of war
and privateers.
Same.-Declaration concerning ships stopped before the
declaration of war.
Same.-The drafts of commissions and instructions for granting
letters of marque and reprizals, and for trial of prizes were
approved.
18 June.-Proclamation is sued for apprehending all persons
going to or from France and for apprehending all deserters from
the service in the army abroad.
Pp. 1l. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 49.
19 June.   NOTTINGHAM to the COMMISSIONERS of the POST OFFICE.
Whitehall  Queen's command:-The letters for Lisbon to go hence every
fortnight, to begin from Tuesday next, 22nd inst.
Pp. 5. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 52.
Same.     HEDGES to SIR GEORGE ROOKE.
What I writ to you yesterday concerning the sending of disabled
ships into Lisbon is only Mr. Methuen's opinion, and a thing
to be agreed hereafter. He is to send you an account of all his
negotiation and, particularly, if he should not succeed in his
business. The setting up of a credit at Lisbon is not to be directed
till the fleet is gone; and is, accordingly, a secret.
P. a. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 22-3.
Same.     SAME to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
1. Transmits, by Queen's command, the petitions of the
inhabitants of Penzance, Newlyn and the adjacent ports for the
protection of their trade. His Royal Highness to report thereon
as soon as may be. P. 2.
2. Sends documents shewing that Captain Anderson of the
Mildford, though directed by the Earl of Marlborough to take
her Majesty's yachts under his convoy to England, sailed away
without them. The Earl thinks this was very negligent and
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3. Sends letters from the fleet on the coast of Galicia, which
reflect on Sir J. Munden's conduct in letting the French get into
Corunna, to be laid before his Royal Highness that the charges
against Sir J. Munden may be examined at once. P. 2.
In all pp. 14. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, pp. 342, 343.
20 June.   HEDGES to the LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.
Whitehall.  I enclose the answer of my Lords to the queries brought by
the Commissioners of the Revenue in Ireland to the Lords
Justices there concerning ships come from France and Spain.
Four lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 264. Enclosing:
The Queries.
1. Whether if the cargo belongs to any of her Majesty's subjects
(though the ship and men be French or Spanish), it is to be
detained?
2. Whether French or Spanish ships sailing out of France or
Spain before the declaration of war (the cargo belonging to
her Majesty's subjects and the ships hired by them) be within
the intent of the Lord Lieutenant's letter signifying her
Majesty's pleasure?
Answers.
Though the ships came out of France before the war, yet, if the
seizure was made since war was declared, it is a good seizure:
but the goods, if duly proved to be the goods of her Majesty's
subjects, and to have come from France or Spain before the
declaration of war, ought not to be confiscated.
If both ships and lading were seized in an Irish port before
the declaration of war they are to be detained only pending
further order, according to her Majesty's declaration.
In all p. i. Ibid.
20 June.   SIR GEORGE ROOKE to NOTTINGHAM.
Sovign,     The Duke of Ormond has sent you his news as to M. Brigant.
St. Helens. I believe M. Jacco is a proper person to be employed on these
occasions. By the Queen's last orders I hope your lordships are
assured of a southern winter port for our great ships, or I shall
dread the consequence of their coming home in that season. I
recommend Captain Jenings for the government of So[uthsea?]
Castle. It has hitherto been a naval officer's command.
P.S.-Our butter and cheese is nearly all uneatable.
Pp. 1. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 67, 21.
20 June.   HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Attorney General.
Your report in the matter of the complaint from St. Albans
[details]. The Queen consents to a prosecution in her name of the
Mayor and two Aldermen, if this is the best way for the law to
have its effect.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 222, 223.




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2 and 3. To the Prince's Council.
2. Sends Sir G. Rooke's letters from St. Helens. Command: —
To supply at once the slop beds for which he asks. Similar
orders have been sent to the Commissioners of Transports at
Portsmouth.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 344.
3. The Queen is informed that Harwich is a better port for
shipping horses to Holland than the Thames. Command:-To
lay this before his Royal Highness, who is to obtain a report
whether there are wharves and cranes at Harwich sufficient for
shipping horses, or if there are places where ships can safely
take in horses off the beach at low tide, or whether a loading
jetty can be built out into the harbour, "with larger creans for
hoisting. in the horses," with details as to time, cost, stabling
accommodation in or near Harwich and possibility of building
barracks and sheds.
P. g. Ibid, pp. 344, 345.
21 June.    CAPTAIN ST. LOE [or ST. Lo] to NOTTINGHAM.
Plroth     I have received the letter from you for Captain Spann, commander of the Sorlings. Will keep it till it can be forwarded.
P. W. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 30.
22 June.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Lord Keeper.
Her Majesty has signed warrants for Charles Sedley and
Thomas Winford, Esqs., to be baronets. She desires Sir Charles
Sedley to have precedence. When the patents come before you,
see that they are dated accordingly.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 53.
2. To Josiah Burchett.
Sends the Earl of Pembroke's* report on the petition of George
Byng, to be laid before his Royal Highnesst for further report.
P. ~. Ibid, p. 54. Enclosing:Report of the Earl of Pembroke, as above.
Byng served as first captain to the Earl of Orford when Captain
General of the fleet in the late war with France.  By
virtue of such employment he received half-pay as a RearAdmiral during the time he was out of employment. He
prays that he may still have the said allowance, or such pension
as her Majesty shall think convenient, until he can be employed
in his former, or some other, post in the Navy. In the last
establishment of half-pay to flag officers and others serving
in the fleet he had an allowance, as eldest captain to the
Admiral of the Fleet, equal to a Rear-Admiral's half-pay;
but these allowances were settled only for peace time and
* Lately the Lord High Admiral.
I Now Lord High Admiral.


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lapsed when war broke out. Petitioner served long and well
in the Navy and has been a Commissioner for registering
seamen. He is now out of employment and without support
unless the Queen is pleased to place his pension on the
ordinary estimate of the Navy, as the late King sometimes
did for those who had served well at sea: which is submitted
&c.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 54-5.
3. To the Lord High Treasurer.
The Queen hears that the men-of-war which are to carry the
land forces are not provided with beds for those soldiers.
Command:-To pay to the Commissioner for Transport at
Portsmouth such sums as he may spend there in buying the
necessary beds.
P. i. Ibid, p. 56.
4. To Same.
Sends John Crowne's petition. The Queen is willing to favour
him, and the petition is transmitted accordingly.
Four lines. Ibid.
Also note of Crowne's petition. His father William purchased
a province in America called Penobscot, lying between Nova
Scotia and New England. In 1668 King Charles II gave
that province to the French without any compensation to
petitioner for his expenses in building and fortifying. At the
Peace of Ryswick the French "prevailed to have the said
province delivered to them, which has not been yet done."
Petitioner proved his title before the Commissioners for Trade,
who reported accordingly. He received 501. from the Treasury
last summer by order of the Lords Justices, but is now in great want.
Prays for restoration to his lands and relief of his present
necessities.
P. i. Ibid, pp. 56-7.
5. To the Council for Trade and Plantations.
Sends the enclosed paper of William Penn for consideration
and report.
Four lines. Ibid, p. 57.
Also note of Penn's paper:-The bill in Parliament this time
twelvemonths relating to proprietary charters obliged my hasty
return to England. I left Colonel Andrew Hamilton, Governor
under the proprietaries of East and West New Jersey, as my
lieutenant in the province of Pennsylvania, being but across an
inland river, and the only person capable of that station besides
him whom I was obliged to lay aside by the King's command.
For the preservation of the Queen's peace, I pray that she
will give Hamilton her Royal approbation, which had been sooner
sought had not my own long illness on my arrival, the King's
death and the expectation of having the bill renewed in
Parliament delayed my application for it.
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6. To Captain Lechmore, commanding the Lyme frigate.
Queen's command:-To receive on board Mr. Methwen,
Lord Chancellor of Ireland, with his servants, goods and
necessaries, take him to Lisbon, and obey such orders as he may
give.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 58.
7. To Colonel Thomas Collier, Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey.
Queen's command: —To release the boat that brought the
English merchant from St. Malo's. As to the other boats and
prisoners there you shall speedily have orders.
As to commissions to privateers, these will now be granted to
those who apply for them.
Mr. Blathwayt will send you an account, if you have it not
already, concerning the garrison in your island.
P. -. Ibid, pp. 58-9.
22 June.   HEDGEs' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Sir George Rooke.
Yours of the 19th. It will not be needful to send an express
to Torbay for Sir Stafford Fairborne, because the measures will
not be altered. The looking into Corunna will be no hindrance
to the main expedition, and it would seem strange to pass by
it without looking into it after the advices we have had.
Baron de Lier, the first of the Dutch ambassadors, assures me,
according to his news from Admiral Allemonde, that all their
ships designed for the expedition are victualled to Nov. 30, n.s.,
and some further. The Queen commands me to let you know
that when the detachment for the West Indies leaves "you and
the Duke of Ormond are to make it your business to procure
some persons of credit and interest in those countries to go on
board them, as also some priests, in order to treat and deal with
the Spanish governors and Spanish Indians, to bring them over
to the House of Austria, since all we take is for the Emperor and
the Archduke."
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, p. 24.
2. To the Prince's Council.
Command:-The Sufolk to join the Newfoundland convoy.
Inform his Royal Highness.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 345.
23 June.   COMMISSIONER ATKINSON to the COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL.
Tranport   The horses to go with the expedition are to go from Cowes
with the first fair wind, where the ships are ready tp receive them,
I have his Royal Highness's order to buy up all slop beds that
can be bought in Portsmouth that are necessary for the soldiers
that go in the men-of-war, and forwarded it by express to Mr.
Roope, who is on the spot. I have also his order to buy hammocks and send them to Portsmouth, and have sent 1,050
hammocks and 24 beds. In two or three days I shall have more,
P. i. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom,, Naval 117, 31,




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1702.
23 June.   HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Mr. Schutz.
I write a word to tell you that the Queen has signed the
ratification of the Convention between herself and their Electoral
and Serene Highnesses of Brunswick Lunebourg made at the
Hague on the 21st of this month (n.s.) by Baron de Bothmar.
As the ratifications have to be exchanged within a month after
the signature of the Convention, I will put ours into your hands
for despatch to Baron de Bothmar.
P. i. French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 265.
2. To Captain St. Lo.
I have two letters from you and one from you and the other
Commissioners for taking depositions [of those] taken and brought
into Plymouth. You ask whether all is pillage that is upon or
above deck though no resistance is made by the enemy. " If the
seamen take more pillage than is allowed them by the Queen's
declaration they forfeit the reward therein given them, and
therefore must have a care what they do." You are right as to
your power of examining anyone other than prisoners. You send
me up affidavits of eight ships and suggest that, as they are all
small, they should all be put into one condemnation. In this
matter the Court must proceed as they think right.
P. 2. Ibid, p. 223.
23 June.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  The draft Commission for the Governor of Barbados has been
Office.
delayed by doubts as to what instructions should be given him
regarding the captains of ships which may from time to time be
appointed to attend that Government.  Details.  His Royal
Highness now directs me to return to you the draft of the
Commission and to say that he does not think it necessary that
the clause should be inserted which empowers Sir Bevil Granville
to erect a Court or Courts Admiral within his Government;
for his Royal Highness, as Lord High Admiral, will himself give
Sir Bevil a Commission as Vice-Admiral of Barbados, which,
with the necessary instructions, will authorise him to erect such
Courts and proceed therein according to the known laws.
His Royal Highness approves of the rest of the contents except
the clause which empowers the Governor to suspend captains
attending his Government if they do not obey his orders. Such
a power might be wrested to the prejudice of the Queen's service.
If a case of such disobedience occurs the Governor should complain to the Lord High Admiral, by whom, on the ship's return,
the complaint will be strictly investigated, and the captain
severely punished if found in fault.
Pp. 2. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 102.
24 June.   CHARLES, LORD CORNWALLIS to HEDGES.
[Bromeark   I communicated the Queen's commands signified in yours
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of Suffolk, and pressed for their execution. I send all the news
I have on the matter up to the present, and deferred sending
them in the hope of being able to send all at once. I still want
accounts from Beccles and Woodbridge, which I shall send when
they come.
P. A.   Signed.   Add.   Endd.    S.P. Dom., Anne      1, 50.
Enclosing:A. The Bailiffs and others [Justices of Ipswich?] to Lord
Cornwallis.
We have received yours of 23rd enforcing your earlier letters of
February last. We then made an exact list of all the seamen
in our town in the method prescribed, and returned it as soon
as possible to your lordship. Since then several of those
returned as at home have, we hear, been impressed into her
Majesty's service, though some are still here and abscond;
but as we have no power to impress and no money to provide
for them when pressed, we do not know how we can be further
serviceable unless you order the Vice-Admiral of the county, or
someone else that is empowered therein, to repair hither in order
to the impressing such men. We shall be pleased to give all
assistance to any such person.
P. 2. Signed by Thomas Bowell and Henry Hill, bailiffs, and
by Charles Whitaker, Charles Wright and Richard Pupplett[?].
Dated, Ipswich, 29 May, 1702. Add. to Lord Cornwallis at
Broome Hall. Ibid, 50A.
B. Sir Ger[vase] Elwes and others [Justices of the Bury St.
Edmunds' division?]* to the Same.
We diligently executed your lordship's former orders and
assure you that in our franchise and liberty we cannot find
any persons qualified for sea service residing in the several
towns in the same. We have given orders for all vagrant
persons found in our franchise and whom     we shall find
qualified for such service to be taken up and detained till we
have further orders. We are anxious to serve you in every
way.
P. I. Signed Ger. Elwes, S. Clarke, W. Maynard, T. Spring,
Richard Gipps, Richard Norton and Rog[er] Kerington. Dated,
3 June, 1702. Add. to Lord Cornwallis at Broome Hall. Ibid,
50B.
c. Bobert Bacon and others [Justices of Hartsmere hundred]
to the Same.
In obedience to your lordship's commands, grounded upon
an Order of Council dated 26 February last, we, her Majesty's
Justices of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenants in the Hundred
of Hartsmere in Ipswich division of the co. Suffolk, issued
out our warrant to the Chief Constables of the said hundred,
who sent out their warrants at once to the petty constables of
* Probably from Bury St. Edmunds, as they speak of a separate franchise and
liberty. The names of the signatories are well known in Suffolk.




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every parish requiring them forthwith to perform the duties
incumbent on them by virtue of the said Order in Council
about pressing men for the then King's fleet.  After strict
search, however, they informed us that in this part of the
county, so remote from the sea-coast, no seamen could be
found to be impressed. On receiving your second letters of
23 May we repeated this step, and with the same result. We
should have shewn our zeal more efectually if it had been
possible. Dated, 16 June, 1702.
P. 1. Signed, Rob. Bacon, Jo. Castleton, Thos. Smyth.
Overwritten, with address. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 50c.
24 June.   HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations.
The Dutch ambassadors press for despatch of the treaties
which were sent you for consideration. The Lords of the Committee of Council desire that your report on them may be laid before
them to-morrow morning, when they have appointed to meet
for that purpose.
Six lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 220.
2. To M. Von Vrybergen.
The enclosed, from his Royal Highness's secretary, shews
that a squadron has been sent under the command of
Captain Beaumont to keep M. Pointz [Pointis] from getting out
of Dunkirk and pursue him if he goes out. His Royal Highness
thinks that it would be well to attach to this squadron some of the
Dutch men-of-war which are at Schonvelt, and that, if this is
done, orders be given them to co-operate with Captain Beaumont
for the common good.
P. A. French. Ibid, p. 266.
24 June.   COMMISSIONER ROOPE to [NOTTINGHAM].
Portsmouth.  I have from Sir George Rooke your orders to supply beds
for the soldiers going in the fleet. Sir H. Belloes tells me that
in addition to what we have delivered to the Duke of Ormond
[details given], there will still be wanting 2,548, and I have written
express to Captain Atkinson to speed these down to me as fast
as he can get them. There are very few here, and they cost
1 s. each; and he who makes them will only undertake to deliver
them at the rate of twenty-five a day, and that on condition of
having his bills in London accepted at sight, and paid within one
month. I have, to expedite the business, promised that this
shall be done.
The horse and dragoons are being shipped in conformity with
the Duke of Ormond's order. He has ordered me to victual
the horses during their stay whilst the wind continues contrary.
Hay will not come to less than 50s. a ton, and oats to 11s. or 12s.
a quarter. I am going to-day to the Isle of Wight to get hay
and oats, as there is none here. I will do my best and let you
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I have orders from the Duke of Ormond to send the ships for
the artillery horses here.
Pp. 1U. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 32.
24 June.   The DUKE OF HAMILTON to [WILLIAM KEITH].*
Edinburgh.  I had yours of the 2nd, and we hoped to hear that the Queen
had received the address at the same time as she allowed you
to kiss her hand. The courtiers here give out that she will not
receive it, but I shall not believe this till I hear it is so. I wonder
that Lord Blanter [Blantyre] has not written one word to any
one here. They have passed the Act for the Union and put off
the business of the Advocates till Saturday, when they say they
are to bring in the Abjuration. Your letters came safe by the
same cover as Mr: Mason's, so that way may be continued,
though I shall expect to see you every moment here, for
immediately the resolution is taken above as to your commission the sooner we know it the better.
P.S.-No doubt you have taken care that nobody has a copy
of the Address till the Queen receives it and her pleasure as to it
is known.    I do not write to Lord Blantyre, so you may
communicate this to him.
Pp. 1i   (small).  (Hot.) with  cryptic address-mark.  S.P.
Scotland, Series II, 1, 6.
25 June.    SIR GEORGE ROOKE to NOTTINGHAM.
Royale     Letters for the Duke of Ormond and Vice-Admiral Benbow
Sovereign,
St. Helens. received, and delivered or forwarded per Captain Dowglasse of the
Norwitch. The delay and mismanagement of the transport business
hinders our voyage.
P. i. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 67, 22.
25 June.    COLONEL COLLIER to SAME.
Jersey.   Details as to previous letters. Proceeds:I have seen in the Gazette her Majesty's proclamation of 1 June
re ships stopped before the declaration of war. The war was
proclaimed in London on 4 May, and I stopped no vessels till the
9th, and then sufficiently declared it by seizing all the ships
and boats I could. I enclose list of those thus taken.
P. j. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 26.
Enclosing:The list above described.
Several vessels, names and ports and masters given, all seized
on 9 or 10 May, except one which arrived the 26th. Number
of men taken. Information as to goods consigned to English
or naturalised English subjects which were set free, while the
ships carrying them and their crews were detained.
Pp. 1l. Signed by Collier. Ibid, 20A.
* Subsequent letters from the Duke of Hamilton, similar to this, are addressed
to Keith.




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1702.
25 June.   HEDGES to GEORGE CLARKE.
Whitehall.  The Chevalier St. Julien may go to Holland in any yacht that
is going there. Inform his Royal Highness if need be.
P. S. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 346.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To Dr. Wallis.
The Queen has granted your petition for continuance of your
pension, and payment of the arrears. I have written accordingly
to the Lord Treasurer.
P. I. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 59.
Also letter accordingly to the Lord Treasurer, dated 23 June.
P. ~. Ibid, p. 62.
2. To the Commissioners of the Navy.
I laid before the Committee of Council the enclosed proposals
of Mr. Dummer for settling a course of correspondence with
Jamaica and her Majesty's other islands in America. Queens
command:-To transmit them     for your consideration  and
report.
P. I. Ibid, p. 60.
3. To the Commissioners for Transport.
Queen approves hire of two more ships. Give orders accordingly.
P. i.  bid.
25 June.   COMMISSIONS for OFFICES IN CHELSEA ROYAL HOSPITAL.
St. James.  (1) To David Crawford to be Lieutenant Governor.
(2) To Captain Richard Betsworth to be major.
(3) To James Fraiser to be Secretary and Register to the
Commissioners for governing the Hospital.
(4) To Sir Theodore Colladon to be physician.
(5) To Robert English to be comptroller,
(6) To Ralph Cook to be deputy treasurer and under
paymaster.
(7) To Emanuel Langford, D.D., to be chaplain; and note
of same to Mr. Merrye to be same.
(8) To John Noades to be surgeon; and note of same to
Christopher Capel to be barber.
(9) To Isaac Gamier, jun., to be apothecary.
(10) To William Hawkins to be wardrobe keeper, keeper of
the Council Chamber and comptroller of the coal-yards.
(11) To Anna Acton, widow, to be housekeeper.
(12) To George Holder to be yeoman of the coal-yards.
(13) To Henry Powell to be steward, and note of same to William
Grey to be master cook.
In all pp. 12. Thirteen separate commissions and three notes.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, pp. 36-47.




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25 June.   DEED OF APPOINTMENT by LORD TREASURER GODOLPHIN.
To all Christian people &c. Under the powers given me by an
Act for granting his Majesty certain duties on malt, &c.,* I have
appointed Samuel Wiseman to inspect, examine and control
all the accounts of moneys which have been or shall be received
or paid for or upon the tickets or benefits appointed to be paid
by the said Act, or the interest thereof paid or to be paid by
any subsequent Act of Parliament. This office Wiseman now
enjoys by a constitution under the hands and seals of the late
Commissioners of the Treasury, dated 15 April, 1698, which
constitution, by her Majesty's command, I hereby supersede
and determine. Usual fees for self and clerks.
Pp. 1. Copy, with copy signature. Underwritten, Verified
with the entry in the Treasury by E. Webster. Entered in the
office of the Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer, 25 Nov.,
1706; and entered in the office of the Clerk of the Pells, 28 Nov.,
1706. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 51.
Same.     ACT enabling the Queen to appoint Commissioners [in
Scotland] to treat for an Union between ENGLAND and
SCOTLAND.
For this see Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, Vol. XI., p. 26.
Pp. 1. S.P. Scotland, Series II, Vol. 2, pp. 2-4.
25 June.   ROYAL WARRANT to the LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.
St. James.  Sir Robert Southwell has asked us to accept his resignation
of the offices of Principal Secretary of State and Keeper of the
Signet or Privy Seal in Ireland. Cause patents to pass the Great
Seal there revoking his appointment and appointing Edward
Southwell to the said offices, to hold during pleasure with a fee
of 3001. a year, payable quarterly, as from the feast of St. John
Baptist last past, to hold as amply as previous Secretaries. Cause
a new signet to be made there with the arms and inscription
proper to the same.
We direct that Edward Southwell be admitted to the Privy
Council there, and that Sir Robert Southwell, in recognition
of his long services there, remain a member of it.
Pp. 1i. S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, pp. 16-17.     Also
S.P. Signet Office 15, p. 8.
26 June.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  Sends copy of the instructions to the commander of the
Newfoundland squadron, and desires to know if there be anything
in them which would prevent his carrying out such other
instructions as he may receive from the Queen.
P. J. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 103. Enclosing:A. Instructions by the Lord High Admiral to Captain John
Leake.
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I have appointed you commander of the ships named in the
margin* bound to Newfoundland. Get them ready as soon
as possible and sail at the first opportunity of wind and
weather with them and such ships, bound to Newfoundland
New England or Virginia, as are ready to go there and desire
your convoy.   On the voyage, enter the ports on the way
to Falmouth and take into your care such ships as are ready
to go with you; but do not wait for them longer than is
absolutely  necessary, since despatch  is of the greatest
importance. That the merchant ships may be ready, you
are forthwith to send notice overland to the several ports, saying
you are ordered to call for merchantmen, and making known
your signal for them; and you are to endeavour to arrive
off these ports by day, so that they may see you. Having got
the ships together, you are to go to Newfoundland and cruize
there for security of the trade and coast during the fishing season.
You are to take particular care to escort the ships bound for
Virginia and New England so far as your way shall lie
together, and then leave them to prosecute their respective
voyages.  "And so soon as you arrive at Newfoundland,
you are to inform yourself of the condition of the French,
the number of their shipping, whether men-of-war or fishing
ships or vessels, and the strength of their forts in those parts,
and to govern yourself accordingly in the defence and safeguard of her Majesty's subjects and their ships under your
care, proceeding according as may be thought most advisable
by yourself and the captains under your command in opposing
or making any attempts against the enemy at sea or in any
of the harbours of Newfoundland, either by taking, burning
or destroying any of their ships or forts as it shall be in your
power. And as you are to take care that you do not
imprudently expose the ships under your command or any
of the vessels of her Majesty's subjects under your convoy,
so are you to have the like regard that no service be
omitted which you shall have a probability of doing against
the enemy."
You shall assist the Admirals, Vice-Admirals and RearAdmirals of the various ports and harbours in Newfoundland,
as needed, in preserving peace and government amongst the
seamen and fishermen there, and in apprehending offenders.
You are to take care that no man who does not belong to her
Majesty's ships be received into any vessel under your command or transported to Newfoundland, and that no fish be
taken on board any of your vessels except what is for the
use and spending of the said ship's company.
When out of the Channel you are to place the seamen under
your command upon short allowance of victuals of six to
four men's allowance, or otherwise as you think necessary
for the lengthening out of your victuals; " assuring the seamen
that they shall be duly paid for the same."
* In margin:-The Exeter, Assistance, Reserve, Charles galley, Looe; the Wolf
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You are to continue guarding the fishery at Newfoundland no
longer than till 25 September next, unless you find it
absolutely necessary: and then, if the fishing ships shall have
made their voyage, you shall come away with them.  When
you have escorted them as far as you think proper, you are
to send a fourth and fifth-rate with the vessels bound for
Portugal to escort those vessels. Order the ships you detach
to see their convoy first to Lisbon and then to Oporto, and
then, without delay, to come to Plymouth, and, failing orders
there, on to the Downs and report: but warn them before
they approach Portugal with the fishing ships to ascertain
if there has been any rupture with that Crown and, if they
find there is, to bring their convoy to England.
Having detached the convoy to Portugal, you are to bring the
rest of the vessels to England, " it being her Majesty's express
command that none of her ships shall be exposed to the insults
of the enemy by their convoying any of the fish ships to Spain
or any ports up the Streights."  When you arrive, call at
Plymouth and, failing orders, come up to the Downs. During
your voyage give convoy to all other vessels sailing your way
which desire to go with you: and direct the two ships which
you detach with the trade for Portugal to do the like.
As the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations have been
assured that it is absolutely necessary for the safety of the
harbour of St. John, Newfoundland, that a chain, which
has been sent out some time, should be fixed there, you are to
employ the carpenters of your ships and their crews and the
seamen, if needed, to fix the boom and float the chain.
If the Southampton and Advice join you during this service
you shall take them under your command and employ them
as you think fit and, if you think well, send one of them with
the fifth-rate to Portugal.
At the desire of the Council of Trade and Plantations, you are,
during your stay at Newfoundland, to make the several
inquiries the heads of which you will receive herewith, so
far as you can without prejudice to your other services.  On
your return, send your answer thereon to them and to me.
It is likely that you may, before you sail, receive other
instructions from the Queen as to how you are to act with
respect to the naval force which the enemy may have at
Newfoundland.   You must diligently obey such instructions
and all others which the Queen may hereafter send you.
Given under my hand at the Admiralty Office, 24 June, 1702.
Pp. 51. Copy. Overwritten, with name and titles of the Lord
High Admiral. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 103A.
26 June.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
Adofielt    Sends enclosed from Sir George Rooke and gives its substance.
P. i. Signed. Endd. Ibid, 104. Enclosing:A. Extract from a letter from Sir George Rooke of 25 June, 1702.
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on the Adventure, and victualling, such people as the Earl of
Nottingham should send: but, before it came, she sailed,
and was so "full of the Prince of Hesse his goods and with
his servants that there was no room for anything else."
P. i. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 104A.
26 June.   The QUEEN to "the PRESIDENT, VICE-PRESIDENT, TREASURER
St. James'.    and COURT of ASSISTANCE of OUR ARTILLERY COMPANY
of our CITY OF LONDON."
"Being well satisfied of the loyalty and good affection of
our Artillery Company, and being therefore willing to promote
the welfare and preservation of it in its ancient good order and
discipline "... we " authorise and empower you frequently to
exercise our said company in arms as well in the ground commonly called the Artillery ground near Moorfields as in other
places where they have formerly used to exercise; and we do
hereby likewise give you full power and authority to hold Courts,
free and public, for the annual choice of officers and other
occasions as may be necessary and requisite for the better government of the said Company according to the ancient rules and
practice thereof in such place and places and at such time and
times as hath been usual.
" We likewise recommend unto your care that all the commission
officers of our train bands of the said City may list themselves
members of the said Society, that so by the frequent practice of
arms according to their rules, they may be the better qualified
to perform their trust in their respective commands." Words of
warranty. " And for your further encouragement we do think
fit to declare our most dear husband Prince George of Denmark
Captain-General of your Company," and shall always show you
our good will.
Pp. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, pp. 73, 74.
26 June.   COMMISSIONER ATKINSON to the COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL.
Transport  States purport of Roope's letter of 24 June, 1702, from
Portsmouth [supra, pp. 134-5]. Proceeds:-I wrote to him to get
beds there if he can, and to draw bills on me for them and
for provisions for the horses. I am sending 500 beds and 500
hammocks by land to-day, 500 beds to-morrow and 500 on
Wednesday if the ships stay there so long.
P. 1. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 33.
26 June.   HEDGES to SIR GEORGE ROOKE.
Whitehall.  Yours of the 23rd and 25th. I am sorry that the transport
service has been no better provided for and computed, and that
you are put to such shifts at this juncture. Your proposal to
sail at once is approved, though some of the transports be left to
follow you: but we suppose that the ships which were in the
Downs, and sailed thence on Wednesday last, have by now
reached you. They have two large transports with them, and
the Duke of Ormond has, as we are told, hired two more, which
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P.S.-My Lords think that Sir J. Munden should be tried as
soon as the Salisbury and the tender from Falmouth come in,
and the Judge Advocate can prepare for it, and that Sir John
be meantime suspended. On this I am to write to the
Prince.
P. 3. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, p. 25.
27 June.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehal.  1. To the Lord Treasurer.
Queen's command:-To give order to release the ships named
in the enclosed account, which were in her Majesty's ports before
the declaration of war, and were detained by the Customs officers.
Direct the officers at the ports to allow no men to leave on such
ships except such as came with them.
Also note.-The ships were the Nonsuch of Chalevette, 30 tons,
Franois Brossard master; the Magdalene of " Bourdeaux," 17 tons,
Francis Jouset master, stopped at Bristol. Also the Hannah
of Bridgewater, of 70 tons, Hezekiah Stocker master, bound
from Nantes to Amsterdam with French goods and stopped at
Falmouth.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 60-1.
2. To the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded and Exchange
of Prisoners.*
Queen's command:-To inform yourselves as accurately as
you can of the number of English prisoners that are detained in
France, and in what ports of the Kingdom, and to attend "the
Cabinet Council" at 10 a.m. on the 30th.
P. i. Ibid, p. 61.
27 June.   ORDER on PETITION of the INHABITANTS of the PARISH of
ALL SAINTS, OXFORD.
Their petition shews that on 8 March last the tower and steeple
of their church "through meer age" fell down. The cost of
rebuilding it is computed at 4,8001., and as they can only pay a
small part of this sum they have prevailed with very worthy
trustees (whose names benefactors [sic] are, with a plan of
the church, annexed) to receive contributions.  1,7631. has
already been contributed, and the church is so far advanced
that it will be ready for roofing as soon as timber can be cut for
it, "which roof is to be supported geometrically without pillers,"
which will require at least 200 load of timber by computation.
There is plenty of good old wood in your Majesty's forest of
Whichwood [Wychwood] in Oxfordshire.
They pray for leave to cut so much.
Order, 27 June, Whitehall. Referred to the Lord High Treasurer
for consideration and report. Further pleasure.
P. S. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 239, p. 25.
* Hereinafter called, for brevity, " Conmissioners for Sick and Wounded."




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1702.
27 June.   The DUKE OF HAMILTON to [WILLIAM KEITH?].*
Ed[inburgh]. I have yours of the 23rd, and am very pleased that you
insisted on presenting the address to the Queen in person and
refused to let anybody else have it. I hope you will take care to
read it, and then present it. If her Majesty is advised to refuse
it, I beg you may come back at once. You have greatly raised
your reputation here by your conduct in the matter, and all
your constituents will thank you for it. I am very pleased
with what the Countess of Marlborough said to you. Please
make her my compliments and say that I am afraid of troubling
her with letters. I have heard nothing from Blantyre of the
letter I wrote to her by him, but, " by the manner she has treated
you," I am convinced she is well disposed towards us. There
has been a great controversy here about the Abjuration oath,
and it was carried only by four whether it should receive a first
reading or lie on the table. There are great heats among them,
and though we have left them they are far from agreeing amongst
themselves. I wrote this some time ago to the Lord Treasurer,
and now he sees I am right. The business of the advocates is
put off. They continue firm to what they have done.
Pp. 4 (small). (Hol.) S.P. Scotland, Series II, 1, 7.
Also notest on a trial in the King's Bench relating to a messuage
called the Fleet, in St. Bride's parish, London.
The Warden, Ford, was found guilty of extortion and of the
escape of Richard Spencer. The jury also found that the
messuage aforesaid was pertinent to the office. Motion was
made to arrest judgment, and the case is not yet decided.
P. i. Ibid, 1, 7A.
27 June.   HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Lord Keeper.
Recommends Mr. Thomas Smith of Mesham [Melksham]
in Wilts for the Commission of the Peace. He is loyal and has
an estate of 6001. a year and "money in his pocket."  There
is a want of such men in the Division where he lives.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 265.
2. To the Lord High Treasurer.
A letter of ~J instant from Mr. Cresset, the Envoy at
Hanover, was laid before the Queen, in which he asks that something may be done to gratify "the persons chiefly concerned in
disarming the Duke of Wolfenbutell." The Queen approves
it, and would have the sum of 2,0001. put into Mr. Cresset's
hands, by such method as your lordship shall think fit, for this
purpose.
P. i. Ibid, p. 224.
3. To the Prince's Council.
Command:-The Queen wishes that Sir J. Munden be brought
* See the note to Hamilton's last letter on 24 June, 1702.
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to his trial as soon as the Judge Advocate or his deputy is ready
for it, and that meantime he be suspended from his command in
the fleet. The trial to take place as soon as possible. Inform
his Royal Highness.
Her Majesty approves his Royal Highness's proposal as to
ascertaining allowances to commanders of squadrons "to 11.
to 5s. a day."
P. t. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 346.
27 June.*  The QUEEN to the NOBLEMEN and to the BARONS, COMWhitehall.     MISSIONERS for SHIRES and COMMISSIONERS for BOROUGHS
assembled in PARLIAMENT in SCOTLAND.
We are informed that at your first meeting, by virtue and
warrant of the 17th Act of the sixth Session of this current
Parliament and of our proclamation of adjournment agreeable
thereto, several members of Parliament, after prayers said,
and declining to wait the reading of our Commission granted to
the Duke of Queensberry, representing our person, &c., presumed
to declare that they did not conceive themselves warranted to
meet and act in this Session of Parliament, and therefore dissented
from anything that should be done or acted therein and "thereupon did take instruments and withdraw and remove from their
attendance."  "We have thought fit to represent to you our
just resentment of this irregular and unlawful proceeding; and
our resolution to own and maintain this present Session of
Parliament and the dignity and authority of the same, and of
our High Commissioner thereto, against all opposers."  We
thought fit to declare this to encourage you in proceeding for the
protection of the Protestant religion and maintenance of
the succession to the Crown and preserving the peace of the
Kingdom.
P. J. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, pp. 185-6.
Same.     ROYAL WARRANT to the LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.
Directing him to cause the following to be sworn and admitted
of the Privy Council of Ireland.
[Michael Boyle] Archbishop of Armagh and Primate, John
Methuen,t Esq., Chancellor of Ireland, Charles, Earl of Cork, High
Treasurer, Narcissus [Marsh], Archbishop of Dublin, James, Duke
of Ormond, Edward, Earl of Meath, [William] Earl of Inchiquin,
[Charles] Earl of Mountrath, Henry, Earl of Drogheda, Hugh,
Earl of Mount-Alexander, John, Earl of Galway, [James, Earl of
Abercorn, [Murrough] Viscount Blessinton, [WilliamJ Bishop
of Kildare, [Richard] Bishop of Meath, [St. George] Bishop of
Clogher, [Edward] Bishop of Down and Connor, Thomas, Lord
Coningsby, [Charles] Lord Berkeley, Master of the Rolls, Henry,
Lord Shelburne, Francis Robartes, Esq., Sir Charles Fielding,
Colonel Richard Coote, Philip Savage, Esq., Chancellor of the
Exchequer there, Sir Richard Pyne, Chief Justice of the Queen's
* May be June 17th. The Clerk writes 1 and 2 very much alike.
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Bench, Sir Richard Cox, Chief Justice of the Court of Common
Pleas, Robert Doyne, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Sir Robert
Southwell, Sir Christopher Wandesford, Sir Robert King, Sir Cyril
Wyche, Sir Henry Fane, Major-General William Steuart,* Thomas
Keightly,t Esq., Major-General Thomas Earl, Thomas Brodrick,
Esq., Richard Aldworth, Esq., Robert Molesworth, Esq., Charles
Dering, Esq., Auditor General in Ireland, Francis Gwyn, Esq.,
Sir William Robinson and Edward Southwell, Esq.
Pp. 1I. S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, pp. 18-19. Also S.P.
Signet Offce 15, p. 19.
28 June.   SIR GEORGE ROOKE to NOTTINGHAM.
soeRIa,    Packet for Mr. Methuen delivered. The frigate which carries
St. Helens. him will be ordered to wait at Lisbon for his directions.
I shall gladly send an express to him, as her Majesty directs,
in case the Spaniards shew any disposition to submit to the
House of Austria.
P. i. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 67, 23.
29 June.   HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Prince's Council.
Command:-To submit enclosed from     the Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland as to safe keeping of prisoners of war at Kinsale,
and building a prison there, for his Royal Highness's consideration and report.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 347.
2. To Dr. Bramston.
A Danish ship bound for Dunkirk, laden with plank, all on
the Danes' account has, it is said, been brought into Berwick.
I desire to know how, on perusal of the papers, you find the
matter stands, and in what time you think it may be ready for a
hearing. The Danish Envoy has made a great complaint of the
delays made by the captain that brought the ship in; so I hope
there will be none of delay in the Court.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 224.
3. To the Board of Ordnance.
On your report on the petition of John Nicholls and others,
residents near the Mount's Bay in Cornwall, desiring guns and
ammunition for the place, the Queen commands that you supply
such a number of guns as may be necessary for the defence of
the Bay. The residents themselves must supply the ammunition.
P. i. Ibid, p. 225.
29 June.   ROYAL WARRANT to ANTHONY ROWE.
Appointing him Keeper of Hyde Park in Middlesex, with
power to elect one or more under keepers for looking to the
* Also spelt "Steuard."
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deer and keeping the gates and ports of the park and [granting
him] all the lodges with their outhouses and appurtenances,
and the custody thereof (except the great lodge with the outhouses,
gardens and grounds thereunto belonging), which were granted
to the Earl of Jersey, his executors, administrators and assigns
(by a lease under the Exchequer Seal for a term of years) by King
William III. [Details.] He* and his servants were at all times
to have all right of egress and regress through the said Park, all
herbage and pannage, and all "lops, tops and chops " of trees,
all dead and wind-fall wood, the usual fees of all deer killed
and all other profits, &c. To hold during pleasure.
Pp. 2. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 350, pp. 237, 238.
29 June.   JUDGE ADVOCATE BATHURST to the SECRETARIES of the
Spithead.      ADMIRALTY.
I have, under his Royal Highness' order, been taking evidence
on oath of all the officers belonging to the squadron lately under
Sir John Munden with regard to his action off Corunna. I am
obliged to say that such general examinations, if they are for
his Royal Highness' information, may be effectual, but that if
they are intended to prepare the way for a trial of Sir John at
court martial, they are contrary to the procedure in all our
criminal courts (except as allowed by the late Act in cases of
high treason); nor is it agreeable to my duty, which is, I think,
to get information on oath of such persons only as lay blame on
the person accused in order to put him on his defence. I have
found the inconvenience of this in a previous case, vizt., in the
trial of Captain Harlow for the escape of M. Ponti [Pointis], when
Sir G. Rooke, then Admiral of the Fleet, was ordered, with my
assistance, to examine all the officers of that squadron on
oath.
The effect of this order was " that at that trial I found myself
under a necessity of laying aside all those examinations as if
they had never been made, and only to examine again upon
oath in Court such persons as I thought most material towards
making good the charge laid against him."
To examine the captains of Sir John Munden's squadron would
more probably be a disadvantage to the Queen in this case, for
many of them, having set their hands at Councils of War to
most of the steps made by the flag, seem to have made themselves
in some sort parties. These things his Royal Highness should,
I humbly think, consider. Unless otherwise directed I must go on
as I have been ordered, and desire to be told the names of all
those who, by letters or otherwise, have charged Sir J. Munden
with blame on this occasion, so that I may have their evidence
for the Crown when the trial comes on. Meantime, I shall examine
the inferior commissioned and warrant officers on board the ships
now at Spithead.
Pp. 31. (Hol.) S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 34.
* It is not clear whether the following sentence gives privileges to Rowe or
recites those given to the Earl of Jersey.
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30 June.   COMMISSIONER ATKINSON to the COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL.
Transport  The Duke of Ormond has ordered Mr. Roope to hire two ships
at Portsmouth for the service of the transports.
P. a. Signed. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 35.
30 June.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Lord High Treasurer.
The Queen grants the request of Thomas Morton, gentleman,
and his wife, that they may have the custody of Margaret James,
an idiot, and grants to them an allowance for her maintenance
out of the idiot's estate. You are to ascertain what allowance
will be fit.
P. +. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 62.
2. To the Commissioners of Trade and Plantations.
The Queen has ordered an agreement to be made with
Mr. Dummer upon his proposals for settling a correspondence
with Jamaica and other her Majesty's islands in America. Her
Majesty desires you to consider and settle with Mr. Dummer, and
report how these voyages will best be performed, to what places
the ships should go and generally on the matter. Send a report as
to how you proceed herein, to be laid before the Queen.
P. 1. Ibid, p. 63.
3. To Josiah Burchett.
My Lords think they should hear weekly the state of the Navy
at home, where the cruisers are cruising, and what preparations
are being made on the ships that are being made ready for sea
service.  This report should come weekly on Fridays, beginning
next Friday. Inform the Prince's Council of this, that such
an account may be sent to Secretary Hedges or me for their
lordships.
P. 1. Ibid.
4. To the Prince's Council.*
Queen's command:-To send you the report of the Navy
Board on the proposals of Mr. Dummer for correspondence with
Jamaica, "that the same may be laid before his Royal Highness
for his orders to the officers of the Navy Board " to make an
agreement with Mr. Dummer on the best terms they can.
Expedition is necessary, as the Queen desires to lose no time in
sending these ships to the West Indies.
P. 1. Ibid, p. 64.
5. To Same.
Enclosed shews that there is a French Protestantt now prisoner
at Portsmouth who desires to serve on board the Queen's fleet.
Should his desire be granted?
P. A. Ibid.
* A naval council assisting his Royal Highness in the discharge of his duties
as Lord High Admiral of England.
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30 June.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
Admralty    Enclosing an extract of a letter from Vice-Admiral Benbow.
Four lines.   Signed.  Endd.   S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 105.
Enclosing.A. Extract, as above.
This by the Fowey brings you a duplicate of what I sent by
the Margate. We have as yet no certain news of the French.
'Tis said they are sailed for Havanna, also that they are still
at Legan [Leogane].
I have sent several out to know the truth, but still 'tis doubtful,
so that this day some of our ships are sailed and I in a day
or two will follow and join them, though not in a good condition, having lost above 600 men.
This Government, since the death of Mr. Selwyn, make great
difficulties about giving us men, though it is in their power
to do so, and they at the same time are sure that if war comes
nothing but our shipping can protect them. But, if they
do not, necessity has no law, and I will do my endeavour,
while I live, to keep " the King's ships " under my command
in the best condition as men-o-war, which I humbly conceive
is the intent of our coming into these parts.. intend to cruize with the Bredah, Defiance and eleven other
ships [names given] between the east end of Jamaica and
Petit Guava for the health of my men and to inform myself
how matters go in those parts, and to stay there till we have
news from England, which will be welcome-peace or war.
I repeatedly asked the Governor for men, and, being as often
refused, [he] at last issued orders that I should take every fifth
man from every ship in the harbour and have from the shore
what strength were there. However, the news got out and
the result was that in this seeming favour I could not get
above 60 men, and some of our own hurt by shot from the
sloops. Nor can it be otherwise while a merchant commands Port Royal and a planter governs. "Private interest
is what they aim at without regard to the King's order or
security of his island, whose interest here will be either lost
or ruined if left in these hands."
Pp. 1-. Dated, Jamaica, 30 Ap. Ibid, 105A.
30 June.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall  1. To the Attorney General.
You have reported on the petition of the aldermen of
St. Albans, which was referred to you by her Majesty's order,
that if the freedoms were granted after the Court was adjourned
they are void, and the Mayor and two aldermen guilty of a
misdemeanour for which they may be punished by indictment
or information. If the law cannot well be enforced except by
a prosecution in her Majesty's name, she is content that it be
used for that end.
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2. To Josiah Burchett.
I think it reasonable to settle 2001. a year on Dr. Newton,
Advocate General to his Royal Highness.   Inform his Royal
Highness.
P. j. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 347.
30 June.   The DUKE OF HAMILTON to [WILLIAM KEITH?].*
Ed[inburgh].  Mr. Beuerman [Bowerman] arrived about two o'clock on Sunday.
I had yours of the 23rd the day before. This made what came
by the express the more surprising; but now that that is over,
by no means let any further application be made for presenting
our address, and I am very glad you say it's sealed up. I desire
it may continue so, and that you bring it down with you when
your convenience allows you to come. Be sure it is kept safe
meantime and where you can come at it.
I am persuaded that those who advised her Majesty not to
receive it have not considered her service, but its not proper to
talk of that now. It will be seen who gave her Majesty the best
Advice, and time will shew whether it had not been better for
her service this Parliament had never met. "It is this day
adjourned, there having been the greatest debats and heats
imaginable in relation to an abjuration oath which was carried
to have a first reading on Saturday last, and this after great
caballing on both sides. When the matter was going to the
debeat the Duke of Queensberry adjourned the Parliament till
the 17th of August."
Everybody here is very sensible of your zeal and services
to your country. We only hope that they may not expose you
to some resentment. We shall be glad to see you back here,
and desire you to be circumspect in your conversation where
you are.
P.S.-The advocates' affair is remitted to the Council. The
heat of the divisions on the other matter has been so great that
there was no time to think of them.
P. 31 (small). (Hol.) S.P. Scotland, Series II, 1, 8.
[June.]    Note of moneys paid-half a year's pension to Mrs. D. Agneaux.
A New Year's gift to her. Payment to Mrs. Duncomb.
P. I (small). Endd. "An account of the money I sent
by Mrs. D'Agar's order to her daughter and granddaughter."
S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 52.
June.     NOTE for the DIVIDEND for JUNE.t
Notes 115 grants of offices, pensions, commissions, restitutions
of temporalities, &c.
Total of left column, 941. 6s. 8d.; of right column, 3011. 6s. 8d.
Pp. 4. Endd. Ibid, 53.
*. See the note to Hamilton's letter of 24 June, 1702, above p. 135.
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1702.                          JULY, 1702.
1 July.   The COMMITTEE of TRADE and PLANTATIONS to HEDGES.
Whitehall.  As commanded, we have perused the treaties between England
and the States General of the United Netherlands, with
particular.regard to what concerns trade.  On consideration
of the 26th Article of the Treaty of Breda of 1667 [of which the
text is here set out], we take leave to observe that on such
occasions as the States lay an embargo on their own ships,
requiring each fifth mariner out of every merchant ship to serve
in war, they make the same requisition on every English ship
in their ports, demanding every fifth mariner, or money in his
place. We do not think that this is conformable to the article;
but if the Dutch insist on exercising this right they should be
told that the Queen has a similar right in respect of Dutch sailors
under the same treaty.
On the 28th Article of the Treaty of Breda [of which the text
is here set out] we think it should be agreed that no captain or
officer should demand any payment or gratuity for giving convoy
in accordance with its terms.
Ships from the English plantations convey goods directly from
and to Dutch ports, by which the Queen loses the customs;
and the plantations, especially those under Proprietary Governments, carry on a trade which is contrary to the Acts of
Navigation.  We think that the English consul at Rotterdam
and other ports of Holland should be allowed to search ships
coming from, or going to, our plantations, so that they may
be prosecuted according to law; but we see that this would be
very hard to carry out.
Pp. 2i. Signed, Dartmouth, Rob. Cecill, John Pollexfen,
Ph. Meadows, Wm. Blathwayt and Mat. Prior.     Endd.   S.P.
Dom., Anne 1, 54.
1 July.   GEORGE CLARKE to RICHARD WARRE.
AdOmirty  I am commanded by the Prince to send you, for the Earl of
Nottingham's information, extracts from letters received from
Commissioner St. Lo at Plymouth touching several French
ships which have been seen off the Groyne and from Mr. Yates
at Bristol with news from the West Indies.
I am also to send you an extract of a letter from the Commissioners of Victualling saying what they can do in relation
to the provisions lately ordered to be prepared for the West Indies,
and shipping to carry the same. Pray lay these before my
Lords so that the Queen's pleasure may be known at once.
P. i. Signed. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 106. Enclosing --
A. Commissioner St. Loe* to [the Secretary to the Lord High
Admiral].
The Hannibal and George galley came in here yesterday from
Smyrna and Scanderoone, and from Livornia [Leghorn].
About 15 days ago they saw 24 ships of the Groyne. Eight
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of these were supposed to be men-of-war, and I think they
are the ships that are to carry the soldiers to the West Indies.
Some days after one of them met with a Swede's ship of
500 tons, bound for Cadiz with naval stores, and were informed
that four more sail were speedily to follow them.  They
steered S.W. The Rising Eagle sags that two rich French
East Indiamen are "suddenly " expected home.
P. 4. Dated, Plymouth, 28 June. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 106A.
B. Mr. Yates to [the Secretary to the Lord High Admiral].
The Don Carlos (James Smith, master,) from Jamaica arrived
here yesterday. She left on 3 May in company with the
Fowey man-of-war and 16 merchantmen. [Details.] They
were 23 days going through the Gulf, and met two Londoners
that had brought negroes. They also heard from a small
Irish vessel that the Summers frigate, belonging to the Guinea
Company, was ashore on the Jordains off Cuba, but that
the men were saved. About 22 May they met a Portuguese
that had carried negroes to Carthagena, which told them that
the French fleet were at Havana and the Spanish fiota at
Vera Cruz, but that the silver was not on board and that
the Spaniards would scarce trust it under their convoy.
Other details.
P. I. Dated, Bristol, 29 June. Ibid, 6, 106B.
c. The Commissioners of Victualling to Richard Warre.
We were lately ordered by the Lord High Admiral, through the
Navy Board, to prepare victuals suitable for the West Indies
for 4,000 men for six months, at whole allowance, and to
hire the ships to carry both the provisions and 600 men with
two months' allowance; and that six of the said ships should
be of 300 tons burden.   The victuals were to be ready by
August 1. We to-day laid before his Royal Highness our
difficulty in complying with this order, and were directed to
set it out in writing.
There are not many ships of that burden to be chartered.
Upwards of fifty have lately gone to Archangell; and,
treating with masters and owners of smaller ships, we find
some are not sheathed and cannot be ready for five or six
weeks. Others require to be victualled and manned at the
Queen's charge. Some desire to be paid from the time they
begin to load till they return to London, and many refuse
to go, fearing that when they get to the West Indies their
men will be seized [for service in the fleet] and they will be
compelled to lie still there.  Most do insist on 51. a ton
if they are to be discharged on delivering their provisions,
and yet to have their men protected both out and home. They
also demand demurrage in case they shall not sail by the
time agreed on. We have offered 31. 10s. Od. a ton, which
is the most ever offered by this office for such service.
We think we shall have enough provisions, as we shall be able
to get the pork off the ships which are to be discharged. Pray
lay these matters before his Royal Highness.




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Pp. 1]. Copy. Dated, Victualling Office, 30 June, 1702.
Signed (copies), by John Houblon, Thomas Colby, H. Vincent
and W. Wright. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 106c.
1 July.   GEORGE CLARKE to JOHN      ELLIS [Secretary to  Hedges].
Admiralty  Sends a letter from Mr. Bathurst, Judge-Advocate of the
Fleet, as to the difficulty of examining officers on oath in connection with the trial of Sir John Munden.* The Lord High
Admiral desires it to be laid before Secretary Hedges.
P. j. Signed. Add. Endd. Ibid, 107.
[1 July.]  SAILING ORDERS by SIR GEORGE ROOKE.
In case of separation on this side Portland with the wind
westerly, the place of rendezvous is St: Helens. If the separation
is to the west of Portland and in the Channel, it is Torbay. If
you separate with an easterly wind it is 20 or 30 leagues S.W.
from Scilly. If you miss the fleet there open your sealed orders
and act on them.
Sealed Orders.
Make the best of your way to N.W., ten or fifteen leagues from
Cape Finistere. If you find no orders there go to the Groyne
[Corunna]. If you find no orders there proceed to the Bay of
Bulls [?], near Cadiz.
P. 1. Endd. Undated, but attached to next document. Ibid, 108, 1.
1 July.   MEMORIAL by the LORD HIGH ADMIRAL and GENERALISSIMO
Admiralty      [Prince George of Denmark] to the QUEEN in COUNCIL.
I recommended it to Sir Cloudesly Shovell to cause the most
necessary ships that will be left at Spithead when Sir George
Rooke sails to be manned out of others. He proposes thereon
to unman the Royal William, Victory, Namure and Lancaster, as
Sir George Rooke did the Britannia, Content and Newark at
Sheerness, to enable him to proceed with the ships going with
him on the expedition.
It is submitted to the Queen whether, in view    of the
preparations being made, or likely to be made, by the French
this summer, these ships should be unmanned and laid up, or
whether it may 'not be necessary to go on and man them again,
lest, when the fleet is separated, the French should come into these
seas with a superior strength.
P. i. Signed by Prince George of Denmark. Countersigned
by Josiah Burchett. Endd. Ibid, 108, 2.
1 July.   REGULATION of PAY for the Three Regiments in the West
St. James'.    Indies according to the Establishment.
We think it necessary for defence of our West Indian
possessions to maintain out of our Irish revenue the three regiments
of foot commanded by the late [sic] General William Selwyn,
* See above at p. 145.




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Colonel Richard Brewer and Brigadier Zachary Tiffin; the
first two of which are in Jamaica and the third in the Leeward
Islands.  We confirm  the establishment made for them   on
1 August, 1701, by King William III, commencing at the times
hereafter mentioned.
We think that the regiments should continue to consist of
companies of 38 men (the number at the time when the regiments
were shipped in Ireland) till further order, although they are put
down at 60 in the establishment of 1 August, 1701. For the
due mustering, paying, clothing and recruiting of the said
regiments during their stay in the West Indies, we make the
following regulations.
Detailed regulations follow.
Pp. 4. S.P. Signet Office 15, pp. 9-12.
Also an establishment* for the three regiments aforesaid with
details of pay for officers and men and names of reformed officers,
who are to be posted to vacancies as they occur. Also form
of a muster-roll for the companies in the West Indies. P. 4.
Undated, but the establishment noted, "Entered 29 [June, 1702]."
Ibid, pp. 13-16.
1 July.   MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT for IRELAND.
To commence on 1 July, 1702. To supersede all former
establishments. No new charge to be added without information
thereof first given to the Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being.
1. General Officers.                          Yearly Pay.


1. s.d.


The Lord Lieutenant, Deputy, Justices or
other Chief Governor, in all..
One Major-General......
Two Brigadiers
Aide-de-camp to the Major-General
Muster-Master-General and Clerk of the
Cheque.......
Six Deputy Commissaries......
Quartermaster-General..
Adjutant-General....
Judge Advocate General..
Surgeon General......
Provost Marshal General


6,593
730
1,095
182


6
0
0
10


8
0
0
0
Ou


500 0 0
547 10 0
365 0 0
365 0 0
121 13 4
121 13 4
73 0 0
10,694 13 4
2,000 0 0
110 0 0


Total......


2. Military contingencies
Rent of Horse Guard stables
Fire and candle for Dublin Castle if
otherwise provided.
3. A Regiment of Horse.
(a) Field and Staff Officers.
Colonel as Colonel..
* This re-appears in the general establishment for Ireland:


not.~


60 0 0..    219    0   0
see below at p. 155.




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Yearly Pay.
1.  s. d.


Lieutenant-Colonel  as  LieutenantColonel
Major as Major..
Chaplain..
Surgeon......
Kettle-drummer..
(b) One Troop.
Captain (10s. a day and two horses,
each at 2s.)....
Lieutenant (5s. a day and two horses,
each at 2s.)..
Cornet (3s. a day and two horses, each
Quartermaster (self and one horse)..
Two Corporals....
One Trumpeter...
Thirty-six privates


146
100
121
73
45


0
7
13
0
12


0
6
4
0
6


705 13 4
255 10 0
164 5 0


91
91
45
985


5
5
12
10


0
0
6
0


1,761   2   6.. 8,805   8   4


(c) Five more such Troops


Total for the regiment..11,272  8 4
There are two more such regiments of
horse the yearly pay of which at the
same rate comes to 22,5441. 16s. 8d.


4. One Squadron of Horse.
The pay for this is the same as for the
regiment of horse detailed above.
The field officers and troop officers are the
same, but instead of having six troops
(as the regiment has, see above,) the
squadron has only three troops.
The annual pay of this squadron comes to


5. A Regiment of Dragoons.
(a) Field and Staff Officers.
Colonel as Colonel
Lieutenant - Colonel as
Colonel
Major as Major
Chaplain
Surgeon..


5,989 10 0
219 0 0


Lieutenant

127.   91.....121....  F73


15
5
3
0


0
0
4
0


632 13 4


(b) One Troop.
Captain..
Lieutenant
Comet.
Quartermaster..........182.*..... 91..~.... 73.......54


10
5
0
15


0
0
0
0




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One Sergeant..
Two Corporals..
One Drummer..
One Hoboy
Thirty-six dragoons
(c) Five similar Troops


Yearly Pay.
1. s. d..45 12 6......    54 15 0......     27 7 6.....    27 7 6...    76610 0
1,323 2 6......  6,615  12  6.....  8,571  8  4


Total


* a


There is another such regiment
the charge is the same.
There are also two troops of
attached to Colonel Ross'
Their pay is the same as th
troop of dragoons detailed al
for two troops
6. A Regiment of Foot.
Field and Staff Officers.
Colonel as Colonel.
Lieutenant - Colonel as  L
Colonel
Major as Major..
Chaplain
Surgeon (4s. a day) and mat
Adjutant and Quartermaste


for which


dragoons
regiment.
iat of the
bove; or,.. 2,646  5 0


219 0 0


ieutenant-...     127 15  0
73  0  0
121 134
(2s. 6d.)  11812   6
73  0  0


te
r


Total........   733 0 10
One Company.
Captain.........           146 0 0
Lieutenant........    73 0   0
Ensign.......     54 15 0
Two   Sergeants  (at  18d. a   day
each).........    54 15 0
Three Corporals (each 12d. a day).    54 15 0
Two Drummers (same)...     36 10 0
Fifty privates (each 6d. a day)..  456  5 0
Total, 8761. a year. There are eleven such
companies in a regiment; so the total
for each regiment of the infantry is
9,6361. 0s. Od.
Each regiment has also a company of
Grenadiers to complete it.  For these
the establishment is as follows:Captain (8s. a day)....       146 0 0
Two Lieutenants (each 4s. a day)..  146 0 0
Two Sergeants (each is. 6d. a day)..  54 15 0
Three Corporals (each 12d. a day)..  54 15 0
Two Drummers (each 12d. a day)..     36 10 0
Fifty privates (each 6d. a day).   456  5 0
Total for the Grenadiers...   894 5 0
Total for the Regiment of Foot.. 11,263 5 10




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Yearly Pay..   s. d.
There are eleven of these regiments of
foot, the pay for which, at this rate, comes
to, per annum......      123,896  4  2
7. Three Regiments of Foot in the West Indies.
The establishment for these is the same
as that for the regiments at home,
subject to the following differences:Amongst the field and staff officers the
major gets 5.<. a day instead of 4s.
In each company there is only one
drummer instead of two, but there
are 60 privates instead of 50, and
each private is paid 8d. a day* not 6d.
The result is that these infantry companies cost each 1,1131. 5s. Od. a year.
There are nine such companies in
each regiment.
There is also in each regiment a company of Grenadiers.   Here the establishment allows two corporals
instead of three, one drummer instead of two and sixty privates
instead of fifty, at 8d. a day.
The total for the Grenadiers is, consesequently, 1,1311. 10s. Od.; and for
the whole regiment 11,9021. Os. 10d.
For the three West Indian regiments it is
therefore..........35,706   2  6
8. The Ordnance.
(a) Superior officers at the following yearly
pay:
Master (5001.), Lieutenant (3001.), Surveyor and Controller (2001.), Clerk
(1001.), Engineer and SurveyorGeneral of the fortifications and
buildings (3001.).
(b) Inferior officers in Dublin at same:Second engineer (1821. 10s.), third engineer (1461.), two gentlemen of the
Ordnance (together 1461.), two firemasters (same, 1461.), two bombardiers (same, 731.), armourer (731.),
wheelwright (361. 10s. Od.), waggon
and carriage maker (361. 10s. Od.),
storekeeper (1001.), master gunner
(501.), his mate (251.). Eight gunners
to attend the train (together 1461.),
eight matrosses (together 1091.).
* Note the higher pay for foreign service.




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(c) At Londonderry. A storekeeper (401.),
two gunners (each 181. 5s.), two matrosses
(each 131. 13s. 9d.).
(d) At Charlemont.*  One gunner and one
matrosse.
(e) At Galway.    A  storekeeper, three
gunners and two matrosses.
(/) At Athlone.  One gunner and one
matrosse.
(g) At Limerick.   A  storekeeper, four
gunners, two matrosses and an armourer
(181. 5s. Od.).
(h) At Cork. A gunner and a matrosse.
(i) At Kinsale. A storekeeper, master
gunner (401.), two gunners and four
matrosses.
(j) At Duncannon.     Same; only two
matrosses.
(k) At Carrickfergus. A storekeeper, gunner and matrosse.
Total for year
Memorandum.-Whatever regiment, troop
or company shall be on duty in Dublin,
each private horseman in it shall be
allowed 3d. a day extra, and each private
soldier Id. a day extra, above the ordinary
establishment.
The extra pay under this head, there being
two troops and three regiments of foot
(details gzven) on duty in Dublin, isHorse..
Foot..


Yearly Pay.
1.  s.d.
3,640 0 0
357 7 11
2,057 13 9


9. Garrisons.
Londonderry and Culmore
Governor
CorkGovernor
LimerickGovernor
Town Major
KinsaleGovernor
Lieutenant-Governor
Fort Major
DuncannonGovernor
Town Major.182 10 Ot.....  365  0  0.365  0  0
73  0  0. 0


365 0
182 10
73 0


0
0
0......   365 0 0...    73 0 0


* At this and the following places the wages of the gunners, storekeepers and
matrosses are the same; so they are not repeated.
t Of this 40. is for fire and candles for the garrison.




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1702.
Yearly Pay.
i. s.d.
DublinTown Major........    91  5 0
Ross CastleGovernor.......    182 10  0
Total per year...... 2,317 15 0
10. Military Pensions.
Pensions to the Earl of Galway, Major General Steuart,
Colonel O'Donnell (pursuant to an agreement between
him and the now Earl of Athlone), Colonel Henry
Luttrell, Sir James Jeffries in lieu of a company.
Lord Blaney in lieu of the Government of Sligo,
Lieutenant-Colonel Freeke (details), Lieutenant-Colonel
Gwyllim, Major Monjoy, Captain Meridall, Lieutenant
Philip Reeves, Lieutenant-Colonel Montargus. The
last six pensions to last till the holders are otherwise
provided for.
Figure given in each case. Total 3,8431. a year.
11. Annual charge for fire and candles for the army quartered
in barracks in the several following places with the
charge of barrack masters there and other contingent
expenses.
List follows of 104 places where there are barracks and
garrisons, shewing how many horsemen and footmen
are in each and how much coal, turf, firing and candle
is allowed for each.* The garrisons are very small
and are in all only 36 horse and 231 foot.
Barrack masters (at 361. 1Os. a year) are allowed at
the following places:-Carrickfergus, Charlemont,
Drogheda, Sligo, Londonderry, Enniskillen, Cavan,
Longford, Mullingar, Mullett, Galway, Maryborough,
Athlone, Silvermines, Kilkenny, Clonmel, Charleville,
Bantry, Dingle and Wicklow.
Town Majors (181. 5s. a year) are allowed at Dublin,
Limerick and Duncannon, and a fort Major at
Kinsale.
Barrack masters and town majors &c. come, with
other small charges, to 9,8361. 10s. a year.
An abstract of the above charges shews that in all
they amount to 265,3781. 5s. Od. a year.
Pp. 13-. S.P. Signet Office 15, pp. 49-62.
1 July.   ROYAL WARRANT to the [CHIEF GOVERNOR of IRELAND].
Windsor.   It is likely that the garrisons may be withdrawn out of several
of the barracks for which firing and candles are allowed in the
foregoing establishment; and we are told that the salary of
barrack masters should he increased from 361. 1Os. to 501. a year.
* The names are all well known places inu Ireland and are omitted to save
space,




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1702.
Pay them the difference between these sums out of the money
saved on the firing and candle allowance by reason of the withdrawal of garrisons. The Chief Governor may from time to
time change the appropriation of the annual sum of 9,8361. 10s.
allowed for barrack masters [see above] in the establishment.
P. -. S.P. Signet Office 15, p. 63.
About, An ESTABLISHMENT of HALF-PAY for the reformed Officers
1 July.       of the Regiments hereinafter named.
Windsor.  These payments to be made as usual, monthly or quarterly,
on the appearance of the recipients or on certificate from the
Muster-Master of their being alive and not otherwise provided for.
List follows shewing the daily and annual sums paid to each
of the following: —
In Brigadier Wolseley's regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Berry, Major Thomas Price,
Captain Richard Wolseley.
John Aughmouty, William Blashford, Captain-Lieutenant
Samuel Forth, Robert Johnson, James Johnson,
John Deane, Lane Irwyn, Cornet T. Fetherston,
James Catcheart, Richard Berry, Daniel Harford,
Peter Sandys, Lane Carleton, Quartermaster Thomas
Wingfield, Francis Aldridge, Henry Dixon, James
Humphrys, Michael Waldrom, Gerard Irwyn, Cornet
Robert Hagerty.
Sums given in each case.*
In Colonel Echlin's regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard  Hamilton, Luke Davis,
Comet E. Loftus, Quartermaster John Nesbitt, Albro'
Wrightson, Captain Robert Stewart, Lieutenant John
Pacey, James    Uniack, Comet William    Nesbitt,
Quartermaster Hugh Nesbitt, William Parr.
In the Earl of Drogheda's regiment.
Captain William Fitzmorris, Captain-Lieutenant Richard
Harwood, Thomas Mildmay, Robert Savile, John
Shepardson, Ensign Henry Martin, Robert Kingsworth,
Griffith White.
In Colonel Mitchelburn's regiment.
Colonel J. Mitchelburn, Lietuenant-Colonel John
Hamilton, Major Anthony Schemberg [sic], Captain
James Manson, Hercules Burleigh, Michael Cunningham, Francis Boyde, Stephen Miller, George Gregory,
James   McCormuck,    Captain-Lieutenant  Richard
Bickerstaff, Samson Archer, George Church, Samuel
Shallcross, William Gunter, Joshua Markham, James
Wills, Oliver Anktell, Samuel Ferguson, Patrick
Murray, Ensign Daniel Gillespey, John Reckham,
Richard Jackson, John Forthseith, Hugh Campble,
John Clement, James Donnelly, Charles Johnson,
Andrew Hamilton.
* They are given right through the entry varying from 88. to 18. 6d. a day
according to rank; it is not thought necessary to repeat this.




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1702.
In Colonel Thomas St. Johns' regiment.
Colonel Thomas St. Johns, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander
Stewart, Major Arthur Noble, Captain Joseph Embree,
Joseph Dunbarr, William Hamilton, Thomas White,
William Stewart, James Blair, John Maghlin, CaptainLieutenant Robert Maghlin, William Brown, James
Forbes, Martin Mossway, Jeremy Felton, Lewis
Stewart, John Miller, Frederick Kyle, Samuel
Mortimore, Ensign Henry Stewart, John Hamerley,
Quartermaster Thornborough.
In Colonel Creighton's regiment.
Colonel Abraham Creighton, Lieutenant-Colonel John
Caulfield, Captain Alexander Achison, Abraham Green,
Thomas Johnston, George Brook, Michael Cole,
Captain-Lieutenant John Orban, George Graham,
Guy Carleton, Robert Montgomery, George Cashell,
George Curry, George Hewston, Ralph Picken, George
Johnson, Gabriel Shore, James Devit, Ensign James
Laying, William Hamilton, John Vincent, Henry
Cosby, John Browning, Henry Hodgkinson, John
Johnson, Quartermaster Thomas Little, Adjutant J.
Clarke.
In the Earl of Donegall's regiment.
Major the Earl of Longford, Captain Arthur Gore.
John Davis, James Dore, Lieutenant George Holmes,
John Peirce, John Reynolds, Ensign John Crofton,
James Harrison, Nicholas Holmes, Stephen Ferragut.
In Lord Mountjoy's regiment.
Captain Hugh Hamill.
Anthony Hovendon, Charles Willis, John Murray,
William Sampson, Lieutenant Robert King, Joseph
Pilot, Ensign Rene Fleury, John Lathum, Hugh
Owen.
In Sir George St. George's regiment.
[Colonel] Sir George St. George, Lieutenant-Colonel Toby
Caulfield, Captain Murt. Cunningham.
Dow Cope, Lieutenant Samuel Dornant, Thomas
Denny, Ensign Thomas Drisdale, William Hamilton,
Francis Maynard, Rudson Cobley, Adjutant John
Philpot.
In Colonel Villiers' regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Edgworth, Captain Edward
Wybrantz.
Thomas Ogle, Beresford Cotton, Edward Dixey, William
Burgh, Captain-Lieutenant Richd. Jennings, Richard
Bankham, Walter Travillian, John Shelbury, Rowland
Gwynn, Edward Rogers, John Bushell, Ensign Francis
Edgworth, Thomas Dodson, Joseph Hodges, Henry
Peck, Quartermaster John Boycott.
In Lord Charlemont's regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel Adam  Murray, Major Thomas
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1702.
Daniel Hudson, Hans Stephenson, Francis Flood,
Richard Crofton, William  Campble, George Harris,
Thomas Morgan, Lieutenant Mark Smith, Roger
Holland, William Taylor, John Fobyn, Charles Le [?]
Pointell, Ensign Richard Carter, Jacob Dolman, John
Henderson, Quartermaster Robert Walker.
In Colonel Stanhope's.
Lieutenant George Manson, Ensign John Bagnall.
In Sir Mathew Bridges'.
Ensign Edward Steadman.
In Colonel George Hamilton's.
Captain St. John Peyton, Ensign John McCuistion.
In Colonel F. Hamilton's.
Lieutenant John   Walsh, William   Giffard, Robert
Cooke.
In Colonel Richard Brewer's.
Ensign Mathew Draper.
In Colonel Tidcomb's.
Captain Thomas Alexander, Alexander Oldys and
Lieutenant Thomas Burch.
In Colonel How's.
Lieutenant John Lloyd.
In Sir Henry Belasyse's.
Captain Charles Nicholson, Ensign Gabriel Read.
In Brigadier Ingoldsby's.
Captain John Hayne.
In Colonel William Seymour's.
Ensign William Thompson, Angus de Contiere.
In Brigadier Tiffin's.
Captains Stedman, John Woodward and George Carleton,
Lieutenant John Donnellan.
A summary of the above shows that the total of the sums
allowed is per annum 9,8091. 7s. 6d.
Pp. 4. S.P. Signet Office 15, pp. 64-7.
2 July.   The PRINCE'S COUNCIL to HEDGES.
Admiralty  We have, as commanded, considered whether Sir George
Rooke should leave behind some of the largest ships at such place
as he shall succeed in "to prevent the hazard of their return,"
late in the year, and   have been ordered to state how
many first and second class ships, exclusive of those with
Sir George, can be ready for service next year. As we do not
know what place Sir George is to attempt, or when he may have
success, or in what condition his ships will be after his attack,
we think the first of these questions should be left to the decision
of Sir George himself and his flag officers. If he leaves the five
first and second rates now with him, there can be fitted out
for service next year the Britannia, Queen, Victory, Namure and
St. Michel, and possibly the Royal William.
P. i. Signed by Mitchell, Hill and Churchill. Endd. S.P.
Dom., Naval 6, 109.




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1702.
2 July.   NOTTINGHAM to the PRTNCE'S COUNCIL.
Whitehall.  Sends a petition from the City of Exeter to be laid before
his Royal Highness.
Note.-The petition sets forth that Exeter and the neighbouring
trading towns are in great need of coal and " culme." They
pray for a convoy for their ships to and from Wales with those
commodities.
P. I. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 65.
2 July.   SIR GEORGE ROOKE to HEDGES.
Royal
Sovereign,  We got out last night with a light N.N.E. breeze. We are in
off the  ill condition to execute so great a design. Part of our naval and
of StghAlan land forces have not joined us. All our victuallers, all our naval
stores and great part of our ordnance are yet behind. "I say
these are melancholy conditions at this time of the year, but
rather than there should be any umbrage of a delay on my part,
I am willing to proceed in any condition." I hope that we shall
be able to defend ourselves against any misfortune at sea, and
that the Duke of Ormond will be able to do good service with the
land forces. I will do my best.
I left the Somerset behind to bring on the transports from
Portsmouth and victuallers from the Downs, and hope they will
overtake us before we reach Plymouth.
I send the orders of rendezvous and the sealed orders in case
of separation.
Pp. 21. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 67, 24.
3 July.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  Mr. Dummer's vessels, which it was proposed to use as packetboats for the Plantations, were ordered to be hired by order
from his Royal Highness to the Navy Board. The Navy Board
object to paying for them. I send their letter. There is no
objection to their having letters of marque, wearing the Queen's
colours and having their men protected; but as their service
is quite remote from the Navy, his Royal Highness cannot
admit of their being paid out of funds wholly appropriated
thereto..P. 3. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 110.
Same.     SAME to SAME.
Amongst other ships left behind when Sir George Rooke sailed
are the Revenge and Sufolk at Portsmouth with Sir Cloudesley
Shovell. The East India Company were with the Prince's Council
yesterday and were urgent for some ships to go out cruizing, as
they expect a rich trade daily, and the seas are not secure. If the
Queen consents, these vessels, which are clean, can be sent out.
We should know soon, that the merchants may be told what they
have to trust to.
P. Q. Signed. Endd. Ibid, 111,
Wt. 3880.                                          A 11




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3 July.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.
Whitehall.. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
Queen's command:-Directs that M. de Morney [Mornay],
the commander of the French man-of-war lately brought into
Portsmouth by H.M.S. Rochester, with his lieutenant, "chaplain
or monk," two gentlemen and servants be sent in custody to
London and lodged in the Savoy Hospital. All French prisoners
in future to be lodged elsewhere than at Portsmouth, and not
in sight of that garrison.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 65.
2. To the Lord High Treasurer.
Queen's command:-To send you a paper regarding payment
of arrears to Mr. Cole, Consul at Algiers. It is important for
our good relations with that Government that he be paid, to
enable him to live with more credit in that city.
Also note that the Consul is owed for two years' extraordinaries
and over one year's ordinary entertainment. The said Consul
cannot have money there, when he wants it, under three or four
per cent. per month.
P. i. Ibid, p. 66.
3 July.   LETTERS OF REVOCATION.
t. James'.  1. Revoking the commission (dated 30 April, 1696,) for the
Lieutenancy of Dover Castle to Sir Bazill Dixwell.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, p. 53.
2. Revoking the appointment (dated 18 Nov., 1689) of William
Boulter to be assistant to the Surveyor of the Ordnance.
Pp. 1. Ibid, pp. 54, 55.
3 July.   HEDGES to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Whitehall.  No more Dutch troops will come to follow the main fleet;
so the two English and two Dutch ships which Sir G. Rooke
intended to leave behind to convoy them need wait no longer.
Inform his Royal Highness.
P. g. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 353.
3 July.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  Sends a full state of the fleet at home according to orders.
The same shall be done every Friday morning.
Five lines.  Signed.  S.P. Dom., Naval 111,     p. 573.
Enclosing:List of H.M.S. ships in sea pay at home, with their numbers
of men and guns as also their respective stations, or what
orders they are under.
Lists follow. The ships are divided into the following classes,
their names, men and guns being given in each case.
1. With Sir C. Shovell at Portsmouth or Spithead.
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3. At Blackstakes, unmanned by Sir G. Rooke when he
left the Nore.
4. The Dunkirke squadron. Vessels with Captain Beaumont
and those which have been ordered to join him.
5. Other convoys and cruisers.  Details follow of ships
appointed for the Newfoundland convoy, the convoy
between the Downs and Falmouth, the designed convoy
to Hamburg, &c., ending with yachts detailed to the
Isle of Wight, Jersey and Ireland.
P. 3. Dated, Admiralty Office, 2 July, 1702. Endd. S.P.
Dom., Naval 111, pp. 575-7.
4 July.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  His Royal Highness's command:-To send you Sir Cloudesley
Shovell's suggestion that when the commander of the Newfoundland fleet gets out of the Soundings he may have orders to leave
two frigates to go with the store ships and himself make the
best of his way there with the rest. Please submit it for the
Queen's decision.
I send letters from Vice-Admiral Benbow asking that a sailor
condemned by court-martial may be pardoned, that, if you
think fit, he may be put into the next general pardon.
P.S.-Captain Leake agrees in Sir C. Shovell's suggestion.
P. i. Signed. Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 112.
Enclosing.A. Vice-Admiral Benbow to the [Prince's Council?].
Benjamin Butling of the Kingston was lately condemned by
court-martial to be hanged for desertion. I cautioned the
other seamen not to desert or else I should have to hang
Butling.  As the service has not sufered much I ask that
he may be pardoned.
P. A. Extract. Dated Jamaica, 13 April, 1702. Ibid, 112A.
B. Sir Cloudesley Shovell to the Same.
The squadron for Newfoundland will be ready in two or three
days.  Captain Leake would do well to leave two of his
squadron with the merchantmen and store ships when he is
out of the Soundings, which, I think, is out of danger from
the enemy. Captain Leake should make all haste to
Newfoundland. He is already very late, and the French
generally finish fishing there about 20 Aug.
P. i. Extract. Dated, on board the Queen at Spithead, 3 July,
1702. Ibid, 112B.
5 July.    SIR GEORGE ROOKE to HEDGES.
Royal
Sovereign,  Becalmed. Has given orders to ship the forces at Plymouth
off Plymouth. on the Monmouth and bring them to the fleet. Will dispose them
as well as he can. Hopes to meet the Swiftsure with the empty
transports. Will now sail westward to the rendezvous. The hot
weather is causing sickness on board.
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5 July.    NOTTINGHAM to ---
Queen's command:-That before you issue warrant to execute
the sentence on Ireland, Hitchman and Burgess, who have been
condemned for piracy, their several cases be laid before her
Majesty by you or the judges who tried them.
P. I. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 66.
Also a similar letter addressed to Mr. Justice Powell and
Dr. Bramston, asking their opinion as to a pardon in these cases.
Dated at the Cockpit, 7 July, 1702. Ibid, p. 67.
6 July.   GEORGE CLARKE to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  Sends the names* of some English subjects now on board
the Brill (Captain Billiard), who desire to be discharged from the
service of the States General. Their names are sent so that
the Secretary of State may get their discharges from the
"Embassadors" of Holland now here.
P. -. Signed. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 113.
6 July.   NOTTINGHAM to the LORD KEEPER.
The Queen thinks it right that something should, as usual,
be said to the Judges before they go the circuits. If therefore
your lordship will consider of the matters proper to be recommended to you (and the Queen's Speech to Parliament may
suggest proper topics) and can come to the Committee at my
office to-morrow morning, the matter can be arranged before
the meeting of the great Council.
P. a. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 67.
6 July.   HEDGES to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Whitehall.  The Queen, on information from Plymouth, desires you to
get the names of the French Protestants, prisoners there, who
are said to have applied to be allowed to serve in her fleet, and
that such as can satisfy his Royal Highness that they really are
Protestants, or have been forced to change their religion and now
desire to profess the Protestant faith, may be employed on board
her Majesty's ships. Care must be taken that, on the discharge
of any ship on which they are permitted to serve, they do not
return to France. Inform his Royal Highness.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, pp. 353, 354.
7 July.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  Sir John Munden desires that the master of the smack
mentioned in his letter may be hastened to Spithead.  Pray
send him, as all other matters are now ready for the trial.
I send the original letters from the Lieut.-General of Admiralty
at Dunkirke, in which he demands Captain Lawrence as a denizen
of France. He has been ordered to be tried at the Admiralty
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Sessions as a pirate since, being an Englishman, he was taken,
since the war began, with the French King's commission.
P. 1.   Signed.  Add.  Endd.  S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 114.
Enclosing --
A. Sir John Munden to the Lord High Admiral's Secretaries.
Requests the attendance of the "smack man" mentioned in
the covering letter. His name is Nicholas Styles and he is
now at Shad Thames and lives "at the corner of Boy's
Alley, next door to the Shuggar Loaf." Is anxious to be
confronted with all who charge him.
P. 1. Copy. Dated, on board the Victory, 6 July, 1702.
Ibid, 114A.
7 July.   J. TUCKER to [HEDGES].
Whitehall.  Details. To-day a Dutch post came in with letters of the
Ath instant.   The news was as in the enclosed prints.
Lord Marlborough says he does not know the Mr. Butler you
mentioned to be Lieutenant-Governor of Tilbury, but he consents
to the Prince being moved on his behalf. He will be appointed.
Details.
An express came in this afternoon from the fleet and brought
a letter for you from Sir G. Rooke. I took it to Lord Nottingham,
who read it and said he would lay it before the Committee, which
meets to-morrow. It says that on the 5th at 9 a.m. the fleet
were off Plymouth, standing to westward, and that the hot
weather began to make the ships unhealthy. The Queen still
intends to go to Windsor on Thursday. I will try to wait on
you there on Friday.
Pp. 2.  (Hol.)  Not add. but underwritten "Mr. Secretary."
S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 55.
7 July.   NOTTINGHAM to the COMMISSIONERS for SICK and WOUNDED.
Cockpit.  The Committee of Council think it right that in future all
French prisoners should be examined as to the condition of the
French fleet, and an account be sent to the Secretaries. They
also desire you to hire private lodgings for the French officers
lately ordered up from Portsmouth, and to procure sentries to
stand at their doors and prevent them from escaping. They
would have the prisoners at Portsmouth removed to Southampton
and Winchester unless, or until, Portchester Castle is ready for
them. No pen, ink or paper to be allowed them without leave.
P. j. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 68.
8 July.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Lord Mayor and Lieutenancy of London.
Queen's command:-To recommend Mr. George Davenant,
who has been represented to the Queen as very well qualified
to be muster-master to the Lieutenancy of London. Has no
doubt they will choose him.
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2. To the Lord Mayor and Lieutenancy of London.
Similar to foregoing, recommending John Borrett for the
post of clerk to the Lieutenancy of London.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 69.
8 July.   ROYAL   WARRANTS to the     LORD LIEUTENANT or CHIEF
St. James'.    GOVERNOR OF IRELAND.
1. We hear that the regiment now in Jamaica which was under
the command of the late Brigadier Selwyn*, deceased, is charged
with 1,0001. for provisions supplied to them when they were
starting for the West Indies; and that during the late war all
provisions delivered to the forces that were transported to foreign
parts were given to the regiments and not charged to their
accounts; and we are asked that " in consideration of the dearness of provisions and all other necessaries in the said island"
the said 1,0001. may not be placed to the regiment's account.
It appears by a certificate of Thomas, Lord Coningsby, PaymasterGeneral of the Forces in Ireland, that 1,0001. was paid to
Bartholomew van Homrigh and laid out in provisions for the
regiment, and charged to their account pursuant to a warrant
from the late Lords Justices of Ireland. We authorise you to
give the necessary orders for discharging the regiment of this
liability for 1,0001. and for placing it to the account of our
revenue at large in Ireland.
P. i. S.P. Signet Office 15, p. 21.
2. The case of the arrears due to the Earl of Drogheda's late
regiment has been laid before us. It appears that the regiment
was disbanded in April, 1698, and the men fully clothed and
the undertakers paid for clothing by an assignment on eighteen
months' off-reckonings, ending 1 October, 1697. The offreckonings from 1 October, 1697, to April, 1698, amounted to
7571. 17s. 5jd., and are detained in our Paymaster-General's
hands, and the Earl prays they may be paid out to him. William
Robinson, Esq., Deputy-Paymaster of our Forces in Ireland,
certifies that the regiment was cleared to 1 October, 1697, and
soon after received complete new clothing and accoutrementS,
which were paid for out of the said off-reckonings, and the offreckonings of the said regiment growing due from that time were
laid by to supply future clothing; that the regiment was broke on
14 and 15 April, 1698, and, on stating its arrears it appeared
that there remained in the Treasury (over and above the officers'
clearings) 7571. 17s. 51d., being so much laid by to provide future
clothing, and that payment of it was refused to the said Earl
because the same was saved out of the twopence a day taken
from the soldiers for clothing them. The money shall be paid
to the Earl, but he shall be answerable to the officers and soldiers
of the said regiment for such of the money as shall appear to
be due to any of them. Give directions accordingly.
P. 1. Ibid, pp. 21, 22.
3. The Judges in Ireland propose, through you, that an allowance
might be made to the Marshal of the Four Courts in Ireland t6
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enable him to perform his duties. You report that this office
was formerly a profitable one until the fees attached to it were
reduced by Act of Parliament, that the office is important and
that when it was lately vacant owing to the removal of the holder
of it for "often and heinous misbehaviour," you were unable to
fill it owing to the inadequacy of the emoluments attached to
it. The Judges say that the charge of the Marshal amounts
to 1591. a year, and that the fees of the said office, since they were
reduced by the latesAct of Parliament, have not exceeded 1201.
a year, taking one year with another, which, if made up to 4001.
a year, might tempt a competent person to accept the office,
to which many hazards are attached.
Give orders for a payment of 2801. a year to our said Marshal,
to be placed on the Civil establishment from Midsummer last,
so as to make up his salary to 4001. a year.
P. 1. S.P. Signet Office 15, pp. 84, 85.
4. Great Seal (letters as advised by counsel) revoking the
appointment of William  Burgh as Comptroller-General and
Accountant-General in Ireland and re-appointing him to those
offices. To exercise the office by himself or a deputy or deputies
approved by you. His present fees &c. to continue. Favourable
clauses.
P. -. Ibid, p. 23.
8 July.   SIR GEORGE ROOKE to NOTTINGHAM.
SRoyal    I have seized a Spanish ghabarre* which came into the fleet on
Sovereign,
Torbay.  Sunday last, though she had the Queen's pass, countersigned
by your lordship, as I thought you could not mean her to go before us. When wind is fair, I will see she has good convoy to her
port, and may make some of her company useful for our service.
Winds still contrary, which may be fatal to us on many accounts.
P. |. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 67, 26.


9 July.   --- [to WILLIAM KEITH or LORD BLANTYRE].
[Edinburgh ] I only received yours to-day or would have answered sooner..
I hoped to hear often from you, but knew how busy you were.
I have been so fortunate as to see some of your letters, and
especially that which contained the Queen's last answer. The
Duke showed it to me, and I was very pleased to see it and see
how our friends praised what you had done in the affair you were
entrusted with. If your enemies have made any comment on
your being too "peremptor" with the Queen, I know nothing
of it, but I am seldom in town and do not converse much with
people of that stamp. You have certainly omitted nothing
that became an honest man and a good countryman, and your
friends esteem you accordingly.
" I know very well who were reckoned to be your friends at
Court, but as their friendship depends more upon the emulation
betwixt them and other courtiers than upon any kindness to
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us, I am afraid your jealousy may be but too well grounded,
especially after the remarks you made and after what was told
you by a man of that interest you write of; and what confirms
me yet more in this opinion is that I was told by one of those
gentlemen who were lately in London that notwithstanding of
the fair words they got from those very statsmen you were
recommended to, yet he belives they were the occasion of their
not getting a better reception.... I believe everybody will
allow this person I have it frdm to be a man of a very good
understanding.
" But how Sund[erland?] should interpose to our disadvantage
is what may be very true, but there seems to be such a mystery in
that affair that I don't know what to think of it, and therefore
I choose rather to say nothing till it come further to light;
but I thank you for the hint, which afterwards perhaps may
serve to unridle what otherways perhaps could not be understood."
Your bad reception was very ill taken here, and there seemed
to be a great ferment in the nation at the news of it. This was
like to have been heightened by an overture which was brought
into the Parliament, of which you have no doubt heard all the
steps. It was thought to have been wisely set at rest by an
adjournment, which has quieted people's minds a little.  We
all now expect this Parliament to be dissolved. I hope your
affairs will allow you to be down before the time of the elections,
which are intended at Michaelmas.
You need not be surprised at receiving letters so seldom from
this, for I am informed that several letters both from, you and
to you have been intercepted. This is a frequent practice in
this country, and for that reason I should not write to you so
freely by the ordinary post as I should on this occasion. Let
me now assure you that I shall "manadg the confidence " you
are pleased to put in me with that reserve that you will never
regret having given it; and as you have trusted me with a matter
which you would not have entrusted to any other, I shall be
careful not to disappoint your opinion of me.
I need not tell you to speak of nothing in this that should
not be known.
I shall not fail to tell the Duke the first time I see him of your
desire to serve him. Pitcurr is now at home and I shall write
and tell him why it is he has not heard from you.
As for " this young spark " he has lived with me very discreetly
and has shewn a readiness on all occasions to do everything
he was desired to do; insomuch that, if he had been my own
servant he could not have been more willing. He has given
no trouble. To-morrow I am to send hiln away on a little horse
of my own to Newcastle, and my servant will put him into the
Newcastle coach on Monday, if there is room; and, if so, he
will get safely to London. I have given him 4 guineas and
8 English crowns which, in our money, amounts to 821. 16s. Od.
Scots. According to the expense of the journey, as I have
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I shall be very grateful if you will take the trouble to write
occasionally and tell us what is passing. In return I will try
to let you hear anything you wish from this. All our great
ministers of State are making ready to "pairt" from    this
immediately, but, I hear, will soon return. The Duke of Argyle
is gone already and is to stay for some time on the way.
The Marquis of Annandale and Lord Seafield [have gone?]. You
may hear of more before this reaches you.
I could not find a better way to send your boy than by coach.
The seas are so infested with privateers that there is no going
without a convoy, and this is hard to get to London.
I hope you will come down here before the elections, but I
know that a young man "who understands how to redommend
himself " will find it hard " to quit the beauties of so fine a place
and the pleasures you can hardly fail of finding out to
yourself."
P. 4 (small). In small handwriting. Unsigned and not
addressed.* Ill-spelt. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 56.
9 July.   The DUKE OF HAMILTON to WILLIAM KEITH or KEETH.
Yester.   I have yours of the 4th with Lord Blantyre's postscript. I have
come hither to keep our fast in good company, and can assure
you that all our friends are very pleased with your part and
only sorry that, after the Queen showed so much dislike to our
address, she should have been importuned any more upon the
subject. As you have found, steps have been taken, but no
advance has been made, though you have given a copy of the
address, which, as there was so little chance of its being received,
our friends here think was scarcely necessary; but they realise
that there may have been grounds for this which we, at this
distance, do not appreciate. I now think that you and
Lord Blantyre should return here as there is nothing there for
you to do in relation to your friends here; so I think you should
take special care of the principal address. I wish that had been
sooner done by bringing it hither, and have always wished so.
When he leaves, I hope he will ask Lady Marlborough if she has
any answer to what I wrote her by him.
Pp.   21.  (Hol.)  (Small.)  Add.  Endd.  S.P.   Scotland,
Series II, 1, 9.
9 July.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Earl of Abingdon.
The Queen has signed all the commissions for the Tower except
that of Mr. D'Oyley for major. She knows this was promised to
you, but she is in some difficulty because it appears that Mr. Soul,
who now has the post, bought it, and is poor, and has a wife and
three children, "which has so moved her Majesty's charity"
that you will do her a great service if you release her from her
promise to you and let Soul have his commission renewed. I
* But see the Duke of Hamilton's letters to Keith, which are very similar in
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presume you will agree to this unless Soul is quite unfit for the
post.
P. a. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 70.
2. To the Lord Keeper.
The Judges were not called to attend her Majesty in Council
to-day; but she thinks you should, as usual, call them to you
and acquaint them with the things of which your lordship has
prepared some heads, and which they should recommend in
their charges in the several places of their Circuits.
Has Lord Carbury been made Custos Rotulorum as before?
Mr. Banaster has been recommended for the Welsh Judge's
place-you know by whom. I don't know him, or whether the
patent has been passed to any other.
P. -. Ibid.
3. To the Lord Treasurer.
The Queen has given 401. to William Houston and Henry Matier
between them, and directs me to let you know that you may
give order accordingly.
P.. Ibid, p. 71.
4. To the Earl of Marlborough.
Queen's command:-On consideration she does not think it
right to grant to Aldborough the carriages which they ask, or
to refit them; but if they will provide carriages to remount
their guns, she will allow them twelve barrels of powder and
shot in proportion. Give order accordingly.
P. i. Ibid, p. 76.
10 July.   EDWARD MORGAN to HEDGES.
There is a patent in being which should bring in the Crown
7001. a year and is let to farm for 2,5001. It is of long standing
but is not valid, for a defect in drawing. It is not proposed to
divert the intent of the patent by vacating it; but you, and
others who would farm under you, might gain if it were vacated,
and you had a grant from the Queen for the same.
This may be done if you procure the reversion. Then the
present holder may, if you think fit, be secured the present income
for the remaining term, and you may have [a] longer [term] added
for yourself.
The present advantage I can demonstrate will be worth
1,0001. per annum without any trouble or charge; and much
more with it.   What it will be worth afterwards shews
itself.
I propose this method because it is in powerful hands who
will otherwise oppose you in it, but will not oppose if not damaged,
and when they see their defect in title.
P. i. Signed. Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 57.
Also a note of Morgan's address at the Mermaid in Watlin[g] St.
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10 July.   HEDGES to MR. LOWNDS.
Whitehall.  A packet of gloves sent by the Danish Envoy to one of the
King of Denmark's Privy Councillors has been seized, as two
Danish merchants were taking them to the Custom House to
enter them according to law. The Danish Envoy desires the
Lord High Treasurer's order to hand over the gloves to his
Excellency or to the merchants.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 227.
11 July.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Prince's Council.
Encloses a memorial from Mr. Dymoke, that his Royal Highness
may give such directions thereon as he thinks fit.
Note that Mr. Dymoke's memorial sets forth that the coast of
Lincolnshire is much troubled by privateers. Asks for a convoy
to lie off the Humber mouth " or about Salfleet, Thedlethorpe or
thereabouts."
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 74.
2. To Same.
By order:-Sends a memorial from the Commissioners of Prizes,
which has been before the Lords of the Council. The Lords think
that if some severity be not used at first in cases of this nature
there can be no great advantages expected to her Majesty from
the prizes.
Note.-The Commissioners represent that there were muslins
and calicoes (bought in Holland for 1,300 livres) on board the
Citadelle of Bayonne, taken by Captain Maurice, commander
of the Newport, and also a pipe of fine flax, which the captors
shared amongst themselves.  Several letters, papers of consequence, and the master's pocket-book have been withheld and
not sent to the Admiralty.
P. 1. Ibid, p. 75.
3. To the Attorney General.
I send papers from Sir Hugh Everard. Give order for the
prosecution of Bryant alias Harris and certify what further is
fit to be done in the matter.
Note that Sir Hugh certified he had committed Bryant or
Harris to Chelmsford jail as a cheat and deserter. He tried
to avoid service by pretending he had had his arm shot off, and
forged two medical certificates and the signature of the Mayor of
Harwich.
P. -. Ibid, pp. 75, 76.
4. To the Prince's Council.
Directs that the enclosed clauses, which are usually inserted
in Commissions to Governors of the Plantations be not inserted
in Sir Bevill Granville's Commission as Governor of Barbados.
The Queen thinks that the powers contained in these clauses
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Lord High Admiral and that he should constitute Sir Bevill
Vice-Admiral and give them to him in writing.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 71. Enclosing:The clauses referred to above.
1. Authorises the Governor to establish one or more CourtsAdmiral in the said islands for hearing and determining all
marine and proper causes, and to exercise the office of ViceAdmiral on the seas and coasts "about" his government
according to a commission received from the Queen herself,
under the Seal of the Admiralty, the Lord High Admiral or
the " Commissioners for executing the office of High Admiral
of our foreign plantations."
"Saving only that it shall... be lawful for you upon
captain or commander's refusing or neglecting or upon his
negligent or tndue execution of any of the written orders he
shall receive from you for our service and the service of our
said islands, to suspend him.... from the exercise of his
said office... and to commit him into safe custody either on
board his own ship or elsewhere at your discretion in order
to his being brought to answer for the same by Commision "
under the Great Seal, from the Lord High Admiral or from
the Commissioners of the Admiralty, " in which case.
the captain or commander so by you suspended shall during
such his suspension... be succeeded in his said office
by such commission or warrant officer of our said ship
appointed by our said High Admiral" or by [&c. as before]
"as by the known practice and discipline of our Navy does
and ought to succeed   him   next... you standing also
accountable to us for the truth and importance of the crime
and misdemeanour for which you shall so proceed to the
suspending of such our captain or commander."
Pp. li. Ibid, pp. 72, 73.
5. To the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded, &c.
The Count de Mornay and M. Graton may be in the same
house and see each other. The Count has leave to write to
M. de Pontchartrain, but his letter must be sent to me for perusal
before it goes. The Count has not leave to go abroad.
P. -. Ibid, p. 73.
6. To Count de Mornay.
In substance the same as foregoing.
P. 1. In French. Ibid, 74.
11 July.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Prince's Council.
I remind you to propose instructions for Sir C. Shovells
sailing &c. and for providing bomb-vessels, as was proposed at a
meeting last night.
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2. To Sir Cloudesley Shovell.
To get ready what ships he has for sea at once, and report
how many will be ready after the next spring tide. Orders to go
to sea will be sent him at once.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 354.
3. To the Lord Chamberlain.
I again recommend Thomas Smith, a chamber keeper in my
office, for one of the vacant Queen's messengers' places.
P. g. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 266.
4. To Sir George Rooke.
I have been to visit my boroughs of Malmesbury and Calne
in Wilts and, on my return, received yours of the 5th, 7th and 8th.
I am sorry you were forced back by contrary winds before you
cleared the channel.  The transport ships have fared as badly
as you have. They are safe, and will join you as soon as weather
permits.  Next week I shall send you instructions to leave
some of your great ships behind, and will give Mr. Tucker orders
to send you all news while you are away, as often as he can.
P. |. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, p. 26.
11 July.   COLONEL COLLIER to [NOTTINGHAM].
Jersey.   Yours of the 22nd. I shall as soon as the wind serves release
the men and boat which brought the English merchants from
St. Malo.
I hear people are applying to the Queen for this Lieutenant
Governor's place. I hope the Queen will not turn me out, as I
have, I know, always given satisfaction; but, not knowing
what some may say, I send a memorandum shewing my service &c.
in the last 36 years. Pray read it and, if you think well, acquaint
her Majesty with its contents.
P. i. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 27.
Enclosing:The remonstrance of Colonel Thomas Collier, Lieutenant
Governor of Jersey, shewing that:His father was a younger brother of the Colliers of Jairlet [Yarlet]
in Staffordshire, who left his country in the Civil wars and
died in Breda, where the petitioner* was born in 1646, and
left, when five years old, to the care of his godfather,
Sir Alexander Hume.    Was brought to Court after the
Restoration, served in the '66 war on the Turkey Merchant
and was wounded in the leg. In '67 went to the Straights
in the Pembroke    (Captain  "Harbert," now  Earl of
" Thorington ").  Had two engagements with the Dutchmen,
in the last of which he was blown up. Returned with the
said "Harbord " in the Constant Warwick. In '69 he
went to Tangier on board the Mary Rose (Admiral
Kempthorn),  having  on   board  Lord  Howard, going
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ambassador to the King of Morocco. Had an engagement
with a Turk's man-of-war; all of which the books will show.
In 1672 Sir Alexander Hume* recommended him in Holland.
Carried arms in Erskyn's company of Colonel Zoble's regiment. Was at the sieges of Maestricht and the Grave. Became
ensign by commission dated 12 February, 1676[7]. Fought
at St. Thomas and St. Dennis, where his leg was shot to pieces.
Became lieutenant then [?] and captain in Feb., 1687[8]. In
August [1688] was changed to Sir H. Bellasis' regiment to
make room for the now Colonel Gibson.
Was aide-de-camp to General Douglas in the Boyne campaign,
and after the first siege of Athlone became major (commissioned 10 October, 1690, in Babington's regiment). At
the taking of Limerick was major of the brigade, the Prince of
Hesse [being?] colonel of the regiment. At Steenkirk, the Prince
being absent, he was made lieutenant-colonel (commission
August 1, 1692). Commanded the regiment from that time
till the late King gave it to the Marquis de Rada, notwithstanding petitioner's earnest solicitations. This disappointment did not prevent him from attending General Talmach
to Brest, who assured him from the King that he should have
the first regiment vacant. After the action at Cambret
[Cambrai], the burning of Dipe [Dieppe] and finishing the
campaign in Flanders he had leave to return to England.
He asked for New England, but the King refused it to him,
but gave him the lieutenant governorship of Jersey, with a
colonel's title (commission dated 12 March, 1694), 3001. a
year, and leave to keep his company. Petitioner never asked
for Jersey, and, since then, has often begged better employ.
Has always served well. Lost his son in service in Ireland.
Has seven more children (five very young), who depend on
him. Hopes he will not be superseded unless better provided
for. Nothing against him that he was born in Breda, since all
born of English parents during that rebellion were naturalised.
P. i (large). Signed. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 27A.
12 July.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty
Oficet    Sends copies of documents received from Vice-Admiral Benbow
in the West Indies.
P. -l. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 115. Enclosing -
A. Vice-Admiral Benbow to the Governor of Havana.
The King of England tells me that he has lent the great fleet of
England to the Emperor to transport his son the Archduke of
Austria with 40,000 men into Spain, where he is confident
he will be received as lawful King without any bloodshed
or opposition, being well assured that nineteen parts of
twenty in Spain " languish with impatience for the happy
opportunity, having already had a taste of the French
yoke and being sensible of the difference betwixt being a
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province to France (as in efect the Spanish dominions
now is) and living under the lenity of the House of Austria."
I have no doubt but that in a short time I shall hear that this
has been successfully efected; and as success in Europe
is certain I am ordered to oger my ships and men to help
such of the Governors of the Spanish Indies as are early
in their service for the Austrian King, and uant it towards
their support.and assistance in delivering their country from
slavery. I will say no more except that so long as there
is a ship or man in my master's Indies they will be used
to help so just a cause. I know the French at Madrid have
been trying to instil the poison of dissension and procure us
unfriendly offices from  Spanish Governors, but hope that
I shall find they have failed and that we shall be good friends.
Pp. 1-. Dated, on board the Bredah at Jamaica, 21 May, 1702.
S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 115A.
B. Vice-Admiral Benbow to Josiah Burchett.
Sends foregoing and acknowledges letters up to 14 Feb., received
on 12 May.     Proceeds:-I sailed on the 8th from  here
with a desire to seek for M. Chateau-Renault, but returned,
after meeting Captain Whetstone, to deliver to the Governor
some orders I had received from the [late] King and the Lords
Justices, leaving the Falmouth, Ruby and' Experiment,
to cruise for news of Petit Guava, but as carefully as if at
war. I hope to sail in two or three days and have a design
for Logan [Leogane], and shall do my best to put their lordships'
orders in execution.  The ships with me are the Bredah,
Defiance, Canterbury, Dunkirk, Dreadnought, Windsor,
Gloucester, Kingston, Greenwich, Colchester, Bristol,
Scarborough, Seahorse, Strombilo fireship [?] and Carcas
bomb. I hope to join the other three to them.
We lose a great many men daily by the distemper of the country.
Our provisions expend apace; and, without them, we can
do nothing. I will careen no more ships till I see how the
land lies.
On 27 March seventeen tall ships past by Little Camana going
for the west end of Cuba.  This may be part of ChateauRenault's squadron; and, if so, they are probably going to
Havana to ofer their convoy to the flota. Had we strength
to follow them we should leave this island to the mercy of the
other part of his squadron, which I judge to be at Logan
[Leogane]. If so I hope to see them soon, ard if God gives
us success I hope the Spaniards in these parts will soon be
brought over to the House of Austria and relinquish that
of Bourbon, "but before this be done there must be set up
one of the Austrian family in Old Spain, for they will be
very cautious to declare without a certainty."
Pp. 1-. Dated, Jamaica, 14 May. Ibid, 115B.
c. Same to Same.
The above is a duplicate of my last; since uhich I hear that
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twenty-six French men-of-war, who daily waited for the
flota from La Vera Cruz, expecting to convoy them to Europe.
I have not strength to prevent them, neither have we provisions to proceed with our undertaking.  The Gloucester
and Seahorse sailed on 25 May for Carthagena with a letter
to the Governor, a copy of which is enclosed.  One of the
same tenor I sent to the Havanna, and likewise intend another
to the Viceroy of Mexico.,
"The Government of this island now is entirely in the hands
of the planters., who mind nothing but getting estates, and
when so to go off, having no regard to the King's interest
or subjects, for at this time we can hardly get fresh provisions
to support our sick, the ships and soldiers being a great
burden to them, as they say, and wish they had never come
into these parts. The inhabitants are grown very rich and
value themselves for being judges and parties in making
and executing their own laws; they do whatever the desire
of gain leads them to without any regard to the laws of our
country.  These violent proceedings cannot continue long.
If they do, this island must be ruined, and not be remedied
unless they be conformable to our English laws and have a
Governor who is neither planter nor merchant but such as
will propagate the King's interest and security of his subjects."
If the Spaniards will put themselves under the French convoy,
they may, I think, sail from Havana at the end of June. I
thought it my duty to despatch the Trial long boat with this
news, that such measures as are thought most proper may be
timely taken.
The Scarborough is now careening and will go home soon. She
has been here twelve months. The Bristol is in harbour
repairing the knee of her head, which is so defective that
I shall have to send her home. I have not had my health
since I came here, and should like to come home if I can do
so without prejudice to the service.
Our squadron will cruize off the east end of this island for
the health of our men.
Pp. 2. Dated, Jamaica, 1 June, 1702.    S.P. Dom., Naval 6,
115c.
12 July.   INSTRUCTIONS to SIR GEORGE ROOKE.
Windsor.   If you and the Duke of Ormond have any success against
Cadiz or Gibraltar and a Council of War consisting of land and
sea general officers think it right to leave ships there for defence
of what has been conquered, you may leave there such of our
ships as you think proper for the defence of the place. If the
season of the year is so far advanced that you do not think it
right for the great ships to return into England, you may leave
such of them there as you think fit, giving notice to one of the
Secretaries of State, care being already taken to send out naval
stores and what is needed to fit those ships for service next spring.
Pp. 1. Overwritten Anne R. and Signed, A.R. S.P. Dom.,
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General    DOCUMENTS relating to the COURT-MARTIAL on SIR JOIN
date,        MUNDEN, held at Spithead.
13 July.   Minutes of the Court-martial held on board the Queen, as above.
Present: Sir Cloudesly Shovell, Admiral of the White,
President; Captains Mings, J. Leake, Coale, Kerr, Good, Stewart,
Maine, Greenhill, J. Crowe, Clarke, L. Crowe, Littleton, Swanton,
Cooper, Turvill, Bridges, Maynard and Hollyman.
All were duly sworn pursuant to a late Act of Parliament &c.
Pursuant to an order from the Lord High Admiral a strict
inquiry was made into the conduct of Sir John Munden, RearAdmiral of the Red, during the late expedition near the Groyne
on the coast of Galicia in May last. The question was whether he
(being sent wth a squadron of her Majesty's ships to intercept
a French squadron and transports bound for the Groyne, or to
burn or destroy them there in case he should find them and it
were practicable) was guilty of ill conduct and mismanagement in
several particulars especially in the following particulars:1. That after he had got intelligence of the enemy's fleet
being daily expected he, on May 27, stood off 10 leagues or more
from the land, by which means the enemy's ships passed by his
squadron and got into the Groyne.
The Court strictly examined the journals of the commanders
and other officers of that squadron. It appeared by the general
computation that the ships were about three leagues off the shore
of Cape Prior at nine at night when they stood off, and about
seven leagues off in the morning, when they tacked and stood
in. As it was heavy weather and there was no anchoring on
that coast, and as Cape Ortugall (the station they were making
for) was a proper place for intercepting the enemy, and as he
had ordered his scouts to be in a proper position for giving him
notice of the enemy, the Court is of opinion that Sir John Munden
was not guilty of mismanagement or neglect of duty on this
particular head.
2. The second charge against him is that he did not follow the
ships that he saw going into the Groyne and try to destroy them.
The Court duly weighed the motives which induced the ViceAdmiral and the captains at their consultation to desist from
attempting the said ships in the harbour, and consider that, in
view of the difficulty of getting in and the strength of the place,
it was not advisable or practicable to attack them after they
had got into the Groyne.
3. The third charge against him is that when, on 16 May, the
Salisbury was in action with a French man-of-war of about
70 guns, he called her off instead of sending some other ship
to her assistance, which would probably have resulted in taking
the Frenchman.
Sir John Munden sets forth that the ship which the Salisbury was
chasing stood right with them, and that accordingly he had hopes
of her falling in with them by the course she steered, which
induced him to make the signal to desist from the chase, but
that when he perceived the Salisbury to be engaged he stood


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to her assistance with the whole squadron, and so continued
to do till they had made the land. Not being able to come up
with her, he followed his instructions by keeping himself as much
undiscovered as he could, in order to gain intelligence of the
enemy. The Court having heard this explanation, which was
confirmed by the other officers, considered it satisfactory.
4. The fourth charge against him is for setting ashore Spanish
prisoners who might have been exchanged for Englishmen now
in captivity at the Groyne.
It appeared to the Court that all the Spanish people taken
were women and indigent people, and none of them were military
persons. They therefore think the Vice-Admiral was not to
blame on this head.
The Court therefore think that Sir John Munden has cleared
himself of all charges brought against him, and has complied with
his instructions and behaved with great zeal and diligence in
the service; and acquits him of all charges.
Pp. 3-. Copy, with note of signature by all the officers present.
Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 116. Followed by* --
A. Note on the position of Munden's fleet on 28 May, 1702.
Gives the position of the Salisbury and Dolphin and their movements after making out a squadron of nine ships off Cape Prior.
P. 1. Signed (copy) by Isaac Townsend, and dated, 30 June, 1702.
Ibid, 116A.
B. Depositions of Henry Ward and John Price, on board the
Lancaster at Spithead, 2 July, 1702.
Ward is first lieutenant of her Majesty's ship Lancaster, and
says on oath:He sailed for the coast of Galicia in the Lancaster under
Sir John Munden. They weighed from St. Helen's on 10 May
last. Made the coast of Galicia on the 15th and supposed it to
be Cape Ortugall. From thence till the 27th they stood one
way or another. The Salisbury brought in a barque and shallop
on the morning of the 27th with men and women. On the
evening of the 27th they stood in till about 9 o'clock in the
morning and then tacked and stood off till 4 in the morning and
then stood in again for the land. Moderate weather. Details as
to wind.
At 8 o'clock, having been off duty, deponent came on deck
again and, a little after 8 o'clock, they saw some ships; but, as
he was between decks making a clear ship for battle, deponent
can give no good account of their number. The signal was made
for a line of battle and they set their topgallant sails and all
the sail they could, and signal was made for the Salisbury and
Dolphin to bear down, they being then to windward of the
squadron. Interrogated, he believes the ships they saw were
about four or five leagues from them when they first saw them,
* The following documents were collected from different places in S.P. Dom.,
Naval 6, and, as they deal with the same matter, placed together by me for
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and were to leeward of them. Does not think they were ever
less than three leagues from those ships. They chased the
Frenchmen till after 11 o'clock, but could not overtake them
and so gave up the chase and lay by. They saw the Castle salute
French.
A signal was then made to board the flag[ship] for a consultation of captains. At 9 p.m. that night they made sail for
the northward. The same evening the Salisbury was sent in
for the shore with the prisoners which had been taken in the
boat two days before.
Pp. 1-. Signed (copy) and with copy of note that it was sworn
before me, V. Bathurst, Judge Advocate.
Deposition of John Price.
He is master of the Lancaster, and says on oath:Corroborates generally the foregoing.  He cannot say for
certain with what kind of ship the Salisbury was engaged, but
judged her a bigger ship than the Salisbury, which was engaged
about noon and returned to the squadron in the evening with
her topmast damaged. Corroborates foregoing as to the movements of the fleet on the night of 27 May. Agrees with foregoing
as to the pursuit of the French ships with all sail set, but says his
own ship was never nearer than three leagues to the French.
Interrogated, he says he believes they were about nine leagues
from the land when they first saw the French ships. They had
made a clear ship on the Lancaster the day before they saw the
French ships, and were ready to engage, but, after chasing till
11 a.m. on the morning of the 28th they saw the said ships go
into the Groyne, and so gave up the chase. Corroborates foregoing as to the Council of War and standing out to sea.
Pp. 11. Signed (copy) by Price and with note (copy) as foregoing. In all pp. 3-. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 116B.
c. Depositions of James Knowles and Gilbert Evans.
Taken on board her Majesty's ship Dolphin at Spithead on
3 July, 1702.
Knowles is lieutenant of her Majesty's ship Dolphin, and says
on oath:Corroborates the first portion of the two foregoing. Deponent
in the grey of the morning of 27 May went in on the Dolphin,
together with the Salisbury, towards the Groyne to get intelligence.
He went in the Dolphin's boat, to intercept anything coming out.
Went in shore and rowed within a pistol shot of the mud
fort on the larboard side going into the Groyne. He saw no guns
at all on it. They could not discern the strength of the castle
of Corunna, but they saw into the harbour and could see three
men-of-war in it. The flag had intelligence of the Duke of
Albequerque's being there with about 2,000 "Landellens"
and heard that they expected some French men-of-war. They
were then ordered, with the Salisbury, to keep to windward
[on] the 28[th], so they did not see the enemy's ships. On the
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About 6 o'clock Captain Cotton was sent in with the prisoners
they had taken and they lay by till he returned, and that night
they made sail from the coast and stood westward.
Pp. 11. Signed (copy) and with note (copy) as foregoing.
Deposition of Gilbert Evans taken &c. as foregoing.
Evans is master of the Dolphin and says on oath:Confirms generally the foregoing deposition.  When going
in to scout, the Dolphin's boat took and brought out with her a
Spanish boat with several prisoners, whom the commander,
Captain Soanes, carried on board the flag. Says that the
morning of May 28 was hazy, which prevented their own ship
from seeing the French ships. About 8 a.m. he saw the flag[ship]
have all the sail she could make, and there was a signal made
for line of battle. Other details.
Pp. 1-. Signed (copy) and with copy of note that it was sworn
in Court, signed by the Judge Advocate. In all pp. 3. Endd,
S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 116c.
D. Depositions of Nicholas Stiles and others, taken on board
her Majesty's ship Queen on 13 July, 1702.
Nicholas Stiles on oath says:Is master of the John and Susan smack. Saw the signal out
off [i.e. to call off] the Salisbury from the chase of a French manof-war she was engaged with. Cannot add to foregoing. Knows
that Nicholas Cadbury kept a journal, which was carried ashore
at Falmouth.
P. -. Copy, with copy of note as in Gilbert Evans' deposition
above.
Nicholas Cadbury on oath says:Is midshipman of the Lancaster.  Saw the signal made for
the Salisbury to give over chase. Believes they were about
ten leagues from the land the morning they saw the French
ships. They were in distress in the smack when the squadron
left them and took no care of them.
P. ~. Copy, with note (copy) as foregoing.
Captain Cotton of the Salisbury on oath says:He had the smack, alleged to be in distress, in tow till she
threw off her tow, when he stood by her all night. The rest
of the squadron lay by most of the night, mainly on her account.
P..Copy, with copy of note; "Declared in Court." Signed
(copy) by the Judge Advocate.
John Wye on oath says:Is boatswain's mate of the Lancaster. Belonged to the packetboats and has often been into the Groyne. Does not believe it
to be of so great strength as Gilbert Dobson affirms. Deponent
offered Sir John Munden to carry the ships into 16 or 18 fathoms
of water out of gunshot. Interrogated, he saw the fortifications
were increased the last time he was there. Cannot give any
account of the present condition of the place.
P. J. Copy, with copy note as in Cadbury's deposition above.
To the last deposition Sir John Munden said that he did not
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at Corunna more recently than Wye. Captain Cotton said he
was within Cape Prior a great way, but was glad to get out as
soon as he could, having 39 fathoms of water and foul ground.
The ships were continually in danger of fouling.
P. ~. Copy, with note (copy) of declaration as in Cotton's deposition above. The whole pp. 2k. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 116D.
E. Examination as to Sir John Munden's distance from the
shore on 27 and 28 May.
The Court considered carefully how far off Sir John's squadron
was from the shore when it stood off on May 27 in the evening,
and how far off when it stood on on the morning of the 28th.
The evidence of various witnesses, which conflicted, was
considered.
Gives the names of various persons examined and of the
distance to which they spoke. These vary from 4 leagues to
13 or 14 leagues [details].
The officers of the Russell declared in Court that they had
orders to tack in as soon as it was well day, and did so at 3 a.m.
Pp. 11. Copy, dated 13 July, on board the Queen, with copy
of note of declaration in Court, signed by Bathurst. Endd.
Ibid, 116E.
F. Resolution of a Council of War held on board the Russell,
four leagues N.W. from Cape Prior, 28 May, 1702.
Present:-Sir John Munden, Kt., Rear-Admiral of the Red.
Captains:-Sincock, Price, Townsend, Fairfax, Elwes, Soanes,
Walker, Wakelin, Barker, Keck, Cotton and Balchen.
We heard from   a French merchantman from  Rochelle that
there were twelve men-of-war at Rochelle ready to sail for the
Groyne with the first wind, whereof one was of seventy guns and
one of fifty, and that the Faulcon, formerly an English man-of-war,
was coming to the Groyne before them. The Spaniards taken
from the shore said that the Duke of Albequerque was there
with 2,000 soldiers, and that there were already three French
men-of-war there, each with fifty guns, and that twelve more were
expected from Rochelle. It was therefore thought well to cruize
to windward off Cape Ortegall to intercept the ships if they
-should come. Relates the discovery of the French ships at
dawn on the 28th, the ineffectual pursuit and the escape of the
French into the Groyne.
Proceeds:-As we could not enter the Groyne and can do no
service here, it was resolved to proceed to our station in the
Soundings in order to protect the trade of the Queen's subjects.
Pp. 2k. Dated on board the Russell, four leagues N.W. from
Cape Prior, May 28, 1702, with note that it was signed by all
the captains. Endd. Ibid, 116F.
G. Extract of a letter from Plymouth, dated 9 June, 1702.
Relates briefly the general object of Sir John Munden's voyage
to the Groyne, the failure to intercept the French ships and the
return to the Soundings.
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Copy of a letter from Falmouth, dated 13 June, 1702.
The sailors on the Susan and John tender bring in an account of
the fleet under Admiral Munden in circumstances which seem so
strange that I thought it well to obtain and transmit to you a
copy of the journal kept on board the tender in material particulars.
The conduct of the Admiral raises a charge of mismanagement
on the following heads:-That the great "ships " engaged by the
Salisbury might have been taken had one or more ships of force
been ordered as well as the Salisbury for the chase; that if the
fleet had kept closer in, or turned in earlier, the French fleet and
store-ships must have been taken or destroyed, and that Captain
Green and other English prisoners now at Corunna might be
exchanged for the Spanish men and women taken.
P. 2. Noted, "A true copy."    S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 116G.
Enclosing:GG. Journal kept on board the John and Susan tender.
At 11 p.m. the John and Susan tender, Nicholas Stiles master,
came in from tending the Russell, under the command of
Sir John Munden. On the 15th the Humber and Salisbury
were ordered to chase, but were immediately recalled. On
the 18th the Salisbury chased and came up with a Frenchman
supposed to be a ship of about 70 guns [details], but after a
short engagement was ordered of, by which means the
Frenchman escaped. The Salisbury had three sailors
wounded and the main topmast shot. Relates the capture
on May 26 of a small French ship from Rochelle for Oporto,
the news obtained from her of the impending arrival of the
French squadron, and the subsequent standing of to windward
of Cape Prior in a N.E. or E.N.E. wind, by which the
French ships got through into the Groyne.
Pp. 1a. Noted, a true copy. In all (two letters and enclosure),
pp. 3. Endd. Ibid, 116G and GG.
H. Deposition of Charles Drew, taken on the 30th June on
the Dolphin at Spithead.
Deponent is quartermaster of the Dolphin and     says on
oath:About eight years since he belonged to the packet-boat that plied
between Falmouth and the Groyne called the Spanish Alliance.
There were then no guns planted on what they call the mud fort.
Deponent was within pistol shot of the place when sent in for
intelligence by order of Sir John Munden, and saw there were
now no guns on the said place. When he was there they reckoned
that there were about 70 guns on the starboard side of the place
and about 14 or 16 on the larboard; but to the best of his belief
not many of the guns on the starboard end could be brought to
bear on any ships that should come in for the Groyne. He can
give no account of what alterations are since made there nor of
the present condition of the place. Keeps no journal and cannot
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except that no attempt was made on the French ships after they
had got in there.
Pp. 14. Signed (copy), Charles Duell [sic], with note as at
end of 116B above. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 116H.
J. Declaration of Captain Isaac Townsend, on board her
Majesty's ship Russell, in Portsmouth Harbour, made on
June 30, 1702.
He is commander of the Russell. Relates the starting of the
expedition to the Groyne. The reason why the Humber and Salisbury
were called off whilst chasing a Frenchman on May 14 was that
the chase was leading them out of the way. On the 15th, about
9.30 a.m., they deemed themselves near the coast of Galicia
and sent on the Salisbury to make the land. She encountered
and pursued and fought a French ship, in spite of the usual
signal to retire, a gun twice fired by the flagship. The Salisbury
in the end bore off because her main topmast was shot about
one-third through.
Relates further the despatch of the Dolphin and Salisbury inshore to get intelligence, the news brought by them on May 22
through a merchant from Martenico, the efforts of the commander
to prevent the presence of his fleet from being discovered. The
general effect of the declaration is that the squadron kept far
from the shore in order to avoid discovery and that a good lookout was kept for the Frenchmen.
Pp. 4j. Copy, with copies of signature and of certificate of
Judge Advocate Bathurst that it was declared in Court on
July 13, 1702. Ibid, 116J.
This concludes the documents relating to this case.*
About     NOTES on WIDOWS RECOMMENDED for the SAVOY HOSPITAL.
13 July.   1. List of widows.
Mrs. Johnston, a minister's widow.
Mrs. Strathan [Strahan?], widow of an Episcopal clergyman of
Scotland, who was driven from thence with fifteen children when
Presbytery was established. Some are since dead and some are
out at service.
Lady Lunsford, widow of Sir Herbert Lunsford.
Mrs. Sheldon, widow of Ensign Sheldon.
Mrs. Robinson, widow of a sergeant.
P. i. (small). S.P. Dom., Naval, 117, 36, 1.
2. The case of Frances Izard, widow.
She shews that her father was a minister in King Charles Is
time and, being for the King and Church, was utterly undone
and lost all his personal estate by plunder. His spiritual and
temporal estate was also sequestrated during all the time of
these troubles.  Her father died before King Charles II was
restored, and so she had nothing from the Crown. She married
* But see above at 5 May, 1702 (p. 49), for a document which was probably
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a citizen and draper of London, who was burnt out by the Fire,
and after lived in the Strand more than 30 years in a house in
the Savoy parish. There she followed her trade after her husband's
death till, "by great losses and the change of the coin," she
was utterly disabled from keeping it any longer. She is now
unable to see (owing to age) and craves help.
P. i (small). S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 36, 2.
3. Two widows recommended to the Queen to be placed in
the Savoy.
Mary, widow of Richard Hollingworth, D.D.
Katherine, widow of Robert Blake, clerk.
P. i (small). Ibid, 36, 3.
4. Eleanor, widow of Mr. Worthington, a clergyman, late vicar
of Desford in Leicestershire.
P. I (small). Endd. "Savoy." Ibid, 36, 4.
5. [Viscount] Castleton and Thomas Sanderson to -
Certify that Henry Clarke faithfully served King William
during the late wars in Flanders and engaged in most actions.
He was a quartermaster, and his commission was renewed by
your Majesty. He died lately and left a wife and four children.
P. 3 (small). Dated, 13 July, 1702.*  Endd. "Mary Clarke,"
&c. Ibid, 36, 5.
This concludes the documents in this case.
14 July.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Cockpit or  1. To the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded.
Whitehall.
Yours of the 13th. The Lords of the Committee allow the
Count de Mornay and M. Graton to go abroad occasionally to
take the air, but with a guard with them, who must be careful
not to suffer any person to have any conversation with them.
You may, in obedience with his Royal Highness' directions,
write to M. de Maran, Lieutenant-General of Marine at Dunkirk.
If you can hire Fort Ceesar Castle for 501. a year or less, it
will be allowed. Make as good a bargain as you can.
P. W. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 77.
2. To Same.
I send a letter which has been laid before the Lords of the
Committee concerning the desire of the French prisoners at
Dover to be allowed to work on the harbour there.
P. ~, with note that enclosure came from Mr. Breton. Ibid.
3. To Major-General Trelawney.
Yours of the 5th only came to hand yesterday. While you
have only so small a garrison, my Lords do not think your men
need do duty on the island.
P. i. Ibid, p. 78.
* This date is taken for all the documents in this entry which, otherwise, are
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4. To Dr. Bramston.
Sends a letter from Mr. Larkin at Antigua. Desires a report
on Churchill's case.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 78. Enclosing:George Larkin to the Earl of Manchester.
From Annapolis in Maryland in December last I gave
Sir Chas. Hedges an account that I had waited some few days
at Philadelphia in hopes of meeting Churchill and How,
two persons who had been convicted of piracy at the Old
Baily with Kidd, and who gave out that they had given the
Keeper of Newgate 300 guineas for leave to come to that part
of the world to take up some money which they had hidden
before they were apprehended. I was informed that Churchill
had taken up 8001. and How 1,5001. I met Churchill by
accident at Barbados, had him arrested and seized about 1001.
worth of his efects, which are now in the custody of the
Judge of the Admiralty of that place.  To prevent any
charge that may happen to the Crown or island by his being
detained in that place pending the Queen's pleasure, I have
acquainted the Council of Barbados that the best place to
confine him is aboard the man-of-war attending on that
Government, where he may do service for his provisions.
I have settled the forms of proceeding for trial of pirates with
the Commissioners here agreeably to that Act of Parliament.
P. 1. Dated, Antigua, 11 May, 1702. Ibid, pp. 79-80.
14 July.   HEDGES to the ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Whitehal.  The Lords of the Committee of Council desire your attendance
between 10 and 11 a.m. to-morrow at my Lord Nottingham's
office. Meantime they desire you to consider the enclosed extract
of a memorial touching the remittance of money into Italy
for the use of the French by English merchants, and to let them
have your opinion what may legally be done for prevention
thereof.
P. i. Enclosure not entered. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 225.
14 July.   SIR GEORGE ROOKE to NOTTINGHAM.
overeign,  I have yours of the 10th. Delivered packet to the Duke.
off Dartmouth.Sailing westward on a N.E. wind, and hope it will take us out of the
Channel. Hope ships from Portland Road will join us before we
get out of it.
P. i. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 67, 27.
14 July.   COMMISSIONER ATKINSON to the COMMITTEE of COUNCIL.
Trffnport  The beds arrived at Portsmouth on the 3rd.    The Grand
Fleet sailed on the 1st, and two ships, which Mr. Roope took up
by order of the Duke of Ormond, on the 2nd. Other details.
Mr. Roope expects a convoy will soon be sent to bring a Dutch
ship with soldiers on from Portsmouth to Torbay; and he will
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To-morrow the horses will have been three weeks aboard ship
and will have consumed so much of their provisions. If your
lordships think that, in view of possible further delay, they
should be recruited with provisions, Mr. Roope, who is at
Portsmouth, can see to it.
Pp. 11. Signed. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 37.
14 July.  CAPTAIN URRY to [JOSIAH BURCHETT?].
BaOff T th  On 1 July I was in command of her Majesty's ship Sheerness,
four leagues S.W. from Fair Isle, between Orkney and Shetland,
and had a Scotch ship in tow. I spied four sail to windward,
and one bore down on me, but " stood upon a wind again " when
she found what I was. I dropped my tow and gave chase. I came
up with him and fought him from four till eight, and shot away
his fore-topmast. By eight o'clock my masts, yards and rigging
were very much damaged, and I could not trim them and,
thick weather coming up, I had to bring to to secure them and put
on a new suit of sails, those I had on being all shot away. As
soon as I could I plied to windward "under my courses (being
what sail I could carry) " and tried to find "him" all that night
and next day, but could not find him under Buckeness or elsewhere, and think " she "* is sunk, as she was much damaged in the
bows. She was either a French man-of-war or a privateer from
St. Malo's. I have none killed, twelve wounded, and was myself
shot in the neck, " but not mortal."
Pp. 2. An extract. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 117.


15 July.
Admiralty
Office.


JOSIAH BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
In consequence of a discourse I recently had with your
lordship as to what number of men would be required to man
the ships with Chateau Renault,t those at Toulon and Dunkirk
and the 45 said to be at Brest and elsewhere, I send you a computation which I have made on the matter.
P. i. Signed. Endd. Ibid, 118. Enclosing —
Computation as described above.


1. Thirty-four ships with Chateau Renault.
10 of 70 guns with 480 men each..
12 of 60 guns with 400 men each..
8 of 50 to 40 guns with 280 men each
4 of 30 guns with 200 men each..
2. Eleven great ships at Toulon.
8 of 100 or 90 guns with 800 men each..
3 of 80 guns with 560 men each..
3. At Dunkirk.
4 of 50 guns with 280 men each..
4 of 40 guns with 240 men each..
Total, 22,800, or, allowing 4,000 on other ships
services, 26,800... 4,800.. 4,800.. 2,240
800. 6,400.. 1,680.. 1,120
960
for particular


* The writer refers to the ship as " he " and " she " alternately.
t Francois-Louis de Rousselet, Comte de Chateau-Regnaud. The English spell
his name in many different ways; the educated writers usually giving it
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4. At Brest, Port Louis &c. there are forty-five ships, five of 90
guns, seven of 80, fourteen of 70, twelve of 60 and seven of 50.
These, at the same rates, will require 21,400 men to man
them, so that the total of all is 48,200.
But in regard they put on board their ships at least one-third
soldiers, which are included in their complements, they
require no more seamen than 34,800; and to man the fleet
at Brest &c. 14,667.
They may probably get this number together soon, considering
the arbitrary methods they use, and the supply they may have
from their privateers.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 118A.
15 July.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Admiralty   Sends an enclosure to be laid before Lord Secretary Nottingham.
P. (.Hol.?) Add. Endd. Ibid, 119. Enclosing:A. Extract from a letter from Captain Jos[hu]a Moore, commander
of the Mary galley, dated Plymouth Sound, 12 July, 1702.
I arrived here last night from the Canaries with four merchants,
Jos. Maxey, Pinck [or Pinch] Mead, Jirvis Read and
Stephen Mith. These were all we could get hold of, there
being orders from Spain about ten days before my arrival
there for the seizing of all the efects of the English and Dutch.
What news there was is in the enclosed letter to me from the
Consul. I called in at Madeira, but had no advice of any
French merchantmen or men-of-war.
P. s. Followed by --
A copy of a letter from Ambrose Roope, Consul at Thennereif
[Teneriffe], to Captain Moore, dated 9 June, 1702.
About the 22nd or 23rd I gave news at home of the arrival at
Santa Cruz here of two ships from the Havanna. They
brought news of M. Shaternoes [Chateau-Regnaud] being
there with eighteen men-of-war, and that he had sent orders
to the Vera Cruz to have the Spanish fleet join him at Havanna.
From what I can hear they will not be there till the middle
or end of this month.
On the 25th last there arrived at Santa Cruz a small tartan
with a despatch from the Court of Spain to seize on all effects
belonging to the English and Dutch. This was done,
although as yet no war declared. Ships from Caracas and
Havana are expected here.
P. 2. In all pp. 11. Ibid, 119A.
15 July.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1 To Colonel Thomas Collier, Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey.
Queen's command:-All ships which arrived at Jersey before
May 4 to be discharged, and all which arrived later to be detained.
Five lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 80.




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2. To Mr. Clerke, Judge Advocate.
Sends the Attorney General's report and Sir Hugh Everard's
account of Bryan alias Harris. Directs a prosecution by courtmartial against Harris for deserting her Majesty's service.
Six lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 80. Enclosing:Opinion of the Attorney General.
After consideration I advise that the best course to take is to
prosecute Harris in a court-martial appointed by the Queen
or the General under the recent Act of Parliament for punishing
officers or soldiers who shall mutiny or desert in England or
Ireland. The Act, in so far as it provides for the prosecution
of deserters, has been extended to her Majesty's dominions
elsewhere by a clause in folio 32.  Its body is not restrained
to deserters in England or Ireland, as the title is. The
prosecution will be in the care of such persons as have the
care of prosecutions before a court-martial, and the deserter
may be removed from Essex by habeas corpus to take his
trial.
P. i. Signed, Edward Northey. Ibid, p. 81.
3. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
Directs the release of 17 foreigners from Newgate and that they
be kept and treated in future as prisoners of war. They have
sent a memorial which is enclosed. P. ~.
Also note that the petitioners were " 17 poor outlandish men"
who were tried on 13 June by Dr. Bramston and acquitted,
but were remanded to Newgate and loaded with irons. They
were ignorant of English customs, and pray for mercy.
In all p. f. Ibid, pp. 81-2.
17 July.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall or
ockpit. o   1. To the Lord Mayor of London.
Having received many complaints of the ill-usage of her
subjects in Spain, the Queen has decided to retaliate by confining
the Spanish merchants here until she can have justice for
her subjects in Spanish territory, according to the treaties with
Spain. When you get this, inform the bearers of the names and
abodes of the principal Spanish merchants in and about London,
and, when the bearers have done their duty, provide sentinels
(from the militia) to stand at their doors to prevent their going
abroad and conveying away any part of their estates.
P. J. Ibid, pp. 82-3.
2. To the Recorder [of London].
Having seen your paper regarding the people condemned
at the last Sessions, the Queen directs that you and the Judges
who sat at the trial of Charles Cooper and Henry Baker send
in a report on them, stating the facts and advising what the Queen
may fitly do therein.  She will then decide the question of
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The Queen is not ready to credit them where they differ from
the proceedings of the Court, but thus the whole matter will
be best laid before you. As to Sarah Browne, Elizabeth Harris,
Deborah Smith, Martha Elton and Elizabeth Edwards, the
Queen would have you insert them in the next general pardon
on condition of transportation, "and that they transport themselves at their own charges; otherwise such of them as will not
agree to it, or shall not perform it after they have pleaded their
pardon, are then to be executed." The others are to be pardoned.
The Queen is pleased to pardon Elizabeth Talbot, Anne Weaver
and Elizabeth Hient. They are to be inserted in the next general
pardon, and are meantime to be reprieved. Elizabeth Hind,
the witness against Elizabeth Talbot, must be prosecuted for
perjury.
Pp. 1. Also note of enclosed affidavits and petition of Henry
Baker's father. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 83, 84.
3. To the Prince's Council.
Transmits Mrs. Rebecca Hayter's petition. Unless there is
some objection, the Queen desires it to be granted in recognition
of her deceased husband's faithful services.
P. i. Ibid, p. 84.
4. To Same.
Sir John Munden being acquitted at a Council of War "of
the crime charged upon him" the Queen would have his
suspension taken off.
Five lines, Ibid, p. 85.
5. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
Queen's command:-To agree for Fort Caesar Castle, on the best
terms obtainable, for keeping prisoners.
The Queen hears that Count Mornay and M. Graton are kept
in a sort of Bridewell.  They must be removed to some more
proper place where they may be as safely kept.
P. j. Ibid, p. 86.
17 July.  COMMISSIONER ATKINSON to the COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL.
Transport  In pursuance of orders, I have asked Mr. Roope to go on
to Torbay and supply the horses on board ship there with hay
and oats during their stay in port.
I desire orders as to the beds which may not have been put
on the fleet, and are left behind at Portsmouth.
P. i. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 38.
18 July.  SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVELL to NOTTINGHAM.
at Qeed.    Yours of the 15th, with extracts from Benbow and from Roope
at Teneriffe, received. I hardly think Chateaurenaud can have
thirty sail of the line; but think he must be superior to ViceAdmiral Benbow, or that officer would not have allowed him to
come quietly out of the Indies. If the [French] ships that are




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to bring forces to the Indies once join Chateaurenaud, he will
have a very powerful squadron.
I send enclosed a list of all the ships that are under no present
orders. The last three cannot, I fear, be manned unless some
officers of the ships in port be turned over or more men arrive
from other parts.
Early in the year we heard that [only] a detachment was to
proceed with the soldiers, and that the Grand Fleet of fifty
sail of the line was to remain in the Channel. We also expected
near twenty of the Dutch. I wish I could gather thirty sail
of the line together. I should then be glad to put to sea and
stake my reputation "in my own country, where 'tis in more
danger than in an enemy's."
I hope you will excuse my liberty if I assure you that "the
misfortune and vice of our country is to believe ourselves better
than other men "-which is the reason why we generally send
too small a force to execute our designs; " but experience has
taught me that, where men are equally inured and disciplined in
war, 'tis, without a miracle, number that gains the victory;
for both in fleets, squadrons and single ships of near equal force,
by the time one is beaten and ready to retreat the other is also
beaten and glad the enemy has left him. To fight, beat and
chase an enemy of the same strength I have sometimes seen;
but have rarely seen at sea any victory worth boasting when
the strength has been near equal."
I am ready to do my utmost and to execute any order with
hearty good will.
Pp.   2.  Signed.  Endd.   S.P.  Dom.,   Naval   67,  28.
Enclosing:The list referred to above.
Ten ships. Names and number of guns given; with notes as to
their condition and employment and how many men each wants.
P. 1. Ibid, 28A.
19 July.   WALTER DEVEREUX to NOTTINGHAM.
Though I know your "Lordship is very busy with State affairs,
I venture to ask an answer to my communication. It is high
time that care were taken to " prevent the private correspondence
&c.* which," I assure your Lordship is never to be prevented
so effectually as in the way I suggest. I defy all the Custom
House officers in the Kingdom to lay a better way. I do not say
this on my own authority, but have behind me scores of honest
men, gentlemen, clergy, seafaring men, officers and others, who
reside on the coast. I can have 500 more to back the same, if
desired, which is more than ever was known to any method
proposed or practised on the coast.  I will stand to and prove
every paragraph in my printed statement, which is in your
Lordship's hands.
* Something is deliberately left out here, as, e.g. "from proceeding." See Nottingham to Prince's Council, at 5 Aug., 1702, infra,




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The proposal I made for raising seafaring men in Kent and
Sussex cannot be carried out by the Admiralty, and I was therefore ordered by Mr. Hill to lay it before your Lordship or the
Council, and willingly do this. First: The men I propose to
bring in are all able and stout young men that cannot be brought
into the service by pressing or any other means. Secondly, the
Queen will save 20s. per man bounty money, besides conduct
money. Thirdly, I will raise recruits yearly by the same method
during the war if I am continued in my present employment,
or have any other general employment on the coast. On a letter
written by eighteen members of Parliament I was employed,
by them above 18 months past and made Surveyor-General of
Kent, Sussex and Hampshire for imported excisable liquors. My
predecessors, as I am informed, had 3001. per annum salary.
Although I have given the Commissioners all satisfaction; yet,
by the prejudice of Sir Basill Dixwell and of Henry Baker, Solicitor
to the Treasury, I have been prevented from getting any salary
at all, though I have spent between 2001. and 3001. in their service.
To shew my sincerity I am ready to go without my salary until
I raise a number of men according to my proposals. This should
prove to your Lordship that I can do what I proposed, so as to
prevent the export of wool and "the correspondence now
held &c."
P. 1. (Hol.?) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 59.
19 July.   SIR GEORGE ROOKE to NOTTINGHAM.
SRoyalv    I have yours of the 15th with news from Vice-Admiral Benbow
Torbay.  and Mr. Roope of Teneriffe. It is very unlikely that the fleets
[Chateaurenaud's and the merchant fleet from the West Indies?]
will meet in mid ocean, especially as it is uncertain to what port
the [merchant?] ships will come. If they come under a French
convoy they will hardly make for Cadiz.
Mr. Methuen had his packet and left yesterday on the Lovestoge
[Lowestoft] for Portugal.
Details. Wind still contrary.
Pp. 14. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom. Naval, 67, 29.
20 July.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Admiralty   Sends the papers* relating to the trial of Sir John Munden, to
be communicated to Lord Secretary Nottingham.
P. j.  (Hol.) Add. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 120. To which is
attached:Note of the acquittal of Sir John Munden. P. W. Endd. Ibid, 120A.
20 July.   NOTTINGHAM to ADMIRAL CHURCHILL.
Windsor.   Sends a petition from Hannah Ham and a certificate in her
behalf. As it is a case of charity, he leaves it to Admiral Churchill
to secure for her the relief she asks.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 95.
* The documents are too long to place in an inclosure, and are accordingly
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20 July.    HEDGES to SIR GEORGE ROOKE.
Windsor.   Sir Cloudesley Shovell has been ordered to join you so that
you may exchange some of your great ships. In consideration
of the advanced time of the year the Queen has also varied your
instructions, as you will find by the enclosed.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, p. 28. Enclosing -
Instructions for Sir George Rooke.
Sir C. Shovell has received orders to join you at Torbay.  You
are authorised, in case he arrives before you leave, to leave
behind the four great ships proposed by you as not fit to
go so far as Cadiz so late in the year; and, taking in four
or five of our third-rate ships from Sir C. Shovell's squadron,
to proceed according to your former instructions.
But, considering that the season of the year is so far advanced,
you are not to proceed with our fleet so far as Gibraltar,
although your former instructions directed you to do so. If,
on your arrival at Cadiz, you find it impracticable to attempt
that place, you are, without attempting Ponte Vedro or Vego
in your return from Cadiz, to make the best of your way to
Corunna and attempt that place, if it is thought practicable
by a Council of sea and land general officers. If you hear
from  Sir S. Fairborne of a French fleet at Corunna, you
are to sail direct to Corunna and attempt it. If you succeed,
and the place is thought practicable to hold it, you shall take
whatever steps are thought necessary by a Council of War for
its defence.
In case the season permits it you are to send such a squadron
of ships into the river of Lisbon as shall at a Council of War
be thought requisite, " this being of great importance to that
service with which you are acquainted and is to be transacted
by John Methuen, Esq."   You are also to send to the West
Indies the detachment of ships and troops which you were to
have sent there if you had gone to Cadiz.
You are to order such of our ships and of the Dutch (if they
will concur in it) as you think proper to join Sir C. Shovell
for the attempt to cut off "the Sieur Chateaurenaud" if
he and his squadron from the West Indies attempt to come
to any port of France or Spain on this side of Cape Finisterre,
so that, as you and the Dutch come home, Shovell may send
home such of his great ships as it may not be proper to keep
out at sea so late as may be necessary for intercepting
Chateaurenaud's squadron.
Pp. 2. Overwritten, Anne R. (copy) and signed, A.R. (copy).
Ibid, pp. 28-30.
21 July.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Admirlty    I send with this the copy of a letter received this morning from
Sir Cloudesley Shovell, wherein he makes some remarks on the
instructions lately agreed to at a Committee of the Lords of the
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Majesty's ships into the Soundings.  Please communicate them
to Lord Secretary Nottingham, although these orders will not
speedily be put in execution, since, by those sent to him from
Windsor on Sunday last, he is directed to proceed with the thirdrates to join Sir George Rooke in Tor Bay.
P. 1. (Hol.)  Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 121. Enclosing:Copy of a letter from Sir Cloudesley Shovell, dated at Spithead,
20 July, 1702.
I received Mr. Secretary Burchett's letter of the 17th with two
orders signed by the gentlemen who, in his Royal Highness'
absence, are deputed by him to act in the afairs of the
Admiralty. One directs Captain Good to convoy the merchant
ships which are going to Newfoundland, but those ships are,
I hope, too far out of my reach for me to carry out this order.
The other order is for me to go to sea with a squadron of ships,
a list of which came enclosed. One of them, the Cornwall,
has been in Portsmouth harbour about a month.      When
Captain Lestock left her he took every man out of her who
was worth taking, and she has only ninety-five men left
on her now. I have no men to spare. The list also contained
the names of three bombs, which I hope I may be allowed
to leave at Plymouth, for they will be hard to manage at sea.
I The order directs me to take all possible care to prevent the
French fleet from  proceeding to the southward after that
part of the fleet which is gone with Sir George Rooke, as
also to prevent them coming into and committing insults in
the Channel. It further directs me to look out for and try to
intercept M. Chateauneraud [Chateau Regnaud] who, as it
seems from news I received, will be hereabouts very shortly.
To do any of these three services will, modestly speaking, require
three times as many battleships as are in the list. If I had
a squadron which was able to cope with, or exceeded, the
enemy in these seas, then my opinion would be to lie in a
station 20 to 40 leagues S.W. to W.S.W. from Ushant, for
there I might probably meet any ships going from Brest to
follow Sir George Rooke, and there chance might bring
Chateau-Regnaud, if he comes for Brest or Rochefort. And
if we were superior to the French it is highly probable they
would not venture to insult our Channel "and leave a
squadron that is able to attack 'em without 'em."
Frenchmen brought in here a month ago from Brest water
state that there are 14 of their great ships rigged there and
wanting nothing but men to go to sea, that they expected
three other great ships from  Rochefort ready manned and
that there might be in the western ports of France thirty ships
of the line of battle. As for Chateau-Regnaud's squadron,
I have seen a list of it of 28 sail which I suppose to have been
just upon his sailing from  Martineco. Of these 26 have
upwards of 50 guns; and I am apt to believe the truth of it,
for such a treasure will pay for very extraordinary convoy.
I have but ten men-of-war with me of the line of battle, and


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shall put to sea with them as soon as they are ready, but
in this condition it will be impossible for me to perform
any of those services my orders seem to require; and I think
of taking my station " in the chops of the Channel between
the Lizard and the Fornehead," to prevent their insulting
the Channel as much as I can. In this case the other two
services desired will be wholly neglected and the third not
well secured, for if the enemy come with great superiority
I cannot prevent them from insulting the Channel, " for
they will either drive me before 'em or take me along with
them."
"You will see by what I have writ that I am in a great dilemma
how to perform my orders, and as I esteem Admiral Churchill
and Mr. Hill to be my good friends, I shall take it as a great
favour and service to me and to the country that they will
send me word that they approve my design or direct me
where they think I have made a wrong judgment."
I must further let you know that the Humber and Ipswich
are in dock and cannot be out this week. If I stay for them
it will be a fortnight before I put to sea, and the Shrewsbury
is not yet returned from the Downs. I expect the Salisbury
out of harbour to-day or to-morrow to proceed E. according
to his Royal Highness' orders; andy the Nassau and
Dragon, which may be out to-morrow, I will send to Ushant
or the Fornehead to get intelligence. Other details.
Pp. 21. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 121A.
21 July.   NOTTNGIAM'S LETTERS.
Windsor.   1. To the Recorder of London.
Pardon of Cooper and Baker with transportation. Consequential on the letter of 17 July (above, pp. 188-9).
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 85.
2. To the Prince's Council.
The Queen has heard that Consul Earle at Lisbon has to incur
expense in taking care of seamen who come there from Spain and
paying pilotage for the Queen's ships which come into Lisbon.
Her Majesty has commanded him to send a detailed account to
the Navy Board and to draw bills on them for such sums as the
expenses amount to. I am to tell you of this, so that the Prince
may order the Navy Board to accept and pay his bills, "that
the Consul may not suffer for his zeal for her Majesty's service."
P.. Ibid, p. 86.
21 July.   COMMISSIONER ATKINSON to the COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL.
TrSnpOrt   I have ordered the bedding at Portsmouth to be laid up there.
Mr. Roope has gone thence for Torbay and reached Dorchester
on the 18th, and hoped to reach Exeter the same night.
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21 July.  SIR WILLIAM   GORE (Lord Mayor) to [NoTTrINHAM].
London As Sir John Munden has been acquitted on his trial, I beg
that he may be restored to your favour. I have known him
since before he entered the Queen's service and have known
him to be "a man of great honour, diligence and integrity."
I hope the Queen will restore him to his post. I know nothing
but good of him, and, knowing your Lordship's inclination to
do good for good men, I hope you will excuse my attempt to
serve my friend.
Pp. l1. (Hol.?) Small. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 40.
21 July.  HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Monsieur Dalwig.
I send your fresh letters of credence from the Queen, with the
title of Envoy Extraordinary. I should have sent them before
but that I had to go into the country for the General Election.
P. i, in French.  S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 265.
2. To the Duke of Ormond.
I sent new instructions to Sir George Rooke last night; and
refer your Grace to him for them if Secretary Nottingham has
not sent you them, so far as they concern you; for I dare not send
you a copy by post, and believe the Queen does not wish them
to be a secret to you. I send a list of the members of Parliament
and a letter from Ratisbon, which please communicate to
Sir George Rooke. By our news from abroad the Spaniards seem
to be ready to revolt, and Mr. Stepney writes that from what
the Court of Vienna hears from Spain and Portugal, you will not
meet with much opposition there, which pleases no one more
than me.
Pp. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 31, 32.
3. To Sir George Rooke.
Please communicate to the Duke of Ormond the instructions
sent you last night from Windsor. The Queen desires him to
know them. I sent him a further list of new members. Most
men here are anxious for you to act according to your first
instructions; and would be glad to know what objections remain
now that the exchange is agreed to.
P. i. Ibid, p. 32.
22 July.  JOSIAH BURCHETT to JOHN ELLIS.
Admiralty  Sends an enclosure giving an account of naval affairs at Dunkirk,
and also one concerning a general embargo over France, to be
laid before Secretary Hedges.
P. j. (Hol.) End4. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 122.
22 July.  SIR GEORGE ROOKE to NOTTINGHAM.
2 a.m.    Your last despatch, which came too late for Mr. Methuen,
Royvl   will be forwarded.  Details.  Hope soon to get out of the
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sensible of her Majesty's goodness, and hope to serve her with
credit and success, "but I am at present so overwhelmed with
grief that I cannot express myself" suitably to her favour to me.
Pp. 1H. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 67, 30.
24 July.   HEDGES to JOSIAH BUTRCHETT.
Whitehall.  I send an extract [details] shewing that many ships are at
Hamburg awaiting convoy. Pray send me an account of the
convoy intended for the Elbe, that I may send it to the Resident
at Hamburg to-night.
P. A. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 336.
24 July.   PETITION to the PRINCE [LORD HIGH ADMIRAL] of TOBIAS
Deal.        BOWLES.
I present this memorial in a desire to preserve our trade. Most
of our ships captured in the late war were captured within, or
50 leagues without, our Soundings. Our trade to America, Asia
and Africa is greater than any other nation's, and our ships when
trading there are far away from each other and cannot communicate. When laden they go for our Soundings and are
often taken (with cargoes of great value) close to England. This
often happened for want of clean men-of-war and when our
cruisers were lying in harbour. If these were ordered out they
seldom went far enough to sea, and the French privateers &c.,
which cruised outside them and go to 120 leagues from Lands End,
intercepted many ships. These captures enriched the privateers
of St. Malo and enabled them to build fresh ships, and they would
attack and fight any merchant ship of England. The way to
stop this is to send out cruisers as soon as war is declared, and
this was lately done.  These frightened away the French
privateers and informed our merchantmen of the war as they
approached the Soundings; but for the last month, these cruisers
have been removed and have been ordered to go as convoys to
Ireland, Newfoundland &c., and the French privateers have
come out again and our trade is in great danger. At present
many ships from various parts [details] are expected home, which
have not as yet heard of the war.
In order to protect them we should have "at least 21 sail of
clean men-of-war of the best sailors, 3 third, 15 fourth and
3 fifth-rates... divided into three squadrons and stations,
a third to cruise cross and cross from ten leagues to thirty to
and fro distance from Scilly, a third more 80 or 90 leagues off
of Scilly, the other third from the outer parts of our Soundings
till about 40 or 50 league[s] without the said banks into the
sea." The last of these three squadrons will be about in the
place where the French privateers come and will be in daily
pursuit of them and, if we cannot take them, starve them by
keeping prizes from them. When a merchant ship comes to the
outermost station, a ship should be sent to convoy her to the
middle station; then another to convoy her to the innermost
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As it is highly necessary to have ships clean, a fourth squadron
should be got ready at Plymouth, which should be ready to relieve
the foul ships two months after these squadrons have been sent
out. This course will "bring Monsieur down," otherwise he
will grow rich with our money and fight us with it.  Within
the last month there have arrived here several ships worth from
100,0001. to 200,0001. apiece. Several ships have lately come up
to the Downs from the West Indies and elsewhere, which knew
nothing of the war.  Not one of them met with any of our
men-of-war either at sea or in the Soundings; but several have
had one or more fights with French privateers and some have
been taken.
Pp. 2TU, large. Copy. In bad English.  Endd. as in title.
S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 41.
25 July.   CoPY of AFFIDAVIT sworn by THOMAS FAIRFAX, of London.
In Chancery.  In the case of William Hamond versus Gervase Hamond and
others, he says that he was at Hazlewood in Yorkshire, the house
of Sir Walter Vavasor,* in June or July, 1700. There he found
the plaintiff and Mrs. Bladen reported as man and wife by
Sir Walter and Lady Vavasor and others. Lady Vavasor
told deponent that plaintiff and Mrs. Bladen were married.
Details. The plaintiff's father (the defendant) was displeased,
whom they hoped to appease by deponent's mediation. Deponent,
being asked by all parties, agreed to try and mediate with
plaintiff's father, but desired, before doing so, to have some proof
that the marriage had taken place. Both the plaintiff and
Mrs. Bladen assured him (deponent) that they were married, and
the dlaintiff gave him a letter signed " Pue," purporting to shew
that Pue had married them. Plaintiff authorised deponent to say
that he would be willing to humble himself before his father,
own his fault and beg his pardon before what company and
in what manner his father pleased, provided his father would
give him and his wife his blessing and bread. Accordingly
deponent went to defendant's house at Scarthingwill [Scarthingwell] and tried to bring about a reconciliation, but failed.
[Details.].Pp. li. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 60.
25 July.  WALTER DEVEREUX to [NOTTINGHAM].
Sends his proposal. The Admiralty replied to it that they
could not provide constant cruisers and suggested that it should
be laid before the Secretary of State. Recommends Richard
Starkie, who is anxious to serve the State and has the French
King's protection for 21 years to save him from his creditors in
France.
P. f. (Hol.) Endd. Ibid, 61.
25 July.   HEDGES to the EARL OF RANELAGH.
Whitehal   I send a petition of Lieutenant William Troup setting forth
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his services &c. Consider his application for Chelsea College on
the first vacancy.
P. i, with note that the petition and certificates justifying it were
enclosed. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 227.
27 July.   NOTTINGHAM to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Whitehall.  The Queen consents to Sir Cloudesley Shovell's leaving the
bomb vessels at Plymouth as he suggests in his letters of the
20th. Give orders accordingly.
Send the enclosed to Sir George Rooke, when you can.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 87.
27 July.   JoSIAH BURCHETT to JOHN ELLIS.
Admiralty
Office.   I send the enclosed, giving information as to the French fleet,
from off Dunkirk. Pray lay it before Secretary Hedges.
P. i. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 123.
Enclosing:Captain Beaumont to [Josiah Burchett].
By the enclosed his Royal Highness and the Council will see
how things are here between the Dutch and me. The French
squadron still continue in Flemish Road, and yesterday
two small ships came out of the harbour and joined them,
which we suppose to be fireships, and I think four galleys
have come from the westward to Dunkirk.
We see plainly two men-of-war at Ostend, one of 66 and one
of 50 guns, ready to sail to join the ships at Dunkirk.
My orders of the 17th are, in case Ponty [Pointis] gets out, to
follow him as far as I have any intelligence of him and,
in case that fails, to go to Leith.  This leads me, with submission (and in case no particular service is expected at
Leith) to desire his Royal Highness and the Council to
consider what the French squadron may be, what mine is,
and that the Dutch will not follow the French more than
five or six leagues. I send information* as to the condition
of my ships and supplies. I am sending this by the Crown,
with orders to get water for the squadron, and expect to get
his Royal Highness' orders from  the Merlin if she is in
the Downs, there being few or none of the enemy's privateers
abroad. I should like to send some of my ships in to clean,
for they want it: but my squadron is too small for me to
do this.
Pp. 11.  Copy. Dated, 23 July; S.E. 4 leagues from Dunkirk.
Followed by:Notes of consultations between Captain Beaumont and ViceAdmiral Evertsen and other officers of the Dutch squadron.
21 July Captain Beaumont proposed to Vice-Admiral Evertsen
I Aug.
that the  Vice-Admiral shall appoint such    number of
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ships as, on consultation, may be thought right to join
the English squadron in opposing the French squadron
of Dunkirk and Ostend in case they come out.      To this
end the ships to lie as near Dunkirk as possible. If, notwithstanding all this, the French squadron come out and
pass by our squadrons and go north, then it is proposed to
follow them as far as we shall have any intelligence of them,
and, in case this fails, to go to Leith in Scotland and bring
from thence, and all the ports northward, all our merchant
ships.
And it is further proposed in case the enemy's ships and galleys
shall make any attempt upon the dominions of the States, that
her Majesty's ships shall to their utmost power oppose them.
A consultation was held between the officers of her Majesty
and of the States on 22 Jly, 1702, four leagues S.E. of
2 Aug.,
Ostend.
Present:-Captains Beaumont and       Loades,  Vice-Admiral
Evertsen, Scho    by  Naght    [sic*]  Van   der  Dussen,
Captain Van Brakell, Captain Deveer.
Upon consideration it is agreed that Captain Beaumont with
seven of her Majesty's ships shall be joined by five of the
States', to lie south and south by east from Dunkirk, and
their line to stretch away S.W. and N.E., to keep the enemy
in if possible, and, if they get out, to attack them. The
better to do this the Vice-Admiral of Ostend will stretch
his squadron in the like manner S.W. and N.E., for
better correspondence. In case the enemy get out by us, [as]
the States' ships can follow them  no further till they are
victualled, then Rear-Admiral Van der Dussen has orders
to follow them with thirteen sail so far as the Dogger Bank
and no farther and to cruise there till further orders. The
five sail with Commodore Beaumont are to be of the thirteen
sail.
Pp. 1I. Copy.    Signed (copies) by all the officers present.  In
all pp. 3. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 123A.
27 July.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Oiat       I send an extract of a letter from Captain Culliford complaining
of the "wretched fellows " who have been sent him from the
county of Worcester. Pray lay it before Lord Secretary
Nottingham, for her Majesty is being put to needless expense
for men who are unfit for sea service. The Lord Lieutenant of
the county must reprimand his officers for this, and admonish
them to take more care in future.
P. I.  (Hol.) Endd. Ibid, 124. EnclosingExtract of letter from Captain Culliford as mentioned above.
Sent to receive some imprest men who had been brought on a
vessel from Worcester. They are "thirty-two very sorry
* As will be seen he is called below Rear-Admiral Van der Dussen. I have not
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fellows who will only lie in the scuppers at sea and be nautious
to the ship's company they shall come on aboard of."
Discharged at once three, "two lepers and the other aged
and infirm."  Hopes the rest will not infect the ship. Will
take care they are kept clean.
P. ]. Copy. Dated from the Hastings in King Road, 24 July,
1702. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 124A.
28 July.   SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVELL to [NOTTINGHAM].
Queen,    Yours of the 23rd with extract from Havanna. I think the
news very good and the information as to Chateau-Regnaud's
strength very exact. I wish I was stronger than he, " for equal
numbers seldom make great victories at sea." I shall, however,
hope to give a good account of him. Pray send me a list of
his ships.
P. i. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 67, 31.
28 July.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Colonel Collier, Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey.
Yours of the llth. I know of no person pretending to be
Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey.
Four lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 87.
2. To Mr. Forster, Lieutenant-Governor of Pendennis Castle.
Yours of the 16th. I know of no person claiming to be
Lieutenant-Governor of Pendennis Castle.
Four lines. Ibid.
3. To the High Sheriff of Surrey.
Jane Gallery's petition.  Queen's command:-To "respite
the execution of death " on her husband till 5 Aug. next. He
was condemned at Kingston Assizes for robbery.
P. J. Ibid, p. 88.
4. To Lord Chief Justice Holt and Mr. Justice Gould.
Mentions the respite of Gallery. Queen's command:-To
certify how the case appeared at the trial.
P. 1. Ibid.
Also note that the petition of Jane Gallery says that her husband
was condemned for robbing a woman of 17s. above two years
ago, "enticed by one Blake, a tinker, who, for the lucre of 401.,
became evidence against him."    First offence.  Five small
children. Prays he may be allowed to serve the Queen by sea
or land. Otherwise must die on Wednesday next.
P.. Ibid.
Same.     HEDGES' LETTERS.
1. To Dr. Brampston.
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of them do so, see they are punished so far as justice and the laws
permit.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, pp. 336.
2. To the Prince's Council.
To give their opinion on certain proposals of Simon Clement
and Carlton Vanbrugg.
P. i. Ibid, p. 337.
29 July.   VISCOUNT HATTON to NOTTINGHAM.
Northants]. A frigate is urgently needed to attend at Guernsey. It has
never been without one for years. The cruisers in the Channel
cannot protect the trade of the island. Enclosed shews the
necessity of the frigate.
P. i. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 28.
Enclosing:Sir Edmund Andros to [Viscount Hatton].
We came from London Tuesday evening and here on Thursday
noon. The Dragon frigate (with the soldiers' clothes aboard)
went out to sea to cruise on that day, but would not take any
island vessel under her convoy, though Elias Dolbell in the
John Square stered [steered]. Thomas Mesurier in the
Ann and Thomas Nefetell [with] ketches and a Jersey
bark were ready and wanted a convoy. John and Daniel
Perchard and John Tasker are ready or nearly so, so we want
a convoy for the island, as promised by the Admiralty. Sir
C. Shovell has sailed, and Sir J. Munden is commanding at
Spithead.
P. 1. Dated, 25 July, 1702, Southampton. Signed. Ibid, 29.
29 July.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1 To Mr. Savage, High Sheriff of Worcestershire.
The men imprested from Worcestershire for service have been
unfit for it, and that Captain Culliford has had to discharge two
of them (lepers) and one (old and infirm). The Committee of
Council desire you to be more careful of this matter in the future.
Disappointment, and expense to her Majesty's service.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 89.
2. To the Attorney General.
The   Committee  of Council are    dissatisfied  with  the
proceedings of Sir John Munden and the acquittal of him, and
particularly with his going from Corunna after the French were
got in, contrary, as they apprehend, to his instructions. Moreover this has not been objected to him at the Council of War,
and consequently he is not cleared on this point, and orders have
been given for calling to town the Judge Advocate to attend
the Lords, at which time you also will be desired to be present.
I thought it right "to send you the enclosed papers that you
may peruse them and come prepared to give the Lords your
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1702.    Pp. 1. Also note of the documents referred to as enclosed.
For these see the documents calendared at 13 July, 1702.
In all pp. 2. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 89, 90.
3. To the Master of the Ordnance.
John Fitch represents to the Queen that he was appointed
by patent of King Charles II workmaster for building and
^   ~   repairing all forts &c. and other works whatsoever during his
own life, and that he has lately been deprived of the benefit of
the same, although he was willing to do all such works at reasonable rates. The Queen thinks he ought to enjoy his patent and
that you should employ him, if he will do the work as well and
as cheaply as others.
P. I. Ibid, p. 91.
29 July.   HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Mr. Willoughby, High Sheriff of Wilts.
The Queen thinks that the case of William Hull [?], who was
condemned at the last Assizes at Salisbury for felony is one which
deserves her mercy. Forbear to execute the sentence on him
till the Judges have returned and reported to her Majesty how
the fact appeared to them at the trial. Futther pleasure.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 226.
2. To Nottingham.
Has sent him the foregoing. Asks that, when the Queen has
expressed her pleasure therein, it be delivered to the person who
will attend for it at Windsor.
Four lines. Also note asking that the letter may be sealed
before delivery to the messenger. Ibid.
30 July.   NOTTINGHAM to the JUSTICES of KINGSTON who lately sat at
Windsor.      the trial of one Wilson.
On the petition of Susanna Wilson, the Queen desires a report
on the case of her son before Saturday, when he is, in the ordinary
course, to be executed. The Judges who tried him cannot report
before that day. You shall say what this man is and what is his
offence.
Encloses copy of Susanna Wilson's petition on behalf of her son.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 95, 96.
[31 July.]  PETITION of ABEL DE BERNOYE, a French gentleman and
"right Protestant."
Petitioner was at Rotterdam and shipped himself for Bayonne
before the declaration of war to get his mother out of the
persecution. War breaking out, his ship was seized by the
Newport frigate and he was carried to Dover jail a prisoner.
Had no goods on board and only desired to get his mother out
of France that she might enjoy liberty of conscience. Prays
for release.
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(1) Certificate that the above facts are true, signed by David
Lacroix, Jean Dupuy and Jean Dufaure, respectively uncle,
cousin and friend to petitioner.
(2) Certificate by  -  Lavaure and --  Cartault, ministers
[of the French church in Canterbury], certifying that all the
above witnesses (i.e. petitioner's three supporters) are members
of their church and persons of honesty. Dated, Canterbury,
31 July, 1702. In French.
Also note that an application was made, by Captain Gipson,
Mayor of Dover, to Secretary Hedges, to release de Bernoye; to
which no answer has been made as yet.
In all pp. 1. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 62.
31 July.   RICHARD WARRE to WILLIAM AGLIONBY.
Windsor.  Yours of yesterday.  My Lord desires the old arrangement
of posts between this and London, i.e. one to and fro each night,
the ordinary post days remaining as at other times, and an extraordinary one on such days as there is none in the absence of the
Court; and on foreign and inland post days the mail not to
leave London till the post from Windsor arrives there. This is
no more than what was practised when the Court was at Windsor,
Newmarket or Winchester in my time; and the office must know
how it was arranged.
I have spoke to my Lord about Count Rassa and may let
you have his answer to-morrow.  I remember nothing of the
letter from Genoa, nor does my Lord; but will look for it in
his papers when he returns. My Lord desires to know the
date of the letters to Monsr. Schonenburg which you prepared
for his hand. I cannot find them in the book of Spain or Italy.
Has there been any reference upon a petition of Mr. Matthews
desiring a Commission of Appeal in Ireland? Mr. Tilson can
inform you of this. If so, it was to my Lord, and is entered
in the book of petitions.
My Lord desires you to send out summonses to the " Cabinet
Council" to attend the Queen on Sunday afternoon next at
Windsor,* " in the afternoon and not in the morning, the next
Sunday being a Sacrament day."
Details as to signing bills. Your bill is among the rest.
P.S.-Please have the enclosed letter superscribed and sealed
and sent to the Judges who went the Home Circuit, or either of
them. I do not know their names. Desire their report to be
here on Sunday.
I send you a warrant of Sir Charles Carteret. Details.
Pp. 3]. (Hol.) Ibid, 63.
Same.     NOTTIGEHAcM' LETTERS.
1. To Mr. Gilbert and Mr. Balch [Justices of Somerset].
I have received the depositions taken by you against John
Bower, minister of Burnham in Somerset. You did well in
binding over the informers and in issuing your warrant for
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Bower's arrest. If he is fled out of your jurisdiction, I will
grant a warrant to one of the Queen's messengers to search for
him. Send me any directions which may lead to his identification
and discovery.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 96.
2. To Lord Chief Justice Holt or Mr. Justice Gould.
Asks for a report on the case of Wilson, condemned at the last
Kingston Assizes, and whether he is fit for the Queen's mercy
The report to be sent in by Sunday to be laid before the Queen
"at the Committee," as Wilson has only been reprieved till
Wednesday next.
P. i. Ibid, p. 92.
31 July.   COLONEL COLLIER to NOTTINGHAM.
Jersey.   Yours of the 15th. One vessel released, another detained
because it is not clear [details] that she came in before 4 May.
Some French merchants are here, who have traded here and at
Guernsey before the war. They belong to no ship's company,
but were stopped here when war broke out. Some refugees
are also here [details]. They have been here for a year and now,
with the merchants, desire leave to go. I await orders in these cases.
Pp. 1. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 30.
July.    NOTE for the DIVIDENT.*
The figures in the left column are 481. 6s. 8d.; those on the
right 1721. Os. Od.
Pp. 1i. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 64.
AUGUST, 1702.
2 Aug.    RICHARD WARRE to [AGLIONBY].
Windsor.  My Lord will be in London to-morrow and there is to be a
Committee meeting on Tuesday. Details.
P. 1. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 65.
3 Aug.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Windsor.   1. To the High Sheriff of Surrey.
Queen's command:-Further reprieving Gallery, who is to be
transported. No mercy will be shewn to Wilson, who may
prepare himself for death.
P. l. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 97.
2. To the Lord High Treasurer.
Sends William Bowen's petition and the Queen's command
to bestow 1001. on him.
Also note that Bowen's petition (enclosed) shews that he lately
received a dangerous wound for defending her Majesty's right.
He has five small children and desires a post.
Also note that the petition annexed a certificate that Jonathan
Ford uttered several "reflecting words " on the Queen and had,
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when Bowen reproved him, given him scurrilous language, and
had followed him into the street and wounded him.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 91.
4 Aug.     CAPTAIN ST. Lo to NOTTINGHAM.
Plymouth   Returns a despatch which he is, and will probably remain,
unable to forward to Captain Spann in the Sorlings.
P. J. Signed. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 42.
4 Aug.    NOTTINGHAM    to MR. JUSTICE TRACY at Leicester.
Whitehall.  The Queen approves of your reprieving Johnson and Bywater,
who were condemned at Oakham. She designs to pardon them
with a condition of transportation.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 92.
4 Aug.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Admiralty   Sends copies of a letter from the Lieutenant-General of the
Admiralty at Dunkirk and other papers which have been forwarded
by the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded. The Prince's
Council have directed these to be laid before Lord Secretary
Nottingham.
P. i.   Signed.  Add.   Endd.   S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 125.
Enclosing:Lieut.-General De Maran to the Commissioners for Sick and
Wounded.
Gentlemen,-I am   pleased by your letter in regard to the
prisoners and I see you treat them with all kindness. We
treat yours well and you will receive no complaint from
them save that they have been kept for perhaps too long a time
from their country. It is to be desired on their account that
an agreement could be reached which will restore them to
liberty. I see by your letter that you do not regard Laurence,*
on whose behalf I wrote to you, as a citizen of this town, although
he has lived here for eighteen years with his family, as is
shewn by a certificate which I send. I also send a copy of
his commission from the Admiral to arm for war, which, I
am sure, will convince you that he is a prisoner of war and
of the kind which you have.
Pp. 1j. Copy; in French. Dated, Dunkirk, 6 August, 1702.
Certificate of the Burgomaster and Magistrates of Dunkirk.
Francois Laurans, an Englishman, has lived here for about
eighteen years, and has enjoyed the privileges contained in
his Majesty's declaration of the year 1622. He has had the
same privileges as if he had been a citizen by birth. At his
wife's request we certify this and have had it sealed with
our common seal and signed by our clerk on 5 August, 1702.
P. ]. Copy, in French. Signed (copy), Du Chout.
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Commission of Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Comte de Toulouse,
Admiral of France.
Commissions Francois Laurance, citizen, living at Dunkirk,
to arm and equip a vessel called the Sainte Barbe, now lying
at Dunkirk, with men, arms and provisions to cruize against
pirates, robbers and unauthorised persons and subjects of
the United Provinces and other enemies of the State, and to
exercise all the rights of war [details] against them; to
fly the flag and ensign of the King of France and of the
Admiral, and to register this commission in the Admiralty
register nearest to where he shall fit out. Other details.
Pp. 3. Copy, in French. Sealed.   With:(1) Copy of memorandum that this commission was entered at
the registry of the General Office of Admiralty of France at
Dunkirk, and that it allows Captain Laurance to cruise against
the King's enemies, having entered his crew in the registry,
taken the oath and given the caution [money] required by the
Royal Ordinances. Done at Dunkirk, 12 May, 1702.
(2) Copy of certificate verifying and sealing this copy as an
extract out of the registry aforesaid on 4 Aug., 1702. Signed,
J. Mesnel.
In all pp. 6. All in French. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 125A.
5 Aug.     NOTTINGHAM to the" PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Cockpit.   I send Mr. Devereux's proposals for preventing the export
of wool, the smuggling trade and the correspondence with France.
Queen's command:-To consider and report on         it and on
the proposed expense thereof.
I send also his proposal for raising seamen. Lay it before
his Royal Highness, that he may give such order on it as he
thinks fit.
P. J. Also note that the following were enclosed:(1) Observations and proposal of Walter Devereux, of
Folkestone, on the commerce with France and the exportation
of wool by small shallops.
(2) A small draft of the coast of Dover and Calais.
(3) Mr. Devereux's proposal for raising of seamen, especially
in and about the Cinque Ports.
(4) His complaint of his hard usage and about Mr. Baker's
mismanagement and preventing the exportation of wool, and
his proposal to have and maintain, for 10,0001. a year, 18 small
shallops of a new contrivance, in several stations and thereby
prevent the exportation of wool, running of goods and correspondence with France. (This printed.)
(5) A model of the proposed shallop.
In all p. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 93.
7 Aug.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Windsor.   1. To Mr. Justice Powell.
Respiting sentence on Francis Foxworthy, lately convicted
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and desiring the Judge's report of the fact and his opinion on
the question of pardon.
P. W. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 97.
2. To the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded.
The Comte di Rassa has been taken prisoner on board a French
ship bound from Lisbon to France, and has been brought into
Plymouth. The Queen has ordered him to be brought to London
to be examined, when, if it appears that he is an Italian and
no subject of France or Spain, and not otherwise culpable, he
will be set free.
Pray send orders for restoring him his wearing apparel and
goods. The bearer will say what and where they are.
P. W. Ibid, p. 94.
3. To Same.
Queen's command:-To permit the Sieur de Louvigny to see,
and talk alone to, Count de Mornay.
Four lines. Ibid.
7 Aug.    ---   to WILLIAM "KIETH "* of Lutwhaim.
On " Saturnsday " last I had yours of July 25th. I have not
seen the D[uke of Hamilton?] since and do not know why you
gave a copy of the address to Lady Malb[orough], and why
you don't improve the acquaintance you made amongst the
statesmen; but without hearing of them I am very ready to
approve of them and to vindicate you for doing that which I am
much inclined to believe you would not do without good grounds.
The first time I can see the D[uke] I will endeavour to get a sight
of your letter-but only to confirm me in the good opinion I have
of your conduct.
We begin now to think of our elections, though Parliament
is not yet adjourned, and so far as I can see there begins
to be a greater vigour in the nation than usual on such
occasions.
"If I might judge of the elections through the whole Kingdom
by those [that] are like to be made in the country I live in, and
some shires about, I believe our Parliament might recover in
some measure the sinking reputation of our country; but there
are so many difficulties to struggle with that it is hard to determine the event. The hopes of reward and the fear of punishment
are powerful arguments to weak minds, and you know what party
has the distribution of them. However, if honest men will
do their endeavour, I hope still the best; but there are too
many who, I am afraid, will lay themselves aside out of a scruple
which I don't understand, and a diffidence of doing anything
to purpose, so that there must be great pains taken to remove
those scruples and to give people such a, just sense of the danger
we are in that they may not be indifferent in a matter which
concerns the nation so much. The D[uke] is now in the West
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Country and, you may be sure, is not idle. There are a great
many more who are not to be blamed if there is not a right set
of men chosen in the shires they have interest in.
" There is great pains taken by some of the Court party to blind
people's understandings. They leave no stone unturned. They
endeavour to raise the scruples of some by the change [which]
is made in the oaths by the Council, and there are stories spread
industriously, as if there were a design to overturn the present
Constitution, merely to blunt the edge of some well-meaning
people; but I hope that neither English money nor the designs
of unnatural countrymen shall be able to pervert the judgment
of honest men so far as to mistake the true interest of their nation;
and if we do ever come, the victory will be the more glorious
that we have such powerful enemies to deal with.
"By all accounts we get the English Parliament will be Tory.
Whether that will turn to our advantage or prejudice is uncertain,
but there may be this advantage in it that it is so generally
believed that the heads of that party are enemies to Scotland
that it may lessen the credit here of those of our countrymen
who are thought to be influenced by them, so that our elections
may be better for it. Perhaps this is to reason too far upon
uncertainties and therefore I shall say no more about it. Some
months will determine the matter. In the meantime I hope
every honest man will endeavour to do his best.
"We expect daily to hear how the difference is taken up
amongst our courtiers who are gone from this lately. The parties
seem to be strong on both sides, and, by anything we have heard
yet it appears to be doubtful which will get the victory. You
will have the advantage to know how the intrigues are managed
about making friends at Court and what complaints are made
on both sides. But, whoever gets the better, our country is still at
a loss, for those feuds and quarrels make us more contemptible
to the English, and the advantage will be purchased at the expense
of the nation."
P.S.-Je vous prie de faire mes baismains a M. Montingi.
Pp. 3. Add. Endd. S.P. Scotland, Series II,, 1, 10.
8 Aug.    ROYAL WARRANT to the CHANCELLOR and PRIVY COUNCIL of
Windsor.      SCOTLAND.
We dissolve our Parliament of Scotland, which stands adjourned
to 18 August. Issue a proclamation accordingly and publish
it at the Market Cross at Edinburgh and all needful places. " And
we, considering that we are engaged at present in a most just
and necessary war against France and Spain, and that by Acts
passed in the Parliaments both of Scotland and England we are
empowered, and do intend, forthwith to nominate Commissioners
to treat of an Union between these our Kingdoms and other
things, matters and causes relating thereto, conform to the tenour
of the said Act, the conclusion of which Union, to be established
and ratified in both Parliaments, will undoubtedly conduce to
the lasting peace and welfare of both Kingdoms," desire to have
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circumstances require, and direct you to let our subjects there
know that we intend " speedily to indict a new Parliament."
P. -. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, p. 189.
8 Aug.. NOTTINGHAM to the LORD TREASURER.
Windsor.   Queen's command:-To give order for paying 3001. to
Colonel Quary.
P. J. S.P. Dor., Entry Book 104, p. 98.
9 Aug.    REPORT from KINSALE.
Kinsale.  The master of a ship [details] who has been put ashore near
Cape Clear, by a French privateer which had captured his vessel,
says there are six sail of French privateers about 30 leagues
west from Cape Clear. They are spread out so as to view about
18 leagues, and will make it impossible for any ship from the
westward to come in. They have taken and plundered several
vessels [details], which they send in by Cape Finisterre to avoid
our men-of-war on the French coast. When short of food they
capture fishing boats near the shore, and oblige the owners to
redeem them with oxen and sheep.
P. 1. (small). Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 43.
10 Aug.   NOTTINGHAM to DR. BRAMPSTON.
Windsor.  The Queen formerly gave orders for the discharge of the barque
N8tre Dame de Bayonne, and hears that she is still stopped by
an Officer of the Prizes. Command:-To report on the causes
of the present seizure and the facts alleged in the enclosed petition.
Further pleasure.
P. a. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 98.
11 Aug.   HEDGER to LORD CORNWALLIS [Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk].
Whitehall  Sends the Queen's approval of names submitted by Lord
Cornwallis of gentlemen to be Deputy Lieutenants of Suffolk.
P. 4. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 228.
12 Aug.   AFFIDAVIT concerning the Subpoena Office.
Nicholas Hookes, of the Middle Temple, London, gent., says
on oath as follows:He has been employed in the subpoena office for the High Court
of Chancery for about forty years; and for twenty years has
executed the office as deputy under the patentees, who were
the only persons nominated in trust for the several persons
claiming the profits of the said office, and not in their own right.
The said profits were constantly yearly paid to such persons for
whom they were intrusted in such shares and proportions as of
right to them belonged. The persons who now petition the
Queen for a new grant, and one Mr. George Vane, are the only
persons entitled to and interested in the said profits, according
to their respective shares. They claim under the present or
original patents or grants, save only that Oliver North and
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Thomas Pickering, executors of Thomas Fane, deceased, are intrusted for Mildmay Fane, youngest brother of the now Earl of Westmoreland (and not in their own right). According to the patents, no
account or payment has ever been given to the Crown of the profits
of the said office, and no fine, to the best of deponent's knowledge and belief, was ever paid to the Crown for renewal of any
former patent; but the patents were always obtained by favour.
The profits have never, to deponent's knowledge or belief, been
let or farmed for a sum certain.
Pp. 1. Sworn 12 August, 1702, before S. Keck.   Signed
by Hookes. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 66.
12 Aug.   BERNARD ELLIS to NOTTINGHAM.
Guernsey.  Having no orders, I have conformed to what is done in Jersey
and let the French who were here before the outbreak of war
go free. They were much reduced by their long stay here;
and the Officers for Sick and Wounded would not do anything
to help them.
As no cruisers have appeared on our coast this month, the
French privateers have grown very troublesome. They have
guns [details], and have taken inhabitants going from here to
Jersey within a mile of the shore.
Pp. 1!. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 31.
12 Aug.   CAPTAIN RICHARD CLARKE to the SECRETARY to the PRIVY
H.M.S. Newark,   COUNCIL at Hampton Court.
Sheerness.
S ends a complaint against Justice Bateman.
P. i.  Signed.  Add. Endd.   S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 43A.
Enclosing:The complaint.
Captain Richard Clarke, of the Newark, deposes on oath that
his master's mate, John Burrows, made oath that Justice
Bateman in Marine Square had taken two pressed men
from him and told him that the next time he pressed without
warrant he would put him in New prison. Bateman afterwards acknowledged to deponent that he had said this to
the mate, and that he had orders that there should be no more
pressing and that he had cleared the two men before deponent
came to him.
P. i. Sworn, 12 August, 1702, at Queenborough, before John
Knat [?], Debte [Deputy?] Mayor. Ibid, 43B.
12 Aug.   HEDGES to the COMMISSIONERS of ACCOUNTS.
Whitehall.  I have forwarded to Mr. Stanhope, Envoy at the Hague, your
enclosure sent me for forwarding to Mr. Vanderesch, and have
asked Mr. Stanhope to have it delivered and give an account
thereof. I will try to find out what became of your former
letter of the same kind.
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13 Aug.    The POSTMASTERS-GENERAL to [NOTTINGHAM].
General
Post Office.  We send answers to the questions sent us about ships for
the West Indies. What we propose is not so good as Mr. Dummer
suggests; but much cheaper. Orders of a higher nature will,
we suppose, still be trusted with a man-of-war or advice-boat
of the Navy; and only matters of less consequence by these boats.
That duty they can perform quickly and surely.
P. 1. Signed by Cotton and Frankland. Endd.     S.P. Dom.,
Naval 117, 44. Enclosing:A. The Questions and Answers.
1. Q. Can good and nimble sailing vessels always be had?
A. Such sloops and brigantines as were employed by the
Government to carry despatches in the late war were never
found to be wanting when the Government needed them.
There are some in the river now, but we cannot say whether
this will always be the case.
2. Q. At what rates such vessels are to be hired?
A. This depends on the size of the crew and vessel.
Speaking generally, 1501. per voyage.
3. Q. What will be the hire of such vessels to go and return
empties?
A. This makes some alteration. Governors of the plantations can always send back despatches cheaply if they allow
the despatch boats to load.
P. 1. Dated, General Post Office, 13 August, 1702. Signed by
Cotton and Frankland. Ibid, 44A.
16 Aug.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Windsor.   1. To Dr. Brampston.
The Queen is informed that the Susanna of Cherbourg came
into Cowes on April 24 last and landed a Frenchman there on
pretence of trade, but that it is thought he was a spy, as he has
not since been heard of, and no one has come to claim her. As
she is lying at the Queen's charge at Cowes, you are commanded
to prosecute her in the usual form for condemnation as a prize.
If any one appears to claim her, let the trial proceed according
to justice and precedent.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 102.
2. To the Commissioners of Prizes.
Informs them of substance of foregoing.
Six lines. Ibid.
18 Aug.    NOTTINGHAM to the EARL OF MANCHESTER.
Whitehall.  The Queen approves your list of Deputy Lieutenants and will
approve them in form.
P. i. Ibid, p. 99.
19 Aug.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.. To the Master of the Packet-Boat at Falmouth.
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stop her till you receive some further orders from me or the
Postmasters. Some letters for the Queen's service, which I
shall send you by this conveyance, are to go by her.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 99.
2. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
I have acquainted the Lords of the Committee with yours of
the 17th and the enclosed paper relating to her Majesty's poor
subjects who were made prisoners at Cadiz, Gibraltar and Malaga.
You are commanded to take all care for relief of those seamen
and of others in their circumstances, and to give such orders as
are necessary for their return to England. Your expenses will
be paid and you may draw bills for them on the Navy Board,
who are ordered to accept and pay them.
Further command:-That whenever you come to treat of a
cartel with France or Spain you make it a first article that all
the Queen's subjects who were made prisoners before the
declaration of war, or who, residing in France or Spain before
the declaration, were desirous to return, be released without
ransom or exchange, unless it be for persons in the same
position in the Queen's dominions. I think there are none of
these.
P.S.-When you draw a bill on the Navy Board send particulars
of your disbursements.
Pp. 11. Ibid, pp. 100, 101.
3. To the Prince's Council.
Consequential on foregoing. His Royal Highness is to order
the Navy Board to accept and pay the bills mentioned in it
without delay.
P. A. Ibid, p. 101.


*0


20 Aug.
H.M.S. Queen.


SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVELL to
The Shrewsbury joined me yesterday, and to-day the Nassau
and Dragon. The Nassau took a French merchantman of 150
tons from Hispaniola, 55 days out, with sugar, indigo and cotton.
She had 11 guns and six pateraroes. The Dragon also took a
French ship of about 90 tons bound to Nantes with mud-fish
from Newfoundland. A Dutch privateer had taken this fish
ship, and the French master had ransomed the ship for 4,200 livres,
and remains aboard the Dutch privateer to make good the
ransom. I hope the prize will not be returned to the Dutch
privateer. If it is, it will encourage the practice of ransoming
ships at sea, which is a great advantage to the enemy. Without
it they could not support their privateers, neither could our
merchantmen venture without convoy, as they now do. I have
sent in the ships with their prizes and am confident they will
make no unnecessary stay. The surgeon of Captain Byng's
prize said it was expected that Chateau-Regnaud would leave
Havana at the beginning of August (their style) with 22 ships
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The St. Michael, Vesuvius fireship, Humber and Russell have
just now joined me.
I now "design to my other station," where I hope for more
strength. I intend to cruise there till the 10th or 15th of next
month, by which time we shall not have above three weeks beer
and water. We shall then return to Spithead, "it being the
opinion of everybody that, after that time, the great ships should
be in port."
Pp. 23. Copy. Dated, 20 August, aboard the Queen, between
the Lizard and the Fornehead. Endd. 'R. 24.' S.P. Dom.,
Naval 6, 126.
20 Aug.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Commissioners of the Post Office.
The Queen desires to make use of Mr. Dummer's vessels for
carrying letters to the West Indies. Consider what rates should
be charged for carrying letters to or from those islands.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 103.
2. To the Prince's Council.
Mr. Dummer having received directions to prepare his vessels
for carrying letters to the West Indies, the Queen desires that
protection be granted for such men as are necessary for those
vessels.
As the Queen is to bear the charge of these ships, and to
have the profits which may be derived by their bringing home
passengers, or gold, silver or " cochineel" (the only things which
they are to bring), the Navy Board should have directions to
consider and report what rates should be charged for passengers, or
for any of these things.
You are also to consider what sum of money should be
imprested to Mr. Dummer to enable him to fit out his vessels
for the Queen's service, and to pay wages to his crews, and other
charges.
I enclose a scheme of the intended voyages which Mr. Dummer
intends to perform. He is to give an account from time to time
of all his expenses and of the profits made from all sources, to
the Navy Board. You are to cause a draft to be prepared of
such articles and instructions as you shall think necessary, and
send it to me for submission to the Committee of Council.
P. 1. Ibid, pp. 103, 104. Enclosing --
A Scheme for Foreign Advice.
To establish a monthly intelligence between London and the
West Indies, and, after the same method, to make all
intelligence by sea less precarious and more expeditious than
it now is.
It is proposed to have four vessels of 130 tons burden to maintain
an intercourse with " Barbadoes, Antegoa, Montserat, Nevis
and Jamaica."   The scheme of sailings and returns will be
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Vessels.
Leave.   Return.


January......  A
February......  B
March......  C
April....    D     A
May....      A     B
June......  B
July....      C     D
August....    D     A
September....  A     B
October....    B     C
November..... C    D
December....  D    A


Thus A sails in January, returns in April, sails again in May,
and so on in succession.
This continual going out and returning will answer all the
needs of State and trade, and conduce to the security of
public interest between this kingdom and those islands in peace
and war.
Each vessel will stayAt Barbados........  4 days.,, Antegoa........  3,,,, Montserat, not above....  3,, Nevis......  3,, Jamaica........  8
Each will go, stay, and return in 90 days.
Pp. 1~. Signed (copy), E. Dummer. S.P. Dom., Entry Book
104, pp. 104, 105.
3. To the Commissioners for Stating the Public Accounts.
Sends a list of dates at which any person was appointed to
be a General Officer during the late war so far as entered in books
at his office.
P. 1. Ibid, p. 106.
[About     COLONEL COLLIER to [NOTTINGHAM].
20 Aug.    Nine prisoners escaped from Mount Orguil [Orgueil] Castle by
Jersey.] treachery of the garrison. The sentry went with them. The
sails and oars are all brought into the Castle to hinder desertion
and correspondence with France. They and the boats are
guarded. The prisoners took away oars and sails from within
the Castle [details]. They were pursued, but the pursuers seized
only an empty boat, which the escapers turned adrift to distract
them. The sentry on guard over the sails [at the time] was a
raw young lad. I send his deposition. I will hold a Court
Martial as soon as I have a quorum.
Pp. 1~. Signed. Endd. " R. Aug. 24."   S.P. Dom., Channel
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Deposition of Michael Bennet, soldier.
Was sentry between 10 and 12 midnight.  Saw John Smalbone
(one of the soldiers that went off with the prisoners) come
near his post. Challenged  him   and  was answered.
Smalbone said. of some oars and sails lying by, " What do
these things stand here to fright people for?" and took them
and threw them into a room which is part of an old tower
adjoining the gate. Some time after he heard some people
talk French together, but did not understand what they said,
nor did he challenge them, though 'twas in the harbour.
P. A. Copy. Certified by Colonel Collier. S.P. Dom., Channel
Islands 2, 32A.
20 Aug.    HEDGES to MR. SMITH, the Queen's Procurator General.
Whitehall.  Sends a memorial presented to the Queen by the Prussian
Ambassador, M. Spanheim, concerning a Prussian ship, the
Joshuah, lately cast away near Plymouth. Queen's command:To proceed with and conclude the matter as swiftly and as
favourably and cheaply for the subjects of the King of Prussia
as may be, whenever they attend him upon it.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 229.
21 Aug.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.
1. To Sir George Rooke.
The Queen's motives for sending you the enclosed instructions
which, "being on Sunday last read to her Majesty in a Committee of Council, were there approved," are that the French
are endeavouring to intercept all provisions which are being
sent to Prince Eugene, that come to him across the Gulf of Venice,
and, in spite of the protests of the State of Venice, have sent
"not only M. Fourbin with the frigates and two ships back into
the Gulf, but also in all probability the Count de Toulouse with
six men-of-war and six gallies and fire-ships to destroy the magazines
and make some attempts on the Emperor's dominions on the other
side of the Gulf. The importance of preventing these designs
and the fair and almost certain opportunity of taking and
destroying this squadron are so plain that I need only mention
them," and tell you that, by the best advice we have from Toulon,
there are no ships there that can be got ready to make it hazardous
to make such a detachment as is mentioned in the enclosed
orders.
We have some fear lest you may not have sufficient provisions
for this expedition, but we hope you can supply this detachment
by taking provisions from other ships, and by credit, if you
succeed at Cadiz. We also fear that after detaching the ships
to the West Indies (and the Queen still wishes this to be done)
you may not have sufficient ships for this service, especially
as some of them may have suffered in the attempt on Cadiz. Of
this we cannot judge, so it is left to your judgment to send the
detachment "if it be practicable."  But I may tell you that, if
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squadron than this in the Mediterranean next summer; consequently there will be no need to send ships home except such as
will need to be docked and cannot be refitted at Cadiz. With
these, and the Dutch ships that will come back, you are to return
after the services mentioned in your former instructions are
performed. We hope too that Admiral Allemond will concur
with you in this service, and send some Dutch ships if this
expedition be resolved on at a Council of War, although we
know that the Dutch are not provisioned for such a voyage;
"but that defect should, if possible, be supplied by you, and
the States, we doubt not, will repay her Majesty "; but, lest they
should make any difficulty for want of orders, I may tell you
that we are pressing the Pensioner to get the States to send
orders of this kind to Admiral Allemond.
It is well remembered that you considered the attempt on
Cadiz would be impracticable if the French had any considerable
number of ships in that port; therefore it may be necessary for
us to have a squadron there to defend that place after we have
gained it; but we believe the squadron which is proposed to
be detached into the Straits will return to Cadiz before the French
can possibly make any attempt to regain it. It is hoped, too,
that you may leave some ships there, notwithstanding this
detachment be made.
The Queen is confident in your zeal and loyalty that you will
push this as far as in prudence is possible. I enclose a list of the
French ships under Chateau-Regnaud and of Du Casse's squadron,
and of some ships that are gone to sea with five months'
provisions we know not whither.
Pp. 31. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 33-6. Enclosing:Instructions to Sir George Rooke.
We think it may be for our service and that of our Allies to
send some ships at once into the Mediterranean and Adriatic
Seas to oppose the French there, which we cannot do so soon
as is requisite but by a detachment from your command.
If therefore you take Cadiz and its port, you are to call a
Council of War and, " if it shall be judged fit and practicable,"
we authorise you   to detach eighteen or twenty  ships,
under the command of such officer as you think right, with
orders to enter the Adriatic, if the French continue there, and
endeavour to take or destroy them there or elsewhere and to
return then to Cadiz, giving him such orders as are conducive
to the performance of this or any other service.
Pp. 11. Overwritten (copy), Anne R. Signed (copy), A.R. Ibid,
pp. 36, 37.
Ships remaining with Chateau-Regnaud.
Eighteen ships (varying from 70 to 44 guns), four fire-ships,
two " flutes " and two " crevettes."
Names given.    [To   be  sent to]  Benbow, Rooke and
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Ships under the Count de Toulouse.
Six battleships varying from 110 to 54 guns [names given],
a frigate, two fire-ships and smaller vessels.  Under the
Chevalier le Fourbin, three frigates and two fire-ships. At
Toulon, fifteen ships, of which there are fitting five or six
from 60 to 70 guns.
[This list] for Sir George Rooke.
Under M. Du Casse, eight ships of from 70 to 30 guns. Gone
to Mexico, three; and to Cadiz, two. Supposed to be gone
to Cadiz or Lisbon, four.
[Names given. The first part of this list, as to M. Du Casse's
ships, is marked "for Benbow."]
Nine ships [names given, and varying from 70 to 40 guns]
are destined for some place or places unknown [to the writer].
Two sailed from Brest on 26 May and six more were ready
to sail thence on 26 July with five months' provisions.
[This list] for Rooke, Shovell and Benbow.
Pp. 2. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 38, 39.
2. To Sir George Rooke.
I send further instructions and a letter which I desire you
would shew to the Duke of Ormond. We are rejoicing at the
good news from Prince Eugene, of which the prints will inform
you, and hope for similar good news from the fleet. " The
Earl of Marlborough pushes the French from one camp to another,
and if some others in the army had been as ready as his Lordship
to have taken advantages the French army had been in all likelihood entirely defeated more than once." Sir Cloudesley Shovell
is lying between the Lizard and Brest, but not with so many
ships as we thought, the Dutch having sent us not a single ship
since the Grand Fleet left England; "and although Sir David
Mitchell has been above a month upon a negociation with Holland
to get some ships to strengthen Sir C. Shovell, and others to go
to the West Indies, I understand he is like to return without
getting one ship." Captain Beaumont still blocks up Pointi's*
squadron in Dunkirk, and we do not yet hear of any considerable
number of ships fitting out in any of the ports of France on
this side.
" Her Majesty is going to the Bath, and will set out from Windsor
on Wednesday, lodge at Oxon that night and dine there on
Thursday and then to Cirencester; so to Bath on Friday, where she
designs to continue about a month," and then will return to London.
Parliament is to sit the 8th of October.
Pp. 1I. Ibid, pp. 40, 41.
3. To the Prince's Council.
Command:-That the three bomb-vessels at Portsmouth
be laid up. Inform his Royal Highness.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 355.
* Jean Bernard Desjeans, Baron de Pointis, the famous French naval commander. His name is spelt in many different ways in these documents.




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4. To [George] Clarke.
I have considered of instructions for Mr. Warters, the Lord
Admiral's solicitor. I send a draft of them with an additional
clause to control the Receiver, which I think necessary for the
service. If he executes his office duly I think he may have the
same salary as the Receiver, and be allowed his necessary expenses,
to be paid out of the perquisites of the Admiralty. Pray ask
his Royal Highness to consider whether the whole business
relating to perquisites may not be managed to greater advantage
by allowing poundage to such officer as his Royal Highness
shall think fit to employ.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 229.
21 Aug.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Cocit or   1. To the Earl of Abingdon [Constable of the Tower].
Whitehall.
Acquaints him with the news of Prince Eugene's victory over
the French in Italy on the 15th, n.s., that he may order the
cannon of the Tower to be fired "in demonstration of our joy
for so signal a victory."
P. i. Add. To the Earl as Constable or, in his absence, to the
officer commanding at the Tower. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104,
p. 106.
2. To the Lord Mayor of London.
Sends news of the victory mentioned in foregoing and of the
orders to the Governor of the Tower, "not doubting but the
City will concur on their part in such demonstrations as are proper
upon occasion of so signal a victory."
P. i. Ibid, p. 107.
3. To the Captain of the packet-boat at Falmouth.
On the receipt of this, proceed at once to Lisbon and take all
care for delivery of the packet sent you herewith.
Ibid.
22 Aug.    HEDGES to the LORD CHAMBERLAIN.
Whitehall  The Queen has directed me to request Mr. Stanhope to demand
her pictures that are in Holland. Pray give me the best account
you can of them, that I may better instruct Mr. Stanhope.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 256.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
You may permit the Count de Mornay and the other prisoners
with him to go every Sunday to the house of the Venetian Ambassador, the messenger accompanying them to the door of the
house and staying in some convenient place for them till they
return. They have promised to return into the custody of the
messenger.
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2. To the Lord Mayor of London.
Queen's command:-To attend her in Council at Windsor on
Monday next at 12 o'clock, together with the two Sheriffs of
London.
Four lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 108.
22 Aug.    HEDGES to the EARL OF WINCHILSEA.
You have been appointed Envoy Extraordinary at Hanover
and must attend to receive the Queen's commands before she
leaves for Bath. If you can be at Windsor on Monday morning
I will attend you, otherwise please address yourself to Lord
Secretary Nottingham, as I shall be gone towards Bath. The
ordinary entertainment for an Envoy is 51. a day (the first quarter
whereof is usually advanced), 5001. equipage and 751. a quarter
for extraordinaries.
I could not answer your last, as you were " in motion about
elections," and I did not know where to find you.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 308, 309.
24 Aug.    ROYAL WARRANTS to the LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.
Windsor.   1. The Duke of Ormond has petitioned shewing that King
William III took a lease from him of the duties of butlerage
and prisage belonging to him in Ireland for seven years from
25 March, 1695, at 1,5001. a year; that this sum was then
said to be the full value of the duties; but that, during the last
three years of the term the aggregate receipts from this source
came to 11,0651. odd. He therefore asks that we will take a new
lease as from Lady Day last, at a yearly rent of 2,5001. a year
for three years. You have reported that this might be a good
bargain for us in time of peace, but that, with a war begun which
is likely to last three years, it is not easy to make an agreement
that would not prove disadvantageous to one side or the other;
and that we should appoint our own officers to collect the duties
and keep separate and good accounts, and account quarterly
to the Duke for the receipts.  We approve this advice.  Give
orders accordingly to our revenue officers in Ireland. Expenses
of management to be deducted from what is paid to the
Duke.
P. 1. S.P. Signet Office 15, pp. 28, 29.
2. You represent to us-and the Deputy Receiver-General of
Ireland confirms it-that 2891. 9s. is due to the Bishop of Ossory
as executor to his father, Sir Standish Hartstongue for so much
in arrear due to him as one of the Barons of the Exchequer,
being part of the additional 2001. a year paid to all the judges.
The sum is due for fifteen months and 72 days to 5 June, 1695,
when he was superseded. Give directions for its payment to the
Bishop of Ossory.
P. J. Ibid, pp. 27-8.
3. Sets out a lease made by King Charles II on 26 February, 166i,
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granting to them and their heirs "a front waste-house plot
westside of Nicholas Street, returned the propriety of Sir Daniel
Bourke, a front waste-house plot returned the propriety of
Sir Nicholas Comin, the same and a yard and garden returned
the propriety of Alderman Nicholas Faning and Alderman James
Bourke, a front waste-house plot returned the propriety of
Patrick Wolfe FitzRichard and a front house plot returned the
propriety of Francis Creagh FitzThomas," all of which plots
lie in the city of Limerick. These plots are now and have, ever
since the recent troubles in Ireland, been used for a parade for
a garrison there.
Proceeds:-Murrough, Viscount Blessinton, claims a title to
these plots under the grant, and asks for compensation for the time
it has been so used and that he may have it for his own use if it
is not thought necessary to keep it for our service. It appears,
from your report and a report of the Solicitor General there,
that Viscount Blessinton's title is good, and that the said waste
ground cannot at any time be dispensed with for our soldiers to
parade in, and that 3501. would be a sufficient sum to acquire
Viscount Blessinton's interest and pay him compensation. You
shall, on his making a good conveyance of it to such person, in
trust for us, as you think fit, give order for paying 3501. to him.
Pp. 1. S.P. Signet Office 15, pp. 29, 30.
25 Aug.    The COMMISSIONERS of VICTUALLING to [NOTTINGHAM].
Victuallng  Sends an account as to victualling the ships at Portsmouth
and Spithead.
Three lines. Signed by John Houblon, Thomas Colby, H.
Wright and William    Carpenter. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 45.
Enclosing:The account aforesaid.
Gives details as to the bread, beer, beef, pork, pease, fish, butter
and cheese on board the Royal William, Lancaster, Victory,
Cornwall, Namure and Syam     Hospital; the number of
men on each ship, how long the stores on board will serve the
men, and how much is still wanting.
P. i. Dated, Portsmouth Victualling Office, 23 August, 1702.
Endd. Ibid, 45A.
25 Aug.    ROYAL PROCLAMATION.
Windsor.   Recites the facts set out in the warrant for dissolving
Parliament of 8 August, 1702 (above, p. 208). Proceeds.-We
therefore call a Parliament to meet at Edinburgh on 12 November
next, and require all peers and officers of State to attend on that
day, and also order the sheriffs to call together all the freeholders
in the respective shires, that fit persons be elected commissioners for
this Parliament. We also command our Royal boroughs to make
choice of commissioners accordingly. Lyon King at Arms and all
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the Market Crosses of Edinburgh and of the head Burghs of the
several shires.
P. i. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, p. 192.
24 Aug.    ROYAL LETTERS [to the CHANCELLOR of SCOTLAND].
Windsor.   Recites the recommendation of the Earl of Morton made by
the Parliament of Scotland in 1693 and 1702, and the letters
of King William III in his favour. Proceeds:-The Queen,
satisfied of the Earl's loyalty &c., ordains a letter of gift to be
made and past under the Privy Seal of Scotland granting..
the Earl 1,0001. sterling or 12,0001. Scots to be paid to him yearly
out of the first and readiest of the rents, duties, profits &c. of
the earldom and lordship of Orkney and Zetland. This grant
shall include all other grants in the Earl's favour out of the said
lordship, and shall be paid till his cause be fully tried. To secure
the payment the Queen makes over to him so much of the rents
&c. of the earldom &c. as will pay the annuity and appoints
him and his deputies chamberlains and collectors of the said
rents, "as fully and effectually as if a special and ample letter
of chamberlanry " had been given him for that effect. After
paying himself his annuity, he shall be liable to the Queen for
the balance and shall give good security for that end. Provided
that if the Commissioners of Treasury think it better to set
the earldom  &c. in tack rather than continue it in collection,
they may do so; but, if they do so, they shall oblige the tacksmen to pay the Earl of Morton his annuity.      Other details.
Favourable clauses.
Pp. 1, with docquet. Countersigned by Queensberry. Ibid,
pp. 193, 194.
25 Aug.    ROYAL WARRANT* to the [CHANCELLOR and CHANCERY of
Windsor        SCOTLAND?] in favour of the Duke of Queensberry.
Directs letters to be passed under the Great Seal of Scotland
setting forth Queensberry's prudence and vigilance in the Royal
service as Lord Privy Seal and one of the Extraordinary Lords of
Session [mentions his other offices] and High Commissioner in
Scotland to the late King and to the Queen. Her Majesty
believes entirely in the Duke's loyalty, approves all his actions,
public and private, in all his official capacities or otherwise,
and gives him full discharge and exoneration therefor. She
also pardons and indemnifies him and his heirs &c. for all crimes
or offences committed by him, or for allowing rebels to occupy
his lands or part of them, and for all other crimes whatsoever.
Other details. A very full pardon.
Pp. 2], with docquet. Countersigned by Seafield. Ibid, pp. 200-3.
28 Aug.    The COMMISSIONERS of VICTUALLING to [NOTTINGHAM].
VOfile.g   Sends a fresh account of the victuals on the ships at Portsmouth
and Spithead.
* Though described in the docquet as a " warrant," this document contains no
words of warranty, and is not entered as addressed to anyone; but directs letters to
pass under the Great Seal of Scotland, of which, of course, the Chancellor was keeper.




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Three lines. Signed as their letter of 25 August [above, p. 220].
S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 46. Enclosing:The account aforesaid.
Similar details to enclosure on p. 220, above, q.v.
P. 1.  Dated Portsmouth Victualling Office, 26 August, 1702.
Ibid, 46A.
28 Aug.    NOTTINGHAM to the COMMISSIONERS for TRANSPORTS.
Cockpit.   To provide transport for taking 15 horses belonging to the
officers of Colonel Gibson's regiment to Portsmouth, where the
regiment is to embark for Ireland.
P. I. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 109.
28 Aug.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Admiralty  Sends a paper laid before the Prince's Council regarding the
action of two Dutch men-of-war, which allowed an English ship
to be taken in their sight without coming to her assistance.
To be submitted to Nottingham.
P. W. Signed. Add. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 127. Enclosing:Note from Grimsby.
We have had several vessels taken within six or eight miles of
the Humber mouth. One, [Captain] Roger Dawson, of Gainsbrough, ransomed. The money is ordered to that Mr. Bee of
Calais. William Robinson of Hull, master of the Owler, [who
bears this?], has got six guns and comes here sometimes.
Here is now a fleet of 200 loaden colliers with two Dutch menof-war for convoy.  These let a French privateer take Robert
Ducke, a ship of eight guns. He fought the French four hours
and would not have been captured had not his powder failed.
The convoy took no notice of it.
P. i  Dated, Grimsby, 21 August, 1702. Ibid, 127A.
Same.     SAME to NOTTINGHAM.
Sends, by direction of the Prince's Council, a draft* of
instructions for Sir Cloudesley Shovell. If the Committee of
Council approve them and they are returned, they will be sent
away to-night.
P. i. (Hol.) Endd. Ibid, 128.
29 Aug.    HEDGES to the EARL OF ROCHESTER.
Bath.     Yours of the 27th.   I have attended the Lord Treasurer
about the West Indian commissions. The Queen has granted
them as you desire, though she thought there was some hardship
in the case of the lieutenant-colonel of Tiffany's regiment. The
commissions shall be prepared as soon as possible in the usual
form. [Details.]
The Queen was received with all possible demonstrations of
joy at the places which she passed, especially at Oxford. In
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Convocation House there, after the Orator had finished his harangue,
her Majesty said: "I am very glad of this occasion of assuring
you of my favour and protection and take these marks of your
duty and affection to me very kindly. I shall always have a
particular regard to this great Body that is so considerable in itself
and so useful both to the Church and State."
P.S.-Here are present Sir Edward Seymour, Colonel Granvill,
Sir John Levison Gore, Mr. How and several others who may
make a good Committee.
Pp. 1k. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 230, 231.
29 Aug.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Colonel Collier.
I have yours undated and of July 31, enclosing the examination
of Michael Bennett, a sentinel.  The Lords of the Committee
direct you to discharge the vessel mentioned in your first, she
having arrived on 4 May, and to permit the merchants and
gentlemen who were there before the war to depart from the
island. The sentinel must be tried, as you propose.
P. A. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 109, 110.
2. To the Earl of Galloway [Galway].
I have received from a Swiss officer a memorial asking on behalf
of himself and several other officers, his countrymen, for payment of some arrears due to them. As I see your lordship's
name mentioned in it, I let you know of it, that I may have
your account of it before laying it before the Queen.  Pray
send it me as soon as you conveniently can.
P. 2. Ibid, p. 110.
3. To Bernard Ellis.
Yours of the 12th. The Lords of the Committee approve
your conduct in discharging 31 men and women to go to France.
You may also discharge the three vessels which came to Guernsey
on the 30th of April.
P. i. Ibid, p. 111.
4. To Mr. Hook.
Yours of the 21st.  The Lords of the Committee direct with
regard to the 13 Frenchmen taken up and brought before you,
that you enquire of the captain of the Dutch privateer at
Falmouth, to which they pretend to belong, what account he
can give of them. Let me know what he says.
P. i. Ibid.
5. To the Prince's Council.
I send a copy of a letter received from France giving an account
of an engagement on 13 July, n.s., between a French man-of-war
of 26 guns and an English man-of-war of 36, wherein the French
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to leave her. Cause the matter to be examined and the captain
to be punished according to his demerits.
P. A-. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 112.
30 Aug.    HEDGES to SAMUEL RODBARD, High Sheriff of Somerset.
Bath.    Reprieving Paul Nicholas, who was condemned at the last
Wells Assizes for robbery and burglary, till the Judge on circuit
reports on his case. Further pleasure.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 231. Also S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 103, p. 7.
31 Aug.   [The EARL OF] GALWAY to [NOTTINGHAM].
\Str to,  Many thanks for sending me the petition which has been
presented to you against me.
When the late king sent me to Piedmont at the end of 1693,
his Majesty and the States General had me paid the sums due
for arrears to the regiments of Baltasard, Loches* and Julien,
with orders to pay them according to the accounts which would
be given me by M. Vandermeer, Minister of the States at the
Court of the Duke of Savoy, who had been commissary of those
troops and had paid them before they entered into the service
of the Duke [of Savoy]. I passed my accounts and remitted
all the quittances when I returned to London. But-in order
to make my conduct clear to you-I gave to MIl. de Baltasard
and de Loches what was due to their regiments. The first died a
short time after. M. D'Aubemarques, who was his lieutenantcolonel, and had the regiment after him, took care of the details,
and I took the utmost care that no injustice was done to anyone
in either of those regiments. I could not do the same with regard
to the regiment of Julien, because the colonel had gone back to
France. That regiment becoming mine, I myself considered the
payment of all the officers present, and followed Mr. Vandermeer's
memoirs in keeping for those who were absent what he thought
was due to them. I had about 4001. or 5001. over, and asked the
King to be allowed to keep it in order to reward officers for special
services, or pay those in want. The King consented to this.
Some time afterwards I received a letter from the Sieur Due,
who apparently presents the petition. I shewed it to M. Vandermeer
and to the officers who had known him in the regiment, especially
to M. Guiraud, who was then the major and is now lieutenant-colonel
of the regiment of Belcastel in Holland. All told me that his claims
were not well founded. I saw him last year in Holland and told
him all that I have told you, and said it was useless to speak of it,
as all the money had been paid out and accounted for more than four
years ago. However, M. Vandermeer being absent, I spoke of the
matter to M. Clignet, Postmaster at Leyden, who had always occupied himself with the affairs of those troops in Holland. He said
he did not think that officer was right. When I saw the officer
* Hereafter called De Baltasard and De Loches, but here the prefixes "de"
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himself in London I told him that I thought nothing was due
to him.
Of the great number of officers whom he names, I do not think
that he has a commission from one. Most of the names are
unknown to me. I know that some are dead. Some I know,
and they are friends of mine. I have seen them often since
that time, and they have not shewn me any sign of discontent.
It is not likely that if they had been left unpaid they would have
allowed nearly nine years to elapse without complaint. Since
1694 I have heard of no such pretensions save that of the Sieur
Due, and, looking at the accounts on which I must rely, think it
ill-founded.
Pp. 51. (Hol.) Signed, "Gallway."     In  French.  Endd.
S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 67.
31 Aug.    HEDGES to NOTTINGHAM.
Bath.    I have moved the Queen for a renewal of Lord Carlisle's commission as Governor of Carlisle. It is granted. Lord Weymouth
has been here and is trying to get the Lord Treasurer to "lump "
the Earl of Winchilsea's allowance and advance the whole. If
this is not done he will no doubt have as much as Lord Raby had.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 103, p. 7.
31 Aug.    ORDERS by SIR GEORGE ROOKE to the Commanders of HER
Royal        MAJESTY'S hired Ships and Vessels.
Great quantities of rich goods and plate have been seized as
plunder from Port St. Mary's and are on board her Majesty's
ships, transports, victuallers and tenders.  You are directed
to secure any of such goods which are in your ship to the sole use
of the Queen. When you arrive in England you shall allow no
baggage to be put out of your ship until she be first visited by
some officer of the Customs. As soon as possible you are to
transmit to me the best account you can of the marks, numbers
and contents of every cask, bail, chest, box or parcel on.your
ship, for whose account it was put on board, and with as little
cause for any pretence of embezzlement as may possibly be.
Do not fail in this, as you expect compliance with your charter
party on the Queen's behalf. Words of warranty.
Pp. lH. Copy. Verified with signature of Sir George Rooke.
S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 129.
Aug.     NOTE for the DIVIDEND for AUGUST.*
The left column figures come to 281. 6s. 8d., the right column
to 991. 6s. 8d.
Pp. 1. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 68.
Entered   AN ESTABLISHMENT of PAYMENTS for CIVIL AFFAIRS in
Aug.         IRELAND, to be made from 24 June, 1702.
This list is similar to those published in Calendar of S.P. Ireland,
1660-2, at p. 524 seq., and in Calendar of S.P. Ireland, 1666-9,
* See the entry above, at 31 March, 1702.


Wt. 3880.


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at p. 73 seq. This entry is calendared by reference to the later
calendar, only the differences between them being noted in the
following entry. The following list does not contain the names
of the holders of the various offices, but is merely a framework
of the establishment, with a list of the fees paid to each officer.
1. Court of Exchequer:A Lord Treasurer is inserted with 3651. a year.
A second Sergeant is inserted with 301. 6s. Od. a year.
A Chief Remembrancer is given with 511. 19s. 2d. a year.
The Sumonister is called Sumonister and clerk of the estreats.
In addition to the officers mentioned in 1666 there are also
here a pursuivant (791.) and an auditor of the foreign accounts
and imprests (1211. 13s. 4d.). There is also an augmentation to
the three Barons of the Exchequer to the amount of 2001. a year each.
2. Court of Queen's Bench:The offices here are the same as in 1666 (q.v. in Calendar of S.P.
Ireland, 1666-9, at p. 74). The salaries paid to the three judges
are 6001. to the Chief Justice and 4001. to the second and third
justices with augmentations of 2001. a year each.
3. Court of Chancery:There are here four masters in Chancery instead of two. The
Lord Chancellor gets 2,0001. a year, the Master of the Rolls
1571. 9s. lid.
4. Court of Common Pleas:
As before. The salaries are, however, 5001., 4001. and 4001. to the
first three justices respectively; and each of them has an augmentation of 2001. a year.
5. Officers attending the State:
There is added here a " physician to the State " (661. 13s. 4d.),
a keeper of the rooms in Dublin Castle (161. 16s. Od.), a porter of
the Castle (131. 13s. 9d.), Keeper of the Records in Birmingham's
Tower (101. Os. Od.), Constable of the Castle (201. Os. Od.), and
a payment of 5001. to the Lord Mayor and citizens of Dublin.
6. Incidents:
The charge of the circuits put amongst these, and is now 2,0001.
If any judges do not go circuit their allowance is to be saved
to the Queen.
Paid to the Dean of Christchurch for the rent of the Exchequer
Chambers and other rooms in the Four Courts, 151. 1Os. Od.
Rent of Skyddys Castle, being the storehouse of Cork,
71. 10s. Od.
The payment to the Receiver-General for paper and parchment
is 251. Os. Od.
The keeper of the House for receipts gets now 51. Os. Od.
The singers of Christchurch for praying for the Queen get
now 21. Os. Od. [each].
7. The heading "provincial officers" mentioned in 1666 is
omitted here.
8. The officers of the Customs are the same as in 1666, but the
salaries are in some cases slightly smaller. No searcher for
Newcastle, Dundrum &c. [see Calendar of S.P. Ireland, 1666-9, at
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A note here adds that any vacancy which occurs in any of
these posts shall be filled by a fresh appointment, which shall
be during pleasure only. The "Commissioners General of
Customs " and   " Accountants  General"  do   not appear
here.
9. The heading "Creation Money " does not appear in this
list.
10. The list of perpetuities is as follows:Provost and Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, Dean and
Chapter of Christchurch, Bishop of Meath and Archbishop of
Dublin and "chanter" of Christchurch, Dublin, with details
as in 1666 but with slightly different sums. To these are added:1. s. d.
Rent of the lands of Castleney [Castle-ny] Park
where the fort of Kinsale stands....   50 0 0
Minister of the French Church....            50 0 0
Printing the bills of mortality......      12 0 0
Tithes of the land in Phoenix Park....   12 0 0
11. Pensions. The full list of these here is:Presbyterian ministers........ 1,200 0 0
Lord Abercorn for the lighthouses, by letters
passed in Charles II's reign......   500 0 0
Thomas Hughes, a blind man......    25 0 0
Duke of St. Albans........   800 0 0
Richard, Earl of Ranelagh, for his annuity for
21 years from 25 March, 1699....    300 0 0
Captain Charles Hubblethorne......   100 0 0
George Rodney Bridges, during the life of the
Earl of Rochester........ 1,600    0 0
The Earl of Granard......      500 0 0
David Jervaice and his wife....    50 0 0
Mrs. Jane Jones..........   100 0 0
Mrs. Jane Wynne......      100 0 0
Baron de Virazel [Virazeil]......   100 0 0
Earl of Roscommon..       ~......  100 0 0
Thomas Keightley, Esq.......   400 0 0
Mrs. Katharine O'Brien.....   200 0 0
Mrs. Katharine Puissar......   200 0 0
Mrs. Maurice for four years from 2 July, 1700..  50 0 0
Marquis of Montander for life by warrant dated
3 October, 1701....                  200 0 0
Mrs. Elizabeth Willoughby....      200 0 0
Elias Bouherau..........   200 0 0
Brigadier Belcastle, by letters patents of
3 October, 1701, for 21 years from August,
1701..........         500 0 0
Edward Progers..........   200 0 0
William Legg.......          100 0 0
Mrs. Waller, by warrant dated 17 April, 1700,
granted to James Waller till 2,0001. be paid
at one entire payment....        200 0 0




228


STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.


12. Commissioners of Appeals:Three Commissioners in causes of Excise
and new impost at 1001. each a year


1. s. d.
300 0 0


13. Payments for extraordinaries by Concordatum. These are
the same as in 1666, but the total is only 5,0001. instead of
9,0001.
The list concludes:-And it is our pleasure that no payments
or allowance be made by concordatums but by warrant drawn
by the Clerk of the Council in Ireland and passed openly at our
Council Board and signed by two or three of the Council.
[Details.] All sums paid out contrary to this direction shall
be surcharged on those who sign the order for payment.
Pp. 7. S.P. Signet Office 15, pp. 33-40.


Entered
Aug.


TOTALS of the CIVIL LIST.
Exchequer
King's Bench
Chancery
Common Pleas..
State Officers
Incidents
Customs Officers
Perpetuities
Pensions
Appeals
Concordatums
Monthly Pensioners*
Total
P. i. Ibid, p. 47.


1......... 4,102........2,007........2,297.......  1,907.....  2,205...... 22,055
~...... 238
~...... 563.......7,925
~...... 300
~...... 5,000.....  24,940


S.
0
10
19
10
15
0
6
15
0
0
0
2


d.
2
0
11
0
2
0
8
6
0
0
0
11...... ~53,543 0 4


Same.     LIST of PERSONS to be PENSIONED [IN IRELAND].t
These persons to be paid monthly or quarterly on appearance
or sending certificates to shew they are alive, and not otherwise
employed. Pensions to commence from 24 June, 1702.
A day.                         A day.
s. d.                           s.d.
Daubusarques.... 10 0     Balandry....  4 0
Molien....      9 0    Des Loires.... 4 0
Verangle....  8 0     Rouviere....  4 0
Mazeres....      7 0     Fountaine....  4 0
Chanquion....  5 0     Cramathe....  4 0
Barmetre....5 0       La Cailti6re..    4 0
La Fabreque....       5 0     La Coudriere...  4 0
La Milliere...  5 0     La Malquiere....  4 0
La Bouthetiere..  50      Chabrieres....4 0




_..|.......................


* These appear in the next list.
t Except that these pensions are entered in a book containing almost entirely
Irish entries, there is nothing to shew that they are to be paid in Ireland.




ANNE.


229


1702.


La Lande
Combe Crosse
Pinsun
Salles
Maisonneuve
Coulombier
Boisviban
Dumay..
Lubieres
Dollon
Vendieres
D'Hours
Anthony La Rogue
Plafay
La Cailtiere
La Milliere
Anthony Gassand
Guiraudet
Mallie
Boyer..
Farange
Amatis
Pineau..
Chelar..
Plessier
Saurin..
Descury
Goulane
Liverne
Cambes
La Salles
Rigaudie
Jalaquier
Des Fourneaux
Brunel
Des Isles
Du Puy..
La Chapelle
Darques
D'Abbadie
Corbettes
Du Chine
Savounet.
Brugnier
Delisle..
Dubay
Coulon
Armand, Marquis
Miremont.
Jean de Savory. I
I


A day.
8. d.
5  0. 3  0. 3 0. 3  0. 3  0. 3  0. 3  0. 3  0. 2 6. 2 6. 2  6. 2  6. 2  6. 2  6. 2 6. 2 6
2  6
1  6. 1  6.  1  6.  1  6.  1  6.  1  6
1  6.  1  6.  1  6.  5  0. 4  0.. 4 0.. 2  6.. 2  0.. 2 0. 2 0.  2  0.. 2 0
2  0.. 2 0.. 2 0.. 2 0.. 2 0
2  0
2  0.. 2  0.. 2 0.. 2  0.. 2  0.. 2  0


Louvigny
Valsery
Clervaux
Guerin..
Dallons
Arabin
Rousse
Malleray
Dufay..
Chapell..
St. Christol
Nicholas
Comarques
Dalez Soustelle
Druthou
Theremin
Desmareste
Syol
Du Chesne
Goubert
Constantine
Therond
Signouniere
Moncornet
Du Marest
Du Val..
Constantin, jun.
La Rouviere
Feron
La Rogue
Le Blanc
Olivere Malherbie
Jean Boutherie
Jean Cailhot..
Isaac la Melionere
Vimar
Labalme
Papaut
La Bastide
Brasselay
Vignoles
De la Court
Deperay
Des Crosse
Montigny
Rousset
Sequeville
Peter Bordenave
Fraissinet
Masillos


A day.
s. d...40.. 4  0.. 4  0.. 4  0.. 4  0.. 4 0.. 2 6..  2 6
2  6.. 2  6..  2 6.. 2 6.. 2 6.. 2 6.. 2 6.. 2 6.. 2 6.. 2 6.. 2 6.. 2 6.. 2  6.. 2 6.. 2  6. 2  6.. 2  6.. 2  6. 2  6
2  6. 2  6.. 2 6.. 2  6.. 1  6..  1  6.. 1  6.. 8  0
6  0.. 5  0.. 2 0.. 3 0.. 3 0.. 3 0.. 3 0
3  0.. 3 0
3  0..  3 0.. 3 0.. 26
2  0. 2 0


de.. 10..    7


0
0




230


STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.




A day.
s. d.
Charles Couteau..  6 0
Pierre Aurelle....  4  0
Jaques Lestanguet..  4 0
Francis Merivall..  4 0
D. Addee....  4 0
Monledier....  4  0
Est. Guillhon....  2  6
Pierre Chalamel..  2  6
Pierre Monfort....  2  6
Pierre Dufossat..  2  6
Joseph Davessem..  2  6
Samuel Dussout..  2  6
Marc Anthony de Mezerac 2  0
Gideon Castlefranc..  2  0
Pierre de Senegas.. 2   0
Rebout De Longpre..    2  0
Abel de Castlefranc.. 2  0
Josue du Fay Dixodun    2  0
Etienne Potitot..  2  0
Jacques Limarest..  2  0
Pierre Ribot....1 6
Jacques Michel..  1 6
Jacques Pontbisson..    1 6
Bruniguel....
St. Phillibert.... 12  6
Marechall....  2  6
D' Hanus....  2  6
St. Mesmin....2    6
La Mott Belleau..  2  6
St. Hypolite....  2  6
La Sauvagie....  2  6
La Rice......     2  6
St. Jeme....  2  6
La Bat...... 2   6
Bragard....  2  6
Ruynat....  2  6
Dubothet....  2  6
Alesieu......  2  6
De Meney....  2  6
Beaulieu....  2  6
Laussar....  2  6
De Leuze....2    6
Comte de la Muse..  2  6
La Coste....1 6
Du Faux, junr...  1 6
Puychenin....       1 6
Castel Verdun....  1 6
Mercier.....        1 6
Pelat...1 6
La Porte...1 6


Coulon....
Brunville
Berault...
Bedora.
Portal..
Le Mot Grinder
Bigos
Vignan
Fonronce
Longchamp
Ferrand
Brisac..
De Rochblave..
Beaucourt
Dangilband
Glatigny
Delpy..
Garipuy
Du Faux
Molie, senr..
De Loches
Rientor
Dalbon
Dautevil
Cresseron
La Chercis
Jean Pepin
Jeremy de Bancons
Paul de Gally..
Louis de Pelissier
Rimbliere
Constantin de Magny..
Theodore de Brisay..
Pierre de Brusse
Joseph St. Leger
Guillaume de Poncet..
Calvairac
Lestablere
Vestien
La Vivarie
Bancons
La Beissade
Combe Brune
Falaise..
Mainauduc
La Motte Brocas
Desclaux
Pagez..
Paris..
Geneste.


A day.
s. d.
20
20
20
20
20
20
2 0
20
2 0
20
20
1 6
1 6


1
1
1
1
1
1
1
6
5
4
2
2
5
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1


6
6
6
6
0
6
6
0
0
0
6
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
6
6
6




ANNK            23


231


1702.


A day.
s. d.
Papin...  1  6
Valada....  1  6
Dambon...1 6
Dhiuglas...1 6
Villeneuve... 1  6
La Lauze...1 6
Masse....  1  6
Bonabel.   *.1 6
Bafiniac.. 1 6
Du Puy..... 1 6
IDassas.... 1  6
La iRivalie're... 1  6
La Fitte...1 0
La Fonte  I.  *    0
Brisac. *... 1  0
La Mecourt I..    0
Molie, junr.... 1  0
ID'Albenquie...1 0
D'Appiliz... 1  0
iDuserre..  I..   0
Desemblands I..   0
Earl of Lifford... 8 0
Samuel de Boisrond..6 0
ID. IDe Vizazel [Virazeil]  3  0
St. Maurice *..  2  6
La Coste...2 6
Farj on.... 2  6
Durban...1 6
Chabert,..  1  6
St. Phelix...  1  6
Rivals....  1  6
St. Pau..1 6
Dumas....  1 6
Foissac....  1  6
La Charroys, jun..  1 6
Passy....  1  6
La Billiere *. *  1  6
D'Alby...1 6
St. Martin. *  1  6
Martell..  *..  1 6
Lantal..  *..    6
La Salle  I..    0
Du Pratt...1 0
Domerques I..    0
IDejoye  I...   0
Navez...   *.  1  0
IDufie  I. *  *    0
Grance I...    0
Santel  I...    0
De Guillien  *.1 0


Langon
Vigneule
Tauranac
Chiamard
Jernac
Crossat
Sibourg
Trapaud
Brugnieres
Des Landes
Moncal,
Mimet.
Melyer.
Du Torall
Marchay
La Merie
St. Puy
Aubin
Cabrol
IDe L'Aigle
Leagar
Ferott
IDesmarest
La Bauve
La Brissoniere
La Lande
Terrison
Brassard
Faviere
Valogne..
La Battie
Du Barry
La Nauze
La Columbine
Courselles
Foissac
Bremont
Du Hornet
Estanier
D'Esprandieu
Vernous
Rossillon
iDe Bette
Bryan
La Touche
La Groye
La Coste
IDesodes
Delorme
La Boissiere


A day.
S. d..1 6.1 6
1 6
1 6
1 6
1 6
1 0
1 6
1 6
2 6
2 6
2 6
2 6.2 6
2 6
2 6.2 6.2 6
2 6.2 6
2 6
2 6
2 6
2 6
2 6.2 6
2 6
2 6.2 6
2 6
2 6
2 0
2 6
2 6
2 6
2 6
1 6
1 6
1 6
1 6
1 6
1 6
1 6
1 6
1 6
1 6
1 6
1 6
1 0.1 0




232


STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.


Gatine
La Maria
Tharot
Pentereau
Bourdique
La Bastide de Lon
Du Puy..
Caries
Simond
Girard
Dalmas
Clavie....
Beray..
Grandry
Dupre..
La Tour
Celeriez
Pinchinat
Blosset..
Fonsuliane
Fontalba
La Fortelle
Vaury
St. Gabriel
Rosieres
Machenville
Peter Grinder
Charles Quinsac
Peter Barcus..
David Bellegarde
Jaque D'Alteirat
Falquier
Peter Massot..
Grenier
Peter Pelat
Guisott..
Vissouse
St. Meard
Forfiquier
La Millihre, sen.
La Milliere, jun.


A day.
s. d.
5  0
3  0.. 3 0..3  0.. 3 0
3  0.. 3  0
2  0
2  0
2  0
2  0
2  0
2  0.. 1  6
1  6. 1  6.. 1  6..   1 6
5  0
2  6. 2  6
2  6
2  6
2  6
2  6
2  6.. 0  6.. 0  6.. 0  6.. 0  6.. 0  6.. 0  6.. 0  6.. 0  6
0  6..0 6..  0 6.. 0  6..  0 6.  0 6.. 0  6


A day.
s. d.
Nissole......  1 0
Boniface....  1 6
Compaing....  1 0
Lugandy....  1 0
Fabre.....1 0
Peter Clavier..       0  6
Terson....1 0
Belthazar Farinel..  1 0
Mark Rigaudie..  1 0
Gaspar Pajeou....  1 0
Charles Gallisian..  1 0
Beauchamp....  1 0
La Bauleray....  1 0
Bessiere....  1 0
Peter Denis....  1 0
Odat......            0
Vialas....     10
Peter Dumas....  1 0
Louis Pajeou..  1 0
Claussade... 0   8
La Grave..        0  8
Etienne Peirin.... 0   8
David Masuel..     0  8
Phil du Val..         0  8
Fred de Mesnil...  0 8
Louis St. Loup....     0  8
Suzaz Thomas..  0 8
Peter Verdier..     0  6
La Garde....0    6
La Bastide.... 0 6
Royall....      0  6
Mathew Bonnival.. 0   6
Gout.....0  6
Gaubert.... 0   6
Rouviere...   0 6
David Langlade.. 0 6
Chatine, sen....  0 6
Chatine, jun....0    6
Chamflury..        0  6
La Motte Cercler [?].  0  6
Hubert......0    6


Old pensioners as follows:Marquis d'Arzeliers..  6  0
Petit Bose....  6  0
La Faussille....  6  0
Bostaquet....  5  0
Desberbiers....  5  0
Dampieres....  5  0
La Coudriere...  5  0


Fontanier
La Clide
St. Jermain
Labrousse
Gauteron
Dertous [?]
St. Maison


3
3
3
3
3
3
3


0
0
0
0
0
0
0
O
O




ANNE.


233


1702.


A
Thenie....
Monginot..
Deppe.....
Pascal..
De Sailly
Silvie et Anne De
Montand..
D'Albenas..
Henrard
St. Cyr...
Marconay
Fonjuliane..
La Boissonade
Seve..
Escurre
Villemisson
La Boulaye, sen. and jun.
La Bross Fertin
Du Causse..
Lentilhac..
Mercier....
Barbaut
Millery...
Verdelles
Brunevall.
Du Par..
Denrothes..
Lestrille..
Chabrolle..
Courteille..
Ponthieu
La Cost de St. Jour..
La Basoche
Bain..
Rochmont..
Rivery...
La Bastide Barbut
Goullin....
Gaume......
Lasseere..
Lamy.....
Sailly.....
La Rouviliere..
Boyer....
Mestie...
Lile Du Roy..
Faure....
Bourdin.
Le Petit
La Rissoles Falentin..


I day.
s. d.
5 0
5 0
4 0
4 0
4 0


4
4
4
4
4
4
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1


0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
6
6
6


A
Bayse
Bernard
La Primaudaye
Fenovillet
Jacques la Motte
St. Maurice
Guyon..
De Pres
La Motte
Antonine La Maria
D'Albenas, jun.
Gaily le Pere..
De Lorthes
Vignolas..
Danny..
Charrier
Gibern..
Montau
Bernarden
Pressac.
Monroy
La Garde
Isarn.
Du Perse
Liger...
Prou..
Piozet..
Bernard
La Mouline
St. Sauveur..
Du Plessy
Le Cocq
Daussy
Lamerie
Ffloyd
La Moliere
De la Maugere..
St. Agnant
Belorient
St. Fauste
Lange
Baignoulx..
Fortenier
Laine....
La Naive
Madme Daussebille
St. Feriol de la Touche
Boisbeland..
Laval..
St. Etienne..


day.
s. d.
30
3  0
3  0
3  0
30
3  0
3  0
3  0
30
3  0
3  0
2  6


2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1


6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
0
0




234


STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.




A day.
s. d.
D'Amboix..      1 6     Guilhern
Belet......  1 6     Quinson
Le Brun....  1 6     Chambr
De Loches....  1 6    Mongau
Dumas...  1 6   Garrisor
La Mott Champy..  1 6    Despier,
Rou...        1 6    Maiguer
La Chancellerie..   1 6     Bryant
Vialas......  1 6     La Palli
Aldebert....  1 6     Le Cont
Mercier....  1 6     Bureau
Lanfant....        1 6     Guy
La Hauteville..   1 6    De Neu
Bontons....1 0       De Ollo
Du Vias..1 0       De Trai
Anna A. du Passy..  4 0     Villeneu
La Motte....  2  6    De la G
Gervaisot....  1 6    De la P
La Lande...      2   0   Mery L
Scaubergue....  2  0   De La ]
Columbier....  2  0   De La I
Gab. Barbier....  4 0     De Soli,
Du Buc....  2  0    Du Lac
La Sautie....  3 0     Clavier
Dagos......     2   6    Begat
Surville....1 6       Bancon
Beaufort..        1 6     De Boll
Melon.....      1 6     Monpin
Sieur de Montaut..  5 0     Vasselo
Marquis de Leucourt..  5 0     Pinet
Baron d'Autraques..   5 0     De Sesr
Vague......  1 6     Anthon
De la Soradiere..   1 6     Du Lau
De Membray....      2 0     De La
De la Plague....  4 0     Darenn
Prat Laine....   1 6     Malherl
Du Puy......  1 6     La Cro]
Bonneval....      2  0    Galliarc
Pinneau..2           0    De Lisi
Pp. 6. S.P. Signet Office 15, pp. 41-6.


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Mott..
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A day.
8. d.. 1   0. 1 0.  0. 1 0
1  0. 1  6.  0. 1 0.1 0. 1 0. 1 0
1  0
5  0. 5  0. 3 0. 3 0.30. 3 0.30.20


ien..
* ~
~~


3
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
5
1
6
1
2
1
3


0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
6
6
6
0
0
6
0
3
0
6
6


SEPTEMBER, 1702.
1 Sept.   The COMMISSIONERS of VICTUALLING to HEDGES.
Victuae.1   The account of victuals received from Portsmouth is the same
as what has been already sent. We hope we need not send
them twice a week.
Four lines.  Signed by the Commissioners.   Add.   Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 47.




ANNE.


235


1702.
1 Sept.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.
Whitehall.  1. To Colonel Collier.
Since my last, application has been made to me on behalf of
James Drouett, the master of a small barque, who says that
he anchored in the road near Elizabeth Castle on 3 May last
about 10 p.m., and the next day about 7 a.m., brought his barque
into the pier of St. Aubin's, and about two hours after made his
declaration to her Majesty's officer of the Customs. If this is
the same vessel as you mention in yours of 31 July, discharge
her; and if it is another, discharge her also, unless there is some
good reason against it.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 112, 113.
2. To the Prince's Council.
The Queen has directed Consul Broughton at Venice to send
the Navy Board details of the expenses to which he says he is put
in taking care of her Majesty's poor mariners and to draw bills on
them. The Prince to order that these bills be accepted and paid
by the Navy Board without delay.
P. W. Ibid, p. 114.
2 Sept.   [LIEUT.-COL.] L. MORDAUNT to [NOTTINGHAM].
Guernsey.  An officer of our regiment is prosecuted here. He was guilty
only of a great fault in drink. He is extremely sorry, and hopes
you will pass by his offence and not ruin a young man who has
nothing but his sword to depend upon. I will, if you please,
remove him to Jersey. I have begged the Duchess of Norfolk
to intercede for him.
P. i. (Hol.) S.P[ Dom., Channel Islands 2, 33.
Same.     BERNARD ELLIS to SAME.
Confirms foregoing as to the offence and contrition of the
offending officer, Lieutenant la Boulay. Kept him in prison a
fortnight, but had to release him to duty then, as there was only
one other officer fit for duty.
The French swarm on the coast.
P. 1. Ibid, 34.
2 Sept.   HEDGES to the EARL OF ROCHESTER.
Bath.    The gentlemen of Somerset and Dorset have been here to
pay their duty to the Queen, and amongst them several members
of Parliament, with my Lord Pawlett, seem to object to
Parliament meeting so soon as October 8. They give two reasons
against it-that the members who are justices of the peace must
take the oaths and test at the next sessions of the peace, which are
held on October 7, and think they incur penalties if they do not do
so, and cannot therefore be in town on October 8; and that
their appearing at the first Quarter Sessions will be of good
use in the country. I think the first objection invalid. The
sacrament must be taken within three months; but I think the
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[from their appointment]. The second objection has more
weight; but I think their real fear is that there may not be
a full house at first, as members from the North and West may
not have finished their country affairs by that time. I have
told the Lord Treasurer and have received orders to request
Lord Secretary Nottingham to summon a meeting of the Lords
of the Committee of Council who are about the Town to consider
if there is any great disadvantage in postponing the meeting
of Parliament for ten days or a fortnight.
The Queen goes to-morrow to visit Bristol, at the request of
the Mayor and his brethren, who came yesterday to invite her.
She comes back the same night.
I find more occasion td be here than I expected, and as all
business has to be sent here and despatched, and Mr. Warre or
Mr. Ellis can attend with my letters or take directions from
the Committee [of Council], I hope I may not be required [in
London]; but, if my Lords think my presence desirable I will
ask the Queen's leave to return.
Pp. 1k. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 232-4.
2 Sept.   NOTTINOGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1 To the Officers of the Ordnance.
Queen's command:-To send 500 saddles, holsters and bit
bridles to Portsmouth to go on the Resolution, Sunderland, &c.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 114.
2. To the Commissioners of Transport.
The saddles are ordered [see foregoing].  Certain stores-if
ready-to go on board the Anglesey and some victualling vessels
now at the Nore waiting for a fair wind to Portsmouth; or,
otherwise, to go [by land] to Portsmouth. The beds to go on this
vessel or the victualling vessels. Details.
P. ~. Ibid, p. 115.
Same.     RICHARD WARRE to JOSIAH BURCHETT.
I send, by Lord Nottingham's orders, two letters for
Admiral Almonde* and one for Rear-Admiral Vassenaer. My
Lord received them, for forwarding, by the Dutch post to-day.
Send them by the first conveyance to Sir George Rooke's fleet.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 146, p. 2.
3 Sept.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Earl of Carlisle.
The Queen has given order for your fresh patent as Governor
of Carlisle. Details.
Four lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 115.
2. To the Commissioners of Transport.
If you cannot provide shipping for the horses at Portsmouth
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you must provide vessels to take them to Portsmouth and so
to Ireland.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 116.
3. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
Sends a letter from Mr. Morris at Dover for perusal and an
opinion.
Six lines. Ibid.
4 Sept.   HUMPHREY PRIDEAUX, Dean of Norwich, to NOTTINGHAM.
Norwich.   As I owe my Deanery to you, I pray you to protect me in the
just discharge of my duties. I have lately been forced to expel
one of the minor canons of this church, and enclose my sentence
against him. The crime of which he is charged has been proved
by many witnesses to have been committed for seven years past,
but, notwithstanding its abominable nature, he finds here many
abettors, including Mr. Davy, the Recorder of Norwich, " a hotheaded, weak man," and because they think they can have no
redress from the Bishop (from whom they ought to seek it if I
had done anything wrong in this matter, he being our Visitor),
they are now contriving to bring it by way of petition before the
Queen and Council. To bring so filthy a cause before her Majesty
is a great affront; but I thought well to mention the matter
to you and ask for your favour.
P.  i. Signed.  Add.   Endd.   S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 69.
Enclosing:Sentence of the Dean of Norwich against John Stukeley, one
of the minor canons of Norwich.
States that Stukeley was charged with having long committed
acts of indecency in the presence of women; that the Dean
has consulted with the Archdeacon of Norfolk and one of
the prebendaries, and other learned persons. Judges the
crime proved, and that owing to the long practice of it, it is
a case for expulsion. Declares Stukeley expelled accordingly.
P. a. Read in the Chapter House at Norwich in the presence
of John Stukeley and subscribed by the Dean on 22 Aug., 1702.
Witnessed by Stephen Searle, Clerk of the Chapter and notary
public. Ibid, 69A.
4 Sept.   HEDGES to the EARL OF ROCHESTER.
Bath.    The Queen has granted a commission to Captain Jones as major.
The gentry here are very pressing to have the meeting of
Parliament postponed for about ten days. All here are well disposed to have it done, and I hope Lord Secretary Nottingham's
answer will favour the change.
P. i. S.P Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 234.
Same.     ROYAL WARRANT to the ATTORNEY or SOLICITOR GENERAL.
The Master and Wardens of the "mystery and Company of
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the pewterers of the City and suburbs were incorporated by
letters patents in the time of King Edward IV and thereby
invested with divers powers and privileges and authorities for
the good regulation and government of the said mystery. This
charter was confirmed by several Kings and Queens and extended
by Charles I and Charles II. Being apprehensive that some
question as to these grants might arise, and being anxious to
keep their powers for correcting all false and deceitful workers
and sellers of defective pewter, they want some further powers
and encouragement, and ask for confirmation of their former
powers and authorities, and the addition thereto of such others
as may seem requisite for the better government of the mystery.
Prepare a bill for our signature to pass the Great Seal incorporating
the Pewterers as before and confirming their powers, with the
addition of those fresh powers hereto annexed and such others as
may be requisite. Insert in the bill the names hereunto annexed.
Pp. 2. Followed by:Clauses containing the desires of the Pewterers Company.
1. Confirmation of all former charters and powers, with words
of incorporation and grant, to avoid all scruples.
2. That there may be a master and two wardens, to be chosen
annually, and not less than 24, or more than 40, assistants to
continue for life, and that the present master, wardens and
assistants may be particularly named and appointed to those
offices, and those for the future be chosen as hereinafter mentioned.
3. That the master and wardens or their deputies and any
ten assistants shall make a Court and be called the Court of
Assistants. All Courts shall be called by order of the master or
wardens or their deputies, and due notice shall be given of all
such intended Courts to all the assistants residing in London or the
suburbs. This Court shall meet as often as there shall be occasion,
and manage all the business of the Company.
4. A general Court of all the Company who are of the livery
shall be held yearly on some day in the month of August to
choose a master and wardens for the year following, who shall
on the Thursday next before Michaelmas Day appear and be sworn
by a Court of Assistants. If they do not appear, or refuse to
hold, or be excused for any reasonable cause by the Court, the
Company may proceed to a new election.
5. That on death or removal of a master or warden, his place
be filled by an election by a general Court, which shall be summoned by the remaining master or wardens or warden.
6. That the wardens, or their deputies, and assistants may
meet when they think fit, on due notice, and choose "out of the
members of the Company that shall be of the livery of the said
Company " so many as they shall judge necessary to be assistants
for life. The total number of assistants at any time shall not
exceed 40.
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and may "call such fit persons, members of the Company, to
be of the livery of the Company as they shall think fit."
8. That the Court of Assistants may choose the clerk and
other officers of the said Company, and that Robert Taelton [?],
the present clerk, be clerk for life; and that his successor may
hold office during good behaviour.
9. That the master, wardens and assistants and all who are
of the livery of the Company may on due notice meet and, by
vote of the majority present, make lawful bye-laws for the good
of the Company.
The following are the present master, wardens and assistants*:Master:-Robert Wood.
Wardens:-Richard Fletcher and Thomas Walterer [Watterer].
Assistants:-Robert Moulins, sen., Samuel Jackson, John
Campion, Richard Cheltlin, Stephen Laurence, Robert Gubern,
Christopher Roper, William Cowley, Thomas Templeman, Thomas
Hicks, Richard Health, William Howard, Thomas Shakle, John
Dyer, Thomas Taylor, Richard Smith, Benjamin Coper, Thomas
Powell, Hugh Quick, John Hutts, Thomas Redding, Thomas
Clerk, Edward Trahern, Anthony James, Daniel Parker.
In all pp. 6, with note that the Queen signed at the bottom.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 350, pp. 261-6.
5 Sept.   HEDGES to LORD WEYMOUTH.
Bath.    Just after you left I heard from London that Lord Secretary
Nottingham had summoned a meeting of the Committee of
Council in London, and that they had agreed that October 20
might be a suitable date for Parliament to meet.
The Queen has ordered a Council to attend her to-morrow
(Sunday) at 6 p.m.t I am sorry you went so soon, as we desire
your presence, but if you cannot come I will make your excuses.
I believe there will be no opposition unless from his Grace. You
know who are here, and can best judge whether you need come.
P. 2. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 234, 235.
6 Sept.   HEDGES' LETTERS.
Bath.    1. To Sir Philip Boteler.
I am sorry to hear there is a dispute between the Governor
and Lieutenant-Governor of Tilbury. I will try to compose it
when I return, but, meantime, I think that Mr. Boteler ought
not to oppose the orders of the Governor, but, if injured, ought
to complain in the proper manner.
P. i-. Ibid, p. 235. Also S.P. Dom., Entry Book 103, p. 10.
2. To the Lord Privy Seal.
The Queen desires that the Lords of the Committee of Council
meet at Lord Secretary Nottingham's office as often as they think
fit. Though they cannot be attended by a Secretary of State,
the intelligence from abroad and particularly from the fleet will
* By the charter they were to be named and appointed to continue as such.
t Note the Cabinet (or the members of the Privy Council with the Queen at
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be laid before you, and Mr. Ellis and Mr. Warre will be ready
to receive your directions. Pray inform the rest of the Lords
of this. Parliament is prorogued by proclamation to Oct. 20.
P. a. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 236. Also S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 103, pp. 8-9.
3. To the Earl of Rochester.
The Queen has signed a commission for Colonel Whitham.*
Details. Repeats news as to prorogation of Parliament. It has
greatly satisfied the members at Bath.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 236. Also S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 103, p. 8.
4. To the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford.
"I have moved her Majesty concerning a further allowance
for the encouragement of the Academy, in which work you say
that the University proposes to lay out 2,0001. at the least in
building it; and that this work may not be delayed I find her
Majesty very graciously inclined to gratify them in an additional
allowance of 2001. a year, besides the advantage of the Equerry's
place,t and your proposal for the said sum to be disposed of
in this service by the University and not to be directly paid
to M. Foubert is approved, though 'tis not yet time to press for
an endowment."
In my opinion you will be as secure of good and punctual payment as if it were settled. At this time an endowment will meet
with many difficulties, but this way there will be none; and
when you are, as it were, in possession of an annual allowance,
I hope hereafter an opportunity will be found for the settlement
also, if it shall be thought requisite.
I have the favour of yours "with the verses, and will observe
the directions, but I still want the Orator's speech in the
Convocation House to make the Entertainment complete."
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Books 101, p. 237, and 103, p. 9.
8 Sept.   The QUEEN to the CHANCELLOR and PRIVY COUNCIL of
Bath.        SCOTLAND.
Several of those who have been nominated by us as Commissioners to treat for a Union between England and Scotland
have high posts in Scotland. They are to meet at Westminster
on 27 October next. During their absence from Scotland it is
necessary, for the carrying on of the Government there, that
there shduld be a sufficient quorum of the Council and of the
Treasury and Exchequer remaining at Edinburgh. We therefore expect that such members of the Council, Treasury and
Exchequer as are not nominated Commissioners for the Union
will give their close and exact attendance at Edinburgh during
the sessions of the Commissioners at Westminster, and that
* Also spelt "Whetham."
t So in Entry Book 103. Entry Book 101 reads "of Quiries' place." See the
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none of them will leave Scotland without our leave during the
course of the said treaty.
P. 1. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, pp. 229, 230.
8 Sept.   The COMMISSIONERS of ACCOUNTS to HEDGES.
SpigdleGarden  In order to state the accounts of the Army and Navy and
all sums paid to any foreign Prince since 5 November, 1688,
we desire to have copies of all treaties, conventions and capitulations relating thereto. Please lay copies of these before us
to be attested on oath on 23 Sept.
P. i. Signed by Coke, Bromley, St. John, Scobell, and Brydges.
Endd. "Commissioners of Accounts" &c.     Underwritten with
address. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 70.
General
date,    DOCUMENTS RELATING to the CASE of REBECCA PRIDE.
8 Sept.   Petition of Rebecca, only daughter and heir of William,
Lord Chandos, Baron of Sudely, deceased, shewing that:King Charles II granted to petitoner's father a pension of
2001. a year in consideration of his ancestors' services to the
Crown and their losses. After her father's decease the grant was
renewed to petitioner.
The pension was paid her by King Charles II and King James II,
but not in King William III's time.
The loss of this pension and an infirmity in petitioner's eyes,
which prevents her from getting work, have now reduced her
to great poverty. She has exhausted her credit, and, were it
not for charity, must have perished.
Prays for continuance of her pension. Her ancestors have
served the Crown well.
P. -. Endd. Mrs. Pryde, 11 May. Ibid, 71.
Rebecca Pride to
Trusting in your generosity, I remind you of your promise
to read my petition to the Queen when she is alone, and get
her Majesty to continue my pension or otherwise help me.
You know my miserable condition.
P. |. Dated, 8 Sept., 1702. Ibid, 72.
Same to
"Though my heart is redey to breack for want of monney to
by bred," I am grateful for your promise of intercession on
my behalf with the Queen. Pray acquaint the Queen that the
good Lord Bridgwater spoke to the late King on my behalf and
would have done the same to her Majesty had he been living.
Pray get the Queen to consider how sad it is that a lord's daughter
should have to beg for her bread, as I am forced to do. If her
Majesty cannot give me my whole pension, pray ask her to let me
have half and get me an order to Lord Kedalfen [Godolphin] for
5001., or what the Queen pleases till she returns from Bath.
Without a positive order I am " still" starving. I have tired all
my friends and now want bread.


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To show how "anshont" a family mine is and how nearly to
the Crown related, "I have sent a copy of my father's Bedegrey
[pedigree]."  "Gard" [George], Lord Chandos, was my "onkill,"
and William, Lord Chandos, my father, which was George
Lord Chandos' brother.
Pp. 1.. Ill spelt.  Undated. (Hol.)  S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 73.
Enclosing:A. Notes    on  the   pedigree  and  services  of  William,
Lord Chandos, deceased.
When the great Duke of Northumberland sought to put
Lady Jane Grey, whom he had married to one of his sons,
on the throne and to disinherit Queen Mary, Sir John Bridges
and his brother raised a great body of horse, marched with
them in defence of Queen Mary and proclaimed her Queen
at Gloucester, Hereford and Oxford, and drew those counties
to her assistance. He then joined the Queen with her little
army, for which acts he was made Lord Chandos and Baron of
Shuedly [Sudeley] Castle,* which last honour was before
enjoyed by Sir Thomas Seymour, brother to the Duke of
Somerset and Protector in the time of King Edward VI.
The title of Chandos I suppose he made of choice because one
of his ancestors married the daughter and heir of Sir John
Chandos, who attended King Edward III in his wars in
France and was by him made a Knight of the Garter when
that order was instituted, " whose arms of that family still
quarters." [Queen Mary] also made him Constable of the
Tower, and his brother, Thomas Bridges, lieutenant of it,
which he was when, in the time' of Queen Mary, the
Princess Elizabeth was committed to the Tower, and Gardiner,
Bishop of Winchester, and Bonner, Bishop of London,
had by their artifices procured a warrant to be signed for
her death. Thomas Bridges, having received it, took it
immediately to the Queen at Whitehall and insisted, notwithstanding all opposition, in seeing the Queen at once,
" which the Queen took from him and, in detestation of so
horrid a plot, tore it in pieces in his presence," and bade
him go back and take care of the Princess Elizabeth and she
would save him harmless. " By this means that glorious
Queen was preserved."   The reward Thomas Bridges got
for this was that those who aimed at the Princess Elizabeth's
death got him turned out of the lieutenantship of the Tower
and he was replaced by Sir Henry Bedingfield, "a strict
Papist, and one of Gardiner and Boner's mettele."  But after
Queen Elizabeth came to the throne, she gave him the manors
and demises of Chidleigh in Devon and promised to make him
Baron of it. This, however, was prevented by his death.
[A note here adds-See Stow's Annals, Speed's Martyrs,
Baker's Chronicle, and Fox's History.]
From   this Thomas Bridges came in direct descent Henry,
Thomas and Edward, and Edward's son was Sir Thomas
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Bridges, now of Kentum [Keynsham] in Somerset, who from
the beginning of the late unhappy wars has followed the loyal
footsteps of his ancestors.
Sir John Bridges, Constable of the Tower and made Lord
Chandos of Shudley, had issue Edmond, Lord Chandos, and
Sir Wn. Bridges, afterwards Lord Chandos. Edmond had
issue Giles, Lord Chandos. K.G. The last left two daughtersElizabeth, who married Sir John Kennida [Kennedy], and
Kathrine, who married Sir Francis Russell, afterwards
Earl of Bedford. Of William were descended Grey, Lord
Chandos, Thomas Bridges, who died in Holland, and Sir
Giles B idges. William's daughters were the Lady of Exeter,
first married to Sir Thomas Smith, Clerk of the Council,
Lady Turvile, wife to Sir Thomas Turvile,* cupbearer to
Queen Anne, and Mrs. Poole of Seperton. From Grey, Lord
Chandos, is descended George, Lord Chandos, now living [sic],
and William Bridges. George, Lord Chandos, is descended
by his mother from Ferdinando, Lord Derby, by his eldest
daughter, which Lord Derby, having no issue male, " this
Lord Chandos, the Royal line of Scotland failing, derives a
title to the Crown of England, the Earl of Hertford's title
being obstructed by polygamy, his lady being first married
to the Earl of Pembroke."
From Grey, Lord Chandos, came George, Lord Chandos, William
the present lord [sic], and two daughters, one married to the
Earl of Castlehaven, the other to Mr. Fortescue. George,
Lord Chandos's first wife was sister to the present Earl of
Manchester, the chamberlain to the King's household. By
her he had two daughters, and, by his second wife, two more,
and by this means passed the title, but not the estate, to the
present Lord Chandos, who had issue William Bridges and
three daughters.
Sir Thomas, brother to Sir John, was made by Queen Mary
Lieutenant of the Tower. He had issue Thomas, who was
drowned whilst shooting London Bridge. Henry had issue
Sir Thomas Bridges and two daughters. Sir Thomas had
issue only Edward. Edward had issue Sir Thomas Bridges
of Keynsham, two other sons and four daughters.
Pp. 2. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 73A.
This concludes the documents relating to this case.
9 Sept.    CAPTAIN [?] COSHART to HEDGES.
Southampton.  The French prisoners here are being badly treated by Mr. Jacson
[Jackson], the jailor. He gives them very bad bread, only
half cooked, so that it may weigh more. This gives them pains
inside.
The beer is also very bad and served in small quantity.
The meat is only of bullock's or cow's heads, so that there
is not the size of an egg of meat for every man's portion. Pray
give orders for our relief, but we shall always be badly off whilst
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under Jackson, for he wishes to enrich himself at the expense
of those poor creatures.  It is true that he lately sent up a
certificate signed by some sailors, in which they stated that
they were well fed; but those who signed it were Ostenders and
were not in prison.  He gives them   sufficient food.  Details.
The sickness in the crews comes only from bad food.
Pp. 21.  In French.   Signed, "Coshart, Officier du Roy de
France." Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 74.
10 Sept.   SIR ALEXANDER RIGBY and others to [NOTTINGHAM].
London.  As your pre-occupation with great affairs may hinder you
from perusing our printed case with the Great Duke of Tuscany,
we have endeavoured to comprise it in as narrow bounds as
possible. We beg for your favourable consideration and that
you will intercede with the Queen for a decision. We hope that
our brevity and " the respect which we bear to the dignity of the
Great Duke " will not derogate anything from the justice of our
cause.
P. 1. Signed by Rigby and by William Shepard and William
Plowman. Ibid, 75. Enclosing:The case of Rigby, Shepard and Plowman, depending with the
Great Duke of Tuscany, presented to Nottingham.
In 1690 the aforesaid merchants established a partnership
business for trade at Leghorn.
In 1696 they fitted out thence two ships and a sloop for
Alexandria, the prime cost amounting to 11,0001., under
the care of William Plowman. He embarked on the Philip
and Mary, commander John Broom.      "The captains of
the ships having letters of mart, the crews going [on terms of]
No purchase no pay, took several French prizes."
On their return William Plowman debarked at Messina and,
returning towards Leghorn, was at Rome surprised and
hurried to a dungeon at the instance of the Great Duke " on
pretence that he was his subject and had committed piracy
under his colours," whereas in fact Plowman was never a
pirate or a subject, or even a denizen of Leghorn, and never made
use of the Great Duke's colours. The prisoner was denied
to answer, and was carried to Florence and there detained
in a dungeon for thirty-two months. This not only ruined
the prisoner himself, but overthrew the partnership, which,
at that time, was in a prosperous condition, having gained
in five years 81,945 dollars. Sir Alexander Rigby became
greatly embarrassed at home, "nor did the calamity rest
here; for, by the discredit the house fell under upon the
news of Mr. Plowman's disaster, several merchants, their
correspondents in London and elsewhere, extremely suffered
in their reputations and interest and some were utterly
undone."
The late King was informed of this injustice and demanded
William Plowman's enlargement and damages; but he was
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prizes taken by Broom. The pretence was a promise said
to be made by Plowman to his Highness that his ships
should not molest the ships of France though in open war
with England.   The King then sent pressing letters for
the relief of Plowman, but without result.  His Majesty
going to Holland, the matter went before the Lords Justices,
who directed Sir Charles Hedges to peruse the case. He
did so and concluded that the Great Duke had violated the
laws of nations and his Majesty's prerogative, and was
liable to make reparation.  The Lords Justices transmitted
the report to the Envoy at Florence that they might receive
the Great Duke's final answer.
"The Great Duke, to prevent the good efect of this report and
order, by his ministers and emissaries, prevailed on William
Plowman, when in prison and despair, to resign his own
partners' and other English merchants' goods to the disposition
of the French consul at Leghorn, and to frame a petition
to his Highness directly contrary to fact."
The Great Duke then set him   at liberty, but never restored
his effects, though he informed King William he was glad
to be able to do so.
The partners, thus spoiled, conveyed their books and papers to
England.   Shepard  and   Plowman-breaking    up  house
at Leghorn-came home. They and Rigby then petitioned
the Crown [for redress], and several of the most considerable
merchants on the Exchange also petitioned. A    copy of
their petition is annexed. Sir Lambert Blackwell, being
then in London, confirmed their allegations. This vas about
July or August, 1701.
The King, on representations from the Lords Justices, ordered
Sir Lambert Blackwell to demand reparation for these
damages at Florence.
They have lost 40,0001., and pray for relief.
Pp. 2. Copy. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 76. Annexing:A. Petition to the Lords Justices of several Merchants of
London, shewing that:Petitioners are aware of the credit and trade which " Messrs.
Rigby,  Shepard   and  Company"     had  established  in
Leghorn since 1690 and of how much they have suffered
owing to their treatment, in Tuscany. Their entire estate
was overthrown, and they and their English correspondents
seriously damaged, contrary to the privileges which they
and other foreign merchants enjoyed at Leghorn and elsewhere.
They pray for such action by the Lords Justices as may protect
English merchants from such treatment in the future.
P. 1. Signed by the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs and the following
Aldermen, members of the new and old East India Companies:Sir Samuel Dashwood, Sir Thomas Cook, Sir Samuel Gerrard, Sir
William Ashurst, Sir William Gower, Sir Jeffrey Jeffereys,
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Turkey merchants, two Dutch merchants, five Spanish merchants, nine Italian merchants, three Hamburg merchants,
and two West India merchants (names given in each case).  S.P.
Dom., Anne 1, 76A.
10 Sept.  COLONEL COLLIER to [NOTTINGHAM].
Jersey.   Nineteen French prisoners have been brought in,.fishermen
from  Coutenville and Blanville, near Coutance.  They say
that most of the seamen of that country were sent away, some
to Brest, some to " Rochford " and others to Port Louis, that they
had diminished the guards on the coast, and that the Governor of
Granville had taken in a great many of the guns that were planted
near that place, that M. de Pontchartrain had written four several
letters and that there were great hopes of peace.
There was a fight near here on the night of August 28, and
on August 29 we saw a ketch and sloop being towed away in
captivity by a French man-of-war of 20 or 22 guns. 'Tis believed
it was her Majesty's ketch the Martin, and we fear she had on
board the officers and soldiers intended to complete
Colonel Mordaunt's regiment and official letters for me or others.
Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Mordaunt, brother of the Colonel,
fearing this, is going to England with my leave to solicit for
release of the officers and soldiers or, failing that, to raise more.
We need more men.
Pp. 1i. Signed. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 35.
11 Sept.   HEDGES' LETTERS.
Bath.     1. To the Dutch Ambassadors.
I have your project for the renewal of the Treaties between
this country and the States General, with the amendments which
you propose. I will send them to those of the Commissioners
authorised to treat with your Excellencies who are here, and
send a copy to London to those of them who are there, and will
try to get a full meeting and a decision as soon as possible. The
Commissioners are scattered, owing to her Majesty being here.
P. A, in French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 238.
2. To Richard Warre.
I return Mr. Methuen's letter, from which it appears that
though the King of Portugal is well disposed to "enter into
measures" with the Queen and her allies, the Imperial
Ambassador in Portugal shows himself very indifferent in the
matter, and says that the Emperor will not need Portuguese
help.  I am  to direct you to have copies of that part of
Mr. Methuen's letters sent to Count Wratislaw, or to, send
Mr. Ellis to inform the Count of the Imperial Ambassador's
attitude in Portugal, to say what bad effect it may have, and to
insist on the desirability of harmony and co-operation between
those who represent in Portugal the Queen and her allies.
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requisite in this behalf, and must assure Count Wratislaw that
Mr. Methuen has orders to communicate every step he takes and
to do nothing except in concert with the Imperial Ambassador in
Portugal.
Before doing anything, lay this before the Lords of the Committee and take their advice as to which course to pursue;
obeying- any additional instructions which they may give. As
it is important that the English and Imperial envoys should act
together, I send instructions to that end to be sent to
Mr. Methuen. Send them as soon as you hear from Count
Wratislaw that Count Wallenstein will do the like with him.
Pp. 1-. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 238-40.
3. To the Lords of the Committee of Council.
Sir George Rooke should, the Queen thinks, be at once informed
that M. Chateau-Regnaud* is returning home with the Spanish
Plate Fleet. Consult with the Lord Admiral's Council. They
are to send extracts of all the news which they receive on this
matter. The same news and extracts should be sent to Sir C.
Shovell, and, as it is important that he should be as strong as
possible, the Queen thinks that he should be authorised to order
Captain Good, who commands the five ships cruising off
Cape Clear, to join him if he thinks it necessary. I have written
to Sir G. Rooke. Details.
P. 1. Ibid, pp. 240, 241.
4. To Sir George Rooke.
We have from Mr. Methuen the good news of your taking the
Fort la Rota and Port St. Marie's on the 15th and 16th of August,
the first being the same day that Prince Eugene beat the French
in Italy, and that my Lord Marlborough forced the French to
make a very disorderly retreat in Flanders; and we are very
impatient to hear of your further success. Chateau-Regnaud* is
returning with the galleons which, it is thought, are intended for
Cadiz, as you will find by the enclosed advices. I have no
particular orders or instructions for you, but only to inform you
of it, and am sure you will make proper use of it.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 41, 42.
12 Sept.   ROYAL WARRANT [to the LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND].
Bath.    On 25 April last we ordered by letters that the men and horses
of the two troops of dragoons of Colonel Charles Ross's regiment
should fill up and recruit the other six troops of his regiment
designed for service in Holland; and that the officers of the said
two troops should go to Ireland and recruit those troops there
and be allowed three months to complete them, to begin from
1 May last. You tell us that the Paymaster General of Ireland
is not sufficiently warranted by those letters to pay the commissioned and non-commissioned officers of the said two troops
from the day they embarked from Ireland to the said first of May,
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which was intended. Order the said Paymaster to pay them
from their embarkation to that date, and thenceforward; and to
continue the commissioned and non-commissioned officers of the
said two troops on the rolls as if they had not been absent.
P. 4. S.P. Signet Office 15, pp. 69, 70.
12 Sept.   ROYAL WARRANT to [the PAYMASTER GENERAL and others].
Bath.     By letters of 1 June, 1702, we ordered five regiments commanded by Colonels Farrington, Gibson, Stringer, Lord Mohun,*
and Sir R. Temple to be sent to Ireland to replace five regiments
which we had ordered for service at sea, and directed that they
[i.e. the regiments sent to Ireland] should be paid by our
Paymaster General here according to the usual allowance from
the time when they were raised till the time when the other five
regiments were embarked from Ireland, and should be paid,
(English pay) after that date by the Paymaster General of
Ireland until they should embark for that country. The officers
of these regiments have, by a memorial to the Lord Lieutenant,
shewn that they have incurred large expenses in marching their
men to the sea-side, and replacing deserters (other details), and
pray for relief. On this memorial the Deputy Receiver General of
Ireland, Sir William Robinson, reports (and the Lord Lieutenant
concurs in the report) that if the pay of field staff and commissioned officers [is made to] commence on 10 March last (being
the date of the captains' and subalterns' commissions) and that
of the non-commissioned officers on 1 April following, and if
private soldiers be allowed as full in each company and regiment
and paid from 20 April, 1702, it will be sufficient to make good
these expenses to them. Moreover, one hundred and thirty men
were taken from Colonel John Gibson's regiment to recruit the
regiments designed for service at sea under the Duke of Ormond's
command, and an extra 2601. should be paid to Colonel Gibson
for completing his regiment.
We direct the Muster-Master General in England to muster
and allow the field, staff and commissioned officers of these
regiments, and also the non-commissioned officers and privates
as recommended in Sir William Robinson's report, and the
Paymaster General of England to state and pay these officers
and men as recommended therein up to the date when the five
regiments ordered from Ireland left the country. After that
date the five regiments sent to replace them in Ireland are to be
on the Irish establishment and paid accordingly. The Paymaster
General of England to pay Colonel Gibson 2601.
Pp. 1l. Ibid, pp. 70, 71.
Same.     SAME to [the LORD    LIEUTENANT   OF IRELAND    and] the
COMMISSIONERS of ACCOUNTS and BARONS of the ExCHEQUER, &C.
Refers in detail to the charges for taking over four regiments
(Farrington's, Stringer's, Mohun's and Temple's) from England
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to  Ireland.  Proceeds:-The     whole  expense  thereof  is
Ir.2,0601. 6s. 2d. clear of poundage and pells' fees, whereof
6541. f4s. 2d., being the price of provisions delivered for the
men and horses, should be charged to the accounts of the regiments, and the remainder, being really for freight and transport,
should be paid out of the Irish revenue. Order the Receiver
General of Ireland to charge the said 6541. 14s. 2d. to the account
of these four regiments; and pay the remainder, with the usual
allowance of poundage and pells' fees, to Thomas Putland, to
be paid over by him to Alderman William Allen, John Day,
Captain Thomas Brerton and the other owners of the freight.
P. a. S.P. Signet Office 15, p. 72. Followed by:Sir William Robinson, Deputy Receiver General of Ireland,
to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
I have, in pursuance of your Excellency's command, got from
Alderman William Allen of Chester and Mr. John Day of Bristol
an account of their expenses [details given] in provisioning and
transporting the regiments of Farrington, Stringer, Mohun and
Temple to Ireland and for freight of Colonel Rosse's horses,
including the charge for exchange on so much of those expenses
as was paid in England. In the detailed account herewith the
cost of provisions, 6541. 14s. 2d., which is chargeable to the
accounts of these regiments, is separated from the cost of transport, 1,4051. 12s. 3d. [sic], including 501. to Captain Thomas
Brerton, a disbanded officer who is in great distress.  The
1,4051. 12s. 3d. should be paid out of the revenue at large of
Ireland with the usual fees of poundage and pells.
Detailed account follows sheving how the sums of 6541. 14s. 2d.
and 1,4051. 12s. 3d. are made up. Farrington's and Stringer's
regiments went from Chester and Mohun's and Temple's from
Bristol.
P. 1. Dated, 3 September, 1702. Signed (copy) by Sir William
Robinson. Ibid, p. 73.
13 Sept.   HEDGES' LETTERS.
Bath.     1. To M. [Von] Vrybergen.
Your two of the 10th concerning the Three Friends and containing a memoir for the Queen have been laid before her. Every
effort will be made to provide that the ships and goods belonging
to the subjects of the United Provinces which may be brought
into her Majesty's ports as prizes shall be treated with the same
consideration as if they belonged to her Majesty's subjects.
Orders have been sent to the Court of Admiralty to hear and
despatch them with as little delay and at as small an expense
as possible. But as they are now under trial they must take
the course of their trial according to the laws of England. The
Queen cannot be informed of the fact otherwise than by the
Judge of the Court of Admiralty, and he is obliged to hear all
parties interested.  She will direct him to send in a faithful
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will no doubt shew all respect to the interests of her Majesty's
allies, yet her Majesty will, if necessary, direct a rehearing of
the cases before the Privy Council. Friendly expressions.
P. 1, in French. S.P Dorn., Entry Book 101, pp. 241, 242.
2. To the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford.
I have received yours of the 10th, with the Orator's speech.
What you propose to do to thank the Queen for her bounty is
very proper, and as you ask me to do it in the name of the
University I shall think it an honour to do so.
P.S.-I received an Order of Council relating to priority;
but you do not tell me what the University want done in that
matter. Please acquaint Dr. Charnock with it.
P. X. Ibid, p. 242.
3. To Dr. Bramston.
As to the Dutch claims in respect of the Three Friends and
the claims of Tourlon and Abraham le Coudier of Amsterdam
now depending in the Court of Admiralty:-Before I give you
orders, tell me how those cases stand and whether the Queen
can do anything for the satisfaction of those persons. I know
you will restore where possible.  Decide the cases as quickly
and cheaply as you can.
P. i. Ibid, p. 243.
14 Sept.   HEDGES' LETTERS.
Bath.     1. To the Lord Mayor of London.
By the Queen's command:-Orders rejoicings in London
to-morrow* evening on the occasion of the taking of Landau by
the Imperialists.
P. i. Ibid. Also S.P. Dom., Entry Book 103, p. 10.
2. To Colonel Farewell.
Similar to foregoing. The guns of the Tower to be fired during
the rejoicings, if this has not been already done.
P. i. Ibid. (vol. 101), p. 244. Also Ibid. (vol. 103), pp. 10, 11.
3. To the Earl of Winchilsea.
Yours of the 11th. I will do my best that Lord Raby's
precedent be used in your case.    "I had despatched the
instructions before this time but that a doubt is arisen concerning
kissing the hand of the Electress of Hanover;    for if no
instruction be given in that particular" I think it will put
a difficulty on your lordship;  and there is no less hardship
in giving it positively one way or the other. On the one hand
it is doing too much, and the other it is denying her a respect
that, as I am informed, has been paid by others, " though I think
it has never been done by any who had a character." I have
written for the opinions of the Earl of Nottingham and Mr. Cresset,
but cannot hear from Mr. Cresset yet. As you are ready, I will send
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your instructions to-morrow and send after you further
instructions on this point when I hear from him. Mr. Cresset
will not go to Berlin as yet, and I hope he may be able to set you
right in this. He is "a worthy, honest gentleman," and you
may take his opinion on the matter; and if he thinks it necessary
I will send you instructions accordingly. I have already sent
him orders to show you all the respect due to your lordship's
quality and character. I have heard of the Duke of Zell's illness,
but no alteration can be made upon that account. If he dies,
instructions will be sent after you; or, failing them, take
Mr. Cresset's advice.
Pp. 1I. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 244, 245.
4. To the Earl of Rochester.
The Queen directs you to command all the officers in England
who have commands in Ireland to repair at once to their posts,
where she thinks they should be at this time, and that leave be
not given to any such officers to come thence except such as
are chosen members of the present Parliament. This order may
be published in the Gazette if you think well.
We have the good news this morning of the surrender of Landau
and the taking of St. Christopher's.
Rejoicings &c. St. Christopher's was surrendered upon the
first attack, but we have no details yet.
P. i. Ibid, p. 246.
5. To Sir George Rooke.
We have heard of the death of Major-General Selwin [or
Selwyn], late Governor of Jamaica, and, two days since, of the
death of Colonel Brewer, who was next in command of the forces
to Selwyn. You know what a loss these men are, and how necessary it is to have the best we can to command the forces. Therefore, when you are sending thither the detachment which you
are instructed to send, consider the matter with the Duke of
Ormond, and his Grace must send competent officers in command
of the forces there, the Queen not having yet chosen a Governor,
We are now assured that M. Chateau-Regnaud, with the galleons,
intends for Cadiz unless he meets with any advice of our fleets
being there that may make him alter his course.
We have an account this day from Bristol that Colonel
Coddington on July 4th took the French part of the island
of St. Christopher's, so that whole island is now in our hands.
To-day also came the good news of Landau being surrendered
to the Imperialists.
Pp. 1j. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 42, 43.
6. To the Duke of Ormond.
Appointment of officers in the West Indies. M. ChateauRegnaud's* return. Good news from St. Christopher's and Landau.
In substance same as foregoing.
Pp. 1-. Ibid, pp. 44, 45.
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16 Sept.    RICHARD WARRE'S* LETTERS.
Whitehall
1. To the Postmasters-General.
My Lordst direct me, in the absence of Lord Secretary
Nottingham, to tell you that they would have you publish the
design of Mr. Dummer's vessel to the West Indies in such manner
as is usual and best, that the merchants and people concerned
may know of it.
P. I. SP. Dom., Entry Book 146, p. 1.
2. To the Prince's Council.
My Lords think it right that the vessel with which, under Mr.
Dummer's contract is now to sail for the West Indies, should
be praised [appraised] by the Navy Board; and I am to tell
you so that you may send orders accordingly. My Lords leave
it to you to say what colours he is to use.
P. I. Ibid.
3. To Mr. Dummer.
My Lords direct you to order their vessel to sail to Portsmouth
as soon as ready, there to receive sailing orders.
You should acquaint the postmasters when you will be there,
in order that the merchants' letters may be sent to Portsmouth.
Details.
P. A. Ibid, p. 2.
16 Sept.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Bath    1. To the Duke of Ormond.
I have yours of 28 August from the camp near Port St. Mary's
(being now in attendance on her Majesty, and Lord Nottingham
at Burley), with other letters from the fleet. The Queen observes
from these that there is like to be greater difficulty and, so, more
time spent on this expedition than at first expected; however,
she still hopes for success. But if you do not succeed, and
the ships have not suffered much damage and are in a condition
to undertake anything else on the way home, the Queen desires
you and Sir George Rooke to consider in a Council of War what
may be attempted according to the Queen's former instructions
on any place on the coast of France or Spain on your return
from Cadiz, and put it in execution. The Queen is extremely
pleased with the bravery of her officers and soldiers and with
your Grace's conduct, "which I wish may be always successful."
Pp. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 45, 46.
* This letter is not signed by Warre, but is the first in an entry book (No. 146),
many of the entries in which are signed by him. He was at this time UnderSecretary to Lord Secretary Nottingham.
t In full "The Lords of the Committee of Council."  I do not think it
necessary to repeat this every time. Warre also states every time that he writes
in the absence of Lord Secretary Nottingham. Apparently he wrote the letters
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2.* To Sir George Rooke.
Similar to foregoing, but without the commendatory passage at
the close.
Pp. 11. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 46, 47.
3. To [Vice-Admiral Hopson.t]
Acknowledges his of Aug. 26th and 28th. Reports sending the
last two foregoing. Difficulties of campaign on the coast of
Spain. Hopes for success. Similar to foregoing.
P. i. Ibid, p. 48.
17 Sept.   HEDGES' LETTERS.
Bath.     1. To Sir Cloudesley Shovell.
Sends an advice from Captain St. Loe.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 247.
2. To Captain St. Loe.
I thank you for your news concerning M. Chateaui-Regnaud.
Pray send this on to Sir C. Shovell unless you have already told
him your news. It contains no more than that, but he should
hear it at once.
I will speak to the Prince as you desire; but the Navy Board's
objections are still in your way. If they had not obstructed,
you had been gratified long since.
P. i. Ibid.
21 Sept.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Admiralty   You will see from  the enclosed from  Captain Moodie from
the Southampton in Virginia how difficult he finds it to get credit
from the Government there for the stores which he wants. The
Prince's Council direct submission to Lord Secretary Nottingham
in hopes that orders may be sent to the Governors of H.M.'s
plantations to supply the ships there in case of necessity.
P. 1. (Hol.) Add. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 130. Enclosing.A. Captain Moodie to --
I am very short of provisions. I presented my case to the
Commissioners of Victualling in due time, but never received
an answer nor anything save two months' bread which, I
believe, I had left behind. I applied to the Governor and
Council, who absolutely refused all help. The Governor
said to me himself that he would give me so much as would
careen my ship. No naval stores are to be had here. Details.
P. 2. Extract. Dated, 29 July &c., as above. Ibid, 130A.
24 Sept.   HEDGES to the DUKE OF ORMOND.
Bath.     Count Wratislaw has complained of great excesses committed
by your troops at the taking of Port St. Mary's, and especially
* The letter is entered as dated from Whitehall.
t Entered as addressed to Sir George Rooke; but, from internal evidence in
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by some of the general officers, whose names are mentioned.
The Queen directed the complaint to be laid before her in a
Committee of Council.    I send further the Queen's command
to your Grace to examine strictly into these charges and
proceed accordingly against the offenders, and to restore any
private property  found   on  land  which  has been   pillaged.
Sir George Rooke has been directed to do the like as to any
private property found at sea in ships under his command. As
to courts martial, the Queen leaves you discretion, relying on
you to protect the honour of the service and the nation. She
greatly resents the alleged violence.  I send you a copy of
Sir George Rooke's instructions, in order that you may be fully
informed in the matter.
Pp. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 48-50. Enclosing:1. The Queen to the Duke of Ormond.
Refers to the complaints of Count Wratislaw especially against
Sir Henry Bellasyse and Sir Charles Hara. It is not for
the Queen's honour that persons accused of such offences
should remain in her service. Proceeds: —On receipt of
this examine strictly into the complaint (which is sent you)
against Hara, Bellasyse and any other of the land officers
against whom complaints may be brought, and, if, on inquiry,
you find the complaint well grounded, break or suspend
them.
Take all possible care, by issuing your orders, for the finding
and restoration of private property pillaged and still on
land; and publish this order so that the owners, on making out
their claims, may have restitution.
Pp. 1. Ibid, pp. 50-2.
2. Count Wratislaw's memorial to Hedges.
I have to inform you of great disorders committed at the taking
of Port St. Mary's, of which I have just heard by letters
from the fleet.  Lieut.-General Bellasis* and Major-Generals
Haro [Hara] and Sparr were the first to shew their avarice,
which caused the troops to think that, after such an example
by their Generals, everything would be permitted. The pillage
was horrible and is estimated at more than one million of the
standard of the country. The Duke of Ormond was indignant,
and has issued strict orders to prevent such offences in future;
but I apprehend that in spite of all his zeal for the good of
the allies and the precautions which he may take, the ofence
will be committed again if occasion arises, unless the Queen,
at my humble request, expresses her anger at it, and cashiers or
suspends officers who give such a bad example to her soldiers.
You will see how necessary and just this is, Sir, " for how
will the Spaniards be able to believe that we have just rescued
them from slavery to France (as we promise in the manifesto)
if we commence the business by such great violences. Far
from making them favourable to us, we shall drive them more
than ever into an alliance with France."
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Nor can I conceal from you that many people, from malice or
some other reason, are seeking to make everything difficult
or impossible for the Duke of Ormond in this expedition.
He alone, with admirable zeal and courage, surmounts all
difficulties and at last resolved to attack the fort of Santa
Cruce, which is one of the Puntals. But as all his efforts
will be in vain if the British Admirals (as they say they will)
come home and do not stay at Cadiz for the winter (before
which time the place will hardly be reduced), I beg for the
Queen's orders that the Admirals may stay there for the
winter, if not with all their ships, at least with some of them,
which can remain there in safety, at all events after they
have conquered one or both Puntals. The Portuguese will
provide supplies if they cannot be supplied from here. It is
needless to tell the Queen and Council how necessary it is
to support that enterprize. The glory of her fleet and arms
in her first effort is at stake, "the hopes of her allies and
particularly those of the Emperor, my master, the terror
[spread] amongst the Spaniards, the broken courage of the
enemy, the safety  of your commerce, the satisfaction of
Parliament and the nation, the design in Italy for next year,
that against the Indies —all in fact depends on the success of
this enterprise."  I feel sure the Queen will press it on, and
will order her fleet to spend the winter there, making
arrangements for the subsistence of the fleet and troops.
I pray for information on the Queen's pleasure in this matter,
so that I may inform    the Emperor, my master, whose
resolutions and plans depend on those which the Queen
takes.
Pray shew this letter to Md. [my Lord] Godolphin, who will
understand the importance of the first and second points
mentioned in it.
Pp. 3, in French. Dated, London, ~-oct    S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 208, pp. 52-5.
24 Sept.    HEDGES to SIR GEORGE ROOKE.
Bath.   I send the Queen's instructions to you to remain at Cadiz
to support the land forces under the command of the Duke of
Ormond, which is judged to be of great importance for her
Majesty's service. The great ships may be laid up at Lisbon
and provisions supplied from thence; wherefore send four or five
ships there for supplies; moreover, the Queen is taking steps to
supply you from hence. It is hoped the Dutch may be persuaded
to stay with you. Assist them all you can to that end, and I am
to write to-night to Holland for new instructions for them. I hope
they will agree in this as they did in the matter of sending a
detachment of Dutch ships for the Streights if there had been
occasion. But, whatever the Dutch do, you are to continue
there. The Queen relies much on your prudence and conduct,
and knows you realise the importance of the expedition on Cadiz.
The Queen has been informed of disorders committed by
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Duke of Ormond to make strict inquiry and to restore all property
so taken and found on shore. You are to make diligent search
to see if any of it has been taken on board ship and, if any has
been found, you are to send it on shore, so that it may be restored
by the Duke. The Queen is deeply offended at the violence
and rapine of her land officers. Give all the help you can for
discovering their plunder I send copies of the instructions to the
Duke of Ormond Details.
Pp. 21. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 56-8. Enclosing.Instructions to Sir George Rooke.
To remain at Cadiz during the winter and to assist the land
forces unless the land officers " agree that there is no hopes of
success at Cadiz and give over that attempt."  His former
instructions in regard to the detachment for the West Indies
are to hold good.
Pp. 1-. Overwritten, "Anne     R."  Signed, "A.R."    Ibid,
pp. 58, 59.
25 Sept.   ROYAL WARRANT to the LORD         LIEUTENANT and     CHIEF
Bath..GOVERNOR of IRELAND.
To order the Paymaster General of Ireland to pay the Master
General of the Ordnance there 2,0631. 3s. 2d. to be paid by him
for musket balls, and to pay Colonel Richard Gorges 7421. 8s. 31d.,
of which 6001. is to be paid as a bounty to 600 soldiers detached
for service abroad from the several regiments in Ireland and
the rest spent on contingent charges of shipping, fees &c.
P. -3. S.P. Signet Office 15, p. 76.
[Same.]    NOTE on the POWDER and BALL in STORE and WANTED in
IRELAND.
Barrels,   Barrels,
powder.     ball.
Powder now in store.....      2,648
Powder expected from England..       400
The ball proportionable to the above
is..........                6,096
Ball in store.......                1,839
Ball, the produce of 50 tons of lead..              1,120
So there will be in store....                2,959
So there is still wanting....               3,137*
P. i. Ibid.
~26 Sept.   LORD BROOKE to [NOTTINGHAM].
I am too ill to join the bearer, Mr. Peter Francia, merchant
of the City, in waiting on you. He and his factors and correspondents have considerable effects in the Canaries, which they
want to bring home if they can. Several merchants have, I
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believe, got leave, on petition, to bring home some pipes of
Canary. He hopes to have the like favour.
P. 1. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 77.
26 Sept.   The PRINCE'S CONCIL to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty
Ofice.y   Sir C. Shovell told us that amongst the prisoners lately taken
by him there were five or six persons suspected to be English,
Irish or Scotch. We have had them examined by Dr. Bramston,
Surrogate to the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, and send
the examinations. We think they will hardly be found guilty,
and desire leave to put them on board the ships bound for the
West Indies to serve the Queen.
P. -.. Signed by Churchill and Hill. Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 6, 131. Enclosing.A. Examination of James Latouche of Brest.
Deponent lived at Brest, St. Malo or Concalle in Brittany,
where he was born; and so did his parents. His parents were
French by birth. Deponent's grandfather was an Irishman,
and La touch is the name of a land in Brittany belonging
to the deponent, by which he is called after the French manner.
His real name is Cartier, though he is not known by it.
Deponent set out from Brest on 2 September with his ship
the St. Joseph, with a commission from the Admiral of
France to cruize against the enemies of the State. Was
captured on 4 September by some Englishmen eighteen leagues
W.S.W. of Ushant. His captor was the Russell.
Admiral Shovell has deponent's commission. Deponent learnt
to know a little English by going to Ireland about sixteen
years ago to learn it. He was at Cork about two years ago
as a merchant in a Flemish ship called the Diana of Brest.
Pierre St. O'Bien, whom the deponent believes to be a Frenchman, was his second captain.   Robert Rippert, another
of his company, is said to be a Scotchman, and John Berry,
another of his company, is said to be an Irishman, and
William Tilley, another on board, has declared himself
an Englishman, but deponent had orders to put them aboard
some English ship that should be ransomed. He had orders
to [take] ransom [for] any ship he should take as there were
so many English ships of war on the coast. William Jones,
who was on board the deponent's ship, is an Englishman
who escaped from England. [Details.] Deponent, sixteen
years ago, lived at Cork with one Dilley and went to school
with one Dixon.
Pp. 2. Copy. Signed by James Latouch, and sworn before
George Bramnston, LL.D., Surrogate to the Judge of the Admiralty, and one of the Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer fot
the Admiralty of England in the presence of Richard Crawley,
notary public, Deputy Registrar, on 24 September, 1702. Ibid,
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B. Examination of Peter St. Aubin*.
He was born at Pluballet, within four leagues of St. Malo.  His
father was an Irishman and captain in Colonel Hamilton's
regiment of foot under the Duke of Monmouth. After his
father was killed, deponent, being about two years old, was
carried by his mother into Ireland.  He lived there for
fifteen years and then, fifteen years ago, went with his uncle
and brother to France. Has ever since lived at Brest or
St. Malo, and his wife and children now live there.  Was
second captain of the St. Joseph referred to in the foregoing
deposition.
Details as to capture, as in foregoing, and as to the nationality
of Berry, Tilley, Rippet [or Rippert]t and Jones, whom they
had orders to put on an English ship. Other details.
Pp. 1I. Copy. Signed and sworn before Dr. Bramston, 24
Sept., 1702. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 131B.
c. Examination of William Tilley.
He was born at Gaden in Warwickshire. His father was a
labourer there.  About March last went to Bristol.  Met
John Cocks there, who had a bark stopped at Morlaix,
because she had some brandy which had not been entered.
Agreed to go with Cocks to Morlaix in a French ship to
bring his bark back; was delayed a fortnight at Morlaix
and then told by Cocks that he could not get his vessel discharged.  Went to Roane [Rouen] to get passage for England. Failed, and went to Brest. There, after six weeks, met
Captain La Touch, who promised to take him aboard and
to put him on board the first English or Irish ship that should
be ransomed. Was to have no wages but only his victuals.
P. 1. Signed &c. as foregoing. Ibid, 131c.
D. Examination of Robert Rippet.
Was born at Kirkaldi [Kirkcaldy]. Lived there till ten years
old.  Came to London and thence went to Newcastle and
back. Bound himself to Captain Atkinson, a Guinea man,
and went to Guinea. Returned and went on a voyage to
Faro [Alexandria].  Their vessel was lost in the Bay of
Biscay, and deponent and others saved themselves in the
long boat.  They came to St. John de Luz and thence to
San   Sebastian.  Went   thence  in  a   Dutchman   for
Amsterdam, and from thence came to London.  Went thence
to Guinea in a Guinea ship called the Gamboa galley. On
the Guinea coast she was taken and plundered by some pirates,
and deponent and others made their escape into the woods.
Returning, they found that the ship had been left by the
pirates, and they traded on the coast for elephant's teeth;
but, not being able to get enough, they " took in negroes and
sailed away for Barbadoes and from thence to Jamaica;
but missing the island they sailed about 300 leagues to the
leeward and, endedavouring to get up to Jamaica, they beat
* Spelt both "St. Obien" and " St. Aubin."
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up and down for two or three months and spent all their
provisions, and then the negroes rose upon them, but being
quelled several of them were killed and died, and so they
put into the Havana," where ship and negroes were seized
by the Governor. Got passage thence to Brest in a French
ship in July last, and was then put on board the privateer,
where he was captured, to be placed on the first English
ship that should be ransomed. Was to have no wages, or share
in any capture made.
Pp. 1~. Copy. Signed &c., as foregoing. S.P. Dom., Naval 6,
131D.  The three depositions together pp. 4.   Ibid, 131B, C
and D.
E. Examination of Robert Berry.
Was born about three miles from Cork and lived there till Cork
was taken. Then entered Colonel Colt's regiment and served
there till it was broken at Tilbury. Then went to Bristol,
to Newfoundland and thence with fish to Oporto. Gave his
fish to a surgeon to cure his leg, which was hurt. His ship
left before he was well, so, on talk of war, he took passage in
a Dutchman, which pretended to go to Holland, but put in
at Brest. There she was seized and deponent put on board
a privateer &c., as foregoing.
P. -. Copy. Signed &c. as foregoing. Ibid, 131E.
26 Sept.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Colonel Collier, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.
I send a copy of my letter to you of 29 August, as I believe
it was taken by a privateer and never reached you.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 117.
2. To Hedges.
Sends the list of Deputy-Lieutenants for Lancashire sent in
by Lord Derby, and for Cumberland and Westmoreland sent in
by Lord Carlisle; to shew the Queen for her approbation.
P. i. Ibid.
27 Sept.   CAPTAIN HOVENDON WALKER to [NOTTINGHAM].
TheC Bure/rd  I remain here, since I parted from Sir G. Rooke on Friday,
Vincent.  with the victuallers left behind to complete the provisions to be
taken on board the transport ships, which have only now been
put on board them. I want water to go to Barbados, and shall
call for it at Madeira. Many things are wanting for the soldiers
and many stores for the men-of-war, which we could not supply
well from the fleet. Injury to the Chichester. Not serious.
Pp. 2. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 67, 32.
27 Sept.   HEDGES to the EARL OF WINCHILSEA.
Bath.     The Queen hears that her envoys have usually shewn the
respect of kissing the Electress Dowager of Hanover's hand.
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if you find it be expected when you come there, upon which
matter you may advise with Mr. Cresset."
P. A. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 309.
28 Sept.   LORD HATTON to NOTTINGHAM.
[Guernsey.]  I cannot do my duty to the family of Mr. Martin, late
Lieutenant Bailiff of Guernsey, but by sending you the
enclosed depositions regarding the charge against Lieutenant la
Boulay.*  Other papers herewith shew, what is the fact,-indeed
it is not denied-that he was drunk in the town when he ought
to  have   been  commanding    the  guard  in  the   Castle.
Colonel Mordaunt, it seems, thinks it is enough penalty to remove
the unruly officer to another garrison. La Boulay, I am told,
intends to remove here, so that the case may be tried by the
Royal Court of Guernsey, knowing that they can only fine him
and that they can find nothing to levy on. The only proper
punishment is to cashier La Boulay. This will keep the other
officers there in some awe, which is necessary. He and other
officers have committed similar outrages in recent years. I take
it to be my duty to protect the inhabitants of the island from
such offences.
Pp. 1. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 36.
Enclosing:A. Complaint and depositions in the case of Lieutenant La
Boulaye.
The complaint was laid on 29 August, 1702, by CatherineRenouf,
widow of Jean Martin, and by Peter and Laurens, her children,
before Messire Edmond Andros, Kt., Seigneur de Saumarez
and Baily of Guernsey, and in the presence of Thomas De
Lisle, John Careye, William Le Marchant, jun., Eleazar le
Marchant and Amice Andros, jurors of the Royal Court.
The witnesses depose to La Boulay having on 25 June at
night come with the guard to the door of Jean Martin, who
was ill and called him by foul and abusive names, called on
him to come down and that he would kill him and all his
generation.
This allegation is corroborated by many witnesses, whose
evidence varies in small details. Their names are William De
Putron, Henri du Pre, Samuel Roland, Aaron Guillaume, Jean
Poullet, Thomas Dobree, Marie Henry, Jean Perchard Fi[tz]
Clement, Pierre Le Mesurier, Marie Wats, Marie Luce, Elie
Brett, Jean Bouillon, Cathrine Desaigmoig [?] and E. Roland.
In all pp. 5~ (large). Copies. The depositions (except the last
four) were taken on 5 September, 1702. Ibid, 36A.
The last four depositions are on small pieces of paper, all dated
Guernsey, 7 September, 1702. Ibid, 36B, C, D and E.
28 Sept.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  Sends copies of a letter received from  Captain Beaumont
and of orders sent to him.
P. X. Hol. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 132. Enclosing:* Also spelt La Boulaye.




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A. Captain Beaumont to Josiah Burchett.
Only three of the enemy's ships remain in Flemish Road, before
Dunkirk.   The rest have gone in.  On Monday, 21st, in
the evening we saw eight sail of them, as usual, but could
not, owing to bad weather, look into the road again till
Thursday. Then we found only three there. I think that,
as the wind and weather have been, they could not go to sea,
but go in they might, and there I take it for granted they are.
Since then we have stood very near in and, I think, see more
ships' masts in the basin than we used to do. If I thought
they had gone northward, I would follow them; but my
orders are to lie here till further orders. To do so now that
nights are long and the weather bad is dangerous for her
Majesty's ships, and can do no service on the enemy. If
the ships were cleaned and sent cruizing, or victualled to
bring home the Northern fleets, it might be well.  This is
submitted with respect.
I have now with me the Tilbury, Winchester and Blackwall
and two Dutch. I send the Worcester with this and to wait
for orders.
P.S.-Captain Wyatt, whom     I sent into Gravelines pits to
reconnoitre, has returned. From what he saw there is no
doubt but that the ships which were in Flemish Road have
gone in, except the three already mentioned.
Pp. 1-i. Copy.   Dated Before Dunkirk, 26 Sept. S.P. Dom.
Naval 6, 132A.
B. Copy of Orders sent by express by the [Prince's] Council
to Captain Beaumont of Dunkirk on 28 September, 1702.
Notwithstanding what you say we have reason to think that
M. Ponty [Pointis] has got out of Dunkirk with most of his
squadron. We have therefore ordered the Worcester to go
back to you, and the Dartpnouth and Kingfisher to join you
from the Downs, the Crown from the Nore, and the Rochester
as soon as she has conveyed the Earl of Winchilsea to Holland.
As soon as you get these orders take every possible step to
satisfy yourself whether the French squadron has or has not
got out of Dunkirk. If you find it has, you shall, as soon
as the aforesaid ships join you, leave such a force behind
you as, with the two Dutch ships there, will be strong enough
to contain the three French ships in the road and, taking
from them such provisions as they can spare, lie in such a
station as you think best for the protection of the ships and
convoys coming from the East country with naval stores
against any attempt that may be made upon them. These
convoys have orders to come from the Sound the last of this
month.
If you are quite assured that M. Ponty [Pointis] has gone in
with his ships, and that he will not come out again, you are
to leave only such ships as may be sufficient to keep in those
three ships and to return with the rest of your squadron to
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But, in such case, order the commander in chief to send you
immediate information if M. Ponty [Pointis] comes out
into the road; and if you hear he has done so, repair without
further orders to Dunkirk and use your best endeavours
to prevent his going to sea.
Pp. 1l. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 132B.
29 Sept.   HEDGES to LORD TREASURER GODOLPHIN.
Bath.    In his last letter Mr. Stepney says that having had some discourse with the envoy of Sweden at Vienna, he finds this a proper
juncture to send a Minister to the King of Sweden, " that Prince
being inclinable to part with some troops to the Allies and more
disposed to hearken to terms of peace than he has been at any
time since he took the field. If her Majesty sends anyone there
seems to be two qualifications requisite for him, vizt., experience
in business, and the High Dutch and Swedish languages. I can
think of none more proper to be employed than Mr. Stepney, who
is within five days' journey and at present has no extraordinary
business at Vienna." You know his capacity, and I find he will
readily obey the Queen's commands,' though he does not much
desire to go into Poland. I have sent his letters to Lord Secretary
Nottingham to be laid before the Committee of Council, and,
if they approve, have desired his lordship to send an account
by this night's post to the Earl of Marlborough, with copies of
Mr. Stepney's letters. If his Excellency thinks it for the service
he, who is the best judge, may either forward some instruction to
Mr. Stepney, or send his views on the whole matter to be laid
before the Queen.
We have no news from the fleet, but the French letters say
that the Duke of Ormond is posted between the Bridge, Suasso,
and the town of Cadiz, and that the town is in great want of
provisions.
I send you news from Brest, but do not believe that ChateauRegnaud was so near as they make out. Had he been so, we
should have heard of him.
Pp. 11. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 248, 249.
30 Sept.   NOTTINGHAM to the COMMISSIONERS of CUSTOMS.
Some papers of importance have come from     Vienna for
Count Wratislaw, which must not be made public. Let them
take such things as are necessary for their use and not liable
to custom and let them lock up the rest and leave them in your
care (you not inspecting them) until you get orders from the
Lord Treasurer what to do further.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 118.
Sept.    NOTE for the DIVIDENT for September, 1702.*                      A
The figures in the left hand column amount to 71. 6s. 8d.; those
on the right to 401. Os. Od.
P. i. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 78.
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OCTOBER, 1702.
1 Oct.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty   Sends extract* of a letter just received from Commander St.
Loe at Plymouth.
Five  lines.  Signed.   Endd.   S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 133.
Enclosing:Commander St. Loe to Burchett.
I have made further inquiry regarding the galleons of John
Fermen, one of the prisoners lately taken by a Dutch privateer
on a French firep    [fireship].  He is a Dunkerker and
calls himself a Catholic, but expressly informs as follows:About 14 August he heard eight guns firing at some ship
belonging to the galleons, himself being to leeward. Could
see nothing owing to fog. They were off the banks of
Newfoundland, and, by their course, steered for Placentia.
This agrees with other accounts.     Though steering for
Placentia, the galleons really intended, he says, for Cape Rase
[Race] to get provisions and men, which they badly wanted;
and that they did not go into Placentia because the entrance is
narrow and the galleons steer very wildly.  Moreover, the
harbour is bad, but that at Cape Race is able to entertain a
great fleet.
He says that a packet was sent to France from  the Banks of
Newfoundland to say where the galleons were left.    Two
days later the aforesaid firep [fireship] was sent on the like
errand and fell in with some French men-of-war, but lost
them; and in looking for them    the fireship fell in with
the Dutch privateer.  Some letters were thrown overboard,
which he believes were advices to France.
He says that Montezuma died in the Havanna and that
Count Nermond and Count Rosemadack (both flags) are
also dead.  Otherwise he confirms the accounts previously
sent. I have given him a small gratification, with promise
of more if what he says is true and any of the galleons, by
his means, fall into our hands. Other details. I believe
that he is telling the truth and that the galleons are still abroad
and submit that it would be well if two ships of war were
sent to cruise of Santa Cruz at the Canaries and wait for
them; for I believe they will make for that place for refreshment.  When they are sighted one cruiser should leave to inform the squadron and the other should dog them till he can
find where they are.
Pp. 2. Endd. Dated, Plymouth Yard, 29 Sept. Ibid, 133A.
1 Oct.     HEDGES to the LORD TREASURER.
Bath.   My last foreign letters say little of consequence. M. D'Hervart
reports that the Elector of Bavaria is gone home, fearing the
* Burchett calls it a copy: but the enclosure is not a complete letter and is
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detachments that are sent against him.  "All we have considerable " from sea is that one of the galleons is arrived at St. Lucar.
If this be so, it is probable that the others have gone for the coast
of Spain, though the account which I received last night from
Captain St. Loe appears to show they are not so near.
Lord Nottingham has a letter from Port Louis of 26 September
saying they were in a miserable condition and not able to defend
themselves. I hope Sir C. Shovell, who, I hear, has gone out,
may find them if they come for France.
P.S.-I suppose you know the Lords of the Committee are
preparing to send recruits to the Duke of Ormond.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 249.
A Oct.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehal. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
The Committee of Council approve the removal of the prisoners
of war from the Savoy to Dover. Give directions accordingly.
Count de Mornay says he has heard from M. de Pontchartrain
concerning a cartel. Go and hear his proposals and report to me.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 118, 119.
2. To Same.
To set at liberty Laurence Ruben, Francis Willaert and a boy
called John Shiker, unless there is some particular reason against
doing so. Robert Elfrey of Harwich and two other men have
been released from Newport in Flanders on an obligatioa that
this should be done.
P. i. Ibid, p. 119.
3. To Same.
Queen's command:-To pay 241. Is. 21d. to Charles Morris of
Dover for hiring and fitting up a house in which to keep prisoners
of war.
P. i. Ibid, p. 120.
4. To Same.
The Royal African Company represent that there are several
prisoners of war at Plymouth (not Frenchmen), particularly one
William Collier, a German, who are willing to serve the Company
in. their forts at Guinea. Queen's command:-Give order to
the Commissary at Plymouth to deliver Collier and such other
prisoners (if not French or Spanish) as are willing so to serve to the
Company's superintendent at Plymouth that they may be sent
to Guinea in one of the Company's ships now lying there.
P. W. Ibid, pp. 120, 121.
5. To the Attorney General.
Sends a petition of John Albery, lately laid before the
Committee of Council, for prosecution of the offender mentioned
in it.
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6. To the Prince's Council.
The Committee of Council approve of the suggestion that
certain seamen taken by Sir Cloudesley Shovell on prizes and
suspected to be English, Scotch or Irish be put on board ships
bound for the West Indies to serve the Queen. Give directions
accordingly.
P. I. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 121.
7. To Same.
The Committee think the commanders of sloops which, pursuant
to a contract with Mr. Dummer, are to carry letters &c. to and
from the several British islands in America should have commissions granted to them, as the packet-boats have; and I am
to let you know it, so that you may receive his Royal Highness'
directions therein and dispatch such commissions. The present
commanders are Captain Ralph Corbett, commander of the
Bridgman, and Captain Richard Sympson of the Mansbridge.
P. l. Ibid, p. 122.
8. To Same.
Committee of Council's order:-The Governor of Jamaica
should have a ship to take his equipage there, as the Governor of
Barbados had. Take his Royal Highness' orders for directions
to the Navy Board to supply one.
P. ~. Ibid, pp. 122, 123.
9. To the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded.
To consider a letter from the Mayor of Southampton re provision
of an adequate guard for the French and Spanish prisoners,
which are there in large numbers.
Note.-That Mr. Cornelius, the Mayor of Southampton, reported
on 28 September that there were over 600 French and Spanish
prisoners there and a guard of only one officer and sixteen or
eighteen men.
P. i. Ibid, p. 123.
2 Oct.    NOTTINGHAM to BERNARD ELLIS, Esq., Lieutenant-Governor of
Whitehall.     Guernsey.
The Queen would have you acquaint Lieutenant la Boulay
that he must take the first opportunity of coming into England
and appear before one of the Secretaries of State to answer the
charges against him.
P. I. Ibid.
3 Oct.    SAME to the EARL OF CARLISLE.
Whitehall.  I sent the lists of Deputy-Lieutenants to Secretary Hedges, who
has returned them approved; but I did not include Mr. Henry as
well as Mr. George Fletcher (as in your list), as you said this was a
mistake. I did not include Mr. Andrew Huddleston for the reason
formerly given, in which your lordship seemed to agree.
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5 Oct.    NOTTINGHAM to the COMMISSIONERS for SICK and WOUNDED.
Whitehall  Yours of the 2nd, with letters of the Count de Mornay and
M. de Pontchartrain, have been considered by the Committee
of Council. I am directed to tell you -
You should inquire into the treatment of French prisoners
here, and especially at Portsmouth. The Queen desires that
they may be treated as prisoners of war should be, and as well
as is consistent with their safe custody, that no occasion may be
given to the ill-usage of such of her subjects as may be unfortunately taken by the French.
He mentions two French privateer captains who are in irons
at Southwark on suspicion of being English. Pray let me know
the facts about them, that such steps may be taken as are just.
You may tell Count de Mornay that I am surprised at the list
[he sends] of French vessels detained in Jersey, Guernsey and
the Isle of Wight, because I had long ago sent orders to release
all those which were there before the Declaration of War. I do
not believe there are now any in those islands, but I will repeat
the Queen's orders; save only the Susanna of Cherbourg, who
brought over spies, and whose captain has deserted her and
never claimed her.
You may further tell him that the difference in number between
the French prisoners here and the English in France is so great
that they could not reasonably expect that the exchange should
take place in the manner suggested, which is all for all; but that
if the French will agree to exchange man for man of the same
quality, this shall be done, and the ransom of the rest allowed on
fair terms, which terms shall continue for restitution of prisoners
hereafter taken.
The proposal for bringing all the English prisoners to Calais
or St. Malo has great inconveniences to us, because the English
prisoners now at Dunkirk, Rochfort &c. would have to march
there; and we know, by experience in the late war, that many
perished in so long a march. The French must therefore either
appoint more places of embarkation or devise some better way
of bringing the men to the ports " than by driving them thither
as was practised in the late war."
It seems very curious that the Governor of Bayonne should
seize a number of English merchantmen and demand a ransom
for them and give no account of it to the French Court. The
circumstances of these merchants are such that they should
not be made prisoners, and her Majesty insists on their being
released. An answer on this point is expected at once, so that
her Majesty may resolve on her action as to the French merchants
and prisoners here, with regard to whose release the French
desire a cartel to be settled.
Pp. 2j. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 124-7.
6 Oct.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
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lordship, wliich have come back from Bath with her Majesty's
approbation. I have signed them.
Six lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 127.
2. To the Mayor of Southampton.
Yours of 21 September re insufficient guard for prisoners has
been sent to the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded (the proper
officers). They say the guard has been so strengthened as to
give you the security you desire.
P. ~. Ibid, pp. 130, 131.
MEMORIAL of the PARISHIONERS of ALTHORP to the QUEEN.
We prostrate ourselves [&c.] on behalf of our present curate,
Mr. Martin Horbury*, that he may succeed Mr. Sedgwick, late
rector of this place. He is a sober, honest and peaceable man,
who has lived among us for twelve years and "very deeply
interessed himself in our most hearty love " by his life amongst
us. We are all ready to serve him for his own sake and for that
of his father, who was rector here. We pray your Majesty to
condescend unto us, and will ever pray &c.
P. 1. Signed by Francis Hutton, Robert Elwick and ninety
other parishioners. Followed by:7 Oct..Martin Horbury to Richard Dalston.
Prays that the letter may be laid before the Queen or Mr.
Secretary.
A note. (Hol.) The whole p. 1. Add. (in Horbury's hand)
to Mr. Dalston at his house "in the Pall Mall."  S.P. Dom.,
Anne 1, 79.
7 Oct.   COLONEL COLLIER to NOTTINGHAM.
Jersey.   The Commissary of St. Malo, in compliance with a request
which (promising similar treatment) I made to him, has sent back
not only some gentlemen of this island who were taken when
fishing just outside the harbour, but also Peter Seal, an English
factor at Bilbao, who was stopped at St. Malo when trying to
get home before the war, and Christopher Jones, who was commander of the Somerset, of Minehead, and was taken on July 13,
when bound for London from Antigua with sugar, and says
that his ship was retaken before he reached France; also
Mr. Wybert, commander of the Betty [details], which was taken
the 16th of July, but retaken in 18 hours, and two hands taken
on the Hopewell of Lancaster, which was taken coming from
Port O Port [Oporto] and ransomed. The Commissary wrote
very civilly asking that, in return, all such prisoners as were
detained here when war was declared should be returned. For
the return of the boat the gentlemen who came in her gave security
at St. Malo's. We have four [French] merchants and two
gentlemen detained here, the merchants being traders here since
long before the war, but I cannot release them without fresh orders,
[details] which please send.
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P.S.-They say there is great joy in France at the return of
the galleons, our retreat from Cadiz and the capture of Guastela
[Guastalla] in Italy.
Pp. li. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 37.
7 Oct.    NOTTINGHAM to MR. VERNON.
Whitehall.  I understand that Mr. Bradshaw is bailed by the Lord Chief
Justice, and the others have desired to be bailed by me. I do
not know with what sum they are charged or what security they
gave on coming into office. What bail should I require of each
of them?
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 127.
8 Oct.    SAME to the LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR of JERSEY.
Whitehall.  I have received a list of French ships detained (as alleged)
at Jersey, and again order you to discharge any of them which
were there before the Declaration of War and to give me the
reasons why any others are detained.
List of five ships follows, with details as to their port, lading,
masters &c.
Also note of similar letter addressed to the Lieutenant Governor
of Guernsey and of eight vessels stopped at Grenezey [Guernsey]
with similar details.
In all pp. 1. Ibid, pp. 129, 130.
[9 Oct.]   PETITION to the QUEEN of THOMAS WATSON, D.D., Bishop of
St. David's, shewing that:
Some clergy and officers of petitioner's diocese, angry at his
attempts to reform non-residence and other disorders complained
of in his diocese, raised and spread many false and scandalous
reports to make petitioner odious. They made use of that ill fame
to present articles of simony and other pretended crimes against
him. These were so presented to the Archbishop that he was
"prevailed with" to cite petitioner to appear at Lambeth, and
afterwards to pronounce sentence of deprivation, with excessive
costs, against him, which his Judges Delegates confirmed.
The prosecution was wholly malicious, the witnesses untrustworthy, and the evidence insufficient to justify the sentence.
The petitioner's witnesses were not allowed to give evidence,
and several allegations material to his case were excluded by
his Grace's agents and the delegates.
Prays for "a commission of review, with a clause of new matter
directed to such noble peers, Bishops, Judges of the Common
Law and Doctors of the Civil Law," as the Queen thinks fit to
hear and determine the cause.
P. 1. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 80.
13 Oct.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Prince's Council.
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sailor lately pressed on board the Sunderland, that he may have
a ticket for his wages, if they think fit.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 348.
2. To the Postmaster[s] General.
I send a despatch which the Queen has ordered to be sent to the
Earl of Marlborough and her Majesty's ministers abroad on
the occasion of the late success at Vigo. I have charged King,
the messenger, with them, and desire that he may be supplied
at once with a packet-boat or, if there be none at hand, some
other convenient boat.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 259.
14 Oct.    HEDGES to MR. BLATHWAYT.
Whitehall.  The Prussian Ambassador Extraordinary, M. de Spanheim,
has presented a demand for the arrears of subsidies due to his
master. He mentions your name in it, and as I believe you
know the state of the matter, I send the demand. Please return
it with a state of that arrear to be laid before the Queen.
P. ~. Ibid, p. 250.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To the Prince's Council.
The French proposal for a general exchange of prisoners having
been rejected, the Lords of the Committee desire your opinion
as to fixing terms and rates for a cartel.
Repeats objections of his letter of 5 October, 1702 [above, p. 266],
as to the concentration of British prisoners in France at Calais
and St. Malo.  Proceeds:-Please consider to what other French
ports they should come, and how the hardships experienced in
the last war may be avoided.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 131, 132.
2. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
Queen's command:-Give order to release Laurence Hendrixsen,
master of a busse belonging to Bouges [Bruges], and one of his
crew.  John Bilton, master of a ship belonging to Burlington
[Bridlington], and his son, who were taken by a privateer of
Ostend, have, the Queen hears, been released on condition of
these men receiving their liberty.*
P. i. Ibid, p. 133.
15 Oct.    SAME.
Whitehall.  1. To the Prince's Council.
Colonel Nicholson, in a letter of 23 July, recommended that
all vessels leave thence, at latest, at the commencement of June
(and before if possible), as they suffer much by worm and sickness
* These letters regarding exchange of prisoners are hereinafter shortly calendared as " for exchange of A.B. for C.D.




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of men, by waiting. I am to send this to you that you may
discuss it with the merchants.
Pp. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 133, 134.
2. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
If no objection, agree to exchange of Dupont Gille Simon,
captain of a French privateer, for Josuah Inglelate and Phineas
Thomas, masters of ships belonging to the Royal African
Company who are in prison at St. Malo and Dinant.
P. j. Ibid, pp. 134, 135.
3. To Henry Hooke, Lieutenant-Governor of Plymouth.
Yours of the 25th. Your conduct in the case of the French
prisoners set ashore by the Dutch privateer is approved. It is
very fit Mr. Warren, who did much to obtain their liberty by
being surety for them, should be obliged to answer for it at the
Sessions.
P. i. Ibid, p. 132.
16 Oct.   HEDGES to the LORD LIEUTENANT of IRELAND,
Whitehall.  Your report of 17 July last re Captain William Flower has
been laid before the Queen, who commands that, in consideration
of his claim and services, you give him such employment, military
or civil, as you think fit for him.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 250.
Same entered again. Ibid, p. 257.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
The main fleet under Sir George Rooke being about to return,
you are to take care of any sick and wounded soldiers who may
be landed in such manner as you are directed by his Royal
Highness to take care of sick and wounded seamen. Keep
distinct accounts of the two services.
P. 4.,S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 135.
2. To the Officers of Ordnance.
What tents have you ready in case of necessity? Were any
sent from your office with the Duke of Ormond? If so, how many?
P. i. Ibid, p. 136.
3. To the Lord Treasurer.
Relates the fact of Sir G. Rooke bringing home plunder from
Port St. Mary's in Spain. Proceeds:-The Queen would have
you give orders to the Customs Officers to allow no such goods
to be landed. Further pleasure.
P. 4. Ibid.
4. To the Commissioners of Transport.
Queen's command:-You must not give any charge in on
the horses and men that went with the fleet to Cadiz.
Five lines. Ibid, p. 146.


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17 Oct.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.
hitehall. To the Commissioners of Prizes.
The Queen hears that great quantities of goods and money
[details] have been pillaged from the Spaniards at Port St. Mary's
and elsewhere, and are on board the fleet and attendant ships.
Some of these have already arrived and the rest are daily expected.
The Queen is resolved that the strictest account of them be
taken and none embezzled. She desires you to take the advice
of her counsel in the Court of Admiralty, and, through your
officers at the various ports, to lay hands on these goods when
they arrive. If possible prevent their being put ashore, but if
any of them are put ashore, have them arrested and put in safe
keeping until further order. For doing this, you are to apply
to his Royal Highness for letters of assistance to the sea and
land officers on board the fleet and to the Lord Treasurer for
orders to the Commissioners of the Customs to help you with
their officers and agents if necessary. Give an account of your
proceedings in this matter from time to time that I may lay the
same before the Queen and take her further pleasure. " You
are to consider that this is a thing of great consequence and the
nature of it is such that it does not admit of any delay."
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 252-3.
2. To the Dutch Ambassadors.
Hopes for a meeting between them and the Commissioners
appointed to treat with them. Confusion owing to the
approaching meeting of Parliament. When things are in order
all care will be used to conclude the Treaty.
P. I, in French. Ibid, p. 267.
17 Oct.    The COMMISSIONERS of PRIZES to HEDGES.
Prize Office:  We have sent orders to all our sub-commissioners and agents
to seize all goods and effects mentioned in your letter of directions
to'us when Sir George Rooke's ships come in from Spain.
We send our advocates' opinion as to procedure for obtaining
and securing the plunder. We will enjoin care upon our officers
and let you have constant reports.
P. ~. Signed by Edward Brereton, George Morley, R. Yard
and Ant. Duncombe.     Endd.   S.P. Dom., Naval     117, 48.
Enclosing:A. Opinion of T. Cooke and William Oldys [Barristers-at-Law].
In order to make more effectual discovery of what plundered
goods are brought in her Majesty's fleet now coming from
Spain under the command of Sir George Rooke, it is our
opinion that commissions of inquiry should issue from the
High Court of Admiralty, together with warrants to arrest
and secure such of the said goods as shall thereby be discovered.
Those commissions and warrants should be directed to the
Prize officers and other proper persons residing at the ports
at which the said fleet, or any ships belonging to it, arrive.
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17 Oct.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Lord Treasurer.
The Queen thinks fit to allow Sir David Mitchell 5001. for his
journey into Holland, and desires you to give order accordingly.
Five lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 146.
2. To the Attorney General.
The Queen has ordered the Duke of Ormond to confine the
officers concerned in the plunder of Port St. Mary's contrary
to her Majesty's express command in her declaration and to the
Duke's directions. Her Majesty desires that they be tried, and
your opinion is required on the best way of trying them. I send
you this notice that you may have your opinion ready by 10 a.m.
on Monday next, when the Committee of Council will meet at
my office, and expect it from you. Sir John Cooke, Judge
Advocate, is ordered to attend at the same time and occasion.
P. i. Ibid, p. 137.
18 Oct.   HEDGES to the COMMISSIONERS of PRIZES.
Whitehall.  Queen's command:-In pursuance of her Majesty's pleasure
expressed yesterday as to the arrest of the plunder that is on
the fleet, transport and other vessels, your officers at the ports
are to take ashore all such plunder when they have taken an
account of it, and put it into her Majesty's warehouses, that the
ships in which it is be not delayed from further services. Take
the necessary care in this.
P. -. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 257.
19 Oct.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall  1. To the Officers of the Ordnance.
The muskets usually furnished out of the Tower are deemed
too heavy for service in the West Indies, and those used by the
"bucquaniers " thought more serviceable. Give orders at once
for as many of these as can be ready in ten or twelve days and let
me know how many can be ready in that time.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book, 104, p. 138.
2. To the Lord Treasurer.
The Queen has appointed Mr. Hezekiah Marshall to be
Commissary General of the musters, provisions and victuals
to the forces sent out under the command of the Earl of
Peterborough to the West Indies, and gives him a salary of 4001.
a year for himself and one clerk, and one half of this to be
advanced to him. Give directions accordingly.
P. i. Ibid.
19 Oct.   The COMMISSIONERS of PRIZES to HEDGES.
Prize Office. hall we send our directions to our agents (for securing the
plunder in the Queen's warehouses) by express, or may they wait
for the post to-morrow?
P. i.  Signed as their last letter (above, p. 271).  Endd.
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19 Oct.   HEDGES to the PRINCE'S CouNCL.
Whitehall.  By command:-Encloses copy of a paper sent in by the Levant
merchants asking for a convoy for eight of their ships, which
they design to send at once to Turkey. His Royal Highness to
consider it.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 355.
20 Oct.    SAME to SAME.
Whitehall.  Similar to same to same of 13 October [above, pp. 268-9]; for
release of two Swedes. [Details.]
P. J. Ibid, p. 349.
20 Oct.    SIR EDWARD NORTHEY (Attorney General) to [NOTTINGHAM].
In regard to the matters you proposed to me yesterday:I find by the Petition of Right (3 Car. I) it is complained that
several Commissions had issued under the Great Seal by which
certain persons had been assigned Commissioners with powers
to proceed within the land according to the justice of martial
law against soldiers who should commit murder, robbery, felony,
mutiny or other outrage or misdemeanour, and to try and execute
them according to that law. The Commissions complained of
were issued in time of peace, when martial law ought not to have
been executed, but the petition admits that that law may be
exercised in an army in time of war. Nevertheless, in all the
Annual Acts passed during the late war for punishing officers or
soldiers who should mutiny or desert, there is a declaration of
Parliament saving to all men the right to be tried by their peers
according to the known and established laws of the realm.
This, being declared in time of war, seems to mean that even
in time of war martial law cannot be exercised without an Act of
Parliament. It remains to be considered:
(1) Whether these declarations of the Parliament against
martial law extend to the Queen's forces out of the realm so that
they cannot be subject to martial law there.
(2) Whether they apply to those forces so as to prevent persons
from being tried by martial law here for offences committed
out of the realm.
(3) Whether by virtue of the Annual Mutiny Act, martial law
may be used to try other offences in the army than those (mutiny,
sedition and desertion) specially mentioned in it.
I ask these questions because offences committed beyond
seas cannot be tried by a jury here, nor can offences which are
not offences against the common law, but against martial law.
If these cannot be tried by Courts-Martial, they must go
unpunished.
This matter is of such consideration that I do most humbly
propose that these questions, with such others as your lordship
thinks fit, be laid before all the Queen's "Councell" in the law
or a Committee of the " Privy Councell " at which both the Chief
Justices may be consulted. Their opinion will be of more use
and authority than that of " councel " can be.
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I give you this trouble lest the Queen's service should be
prejudiced by my sudden- and single opinion on the questions
proposed to me.
Pp. 2. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 81.
20 Oct.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall   1. To the Prince's Council.
The Earl of Peterborough has suggested that the twenty-two
brass guns-24 pounders-and sixteen sakers taken on board
the Neptune or Trident, and now in the Tower, might be of use
for the Boyne in the West Indies. The Queen approves this.
Receive his Royal Highness's directions for orders to the officers
of the Ordnance to put these guns on board suitable ships.
The Queen is willing that the Fubbs yacht should be ordered
with the Earl to Jamaica if you have no objection to it. Take
directions from his Royal Highness to sheathe her, or any other
yacht which you send instead.
Pp. 1!. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 139, 140.
2. To the Attorney General.
The Queen desires you to prepare a warrant with the heads
of a charter for refounding the Hospital of the Savoy, with the
clauses and powers mentioned in the accompanying report.
Insert in the clause a reserving power to the Queen to permit
the inhabitants of St. Mary de Strand parish to use the Savoy
Chapel as formerly.
P. i. Ibid, p. 140. Enclosing:Report to the Queen on the re-foundation of the Hospital of
the Savoy.
1. s. d.
The certain rents payable to the Savoy Hospital
before it was dissolved were.....   444 13   7
The fines on renewing leases were at least..  100  0  0
The burial fees for burials in the chapel were
about...........    15 0   0
I think the hospital may be refounded to consist of a Master, a
Chaplain and twenty poor widows, to be called "the Master,
Chaplain and Poor of the Hospital of King Henry VIIth in
the Savoy, founded by Queen Anne," &c., with the clauses
and powers usual in such cases.
The said master, &c., to be subject to such laws and ordinances
as your Majesty thinks fit for the government of the hospital
and its members.
The master and chaplain to be in Holy Orders, and to be
constituted by your Majesty and your successors under the
Great Seal on any avoidance.
The poor to be nominated by your Majesty and your successors
under your sign manual on any vacancy. If your Majesty
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The master, chaplain and poor to hold for life subject to the
orders and to removal for misdemeanour or breach of the
ordinances.
The poor to be removed by the master and chaplain and the
master and chaplain by the Visitor.
The number of poor to be twenty, unless the Visitor decides
that the revenue will support more.
The master to have 1001. a year and lodging and the chaplain
501. a year and lodging. The poor to have 6d. a day and
40s. a year to buy a "gown of black cloth."  Each of the
poor to have a lodging. The rest of the revenue to be spent
in officers' salaries and repairs, &c.
Repeats rule as to ordinances. Proceeds:That for the support of the Hospital your Majesty may be
pleased to grant the said master, chaplain and poor and their
successors for ever all the late site of the dissolved hospital and
all its houses and buildings and lands, manors and revenues.
The inhabitants of the parish of "St. Mary le Strand " have
no parish church and have long used the Savoy Chapel as
such and found a preacher there at their own expense and
have petitioned to be allowed to continue to use it. I think
this may be granted. The chapel is large enough for the
needs of the inhabitants of that parish and of the Savoy
precinct and for the said poor. Provision may be made by
ordinance for the said parish touching the chapel.
Fitting lodgings should be provided for the master, chaplain
and poor; but this is difficult because the room where the
poor were formerly lodged is now used by your Majesty for
a barrack for soldiers, and has been so for near 30 years.
Another part is used as a prison for deserters and prisoners
of war, and the greatest part of the grounds within the hospital
is let on long leases by the late master and chaplains, only
the master's house being unlet and in your Majesty's disposal,
as are the barracks and prison buildings. If the use as barrack
and prison is to continue, accommodation must be found for
the poor. Sir Christopher Wren, Surveyor of your Majesty's
Works, tells me that the barrack and prison are much out of
repair and that it will need 1,5001. to repair them, and much
more to equip them as a lodging, for the poor. The rents due
are not nearly sufficient for this purpose.
Pp. 4). S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 141-5.
3. To the Lord Treasurer.
The plunder taken at Port St. Mary's, if marked and inventoried
by Sir George Rooke, but not otherwise, may be taken ashore
and stored in her Majesty's storehouses. Pray give orders
accordingly.
P. J. Ibid, pp. 145, 146.
REPORT by PRINCE GEORGE OF DENMARK (as Lord High
Admiral) on the PETITION of MATHEW AYLMER.
As ordered on July 11 last I have considered the petition;


21 Oct.
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and report that the petitioner laid down his commission as flag
officer on her Majesty's constituting Mr. Churchill Admiral of
the Blue, and that he was afterwards removed from his post as
Commissioner of the Navy by her Majesty. I do not find that
Admiral Killigrew and Sir Ralph Delavall refused to serve in
their respective stations, as alleged in the petition; but, being
left out of the Commission of the Admiralty and not employed at
sea after 1693, King William gave them the pensions they now
enjoy in consideration of their good services at sea.
P.;.   Signed, George, and   countersigned  by  Burchett.
S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 134.
21 Oct.   HEDGES to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Similar to same to same of 13 Oct. (q.v. above, pp. 268-9); for
release of four Swedes. [Details.]
P. j. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 349.
21 Oct.   The PRINCE'S COUNCIL to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  Yours of yesterday.  His Royal Highness has given order
for the Solsdyke yacht to be fitted out to attend Lord Peterborough
to his post as Governor of Jamaica.  The Fubbs mentioned
in your letter, is with Sir George Rooke.
The guns which his lordship desires carried to the Boyne are
not fit for sea, and the Boyne is already gunned according to the
Order in Council, and, without a fresh order, cannot be altered;
nor do we know how these guns could be carried to the Boyne in
the West Indies or how the guns on board of her could be brought
thence; but if the Queen thinks it right that his lordship should
have these guns her pleasure must be signified directly to the
Master-General of the Ordnance.
P. |.   Signed by   Mitchell, Churchill and  Hill.  Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 135.
22 Oct.   NOTTINGHAM to the COUNCIL of TRADE and PLANTATIONS.
Whitehall  The Queen has heard great complaints against Mr. Atwood,
late Chief Justice, and Mr. Weaver, late solicitor of the Colony of
New York. Send particulars of the charges and evidence
against them, that the right proceedings may be taken. They
have come from New York to Plymouth.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 149.
23 Oct.   The PRINCE'S COUNCIL to NOTTINGHAM.
Omcirca.   We have yours of the 19th with the petition of the Company
trading to the Levant, asking for a convoy of four good ships
to escort the fleet which they are about to send to Turkey. One
of the merchants was with us this morning on the matter; but
it is impossible that the number of vessels desired can be got
together in twenty days, as the Company desire, as they are now
employed in other services and are out of the reach of his Royal
Highness's orders-either with Sir C. Shovell, in the squadron
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of Marlborough, or at Newfoundland, or needed to protect the
ships bound to Portugal.
We have acquainted the merchants that, if they will let their
trade stay, a convoy will be provided for it as soon as possible
in case it be the Queen's pleasure that so many ships be employed
in this service.
Pp. 1. Signed by Mitchell, Churchill and Hill. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 136.
24 Oct.    JOHN THOMSON to CHARLES EYRES.
Pray send down a subpoena returnable in time that we may
file a bill this term that the defendants may answer by next
term.  William  Tuckey [?], plaintiff [?], against John Smith,
Elizabeth, his wife, and Mary Smith. Pray send it next post.
Four lines. Signed. Add. to Charles Eyres at his seat in the
Exchequer Office; Inner Temple. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 82.
24 Oct.    HEDGES   to   HUGH   TONKIN, ESQ., or other the HIGH
Whitehall.     SHERIFF of CORNWALL.
Queen's command:-Not to execute sentence on Francis
Foxworthy, who was condemned for the murder of Edward
Gribley [sic] at the Summer Assizes at Launceston. A warrant for
his pardon has been signed, but will take some time to go through
the necessary offices.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 250-1.
25 Oct.   [VICE-ADMIRAL*] AYLMER to [NOTTINGHAM].
I send the enclosed to correct an error which, as his Royal
Highness's secretary tells me, has got into the report on my
petition. Pray lay it before the Queen when my report is read.
P. ~. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 50. Enclosing:A. In answer to a report on Mr. Aylmer's petition.
He did not lay down upon Mr. Churchill's being made Admiral
of the Blue, as is alleged in the report.  Mr. Churchill
became Vice-Admiral of the Red, which post (and many
others) Mr. Aylmer had previously held (as he presumes,
without blame).  He cannot be said to have declined the
service from which he was displaced.
The Queen removed him from being a Commissioner of the
Navy. Hopes she will consider his long service, as alleged
in his petition.
P. i. Ibid, 50A.
26 Oct.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Lord Chief Justice Holt.
The Queen desires his opinion and that of the judges and her
counsel on enclosed paper; which opinion is to be laid before
her Majesty in Council on Friday next.
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2. To Seafield.
To-morrow at 6 p.m., at the Council Chamber in the Cockpit,
is appointed for the meeting of the Commissioners of both
Kingdoms for the Union. Pray give notice to the Scottish
Commissioners accordingly.
3. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
To send an account of how many prisoners of war are now in
England and where they are confined.
4. To Dr. Brampston.
Queen's command to prosecute in the Court of Admiralty the
Mary of Ross (James Allen master), lately from Nantes and
driven into Falmouth by contrary winds.
5. To the Lord Treasurer.
Queen's command:-2001. to Mr. Edmond Hawley, who is
going abroad on the Queen's special service.
Five short letters. In all pp. 1J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104,
pp. 147-8.
26 Oct.   The QUEEN to the CHANCELLOR and PRIY COUNCIL of
St. James'.    SCOTLAND.
Postponing the meeting of the Scottish Parliament from
12 November next to 6 April, 1703. This is done for many
reasons, "particularly that the setting on foot and carrying on
the... Treaty of Union towards a happy conclusion to be
reported to our next Parliament will need a longer time."
P. 1. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, pp. 235-6.
Same.     SAME to the SCOTTISH COMMISSIONERS for the UNION with
ENGLAND.
Postponing the date of their meeting with the Commissioners
for England at Westminster from 27 October to 10 November
next.
P. i. Ibid, pp. 236, 237, and S.P. Scotland, Series II, Vol. 2,
p. 6.
27 Oct.   SAME to the ENGLISH COMMISSIONERS for the UNION.
St. James'.  Adjourning their sittings to November 10 next at Westminster.
Also note of the Commissioners' meeting on this day:
Pp. 21. S.P. Scotland, Series II, Vol. 2, pp. 4-6.
27 Oct.   The POSTMASTERS GENERAL to the LORD HIGH TREASURER.
General Post  The postrenters of Scotland have from  time to time run
considerably in arrears to this office, and we have, to recover
the money, sued on the bonds from both principals and securities,
but meet with such delays in the prosecution that we fear the
money may be lost unless the Queen gives special directions to
her officers in Scotland to assist. Sir David Dalrymple and one
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time to move in the matter. The late King directed that we
and Mr. Hill should meet the Secretaries of State of Scotland
and endeavour to adjust these matters. We accordingly did
meet and came to some arguments [sic] thereupon, and were in
hopes some part of the money would long ere this have been
paid; but as delays still take place, we think it right to let your
lordship know of them.
Pp. 1. Signed by R. Cotton and Tho. Frankland. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 83.
27 Oct.    JosIAx BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  Acting on instructions received from  the Prince's Council
yesterday, I have prepared a draft of instructions to Vice-Admiral
Benbow on account of the Earl of Peterborough's going Governor
to Jamaica. They were read to the Prince's Council this morning,
and you will receive a copy herewith [missing].
P. i. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 137.
27 Oct.   The COMMISSIONERS OF SICK AND WOUNDED to SAME.
Sounded    Send enclosed account, according to order.
Office.   Five lines. Signed by H. Lee, P. Herbert, R. Adams and
W. Sherard.
Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 51. Enclosing:Account of the prisoners of war now in England &c.
At various places in England [details], 1,844. In Guernsey, 73.
At Kinsale, 82. There are also some in Jersey, but the
agent there was taken by the French whilst coming hither; so
there is no account of them.
P. D. Dated, Sick and Wounded Office, 27 Oct., Ibid, 51A.
27 Oct.   HEDGES to M. VRYBERGEN.*
Whitehall  I have received your letters regarding the paper laden on the
vessel of Robert Maitre [or of which Robert -    is master?],
which has been condemned in the Court of Admiralty. There is
at present no remedy but to appeal from the sentence to the
Lords Commissioners of Prize Appeals. I have prevented the sale
of the paper, which is all I can do for you. As to the request
of the Sieur David de Neufville and other subjects of the StatesGeneral concerning the cargo of brandy on the Trais [Trois?] Amis;
which has been insured by them, I have laid it before her Majesty,
who, in your favour, has granted [disclaimed] her share of the
45 barrels [pieces] of brandy which have been condemned by the
Court of Admiralty.
P. i, in French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 258.
28 Oct.    SAME to the PRINCE's COUNCIL.
Whitehall.  Similar to same to same of 13 October, 1702 [above, pp. 268-9];
for release of two Swedes. [Details.]
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 350.
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29 Oct.   DEPOSITIONS by WILLIAM LANYON and others.
Penzance.  We, William Lanyon, jun., of Penzance, Edward Jones, of
same, and William Paule, of Newlyn, say on oath:One Solomon Le Griel, a Frenchman, lived here over three
years recently. He has said often that war would soon be and
that he would do his best to ruin Penzance and the other towns
bordering on the sea coast and the said port of Penzance (being
in the Mount's Bay). We also say that Le Griel, being like to
be questioned for these statements, got privately away, and set
forth a privateer from Deip [Dieppe] to effect this design; but
about ten days since was taken near Mount's Bay by a Dutch
privateer, commanded by one Captain Garret, and carried
into Falmouth, where he is now prisoner of war to the said captain.
He has, we are told, there confessed that his design was to burn and
plunder Penzance and the other towns in Mount's Bay;
and gives out that he shall soon have his liberty from the Dutch,
and is well assured of another ship with which he will carry out
his design of burning and plundering the said towns as aforesaid.
We fear he will do so if liberated during this war.
P. ~. Signed by Lanyon, Jones (with his mark) and Pawle,
and underwritten:
We, the undersigned, know most of this deposition to be true
and believe the rest to be true, the deponents being men of good
reputation. We hope Le Griel will be kept prisoner during the
rest of the war. Signed by Dan Hawke [or Hawkey], Mayor, and
John Pellow, justice, and with seal of the town of Penzance
bearing John Baptist's head on a charger.* Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Anne 1, 84.
30 Oct.   HEDGES to the POSTMASTERS GENERAL.
Whitehall.  Queen's pleasure:-Order a special boat to be hired to take
over to-night's mail, no packet-boat being on this side.
Three lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 251.
30 Oct.   The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to the SECRETARIES
Sick and      of the ADMIRALTY.
Wounded
Office.  We have considered the copy of a cartel between France and
the States General for exchange of prisoners taken at land during
the late war, and your information and that of Count de Mornay
regarding the payments made by the Queen and by the French
King to officers and seamen serving in their fleets. We tried
to frame a scheme for a cartel according to these scales of wages,
but the differences between them  makes this difficult. The
general principle in regard to ransom appears to be to ask about
one month's pay; but we have suggested rates somewhat higher
than this. [Details.] We have fixed the ransom for men in
privateers as if they were in first-rate ships. This, if agreed to,
would be advantageous, first, because it would discourage [French]
privateers, and, secondly, because we have captured many of
* As to the Volksetymologie which encircles the crest, see Gilbert's History of
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those vessels. We send a copy of the account received from
Comnt de Mornay, compared with her Majesty's scale of payments to officers and men on the fleet. Pray let us know
when we are to wait on his Royal Highness with our
scheme.
Pp. 1. Copy, and signed (copies) by all the Commissioners.
End. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 52. Enclosing:A. Some heads for a cartel for exchange of prisoners taken
at sea.
Between England and France —
1. All prisoners taken by England (except those at Kinsale
or in, the Channel Islands) shall be collected at Plymouth,
Southampton or Dover, and thence brought by English ships
under control of the Commissioners, at the cost of France,
to certain ports in France, vizt., Calais, Rochfort and
St. Malo or to some other port in the Bay. To these ports
all the English taken at sea by the French shall be brought
from all parts of that Kingdom. They must be brought by
sea, or by easy journeys by land, and not chained together.
Coaches or messengers shall be provided by the French
King for commissioned officers and volunteers by letter,
for all seamen who are sick or lame, and for all those others
who may be ready to pay for them at the rate which the French
King pays. The English ships going to St. Malo to pick
up any French prisoners which may be at Jersey or
Guernsey. Prisoners in Ireland to be sent by the Commissioners there as often as opportunity ogers.
2. As soon as the English ships arrive at the French ports
mentioned they shall be sent back with all the English prisoners
which are there. The intendants at the said ports shall give
receipts for all the French prisoners which they receive,
and receive the like for the English whom they give. Both
shall express their names and qualities, with a view to a final
adjustment of the account.   Each Government shall allow
to its prisoners such allowance for subsistance as the other
requires. Accounts of such allowances to be kept and cleared
in French money. [Details.]
To avoid disputes the following shall be deemed to be the fixed
scale of ransoms:An Admiral of the squadron of the French fleet shall
be exchanged for the like officer in the English fleet,
or shall pay....               8,000 livres.
A Vice-Admiral shall be exchanged for the like officer
in the English fleet, or shall pay.. 4,000 livres.
A   Lieutenant-General  or Intendant-General shall be
exchanged for a Rear-Admiral of the English fleet, or
pay...........  2,400 livres.
The list continues in'a descending scale, ending with common
seamen, who may be exchanged for each other or 16 livres;
and boys for each other or 8 livres. All privateersmen to be
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Other rates.are laid down for masters and men of merchant
ships.
Pp. 3X. Copy. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 52A.
31 Oct.   HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Lord Mayor of London.
The Queen has received news from the Duke of Ormond and
Sir George Rooke that the fleet and land forces have seized and
burnt the French men-of-war and Spanish galleons at Vigo. I
am to tell you of this that you may give the necessary directions
for rejoicings to be made in the City.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 251.
2. To Lieutenant-General Churchill.
Similar to foregoing. The cannon at the Tower to be fired.
P. i. Ibid, p. 252.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM to the LORD TREASURER.
The Queen is willing to give ten trees to the vicar and churchwardens of Mansfield, Notts, for repair of their school. You are,
please, to give orders accordingly.
Also note of the petition of the vicar, &c., asking for the trees.
In all p. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 149.
Oct.     NOTE for the DIVIDENT for OCTOBER.*
Mentions, inter alia, the grants or commissions to Mr. D'
Hervertworth, the Duke of Somerset, Greenwich Hospital, the
Earl of Peterborough and Duke of Bolton.
The figures in the left column make up to 81. 6s. 8d.; and
those in the right 311. Os. Od.
P. i. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 85.
About Oct.  PETITION to the QUEEN     of CAPTAIN WILLIAM    WANLESS,
shewing that:Petitioner, on his journey from Ireland to Jamaica, was
captured and taken prisoner to France and remained there nine
months. Before his departure he had, in order to equip himself
for the Queen's service, to contract many debts. By means
of his many great losses he is unable to pay these, and may get
into trouble on account of them.
Prays for some "restoration" for his losses.
P. i. Endd. Ibid, 86. Annexing:Account of petitioner's losses.
Losses in clothes, cure of hand (101. 15s.), paid for wounded men,
going to Ireland, sickness there and returning (401.) and pay
ordered from 8 Oct., 1702.t-total, 2571.
Petitioner also lost two hogsheads of brandy, which he bought
on an adventure. These were taken from him by the French.
He has received 801. in Ireland; so is now 1771. Os. Od. a loser.
P. l. Ibid, 86A.
* See above, pp. 15, 16.
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NOVEMBER, 1702.
1 Nov.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall  1. To Viscount Shannon.
Summoning him to attend a meeting of the Lords of the Council
at Lord Secretary Nottingham's office at 10 a.m. on November 2.
Four lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 259.
2. To the Commissioners for Victualling the Navy.
Similar to foregoing.
Four lines. Ibid.
3. To the Attorney General.
Queen's command:-Prepare a proclamation for a General
Thanksgiving for the success of the Queen's forces by land and sea
this year, especially of her forces under the Earl of Marlborough in
the Low Countries and of the fleet and forces under the Duke of
Ormond and Sir George Rooke; and attend the Council with it
at 6 p.m. to-morrow. It is intended to celebrate it on one day
in London and Westminster and throughout the country on
another. Please to leave blanks in the draft accordingly.
P. i. Ibid, p. 260.
2 Nov.    RESOLUTION of the JUDGES.
On the Act of 25 Car. II, cap. 2 (regarding Popish Recusants):Where there is a commission and an oath of office to be taken,
the sacrament may be taken within three months after the date
of the commission or after taking the oath of office, and the
oaths and test may be taken the next term or next sessions after
the date of the commission or taking of the oath of office. Where
there is no oath of office to be taken, the Commissioners may
take the sacrament within three months after the date of the
commission or after their doing the first act by virtue of the
commission, and may take the oaths and test the next term or
sessions after such date.
P. W. Copy, with copies of signatures of twelve judges. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 87.
2 Nov.    ALEXANDER KER to WILLIAM KEITH.
Ababden   I send you a list of the persons elected for all Scotland. We
(Ar  ] reckon the burros [boroughs] to be 34 or 35. If the D[uke] of
H[amilton] could fall upon a way to secure Proves [Provost]
Allardeis* to his party for the interest of the Queen and country
I think it might be a fit time; for if he once engage[s] he will not
be readily broke; but I fear him to be of Seafield's party. The
barons [i.e. county members] are 56 or 60. I hope they will prove
true to the service of the Queen and country.
There is a report here that when D. H. [the Duke of Hamilton]
came to London he was informed that the Parliament of
Scotland was to be adjourned to 6 April, 1703; that he had
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an audience and pointed out to the Queen the danger of so long an
adjournment, and that she promised to recall the order for it,
and gave orders to the Duke of Queensberry for it. I am told
the proclamation of adjournment lay at Edger [sic] ten days
before the proclamation [i.e. before it was issued] but no stop
came, so it is thought that the other party is prevailing. I
should be greatly obliged if you would let me know once a week
how things are going.
P. i. Signed. Add. to Mr. William Keith, c./o. Mr. Strachne,
bookseller, at the sign of the Golden Bell, over against the Royal
Exchange, London, with cryptic endorsement, and postmarks.
Also marked pd. 3[d] to Ed[inburgh]. S.P. Scotland, Series II, 1,
11. Enclosing:A. List of Barons [for shires] and Members for boroughs returned
to the Parliament of Scotland.
For this see the Return of Members of Parliament (1878),
Vol. III, pp. 598-602.
Pp. 1i. Ibid, 11A.
3 NOV.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Admiralty  I am to inform you that several store ships and transport ships
have come to St. Helen's with three men-of-war that have arrived
there from the fleet of Sir George Rooke; so that Lord Secretary
Nottingham may take orders from the Queen as to what is to
be done with these and others expected "suddenly" home
with Sir George Rooke himself. It is unnecessary and expensive
that they should remain longer at Spithead if they are not needed.
The soldiers are reported very sickly and should be put ashore
if the Queen's service will allow it.
P. i. (Hol.?) Add. to Warre as Secretary to Lord Secretary
Nottingham. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 138.
3 Nov.    J. MACKY to [NOTTINGHAM].
I have not exceeded your instructions in the matter of exchange
of prisoners. The Commissioners for exchange of prisoners
have ceased treating with Count de Mornay and gave in a scheme
for a cartel of their own to the Council last Friday which, when
approved, must be sent to France by some one. I may be able
to do much service if I am allowed to go over. I have lived
at Dover in good reputation ever since the Peace of Ryswick.
I must have your approval or I am undone.
My packet-boats cost me 3,0001., and they being now laid aside
by the war, I am ruined unless I have your protection.
I was never a party man, and have always done my best under
the several Secretaries of State that did govern the Southern
province. As director of the packet-boats at Dover I shall
always try to serve you. Details.
Pp. 1I. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 53.
3 Nov.    PROPOSALS for MANNMOG the FLEET in 1703.
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make up their middle complements 3,250. For eight secondrate ships the figures are 100 men each when in port and 4,400
to make up the middle complements. For eight third-rates
the figures are 800 and 3,120.
The twenty-five fourth-rates in pay bear each 50 men supernumerary to the complements, and the fifteen fifth-rates each 40.
Total of these two, 1,850.
The total number of men wanted to make up the middle complements of the ships of the first three rates mentioned above
is 10,770.*
It is proposed to raise these in the following way:
Those borne on the ships in harbour and as supernumeraries on the fourth- and fifth-rates to be
put into the ships.......... 3,950
Twenty-five fourth-rates to be reduced to their
middle complements, which, at 29 men each, is..  725
Fifteen fifth-rates to be likewise reduced at 20 men each  300
Marine soldiers......... 5,000
9,975
So that there will want but 805 men to man the whole fleet
to their middle complements.
By this means there will be borne about 4,000 men as supernumeraries and in the ships in harbour in ordinary, which, at
45s. a man a month for wages and victuals, comes to 9,0001. a
month.
P. 1. Endd. "R. enclosed from Mr. Burchett," with date.
S.P. Dom., Naval 111, p. 529.
3 Nov.    HEDGES to COLONEL JOHN GIBSON, Lieutenant-Governor of
Whitehall.     Portsmouth.
Stop the execution of sentence on John Evans, who lies under
sentence of death for desertion. The Queen has signed a warrant
for respiting the execution till 11 November; but it is not ready
to go by this post.
P. i. Add. to Gibson or, in his absence, to the Commander-inChief at Portsmouth, and all others concerned.  S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 101, p. 260.
Latest date,
4 Nov.    DOCUMENTS RELATING to the DISORDERS at PORT ST. MARY'S.
1. The Judges' opinion as the proper way of dealing with
those responsible for the disorders was considered by the Queen
in Council.
Order, 30 October, 1702. The Judges to consider whether
those persons may be brought to trial by Court-Martial on
board the fleet before they arrive in England.
P. i.
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2. Opinion of the Judges.
They answer the above question in the affirmative after considering the Duke of Ormond's commission. The Queen's
Serjeants, Attorney and Solicitor General and all the civilians at
Doctors' Commons concur. Martial law may be exercised on the
high seas before the ships return to this realm for offences committed by land forces on land beyond sea, if the expedition
and authority of the General continue. The words "according
to the late Act of Parliament " contained in the General's commission did not confine his jurisdiction to cases of offences mentioned in that enactment, but only applied that Act to procedure
in the Courts which he assembles.
P. i. Dated, 4 November, 1702.
3. Commission to the Duke of Ormond.
Gives him power to issue rules and regulations and to punish
with death or other penalties those who violate them, after trial
by a Court-Martial, which he may assemble as he thinks right
" pursuant to the directions of a late Act "* for punishing mutiny
and desertion. Power to appoint a Provost-Marshal to use and
execute the usual duties of that office. The Queen has appointed
a Judge Advocate to attend the said Court-Martials and see that
the proceedings are in order. If he is sick or dies the Duke
may appoint another in his place. Power to replace all officers
who are removed or executed by a decree of the Court. Power
to order payment for the officers &c.
Pp. 2.  Dated, St. James', 12 April, 1702.  In all pp. 31.  All
copies. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 54.
This concludes the documents relating to this case.
ANov.     COUNT DE MORNAY to NOTTINGHAM.
London.  I hear that the French prisoners are dying every day in prison.
This obliges me to ask you if what has been arranged here about
exchange will be sent over there; for I must make some answer
to M. de Pontchartrain. I am trying to do all I can to clothe
these poor people, &c. Pray send me the project [for an
exchange] if it has been settled, that I may send it to France.
Pray allow the means to settle this matter.  I take the liberty
to ask urgently for an answer. I ask your attention for my
letters of 2 November.
Pp. 1J. In French. Signed. Endd. Ibid, 55. Enclosing:M. Latour Montfort to [Count de Mornay].
The King has just sent me a power to treat for a general exchange of
prisoners with M. Mackay, director of the packet-boats, who
is to come here. As I know you have a like power, pray
tell me what you have done, that I may not interfere with
anything you have begun. Please send your answer to
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M. Minet at Dover, to be forwarded to M. Pigaulle, merchant,
at Calais.
Pp. 11 (small).  In French. Dated, Calais, 5 Nov. [n.s.].
Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 55A.
4 Nov.    AN ACCOUNT of the CONDITION Of HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS.
AdOmirlty  Gives a detailed account of the state of repair of all the ships
under repair and of those building and re-building, and of those
that lie up in harbour, excluding those now in sea pay.
States the harbour in which each vessel is, her rate and name,
when the shipwrights' works may be completed, when the rigging
may be ready and stores on board if the seamen attend, and
makes observations on the repairs and fittings of the vessels.
Gives list of the vessels lying up at Deptford, Chatham, Woolwich and Portsmouth, stating when they may probably be
completed if taken in hand.
Pp. 2a. Columns with details.    S.P. Dom., Naval 111,
pp. 533-5.
4 Nov.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Prince's Council.
Her Majesty approves the proposals for a cartel at sea with
France and Spain prepared by the Commissioners for Sick and
Wounded and sent by Mr. Burchett. If you have no further
objections, you are to deliver them to the Count de Mornay; but
the Queen would have an article added to them that any agreement made by any master of any English merchant-ship for
his liberty on terms in excess of those in the cartel shall be
void.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 153, 154.
2. To the Commisioners of Sick and Wounded.
To consider and report upon the letters from and to Count de
Mornay, which are herewith. To consider also and report on
inland places where prisoners of war may be kept more safely
than at seaport towns.
P. i. Ibid, pp. 149-150. Enclosing:1. Count de Mornay to [Nottingham].
I send a letter received from M. Cochard* concerning some
French prisoners of war who have been killed and wounded
for a cause which seems to me very slight. I ask justice for
them and for six or seven other French prisoners who have
been long kept in prison at Plymouth. They were not taken
by the English but by a Flushing privateer, which put them
ashore where they were seized for having, it is said, spoken
objectionable words. They deny the charge, but even if it
is true, I do not think that they should have so long and
severe a punishment.
P. i. French. Dated, London, 2 November, 1702.
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1702.
2. M. Coshert* to Count de Mornay.t
Since I wrote last there has been a terrible disorder in prison.
The prisoners have been complaining for three weeks of
having no straw on which to sleep.  They complained to
the Mayor, but got no relief. The prisoners, knowing that
there was straw in a neighbouring house in which captives
were going to be kept, should their numbers increase, resolved
(ten or twelve of them) to go and sleep there, hoping to be more
comfortable. They did this without disturbance for three
days. On the fourth one of the servants of the jailor, seeing
that they were doing so, tried to get them out with violence.
He called to the guard, who came, and with their sergeant
leading them, killed one prisoner and wounded seven
dangerously.  One was cruelly wounded six times in the
body.  I complained to the Mayor, who assembled all the
justices, who sent an express to Portsmouth. The person
most to blame is the sergeant. There were many English
witnesses of the deed, but I fear we shall have no justice.
The inhabitants seem very [well?] intentioned towards the
prisoners. I hope this kindness will last. Details.
Pp. 1i. Dated, Southampton, 1 November. In all pp. 21.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 150-3.
5 Nov.     JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Admfite.y  Sends orders to one of the two ships at Plymouth to take
Lord Secretary Nottingham's packet to Lisbon. As the wind
now is ships cannot get out of Plymouth, and it may be better
to send the packet from Falmouth. The Prince's Council wish
this considered.
P. i. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 139.
5 Nov.     [RICHARD] HILL to SAME.
Pray let Lord Nottingham know that the Prince of Hesse
has arrived in the Downs; and perhaps you may wish to delay
the express for Lisbon till you hear what he says.
P. i. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 88.
General
date,
7 Nov.     DOCUMENTS RELATING to the PROVISIONING of TRANSPORTS
for COLONEL ROSS' REGIMENT of DRAGOONS and others.
Memorial from   the  Officers "commanding the respective
regiments of this embarcation."
The regiment of dragoons of Colonel Ross and the recruits of
the regiments of Lumly, Wood, Wyndham and Schonbergh were
embarked on 28 May. The squadron of Lord Arran's with the
regiment of Royal Scotch Dragoons were refused to be embarqued
* The name is spelt in different ways.
t Written in bad French, and copied into the Entry Book with all its errors,
and possibly others made by the copyist. I have made the best sense of it
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on the same day by the Commissioners of Transport and were
not embarqued till the following Saturday. This occasioned
the losing of a good wind to the whole convoy. The regiments
first embarked suffered from heat of weather and short
provisions. The Commissioners had not put sufficient hay on
board, and what they put on board was bad. The provisions
shipped were so bad that on several ships the cheese and beer
could not be used.
It is asked that the embarkation of the whole be on one day,
the allowance for each horse enlarged, the Commissioners ordered
to put good food on board, and some time allowed for refreshing
the horses on shore, they having suffered very much by the late
embarkation.
P. 1. Endd. "Read 7 Nov., 1702."    S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 89.
Certificate by the undersigned Officers.
We, who command the several troops of dragoons of
Colonel Ross' regiment, certify that the provisions put on board
the ships for the regiment were very bad. The hay was short
and the small beer very bad. In spite of all care the provisions
could scarcely be made to last six days, though we almost starved
our horses. We were forced to send ashore to the Isle of Sheppey
for hay.
P. J. Signed (autograph) by Hu-      Caldwell, John Hill,
William Ross, John Johnson, Alexander Abercromby and Daniel
Donagon. Ibid, 90.
Same by James Logan, Nathaniel Fish, Richard Allen, Joseph
Hare, Henry Wright and John Bertis.
We are masters of the ships appointed to transport
Colonel Ross' regiment of dragoons and certify [corroborate
generally the foregoing].
I, James Logan, master of the Benjamin, certify that of the hay
put aboard me I weighed ten trusses, which weighed between
361b. and 401b. each truss.  The number of trusses was 136,
and these had to satisfy 68 horses for ten days. The beer was
so bad that the men could not drink it. I complained to
Commissioner Roope of this before we started, and he promised
to send in some extra hay, but never did.
I, Nathaniel Fish, master of the Mary and Sarah, certify that
of the hay put aboard me I weighed three trusses. Of these one
weighed 351b., one 381b., and one 451b. I received 124 trusses
for 62 horses for ten days. The beer was too bad to drink, and
much of the cheese "insufficient."*
We, Joseph Hare, master of the Centurion, Henry Wright,
master of the William and Mary, Richard Allen, master of the
Olive Branch, John Bertis, master of the Exchange, certify that
the hay put aboard us was taken out of the same lighters as the
*Apparently used in the sense of "unsatisfactory."


Wt. 3880.


A 19




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1702.
other hay was, and presume it was of the same weight.
Corroborate foregoing as to cheese and beer, and also bread.
P. i. Signed by those named in the heading. The last paragraph
signed by four officers. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 91.
This concludes the documents relating to this case.
7 NOV.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Admfity   Reports the arrival of several ships loaded with provisions at
Spithead from the fleet. The Navy Board propose to victual
the ships at Spithead with some of them and to put the rest
ashore at Portsmouth, so as to discharge the transports, which
are expensive.  Proceeds:-Lay this before Lord Secretary
Nottingham, that the ships and provisions, if not needed, may
be disposed of as suggested.
P. |. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 140.
Same.     SAME to SAME.
The Prince's Council have to-day received the Queen's commands that the galleons, and all ships containing anything taken
out of the galleons, be sent up the Thames to London. Orders
have also been issued that all 70, 60 and 50 gun ships are to
be cleaned and refitted at Portsmouth and Plymouth. Many
of these Sir George Rooke has, we understand, left with
Sir Cloudesley Shovell at Vigo, and probably they have goods
aboard them which were taken from the galleons. Are such
ships to go up the river, or 'should they transfer their booty to
other ships and go to Portsmouth for cleaning, as aforesaid?
P. i. (Hol.) Endd. Ibid, 141.
7 Nov.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Commissioners of Transport.
Queen's command:-You shall order the horse to be disembarked wherever they arrive if their ship is detained by
contrary winds or cannot have a convoy to escort her up the
river.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 154.
2. To the Earl of Carlisle.
Has recommended Colonel Fetherston to the Queen as
Lieutenant-Governor of Carlisle. The Queen has signed his
commission.
P. i. Ibid, p. 155.
3. To Lord Sherrard.
The Queen has approved the list of Deputy-Lieutenants for
Rutland submitted by him.
P. I. Ibid..8 NOV.    COUNT DE MORNAY to [NOTTINGHAM].
London.   I have received from the Commissioners clauses for a cartel,
have had them translated into French, and am ready to send




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1702.
them to-morrow if you wish it. Pray give leave to send the
project from Dover on an English ship to Calais or let M. Gratton, who is here with me, take it.
I hear that twenty prisoners at Plymouth are dead and fifty
in hospital. They poison one another, being greatly crowded.
[Details.]
Pp. 1i. French.   (Hol.)  Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 56.
9 Nov.    J. MACKY* to NOTTINGHAM.
Offers to take the cartel by Calais, which is the quickest way
to France. Wishes to redeem a packet-boat and some sailors
who have lain there since the declaration of war. Details.
P. i. (Hol.) Ibid, 57.
9 Nov.    ROYAL WARRANT to the ATTORNEY and SOLICITOR GENERAL.
St James'.  To prepare a bill &c. for the renewed commission to rebuild
St. Paul's Cathedral.t
Pp. 2J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 350, pp. 276-8.
Same.     SAME to the COMMISSIONERS of PRIZES.
David de Neufeville, Mathew van Beek and other subjects
of the United Provinces shew that, before the war, they had
insured 45 pieces of brandy laden at Bayonne on the Three Friends
(Gerret Kuyper master), which, when going to Amsterdam was
seized by a French man-o-war and retaken by Captain Andrew
Douglas, commander of the Norwich. The brandy has been condemned in the High Court of Admiralty as good prize. They
have asked for a grant of our share of the "neat " proceeds from
the [sale of the] brandy. We grant this petition. When the
brandy is sold, pay them a sum equal to the " neat" proceeds
of our share.
P. 1. Ibid, pp. 278, 279.
9 Nov.    NOTTINGHAM to the LORD LIEUTENANT of IRELAND.
Whitehall.
Whtea  The Queen has appointed a solemn day of thanksgiving for the
Success of her fleets and armies this year, and has issued a Form
of Prayer therefor and a proclamation. I send you the form
and proclamation.
Direct the Lords Justices of Ireland to appoint such a day
of public thanksgiving throughout Ireland, to be observed with
the usual and proper solemnities.
P. J. S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, p. 36.
10 Nov.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Prince's Council.
I transmit the information against Captain Holman, with
Mr. Attorney's report upon it, that you may report to her
Majesty what you know of this matter, with your opinion as to
what may be done.
* Tle name is spelt in different ways.
t For a print of the Commission see below at 20 November, 1702.




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Also note-Enclosed were the Mayor of Plymouth's letter to
Lord Secretary Nottingham and the informations on oath of
Benjamin Lewis and Richard Humbly against Captain Holman,
dated Plymouth, 20 October, 1702.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 155.
2. To the Officers of the Ordnance.
The Queen, having seen the documents, desires the steps
taken in the last war for defence of Bridlington to be taken
now. Give orders accordingly.
Also note-Enclosed were a letter from Burchett to Warre of
27 October and a letter from Bridlington asking for guns and
stores for their defence.
P. i. Ibid, pp. 156, 157.
3. To Colonel Collier.
Recites former letters and repeats:-You are commanded to
permit the four French gentlemen and two merchants mentioned
in your letter to return.
P. W. Ibid, p. 157.
10 Nov.    PROCEEDINGS of the COMMISSIONERS for the UNION with
Cockpit.      SCOTLAND.
Commissions read. Speeches of the Lord Keeper and Duke of
Queensberry. Interchange of Commissions.
[See Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, Vol. XI, Appx., pp. 145-8.]
S.P. Scotland, Series II, 2, pp. 7-14.
11 Nov.    ACCOUNT of the CONDITION of HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS.
Admiralty  Similar to that of 4 November, 1702, supra. Gives details of
work done [apparently between 4 and 11 November] on the
various vessels.
Pp. 2. S.P. Dom., Naval 111, pp. 525, 526.
11 Nov.    HEDGES   to  COLONEL   GIBSON  [Lieutenant  Governor of
Whitehall.     Portsmouth].
Stop the execution on John Evans.*  The Queen has signed
a warrant for respiting sentence on him till her further pleasure
be known; but it is not ready to go by this post.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 261.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To Captain Atkinson.
Yours of yesterday. Admiral Churchill tells me that orders
have gone for the transport ships to remain at Spithead until
further orders.
P. I. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 158.
2. To Captain Leake.
Congratulates him on his success at Newfoundland.
P. t  Ibid.
* See above at 3 Novmaber, 1702,




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293


1702.
12 Nov.    BOND.
Vienna.
ienna.  We, Thomas Lediard and Zacharias Sedgwick, of London,
merchants, acknowledge ourselves and estates bound to be
answerable to the Hon. George Stepney, her Majesty's Envoy
Extraordinary at the Imperial Court, on account of the security
which he had given for me, Sedgwick, by reason of a lawsuit
depending between me and Christopher Hazzi concerning the
taking of accounts. Within six months of this date we undertake to annul this bill and to provide new sureties in case the
said lawsuit be not at an end.
P. 1. Copy (small). Signed (copies) and sealed in the presence
of Thomas Ganfgani and Hugh Hughes, who also sign (copies).
Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 92.
13 Nov.    WALTER DEVEREUX to NOTTINGHAM.
My proposal (with regard to frauds committed on the coast
of Kent &c.) being referred to the Admiralty by your lordship's
favour, I went on Tuesday to Mr. Churchill to know what time
I should attend their Board, and he answered me very short and
told me "that he would not concern himself with it and that
he told your lordship so before, and bid me go with my owleing
to the Commissioners of Customs, for it was their business and
not his." I was surprised to hear such language from one in
his post, especially as the Queen has so earnestly recommended
it to the House of Commons to take care to prevent the
exportation of wool, and [expressed] her own readiness to give
all due encouragement for that purpose.
I think my proposal for this purpose is the best, and hope
for the Queen's favour for it, on no recommendation except yours
and that of my Lord Rochester. His lordship has promised
to give me all favour, being well satisfied with my proposal and
certificates.
Mr. Henry Baker, who has the management of the coasts of
Kent and Sussex, though he only comes there once or twice a
year, has had the face-I hear [details]-to set forth in a petition
to the Queen and Council that he has stopped exportation in
Kent and Sussex, and pretends to do the same throughout the
Kingdom, whereon the Commissioners of Trade have ordered
him to draw up heads for a bill to be presented [to] a Committee
in Parliament. That your lordship may see the falsehood of
these allegations I send you an account which I had from one
of the transporters, who can give undeniable proof of its truth;
and says this is not a quarter of what was transported by him
and others in the latter part of the late reign, and all within a
distance of seven miles or so.
I beg leave to let your lordship know what I have done to
discover those on the coasts near me that hold correspondence with France, which, I think, will do the Queen
service.
P. 1. (Hol.) Add. Ibid, 93.




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1702.
13 Nov.    SIR HENRY BELLASYSE to [NOTTINGHAM].
Sends a petition which he came too late to deliver to the Queen
in person.
P. j. (Hol.) S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 94. Enclosing:Petition of Sir Henry Bellasyse to the Queen, Chewing that:Some persons have spread a scandalous report that your
petitioner had been guilty of plundering the people of Port St.
Marie's in Spain; and that this [his action in doing so]
has since been represented to your Majesty as prejudicial to
your service in those parts, and the cause why the design
upon Cadiz miscarried.  The said report is groundless,
though highly reflecting on your petitioner's honour and
very injurious to him.
Prays that the Queen will examine the matter in.orderthat
he may have an opportunity of vindicating his honour before
her.
P. j. Signed. Ibid, 94A.
[Same.]    REMEDIES PROPOSED by JOHN HAYNES for the MORE EFFECTUAL
PREVENTING the EXPORT of WOOL.
1. That no wool be conveyed by water to or from any place
in England, except from the islands, belonging thereto to the
mainland thereof.
2. That such a number of shallops and boats be appointed
to guard the navigable rivers and such officers in the maritime
counties as is provided in a scheme for that purpose.
3. That a farthing in the lb. be laid on wool, which will
bring many thousand pounds to the Queen, pay the officers,
and defray all charges incident for preventing the exportation of
wool.
4. That the wool allowed the Isles of Jersey and Guernsey
be reduced to the same quantity as by the Act of 12 Charles II.
5. For preventing the exportation of wool from  Irelandthat no wool be conveyed from Ireland to England without
convoy to see it safely delivered in England.
6. That if a tax be put on wool, a method of collecting it will
be proposed which will effectually detect exportation. The tax
to be paid by the clothier and manufacturer, the same being
their general consent and desire.
P. 1. Signed by Haynes. Ibid, 95. Followed by:Table of Officers needful to prevent the Export of Wool.
They shall have 901. a year salary, as in Kent and Sussex.
Each officer shall keep an able horse and man to ride with him
and be a witness to his actions.
The table is as follows:



~1  ~702.~AN.
1702.


Di.,l
County.             C) D  C    %ca
Co 1.0  Co 4
Co    0        Comw
EC     6~ ~
~~4 5~ U3 Oi~~f ~r
I  a   I-        I


~              ~~
Northumberland....  1     150    15     1,350    2     200
Cumberland and Westmoreland.     1     150     7      630     2     200
Durham (Bishopric)....   1     100     4      360     1     100
Yorks.......   1     150     7      630     2   * 200
Lancashire and Cheshire..   1     150    11      990     3     300
Lincolnshire.....        1     150     8      720     2     200
Norfolk........   1     150     8      720     2     200
Suffolk and Essex....   1     150    10      900     3     300
Kent......      1     150    10      900     3     300
Sussex.....        1     150     9      810     2     200
Hants........   1     150    10      900     3     300
Dorset........   1     150     8      720     2     200
Devon........   1     150     8      720     2     200
Cornwall........  1     150    10      900     4     400


Total...... 14   2,050  125  11,250  33  3,300
Tol...... _..........I  I.....


The whole yearly charge amounts to 16,6001.
Note.-For the fitting out of two frigates and four armed
sloops by the Admiralty was paid 23,9201. exclusive of the charge
of the Office of Ordnance; and for fitting out three of same
by the Treasury was paid 2,7601., and the charge of riding
officers for one year was 2,8901. These accounts were ordered
to be laid before a Committee of Parliament in the month of
January, 169~.
For the counties of Kent and Sussex, &c. [imperfect].
In all pp. 2.,.Fndd. with date. S.P. Dom., Anne? 1, 95A.




STATE PAAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
13 Nov.   HEDGES to the LORD HIGH ADMIRAL.
Whitehall.  Her Majesty hears that Sir Henry Bellasye (sic) and Sir Charles
Hara have broken the arrest they were put under by the Duke of
Ormond. Command:-To order their suspension from     their
commands.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 356.
14 Nov.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall  1. To Mr. Blathwayt.
The Queen directs that the garrison at Newfoundland be
relieved by the next convoy; and this to be done every year or
two at most.
Will transmit Captain Leake's account of Newfoundland
to the Council of Trade.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 159.
2. To the Lord Treasurer.
Queen's command:-To give directions for paying 601. a
year to Mr. Alexander Griffith as Attorney General of New Jersey.
P. i. Ibid.
16 Nov.   REPORT by the LORD HIGH ADMIRAL.
Admiraflty  On reference from her Majesty, I have considered the petition
of the " Court of Managers for the United Trade to the East
Indies." It sets forth that they have received many advices
from their factories and captains of their ships that the trade
in the Indian Seas has become by reason of pirates dangerous to
Europeans, and to the Indians, who have, "by order of the
Great Mogul, seized the petitioners' factors and servants and
imprisoned them at Surat and plundered their warehouses ";
and at the same time demand a large further sum to make good
the losses sustained by them [the Indians] by reason of pirates.
"In consideration whereof and that the Mogul's troops are
come down before Fort St. George and Fort St. David's, in order
to ruin all the factories and settlements in his dominions in case
they do not comply with his unreasonable demands, and that
the Arabs of Muscat are of late years grown very insolent and
without any reason have seized several ships belonging to this
nation to a great value, and joined themselves to the Mogul's
subjects in order to commit further depredations," they pray
that some ships of war may be sent to India to protect their
trade and suppress the pirates.  The petitioners have "been
discoursed thereupon," and desire two ships of 50 guns, one of
30 and a bomb vessel.
If the service of next year will admit of these vessels being
sent, I think they should be sent, and that as soon as possible.
Pp. 1l. Signed. Countersigned by Burchett.  Endd. S.P.
Dom., Naval 6, 142.
16 Nov.   BERNARD ELLIS to VISCOUNT HATTON.
Guernsey.  Details as to debentures for old arrears.
Proceeds:-A Portuguese ship was driven ashore on the 9th
on the Vale. She is suspected to be Spanish and bound for




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Dunkirk. She is valued at 6,0001. We have 275 prisoners of war,
which, with the privateers, will starve the island in a short time,
if a frigate be not allowed us, which may bring provisions from
England. The garrison is on very hard duty to keep these
prisoners, there being no house to keep them in. I am still
without instructions as to how to treat the French barks which
have been detained here ever since 30 April. The Court is much
excited about the dispute between Priaulx and Houil [?], as well
as the difference they have with Sir Edmund Andros about the
signing of contracts, which must both be brought before the
Council.
P. 1. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 39.
16 Nov.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Sir Charles Cotterell.
The Queen has resolved to give M. Nitz Schwutz [Nitzschwitz]
his audience of leave on Wednesday night a little before 7 p.m.
Give him notice of it.
Three lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 261.
2. To Sir George Rooke.
Command:-To send a report on all your proceedings from
the time you arrived at Cadiz till you left. The Duke of Ormond
is required to do the like before he lays it before the House of
Lords. I hope you will have a good passage. All your friends
here think that the sooner your health permits you to come to
town the better.
P. A. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 356.
3. To Baron de Dier.
Her Majesty will on your request receive your Excellency
in audience to-day between four and five o'clock.
Four lines, in French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 261.
17 Nov.    GEORGE CLARKE to NOTTINGHAM.
orse Guards. As Sir Charles Hedges is ill, I write on behalf of the general
officers, who desire to know the Queen's pleasure in relation to
Colonel Stanhope and Lieutenant-Colonel Soames, whom they
summoned as witnesses in their present inquiry into the action of
Sir Henry Bellasyse and Sir Charles Hara in Spain.  Colonel
Stanhope declines giving evidence in the matter, alleging he was
only a volunteer, that he went along with Sir H. Bellasyse and
lived like a friend in the house with him; and he thinks it a great
hardship to have to tell anything that may have come to his
knowledge, by reason of Bellasyse's kindness. LieutenantColonel Soames says that he is ready to give evidence in any
trial of this matter, but is of opinion that to speak at this inquiry
would make him an informer, which he begs leave to avoid.
Is it the Queen's pleasure that the general officers should give




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1702.
Sir Henry Bellasyse his charge before these gentlemen are
examined?
Pp. 1. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Military 3, 1.
17 Nov.    COUNT DE MORNAY to NOTTINGHAM.
London.   In regard to the English merchants arrested at Bayonne, M. de
Pontchartrain says that if they are Englishmen who came to
France since the outbreak of war they cannot complain of being
detained; but that the King will release them as soon as the
cartel is signed. He says that, in spite of your orders, many
complaints come of the treatment of prisoners.  I get daily
complaints from Plymouth and Dover, which I send to the
Commissioners.
I have sent the proposals [for a cartel] by Holland, as you
would not agree to their going by Dover.
Pp. 1I. French. (Signed.) S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 58.
17 Nov.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Duke of Ormond.
The House of Lords have ordered your Grace to lay before
them an account of the whole of your expedition, and have
desired that the Queen's instructions to you and to Sir George
Rooke be laid before them. I told their lordships that those
instructions contained many other designs besides that on Cadiz,
which might probably hereafter be put in execution, and that
it would not be proper that these should now be published.
Their lordships then asked that those parts only which related to
Cadiz should be laid before them. I let you know of this that
you may be pleased to frame your account accordingly. The
Queen desires you first to lay before her an account of your
proceedings from the time you landed at Cadiz until you reembarked your men, inclusive of your action at Vigo. This
you must lay before the House of Lords, too, who have asked
for an account of all that was done towards intercepting
M. Chateau-Regnaud's squadrons.
Pp. li. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 160, 161.
2. To the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations.
Queen's command:-Her Hajesty has appointed the Earl of
Peterborough Governor of Jamaica. If you want any additional
instructions to be given him in this capacity, beyond those already
presented by you in Council, you may lay them before her
Majesty.
P. i. Ibid, 161.
3. To the Prince's Council.
Queen's command:-To give orders for carrying Brigadier
Seymour's regiment from where it shall arrive to Plymouth.
P.. Ibid.




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1702.
4. To Sir John Cooke, Advocate General.
The Queen desires you, after perusing the enclosed, to report
on Captain Holman's case.
Encloses:-(a) The information of Benjamin Lewis, surgeon,
given before the Mayor of Plymouth on 20 October, 1702, against
Capt. Benjamin Holman, of the William and Mary galley, privateer,
concerning his letting a Frenchman go who had with him several
drafts of the English coast and paper books, some written in
characters. (b) A like information by Richard Huntly, barber
surgeon. (c) A letter from William Cock, Mayor of Plymouth,
to Lord Secretary Nottingham, sending the aforesaid, announcing,
that he had confined Holman and asking for orders. (d) An
opinion of the Attorney General advising that Captain Holman
be brought up to town and prosecuted if he can give no satisfactory
account of the matters mentioned in the affidavits. The trial
must be in the Admiralty Court (for an offence on the high seas),
and there is not enough evidence to support a charge of treason.
(e) A letter from the Prince's Council to Lord Secretary
Nottingham, sending papers in justification of Captain Holman,
and announcing that the Marshal of the Court of Admiralty
would be sent to bring him up if the Secretary still thought he
should be tried at an Admiralty sessions. (J) Captain Holman's
letter giving an account of the matter. The person concerned
was a French lad, aged 16, born of a Dutch father in Bordeaux,
who had been to learn Dutch in Holland and was returning with
a few books. He had no maps, and there was no suspicion of
his being a spy. He makes reflections on the character and
motives of the witness Lewis.  His.letter is attested by the
officers of his ship.
Pp.   hi. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 162, 163.
General
date,    DOCUMENTS RELATING to the CASE of GEORGE and THOMAS
18 Nov.        FINCH.
Petition of the Finches to Nottingham, shewing that:Petitioners have long been traders to Spain and particularly
to Port St. Mary's, where they settled a house for trade. This
was managed by their partner, Mr. Edward Harding, lately
residing there.
On the treaty of " Reswick," petitioners, believing that a lasting
peace had been made, sent out considerable effects of English
commodities to their house at Port St. Mary's.
As soon as they were informed of the Partition Treaty and
afterwards of the King of Spain's will, your petitioners,
anticipating a war, ceased to send out further goods, but gave
immediate and repeated orders to their partner to send back all
their goods by what way he could.
However, owing to the size of their said trade and business,
there was left at Port St. Mary when the English and Dutch
forces landed there (notwithstanding all diligence used by their
partner) goods, debts and effects in flota to the value of about
25,000 dollars.




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1702.
On 2, June 1702, by reason of the war, their partner was obliged,
for safety of their goods, to place them in trust and custody of
Don Juan del Camino, as appears by the instrument of which a
copy is annexed.
Their partner informs them by a letter dated 2 October, 1702
(a copy whereof is also annexed), that Camino's house was
plundered by the English and Dutch forces, by which means
all the said goods and all the notes and obligations for their debts
and effects in flota were utterly lost.
They can bring such evidence as may be desired to support
these allegations.
They pray that their case may be laid before the Queen and
that they may have such relief as their case deserves.
P. i (large). Signed. Dated as in margin. S.P. Dom., Anne 1,
96. Enclosing -
A. Deed of Assignment between Edward Harding and Don Juan
del Camino.
The Assignment is as mentioned in the covering letter. It
states that:Harding has long been a partner with the Finches and agent
for his said " company " in London and has recently, in
view of current affairs, tried to collect their goods, wind up
their afairs and return to London to give an account.
In spite of his diligence certain goods still remain here, which
are the property of his company. They are nine pots of
musk (weights given), two cedar cases with sundry of his [or
his principals'] books, linen and writings, two debts due
from Eugenio de Paz Faxardo of Audugar, William and James
White, of this city [details]; and also a bond of adventure
executed by John Joribio de Cossio and Franco de Composano
of this city, to be repaid at the return of the flota [details],
an invoice for woollen goods, a note made by John Baptista
de Sassos, and other bills signed by John Baptista de Yiera,
John del Camino, George John Jacome, Michael de San
Jestevan, John Antonio Moreno, Robert de la Haya and
- Marion and Cornelius Everaert,* which amount in all to the
value of 20,995 ps. exos. [dollars?] odd over and above the
two debts.
These he puts into the hands of Mr. John del Camino, and
confiding in his wisdom, reputation, fidelity and credit,
constitutes him possessor of the whole and also real depositary
and administrator, to the end he may receive the sums due,
and sell the musks at the best price and give receipts. If the
depositor dies before the end of this concern, account must
be rendered to his company or their heirs or legatees without
disturbance by the depositor's heirs.
And John del Camino accepts the trust reposed in him and
undertakes to discharge it and acknowledge the receipt of
the aforesaid goods, bills &c.
Pp. 1|. (Copy.)    Signed (copy).  Dated, Port St. Mary's,
2 June, 1702.  Headed, " Translated out of Spanish."  Ibid, 96A.
* Details given in each case.




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1702.
B. Edward Harding to George and Thomas Finch.
It is a long time since I heard from you and, if you have written
since, never expect they will come to hand. Details as to
bills sent to London. Proceeds:-I have sold all your
concerns and made over what I could not at that time recover
to D.J.Q. At that time I was morally assured I should be
able to recover all in, but the unhappy arrival of our fleet
has frustrated all my expectation and, but for my duty,
I would forbear to give you the following sorrowful account.
On August 23 our fleet arrived, spreading themselves from
St. Phelipe towards the back-side of Cadiz, near the river of
St. Peter; by which working all people supposed they would
attack Cadiz that way.  Upon this there was a Council of War
held, but the day following they removed and came into
the Bay of Bulls, landing their soldiers and train of artillery
in Rota -and Canvelos, which alarmed exceedingly our town
of St. Lucar; for we had continually messages every
day from the English camp that they would soon be with us,
and it can hardly be expressed " the cries and uproars that
were among us, and the hazards that some of us Englishmen
underwent at that juncture, who were then retired to the
College of St. George "; but instead of going to St. Lucar
they bent their course to Port St. Mary's and entered the town
without any opposition on 1 September, and remained in it
23 days. The Duke of Ormond then drew near the town
and made about three hours' stay to see if any principal
men of it would come to him; but finding that the people
of all degrees forsook their habitations, he went forward
" without the least intentions to plunder, it being contrary
to the tenor of his declaration he spread before his entrance.
But there were some principal officers in our army and the
Dutch, well known for their covetousness, who contradicted the
Duke's orders, encouraging their soldiers to plunder, which
they performed the very day they went in, in an extreme
manner, not leaving behind them anything of value. In the
time they were in Port they detached some of their soldiers and
mariners to Port Royal and took possession of that place,
and from thence they pretended to take the Mata Gorda, that
thereby they might the more easier enter Pontales, but, after
nine or ten days battering before it and loosing some men,
finding it too hot work, they gave their design of taking Cadiz
quite over," and last week drew of and re-embarked their
men, who are now safe aboard and ready to go back to
England, save only seven or eight men-of-war bound (as some
say) for the West Indies.
"Thus has ended the great design of our fleet and land soldiers
-who have been so long time preparing-with only the carrying
away (for the major part) their countrymen and allies' goods."
Moreover, they have made it impossible for us to recover any
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Judges*; for many of the Spaniards are quite undone, and
the others, if they are knavish, will have a good cloak for
their pretence. I think they have done in this case too much
or too little. If they had attacked Cadiz at first, as many
thought they would, 'twas very feazable they might be masters
of the place, and they would have humbled the Spaniards'
proud spirits, and our commerce would hereafter have had
from them all due respects; but in regard our fleet lost that
great enterprize, I think they did too much in plundering
Port St. Mary, where their countrymen and allies were more
concerned than the Spaniards, and I am afraid they [the
Spaniards?] will soon charge us with more than they
lost.
I am sensible some will say that the Spaniards deserved to be
plundered for not coming in to the Duke and keep[ing] their
habitations; but to this there were two hindrances. The first
grinded very hard upon them, for upon the approach of the
Duke of Ormond, the      Captain-General and    Correjidor
proclaimed the whole town as traitors and subject to martial
law if they did not follow them out of the town, which they all
performed save only some few poor miserable families. The
second hindrance is that " although there are many discontented people who are uneasy with the present Spanish
Government, yet they thought it not prudence to be too hasty
in siding with our arms until they had plainly seen our part
successful by taking into their possession some strong place."
Otherwise they might have been    hanged when the [our]
enterprize failed. The soldiers have made a very great havoc
in the Scriv[ener's] office, taking out and tearing the registers,
which will bring upon the commerce a very great confusion.
They did not spare any books and papers of strangers, tearing
and throwing them into the street. This may be of very ill
consequence when the Spaniards return to their habitations,
for if some that lie about the streets untorn fall into the
Correjidor's hands he may inspect into strangers' concerns.
The two chests marked R. 11 and 12, with all out books and
papers and all my linen and wearing apparel suffered the
same fate, for having sent our man Mr. Nicholas from this
place to the fleet and from thence ashore into port in order
to save them, upon his entering into Don J. C.'s he found
all gone save only the journal, ledger and copy-books of letters,
with some odd papers, which he brought home.
'Tis reported there was no good understanding between our
Admiral and the Dutch, nor their land officers and ours.
I will in a very few days go hence to Lisbon, where I will
wait and try to hear what has become of our scattered friends
and debtors, and try to get in what they owe, in which I hope I
will succeed better than I expect.  However, if you think it
better that I should return at once I will do so. I would
not willingly be here an hour longer than I am serviceable.
* Ithink this the correct reading, and refers to debts in litigation; but the phrase
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"Our fleet has left behind them such a filthy stench among
the Spaniards that a whole age will hardly blot it out." We
hear that they have decided that no convent, church or altars
shall value the English or Dutch, and it is thought that in
a little while the English Roman Catholics will fare no
better. Their disgust is so great that I believe their resolution for searching out strangers' effects will be executed.
Messrs. Batt and Hopkins have been in great trouble in Seville
and have been imprisoned in their houses for not showing their
books and papers.   Mr. Batt, for bribes, was released
[details]. I thank God I escaped their hands [details].
We have various reports [details] that the [Spanish] flota
has arrived from  Havana at Coruna or some other port
in the Bay of Biscay. Don Juan de Vizarren, Regnoso and
other Indians [West Indian merchants] have lost much of
their own goods and of those of other nations which were
entrusted to them.
God grant you patience to bear your losses.
Pp. 2. Dated, Faro, 2 October, 1702.
P.S.-Ady, 5 October.-The above is a copy of what I wrote
you via Lisborne. I have only to add that yesterday morning
our whole fleet were seen of this coast " with a fair Levant."*
So they may be with you before this. The Spanish flota
is safe at Vigo, and some think that the sudden departure
of our fleet was made with the object of surprizing the French
ships that accompanied them to that port. We shall soon see
what is the integrity of the Spaniards, but I doubt it much in
view of the way they have been provoked.
In all pp. 2~. (Hol.) S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 96B.
This concludes the documents relating to this case.
18 Nov.    NOTTINGHAM to the ATTORNEY GENERAL.
WhitehalL   The Queen approves of Captain John       Levingston's being
released, and of Lord Belhaven's being bail for him.      Act
accordingly.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 172.
18 Nov.    REPORT by the LORD HIGH ADMIRAL.
Admiralty   I have lately received a petition from several merchants trading
to Portugal in which they say that there are nine large French
ships cruising on that coast, and may be a greater force (besides
privateers), making rendezvous at Vigo; and asking for an
enlarged convoy since their trade to Portugal has increased since
they originally asked for one of four ships.
If it is thought right to strengthen the convoy as they desire,
so as to make it superior to the aforesaid French squadron,
there may be soon got ready six or seven 70 gun ships, and two
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or three more of 50 guns, with a small frigate or two for that
service.
Pp. 1I. Signed by the Lord High Admiral, and countersigned
by George Clarke. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 143.
19 Nov.   ADDRESS of the HousE OF LORDS.
In favour of the Bishop of Worcester, Lord Almoner.
For this address see Lords' Journals (England), Vol. XVII,
p. 168.
Also the Queen's answer:I have not yet received any complaint of the Bishop of Worcester
and admit what the Lords say, but " look upon it as my undoubted
right to continue or displace any servant attending upon my own
person when I shall think proper."
Also the Lords further resolve that no Peer should suffer any
sort of punishment by any proceeding of the House of Commons
"otherwise than according to the known and ancient rules and
methods of Parliament."
Pp. 1. Copy. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 97.
20 Nov.    The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Sick and
Wounded    We believe Captain De Graton, who has just escaped, has got
Office.  clean away and we cannot find that any of the prisoners who
were in lodgings with him were privy to his escape. We have
suspended the messenger, and warned his successor to be more
careful.
Pp. 1A. Signed by Lee and Herbert.   Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 117, p. 59.
20 Nov.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.
hitehal  1. To the Lord Treasurer.
I take leave to remind you of Mrs. Greg, sister to the late
King's Resident at the Court of Denmark, who died of a
languishing distemper brought on by a journey he was ordered
to take into Holstein. He was a very diligent and useful servant,
and his debts are 1,0001. and more and near 1,0001. is due to him.
The lady has to stay there till these debts are paid. Her condition
is, I am told, very bad. The same is the condition of the rest
of her Majesty's ministers abroad, who greatly want money.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 253-4.
2. To the Mayor of Southampton.
John Sorre and Isaac de Vic, linen drapers, came into England
on the Declaration of King Charles II and settled at Southampton,
where they have since had full liberty and have plied their trade,
living peaceably and paying their taxes; but the magistrates of
that town have lately troubled them in their liberty. Queen's
command:-That these men be countenanced and encouraged
all that may be, they behaving loyally.
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20 Nov.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Mr. Glasier, Proctor-General to the Lord Admiral.
Sends enclosed re Holman. Queen's command:-To send
them to you and that you " take care of " the prosecution.
The enclosed were similar to those enclosed in the letter of 17
November, 1702 [above, p. 299]; and there was also one from
Sir J. Cooke of November 19.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 163, 164.
2. To the Mayors of Rye, Harwich, Sandwich, Dover and
Deal.
To search, in their precincts, for Captain Graton, a Frenchman
[accurate description given], secure him, and send word to London.
P. -. Ibid, pp. 164, 165.
21 Nov.    HEDGES to [WILLIAM] LOWNDES.
Whitehall Count Guldenlew, Admiral of Denmark, who has been on
board the fleet all the last summer, tells me that his baggage and
some tobacco, which he brought from Vigo, are on a sloop of the
Royal Sovereign at Chatham, and that the officers of the Customs
refuse to let them be brought ashore. Get directions from the
Lord Treasurer to the Commissioners of the Customs that they
be discharged.
P. 4. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 255.
21 Nov.    REPORT by the LORD HIGH ADMIRAL.
Admiralty  Refers to his report of 18 November (above, p. 303). In answer
to further reference, thinks the ships mentioned in it may be used
for that purpose without prejudice to the public service in regard
they will probably be back by February and be able to join the
Grand Fleet or any other service.
P. }. Signed by the Lord High Admiral and countersigned by
Burchett. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 144.
21 Nov.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.
Whitehall.  1. To the Mayor of Dover.
I find nothing in the papers sent to justify a prosecution of
Ambrose Johnson, but as he refused the oaths, and his intent
might be to go into France, you must proceed against him as the
Act directs and bring the matter before Quarter Sessions.
P. j. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 165.
2. To the Commissioners of the Navy.
On September 1, I wrote by the Queen's command to his Royal
Highness's Council for directions to be sent to you to accept and
pay such bills as Mr. Broughton, her Majesty's Consul at Venice,
should draw upon you for expenses incurred in taking care pf
poor English sailors, and also I directed him to send an account
of his expenses when he sent the bills.  [Details.]  Have you
wt, 35880


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received any such bill, and, if so, what have you done upon it?
I desire to tell him.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 165, 166.
3. To the Mayor of Plymouth.
Communicates the decision to prosecute Captain Holman.
The papers are with the "Proctor " to the Lord High Admiral,
who will direct what further is to be done.
P. 1. Ibid, pp. 166, 167.
21 Nov.   The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
WoSindd    None of the sailors ashore at Rochester, Deal or Portsmouth
Office.  have contagious distempers. A thousand men have been in
quarters at Gosport and Portsmouth for a week and cannot be
removed without danger, and about 500 more are ready to come
on shore so soon as quarters can be got for them, which will be
provided in a few days at Fareham and elsewhere. [Details.]
The number of sick on shore at Portsmouth and Gosport before
the arrival of those from Vigo was not above 240, of whom 190
will be discharged in a few days. At Deal 400 are sick, but few
dangerously-only 16 deaths in ten days, and these of men who
were ill-accommodated in their ships and past recovery before
they landed.
Pp. 14. Signed by Lee and Herbert. Endd.   S.P. Dom.,
Naval 117, 60.
21 Nov.   COUNT DE MORNAY to NOTTINGHAM.
London.  I did not countenance M. de Graton's escape and knew nothing
of it. I feel sure he will be reproved in France for escaping at
this time of negociation. Pray believe me.
Pp. 1i, in French. Signed. Endd. Ibid, 61.
Latest    EXTRACTS from LETTERS [to -— ] on the PLUNDER and
date,        BOOTY from PORT ST. MARY'S and VIGO.
21 Nov.   From Mr. Clutterbuck at Portsmouth, October 23.
The captain of the Flarborough refuses " modestly " to have
some wine brought ashore. I see he has drawn some wine and
brandy out in bottles and presume you do not mean to have such
things on shore, which are of small value and only for common
use. Moreover the captain says on his oath he bought the brandy
of a Spaniard.
An inventory was enclosed with details of wine, vinegar and
cloth.
From Sir George Parker, Portsmouth, October 24.
Repeats information in foregoing paragraph as to the
Flamborough.  Proceeds:-Yesterday  I  went aboard  the
Pembroke, which brought the express from Sir George Rooke.
I made a rough inventory of the booty there. There was cocoa,
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From Mr. Hook, Plymouth, November 17.
To-day the transport Elizabeth and Mary (Thomas Braines
commander) came in with dragoons aboard her. One of our
officers went aboard her at once to search for plundered goods.
I send the inventory: 13 pieces of linen, 2 pieces of kentin, about
7 yards of camlet.
In the custody of Adjutant Scarfe [or Scaife]:-Seven pieces
of kentin, a piece of linen about 10 yards, a parcel of toys in
a small red silk bag, a bag of about 301b. of snuff, about one
yard of red damask silk, one silk fur gown, an old piece of brocado
silk, an old piece of white silk, two pieces of old damask silk,
a piece of old black velvet, two old velvet waistcoats, a small
piece of scarlet serge, about eight yards of camlet.
Other or similar details follow of goods found in the possession
of Mr. Guest, Mr. Hollanworth, Mr. Bright, Captain Braines and
the mate. Nearly all the booty is either cloth of some kind
or cocoa, but the captain has "a picture without a frame" and
" a small paper bag of china and glasses." The mate has " three
little pippets " and "one image painted with gold."
Mr. Bargrave writes from Deal on November 7 that he has
searched the Plymouth (Captain Kirktown) and found only 6cwt.
of snuff and 4cwt of cocoa.
Mr. Hugh Jones writes from Falmouth on 7 November:I confirm my brother's letters. I have landed the goods at the
hazard of my life. If I had not " been back'd with all the packetboats' men in arms to assist [I] could not repel the fury of the
Dragoons."   The goods are worth about 1,5001.  Particulars
will be sent later.
His brother's letters mention several puncheons of linen, a great
many boxes of snuff of good value on the Charity (commander
James Burney). He has seized it and has put waiters on board
the ship, but the captain refuses to hand over the goods till
he sees the Prince's order for it. It may be proper to obtain this
same, but writer will see in the meantime that no embezzlement
be made and that the ship be stopped in harbour till the captain
complies. This he will do when his brother comes back with
the Prince's order.
The inventory mentions 21 timber cases of snuff, five tin cases
and six barrels of same, a bundle of whalebone, five puncheons
of linen, eight bags of pepper, one barrel of indigo and other
details.
Mr. Manley and Mr. Hook write from Plymouth on 8 November.
They deal only with the Elizabeth and Mary and say that
about l0cwt. more of cocoa have been found on her.
Mr. Charles Bargrave writes from Deal on 9 November:The boat has been off and has brought ashore some\ goods,
which are stored in the Custom House. As soon as possible
to-morrow I will board every man-of-war and tender and first
demand all the goods in the abstract sent me. Where these
are refused I will take an account of the captain and ship and
will then wait on the Admiral, from whom I have already obtained
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and assist me. After this, if the fleet do not sail, I will get a
hoy or two and take out all the plunder I can. Meantime, I have
put waiters on board. It is a full day's work for all of us to search
one ship and our boats cannot clear one in one day.
List follows of plunder taken from the Delight frigate
(Captain Robert Spelman), the Lucy tender (Captain Evens) and
the Mary and Margaret tender (master, Thomas Whales).
Coarse " parragan," bags of cochineal, casks of pepper, frankincense, wool &c. [details].
The master of the Mary and Margaret denied that he had any
such goods on board; but, on search, they were found.
Samuel Powell writes from Deal on 9 November.
Reports taking plunder [details] out of the Willing Mind
(John Winnecott, master), and the Speedwell (John Tibbard
master). Out of Lord Portmore's baggage he took 25 pieces of
plate (spoons, forks &c.), a bag of dollars (said to be 400), snuff
&c. All has been lodged in the Custom House under three
locks.
Mr. Bargrave writes from Deal on 10 November.
Reports goods taken from the St. George transport (Captain
George Purvis) and warehoused. A pipe of white wine still
remains on board.
Mr. Jones writes from Falmouth on November 7, and reports
various goods taken ashore which belonged to Captains Sherrard
and Fitzpatrick and Major Lloyd; also wine from the Friends'
Adventure (William Baldwin, master).
Sir George Parker writes from Portsmouth, 12 November.
We went yesterday aboard Sir C. Shovell to desire his assistance
in securing the plunder. He showed us two orders from the
Lord High Admiral, one ordering that nothing should be taken
out of the men-of-war till further order; and another directing
the plunder on board the men-of-war to be taken aboard five
or six frigates, which should sail soon to the Downs.
We yesterday secured some plate and money, which we met
coming ashore in charge of some land officers' servants.
Mr. Hooke writes from Plymouth, November 13.
The dragoons are believed to have carried ashore many of
the goods mentioned in my inventory of 1 November. This
could not have been done had not the Customs officers refused
to take anything ashore but what was marked and numbered by
Sir George Rooke. Moreover, while I was denied in this way,
one of the tide surveyors to the Customs last Wednesday brought
ashore from the Elizabeth and Mary all the cocoa and what else
remained of the inventory I sent you up, and put them into
her Majesty's storehouse. I have since seen them weighed and
inventoried. My orders from you cannot be carried out unless
we and the Custom   House officers co-operate heartily.  On
Wednesday the Susanna and Oriana transports came in, and
to-day the Adventure and Lawrell ketches and the Griffin pink,
all from Vigo. We have taken plunder out of them. The first
two are full of plunder from Vigo, and the hatches sealed up by
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pending further directions.  Account follows of the plunder
landed from the Elizabeth and Mary transport.
Mr. -Bargrave writes from Deal on 13 November.
I send list of goods taken by himself and Mr. Powell from
the St. John tender (Charles Crickett, master)-plate, snuff,
iron &c. Two Custom House waiters and [an]other for the prize
[were left] on board her.
We called on board the Thomas and John (- Stephen master),
and got a list of goods on board from the mate, the master being
away. [Details of goods.] We put on board two Custom House
waiters and one for us. We also boarded the Two Shreives
transport (John Frost commander), and got an account of the
plunder. [Details.] None were taken ashore. We also, on the
13th November, boarded the Benjamin transport (Philip Dumble [?]
master), and took off plunder. [Details.] There was little wine
left, the company having drunk of it all the way home. We also
took some wine and salt out of the Honor's Adventure* storeship
(Robert Bartholomew master).  Other goods [details] were left
aboard, the master promising to deliver them in London. The ship
leaves the Downs to-day. Two Custom House waiters on
board.
Details follow as to the Providence transport (Nicholas Willis
commander). The mate said the master had a cocquett for all
these, but I shall to-morrow shew him his mistake. I have
chartered a hooker to take off plunder and will do my best to
prevent embezzlement. The goods are stored under three locks.
Mr. Bargrave writes from Deal on 14 November.
He encloses an account of the goods on board the Ruby
(Alexander Kenton master), dated 14 November, all which
goods the master undertakes to deliver to the proper officers at
the first safe harbour.
Mr. Cole writes from Cowes on 14 November.
Encloses a list of small goods taken by the prize officers from a
small hoy (Walter Jones master) of Cowes, just come down from
Spithead.
Mr. Jones writes from Falmouth, 12 November.
He sends a list of plunder taken at Port St. Marie's by the
Charity (John Burney commander) and lodged in the prize
office cellar at Falmouth on 3 November, 1702.
List follows of wool, pepper, snuff, sherry, port &c.
Sir George Parker writes from Cowes, 16 November, sending
a list of goods [details given] brought out of the Thirston[?]
(Thomas Broming master).
Mr. Bargrave writes from Deal on 17 November.
Rough weather has prevented me putting Mr. Hunt, of the
Customs, aboard Captain Kenton's ship the Ruby. The same
night she drove, in rough weather, to " Romansgate pier." There
Mr. Mockford, Surveyor of Customs, seized her because she had
no waiter aboard, and put her goods into the Custom House
store. "This is the plagues we undergo here with unreasonable
men."   Captain Whitehall shewed me three letters directed
to him from the Commissioners of Customs [details given], dated
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17th, 20th, and 22nd October. After conflicting orders it
appeared from the last letter that the Queen's intention is to
prohibit the landing only of such plundered goods as are not
marked and inventoried by Sir George Rooke. Those so marked
to be landed and stored. I am trying to get the plunder ashore,
and the surveyor has been assisting, with Mr. Warren. I can
do nothing if the Customs officers receive orders which conflict
with mine.
Similar letters follow from:Mr. Hook, Plymouth, 15 November. Plundered goods brought
ashore. Heavy weather. List enclosed.
Mr. Jones, Fowey, 16 November. Plunder brought ashore.
Mr. Newman, Dartmouth, 17 November. Sends an inventory
of plunder on board the Swiftsure (Captain Wynn), which is
going to Portsmouth.
Mr. Bargrave, Deal, 17 November. Plunder taken from the
John pink (Captain Crickett). Account sent. Information
regarding the Joseph and Thomas transport (Thomas Rogers
commander) and the Two Sheriffs transport (John Frost commander). The last two have gone to London.
Same, 18 November.    Rough weather.  Delay of Captain
Kenton in allowing goods to be landed. List of goods demanded
of Captain Nicholas Willis, of the Providence transport.  He
disputed having some of them.
Sir George Parker, Portsmouth, 19 November. Seizure of plate.
Hoys unlading plunder.
Mr. Solers, Sheerness, 19 November. Is on the watch to
prevent plunder-running; but it is difficult to run it owing to
the rough weather.
Sir George Parker and Mr. Goreing, Portsmouth, 21 November.
Sir George Rooke never put a particular mark on any goods
but merely took lists from the captains &c. of his ships. They
have tried to store apart the plunder from each ship; but even
those who brought it cannot always say whether it came from
Port St. Marie's or Vigo. The goods are few and unlikely to pay
for the cost of landing, storage &c.
Mr. Cole, Cowes, 21 November. Plate-running from the prize
ships by Mr. Bills, goldsmith, of Newport, I.W. Capture and
re-capture. Mr. Bills has promised that it shall be forthcoming.
Hoys' loads from Spithead. List of goods brought in them.
List of goods landed out of the Mary of Portsmouth (Seater master).
In all pp. 26. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 62.
Latest date, AFFIDAVITS by THOMAS HUTCHINS and others.
23 Nov.    Thomas Hutchins, William Seymour, Charles Hall, Thomas
Garrard, Charles Fettiplace, Charles Garrard, and Edward Batten
all swear that Thomas Smallbone, of Bockhampton, in the parish
of Lambourne, Berks, has lived in the said parish for near two
years and a half, and has during that time lived peaceably and
as a dutiful subject.
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a J.P. for Berks; the last signed by Garrard himself and the
other three men named after him above but not sworn before
anyone. Each p. i. All dated November 21, except the last
which is dated November 23. The last endd. S.P. Dom.,
Anne 1, 98-101.
23 Nov.    The NAVY BOARD to NOTTINGHAM.
Navy Office.  Yours of the 21st. We have no orders to meet bills drawn by
Consul Broughton to meet the expenses of taking care of English
seamen at Venice. We lately refused such a bill, [it] being [for]
no naval service, and presume that this is the reason why his
Royal Highness has given us no orders in the matter.
P. I. Signed by Charles Sergison, Daniel Furzer, D[ennis]
Lyddell and Geo. Tollet.*  S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 63.
23 Nov.    LORD HATTON to [SAME].
Kirby.    I send enclosed. The privateers of Guernsey want a Prize
Court there to adjudge prizes. I have no other concern in the
matter than to keep out unworthy persons who apply for posts.
The Lieutenant-Governor and some of the magistrates of the
island should be employed; as was done in the first Dutch
war in King Charles II's time. Captain Edwards of the Bedford
galley has been ordered to cruise off Guernsey and Jersey to
protect the trade of those islands; but I think [details] that he will
spend most of his time in looking after French prizes and that the
island will have little or no help from him.
The Queen's answers to the addresses of the Lords and Commons
gives an extraordinary instance of her good judgment in "so nice
an affair." It seems as if she wishes to make her people happy
in spite of their troubles [].
Pp. 1. Signed. The postscript holograph. Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Channel Islands 2, 40. Enclosing:A. Depositions of Peter Le Cocq and others.
These relate to the stranding of a ship bound from Portugal to
Dunkirk at the Valle [Vale] in Guernsey, her crew, cargo &c.
Three substantial depositions signed by Le Cocq, Robert Leighton
and Jaques Henry; confirmed by fifteen others.  The ship
had tobacco, brandy, sugar &c. aboard.
In all pp. 4. The depositions signed and taken at Guernsey
on 14 November, 1702, by Robert Lee, P. Martin and Elias
Perchard, Commissioners of Prizes for the islandt, and countersigned by J. Bonamy, greffier and notary public. Ibid, 40A.
23 Nov.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.
1. To the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Sends Mr. Lewis Maidwell's petition and a printed copy of the
charter for founding "the Royal School &c."    The late King
* Chamberlain's Present State of England (1702), pp. 564, 565, shews these
gentlemen to have been respectively Clerk of the Acts of the Navy, Surveyor
of the Navy, Comptroller of the Treasurer's Accounts of the Navy, and a
Commissioner in Generql.
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granted the charter. The Archbishop to report what may be
done for the petitioner's satisfaction.
P. W. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 168.
2. To [Jeffrey] Glasier, Proctor General of the High Court
of Admiralty.
Sends enclosures shewing that Lewis and Huntly, the
witnesses against Captain Holman, live at Cumstock, Devon.
They desire that any letters for them be left at the post house,
Exeter.
P. 1. Ibid, p. 169.
24 Nov.    The COMMISSIONERS for SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
ick and   We have removed the Count de Mornay and all the other
Wounded
Office.  prisoners at Scotland Yard to the Tower.  The Count, having
seen the accounts of the English merchants detained at Bayonne,*
has undertaken to write to M. de Pontchartrain again about
them. On the question of the treatment of French prisoners,
their letters to him shew that their chief grievance is insufficient
liberty to go out; but some who, being sick, were put into town
quarters, have escaped; and those who were surgeons and
permitted to visit them have done the same. Nevertheless we
have written to Plymouth for an account of the whole.
We again regret the escape of Captain de Grattont. We have
allowed our officer to search further for him.
Pp. 13. Signed by Lee and Herbert.    Endd.  S.P. Dom.,
Naval 117, 64.
24 Nov.    JEFFREY GLASIER to [SAME?].
Doctors'  I have yours with enclosures and have entered a criminal
prosecution against Captain Holman and sent a warrant to
arrest him by last Saturday's post to Plymouth. I will proceed
with vigour and will write to the witnesses by this post; and
when the warrant is executed and returned shall proceed
further.
P. i. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 102.
24 Nov.    NOTTINGHAM to the COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED.
Whitehall.  The Queen approves your having quartered the sick men
as you have done.
As Captain Gratont has escaped, the Queen thinks that
Count de Mornay and the other prisoners in Scotland Yard
should be sent to the Tower. You are to take care of this.
M. de Pontchartrain has written to the Count de Mornay that
the English merchants at Bayonne shall be released when the
cartel is made. Their case has nothing to do with the cartel,
and, pursuant to the Treaty of Ryswick they should be discharged,
since they came into France some days before the declaration
* Apparently shewn him to prove that those merchants were in France when
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of war and had also passports from the Spanish Governor. You
will explain to Count de Mornay that the Queen gave at first a
general order for discharging all French merchants who were
here before the war, and, since that, has given special orders
on any application. We expect that English merchants will
receive a like treatment in France. Desire Count de Mornay
to write to France accordingly.
You should hear what Count de Mornay has to say about
the ill-treatment of French prisoners at Plymouth: and give redress
where there is a case for it. Let him know I have directed this.
Also note that the merchants at Bayonne left Bilboa [Bilbao]
on s2 June, 1702, and arrived at Bayonne f2 June.
The declaration of war bears date at Bilbao 2 June and
in France, 3 July
22 June.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 167, 168.
25 Nov.    RENEWED COMMISSION for BUILDING ST. PAUL'S.
Westminster.  To Sir Samuel Dashwood, Lord Mayor of London, Thomas,
Archbishop of Canterbury, John, Archbishop of York, Henry,
Bishop of London, Thomas, Bishop of Rochester, William, Bishop
of Worcester, Simon, Bishop of Ely, James, Bishop of Lincoln,
and to the Bishops of those sees for the time being; Sir Charles
Hedges, Secretary of State and Judge of the Court of Admiralty,
Sir Edward Northey, Attorney General, Sir Simon Harcourt,
Solicitor General, and to the holders of these offices for the time
being; Sir William Trumbull and Sir Thomas Meeres, knights,
George Oxendon, LL.D., principal official of the Arches Court of
Canterbury and Vicar General of the Archbishop of Canterbury's
Court, and to the holder of his office for the time being; Sir Richard
Raines, Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Sir John
Cook, Kt., LL.D., Advocate General, Henry Newton, LL.D.,
Chancellor of the diocese of London, Sir Robert Bedingfield, and
Sir Samuel Garrett, knights, Sheriffs of the City, and William
Sherlock, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's, Henry Godolphin, D.D.,
William Stanley, D.D., and John Younger, D.D., Residentiaries
there, Sir Christopher Wren, Kt., Surveyor General of our
Works, and to those who hold these several offices for the time
being; George Brampston, LL.D., John Harwood, LL.D., and
Sir Thomas and Sir Henry St. George, Kts.
Recites the commissions of King Charles II (12 November,
1673), James II (22 January, 168-) and William  and Mary
(3 June, 1692), and says that since those commissions issued
considerable progress has been made in the said building.
Proceeds:-We appoint you Commissioners to carry on, finish
and adorn the said church. You or any six of you (of whom
the Bishop of London or Dean of St. Paul's shall always be one)
shall carry on the work in such way and by such rules as you
think proper, and may employ artists and workmen therefor,
and minister to them such oaths for the performance of their
several duties as you think reasonable and pay them as you
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the materials and the money supplied for the work, and preventing
the issue of such money for any use other than the public use
intended. You shall take steps to have books and accounts
properly kept and audited [details] and may appoint subcommittees (of yourselves and others) to manage the work and
give them what powers you think fit, and revoke their appointments or revive them, or replace them as you think conducive
to the service; and shall take all necessary steps to finish the
work and make ordinances for its maintenance and protection.
Such ordinances to be presented to us for approval under our
signature, or the Great Seal, or otherwise, "that so they may
be put in due execution accordingly."
Lest there be any obstruction to finishing a work which is
well advanced, we authorise you, the Bishop of London, and
you, the present Dean and Residentiaries of St. Paul's and your
successors, to collect subscriptions for the purpose, and to appoint
persons to assist in collecting subscriptions, and to keep registers,
as formerly, of such subscriptions. All money so raised, or paid
in under the late Act of Parliament* by an imposition on coals,
which is issued (according to that Act) by warrant signed and
sealed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London
and the Lord Mayor of London, for the time being, or any two of
them for the use of the cathedral, shall be paid to such person as
any six of you (of whom the Bishop of London or the Dean of
St. Paul's, for the time being, shall always be one) shall appoint.
To help in paying so vast an expense, and to insure the
discovery of all bequests made and all subscriptions given for
the work, we authorise you or any six or more of you (of whom &c.
as before) to inquire by the oaths of lawful men and by
examination of witnesses on oath (whom you may swear, whether
as jurymen or witnesses), or without oath, to inquire in regard
to all such sums how they have been spent and what yet remains
in hand; and also whether any materials or utensils collected
for building of the cathedral have been disposed or carried away;
and to call for and swear witnesses and call for the production
of registers and accounts. For your ease and better expedition
in carrying out part of your commission, we command all
surveyors, actuaries, registers, officers &c. whom you of the
Commission ask for to be attendant on and assisting you in the
execution of your duties.
All sheriffs, justices, constables, bailiffs and all other our
subjects, on any warrant or precept issued from you, shall return
jurors, and serve orders and summonses and in all things aid you
in the effectual execution of your Commission. We further
authorise any six of you to take steps [details] for getting in any
sums payable for the building, but not yet paid in.
This Commission shall continue in force and you (or any &c.
as before) shall continue to execute it although the same be not
continued by adjournment.
Pp. 17i. Large 8vo. Printed in London by I. Dawks, 1703.
S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 103.
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25 Nov.    The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
k anded    We have removed the prisoners to the Tower as directed.
Office.  As Count de Mornay complains much of gout, we sent a
messenger to the Tower to communicate his orders as to their
going there, and see that the Count might be carried directly
to his lodgings. The commanding officer replied that he did
not think himself authorised to receive the prisoners without
the Queen's command. As we have been ordered by the Lord
High Admiral to send to the Tower all the French and Spanish
officers lately brought from Vigo, we presume to ask that the
Queen be moved to send orders to the Tower for their reception.
The Count was ill in bed last night. Shall we move the rest
of the prisoners without him or continue them where they are
until we can move all together?
Pp. 13. Signed by Lee and Herbert. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval
117, 65.
25 Nov.    COUNT DE MORNAY to [the DUKE OF ORMOND].
I send a memorandum as desired. Pray excuse me the journey
in my present state and accompanied by eight persons who
are nearly all at my expense.  Pray send the orders to-day.
I am your grateful servant &c.
Pp. 1~, in French. Signed. Ibid, 66. Enclosing:Points which I wish the Duke of Ormond to present in my
favour.
I had nothing to do with the Sieur Graton's escape. He was
not of my ship and was taken two months before me.
Neither I nor my crew have broken any rules laid down for us.
I should not be punished for Graton's escape.
If my word is trusted I will give it for all those who are with
me. I only ask to be told what is desired of me in my
captivity.
If my word is not trusted, I will give security.
If I am put in the Tower I hope that those who have been with
me (and who I have supported and who have no other means
of support) may be provided for.
If anything has been maliciously said against me I can prove
that I have always behaved as I should have done since I
came here.
Pp. 1j, in French. Ibid, 66A.
About     SAME to [NOTTINGHAM?].
25 Nov.    I am too ill to go to see you and beg 'you to send some one
by whom I can send a message to you before I go to the Tower;
where I am to go this afternoon.
Pp. 1*, in French. Undated. Signed. Ibid, 67.
25 Nov.    STATEMENT Of and REPORT on MR. WHITAKER'S ACCOUNTS
as SOLICITOR to the ADMIRALTY and NAVY.
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Mr. Whitaker has charged the payment of several sums of money
for fees in his accounts delivered to the Commissioners.
(1) Gentlemen of the Common Law.
To the Attorney the following fees were [charged] as paid:1692, 361. 15s. 3d.; 1693, 421. 19s. lid.; 1694, 1351. 14s. 5d.;
1695, 1601. 6s. 2d.; 1696, 2411. 78. 8d.; 1697, 2061. 9s. Od.;
1698, 1471. 16s. 6d.; 1699, 681. 18s. Od.; 1700, 361. 19s. 10d.
To the Solicitor General:-1692, 111. 9s. 9d.; 1693, 161. 9s. 3d.;
1694, 631. 8s. 3d.; 1695, 821. 5s. 9d.; 1696, 2021. 15s. Od.; 1697,
921. 10s. 4d.; 1698, 1221. 2s. Od.; 1699, 621. 16s. Od.; 1700,
461. 5s. Od.
List follows of fees paid to Messrs. Ayloffe, Browne, Blaney,
Broderick, Breckstone, Cowper, Conyers, Clift, Cheshire,
Darnell (S),* Dodd, Deane, Eyres, Farrer, Gould (S), Girdler (S),
Guidot, Hatsell (S), Hooper, Hawles, Hillyard,       Ingleby,
Killingworth (S), Lutwich (S), Lovell (S), Levinz (S), Lechmere,
Leigh, Lemon, Mulso, Montagu, Mompesson, Newport, Northey,
Neale, Powis (Sir Thomas), Pratt (S), Powell, Pocock, Richardson,
Robinson, Raymond, Shower (Sir B.), Selby (S), Squire, Strode,
Smith, Thompson (S), Tremaine (S), Upton, Williams (Sir W.),
Wright (S), Whitaker (S), Edward Whitaker, Ward, Webb, The
King's Serjeant, Mr. Justice Powell's favourite, and Counsel
not named. The total of fees (details given in each case) paid to
these gentlemen was 4,6951. 19s. 6d.
Fees were also paid to the following Doctors of the Civil Law:The King's Advocate and Drs. King, Littleton, Lane, Newton,
Oldys and Pinfold.
Total of fees to these, 2191. 1ls. lid.
Proctors, interpreters and notaries were paid in all 6881. 15s. 6d.
Report by Thomas Morice and others on Mr. Whitaker's
accounts.
On 10 September last, in answer to many precepts and letters,
Mr. Whitaker brought in his accounts of money received and
paid as Solicitor &c. [see title] for the purpose of our examination
pursuant to the Act. The accounts were nearly 1,700 pages, accompanied by parcels of papers relating thereto. He said he
had alterations to make in them and did not attest them till 24
September.
In addition to their large volume there were other reasons
which made it difficult for us to examine the accounts. The
times and causes of payment, and the vouchers, were not placed
in order and did not agree with the times and sums in his former
accounts delivered to Parliament. The receipts produced did
not agree with the sums charged.
We have, however, gone through it as carefully as we could,
and lay a state thereof, with our observations, before your lordships.
General and detailed criticism of the accounts follows, shewing
that Whitaker has charged extravagantly for his services.
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In all pp. 9{ (large). Signed (copies), Thomas Morice, S. Atkins,
Thomas Lister, William    Farrer, George Langton.   Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 68.
25 Nov.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Director of the packet-boat at Falmouth.
You must not let the packet-boat for Lisbon sail with yesterday's
mail till I send you leave.
Three lines. "By a flying packet." S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104,
p. 169.
2. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
Queen's command:-To cause MM. d'Aligre, Gallissonniere and
Soreli, the Spanish admiral taken at Vigo and the Count de
Mornay (as soon as his health will permit) to be conducted to
Oxford, and leave them there as prisoners of war on parole not
to go out of Oxford and not to write or transmit any matter to
France or Spain unless it is first sent to a Secretary of State.
They must, to avoid mistakes, sign a paper promising this upon
honour.
The rest of the prisoners taken at Vigo must be kept in safety
in some inland town where some of the Queen's forces are. As
to this you must inquire of Mr. Blathwayt, who will tell you
of a proper place. He must have orders to have a proper guard
set.
P. i. Ibid, pp. 169, 170.
25 Nov.    ACCOUNT of the PROCEEDINGS of the COMMISSIONERS appointed
by Act of Parliament to take, examine and determine
the DEBTS due to the ARMY &c.
We have done our best to state the accounts of the regiments &c.
under command of the Queen's natural-born subjects. We have
adjusted the accounts of 54 regiments, two independent companies
and 20 garrisons. A list of these, and of others brought in too
late to be stated, and of others not yet brought in (in spite of all
notice given), we present in paper No. 1* to your lordships.t
We have taken care to state the items of debt for clothing,
poundage &c. [details]. Very few regiments have complied
with the Act of Parliament by naming a person to whom we
might certify the debt to the regiment to be payable in order
to his receiving debentures for the same.
For greater accuracy we have taken respites and allowances
[details] into account in the case of each regiment.  Details
appear in papers 2* and 3.*
We have stated an account of the interest allowed by the
Act on the debt for the transport service in 1693 and have issued
out debentures for the same to those who appear for them.
We find the sum due to Dutch and other foreign transports
is 22,8501. odd. 4,770 gilders are placed in the account as paid
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in part of interest and 7,4861. odd more is asked as interest on
this at 6 per cent. for six years to March 31, 1696. No agreement was made for such interest, and we think none should be
paid, and that what has been paid should be accounted as payment of principal.
The accounts of the regiments on the Irish establishment
were laid before us by the Paymaster of the forces there, and
we find that the army was paid according to the English
establishment, but that by a warrant from "her late Majesty"
to General Ginckle, dated 12 February, 169~, a lower rate of pay
was directed. This warrant was never superseded and would
[if applied in estimating the debt] reduce it by 30,0001. This
being so, we did dot pass the said accounts or make out certificates
for them till we should receive directions from Parliament. We
send a copy of her Majesty's warrant in paper No. 4.*
We have not been able to deal satisfactorily with the accounts
of the regiment lately commanded by Colonel John Gibson.
In the case of Captain Griffin May's company erasures and
additions appear on which we have not received proper
satisfaction. [Details.]
We have been so busy with our first duty-that of stating
arrears-that we have not been able to give much time to the
accounts of the Commissioners of Prizes.
The accounts are so complicated, and the several Commissioners
profess to be so little able to answer our questions, that we fear
it will take a very long time to make an account which will
comply with the Act. Details as to the ships taken, their tackle
&c. are often wholly lacking, "and in some no mention of the
time when, place where, or persons to whom sold, [so] that no
estimate can be made of the condition, burthen, nor consequently
of the value of the said ships or goods, or any discovery of
embezzlements or frauds in the sales, many of which were not
public." Several ships, being of the same name as others, may,
for want of the distinctions mentioned above, pass without coming
into account at all.
The arrears to the army and other services now and formerly
certified and laid before your lordships are as follows:In our present       In our last
Commission.        Commission.
To  the army   and   gar-     1.  s. d.           1. s. d.
risons...... 554,836  2 10*..  251,369 9  91
For transport services in
1693 and 1697.....                93,734  9 6
345,103 19  31
Interest of the debt for
transport service in 1693  31,506 16  6
Royal Hospital at Chelsea  19,068 19 1U
605,411 18  5|
Total........ 950,515 17 8
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We have certified this sum, and as it is to be paid out of the
Irish forfeitures, we hope our certificate may have prevented,
as much as possible, any delay in the sale of those estates.
Pp. 2. (large). Copy. Signed (copies) by Thomas Morice
S. Atkins, Thomas Lister, William Farrer and George Langton
Endd. S.P. Dom., Military 3, 2.
26 Nov.    HEDGES to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Whitehall.  The Swedish Resident here wrote to me some time ago to
procure the clearing of John Philipson and Derrick Brunstead,
pressed some time ago on board her Majesty's ship Hampshire,
and that they may receive tickets for their wages. Please give
directions for this.
P. 3. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 255.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM to the DUKE OF QUEENSBERRY.
Sends enclosed memorial and asks for information as to what
is to be done in it.
Five lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 170. Enclosing:The Postmasters-General to [Nottingham].
The Postrenters of Scotland have for some time run considerably
in arrear to this office. We have put their bonds in suit,
but the delays are so great that we fear a great part of the
money may be lost unless the Queen directs her officers in
Scotland to help us. As Sir David Dalrymple and one of
the Judges of the Sessions are now in town, we think it would
be a good time to move in the matter. Under the late King's
direction we met the Secretaries of State of Scotland with
Mr. Hill and came to "arguments " which we hoped would
result in payment; but it is still delayed.
P. 1. Ibid, pp. 170-1.
27 Nov.    HEDGES to WILLIAM BLATHWAYT.
Whitehall.  The enclosed case of Mrs. Lucy Motram   having been laid
by me before the Queen, her Majesty commands that you insert
her name in the list you are now making of officers' widows in
the like condition who are fit objects of her Majesty's bounty.
P. *. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 262.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM to the LORD LIEUTENANT of IRELAND.
The Queen is informed that Lord Roche's brother and sister
are in Ireland and amongst their relations, where they are not so
likely to be educated in the Protestant religion as if they were
here. You are to endeavour to bring them to England if their
mother will consent to it.
P. i. S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, p. 37.
28 Nov.    MEMORANDUM from the LORD HIGH ADMIRAL.
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28 Nov.
Whitehall.


ships of 80 guns, are found in fit condition to go to sea. It is
proposed to her Majesty that they be not paid off.
P. {. Signed. Countersigned by Clarke. Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 6, 145.
NOTTINGHAM to MR. JONES at Falmouth.
Sends a packet for Lisbon to be delivered to the captain of the
packet-boat, who is to sail as soon as wind permits. Particular
care to be taken of the packet, which is for the Envoy in Portugal.
P. W. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 172, 173.


29 Nov.   GEORGE CLARKE to HEDGES.
Horse Guards. Having received the Queen's command to lay an account of
the proceedings of the general officers in relation to the charge
against Sir Charles Hara and Sir Henry Belasyse before the
Committee of Council, I applied to the Secretary of War for the
names of the general officers. I got a list on the 17th and
requested those in town to be at the Horse Guards next morning,
when I read them the Order in Council, by virtue of which I had
given them notice to attend. They said that misdemeanours
were, in it, alleged to be charged against the two officers, but
as no charge appeared to them, they directed me to inform you
of this, that you might receive the Queen's further commands,
and adjourned to the 23rd. On the 23rd the Secretary at War
sent me a letter, in answer to what had been wrote to you, saying
that the charge against these two officers was to be received
by inquiry from the Duke of Ormond and Sir George Rooke.
On hearing this letter the general officers directed copies of
it to be sent to Ormond and Rooke, with notice of their intention
to meet on the 25th and be ready to receive any charge exhibited
against the gentlemen after whose behaviour at Port St. Marie's
inquiry was made. His Grace attended before the meeting
broke up and was acquainted with what had been ordered. In
the letters to Sir George Rooke, it was added-that he would
let the general officers know of what plunder had been put aboard
the fleet when off Cadiz, to whom it appeared to belong by the
directions put upon it, and by whom put on board. At the
meeting a petition of Sir Charles Hara to the Prince was also
read, in which he prayed that the charge against him of his
breaking his arrest and his suspension thereupon might be
examined by the general officers. The general officers, having
the Queen's command to examine into the matter, directed
Sir Charles's presence at their meeting on the 25th.
On the 25th Sir George Rooke laid before the officers an
account of the plunder for which he had been asked, and said
he had nothing to add in relation to the charges.  The Duke
sent word that he could not be present on the 25th, but would
be present on the 27th, so the officers adjourned till that day
and ordered Sir C. Hara to attend again then.  The Duke
attended on the 27th and showed orders from her Majesty, which
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charges made against Sir Charles Hara and Sir Henry Belasyse
by Count de Wratislau, the Emperor's envoy, and to break or
suspend them as he should see cause. The Duke delivered in
this order and the letter, or a copy of it, from the Count to you
of 20 September (to which the Queen's order referred), complaining of the disorders committed by Sir Henry Belasyse and
Sir C. Hara at the taking of Port St. Marie's, which he said he
was informed of by several letters he had the night before from
the fleet. The general officers thereupon directed a letter should
be sent to the Count de Wratislau to desire he would let them
know the names of the persons who had made the charges, that
they might be summoned, and, if he pleased, would send them
the letters. The Duke of Ormond named four officers who, he
thought, should be summoned; and all the field officers in town
of the regiments, and captains of the Guards that had been at
Cadiz, were notified to attend the next meeting of the general
officers, which was fixed for December 3rd, in the hope that on
that day the general officers from Holland would be present
and help in the inquiry, as some of those who had been in the
expedition to Cadiz desired to withdraw, not wishing to be
inquirers into a matter in which their names might be mentioned
as persons concerned. Sir Charles Hara was called in and
delivered a paper* in answer to the charge of breaking arrest,
and said the ship in which he was [under arrest] was ordered
into Portsmouth harbour, as he was told by the captain before
he went on shore. The Duke of Ormond related how he had
put Sir Charles under arrest, and, after debate, four of the officers
were of opinion that he had not broken his arrest and four that
he had, and gave their reasons in a paper enclosed.t
Sir Henry Belasyse's petition that the general officers should
hear and determine the charge against him of breaking his arrest,
and the Queen's pleasure that they should hear it, were received;
and Sir Henry Belasyse was called in. Sir Henry came in and
said that he believed that the Duke had not intended to arrest
him, but only to prevent his being present at a Council of War
which was to be held "on board Sir George Rooke " the day before the attempt upon Vigo; and that, if the Duke had arrested
him, he had not broken his arrest, for reasons given in a paper:
which he put in. After debate the general officers decided that
Sir Henry had been arrested and had broken his arrest, and
adjourned to 3 December.
Pp. 31.   Signed.   S.P. Dom., Military    3, 3.   Enclosing:A. Reasons offered by Sir Charles Hara shewing that he did not
intend to break his arrest, and, as he conceives, has not
done so.
1. It has always been the custom for officers under arrest to
march with their corps in spite of their arrest, without asking
* See enclosure A.
f See enclosure B.: See enclosure c.


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permission to do so. With submission, I conceive that if I
had been confined at Port St. Marie's I might have embarqued
and marched with the army to any place without prejudice
to my arrest.
2. I had no ship assigned for my arrest, nor was I in custody.
The captain of the ship did not speak of it.
3. The fleet, coming to England, divided. The ship I was in
went into Portsmouth and the Duke of Ormond into the
Downs; so that I could not get leave from him to land. I
did not know where his Grace was or what had become of
him till I came to London.
4. On arriving at Portsmouth I acquainted the Judge Advocate
and the Secretary to the Generalissimo of the Army with
it; and when I came to town set forth in my petition to his
Royal Highness the Prince of Denmark that I was in arrest,
and did not stir out of my house till I received an order of
suspension for having broke it.
5. The crime in breach of arrest is contempt of authority:
and of this I have not been guilty. I acted on necessity.
Pp. 1. Endd. S.P. Dom., Military 3, 3A.
B. Reports by the General Officers on the cases of Sir Charles
Hara and Sir Henry Belasyse.
Recites the facts alleged in Hara's memorandum     above.
Proceeds:-We, the     undersigned,  therefore think  that
Sir Charles did not break his arrest.
Signed by Generals William Steuart, [Lord] Portmore, Gustavus
Hamilton and William Lloyd.
But, in not returning to the ship he was in all the voyage but
going into another when the Duke of Ormond told him he
was under arrest, we, the undersigned, think that he broke
his arrest.
Signed by Generals Cholmondeley, Seymour and the Earl of
Essex.
And in coming ashore without the leave of your Majesty or the
Duke of Ormond, I, General Churchill, think that he broke
his arrest.
Signed by Churchill.
We are all of opinion that Sir Henry Belasyse broke his arrest.
Signed by all the above Generals.
In all pp. 2J. Dated, Horse Guards, 27 November, 1702.
Endd. Ibid, 3B.
c. Reasons offered by Sir Henry Belasyse for the same purpose
as last but one.
Same as Enclosure A above. Pp. I. Endd. Endd. with
date, 29 November, 1702. Ibid, 3c.
30 Nov.    R. TAYLORE to -   NICHOLLS.
St. Germnainsten-eye.8  I have procured an order for your removal from Dinant to
Calais.  You owe this favour entirely to the goodness of the
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not but you will study to deserve it all the days of your life.
The order either is or will be sent to Dinant from Versailles by
M. de Pontchartrain. Let me know if I can serve you in any
other way.
P.S.-Let me hear whether this reaches you and direct to me
in English thus-For Mr. Taylor, at Sir Daniel Arthur's, banker, in
Paris.
P. 1. Add. (in French) to Nicholls, master of an English vessel, prisoner at Dinant in Brittany.  Endd. as follows:-(1)
11 July, 1703. I received this letter from Mr. Cockrain at Bath,
and sent it to Lord Nottingham. (2) (in French): It is for a
prisoner who has been transferred from St. Valery to Dinant,
who is much recommended. To be delivered safely. (3) With
note as to Nicholls' capture and that this letter was intercepted
by Captain Patrick Ewings of Bristol at the post office in Dinant.
S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 104.
30 Nov.    BERNARD ELLIS to [NOTTINGHAM].
Guernsey.  Details as to the orders sent for discharging French vessels
stopped at Guernsey and his action in accordance with them.
Proceeds:-The want of a convoy has delayed official correspondence and caused great want of provisions. There are almost
300 prisoners in the island, who are a great burden. Lieutenant la
Boulay has acknowledged his crime before the Royal Court.
I have told him to attend you when he returns from Guernsey,
where he is on a sloop for Lord Peterborough's service.
Pp. 11. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 41.
Enclosing:A. List of the French vessels which were in Guernsey before the
outbreak of war with France and Spain. Six vessels. Details
as to their tonnage, crews and date of arrival and departure.
P. t. Ibid., 41A.
30 Nov.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Admiralty  The account demanded by Lord Secretary Nottingham in his
letter of the 26th will be prepared and laid before him as soon
as possible, both with respect to the ships that may be counted
on for next year's service and to the convoys and cruisers that
may be necessary.
There are orders given to the Swan and a brigantine to
endeavour to prevent the export of wool or the importation
of French silk during the inability, by sickness or otherwise,
of the riding officers in Romney Marsh and thereabouts. The
Flamborough, a 6th rate, will be also appointed for that service
as soon as she arrives at Spithead.
P. h. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 146.
30 Nov.    MEMORANDUM on PENSIONS to OFFICERS' WIDOWS.
The following widows of commanders and masters of ships
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Anne Loe, Sarah Parker, Elizabeth Combs, Elizabeth Johnson,
Mary Phillips, Lucy Jacobs, Elizabeth Curtis, Grace Alderson,
Anne Fairweather, Elizabeth Ellis, Anne Chalke, Elizabeth
Bleach, Mary Radley.
The following petitioners of the like quality (whose late
husbands commanded the King's ships) have no pensions:Elizabeth Bond, Elizabeth Nugent, Isabella Ormerod, Martha
Bull, Frances Cotton, Anna Thorborough, Submission Thornton,
Williams, Beanes, Eliza Fox.
P. 1. Endd. with date and "From Sir Richard Haddock."
S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 69.
Circa     [RICHARD] HILL to [NOTTINGHAM].
30 Nov.    Sir George Rooke desires me to give you the enclosed from
M. d'Alegre [D'Aligre] and to say he is very desirous that the
prisoner have leave to come to town and to be released.
P. i (Hol.) Endd: "Nov., 1702." Ibid, 70. Enclosing:A. Colonel Gibson to Sir George Rooke.
I send enclosed.  I lodged the Chevalier d'Alegre [D'Aligre]
for his convenience at Captain Dalzell's, but yesterday had an
order from the Commissioners for Prisoners of War* to deliver
him to the Marshal, whom I expect from Southampton to
carry him thither. The Chevalier is very anxious to be in
London and relies on you for procuring that favour.
Pray thank the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Lord High
Treasurer for their kindness to me in your absence.
P. 1.   (Hol.)  Dated, Portsmouth, 26 November.     Endd.
Ibid. 70A. Enclosing:AA. The Chevalier D'Aligre to Sir George Rooke.
I was seized at Vigo and brought here. I beg leave to go to
London to take steps to recover my liberty.
P. i. (French.) (Hol.) Dated, Portsmouth, 25 Nov. Add.
Endd. Ibid, 70AA.
Nov.      NOTE for the DrVIDENDt for NOVEMBER, 1702.
The figures in the right column total up to 481. 6s. 8d.; those
on the left to 141. Os. Od.
P. i. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 1, 105.
Nov.      PRINT of the ARMS of the CITY of LONDON.
Supported on a human head, and with a scroll below bearing
the words "Jacobus Siscell, Londini, Tinctor."
A fragment. Ibid, 106, ad fin.
DECEMBER, 1702.
1 Dec.    SIR BENJAMIN BATHURST to [NOTTINGHAM].
Don Fernando Chacon, of Sevill in Spain, is now brought
home a prisoner from Vigo. Details. He is of good family, as
* i.e. The " Commissioners for Sick and Wounded and exchange of Prisoners."
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Mr. Malchor, Mr. Waite and Mr. Bowly and Mr. Chamberlain
(English merchants that came lately from Sevill and Cadiz)
informed me. He and his relations were always very civil to
them in Spain, and they ask that he may have the liberty of
this City on his parole and not be sent with the French officers
out of town. They believe that this would be very well taken
in that part of Spain, where, in time of peace, many English
reside and where we trade much, if this distinction were made
between him and the French. As there are no other Spaniards
here this will be no prejudice to her Majesty's service, and may
make them more civil to the English in those parts.
Pp. 1j. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 71.
1 Dec.    HEDGES to GEORGE CLARKE.
Whitehall  Queen's command:-The general officers to meet de die in diem
on the matters of Belasyse and Hara, till they have gone through
them. Acquaint them accordingly.
P. i. Copy. Endd. S.P. Dom., Military 3, 4.
Also entries of same.  S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 255
and 267-8.
I Dec.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Admiralty  Some time since, I think, a petition from the Virginia merchants
of London was put into Lord Secretary Nottingham's hands, in
which they asked that the Queen would fix a time for the whole
trade to leave England and return. The Bristol and Liverpool
merchants have sent in objections to this, which have been
referred to his Royal Highness; but the London petition has
not been sent back. Pray send it so that his Royal Highness
may consider all together.
P. ]. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 147.
2 Dec.    The PRINCE'S COUNCIL to NOTTINGHAM.
AOfice.Y  In answer to your request as to what ships could be depended
on for next year's service, and when they may be ready, we send
a report, for which we asked, from the Navy Board. We also
send our opinion as to convoy ships and cruisers for next year.
P. 1. Signed by Sir G. Rooke, Mitchell, Hill and Churchill.
Endd. Ibid, 148. Enclosing:A. The Navy Board to Josiah Burchett.
In obedience to his Royal Highness's commands we looked over
the list sent him on August 25 of the ships supposed to be
in a condition to be made ready for next year's service at sea.
We at present suspect only these (out of the list):3* Content,     4 Plymouth,
4 Advice,       5 Charles galley,,, Crown,       6 Messenger advice boat., Dragon,
* The meaning of these numbers is not clear; perhaps it refers to the rating
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Some of these, we hope, may be fitted for next year. The Tartar,
Postilion and Rochester prizes have been added to the Navy
since that list. It is hoped all or most of the following new
ships may be launched and got ready by May next or
thereabouts.
Fourth-rates:One of 60 guns and one of 50 at Deptford. One of 50 at
Mr. Popely's yard; same at Mr. Taylor's and Mr. Swallow's
-in all five.
Fifth-rates:One of 40 guns at Woolwich; same at Mr. Wells' yard,
Mr. Burchett's, and at Ipswich-in all four.
Sixth-rate:One of 24 guns at Chatham.
Some or all of the French prizes, also, may be fitted for next
year.
We cannot speak with certainty of the time at which the fleet
may be ready, especially seeing how late in the year and in
what bad condition they came back [this autumn]. The East
Country ships, too, that are to bring stores necessary for the
service, are not yet arrived, and many of the men-of-war have
not yet come up to the yards to be surveyed. Many are still
at sea, and wind and weather, on which such works depend,
are very variable.  We have, however, ordered the officers
of the yards to survey each ship as she comes in and report
in what order they should be taken in hand and in what
time finished.  As soon as these reports reach us they shall
be laid before his Royal Highness. We shall do all we
can and shall, as his Royal Highness orders, take the smallest
ships and repairs first; and think that we can do the work
so that the service will not want for ships if other matters
keep pace with the fitting of them.
Pp. 21. Copy.    Dated Navy Office, 28 November, 1702, with
signatures (copies) of R. Haddock, Cloudesley Shovell, Charles
Sergison, Daniel Furzer and D. Lyddell. S.P. Dom., Naval 6,
148A.
B. Convoys and cruisers proposed for next year provided that
other services will admit of it.
Rates.
3rd. 4th. 5th. 6th.
Newfoundland........       2    2
Virginia..........-      4    1    -
St. Helena......     -    6    1
Russia......-             2    2    -
East Country........       2    2
Newcastle........-       2    2
West Indies......      10   16    1    1
Hamburg........-      2    2    -
Between Holland and London....  -    1    1    -
Dunkirk (the Dutch to have the like)..  -  7   1     1
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Rates.
3rd. 4th. 5th. 6th.
Between the Islands and the French
coast........  -    -     2    3
On the coast of Guinea....       - -           -
New York, Virginia and New England   -     2    1    1
Nevis........-                    1
Off Cape Clear......        -    6     2
Barbados......              I    1
Between Yarmouth, Hull and Holland   -     1    1
Lynn Dieps.....     -     -    -    1
Between Yarmouth and the Ness.. -    -     -    1
Between Exeter and Milford....                 2    -
Between Land's End and Bristol       -    -     1    1
To be under the orders of the Irish
Government........-      -     5    1
Total........ 10   57   32    11
This is a much larger number than was allotted in the last war,
especially in the case of Virginia and the East Indies [sic].
If the service requires the body of the fleet to be abroad next
year, and if these vessels are all allotted as above, it is feared
that the channel and coasts may be much exposed to the
insults of the enemy, before such of the said ships as are at
home can be concentrated for defence.  On this calculation
there will remain for the body of the fleet five 1st rate ships,
eight 2nd, forty-two 3rd, sixty-two 4th, thirty-three 5th, and
seventeen 6th-total, 167. and there will be 110 convoys,
cruisers and "remains" [details] numbering in all 57.
Perhaps six further vessels may be repaired in time.
Pp. 1}.    Dated, Admiralty   Office,  3 December, 1702.
S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 148B.
2 Dec.    The DUKE OF ORMOND to [NOTTINGHAM].
Cockpit.   M. de Sorel, one of the prisoners taken at Vigo and appointed
to go to Oxford, has asked me to obtain leave for M. Coyeux,
le Chevalier de Camilly, M. de Pimont, M. de la Groa and
M. de Saint Fre to go there also. They are officers taken with
him at the fort, whose circumstances are indifferent and whom
he wishes to assist. Pray obtain the Queen's consent to it and
communicate it to the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded &c.
All the gentlemen who are going there ask not to go till Monday
as they desire to provide themselves with necessaries.
Pp. 1}. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 72.
2 Dec.    COLONEL COLLIER, LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF JERSEY, to
Jersey.       [SAME].
Escaped prisoners from France [details] report that people
there are very dejected by receiving only bad news.
I have as directed [details] discharged the vessels, merchants
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of war. James Droiet is released. As to the charge of wrongfully detaining ships, I send back the list of vessels with my
vindication in each case.
Details as to release of Frenchmen, the escape of some prisoners.
Proceeds:-I am grateful to your lordship for having obtained
for me a new commission as Lieutenant-Governor.
Pp. 11. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 42.
Enclosing:A. List of French ships and subjects detained and Colonel
Collier's remarks thereon.
In all eleven vessels. Collier shows in one case that a vessel
which arrived on 4 May, 1702, is discharged, and in the
other cases vindicates his action either on the ground that the
ships or persons arrived after the declaration of war, or
otherwise.
Pp. 1I. Signed by Collier. Ibid, 42A.
3 Dec.    HEDGES to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Whitehall.  I send information as to money, plates &c. seized as it was
carrying ashore from H.M.S. Barfleur (Captain Wivill). The
lieutenant, if rightly handled, may disclose much. I am told
the Dixwell ketch had much plunder on her, and that the officers
committed great disorders in running pillaged goods ashore at
Falmouth.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 357.
3 Dec.    ORDER in COUNCIL.
St. James'.  Present:-The Queen in Council.
The Queen to-day appointed Sheriffs for England and Wales.
Having noticed that several people are put on the Sheriffs' Roll
who are not fitly qualified for that office either for want of
sufficient estates or otherwise, her Majesty orders that the Lord
Keeper recommend it to the Judges on going the summer
circuit diligently to inform themselves of the abilities and
qualifications of the persons they intend to propose to the Privy
Council for the ensuing year.
P. A. Copy. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 1.
3 Dec.    The COMMISSIONERS for SICK and WOUNDED to [NOTTINGHAM].
Wounded    All the Vigo prisoners (except a few who are in town on
Office.  parole) are at Portsmouth or Chatham.    We have chosen
Farnham, as a suitable place to keep prisoners who are not sent
to Oxford, and shall send the officers and ordinary seamen
to Farnham, sending only the first five officers in the enclosed*
list to Oxford. We ask orders as to the two gentlemen now
in town with M. Sorel on parole, and as to whether the five officers
may take their servants with them to Oxford.
Pp. 1i.   Signed by   Lee, Herbert, and Adams.     Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 73.
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3 Dec.    NOTE on the CASE of the TITHES of POOLE MYVOD &C. in
CO. MONTGOMERY.
In February, 1689[90], the Marquis of Powis was outlawed for
high treason.
In September, 1691, a commission issued under the Great Seal
of England to enquire of and seize the Marquis's estate; and
thereby the Marquis was found possessed of the tithes in question
(amongst other lands) on the day of the outlawry in question;
and thereupon the tithes were seized into the King's hands.
On the return of that seizure into the Exchequer the Duke of
Beaufort and others plead in discharge thereof a lease of 21 years
made in 1688 to them by the Marquis of Powis and Lord Montgomery for the payment of debts.
On a trial at bar in the Exchequer Court the said lease was
found fraudulent and judgment was entered for his late Majesty
and, on that verdict, his Majesty was put into actual possession
of the lands and tithes.
The late King, by letters patents under the Great Seal granted
to the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (now Bishop of Worcester)
and to the now Bishop of St. Asaph the said tithes as long as
they should remain in the hands of the Crown, in trust for the
increase of several small vicarages in the diocese of St. Asaph.
In 1698 Mr. Robert Dalton (as trustee for Lord Montgomery)
pleads his title to the tithes after this manner, vizt.:-That on
28 September, 1685, the Dean and Chapter at Christchurch,
Oxford, granted the tithes to the Marquis of Powis and his heirs,
for the lives of Lord Montgomery, Lady Mary his wife, and Lord
Castlemaine; that on 10 November, 1685, the Marquis of Powis
made a lease of the tithes to Lord Thomas Howard, deceased,
and the said Mr. Dalton for 99 years if the three lives should so
long endure, in [trust]* for the benefit of Lord Montgomery, during
his life for his maintenance, and after his decease for the benefit
of Lady Montgomery for life and after to the use of the Marquis of
Powis, his executors, administrators and assigns. Notwithstanding such lease, the Marquis of Powis continued in possession
of the tithes and received them constantly from them till the
time of his attainder and outlawry in 1689, and that then the
receipts to the tenants were given in the name of Lord Montgomery.
However, the Attorney General thinks it not safe for the
Bishop of Worcester to try the validity of the Marquis of Powis'
lease of 1685 as to the fraud thereof; for though there is no doubt
but that the lease was made by the Marquis of Powis on purpose
to set up when there should be occasion, and kept by him till his
outlawry in 1689, yet that does not make it fraudulent against
the Crown.
That the interest of the Lord Montgomery in these tithes is
only a chattel, being but for 99 years for the use and benefit of
himself &c. [details], and therefore by law is forfeited to the Crown.
For that in May, 1696, Lord Montgomery was indicted for
high treason in London and, not appearing, was in due form
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proceeded against; so that on 8 July, 1696, a writ of exigent
was awarded against him on that indictment returnable in the
Sessions  after  Michaelmas   Term   following;   but,  the
Lord Montgomery rendering himself at the return of the writ,
nothing further was done thereon.   That Lord Montgomery,
by standing out and being put into the exigent, forfeits his
goods and chattels and, amongst them, his interest in the
tithes, this being a chattel.
P. 1. Endd. 3 December, 1702, "Mr. Attorney told me that
it is not fit for the Queen to take advantage of such a forfeiture."
S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 2.
3 Dec.    GEORGE CLARKE to HEDGES.
Horse Guards. The general officers met again to-day to receive Count
Wratislau's answer.*
They are very much surprised at it, and direct that a copy
may be sent you to shew her Majesty, they finding that they can
expect nothing more from that Envoy to substantiate the charge
first made by him.
They think that, as they have only directions to inquire
into the conduct of Belasyse and Hara at Port St. Marie's, their
powers should be enlarged to enable them to examine the conduct
of these officers from the time of the landing by Rotta [Rota] to
their re-embarcation if her Majesty approves.
Pp. 1j. Signed. Endd. S.P.Dom., Military 3, 5. Enclosing:A. Sir George Rooke to Nottingham.
Sir Henry Belasyse and Sir C. Hara came home on the St. George,
which was ordered into Portsmouth; so that unless the
Duke of Ormond confined as well as suspended them I suppose
they are in town long ere this.
P. 1. Signed. Dated on the Royal Sovereign, in the Downs,
9 November, 1702. Endd. Ibid, 5A.
B. Sir Edward Northey (Attorney General) to Same.
In order to resolve the question referred last night to the
consideration of the Judges, the extent of the Duke of Ormond's
commission must be known-(a) as to executing martial law
and (b) as to the date when it expired. Pray give bearer a
copy or extract of the commission so far as regards punishment
of offenders, and the Judges will meet on Monday morning
and consider the question. I returned Levingston's papers
with my thoughts upon them. In these for "the late King
James " please read "the now pretended King."
P. I. (Hol.) Dated, 31 October, 1702. Add. Endd. Ibid, 5B.
c. Chief Justice Holt to Same.
I send the Judges' answer to the question lately sent to me,
which I think full and direct; but if any doubt be made of
it "upon the least intimitation" it shall be made more
satisfactory.
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Fivelines. (Hol.) Dated, 6 November, 1702. S.P. Dom., Military
3, 5c. Enclosing.cc. Order in Council and opinion of the Judges.
At St. James, 30 October. Present-The Queen in Council.
On reading the opinion of the Judges of the Courts at
Westminster about the most proper way of proceeding against
and punishing persons found guilty of the disorders at Port
St. Marie's contrary to the Queen's declaration and the
assurances given by the Duke of Ormond to the inhabitants,
it is further ordered:That the Judges again meet and consider whether persons
accused of such disorders may not be brought to trial by a
Court-Martial in the fleet at sea before their arrival in this
realm.
They are to report promptly on this question.
P. ~. Signed, John Povey, and underwritten with:
Opinion of the Judges and others.
We have considered the Duke of Ormond's commission and
consulted the civilians and think that a Court-Martial may
be held as above suggested.
P. i. Signed, Holt, Thomas Trevor, Edward Ward, Edward
Nevill, John Powell, Littleton Powys, John Blencowe, H. Gould,
R. Tracy, Tho. Bury, Ro. Price, J. Smith, T. Powys,
E. Byrche, Edward Northey, Simon Harcourt, T. Cooke,
H. Newton. Ibid, 5cc.
3 Dec.    NOTTINGHAM to the SOLICITOR GENERAL.
Whitehall Sends Mr. Wait's papers, and asks how the Queen should
comply with Wait's request, in case she decides so to do.
Four lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 173.
4 Dec.    ROYAL WARRANT to the CHIEF GOVERNOR of IRELAND.
St. James.  By letter dated 17 August, 1700, King William III appointed
the Chief Governor of Ireland for the time being and several
other persons trustees for "erecting, establishing and carrying
on " a linen manufacture in Ireland and for discharging several
trusts reposed in them by the said letters. He also granted to them
8001. a year to be paid quarterly for ten years, which was to be
used to pay 8 %  on 10,0001. advanced by Lewis Crommelin or
by his procurement. No part of the said 10,0001. has yet been
paid, but, by Crommelin or. his procurement, several plain looms
have, with the approval of the trustees, been erected in Ireland
for making linen. These are valued at 301. each. Certain " other
looms called estilles for making fine linen in imitation of that of
France and Holland " have also been put up by him, etc., and each
such estille is valued at 501. The letters of King William III are
void by his death and, in order to promote the linen manufacture,
we are willing to accept the looms and estilles if now or hereafter
erected with the consent of the trustees aforesaid, at 301. and 501.




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respectively, and to pay interest thereon at 8 %, as if he who put
up the looms had advanced its equivalent in money.
Cause letters to pass &c. granting to the Chief Governor of Ireland, the Primate, Chancellor, Archbishop of Dublin, the three Chief
Judges of the Queen's Bench, Exchequer and Common Pleas-all
for the time being,-the Earl of Mount Alexander, General Thomas
Erle, Francis Gwynn, Esq., Thomas Coote, Esq., the Attorney
General, pro tem., St. George [Ashe], Bishop of Clogher,
Thomas Keightley, Esq., James Hamilton of Donolough, Esq.,
Sir Thomas Southwell, Bt., Robert Rochford, Esq., Allan
Brodrick, Esq., Sir William Robinson, Kt., John Lovett and
William Fownes, Esq., the 8001. a year granted to the trustees
mentioned above upon the trusts mentioned in the earlier grant,
-excepting only that they may and shall pay interest thereout
at 8 % a year on the looms and estilles now or hereafter to be
erected, taking the loom and estille at the value mentioned above
or at such lower rate as the trustees may agree upon, and allowing
further that any part of this sum of 8001. may, on application by
the trustees to the Chief Governor, be expended on salaries to
officers, or other uses which they shall think desirable for better
carrying on the manufacture.
Pp. 2. S.P. Signet Office 15, pp. 81, 82.
5 Dec.    JOHN JACOB to
Dinan.  I am a prisoner here. Yesterday the Commissary of St. Malo
came here and examined a resident of New England what quantity
of guns and soldiers were there and likewise sent another master
of a New England ship to St. Malo, as I suppose, to be examined
there separately.
P. j. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 3.
6 Dec.    The NAVY BOARD to the QUEEN.
In obedience &c.... we yesterday went aboard the
galleon which was lately taken at Vigo and is now lying
at Woolwich, where we found the hatches fast spiked down
and sealed with several seals, which yet remained unbroken.
The Captain said the hatches had never been opened since the
ship was taken at Vigo. There were two open scuttles going
down to the bread and boatswain's store rooms, and these have
been open all the time. There is at present nothing in these but
bread, oil, tallow, some other bo'sun's stores and wood. We
sealed these down and gave orders for unloading the ship as soon
as possible. We suggest that to prevent embezzlement, some
of your Majesty's sea-officers and custom and prize officers daily
attend the unloading of the ship, and the opening of all the
goods when they are taken into warehouses, and that rewards
be offered, by notice in the Gazette, to those who discover
embezzlements.
Pp. 1. Signed by Granville, Boyle and Rooke. Endd. S.P.
Dom., Naval 117, 74.




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6 Dec.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall  1. To Lord Chief Justice Holt.
I send enclosed petition. The Queen wants a report on it laid
before the Cabinet Council on Tuesday, as Wednesday is the day
fixed for the execution.
Four lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 173.
2. To [George] Clarke.
I read yours of the 7th [sic] to the Queen. The Court-Martial
must proceed as directed.
Four lines. Ibid, p. 175.
7 Dec.    SAME.
Whitehall.  1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
Queen's command:-To have MM. Coyeux, de Camilly, de
Pimont, de la Groa and de St. Free taken to Oxford as prisoners
of war. Conditions [as above, p. 317, q.v.]. Her Majesty would
have you permit M. La Gallissonniere and M. Begon, his brotherin-law, to remain in London till they have recovered their health
and then sent to Oxford on the same conditions.
On this occasion recommend the English merchants at Bayonne
to Count de Mornay, or some of these gentlemen, that they may
be allowed to come home without ransom, having suffered so
long a confinement contrary to the Peace of Ryswick. The
gentlemen mentioned in this and my letter of November 25 may
take servants, for whom they will be responsible.
P. 1. Ibid, pp. 173, 174.
2. To the Lord Treasurer.
Altering the appointment of Mr. Hezekiah Marshall.* He
is to be only Commissary General of the provisions and victuals
to the land forces sent to the West Indies under the Earl of
Peterborough; but not Commissary of the musters. Otherwise the
appointment notified on 19 October to stand.
P. i. Ibid, p. 175.
8 Dec.    MR. DUMMER to the GOVERNORS of the POST OFFICE.
Portsmouth.  Yours of the 5th. The Mansbridge sailed on Nov. 15 to a place
called Leape on this side Limington to be laid ashore and tallowed,
as was done to the Bridgman. The weather was stormy and
delayed the work. When it was done I sailed her to Jack o'
the Basket, to take the first wind suitable for the Channel course.
Stormy weather came on on the 27th [details], and she returned
under the shelter of Hurst Castle. She put to sea again on
the 1st, but returned to Jack o' the Basket on the 3rd owing
to bad weather. She sailed a third time on the 5th, and I hope
got to the Start before the wind shifted on Sunday evening.
Other details.
P. 1. Signed. Add. to the Governors-at the General Post Office.
With post-mark D  S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 4.
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8 Dec.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Sir George Rooke.
Queen's command:-Send a distinct account of what plunder
was taken at Port St. Mary's or Vigo; and what prize goods were
put on board any of the transport ships on which the same were
shipped.
2. To Sir Cloudesley Shovell. Same as foregoing.
In all p. S. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 176.
About     MEMORANDUM by the SOCIETY of APOTHECARIES, LONDON,
8 Dec.        with regard to SUPrLY of the NAVY and ARMY with
MEDICINES.
"The trade of the apothecary has always been distinct from
the practice of the physician, the one consisting in prescribing
and the other in making, compounding and vending of medicines."
"The apothecaries of the City of London, as incorporated,
have always made a considerable part of that great body, and,
as such, are capable and, as in duty bound, willing on any
exigency to furnish the Royal Navy or Armies with necessary
medicines out of their present stock." Some members of that
Society have always been employed in, and contracted for, that
service, and particularly during all the time of the late war.
"For the better performing of that service the Master and
Wardens of that Society, ever since they were requested so to do,
have, with the greatest care and fidelity, viewed the dispensing
and mixing the several medicines prepared by their members for
the Army and appraised the same at reasonable rates, respect
being had to the goodness, and, since that time, are bold to say
that there have been few or no just complaints.... Of late a few physicians, without the consent or approbation of the most eminent and best practised of the College,
have, against law, set up a shop for making of medicines, which
they are pleased to call the Dispensary, at first under pretence
of charity, but now openly for private gain.. The apothecaries in the late Taxation paid for at least
15,0001. stock, and the said shop or dispensary but after the
rate of 1001. or at most 2001., and so can hardly be supposed
capable to furnish the medicines requisite for this expedition
without buying of the Apothecaries; and consequently not
only a double profit be allowed by her Majesty, but this also
takes away the most specious pretence of these physicians as
to their care in the several preparations, which, notwithstanding
all their boasts, they are even in their Dispensary beholden for to
an apothecary of that Society."
The preferring of these few physicians who act for private
gain in a business outside their own sphere will " lay an imputation upon the whole Society of Apothecaries, as not able or not
honest enough to serve her Majesty; and of which they must
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It is therefore humbly hoped that this business may proceed in its
ancient channel and such apothecaries be chosen for this service
as shall be able and willing to undertake and perform the same
with all expedition. The Master and Warden hereby undertake
to see the same performed with all fidelity and care, of which the
Physicians, if they please, may be witnesses.
Pp. 1. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 75.
9 Dec.    LIST of PRISONERS CONDEMNED at the GAOL DELIVERY (for
London and Middlesex) of NEWGATE, 9 December, 1702.
Condemned to die:
Mary Jones, privately stealing goods valued at 20s. out of
the shop of Samuel Sedgewicke. Respited.*
Elizabeth Deakins alias Stanton. Burglary in the house of
Anne Beake, widow, and stealing her goods, value 91. 15s., and
40s. in money. Further burglary in the house of Mary Fletcher
and stealing her goods, value 21s. Further burglary in the house
of George Rumball and stealing his goods, value 10/. 5s. Od.
When pregnancy over.t
Samuel Shortland. Burglary (confessed) in the house of
Benjamin Hoskins and stealing his goods, value 81. 3s. Further
burglaries and thefts in the houses of John Preston (71. 13s.), James
Gould, Nehemiah Leyde, Susanna Willett, and William Farmer,
and breaking the warehouse of William Vanleut and theft there.
John Goffe alias White alias Gaffney. Robbery in feloniously
taking from John Cumberlidge 10s. of his own money and 551.,
the moneys of John Cartlitch. Another robbery in feloniously
taking goods value 11. and 211. in money from the person of
Joseph Knight.
James Wilson. Privately stealing goods value 25s. 2d. and
531. in money from the person of Anthony Cooling.
John Clarke. Stealing a mare value 51. from William Wildman.
Richard Norris alias Morris. Burglary in the house of Lady Mary
Parker with intent to steal her goods. Respited till it be found
if his grandfather was executed in the time of King Charles I.
Elizabeth Wetherly. Separate burglaries and thefts in the
houses of Nicholas Rootes (20s.), John Fish (23s.), Mary Fletcher
(39s.), George Rumball (101. 5s. Od.). When pregnancy over.t
Mary Bunch. Burglary and theft (20s.) in the house of Nicholas
Rootes. The same.t
Mary Cole. Robbery near the highway and stealing goods
value 5s. from the person of Elizabeth Browne. Transported.
Burnt in the hand, 1. Burnt in the face, 15. Respited from
burning in the hand, 1.
Respited from burning in the face, 5. To be whipped, 5.
Fined:
Thomas Browne: 40s. for having counterfeit coins in his
* The remarks in italics are added in the margin in another hand.
t These notes apparently refer to the practice of respiting sentence on female
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possession intending to utter the same in payment for good,
knowing them to be so counterfeit.
Mary Nicholls: 40 marks, and to stand three times in the
pillory for forging several deeds in the names of Bambridge
Norham and Elizabeth Norham.
Richard Burridge: 40s., and to stand three times in the pillory
with a paper on his breast purporting his crime, and his libel to
be burnt before his face, for writing and publishing the said libel
called "the Dutch Catechism."
William Bennet: 5 marks. Unlawfully entering a ship with
intent to steal the goods therein.
Endd. "Report to her Majesty" &c., as in title, and "Read
20 December." S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 5.
9 Dec.    The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Wounded   Under your lordship's orders we spoke with the French officers
Office.  brought from Vigo, and shewed them the papers, prepared under
same, for their obliging themselves to remain prisoners at war.
They all desired their words of honour might be taken, "which
they say is the only practice in such cases all over Europe and
esteemed as firm an obligation as any writing whatever," but
that if your lordship insisted on it, they would sign the papers.
They desired leave to stay in town till Wednesday, several of
them being not very well, and needing clothes &c. for their
journey. They left us a list of their names, placed according
to their qualities, and ask that those now ordered to be kept
at Farnham under restraint, who are of equal condition with
those who are to be on parole at Oxford, may be sent to Oxford
also. Count de Mornay begs this for those who are in town
with him, and depend upon him.
We spoke with them about the English merchants at Bayonne and
they promise to write effectually to France for their enlargement.
Pp. 1~. Signed by Lee, Herbert and Adams. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 76.
[9 Dec.]   MONSIEUR D'ALIGRE to [SAME].
We have just come from the Commissioners' office, and they
desired us to sign "l'engagement de nos paroles." Whilst not
refusing to sign, we represent that to refuse to trust our verbal
paroles is not to treat us as honest men. Having said this, we
shall do what we are ordered. There is a great difference between
Graton and us. We should be very pleased to stay where
we are; but if we must go to " Auxfort " please give orders that
we may be kept together. We commend our sick to you, and
ask for time for the others to conclude their purchases.
Pp. 2. (Hol.) French. Endd. with date. Ibid, 77.
9 Dec.    SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVELL to SAME.
Navy Ofice. In answer to your lordship's requiring a strict account of the
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I can only give an account of the goods taken out of the galleon
made prize by the Mary and out of the Vigo prize (which were
both aground, and the first could not be got off at all, nor the
second till her cargo was taken out of her), and of the goods saved
by Captain Baker out of the galleon that was lost coming out
of the islands of Bayon[ne]. As all my accounts, books and papers
are on board the Shrewsbury in order to be brought round, I am
not able to give your lordship a particular account thereof till
she arrives, [she] being sailed out of the Downs for the Nore,
where I have sent a messenger to wait for them. So soon as
they come to my hands I shall transmit a faithful and particular
account thereof to you; and " I do assure your lordship upon
honour that I neither meddled with any of the plunder myself
nor suffered any other person to embezzle the same, but when I
was at Spithead I gave strict orders to the Captains of her Majesty's
ships, and to the masters of the transports, store ships and
tenders, to put all the gold, silver and other rich goods and plunder
on board Rear-Admiral Graydon or such other ship or vessel as
he should direct." The Rear-Admiral was then bound for the
river and I must refer you to him for details as to the ships on
which the effects were placed, &c.
Pp. 1-. Signed. Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 78.
11 Dec.   NOTTINGHAM to the COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED.
Whitehall.
Whitehall  Queen's command:-All the prisoners mentioned in your enclosure of the 9th may go to Oxford as prisoners of war on parole, and
without giving a written promise. All who are fit to leave must
leave town on Wednesday and the rest follow as soon as they are
well enough. The Spanish Admiral is to remain here and I wish
to speak with him as soon as he can go abroad.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 177.
12 Dec.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to ELLIS.
Admiralty  Mr. Secretary Hedges sent here to-day an extract of a letter
from Mr. Vernop at Copenhagen of A December stating that the
French have freighted ships at Bergen to carry stores to France
during the winter. The Prince's Council desire the Queen's pleasure
as to the bringing in of such ships if they are met by our cruisers.
P. i. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 149.
12 Dec.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
I send a letter from Count de Mornay and demand a report
on the complaint contained in it. Enquire, and redress if need be.
What was done on his last complaint? Hear the proposals he
mentions from M. de Pontchartrain and give me an account of
what they are.
Note.-Enclosed was Count de Mornay's to my Lord of
this date.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 177, 178.
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2. To Mr. Adin, Clerk of the Cheque at Plymouth.
To search, and give an account of what goods and merchandise are
on board, the Mansbridge sloop, belonging to Mr. Dummer, which
is employed in her Majesty's service, and to examine the master's
journal to see why she delayed starting on her voyage for four
weeks, contrary to orders. Details.
P. s. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 178.
3. To the Prince's Council.
Consider the proposal that the Irish Government, instead
of paying for the troops in Jamaica, which are on the Irish
establishment, should pay for the six frigates attending Ireland,
and report as to what her Majesty should do therein and how.
The charge for the frigates is the greater, and Ireland finds it
very inconvenient to pay in Jamaica.
P. w. Ibid, p. 179.
12 Dec.   COUNT DE MORNAY to [NOTTINGHAM].
London.   I have heard from   the Count de Pontchartrain on your
proposals. He desires further information on some points; and
as it would take long to express what he wishes in writing, I beg
you to appoint some one to whom I may explain this, unless
I may have the pleasure of doing it myself.
P. A. French. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 79.
13 Dec.   HEDGES to CAPTAIN OWEN.
Whitehall  Queen's pleasure:-Remain where you are with the ships
under your care till you have picked up the seventy men who
deserted from Colonel Columbine's regiment, and then proceed
according to your former instructions.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 268.
13 Dec.   The MARQUIS DE LA GALLISSONNIARE to [NOTTINGHAM].
London.   Polite remarks. Pray use your influence with the Queen that
I may stay in London. I have had rheumatism and need medical
help; and also please intercede for M. Begon, who is not yet
cured of his wounds.
Pp. 1I. French. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 80.
14 Dec.   HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall. 1. To the Lord Mayor [of London].
To direct suspension of the execution of sentence on John
Norborne, who has been found guilty of manslaughter of Joseph
Grey and sentenced to be burnt in the hand. Further pleasure.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 268.
2. To the Lord Treasurer.
The Queen has heard that the Earl of Winchelsea has been
detained by sickness at the Hague, which has increased the
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desires you to give orders for 5001. more to be paid to his lordship
or his agents. P. ~.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 258.
14 Dec.   JOSLiH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Admiralty  I send a paper left this morning by the East India Company
touching the frigates for which they have petitioned. They
are very pressing, especially for the two for the Cape and
St. Helena; and the Prince's Council desire the Queen's pleasure
in the matter at the "first convenience."
P. i. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 150. Enclosing:Edmund Harrison, R. Gough and Jonathan Andrewes to
[Burchett].
Considering the advanced season pray lay before the Prince's
Council the necessity of sending a ship to St. Helena and
another to the Cape to prevent the coming away of our ships
thence before the men-of-war get there. If they do so come
away, as they did last year, it may be very hazardous to us.
We pray that the other ships may be despatched "in all
January if possible."
P. J. Copy. Signed (copies). Dated 12 Dec. 1702. Ibid, 150A.
14 Dec.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Chancellor of the Duchy.
In 'his list of Deputy-Lieutenants for Leicestershire, the
Earl of Rutland has not recommended Sir Roger Cave,
Sir John Chester, Sir Wolston Dixy, Sir George Beaumont, and
Sir Richard Halford, Bts., or Jeffry Palmer, Thomas Boothby,
John Wilkins, or James Winstanley, Esq. They have been
recommended to the Queen as worthy gentlemen, considerable
in the county, and some of them Members of Parliament. No
list has yet been signed with the addition of these names, out of
respect for his lordship. If he has any just objection to any of
them I will lay it before the Queen.
P. S. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 179, 180.
(2) To the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations.
The addresses from New York received. Forward accounts
of the proceedings of Messrs. Weaver and Attwood now or when
they arrive.
P. i. Ibid, p. 180.
15 Dec.   NOTTINGHAM to the COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED.
Whitehall.  Queen's command:-Remove the Chevalier de Chastel to a
better lodging. The prisoners going to Oxford may remain here
till Monday, but must then go peremptorily.
P. i. Ibid.
15 Dec.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Admiralty  The Prince's Council desire the Queen's pleasure as to how
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Company. If not the whole number, the rest may be used to
protect trade at home.
P. I. (Hol.) Add. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 151.
[15 Dec.   The MARQUIS D'ALIGRE to NOTTINGHAM.
London.]   We thank you for the permission to remain here till Wednesday.
We are willing to go then, as ordered. We beg to be allowed
the benefit of the cartel, which will not go far. We ask to be
kept in our rooms till we are sent back to France, so as not to be
sent to " Auxfort."
Pp. 2. In bad French. (Hol.) Endd. with date. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 117, 81.
15 Dec.   The DUKE of RICHMOND to [SAME].
The French gentleman I spoke of is the Chevalier du Chatel.
I ask that he may be removed to better lodgings, where I will
answer for his appearance when he is able to stir out.
P. 1. (Hol.) Ibid, 82.
Same.     The EARL OF BURLINGTON to [SAME].
The French officers tell me to-day that the Commissioners
have given them notice that they must go to Oxford to-morrow.
I-understood they might stay till next Monday, and I believe
there is some mistake, as the Queen gave me leave to send a list
of the officers to the Earl of Marlborough, which, in a letter, I did
last night. Pray see her Majesty's instructions carried out.
Pp. 11. (Hol.) Endd. with date. Ibid, 83. Enclosing:List of French officers [in captivity in England].
Captains:-Marquis D'Aligre, Comte de Sorel, de la Maisonfort.
Lieutenants:-de Pimont, de Camilly, de la Tour-Landry.
Ensign:- de Lambourg.   "Gardes de la Marine":-de
Lagroix and Romain.
P. 1 (small). Ibid, 83A.
16 Dec.   The COUNT DE MORNAY to SAME.
London.   One of the points in Count de Pontchartrain's last letter about
the propositions for a cartel is a demand for the release of some
French ships which have been detained in English ports since
before the declaration of war, and are still so detained. They
areThe Gabriel Sebastien of Lezardrieux, near Brehat, 50 tons, Yves
Heloury master.
The merchants of Dieppe desire release of the Nicolas, which
went to Greneze [Guernsey] at the beginning of last May. The
master asked the Governor for leave to sell his cargo, which
being given in writing and the ship ready to discharge under the
forts, an English vessel the Oxford came in and took her to
England, where   she was    declared  good  prize.  M. de
Pontchartrain says you can verify the facts by reference to the
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released pursuant to the provisions of the Treaty of Ryswick,
and that the King desires me to ask for the necessary orders for
her release. Pray let me know how to answer.
Pp. 11, in French. Signed. Endd.      S.P. Dom., Naval 117,
84.
16 Dec.    SIR HENRY BELASYSE* to NOTTINGHAM.
Sends a memorial and petition and begs they may be laid
before the Queen in Council to-morrow.
Four lines. (Hol.) Add. S.P. Dom., Military 3, 6. Enclosing:A. Petition of Belasyse to the Queen, shewing that:Petitioner has received, by direction of the general officers, a
paper charging him with several goods as shipped by his
order and for his use at Port St. Marie's in Spain. The
particulars thereof are extracted from amongst many others
out of an account delivered in by the Admiral of the several
parcels and persons in whose names the plunder of the said
town was supposed to be shipped.
Your Majesty having declared in Parliament that you had
given orders for the strictest examination of this matter,
your petitioner is certain that all persons and orders given
will be investigated and not only those wherein your petitioner's
name is mentioned.
As petitioner's defence will appear more full and clear by the
said general examination he prays that he may not for want
thereof be deprived of those necessary helps for his defence.
P.-. Copy. Endd. Ibid, 6A.
B. Memorial of the Same to Nottingham.
Your lordship having asked    for a fuller explanation  of
Sir Henry Belasyse's petition,
He says that if all the orders given out by the General both to
the army and to particular persons at La Rota and Port
St. Mary's be laid together before her Majesty, and all the
transactions of the whole afair fully represented to her,
Sir Henry Belasyse's actings might very well be justified;
whereas if he is charged with some particulars only, without
what may appear from the circumstances of the whole agair,
it will be more difficult for him to justify himself to the full
satisfaction of her Majesty.
As the goods alleged to have been shipped by his order and
for his use are extracted out of an account delivered in by
the Admiral of the goods supposed to be shipped by the orders
and for the use of many other persons, he thinks that if the
whole were laid before her Majesty it would tend much to
his justification.
Prays that all the above-named orders and particulars may
be laid before the Queen.
P.. Endd.     "Memo. of Sir H. Belasyse," &c. Ibid, 6B.
* This name, which is spelt in so many different ways, is here spelt thus by its
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16 Dec.   The PRINCE'S COUNCIL to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  Yours of the 12th. We were ordered to consider a proposal
made to the Queen for paying the six frigates that attend on the
coast of Ireland out of the revenue of that kingdom, that they
may be eased of the inconvenience of sending money to Jamaica
to pay the forces there that are on the Irish establishment. This
course would keep the money in Ireland, where it is badly needed.
We have discussed the matter to-day with the Commissioners
of the Navy, who think it inconvenient that the change should
be made. It would introduce great confusion into the naval
accounts. As, however, money is constantly being demanded
by the naval and victualling agents for their work, we propose that when any of them is in want of such money he should
be allowed to apply to a merchant or other person at Cork,
Kinsale, or Dublin, who shall furnish them therewith and be
directed to give to such merchant or other person a bill to the Navy
Board and Victuallers, by Whom these bills will be accepted
and punctually paid to the correspondents of those merchants in
town. The sums will be considerable, especially during the
war, and will be spent in Ireland, which will be an advantage
to the country.
Pp. 1. Signed by Rooke, Mitchell, Churchill and Hill. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 152.
17 Dec.   The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to SAME.
Sick nd    On the complaint of Count de Mornay regarding the illWounded
Office.  treatment of the prisoners at Southampton, we have got the
following information from a member of our board who came to
town to-day from thence:On 4 December Captain Henley, who commands the prisoners'
guard at Southampton, was, early in the morning, at the guardhouse adjoining the prison; and, taking himself to be affronted
by some of the prisoners, caused the prison door to be opened
and inquired for the prisoner who, he thought, had offended
him; "but the prisoners all denying that any of them had
so done, he made them all to be brought before him two by
two, several of them being awaked out of their sleep for this
purpose, and beat many of them as they passed, breaking two
or three swords and as many musquets upon them." Captain
Henley also took M. Silly, one of the French prisoners, out
of his chamber and confined him to the watch house, because
when M. Silly (being a Catholic) was allowed to go to church
with the French Protestants on the late Thanksgiving-day, he
"behaved himself very undecently."
We cannot discover what guards recently killed some French
prisoners there, as all the guards have been moved since that
time. Some examinations were, however, taken by the Mayor
at the time, which will be sent here and forwarded to your
lordship. We may say that the prisoners at Southampton
acknowledge that they have been very well used by our officer
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have we had any material complaints from them, but of the severity
of the soldiers appointed for their guard, who, as we think, sometimes exceed their authority. We shall hear the Count de Mornay
on M. de Pontchartrain's points raised on the cartel, and report.
Pp. 12. Signed by four Commissioners. Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 117, 85.
17 Dec.   NOTTINGHAM to the COMMISSIONERS of PRIZES.
Whitehall.  Asks for information regarding French ships alleged to have
been detained or condemned contrary to the Treaty of Ryswick.
Note [in French]. Vessels detained before the declaration
of war.
The Gabriel Sebastien, of Lesardieux [Lezardrieux] close to
Brehat, 50 tons, Yves Heloury, master.
The merchants of Dieppe have asked for the release of the
Nicolas. She was at Greneze [Guernsey] at the beginning of last
May. She obtained leave to sell her cargo from the Governor,
and was about to unload under the guns of the Castle when
the Oxford seized her and brought her to England, where she
had her adjudged good prize.
In all p. 3. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 181.
18 Dec.   M. VAN VRYBERGE[N] to [HEDGES?].
Westminster.  As the House of Commons is about to examine the account
of the proceedings of the five Commissioners appointed to
examine and determine the debts due to the Army and Navy
and for transport service, this is to desire your honour kindly
to mind the concern of the owners of the Dutch transport ships.
There is a clause made in their behalf in the Act of the last
Parliament whereby the said Commissioners were authorised to
state and determine their debt but to make out no debentures
until the said debt had been certified to the Commons in
Parliament. This now being performed it will, I think, be requisite
the said Commissioners should be authorised to make out debentures for the said debt and transport service in the year 1690.
How this should be done your honour will know best-whether
it will fall in course, as I am told, or whether a motion must be
made in order to have a clause inserted again in some new bill.
If a motion is needed, none could make it so effectually as yourself. It would no doubt attain the ends in view expressed in
the memorial presented through you to the Queen in the name
of the States General.
Pp. 2. Signed. Endd. in Hedges' [?] hand. S.P. Dom., Anne 2,6.
18 Dec.   The PRINCE'S COUNCIL to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty  We cannot agree to the request of the East India Company
(on which our opinion is asked) that three ships should be appointed
to go " thorough " to the East Indies to protect their trade there
and suppress pirates, and that six more should go to the Cape
and St. Helena. If so many ships go the other necessary services
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must be long away and suffer much damage. They did so when
they last went there. Moreover, their despatch may involve
the Queen in a war. But if the Queen approves the immediate
despatch of a fourth-rate to the Cape and another to St. Helena,
and that two more vessels should afterwards be sent to St. Helena,
they can be got ready as soon as her Majesty's approval is given.
If, however, the East India Company sends away an advice-boat
to the Cape and three ships are sent next month to St. Helena,
we think the Queen's other occasions will be better complied
with, and the home-coming merchantmen secured against anything but a squadron of the enemy, from which even the full
force the Company desire would not save them if they met it.
We find that in the late war all that was done was to appoint
cruisers to wait for these home-coming merchant ships in the
Soundings, and to escort them 200 leagues to sea upon going out.
Pp. 1a. Signed by Rooke, Mitchell, and Churchill. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 153.
18 Dec.   The COMMISSIONERS for taking the PUBLIC ACCOUNTS to
HENRY PELHAM, Clerk of the Pells.
By virtue of the authority conferred on us Commissioners
for putting into execution an Act intituled an Act for taking,
examining and stating the public accounts of the Kingdom, we
require you to exhibit before us to-morrow a true account, to be
attested upon oath, of the gross sums which have been paid into
the Exchequer every half-year from 24 June, 1696, to 25 December,
1701, both upon seizures and personal informations relating
to the Customs, distinguishing how much has been paid on
each.
P. I. Signed, Fr. Scobell, R. Byerly, Godf[rey] Copley,
J. Brydges, W. Bromley. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 7.
18 Dec.   The MARQUIS DE LA GALLISSONNIRE to NOTTINGHAM.
London.   I am here a prisoner of war, taken at Vigo by Sir G. Rooke.
He took me under arms with M. Begon, my brother-in-law, who
is wounded and deprived of [the use of] an eye, who is a son of
M. Begon, Intendant of La Rochelle, and of the Navy. We beg
you to move the Queen that we may stay here for medical treatment on whatever terms you please. I want treatment for
rheumatism and my brothertin-law for his eye, which he may
lose. I will send medical and surgical certificates. I hope
for the Queen's favour.
Pp. 11 (small). (Hol.) In French. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 86.
18 Dec.   HEDGES to the DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.
Whitehall.  This *separate article with the House of Lunenbourg was read
at a Cabinet Council on the eighth.
Queen's pleasure:-You are to sign it and it is to be ratified
with the rest of the Treaty.
Five lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 268.
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19 Dec.    COLONEL COLLIER to NOTTINGHAM.
Jersey.   Details as to the Esperance of Derniville, which he has seized.
She brought goods from France for the French refugees at Jersey,
and was employed by one Chevalier, a merchant, who had lived
long in Jersey and went only occasionally to France. Proceeds:Chevalier and the refugees have often begged me for leave for him
to go back to France in his boat. May he have it?
A French merchant has been brought in a prisoner. He and
another arrived last night from St. Malo, and said they had
come to buy tobacco and to make arrangements for getting it
from  here in the [ordinary] way of trade. I will send their
examinations, when taken by the Justices.
Pp. 13. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 43.
Enclosing:Petition of Sebastian Chevalier to the Queen, shewing that.Petitioner has long traded in Jersey and, just before the declaration
of war, had gone to France to try to recover some effects which
belonged to some of the French refugees here, at their request.
He obtained these and loaded them on his little boat. She
has been detained [in Jersey] since May 10. As he came
hither only to serve French refugees on English soil, and as
he brought over two Englishmen; prays for release of self,
boat and crew.
P. i. Signed by Jean Richier (r.),* M. de Tellier (r.), Ester
le Tousey (r.), - Le Gemaler [?], Anne Hemery (r.), Derbier,
Jean D'Allain (r.), Jacob de Tousey (r.), Marie de Gascoing,
Jacques Godard (r.), and Marie le Sellier.
P. 1. Ibid, 43A.
[21 Dec.]   DRAFT of INSTRUCTIONS for VICE-ADMIRAL BENBOW.
These instructions, by her Majesty's command, are to supersede
all earlier orders sent from me to you.
1. You are to come home with your ships next June, and
with such ships of war of the States General as shall be appointed
to accompany you. In all Councils of War relating to the actions
in the Queen's service by land or sea forces in which the said
States' forces are to join, you are to act in concert with the officers
of the States, as has been usual in this and the late war.
2. But, before you leave the West Indies:(a) Leave at Jamaica two 4th rate, one 5th rate and one 6th
rate ships-leaving those you think it best to leave-and
the two fireships that were fitted by that Government, to
guard that island.
(b) Appoint the three ships of your squadron which you think
most suitable to come home as convoy with the merchant
ships which, it is stated, are now in large numbers there,
awaiting convoy home. Leave also two other ships with
orders to be ready to come home as convoy to such merchant
ships as are ready to come away at the beginning of August
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next, call at Plymouth, and, failing orders there, come on
to the Downs.
(c) When leaving the West Indies, detail two proper ships
with orders to their commander in chief to go to Virginia
and act as convoy to any merchantmen which may be coming
home thence, and to come to Plymouth for orders &c. (as
foregoing paragraph).
(d) Detail another ship to go to New York and convoy home
the Benjamin transport, which is now loading masts and
stores for her Majesty's Navy, and to bring her home at
once, and such other trade as may be bound home from New
York and new England, and be ready to sail home with him.
3. On your way home call, with the ships of the States
appointed to be with you, at Newfoundland, if you think the
season will admit of your doing it with safety, and do your utmost
to destroy the enemy at Placentia and any other of their harbours
and stages. When doing this, detach one or two ships to do the
same to the French fishery on the Bank, taking steps to have
them rejoin you when you leave Newfoundland.
4. Imprest no men from privateers unless you want them
for your squadron, and even then, take no more than is absolutely
necessary.
5. If you have impressed, or impress, any men belonging to
Jamaica, or have had them from that Government, restore
them before you leave, or at least so many of them as you can
safely restore.
6. When leaving Newfoundland take all English merchantmen
under your care and appoint some of your ships to convoy those
which may be bound for Portugal and see them safe into the
Portuguese ports. Order the commander of such convoy to
go first to Lisbon and then to 0 port [Oporto], and then to come
home without further stay.
Pp. 5. Endd. "R. 21 December." S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 154.
21 Dec.   HEDGES to the DUTCH AMBASSADORS.
Whitehall.  The Commissioners appointed to deal with your Excellencies
wish to meet you in the Council Chamber at St. James' at
11 a.m. to-morrow.
Five lines. In French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 269.
22 Dec.   The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Wounded   We have sent to Oxford all the French prisoners of note
Office.  except the Marquis [de la] Gallissonniere, Count [de] Mornay,
M. des Coyeux, M. du Chatell and M. Begon, who are indisposed
and will follow as soon as their health will permit. It will be
costly in guards to keep these [at Oxford] confined in their
chambers, and we think they would be most secure on their
parole to remain prisoners at war and not remove from
their lodgings without orders.
P. ~. Signed by the four Commissioners. Endd. S.P. Dom.,
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22 Dec.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to NOTTINGHAM.
AdOffirae.  As recommended last Sunday night by her Majesty in Council,
the Prince's Council have this evening discoursed with several
gentlemen of the East India Company regarding the ships they
desire for protection [home] from St. Helena and against pirates
in India.
We told them how many necessities pressed upon the service;
and in the end they departed satisfied in case her Majesty will
let them have three fourth-rates to secure their trade in from
St. Helena and one fourth and one fifth to proceed throughout
to India. The Prince's Council think this reasonable, as, by
the uniting of the two companies, very considerable effects are
expected home.
They desire the Queen's commands therein that the necessary
orders may be given.
Pp. 1. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 155.
22 Dec.   HEDGES to MR. EDMUNDS.
Whitehall.  I have yours of Nov. 23, and will discourse on it if you care
to come here.
Three lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 271.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To the Recorder of London.
I send a petition and ask for a report on it. If the facts are
as alleged, it is certainly a case for mercy.
Note.-The petition was of Francis Wilson, whose son James,
not 12 years old, is condemned for cutting and stealing a couple
of bags from off a horse in "Pickadily," and to be executed
to-morrow. Prays for the Queen's favour.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 181-2.
2. To the Same.
The Queen leaves Mary Jones to the ordinary course of
justice.
P. i. Ibid, p. 182.
3. To the Duke of Marlborough.
I send a report by the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded
on a complaint of the ill-treatment of French prisoners. Give
such orders as will prevent the like in future.
P. J  Ibid, pp. 182-3.
23 Dec.   NOTTINGHAM to the COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED.
Whiteall.  The Duke of Marlborough has been instructed to punish the
officer responsible for the recent ill-treatment of French prisoners
at Southampton. You may tell Count de Mornay this; also that
I am   considering the French observations on the  cartel:
but, meantime, that we are ready to exchange man for man, and
to send away as many Frenchmen as there are Englishmen in
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no opportunity of dealing with Spain but through France, and
as we know of no English prisoners in Spain, we will release
Spaniards in exchange for the Englishmen who are in France.
We presume this will not be refused. The Queen will insist
on having back her subjects, wherever they are, in exchange for
those of either France or Spain.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 183, 184.
23 Dec.    ROYAL WARRANT to the CHIEF GOVERNOR of IRELAND.
St. James'.  By letters under the Royal Sign Manual dated 30 May, 1699,
King William III ordered letters to pass under the Great Seal
of Ireland granting 1,2001. a year in one entire pension to Robert
Craighead, Alexander Hutchinson, James Bruce, Francis Irdell,
John McBridge, John Malcome, John Hutchinson and Archibald
Rose, and to the survivor or survivors of them, for the use of themselves and the Presbyterian ministers in the north of Ireland,
during pleasure.
We are pleased, on their petition, to renew this grant, which is
void by the late King's death. Cause letters to pass &c. granting
to the foregoing (except Rose) and to Andrew Ferguson, William
Holmes, sen., John Stirlin, Robert Halting, Thomas Orr, James
Kirkpatrick and the survivors of them, or their appointees, the like
sum, for the like use, to commence from the time when the sum
was last paid. The money so paid shall be held by them in trust to
pay it to Presbyterian ministers according to a list approved by
the Chief Governor of Ireland from time to time. Insert this sum
in the Civil List. Effectual clauses.
P. 1. S.P. Signet Office 15, pp. 86, 87.
24 Dec.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Admiralty  I send, for Lord Secretary Nottingham, copy of his Royal
Highness's instructions to Vice-Admiral Benbow  relating to
the Earl of Peterborough. Orders are also ready for the Prince
to sign requiring the Vice-Admiral to supply his lordship with
powder and shot on occasion, as also beds and hamaccoes [hammocks]* for the landmen. Pray inform Lord Secretary Nottingham of this.
P. W. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 156.
24 Dec.   HEDGES to the COMMISSIONERS of PRIZES.
Whitehall  The King of Denmark's Envoy Extraordinary here has complained to me that John Dirickson, master of a Danish ship called
the St. Jacob, taken by Captain Gaffell of the privateer Swift,
has been kept prisoner at Dover ten days without examination.
This should have been done forthwith. Give orders to have it
done, that he may, if discharged, go on to Denmark.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 269.
* As to Carib origin of this word see Murray's English Dictionary, s.v.
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25 Dec.    DR. CHARLETT to [NOTTINGHAM].
Unl[ersity]  As the Vice-Chancellor is away, I write to say that the Marquis
[Oxford]. d'Aligre and thirteen French gentlemen and their servants are here.
I had orders from the Duke of Ormond to treat them civilly,
which has been done, "having upon their first visit waited upon
them to the Theatre, Schools and Repository."
"Yesterday I was sent to know whether they might have
the liberty of shooting in the Fields, a question I could give no
direct answer to (but advised them to forbear, being an exercise
prohibited our own Body), having received no orders." I thought
it right to let you know this.
P. 1 (small). (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 88.
26 Dec.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Adfmirty   Sends a petition of merchants trading to Portugal. Asks that
it be laid before the Queen in Council and directions given
on it. The merchants are very pressing.
P. J. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 157. Enclosing:A. Petition to the Lord High Admiral of divers Merchants of
London trading to Portugal, shewing that:There is in the Downs and at Portsmouth, a considerable fleet
of merchant ships bound for Portugal (being more than
100 sail) wherein petitioners have exported great quantities
of woollen and other goods, and have given orders to import
great quantities of wine and other goods which, when they
come, will greatly import the Queen's customs. Petitioners'
goods will suffer by delay. They are, many of them, part
owners of the vessels and have lost cables &c. by bad weather,
and by wages, provisions and damage to perishable corn,*
during the delay.
They pray that the convoy promised by your Royal Highness
may take the above ships under their charge and proceed
on their voyage as soon as wind and weather will permit.
P. I (large). Signed by John Houblon, Simon Cole, P. Delme,
Nicholas Trevanion, S. Hutchins, Robert Castell, Thomas Weedon
William Brooke, William Woolligton[?], Samuel Nash, William
Lewen, John Browne, William Johnson, Abraham Tillard, William
Raphe, Thomas Lucas, Samuel Peter, E. Hull, Giles Davis and John
Jackson. Ibid, 157A.
26 Dec.    SIR S. LOVELL Recorder [of London] to [NOTTINGHAM?].
I did not receive from your lordship any directions in relation
to James Wilson, the boy under sentence. 'Tis grown a very
common offence and requires some examples of justice to prevent
the growth of it. It is mostly acted by boys and managed by
others. This premised by Mrs. Whitle, who was burnt in the
face as accessory, and this boy had judgment as principal, and
proved by Haynes, his partner, a boy too. But this Haynes
I caused to be brought before me, and he declares on oath that
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one Richard Cheney, a soldier under Major Shrimpton, and an
old offender, was the chief manager of Wilson and Haynes both,
and very frequently went out with them a thieving. Wilson
has charged his father to have received 10s., part of the robbery.
His father is a bad man.
My Lord, I fear this boy has been enticed and encouraged
between these two ill men, and is in danger to be their sacrifice
unless the Queen will please to respite execution, which I humbly
wish, the rather because I am in further prosecution of the matter,
and have this day committed " Cheney " to Newgate for robbery.
I have enclosed a warrant against "Chany " on the oath of the
father Wilson, who neglected to execute it. I know not why,
unless it was fear of a discovery that he or his woman (not wife)
had had part of the prize. They say that "Cheney" had 31.
of it, and Cheney says they had a share. I shall be obliged
by a line from your lordship before Wednesday next, that being
the day for the execution.
P.S.-I sent for the ordinary, who tells me this boy " has been
much neglected, and knows not that there is such a thing as the
Lord's Prayer."
Pp. 2. (Hol.) Endd.   "Recorder." S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 8.
Enclosing:Warrant.
Middlesex and Westminster.-To all constables and other her
Majesty's officers. On complaint to me, one of the Justices
of the Peace for the said County or Liberty, by Francis Wilson
that Richard Chaney has entertained and encouraged
James Wilson, his son, as a thief and so to be, and
harboured him in his house when run away from him (his
father). These are to order you to arrest him &c. [usual
form] and bring him before me to be examined touching the
premises and further dealt with according to law.
P. 1 (small). Signed in the margin " Tracy," and with note
This Cheney is a soldier under Major Shrimpton. The part in
italics printed, the rest written. Ibid, 8A.
27 Dec.   SIR THOMAS HOPSONN to [NOTTINGHAM].
I intercede on behalf of Captain Urry, who lies condemned
by a Court-Martial to be shot. I am grieved that this [shame]
falls upon his family, for I remember " when I was a youth in
the Isle of Wight that his father had the character of a very
loyal gentleman, and when King Charles I was made prisoner
in Carsbrooke Castle he privately amongst his friends made up
a purse of gold and gave it to the King, who was then in want."
I could say more, but merely beg for his pardon. He is ancient,
and has an ancient wife, who is now on her death-bed, and begs
that they may see each other before they die. She is very weak,
and if this liberty can be granted before the Council sits, I will
be responsible for his forthcoming, for I know him to be an honest
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there was no casting voice. I ask for his life and your pardon for
troubling you.
Pp. 1. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 89.
28 Dec.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.. To the Prince's Council.
Queen's command:-Prepare the convoy asked by the
merchants to Portugal; and let her Majesty know when it is
ready.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 184.
2. To the Duke of Marlborough.
Queen's command:-To consider and report on a warrant
enclosed. The Post Office have now made a similar demand,
Note.-Queen Mary's warrant for furnishing war-stores for
the Eagle and Dolphin packet-boats [which was] dated 8 May,
1694.
P. a. Ibid.
3. To the Lord Treasurer.
Sends account of the goods taken at Vigo.
P. 6. Ibid, p. 185.
4. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
The prisoners fo give their parole when they arrive at Oxford;
and to go there as soon as they are able to travel. They are
allowed to stay in London only for their health.
P.. Ibid, pp. 185, 186.
29 Dec.   SAME.
Whitehall.  (1) To Dr. Charlett.
Yours of the 25th. The French prisoners may not go out of
Oxford. Such a thing has never been asked, much less granted.
Her Majesty has done them a great favour by allowing them to
go to so pleasant a place.
P.~. Ibid, p. 186.
(2) To the Recorder [of London].
Sends a warrant for pardon of James Wilson on condition of
his transportation. Details.
P. i. Ibid, p. 187.
29 Dec.   The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Sick and
Wounded    We desire express orders as to the release from duty of one
Office.  of our messengers lately appointed to attend the Spanish Admiral.
We shall ask as to the health of the French prisoners still in
town, and take care that they be conducted to Oxford so soon
as they are fit to travel.
P. i. Signed by three Commissioners. E*dQ.,P. Dom.,
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30 Dec.   [RICHARD] HILL to LORD [NOTTINGHAM?].
Bearer is the person whose representation I put into your
lordship's hands. He is to wait on you according to your orders.
P. 4. (Hol.) S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 9.
Latest date, PROCEEDINGS of the COMMISSIONERS for the UNION.
30 Dec.:For 16 November-30 December inclusive.      See Acts of the
Parliament of Scotland, Vol. XI, Appendix, pp. 148-154, where
these are printed with slight alterations.
Pp. 19. S.P. Scotland, Series II, 2, pp. 14-32.
31 Dec.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
AdOmrty    His Royal Highness's command:-To lay enclosed extract
before the Queen in Council and move her Majesty for orders
to transfer the soldiers in the Rochester, Tilbury and Charles galley
into the transport ships bound to the West Indies [to which the
soldiers were going], as all the men-of-war are under orders to
sail from Spithead.
P. i.  Signed.   Add.  Endd.   S.P. Dom., Naval 6, 158.
Enclosing:Captain Owen to [Josiah Burchett].
Yesterday I brought in 30 merchantmen, many of which were
laden with her Majesty's stores. The Tilbury and Charles
galley are with me. On my application to the Commissioner
of Transports I find there are no ships here capable of
receiving the soldiers. I pray an order about their removal.
Have put ashore already 18 sick seamen dangerously ill,
and have divers cases every day. Some that we have thrown
overboard appeared to die of spotted fever. We have 300
soldiers and their officers on board and my own ship's
company. I have ordered the Tilbury and Charles galley
to proceed according to his Royal Highness's commands, which
they will put in execution as soon as rid of the soldiers.
P. 1. Extract. Dated, 30 December, H.M.S. Rochester, Spithead.
Endd. Ibid, 158A.
31 Dec.    MINUTE of ORDER in COUNCIL.
St. James'  Present:-The Queen in Council.
A memorial from the Lord High Admiral, dated 16 December,
1702, was read. It stated that there may not be enough men to
enable the fleet to go to sea in good time next year, and recommended a request being sent to the Government of Scotland to
bring in as many men as they can to Leith by February 28, 1703,
as was done in 1691; and that the Navy Board should be
authorised to have 40s. bounty money paid to the sailors who
should so be brought in when they appear on board the ship sent
for them.
Order. Request approved and to send this memorial to Secretary
Nottingham. His Royal Highness to direct the Navy Board to
make the allowance of bounty money suggested.
Pp. 1I. Signed, Edward Southwell.     Endd.   Ibid, 159.




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31 Dec.   NOTTINGHAM to the COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED.
Whiteha.  Asks for particulars of how  many men have died since
Sir G. Rooke returned with the fleet, whether soldiers or sailors,
and where they died; also of how many are now sick and where.
P. j. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 187.
31 Dec.   LIST of NAMES to be inserted in the new COMMISSION of
St. James'.    JUSTICIARY to be granted for settling the peace of the
HIGHLANDS of SCOTLAND.
The Earl of Seafield (Lord Chancellor).
The Earl of Tullibardine (Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal).
The Justice General and Justice Clerk.
The Lords Commissioners of Justiciary.
The Duke of Argyll and Marquis of Atholl.
The Earls of Mar and Erroll, the Earl Marishall, the Earls of
Caithness, Finlater, Buchan, Leven, Strathmore, Northesk,
Kintore and Breadalbin.
Viscounts Tarbat (Secretary of State) and Duplin.
Lords Strathnaver, Forbes, Frazer, Reay and Duffus.
Master Francis Montgomery of Giffan.
Sir James Ramsay of Bamff, Sir Patrick Murray of Auchtertyre,
John Halden of Gleneagies, John Drummond of Megginsh, James
Campbell, jun., of Aberuchil, John Campbell, jun., of Ednample,
James Drummond of Comry, Mungo Campbell of Burnbank,
Captain James Menzies, tutor of Weymes, James Campbell of
Kerinoch, Sir J. Murray of Glendoak, Lieutenant-Colonel John
Erskine of Carriden, John Erskine, jun., of Balgonie, James
Spittle of Lewchat, James Mercer of Clevage, Mungo Campbell
of Kinloch, Colin Campbell of Lochleane, Dugal Stewart, ffiar of
Blairhall, Duncan Campbell of Dalneives, Thomas Fleming of
Monness, Patrick Murray of Dullery, James Ramsay of Newtoun,
James Cragie, jun., of Dumbarny, Patrick Grant of Bonhard,
Leonard Robertson of Straloch, Alexander Blair of Corbs, Lauchlan
Mackintosh, tutor of Dalmungo, Alexander Robertson, baillie in
Perth, Captain William Grant of Colonel Row's regiment,
Sir Thomas Burnet of Leyes, Allardice of same, Sir Alexander
Falconer of Glenfarquhar, John Arbuthnot of Forden, Alexander
Burnet of Knox, John Falconer, jun., of Phesdoe, Patrick Forbes
of Balfour, James Forbes of Thorntoun, Captain Robert Taylour
of Mansfield, Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Reid, the Laird of
Bowmain, Isaac Fullarton, the Laird of Glenberrie, James Scot,
sen. and jun., of Logie, Alexander Duncan of Lundie, John
Wedderburn, sen., of Blackness, Wedderburn, jun., of same,
John Scrymgeor of Kirktown, Taylour of Barrowfield, Lyon of Carss,
Haliburton of Pitcurr, John Auchterlonie, clerk of Arbrothock,
Sir Alexander Hope of Carse, Lyon of Achterhoult [Auchterhouse],
Lieutenant-Colonel John Ariskine [Erskine], Deputy Governor of
Stirling  Castle, William  Cunningham  of Buchan, Henry
Cunningham, jun., of same, John Glass of Sauchie, Henry Rollo
of Woodside, John Cunningham of Ballindalloch, Livingston
of Greenyards, Carnagie of Fanevin, Francis Napier, provost of
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Stirling, Edmonston of Cambuswallace, Sir John Ariskine of
Alva, James Holburn of Menstrie, Robert Stewart of Tullicoutrie,
Lieutenant-Colonel James Bruce, Oliphant of Gask, Abercrombie
of Tullibodie, Graham  of Gorthy, Sir H. Culwhoon of Luss,
Sir J. Houstown of same, Sir John Campbell of Carrick, Robert
Campbell, jun., of same, Sir James Smollett of Bunhill, Tobias
Smollett, jun., of same, Clode Hamilton of Barnes, Btintine, jun.,
of Ardoch, Archbald Mackarly of Arncaple, Colin Campbell
of Ardentine, John Campbell of Mamore, Sir James
Campbell of Auchinbreck, Sir Colin Campbell of Arkinlas,
James Campbell, jun., of same, Sir Neil Campbell of Allengreg,
Alexander Campbell of Lochneill, Archibald Campbell of
Clunys, tutor of Ila, Archibald Campbell of Innira, Campbell
of Glendarawell, John Campbell of Innellan, John Campbell of
Glensadell, Donald Campbell of Glencarodale, Alexander Campbell
of Kilmartin, Alexander Campbell of Barcoldin, Patk. Campbell,
jun., of same, Sir John McKenzie of Coale, Simon McKenzie of
Terraden, Rory McKenzie of Reid Castle, David Ross of Balnagowan, Ross, tutor of Kindess, William Ross of Easter Fearn,
Sir Robert Monro of Foulis, George Monro of Newmore, George
Monro of Colreane, Aneas McCload of Catbow, Brigadier James
Maitland, Governor of Fort William, Captain Alexander Campbell
of Ottar, Lodovick Grant of same, Alexander Grant, jun., thereof,
- Grant of Gallany, Duncan Forbes of Colloden, William Baillie
of Dunnen, William Baillie Commissary of Inverness, George
Cuthbert of Castle Hill, David Polson of Kilmilns, John Forbes,
jun., of Colloden, the Laird of Dipple, the Laird of Drummuire [?],
William Robertson of Inshes, James Frazer of Relict, James
Frazer of Auchnagern, the Laird of Calder, the Laird of Kilraicke,
Hugh Ross of Clovalg, George Brody of Aslisk, Alexander Brody
of Dunnairn, the Laird of Brody, Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstown, the Laird of Innes, jun., Lodovick Dunbar of Grange,
Alexander Cuming of Altor, Thomas Tulloch of Fannachie,
Baillie Stewart of Elgin, the Laird of Calder, Sir James Calder of
Muirtown, Calder of Muirtown, jun., Robert Urquhart of Burrisyards, Robert Dumbarr of Dumseall [?], Sir William Dumbar
of Durn[?], James Dunbar, jun., of same, Sir Patrick Ogilvie of
Boyn, Sir James Abercrombie of Birkenboig, - Dumbar of
Castlefield, Alexander Duff of Braco, Francis Grant of Cullen,
John Grant of Clayfoors, Alexander Ogilvie of Forglen, Charles
Gordon of Glendurack, - Grant of Arntillie, - Abercrombie of
Glassask, -  Grant of Ballenteine, -  Gordon of Drumwhinlie,
- Ogilvie, sen., of Kemplairn, the Laird of Maldaback, James
Gordon of Ardnellie, Andrew Hay, William Ross, Sir John Forbes
of Craigievar, Sir James Gordon of Lossmore, James Farwharson
of Invercall [Invercauld], James Elphinston of Logie, Arthur
Forbes of Auchintoull, John Lieth of Whitehaugh, Patrick Leslie
of Kincraigie, Archibald Forbes of Brikliehead, Robert Ross of
Auchslassen, Farqwharson, jun,, of Allenaquith, William Forbes,
jun., of Craigievar, - Arskine, jun., of Pitbrodie, - Leith of
Overhall, James Keith of Tilligownie, George Keith of Clackraick,
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Elphingston of Glack, Commissary Patersone, John Udney of
Newtill [?], Sir Alexander Cuming of Coulter [?], Rodk Forbes,
jun., of Brux, Andrew Frazer Sheriff Deput of Aberdeen, Robert
Forbes of Lerney, John Forbes of Inverarnan, Charles Gordon
of Abergeldie, Arthur Forbes of Eight, - Bissett of Lessendrum,
Patrick Ogilvie of Cairnbailg, - Frazer in Tomick, - Frazer of
Bruach [Bruack?], Rory McKenzie and Alexander McKenzie,
jun., of Prestonhall, the Master of Tarbat, John McKenzie of Assin,
Simon Mackenzie of Aliens [?], Kenneth McKenzie of Strattnatt,
George McKenzie of Crunam, George McKenzie of Billamurkie,
Alexander McKenzie of Belloan, Rory McKenzie of Fairburn,
McKenzie of Uplecrosse, Charles McKenzie of Ernside, Kenneth
McKenzie of Cramarbie [Cromarty], James McKenzie of Farneze,
Captain John McKenzie of Clyns [?], Alexander McKenzie of
Daraeckmalnack, - Frazer of Eskadale, Kenneth McKenzie of
Gairloch, - McKenzie, sen. and jun., of Bellmaduchie, Charles
McKenzie, uncle of the Laird of Gairloch, Kenneth McKenzie of
Luddie, Colin McKenzie, advocate, Major Duncan McKenzie,
Kenneth McKenzie, uncle to Rosehaugh, Sir Donald Baine of
Tulloch, Allexander McKenzie, uncle of the Earl of Seaforth,
- McKenzie of Gruinard, - McKenzie of Ardross, Dr. McKenzie
of Logie, Sir William Keith of Ludquharne, Alexander Gordon of
Pillurge[?], Sir James Gordon of Lesmore, Bissett of Lessendrum,
Alexander Meldrum of Hattoun, John Gordon of Glenburyet,
James Hamilton of Coabardie, - Udney of same, Francis Gordon
of Frair Auzzindere, jun., John Gordon of Nethermuir, - Gordon
of Ferhill, - Baird of Auchmedden, Sir Alexander Cuming of
Coulter, Alexander Irving of Drummin, William Seton of Pitmedden, James Gordon of Ardmellie, George Leith of Threefeild,
Alexander Leith of Balchiry, George Gordon of Badenscoth,
James Gordon of Barnes, George Gordon of Rothnay, jun.,
Patrick Leith of Craighall, John Ross of Rosshill, John Gordon
of Drumwhindle, -    Gordon of Coclarachy, John Leith of
Inverannsy, William Blake of Haddo, John Leith of Whitehaugh,
George Leith of Charleriace, - Keith of Keithfield, jun., James
Gordon of Auchlyne, jun., Harry Gordon of Abachie, Robert
Turner of Turnerhall, - Gordon of Coniach, Charles- Gordon of
Abergeldy, William Logie of Boddern, James More of Stonywood,
McIntosh of Borbunn [?], jun., Mcpherson of Killihuntlie [?],
Mcpharson of Invereshie, Dunbarr of Bishopsmill, Graham of
Phintrie, and John Leith of Leithhall.
Pp. 7. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, pp. 297-304.
31 Dec.   ROYAL WARRANT.
For a commission to the person mentioned in the foregoing
list, of any of them, to pursue and present to justice all persons
in the shires of Ross, Inverness, Nairn, Elgin, Banff, Aberdeen,
Kincardine, Forfar, Perth, Stirling, Dumbarton and Argyle
guilty or suspected of " theft, resell of theft, robberies, depredations,
masterful sornings and thiggings, exacting and paying blackmail,
communing with inter-communed persons" and other crimes,
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the peace of the Highlands and Isles. This commission shall not
in any manner derogate from the jurisdiction of sheriffs, stewards,
baillies of regalities and royalties, who may continue to exercise
their jurisdiction as before if they shall be the first persons to
deal with any particular case. The commission shall also reserve
to them [the sheriffs &c.] the power of prevention for fifteen days
with their respective rights to all escheats and other casualties
as accords.
The warrant empowers the Privy Council (on application by the
Commissioners) to make fresh Commissioners. The commission
to last from 8 April, 1703, to 1 July, 1705, unless sooner revoked
by the Queen.
Pp. 81 (with docquet). With full details regulating the procedure
and powers of the Commission Courts. S.P. Scotland, Warrant
Book 18, pp. 304-12.
Dec.      NOTE for the DIVDENT for DECEMBER, 1702.*
The right column adds up to 591. 17s. 4d., and the left to
111 1l3s. 4d.
Mentions the Earl of Marlborough's creations as Marquis of
Blandford and Duke of Marlborough; his grant of a pension;
the Earl of Peterborough's commission and twenty-two other
grants.
Notes state that the Lord Privy Seal's fees on the two grants
to the Earl of Marlborough were abated by his lordship's order. t
P. 1. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 10.
[Dec.]    Lists of FRENCH and SPANISH prisoners at war taken at
Vigo etc.
Containing respectively 17 and 13 names, which have appeared
earlier in the Calendar. Those at present on parole are noted in
the first list.
P. J and P.;, partly in French. S.P. Dom., Naval 117, 91 and 92.


* See the entry above at pp. 15, 16.
t And opposite these grants in the list no figure appears in the left column,
so that it looks as though that column contained the fees paid to the Lord
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TABLE I.
CAVEATS.
25 March.  No warrant or order upon any petition to be made for or
touching the office of clerk or keeper of her Majesty's
records in the Tower of London or any annuity or fee for or in
respect of the said office without giving notice to the present
holder, William Petyt, at his office in the Tower or his chambers
in the Inner Temple.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 74, p. 13, and
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 75, p. 8.
30 April.  No pardon to pass for any that were concerned in burning
of the Clousley galley without informing the proprietors.-S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 75, p. 9.
3 June.    No pardon to pass for Mark Noble, convicted of manslaughter at the sessions at Sandwich on 29 May last, concerning the death of John Shewens, chirurgeon to his Majesty's
ship the Dunwich, without giving notice to Mr. Nathaniel
Reading, at his house in Old Southampton buildings.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 74, p. 13.
24 June.   No warrant to pass for reversing the outlawry     of Sir
Roger Strickland before notice given to Alexander Johnson, Esq., " at Mrs. Smith " in Stone Court, Fetter Lane, or
Jasper Blythman, at his chambers in the Inner Temple.S.P. Dom., Entry Book 75, p. 9.
15 Sept.   Nothing to pass in relation to Higham   Rectory, Suffolk,
before notice given to the Bishop of London.-Ibid.
16 Dec.   No approbation of a Town Clerk of Leeds (except it be to
Henry Adams) to pass without notice to Blythman (as above)
in " the Paper Buildings, King's Bench Walk."-Ibid.
TABLE II.
CHURCH AND UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS &C.
These are either (1) Warrants to the Clerk of the Signet
attending to prepare bills for the Royal signature to pass the
Great Seal, containing conge's d'elire or letters recommendatory
in the case of vacant Bishoprics, or grants or presentations of
and to other preferments or livings, or else (2) formal letters
recommendatory addressed direct to Deans and Chapters, recommending and commanding the election of clergymen to fill
vacancies. In the Table below the letters recommendatory
are described as "Royal Letters "; and the warrants (w~hich
are all, unless otherwise stated, addressed, and in the form stated
above) are calendared shortly by giving their date and the person
and preferment with which they deal. Nottingham signs the
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PART I.
Royal Warrants to the Clerk of the Signet Attending.
25 Mar.    For Mr. Martyn to be prebendary of Westminster (note).St. James'. S.P. Dom., Entry Books 150, p. 234 and 151, p. 71.*
5 May.    For Royal letters directing election of Henry Finch, clerk,
St. James'. Dean of York, vice Dr. Thomas Gale, deceased.-Ibid, 151, p. 81.
For a conge d'elire to the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle to
empower them to elect to the vacant Bishopric there; and also
letters recommending them to elect William Nicolson, M.A.,
Bishop.-Ibid, p. 82.
For presenting Ely Stanfield to Newark vicarage, vice Henry
Smith, deceased.-Ibid, pp. 82, 83.
20 May.    For a grant to Humfrey Prideaux, D.D., of the Deanery of
St. James'. Norwich, vice Dr. Henry Fairfax, deceased. All usual rights.Ibid, p. 83.
For a grant to William Fleetwood, M.A., chaplain in ordinary, of
the place of a prebendary in " our free chapel of Windsor," vacant by
the death of George Evans. All usual rights.-Ibid, p. 84.
21 May.    For a grant to Michael Evans, M.A. of a prebendary's place
St. James'. in the Cathedral church of St. Peter, Westminster, vacant by
death of Richard Martin.-Ibid.
For a letter confirming the election of William Nicolson as
Bishop of Carlisle, he having been elected according to a recent
conge d'elire.-Ibid, p. 85.
13 June.   For presenting Joseph Fisher, Rector of Borough, to the Archst. James'. deaconry of Carlisle, which is void by the promotion of William
Nicolson to the Bishopric of Carlisle.-Ibid.
For granting to John Atkinson, clerk, Vicar of Kirby Stephen,
the prebend of Carlisle vacant by Bishop Nicolson's promotion.Ibid, p. 86.
15 June.   For restitution of the temporalities of the See of Carlisle to
St. James'. Bishop Nicolson as from the date of the death of Dr. Thomas
Smith, the late Bishop. Privy Seal.-Ibid, p. 87.
4 July.    For a grant of the Rectory of Tempsford in Bedfordshire and the
St. James'. diocese of Lincoln, to Thomas Sandys. It is vacant by the death
of the Rev. James Wild, and in the Queen's gift pleno jure.-Ibid.
2 Sept.   For a grant to Heneage Dering, LL.D., of the rectory of ScraghBath.  ingham  alias Sheringham  [Scrayingham],  Yorks.  Death of
Jonathan Dryden. —Ibid, p. 89.
[9 or] 19  For appointing Thomas Burton, D.D., chaplain in ordinary, to
Oct.   the canonry of Christchurch, Oxford, vacant by the death of
Dr. Henry Smith. All usual rights, &c.
Note in margin that this was cancelled and a new one prepared
and entered.-Ibid, p. 90.
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19 Nov.    For presenting  Martin  Horberry, B.A., to the rectory of
St. James'. Althorpe in the Isle of Axholme, vacant by the death of Joseph
Sedgwick.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 150, p. 235.
19 Dec.    For a grant to John Adams, M.A., of a canonry or prebend of
St. James'. Canterbury: vacant by the death of Dr. L. W. Finch.-S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 151, p. 91.
27 Dec.    For appointment of Thomas Burton, D.D., chaplain in ordinary,
St. James'. to be a canon of Christchurch, Oxford. Vacant by resignation
of Dr. William Wake. —Ibid.
28 Dec.    For granting Thomas Wilson's request.*  [See Table of PetiSt. James'. tions, at 17 December, 1702.]-Ibid, pp. 92-3.
Same.     For appointing Francis Gastrill, D.D., to be a canon of Christchurch, Oxford. Vacancy on death of Dr. Henry Smith.-P. i.
Ibid, p. 92.
PART II.
14 March.   Royal letters to the President and Chapter of Salisbury.
St. James.  To assemble and elect Dr. Edward Young (F*ellow of Winchester
late chaplain to King William) to the Deanery, in the room of
Dr. Robert Woodward, deceased.-S.P. Dom., Signet Office 14,
p. 437.
6 May.     Royal letters to the Sub-Dean, or President, and Chapter of
St. James.'     York.
To elect Henry Finch, Dean.-Ibid, p. 444.
8 May.     Royal Letters to the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle.
St. James'.  Directing them  to elect Wm. Nicolson, M.A., Archdeacon of
Carlisle, to the Bishopric of Carlisle, vacant by the death of
Dr. Thomas Smith.    The conge d'elire is sent herewith.  They
are to certify the election to the Queen under their Common
Seal.-Ibid.
7 July.    Royal Warrant [to the Chancellor &c. of the University of
St. James'.           t]-_.
John Gagnier, late of the University of Paris, of the College
of Navarre, priest and canon, is a convert to Protestantism, and
has petitioned us for letters to you for a mastership of arts in
"that our University." We are certified that it will not be
prejudicial to the University to grant him this degree, and recommend him accordingly to you to be admitted at once, "all dispensations requisite being first granted," he performing all the
exercises necessary for the same, or giving caution therefor.S.P. Dom., Entry Book 151, p. 88.
6 Aug.     Royal Letters to the Dean and Chapter of Winchester.
Windsor.   Welbore Ellis, D.D., one of the prebendaries of Winchester
Cathedral, and chaplain to one of our troops of Horse Guards,
* This warrant is addressed to the Attorney General.
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has very urgent affairs which require his presence here, and has
asked us for leave of absence from Winchester. By the power
reserved to us by your statutes we excuse him from residence
and attendance as a prebendary and from chapters so long
as he is in our service, his turns of preaching only excepted.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 163, pp. 148, 149.
28 Sept.   Royal Letters to the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, to be
Bath.        communicated to the Senate there.
You have certified to us that Mathew Pearson, Fellow of
St. John's College, Cambridge, took his B.A. degree with you
in 1686, but did not then take the oaths of allegiance and
supremacy in order to qualify himself to take the succeeding
degrees of M.A. and B.D.  He might have been admitted to
the degree of B.D. in 1697, "according to his admission and
standing in our said University," had he then qualified himself
by taking the oaths requisite thereto, which he did not do; but
he has since done so, and desires to be admitted B.D., but cannot,
under the statutes, be so admitted without our Royal dispensation. We are also informed by you that our letters mandatory
for admitting him B.D. will not be prejudicial to the University
or to any College, he paying the usual fees and performing the
usual exercises or giving caution for the same, and we are asked
to send such letters. We recommend him      for admission
accordingly, he paying the usual fees and doing the usual exercises
or giving caution for the same.-Ibid, pp. 149-151.
3 Nov.    Royal Letters to the President and Fellows of Queen's College,
St. James'.    Cambridge.
We hear that you are all willing to elect as Fellow Thomas
Rymer, B.A., Scholar of the College, and qualified by "virtues,
learning and good behaviour "; but that "in regard of a local
statute of the said College whereby but two fellows at the same
time [may be] of one county and diocese he is... incapable
of being elected" without our Royal dispensation. We grant
* this, and recommend him for election.-Ibid, pp. i51, 152.
About     Royal Letters to the Provost and Senior Fellows of Trinity
20 Nov.       College, Dublin.
St James'.  Licensing Dr. Owen Lloyd, S.F., T.C.D., to travel for his
health from 1 December to 15 May next, without prejudice to his
fellowship or professorship in Trinity College, Dublin.
P. J. Dated, -   November, and underwitten at bottom,
" entered the 20th."-S.P. Signet Office 15, p. 80; also S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 163, p. 153.
TABLE III.
COMMISSIONS, WARRANTS     FOR  COMMISSIONS, NOTES    OF
COMMISSIONS, AND NOTES OF WARRANTS FOR COMMISSIONS
IN THE ENGLISH ARMY FOR 1702.
[Note.-The commissions for the regiments in Scotland are in
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Counties and lists of Deputy Lieutenants are in a separate
table (No. IV). A few warrants of a military character, but
not properly speaking army commissions, will be found in Table
X, pt. iv. post. Where the commission is entered in full the letter
(c.) is put at the end of the entry; where there is only a note of
the commission, the letters (n.c.) are put at the end. Warrants
to prepare bills for the Great Seal containing commissions are
shown by (w.), and notes thereof by (n.w.). These warrants are
generally addressed to the Attorney or Solicitor General, but in
a few cases the addressee is not entered. A few orders relating
to the military establishment (see e.g. at Oct. 19, 1702), which
are not strictly speaking commissions, are placed in this table.
Warrants to the Master General of the Ordnance, though entered
in the commission books, have, unless essentially appropriate to
this Table, been calendared in the Table X, pt. iv." post. The
Commissions in Entry Book 168 are countersigned by Mr. Secretary
Vern6n, those in Entry Book 170 by Lord Secretary Nottingham,
and those in Entry Book 171 by Mr. Secretary Hedges.]
9 March.   John, Earl of Marlborough.
St. James.  To command all the Queen's troops which are or shall be
sent to Holland to serve with her Majesty's allies. Power to issue
rules and ordinances to be obeyed by all under his command,
to punish offenders against them after trial before a court-martial
which he may assemble as often as he thinks fit pursuant to
the late Mutiny Act, to have sentences executed on such offenders,
or pardon them as he thinks fit. He may appoint a Provost
Marshal for executing justice in the army, and may appoint a
deputy to the Judge Advocate whom the Queen has appointed
to go with the army in case such Judge Advocate shall be ill or
die. He is to cause exact musters to be taken. He may pay
for contingent charges of the army as he thinks fit, and may
commission officers to fill such vacancies as may occur, commissions issued by him remaining in force till the Queen's further
pleasure is known (c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 168, pp. 391-4.
Also warrant for same dated 10 March.-Ibid, pp. 380-1.
Same.     Charles Churchill; Lieutenant-General of the forces.  He
is to discharge all proper duties and take orders from the
General of the forces or any other his superior officer (c.).S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, p. 6.
Sir Charles Hara; Major-General of the forces. Similar to
foregoing (c.).
George, Earl of Orkney (n.c.), William Selwyn (n.c.), and
Richard Ingoldsby (n.c.); all Majors General.-Ibid, p. 7.
Algernon, Earl of Essex, to be Brigadier of the forces (c.).
Cornelius Wood, William Seymour, Hatton Compton, William
Mathews, Gustavus Hamilton, William Lloyd and Robert Murray
as Brigadier-Generals (all n.c.).-Ibid, p. 8. The note for Lloyd.Ibid, p. 11. The note for Murray.-Ibid, p. 133.
Hugh Wyndham to be Major-General over all the forces,
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9 Mar.     Colonel William  Stanley to be a Brigadier of foot (c.).-S.P.
St. James'. Dom., Entry Book 171, p. 55.
George Cholmondeley to be Major-General (c.).-Ibid, pp. 5, 6.
Colonels Frederick Hamilton and Henry Withers to be Brigadiers
of foot (both n.c.).-Ibid, p. 56.
Sir Henry Belasys to be a Lieutenant-General of all the Queen's
foot forces (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 100.
Charles, Earl of Arran, to be Brigadier-General of all the forces.
Thomas, Viscount Windsor, same        (both  n.c.).-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 170, p. 27.
Charles Ross, same (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 67.
Richard, Earl of Scarborough, to be Lieutenant-General of
the same (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 68.
William  Steuart to be Major-General of the same (n.c.).Ibid, p. 70.
Lord " Portsmore" and Henry Lumley, Esq., to      be MajorGenerals (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 78.
Richard, Earl of Scarborough to be Lieutenant-General (n.c.).Ibid, p. 102.
John, Lord Cutts, to be Major-General (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 111.
Francis Langston to be Brigadier-General of all the forces
(n.c.).-Ibid, p. 115.
10 March. List of Officers in Richard, Viscount Shannon's, regiment of
Marines bearing this date.*
Captains:-Viscount Shannon, Colonel; Lieut.-Col. Theophilus
de Rabiniere, Major Thomas Markham, Captains Orfeur, Williams, Swift, Carter, Leonard, Mansell, Bradshaw and Holland.
1st Lieutenants:-Captain-Lieutenant Hatton, Lieutenants
L'Eveque, Masham, Saunders, Bing, Stennet, Bull, Parker,
Balford, William Brown, Wadds and Hill.
2nd Lieutenants:-Howard, Miles, Burton, Powell, Bonard,
Besbreech, Wolf, Davenport, Robert Smith, Charnell, Billingsley
and Grace.
Grenadiers: Captain Sir J. Webb.t
Staff Officers:-Halsan, Quartermaster; Edward Jocelyn,
Chaplain.
Does not include the field officers [whose commissions were]
signed by the late King on 12 February, 1701.-S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 168, p. 384.
Same.      List of the Officers in Colonel John Gibson's Regiment.*
Captains:-Colonel    Gibson,   Major   Webberley,   Chptains
Brexton, Rigby, Dalyel, Henning, Floyer, Edwards, de Millon
and Stoughton.
* Presumably their commissions bore this date; and so with the other lists
t It is probable, from the arrangement of this and the following entries, that
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Lieutenants:-Captain-Lieutenant Luke Spicer, Lieutenants
Toogood, Lawson, Heron, Morin, Davis, Archbald, Graham,
Conniers, Crawford, Learmont and Hardine.
Ensigns:-Gibson,  Hewet, Collins, Clark, Ince, Tippet,
Handesyde, Haughton, Overton, Haven and Gibson.
Grenadiers: William Davidson.
Staff Officers:-William Durham, Adjutant; William Sloan
Quartermaster; David Hart, Chaplain; Robert Hart, Surgeon.
This does not include the field officers [as foregoing].-S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 168, p. 383.
10 March.   List of the Officers in Colonel Edward Fox's regiment of Marines.
Captains:-Colonel  Edward    Fox,  Lieut.-Colonel  Philip
Howard, Major Jacob Borr, Captains Corey, Foulk, Kempe,
Monger, Wildbore, Oxenden, Gignoux, Cobham.
1st Lieutenants:-Captain-Lieutenant William  Lee, Lieutenants Stewart, Ch. Bourg, Sinault, Harris, Thomas Browne,
John Bourgh, Mullins, Allison, Bowtell, Alphen, Darby.
2nd Lieutenants:-Skinner, Brooks, Colbourne, Pretty, Duplex,
Drouart, Collingwood, Atkinson, Gincks, Dourer, Collyar, Porter.
Grenadiers: Helmsley.
Staff Officers:-Harris, Adjutant;  Mullins, Quartermaster;
Heskith, Chaplain.
Does not include the field officers whose commissions were
signed [as foregoing].-Ibid, p. 385.
Same.     Same in Colonel Harry Mordaunt's regiment of Marines.
Captains:-Colonel Harry Mordaunt, Lieut.-Colonel Lewis
Mordaunt, Major Aspin, Captains Pye, de Ligniere, Rufane,
de la Noe, Dean, Sumner, S. Forster, Benedict.
1st Lieutenants:-Captain-Lieutenant Ford, 1st Lieutenants
Wiltshire, De la Boullage,* Codds, De Clouseaux, Du Chesne
Vauvert, Rivall, Coleman, Moore, Jewet, Warren, Ch. Mordaunt.
2nd Lieutenants:-Nicholls, Maynard, Patriarch, R. Adams,
Charles Mordaunt, Featherstonhagh, W. Adams, S. Forster,
Henry Mordaunt, Owen, Dancom, Hethrington.
Grenadiers: Brereton.
Staff Officers:-L. Rivall, Adjutant; Du Plessy, Quartermaster; P. Rivall, Chaplain; Salenove, Surgeon.
Does not include the field officers whose commissions were
signed [as foregoing].-Ibid, p. 386.
Same.     Same in, Colonel Henry Holt's regiment of Marines.
Captains:-Colonel Holt, Lieut.-Colonel Rodney, Major Nott,
Captains Ganspoule, Gore, Lysle, de Sediere, Dahlem, Manley,
Phillips and Pluncket.
1st Lieutenants:-Captain-Lieutenant Robinson, Lieutenants
Pickering, Betsworth, G. Foulks, Busted, Cockran, Robinson,
Wilson, Thornton, Fishwick, Belford and Jordan.
2nd Lieutenants:-Westwood, Rodney, Keeling, Skyes, Appling,
Ramsey, Chaseloup, Richards, Cooper, Dixon, Erwyn and Lancaster.
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Grenadiers: Harrison.
Staff Officers:-Foulks, Adjutant; Gerey [or Gezey], Quartermaster; Pigott, Chaplain.
A commission as captain was given to Captain Fitzmaurice
Gifford on Captain Gore's commission being returned.
Does not include the field officers [as before].-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 168, p. 387.
10 March.    List of the Officers in Colonel Thomas Saunderson's regiment
of Marines.
Captains:-Colonel    Saunderson,   Lieut.-Colonel   Thomas
Pownall, Major Dornell, Captains Burston, Abington, Knight,
Bedford, W. Pallesser, Brereton, Thompson, Casewell.
1st  Lieutenants:-Captain-Lieutenant   Harris,  Lieutenants
Pinnock, Singleton, St. Just, Filbridge, Potter, Bernard,
H. Pallesser, Forbis, Davison, Harris and Bernard.
2nd    Lieutenants:-Ord,   Nicholls,   Rook,    Saunderson,
Christian, Scroop, Bourk, Vauclen, Gardener, Vaugensinner,
Sharpe and Day.
Grenadier: Saunders.
Staff Officers:-Whaley, Chaplain;    Singleton,  Adjutant;
Clarke, Quartermaster.
Does not include the field officers [as before].-Ibid, p. 388.
Same.      Same in Colonel George Villiers' regiment of Marines.
Captains:-Colonel Villiers, Lieut.-Colonel Luttrell, Major
Carew, Captains Hedges, Blakeney, Buller, Docton [?], Blinman,
Tynte, Adams, Pigott.
1st Lieutenants:-Captain-Lieutenant Homer, Lieutenants
Elliot, Salter, Clarke, Flower, Hildesley, Tailor, Balmier,
Carwardin, Stawell, Watkins and Evans.
2nd Lieutenants:-Rainsford, Beckwith, Shierston, Haston,
Anderson, Desbordes, Doyley, Bisset, Northcote, Winter, Bell
and Sutton.
Grenadier: Courtney.
Staff  Officers:-Church,  Surgeon;    Coakley,   Adjutant;
Andrews, Quartermaster; Rose, Chaplain.
Does not include the field officers [as before].-Ibid, p. 389.
Same.      Same in the Earl of Huntingdon's regiment of Foot.
Captains:-Earl of Huntingdon, Lieut.-Colonel Duncanson,
Major   Rose,  Captains   Delivron,  Harnage,   Erle,  Blount,
Honywood, Killegrew, La Tour, Vanbrook, and D'Harcourt (G.).*
Lieutenants: - Captain - Lieutenant   Dolling,  Lieutenants
Wheeler, Haddock, Collom, Wilson, Bland, Bresbin, Hauteclaire,
Deguan, Mackrau, Owen and Baraton (G.).*
Ensigns:-Coote, Brown, Nicholls, Hutchison, Powell, Dejoy,
Edwards, Webb, Mercer, Stronghill, Harris and Grace (G.).*
* G. stands for Grenadier. In this entry it is plain that the officers marked
so in my text were special officers of Grenadiers. In the earlier lists of commissioned officers it is not clearly shewn that this was so, but the person marked
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Staff Officers:-Colom, Adjutant; Phiswick, Quartermaster.
Does not include the field officers [as before].-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 168, p. 390.
10 March.   William Stone to be surgeon to Brigadier Windham's regiment
St. James'. of Carbineers (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 397.
John Wyvell to be lieutenant in Peirce's company of the 2nd
Foot Guards.-Ibid, p. 407 (n.c.).
11 March.   Lieut.-Colonel Sharington Davenport to be colonel of horse
St. James'. and to take rank accordingly (n.c. brevet).-S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 170, p. 174.
12 March.   Luke Spicer-to be captain, to succeed Captain Edward Rigby,
St. James'. in Colonel John Gibson's regiment (n.c.).
John Plate-Captain-lieutenant in the same (n.c.).-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 168, p. 394.
14 March.   Richard Hopson, gent., to be first lieutenant of the comSt. James'. pany of foot in the Province of New York in America,
whereof Captain John Nanfan is captain (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 381.
15 March.   James, Earl of Barrymore, to be colonel of the regiment
St. James'. of foot whereof Sir John Jacob, Bt., was colonel; also to
be captain of a company in the said regiment (n.c.).-Ibid.
25 March.   John Saunderson, Esq., to be a captain in the regiment
St. James'. commanded by Brigadier Zachary Tiffin(c).-Ibid, p. 382.
Same.     Dean Scardville, clerk, to be chaplain to the Duke of Schonberg's
regiment of horse (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 383.
7 April.   Sir St. Fox, Sir B. Bathurst and Hugh Chudleigh to take care
St. James'. of the Royal stables. Power to determine complaints relating
thereto and, for that purpose, to receive and answer petitions,
except in cases which they think very important. Reserves
patronage formerly had by Master of the Horse. Details. (c.)S.P. Dom., Entry Book 348, pp. 357, 358.
12 April.  The Duke of Ormond, to command the twelve regiments of
St. James'. foot and dragoons which are being sent on board the fleet.
Similar to the Commission to the Earl of Marlborough calendared
above at 9 March, 1702 (c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 168, pp.
398-400.
14 April.  Heyman Rooke, Esq., to be colonel (n. brevet).-Ibid, p. 394.
St. James'.
Same.     John Devereux, captain-lieutenant of Colonel George Villiers'
regiment of Marines (n.c.).
John Henley to succeed Captain Ganspoule in Colonel Holt's
regiment of Marines (n.c.).
John Duncomb, ensigncy in Captain Salisbury's company
of the 2nd Foot Guards (Lord Cutts') (n.c.).
Thomas Gold, lieutenancy in Rose's company in the Earl of
Huntingdon's regiment of Foot (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 401.




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1702.
14 April.  In the Earl of Orkney's Foot Guards:St. James'.  John Browne, captaincy-lieutenant (n.c.).
John Seymour, lieutenancy to Captain Robert Hamilton.
(n.c.). Richard Molesworth, ensigncy to the Earl of Orkney (n.c.).
William  Montgomery, ensigncy to Captain William  Ker (n.c.).
John Baily, lieutenancy to Captain Irwyn (n.c.). Peter Groffin,
quartermaster (n.c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 168, pp. 402, 403.
17 April.  Sir Thomas Smyth as Quartermaster-General of the land forces
St. James'. under the Duke of Ormond's command (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 401.
Same.     Major George Jocelyn as Adjutant-General of the aforesaid
forces (n.c.).  Dr. Charles Morley as Physician General (n.c.)
and John Brown as Surgeon General to same (n.c.).-Ibid,
p. 402.
1 May.    Hosea Figuel as surgeon to the Earl of Huntingdon's regiSt. James'. ment (n.c.). Robert Doiley as chaplain to same (n.c.). Christopher
Clapham, ensigncy in Major Rose's company in same (n.c.).
Ibid, p. 404.
Same.     William Mathew, ensign in the colonel's own company "in
the 2nd regiment of Foot Guards called the Coldstreamers,"
commanded by Lord Cutts (n.c.).
Thomas Lisle, second lieutenancy under Captain Richard
Pye in Colonel Harry Mordaunt's regiment (n.c.).
Daniel Wayte, ensigncy to Major Oglethorpe in Lord Mohun's
regiment (n.c.).
John  Owen, first lieutenancy in  Gignoux's company in
Colonel Edward Fox's regiment of Marines (n.c.).-Ibid.
Same.     John Filbridge, ensigncy in Colonel King's company in the
First Regiment of Guards (Earl of Romney's) (n.c.).
James Dormer, lieutenancy in Lieut.-Colonel Froud's company
in the same (n.c.).
Washington Shirley, ensigncy in Lieut.-Colonel Richard Holmes'
company of the 2nd Foot Guards (n.c.).
Woodcock to succeed Captain Braxton in Colonel John
Gibson's regiment (n.c.).
Joseph Butler, to be first lieutenant in Captain Charles
Monger's company in Colonel Edward Fox's regiment of Marines
(n.c.).
Sampson Lalau [?], lieutenant-colonelcy of Colonel Gibson's
regiment (n.c.).-Ibid, pp. 407, 408, ad fin.
John Maugridge, Esq., to be drum-major-general of the
forces (c.).-Ibid, p. 405.
Royal Warrant to Maugridge.
To imprest so many men for "drummers, fiefs [fifes] and
Haut Boys " as shall be necessary from time to time. All Mayors,
headboroughs, constables &c. to  assist him  (w.).-Ibid, p.
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1702.
4 May.    Major-General George Cholmondeley to be Governor of the
St. James'. fort and blockhouse of West Tilbury in Essex, and of Gravesend
(c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, pp. 6, 7.
William Haslerigg to be adjutant to Sir Henry Bellasys'
regiment of foot, and Joseph Alsop to be chaplain to same
(both n.c.).-Ibid, p. 48.
John Butler to be Lieutenant-Governor of the fort and blockhouse of West Tilbury with the fortifications thereof, and also
of the town of Gravesend and the blockhouse and fort there (c.).Ibid, pp. 52, 53.
14 May.    Harry Mordaunt to be captain in succession to Captain L. C.
St. James'. de Ligniere in Colonel Harry Mordaunt's regiment of Marines (c.).
Lewis Desclouseaux to be captain in the same (c.).-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 170, pp. 9, 10.
The Duke of Ormond to be captain and colonel of the 2nd
troop of Horse Guards, with all usual privileges (c.). Ibid, p. 4.
Thomas Erle to be "governor and captain of our town and
isle of Portsmouth," and of Southsea Castle, its forts, blockhouses and fortifications, with all usual privileges, &c. (c.).Ibid, p. 5.
1 June.    Henry Masclary to be "exempt and eldest captain " of the
St. James'. second (Duke of Ormond's) troop of Horse Guards (c.).-Ibid, pp.
19, 20.
Samuel Weaver, Esq., to be brigadier and eldest lieutenant of
the same (c.).-Ibid, pp. 20, 21.
George Clarke to be Advocate General or Judge Martial of all
the [land] forces raised in England, Wales or Berwick, "and
all other our dominions and countries whatsoever except Scotland
and Ireland." To execute himself or by deputy. All usual
fees (c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, pp. 87, 88.
30 May.    Peter Shakerley, Esq., to be Governor of the city and castle
St. James'. of Chester, in the room of Roger Kerkby, Esq. (c.).-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 170, p. 14.
6 June.    Nicholas Le Mesurier to be Dean of Guernsey and chaplain
St. James'. of the garrison there (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 187.
11 June.   Colonel Harry Mordaunt to be Commander-in-chief of all the
St. James'. Queen's forces in Guernsey, during pleasure and his residence
therein, in the absence of Christopher, Viscount Hatton, Governor
of the said island (c.). Ibid, p. 23.
William  Smyth, Doctor of Physic, to be physician to the
town and garrison of Portsmouth. Similar in phrase to a military
commission (c.). Robert Heart, Surgeon, to be surgeon to same
(c.).-Ibid, pp. 24, 25.




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1702.
12 June.   Sir Thomas Ogle to be Governor of the Royal Hospital of
St. James'. Chelsea. Usual privileges, fees &c. (c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book
170, p. 26.
15 June.   Theodore Smith to be Marshal of the Horse Guards, regiments
St. James'. and troops of Horse in the Queen's service.-S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 171, p. 12.
17 June.   Edmund Thwaytes to be second lieutenant in       Captain
St. James'. Andrew Abington's company of Colonel Thomas Saunderson's
regiment (c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, pp. 30, 31.
William Davison to be second lieutenant to Captain Thompson
in the same regiment (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 31.
18 June.   Robert Crawford to be Governor of the fort at Sheerness in
St. James'. the Isle of Sheppey. Usual privileges, &c. (c.).-Ibid, pp. 31-2.
Duke of Newcastle to be Governor and Captain of Hull and its
fortifications (w., c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, p. 3.
Captain Edward Soames to be lieutenant-colonel of foot (n.c.).Ibid, p. 5.
Francis Shaw, clerk, to be chaplain to Sir Henry Belasyse's
regiment (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 94.
20 June.   Thomas Hendesyde to be colonel of the regiment of foot lately
St. James'. commanded by Major-General William Selwyn (c.).- Humphrys,
to be lieutenant-colonel (c.). William Hopton to be major and
captain of a company (c.), and Jeremy Hawkins to be a captain
(c.); all in the same.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, pp. 34-7.
25 June.   In the Earl of Oxford's Regiment:Whitehall.  Aubrey, Earl of Oxford, to be colonel of the Royal Regiment
of Horse Guards and captain of a company in the same (n.c.).S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, p. 66.
George Fielding, to be captain of the Queen's troop, and
Samuel Heath to be lieutenant, Alexander Godart to be comet,
and Thomas Bateman to be quartermaster (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 67.
Thomas Calvert, to be coret in the Earl of Oxford's troop;
William Williams, to be quartermaster of the same troop. Sir
Francis Compton to be lieutenant and captain of a troop, and
Thomas White to be lieutenant, George Walker to be coret and
William Shippey to be quartermaster of Compton's troop.
George Kirke to be major and captain of a troop; and John
Worth to be lieutenant, Springer Ballet to be cornet, and
Robert Williams quartermaster in Kirke's troop. (All n.c.).Ibid, pp. 68-9.
Same.     Edwin Sandys, to be captain of a troop; Martin Temple to be
comet and John Harvey quartermaster in his troop (n.c.).
John Tooke to be captain of a troop, John Lant to be lieutenant,
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Francis Binge to be captain; Charles Stanly to be lieutenant,
Andrew Windsor to be comet and Richard Harrison quartermaster in his troop (all n.c.).
William Geanhill to be quartermaster in Dormer's troop (n.c.).
William Marsham to be quartermaster in Eaton's troop (n.c.).
John Harvey to be adjutant of the regiment (n.c.).
Paul Margarett to be surgeon to same (n.c.).-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 171, pp. 70, 71.
25 June.   Peter Gally de Gojac to be chaplain to the Earl of Arran's
regiment (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 11.
Philip Boisdaune to be ensign in Sir Henry Belasyse's regiment
(n.c.).-Ibid, p. 97.
In the Earl of Oxford's Horse Guards:Thomas Brerewood, a cornet in Eaton's troop (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 53.
Charles Dormer to be captain of a troop, and to Lee Blackwell
to be captain-lieutenant (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 56.
Thomas Harrison to be lieutenant in Eaton's troop (n.c.).Ibid, p. 64.
Samuel Breton to be lieutenant in Sandys' troop, Richard
Knightly to be lieutenant in Dormer's troop, Randolph Bath to
be cornet in the same troop, Chas. Eaton to be captain of a troop,
and to James Richardson to be chaplain of the regiment. (All
n.c.). Ibid, p. 65,
Same.     LIST of OFFICERS in GENERAL BELLASYSE'S Regiment of Foot
whose commissions were renewed on this date.
Sir H. Belasyse, colonel; Richard Billing, lieutenant-colonel;
Simon Duffe, major.
Captains: Peircy Kirke, Richard Phillips, John Culliford,
Andrew  de Boismorell, Robert Laton   (Grenadiers); Robert
Gardner, John Bickerstaff, John Arnatt, Edmund Soame.
Lieutenants: Charles Lavally, captain-lieutenant; William
Haslerigge, James Gostling, James Bigott, Roger Davis, Norris
Downes, Stephen Lacost, William Hamilton (Grenadiers), James
Giles (same), Robert Wamborough, Percy Collier, Henry Sands,
Robert Jackson.
Ensigns: William Danby, Charles May, Edmund Dashwood,
John Haylett, William Bellasyse, John Phillips, Charles Seares,
Thomas Shuttleworth, Peter Hart, Henry Marshall, Robert
Hume.
William Haslerigge, adjutant; John Slack, quartermaster;
John Dalrymple, surgeon.-Ibid, p. 100.
Same.     Commissions for Officers in " Our Royal Hospital near Chelsea."
(1) David Crawford to be Lieutenant Governor.
(2) Captain Richard Betsworth to be major.
(3) James Fraiser to be Secretary and.Register to the
Commissioners for governing the Hospital.


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1702.
(4) Sir Theodore Colladon to be physician.
(5) Robert English to be controller.
(6) Ralph Cook to be Deputy Treasurer and UnderPaymaster.
(7) Emanuell Langford, D.D., to be chaplain; and note
of same to Mr. Merrye to be, same.
(8) John Noades to be surgeon; and note of same to
Christopher Capel to be barber.
(9) Isaac Garnier jun., to be apothecary.
(10) William Hawkins to be wardrobe keeper, keeper of the
Council Chamber and comptroller of the coal yards.
(11) Anna Acton, widow, to be housekeeper.
(12) George Holder to be yeoman of the coal yards.
(13) Henry Powell to be steward; and note of same to William
Grey to be master cook.
Thirteen separate commissions and three notes. S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 171, pp. 36-47.
26 June.   Lord Cutts to be Captain and Governor of the Isle of Wight.
St. James'. To execute by himself or a deputy. Usual profits, &c. Reappointment (w.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, p. 40.
Earl of Marlborough to be Master General of the Ordnance,
Arms, Armouries and Habiliments of War in England, Wales
and Berwick. Usual privileges. Clause for revoking the grant
to Henry, Viscount Sydney (afterwards Earl of Romney) (w.).Ibid, p. 41.
Wm. Bridges, Esq., to be Master Surveyor of the Ordnance.
Fee of 2s. a day from St. John's Day last. Clause for revoking
the grant of the same office to John Charleton, Esq. (w.).Ibid, p. 42.
Anthony Duncomb to be Governor of Scarborough Castle (c.)
-Ibid, p. 43.
John Granvile, Esq., to be Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance
in the room  of Sir Henry Goodrick, and keeper of the storehouse and its appurtenances at Aldgate and of the artillery garden.
To execute by himself or deputy. Clause for revoking Goodrick's
grant (w.).-Ibid, pp. 44-5.
Reappointment of Christopher Musgrave, Esq., Clerk of the
Ordnance. To hold by himself or deputy. Fee of 2s. a day,
and usual rights (w.).-Ibid, pp. 45-6.
In Major-General George Cholmondeley's troop of Grenadier
Guards:Renewal to Major-General George Cholmondeley, as captain
and colonel (n.c.). —S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, p. 85.
Henry Ireton to be lieutenant and lieutenant-colonel of
Major-General Cholmondeley's troop, to take rank as lieutenant
and lieutenant-colonel of the same (n.c.).-Ibid.
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Richard Morley, to be guidon and eldest captain (n.c.).-S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 171, p. 86.
Robert Dent, to be lieutenant, with rank as eldest captain of
horse (n.c.).-Ibid.
Richard Warring, to be same, with rank as eldest captain of
horse (n.c.).-Ibid.
Robert Jackson, sub-lieutenant in same, with rank as eldest
lieutenant of horse (n.c.).-Ibid.
Peter Devaux, to be adjutant, with rank as eldest lieutenant
of horse of the same (n.c.).-Ibid.
John Brown to be surgeon, and John Bradley, clerk, to be
chaplain (n.c.).-Ibid.
In Lord Mohun's regiment of foot:27 June.   Lord Mohun, continuing him in command of the regiment
(nl.c.).-Ibid, p. 51.
William Culliford, to be lieutenant-colonel and captain of
a company (n.c.).-Ibid.
William Oglethorpe, to be major and captain of a company
in the same (n.c.).-Ibid.
Giles Stevens, to be lieutenant in Captain Griffin's company
(n.c.).-Ibid.
William Phillips to be ensign in Lord Mohun's company (n.c.).Ibid.
Peter Chaigneau, to be surgeon in the regiment (n.c.).-Ibid.
29 June.   James Farewell, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower of
St. James'. London (c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, pp. 52-3.
Same.     Mainard, Duke of Shonberg [Schomberg], continuing him
in his command of a regiment of horse and of a company therein
(n.c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, p. 7.
JULY, 1702.
1 July.   Major Edward Nott to be Lieutenant-Governor of BerwickSt. James'. on-Tweed (c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, p. 121.
Captain Joseph Lawrence to be major and captain of a company
in Colonel Henry Holt's regiment (n.c.).-Ibid.
Samuel Bredy, Esq., to be lieutenant in Colonel Charles
Salisbury's company in the 2nd (Coldstream) Guards (n.e.).Ibid, p. 63.
2 July.    Henry Villiers, Esq., to be Governor of Tinmouth [Tynest. James'. mouth] Castle and its forts &c., in the room of Sir Edward Villiers,
deceased (c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, pp. 11-12.
Thomas Poulteney to be lieutenant and eldest lieutenantcolonel of the 2nd (Ormond's) troop of Horse Guards (c.).Ibid, p. 52.
Francis Hamon to be Lieut.-Governor of Landguard Fort in
Suffolk (c.).-Ibid, p. 69.




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1702.
2 July.   John Pargiter to be 2nd lieutenant in Rodney's company of
Holt's regiment of Marines; and Henry Rodney to succeed
Captain Fitzmaurice Gifford as a captain in the same (both n.c.).S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, pp. 54, 55.
4 July.   John Jennings, Esq., to be Deputy Governor of Southsea
St. James'. Castle (c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, p. 64.
7 July.    List of Officers in " Our Own Regiment of Horse," commanded
St. James'. by Major-General Lumley.
Colonel Lumley.
Captains:-William Palmer, Thomas Crowther, Robert Wroth
[or Wrath], John Deane, Christopher Billingsly, Thomas Panton,
John Morsey.
Lieutenants:-Partick  Lisle  (captain-lieutenant), Thomas
Sterrop, Charles Alexander, William Goodwin, Robert Stapylton,
William Jones, John Stone, Roger Burton [or Barton].
Ensigns:-Charles Wiseman, Mathew and Peter Law, Robert
Wilson, Thomas Jackson, Thomas Freckleton, John Usher,
Edward Clarke.
Chaplain, John Gaile; surgeon, Alexander Inglish; adjutant,
Charles Law.-Ibid, p. 153.*
Same.    List of Commissionst to be in the 1st Regiment of Carabineers
(Major-General Hugh Wyndham's).
Colonel, Wyndham;     lieutenant-colonel, Francis  Palmes;.major, Philip Chenevix.
Captains [not given].
Lieutenants:-Geo. Robinson, Charles Hall, William Payne,
Robert Harlington, William Guyon, William Kyrle.
Comets: —C.ptain-Lieutenant Richard Saunders, John Clapton,
Richard Edmunds, Francis Godfrey, Richard Ward.-Ibid, p.
154.
Same.     List of Officers in the Earl of Arran's Regiment of Horse.
Colonel, Earl of Arran.
Captain, George Fletcher.
Lieutenant, Francis Maugie.
Coret, Edmund Smith.-Ibid.
Same.     Same in Sir Mathew Bridges' Regiment of Foot.
Colonel, Bridges; lieutenant-colonel, Holcroft Blood; major,
Henry Groves.
Captains:-John Taylor, Edward Wolf, George Withers,
Anthony Leach, Charles Du Bourgay, Oliver Brooks, Francis
Read, John Peter Desbordes, John Baily.
Lieutenants:-Edward St. George, Thomas Hopton, Walter
Devereux, Christopher Russell, Thomas Morris; Francis Rossington
* Cf. Dalton's English Army Lists, &c. (1902), Vol. V, p. 27, for a slightly
different list.
t So in MS.
t See Dalton's English Army Lists &Q. (1902), Vol. V, p. 32,




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and Henry Eyres, grenadiers; Charles Ashe, Henry Warner, George
Denny, Thomas Pigott.
Ensigns:-Brook Bridges, Edward Martin, Mark Anthony
Tearson, William  Ingram, John Rivasson, Daniel Langhorne,
Robert Bridges, Edmund Blood.
Adjutant, James Fonsubran.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, p.
155.*
7 July.    List of Officers for Sir Beville Granville's Regiment of Foot.t
St. James-  Captains:-Thomas Raleigh (major), Richard Trevanion, John
Granville, William Grills, George Wade, Warner Dawes, Richard
Lucas.
Lieutenants:-Alexander Spottswood, Peter Croy, James
Southerland, George Green, Gideon Ribier, Samuel Buller, John
Weeks, William Middleton.
Ensigns:-William Lane, Moses, Daniel Croy, William Daniel,
John Hellows, Henry Lewis, Arthur Hornby.
Chaplain, Charles Blane; surgeon, David Debize.-Ibid, p. 156.
Same.      Same in Brigadier Cornelius Wood's Regiment of Horse.
Colonel, Wood.
Captains:-Philip Armstrong, Charles Carrington.
[Lieutenants:-]Edward Whalleys (captain-lieutenant), Thomas
Hull, John Pitt, James Eyton.
[Cornets:-] Daniel Draycott, Charles Odiarne, William Ashby,
Archbald Grosvenor.-P. i.-Ibid, p. 157.
Same.     Same for Colonel James Fergusone's Regiment of Foot.
Colonel, Fergusone; lieutenant-colonel, Alexander Levingston;
Major, William Borthick.
Captains:-Alexander   Campbell,  Henry    Steuart,  James
Cranston, John Blacader, Andrew    Manroe, James Arckman,
William Drummond, John Dempster, Henry Borthick.
Lieutenants:-Patrick Duckson, Archibald Wilson, Charles
Maitland, John Boyd; John Wilson and James Lawson,
grenadiers; Colin Ramsay, Francis Lindsay, Archibald Douglas,
Thomas Drummond, John Fergusone.
Ensigns:-Henry   Moncriefe,  Thomas Fergusone, Patrick
Bernard, George Douglass, George Seton, William    Gray, -
Ogilvie, Charles McKlean, James Sympson, William Glendinning.
Chaplain, D. Rattiairme; surgeon, John Weems; adjutant,
John MacMitchell; quartermaster, Robert Stevensone. Pp. 1.
-Ibid, pp. 157, 158.
Same.     Same for the Earl of Marlborough's Regiment of Foot.
Colonel, the Earl of Marlborough; lieutenant-colonel, William
Tatton; major, Patrick Mead.
* See Dalton, op. cit., V, p. 77. These lists are nearly all published by Mr.
Dalton (op. cit.), Vol. V. It is not thought needful to repeat the references to
his work, which is admirably indexed.
t No such regiment is included in Mr. Dalton's Army Lists for 1702. Several
of the officers in this list appear in Mr. Dalton's list of the officers of Lord North
and Grey's regiment of foot, for which see his work, Vol. V, pp. 64, 65.




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1702.
Captains:-Thomas Oldfield, Samuel Freeman, Benjamin
Tichborn, Thomas Pollexfon, Francis Jefferys, James Ingoldsby,
George Watkins, Thomas Gardner, John La Cond.
Lieutenants:-Vere Fitzedmonds (captain-lieutenant), George
Nelthorpe, Daniel Bright, John Baily, Robert Gardiner, John
Walley, Abraham Stapleton, Francis Melroy, John Barrott, John
Whitehall, John Finch.
Ensigns, Grenadiers*:-Timothy Thomas, Daniel Deering, John
Jeffrys, John Duglas, Ralph Ramsey. P. j.-S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 170, p. 159.
7 July.   List of Officers for Colonel John Webb's Regiment of Foot.
St. James'.  Colonel, Webb.
Captains:-Anthony Townley, Peter D'Ansty, Anthony
Columbier, Frederick Cornwallis, Ralph Congrave, Peter Hamars,
William Congreve, Francis Napper.
Lieutenants: —enry Clavers, Charles Buck, Peter de [?] Cowe;
Charles Townley and John Guison, grenadiers; James Adams,
James Orfeure, William Carr.
Ensigns:-Sir J. Gates, Theophilus Nicholls, Francis Steadman,
Roger Cater, Burlace Webb, Emanuel How, Charles Clendon.
Chaplain, G. Powell; adjutant, Henry Whitney; quartermaster, Benjamin Cuttle; surgeon, James Chambers.-Ibid, pp.
159, 160.
Same.     Same in the Earl of Barrymore's Regiment of Foot.
Colonel, Lord Barrymore; lieutenant-colonel, Edward Pearce;
major, Mark A. Moncal.
Captains:-Michael Duncan, David Loches, Ralph Argill,
Richard Ferdinando Hastings, John Woodhouse, William Austin,
Louis La Farelle, William Hyde, John Jones, Thomas Jones.
Lieutenants:-Andrew Hayes (captain-lieutenant), Duncan
Campbell, George Barker, Isaac Scott, Edward Booth, Andrew
Hayes, John Cross, William Bury, Thomas England; Nathaniel
Taylor and G. Weston, grenadiers.
Ensigns: -Josias Clark, Alexander Durans, Hilldebrand Jacob,
Alphkey Beauregard, Augustus Dugwery, John Hall, William
Owen, George Edwards.
Chaplain, F. Huysh; adjutant, Edward Booth; surgeon, John
Noridge.-Ibid, pp. 160, 161.
Same.     Robert D'Oyly to be major of the Tower of London (c).Ibid, p. 69.
Same.     Thomas Gardiner, Esq., keeper of the small guns in the
Tower of London. Fee of 10d. a day, and the right to hold the
office by himself or his deputy. Clause for ievoking his last grant
of the office (w.).-Ibid, p. 57.
Thomas Sergeant chief porter of the tower. Usual lees.
Revocation clause as in foregoing (w.).-Ibid, p. 58.
* The form of this entry is different from the others, and may be misleading as
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7 July.   Commissions.
St. James'.  Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas King, George Winsley and Robert
Philpott, clerk, respectively, lieutenant-governor, fort major
and chaplain of the fort and garrison of Sheerness (all c.).-S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 170, pp. 59-61.
William Mittford, quartermaster, and Edward Claringburne,
clerk, chaplain to Colonel Thomas Saunderson's Marine regiment of Foot (both c.).-Ibid, pp. 62, 63.
Richard Bishop, surgeon to the garrison of Gravesend and
Tilbury fort (c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, p. 91.
Commission renewed to Richard, Viscount Shannon, to be
colonel of a regiment of Marines (n.c.).
Same to Theophilus Rabesnier to be lieutenant-colonel and
captain in Shannon's regiment (n.c.).
Same to - Markam, Esq., to be major and captain in the
said regiment (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 114.
John Johnston to be chaplain of Tilbury fort in Essex (c.).Ibid, p. 117.
Same.     List of Officers in the Prince's Regiment of Foot, commanded
by Lieutenant-General Charles Churchill, whose commissions
were renewed as on this date.
Churchill, colonel; Henry Peyton, lieutenant-colonel; Francis
Negus, major.
Captains: -Joseph Churchill, William Lloyd, Oliver Luke,
John Meoles, Charles Churchill, Henry Harrison (grenadiers) and
John Hetley.
Lieutenants:-Alexander Scrymsour, John Melvill, William
Kenny, Thomas Pyne, Nathaniel Gittings, John Grearson, Hugh
Scott (grenadiers), Theodore Vessey (grenadiers), John Preston,
George Palfrey, "to Captain Richard Harward."
Ensigns:-Thomas White, Richard Harwood, Darley Wivell,
Henry Gibbs, James Bolton, Hugh Montgomery.
Howel Evans, quartermaster. John Smallbone, surgeon.IbJd, p. 115.
7 July.   List of Commissions renewed for the Regiment styled Our Own
Regiment of Foot, commanded by Brigadier William
Seymour. Dated on this date.
Seymour, colonel; Hamond Rook, lieutenant-colonel; [blank],
major.
Captains:-William Wharton, James Bush, Henry Trelawney,
Henry Durrell, Magnus Kempenfelt, William  Bissett, Samuel
Savill, Leonard Fish, - Dumericque.
Lieutenants:-William Roe, James Francis Desasure, Thomas
Le Hulle, Robert Preston, Thomas Willis, Henry Walker, Jos.
Webb; Edward Bush and Richard Hingston, grenadiers; James
Burnet, James Wear.
Ensigns:-James Rook, Lewis D'Agneaux, William    Ellis,
Thomas Bush, Edward Harris, Roger Laurance, Richard Tregagle,
Archibald Primrose, James Duff.
Edward Bush, adjutant; Thomas Tucker, surgeon.-Ibid, p. 121.




STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
7 July.   List of Commissions renewed for the Regiment entitled " Our
St. James'.    Own Regiment of Dragoons," commanded by Brigadier
William Lloyd. Dated on this date.
Lloyd, colonel; Francis Gore, lieutenant-colonel.
Major, Henry. Kelly.
Captains:-John Hoare, Walter Leveson, William Stainforth.
Lieutenants:-Captain-Lieutenant John Liard, Henry Hunt,
Claudius Lindcrott, William Smith, Charles Foucquett, Alexander
Read.
Cornets:-William Spenceley, James Waller, Thomas Bright,
John Dudley, Peter Petty, William Lloyd.-S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 171, p. 122.
Same.     Same in the Regiment of Dragoons called " Our Own Royal
Regiment of Dragoons," commanded by Thomas, Lord
Raby. Same.
Lord Raby, colonel; Robert Killigrew, lieutenant-colonel;
Richard Rossiter, major.
Captains:-Edward Young, James St. Piere, Charles Greaves,
James Crafts, Peter La Roque.
Lieutenants:-Captain-Lieutenant Edward Sheldon; Samuel
Jason, George Benson, Charles Green, John Richardson, William
Moore, Francis Ellison, Charles Quinebald Lamilliere.
Cornets:-William  Cecill, John  Farnham, John Harrison,
Charles Harris, Peter Renovard, William   Wentworth, John
Topham.* —Ibid, p. 139.
7 July.   Same in the Regiment of Dragoons, commanded by Brigadier
Charles Ross. Same.
Ross, colonel;  Owen Wynne, lieutenant-colonel:   Robert
Hunter, major.
Captains:-Hugh Coldwell, John Hill, Richard Gores.
Lieutenants:-William   Ross   (captain-lieutenant),  Robert
Drury, John Johnston, Charles Betty, Daniel Boiragon.
Cornets:-Michael Parker, Alexander    Abercrumy,   John
Gwynn, Mathew Watts.
Surgeon, William Cockledge.-Ibid, p. 145.
7 July.   Same for the    first Battalion  of the  Royal Regiment
St. James'.    of Foot, commanded     by  George, Earl of   Orkney.
Same.
Earl of Orkney, colonel; Jo. White, lieutenant-colonel.
Captains:-Charles Barbley, Robert Carr, Robert McKenzie,
Jos. Morray, Charles Cockburn, Thomas Burgh, James Home,
Alexander Irwin, James Lindsey, James Abercrumy, Arthur,
Lord Forbes.
Lieutenants — Jos. Brown, captain-lieutenant; Andrew Kidd,
George Ogilvie, Jo. Seymour, Archibald Collville, William Moor;
George Brown and William Melville, grenadiers; James Ballantin,
* A note adds: —Those underlined [here in italics] had the Queen's commission
before.




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William Brisbien, Jo. Baily,* Thomas Carr, Jo. Cooper, William
Carr.
Ensigns:-Richard Molsworth, James Bissett, James Diebson,
Walter Inness, Colin McKenzie, Peter Morenier, Jo. Annand,
Jo. Jepherson, James St. Clair, Alexander Hamilton, Alexander
Gordon and David Cunningham.
Alexander Irwin, adjutant; Peter Boully, surgeon; Samuel
Noyes, chaplain; George Hadden, quarter-master.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 171, p. 165.
7 July.   List of the Commissions renewed for the Second Battalion of the
St James'.     Royal Regiment of Foot, commanded by George, Earl of
Orkney. Dated on this date.
Andrew Hamilton, major.
Captains: —Thomas Bruce, John Monatt, John Bennerman,
Charles Dundass, William Kerr, James Cuningham, Peter Gordon,
Adam Durram,t Archibald Hamilton, Robert Hamilton, Edward
Murray, Thomas Kerr.
Lieutenants:-Vernett, Mackenzie, Edward Murray, Theoder
Hay, Benjamin Pearson, James Arskin, James Black; John
Arskin and James Levingston, grenadiers; George Gordon,
William Murray, Archibald Hamilton, Charles Haraway, James
Graham.
Ensigns:-McQueen, Thomas Bruce, Alexander White, George
Innes, William Lyall, William Montgomery, Alexander Inglis,
John Gordon, Anthony Osburn, George McConway, Robert
Straitton, William Reid.
Archibald Hamilton, adjutant; William Weare, quartermaster.
-Ibid, p. 166.
Same.     Same for Colonel Emanuel Hows' Regiment of Foot. Same.
How, colonel; William Breton, lieutenant-colonel; William
Braxter, major.
Captains:-John Fowke, Andrew Armstrong, James Tankred,
Robert Wallis, Charles Billingsley, John Villebone, Thomas
Whitney,   Thomas    Gaiston,  Richard   Bolton,   Edward
Jukes.
Lieutenants:-William  Lascells, captain-lieutenant; George
Morris, William  Holliday, William  King; James Leslie and
Richard Legge (grenadiers); Charles Drake, William Kerr,
George Sinclaire, John Dakeyns, Daniel Dickenson, Thomas
Symonds, Robert Barton, Daniel Billingsley.
Ensigns:-Henry Wingfield, Walter Sandalands, Laughlain
Leslie, Robert Somerville, Gideon Lawson, John Boyle, James
Hawley, Edwin Temple, Emanuel Howe, John Little, Edmund
Webb, Henry Harrison.
Robert Blake, chaplain; John Dakeyns, adjutant; Edward
Walch, quartermaster; Francis Duffaine, surgeon.-Ibid, p.
167.
* Underlined: See the last note.
t See preceding note.
$ Also underlined; but the explanatory note (see note, p. 376) is not given here.




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
7 July.   List of Commissions renewed for Lieutenant-General William
St. James'.    Steuart's Regiment of Foot. Dated on this date.
Steuart, colonel; William Steuart, lieutenant-colonel; John
Steuart, major.
Captains:-William  Steuart, John Steuart, John Steuart
Boughan, Finiss [Fiennes] Twissleton, John Steuart Galway,
Jaspar Clayton, John Campbell, John Upton, Richard Dansey,*
George Cary.
Lieutenants:-Henry Steuart, captain-lieutenant; Alexander
Wallace, Conniers Perrot, Alexander Cunningham, Tristram
Cary and Patrick Lyons (grenadiers); Thomas Dalkings, James
White, Thomas Fitzmorrice, Joseph Gregory, William Steuart,
Thomas Hills, William Taylor, Robert Phillips.
Ensigns:-Toby Steuart, Thomas Steuart, Thomas Hussey,
Mark Carse, Anthony Ewing, William Villiers, William Drocer,
David Bell, John Johnston, James Steuart, Thomas Skeen.
James Skipton, chaplain; John Johnston, adjutant; Alexander
Wallace, quartermaster; Isaac Harivell, surgeon.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 171, p. 168.
Same.     Same for the Regiment of Scots Fusiliers, commanded by
Colonel Archibald Row. Same.
Archibald Row, colonel; John Dalyell, lieutenant-colonel.
Captains:-William  Campbell, Alexander Straiton, John
Crawford, James Kygo, Walter Sharp, William Murray, John
Row, Jacque Gabriell, Henry Ereskine, James Campbell.
1st Lieutenants:-David Straiton, captain-lieutenant; John
Dunbar, Alexander Fairlie, John Douglas; James Douglas and
George Home (grenadiers); Florence Kane, Gerall Wall, Robert
Faulconer, John Badenoih, John Vandergracht, George Hay.
2nd Lieutenants:-William Elliot, William Row, Andrew
Monrow, Robert Straiton, William Campbell, William Williams,
John Weems, William McHenry, James Ogilvie, Samuel Johnston,
Patrick Maxwell.
Robert Middleton, chaplain; Charles Dunbreck, adjutant;
Alexander Renton, surgeon; John Badenoih, quartermaster.Ibid, p. 169.
Same.     Same for the Earl of Derby's Regiment of Foot. Same.
Earl of Derby, colonel; Hans Hamilton, lieutenant-colonel;
John Morden, major.
Captains:-John Readich, Thomas Cooke, Thomas Parsons,
Thomas Hesketh, Robert Johnston, Garrett Coghlan, Michael
Flemming, Samuel Sleigh, Peyton Ventriss, Alexander Horn.
Lieutenants:-Robert  Patillo,*  captain-lieutenant;  John
Hygham, Thomas Scott, Andrew Lawder, Richard Worthington;
Randle Brown and Thomas Hooke, grenadiers; William Lindall,
Fry Vickeridge, Patrick Gardiner, John Aylyff, John Jackson,
Richard Reddich, James Levallie.
Ensigns:-John Hesketh, Ralph Brown, William Mackreath,
Richard Norris, Bryan Stapleton, William Hooke, Essex Devereux,
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1702.
John Kay, William Sabine, John Gourden, Robert Illingsworth,
William Leigh.
William Sawle, chaplain; Alexander Horn, adjutant; Richard
Worthington, quartermaster; John Whitfield, surgeon.-S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 171, p. 170.
7 July.    List of Commissions renewed for Mainard, Duke of Schonberg's
St. James'.    Regiment of Horse. Dated on this date.
Duke of Schonberg,* colonel; Charles Desibourg, lieutenantcolonel; Philip Prime, major.
Captains:-Creed, Robert Norton, Richard Coote.
Lieutenants:-Richard Pope, captain-lieutenant; John Looker,
Claude Tettefole, Stephen Palms, Mullinar Robinson, Samuel
Hawks.
Cornets:-John Clark, Maynard Cardonnel, John Creusean,
John Reeves, Boyle, Archibald Little.
Henry Scardaville, chaplain; John Atkinson, adjutant; James
Le Roy, surgeon.-Ibid, p. 171.
13 July.   Henry, Ld. Walden, to be Commissary-General of the musters
Windsor. and chief muster-master of all the forces at home, and abroad.
To exercise by himself or deputy. Usual fees. Clause for
revoking his last grant of the office (w.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book
170, pp. 65, 66.
Same.     William  Gylby, Esq., to be Lieutenant-Governor of Hull
and of the fortifications there (c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171,
pp. 61, 62.
16 July.   Mr. Moryson to succeed Captain John Phillips as captain
Windsor. in Colonel Holt's regiment of Marines (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 33.
Mr. Phillips to a lieutenancy in the 2nd Foot Guards (Coldstreamers). Rank as captain (n.c.).-Ibid.
Same.     To Captain Finch Reddall, commander of the Samuel and Anna,
180 tons, 16 guns, and 36 men. We are informed that many
sea rovers infest the seas of India, whither you are now going.
We authorise you to apprehend them, of whatever nation they
are, and their ships, without force, if they will submit, but otherwise by the use of any force which may be necessary. You
shall bring them to legal trial, to the end they may be dealt with
severely according to law. Keep an exact journal of your doings
and a list of the ships which you take and of their officers, and
of their arms and lading and its value; and take care of all
bills of lading, invoices, coquets, charter-parties and all other
papers which shall be found on board such ships and vessels.
We strictly charge you not to offend in any way against our
subjects or those of our allies (c.).t-Ibid, pp. 33-5.
Also warrant to Sir Nathan Wright, Lord Keeper, to affix
the Great Seal to this commission.-Ibid, p. 35.
* See last note but one.
t Given in full as it is of general interest.




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1702.
20 July.   List of Officers of the 1st Foot Guards whose Commissions
Windsor.      were renewed and dated to-day.
Field Officers:Colonel, Earl of Romney; Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Withers;
Major Shrimpton.
Captains:-John   Bristow, John Seymour, Thonas King,
Gilbert Primrose, Richard Russell, Charles Gorsuch, Andrew
Wheeler, Chichester Wrey, John Maurice, Sidney Highmes, Irby
Montague, William Ashton, William Evans, Joseph Wightman,
Thomas Hussey, Henry Worthly, John Newton, George Etherege,
William Dobbins, John Sydney, Lord North and Grey.
Lieutenants:-Thomas Ferrars, captain-lieutenant; Philip
Dormer, David Eyton, William Rawleigh, Charles Pilkes, John
Smith, Samuel Horsey, Anthony Hastings, Thomas Povey,
Henry Browne, Charles Lewis, Edward Austen, William Barrell,
John Shutt, Antonio Pujula, Newce Jenkins, John Pickering,
Charles Povey, William Wilks, William Berry, Richard Berkly,
John Croxton, Henry Smith, William Bodenham, William West,
Mathew Adams, John Wynne.
Ensigns:-Joseph Ferrars, Henry Disalnais, Edmund Feilding,
Thomas Browne, Robert Rich, Edward      Colston, Tristram
Dillington, Henry Crofts, John West, Dennis Pujula, Jeffrey De
Culant, Lawrence St. Loo, Vasr. Ryves, George Smith, George
Dockwra, Henry Manning, Nathaniel Hussey, Thomas Leyton,
Thomas Jordaine.
Staff officers:-James Smallwood, chaplain; Archibald Harris,
surgeon; Charles Povey, adjutant; Charles Lewis, adjutant;
John Bennet, quartermaster; John Bibby, quarter(master?);
Stephen Piper, solicitor.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, pp. 116,
117.
Same.     John Bonamy (continuation) in the office of greffier of the
Royal Court of Jersey. All usual fees &c.* —S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 352, pp. 33, 34.
22 July.   Captain Robert Dalzell to be town major of the town and
Windsor. garrison of Portsmouth (c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, pp.
48, 49.
Same.     Colonel John Gibson to be Lieutenant-Governor of the same (c.).
— Ibid, pp. 49, 50.
23 July.  Alexander Hardin to be lieutenant in Captain Steel's company
Hampton in Lord Lucas's regiment (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 48.
Court.
Samuel Gledhill to be lieutenant in Captain Robert Cecil's
company in same (n.c.).-Ibid.
27 July.   Thomas Mansel, gentleman, to be a 2nd lieutenant in Captain
Windsor. William Davidson's company of Colonel John Gibson's regiment of
foot (n.c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, p. 73.
Robert Cunningham, gentleman, to be ensign to LieutenantColonel Sampson La Lau in the regiment of foot commanded by
Colonel John Gibson (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 71.
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1702.
- July.    The Queen to the Governor, Bailiffs or their Lieutenants,
Windsor.       and Jurats and other Officers of Guernsey.
We continue Elisha Roland in his place of procureur in our
Royal Court of Guernsey. You shall receive him and administer
the usual oaths to him. —S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, pp. 67-8.*
Also note of same.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 352, p. 34.
AUGUST, 1702.
3 Aug.     John Twiddall to be captain of the company of Invalides
at Chester Castle (c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, p. 66.
John Moore to be lieutenant to same (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 62.
Thomas Lloyd to be captain of the company of Invalides at
Tinmouth Castle, Michael Hudson to be lieutenant of the same,
Samuel Gibson to be ensign to the same, and William Allison
to be ensign to the company of Invalides at Windsor Castle (all
n.c.).-Ibid, pp. 66, 67.
Thomas Shepherd to be ensign of the company of Invalides
at Chester Castle (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 73.
Antony Beverley to be captain of the company of Invalides
at Windsor Castle, and Francis Benson to be lieutenant of the
same (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 77.
Robert Wells to be lieutenant of the company of Invalides
now at Greenwich, commanded by Lawrence van Hachten (n.c.).
-Ibid, p. 56.
Lawrence van Hachten to be captain of the said company (n.c.).
-Ibid.
John Lyon to be ensign in the same (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 59.
6 Aug.     List of Officers in the 2nd [Ormond's] Troop of Horse Guards,
Windsor.       whose commissions were renewed, bearing this date.
The Duke of Ormond, captain and colonel.
George Jocelyne, comet and eldest major.
Lord Henry Scott, guidon and eldest major.
James Cornaud, Humphrey Gore, John Byng, exempts and
eldest captains.
William Wildegoos, John Denty, and John Bridger, brigadiers
and eldest lieutenants.
Roger Myvod, adjutant and lieutenant.
Thomas Brushfield, John Greenhill, Francis Rogers, Peter
Hardistie, sub-brigadiers and eldest comets.
Dr. Welbore Ellis, chaplain.
John Browne, surgeon.t-Ibid, p. 63.
6 Aug.    Robert, Lord Lucas, to continue in command of the regiment
Hampton of foot which he commanded under King William III (n.c.).Ibid, p. 65.
* This appointment is in a rather unusual form; and cannot be called either
a commission or a warrant.
t Mr. Dalton, English Army Lists (1902), Vol. V, pp. 20, 21, gives also the
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1702.
6 Aug.    Thomas Dore, Esq., to be lieutenant-colonel and captain of a
Hampton company in Lord Lucas' regiment of foot (n.c.). Renewed
Court.  commission to Thomas Garth to be major and captain of.a company in Lord Lucas' regiment of foot (n.c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 171, p. 84.
Benjamin Waide to be surgeon of the garrison of Hull (c.).Ibid, p. 64.
10 Aug.    John Pratt, town major of Berwick-on-Tweed (c.).-S.P. Dom.,
Windsor. Entry Book 170, p. 72.
Anthony Rodney, lieutenant-colonel of Holt's regiment of
Marines, and captain of a company therein (n.c.).-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 171, p. 57.
17 Aug.    John Tidcombe, Esq., to be brigadier over all the foot
Windsor. (n.c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, p. 75.
Sir Bevill Granville, Knight, to be governor and captain of
the castle and garrison of Pendennis in Cornwall (c.).-Ibid.
22 Aug.   John Swift, clerk, to be chaplain in Colonel George Villiers'
Bath or  regiment of Marines (n.c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, p. 87.
Windsor.
Edward Fox, to be colonel of a regiment of Marines and captain
of a company in the regiment (n.c.).
Philip Howard, to be lieutenant-colonel and captain of a
company in Fox's regiment (n.c.).
Jacob Bor to be major and captain of a company in the same.
(n.c.).
William Cooper to be surgeon of the garrison at Berwick-onTweed (n.c.). —Ibid, p. 92.
Renewal of George Villiers' commission as colonel of a regiment
of Marines with a company; and of Alexander Lutterell's and
Thomas Carew's, as lieutenant-colonel and captain and as major
and captain in the same, respectively (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 113.
22 Aug.    List of Officers of the Earl of Essex's Regiment of Dragoons,
Windsor.      whose renewed commissions bear this date.
Algernon, Earl of Essex, colonel; Henry Hawker, lieutenantcolonel; George Holgate, major.
Captains:-John Knox, Thomas Umfreville, George Colin.
Lieutenants:-John Farrar, captain-lieutenant; Andrew Fox,
John Cage, Robert Child, William Willson.
Cornets:-Arthur Capel, William Norcliff, John Owen, Walter
Phillips, Shelton Suckling, Edward Hawley.
Edward Head, chaplain; John Oliver, adjutant; John Ducroes,
surgeon.-Ibid, p. 90.
24 Aug.   Gideon Harvey to be physician of the Tower (c.).
Windsor.  Thomas Gardiner to be surgeon-general of the land forces (c.).
John England to be master butler at Chelsea Hospital (n.c.).Ibid, pp. 71, 72.




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1702.
24 Aug.    List of Officers in the First [Earl of Albemarle's] Troop of
Windsor.       Horse Guards, who were re-commissioned on this date.
Lieutenant-Colonels:-Bartholomew Ogilby and - Davenport.
John, Lord Lovelace, comet and eldest major.
Robert Dormer, guidon and eldest major.
Exempts and    eldest captains:-Francis Nicholls, James
Bringfield, William Barnes, Arthur Apsly.
Brigadiers'and eldest lieutenants:-John West, Ambrose Lock,
Guy Morin, Charles Dilkes.
Adjutant and lieutenant:-John Julian.
Sub-Brigadiers and eldest cornets:-Andrew Corbet, William
Needham, Edward Wright, John Barnes.
Edward Whitcomb chaplain.
John Browne, surgeon.
Note.-These commissions were countersigned by Nottingham.S.P.'Dom., Entry Book 171, p. 74.
Same.     Henry Holt, to continue in command of the regiment of
Marines, which he commanded under King William III (n.c.).Ibid, p. 75.
Same.     Same in the 2nd Regiment of Foot Guards, "called the Coldstreamers," commanded by the Rt. Hon. John, Lord Cutts,
whose commissions were renewed, bearing this date.
John, Lord Cutts, colonel; Brigadier William Mathews,
lieutenant-colonel; William Mathews, major.
Captains:-Edward   Braddock, Henry    Edgworth, Francis
Chantrell, Richard Holmes, Henry Morryson, Richard Cole,
Charles Salisbury, John Hobart, Thomas Moore, Thomas Pierce,
Edmund Revett.
Lieutenants:-Captain-Lieutenant Andrew   Bissett, Charles
Wakelin, William Stevenage, Arthur Cecill, Roger James, John
Wilson, Cornelius Swann, Jonathan Atkins, Daniel Woolett,
Francis Scawen; and    (grenadiers) Henry Rowles, Magnus
Kempenfelt and Butler Ramsden.
Ensigns:-Croft Pearce, Richard Gore, John Miller, Samuel
Masham, John Selwyn, William Windresse, William Bradbury,
James Allen, Anthony Vernatty
John King, chaplain; John Wyvel, adjutant; Charles Dakins
surgeon; John Acton, solicitor.
Note.-These commissions were countersigned by Nottingham,
Hedges being with the Queen at Bath. —Ibid, p. 80.
Also memorandum that the lieutenant-colonel and major are to
take their rank as colonels of foot, the captains and captainlieutenants as lieutenant-colonels, and the lieutenants as captains
from the date of their former commissions.-Ibid, p. 81.
Same.     Same of the Royal Regiment of Fuziliers whose commissions
were renewed [at this date].
Colonel Sir Charles Hara, Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher
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1702.
Captains:-Daniel Negus, James Lucas, Christopher Simpson,
Ralph  Turner, Francis Rainsford, John    Sabter, Richard
Fitzpatrick.
First-Lieutenants:-Captain-Lieutenant Marmaduke Rawdon,
Burrage Salter, William Kerr, George Wilson, Lewis Duterm,
John Crumpton, George Grove, Thomas Brydall, Joseph Jackson,
John Cooke.
Second-Lieutenants:-James Coughlane, James Wibault, John
Johnston, George Fairbrother, Jervaise Parker, Robert Campion,
James Foulke, Talmash, John Stone, Charles Copsey.
Note as to countersignature as in last list.-S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 171, p. 82.
24 Aug.    Richard Trevanion, Esq., to be lieutenant-governor of Pendennis
Windsor. Castle in Cornwall (c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, p. 76.
Hugh Boscawen, Esq., to be captain or keeper of St. Mosse's,
or St. Maws' Castle. To hold by himself or deputy (c.).-Ibid,
p. 77.
Dr. Thomas Lawrence to be physician-general of the land
forces.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, p. 81.
Henry Mordaunt to be colonel of the regiment of Marines,
now under his command. (Renewal of commission given by
King William (n.c.).
Lewis Mordaunt to be lieutenant-colonel and captain in the
same (n.c.).
John Aspin to be major and captain in same (n.c.).-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 171, p. 107.
25 Aug.    John Pulteney to be clerk of the delivery of all manner of "ordWindsor. nance of artillery, munition and other necessaries... appertaining
to our office of our Ordnance." Fee of 12d. a day, and usual
profits.  Clause for revoking his last grant of the office (w.).S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, pp. 77, 78.
James Lowther, Esq., keeper of the stores, ordnance and
ammunitions of war. Fee of 3s. a day and usual profits (w.).
-Ibid, p. 78.
William Scott to be 2nd lieutenant in Captain de Sedieres'
company in Colonel Holt's regiment of Marines (n.c.).-Ibid,
p. 79.
25 Aug.    Benjamin Martyr, gent., to be lieutenant to Captain John
St. James'. Knox in the Earl of Essex's Dragoons (n.c.).-S.P.,Dom.,
Entry Book 171, p. 95.
29 Aug.    Thomas Whetham to succeed Brigadier Zachary Tiffin as colonel
Bath.  of a regiment of Foot and captain therein (n.c.).*
Josuah Carpenter to be lieutenant-colonel and captain of a
company in Whetham's regiment (n.c.).
Blank commissions for two captains and two lieutenants in the
same (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 73.
* See below at 5 Sept., 1702. The name is spelt both' Whetham,' and Withbm,'




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1702.
SEPTEMBER, 1702.
1 Sept.    Sidney Godolphin, Esq., to be Governor of the islands of Scilly,
St. James'. alias Sully alias Sorlingues: Usual fees and privileges (c.).-S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 171, p. 172.
2 Sept.   Colonel John Gibson, to continue in his command (n.c.).Bath.  Ibid, p. 77.
James Gibson to be lieutenant under Captain Davidson in
Gibson's regiment (n.c.).-Ibid.
3 Sept.   Isaac Teal to be Apothecary General of the Army (c.).Bath.  Ibid, p. 75.
Edward Jones to be major and captain in Wetham's regiment
of foot (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 77.
5 Sept.    Colonel Thomas Wetham    to be colonel of the regiment
Bath.  lately commanded by Brigadier Tiffin, deceased, and now
in the Leeward Islands. In case of the absence or death of
the Governor he is to act as Governor there, according to the
commission and instructions given to the present Governor (c.).
-Ibid, p. 76.
7 Sept.   Colonel Thomas Collier to be Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey
Bath.  and of the forts and garrisons therein (c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 170, p. 81.
Same.     Commissions or notes of commissions, in the 3rd (Lord
Rivers') troop of Horse Guards.
John Baines, Esq., to be lieutenant and lieutenant-colonel (c.).
Brigadier Hatton Compton to be lieutenant and lieutenantcolonel (n.c.).
Louis Belleau to be comet and major (c.).
Charles, Lord Paston, to be guidon and major (n.c.).
Armand de la Bastide to be exempt and eldest captain (c.).
William Holmes, Francis Savage and Thomas Earl, in each
case to be exempt and eldest captain (all n.c.).
Henry Snary to be brigadier and eldest lieutenant (c.).
Charles Williams, Raimund Hensbergh and Daniel Mason, each
to be brigadier and eldest lieutenant of the same (all n.c.).
Charles Dakeyne to be sub-brigadier and eldest cornet (c.).
James Turnbull, Henry Sutton and Richard Barham, each
to be sub-brigadier and eldest comet (all n.c.).
Henry Miget to be adjutant and lieutenant (c.).
Latimer Ridly to be surgeon (c.).
Ibid, pp. 84-92.
Same.     The Earl of Carlisle, who is Earl Marshal of England during the
minority of the Duke of Norfolk, to be Governor of the City,
Town and Castle of Carlisle and of the forts &c. there (c.).
-Ibid, pp. 92-93.
24 Sept.   Andrew Day to be quartermaster to Colonel Thomas SaunderBath.  son's regiment of Marines (n.c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book
171, p. 86.
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28 Sept.   John Levesay, Esq., to be colonel to the late Colonel Brewer's
Bath.   regiment of foot at Jamaica and captain of a company in
same (n.c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, p. 84.
- Foxley to be lieutenant and captain of a company in
Colonel Levesay's regiment of foot (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 85.
Charles Moreau to be ensign in Captain Thomas Kitson's
company in Lord Lucas' regiment of foot (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 87.
OCTOBER, 1702.
1 Oct.    William Mathews to be lieutenant-colonel of the 2nd (Coldstreamers) regiment of Foot Guards and captain of a company
therein, with rank as a colonel of foot (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 142.
Edward Braddock to be major and captain of a company
in same, with rank as a colonel of foot (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 146.
10 Oct.    Peter Minshull to be major to Colonel Levesay's regiment of
Windsor. foot and captain of a company in the same regiment (n.c.).Ibid, p. 85.
12 Oct.   John Fetherstonhaugh to be Lieutenant-Governor of the City,
St. James'. Town and Castle of Carlisle and the fortifications there (c.).S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, p. 118.
19 Oct.    Royal Order.
St. J&mes.  This establishment of a Commissary General of the musters,
provisions and victuals to the forces in the West Indies shall
commence on 19 October, 1702.
Hezekiah Marshall, Commissary of all three [is to have], for
self and clerk, 4001. a year.-Signed by Lords Godolphin and
Nottingham.-Ibid, p. 112.
Hezekiah Marshall to be Commissary General of the musters,
and provisions for all the regiments in or going to the West Indies
under the Earl of Peterborough (c).
Also note that this was afterwards changed and Marshall made
Commissary of provisions only.-Ibid, p. 113.
25 Oct.    Richard Harrison to be coret to Captain Chas. Dormer in the
St. James'. Earl of Oxford's Horse Guards (n.c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171,
p. 93.
John Wroth to be captain-lieutenant in same (n.c.).-Ibid.
Randolph Bath to be lieutenant in Kirke's troop in same (n.c.).
-Ibid, p. 94.
John Lloyd to be quartermaster to Binge's troop in same.-Ibid.
26 Oct.    William Hawkins, clerk, to be chaplain to the Tower (c.). In
St. James'. form of a military commission, enjoying obedience to orders
&c.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, p. 107.
Same.     Earl of Marlborough as Master-General of the Ordnance.
(1) To provide at once eight sets of harness for men for drawing
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(2) To provide two hundred fuzees of the pattern delivered
to him by the Earl of Peterborough (w.).
(3) The arms of two troops of Brigadier Ross' regiment of
dragoons in Ireland were carried beyond sea to arm the additional
men of the other six troops of the said regiment, which are serving
abroad but nevertheless remain on the establishment here.
Three troops of the Earl of Arran's regiment were disarmed in
the same way [to supply the other troops going abroad]. These
troops have been re-armed from the Ordnance stores in Ireland.
You are to allow to the officers of those stores the value of such
arms when estimating the sum which they are to pay you for
new arms (w.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, pp. 108, 109, 110.
NOVEMBER, 1702.
1 Nov.    John Cross to be lieutenant in   Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac
st. James'. Foxley's company in Colonel John Levesay's regiment of foot
(n.c.).-Ibid, p. 138.
Same.     Colonel Andrew Bissett to succeed to Thomas Peirce as captain
of a company of grenadiers in the Coldstream Guards, with rank
as a lieutenant-colonel (c.).-Ibid, pp. 140, 141.
Same entered again.-Ibid, p. 143.
John Hill to succeed Brigadier William  Mathews as captain
in the 2nd (Coldstream) Guards (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 112.
2 Nov.    Charles Wakelyn to be captain-lieutenant in the 2nd (ColdSt. James'. stream) Guards, with rank as lieutenant-colonel.
William Windcross to be lieutenant to Captain and LieutenantColonel John Hill in same, with rank as captain of foot.
Richard Gore same in Captain and Colonel Edmond Rivet's
company in same, with rank as captain of foot.
Edward Mathews to be ensign in Captain and LieutenantColonel Henry Morison's company in same.
John Robinson to be ensign in Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel
William Mathews' company in same (all n.c.).-Ibid, pp. 143, 144.
John Wroth, Esq., as captain of horse. [No particular regiment*.] (c.)-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, p. 93.
10 Nov.    Sir Richard Vernon to be lieutenant to Captain Richard
st. James'. Holmes in the Coldstream Guards, with rank as captain (n.c.).
-Ibid, p. 94.
17 Nov.    Colonel John Hales, to be Governor of "our Royal Hospital
Whitehall. near Chelsea " (c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, p. 129.
24 Nov.    Nathaniel Golfin, gentleman, to be lieutenant of Captain
St. James'. St. John Webb's company of Grenadiers in the marine regiment
of foot commanded by Viscount Shannon (n.c.).
Winwood Masham    to be adjutant in same (n.c.).-Ibid, p.
114.
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1702.
24 Nov.    Mathew Biggs to be lieutenant to Captain Oliver Luke in
the Prince Consort's regiment of foot commanded by LieutenantGeneral Charles Churchill (n.c.).
Richard Abbington to be captain-lieutenant in the same (n.c.).
Gregory Beake to be ensign to Captain John Hetley in same
(n.c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, pp. 95, 96.
24 Nov.    Earl of Marlborough; to issue from    the Ordnance such
St. James'. ordnance, carriages, shot, powder and other stores of war as
were delivered for the defence and security of Bridlington in
Yorkshire in the last war, taking the usual indents for same (w.).S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, p. 115.
24 Nov.    Richard Harwood, captain in the Prince's regiment of foot (n.c.).
Whitehall.  Thomas Harrison, ensign in General Churchill's company in
same (n.c.).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, p. 97.
DECEMBER, 1702.
2 Dec.    Thomas Sutton, gentleman, to be first lieutenant to Captain
St. James'. Francis Blynman in Colonel George Villiers' regiment of Marines
(n.c.).
John Anderson, gentleman; first lieutenant to Captain Robert
Hedges in same (n.c.).
Thomas Chudleigh, gentleman; second lieutenant to Captain
Blakeney in same (n.c.).
John Cumming, gentleman; second lieutenant to Captain William
Courtenay in same (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 96.
15 Dec.    John Beckwith; first lieutenant in Captain B. Buller's company
in Colonel George Villiers' regiment of Marines (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 98.
William  Brockhurst; 2nd lieutenant in Lieutenant-Colonel
Lutterell's company in the same (n.c.).-Ibid.
21 Dec.    Henry Seymour to be ensign in Captain Bissett's company
in Brigadier Seymour's regiment of foot (n.c.).-Ibid.
John Portlock, Esq., to be captain of the company late
Captain Edward Devenish's in Colonel Ventris Colenbine's
regiment of foot (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 101.
George Beavoir to be captain-lieutenant in Brigadier William
Seymour's regiment of foot (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 106.
Thomas Nortcliff to succeed Captain Henry Durell as captain
in Brigadier William Seymour's Royal regiment of foot (n.c.).Ibid, p. 107.
Nicholas Grill, clerk, to be chaplain in the same (n.c.).-Ibid.
John Warre, Esq., to be captain in the room of Captain Benjamin
Buller in Colonel George Villiers' regiment of Marines (c.).
-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, p. 120.
23 Dec.    Richard Mullins to succeed Captain Darby as captain in
St. James'. Colonel Edward Fox's regiment of Marines (n.c.).-S.P. Dom.,
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23 Dec.    Daniel Sinault to be captain-lieutenant in the colonel's company
St. James'. in Colonel Edward Fox's regiment of Marines (n.c.).
Shershaw Cary to be second-lieutenant in same (n.c.).
Stephen Saunderson to be second-lieutenant in Captain William
Lee's company of grenadiers in the same (n.c.).
John Doucett to be lieutenant to Captain Humfrey Cory in
the same (n.c.).
James Stuart to be adjutant to the'same (n.c.).-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 171, p. 99.
Marmaduke Royden to succeed Captain John Salter as captain
in the Royal regiment of Fusilliers (n.c.).-Ibid, p. 98.
Jervis Parker to be captain-lieutenant in same (n.c.).-Ibid.
John Farmer to be lieutenant to Captain Daniel Negus in same
(n.c.).-Ibid.
Richard Baynes to be quartermaster in same (n.c.).-Ibid.
TABLE IV.
PART I.
LORD LIEUTENANTS.
20 May.    Great Seal &c. constituting the Duke of Northumberland
St. James'. Lord Lieutenant of Surrey. Clause for revoking his last commission as such (w.)*.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, pp. 11-12.
30 May.    Great Seal appointing the Earl of Abingdon Lord Lieutenant
St. James'. of Oxfordshire; with a clause revoking the appointment of
Thomas, Lord Wharton (w.).-Ibid, p. 12.
Also notes of the like warrants for commissions for:Lord Craven, Berks; with revocation of the Earl of Abingdon's
appointment.
Lord Pawlett, Devon and Exeter, with revocation of the Earl
of Stamford's appointment.
The Marquis of Normanby, North Riding of York, with a
revocation of Viscount Irwin's appointment.-Ibid, pp. 12, 13.
9 June.    Lord Cheyne; Bucks, during Earl of Bridgwater's minority.
St. James'. Revocation of Lord Wharton's patents (w.).-S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 352, p. 18; and (n.w.) S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, p. 27.
11 June.   Richard, Earl of Scarborough; Northumberland and Newcastle;
St. James', the same, Co. Durham; Charles, Earl of Manchester; Huntingdon.
(all n.w.).-Ibid, p. 22.
15 June.   Charles, Viscount Townsend; county of Norfolk and city and
St. James'. county of Norwich (n.w.).
William, Duke of Devonshire; Derbyshire (n.c.).
William, Lord Paget; Staffordshire (n.w.).
Thomas, Earl of Pembroke, &c.; Wilts. (n.w.).
Same, in the several counties of Pembroke, Carmarthen,
Cardigan, Brecknock, Glamorgan, Radnor, the county and town
* Tne letters (c), (n.c.), (w.), (n.w.) have the same meanings as in the last Table.




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1702.
of Haverfordwest, the town and county of the borough of
Carmarthen and Monmouthshire (n.w.).
Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury; Herefordshire (n.w.).  Same in
Worcestershire and county and city of Worcester (n.w.).
John, Earl of Rutland; Leicestershire (n.w.).
Charles, Earl of Burlington; West Riding of Yorkshire, City
of York and " the Ansty of York." (n.w.).
Algernon; Earl of Essex; Hertfordshire (n.w.). Richard, Earl
Rivers; Cheshire and Chester (n.w.). Francis, Earl of Bradford;
Salop (n.w.). Wriothesley, Duke of Bedford; Middlesex (n.w.).,
Bedfordshire (n.w.), and Cambridgeshire (n.w.).-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 170, pp. 27-30.
Earl of Peterborough, re-appointed to Northants (w.).-S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 171, p. 57.
15 June.   Duke of Newcastle; Notts, Nottingham and Yorkshire (E.R.).
St. James'. Duke of Ormond, Somerset. Lord Cornwallis, Suffolk. Earl of
Lindsey, Lincolnshire and Lincoln. Earl of Oxford, Essex (all
w.).-Ibid, pp. 1, 2, 4, 5.
Same.     Lord Sherrard; Rutland. Earl of Dorset, Sussex. Earl of
Northampton, Warwickshire and Coventry (all w.).-Ibid, pp.
13, 14, 91.
Earl of Carlisle; Cumberland and Westmoreland.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 350, p. 244.
20 June.   Earl of Abingdon, Lord Lieutenant "in all the hamlets of our
st. James'. Tower of London."  Clause revoking Lord Lucas' patent (n.w.).
-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, p. 38.
23 June.   Charles, Duke of Bolton; Dorsetshire and Poole (n.w.).-Ibid,
St. James'. p. 29.
19 Dec.    Scroope, Earl of Bridgwater; Bucks. Usual powers (w.).Ibid, p. 119.
PART II.
DEPUTY LIEUTENANTS.
These are entries in the Entry Books, which state that the Queen
has approved the noblemen and gentlemen named as
Deputy-Lieutenants for the cities, counties, liberties, &c.,
mentioned, and that the Lord Lieutenant of the county is
to issue out their deputations accordingly.
22 June.   Bucks: Lord Lieutenant, Lord Cheyne.
Whitehall.  Baronets:-Sir Dennis Hampson, Sir Peter Tyrrell, Sir Thomas
Lee, Sir Thomas Tyrrell, Sir Henry Seymour, Sir John Varney,
Sir John Chester, Sir Richard Temple, Sir Edmond Denton,
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Sir James Etheridge, Kt.
John Thurbarne and James Selby, Sergeants at Law.
Esquires:-The Hon. Henry Pagett, James Herbert, Richard
Beeke, Thomas Pigott, Edmund Waller, Roger Chapman, Francis
Duncombe, Jervaise Piercepont, Richard Ingoldsby, Stephen
Waller, Roger Penn, Roger Price, Johnshall Cross, Richard
Hampden, Niccols Hackett, Edward Bates, - Greenfield, jun.,
Henry Andrews, Edward Lane.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170,
pp. 32, 33.
25 June.  Bucks: Lord Lieutenant, Lord Cheyne.
Whitehall.  Lord James Cavendish and Lord Shelburne appear. Baronets
and Knights:-The same as those above, with the addition of
Sir John Connaway and Sir William Boyer.
Serjeants-at-law as before.
Esquires:-Same as before, with the addition of Browne Willis
and Stephen Waller, but without Edward Lane.-Ibid, pp.
38-9.
29 June.   Cornwall: Lord Lieutenant, John Granvile, Esq.
Whitehall.  The Bishop of Exeter
John, Lord Arundell of Trerise.
The Hon. Francis Roberts; the Hon. Francis Godolphin.
Baronets:-Sir William  Godolphin, Sir Richard Vyvyan,
Sir John St. Aubyn, Sir William Coriton, Sir John Mowlesworth.
Knights:-Sir Joseph Tredenham, Sir John Cotton.
Esquires:-Major-General Trelawny, Hugh Boscawen, Charles
Trevanion of Carhais, Richard Edgecombe, John Speccott, Daniel
Ellyot, Jonathan Rashleigh, Dennys Glyn, James Buller, Thomas
Whaddon, James Praed, Edmund Prideaux, Francis Bassett,
Renatus [?] Bellot, Henry Dorrell, Henry Manaton, John Buller
of Morvall, Samuel Trefusis, Walter Moyle, Alexander Pendarvis.
-Ibid, pp. 46-7.
30 June.   Oxfordshire: Lord Lieutenant, the Earl of Abingdon.
Whitehall.  The Earl of Anglesey, Viscount Say and Seal, Francis, Lord
Gulford [Guilford], Thomas, Lord Coningsby (of Ireland).
The Hon. Captain H. Bertie.
Baronets:-Sir John Cope, Sir Robert Jenkinson, Sir Fairemeadow Penyston, Sir John Walter, Sir William Glyn, Sir John
Doyly, Sir Robert Dashwood, Sir Edward Cobb.
Knights:-Sir Edward Norreys, Sir Henry Johnson, Sir William
Whitelock, Sir Edmund Warcupp, Sir Sebastian Smith, Sir Simon
Harcourt.
Esquires:-James Herbert, Philip Wenman, Thomas Cartwright,
John Stone, Francis Clarke, Humphry Wicham, Thomas Rowney,
Richard Libb, Carleton Stone.-Ibid, pp. 47, 48.
Same.    Tower Hamlets: Lord Lieutenant, the Earl of Abingdon.
Lieutenant-General Churchill.
Sir Henry Johnson, Sir Samuel Garrard, Bart., Sir Wm. Prichard,
Sir Thomas Davall, Sir Thomas Cooke, Sir Jonathan Andrews.
Esquires:-John Farwell, William Johnson, Robert Bateman,
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1702.
Francis Tyson, John Bromwell, Edward Ambrose, Thomas Lane,
Robert Constable, Robert Hastings, Thomas Blackmore, jun.,
William Benson, George Ford.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, pp.
48, 49.
25 July.   Lincolnshire: Lord Lieutenant, Earl of Lindsey.
Whitehall.  Bennet Lord Sherrard, the Hon. Charles Bertie, the Hon.
Peregrine Bertie, the Hon. James Bertie.
Baronets:-Sir John Tyrrwhit, Sir Thomas Willoughby
Sir William Buck, Sir John Thorrold, Sir William Massingberd.
Knight:-Sir Thomas Meers.
Esquires:-Hon. Charles Dymoke, Peregrine Bertie of Gedney,
Vincent Grantham, Christopher Hales, Reuben Parke, Peter
Short, Daniel de Leigne, Christopher Berrisford, Henry Heron,
William Ambler, Wynn, Francis Fane.-Ibid, pp. 69, 70.
4 Aug.    Berks: Lord Lieutenant, Lord Craven.
Whitehall.  Sir Humphry Forester, Sir John Stonehouse, Sir Henry Johnson,
Sir Jacob Banks.
Esquires:-Thomas Doleman, Thomas Fettiplace, Richard Jones,
Henry Kingsmill, Thomas Garrard, Edmund Pye, George Pitt.Ibid, p. 71.
Same.     Norfolk  and  Norwich: Lord Lieutenant, Lord Viscount
Townsend.
For Norwich division.Baronets:-Sir Richard Berney, Sir Roger Potts, Sir Edward
Ward, Sir Francis Bickley, Sir William Cooke, Sir John Holland,
Sir Robert Kemp.
Esquires: Ath. Windham and John Harbord.
For Lynn and Walsingham division.Baronets:-Sir John Wodehouse, Sir Robert Bacon, Sir Ralph
Hare, Sir Jacob Astley.
Esquires:-The Hon. Roger Townshend, Edmund Woodhouse
and Robert Walpole.
For the City of Norwich.Esquires:-Robert Davy, Recorder; Arthur Branthwaite,
steward; Thomas Wisse, Francis Gardiner, Philip Stebbing,
Thomas Blofeld and Edward Clarke, Esqs.-Ibid, pp. 94, 95.
7 Aug.    Herts: Lord Lieutenant, the Earl of Essex.
Windsor.  Baronets:-Sir Robert Jocelin, Sir William Cooper, Sir Robert
Austen, Sir John Bucknall, Sir Ralph Rattcliffe, Sir William
Lytton, Sir Thomas Bide, Sir Edmond Anderson.
Knight: —Sir John Spencer.
Esquires:-John Plummer, William  Gore, Thomas Halsey,
Silas Titus, George Hadley, Charles Caesar, Ralph Freeman,
Henry Kelligrew, Robert Cecill, William Munton, John Charleton,
-Woolaston.-Ibid, pp. 95, 96.
11 Aug.   Suffolk and Ipswich: Lord Lieutenant, Lord Cornwallis.
Windsor.  Baronets:-Sir Thomas Felton, Sir Thomas Spring, Sir John
Castleton, Sir John Duke, Sir Robert Kemp, Sir Dudley Cullum,




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Sir Gervis Elwis, Sir Samuel Barnardiston, Sir Samuel Clarke,
Sir Richard Allin alias Anguish.
Knights:-Sir George Wennive, Sir Richard Gipps, Sir John
Robinson.
Esquires:-The Hon. William Maynard, Charles Fox, John
Harvey, Samuel Barnardiston, Richard Norton, Christopher
Calthrop, Thomas Glemham, William Cropply, Charles Whitaker,
Thomas Neale, Roger Kerrington, Richarcd Porter, Daniel Harvey.
For Ipswich town and hamlets: Charles Whittaker, Richard
Pupplet and Charles Wright. —S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, p. 60.
18 Aug.    Huntingdon: Lord Lieutenant, Earl of Manchester.
Whitehall.  Baronets:-Sir Robert Bernard and Sir John Conyers.
Messrs. Dryden, Proby, Biggs, Torkington, Pocklington, Gere
and Pedley.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, pp. 96, 97.
25 Aug.    Surrey: Lord Lieutenant, the Duke of Northumberland.
Whitehall.  Hon. Heneage Finch.
Knights:-Sir Walter St. Johns, Sir Francis Vincent, Sir William
Hoskins, Sir Richard Onslow, Sir Christopher Buckle, Sir James
Clarke, Sir Charles Hedges, Sir Walter Clarges, Sir William Gore,
Sir Samuel Dashwood, Sir John Nicholas.
Esquires:-Edward Harvey, John Weston, Denzil Onslow,
George Vernon, George Woodriffe, Morgan Randall, Peter Hussey,
Thomas Molineux, Lewis Oglethorpe, Philip Frowde, James
Zouch, William Pellett, William Hewer, Urban Hall, William
Draper, Thomas Lant, Leonard Wessell, Arthur Moore, Shem.
Bridges, Charles Bloodworth [or Bloothworth], John Mitchell,
Nicholas Carew, William Salmon.-Ibid, pp. 97, 98.
Borough of Southwark: Lord Lieutenant, the same.
Esquires:-Anthony Bowyer, George Meggott, Samuel Lewin,
Francis Wilkinson, Charles Cox, John Lade, Stephen Stiles,
Lawrence Parker, Edmond Reading, Thomas Malin, Henry
Bartlett.-Ibid, pp. 98-9.
31 Aug.   Dorsetshire: Lord Lieutenant, the Duke of Bolton.
Bath.    Sir Nathaniel Napier, Bart., and Thomas Strangways, Thomas
Trenchard, Thomas Erle, George Pitt, Henry Portman, Thomas
Turberville, William Strowde, Richard Fownes, Thomas Chafing,
Richard Broderip, Robert Brown of Frampton, John Williams of
Herringston, Samuel Rolls, John Gould, Thomas Freke, Tregonell[?]
Frampton, Maurice Ashley, Edward Hooper, William Bennet,
John Pleydale Morton, Henry Seymer, John Mitchell, Gyles
Frampton, and William Pyle, Esqs.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171,
p. 78.
Same.     Southampton [Hants]: Lord Lieutenant, the same.
Lord William Powlet, the Rt. Hon. John Smith, Sir Robert
Worseley, Sir John St. Barbe, and George Pitt, Richard Norton,
George Rodney Bridges, Anthony Henlye, Esqs., Sir Dewey
Bunckley, Bt., and Thomas Jervoyce, Henry Dawly, Richard
Holt, Richard Chaundler, John Fawconer, Thomas Hoby, Robert
Mitchell, and Norton Powlet, Esqs.-Ibid, p. 79.




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1702.
31 Aug.    Yorkshire (W.R.) and York: Lord Lieutenant, the Earl of
Burlington.
Viscount Downe and Lord Fairfax.
Baronets:-Sir Henry Goodrick, Sir Godfrey Copley, Sir John
Kay, Sir George Cooke, Sir William Ramsden, Sir John Wentworth,
Sir Lionel Pilkington, Sir William Reresby, Sir John Bland, Sir
George Tempest, Sir Rowland Wynn, Sir Walter Hawksworth.
Knights:-Sir William Lowther, Sir Jonathan Jenings,
Sir Edward Blacket.
Esquires:-Henry Fairfax, John Lister of Bawtry, Isaac
Knight, Robert Byerly, John lRamsden, Henry Currer, John
Bradshaw of Brampton, John Ayslaby, William   Vavasor of
Weston, Thomas Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse, Robert
Benson, Sydney Wortley, Robert Monckton, Welbury Norton,
Robert Ferrand, Cyril Arthington, Christopher Tankred, Thomas
Harrison, Edward Thompson of Marston, Thomas Fawks,
Ambrose Pudsay, Thomas Lister, Christopher Stockdale Waters,
John Gill, John Moyser, William Wentworth, Walter Calverley,
Samuel Mellish, William Ingram of Thorpe, - Parker of Brooseholme Hall.
For the City and Aynsty of York: Sir William Robinson, Bt.,
Toby Jenkins, Thomas Moseley, Roger Shakleton.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 170, pp. 79-81.
3 Sept.   Kent: Lord Lieutenant, the Earl of Romney.
Whitehall.  Thomas, Lord Fairfax.
Baronets:-Sir Henry Palmer, Sir Thomas Roberts, Sir George
Rivers, Sir Thomas Colepeper, Sir Thomas Knatchbull, Sir
Thomas Hales, Sir Stephen Leonard, Sir Bassill Dixwell,
Sir Robert Austen, Sir Richard Sandys, Sir John Shaw,
Sir William Langhorne, Sir Francis Head, Sir James
Oxenden, Sir John Mordant, Sir George Chute, Sir Thomas
Twisden, Sir Philip Boteler, Sir Chomley Deering, Sir Robert
Marsham (Kt. and Bt.).
Knights:-Sir George Rooke, Sir Cloudesley Shovell.
Esquires:-The Hon. H. Finch, William Campion, Leonard
Diggs, Humphrey   Stiles, James Herbert, Thomas Ryder,
Colonel William Broadnax, Colonel William Delawne, George
Sayers, Colonel Henry Lee, William Brockman, John Taylor,
Jacob Desbovery, Majors Nordath Rand, Thomas Moyle, Ralph
Buffkin and John Buggins, Colonel Edward King, Major John
Cason, Robert Crawford, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Bargrave,
Thomas Taylor, Thomas Bliss, Captain John Morgan, William
Cage, Captain Thomas Whorwood, Samuel Mills, John Lynch,
Robert Bretton, Mathew Aylmer.-Ibid, pp. 82, 83.
12 Sept.   Middlesex, Cambridgeshire, the Isle of Ely and Bedfordshire
Bath.  The Lord Lieutenant is in each case the Duke of Bedford.
Middlesex: Henry, Lord Coleraine, the Hon. Philip Howard,
the Hon. Henry Pagett, Sir John Wolstenholme, Sir Henry
Ashurst, Sir Henry Johnson, Sir Jeremy Sambrooke, Sir John
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Clarges; and Hy. Hawley, Chas. Bonython, John Pultney, Craven
Payton, Francis Brend, Richard Shoreditch, Warwick Lake,
Anthony Row, William Pultney, Joseph Offley, John Herbert,
Alexander Pitfield, John Perry, Richard Ryder, John Jennings,
William Stone, John Charleton, Nicholas Wolstenholme, Hugh
Smithson, Joseph Joreye, Nicholas Goodwin, John Austin,
Francis Tyson, John Smith of Hackney, Thomas Taylor, John
Bond and Portman Seymour, Esqs.
Cambridgeshire: The Earl of Orford, John, Lord Cutts,
Sir Richard Bennet, Sir Robert Cotton, Sir Samuel Clarke, Sir
Paul Whitchcock, Sir Rusholt Collen, Sir Henry Pickering,
Sir Cane James, Sir Christopher Hatton, Sir John Cotton, Barts.,
and John Bennet, Wm. Russell, John Willis, Ant. Thompson,
Matthew  Hallworthy, Ralph Lane, Thomas Slater, Granado
Piggott, John Millecent, Altem Smith, John Bromley and Thomas
Dolton, Esqs.
Isle of Ely: Sir Roger Jennings, and Sigismond Traford, Thomas
Edwards, Josias Colvill, John Twells, David Rowland, Hugh
Underwood, Henry Yates, Nicholas Mallabor, Robert Apprice,
and John Pamphlin, Esqs.
Bedfordshire: Edward, Lord Russell, Sir John Napier,
Sir John Burgoyne, Sir William Gostwick, Sir Philip Monnoux,
Barts.; Sir John Osborne, Sir William Milard [Knights]; Charles
Leigh, William Boteler, Thomas Browne, William Duncombe,
Mathew Dennis, John Harvey, Samuel Bedford, William Farrar,
sen., William  Ferrar, jun., William  Butcher, Thomas Wilde,
Charles Gery, Louis Monnoux, William    Hillersdon, Morris
Abbott and Lewis Dive, Esqs.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170,
pp. 99-101.
12 Sept.  Yorkshire (E.R.): Lord Lieutenant, the Duke of Newcastle..
Bath.    Henry, Viscount Downe.
Baronets:-Sir Charles Hotham, Sir William    Strickland,
Sir Griffith Boynton, Sir William St. Quintin, Sir Watkinson
Payler, Sir Thomas Rudston, Sir John Legard, Sir Robert
Hildyard.
Knights:-Sir Michael Wharton, Sir Mathew Peirson, Sir
Richard Osbaldeston, Sir James Bradshaw, Sir Robert Constable.
Esquires:-Ralph Wharton, Tobias Jenkins, Hugh Bethell,
Robert Monkton, Richard Darley, Edward Barnard, Ingoldby
Daniel, William Gee, William Osbaldeston, John Moyser, John
Ramsden, Fairfax   Norcliffe, James  Heblethwait, Thomas
Hesketh, Thomas Stillington, Yarborough Constable, Thomas
Micklethwayte, William Thompson, William Dawson, Edward
Thompson, Thomas Langley of Grimston, William Dickinson,
William Headlam and William Lister, Esqs.-S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 171, p. 83.
Same.     Nottinghamshire: Lord Lieutenant, the Duke of Newcastle.
William, Lord Byron; Scroop, Viscount Howe.
Baronets:-Sir Francis Molyneux, Sir Hardolph Wastneys,
Sir Willoughby Hickman, Sir Thomas Willoughby, Sir Thomas
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Sir William Stanhope, Kt.; and William Pierrepont, John
White, George Savile, John Thornhagh, Charles Stanhope,
Thomas Hewet, William    Burnel, Patrick Chaworth, Derry
Molyneux, Robert Sachevirell*, George Gregory, Robert Porter,
Edward Mollish, William Gylby, Julius Hutchinson, John Digby,
William Cartwright of Normanton, William Cartwright of
Ossinton, William Saville, Thomas White, St. Andrew Thornhagh
and John Stringer, Esqs.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, pp. 83, 84.
3 Oct.    Gloucestershire: Lieutenant, the Earl of Berkeley.
Viscount Tracey, James, Lord Dursly.
Baronets:-Sir John Guise, Sir Ralph Dutton, Sir Richard Cox,
Sir Edward Fust, Sir William Kyle.
Knights:-Sir G. Hanger, Sir Francis Russell, Sir Benjamin
Bathurst.
Esquires:-Right Hon. J. How, William Blathwait, Maynard
Colchester, Edward Cooke, Nathaniel Stephens, Samuel Barker,
Thomas Stephens, sen., of Lypiat, Thomas Stephens of Sodbury,
Edward Stephens of Lygrove, Mathew Ducy Moreton, William
Trye, Richard Dodeswell, Kaniard Delabere, John Berkeley,
Richard How, Robert Pleydall, James Thynne, Theophilus
Leigh, John Bridgeman, John Higgford, Philip Shepherd, Edmund
Chamberlayne, Reynen Jones, Tracey Katchmayd, George
Lloyd, Thomas Morgan, Henry Probert, Samuel Trotman, Henry
Creswick, Thomas Stephens, jun., of Lypiat, Thomas Chester,
Reginald Pindar, John Jacob, Edward Southwell, William
Kingscote, George Smith, John Marriott, Edmund Bray, Mathew
Hales, Francis Windham, Henry Ireton, John Stafford. —S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 170, pp. 102-4.
6 Oct.    City of Gloucester: Lord Lieutenant, the same.
Whitehall.  Thomas Webb, Nicholas Webb, John Heyet, Robert Payne,
Thomas Browne, and - Rodway, Aldermen.-Ibid, p. 104.
Same.     City of Bristol: Lord Lieutenant, the same.
Baronet:-Sir John Duddleston.
Knights:-Sir Thomas Day, Sir William Daines, Sir John
Hawkins.
Esquires:-Robert Yate, William Jackson, Thomas Edwards,
Samuel Wallis, William Swymmer, Richard Layne, John
Blackwell, John Batcheler, William  Lewis, John Sanson.Ibid, p. 105.
19 Oct.   Rutland: Lord Lieutenant, Lord Sherard.
Whitehall.  Baronets:-The Hon. John Noell [8ic], Sir Thomas Mackworth,
Sir Thomas Barker.
Esquires:-Philip Sherard, Edward Browne, John Wingfield,
Charles Tryon, Samuel Tryon, Samuel Browne, Bartholomew
Burton, Thomas Burwell, Richard Halford, Edward Horseman.Ibid, p. 128.
I6Nuv.    Essex: Lord Lieutenant, the Earl of Oxford.
White':all.  Baronets and knights:-Sir F. Masham, Sir Charles Barrington,
Sir Isaac Rebow, Sir Cane James.
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Esquires:-Francis  Barrington,  John   Conyers, Benjamin
Mildway, Edward Luther, Benjamin Desborow, John Cummins.
-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, p. 95.
6 Dec.    Tower Hamlets: Lord Lieutenant, the Earl of Abingdon.
Whitehall.  William  Bridges, James Craggs, Philip Whiteman, Edwd.
Winnington, Wm. Northey and Edmund Noble, Esqs. -Ibid, p. 97.
10 Dec.    Derby: Lord Lieutenant, the Duke of Devonshire.
St. James'.  Baronets:-Sir John Harpur, Sir Philip Gell, Sir Charles Pye,
Sir William Gresley and Sir Henry Every.
Esquires:-Samuel Pierpont, Robert Wilmott, William Eyre,
Thomas Cooke, Samuel Pole, John Spateman, Robert Burdett,
John Curson,, Godfrey Clarke, Thomas Stanhope.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 170, p. 119.
11 Dec.    Cornwall: Lord Lieutenant, Rt. Hon. J. Granville.
Whitehall.  Sir Richard Carew, Bt., and John Nicols of Trewarne and John
Tredenham, Esqs.-Ibid, p. 134.
19 Dec.    Norwich: Lord Lieutenant, Viscount Townsend.
Whitehall.  Waller Bacon, Esq.-Ibid, p. 120.
TABLE V.
IRISH WARRANTS.
These are entries of warrants addressed to the Lord Lieutenant
or Chief Governor for the time being, o the Lords Justices,
of Ireland. Where the warrants are for payment of
money, they are countersigned by Lord Treasurer Godolphin;
in other cases by a Secretary of State, almost always
Nottingham. The warrants are entered in S.P. Ireland,
Entry Book 3, &c., and entries of them are also in nearly
every case preserved in the Signet Office Books (Nos. 14, 15,
et seq.). The following table notes the addressee of the
warrant and its date and substance, and gives the references
to the books from which the entries are taken. A few of the
most important and interesting letters or warrants (see e.g. 13
and 24 March, above, pp. 5, 10), seemed to deserve a place
in the body of the Calendar, and are therefore placed there;
as is the Military establishment for Ireland for 1702.
31 March.   Lord Lieutenant and Lords Justices.
St. James'.  For a bounty of 1,0001. to be paid to Major-General Thomas
Earle* in satisfaction of the cost of his recent journey to Ireland,
and expenses there in the Queen's special service. Countersigned
by the Commissioners of the Treasury.-S.P. Dom., Signet Office 14,
pp. 441-2.
4 May.    Lord Lieutenant and others concerned.
St. James.  We direct that until new seals be ordered, the old Great Seal of
Ireland and the other seals belonging to the various courts
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(details) be used. Signify our pleasure herein to the Chancellor
there and to all other officers there whom it may concern.S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, p. 25.
14 May.    Lord Lieutenant and Chief Governor.
t. James'.  Directing that John, Bishop of Cloyne, be translated to the
Bishopric of Raphoe, vacant by the death of Bishop Huntington.
Patents to be passed accordingly. Restitution of temporalities.
To be held as amply as the late Bishop or any other held them.
-S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, p. 1. Also, S.P. Signet Ofice 14,
p. 445.
18 May.    Same.
St. James.  To make Charles Crow, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne in the place
of the present Bishop, who is translated to Raphoe. Patents
to be passed accordingly. Restitution of temporalities as amply
as any previous Bishop held them, together with the Rectory
or Union of Aghada in the said diocese and the provostship of
Tuam, with the parishes or corps annexed, now in the possession
of Crow, to be held by him in commendam.-S.P. Ireland, Entry
Book 3, pp. 2, 3. Also S.P. Signet Office 14, p. 446.
Same.     Same.
1. For Charles, Earl of Burlington, to be Lord High Treasurer
of Ireland, with 20s. a day for the better support of the office.
To hold as amply as his predecessors held it. Patents to be
passed accordingly containing a clause for revoking the last
patents whereby he was appointed to that office.-S.P. Ireland,
Entry Book 3, pp. 4, 5. Also in S.P. Signet Office 14, p. 445.
2. For appointing Michael Harrison, Esq., to be Mustermaster
General and clerk of the cheque of the forces and garrisons in
Ireland. Pass patents accordingly. Right to discharge the
office by his deputy. Beneficial clauses, and a clause revoking
the last letters patents appointing him to the post.-S.P. Ireland,
Entry Book 3, pp. 5, 6. Also S.P. Signet Office 14, p. 447.
3. For Robert Rochfort, Esq., Counsellor at Law, to be Attorney
General for Ireland. Letters patents to pass accordingly with
all usual fees &c., and a clause revoking the last letters patents
whereby he was appointed.-S.P. Ireland, Entry Book, pp. 7, 8.
Also S.P. Signet Office 14, p. 446.
4. For appointing Allan Broderick, Esq., Solicitor General in
Ireland. Similar to foregoing.-S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3,
pp. 8, 9. Also S.P. Signet Office 14, p. 447.
20 May.     Same.
St. James.  We directed Ralph, Earl of Montague, Master of the Great
Wardrobe, to provide the Charlotte yacht attending on the coast
of Ireland with several necessaries, mentioned in the enclosed
certificate. We desire these to be paid for out of the revenue
of Ireland, clear of all charges for remittance or exchange. Give
directions for paying 2161. Os. 9d. to (and the sum necessary for
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Wardrobe for the time being. This warrant shall be entered with
the Auditors of the Imprest there.-S.P. Signet Office 14, p. 448.
20 May.    Lord Lieutenant and Chief Governor.
St James.  1. To issue order for paying 5001. out of the Irish revenue to
Col. Chas. Ross, as of our grace and favour without account.
King William intended to give him this sum.-Ibid, p. 453.
2. There is in the Irish establishment an allowance of 2001. for
each Judge that goes circuit twice a year, i.e., of 1001. for each
circuit. The allowances paid to such Justices as actually go
circuit, and if they do not go, the allowance is saved to us.
Gilbert Dolben, one of the Justices of the Common Pleas, has
represented to us that as he could not go to the last Lent circuit
in Ireland "by reason of his attendance as a member of the
House of Commons here," he could not receive the 1001. allowance.
As his attendance here was for the public service, we grant his
request for payment. Give orders accordingly, although he did
not go the circuit.-Ibid, p. 456.
3. We have commissioned Lord Windsor to command the
regiment of Horse in Ireland lately commanded by the deceased
Earl of Macclesfield. He asks to be allowed his pay as colonel
and captain as from the date of Macclesfield's death, although
his commission bears date 10 March last.   Macclesfield died
before 31 December, 1701.* We grant Lord Windsor his pay as
colonel and captain, with his servants, as from 1 January, 1702.
Give orders accordingly.-Ibid, p. 457.
4. With advice, cause a new commission to be passed under
our great seal of Ireland appointing Francis Robarts, Thomas
Keightley, Bartholomew Vanhomrigh, John South and Sir Thomas
Southwell to be commissioners for our Revenue of Excise there, and
appointing the same and also Christopher Carleton and Samuel
Ogle to be Chief Commissioners and Governors throughout
Ireland of and for all other revenue and profits due to us there
now or hereafter. Salary 1,0001. each, as from last Lady Day. To
hold during pleasure. Insert the same powers for them as former
Commissioners had.-S.P. Signet Office 15, pp. 6-7.
21 May.    Lord Lieutenant and Chief Governor.
St. James.. For appointing Sir Richard Pyne, Kt., Chief Justice of the
King's Bench in Ireland during pleasure. Patents to pass
accordingly with all usual fees and with a clause revoking his last
appointment. —S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, pp. 9-10. Also
S.P. Signet Office 14, p. 453.
2. Note of similar letters for appointing Thomas Coote, Esq.
and James Macartney, Esq., to be Justices of the King's Bench
in Ireland.-S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, p. 11. Also (the letters
set out) S.P. Signet Office 14, p. 455.
3. Similar letters for appointing Sir Richard Cox Chief Justice
of the Common Pleas in Ireland during pleasure.-S.P. Ireland,
Entry Book 3, pp. 11-12. Also S.P. Signet Office 14, p. 454.
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4. Note of similar letters for appointing Gilbert Dolben a Judge
of the Common Pleas in Ireland during pleasure.-S.P. Ireland,
Entry Book 3, p. 12. Also S.P. Signet Office 14, p. 456.
5. Similar letters for appointing Robert Doyne, Esq., Chief Baron
of the Exchequer in Ireland during pleasure. As foregoing.S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, p. 13. Also S.P. Signet Office 14,
p. 454.
3 June.    Lord Lieutenant.
St. James  1. Refers to the appointment of the Earl of Mountalexander,
or
Windsor. Earle, and Keightley as Lords Justices    during the Lord
Lieutenant's absence. Directs that each of them be paid 1001. for
each "calendary" month during which they hold office. The
sums paid to them shall be reckoned as part of the allowances
payable on the establishment of Ireland and otherwise to the
Lord Lieutenant and be abated out of the same, the remainder
being paid to 'the Lord Lieutenant. Dated at St. James'S.P. Signet Office 15, pp. 3, 4.
2. To pass patents (with advice) granting to Thomas, Lord
Coningsby, the offices of Vice-Treasurer, Receiver-General and
Paymaster-General of all revenues due in Ireland. Fee of
651. 13s. 4d. a year and all usual powers. Also to make him
Treasurer at War in Ireland, with a fee of E.6d. out of every
~ E. 1 he pays out. Clause for revoking his grant of these offices
from William III. Dated at Windsor.-Ibid, pp. 1-2.
8 June.    [Same.]
t. James'.  An Act was lately passed in England for relief of Thomas
and Catherine Plunket* with relation to the forfeited estates
in Ireland, and empowering us to grant writs of error for reversing
the outlawries against John Mapas and Lawrence Fitzgerald.
Mapas has petitioned asking us to grant such writs of error to
him. Authorise the Attorney general to consent to the bringing
of so many such writs as may be necessary to examine into all
the outlawries of the said Mapas in Ireland for high treason in
order to obtain the reversal thereof.-S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3,
pp. 14-15. Also S.P. Signet Office, 15, p. 3.
Also note of similar letters for reversing the outlawry of
Fitzgerald in Ireland.-S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, p. 15; and
(the letters) S.P. Signet Office 15, p. 2.
9 June.    Lord Lieutenant and Chief Governor.
St. James'.  As Lieut.-Col. Meredyth Gwyllym, who was on the half-pay
list in England, was in Ireland at the time when such half-pay
officers were provided for, he has not as yet any employment.
He therefore prays for admission on half-pay in Ireland till
provided for there. Insert him accordingly in all military
establishments there as from Dec. 24 last, and he shall so remain
till otherwise provided for.-S.P. Signet Office 15, p. 7.
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27 June.    Lord Lieutenant.
St. James.  1. Cause letters to pass &c. appointing Hugh, Earl of Mountalexander, Master of the Ordnance, to execute by himself or
deputy. Provide for usual fees. To hold as amply as any of
his predecessors, and the grant to be enrolled in the Court of
Chancery within six months. Beneficial clauses and a clause
revoking his last patents of appointment.-S.P. Ireland, Entry
Book 3, pp. 20-1. Also S.P. Signet Office 15, p. 17.
2. King William III appointed the Earls of Meath and
Mountalexander and Viscount Charlemont to be Commissioners
for keeping the Great Seal and passing under it all such things
as need be so passed. We desire to use the services of Viscount
Charlemont elsewhere, so that he cannot attend to that duty.
Cause a new commission to pass under the Great Seal of Ireland
appointing the other two Commissioners and William, Bishop of
Kildare, to be Commissioners. We require you to command
the old Commissioners to deliver the Great Seal of Ireland to
you, for re-delivery to the new  Commissioners (the two Earls
and the Bishop of Kildare). Insert in the new patents all such
other clauses relating to John Methuen,* Esq., Chancellor of
Ireland, as were in the old patents.-S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3,
pp. 22-3. Also S.P. Signet Office 15, p. 18.
3. To appoint Anthony Upton one of the Judges of the Common
Pleas in Ireland, during pleasure. Letters to pass accordingly.
Usual clauses as to fees, &c.-S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, p. 24.
Also S.P. Signet Office 15, p. 17.
9 July.    Same.
St. James'.  To appoint Philip Savage Chancellor of the Court of Exchequer
in Ireland on his surrendering his former patents. Usual privileges.
To hold during good behaviour. Beneficial clauses.-S.P. Ireland,
Entry Book 3, pp. 26, 27. Also S.P. Signet Office 15, p. 20.
16 July.   Same.
Windsor.   To admit and swear in the Earl of Anglesey as a Privy
Councillor in Ireland.-S.P. Signet Office 15, p. 68.  Also S.P.
Ireland, Entry Book 3, p. 28.
26 July.   Same.
Windsor,   To appoint John Methuen Chancellor and Keeper of the Great
Seal of Ireland. All usual authorities and fees. To hold during
pleasure. Clause for revoking his late grant from William III.
After his letters have passed the Great Seal, cause the oath of
supremacy and usual oath of the Chancellor to be administered
to him as soon as he returns to Ireland, and thereupon deliver
the Great Seal of Ireland to him.-S.P. Dom., Signet Office 15,
pp. 23-4. Also S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, pp. 28-30.
27 July.   Same.
indsor.  King William  summoned John Methuen, the Chancellor of
Ireland, here on his Majesty's service, and we desire to retain
him in our own immediate service. That our subjects may


Also spelt "Methwen."


wt. 3880.


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not suffer by his absence, we directed you to issue a Commission
under the Great Seal of Ireland to the Earls of Meath and
Mountalexander and the Bishop of Kildare, authorising them
to keep the Great Seal, and pass under it all things usually passed
under it. You shall now issue a commission to Sir Richard
Pyne, Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, William Lord Berkeley,
Master of the Rolls, Sir Richard Cox, Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas, Robert Doyne, Esq., Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Sir
Henry Echlin and Nehemiah Donnelan, Barons of the Exchequer,
James Macartney and Thomas Coote, Justices of the Queen's
Bench, Gilbert Dolben and Anthony Upton, Justices of the
Common Pleas, John Usher, LL.D., and Richard Stone, William
Porter and Thomas White, Masters in Chancery, or any three
or more of them (of whom one of the aforesaid judges shall always
be one) to hear and determine causes now or hereafter entered
in the Court of Chancery in as large and ample a manner as the
like power was granted to certain Commissioners in the 13th
year of William III. This Commission shall continue during our
pleasure, but shall not in any way prejudice the right of the
Chancellor to his office and its rights, on which he shall at once
re-enter on his return to Ireland.-S.P. Signet Office 15, pp. 24, 25.
Also S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, pp. 30-3.
30 July.   Lord Lieutenant.
Windsor.  Approves all payments of public money made in Ireland since
8 March last (the day of King William's death), under the
establishment signed by him. Authorises the continuance of
such payments till further order subject to any directions given
by the Queen to the contrary.-S.P. Signet Office 15, p. 26.
7 Aug.    Same.
Windsor.   The petition of Sir Richard Reynell, Bart., son and executor
to our late Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland, has been
laid before us. It prays payment of 2891. 9s. Od due to the late
Chief Justice for several debentures for 1] years, and 72 days
on the additional salary of 2001. per annum as Chief Justice.
The reports of Sir William Robinson, our Deputy Receiver General
and yourself say the sum was due to the Chief Justice up to the
time of his supersession in that office, and you desire our warrant
to pay it. We authorise you to do so.-Ibid, pp. 26, 27.
10 Aug.    Attorney or Solicitor General.
Windsor.   To prepare a bill &c. commissioning Laurence, Earl of Rochester,
as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Same powers &c. as he held under
King William III. Clause for revoking King William III's grant
of the same office to him.-S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, p. 34.
24 Aug.   Lord Lieutenant.
Windsor,   1. To give orders to insert a yearly pension of 2001. for - Lord
Roche, -, his sister and -, his brother in the Irish establishment.
The pension to commence from —,-S.P. Signet Office 15,
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2. To give order to insert a pension of 3s. a day for Gabriel
Bardiere, clerk, in the Irish establishment. To commence from
to-day and be in all future establishments.-S.P. Signet Office 15,
p. 31.
3. To give orders for continuing to [Mrs.] Jones the yearly
pension of 1001. allowed her on the Irish establishment by
King William III. To continue so in future establishments.Ibid, p. 32.
4. We have thought fit to reduce the number of brigadiers in
the Irish military establishment to two, but nevertheless direct
you to pay the Earl of Orkney and Richard Ingoldsby as brigadiers
till 30 June next.-Ibid, p. 74.
4 Sept.    Lord Lieutenant.
Bath.     To give orders to the Receiver General in Ireland for the payment of 5001. to Colonel Thomas Meredith, who is in command
of one of the regiments newly raised in Ireland, to be spent, as
the Lord Lieutenant thinks right, on the regiment.-Ibid,
p. 69.
18 Sept.   Same.
Bath.    To pay 1811. 10s. Od. (and 51. 12s. 3d., fees thereon) to the Earl of
Mountalexander, Master General of the Ordnance. A memorial
presented by the Earl to "our Justices " [the Lords Justices of
Ireland] shews that this sum is due to him for fees on 1,1931. odd
paid him, temp. King William III, for repairing unserviceable
arms, for supplying 126 drums and for repairing barrels of injured
powder. [Details given.]-Ibid, pp. 74, 75.
25 Sept.   Same.
Bath.    To allow 4131. 13s. 6d. to the Paymaster General of Ireland
out of the revenue at large. When in King William III's time
the regiments of Sir Henry Belasys, Colonel Richard Brewer
and Colonel Zachary Tyffin were sent from Ireland to the West
Indies this sum was spent in freighting an extra transport ship
when, owing to violent contrary winds, the transports and convoy
which had set out from Cork and Kinsale were driven back, and
one of the transport vessels disabled.-Ibid, p. 75.
27 Oct.    [Same] and others.
St. James.  To licence Major-General Thomas Erle, one of the Lords Justices
of Ireland, to come over to England for the Queen's service,
for six months. He is not to lose any profits or advantages of
his office by reason of his absence in England.-Ibid, p. 77.
Also in S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, p. 35.
6 Nov.     Same and Lord Chancellor and others concerned.
St. James'.  To pass under the Great Seal a commission revoking a commission by letters patent of 20 May last appointing Francis
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Ireland and appointing Robarts and others [names given] Commissioners of the Revenue there; and appointing Thomas
Keightley, Bartholomew Van Homrigh, John South, Sir Thomas
Southwell and Christopher Carleton Commissioners of Excise
there, and appointing Francs Robarts, Thomas Keightley,
Bartholomew Van Homrigh, John South, Sir Thomas Southwell,
Christopher Carleton and Samuel Ogle Commissioners of all the
other Revenue in arrear or growing due there. Salary 1,0001. a
year each, and powers equal to those given by the last Commission.-S.P. Dom., Signet Office 15, pp. 78, 79.
6 Nov.     Chief Governor, Receiver General and others.
St. James'. In obedience to our Orders in Council of 26 March and 17 April
last the officers of the Ordnance here sent by the Susannah pink
(William Walker, master,) certain stores of powder, shot and flints
to Ireland. Christopher Musgrave, Clerk of the Ordnance here,
values these and the cost of carriage at 3,0861. 12s. 6d. [Details
given.] Our aforesaid Orders in Council directed that the cost
of such stores and of their carriage should be refunded to the
Ordnance Office here out of the Irish revenue. Give orders to
the Receiver or Receivers General of the      Irish  revenue
accordingly.-Ibid, pp. 79, 80.
4 Dec.    Same.
St. James'.  The Master General of the Ordnance in Ireland contracted
with one John [Prat or] Pratt for providing certain tents for our
service in Ireland, vizt.:1.  s. d.
1,356 foot tents at 18s. 6d. each, amounting to.. 1,254  6 0
144 sergeants' tents at 21s. each....   151  4  0
315 horse tents,,,,....   330 15 0
Being in all.... 1,736  5 0
The whole agreed sum, with poundage &c., comes to 1,8251. 19s. 10d.
Order the Receivers General &c. in Ireland to pay this sum to
the Master General of the Ordnance for payment thereout of
the contract sum to Pratt in gales as he delivers the tents, and
for poundage charges on the said payments.-Ibid, p. 83.
14 Dec.   Lord Lieutenant.
St. James'.  To admit and swear Major-General Richard Ingoldsby as a
Privy Councillor in Ireland.-S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, p. 37.
S.P. Signet Office 15, p. 84.
TABLE VI.
WEEKLY LISTS OF SHIPS OF THE HOME FLEET WITH THEIR
STATIONS AND ORDERS.
These are lists prepared by the Prince's Council and sent to the
Secretary of State, shewing the men and guns services, stations,
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Navy. The first list in this period is dated 2 July, 1702,
and is enclosed in a letter of 3 July from Burchett to
Nottingham, which will be found set out above, pp. 162, 163.
The lists are generally dated from the Admiralty Office,
so it is not thought necessary to repeat this address, but
the date of each list is given, and in each case the most
important movements, combinations or orders are briefly
summarised.
From S.P. Dom., Naval 111:9 July.    Similar  to  the  list enclosed  in  Burchett's letter  to
Nottingham of 3 July, 1702, q.v. above, pp. 162, 163. Ships
are added to cruize off Lynn, Boston and Cromer.-Pp. 581-3.
16 July.   Similar to foregoing.-Pp. 585-7.
23 July.   Similar to the list of 16 July, above, q.v. A list of ships
under Sir Cloudesley Shovell is broken up, and the orders
to various ships are given. The unmanned ships at Portsmouth
and Blackstakes are manning, or ordered to man, again. Details
as to the Dunkirk squadron and the movements of the various
ships detailed for convoys.-Pp. 589-91.
30 July.   Similar to foregoing.  Mentions the ships which are at
sea with Sir C. Shovell or to join him. The unmanned vessels
&c. [as above at 23 July]. Details of convoys.-Pp. 593-5.
5 Aug.     This list gives names of the ships of the first four rates,
which, according to the best judgment that can be made
thereof, may with the usual refittings be in a condition for the
next year's service at sea. The list is similar to the first part
of that calendared below at 26 August, 1702 [q.v.]. It shews
which of these ships are in sea pay, and which are fit for sea, under
repair or building.
The following is an abstract of the list:Rate. In sea   Fit for   Under    Building.  Totals.
pay.    sea.    Repairs.
1      5 5     -                             5
2      7                                     8
3     41        1        1          -       43
4     58        -        3          5       66
Pp. 549-51.
6 Aug.    See the list of 30 July, 1702.    No important addition.
-Pp. 597-9.
13 Aug.    See the last list. Some of Sir C. Shovell's ships have been
ordered to cruise off Cape Clear.   Otherwise no change.Pp. 601-3.


20 Aug.   Similar to foregoing.-Pp. 605-7.




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1702.
From S.P. Dom., Naval 111.26 Aug.    Shews what ships may be in a condition for service next
year, with the number of men established for them at their
highest complements.
Gives the number of ships of each rate, the names of each
ship; and the number of men for each, from the Sovereign with
880 men to the tow boats with two.   Totals, 269 vessels and
53,806 men.-Pp. 541-7.
27 Aug.    Similar to that of 20 Aug. Cruisers in the Soundings. Swallow
gone to Humber mouth. Postilion prize fitting out at Dover.Pp. 609-611.
24 Sept.   Sir C. Shovell's fleet at Spithead, Portsmouth and the Downs.
Other ships moved from one station to another. The
"Dunkirke squadron," with Captain Beaumont and the ships
going to join him. Position and movements of the various
convoys and guardships.-Pp. 613-615.
26 Sept.   Thirty ships with Sir George Rooke.   Twenty with ViceAdmiral Benbow. Sixty-nine at home.
Names given and an abstract shewing their ratings. Out of
the sixty-nine (five of which are only to be ready for next
summer's service), the following trades are to be provided:Newfoundland, eight; Virginia, four; East Indies, six; Russia,
two; East Country, two; Newcastle, three; Hamburg, two;
Holland, one; Dunkirke, eight; Cape Clear, four. Falmouth,
two.  Total, forty-two.  So twenty-seven will remain at home
for the Channel guard.-Pp. 537-9.
1 Oct.    See the foregoing lists [at 27 Aug., 24 Sept., &c.]. Seventeen
ships gone to sea with Sir C. Shovell. Others at Portsmouth
and Plymouth refitting and to follow Shovell. Six ships (the
Dunkirk squadron) still with Captain Beaumont.  Position of
the various convoys, cruizers and coast defence ships on the
coasts of England and Ireland &c.-Pp. 617-19.
8 Oct.    Similar to last. Ships gone with, or to, Shovell.  Dunkirk
squadron broken up to refit or do guard duty.  Repairs to other
vessels.-Pp. 621-3.
[12 Oct.]  List of [part of] the Home Fleet; as       previous lists,
but exclusive of the great ships to be laid up.   This list
does not contain any account of the ships with Sir C. Shovell,
but states where the vessels are, whether refitting or on cruizing
or guard duty (off Holland, at Gottenburg to bring the trade
from thence, at St. Helens, Plymouth, the Downs, on the coast
of Ireland &c.). It is similar to the last portion of the weekly
lists calendared above (see 1 and 8 October supra &c.). Details
as before.-Endd. with date. Pp. 625-7.
15 Oct.    Similar to foregoing lists.  Ships with Sir C. Shovell at sea.
List of those which are ordered to join him, and where they
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From S.P. Dom., Naval 111.and where they now are. Movements of cruisers, convoys, &c.,
guarding fisheries, convoying traders to the plantations, &c.
Details as before.-Endd. Pp. 629-31.
23 Oct.    Shovell's squadron set out.  Vessels to rendezvous at the
Gunfleet. Convoys and cruizers. Details as before.-Pp. 633-6.
29 Oct.    Shovell's squadron. List of ships (eleven) gone in search of
the French vessels from Dunkirk. One vessel at the Gunfleet.
Three with Captain Beaumont in Holland. Cruisers and convoys.
Details as before.-Endd. Pp. 641-3.
5 Nov.    Dunkirk Squadron. Five vessels under Captain Fowlis. Three
others ordered to join them.
Vessels returned from  Cadiz and ordered to Portsmouth.
Convoys and cruizers. Details as before.-Pp. 645-7.
11 Nov.    Similar to that of 4 November, 1702, supra, p. 287.  Gives
details of work done [apparently between 4 and 11 November]
on the various vessels.-Pp. 525, 526.
20 Nov.    Usual list, with stations and orders (exclusive of the big ships,
which are to be laid up).
Ships at' Spithead, Portsmouth, the Downs, the Nore &c.
Convoys to Newfoundland. Two vessels at Lisbon.
Many of the ships are in harbour for repairs or refitting.  Six
French ships taken at Vigo [names given] have been ordered
to the Nore or to stay at Spithead. Details as before.Pp. 649-52.
27 Nov.    Ships at Spithead, at Portsmouth and ordered to Plymouth
or refitting. Nine vessels designed and fitting for the East
Indies. Five vessels ordered to intercept the grande partie
coming from Dunkirk. Ships under repair or coming home
Convoys and cruisers. Details as before. The list is exclusive
of the great ships which are to be laid up.-Pp. 653-6.
Also another list of sixteen ships of 80, 70, 60 or 50 guns. These
need 2,983 men.-P. 657.
3 Dec.    Ships ordered to remain at the Nore, Spithead &c. Eight
vessels provisioning at Portsmouth and' elsewhere and designed
for Lisbon. Five vessels fitting out for the East Indies. Nine
vessels ordered from different places to strengthen the Hamburg
and East Country convoys.      Other convoys and cruisers.
Details as before.-Pp. 665-8.
10 Dec.    Similar to last. Details as before.-Pp. 669-72.
17 Dec.    Similar to foregoing lists.  Excludes the great ships. Vessels
designed for Lisbon and the West and East Indies. Vessels to
strengthen the Hamburg and Eastland convoy. Vessels ordered
to intercept "the grande partie." ~ Movements of the various
convoys and cruisers. Details as before.-Pp. 673-6.
24 Dec.    Similar to last. Movements of the various convoys and
cruisers. Ships refitting &c. Details as before.-Pp. 677-80.




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1702.
TABLE VII.
PASSES, NOTES OF PASSES, POST WARRANTS AND LICENCES
OF ABSENCE.
These are gathered together by months, but it has not been
thought needful to set them out in strict chronological order;
which is not followed in the original Entry Books. The full
passes are signed (by Nottingham in Entry Book 389, by
Manchester or Hedges in Entry Book 387), but the brief
notes of passes are not signed. In the case of passes, or
notes thereof, the words "pass for " are not repeated: but
post warrants are expressly noted as such. The licences of
absence are gathered together at the end of the year.
8 Mar.    Post warrants for Joris Fagel and Geo. Collins to Harwich.
-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 348, p. 348.
11 March.  Richard  Brown, servant to   the  Venetian  Ambassador
to go from hence to Harwich only, and thence to Holland.-Signed
by Lord Secretary Manchester.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 387, p.
199.
Same.     Antonio Paini, servant to the Venetian Ambassador, to go
from hence to Harwich only, and thence to Holland.-Signed
by the Secretary, Manchester. Ibid, pp. 199-200.
16 March.  Post Warrant for Robert Weddell. For an able post-horse
from hence to York and so back.-Ibid, p. 199.
6 April.  Thomas Lewis, to Plymouth and aboard the Mary galley.-S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 348, p. 356.
22 April.  Post Warrant for Count Wratislaw's servant to Harwich.
-Ibid, p. 361.
9 April.  Richard Jackson, servant to William Rider, with three or four
horses and a "pack of hounds," to Dover and over to Calais.
Must embark within 14 days hereof, weather permitting.-S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 387, p. 200.
12 May.    Zachariah Sedgwick and Benjamin Murry to Holland, provided they sail within fourteen days of this date, w.p.S.P. Dom., Entry Book 389, p. 1.
11 May.   The New Judith, from London to Venice. The Venetian Ambassador requests the pass.-Ibid, p. 2.
14 May.   The Nostra Signora de Loso Remedios Ese Santa Fernando
from London to Seville with English-made goods belonging
to Spaniards; provided she carries no contraband goods.-Ibid,
p. 3.
Same.     The St. John Baptist (Captain L. de la Pena) of Bilboa to Bilboa,
provided as above.-Ibid.
Same.     John Letten, late of London, merchant, from Marseilles to
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intends to settle as a merchant, before the war broke out, and
meant to go in a French ship to Turkey; but it is dangerous
for him to do so now.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 389, pp. 3, 4.
18 May.    The St. James    (James  Bouchar, master), England   to
Boulogne in ballast. She brought over goods for John Pack
and Benjamin Way of London before the war.-Ibid, p. 5.
Same.     Note of same to the Magdalena (Hercules Libert) &c. as foregoing.-Ibid.
20 May.    The St. Jacob of Bruges (Adrian de Raes) from   London
to Ostend with English-made goods. Proviso against contraband.-Ibid, pp. 5, 6.
Same.     The St. Joseph of Bruges (John Baptista de Maresse)
to Ostend.-Ibid, p. 6.
23 May.    The Earl of Stamford to travel abroad.-(Latin.)   Ibid,
pp. 6, 7.
Same.     Post Warrant for Lord Windsor's servant, John Gordon to go
to Margate.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 387, p. 201.
Same.     James Heymans, one of her Majesty's servants, to     go
to Holland by order of the Green Cloth.-Ibid.
30 May.    Post Warrant for John Thurston to go to Portsmouth.-Ibid.
31 May.    Same for Major George Jocelyn.-Ibid.
1 June.   John Harris to go to Holland within fourteen days.S.P. Dom., Entry Book 389, p. 7.
Same.     Post warrant to Peter Tom, a Queen's messenger, for
horses and a guide to Bristol and back.-Ibid, p. 8.
11 June.   Thomas Lediard, Solomon   Morley and   Abraham   Symon
to go to Holland via Gravesend.-Ibid.
Same.     Lord Castle Coote, Harry Coote, Peter La Placette, his
tutor, and their servants, to come to England.-Latin. Ibid,
pp. 8, 9.
12 June.   Charles Couchman, a Queen's    messenger, post warrant,
with two horses, to Oxford and back.-Ibid, p. 8.
15 June.   Edward Randolph to the Colonies in America on special
service.-Ibid, pp. 10, 11.
17 June.   Henry, Earl of Stafford, to go to Brussels.-Latin.  Ibid,
pp. 11, 12.
Same.     Dominique du   Cournan   and  three  seamen  to  return
to France in the St. John Baptist of Bilboa. They were cast
away in Tenby Bay last January [details].-Ibid, p. 12.
[22 June.]  Christian George Godfrey to go to Harwich and there embark... in fourteen days.-Ibid, p. 13.
Same.     Mary Dias and two servants to go to Portugal.-Ibid.




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1702.
30 June.   Alexander Stevenson, merchant, to France, to settle his
affairs.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 389, p. 13.
Same.     Elizabeth Coup to return to France.   She was here for a
lawsuit before war was declared.-Ibid, pp. 14, 15.
26 June.   Mr. Wich, Resident to the Hanse Towns.        Usual form,
covering servants, equipage, &c.-Latin. S.P. Dom., Entry Book
387, pp. 201, 202.
26 June.   Post Warrant to Charles, Lord Mohun, and two servants
to go to the Bath.-Ibid, p. 202.
1 June.   Post Warrant for William    Blathwayt, Secretary at War,
with three able post horses, to go to Portsmouth.-Ibid, p.
201.
Same.     Three French seamen, N. Crispinall, J. Jordan, and C. Delmotersea, to Holland.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 389, p. 14.
3 July.   Charles Seranne and Claud Olieu, of Avignon, merchants,
tb return to France. They came over before war declared.Ibid. pp. 15, 16.
2 July.   Safe conduct to Count Maffei, Envoy of the Duke of Savoy, who
is going home, with his retinue &c.-Latin. Ibid, pp. 16, 17.
Same.     John Cauzie and his vessel, the St. Anne, from    London
to Bordeaux. She took in most of her cargo before war declared.
-Ibid, pp. 17, 18.
3 Ju.ly.   The William  (William  Cornish, master) to  any port in
France. She is bringing away Count Maffei, the Envoy of Savoy.
His servants' names annexed.-Ibid, pp. 19, 20.
9 July.    Charles Throckmorton and servant to Holland, Osnabrugg,
Nancy and home again.-Ibid, p. 20.
Same.     Robert, Lord Willoughby, and Samuel and Albinia Oldfield and
servants, to Holland and thence to Germany, to stay some time:
provided they visit no enemy's State.-Ibid, p. 21.
13 July.   Post Warrant to Edward Harvey and        two  servants to
Clitheroe, Lancashire, and back.  Three post-horses and a
guide.-Ibid, p. 22.
Same.     Secretary Nottingham's* pass to Sir James Hayes to go
to Holland within fourteen days.-Ibid.
16 July.   The Nonsuch of Challevette to return to France. Came to
Bristol before war.-Ibid, pp. 23, 24.
Same.     Similar pass for the Magdalen of Bordeaux, from    Bristol
to Bordeaux.-Ibid, p. 24.
21 July.   Secretary Nottingham's pass to Francis le Brigant to return
to France.-Ibid.
* In a few cases, such as this, the Secretary of State over-writes the pass as well
as counter-signing it. In most cases the pass, when in full, is over-written
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26 July.   The Santa Maria of Landumo in France, to sail from
Minehead home. She arrived there before war.- S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 389, p. 25.
25 July.   John Debone, a French merchant, similar to foregoing.-Ibid.
28 July.   The Countess Dowager of Tyrconnell to return out of
Holland into England and thence to Ireland with her servants.Ibid, p. 26.
4 Aug.    Theodore De la Noue, a Switzer, intending to enter service
of States General, via Harwich, to Holland in eight days.S.P. Dom., Entry Book 387, p. 203.
8 Aug.    Mary  Theyer, a   friend  and  servant, to  return  from
Holland. She has been in France for her health.-Latin. Ibid.
17 Aug.    John son of Robert Cotton to go to Montpelier for his
health.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 389, p. 27.
25 Aug.    Post Warrant to Nicholas Hill to    go to Badminton,
near Bath, on Queen's special service, and return.-Ibid, p. 26.
27 Aug.    Similar warrant to  Charles Kenge, Queen's messenger.
Horse and guide to Bath and back.-Ibid.
31 Aug.    Preamble to pass to John Scudamore, Esq., who is going
abroad for education. Also for William  Strahan  and two
servants.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 387, p. 205.
2 Sept.   Frances Countess Dowager of Salisbury, George Cecill,
Esq., Sarah Lee her relative, and her steward, footmen, chambermaid and servants [names given], to return from France by
Holland.-Ibid, pp. 204.
Same.     Post Warrant to Major Tho. [?] Bellew for two able posthorses and a guide from hence to the Bath and so to Holyhead,
and so at his return.-Ibid, p. 205.
28 Sept.   Post Warrant for    Henry  Legat, her   Majesty's  messenger. Two horses and a guide to Portsmouth.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 389, p. 27.
Sept.     Charles, Earl of Winchilsea, who   is going as Envoy
Extraordinary to the Court of Brunswick Lunebourg, with his
servants and equipage.-Latin. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 387, p. 206.
1 Oct.    Theobald Taaffe with his wife Emily to Lorraine, with
Elizabeth Errington, Joseph Bury, Thomas Darcy and Christopher
Killine, their servants.-Latin. Ibid, p. 209.
4 Oct.    Frederick Caetan de Widman, Minister from   the Elector
of Bavaria, to pass on the Spring, William Cornish, master, into
France.
The vessel to carry over only M. de Widman, his servants
and any other persons who may have passes from the Queen.Ibid, pp. 207, 208.
Also part of the same in Latin.-Ibid, p. 208.




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1702.
24 Oct.   The St. Julian of Isle Dieu; Dublin to France. Arrived
before war. One journey only, and to carry no contraband.Note (in Warre's hand). She was cleared by a sentence in the
High Court of Admiralty.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 389, p. 28.
Same.     Same for the Lawrell of Oleron. Same note.-Ibid.
Same.     Same for the Mary of Maran. Same.-Ibid.
3 Nov.    The Talamod, now    in  Holland and loaded with    gunpowder for the use of the King of Sweden, and other goods, from
Holland to Sweden.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 387, p. 209.
17 Nov.   George Downing, Esq., James Castagnies, his governor,
and Thomas Fosbrooke, his footman, to Harwich and from
thence to Holland within fourteen days (w.p.).-Ibid, p. 210.
22 Nov.    Count De Rassa, Holland, within fourteen days.-Ibid.
24 Nov.   Baron de Nitschwitz, Envoy Extraordinary from Poland:
through Holland to Poland with his wife &c.-Ibid, p. 211.
6 Nov.    Jane Dufeif, Robert Questell and Thomas Leclair. To come
from France and give evidence in cause of a pretended marriage
between Mary Grosvenor and Edward Fenwick. Details.
-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 389, p. 29.
Same.     Edmund Halley; to Germany on private business with servants.
-Latin. Ibid, pp. 30, 31.
9 Nov.    The Jesas Maria of Bilboa with master and 5 men, from
Plymouth to Bilboa. Came before war.-Ibid, pp. 31, 32.
1 Dec.    Post Warrant to Charles Coachman. Horse and guide to
Harwich and back.-Ibid, p. 32.
12 Dec.   The Notre Dame de Bayonne (Saubat Darreche, master),
from London to Bayonne. Has been adjudged by the Court of
Admiralty to be liberated. Details.-Ibid, p. 33.
15 Dec.   Same to four German     soldiers (named) to Harwich and
thence, free, to Brill. At request of Count Wratislaw. They
are soldiers in the Emperor's army.-Ibid, pp. 33, 34.
LICENCES OF ABSENCE.
10 Dec.    To Benjamin Rudyerd, High Sheriff of Hants, to remain
out of the county during his shrievalty.
14 Dec.   To John Dalston, Esq., High Sheriff of Cumberland, same.
17 Dec.   To Sir John Chetwood, Kt., same of Cheshire, same.
21 Dec.    To William  Merideth, Esq., same of Montgomery, same.
All S.P. Dom., Entry Book 163, p. 154.
TABLE VIII.
ORDERS ON PETITIONS.
These are Entries of Petitions and Notes of the Order made
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State and the note of reference directs the referee to report on
the petition, and (unless the entry shews otherwise) says that
the Queen will, on receipt of the report, declare her further
pleasure. It is not thought necessary to repeat this fact in
every case. The petitioners' names, the substance of the petition
and date of reference and name of the referee are given in each
case. The entries in S.P. Dom., Entry Book No. 237, are countersigned by Vernon; those in Entry Book 238 by Manchester or
Hedges; those in Entry Book 239 by Nottingham; those in
Entry Book 240 by Hedges.
One or two petitions, containing information of general interest,
have been placed in the body of the Calendar.*
MARCH, 1702.
19 Mar.   Martha, Wife of Sir Henry Johnson, Kt.
She is the only surviving daughter and heir to John, late
Lord Lovelace of Hurley, and sole heir (by her grandmother,
Lady Anne Wentworth, Baroness Lovelace &c.) to the barony
of Wentworth. Her petition shows that King Henry VIII,
in 1529 by writ directed to Sir Thomas Wentworth of Nettlested
in Suffolk, summoned him to be a baron and peer of England
by the name of Thomas, Lord Wentworth; by virtue whereof
the said Sir Thomas and the heirs of his body have ever since
enjoyed the barony of Wentworth with all privileges &c. until
the death in 1664 of Thomas, Lord Wentworth. He left only
one daughter, Lady Henrietta Maria, who also died without
issue, whereby the Lady Anne Wentworth, relict of John, Lord
Lovelace, and mother to John, late Lord Lovelace, petitioner's
father (being the only surviving daughter of Thomas, Lord
Wentworth, Earl of Cleveland &c. and aunt to the said Henrietta
Maria), became heir to the said barony. This lady lately died,
whereby petitioner is become the sole and undoubted heir of
that barony of Wentworth, and the lawful inheritrix of all the
lands and seigniories thereunto belonging.
Prays for confirmation of the barony to herself and the heirs
of her body with the usual privileges as have been granted to
many families in England.
19 March, Whitehall. Ref. House of Peers. Pp. IJ.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 238, pp. 483-4.
26 Mar.    Leonard Kuish [or Knish].
He has undertaken the drawing and printing of most of the
noblemen's and gentlemen's seats of England, with- whom he
has entered into articles. Understanding that some envious
people have sent most of them to Holland to be copied, with
a design to sell them here for less than half price, in regard of
his expense in travelling all over England for the last five years,
he asks for the Queen's sole licence to sell the same, with
prohibiton to all others to sell them of any size.
26 March, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney or Solicitor GeneralS.P. Dom., Entry Book 237, p. 295.
* See e.g. at 27 June, 1702. (Inhabitants of All Saints, Oxford.)




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1702.
[About    Charles, Duke of Grafton, aged 19, and Sydney, Lord
26 Mar.]       Godolphin, and   Sir Stephen  Fox, his Trustee and
Guardian.
The Duke is seized in fee or fee tail with a remainder to the
Duchess, his mother, of and in " the chief mansion house now
called Arlington House, formerly called Goring House with
several out-houses, stables and gardens thereunto belonging,
and a house and garden called Pimlico and a field or meadow
enclosed with a brick wall thereunto adjoining, bounded on the
East with St. James' Park, and on the South with the highway
leading to Chelsea, with the appurtenances in the County of
Middlesex." Petitioner receives only 4001. a year out of this estate,
and there is a considerable debt, 3,0001., charged on it by
petitioner's late grandfather the Earl of Arlington. Another
debt of 5,7001. or thereabouts is charged on petitioner's estate
of Euston in Norfolk, for both which debts your petitioner pays
yearly interest.
Several parts of (the said estate) are in disrepair, and it will
cause petitioner great expense to amend and keep them up.
There is likewise a term for years in an estate called Grafton
in Northamptonshire to be sold, the reversion whereof belongs
to petitioner, and the purchase whereof would be a good and
convenient adddition to his estate and revenue. The Marquis of
Normanby, who is now in possession of all the premises in
Middlesex except the said meadow field, has agreed to pay
13,0001. for the purchase of the premises in Middlesex, which
the petitioner, his mother, Lord Godolphin and Fox, agree to
be the full value thereof, and it would be very advantageous to
your petitioner and his affairs that it should now be sold and
the 13,0001. applied to pay off the charges and buy up the said
term  (in Grafton).  The same is, however, obstructed, to
petitioner's prejudice, because, during his minority, he cannot
suffer a recovery thereof without your Majesty's leave and
direction under your Privy Seal.
Pray.s for letters of Privy Seal to the Lord Chief Justice and
other Justices of the Common Pleas to permit the petitioner,
the Duke of Grafton, to appear by his guardian in the said Court,
to suffer a common recovery of the premises in Middlesex for the
sale thereof, for the price and purposes aforesaid.
No reference or date. Entered next foregoing.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 237, pp. 296-7.
MAY, 1702.
4 May.    Colonel John Gibson, Lieutenant Governor of Portsmouth.
He represents [with details] the danger and inconvenience of
allowing buildings on the common between the town of
Portsmouth and the dockyard. Danger in case of attack.
Interruption of communications. He relates his and the town
major's efforts to prevent such buildings, and prays for further
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4 May, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney General to hold an inquiry
[details], and report as to the buildings and alleged danger, and
the possibility of removing them.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 239,
p. 1.
4 May.    Mrs. Anne Bagnall.
Her husband, Dudley Bagnall's estate in Ireland was
forfeited during his life, and, by the late Act relating to Irish
forfeitures, vested in certain trustees for public uses. The said
Act secured her a small annuity out of the estate for maintenance
of herself and her seven children, otherwise unprovided for during
their father's life.
Dudley Bagnall is 71 years old, and very weak and ill, and
petitioner is advised that, owing to the probable war, it is not
safe for her to go to France, where he is, to take care of him,
and that if she corresponds with him or sends him any supplies
in time of war it may be imputed to her as a crime.
By the late Act of Parliament,* all who went to France since
December, 1688 [without licence from the late King or Queen],
are, upon the penalty of high treason, forbidden to return
without licence; so that petitioner cannot without her Majesty's
licence do anything to support her said husband. Prays that
her husband may have licence to return to England on giving
security for good behaviour.
4 May, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney General. P. i.-Ibid, p. 2.
5 May.    John Gape and other Aldermen of St. Albans.
John Gape, Esq., John Selioke, William Marston, Thomas
Crosfield, Samuel Loft, Henry Dobyns, Edward Horsell, Nicholas
Sparling, William Stone, and Francis Halford are Aldermen as
aforesaid. They show that a Court being held within the borough
on 29 April last, it was, after mature deliberation, resolved to
make no freemen of the borough, and that the Court should
be adjourned, and it was so adjourned. Notwithstanding the
said adjournment, Edward Seabrooke, the present Mayor, John
Tisdale and George Cooke, the two remaining Aldermen, and
John Leigh, an attorney (instead of the Town Clerk), in an
arbitrary and illegal manner did proceed to make freemen, and
made free about threescore persons, most of them poor and
improper persons to be members of the said borough, in great
violation of the charters and by-laws of the said borough, against
the will of the petitioners who are ten of the twelve Aldermen
of the borough, and the persons of right to hold the said Court.
Such irregular proceedings may have dangerous results.
Pray for Queen's directions.
5 May, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney General. Also, 10 May, Ref.
Lord Godolphin.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 238, pp. 484-6.
11 May.   William Viscount Montgomery.
Went to France shortly after 25 Dec., 1688, having got a licence
from King William (when Prince of Orange) to travel. Recites
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relevant provision of 9 William III, c. 1. Proceeds: In obedience
to that Act petitioner went into Spanish Flanders, where he
has remained above 4 years to his great damage. [Details.]
Prays for licence to return.
11 May, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney General.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 239, p. 3.
11 May.   Mary Huntington, widow.
Her husband was made Bishop of Raphoe by King William
in June last and went to Ireland and was consecrated, but died
about a month later. His journey was expensive and his fees
for passing his patents and other charges amounted to several
hundreds of pounds, and petitioner is not entitled to the rents
and profits which fell due at All Saints' tide.
Prays for such a grant out of the mesne profits of the Bishopric
as the Queen thinks fit.
11 May, Whitehall. Ref. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.Ibid, p. 4.
12 May.    John Snaepes [?].
He was master of one of the ships belonging to John Holder
when the Cowdsly galley Was burnt and destroyed, and that he is
in the King's Bench prison. Meeting therein with the Gazette,
in which is inserted the late King's offer of pardon to anyone
who would discover the fraud of Holder and others in burning
the said ship, in order to defraud several persons both in England
and foreign parts, the petitioner employed friends to go to the
insurers, or their agents, to whom he revealed the matter, and
promised to produce one Suckley, who was master of the said
ship when she was burnt. The agents, however, taking advantage
of the information, found Suckley themselves, and petitioner
is like to lose the benefit of the information.
12 May, Whitehall. Ref. Chief Justice Holt to test the facts
and report whether petitioner should be pardoned.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 238, pp. 488-9.
Same.     The Farmers, Hoymen, Fishermen and Other Inhabitants in
and about Herne in Kent.
There is a bay belonging to the said town wherein vessels
used in the fishing trade and in bringing provisions to London
generally ride. As it lies open to the sea it will be much exposed to
French privateers; so that the petitioners, who lost greatly in
the late war and were frequently "insulted" by the French,
fear that they will be ruined and their town burnt.
Pray for ten guns and ammunition. Details.
12 May, Whitehall.  Ref. Master Gen. of the Ordnance.Ibid, pp. 489, 490.
13 May.   Royal African Company.
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which they are very much supported and encouraged by the
French King.
Advices from  Nevis in February last informed petitioners
that three French men-of-war were cruising on the south part
of Africa. Petitioners have several forts on that coast which
cannot be supported but by frequent supplies of men and stores.
They are of absolute necessity for preserving the trade of those
parts to the Queen's subjects and supplying the plantations
with negroes. For their defence petitioners have fitted out the
under-mentioned ships which cannot now proceed safely by
reason of the war with France and Spain.
They pray that some frigates may be ordered to cruise on the
south part of Guinea for their protection and that the said ships
may be allowed to proceed under their convoy.
The ships are:The Serelion, brigantine, 80 tons, 10 guns, 18 men, 16 passengers,
Captain George Cockerell.
The Royal Africa, 370 tons, 30 guns, 48 men, 30 passengers,
Captain Alexander Gates.
The Angola, frigate, 125 tons, 12 guns, 24 men, 12 passengers,
Captain Thomas Arnall.
The St. Winifrid, 160 tons, 10 guns, 24 men, CaptainWilliam Owen.
13 May,'Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Admiral (Pembroke).S.P. Dom., Entry Book 238, pp. 490, 491.
13 May.    Captain William Flower.
He is brother and legatee to Captain Thomas Flower,
deceased. Whilst Captain Thomas was in England in 1689 and'
1690 all his stock in the Co. Kilkenny in Ireland to the value
of 5,0001. was seized on for the use of King James II. Amongst
it was 223cwt. Oqrs. 261bs. of wool, which was carried into the
stores at Waterford and partly delivered in barter for 1,025 barrels
of wheat. The wheat, on surrender at Waterford, was applied
to the use of the English army, and the rest of the said wool
remained then in the said stores.
In 1692 petitioner's brother petitioned the Lord Lieutenant
and Council of Ireland for satisfaction of the said wool and wheat.
They, upon examination in June, 1693, recommended the petition as deserving favour. It was thence referred to many
officials [details] for report as to the extent of his brother's loss,
and the loss was certified at 6151.
Petitioner's brother died without receiving satisfaction for
his wool and wheat, and left his interest to the petitioner.
Petitioner served the Crown long and faithfully in the Guards
in Ireland under King Charles II, where he continued until
broken by the Earl of Tyrconnell for being a Protestant. He
then went to Holland and came back with his late Majesty.
He was commissioned again, went to Ireland with the Duke of
Schomberg and served right through the war there. He is now
in the list of half-pay in Ireland.
13 May, Whitehall. Ref. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.Ibid, pp. 499-501.
Wt. 3880.                                          A 27




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13 May.    Sir Samuel Barnardiston.
His petition shows that in 1683-4 a very arbitrary judgment
was given against him by Chief Justice Jefferys, and he was fined
10,0001. and continued close prisoner for five years until
King William acceded. His real and personal estate were seized
his house plundered, his goods sold at under rates, and his effects
and mortgages sold, out of which about 7,0001. was made and
paid into the Exchequer; and by extortion and embezzlement
of under-sheriffs, bailiffs, jailers and the like he was damnified
above 20,0001. 1,9051. odd of his own money, paid into the
Exchequer and remaining in specie there, came, on 5 November,
1688, to the late King's hands, and was paid out to the Earl of
Ranelagh.
On appeal to the House of Lords the judgment was reversed
as illegal and arbitrary, and this reversal was afterwards confirmed by a particular Act of Parliament. Petitioner has not,
however, obtained any satisfaction for his great sufferings, nor
for the said 1,9051. odd after 12 years' petition, more than the
bare principal, out of which was detained by the officers of the
Exchequer near 1001. for pretended fees.
Prays for justice in the premises and an order for interest and
repayment of the pretended Exchequer fees.
13 May, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Treasurer.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 239, pp. 5, 6.
18 May.    Captain Byng.
Petitioner was late first captain to the Captain General of the
fleet, and received by right the half-pay of a Rear-Admiral.
He is now out of employment and wants support for self and
family.
Prays for half-pay till employed in his former or some other
post.
18 May, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Admiral.-Ibid, pp. 4, 6.
Same.     Isaac Marryot.
In the time of King Charles II he was for many years
concerned in the land revenue of the Crown as clerk-assistant to
the chief Auditor thereof and thereby discovered great concealments, upwards of 100,0001. a year in value. Encouraged by a
grant of some of these by King James II, he proceeded to
recover several " branches " of the said revenue, and was much
obstructed by those who had intruded on those lands. In the
time of King William he offered to discover the said concealments
but was stifled by those concerned in the revenue.
Her Majesty by calling home these estates may raise several
millions of money by fines and leasing the same, and yet reserve
the ancient yearly value reserved on the same. Many possessors
of the estates are ready and anxious to have this done to create
themselves titles, they being allowed some reasonable compensation for their improvements made on the premises.
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the Crown, and has many valuable and private collections of
great estates from neglect withheld from the Crown, which he is
ready to discover. He is now grown old and infirm, and if his
endeavours should by his death become abortive the Crown will
be a great loser.
Prays for an inquiry into his discoveries and allegations.
18 May, Whitehall, Ref. Lord High Treasurer.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 239, pp. 7, 8.
19 May.    Sir Henry Johnson (on behalf of the town of Aldborough).
Aldborough is situated on an open bay where the colliers for
London usually ride going and coming. Other vessels also
ride there, and the bay is open to the sea, and exposed to privateers.
Queen Elizabeth gave the town twenty-four guns for defence
of the bay and ships, and in time of war they were supplied with
powder, ball, match, and gun carriages out of the stores of the
Ordnance.
The townspeople ask that they may have the same quantity as
granted to them in the last war.
19 May, Whitehall. Ref. Earl of Romney, Master General
of the Ordnance.- S.P. Dom., Entry Book 238, pp. 491-2.
Same.     John Grosvenour, of Chester, Gentleman.
His father, Sir Richard, was brought "near the utmost
extremity of ruin " by his expenses in the service of the Royal
family in the Civil War. In the invasion of the Duke of
Monmouth, petitioner and his whole family took up arms for
the Crown, and soon after he obtained a commission for a troop
of horse, which he raised and clothed at his own charge. This
cost him 6001., of which he was never repaid a farthing, though
it was allowed and paid to the Colonel in the usual way. The
place of Customer of the port of Chester is now held by
Mr. Richard Meredith, who is incapable of such a trust and his
patent void by the death of the [late] King.
Prays for that place.
19 May, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Treasurer.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 239, p. 19.
21 May.    Robert Bradenham.
About   May,   1699,  was  arrested  " at  Pensilvania"
on suspicion of piracy and sent for England, where he gave
evidence against Captain Kidd and other pirates at an Admiralty
Sessions held at the Old Bailey in May, 1701. There was then
seized certain treasure belonging to him to the value of 3501.
or thereabouts, which was likewise sent for England and now
remains in the Admiralty. An account of this was sent over
by William Penn, Esq., Governor of Pennsylvania, and was
taken on oath by Lieutenant-Governor Markham, and is now
with the Commissioners of Trade and Plantations. [Details.]
Prays for restitution.
21 May, Whitehall. Ref. Sir J. Cooke, Advocate General.8.P. Dom., Entry Book 238, pp. 493, 494.




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21 May.    The Russia Company.
They have many ships bound for Archangel, of which some
will be ready to sail on 25 May, and the rest on 20 June. These
ships will carry great quantities of British manufactured goods
and are to bring back stores for the service of the Navy.
They pray for a convoy for each fleet, to stay at Archangel
25 days after the arrival of the last convoy; also for protection
for their seamen to dispatch their ships hence.
21 May, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Admiral.- S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 238, pp. 492-3.
22 May.   Robert Lydall.
His petition shows that by his long study and great expense
he has found out and brought to perfection " a new way of
smelting and melting black tin into good merchantable white
tin in a reverberatory furnace without the help of bellows, by
means of some peculiar fluxes whereby not only a greater produce
of white tin is made out of the black tin and with less charge
than usual," but also the use and consumption of wood and
charcoal which in melting and smelting black tin into white tin
has been very great, will be much diminished to the great benefit
of the public.
Prays for a grant of Royal letters patent for the sole use and
benefit of the said invention for 14 years according to the
Statute &c.
22 May, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney or Solicitor-General.S.P. Dom., Entry Book 239, pp. 6-7.
Same.     The Constables, Churchwardens &c. of Brighthelmston.
In time of war they are usually allowed necessary provisions
and ammunition for putting themselves in a state of defence.
The present occasion requiring the like assistance, they pray
for an order for ammunition and carriages for their guns.
22 May, Whitehall. Ref. Earl of Romney.-S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 238, p. 494.
Same.     Inhabitants of Newhaven.
Their town and port is very much exposed to the enemy for
want of a fort and great guns, " which with the assistance of the
fort at Seaford, if that be well supplied, will command the whole
bay " and secure England's and her allies' ships which may be
forced to anchor there.
They pray for four guns with ammunition.
22 May, Whitehall. Ref. as foregoing. Ibid, p. 495.
23 May.    Robert Lucy.
Is a son of the late Bishop Lucy of St. David's. He is
register of the diocese of St. David's and was promoter and
prosecutor of the articles against Dr. Thomas Watson, late
Bishop of the said diocese, to the Archbishop of Canterbury
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After a hearing with counsel and witnesses, the Archbishop gave
sentence of deprivation against the Bishop which, on appeal,
was confirmed by the Court of Delegates.
When Dr. Watson was deprived, petitioner obtained a
deputation from the Commissioners of the Treasury to collect
the temporalities of the Bishopric during the vacancy. Petitioner
has since collected these to the best of his ability, and has laid
before your Lordships an account of his receipts therein.
Petitioner has been at above five years' expense in prosecuting
the said Dr. Watson to a deprivation. Litigation cost him over
2,0001. There were 150 witnesses and 2,000 pages of depositions
and numerous fees to advocates, proctors and registers. Petitioner
fought the case only in the interest of the poor clergy in the
diocese and for the public good.
Petitioner had judgment against the said Bishop for 9131. for
costs of the proceedings before the Archbishop and Delegates,
and the Bishop is excommunicated for non-payment; but
petitioner cannot recover on the judgment because the cursitor
refused to make out process against the Bishop.
During the vacancy of the Bishopric the petitioner is suspended
from his office as register, and depends purely on the bounty
and good-will of the Archbishop of Canterbury's register, to
whom he is accountable for all fees received during the vacancy.
Prays for consideration of his case and expenses.
23 May, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney General.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 238, pp. 501-3.
25 May.    The Governor and Company of Hudson's Bay.
The places to which they trade are in such a climate as only
to be navigable once a year, which is at this juncture. The
country is so barren that petitioners are compelled to provide
their factories once a year with supplies from England, and they
think that attempts on them may be made this year by the
French. To supply the factories and to defend them against
the insults of the French they have fitted out a ship called the
Hudson's Bay frigate, Michael Grimington commander, and have
provided officers and soldiers for defence thereof.
They ask for leave for the ship to proceed notwithstanding
the embargo, and protection for 22 seamen and 12 landmen;
also for her Majesty's commission to Captain John Fullartine,
their commander-in-chief, as has been accustomed on the like
occasions.
25 May, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Admiral.-Ibid, pp.
498-9.
27 May.    Sir John Delaval, Bart.
His eldest brother was married to Lady Elizabeth Hatchet,
who, by her marriage settlement, had a jointure of 8001. a year,
to which petitioner is entitled in reversion. Lady Elizabeth
is still in possession of the same, by means whereof the petitioner
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or any other account, except she enables him to suffer a common
recovery thereon. The Lady Elizabeth is now in France, and,
if she could return, would gladly gratify the petitioner in this
matter. By reason of a defect in a former settlement, the estate
will, if the petitioner die before the said lady without male issue,
descend to another family and not of the same name.
Prays for a licence for the said lady to return to England.
27 May, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney General. —S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 239, pp. 8-9.
28 May.    Alland Cathcart, Merchant.
In the year 1688 there was taken from him by order of
Colonel Gustavus Hamilton, then Governor of Inniskilling,
several sorts of goods, as tanned leather, salt, iron, timber, &c.,
to the value of 3321. 16s. 9d. for support of the Inniskilling garrison.
Had it not been for this requisition, Inniskilling must have fallen
into the enemy's hands, as shewn by a certificate signed by
Colonel Hamilton.
In January, 1688-9, petitioner was sent by the Governor to
represent the condition of the garrison to their late Majesties
which cost petitioner 721. His cellar of 1,800 gallons of brandy
was, in his absence, taken by the officers and men of the garrison;
his horses and boat taken, and the boat rendered useless. His
total loss in this way was 11,0001., which was never made good.
He obtained no satisfaction from the Commissioners for stating
the accounts of the army (details). To show his fidelity to the
present Government he raised and maintained two companies
(one for eight months and one for three), armed and furnished
them, &c, He was the first man that caused a drum to beat
in Inniskilling for their late Majesties' service, all which may
appear by certificates produced and signed by the Provost of
Inniskilling, Brigadier Woolsley, Colonel Creighton, Colonel
Gustavus Hamilton and the Commissioners for stating accounts for
the army.
In 1696 he petitioned for relief but his petition was neglected,
as the conspiracy against the late King was just then discovered.
Could not maintain himself in England till the hurry of the late
conspiracy was over, and returned to Ireland with nothing.
Prays for consideration and payment.
28 May, Whitehall. Ref. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.S.P. Dom., Entry Book 240, pp. 1-3.
Same.     Inhabitants of Whitby.
Eight guns were granted them during the last Dutch wars
and are still at Whitby. The Board of Ordnance furnished them
with ammunition during the late war with France. They need
supplies, have many enemies, and have many ships to protect
by reason of the late Act for repairing the piers of Whitby.
Pray for grant of such ammunition and supplies as may be
thought proper.
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29 May.   William Brown, of Canterbury.
Has long been a carpenter, but is too old to work and is in
great want. Prays for admission to the next vacancy as an
almsman in Christchurch, Canterbury.
Note that the petition was signed by the Dean, some prebendaries and several eminent hands.
29 May, Whitehall. Petition granted. Clerk of the Signet
to prepare a bill accordingly.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 240,
p. 4.
JUNE, 1702.
2 June.   Wm. Gardner, of Wesham.
Received from King William the grant of an almsman's place
in the Cathedral Church of Worcester. He fears that the King's
death may invalidate his title thereto and prays for confirmation.
2 June, Whitehall. Petition granted. Clerk of the Signet
to prepare a bill accordingly.-Ibid, p. 7.
Same.     Several Merchants and Traders by Sea of London.
The fort of Sherkyn was of very great advantage during the
late war in that it commands the haven of Baltimore and could
protect ships which took refuge there from privateers and bad
weather. It may still be so, as the harbour is most commodiously
situated on the line of trade, being but two leagues east of Cape
Clear. It can receive ships of great burthen and is suited for
victualling, and petitioners " conceive it to be the most necessary
port for securing the south and western commerce and
navigation." They pray that the said garrison may be restored
and further fortified.
2 June, Whitehall.  Ref. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.S.P. Dom., Entry Book 239, p. 12.
3 June.   Thomas Morton and Elizabeth, his wife.
Mrs. Cole, of Bradfield, in Wilts, their sister, had by a former
husband an only daughter, Margaret James, who is an idiot and
unable to manage herself or estate. Cole was possessed of a small
estate, scarcely more than will maintain the said idiot, and died
leaving no other provision for her than the said estate.
Petitioners are her nearest relatives, by the mother's side, and
are anxious that an honourable provision may be made for her
out of it, and that her custody be not granted to strangers, who
must keep her very poorly if they are going to make any profit
out of the custody. They pray for the custody of Mrs. James
and her estate on the return of an inquisition already issued.
3 June, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney and Solicitor General.Ibid, pp. 10-11.
8 June.   Charles Eversfield and Others.
His petition (and that of Nicholas Best, Esq., his guardian, and
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Jane his wife, Mary and Jane being sisters and next heirs to the
first petitioner), shews that Eversfield is an infant of 18 years
and is seised in fee or fee tail of and in the several manors of
Gestling, Gensing, Annington and Wephurst or Whephurst,
Charlton, Yelding and Deane, with all their appurtenances, and
and of several other farms and lands in Sussex. A treaty of
marriage has, with the consent of Eversfield's guardian, been
concluded between Eversfield and Mary Duncomb, of Guildford,
in Surrey, and provision is made therein for her jointure and for
settling Eversfield's estate on his heirs male by this marriage,
or daughters if there is no issue male &c. Eversfield cannot
make this settlement unless he and his sisters be admitted by
warrant under the Privy Seal to suffer one or more common
recoveries.
Prays for letters under the Privy Seal to the Lord Chief Justice
and other Justices of the Common Pleas to admit Eversfield,
by his guardian in the said Court, to suffer a common recovery
in such manner as may be advised by'counsel.
8 June, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney or Solicitor General.S.P. Dom., Entry Book 239, p. 13.
8 June.    Lemuel Matthews, D.D.
Is Archdeacon and Chancellor of Down and Prebendary
of Carncastle in the diocese of Connor. His petition shews
that in the fifth year of King William III the Bishops of
Derry and Meath were appointed by commission to visit in the
dioceses of Down and Connor and investigate alleged offences
there, and give redress. They gave several pretended definitive
sentences against petitioner without any just cause, as he humbly
conceives, and in an extraordinary and arbitrary procedure
ex officio 8uo mero et nobili and, as he is advised, contrary to the
form and tenor of the said commission and also contrary to the
rules and course of Ecclesiastical law, and for matters of which
they had no jurisdiction. The Commissioners did not charge
the petitioner with any immorality or enormity or with any of
the offences signified in their commission. They did not pretend
that petitioner had incurred the penalty of any canon or other
law or that he had not the right of appeal against their sentences.
Petitioner appealed to the late King and Queen against these
as excessive and null, as was usual in the case of persons aggrieved
by the decisions of Royal Commissioners for ecclesiastical causes,
in the Supreme Court of Prerogative in Ireland. Petitioner
was unfortunately misrepresented to their Majesties by powerful
adversaries and, being bereaved of his livelihood and excommunicated by the sentences, was not able to procure the counsels
necessary to clear himself of the charges made against him, and
of the measures under which he was oppressed, so as to obtain
a remedial Commission of Delegates on his said appeals and
complaint. Notwithstanding his constant endeavours he could
not obtain any remedy. He is now able to satisfy the Queen
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Prays for a fresh Commission to some of the Bishops and
Judges of the Common Law and Doctors of the Civil Law in
England or Ireland to hear and determine his appeals and
complaint.
8 June, Whitehall. Ref. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.S.P. Dom., Entry Book 239, pp. 14-15.
10 June.   Pelham, Twisden and Others.
Grants under the Great Seal during lives have been anciently
made of the office for making all writs of subpoena issuing out of
the High Court of Chancery. The last of these [lives] is now in
existence, and the last grantee was Sir Walter Vane, Kt. It
was a grant of 28 Oct., 1672, for the lives of Sir William Twisden,
Lionel Vane and Thomas Luddall; yet nevertheless the same was
acknowledged in the trust of the petitioners or such other persons
as they respectively claim under, in shares. Lionel Vane is
the only life in being of these, but the office and profits have been
continually renewed as the persons, or some of them, for whose
lives the same were granted expired. All or most of your petitioners, or those for whom they are in trust, have, as usual in
like cases, settled their respective interests of and in the said
profits for benefit of themselves and children, on which many of
them depend for their future subsistance.
They pray for a grant of the said office and profits for three
other lives.
The petitioners are N. Pelham, W. Twisden, George Vane,
Thomas Perkins, Thomas Twisden, N []. Battersby, Oliver
North and George Coles.
10 June, Whitehall. Ref. Solicitor General.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 240, pp. 8-9.
Same.     Anne Fitzharris.
She married the son of Sir Edward Fitzharris and brought
6,0001. into the family. His estate, of between 2,0001. and
3,0001. a year, was given away by the Government between
his confinement and his trial. In compassion, King Charles II
gave pensions to his family, and to the petitioner a pension of
2401. a year.
Since this reduction the House of Commons addressed his
[late] Majesty in petitioner's behalf, and the King complied with
the address. The pension is in arrear, and petitioner in great
want.
Prays for the quit-rents of Sir Edward Fitzharris' estate, which
are so unjustly kept from her.
10. June, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Treasurer. Ibid, pp.
9-10.
Same.     Frances, widow of Captain William Stopford.
In the late troubles in Ireland, she was forced to fly with her
family to England. A considerable estate which she had in
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its being "a harbour for rapperees and Tories." Her stock
there was used by the army and she lost 2,0001. She also lost
her husband, who had paid 1,3001. for a company in the Royal
Regiment of Guards, and did not enjoy it twelve months.
Prays for a place on the Irish establishment to enable her to
escape debts and troubles.
10 June, Whitehall. Ref. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.S.P. Dom., Entry Book 240, p. 5.
10 June.   Master and Wardens of the Pewterers' Company of London.
They are incorporated by letters patents of King Edward IV,
and have considerable powers for controlling their mystery
throughout England. Their patents were confirmed by several
later Kings and by Kings Charles I and Charles II, who granted
them further powers in England and Wales. They have used
their powers well for preventing the deceitful making of pewter,
and have thereby preserved it in its primitive goodness. They
have expended more on this than the forfeitures amount to,
and still want further powers and encouragement for better
government.
They pray for further powers and a grant of half the forfeitures
which come to the Crown for breaches of the Acts relating to
the making of pewter.
10 June, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney and Solicitor General.Ibid, pp. 6-7.
William Sutton.
His petition shews that Nicholas West obtained a judgment
against him in the King's Bench. Petitioner is advised that there
is an obvious error in this judgment, but it cannot be mended
save by the grant of a writ of error returnable in your Majesty's
High Court of Parliament. Prays accordingly.
11 June, Whitehall. Petition granted.-Ibid, p. 10.
12 June.   Martha Villers.
As relict of Sir Edward Villers, late Knight Marshal of England,
she shews that her husband had 4,3001. due to him for services
to the Crown and on other accounts. Petitioner paid away all
she had in order to satisfy the debts which her husband left at
his death. She has been very poor for seven years and is in danger
of imprisonment. Prays for consideration.
12 June, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Treasurer.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 239, pp. 16, 17.
Same.     Sarah Bladen.
On 29 May she delivered a petition shewing that King William,
in recognition of the loyal services of her family and of her losses
during the late wars, granted her a pension of 501. a year, payable
by the Earl of Ranelagh here.
Prays for continuation of the pension.
12 June, Whitehall. Ref. Earl of Ranelagh (Paymaster
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William Weedon Ford, Warden of the Fleet [Prison].
His petition shews that Colonel Baldwin Leighton, in Feb.
1697, procured a commission to inquire into the forfeitures
of the office of Warden of the Fleet, and, by inquisition
taken thereon, the jury found that the prisoner had suffered
a voluntary escape. In Michaelmas term, 1700, judgment was
thereon given against petitioner on the evidence of one person
only. There are manifest errors in the inquisition and judgment.
Prays for a grant of a writ of error returnable in Parliament.
12 June, Whitehall.  Petition granted.-S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 240, p. 11.
John Stedwell (or Sledwell).
Was porter at Chatham yard, temp. Charles II, James II
and King William and Queen Mary. He was put out of his
post for no other offence than staying with King James II
at Feversham, where his Majesty had no other servant than
petitioner and Mr. Chilton. Petitioner also served Queen Anne
and Queen Mary (when Princesses) by order of King James II
(then Duke of York) during five summers at Richmond; is 75
years old and very poor.
Prays for restoration to his place of porter or other employment.
12 June, Whitehall. Ref. Commissioners of the Navy.Ibid, pp. 11, 12.
16 June.   Coga Baba de Sultanan (to Nottingham).
An Armenian merchant and subject of the King of Persia.
On behalf of himself and several other Armenian merchants
of the City of London, shews that he understood that by a late
Act of Parliament the importation of raw silk from Italy and
elsewhere was allowed. Almost all the silk trade is in the hands
of the Armenians, who bring the silk through Muscovy to Holland.
The import of silk direct from Persia would be of great benefit
to the Queen's subjects and the petitioners, if permitted, would
import it direct, and would take English manufactures in exchange
for the same.
Pray for leave to import silk to England from Persia by way
of Archangel and Narva.
16 June, Whitehall. Petition laid before the Committee of
Council. Ref. Attorney or Solicitor General. —S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 239, pp. 15-16.
Charles Waite, Gentleman.
His grandfather was seised in fee simple of a messuage and
divers lands in Market Overton and Barrow in Rutland, value
about 1001. a year. By a marriage settlement, dated 23 March,
13 Car. I, his grandfather settled the estate on himself for his
life and his heirs by his wife Jane in tail male with reversion
or remainder to his right heirs. About 1660 petitioner's grandfather was attainted of high treason, and his estate for life and his




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remainder or reversion expectant on the said entails vested in
King Charles II, and is now in the Queen. Eighteen sons and
grandsons of Thomas Waite are now alive, all inheritable in the
said estates tail before the Queen's reversion or remainder can
take place, so the Queen's interest is of little value.
Petitioner, desiring to pay his debts, contracted lately with a
Mr. Edgeson for an absolute sale of the premises, but Edgeson's
counsel, in perusing the title, think that he cannot safely purchase
by reason of the reversion or remainder in the Crown, whereby
petitioner is like to be disabled from performing his contract,
or raising moneys as he desires, without the Queen's help.
Prays for a grant of the reversion or remainder in fee in her
Majesty expectant upon the estates tail as aforesaid.
17 June, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney or Solicitor General.S.P. Dom., Entry Book 239, pp. 17-18.
17 June.   George Phillips, commander, and Gregory Page and other
owners of the Eaton, frigate.
Their petition shews that in Nov., 1699, the petitioner [sic]
intended a voyage to China with the said ship. The Master
received money of the President and gentlemen who were to
accompany him thither to buy fresh provisions for them and
to pay seamen the river pay. Carrying money with him down
the river for those purposes (5001. and 18 silver plates for the
particular use of the said President), the money and plate were
seized by a Custom House officer on the way to the Downs on
the supposition that it was intended for transportation. The
petitioner's witnesses having gone to sea, a verdict was given
against him [on a charge of attempting to transport], and the
matter is now depending upon writ of error. Petitioner does not
believe that your Majesty will take the plate and money merely
because (for the reason aforesaid) it was not entered.
Prays for an order to the Attorney General to enter a noli
prosequi on the said judgment, that the petitioner may have
his plate &c. on paying the Customs officer's reasonable
charges.
17 June, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Treasurer.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 240, pp. 12-13.
18 June.   John Nicolls, Gentleman.
His petition, delivered on behalf of many thousand inhabitants
dwelling in and near Mount's Bay in Cornwall, shews that
petitioner's ancestors were very great sufferers in the war with
Spain, the enemy landing in the said bay and burning their
churches, dwelling-houses, goods and merchandises. The towns
of Penzance, Nulyn [Newlyn], Monsehole [Mousehole] and many
adjacent houses were burnt by them.
They are now in greater danger than ever of being burnt, or
fired upon by the enemy's privateers. They have no means of
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and saw them "often before their faces as riding at anchor in
their very bay."
A small number of guns placed conveniently on the "clufts"
between the said towns of Nulyn and Montsehole [Mousehole]
would in good measure secure as well the said towns and the
country adjacent from the insults of the enemy and secure the
said bay and all the ships riding there, or which should come
in there for refuge from the enemy's privateers, which are generally
numerous in these parts. They would also be an advantage
to trade generally.
They pray for a grant of the necessary guns and ammunition.
18 June, Whitehall. Ref. Earl of Romney.-S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 240, pp. 14-15.
18 June.   Charles Palmer.
Was formerly clerk of the Carriages to King Charles II.
From 1660-1674 he was under-clerk for the accounts of the various
offices under the jurisdiction of the Green Cloth, and was for
years only [sole] clerk to Sir William Boreman, second clerk of
the Green Cloth. In 1674 he was sworn and admitted clerk of
the Carriages and held the same till 1685. [Details.] A new
establishment being made about that time the office of the
petitioner, though most useful on progresses and removals was
" on the mean pretence of frugality... sunk," and the society
of cartaker [sic] left without any head officer, to petitioner's
ruin.
Petitioner is informed that your Majesty intends a new book
of the establishment for your Majesty's household "from the
ancient foot of your Majesty's predecessors."
Prays for re-appointment as clerk of the Carriages or for other
employment in the Royal Household.
Followed by:(1) Copy of Warrant from the Duke of Ormond to the Clerk
of the Green Cloth in execution of the next.
Dated, 27 March, Clare[n]don House, 1674, setting out:(2) Copy of Warrant from King Charles II to the Duke of
Ormond as Lord Steward of the Household.
To admit Palmer as clerk of the Carriages and swear him
in, invest him, &c.
Dated, 16 March, Whitehall, 1673-4.
(3) Further petition of Palmer:Shews that he assisted in the improvement of the King's
revenue, namely changing the Excise on coffee, tea, and chocolate
into an additional duty on the dry goods payable at the Custom
House. This was passed into an Act of Parliament over 13 years
ago, and had in the first year resulted in an improvement in the
revenue of over 23,0001. Petitioner and his partners early had
the Royal promise of reward from the product of this tax, but
he has not received any, and has thus lost over 3001. His services
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their attestation has often been laid before the late King "at
sitting in the Treasury,"
He prays for relief.
18 June, Whitehall. Ref. Lord Steward (Duke of Devonshire).
-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 240, pp. 15-17.
20 June.   Josiah Burchett.
In 1695 he was called from his office of secretary to the Admiral
of the Fleet, and, in conjunction with Mr. Bridgman, appointed
Secretary of the Admiralty. He found at his arrival in England
that those moderate fees which his predecessors had enjoyed
had been taken away. For some time before the close of the
late war, and to the time when his Royal Highness was appointed
Lord High Admiral, he acted singly in that station without
extra encouragement for his extraordinary care and pains in an
employment of so great trust and consequence, but had to pay
his taxes as if in receipt of a salary, which often reduced him to
great necessity. By the late King's order the Lords of the
Treasury ordered the reimbursing of the principal officers and
Commissioners of the Navy and other public officers for their
public taxes paid from 1695.
Prays for reimbursement of what he has paid in public taxes
since he came into his office, as per annexed account, and for a
similar favour to his clerks whose fees are not adequate, but are
their only support.
20 June, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Treasurer.
Memorandum. An account was annexed of the taxes from
1695-7. It amounted to 5171. 10s. Od.-Ibid, pp. 18-19.
Same.     Martha Francis.
She shews, as the only surviving child of Sir Andrew Cogan, Bt.,
that her father loyally served Charles I, and in his service spent,
or was plundered of 34,6771., which prevented him from making
any provision for his family. King Charles II, on hearing her
case, well remembered her father's services, and she was thereupon
relieved annually till 1688. She only received occasional relief
in the time of the late King, and her pension is in arrear and
she is in debt. Prays for continuance of her pension of 2001. a
year and for arrears.
20 June. Ref. Lord High Treasurer.-Ibid, p. 24.
22 June.   William Dockwra, of London.
He set up a penny post and regulated it at his own expense
which has been a considerable gain to the revenue of the letter
office and, an eminent service to the public. He was deprived
of the possession of the penny post, and, soon after the Revolution
the House of Commons recommended his case to the King, whereupon he had a grant of 5001. a year for a term of years for support
of himself and his numerous family. In 1697 he was appointed
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Midsummer, 1700, he was removed and his pension of 5001. a
year expired at the same time, so as he has had' neither office
nor pension for almost these two years.
Prays in consideration of his losses in a matter in which the
public have gained so much, to have some settled provision out
of the penny post or otherwise, and a present support for his
numerous family.
22 June, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Treasurer.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 239, p. 20.
22 June.   William, Bishop of Llandaff.
His petition shews that Llandaff is much the poorest see in
England or Wales. Petitioner has held it for 23 years. His
predecessor had the tenths of the diocese granted him for an
additional support. Prays for a grant of these, and to be forgiven
the arrearages of tenths due to the Queen from him.
22 June, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Treasurer.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 240, p. 18.
Same.     Several Inhabitants of the City and Liberty of Westminster.
They have been almost ruined by giving credit to several
"out gentiosers " [sic for gentlemen pensioners?]* of Chelsea
Hospital, who were in arrear of their subsistance. They cannot
pay taxes, or give further credit, which will cause these persons
to perish.
They pray for consideration that they may be kept from
starving.
22 June, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Treasurer.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 239, p. 24.
23 June.   Colonel Henry Villiers.
In September, 1693, petitioner received an order from the
Privy Council to take all care of the port and river of Tynne
[Tyne] and the ships there according to his duty. In August,
1694, the Deputy Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace of the
Bishopric of Durham and county of Northumberland complained
to the Judges that they were afraid of their ships, which consisted
sometimes of 600 sail, being burnt in the river. The Judges
told them that the petitioner was the proper person to take care
of them. In order thereto petitioner applied to the Master General
of Ordnance and the Lords of the Admiralty for a guard-boat
ao     to attend the garrison. These thought it very necessary that
petitioner should have one, and advised to apply to the Lords
Justices as to who should furnish it. On 13 June, 1695, the
Lords Justices agreed that the Paymaster of the Army (the
Earl of Ranelagh) should provide what was necessary out of
the contingencies of the Army, which he then did; but the said
boat is gone to decay. In May last the town of Newcastle
presented a petition to the Queen setting forth the danger in
which the ships were in that harbour.
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Prays an order to the Earl of Ranelagh to furnish petitioner
with means to purchase a guard-boat sufficient to protect
them.
23 June, Whitehall. Her Majesty thinks a guard-boat as asked
may be useful. Ref. Lord Treasurer.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book
240, p. 20.
24 June.  Captain John Poyntz and Others.
Poyntz, Benjamin Woodroffe, D.D., Moses Stringer, physician
and chymist, on behalf of themselves and their company, shew
that the islands of Tobago in America are of dangerous consequence
for harbouring her Majesty's enemies. In the late wars with
France and Holland most of the Caribbee Islands were thereby
much endangered and many ships sailing to and from Barbados
and the rest of the said islands were taken by ships harbouring
there. The petitioners and company have a joint right with
the natives of the said islands by a grant from James, late Duke of
Courland, made in 1681, but, by reason of wars with France and
other obstructions, have been prevented from settling there.
Captain Poyntz has made eleven voyages to Tobago and
Trinidad and the seas thereabouts and thereby made several
secret discoveries of rich earth mines and lapis-lazuli and also
of pearls and ambergrease, by. which vast wealth, to the extent
of several hundred thousands of pounds, may come to the
Queen and her subjects, if free trade be had with the natives.
The " Emperor of the Caribbees" is very anxious for such a traffic,
and accordingly treated with Captain Poyntz for it, that the
petitioner and any merchants ready to join with them should
carry on the trade by such vessels, of peace or war, as they
are ready to fit out, and should oppose and subdue her Majesty's
enemies. They are also anxious to devote several hundred
thousand acres of land in Tobago, and a twentieth part of such
purchases or acquisitions as they shall make " to such pious uses
whereby the Gospel may be propagated among the Indians &c.,
when they shall have a free trade, and the poorer sort of her
Majesty's subjects transporting themselves thither may be
provided for."
Pray that not only the islands of Tobago, but also any other
lands which they may purchase or acquire from the Indians
may be annexed to the Realm of England, and that the Queen
will accept of a fourth part of such secret discoveries of rich
earth, mines, lapis-lazuli, pearl and ambergrease as they have
made or may make. Pray also for incorporation, with power
to raise a stock or stocks, fit out ships of war or trade without
expense to the Crown, and that Prince George would " condescend
to be Governor of the said company."
24 June, Whitehall. Ref. Commissioners for Trade and
Plantations.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 239, pp. 21, 22.
25 June.   Brigadier Langston.
His petition, on behalf of the regiment formerly under his
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of that regiment 30 men and horses to recruit the Earl of Oxford's
regiment. They received these men, being under orders for
Flanders, and by warrant from the late King, dated 18 January
following, the petitioner was ordered to recruit his regiment
with 30 troopers, which was done on 1 February following, the
horses therefor being  received  from  M. Auverquerc.  The
charge of those recruit horses and of the arms for the men are
placed to the account of the petitioner's regiment, and although
petitioner received the horses the 1st of February following, with
the men, yet by reason the men were not mustered (the regiment
being then in Ireland and they recruited there) no pay is allowed
them till 1 June following, and, they being respited from the time
they were detached, the charge for their whole pay for four
months lies on petitioner and his and their captains; also the
whole charge of their clothing and arms, as well as for the thirty
horses so recruiting the Earl of Oxford's regiment.  In 1690,
the horses were delivered to your petitioner to recruit his
regiment, then in Ireland; but fifty-two of them were lost at sea by
a storm, and are also placed to the account of the regiment.
On a petition presented to the late King for relief herein, it was
referred to Charles Fox, Esq., upon whose report in April, 1693,
the Treasury granted petitioner 101. a horse for the thirty
detached and the fifty-two lost at sea; but no warrant has, in
pursuance of that grant, been as yet issued to Mr. Blathwayt.
The regiment is respited 1171. 15s. for fifteen unmounted men
for 157 days from 1 June, 1691, being about that time mustered,
although they were part of the recruit horses for those that were
lost at sea and came up to the regiment five days after the said
muster, and were long before on the charge of the regiment,
having received them in England. The regiment is likewise
charged 1,2001. for recruit horses in 1692, and for their tents
and arms 4621. 15s. 4d., though the regiment was broke and
at the same time delivered in August that year into Colonel
Wood's now regiment, Brigadier Windham's, the Duke of
Schonburg's and the regiment late Colonel Godfry's.
Prays for a warrant taking off the said Several charges and
the several respites, that the accounts of the regiment may pass
the Commissioners for stating the accounts of the Army before
the time limited by Act of Parliament be expired.
25 June, Whitehall. Ref. Charles Fox.-S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 240, pp. 21, 22.
25 June.   Merchants and Others of Lowestoft.
Whiteall They shew that their town is situated on the sea coast, where
there is a roadstead convenient for ships of most burthen if the
town were able to defend them with a few more cannon than it
now has, and with ammunition, carriages, &c.  The neighbouring town of Bakefield [details of its position] has no defences.
They ask for four more guns with all things necessary. They
have now only four eleven pounders which, with a little powder
borrowed from Great Yarmouth fort, enabled them to beat off


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a small privateer which recently dared to come into their south
road to take some ships at anchor there and which was next day
taken by H.M.S. Flamborough. The nearness of Dunkirk and
Ostend and the daily appearance of privateers make them realise
their danger. Pray for cannon as above. Loyal professions.
25 June, Whitehall. Ref. Master General of Ordnance.S.P. Dom., Entry Book 239, pp. 23, 24.
27 June.   William Richardson.
He is very old and poor and has been under several commands.
Prays to be admitted to Chelsea College or Windsor.
27 June, Whitehall. Ref. Earl of Ranelagh. —S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 240, p. 22.
30 June.   Out Gentlemen Pensioners of the Royal College at Chelsea.
By the established subsidy they were allowed ls. 6d. a day
for their long services in the late wars. For the last ten years
they have been reduced to 12d. a day, and for four years and
eight months last past many of them received nothing. They
have been forced to live on credit a long time and can get no
further credit. Many of them have been imprisoned and the
others are in danger of being so, if not relieved, by reason of their
great debts. Pray for relief.
30 June, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Treasurer.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 239, p. 26.
Same.     Richard, Earl of Rivers.
The late King, some time before his death, directed steps
to be taken [details] for appointing petitioner Constable of
Liverpool Castle, with the old fee of 61. 13s. 4d. a year, butlerage
and prizage. Owing to the late King's sickness and death the
warrant was not signed, and, on the petitioner applying to your
Majesty, the matter was referred to the Attorney General, who
has reported on it.
Prays for a new warrant to the Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster to grant him the said offices for three lives or a term
thought fit.
30 June, Whitehall. Referred, together with a report of the
Attorney General on a petition of Lord Molineux, to the
Right Hon. Sir J. Leveson Gower, Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 240, p. 23.
Same.     Charles Townly.
He was unfortunately in France about the time of the late
Revolution, and soon after the said Revolution returned into
England and lived peaceably and quietly at home in England.
Recites the provisions of the Act of 1697,* against corresponding
with King James II or his adherents.
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Proceeds: Petitioner could not get the licence required by
the Act in time, and therefore left the country and lived in the
Low Countries from that time till the date of the late Declaration
of War. Not desiring to live in a hostile country, he removed
thence. He has a very aged father at home, who laments his
absence and wants his help. Prays for leave to return to England
on giving security for his good behaviour.
30 June, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney and Solicitor General.S.P. Dom., Entry Book 239, pp. 31, 32.
JULY, 1702.
2 July.   Viscount Blessinton.
He has a piece of ground in the city of Limerick which has
for some time been made use of for a parade ground for that
garrison, by which he is kept out of possession of it, though he
has an undoubted right to it by patent.
Prays for consideration for the time and for rent in the future,
or for possession.
2 July, Whitehall. Ref. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.-Ibid, p. 27.
Same.     Colonel Edward Taylor.
In the late rebellion he at his own charge raised and for some
time maintained a regiment of foot and a troop of horse for the
service of King Charles I, in whose service his father was killed
and petitioner confined in the Fleet till the Restoration. In
1697 the Lords Justices in England expressed their appreciation
of his services and ordered him an annuity of 2s. 6d. a day to be
paid by the Earl of Ranelagh. King William confirmed this
pension, but it is now in arrear 1671. 10s. He is 92 years old
and has nothing to live on but the said pension and is so much
in debt " that he dare not stir out but on Sundays," by which
confinement he is made sickly.
Prays for an order for payment of an immediate debt of 601.
out of the arrears of his pension or for other relief.
2 July, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Treasurer.-Ibid, pp.
27, 28.
6 July.   Thomas Tudway.
Ever since the Reformation there have been three organists
belonging to the Chapel Royal, to attend that duty by turns.
The petitioner was bred up in that chapel, and had a promise
in '82 from King Charles II that he should have the next place
which fell vacant. This occurred when Mr. Purcell died in
1696; but his place has never been filled. Prays for it.
6 July, Whitehall. Ref. Bishop of London.-Ibid, p. 30.
7 July.   Thomas Sandes, Merchant.
He commenced an account [action] of trespass upon the
case against Sir John Shaw, William Waterson and Charles Tower
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and was affirmed on a writ of error returnable in the Council
Chamber, in which judgment he is advised that there is a manifest
error, "and he noways relievable but by bringing a writ of error
returnable in your Majesty's High Court of Parliament." Prays
for grant of such a writ.
7 July, Whitehall. Granted.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 239,
pp. 32, 33.
9 July.   Mary Huntington.
9 July, St. James'.-The Queen read the Lord Lieutenant's
report on this case and ordered it to be sent to the Lord High
Treasurer with directions to give order accordingly.-Ibid, p. 34.
Preceded by -
The Earl of Rochester (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) to
Nottingham.
On the petition of Mary Huntington referred to me,* I have
to say that it appears by a copy of the rent roll of the agent of
the late Bishop that the value of the see amounts to 1,0381. 3s. 2d.
a year, payable quarterly at Lammas, All Saints, Candlemas and
May. The Bishop died on 1 September, 1701, and was entitled to
the quarter which fell due on 1 August, 1701, and there are three.
quarters' rent due on 1 May last to her Majesty.  For the
preservation of the mansion house some repairs have been done
and paid for out of the mean profits of the see. I think the
Queen may bestow one quarter's rent more on the petitioner in
addition to the quarter which fell due during her husband's
lifetime.
Dated, Cockpit, 5 June, 1702. Ibid, pp. 33, 34.
11 July.  Francis Grognet.
In obedience to the Queen's command, he shews that he went
to Switzerland and distributed the late Queen Mary's charity
to the poor Vaudois, " and was very serviceable to them in their
return into their country." The war being declared some time
after, he promoted the recruits made in that country for the
English army in Piedmont, and the French being masters of
Savoy he found out a short way for the said recruits, which
saved them a compass of above thirty leagues, which was both
very expensive and afforded frequent opportunities to desert.
" For all which the French envoy being very much incensed
complained to the Canton of Berne, who thought themselves
thereupon obliged to banish him." This is certified by letters
of the late Lord Schonberg, General of the English troops in
Piedmont, by a certificate of the English Resident in Switzerland
and by a letter from the Duke of Savoy to the late King. All
these letters were seen by Lord Secretary Nottingham. The
last-mentioned letter from the Duke of Savoy was, in the late
King's absence in Flanders, presented by the petitioner to the
late Queen Mary, who granted to the petitioner's son  the
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commmission of a reformed captain. When the late King returned
from Flanders he changed this commission into a pension of
5s. a day, and this pension was paid for some years, and the
petitioner has done nothing to render himself unworthy to receive
it. On the contrary, he has been constantly occupied in examining
strangers who come from France, and particularly the Papists,
who, according to the account he gave of them, were either
relieved or discarded. He did such good service in this respect
that the late King's Secretary of State directed him to continue
so doing. For these and other services the late King, having
been anew informed of them, a few days before his death directed
that petitioner should be paid a gratuity of 1001., and that his
pension should be continued on the Irish list.  It has not been
paid.
Prays for a continuance of his pension.
11 July, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Treasurer.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 239, pp. 35, 36.
11 July.   Richard, Lord Bellew.
In the course of a suit in Ireland, he has to prove a deed. Two
of the witnesses to it are dead and the third, Edward Johnson,
is in France and will incur the penalties of high treason if he
returns without licence. Prays for a licence to Johnson to
come over and give evidence.
11 July, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney or Solicitor General.Ibid, p. 37.
Same.     Mathew Aylmer.
He served many years as flag officer and Commissioner of the
Navy. It being the Queen's pleasure to remove him, he prays
for a pension such as was given to Admiral Killigrew, Sir Ralph
Delavall and others by the late King (and allowed now by
H.M.). Large family.
11 July, Whitehall. Ref. Prince's Council.- Ibid, p. 38.
Same.     Anne Richbell.
Her late husband, Edward Richbell, was one of the late farmers
of the Revenue in Ireland, and thereby lost above 20,0001.
He was unable to dispose of any part of his estate for 14 years
[details], and, so, obliged to contract great debts, and, at his
death, left petitioner very poor with four children. The late
King granted her 401. a year [details], which is now 21 years in
arrear.
Prays for her arrears and further favour.
11 July, Whitehall. Ref. Lord Treasurer.-S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 240, p. 25.
17 July.   Colonel Toby Purcell, Governor of Dungannon Fort in Ireland.
About ten months since he purchased about 1001. per annum
in the County Palatine of Tipperary from one John Butler;
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issue male the title to the said land may be disputed by the Crown,
" because in passing John Butler's decree in the Court of Claims
soon after the Restoration as an innocent Papist there was a
clause whereby the said estate reverted to the Crown after the
determination of the said issue of John Butler." IHe has served
the Crown for 33 years and commanded a regiment in the late
war in Ireland, which he resigned for want of health. He incurred
many expenses at Newry for drums, trumpets, memorials and
exchange of prisoners, and these were never repaid him. The
estate is his only provision. Prays for a grant of the Crown's
title to it.
17 July, Whitehall. Ref. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.S.P. Dom., Entry Book 239, p. 39.
21 July.   Lieutenant-Colonel Jean Thomas Labarthe.
He was sent to the relief of Londonderry and served very
well there, and that he did good service in other places in Ireland,
even some months after the capitulation of Limerick.
After the sieges of Cork and Kinsale he was made Governor of
Thurles, during which time his pay was 15s. a day [details], but
he has never received anything but two instalments amounting
in all to 301. He has no pension, and lost one of 900/f., which he
had in Holland, by coming over with the late King. Prays for
payment of two years' arrears.
21 July, Whitehall. Ref. Lord Coningsby, Paymaster-General
of the Forces in Ireland.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 240, p. 26.
28 July.   Robert Jenison.
He is of Wallworth in the county palatine of Durham, and
shews that he made "a considerable discovery relating to the
Popish conspiracy in King Charles II's time." He laid out much
money in journeys and attendances and, in King James II's
time, had to fly to Holland and there was compelled, for subsistence, to sell his estate at 1,5001. loss. Is now very poor owing
to his efforts in the Protestant interest. Prays for employment
either military or civil.
28 July, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney or Solicitor General.
The petition annexed Mr. Jenison's information delivered at
the bar of the House of Commons on 9 Nov., 1680, and printed
by order of the House; likewise a letter to Lord Secretary
Nttingham, dated 26 July, 1702, wherein, among other matters
of the same purport, he desires a power to find out Mr. Cuffell,
Mr. Ra. Jenison, Mr. Bloundell, Mr. N. N., &c., all Jesuits,
whereby he might illustrate the matter of fact set forth in his
information.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 239, pp. 40, 41.
Same.     William, Lord Mountjoy.
He has a lease under the Crown of the castle of Mountjoy and
300 acres of land at 30s. and has about 10 years of the lease to
run. As he takes his title from it, he asks for a longer term,
or for a freehold on such terms as the Queen thinks fit.
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AUGUST, 1702.
1 Aug.    Thomas Smallbone.
He is of Bockhampton in Berks, and shews that he was in
1687 made comet of horse in the Earl of Plymouth's regiment
and followed the late King James into France and Ireland, and
was in his service till September, 1699, when, being wholly
ignorant of the Act of 1697, he returned to England and has lived
peaceably ever since. Prays for pardon.
1 August, Whitehall.  Ref. Attorney or Solicitor General.S.P. Dom., Entry Book 240, p. 27.
5 Aug.    Mary Mayhook.
Petitioner's husband sent for her to New England, whither
she went. Soon after he was cast away whilst fishing, leaving her
with child. Had no support there, so came home, and, on the
way home, was captured by the French, who took all she had
from her. Recaptured by the Weymouth within 24 hours, but
could not get back the linen which she had prepared for her
lying-in. Was put ashore at Plymouth and came, in great
poverty, to London. Soon after had a son. Prays for relief.
5 August, Whitehall. Ref. Dr. Brampston, Surrogate to the
Judge of the Admiralty. He is to consider it, and, if the facts
be true, to relieve petitioner.-Ibid, pp. 27, 28.
Same.    Town of Whitehaven.
The masters and owners of ships, and the inhabitants, of the
town of Whitehaven shew that their port lies open to the sea
and has only a small platform without guns for its defence.
The harbour is usually full of ships, and these are in danger of
being destroyed upon the least attempt of an enemy, " the rather
for that they lie dry at low water and are close moored one by
another." If any such thing should happen it would ruin
petitioners and the local trade, and also greatly prejudice the
city of Dublin and the Customs. If they were supplied with
ten demi-culverins or 12-pounders with carriages to plant on
the same platform and other stores in proportion they hope
that they might be able to make a good defence.
They pray for such great guns and stores as the Queen thinks fit.
5 August, Whitehall. Ref. Board of Ordnance.-Ibid, pp.
28, 29.
10 Aug.   Lieutenant Richard Farley.
His father, Captain Richard Farley, served in the Foot Guards
in Ireland for about 30 years, till the Earl of Tyrconnell took
away his commission because he was a Protestant, and afterwards
he was despoiled by the Irish Papists of all he had.
In consideration of his services the late King and Queen granted
petitioner's father a pension of 5s. a day. This was paid till his
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Petitioner's brother, John Farley, was captain of Grenadiers
and was killed at Limerick; and petitioner has been a lieutenant
for 12 years, but, by an unhappy fall has been lately incapacitated
for service. Prays for a civil employment in England or Ireland,
and, in the meantime, for the same pension as his father had.
10 August, Whitehall. Ref. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.S.P. Dom., Entry Book 240, pp. 29, 30.
10 Aug.    Thomas, Earl of Limerick.
He was bred a soldier and arrived to be colonel of the Irish
regiment in France, which was worth to him 4,0001. a year. By
command of King Charles II he left that employment to enter
the English service, and King Charles settled on him a pension
of 5001. a year. This he duly received till the late Revolution.
Whilst he was Governor of New York, he exhausted his whole
fortune in making war against the French in Canada, for which
he has been paid nothing.   [Details.] The estate of his late
brother in Ireland is clogged with a large jointure to his widow
and with many incumbrances left by him upon it. Parliament
has charged it with great sums to Protestant purchasers and
has cut off all arrears incurred since his brother's death, which
will render the estate of little or no value to petitioner.
Prays for the arrears of his pension only.
10 August, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Treasurer.,-Ibid,
pp. 30, 31.
Same.     Mary Macarthy.
Her late husband, Colonel Macarthy, had a pension of 1001. a
year, which was punctually paid till the late Revolution. The
Earl of Marlborough received him into protection when General
in Ireland before the reduction of Kinsale. She had a promise
of provision, but has received nothing and is very poor. Prays
for her husband's pension to be continued.
10 August, Whitehall. Ref. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.Ibid, pp. 31, 32.*
Same.     Willamena Bunce.
She shews that she is the only surviving issue of Sir John
Bunce, Baronet, deceased. Her grandfather spent great sums
on the Restoration of King Charles II when both King Charles II
and King James II were in Holland. 15,0001. of this sum was
petitioner's mother's portion.  In consideration of his zeal,
as is well known to Colonel Titus, yet alive, and Sir Stephen Fox,
King Charles II granted to him [petitioner's grandfather] a
Privy Seal for 5,0001. and, until payment thereof, an annuity
of 2001. The Privy Seal was not paid, and the pension continued
to be paid to petitioner's father and, after his death, to her mother
during the reigns of King Charles II and King James II. After
her mother's death King William III continued the pension to
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petitioner, but it was not paid as aforesaid. No other means.
Prays for its continuance.
10 August, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Treasurer.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 240, pp. 32, 33.
22 Aug.   Thomas Hewston, Esq.
He shews that for several years he served as captain of horse,
foot and dragoons till he was discharged of his employment
by the Earl of Tyrconnell. Soon after he went to sea and, at
the time of the Revolution, happened to have the chance of
preserving several of her Majesty's plantations in America, as
appears in the annexed certificates. To do this he was obliged
to fight with six French men-of-war under the command of
M. Duras [Du Casse], by which action he relieved the forces of
Barbados and the Leeward Islands when reduced to the last
extremity, and took from the French the island of Mary Gallant,
blew up their forts, burst their heavy guns and brought those
that were portable to Antegoe [Antigua], and delivered them,
to the General for the use of the Crown. Petitioner was at great
expense in raising a regiment for the defence of those islands
and the furnishing them and the Governments of Barbados and
Bermudas with ammunition and arms, of which they had none.
Some time later, by order of the Earl of Insiquin [Inchiquin], he
landed on the island of Hispaniola, where he fought and defeated
the French, though treble his number, and thereby prevented
their designs on Jamaica.
Prays that the facts stated and the amount of his losses may
be inquired into, and that he may have some post of importance
and danger.
The petition annexed  a certificate from  the gentry and
merchants interested in trading to the Leeward Islands in recommendation of Mr. " Heweston," and also letters from the Councils
of Antegoa and Nevis.
22 August, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Admiral.-Ibid, pp.
33, 34.
OCTOBER, 1702.
2 Oct.    William Penn.
It is absolutely necessary for the Queen's service and the
safety of her subjects in Pennsylvania that the Deputy Governor,
Colonel Hamilton, should have at least a temporary approbation,
otherwise, as petitioner here cannot obey her commands there,
so his Deputy cannot safely execute them. Begs that Hamilton
may be approved for one year and that the imputations against
him be referred to Lord Cornbury [to see] whether he is worthy
of being continued in his trust.
2 October, Bath. Ref. Commissioners of Trade and Plantations.
-Ibid, p. 34A.
15 Oct.   Andrew Hare and John Kirkpatrick, Merchants, of Minehead.
They trade to France in time of peace and that there was
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1,1591. 58., for which they were at law before the war, but cannot
now recover it. The debt to them [i.e. with costs] is now 1,4001.,
and they know where such a sum is in the hands of English
merchants and due to merchants in France-1,2001. in the hands
of John Seward, merchant, of Dorchester, and 2501. in their own
hands, "for which they and Seward are liable to be sued here
by her Majesty's enemies, though they are denied the same
justice in France."
They pray that the said 1,4501. may be stopped till they can
obtain justice in France.
15 October, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney or Solicitor General.S.P. Dom., Entry Book 239, pp. 42, 43.
19 Oct.   Jane Housden.
She was convicted last sessions for coining, " upon bare circumstances only without positive proof of the fact, being charged
with that crime by people to save themselves." Has three
children and is with child. Prays for her life to be spared.
19 October, Whitehall. Ref. Recorder of London.-Ibid, p. 42.
Same.     Isabella Gwillim.
She is grandchild to Sir Thomas Edmonds, knight, deceased,
formerly Treasurer of the King's Household, Privy Councillor
and Lord Ambassador in France, and shews that King Charles II,
in consideration of a debt of 3,6001., and her father's great
sufferings, settled a pension of 401. a year on her in 1682, which
she received all his reign and during all those of King James II
and King William III, till within these two or three years; by
reason whereof and of a long sickness she is reduced to inexpressible
straits.  She prays for continuance of her pension for her support,
having no other dependence.
19 October, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Treasurer.-Ibid, p. 43.
NOVEMBER, 1702.
4 Nov.    The two East India Companies.
They expect many ships, richly laden, from the East Indies next
summer, and these ships will also have on board a quantity of
saltpetre.
Pray that some of her Majesty's ships may be ordered to sail
to St. Helena and the Cape of Good Hope to convoy them home.
4 November, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Admiral. —S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 240, p. 34A.
5 Nov.    Same.
They have lately received advices from India from several
of their factories and commanders of their ships there that those
seas have become very dangerous and are infested with pirates.
These pirates have plundered both Europeans and Indians,
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them at Suratt, and seized their property and plundered their
warehouses to a very great value, and also demand a great sum
of money to make up for these losses.
The Mogul demanded from the Companies security for
making good these losses, and, because the Ambassador refused
to sign a paper to that effect, he was detained at Brampore in
order to compel the petitioners to submit to these unreasonable
demands. The Mogul's troops have come down before Fort St.
George and Fort St. David's and threaten to ruin all the
Companies' factories in his dominions. The petitioners are also
advised "the Arabs of Muscat are of late years grown very
insolent and without any reason have seized several ships
belonging to the English to a great value, and have sold the
masters and mariners, who are your Majesty's subjects, into
perpetual slavery and have joined themselves to the subjects
of the Mogul with whom they were before at variance," in order
further to spoil your Majesty's subjects; and threaten to ruin
their trade in those parts.
They pray that ships be sent to India forthwith to protect
their interests and suppress the pirates.
5 November, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Admiral.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 240, pp. 35, 36.
Sir William Hodges' Memorial.*
On behalf of a Spanish ship, whereof Martin de Sansenea
was commander, was taken on 26 August by the Dutch privateers,
who sold her to the said Sansenea for 25,000 guilders; for
security of which three Spaniards of the ship's company remained
on board the Dutch. On the 29th of the same the said ship and
cargo was taken by her Majesty's ship Monke, from which she
was separated by bad weather, and afterwards taken by the
French, who carried her into St. Malo. He asks that the
Spaniards who belonged to this ship, and who are now in prison
at Southampton, may be released and their papers restored,
that they may return to their country in the Spanish ship detained
at Plymouth and now released by command or otherwise.
6 November, Whitehall.   Ref. Dr. Brampston (Surrogate
to the Judge of the Admiralty).-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 239,
p. 44.
14 Nov.   Certain French Silk Throsters.
Peter Maillefrais, Abraham Verderon and James Olanier shew
that they came to England "as into a sanctuary, being
encouraged thereto by proclamation, and rather than to be
chargeable to the public they have used here the same trade of
silk throsting which they exercised formerly at Nimes in France,
where they served their apprenticeship and were admitted masters
as appears by certificates... Having made some experiments
and improvements in order to work as fine silks in England as
they do in Italy, this did raise the emulation and envy of some
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of the trade, namely of one Thomas Noxton," who, preferring
his own private interest to the public gain, has brought an action
of 221. in the Court of Common Pleas against each of the
petitioners in the Queen's name and his own under an old statute
partly repealed. In a similar action brought in the Michaelmas
term against some poor French bakers in the Queen's Bench, the
Judges thought fit to suspend judgment till the opinion of all
the judges was taken as to whether such Acts were intended
against poor strangers at such a time as this. Pray, to save
them from ruin, for a Noli prosequi in this action.
14 November, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney or Solicitor General.
-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 240, p. 37.
14 Nov.   Tanners of Bermondsey.
The tanners in the parish of St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey,
and within 30 miles of the same, shew that "leather is one of
the staples of England and that the trade of a tanner is a very
ancient trade and there be many good laws for the well tanning
of leather; yet nevertheless of late years several persons never
bred up in the said trade, and being very unskilful therein, do
yet notwithstanding take upon them, especially in the said parish
of Bermondsey and thirty miles distance from the same, to follow
the said trade, whereby the good laws are subverted and the
people abused and the tanners who are bred up in the use and
exercise of the said trade much discouraged." Some of the
petitioners have endeavoured to stop these evils, but are no longer
able, unless they are incorporated, to prevent them.
They pray for the incorporation of "all such persons as are
or shall be tanners duly qualified by law to use and exercise
the art or mystery of tanning within the said parish &c., by
the name or the Master, Wardens and Commonalty of the Art or
Mystery of the Tanners of St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, in
the county of Surrey, and within 30 miles distance from the
said parish," with the liberties and privileges mentioned in the
accompanying paper of heads, or otherwise.
14 November, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney or Solicitor General.
-Ibid, p. 36.
21 Nov.   John Felton, High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire.
Has incurred penalties of 5001. for not making return to writ
for electing M.P.'s for the county within 14 days after election
finished. Action commenced against him for this sum, of which
half goes to Queen. Guilty of no contempt of the Act. Prays
for remission of Crown's share of penalty.
21 November, Whitehall. Ref. Lord    High  Treasurer.Ibid, p. 38.
25 Nov.   Samuel Hoppus.
Is now 50 years old and more and is gardener of Harbledown
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"a  sciatica " to poverty and unable to work. Prays for
admission to a beadsman's or almsman's place in Christchurch,
Canterbury.
Note.-The petition was signed by the Dean of Canterbury,
some prebendaries and other eminent hands.
25 November, Whitehall. Petition   granted.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 240, p. 39.
27 Nov.   Sir John Parsons and Partners, undertakers for insuring houses
against damages by fire.
By patents dated 18 February, 4 James II, petitioners "as
the first inventors thereof " obtained leave and license to proceed
for 31 years in their undertakings for insuring houses against
damages by fire, with a prohibition to all others to do so during
that time, save only to the undertakers for such like insurances
called the Friendly Society a liberty to do so under certain
conditions and at certain times. In consideration thereof petitioners agreed with King James II and his heirs &c., to pay
601. a year, during the life of their grant, to such of the gunners
and other servants of the office of Ordnance as should assist
petitioners in extinguishing fires; and have paid it.
Since the date of the patents the Friendly Society have made
assurances contrary to the conditions of the same, and other
Societies and persons have done the like, in violation of petitioners'
rights and without contributing anything to the said gunners.
Petitioners are advised by counsel that they cannot restrain
these proceedings and that their patent is void.ab initio.
Therefore, and as they have not since the last payment required
any assistance from the gunners (having many servants constantly
employed in that service), they pray that a surrender of their
patents may be accepted.
27 Nov., Whitehall. Ref. Attorney or Solicitor General.-Ibid,
pp. 43, 44.
28 Nov.    Wynne, Houblon and Company.*
The patentees of the "seacrab engines" have lately had
great proof of their efficiency in breaking up ships and recovering
goods, guns &c., in any reasonable depth of water. On the
first news of the glorious success at Vigo they proposed to his
Royal Highness to send their engines there with a vessel proper
for working them in order to have attempted the taking up of
what treasure, guns, &c. were sunk. The return of the fleet
seems for the time to have put an end to that proposal. Knowing
however, how useful their engines might have been had they
been at Vigo, they inform the Queen that they have them and
offer to use them in her service.
28 November, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Admiral, with
recommendation of the engines, at a fit opportunity.-Ibid, pp.
39-40.
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1702.
Peter Shakerley and others.
Shakerley, William Clayton and Thomas Johnson, on behalf
of several merchants trading to Virginia and Maryland, say
that they have heard that some merchants, for their private
advantage, have asked the Queen to forbid any ships to go to
those plantations before next July and that the Governors of
those plantations be authorised to lay an embargo on all such
ships as shall not be ready to sail from such plantations on
25 March next. If this be done petitioners think it will much
damage the Queen's revenue and the export of the woollen,
linen and other manufactures of England. Reasons follow.
Pray for convoys for any of the said ships leaving for the said
plantations in March next and for leave for all the said ships
to sail from thence in June next, which are more suitable times
than those proposed by the other merchants.
28 November, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Admiral.
Followed by:Reasons annexed to the foregoing petition.
If merchant ships go out in July they will begin engaging
in May, which is the time when her Majesty's officers desire to
impress men for the fleet. As the merchants give higher wages
than her Majesty's pay (often nigh double), many men will, in
such case, desert the Navy for service on the merchantmen.
Others will " lurk " and keep out of the way in the hope of being
able to engage in the merchant service. If the merchant ships
go in July they will be in Virginia at the end of August and
September. These are known to be the most sickly months, and
the worm is sometimes in September as destructive as at any
other time.
It is inconvenient for the ships to start from Virginia in April,
for, the frosts commonly lasting from December to the end of
February or the middle of March, the planters cannot then strip
or pack their tobacco. In the month of March there are always
dry north-west winds and the rivers are frozen up so that no
sloops or boats can go to work in fitting tobacco aboard the
ships which was [sic] ready before frost set in. The fleet therefore could not be ready to set sail in April.
"That it is the most improper month for a fleet to sail out
of the country by reason the air then begins to be warm and
the fogs fall in with small rains, which prepares the tobacco
for stripping and packing that was so dry some months before
that it could not be handled." Stripping of tobacco in winter
occasions great damage and hazard. [Details.] The end of
May or June is the best time for the merchant ships to set out
from Virginia. If much tobacco is left in the West Indies its
price will fall so low that it will not be worth cultivating, and
the planters will betake themselves to raising sheep, hemp and
flax and to grow corn for supply of the West Indies and Madeira
Islands, as they have formerly done. This would lessen our
woollen and other manufactures at home and prejudice the
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30 Nov.    John Colson, of Winchester.
Served in the Earl of Oxford's troop of Guards as a trooper
for twelve years, until in 1701 "by reason of several wounds
and bruises which happened to him at the Boyn in Flanders* " he
became unfit for service. Is very poor.
Prays for an almsman's place in the Cathedral Church of
Winchester.
Also note of recommendation of petitioner by the Dean and
Prebendaries of Winchester.
30 November, Whitehall. Granted. —S.P. Dom., Entry Book
240, p. 46.
DECEMBER, 1702.
1 Dec.    The Inhabitants of Carbonear, in the Bay of Conception, in
Newfoundland.
They are in daily fear of the neighbouring French and those
of Canady, who are near them. In the late war they were
attacked by the French and their property. and dwellings
destroyed. Nevertheless they betook themselves to an island
and there defended themselves against their enemies. They
have bought guns and ammunition for defending themselves
in one of the islands, but have had to leave many of their goods
behind them, as Captain William Caldwell can certify.-Pray
for protection of their harbour to be considered.
1 December, Whitehall. Ref. Commissioners of Trade and
Plantations.-Ibid, p. 45.
2 Dec.    Elizabeth Gillam.
Prays for a pardon for her brother, Robert Bowsher, who
twelve years ago killed John Barry, a foreigner and servant of the
Trumpeter. Bowsher was very drunk at the time [details] and
is a respectable man and went to church on week days as well
as Sundays. He had no malice against the man he killed and
petitioner paid for his burial. Details.
2 December, Whitehall. The Attorney or Solicitor General to
consider and report whether Bowsher's outlawry for murder
should be reversed and he pardoned.-Ibid, p. 49.
6 Dec.    Hoogan Swansden.
By violent prosecution of his wife and her relations, he is
convicted for forcibly marrying her (she being an heiress), against
her will, whereas he had her full and free consent, "but the
petitioner's witnesses being kept out of Court by violence that
could prove the same,"... he was found guilty before the
Court of Queen's Bench. And in regard his wife in her evidence
-against the petitioner did deny her consent, and in her evidence
against Sarah Boynton did tacitly and almost plainly confess
it.
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He prays for time till the Queen considers the case or for time
to make his peace with God.
6 December, Whitehall. Ref. Chief Justice Holt-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 239, p. 45.
12 Dec.   John Provost, Merchant.
He is one of those who imported wines from San Sebastian's
in 1700. These were admitted to composition by the then Lords
of the Treasury, they having paid in all above 3,0001. Petitioner
paid for his share in one ship 2,9001.
Some time afterwards the Attorney General brought other
informations against the petitioner and the other wine merchants
for the like sort of wines coming into their hands in 1699. The
petitioner was tried first and a verdict was obtained against him
for 1,6901. and a judgment was entered thereon. Petitioner and
the rest of the wine merchants begged the then Lords of the
Treasury that process might be stopped, they having understood that the fine previously imposed covered all offences committed up to the time of its imposition. Their lordships, however,
amerced the wine merchants, for the wine imported in 1699, 41.
per tun. To this all the importers, and your petitioner,
submitted.
The Commissioners of Customs, though inclined to relieve
petitioner, say they cannot admit him to pay 41. a tun, as
judgment* has been obtained and entered against him, and he
cannot, therefore, be relieved by law.
Prays that the matter may be referred to the Attorney General
for his opinion and report whether the said judgment may be discharged by law and that, if it may, he be directed to acknowledge
satisfaction on the record, petitioner first paying 41. a tun as
other merchants have done for the like offence, and the charges
of the Customs; and for further or other relief.
12 December, Whitehall. Ref. Lord High Treasurer.-Ibid,
pp. 45-7.
14 Dec.   Godfrey Bosvile of Gunthwaite, in Yorkshire.
King [Charles] I, by patents dated 8 June, 1642, granted to
Elias Midhope and his heirs a market to be held on every Tuesday
and a fair for three days yearly on the vigil, day and morrow
of St. Barnaby the Ax [Apostle] within the manor of Penningsall,
now called Pennyston, in Yorkshire. Petitioner is now seised to
him and his heirs of this manor. The fair and market have
not been held for many years, to the great prejudice of the local
inhabitants and the counties adjoining; and their continuance
will be no damage to the Queen or any of her subjects. About
28 October, 1699, petitioner applied to King William III for a
regrant, and the then Attorney General recommended, after
a writ of ad quod damnum had issued and been returned [details
as to inquiry by sheriff &c.] that the regrant might be made.
The petition, reference and report are lost, but the return and
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the writ remain filed in the Court of Chancery, and a true copy
of the petition, reference and report are entered in the then
Attorney General's books.  Prays for a regrant-the market
to be held on Thursdays and the fair on 10, 11 and 12 June, for
selling and buying of cattle, corn, and other goods in the manor
and town of Pennyston.
14 December, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney General.-S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 239, pp. 47-9.
17 Dec.   Thomas Wilson, Vicar of Bakewell, Derbyshire.
Bakewell is a very large parish and its endowments only
401. a year. It is too big for one man to manage, and petitioner
is anxious to annex to it certain lands at Taddington, in Bakewell,
held of the manor of High Peak, and worth only 241. a year.
Prays for a licence in mortmain to authorise this annexation
and that of other lands not exceeding 601. a year in value.
17 December, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney or Solicitor General.
-Ibid, p. 50.
Same.     John Evans.
He served the late King in his naval force as commander in
post from 10 July, 1691, to the end of the last war. He was
then recalled from New York, in which province he had attended
five years till the arrival of the Earl of Bellomont as Governor,
who conceived a prejudice against petitioner, and committed
some unwarrantable actions against him for bringing home
his predecessor without his [the Earl's] leave. The Earl laid
several false informations against the petitioner before the late
King, who, without hearing the petitioner, ordered the Lords
of the Admiralty not to employ him. Petitioner went then into
the East India Company's service, and, returning [from the
East], found the throne filled to his great satisfaction. He
applied for employment, and was told that the late King's order
was an obstacle to him.
Prays that he "may be heard to " the Earl of Bellomont's
charges and that, being acquitted of these, he may be [held]
qualified to serve the Queen.
17  December,  Whitehall.  Ref. Prince's  Council.-Ibid,
pp. 50, 51.
19 Dec.   John Conyers.
It will be a great benefit to the city of London and an accommodation to the county of Sussex and not to the prejudice of the
Queen, or any of her subjects, if her Majesty will grant a monthly
market to the petitioner for the sale of live cattle to be held
at East Grinstead, which lies within the said county in the road
to London. Prays for such a grant, the market to be held on
the first Wednesday of every month.
19 December, Whitehall. Ref. Attorney or Solicitor General.Ibid, p. 51.
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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
19 Dec.   Charles Carter.
Carter, who is first lieutenant on her Majesty's ship Grafton,
has been thirty years in the Navy. In 1690 he was commissioned
a 2nd lieutenant of the Duchess, and was in active service all last
summer, and for some time had command of a French prize,
Le Firme, of 70 guns, taken at Vigo.  Whilst in command of
her (for six days pending the appointment of a captain) he had
great trouble with the seamen, who were running about her with
lights.  Had he not been very watchful, she might have been
burnt after her capture. Petitioner was also at the late
expedition to Cadiz, and was four days and nights in active service
getting the men and horses across the two rivers, with very little
food. Owing to exposure there he has had his sight and hearing
impaired and has such dizziness in his head that he is unfit for
further service. He prays for superannuation for which Sir C.
Shovell recommended him.
19 December, Whitehall. Ref. to the Prince's Council, who
shall report to him on it. His Royal Highness may then make
such provision for the petitioner as he thinks fit. —.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 240, pp. 47, 48.
William Sharpe.
He served on several British ships during the late war and
especially on board the Assistance, under command of Captain
Phiney Bowles, wherein he lost his left leg in 1694. He sends
certificates [details] of his service and good behaviour. He has
been very ill, and he and his family are reduced to poverty.
Prays for the next vacant almsman's place in the cathedral
at Oxford.
21 December, Whitehall. Granted. Bill accordingly.-S.P.
Dom., Entry Book 239, pp. 52, 53.
22 Dec.   Henry Benning.
Was servant to King Charles II as scourer of the side kitchen
and doorkeeper of the Queen's privy kitchen. Has now no
employment. Wife and four children. Very poor. Asks for
a pension.
Also note by Sir Stephen Fox certifying that Benning was employed as alleged, with details.
22 December, Whitehall. Ref. Board of Green Cloth to do
as they think fit.-S.P. Dom., Entry Book 240, p. 50.
24 Dec.   Margaret Moss, widow.
Her husband was killed in service at Limerick and left
five small children. Very poor. Late King granted her 201. a
year pension in England. As this was her only living she had to
live in Ireland the better to procure food for herself and poor
family out of her small allowance.
Prays for continuance of her former pension and that it be paid
out of the Irish. revenue.
24 December, Whitehall, Ref. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.Ibid, p. 51,




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1702.
TABLE IX.
SCOTTISH WARRANTS AND COMMISSIONS.
These are entries of Royal Warrants to the Lord Chancellor
and Privy Council of Scotland, or to the Lord Chancellor alone,
or to the Lord Chancellor and Commissioners of the Treasury of
Scotland, or some other high officers in Scotland, conveying
the Royal Orders in various matters. Sometimes the warrant
and the docquet thereof are both entered, sometimes the warrant
alone and sometimes the docquet alone. Where the warrant or
warrant and docquet are entered the fact is not repeated;
but where the docquet alone is entered this is shewn to the reader
by the insertion of the word " Docquet " at the head of the entry.
All the entries are from S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18; so this
fact is not repeated, but reference to the page alone is made.
This book contains also several lists of Commissions in Scottish
regiments, which are placed with the other Scotch warrants. The
Table also contains a few Royal letters addressed directly to
particular persons and not framed in the form of warrants.
These are entered in this table as " Royal letters " or simply as
"The Queen to " &c.
The first few Scottish letters or warrants are placed in the body
of the Calendar [see above pp. 1-3, 10, 13, 15], as they are of special
importance and afford the reader an example of the kind of
letter which was sent to Scotland at this date; but later all
Scottish warrants, except a few of special importance which
do not lend themselves to tabular treatment, are reserved for
this table at the end of the year. When the docquet only is
entered, it does not shew to whom the full warrant was addressed:
but warrants for the Great Seal would properly be addressed
to the Chancellor as Keeper thereof. Unless otherwise stated all
the documents are dated from St. James'.
8 Mar.    Earl of Marchmont, Commissioner of General Assembly.
To continue to follow in all things the late King's instructions.
P. 97.
25 Mar.    Anne, Duchess of Hamilton, Keeper of Holyrood Palace.
Announces the appointment of the Duke of Queensberry as
Royal Commissioner. Directs that the keys of the Royal
" apartment " and such other lodgings as shall be thought fit for
his accommodation be handed to him, or to any having his order.
P. 101.
10 Ap.    Docquets.
(1) In favour of Sir Robert Gordon, of Gordonstown. For a
charter granting to him his heirs male or assigns all the towns
and lands of Garbatyes and Oldmire with the mill and pertments
in the sheriffdom of Elgin and Forres, of Eli and Inchberrie with
their pertments in the same, proceeding on the resignation of
Mr. Andrew and Archibald Geddes, younger and elder, of Esle,




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
as also the lands of Earnside, lying within the parish of Alves,
and sheriffdom aforesaid, the town and lands of Ordies with
a mill and pertments lying in the said shire with a tack of the
teynds great and small of the lands of (blank) and a fifth part
of the land of Dundarcus with the salmon fishing in the water
of Spey; also the town and lands of Dangyies, and Inchlyon
and town and lands of Easter Ortoun, Meckle and Little Forps
and Inchberry, all lying in the same sheriffdom proceeding upon
a decree of adjudication pronounced by the Lords of Session
against John Cuming of Earnside in favour of the said Sir Robert
for payment to him of the sums above* mentioned. These lands
are to be annexed by Sir Robert's estate and barony of
Gordonstown with a change of the holding of the same from
simple to taxed ward for payment of the taxed duties to be
inserted in the blanks of this signature by the Commissioners
of the Exchequer; and giving for the other lands adjudged the
few and blench farms and other duties paid for the same before
the said adjudication. The Queen ordains the lands to be redeemable by Cuming or his heirs on payment of the sums for which
they were adjudged, with interest. Pp. 104, 105.
(2) In favour of Bryce Whitford, of Dunduff. The lands to be
mentioned in the charter are the eight pound land of Dunduff,
the corn mill thereof, and teynds, and pertments, the lands of Cloncaird with the manor place, salmon fishing, woods and pertments
including the mayns of Cloncaird Barneill and Glensyd with their
pertments, the 40 shilling land of Kirkland of Mayboll called
Kirkbryd with the houses and other pertments formerly the
property of John, Lord Bargany or John Whitford, who resigned
them into the hands of the Lords of Exchequer in Scotland for
reinfestment to Bryce Whitford. Other details. Pp. 104-6.
10 Ap.    Commissioners of the Treasury.
We have considered the report of the state of the arms and
ammunition, forts and magazines transmitted by you in obedience
to the order of King William III. It shows the arms to be out
of order and insufficient, and the quantity of ammunition to be
small. For defence of our Kingdom against invasion, and for its
safety in case of internal commotions, we think it right that these
forts should be strong.  Repair and make fit for service such
arms as are there, and provide the castle and forts with powder
&c., and provision them for some months; and pay for the same
out of any funds in Scotland which are in hand. Pp. 103-104.
10 Ap.    Notes of Commissions under the Queen's hand and signet.
James Ker to be a lieutenant in Lord Jedburgh's Dragoons.
Robert Cunningham to be Quartermaster of the same.
James Ramsay to be Commissary of the Artillery Company
in place of Colin Ramsay, who has demitted that trust.  Colin
Ramsay to be lieutenant in Colonel Ferguson's regiment. P. 106.
* i,e, in the full grant of which this is a docquet,




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1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
5 May.    Chancellor and Chancery.
To pass letters patent convening Parliament on 26 May next
at Edinburgh, and saying that the Queen, prevented by pressure
of business from  going to Scotland, has appointed James,
Duke of Queensberry, to represent her person and bear her
authority during the ensuing session and in all matters for the
peace of the Church and country, with as full powers as any
previous holders of the office. The commission to last from the
day of, till recalled by the Queen, without prejudice
to any other commission or command held by the Duke, which
shall continue during the currency of this commission. To pass
the Great Seal per saltum without passing any other seal or register.
The date of commencement left blank. Pp. 107, 108, 109.
[About    Commissioners of the Treasury.
same.]    Recites the fact of the Duke of Queensberry's nomination as
Commissioner for the meeting of Parliament. *Proceeds:-You
shall pay him out of your revenue there 251. a day from [blank]
till Parliament meets on 9 June, and 501. a day during the said
session of Parliament, and 251. after the session is over till his
commission is determined.
The date left blank, but see foregoing. Pp. 109, 110.
[About    Same.
same.]    Ordering them to pay the Duke of Queensberry 3,5001. for
the expense of his equipage and journey to Scotland as
Commissioner for the session of Parliament.
Date left blank, but see last but one. Pp. 110, 111.
[About    High Commissioner of Scotland.
same.]    The office of Lord High Treasurer is now in Commission.
An Act of Parliament provides that the number of officers of
State who are to have place in Parliament should not exceed
the number of eight, even though at same time, more than eight
persons may be employed in the execution of the said office.
As it is reasonable that there should be one named to appear
and act as Treasurer in the ensuing session of Parliament, we
nominate Alexander, Lord Montgomery, to hold that place, and
vote during the session.
Date left blank, but see foregoing. P. 111.
[About    Same.
same.]    Notifying the appointment of Lord Secretary Seafield to act
as Secretary of State during the coming session of Parliament.
Date left blank, but see foregoing. P. 112.
3-5 May.   Notes of Commissions in the Army.*
James Levingston to be coret of Viscount Teviot's troop in
his regiment of Dragoons. Dated 3 May.
* These entries are grouped together in the Warrant Book.




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
Gideon Keith to be lieutenant in Lieut.-Colonel Lord John
Hay's troop in Viscount Teviot's Dragoons.
Charles Preston to be cornet of Major Preston's troop in the
same.
--    MacDougall to be cornet of Captain Stuart's troop in
same.
- Skeen to be lieutenant in Captain Young's troop in
same.
Maurice Hill to be cornet in the same company and regiment.
The above dated St. James', May 4.
Captain Henry Borthwick to be captain of the company
formerly Captain George Murray's in Colonel Ferguson's
regiment.
Henry Moncreife to be ensign of Colonel Ferguson's own
company in Ferguson's regiment of Foot, with the precedency
of 1 January last.
-- Dumbar to be ensign in Major Borthwick's company in
Ferguson's regiment.
Blank commission for an adjutant to Colonel Ferguson.
The above dated St. James', 5 May. Pp. 112, 113.
5 May.    Chancellor and Commissioners of the Treasury.
To state and pay all the arrears due to Robert Pringle as undersecretary, and to those in his office; and 3001. due to him for
attending King William whilst he was in Holland last summer.
Their present attendance in this place makes it necessary that
they should be paid promptly. This payment to take preference
over all others. For security of this payment, Pringle shall
have assigned to him the rents of the Royal lordship of Fife or
of Ettrick forest. Details. Pp. 113, 114.
5 May.    Chancellor and Directors of the Royal Chancellery in favour of
the Duke of Queensberry.
Recites that there is a vacancy of the post of one of her Majesty's
Secretaries of State for Scotland, owing to the demission of the
Earl of Hyndford, and the desirability that persons of known
integrity, loyalty and ability should hold the high offices of
State in Scotland.  Orders patents to be prepared &c. appointing
the Duke of Queensberry, one of the Secretaries of State for
Scotland, "co-principal and co-junct" with Lord Secretary
Seafield. The Duke shall have half the fees, dues, privileges &c.
due to the place and a pension of 1,0001. a year. He is to share
with Lord Secretary Seafield the right of receiving, intromitting
with him and keeping all signets of the said kingdom, and to
apply the equal half of the benefits and profits thereof to his
own use.  He is also to have the right of appointing deputs
and keepers of the said signets, and of admitting and receiving all
clerks and writers to the signet, with all sheriff clerks, and clerks
to the peace, within the said kingdom, and of giving them




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1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
commissions to endure during their lives, and of filling up vacancies and receiving the half fees for so doing. To pass per saltum.
An elaborate grant. Pp. 114-116.
About*    Docquet.
5 May.    For paying 1,0001. a year to the Duke of Queensberry as a
Secretary of State. P. 116.
Same.*    Queen's Chamberlain.
The Queen understands that the Earl of Hyndford had, when
Secretary of State for Scotland, 4001. a year out of the rents of the
earldom of Ross, which he gave up on becoming Secretary of
State. Directs letters to issue under the Privy Seal giving him this
pension to be paid out of the first rents &c. payable out of the
said earldom, the lordship of Ardmannoch, and the baronies of
Delny and Meddat. Payment at Whitsuntide and Martinmas
by the Queen's Chamberlain, who receives these rents and who
shall be allowed the same on his account to the Exchequer.
Pp. 117, 118.
5 May.    Blank commissions for two lieutenants in Brigadier Maitland's
regiment of Foot. P. 118.
Same.     Docquets.
1. Grant to John Pringle, Advocate, and the heirs males of his
body, which failing to his heirs or assigns, of all the lands and place
of the forest steid of Hayning with the pertments, with that
part of those lands commonly called the commonty of Selkirk
allocate to pertain to the said lands of Hayning by a decreet
arbitral for dividing the said commonty, the ground on which
the mill, kiln and sheilling hill of Hayning stood, with the ground
whereon the water gate and cluse of the said mill was; all in
the parish and sheriffdom of Selkirk; proceeding of the resignation
of Andrew Riddell, of Hayning. These letters also contain a new
gift and an erection of the whole into a barony, called the barony
of Hayning. To be held at a yearly rent of ~Sc.25, doubling the
same on the entry of each heir. To pass under the Great Seal.
There is a blank in the letter, which shall be filled up by the
Commissioners of the Exchequer, of the sum by which the Queen
will tax the benefit of the marriage of any heirs succeeding in the
lands. The Queen accepts the marriage fee and the annual
rent of 251. in lieu of all duties. Great Seal. Pp. 118, 119.
2. In favour of Dame Elizabeth Urquhart, Lady Gight. She
is the widow of Sir George Gordon, of Gight, Baronet.  The
warrant is for a grant under the Great Seal to her and her
heirs or assigns heritably of all the lands and mains of Ardlogie
with the pertments lying in the parish of Fyvie and sheriffdom
of Aberdeen, the town and lands of Priors Miln, Kirktown of
Fyvie, Petervell, Potterfair, and the weekly market at Fyvie,
* Undated, but entered next to other entries of this date.




456


STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
Mary-dikes, Brugend and Bawnsdale with their teynds and
pertments all in the said sheriffdom, proceeding on a decree
obtained at her instance against Elizabeth Gordon, sister to the
deceased Adam Gordon, sometime of Ardlogie, and John
Carmichael, surgeon in Edinburgh, her husband. The letters
also contain a novo damus of the said lands for the former duties.
Other details. P. 119.
3. In favour of Gilbert Stuart, Merchant of Edinburgh.  For
passing to him all goods and gear which pertained to
Charles Dallas, vintner, of Edinburgh, who on 25 March was
declared a rebel at the instance of Edward Burd, merchant.
To pass under the Privy Seal. P. 120.
4. For making [blank] Commissary of the Commissariat of
Lanark for life. Usual fees &c. Right to appoint a deputy,
substitutes &c. [details]. Privy Seal. P. 120.
5. For the grant of a baronetcy to be passed to Sir George
Sooty and the heirs males of this body per saltum under the
Great Seal. Pp. 120, 121.
6 May.    Chancellor and Chancellery.
Great Seal granting the office of Keeper of the Queen's Privy
Seal in Scotland to William, Marquis of Annandale, in the room
of the Duke of Queensberry, now a Secretary of State. He
shall have predecence next after the President of the Council
of Scotland. All usual honours, privileges and duties &c. Power
to appoint deputies and clerks. Favourable clauses. Pp. 121-2.
Same.     Privy Seal for a payment of 1,0001. a year to the Marquis of
Annandale as Keeper of the Privy Seal in Scotland. Pp. 122-3.
12 May.    Chancellor and Privy Council.
To issue a proclamation adjourning the meeting of the Scottish
Parliament from 26 May to 9 June next. P. 126.
Commissioners of the Scotch Treasury.
Authorising them to pay 6161. to Archibald, Duke of Argyle,
for arms "brought here" [probably" bought here"] and
furnished to "our troop of Guards." P. 126.
Chancellor and Commissioners of the Treasury.
We understand that the royal apartment at Holyrood which
the Duke of Queensberry is to occupy as Commissioner during
the session of the Scottish Parliament ismuch out.of repair. Give
orders for repairing it and that of the Under Keeper of our
palace, that the same may be ready in due time to accommodate the Duke of Queensberry. You may expend what is
necessary for this purpose. P. 127.
Same.
To assign to John, Master of Stair, what remains unpaid of the
fines imposed on Sir Thomas Kennedy and Sir William Binning
in the year [blank]. He may pursue for them. P. 127.




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1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
12 May.   Chancellor and Commissioners of the Treasury.
Our troop of Guards attends during the session of the Scotch
Parliament at Edinburgh, and forage is dearer there than elsewhere in Scotland. Agree with the Commissaries to our forces
for forage for the troop and pay them what you think
reasonable. P. 128.
Chancellor and Privy Council.
For proclaiming war against France and Spain.     "The
preservation of the liberties and balance of Europe... obliged
our late royal brother.. to enter into solemn treaties of
alliance with the Emperor of Germany, the States General of the
United Provinces and other princes and potentates for reducing
the exorbitant power of France and for their mutual defence
against the French King's unjust usurpations and encroachments," he having taken possession of the greatest part of the
Spanish dominions with his arms, seized the Spanish West Indies
and most important ports in Spain by his fleet. He has stopped
liberty of commerce and declared the pretended Prince of Wales
to be King of England, Scotland and Ireland and has "influenced
Spain to concur with him in this indignity."
Our Scotch subjects feel these injuries much and have suffered
in their trade at the hands of France and Spain.  Publish a
declaration of war against France and Spain accordingly in the
usual way. Pp. 128-129.
Same.
For arrest of Captain Simon Fraser. He has been guilty
of many crimes. P. 130.
Chancellor and Commissioners of the Treasury.
For paying 5001. to Lord Secretary Hyndford. Lord Hyndford*
is going to Scotland with his whole family, which will be an
expense to him, and has also had expense in repairing "his
apartment of our House at Whitehall." Pp. 131-2.
Same.
For paying 5001. to Lord Secretary Seafield. He is going to
Scotland in the Queen's service during the ensuing session of
Parliament. P. 132.
Royal letters in favour of William Carstairs.
The Queen knows that King William by a commission dated
26 February, 1690, nominated Carstairs to be one of his chaplains
in ordinary in Scotland, with the usual fees, and especially all
fees belonging to the Chapel Royal,> and that this was ratified
on 28 Feb., 1691. Tha Queen is willing that Mr. Carstairs should
continue in that place, and makes the appointment accordingly,
*Also spelt "Hindford."




458


STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
12 May. with all the accustomed rents, few duties, teind duties &c., at
any time belonging to the Chapel Royal [details], comprehending
thereinto the abbacies of Cross-Regal and Dundrennan, with
power to grant tacks of teynds and other casualties belonging
to the said Chapel Deanery or Sub-Deanery* not exceeding
nineteen years. Full grant of right to pursue for vindicating
the rights, rents &c. of the Chaplaincy and Deanery. Pp.
132-3.
Docquet.
For a gift of the office of one of her Majesty's chaplains in
ordinary to David Blair, with all the usual fees and 501. a year.
Privy Seal. P. 133.
Chancellor and Commissioners of the Treasury.
William Cochran of Ferguslie represents to us how much
he has lost in collecting the two years' poll imposed by
Parliament in 1689, and that the rules prescribed for making
the said poll effectual have not been observed, and that he has
paid 16,5001., which is 6,3001. more than the books returned
to the Treasury amount to. He prays that he may have the
benefit of the prescribed rules, or be recommended to Parliament
for legal redress, and, in the meantime, for stay of further
execution.
"... Sist or stop all further diligence, real or personal,"
against Cochran, till either his case be considered in Parliament
or our further pleasure known. P. 134.
Royal Letterst in favour of James Mackenzie.
Besides the ordinary clerks of the Exchequer and the Keeper
of the Register of Signatures in Scotland, there has always been
a clerk appointed for serving her Majesty's Treasury or Commissioners of Treasury and for keeping their records and warrants
and clearing of their accounts. This office is now held by
Sir Thomas Moncreife, one of the principal clerks of the
Exchequer, who, by reason of his age, wants to have some one
joined with him in his office. The Queen is pleased (with the
advice and consent of the Commissioners of the Treasury and
of the Commissioners of the Exchequer in Scotland) to appoint
James Mackenzie, son of Viscount Tarbat, to hold the place
jointly with Moncreife. They shall receive the usual fees jointly
and the longer liver of them shall have the office alone.
Favourable clauses. Privy Seal. Pp. 135-6.
* See Story's Life of Carstairs (1874), p. 272.
t The entries which I style "Royal Letters " are not (as entered) directed to
anybody and generally contain no words of warranty; so I cannot class them as
"Royal Warrants." The latter, as the text shows, are directed to some official
or officials and have always words of warranty at the end. But even the " Royal
Letters" are called " Warrants " in the docquets or short abstracts, which, in
many cases, are added at the end of the entry.-Ed.




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1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
12 May.   Lyon King of Arms.
Sir Archibald Primerose, of Carington, Knight and Baronet,
was clerk to the Council Register and Rolls of Scotland, temp.
Charles II, and was by King Charles made Lord Justice General
of Scotland. In testimony of his services there was assigned to him,
in addition to his paternal coat of arms, a double treasure flowered
and counterflowered with flowers-de-lis as in the Royal Arms of
Scotland, as appears by a warrant of his arms under the hand
of Sir Charles Areskine of Cambo, sometime Lyon King of Arms.
King William conferred a Viscountcy on Sir Archibald's son,
f6r his encouragement. The warrant to carry the double treasure
has, we are informed, "fallen aside so as it cannot be found,"
and Lyon is not " in freedom or use " of confirming such privileges
unless a warrant is produced to him. We approve and renew
the warrant granted temp. Charles II, and authorise Lyon to
"matriculate" the same in the registers of his office and to
give proper extracts therefrom to all persons concerned.
Pp. 136, 137.
Chancellor and Commissioners of the Treasury.
Confirming and desiring the executon of a letter in favour of
Lord Forbes written by the late King on 25 April, 1700. It has
never yet had any effect. P. 137.
Royal Letters in favour of Patrick Thomson of Dininno.
The Queen is informed that Thomson, who killed John
Adamson, servant to ---, did so without any premeditation
and upon great provocation. There had been a quarrel between
them, but others in the company had appeased it, when Adamson,
in fury, thinking his master had been affronted, attacked Thomson
with a "Kain," and Thomson was forced, in self-defence, to
draw his sword.  Thomson has obtained "letters of slaines "
from the two brothers and nearest of kin of the deceased, who,
for themselves and their kindred, express Thomson's peaceable
disposition, and discharge him for their part. A letter of remission
is to be passed under the Great Seal of Scotland pardoning
Thomson.   Clauses for execution. The pardon to be read most
favourably. Pp. 138, 139.
Chancellor and Commissioners of the Treasury.
Sir Alexander Bruce has represented to us his losses incurred
in 1693 and 1694, when he foraged the troop of Guards who were in
Edinburgh in time of Parliament, and foraged the troops then
in Scotland on English pay. These things he did by order of the
Government, outside his contract, and on assurance of repayment
by the then Lords of the Treasury. He has not yet been paid.
Examine and report on his accounts, and say out of which
fund he may best be paid, and meantime take no steps to recover
the 1,6001. found due from him to us for his intromissions with
the funds of the aforesaid two years. P. 139.




460


STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18 —cont.
12 May.   Chancellor and Directors of the Chancery.
For a Great Seal pardoning Colin, Earl of Balcarres, from all
crimes of treason by and through his going to France during the
late wars and staying there after the time prescribed for the
return of her Majesty's subjects, and for all seditious or treasonous
acts or words done or spoken by him against her Majesty's person
or government. Clauses for execution. The pardon to be read
most favourably. Pp. 140, 141.
Docquet &c. in favour of Captain Johnstown.
For a letter similar to foregoing. The treasons alleged are:
going into France (as in foregoing), associating with rebels and
general acts of treason. P. 141.
Royal Letters in favour of [blank].
Appointing him (with the consent of the Scotch Treasury and
Exchequer) to the posts of one of the ordinary macers before the
Lords of the Privy Council, Exchequer and Commissions and a
serjeant-at-arms, which are vacant in the Queen's hands by the
demission of George Weir. All usual fees including an annual
fee of 501. The Lords of the Privy Council, Exchequer and
Commissions to admit him and administer to him the usual oath
for faithful administration. Beneficial clauses. Privy Seal. Pp.
142-3.
Commissioners of the Treasury.
The pension of 2001. a year granted by the late King to
Alexander, Earl of Eglintoun, has not been made effectual to
him owing to the burdens on the fund out of which it was to be
paid. Pay him 2001. out of the first and readiest of our revenues,
and repay yourselves out of the revenue from the Bishops' rents,
on which that pension was originally charged. P. 143.
Royal Letters in favour of Sir Colin Campbell of Aberuchell.
Sir Colin, who is one of the Senators of the College of Justice,
suffered (together with his vassals and tenants) by depredations
of the " Highland rebels" before King William's accession.
Letters to pass the Privy Seal of Scotland granting him 1001. a
year out of the revenue during pleasure. Details.  Favourable
clauses. P. 144.
Commissioners of the Treasury in favour of --    Stuart of
Castle Stuart.
Docquet. For a pension of 1001. a year to him. P. 145.
Similar warrant. Blank. P. 145.
Similar Warrants.
For 101. to Richard Godard. Pp. 144 and 145.




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1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
12 May.    For 1001. to the late Bishops of [blanksl. Six warrants, all
blank. Pp. 146-148.
Commission to Major-General George Ramsay.
To command all the forces raised or employed for service in
Scotland, whether standing forces or militia. All officers to
obey him. P. 149.
Same to the Duke of Argyle to be Major-General of the forces
in Scotland. All officers to obey him. Pp. 149, 150.
Same to           and           to be a Brigadier-General
and Physician-General of the forces in Scotland.  Two warrants.
Pp. 150, 151.
Commissioners of the Treasury (Docquet).
For a letter to be passed under the Privy Seal of Scotland
discharging the Duke of Argyle and his heirs and successors of all
"few blench and teynd duties, taxed ward duties, tacks
duties and other duties, kanis (?) customs, rents and casualties"
payable to the Queen in respect of his lordships &c. lands,
heritable offices &c., and contained in the reddendo of his charters
for the "crops and years of God 1700 and 1701," excepting the
dues payable to the late Bishops. Clauses for execution.
Pp. 151, 152.
Chancellor and Chancery.
For a letter to pass the Great Seal of Scotland appointing
the Earl of Seafield one of the two Secretaries of State for
Scotland during pleasure.  He is to have half of all the fees,
profits, &c., pertaining to the office, 1,0001. a year, the right to
present all gifts and warrants for her Majesty's signature, to
receive half the fees paid for such signatures, to keep all the
signets of Scotland and half the fees arising therefrom and from
appointment of deputs and keepers of the signets, admission
and reception of writers to the signet, sheriff clerks, and clerks of
the peace, and commissioning them, and admitting new officers
whenever any vacancy occurs in any of these offices. Favourable
clauses. To pass the Great Seal per saltum. Pp. 152, 153.
Same for the Earl of Seafield (Docquet).
For 1,0001. a year, to be paid half-yearly at Whitsuntide and
Martinmas commencing at next Whitsuntide. P. 153.
Chancellor and Commissioners of the Treasury.
There is one vacancy in your body owing to the promotion
of the Marquis of Annandale to be Keeper of the Privy Seal. We
have settled to appoint [blank] to that place, and authorise and
command you to admit and receive him accordingly, administering
the oath to him, &c, P, 154.




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1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
12 May.    Also Docquet of Warrant for paying the above officer 5001.
a year. Privy Seal. P. 154.
Lords Secretaries Seafield and Hyndford.
Directing them, out of the levy money now in their hands
by order of King William III, to pay 1,8721. to the Earl of Hyndford
as his proportion for levying a regiment of dragoons of six troops,
each troop paid at the rate of 121. for each dragoon, and 7291.
to the Earl of Mar far his proportion for levying a regiment of
foot of nine companies and 27 sentinels, each company, at the
rate of 31. per sentinel and 7291. to the Master of Strathnaver
for the same, and to [blank] Hart 301. for the expenses of his
journey at the Queen's command into Scotland. P. 155.
Chancellor and Commissioners of the Treasury.
To pay Major-General Ramsay, the newly appointed Commander in Chief of the forces in Scotland, as the one Major-General
for whom pay is allowed in the Scotch establishment. Discontinue payment to Viscount Teviot as a Major-General and give
that pay to General Ramsay as from    to-day.  The pay to.General Ramsay is given in place of a pension formerly granted
to him, which is hereby recalled. P. 155.
Royal letters in favour of Viscount Teviot.
Consequential on the foregoing.  Orders letters to pass the
Privy Seal for granting, and grants a pension of 6721. to Viscount
Teviot in lieu of the pay as a Major-General in the establishment,
which he has hitherto been receiving. Payable at Whitsuntide
and Martinmas during pleasure. P. 156.
Commission to William, Lord Forbes.
To be first colonel of the troop of Grenadier Guards which
has been established and ordered to be raised in Scotland.
P. 157.
Commission to Colonel George Mckgill to be second colonel
of the troop of Grenadier Guards mentioned in the foregoing.
Pp. 157-8.
Similar Commissions to William Murry and others.
Murry to be first captain and the others [names blank] to be
second captain, first lieutenant, and second lieutenant and cornet
of the aforesaid troop. Four Commissions, Pp. 158-160.
Similar Commission to John, Master of Stair.
To be second lieutenant-colonel of the regiment of Guards in
Scotland of which Major-General George Ramsay is colonel;
also to be captain of a company of the said regiment with
precedency as a colonel. Pp. 161-2,




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1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
12 May.    Also notes of blank commissions for a lieutenancy in the
Guards, an ensigncy in the same. a captaincy in Brigadier James
Maitland's regiment, and a lieutenancy in Captain William
Grant's company appointed for securing the peace of the
Highlands in Colonel Archibald Row's regiment. P. 161.
The Queen to the Chancellor and Privy Council of Scotland.
We have granted commissions for raising a regiment of dragoons
and two regiments of foot in place of those sent to Holland,
and it is necessary for our service that they should be raised
as promptly as possible. Give all due encouragement to the
colonels and officers for making their several complements by
allowing them to beat drums or take any other method that
may be effectual, the same being consistent with law. We
have thought fit to add a second lieutenant-colonel, with a company, to the regiment of Foot Guards. For the establishment we
have ordered that the companies of the two new foot regiments
consist of only 27 men. Give orders to take a man from each
company of Brigadier Maitland's regiment and deliver them
with their arms to [blank], whom we have appointed lieutenantcolonel and captain of this additional company. Pp. 161-2.
Commissioners of the Treasury.
Mentions the raising of three new regiments as in foregoing,
and directs that they be paid as if they were in the last establishment, deducting only from the pay of each company of the two
foot regiments the payment of one sentinel, and also [that of]
one man from each company of Brigadier Maitland's regiment.
Proceeds:-We have decided to add to our regiment of Foot
Guards a second lieutenant-colonel with a company.   Pay
them at the rates of the first lieutenant-colonel and a company.
Details. P. 162.
Commission to John, Earl of Hyndford.
To be colonel of the regiment of dragoons ordered to be raised
in Scotland and captain of a troop in that regiment. P. 163.
Same to Lieutenant-Colonel George Wishart.
To be lieutenant-colonel in the new regiment of dragoons of
which Lord Hyndford is commissioned colonel. Pp. 163-4.
Similar Commissions or Notes of Commissions as follows in
the same regiment of Dragoons.
[Blank] to be major. [Blank] to be quartermaster. Four
blank commissions for captains. Five blank commissions for
lieutenants. Six blank commissions for comets. Pp. 164-6.
Similar Commissions or Notes.
To the Earl of Mar to be colonel of one of the new regiments
of foot to be raised in Scotland and a captain therein.
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1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
12 May.   Blank commission for a lieutenant-colonel in the Earl of Mar's
new regiment of foot, to be raised in Scotland.
Commission to Captain Charles Douglas to be major in the
Earl of Mar's regiment. Also notes of the following:Six blank commissions for captains in same.
One blank commission for captain-lieutenant of the Ear
of Mar's own company and one for a lieutenant of the
lieutenant-colonel's company, in same regiment.
One blank commission to be major's lieutenant in the same.
Six blank commissions for lieutenants.
Nine blank commissions for ensigns.
One blank commission for an adjutant. Pp. 166-70.
Similar Commissions.
To the Master of Strathnaver to be colonel of one of the new
regiments of foot now to be raised in Scotland.
One blank commission for a lieutenant-colonel, one for a major,
and notes of other blank commissions for six captains, a captainlieutenant, eight lieutenants, nine ensigns, and an adjutant.
Pp. 170-3.
Docquet of Warrant.
For a gift of the escheat of Charles Dallas, Vintner in Edinburgh,
to Gilbert Stuart, merchant of the same. Dallas was denounced
a rebel on 25 March last at the instance of Edward Burd,
merchant. Under Privy Seal. P. 174.
Same for a gift in favour of Archibald Hamilton, advocate,
of the single escheat of all goods and gear which pertained to
Matthew Cumming, merchant in Edinburgh. Cumming has been
denounced as a rebel at the instance of [blank]. Under Privy
Seal. P. 174.
Same for a grant of the office of clerk and keeper of the cocquet
seal within the town and port of Glasgow to [blank]. It is vacant
by the death of the last holder [blank]. Under same and in
Exchequer. P. 174.
15May,and3 See Calendar (pp. 68, 99, 143), for important entries.
and 27 June.
25 June.   The Queen to the Chancellor and Privy Council of Scotland
concerning the Earl of Selkirk.
We have just reason to be dissatisfied with the conduct of
Charles, Earl of Selkirk, in matters relating to our service, and
remove him from his office of Clerk of our Registers and Rolls
and from his place in the Privy Council and Exchequer. Intimate
this tp him. P. 186.
Same.     Chancellor and Commissioners of the Treasury.
1. Ordering them to pay 501. to John Wilson, a minister, who is
very poor. Pp. 186-7,
*  *;.:
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1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
2. Ordering them to pay Walter Birny, minister, 301. This
sum was ordered to be paid him in King William's time, but
was not paid. P. 187.
25 June.   Royal Letters.
For appointing [blank] to the post of one of the
macers before the Lords of the Privy Council, Exchequer and
Commissions, vacant by the death of Robert Currie. Pp. 187-8.
15 July.   Docquet.
Windsor.   For a charter to be passed under the Great Seal of Scotland
in favour of Robert Forbes of Learnie, advocate, his heirs and
assigns, of all the lands and barony of Learnie, also the lands of
Pitmurchie and milne thereof, also the lands of Kincardin of Neill,
erecting the whole in[to] a barony, bearing a novo damus and
erection of the said town of Kincardin in[to] a borough of barony,
with a change of holding of the said lands of Pitmurchie and milne
thereof from simple ward to taxt ward for such duties as the
Lords of the Treasury think fit. P. 188.
8 Aug.    [See Calendar above, p. 208.]
8 Aug.    Docquets.
Windsor.  1. For a gift under the Privy Seal of Scotland (with the consent
of the Treasury and Exchequer) nominating James Baird, W.S.,
to be, during pleasure, "searcher, tryer, compter, comptroller
and register keeper" of all wares and merchandise imported
into Scotland liable in payment of bullion. The grant contains
a command to the officers of the Customs to give him copies
of goods entered and liable in payment of bullion and to make
their books patent to him and see their oaths taken upon the
verity of these accounts of bullion and that they are just copies
of their books of entry and when and where such goods were
imported. Salary, 900 marks Scots a year, to be paid out of the
fund for paying the officers of the Mint. Details. P. 190.
2. For a charter under the Great Seal of Scotland granting to
Hugh Rose of Kilravock the lands and baronies of Kilravock and
Wester Ravichies, lands of Kinstearie and acres in and about
the town of Auldearn, lands of Craighouse, braes and woodhead
with the town and lands of Balconie and others lying in Scotland
belonging to Rose and resigned by him; at the taxt ward duties,
few blench and other duties and services above* specified; with
a novo damus and confirmation of certain rights of a part of the
said lands. P. 190.
3. For a charter under the Great Seal of Scotland granting to
James Ferguson, Advocate, all the lands of Pitfour on the
resignation of William Morison of Pitfour and on several decrets
of adjudication. Contains a novo damus with a change of holding
* i.e. in the grant (not entered) of which this is a docquet.


Wt, 3880,


A 30




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
from ward to taxt ward, for payment of such tack duties for ward,
relief and marriage as the Lords of the Treasury think fit.
P. 190.
8 Aug.    Blank Comipission.
Windsor.  For a brigadier in the troop of Life Guards in the room of
Archibald Buchannan, deceased. P. 191.
21 Aug.    Chancellor and Chancery.
Windsor.   To pass a grant under the Great Seal of Scotland appointing
Prince George of Denmark Generalissimo of all the forces in
Scotland.  During pleasure.  All usual fees &c.  To pass per
saltum. P. 191.
25 Aug.   Chancellor and Privy Council.
John Fraser, brother to Captain Fraser of Beaufort, and other
persons associated with him have committed several insolencies
and disorders by convocating our lieges in a hostile manner and
burning and pulling down houses belonging to our Lady Dowager
of Lovat and her daughter. Contempt of our authority. Must
be punished.
Arrest and bring to trial Fraser and his associates, and employ
such of our forces as may be necessary to keep order in those
parts and protect Lady Lovat, &c. P. 195.
Chancellor and Commissioners of the Treasury.
To pay 2001. a year to Sir James Stuart, the Lord Advocate,
out of the readiest revenues.  He is to lay aside all private
practice. Pp. 195, 196.
To pay 1001. a year each to William Carmichael and Sir David
Dalrymple, the Queen's solicitors, who have offered to take
this sum in lieu of all fees usually asked by them. P. 196.
To confirm a tack and chamberlanry to Bernard Mackenzie,
minister. For services done amongst the ministers of Scotland
he was granted a pension of 1001. a year and, by letters of 7 June,
1701, it was ordered that this sum and the arrears of it should
be paid and charged on the revenues of the Bishopric of Ross,
on which the Chancellor &c. set him a tack and chamberlanry
of the said rents. Pp. 196, 197.
To pay 3001. to Robert Pringle for his services as under-secretary
out of the readiest revenues. P. 197.
Concerning defence of the coasts of Scotland. The Queen
understands by her secretaries that the funds given in the last
Session of Parliament were given partly for the maintaining
and "outreiking " [rigging out] vessels for coast defence in time
of war, and that the Commissioners of the Admiralty have given
account to H.M.'s secretaries for her information that two frigates,
one for the east coast and one for the west, should be
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1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
An advance on credit is necessary for this purpose. The
Chancellor &c. may allow such encouragement for advances as
may be needful. As the biggest of the designed frigates is in bad
repair, and like to perish, they shall do their best to prevent this.
Pp. 197, 198.
25 Aug.    Chancellor and Chancery.
Windsor.   For a commission for treating of an Union between Scotland
and England.
See Acts of the Parliament of Scotland (1824), Vol. XI, Appendix,
p. 145, where this is given in Latin. Pp. 198-200.
Warrants or Docquets of Warrants to the Commissioners
of the Treasury.
To pay 4001. to the Earl of Seafield for his expenses in going
down to Scotland. P. 206.
Docquet of warrant to-     to pass a grant of the Sheriffdom
of Banff to the Earl of Seafield, with the usual fees &c. He is
to receive and pay into the Scottish Treasury all the few duties &c.
due from his sheriffdom to the Crown. Great Seal. P. 206.
Docquet of warrant for a similar grant of the Sheriffdom of
Forfar to David, Earl of Northesk. P. 207.
Same of a warrant to   --     to pass a letter under the
Privy Seal granting 5001. to Lord Montgomery as one of the
Lords Commissioners of the Treasury. P. 207.
Same for appointing Robert Douglas, brother-german to the
Earl of Morton, and Sir Archibald Stuart, Bt., of Burray, Stewards
of Orkney and Shetland. Power to hold courts, administer
justice, including Admiralty jurisdiction, and nominate officers of
the Courts. Great Seal. P. 208.
Same for appointing James Stephan, Usher Deput to the
Exchequer, to be keeper of the Council Chamber, furnisher of
coal and candle thereto, furnisher of pens, ink, paper, &c., to the
Treasury and Exchequer, with power to attend the Court of
Admiralty and Commissioners for visitation of Schools and
Colleges and those for regulating Trade, and to furnish coal and
candles to the said Courts and meetings. Salaries of 501., 401.
and 401. a year and all usual privileges. Details. P. 208.
Same for renewing to the present Earl of Kellie of a tack set
by King Charles II to the late Alexander, Earl of Kellie, of the
maills, farms, few duties and other sums [details] due out of the
lands of King's barnes in the Sh'eriffdom of Fife. The late
tack was for the space of three nineteen years after the decease
of Sir James Scott of Rossy, then tacksman of the same, and the




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
new tack is to be for the remainder of that term and for'three nineteen years next after the expiration of the tack above mentioned.
Tack duty of 201.Sc. to be paid to the Queen. Privy Seal. P. 209.
25 Aug.    Docquet for a ratification to James, Earl of Galloway, of all
Windsor. the rights, tacks &c. of himself and his predecessors of the teinds,
parsonage and vicarage of the whole parish kirks and parishes
within the Priory of Whitehorn, a tack granted to him by
King William III of the teinds of the lordship of Gairlies within
the parish of Moniegoff, and of all other teinds in the said parish
belonging to any person (excepting the teinds formerly set to
McKie of Larg and now to Herron of that ilk), and containing
a grant [to him] of the tack duties payable to the Queen as coming
in place of the Bishop of Galloway. To hold for the space to run
of the grants hereby renewed. Tack duty of 20 marks yearly.
The Queen to be relieved of all stipends due and payable to the
several ministers serving the cure at the respective kirks within
the Priory of Whitehorn and Kirks of Moniegoff, &c. P. 209.
Same for a gift of the office of one of the four Commissaries
of Edinburgh to -- Smallet as conjunct with his father. Details.
He shall hold it after his father's death or demission. Privy Seal.
P. 210.
Same for a charter under the Great Seal of Scotland to John
MacMillan of Brockloch in life-rent, and William MacMillan,
his youngest lawful son and the heirs of his body and his assignees
in fee, and other heirs of the three mark land of Overlaggan and
two mark land of Glenforth, with the teinds, parsonage and
vicarage thereof in the stewardry of Kirkcudbright, proceeding
on the resignation of Robert Glendinning of Partan. The grant
contains a new gift with a change of the ward holding to taxt
ward. Taxt duties to be filled in at passing. P. 210.
Same for a charter under same to Alexander Meldrum of
Haltoun and his heirs and assigns of the lands and barony of
Auchterless Meldrum, including the towns and lands above*
specified, lying in the Sheriffdom of Aberdeen, proceeding on
the grantee's own resignation. New gift and change of holding
from simple to taxt ward. Taxt duties to be filled in at passing.
P. 210.
Same for a charter under the same to Archibald Douglas of
Cavers, his eldest lawful son and the heirs male of his body
[details] of the lands and barony of Cavers with all their mills,
fishings and other appurtenances, with a new gift and union of
the church lands of Cavers to the said barony. Simple ward
holding changed to taxt ward. P. 211.
Same for a charter under the same to Alexander Monnipennie
of Pitmillie, of the lands of Baubet and Drumraick. Holding
* See note on p. 465.




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1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book l8-cont.
changed from ward to taxt ward. Duties to be filled in at passing.
P. 211.
25 Aug.   Commissions.
Windsor.  --     to be Major-General of the forces, regular or militia,
raised or to be raised in Scotland. Pp. 211, 212.
Thomas Bruce to be Mustermaster-General of the same. To
make true and exact muster rolls, deliver signed copies thereof
to those named by the Privy Council, &c. Pp. 212, 213.
Captain George Somervell, to be Adjutant-General of the
Queen's forces in Scotland. Pp. 213, 214.
John Aitkine, to be Secretary of War in Scotland. A continuation of his commission of 16 January, 169g. Pay, 5s. a day,
and one day's pay from every officer whose commission he enters
at the Secretary of War's office. Pp. 214, 215.
Royal Warrant.
The Queen with the special advice and consent of the
Commissioners* of the Treasury and of the Exchequer, appoints
[details Theodore Dury, a French gentleman, chief engineer
to all her forts, garrisons &c. Pay of 101. a month. Favourable
clauses. Pp. 215-17.
Notes of Commissions in her Majesty's troop of Life Guards
of Horse [in Scotland].
The Duke of Argyll to be colonel and captain.
John, Earl of Crawford, to be lieutenant-colonel and lieutenant.
James Stewart to be lieutenant-colonel and lieutenant.
Lord John Ker to be major and cornet.
Archibald Douglas to be major and guidon.
Master Charles Campbell to be captain and quartermaster.
-- Charlet to be lieutenant and brigadier.
Robert Baillie to be lieutenant and brigadier.
Francis Charters to be lieutenant and brigadier.
David Campbell to be solicitor.
Ten separate notes. P. 217.
Same in the Queen's Regiment of Dragoons in Scotland, formerly
commanded by Lord Jedburgh.
William Lord Jedburgh to be again colonel.
--   Cripigny to be captain-lieutenant of Lord Jedburgh's
company.
Archibald Drummond to be cornet of same.
Patrick, Lord Polwarth, to be lieutenant-colonel of the regiment.
Mathew Stewart to be lieutenant of Lord Polwarth's troop
of same.
Mathew Semple to be coret to same of same.
Sir John Johnston of Westeraw to be major of the regiment.
David Ogilvie to be cornet of the major's troop of same.
* Their names are given, and the warrant or commission is thus unusual.




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
Captain George Douglas to be captain of a troop of the regiment.
-- Urquhart to be lieutenant to Captain Douglas' company
of same.
-- Richardson to be cornet of same.
William Preston to be captain of a troop in same.
John Marishal to be lieutenant to Captain Preston's company.
Francis Scot to be cornet in same.
--     Guiget [?] to be captain of a troop in same.
Alexander Dunbar to be lieutenant to Captain Guiget's company.
James Ogilvie to be cornet of same.
Seventeen separate notes. Pp. 218, 219.
25 Aug.   [See Calendar above, pp. 220, 221 for important documents at
Windsor. this date.]
Notes of Commissions in Major-General George Ramsay's
[or Ramsey's] regiment of Foot Guards in Scotland.
Major-General Ramsay to be colonel.
Isack Francis Petit to be captain-lieutenant in the MajorGeneral's own company; to have precedency as a lieutenantcolonel.
John Murray to be 2nd lieutenant of the same company,
and to have rank as a captain.
John Ramsay to be ensign in the same company.
George Mackartney to be first lieutenant-colonel, with rank
as a colonel.
James Douglas to be lieutenant of the lieutenant-colonel's
company, with rank as a captain.
John Maxwel to be ensign to same company.
Walter Corbit to be major of the regiment, with rank as colonel.
Neil Macleoid to be lieutenant of the Major's company, with
rank as captain.
John Chalmers to be ensign in the same company.
Thomas Hamilton to be captain of the first company of
grenadiers in the same, with rank as lieutenant-colonel.
David Sutherland to be 1st lieutenant to Thomas Hamilton,
with rank as captain.
Richard Maitland to be 2nd lieutenant to same.
John Hamilton to be captain of a company, with rank as a
lieutenant-colonel.
Alexander Stewart to be lieutenant to Captain Hamilton,
with rank as a captain.
Robert Seaton to be ensign to same.
James Scot to be captain of a company, with rank as lieutenantcolonel*.
James Johnston to be lieutenant to Scot, with rank as a
captain.*
Charles Douglas to be ensign to Scot.
* These brevet ranks are provided for in all the subsequent commissions.
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1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
Thomas Dalyell (C.), James Richardson (L.), and Alexander
Ramsay (E.)*
William, Earl of Dalhousie (C.), James Colquhoun (L.), and
Charles Miln (E.).
James Campbell (C.), William Ramsay (L.), and Abenezer
Dunwall (E.).
John Stewart (C.), David Scot (L.), and John Ramsay (E.).
John Murray (C.), Sir Alexander Ruthven (L.), and James
Durham (E.).
William  Sharp (C.), James Ogilvie (L.), and George Foulis
(E.).
Thomas Scot (C.), Francis Oliphant (L.), and William
Murray (E.).
Henry Varier (C.), John Cunningham (L.), and -  Hume (E.).
Robert Mushat (C.), William Ramsay (L.), and  - Shaw (E.).
Lord William Hay (C.), (Grenadiers), Alexander Mackenzie (L.),
and James Muirhead (2nd L.).
Charles Gordon to be first adjutant, Alexander Fraser 2nd
adjutant.
Sixty-one separate notes. Pp. 219-24.
25 Aug.    Notes of Commissions in the Queen's Regiment of Foot, formerly
Windsor.       commanded by Brigadier James Maitland.
Maitland, colonel.
Robert Nairn, captain-lieutenant in the colonel's company,
and Richard Maitland, ensign in the same.
Robert Keith, lieutenant-colonel.
Mathew Laurence, lieutenant of the lieutenant-colonel's company; and George Garden, ensign of the same.
Robert Reid second lieutenant-colonel.
Sir Robert Hamilton, major of the regiment.
Robert Scot lieutenant and James Hamilton ensign in the
major's company.
The following to be captains and officers of several companies,
vizt:-William Gordon (C.), Adam Gordon (L.), Alexander Arnot
(E.).t John   Cadour  (C.), John Maitland   (L.), and James
Ochterlonie (E.).  William Maxwell (C.), William Garshores (L.)
and John Gray (E.). John Stewart (C.), John Leslie (L.), and
David   Ross   (E.).  Christopher  Pumfrey   (C.),  Wadham
Sprague (L.), and Robert Douglas (E.). William Weir (C.),
James Bruce (L.), and Robert Alexander (E.).        Archbald
Hay (C.), James Arthure (1st L.), and Robert Young (2nd L.).
Patrick Ogilvie (C.), James Ogilvie (L.), and James Farquharson
(E.). Lord Fraser (C.), James Dickson (L.), and John Sloss
(E.). Jeremiah Bossugue,.adjutant; James Stirling, surgeon;
and Neil McViccar, chaplain.
Forty separate entries. Pp. 224-7.
* For brevity these commissions are calendared very shortly: "C." stands
for captain, "L." for lieutenant, and "E." for "ensign."
t See the note above. I keep the captains, lieutenants and ensigns of each
company together.




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
25 Aug.    Notes of Commissions for the Governor and Officers in
Windsor.       garrisons in Stirling Castle and elsewhere.
John, Earl of Mar, captain of the company in the Castle; and
Lieutenant-Colonel John Ariskine, deputy governor and 1st
lieutenant.
Two blank commissions for lieutenants and one for an ensign.
P. 227.
Same for the garrison in Dumbarton Castle.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Erskine, governor and captain.
Campbell, deputy governor and lieutenant.
Blank commission for an ensign. P. 228.
Same for the garrison of Blackness.
Henry Rollo of Woodside, governor and captain of the garrison.
P. 228.
Same for the Company of Artillery in Scotland.
Captain John Slezer to be captain and Captain David
Livingston to be lieutenant. P. 228.
Same for the Companies added to certain Regiments and
appointed for preservation of peace in the Highlands.
Captain William Grant, captain of the company added to
Colonel Row's regiment for this purpose.
Blank commission for a lieutenant in same.
---    Ross, brother to Ross of Kilraick, 2nd lieutenant in same.
Alexander Campbell, captain of the new company added to
Colonel Ferguson's regiment appointed as above.
Colin Fairfoul (1st L.) and --   Campbell of Glenderowell
(2nd L.) of same.
Six separate notes. Pp. 228-9.
8 Sept.   [See Calendar above, p. 240.]
29 Sept.   Commissioners of the Treasury.
Bath.    We are informed of the necessities of James Mackie, late
baillie of Culross, and of his numerous family. Out of the first
and readiest vacant stipend there pay him such allowance as
you think fit. P. 231.
Same to Same. Blank warrant for payment of 501. P. 231.
Docquets of Royal Warrants.
1. For a charter under the Great Seal granting to Sir Adam
Whitefoord of Blairquhen, Kt. and Bt., "his heirs male and of
tailzea and provision and his other heirs and assigns aforesaid,"
the lands and barony of Blairquhen* with the castle, tower,
fortalice, mill, fishings, &c. [details]; also the fifty-shilling land
* The name is spelt in different ways.




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1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
of Bishoplands with the five-mark land of Dallnovan, the lands
of Darjaxbrie, being a part of the forty-mark land of Dalquharran,
the lands of Over and Neither [Nether] Grimmells and four-mark
land of Shankstown; and also the lands of Glenour, Knockdon
and Poleardah called the five-mark and half-mark land of Meikle
Shallochan, with the 40s. land of Knockbrick, with their several
house, pertments, &c., all lying in the baillery of Carrick and
Sheriffdom of Ayr.
Blairqwhen lands, & c., Bishopsland and Dalhowand [sic] belonged
heritably of before to the deceased John Whiteford of Blairqwhen
and were resigned by him in favour of the said Sir Adam Whitefoord
as having right thereto by progress above* deduced. The lands
of Darjaxbrie belonged heritably before to the late Sir John
Kennedy of Girvan Maines, and were acquired by Robert
Blackwood, merchant in Edinburgh, at a public roop before
the Lords of Council and Session, whereunto the said Sir Adam
Whitefoord has right by disposition from the said Robert
Blackwood, with the consent of Sir Thomas Kennedy of Kirkhill.
The lands of Over and Nether Grimmells and Shankstown pertained of before to the late John Shaw of Dalwyn, and were
adjudged from Quintin and Mr. John Shaw, his sons, as lawfully
charged to enter heirs to him at the instance of James Whitefoord
of Dinduff for payment of the sums above* mentioned; whereunto
the said Sir Adam has right as heir served and returned to the said
James Whitefoord; his father. The lands of Glenour, Knockdon,
Poleardah and Knockbrick pertained of before to the deceased
John Kennedy of Kirkmichael, and were resigned in favour
of Sir Adam Whitefoord as having right thereto by the progress
above* deduced. The charter contains a novo damus with an
erection'of all these lands into the free barony of Blairqwhen
and a disjunction thereof from all other baronies with which
they have at any time been connected, and a warrant for taking
seisin in any part of the said barony, which shall be sufficient
for the whole foresaid lands. Change of tenure for all these
lands from simple ward to taxt ward for payment of the taxt
duties of ward, non-entry, relief and marriage to be filled up in
the blanks by the Treasury. Pp. 232-3.
2. For a charter &c. [as foregoing] granting to Robert Gordon,
writer in Edinburgh, heritably, all the towns and lands of Sandside,
Shewrarie, Helsetter, Fresco, Darrighshoco [?], Rhea, Issauld, and
Auchermerland with the teinds, parsonage and vicarage, and all
fishings belonging thereto with all pendicles &c. in Caithness,
which before belonged to the persons above written,* by Thomas
Cranford, merchant in Edinburgh, Margaret Cunningham, relict
of William Inness of Borlone and [blank] Monno her husband and
[blank] McKay of [blank], and were all resigned by them respectively
in favour of the said Robert Gordon. Novo damus making all
these lands into a barony called the barony of Issauld and a tax
* See above, p. 465 note.




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
of the said lands from simple to taxt ward for duties to be filled
up [&c., as foregoing]. Pp. 233-4.
3. Same for a letter under the Privy Seal of Scotland in favour
of Robert Frazer, advocate, for the single and liferent escheat of
James Dumbar of Balcross, which have escheated to the Crown
through Dumbar's rebellion [details], with power to Frazer to
dispose upon the said single and liferent escheat at his pleasure.
Pp. 234-5.
4. Same in favour of Nathaniel Gordon of Caviletown for a gift
to him of the goods heritable and moveable escheated to the
Crown by reason of the conviction of William Lenox of Milnhouse
of adultery with Anna McClellan, his servant. P. 235.
26 Oct.   [See Calendar above, p. 278.]
27 Oct.   Docquet.
For conferring on Thomas, Earl of Haddington, the title of
Earl of Haddington, Lord Binning and Byres. Great Seal. Pp.
237, 238.
6 Nov.    Chancellor and Commissioners of the Treasury.
We understand that the 11th of this month was the day
appointed for the roup of our Customs and foreign Excise. These
are the revenue out of which our civil list and the necessary
charges of Government are defrayed, and we are anxious to
improve them to the best advantage. Receive any proposals
which may be made to you for them and transmit them to us
before coming to a final decision. P. 238.
21 Nov.   Royal Warrants or Letters.
To the Keeper (pro ter.) of the Great Seal of Scotland, and the
Scottish Chancery, for a commission to James, Earl of Seafield, as
Lord Chancellor of Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal there.
The Lords of the Council to administer the oaths to him. The
present Keeper to deliver the Great Seal of Scotland to him when
he has been sworn. Great and Privy Seals. Details. Pp. 239, 240.
To the Commissioners of the Scottish Treasury. To add the
Earl of Seafield to their number. This warrant to be as good
as if he had been in the original commission. Pp. 240, 241.
To the Scottish Treasury for 1,5001. a year to be paid to
Lord Secretary Seafield as Lord Chancellor of Scotland. To
be paid at Whitsuntide and Martinmas. Privy Seal. Pp. 241-3.
Also warrant to same of same date for an additional 4001. a
year to him. Privy Seal. Pp. 243, 244.
Also docquet of warrant to  -    for granting the principal
Sheriffship of Bamf [Banff] to same. BothSeals. Pp. 244, 245.
To the Chancellor and Chancery of Scotland for a patent and
commission under the Great Seal of Scotland appointing George,
Viscount Tarbat or Tarbet, one of the Secretaries of State for
Scotland, with half the fees of the office. Full grant of all usual




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475


1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
powers of a Secretary of State; also a salary of 1,0001. a year.
Pp. 245-7.
Also docquet of warrant for 1,0001. a year to Viscount Tarbet,
as one of the principal Secretaries of State. Pp. 247, 248.
Warrant to the Chancellor and Chancery of Scotland for a letter
under the Great Seal of Scotland appointing Sir James Murray
of Philiphaugh (during pleasure only), Clerk of the Registers and
Rolls, Clerk of the Council and Session of the Exchequer and of
all Commissions, Parliaments and Conventions in Scotland.
Power to exercise by himself or by a deputy. Power to call
for, intromit and uplift all profits &c. due to the office since it
was by    the  Queen  declared  vacant. Favourable clauses.
Pp. 248-50.
Also same to the Treasury, Exchequer and Auditors of Scotland
to allow Murray as aforesaid 4001. a year during pleasure. Pp.
250, 251.
Docquet of same to  -    for a grant under the Privy Seal of
Scotland (with the consent of the Commissioners of the Scottish
Treasury and of the Lords and others of the Exchequer) giving
to Charles Cathcart, son to Allan, Master of Cathcart, and
appearing heir to the deceased Captain Allan Cathcart, his eldest
brother, the marriage of the said Mr. Charles Cathcart, now in
the Queen's gift, "through the said Captain Allan his dying
last infeft and seized as of fee your Majesty's vassal in certain
lands and heritages holden of your Majesty as Queen or as Princess
and Steward of Scotland by service of ward and relief and through
the not marriage of the said Mr. Charles," together with all the
lands of which Captain Allan died seized and which have come
to the Queen's hands by reason of Charles Cathcart's minority.
Details. Pp. 251, 252.
Royal letters to the Commissioners of the Scottish Treasury
ordering them to state and pay, out of the readiest fund, the
arrears due to Captain John Mowat as captain of Lord Portmore's
regiment. P. 253.
21 Nov.    Royal Letters.
For an approbation and exoneration to pass under the Great
Seal in favour of James Earl of Seafield in respect of all his actions
and omissions official, public and private. A full letter similar
to that in favour of the Duke of Queensberry calendared above
at p. 221. Countersigned by Queensberry.-Ibid., pp. 203-206.
24 Nov.    Commissioners of the Treasury.
We are told that the best offer to farm our customs is 20,0001.
on condition of a five years' tack and other conditions. The
present time of war is not one when high offers can be expected,
so we have resolved to put the customs "in collection under
management during our Royal pleasure." We shall shortly
send you a commission and instructions to certain persons to
manage and oversee the collection of the Customs, to the end




476


STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
you may take security from the managers and collectors. Meantime continue the present managers and collectors till further orders,
and order those at Edinburgh to direct the others to continue
zealous in the performance of their duties. Pp. 253, 254.
24 Nov.    Chancellor and Chancery.
Great Seal'appointing Thomas Pringle, W.S., to one of the
clerkships of the Privy Council in the place of --  Moncreif.
Pp. 255, 256.
Docquet of Royal Warrant for letters under the Privy Seal
releasing "David Lord Boyle, and Dam Jean Muir his lady " of
all few, blench and teind duties, and other duties due to the
Queen out of their lands, towns, fishings &c. Clause directing
the Scottish Treasury not to recover any sums so due. P. 256.
Commissioners of the Treasury.
Considerable arrears are due of the pension granted by the
late King to Lady Bogie and to the other children and grandchildren of the late Sir Archibald Johnston of Warieston; and
the fund out of which it comes cannot pay it now. Pay them
1001., to be divided amongst them according to their proportions
of the said pension. Pay it out of the readiest of the last quarter
tack duty of our Customs. P. 259.
28 Nov.    Earl of Leven, Constable of Edinburgh Castle.
To deliver to the Duke of Argyll a piece of ordnance
belonging to him and lying in the Castle of Edinburgh. P. 272.
Docquets of Warrants.
1. For a Privy Seal granting to Sir David Dalrymple, Advocate,
the ward and non-entry duties of the barony of Wester Kinninmond
and of all years and terms since the decease of Patrick
Kinninmond of that ilk, or the deceased James Kinninmond,
his father, till the entry of the right heir, with the relief thereof
on entry; also the marriage of the said Patrick and of Mrs. Grisell
Kininmond,* his daughter; or, failing her, the marriage of the
next heir. P. 273.
2. For a charter under the Great Seal of Scotland in favour of
Sir David Dalrymple, Advocate, one of the Queen's solicitors,
of the baronies of Hailes and Whittingham, proceeding upon
several apprisings led against the late Alexander, Viscount of
Kingstoun, which were disponed by the apprisers to the deceased
Sir James Standfield of Newmills, and upon several adjudications
led against John Standfield as renouncing to be heir to the said
Sir James, his father, and which are disponed to the said
Sir David, as also upon the resignation of the Viscount of
Kingstoun and of several other creditors to him and the said
Sir James Standfield, and likewise upon the forfeiture of the
* The name is spelt in different ways.




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1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
deceased Philip Stanfield, eldest son and appearing heir to the
said Sir James, through his being convict of treason, cursing of
his father and accession to his father's murder. These letters
also contain a new gift to him of the roodset right of the lands
of Overhailes and other lands which are part of the said barony
granted by the tutors of George, Earl of Wintoun, and Sir George
Seton of Hailes to David Congleton of Skeatsbuss. P. 257.
3. For a charter to be passed [&c. as in foregoing] granting to
Patrick Ogilvie of Halyeards and his heirs or assigns all Oldtoun
of Aucheries, new Town of Aucheries and its croft, the town and
lands of Cumcutter, including certain lands in the barony of
Innerugy in Aberdeen, together with certain teinds [details]; and
granting in warrandice thereof the barony of Aden, the barony
and lordship of Inverugie in Aberdeen and Banff, proceeding
on the resignation of William, Earl of Marshall. [Details.] These
lands, other than those granted in warrandice, to be erected
into a barony called [blank] of which [blank] is to be the principal
messuage. To be held in fee of the Crown for ever, at the duties
&c. formerly paid in respect of them. Pp. 257, 258.
4. For a charter [&c. as in foregoing] to Mathew Reid, minister
at North Berwick, and his wife, formerly Anna Atchesone, eldest
lawful daughter of Robert Atchesone of Sydserfe, of that part
of the lands of Sydserfe called the lands and mains of Sydserfe,
with manorplace, houses, biggings &c., and park adjacent
thereto. The grant shall be to the longest liver of them, with
succession to their lawfully procreated heirs and bairns. The
land to be divided amongst such bairns, as Mathew Reid shall
think fit. Remainder to his heirs and assigns. Change of holding
from simple to taxt ward. Details. Pp. 258-9.
28 Nov.    Commissioners of the Treasury.
We are informed that Sir William Anstruther, Senator of
our College of Justice, holds of us the easter half of the lands of
Newtown of Lires for payment of 131.Sc., and certain rent in kind,
wheat, beer, capons and poultry [details]. These rents are in arrear
for some years. We direct you to discharge the arrears, and, in
the first signature he is to pass of the said lands, convert the
said rents in kind into a reasonable rent in money. P. 260.
Docquet of Warrant.
For a formal consent to a decreet of locality providing the
ministers of Dumblanen [Dunblane] to a stipend of 700 marks
yearly, and a further stipend of 300 marks yearly, with fifty marks
for communion elements; and to the schoolmaster of Dumblanen
and his successors 1001.Sc., and to the Session of the Church of
Dumblanen 100m.Sc. for upholding the fabric of the Church or
Quiere of Dumblanen yearly, out of the rents belonging to the
Bishopric of Dumblanen, lying close to the church. To be held of
the Queen and her heirs in pura eleemosina, the said ministers,
schoolmasters and Kirk Session performing the services and
others above-mentioned, To pass under the Great Seal. P. 261.




478


STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
28 Nov.    Royal Letters, &c.
Warrant for a grant under the Privy Seal (with the consent
of the Treasury and Exchequer there) confirming to James
Baird, W.S., his appointment by King William III as Clerk to
the Wardrobe and re-appointing him to the same office under
the present and any future Master. Power to execute the office
by deputy. Yearly salary of 3601.Sc. Clause for execution.
Pp. 261-3.*
Royal letters of gift factory and chamberlanry (with the consent
of the Scottish Treasury and Exchequer), under the Privy Seal of
Scotland confirming the pension of 4001. a year granted by
King Charles II to George, Viscount Tarbet, then (in Sept., 1681)
known as George Mackenzie of Tarbet; also granting to him
the chamberlanry of the Earldom of Ross and lordship of Ardmannock and a salary of 1,000l.Sc. yearly thereout, he paying the
surplus yearly to the Exchequer; also confirming similar grants
to him by King William III and appointing him Chamberlain
to the Queen in the said earldom and lordship and the other
lands thereto belonging lying in the sheriffdom of Ross and
Cromarty during the whole time of his letter of pension. Power
to execute by a deputy and to sue for fees due to the Crown.
Details. Salary of 1,0001. a year, and the former pension of
4001. a year to be continued as well out of the first revenues
which he shall collect, and he need only account to the Treasury
for the balance. All previous commissions of chamberlanry
granted by the Queen or the Treasury are revoked. Pp.
263-6.
Royal letters (with consent as foregoing) under the Privy Seal
of Scotland appointing Patrick Hepburn, apothecary and burgess
of Edinburgh, to be apothecary and druggist to the Royal family
and forces in Scotland. All usual profits, &c., salary of 401. a
year. Hepburn to have the benefit of all Acts of Parliament or
Council in favour of those employed in the Queen's service,
and to be exempt from watch and ward within the burgh with the
neighbours. Pp. 267-9.
Royal letters under the Privy Seal of Scotland renewing to
John Veitch, jun., a grant made by King William III on 29 March,
1699, appointing John Veitch, sen., of Dawick, and John Veitch,
his son [the present grantee], and the longer liver of them, officers
for presenting signatures in Exchequer and ordering the King's
despatches in Scotland, with all usual fees. Power to execute
by a deputy. The Scottish Treasury to pay him his fees.
Pp. 269, 270.
Commissioners of the Treasury, &c.
Warrant appointing --    Marion to be one of the Queen's
ordinary trumpeters in Scotland. Usual fees and liveries, which
the Scottish Treasury are to pay. Privy Seal. Pp. 270-272.
* This grant contains words of warranty to the Treasury and Exchequer.




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479


1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant look 18-cont.
5 Dec.    Docquet.
For a Privy Seal (with consent) granting the escheat of Patrick
Steill or Steile, vintner in Edinburgh, to James Smith, of Whitehill. It is in the Queen's gift by the rebellion of Steill. P. 273.
Chancellor and Commissioners of the Treasury.
Refers to foregoing and mentions that the gift therein "does
proceed upon a denunciation used at the instance of John Graham
of Dowgalstown against the said Steill" for not paying a debt
due to him (Graham). Proceeds. -There are several sums
justly due and owing by Steill to John Callender of Craigforth,
to Robert Walwood, merchant, of Edinburgh, and to Robert
Watson of Murrays. After paying the "principal annalrent
and expenses" owing to Smith by Steill and the debt due to
Graham on the above-said denunciation, the said gift shall be
charged with paying these sums (i.e. to Callender, Walwood
and Watson). Clauses for execution. Pp. 273, 274.
15 Dec.   Royal Warrants or Docquets of same.
1. Warrant to the Chancellor and Chancery for a commission
under the Great Seal of Scotland appointing William, Marquis of
Annandale, President of the Privy Council of Scotland. Precedence next the Treasurer of Scotland. Pp. 275, 276.
2. Docquet for a Privy Seal (with consent) for 1,0001. a year to
Annandale as above, payable at Whitsuntide and Martinmas.
P. 276.
3. Warrant as No. 1 above, appointing John, Earl of Tullibardine,
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland. Power to act by
deputy and all usual powers. Details. Pp. 276-8.
4. Docquet (as No. 2 above) for 1,0001. a year to Tullibardine,
payable &c. as No. 2. P. 278.
5. Warrant to the Chancellor and Privy Council to admit
Tullibardine to the Council, to which he is hereby appointed.
P. 279.
6. Same to the Chancellor and Commissioners of the Treasury
and Exchequer to admit the Marquis of Annandale a Commissioner, which he is hereby appointed. Pp. 279, 280.
31 Dec.   Chancellor and Privy Council.
To admit William, Earl of March, to the Privy Council. P. 281.
Chancellor and Chancery.
For letters under the Great Seal appointing William, Earl
of March, Governor and Constable of Edinburgh Castle during
pleasure. Full grant of all usual fees and privileges. Pp. 281-4.
Same.
Commission to William, Earl of March, to command the
company of foot in garrison in Edinburgh Castle. P. 284.




480


STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
31 Dec.    Chancellor and Chancery.
For appointing Roderick Mackenzie of Prestonhall her Majesty's
Justice Clerk in Scotland, with all usual privileges and fees.
Great Seal. Pp. 285, 286.
Docquet of similar warrant for letters to pass under the Privy
Seal granting to Mackenzie (see foregoing) 4001. a year as a
salary for his office. P. 286.
Commissioners of the Treasury.
To pay 1,5001. to Robert, Marquis of Lothian, being arrears
due to him of his salary of 6001. a year as Justice General of
Scotland. Pp. 286-7.
Similar warrant for payment of arrears of the two yearly
payments of 400 marks formerly [details] granted Walter Birney,
preacher of the Gospel. He has been blind since infancy, but
nevertheless he attained proficiency in preaching the Gospel. A
precept in his favour to be granted on the tacksmen and receivers
of the rents of the Scottish Bishoprics. Details. Pp. 287-9.
Similar warrant for continuing to Captain Alexander Gordon
the pension of 501. a year granted him by King William III.
P. 289.
Chancellor and Commissioners of the Treasury.
To continue to Margaret Calby, widow of Robert Calby, some
time gunner of Edinburgh Castle, the pension of 101. a year
granted her by the late King on 2 January, 169|. Pp. 290, 291.
Chancellor, President and Senators of the College of Justice
in Edinburgh.
To add Roderick Mackenzie of Prestonhall to their number
as one of the ordinary Lords of Session, to fill a vacancy.
Pp. 291, 292.
Docquets of Royal Warrants.*
1. For a letter, to pass under the Privy Seal, (with consent)
in favour of Kenneth Mackenzie, of Garloch, of all the duties
[details] of the lands and barony of Garloch with the pertments
thereof lying in the Sheriffdom of Ross formerly belonging to
Alexander Mackenzie of Garloch, his father, with the arrears
thereof due [to the Crown] between the date of his father's death
and that of his own service therein as his father's heir; together
with the duties of the said Kenneth's marriage and the relief
thereof, with all benefit of the said casualties, and of all bonds
granted therefor to the Sheriff of Ross, before whom he was
served heir. P. 292.
2. For a similar letter in favour of William Mackerrell of Hilhouse [granting him] the by-gone non-entry duties of the lands
of Hilhouse and Gateside. Pp. 292, 293.
* The docquets seldom, if ever, state to whom the warrants were addressed. If
they do so it is mentioned in the text.




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481


1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
3. For a "charter of resignation" to pass under the Great
Seal in favour of William Burnet of Barnes and Jean Baillie,
his spouse, and the longest liver of them, "in conjunct fee and
liferent in satisfaction of her liferent provisions pro tanto," and
of James, their son, his heirs and assigns in fee of all William
Burnet's two-part lands of Bonningtoun called Bonningtoun
Willie in the "parochin and sheriffdom of Peebles," proceeding
on the resignation of the said William Burnet. The charter to
contain a change of the holding from ward to taxt ward, [and
provide] for payment of the taxed duties [details] as filled up in
the blanks of this signature at its passing in the Exchequer.
P. 293.
4. For a charter (Great Seal) in favour of Sir Alexander
Ogilvie of Forglen, Kt. and Bt., his heirs and assigns, granting the
town and lands of Todlaw and salmon fishing on the Doveran
[Devoren], with the house, buildings &c. in the parochin of
Forglen in Banff. These lands and fishing formerly belonged
heritably to Mr. Thomas Thomson of Auchquittrie, minister,
and were, by his proctors in his name, resigned into the hands
of the Exchequer for a new grant thereof to Ogilvie as having
right thereto.  The charter contains a novo damus with a
confirmation of the original writs of the lands, fishings &c. abovementioned with the pertments, a disjunction from any baronies
to which they may have been formerly annexed, and a union
of them with the barony of Forglen; also a warrant for taking
seisin at the principal messuage of the barony or upon any part
of the said lands, which shall be sufficient for the whole, and
a warrant for changing the holding of the lands from simple
to taxt ward and [provision for] payment of the taxed duties
[details as in the foregoing], and a warrant for the heirs of
Sir Alexander Ogilvie and his proctors to be served and infeffed in
the lands in their minority. The Queen promises to ratify this
grant in the next or any other Parliament of Scotland. Pp. 293,
294.
31 Dec.    Royal Warrant.
St. James.  For a letter under the Privy Seal of Scotland, with consent
of the Treasury and Exchequer there, renewing to George Kendall,
merchant in Leith, the whole place and office of Clerk and Keeper
of the Queen's cocquet seal in Leith town, with all fees, profits &c.
Pp. 294-6.
The Queen to the Chancellor and Privy Council.
Several men are wanting to recruit our two battalions of foot
now in Holland under the Earl of Orkney; and officers are going
to Scotland to levy recruits for them.  Give these officers all
encouragement by allowing them to do all things within the
law.  Have "a due care and temper " in preventing abuses in
making the said levies. P. 296.
[See also Calendar at this date, pp. 353-356.]


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1702.
S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18-cont.
31 Dec.    Royal Letters.
St. James  For " a letter of remission " under the Great Seal of Scotland
pardoning Richard Trotter, one of the gentlemen of the Life
Guard of Horse in Scotland, for the killing of James Stewart,
another of the said gentlemen. There is good evidence [details]
that it was no more than manslaughter. Pp. 312-14.
Docquets of Warrants.
For letters patent under the Great Seal of Scotland for creating
a baronet [blank]. P. 314.
For a similar letter granting the sheriffship of Ross [blank].
Pp. 314, 315.
For letters under the Privy Seal of Scotland granting 170l. a
year out of the Crown rents &c. in the Lewis to -- Mackenzie,
uncle of the Earl of Seaforth.* P. 315.
For similar letters granting [blank] the office of Master Tailor
in Scotland, with power to work his trade in Edinburgh, or any
other Royal town in Scotland. Exemption from watch and
ward and other public duties according to several Acts of
Parliament. Pp. 315, 316.
For similar letters nominating and appointing Daniel Stewart,
brother german to Sir William Stewart of Castlemilk, Receiver
General of the imposition of 12s. Scots in place of each ounce
of bullion appointed for defraying the expenses of a free coinage
in Scotland, with 501. a year salary and a convenient lodging
for himself and his family in the mint-house. Pp. 316, 317.
For letters under the Great Seal of Scotland appointing
Sir Alexander Ogilvie of Forglen, brother german of Lord Bamff,
one of the collectors of all the Queen's revenue in Scotland.
To obey the orders of the Commissioners of the Scottish Treasury,
and to give security for his giving true accounts. P. 317.
Anne, Duchess of Hamilton, Keeper of Holyrood Palace.
Directs her to settle the Earl of Seafield as Chancellor of
Scotland in the rooms on the south side of Holyrood Palace of
late possessed by the Earl of Marchmont, with the usual and
convenient kitchens, cellars, stables &c. P. 316.
TABLE X.
MISCELLANEOUS ROYAL WARRANTS.
PART I.
Warrants addressed to the Attorney or Solicitor General.
These are warrants or notes of warrants under the Royal Sign
Manual, countersigned by a Secretary of State, directing the
Attorney or Solicitor General to prepare bills for the Royal
Signature to pass the Great Seal granting this or that place
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or appointment or privilege to some person or persons. A few
warrants to prepare important Commissions have been entered
in the Military Entry Books but are placed here, as they did
not lend themselves to inclusion in the lists of commissioned
officers set down in Table III. In this Table the substance is
given of the appointment granted by the letters of which these
warrants authorise the preparation. Where the entry is only a
note of a warrant and the full text is not entered, the word " Note "
is placed at the end of the entry. Where the grant is to pass some
seal other than the Great Seal (i.e. the Privy Seal) or those of the
Duchy of Lancaster, this is set out.
From S.P. Dom., Entry Book 168: Countersigned by Vernon.
10 Mar.    Commission for the Earl of Marlborough as General of all
St. James'. the land forces raised in England, Wales or Berwick and kept on
I   foot at home or employed abroad with the Queen's allies. To
contain all powers granted by King William III to Frederick
Duke of Schonberg. Pp. 380-381.
From S.P. Dom., Entry Book 348: Countersigned by Vernon.
11 Mar.    Appointing the Mayor, Jurats and Commonalty of Dover and
St. James'. their successors water-bailiffs and keepers of the prison of Dover
and of the liberty and precincts of the town for ever. Right to
appoint a water-bailiff and prison keeper. Pp. 352-3.
17 Mar.    Granting to the Earl of Northampton or his nominee and his
St. James'. or their heirs the advowsons and right of patronage of the parishes
of Ewel [Ewell], Surrey, and of St. Nicholas, St. Leonard and Holy
Trinity, Colchester, in consideration of his surrender of the
advowson of the Rectory of Sherncote in the diocese of Sarum to
the Crown. Pp. 354-5.
4 Ap.     Revoking King William's appointment of Henry Overkirke
St. James'. as Master of the Horse. P. 356.
24 Ap.    Appointing the Marquis of Normanby Keeper of the Privy
St. James'. Seal, with 3651. a year. P. 365.
1 May.    Appointing Sir G. Rooke Vice-Admiral of England with 20s.
St. James'. a day and the wages of 16 men. All other usual fees &c. [Details.]
Pp. 370, 371.
From   S.P. Dom., Entry    Book   350:   Countersigned  by
Manchester.
17 Mar.    To licence Edward Sayer to print law books; being a renewal
St. James'. of a similar warrant granted by King William III.* Note. P. 200.
Same.     For re-incorporation of Hadleigh in Essex regranting the rights
conferred in the charter of 1618; being a renewal &c. as in foregoing.* Note. P. 200.
* This is not entered as addressed to the Attorney General, but probably
was so.




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1702.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 350-cont.
17 Mar.    Appointing Alexander Skene, Esq., Secretary of the island
St. James'. or islands of Barbados, Secretary to the Governor there, and
Secretary to the Council in the Governor's absence, and clerk
of the several courts there. By self or deputy. All usual fees,
privileges &c. Clause enforcing actual residence in 'Barbados.
Clause for determining a similar grant of the same office made
to Skene by the late King.*  Pp. 206, 207.
Countersigned by Hedges:May.      Appointing Daniel, Earl of Nottingham, Secretary of State,
with a fee of 1001. a year as from Lady Day last. P. 213.
8 May.     Appointing  Henry  Boyle to   be Under Treasurer of the
St. James'. Exchequer with all usual fees and robes, which he shall receive
twice a year at the receipt of the Exchequer and in the office
of the Wardrobe at Michaelmas and Easter.     A clause to be
inserted for determining the last commission granted of the
said office. P. 214.
Same.     Appointing Henry Boyle Chancellor of the Exchequer, to
to exercise the office by self or deputy, with all usual jurisdiction,
patronage, profits, fees &c. to be received at the receipt of the
Exchequer, also all robes and liveries, to be received from the
Great Wardrobe. Clause for determination of last commission,
as in foregoing. P. 215.
10 May.    Creating the office of Paymaster of the Queen's Marine
St. James'. regiments, granting the office to Walter Whitfield, with power
by himself or his deputies (for whom he shall be responsible)
to receive money imprested for pay of any marine regiments
or land forces placed under the particular care and direction of
the Lord High Admiral, or the Commissioner [sic] for executing
his office, and to pay out such money according to the establishment or to the instructions or warrants received from the Crown.
The Paymaster shall be accountable to the Exchequer. Whitfield
for himself and his clerks shall receive such a sum as in his
instructions or by warrant under the Sign Manual may be
declared fit. Clauses for execution. Pp. 217-18.
14 May.     1. Renewing the patents of 5 June, 1701,t to Sir John Cooke
St. James'. as Advocate General, and inserting a clause for determining
the last patents to him. Note. P. 219.
2. Granting  to  John, Viscount Fitzharding, the office of
Treasurer of the Chamber, to exercise by himself or his deputy.
A yearly fee of 1331. 6s. 8d. for himself and 201. a year for two
clerks, as from Lady Day last. All usual profits and emoluments.
Insert a clause for determining the last patents to Edward,
Lord Russell. P. 221.
* This is not entered as addressed to the Attorney General, but probably
was so.
t Entered in this book, p. 150; dated 5 June, 1701, and addressed to the
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1702.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 350-cont.
24 May.    Granting to Lieutenant-General Charles Churchill the place
St. James'. of Lieutenant of the Tower of London; to hold under the
Constable of the Tower and, in the Constable's absence, to act as
Constable. Usual fee &c. Effectual clauses. P. 235.
10 June.   Appointing Charles Godfry, Esq., Master or Treasurer of the
St. James' Queen's jewels.  To receive a salary of 501. a year as from
Lady Day last. Usual fees. Clause for determining the last
patents granting the office to him. Pp. 225-6 and 234.
18 June.   For appointing Charles, Duke of Bolton, Warden and Keeper
St. James'. of the New Forest in Hants, and of the manor and park of
Lindhurst, and hundred of Rudbergh alias Redbergg, with all
the advantages and fees which the Duke of Bolton held (as
Marquis of Winchester), and with and under the exceptions and
rents contained in the grant of the said office to Edward, Earl of
Gainesbrough. P. 229.
22 June.   Appointing the Duke of Newcastle Steward, Keeper and
St. James'. Guardian of Sherwood forest and Folewood park; to exercise
the office by himself or his sufficient deputy. Yearly fee of 40 marks
and 91. for nine foresters, to be paid out of the Exchequer
or from the receipts " out of our meadow by our castle of Nottingham called King's meadow," as from last Lady Day. All usual
rights &c. Clause for determining the last grant of the office.
Pp. 230, 231.
Same.     By order in Council dated 11 March last we ordered the
suspension of all proceedings against Thomas Bliss of Maidstone
for speaking words against King William III. The Attorney
General in consequence granted his warrant to discharge the
recognizances entered into by Bliss and by Elizabeth Wattle
to give evidence in that matter at the next Maidstone Assizes.
Nevertheless, we hear that an indictment has been preferred
at the Assizes against Bliss for the matter aforesaid. Enter a
noli prosequi against the indictment and do all else which may
be necessary to vacate and discharge it. Pp. 231-2.
22 June.   Granting to John Tucker the office of " Keeper and Register
1st. James'.] of our papers and records concerning matters of State and
Council and now reduced into the form of a library within our
palace of Whitehall "; to execute by himself or a sufficient
deputy. Fee of 1601. a year paid quarterly as from Lady Day
last. All rights &c. as fully as Sir Thomas Lake, Sir William
Boswell, Thomas Reymund and Sir Joseph Williamson formerly
held them. P. 233.
25 June.   Appointing Richard Hill Latin Secretary. Salary of 801. a
St. James'. year as from Christmas last. All usual profits. Pp. 242, 243.
17 Aug.    Appointing Charles Cottrell, Esq., son of Sir Charles Cottrell,
assistant Master of the Ceremonies in cases where Sir Charles




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1702.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 350-cont.
himself cannot act, with a fee of 6s. 8d. a day, and all expenses
which he may incur in travelling to and fro with ambassadors &c.
Clause for determining his last appointment of 27 January,
1698[9]. P. 253.
24 Aug.    By an inquisition taken the 6th day of July last past before
Windsor. the Sheriff of Kent in pursuance of a writ of ad quod damnum
in that behalf issued and returned into our High Court of Chancery,
it is found that it will be no prejudice to us or any of our subjects
having markets or fairs near adjoining if we should grant to
Sir Edward Gresham, Bart., and his heirs, one market and one
fair to be held at Westerham in Kent, the market to be held
once a month and the fair on 22 and 23 April (usual provision as to
Sundays) for buying and selling all sorts of cattle free of toll.
Prepare a bill to pass the Great Seal making the grant to Gresham
accordingly. Pp. 255, 256.*
22 Sept.   Great Seal as follows:Bath.    Anne, by the grace of God &c. &c., to Prince George of
Denmark, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir Nathan
Wright, Keeper of the Great Seal, Sidney, Lord Godolphin, Lord
High Treasurer, Thomas, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery,
President of the Council, &c.,t greeting. In causes heard before
our Court of Admiralty it has often happened and may occur
again that the person against whom judgment is given is aggrieved
thereby and wants to appeal. To the end that justice may be
speedily done both to our own and our allies' subjects, and that
they may have a means of obtaining a reconsideration of
judgments in proper cases, we appoint and constitute you Commissioners for hearing and determining such appeals against
decisions of the Court of Admiralty, present, past or future.
You or any three or more of you may hear witnesses; and may
call to your assistance any doctor of civil law or other person
whom you, or any three &c. think fit, and appoint any surrogate
or surrogates whereby this our Commission may be better
executed. Words of warranty. This Commission to continue
during pleasure "notwithstanding the same be not continued
by adjournment." Pp. 267-71.
9 Nov.    [See Calendar, above, p. 291.]
24 Nov.    Granting to George Clarke, Esq., the place of Advocate General
St. James'. or Judge Marshal of all the Queen's forces raised for service in
England, Wales, Berwick and elsewhere (except Scotland and
Ireland and other parts of the Queen's dominions where others
hold such a post). Self or deputy. Usual fees. Power to
administer an oath to a court-martial or any witness at a
* Not entered as addressed to the Attorney General.
t Mentions 47 other names of great noblemen, judges, &c. A note adds
that there was interlined at the end of the list of names " and to all other our
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1702.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 350-cont.
court-martial trial, or commission for inquiring into martial
affairs.  Revocation of last grant to him.  Pp. 280, 281.
Re-entered, pp. 288, 289.
21 Dec.    The Dowager Lady Frechville represents that the subpoena
St. James'. office in Chancery has usually been granted for lives, and that the
last grant was made by Charles II to Sir William Twisden, Lionel
Vane and Thomas Lydall for their lives, and that of the longest
liver of them; that of these only Vane is now alive, and Lady
Frechville asks for the right to nominate grantees of the office,
the grant to take effect on death, surrender &c. of Vane. Your
opinion being favourable, we grant her request. Prepare a
bill &c. granting the office, at the nomination of Lady Frechville,
to Henry, Viscount Hyde, Robert Lowther, Esq., and Isaac Jones,
clerk, for their lives and that of the longest liver of them. To
exercise by selves or deputies. Usual fees. Insert favourable
clauses &c. Pp. 305-7.
From   S.P. Dom., Entry   Book   352:   Countersigned  by
Nottingham.
2 May.    Appointing Sir Charles Hedges Secretary of State. Fee of
St. James'. 5001. a year. P. 3.
Same.     Appointing Sir John Leveson Gower Chancellor of the Duchy
of Lancaster. All usual privileges. Revocation of King William
III's grant to the Earl of Stamford. This warrant is addressed
to Edward Northey, Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster,
and Cheek Gerard, Esq., clerk of the Duchy,and is for a grant to pass
the Seals of the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster. Pp. 4, 5.
Also in S.P. Dom., Various, Vol. 7, pp. 99-101.
5 May.    Privy Seal granting the petition of the Duke of Grafton and
St. James'. his trustees (above, p. 414). Pp. 1, 2.
6 May.    Appointing Lord Godolphin Treasurer of the Exchequer during
St. James'. pleasure. Clause revoking the Commission for the Treasury
now in being. P. 3.
14 May.    Appointing William Blathwayt Clerk of the Privy Council,
St. James'. during pleasure. 2501. a year and usual perquisites. Revocation
of his previous grant.
Notes of warrants of same date for Edward Southwell and for
John Povey to be clerks of the Privy Council. Pp. 6, 7.
18 May.    Appointing Prince George of Denmark Lord High Admiral
St. James'. of England, Ireland and all other the Queen's dominions &c.
All usual dignities &c. Insert a clause authorising him to
appoint not more than five persons as a Council to help him
in the discharge of his office. Revocation of Earl of Pembroke
&c.'s grant. P. 9.




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 352-cont.
20 May.    Appointing Prince George of Denmark Generalissimo of the
St. James'. forces in England, Ireland and elsewhere. P. 11.
21 May., Appointing Montague Earl of Abingdon Constable of the
St. James'. Tower of London, during pleasure. 1,0001. a year. Power to
appoint a lieutenant to be reserved. Usual fees. Revocation
of grant to Lord Lucas, of 14 March, 1688. P. 10.
30 May.    1. Commissioning the Lord Keeper or Chancellor,* the President
St. James'. of the Council,* Keeper of the Privy Seal,* Lord Treasurer or
First Commissioner of the Treasury,* Lord High Admiral* or first
Commissioner of the Admiralty,* Secretaries of State,* the
Chancellor of the Exchequer* and Bishop of London,* Viscount
Weymouth, Lord Dartmouth, Sir Philip Meadows, William
Blathwayt, John Pollexfen, George Stepney, Mathew Prior
and Robert Cecil for executing the office of Commissioners for
Trade and Plantations. Three or more to form a quorum. Usual
powers. Revocation of the commission now in being. Pp. 12, 13.
2. Granting the petition of Robert Lydall [above, p. 420].
Sole use of the process for fourteen years. Pp. 14, 15.
3. Appointing Prince George of Denmark Constable of Dover
Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports. Power to him to nominate
officers within the Castle. Revocation of appointment of
Viscount Sydney. P. 16.
- May.     Appointing John Cocks, Keeper of the Council Chamber,
St. James'. during pleasure. Fee of 2s. 6d. a day and perquisites. Revocation of his previous grant. P. 8.
9 June.   Revoking the patents of 1697 to Lord Wharton as Warden
and Chief Justice in Eyre of all the Royal chases, parks and
warrens on this side Trent. Pp. 17, 18.
17 June.   Privy Seal as prayed in the petition of Charles Eversfield and
St. James'. others. [See above, pp. 423, 424.] P. 22.
30 June.   Appointing Charles, Earl of Berkeley, Constable of St. Briavel's
Castle and Keeper of the deer and woods in the Forest of Dean,
during pleasure. Right to exercise these offices by deputy.
Usual fees, and right to appoint six foresters with salaries [details].
Revocation of grant made to the Earl as Viscount Dursley.
P. 25.
7 July.    Appointing William, Duke of Devonshire, Warden, Chief Justice
St. James'. and Justice in Eyre of all the Royal chases, parks and warrens
north of the Trent. Right to exercise by deputy. Fee of 1001.
a year and all usual rights &c. Revocation of last grant to him.
P. 26.
20 July.   Appointing Charles, Duke of Somerset, Master of the Horse,
Windsor. during pleasure. 1001. a year and all other fees &c. formerly
* All these are ex-offcio, and the commission to each of them " for the time
being" in their offices.




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1702.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 352 —cont.
granted. To hold as amply as his predecessors [details] held it.
P. 32.
Also warrant to the Duke of Devonshire [Lord Steward] to
swear in the Duke of Somerset as Master of the Horse. P. 33.
17 Aug.    Appointing Sir Charles Carteret, Bart., Bailiff of the island of
Windsor. Jersey in the room of Edward Carteret. To exercise by self or
deputy. Usual fees. Obligation to reside there. P. 39.
25 Aug.    Appointing the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Keeper
Windsor. and others* Commissioners to treat for an union between England
and Scotland. Pp. 47-54.
Appointing Paul Jodrell, Clerk of the House of Commons,
in reversion after the death &c. of his father, Paul Jodrell, for
life. 101. a year and usual fees. P. 88.
3 Dec.     Granting the dignities and titles of Marquis of Blandford and Duke
St. James'. of Marlborough to John, Earl of Marlborough, and his heirs
males. Fee of 401. a year and all usual rights, privileges &c.
Note that the warrant was renewed leaving out the fee. P. 94
10 Dec.    Appointing James, Earl of Derby, Chamberlain of the County
St. James'. Palatine of Chester during life. Right to exercise by deputy.
Usual fees, and right to appoint to all the subordinate offices
[details] belonging to his office on any vacancy. P. 95.
PART II.
WARRANTS IN CRIMINAL CASES.
These are warrants or notes of warrants to the Justices
on Circuits or to Recorders, or Sheriffs, directing them to delay
execution of sentences on convicted criminals. In some cases
the warrant states that a pardon has been granted and will soon
be sent in form; in others the pardon is actually contained in the
warrant, and there is a direction to insert the name of the person
pardoned in the next General Pardon issued for the circuit or
sessions; in others there is merely a direction to the Sheriff to
delay execution until the Judge or Recorder who presided at the
trial reports "how the fact appeared to him."
From S.P. Dom., Entry Book 348: Countersigned, usually, by
Secretary Vernon.
10 Ap.    Justices of the Home Circuit and Sheriff of Surrey. Pardon
St. James'. for John Sanders, lately sentenced to death at Southwark Assizes.
On condition of transportation. P. 360.
11 Ap.     Same. Similar pardon for Philip Devon, lately sentenced [as
St. James'. 'foregoing]. P. 361.
* See Acts of the Parliament of Scotland (1824), Vol. XI, Appendix, p. 146,
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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
From S.P. Dom., Entry Book 350: Countersigned by Manchester.
27 Mar.    Justices of the Western Circuit, the High Sheriff of Dorset.
St. James'. At the Assizes held at Dorchester on Nov. 13, Mary Cooke was
convicted and sentenced to death for killing her bastard child.
She is now with child, and we therefore direct you to forbear
putting the sentence in execution upon her till the next summer
Assizes.*  P. 201.
28 Mar.    Justices of Assize for Midland Circuit, the High Sheriff of
St. James'. Leicester. Reprieving John Ovid, who was sentenced to death
for highway robbery at Leicester Assizes. The Justices to report
how the fact appeared at his trial. Further pleasure. P. 202.
Same.     Note. The like to John Rawson. P. 202.
19 Ap.    High Sheriff of Leicester &c. Revokes the reprieve given on
St. James'. 28 March last to John Ovid and John Rawson, who were sentenced
for highway robbery. Directs that the sentence be executed
according to law. P. 208.
27 Ap.    Justices of the Home Circuit, the High Sheriff of Surrey &c.
St. James'. At that last Surrey Assizes Thomas Watercom[?] was convicted
and sentenced to death for robbery. Insert him in the next
general pardon which shall come out for the Home circuit and
in the meantime take bail for his appearance, in order to plead
the pardon. P. 211.
Also note of a similar warrant for pardon of Mary Cooke* [as
to whom see above at 27 March, 1702]. P. 211.
16 Ap.    Attorney or Solicitor General. Great Seal pardoning Robert
St. James'. Culliford or Collover, who at the Old Bailey Admiralty Sessions
in May, 1701, was convicted on his confession of piracy, and
sentenced to death. The pardon to cover anything done up
to this date. P. 205.
Countersigned by Hedges:7 May.     Note of bill or warrant of the Lord Secretary Manchester.
St. James'. For a pardon to Robert Culliford or Collover for all piracies.
[See foregoing.] P. 213.
11 May.    Justices of the Home Circuit, the Sheriff of Surrey, &c. To
St. James'. insert in the next general pardon which shall come out for the
Home Circuit, the name of George Coffin or Corfield, convicted
and sentenced to death at the last Surrey Assizes for robbery.
P. 220.
14 May.    Justices of the Western Circuit, Sheriff of the City and County
St. James'. of Exeter. Directing that, in the first or next general pardon
that shall come out for the Western Circuit, the names of Edmund
Diston alias Cox, and Peter Dyer, convicted about two years
ago at Exeter City Assizes respectively of robbery and burglary,
be inserted, on condition of their transportation. P.' 228.
* Note the custom of reprieving, and subsequently pardoning, women who
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1702.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 350-cont.
6 July.   Recorder of London, the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, &c.
St. James'. Anne Merrywether was condemned in January, 1692[3]. for dispersing the Declaration of King James and, on Chief Justice
Holt's report, was reprieved by the late King William III, during
pleasure. Insert her in the next general pardon which shall
come out for the poor convicts of Newgate without condition of
transportation. In the meantime take bail for her appearance
to plead our pardon. P. 243.
16 July.   Justices of Assize for the Oxford Circuit. To forbear sentencing
Windsor. Thomas Symonds, gentleman, if at the next Worcester Assizes,
where he is to be tried, he be found guilty of manslaughter only.
Further pleasure. P. 248.
24 July.   Dr. Brampston, the Recorder of London and the Sheriffs of
Windsor. London and Middlesex. To insert Arnold Viele, Richard Roper,
Michael Hicks, John Barrett, Robert English, Thomas Bagly,
John Ireland, Thomas Hitchman and Thomas Boys in the next
Newgate pardon. They were convicted of piracy and robbery
at the Old Bailey, but a case has been made out for our mercy.
Pp. 245, 246.
2 Oct.    Justices of Assize for the Oxford Circuit and all others whom
St. James'. it may concern, Orders them to insert in the next general
pardon that shall come out for the Oxford Circuit the name of
Arthur Wickham, who lies in Monmouth jail under sentence
for horse stealing. P. 300.
22 Oct.    Attorney or Solicitor General. Great Seal pardoning Francis
St. James'. Foxworthy [see Hedges to Tonkin at 24 Oct., 1702, above, p. 277].
Proviso for his going to the West Indies. Pp. 273, 274.
21 Dec.    Justices of Assize of the Western Circuit, Sheriff of Wilts, &c.
St. James'. To insert in the next general pardon for the Western Circuit
the name of Thomas Dunbar, sentenced to death at the last
summer Assizes at New Sarum for highway robbery; on condition
of transportation. P. 304.
From S.P. Dom., Entry Book 352: Countersigned by Nottingham.
7 July.   Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, Recorder of London &c.
St. James'. To insert in the next general pardon for Newgate prisoners
Benjamin Butling, convicted of desertion from Vice-Admiral
Benbow's squadron. P. 27.
16 July.   Attorney or Solicitor General. Great Seal for pardoning
Windsor. Samuel Burges, lately convicted for piracy. P. 30.
17 Aug.    Sheriff of Cornwall. Reprieving Francis Foxworthy (see above,
p. 277) till 11 November next. P. 43.




492


STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 352-cont.
21 Aug.    Dr. Brampston, the Recorder of London, and others.      To
St. James'. admit Samuel Burges (lately convicted of piracy) to bail, that
he may plead the Queen's pardon. P. 46.
8 Sept.    Sheriff of Somerset. Respiting execution of John Carver,
Bath.  lately sentenced at Wells for uttering counterfeit stamped paper.
Further pleasure.  Countersigned by Hedges in Nottingham's
absence. P. 55.
29 Dec.    Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, Recorder of London, &c.
St. James'. To insert James Wilson's name in the next general pardon for
the poor prisoners of Newgate. He is twelve years of age and
was lately sentenced at the Old Bailey for felony. P. 99.
PART III.
DIPLOMATIC.
These are chiefly warrants or notes of warrants to prepare
bills for the Royal Signature to pass under the Privy Seal authorising payment of the extraordinary expenses of our representatives
abroad. A few other warrants of a diplomatic character and
returns of these expenses are placed with them.
From S.P. Dom., Entry Book 348.
25 Ap.    Three bills for the Earl of Marlborough's extraordinaries (in
all for 27 June, 1701, to March, 1702). All allowed on this date
by [Vernon].* Details. Pp. 362-4.
From S.P. Dom., Entry Book 350; Countersigned by Hedges.
25 May.    Certificate of Death. Showing that according to accounts
Whitehall. received from Copenhagen, Hugh Greg, Esq., his late Majesty's
resident at the Court of Denmark, died at Copenhagen on
29 December last, old style. P. 227.
8 June.    Clerk of the Signet attending. For a warrant to the Lord High
St. James'. Treasurer and Exchequer to pay to John Wich, Esq., lately
appointed Resident with the Hanse towns or his assigns, 31. a day
for his ordinary expenditure, as from the date of his leaving the
presence to continue till he return into the same. He is to be paid
quarterly, and one quarter in advance. He is to have such further
sums for intelligence, expresses, and other private and extraordinary
services as appear due to him by bills subscribed under his hand
and allowed of by one of the Secretaries of State, the same to
be received without any charge to him. Pp. 226, 227.
* These bills are not actually entered as signed by Vernon but a memorandum
states that he allowed them at this date, the last (for mourning) being allowed by
the Queen's special command.




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1702.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 350-cont.
24 June.   Clerk of the Signet attending. King William III employed
St. James'. George Stepney, Esq., as Envoy Extraordinary to the "Emperor
of Germany "; and we are pleased to continue him there. Privy
Seal containing a warrant to the Exchequer [details], out of moneys
in their hands and not appropriated by Parliament, to pay him
or his assigns all arrears of his ordinary 51. a day and to continue
his pay till he return, and also pay all extraordinaries notified
and allowed in the usual way. Favourable clauses.  Pp. 249,
250.
Same.     Same. King William III appointed Philip Plantamour, Esq.,
"to remain at Berlin for his service."*  Privy Seal [&c., as
foregoing] to pay him or his assigns all arrears due to date of his
allowance of 20s. a day, to continue his pay till he return and
also pay all extraordinaries notified and allowed in the usual way.
Pp. 251, 252.
Same.     Same.  Same for Charles Whitworth, who was in his late
Majesty's service at Ratisbon. His ordinary allowance was 40s.
a day. In form similar to foregoing two warrants. Pp. 258,
259.
Notes of similar warrants for James Cresset, Envoy to the Elector
and Dukes of Brunswick and Luneburg, and to James Vernon,
Envoy to Denmark. Ordinary expenses 51. a day in each case.
Pp. 250, 251.
Also similar warrant for Dr. John Robinson, D.D., the English
Resident in Sweden, for 41. a day and extraordinaries. Pp. 274,
275.
Also two warrants for paying to Alexander Stanhope, Esq.,
continued Envoy Extraordinary to the United Provinces:
(1) Arrears due and sums growing due, of his salary of 51.
a day as such Envoy, till his return, and extraordinaries [&c., as
foregoing].
(2) Arrears and sums growing due of his salary of 31. a day as
"plenipotentiary in the negociations entered into in concert
with the States General and other potentates for the safety of
these Kingdoms and the States General and the preservation
of the peace of Europe," to which post he was appointed by the
late King and is now re-appointed. To continue till end of the
negociations, or sooner, if the Queen pleases. Pp. "239-242.
25 June.   Note on Mr. Warre's Bill. Richard Warre, Esq., Secretary of
Whitehall. the Embassy to [of] the Earl of Marlborough, Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentary in Holland, craves allowance
of the following extraordinary expenses:1.  s.  d.
Lodging and other extraordinary expenses
for seven months whilst his Excellency
was absent in England...... 100 0 0
* The entry does not say that he was Envoy there.




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 350-cont.            1. s. d.
Mourning on death of King James II and
King William III........  40 0 0
Expenses of return to England....  20 0 0
160 0 0
Allowed by Hedges on this date. P. 236.
9 Aug.    Certificate by Hedges. Richard Warre, Esq., late Secretary
Windsor. of Embassy in Holland, returned into her Majesty's presence on
16 June last past. P. 246.
28 Oct.    Mr. George Stepney's Bill for Extraordinaries, 'as Envoy
Whitehall. Extraordinary to the Emperor for three months to 28 August,
1702:1.  s.d.
Postage....   90 16 0
Gazettes, printed papers and intelligence..  33 0 0
Stationery.......... 25 3 0
148 19 0
Allowed on 28 Oct., 1702, by Hedges. P. 292.
Also Mr. Stepney's bills for same as same for 28 Nov., 1701 -28 Feb., 170k, and 28 Feb., 1702-28 May, 1702. Both allowed
by Secretary Hedges on 28 Oct., 1702. Expenses of mourning and
of journeys to Luxembourg while the Court was there are allowed
by the Queen's special command. Pp. 290, 291.
2 Nov.    Clerk of the Signet attending. We are pleased to renew the
St. James'. late King's commission to the Earl of Marlborough as Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for the negociations between
the Emperor, the States General and other Princes and States
at the Hague or elsewhere for mutual safety &c. and for
preserving the peace of Europe. Prepare a bill &c. warranting
the Lord High Treasurer and officers of the Exchequer to pay the
Earl's salary (1001. a week) from the date when he was last paid
to the determination of the negociations, or any earlier date
to be named by us, &c. [details], and to pay him such sums for
e:traordinaries as have been or shall be allowed by one of our
Secretaries of State. Pp. 296, 297.
20 Nov.    Dr. Robinson's Bill for Extraordinaries. This bill is for
Whitehall. charges incurred in his place as Resident at the Court of Sweden
between 2 October, 1701, and 2 April, 1702.
Copper Dollars at 24 to 11.
1.  s.  d.
Postage of letters at Stockholm..  870..    36 5 0,,,,,,  Hamburg..   840..    35 0 0,,,,,,   Helsingor.   420..    17 10 0
Extraordinary entertainments.. 1,404..    68 10 0




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1702.


S.P. Dom., Entry Book 350-cont.
Copper Dollars at 24 to 11.
New Year's gifts......   480
Extra charges for chaplain....   480
Paper &c.......   192
Mourning by the Queen's orders for
the late King....   3,600


1. s.
20 0
20 0
80


d.
0
0
0


150 0 0
345 5 0


Allowed by Hedges at this date. P. 282.


24 Nov.    James Vernon's bill for extraordinaries as Envoy Extraordinary
Whitehall. to Denmark, incurred between 14 February and 14 August, 1702.
1. s. d.
Charges for passing his Privy Seal....  23 11  6
Journey for self and servants through Hanover
and Zell to Copenhagen....... 105  0  0
Given to the officers and servants at Courts through
which he was ordered to pass......  10  0  0
Transport of equipage and servants by sea to
Copenhagen........   40  0  0
Given to the King's servants after his public
audience............14 0     0
Pens, ink, paper and intelligence......  20  0  0
Several journeys to Fredericksburg....  21 10  0
Voyage to Holstein with King of Denmark..   58 13. 0
Mourning for late King........ 150  0  0


460 14 6
Allowed by Hedges at this date. First item referred to Lord
High Treasurer. P. 287.


Same.     Mr. James Cresset's bill for extraordinaries as Envoy
Extraordinary to the Elector and Dukes of Brunswick and
" Lunenbourgh " [Luneburg] for three months to 12 March, 1702.
1. s. d.


Postage of letters at Hamburg, Bremen and
Amsterdam, with pensions to the postmasters
in those places.....
Same "in these Courts of Zell and Hanover"
and for Gazettes and printed papers
Conveying letters by Frankfort and other places
of Germany....
Stationery ware....
A quarter's house rent at Hanover (having another
at Zell)..
Journey to England and back again by the late
King's orders.......


32 4 6
26 8 0


11
5


7
0


6
0


25 0 0


130 0 0




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 350-cont.
1. 8. d.
Present and New Year's gifts (according to custom
at the Court of Hanover)......  44 16 0
Journey to Holstein to the Duke of Ploen by the
King's order, including stay at Hamburg.. 62 12 0
337  8 0
Allowed by Hedges at this date. P. 293.
24 Nov.    Mr. James Cresset's bill for extraordinaries. For his extraWhitehall. ordinary expenses from 12 March, 170k, to 12 June, 1702.
Similar to foregoing. Mentions:-" My whole expenses during
the affair of Wolfenbuttell, both in my own journeys and
expresses, 1261.
"For putting my house and family into deep mourning, vizt.,
myself, wife and three children, a gouvernante, page, chambermaid, two secretaries, valet de chambre, cook, five footmen,
coachman, groom, postilion, with my whole equipage and two
large rooms covered with black cloth-2161." Total 4421. Os. Od.
Allowed as foregoing. P. 294.
24 Nov.    Cleri of the Signet attending. Privy Seal for 21. a day as
St. James'. ordinary entertainment to Henry Davenant, Esq., appointed " to
reside as our Secretary at Frankfort " and such sums for extraordinaries as are allowed from time to time by one of the Secretaries of State. Pp. 298, 299.
30 Nov.    Hugh Greg's bill for extraordinaries. For charges incurred
Whitehall. in his post as Resident from King William III to Denmark from
1 December, 1700, to 1 December, 1701. His sister and executrix,
Margaret Greg, prays payment thereof.
Rx. at 4 to the ~.    1. s. d.
Postage at Hamburg....    234..    52 0 0,,    Copenhagen...    285..   41 2   3
Stationery........   108..   23 19 8
Extraordinary entertainments     474..   105  6 8
Several journeys following the
Danish Court......   293..    65  2 2
Mourning for the late King James 255..   50  0 0
Procuring papers......   270..   60 0 0
397 10  9
Allowed by Hedges. P. 283.
15 Dec.    Dr. Robinson's bill for extraordinaries. As Resident in
Whitehall. Sweden from 2 April to 2 October, 1702. Cost of postage, extra
entertainment, a chaplain and paper. Total, 1651, 7s. 6d,
Allowed by Hedges. P. 302.




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497


1702.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 350-cont.
17 Dec.    Clerk of the Signet attending. Privy Seal for paying to John
St. James'. Robinson, D.D., appointed Envoy Extraordinary to the King of
Sweden, 5001. for his equipage, 51. a day ordinary salary (as from
11 December last) and such sums for extraordinaries as may be
allowed by a Secretary of State. Pp. 307-9.
From  S.P. Dom., Entry Book 352; Countersigned by Nottingham.
16 July.   Clerk of the Signet attending. Privy Seal authorising payment
of arrears to Paul Methuen, Esquire, who is to continue Envoy
in Portugal, and his accruing salary in the future, and sums
allowed for extraordinaries &c. Pp. 30, 31.
26 July.   Clerk of the Signet attending.
Windsor.   1. Privy Seal authorising payment of 5001. for his equipage, to
William Aglionby, Esq., &c., lately appointed Envoy to the
Swiss Cantons, and 51. a day as salary; also his allowed expenses
for extraordinaries. Pp. 35-6.
2. Similar warrant to pay to Philibert d'Hervart, [now] Envoy
to the Swiss Cantons, his arrears of 51. a day and accruing salary,
till he returns, or sooner, as directed; also extraordinaries. Pp. 36-8.
1 Aug.    Note of warrant for a Privy Seal for paying to Sir Lambert
Windsor. Blackwell, Kt., Envoy Extraordinary to Tuscany and Genoa,
his allowance of 1,0001. a year arrears and extraordinaries. P. 45*.
17 Aug.    Clerk of the Signet attending.
1. Warrant for a Privy Seal for paying all arrears due to
Robert Cole, Agent and Consul-General at Algiers, of his salary
of 6001., his accruing salary hereafter, and his allowed expenses
for extraordinaries. Pp. 43, 44.
2. Note of similar warrant in favour of Benjamin Lodington,
Agent and Consul-General at Tripoli. P. 45*.
After     Robert Cole's bill for extraordinaries as Consul in Algiers for
20 Aug. 10 August, 1701-10 August, 1702.
He has expended 2751. 8s. Od. in gifts to State officials, presents
at Bairam and Corban, a wedding present to the principal Secretary
&c. [details as in other bills q.v. above].
Signed (copy) by Cole at Algiers, 20 August, 1702, and allowed
by Nottingham. P. 83.
22 Aug.    Certificate by Nottingham, that William   Aglionby, Esq.,
Whitehall. Envoy Extraordinary to the Swiss Cantons, kissed hands and
left for his employment on 21 August, 1702. P. 47.
PART IV.
MILITARY WARRANTS.
These are a few warrants from the Commission Entry Books
(S.P. Dom., Entry Books 170 and 171) which could not be
* Not overwritten or countersigned.


Wt. 3880.


A 32




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


t


1702.
placed amongst the commissions (Table III, q.v.), but relate to
military affairs. It will be seen that in most cases they are
addressed to the Master-General of the Ordnance, but, in one
or two cases to a Secretary of State or the Attorney or Solicitor
General. One or two commissions of a military character which
are entered in these military books, but which cannot properly
be placed in the lists of ordinary commissions in the army, are
also placed here. The name of the addressee of the warrant
is given at the commencement of each entry.
From S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170.
11 May.    Commission to Bernard Ellis, Esq., to be Lieutenant Governor
St. James'. of Guernsey and of all forts and places therein in the absence of
the Governor, Viscount Hatton. Pp. 1, 2.
12 May.    Earl of Romney as Master General of the Ordnance. To issue
St. James'. guns and ammunition [details] to the Eagle, Dolphin, Jacob and
Despatch, lately engaged to carry the mails to Holland. P. 3.
8 June.    Warrant appointing Charles Nicholas Eyre, Esq., Constable
St. James'. of the Castle of Harleigh [Harlech] with the castle yard and castle
green there. Fee of 501. to be paid him by the Receiver of North
Wales, to be paid from Lady Day last; also the profits of the
market in Harlech town and of the fair there held on St. Andrew's
day and the two succeeding days, "for the tolls, piccage and
stallage of the said market and fair, and all fines and amerciaments
of the Court of Pye Powders'" there. To execute by himself
or deputy. As full rights as any predecessor. Clause for revoking
the last grant to him. Unaddressed. Pp. 18, 19.
9 June.    Same. Appointing George, Duke of Northumberland, Constable
St. James'. of Windsor Castle and Keeper of the Royal parks, forests and
warrens there, and also Lieutenant of Windsor Castle and forest.
To execute by himself or a deputy. All rights &c. which any
other Constable has had. Clause revoking the last grant of
the office to him. Unaddressed. Pp. 16-17.
June.     Same. Appointing George, Duke of Northumberland, Governor
St. James' and Captain of Windsor Castle and of the forts and fortifications
belonging thereto. Fee of 10s. a day and all usual fees. To
discharge the office by himself or a deputy. Clause revoking
the last grant to him. Pp. 17-18.
30 June.   Earl of Marlborough as Master-General of the Ordnance.
St. James'. King Charles II and King James II made an establishment
for the Ordnance in a book entitled "Instructions for the
Government of the office of our Ordnance " [&c.]. This establishment was confirmed by the late King. All orders, warrants,
instructions &c. contained therein shall continue to be obeyed
by all persons in our said office until our further pleasure be
known. Pp. 106, 107.
same entered again. Pp. 110, 111,




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1702.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170-cont.
1 July.    Earl of Marlborough as Master-General of the Ordnance.
St. James'. 1. To continue to Christopher Musgrave, Esq., who has been
re-appointed to the office of Clerk of the Ordnance, the annual
fee of 1001. a year (above his established salary), which was paid
to his predecessors and formerly to himself, in consideration of
his keeping a cheque ledger upon the storekeeper. Pp. 49-50.
2. We have appointed John Granville, Esq., Lieutenant-General
of the Ordnance; and, by reason of a grant made by King
Charles II, a mansion house and appurtenances in the Little
Minories, formerly held with that office, was alienated from it. In
lieu thereof pay him 3001. a year as was paid to his immediate
predecessors, from St. John's Day last, to continue during pleasure
or till the mansion house be recovered or some other place be
found fit for our service. Pp. 51-2.
From S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171: Countersigned (usually) by
Hedges.
14 March.   Master-General of Ordnance. A train of artillery should forthSt. James'. with be prepared and sent over to Holland. Cause the brass
ordnance, mortars, ammunition and stores mentioned in an
annexed schedule to be forthwith prepared. The officers, gunners
&c. shall be established in pay as in another annexed list, and
shall be paid out of the Treasury of the Ordnance. From time
to time you may add to or take from the ordnance ammunition
and other stores, and the attendants belonging to the train.
Pp. 26, 27. Followed by:Schedule I. A list of the officers, ministers and attendants
appointed to attend the train of artillery to go to Holland.
Schedule II. A proportion of ordnance, mortars, powder,
shot and other stores and habiliments of war to be forthwith
issued out of the stores in the Office of Ordnance for the service
of the forces in Holland.
Schedule III. Ammunition for the ordnance and army.*
Pp. 28-32.
2 July.    Attorney or Solicitor General. Great Seal appointing the
St. James'. Lord Mayor, Sir Robert Clayton, Sir William Pritchard and
others [141 more names given] to be Commissioners of Lieutenancy
for the City of London. The Lord Mayor and eight others of
them, of whom certain [named] persons must be one, to form
a quorum. Pp. 8-11.
7 July.    Secretary Nottingham. To countersign a commission granted
Windsor. 'to Charles Ross as Brigadier of all the forces, though the commission is dated 9 March, 1701, before the Earl of Nottingham
was Secretary of State. P. 89.
Also notes of similar warrants of same date to same, giving
him the like authority in the case of the commissions to Thomas
* These schedules contain very full lists of the equipment of an artillery train
at this time; but they are too long to justify their being set out in full.




500


STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171-cont.
Erie as Major-General and Zachary Tiffin and Francis Langston
as Brigadiers. All these commissions bear date 9 March, 1702.
P. 89.
6 Aug.    Commission to Francis Paynter. For the encouragement of
Windsor. the officers and men in our service and merchant service in the
war against France and Spain we directed on 1 June last that
certain shares of the prizes taken should be divided amongst
them in proportions prescribed by our declaration. For the
more easy distribution of such shares we have thought fit to
appoint an officer to receive and pay out all prize money. We
hereby appoint Francis Paynter to receive all money due as prize
money under our declaration of June 1, and to pay it out as
therein prescribed. He may deduct 4d. out of every 20s. so paid
out for his own salary. He shall obey instructions received
from the Crown, the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners of the
Admiralty. Pp. 58, 59.
13 Dec.    Lieutenant-Colonel Peyton. Refers to the Mutiny Act passed
St. James'. in the late Parliament. Proceeds:-We authorise LieutenantColonel Peyton, of Lieut.-General Churchill's regiment to assemble
and hold a Court-Martial at such times as he appoints for trying
cases of mutiny, desertion and false musters. The Court is to be
constituted as the Act provides and is authorised to hear all such
cases, either of officers or soldiers, and to try and sentence and
punish the offenders according to the Act. A note adds:-No
sentence of death to be executed without report to the Queen and
her approval. Pp. 101, 102.
30 Dec.    Duke   of Marlborough, as Master-General of Ordnance.
St. James'. 1. Owing to the great increase in our army the stores are greatly
increased, necessitating the employment of a larger staff of
clerks, labourers &c., at the Tower, Woolwich, Portsmouth,
Chatham, Plymouth, Hull and elsewhere, so that just and full
accounts may be kept and rendered to us of [the issue of] our
stores. To these proper salaries should be paid, and extraordinarv
payments should, in some cases, be made. Details. We authorise
you to cause such wages and gratuities and extraordinary payments
to be paid to such persons. Details. Pp. 102-4.
2. You may cause all the forts, garrisons and land forces in
England to be supplied from time to time with such provisions
of powder, match, shot and all other necessaries of war as may
be necessary. You shall also move our stores of powder &c.
from one place to another in England as you think right, providing
for indentures to be given by those who receive such stores.
Pp. 104, 105.
3. We have ordered two brass mortars and a sufficient quantity
of stores to be transported to the West Indies for our service
there, under the command of Brigadier Colenbine. Cause these
mortars and the stores in the annexed list to be provided, and
two engineers fat lOs, each and three bombardiers at 2s, each a




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1702.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171-cont.
day to be appointed to attend the expedition, to commence
on January 1st next. Add to and diminish the ordinance, mortars,
stores and attendants there as you think necessary for our service.
Pp. 134-5.
Also the list referred to herein. Pp. 135, 136.
PART V.
MISCELLANEOUS WARRANTS.
In this Table are placed a number of warrants, notes of same,
letters of approval or appointment, and other notes from the
Entry Books 162, 170, 348, 350, 351 and 352, which do not fall within
the other sub-divisions of this Table. In each case the number of
the Entry Book is given in italics, and the page in ordinary type.
Thus 348, p. 351, means " S.P. Dom., Entry Book 348, p. 351."
9 March.   Secretary Vernon. To use the late King's Privy Signet with
St. James'. his arms on it for sealing anything that it may be customary
to seal till a new seal is made. 350, p. 200.
Same.     Lord  Secretary  Manchester.  Similar to  foregoing.  348,
p. 351.
11 March.   Similar warrant to the Commissioners of the Privy Seal. Ibid,
St. James'. p. 352.
10 March.   Isaac Newton, Esq., Master and Worker of the Mint. Pending
St. James'. the making of the new puncheons and dyes with the Queen's
arms and effigies, to coin gold and silver with those previously
used. Necessity for prompt coining &c. 350, p. 199.
11 March.   Same. To order Henry Harris, " our chief engraver," to preSt. James'. pare all the master puncheons, letters and charges for our gold
coins of 51., 21., 11. and 10s.; and all the same for our silver
coins 5s., 2s. 6d., ls. and 6d. according to the drafts submitted
and approved by us. All possible speed. He shall make dyes
with them for coining, as directed by you. Ibid, p. 216.
7 Ap.     Commission to Sir Stephen Fox, Sir B. Bathurst and Hugh
St. James'. Chudleigh, to take care of the Royal stables. Power to determine
complaints relating thereto, referring important cases to the
Queen. Reserves to the Crown the fees and patronage of the
Master of the Horse. 348, pp. 357, 358.
28 Mar.    Lord High Admiral. Hitherto 4001. a year has been allowed
St. James'. to Sir Charles Hedges, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, for
reports and attendances concerning foreign and maritime affairs.
By the last warrant, dated 16 July, 1698, the same was placed
under the head of pensions in the ordinary estimate of our Navy.
This allowance shall be continued under the same head. Give
direction accordingly and see the arrears paid. 350, p. 203.




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
12 Ap.    Earl of Carlisle (Earl Marshal). To create Thomas Coote, Esq.,
St. James'. Rouge Rose Pursuivant at arms Extraordinary. All usual
privileges. 350, p. 204.
22 Ap.    Sir John Leveson Gower, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
St. James'. King William granted to John Cooke the place of auditor of.
our revenue of the North parts of the Duchy of Lancaster for
life, in reversion on Henry Ayloffe, the present holder. Being
thereto requested, we desire you, on the voluntary surrender
of this grant, to prepare a bill for our signature to pass the seals
of the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster, granting that
office to William Bellamy for life, in reversion on Henry Ayloffe.
Usual fees, &c., in as ample manner as John Fanshaw &c. held
the office. Beneficial clauses. Ibid, pp. 209-10.
24 Ap.    Clerk of the Signet attending. Warrant for 41. a day to the
Marquis of Normanby as Keeper of the Privy Seal, in lieu of
the ancient diet. 348, pp. 366-7.
4 May.     Earl Marshal. To give immediate orders to the Heralds,
St. James'. Pursuivants and other necessary officers to attend the Proclamation of the declaration of war against Spain and France
that is to be made this morning with all the usual,solemnities.
350, p. 212.
7 May.     Note of bill on the warrant of the Lord High Admiral. For
a commission for victualling the Navy, constituting Sir John
Houblon, Thomas Coleby, Henry Vincent, William Wright and
William Carpenter, jun., Commissioners. The first to have 6001. a
year, the remainder 4001. Ibid, p. 213.*
11 May.    Note of bill on   warrant from    the same.    Constituting
Lawrence Wright, a commissioner " in quality of a principal
officer of her Majesty's Navy," and particularly for the affairs
of the Navy at Kinsale. To have a salary of 5001. a year.
Ibid, p. 217.*
11 May.    Clerk of the Signet attending.  Privy Seal licensing Dudley
St. James'. Bagnall to return into England. He went there without licence
since 11 December, 1688.  52, p. 4.
14 May.    Lord High Admiral [Earl of Pembroke &c.]. Grants a pension
St. James'. of 7001. a year to Admiral Henry Killegrew for good service,
which is to be placed on the ordinary establishment of the Navy.
Ibid, p. 6.
19 May.    Daniel, Earl of Nottingham. The Earl of Nottingham     was
St. James'. not yet appointed Secretary of State on 9 March last, when we
granted certain commissions in our Army, in particular:Lieutenant-General Charles Churchill; Major-Generals Sir Charles
Hara, William Selwyn, Earl of Orkney, Richard Ingoldsby;
Brigadiers * the Earl of Essex, Colonels Hatton Compton,William
Mathews,William Seymour,Gustavus Hamilton and Cornelius Wood.
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1702.
We nevertheless authorise the Earl of Nottingham to countersign these commissions. 350, p. 222.
21 May.    Henry Harris, chief Engraver of Seals. To make forthwith
St. James'. four seals in steel for the Queen's signets and four other small
seals. Details as to arms &c. 352, p. 11.
23 May.    Hedges. Similar to last but one, in respect of Earl Rivers'
St. James'. commission as Lieutenant General. 170, p. 11.
25 May.    Bill on warrant from the Treasury. For a grant to Sir Nathan
Wright, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, of 4,0001. a year payable
out of the revenue of the Post Office, during his custody of the
Great Seal. 350, p. 223*.
25 May.    The Chief Justice in Eyre, the Lieutenant and Chief Ranger of
St. James'. Woodstock Park and all the other officers of the said Park. Our
pleasure is that William Whitton, one of our keepers within
our park of Woodstock, hold the office during pleasure, with the
lodge thereunto belonging and its appurtenances, with the rights
of taking hay, fuel, and pasturing cows and horses which belong
to the office or were taken ex-officio by him or Nicholas Blunt
Whitton, his father, and other usual fees &c. Ibid.
28 May.    Thomas Smith, Esq. Smith has knowledge and experience as
St. James'. one of the senior procurators in the Courts of Ecclesiastical and
Civil Law. We appoint him our procurator "in all causes and
matters maritime, foreign, civil, and ecclesiastical whatsoever,
which do or may anyway concern us or our interest, rights or
prerogatives," which occur in any of our Courts having jurisdiction
in such matters, or " touching any matter of prizes and causes civil
and ecclesiastical whatsoever." Usual powers, fees, salaries &c.
Ibid, pp. 224, 225.
30 May.    Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. 1. To affix the Seal to a
St. James'. commission enjoining the Lord High Admiral to require the
Court of Admiralty and its Lieutenant and Judge or his Surrogate
to act in Prize cases "according to the course of Admiralty
and laws of nations." 204, pp. 319, 320. Also the commission
in question. Ibid; pp. 320, 321.
2. To affix the Seal to a commission authorising the Lord
High Admiral to grant letters of marque and reprisal to take
enemy ships &c. and bring them to be adjudged in the High
Court of Admiralty. Ibid, pp. 322, 323.
1 June.   3. To affix the Seal to a commission authorising the Lord
St. James'. High Admiral to fly the Standard flag of England on the main
top mast of his ship whilst she is afloat and he is aboard.  Ibid,
p. 323. Also the commission. Ibid, p. 324.
3 June.    Rangers or Keepers of the Forest of Dean. To allow John
St. James'. Howe to hunt or shoot three brace of bucks in the Forest of Dean.
352, p. 17.
11 June.   Royal Warrantt. Great Seal appointing John Granville, Esq.,
St. James'. Steward of the Duchy of Cornwall and of the borough and manor
* See foregoing note.
t See note on next page.




504


STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
of Bradninch in Devon, and Steward of all Royal castles and
manors in Cornwall and Devon, parcel of the Duchy, Warden
and Steward of the Stannerys and Stannary Courts, and Rider and
Master of Dartmoor forest and chace, part of the said Duchy
of Cornwall.  Usual rights, fees &c. [details], and power to
appoint under officers. Revocation of last grant to Earl of
Radnor' 352, p. 19.
12 June.   Royal Warrants.*
St. James'.  1. Great Seal granting a baronetcy to Thomas Winford, sen.,
of Glasshampton in Worcestershire, second protonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas, and the heirs male of his body lawfully
begotten, and, failing these, to the heirs male of his brother
Henry and their lawful heirs male. Ibid., p. 20.
2. Same granting the Treasurership of the Navy to Sir Thomas
Littleton, Bt. He shall have a salary of 2,0001. a year for
himself and allowance of 1,7001. a year for the paymaster and
other officers [details] under him. Also granting him the messuage
at Deptford enjoyed with the said office. All usual privileges.
Revocation of last grant of the office to Littleton. Ibid, p. 21.
20 June.   Royal Warrant.*   Great Seal granting a baronetcy to Charles
St. James'. Sedley of South Fleet in Kent and the heirs male of his body
lawfully begotten, and, failing these, to his brother Richard and
the same. Usual privileges, &c. Ibid, p. 23.
29 June.   Grant to Anthony Rowe. Appointing him Keeper of Hyde
St. James'. Park in Middlesex, with power to elect one or more. under keepers
for looking to the deer and keeping the gates and ports of the
Park and [granting him] all the lodges of the Park, with their
outhouses and appurtenances (" except the great lodge with
the outhouses, gardens and ground thereto belonging "), the
custody of which was granted to Edward, Earl of Jersey, his
heirs, executors, administrators and assigns by lease under the
Exchequer Seal by King William III. The Earl of Jersey and
his servants had at all times all rights of egress and ingress through
the said Park. Further grants to Rowe all herbage and pannage
and all "lops, tops and chops " of trees, all dead and wind-fall
wood, the usual fees of all deer killed and all other profits, &c.
350, pp. 237, 238.
6 July.   Warden &c. of the New      Forest.  To allow  Sir Edward
St. James'. Seymour to hunt, kill and carry away six brace of deer in the
New Forest during this season. Ibid, pp. 244, 245.
13 July.   Clerk of 'the Signet attending. Privy Seal, licensing Charles
Windsor. Townly to return from beyond seas to England on giving security
for good behaviour. [Details.] 352, p. 28.
20 July.   Governor, Bailiffs and Jurats &c. of Guernsey. To admit John
Windsor. Bonamy, whom the Queen continues as Greffier in the Royal
Court there. Ibid, pp. 33, 34.
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27 July.   Earl of Jersey as Chamberlain of the Household. To swear
Windsor. and admit William Churchill and Edward Castle to be booksellers,
bookbinders and stationers to the Queen.  All usual privileges
&c. 350, p. 247.
28 July.   Clerk of the Signet attending.  Privy  Seal, licensing the
Windsor. Countess Dowager of Tyrconnell to return to Ireland. 352,
p. 38.
7 Aug.    Governor, Bailiffs, and Jurats of Guernsey. To admit William
st. James'. de Beauvoir, whom the Queen continues in the office of Controller
in Guernsey. Ibid, pp. 81, 82.
8 Aug.    Clerk of the Signet attending. Privy Seal authorising Sir William
Windsor. Trumbull to act as Clerk of the Signet by deputy and nominating
George Wooddeson to act as his deputy. Usual clauses. Ibid,
p. 41.
10 Aug.    Viscount Fitzharding, Treasurer of the Chamber. To pay
Windsor. Gideon Royer or his assigns, 101. " for fairly writing, flourishing
and imbellishing, as also for guilding in grotesco all our arms,
ornaments and badges and for writing, guilding and imbellishing
the superscription with a guilded seal and label, it being for a
letter sent unto the Czar of Muscovy." 350, p. 254.
13 Aug.    Henry Harris, Chief Engraver of the Seals. To engrave the
Bath.  Broad Seal in silver. On one side thereof shall be " our effigies
sitting on a throne in Royal robes crowned with an Imperial Crown
and holding a sceptre in the right hand and a globe in the left
with this inscription round the same: 'Anna Dei Gratia Magnae
Britanniae Franciae et Hiberniae Regina, fidei Defensor &c.,'
and on the other our effigies on horseback in Royal robes crowned
with an Imperial Crown and holding a sceptre in the right hand
and a globe in the left, with the aforesaid inscription round the
same." Ibid, p. 260.
24 Aug.    William  Piesley, Esq., Justice of Merioneth, Carnarvon and
Windsor. Anglesey. To use the seal for the aforesaid counties engraven
with the arms &c., of the late King and Queen Mary for sealing
all usual documents till a new seal be made. Ibid., p. 375.
Same.     Letters of Approbation. Approving the election of Ralph
Willymot to succeed the late town clerk of Hertford. The
Corporation has represented that he has been duly elected and
ask for the Royal approbation, which is reserved to the Crown
by their charter. Ibid, p. 257.
26 Aug.    Royal Licence to Timothy Halton, D.D., and John Hammond,
Chris Church D.D. Granting to them, or either of them, with or without their
o  attendants or servants, the liberty from time to time "to hunt
the game of hare in our forests or reputed forests or place or places
of ground called Shotover and Stowood " in Oxfordshire, at their
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The Royal patentees, lessees or tenants of the said forests &c.
shall not molest Halton or Hammond in their enjoyment of this
licence.
Dated, "at Christchurch, Oxford, under our hand and Privy
Signet." 350, pp. 271-2.
26 Oct.    The Queen to the English Commissioners for the Union.
St. James'. Similar to her Majesty's letters to the Scottish Commissioners
of this date [above, p. 278, q.v.]. 352, pp. 84-6.
Same.     Keeper of the Great Seal. To affix the Great Seal to a commission bearing this date and consequential on foregoing, discharging the English Commissioners from meeting on 27 October
next, and authorising them to meet on 10 November following.
Ibid, p. 87.
30 Oct.    Commissioners for Victualling the Navy. To direct their
St. James'. agent in Jamaica to deliver to Hezekiah Marshall (Commissary
of the Victuals to the forces sent to the West Indies) such provisions for those forces as their commander, the Earl of
Peterborough, shall direct. Ibid, pp. 97, 98.
2 Nov.    Henry Harris, Chief Engraver of the Seals.
St. James'.  1. To make a seal for the Court of Common Pleas bearing on one
side "our effigies in Royal robes crowned with the Imperial
Crown of England, sitting on a throne, holding a sceptre in the
right hand and a globe in the left, with this inscription round
the same-' Anna dei gratia Magnae Brittanise, Franciae et
Hiberniae Rex, Fidei Defensor &c.' and on the other side our
Arms and Crown, with a dragon and a greyhound for the supporters, with this motto underneath, vizt., 'Pro Brevibus coram
Justiciariis,' and the aforesaid inscription round the same."
350, p. 284.
2. To make a seal in silver for the Court of Exchequer;
similar to foregoing, but on the back of the seal is to be
" our Arms, Garter and Crown with an antelope and a stag with
ducal crowns about their necks and chains descending from
them about their bodies with this motto underneath, vizt.,
'Sigillum  Scac. Dom. Reginae,' and the aforesaid inscription
round the same." Ibid, pp. 284-5.
3. To make the Queen's Privy Seal in silver as has usually
been done. with the inscription: "Anna Dei Gratia, Magnae
Britanniae, Franciae et Hiberniae Regina, Fidei Defensor &c."
Ibid, p. 285.
4. To engrave the Queen's Bench Seal in silver.   Similar
to foregoing as to the Court seals. This seal is to have on the
back "our Arms, Garter and Crown, with a lion and dragon for
supporters," and this motto underneath: "Pro Brevibus coram
Nobis," with the abovesaid inscription round the same. Ibid,
p. 286.
3 Nov.    Henry Harris [as in foregoing]. To have engraved two stamps
St. James'. for the Queen's use, one with " Anne R." and the other with
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3 Nov.     Clerk of the Signet attending. To prepare a bill &c. licencing
St. James'. David Lloyd to return from France to our dominions. He went
to France since 11 December, 1688, without licence under the
Act of Parliament. 351, p. 69.
24 Nov.    Clerk  of the   Signet  attending.  Privy  Seal  licencing
St. James'. Lady Elizabeth Thatcher to return from France and remain here
for three months only, she performing all things advised as
necessary to enable Sir John Delavall (her deceased husband's
brother) to suffer a common recovery of two manors in Northumberland, now settled on her and in jointure.  Details.  352,
p. 89.
7 Dee.    Henry Harris. (1) To make a Broad Seal for Ireland with a harp
St. James'. and an Imperial Crown over it. (2) To make seals for the Courts of
Queen's Bench, Exchequer and Common Pleas in Ireland similar
to the English. 350, p. 303.
8 Dec.    Isaac Newton, Esq., Master and Worker of the Mint. The
St. James'. mine adventurers have asked us (for the encouragement of silver
extraction in Wales and the increase of coin in our Kingdoms)
to direct the Master and Worker of our Mint to coin such silver
with the arms of Wales in like manner as was done heretofore.
We permit this and authorise you to cause the arms of Wales
to be set "on the reverse in the four void places between the
escutcheons" upon all such pieces of money as shall be coined
of the silver that shall appear by proper certificates [details] to
be extracted out of Welsh lead ore for the said mine adventurers.
Ibid, p. 299.
15 Dec.    Postmasters General. We have given orders for recruiting
St. James'. our regiments of foot in the Low Countries. Issue orders to the
masters of the packet-boats to take over free of charge as many
men as may come to the ports, receiving a certificate from the
officers in command of them stating their names and regiments;
and also to bring back free maimed soldiers and recruiting
sergeants who bring certificates from  the Commander-in-Chief
in the Low Countries, and desire a passage back. Order them
strictly to bring no soldier &c. back who has not a certificate
signed by the Commander-in-Chief. Ibid, p. 301.
24 Dec.    Royal Letters. 1. To the Bishop of London. To order a
St. James'. collection for the poor in and about London on the Sunday after
next, to be announced next Sunday in all the churches in the
City and liberties and within the lines of communication. The
money collected to be paid into the Chamber of London for
distribution as the Lord Mayor and Bishop think fit. To call
on4 the Lord Treasurer for the Queen's contribution. The churchwardens and overseers to collect at private dwellings.  162,
pp. 110, 111.
2. To the Lord Mayor. Consequential on foregoing. Requires
him to help on the collection. Ibid, pp. 111, 112.
28 Dec.    Royal Letters. 1. Approving the election of Henry Adam
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The power of such approval is reserved to the Crown by the
borough charter. 352, pp. 95-6.
2. Similar approval of election of John Boley Town Clerk of
Leicester, in the room of Edward Jevon, deceased. Power
reserved [as in foregoing]. Ibid, pp. 96-7.
PART VI.
SECRETARY'S WARRANTS, ALLOWANCES OF BILLS, &C.
Jhese are mostly warrants, or notes of warrants, to arrest
suspected persons and bring them up before the Secretary who
issues the warrant for examination.    A few notes allowing
messengers' bills and similar small matters are included in the
Table.
From S.P. Dom., Entry Book 348: Signed by Vernon.
31 Mar.    To Henry Legat.*   To arrest Father Tyrconnell. P. 359.
Whitehall.
29 Ap.    Note of warrant to arrest John Levingston on board RearWhitehall. Admiral Fairborne at Spithead, on suspicion of high treason.
P. 367.
30 Ap.    Note of similar warrant to arrest L. Poitevin on suspicion
of high treason. P. 368.
28 Ap. and  Four bills by Mr. Churchill, Stationer (from 26 June, 1701 -1 May. 1 May, 1702). Allowed by Secretary Vernon on 28 April and
1 May, 1702. Pp. 368, 369.
[1 May.]    Two lists of messengers' bills (June, 1699-April, 1702) signed
by Vernon and Blathwayt, or Vernon alone. Names of and details
of sums allowed to each messenger.  Undated but entered next
document of 1 May, 1702. Pp. 371-373.
From S.P. Dom., Entry Book 349: Signed by Manchester or
Hedges.
9 Mar.     To Thornburgh, to bring up Charles Frant in custody from
Whitehall. Canterbury. P. 145.
14 May.    To Richard Revell and Nathan Wilcox.      To make diligent
St. James'. search for Lewis Conyers and arrest him and bring him before
the Secretary of State with all his papers, to be examined and
further dealt with according to law. P. 146. Also note that
similar warrants were made on the same date for Captains William
Howard and Guilbert St. Leger. P. 146.
18 May.    To Charles Maries, to search for Captain William Sanson, a
Frenchman, and arrest him as a spy and bring 'him with his
papers to be examined and dealt with according to law. With
note that Captain William Sanson was discharged on 31 July,
1702. P. 147.
* Legat, Thornburgh, Kenge, Allen and others to whom these warrants are
addressed are almost always Queen's messengers in ordinary. Where they are
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S.P. Dom., Entry Book 349 —cont.
21 May.    To Richard Revell to arrest Job Serjeant, master of the Antelope
Whitehall. Inn, Chipping Barnet, and bring him up. Scandalous words
against the Queen. Pp. 147, 148.
23 May.    To Henry Legatt and [William] Jenkins. To arrest Dr. George
Whitehall. Bruce, Dr. of Physic, and Dr. George Graham, for suspicion of
treason and treasonable practices. P. 148.
1 June.   To Henry Legatt or William Jenkins and Toby Davies, his
Whitehall. deputies. To arrest Sir John Bolles for having spoken scandalous
and treasonable words of the Queen. P. 148.
8 Sept.   To George Fry and Jas. Kitson. For arrest of Daniel Wastoneys,
Bath.  gent., James Hales, Esq., William Spratt, his servant, John Cooke
of Bishopsgate Street, London, wiredrawer, Thomas, his son, and
Thomas Hozier on suspicion of treason P. 148.
From S.P. Dom., Entry Book 352: Signed by Nottingham.
5 May.    To Hill, to seize Potavin or Poitevin and bring him up to answer
charges against him. P. 2.
28 May.    To Hill, to receive into his custody Francis Lawrence (a
Whitehall. prisoner lately taken coming from Dunkirk) at Harwich, and
suspected of high treason, and  bring him up.    All sheriffs,
mayors &c. to assist. P. 12.
2 June.   To the Keeper of Newgate. To keep Francis Lawrence in
Whitehall. safe custody till he be delivered by due course of law. P. 16.
3 June.    To the Keeper of Newgate.      To permit Colonel George
St: James'. Churchill to see and speak to Francis Lawrence, in custody. P. 17.
16 June.   To Henry Allen, to arrest Francis le Brigant on suspicion
of treasonous correspondence with her Majesty's enemies. P. 24.
30 June.   To the Keeper of Newgate gaol, committing Francis le Brigant
Whitehall. to his custody. P. 24.
15 July.   1. To the Keeper of Newgate jail to discharge Francis le Brigant,
Whitehall. pursuant to a recommendation by the Committee of the Privy
Council. P. 29.
2. To Same. Committing John Levingston to his custody
on a charge of high treason by breach of the Act of 1697 against
corresponding with the late King James. [Details.] P. 29.
17 July.   To Joseph Chance, to arrest the Spanish consul and keep him
Whitehall. in custody. P. 89.
8 Aug.     1. To Charles Kenge, to take Count di Rassa (taken aboard a
Windsor. French ship on his way from Lisbon to France) and bring him
up for examination. P. 40.
2. To the person having Count de Rassa in his custody to
hand him over to Charles Kenge. P. 40.
13 Aug.    Note by Nottingham. Allows bill of 231. 17s. 10d. by Peter Tom,
a Queen's messenger, for service, April-June, 1702. P. 54.




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S.P. Dom., Entry Book 352-cont.
28 Sept.   To John Morris to take into custody Robert Squibb, Jabez
Whitehall. Wood, Henry Bradshaw and Arthur Swift and bring them up
for examination as to charges of fraud in their offices in the
Exchequer. P. 91.
30 Oct.   To the captains of the packet-boats between England and
Whitehall. Holland to receive Don B. Navarro, the Spanish Consul, his
sons and servant, and take them over to Holland. P. 84.
30 Nov.    1. To Samuel Hill to take Lady Sophia Bulkley and servant to
Whitehall. Harwich, and hand them over, with the warrant, to the captain
of the first packet-boat to go to Holland. Note. Mr. Hill
produced a receipt from the commander of the Jacob of his having
taken them aboard on December 3. Details. P. 92.
2. To the captain of the first packet-boat to leave for Holland
from Harwich. Consequential on foregoing. P. 93.
1 Dec.    To the aforesaid messengers (Samuel Hill or Charles Couchman) to
Whitehall. search Lady Sophia Bulkley's luggage, and that of her servants, for
papers, before delivering the lady and her servants to the packetboat. To seal and bring up any papers found in them. P. 93.
3 Dec.    To Henry Allen to search for and arrest - Barran, merchant,
Whitehall. and his papers, and bring him up to be examined on suspicion of
corresponding with the enemy. Usual clause for assistance by
all mayors, officers, &c. Pp. 104, 105.
29 Dec.    To Henry Allen to search for and arrest Edward Bellamy
Whitehall. and bring him up to be examined on suspicion of high crimes
and 'misdemeanours. P. 105.
31 Dec.    To Charles Couchman to arrest Paul Breton and bring him up
Whitehall. to be examined on suspicion of treasonous correspondence with
the Queen's enemies. P. 94.
PART VII.
NOTES OF WARRANTS FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF ALMSMEN.
These are short notes stating that an almsman's place at this
or that Cathedral, College &c. has been granted to Y or Z, giving
the date and saying from which Secretary of State the warrant
came and who subscribed it. The Table below gives the date
and, in succession, the name of the almsman, place of charity,
Secretary of State and subscribing clerk.
From S.P. Signet Office 123, p. 122.
14 Ap.    JohnMosier. CathedralChurch of Oxford. Vernon. Woodeson.


17 Sept.   Francis Catelyn. Norwich. Hedges. Gauntlett.




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From S.P. Signet Office 123, p. 123.
30 Nov.    Samuel Hoppus. Canterbury. Hedges. Trumbull.
28 Dec.    William Sharp. Oxford Cathedral. Nottingham. Morice.
30 Dec.   John Prugeon. Hospital at Ewelme. Hedges. Morice.
ADDENDA, 1702.
8 March.   CAPTAIN WILLIAM FAIRBORNE to -
Antegua.  These islands have been alarmed by the French having 32 sail
of men-of-war, 90 to 50 guns, at Martineco. We hear ten men-ofwar from France joined them the latter end of last month, and
that they sailed to the leeward of these islands.
P. ~. Extract. Endd. in Warre's hand. S.P. Dom., Anne 2,
11.*
Latest date, NOTES of the PROCEEDINGS in the HOUSE OF COMMONS.
22 May.    Brief extracts from the journals of 2, 4, 18-20 and 22 May,
as to the Convention with the Emperor and States General
about declaring war on France and Spain, the address of thanks
for communication of the Convention, and the prevention of
correspondence with the enemy.
Pp. 11. Endd. 1702. Ibid, 12.*
14 Dec.   HEDGES to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Whitehall.  The Queen hears that ships are lading in the North with naval
stores for France. Command:-Orders to go to the commanders
of her Majesty's ships to bring up all ships so laden unless provided
with passports and pursuant to the Treaties between her Majesty
and other Princes, also all such ships as they suspect to be bound for
France on account of the French King or his subjects. Acquaint
his Royal Highness.
P. j. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 357.
FURTHER LICENCES OF ABSENCE.
8 Dec.    Francis Keck, Esq., High Sheriff, out of Oxfordshire during
St. James'. his Shrievalty. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 162, p. 109,
10 Dec.   John   Hillersden,  Esq.  Same.   Berks.   Same.   Ibid,
St. James'. p. 110.
28 Dec.   John Mogg, Esq. Same. Somerset, same. Ibid, p. 112.
St. James'.
UNDATED PAPERS OF 1702.
NOTE on MR. ATTWOOD.
Mr. Leigh Attwood was taken in his passage from New York
by a French privateer, and is now in prison at St. Malo's. It is
* These documents were found in S.P. Dom., Anne 3, too late for insertion
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desired he may be exchanged for one of the French gentlemen
here.
P. E. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 13.
BLANK COMMISSION.
In usual form for captaincy in the army. P. 1. Ibid, 14.
LORD BELHAVEN to NOTTINGHAM.
I beg you to recommend Captain Lyvingston, by letter, to
Lord Peterborough. Captain Lyvingston is anxious to go to
the West Indies under his lordship. Pray send me your letter
that I may myself give it to Lord Peterborough, as time presses.
P. ~ (small). Signed. Add. Ibid, 15.
A PROJECT for an AGREEMENT with the SWISS PROTESTANTS.
Shewing how an ambassador or envoy may happily succeed
in his negociation among the Switzers and their confederates,
the Grisons, the Valesians, the Turgovinians, the Rhinedalians &c.;
and how to cross the French, Spanish and Bavarian faction there,
which is kept alive by M. Puisieux at Saleure and M. Granville
amongst the Grisons, both being the French King's envoys here,
humbly offered to her Majesty by N.N.:Right Honble.-Every Protestant should promote the cause
of the State in which he dwells. This being so, I hope your
honour will commend me "for what I am going humbly to lay
into the bosom of your honour's prudence and secresy."
1. The best way to thwart French designs in Switzerland
would be to maintain a more intimate correspondence with
"all the laudable cantons of Switzerland in general and their
confederates the Grisons, the Turgovians, the Rhinedalians, the
Toggenburgians, the Wallesians &c., but especially with the
Protestant cantons of Zurich, Bern, Basil and Scaffhousen, who
have the greatest interest among them."
2. A pretty good beginning of such an intimacy was rhade
in the late reign; and an Envoy sent thither, but he did little
good. Of late another Envoy has been sent.
3. The canton of Zurich is the "prime of all the cantons,"
and has the sole prerogative above all others to receive
Ambassadors and Envoys and let them reside there; but each
canton is an independent republic.
4. "If an envoy be sent to a King or Prince that envoy
hath nothing to do but fairly to insinuate himself with some
of the chief ministers of that Prince's Court. But where there is
a body of so many distinct heads as the Helvetick Body with
their confederates (some of the cantons being aristocratical and
some democratical) there it requireth more than an ordinary
labour, sagacity, skill and prudence to work successfully in his
negociation; which the French King wisely considering, he doth
not only keep a perpetual ambassador there residing at Saleure
(Solothurn), one of the Popish cantons, but several under agents
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(according to his master's directions), sendeth up and down in
Switzerland to encourage the Switzers (as near as he can) in
general, and their confederates, to side with the French faction;
and to that purpose Monsieur Puisieux doth not only employ
the French King's own subjects as his secretaries or under-agents,
but he picketh out (as his predecessor M. Amelat did before him)
with his master's money such Popish Switzers as are fit tools
to advance his master's interest."
5. Puisieux sends these under-agents here and there to reside
and spy out matters and bribe persons for his master's service
and generally to promote the French interest, but especially
among the Grisons, the Wallesians and the petty cantons.
6. Now to countermine them we must do as they do, and
keep some secretaries and under-agents there, especially among
the Grisons and Wallesians. This might be done for a tolerable
easy charge, because these countries join Piedmont, Tyrol, the
Milanese &c., "and I must needs be sensible that if there had
been a prudent agent (on her Majesty's behalf) in the country
of Wallis alias Valesia [Valais], the said Wallesians jointly
with the Swiss cantons would not have permitted the French
army to enter into and to take possession of the county of Augst
alias Aosta and to cut off on that side the communication between
the Duke of Savoy and the laudable cantons &c."
7. "And if prudent measures were taken, that would do a
vast kindness to her Majesty's pious designs in sending relief
to the poor distressed Camisars in the Cevennes and to keep
up her interest in Italy; and I need not question in the least
but the Protestant Switzers and Grisons would not only connive
at but give leave to her Majesty's troops to pass through their
respective territories for Italy and the Cevennes."  They
would even either raise troops of their own or " give leave by way
of connivance" to anyone that had a mind voluntarily to list
and join themselves with her Majesty's troops; "and that
would be the chief means (according to my certain apprehension)
to reduce France to reason in the very heart of France and to
break all her measures" in a very short time.
8. The Protestant party being the stronger in the Grisons,
such a policy would outweigh the French and would incline
even the Papists (if things were handsomely managed) to leave
the French, and side for the Queen's and her allies' interest.
I must now tell your honour of the Government of the chief
laudable cantons, "I mean those that are aristocratical (for the
democratical cantons are but inconsiderable in comparison to
them)," that your honour may know how best to remedy
any errors committed by any English envoy "that is not
acquainted with the peculiar maxims of those Helvetic
Republicans":
1. Each of the cantons of Zurich, Bern, Basil and Schaffhousen
has a Senate of its own which has full legislative power. Each
Senate is divided into two Houses called the Major and Minor
Senate; but they meet generally, as occasion arises, in the
same house.
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2. Now if an envoy...will act with good success there, he
must not stay till the whole Diet of the Helvetick Body be met
at Baden, which is but seldom, to make a smooth harangue of
compliment to them on her Majesty's behalf; but he must (as
the French do) make fair way for it beforehand; for in this
case it is certainly true that Quod omnibus dicitur nemini
dicitur."
3. He must insinuate himself with the Consuls, Pro-Consuls,
Senators and Tribunes of Zurich, Berne &c. as well as with the
Commons "to drive the nail wisely to some purpose before they
have their general meeting at Baden &c."
4. " He must not imagine that this or that particular lord or
gentleman (as a few ministers of a monarch) belonging to the
respective Senates, can turn the scale without the help of others;
for the best man there hath but his vote (and no more than his
vote), whether it be in any of their Major or Minor Senates;
but if things be well managed aforehand so that they be ripe
for the General Diet, then they (these worthy gentlemen) will
lead and inspire one another."
5. An envoy must often visit them that are the head-rulers
and keep them company in order to discover their minds. The
French envoys and their agents do not think it beneath their
character to do this.
6. "Such an envoy should live somewhat genteelly and not
grudge (now and then) to regale some of the chief lords and
gentlemen with a supper or dinner, to drink (according to their
custom) her Majesty's health.
7. " It should be a man of an estate or, if not, one that should
be of that noble English spirit as to be more concerned to promote
her sacred Majesty's (and the English nation's) honour and
interest than to sacrifice to his own nett."
8. He should have "an under-agent or secretary of great
dexterity and prudence," to copy out letters and "to visit, now
and then, the other cantons (where the envoy cannot conveniently
be himself) to make and keep up friends on her Majesty's side,
that when their General Diet meets at Baden they may outvote
the French and Spanish faction there."
9. It should be one who would shew himself a "downright
zealous Protestant of the Church of England, for which the
Protestant cantons have a hearty veneration. Nay, I can testify
that no nation under Heaven hath a more intimate love for
the Protestant English than they."
10. The Queen's envoy at Zurich should also have a constant
communication with the Most Revd. Antistes and the other
prime clergy there, who are regarded there as the bishops are
with us, " because they have much to say (both in the pulpit
and elsewhere) and bear a great sway in things relating to the
public welfare of that nation." If things go amiss in the Senate,
they have the privilege of petitioning the Senate "for amendment of visible errors; and if the Senate does not regard their
petition they have absolute liberty to insist upon it in the pulpit,
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11. I know the temper of the Protestant Switzers (especially
those that are patricians) so well that I dare assure your honour
that they never will nor can have a good opinion of an English
envoy unless he shews himself not only a pious, good moralist,
that concerns himself as a politician for the good of his Prince,
but also a real Protestant Christian that taketh to heart the
interest of the Church of God and of that holy religion whereof
our most gracious Queen is (as most justly she deserveth the
glorious title of) the Nursing Mother and Defender of our
Faith."
An Addition to the Project.
The Ambassador or Envoy residing at Zurich must have such
a Protestant chaplain of the Church of England as understands
the language of the country as well as French and English that
he may converse with the prime reverend clergy there and "keep
up that sacred correspondence which was between the Church of
Zurich and that of England in the time of King Edward,
Queen Elizabeth and King James I." This was happily renewed
of late by the efforts of Mr. N.N., the author of the Project,
between the most reverend Antistes of Zurich and the late
Archbishop Tillotson, the late Bishop Barlow of Lincoln, the
present Bishop of London, who, besides several other persons of
honour and quality, can speak of Mr. N.N.'s efforts for the
Church, his writings &c. N.N. can also shew how in the late
reign he was sent over by the Senate of Zurich and on behalf
of the " prime reverend clergy there with Sir Jean Rodolph Escher
as his a latere " in the name of the laudable Protestant cantons
to congratulate their Majesties on the late happy revolution
and shew their zeal for a Protestant succession in England,
and how they performed their mission at their own charges.
Mr. N.N. has since been here to keep vtp a correspondence between
the Revd. Antistes and the English Bishops, as the Bishop of
London and others can testify.
Mr. N.N. would also be ready to keep up a correspondence
between the Swiss clergy and the Society de Propag. Rel. which
has existed in the past, but needs the attention of a careful person,
who would send letters and books to and fro. He would also
be ready to go to Switzerland with such an envoy or to be sent,
as her Majesty's chaplain, to him that is there, with such salary
as her Majesty should think fit, so that he should not have to
look to the Envoy for anything but his board and clothes.
Mr. N.N. is a free citizen of Zurich by birth, and can say that
there is hardly one of the House of Lords there that is not either
his relation or friend. He knows most of the Commons there
and has many considerable friends at Bern, Basle, Schaffhausen
and in the Protestant Grisons. He knows the language and
temper of the people, and is able and willing to promote the
Queen's interest amongst the leaders of Church and State in
Switzerland.  He has travelled for thirty years in France,
England, Germany, Holland, Brabant, Flanders and Burgundy,
and has ever hated the French usurper. Desires recommendation




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
to the Queen for this employment, or some other consideration
for his many services if he is not sent to Switzerland.
In all pp. 8j. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 16.
MEMORIAL on the CUSTOMER'S PLACE at WHITEHAVEN.
It is now some years since Sir John Lowther, anxious for the
development of the town and port of Whitehaven, which would
increase the Royal revenue, found that the Custom house there
should be encouraged by some officer of ability.
With this object he recommended to Lord Treasurer Godolphin
that Mr. Gilpin should succeed Mr. Christian, who was then old.
His being a Justice of the Peace, and of the law, further fitted him
for that post. Lord Godolphin approved the suggestion. But
soon after Mr. Crofts, a friend of Mr. Christian, made a bargain
by which Christian surrendered his patent; and by influence
with the [late] King a new patent was obtained for Christian and
Crofts jointly. In this Sir John Lowther was, for the time,
bound to acquiesce. Crofts died, and Sir John then renewed his
recommendation of Mr. Gilpin to succeed Mr. Christian, who is
still alive, though very old, and had no fear of further opposition.
He is therefore much surprised to find that Mr. Crofts' widow
now pretends to the right to name a successor both to her
husband and to Mr. Christian, who shall not only repair her for
the money which was lost on her husband's bargain owing to his
death, but shall entirely act as trustee for her and be accountable
for the whole profits. Sir John Lowther believes that such unusual and scandalous pretensions, which are opposed to the
prosperity of the port and contrary to law, will not be allowed.
Being interested in the development of the port, of which he
is the proprietor, and which he has raised to a considerable height,
and in the hope to serve the Queen, he prays that the Lord
Treasurer will give him leave to hope that Mr. Gilpin, if he outlive
Mr. Christian, may succeed him.
Pp. i. Endd. Ibid, 17.
PROJECT for INCREASING the SALARIES in the SECRETARIES of
STATES' OFFICES.
The under-secretaries and first clerks to the Secretaries of
State have ordinarily such small fees (especially since the erecting
of the third office) that it is hoped the Queen will allow them
the following sums by way of New Year's gifts until some suitable
salary be fixed for them:Guineas.
On account of all foreign despatches for which there
is no allowance, 200 guineas yearly out of the Post
Offices [to each office]........   600
On account of all Irish affairs despatched without fee
or charge, on that establishment, to each office,
150 guineas.......   450
On account of affairs relating to the Navy, from the
contingencies of the Admiralty, to each office,
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Guineas.
On account of affairs of Trade to be paid out of the
contingencies of the Commission of Trade, 100
guineas each yearly......          300
On account of informations, law matters and orders
and directions to the Attorney and Solicitor General
to be paid by Mr. Borret out of law charges,
100 guineas yearly to each office.....   300
On account of orders relating to the Ordnance, to be
paid out of the contingencies of that office,
50 guineas each........   150
On account of matters and business relating to the
Transport Service, out of the contingencies of the
transports, 50 guineas yearly each....   150
On account of the matters which relate to the Commission of Sick and Wounded, out of their contingencies, to each office 50 guineas yearly..  150
On account of the business relating to the Secretary
at War's Office out of the contingencies there, 50
guineas yearly each..........   150
Total........ 2,700
By this means each office will get 9001. a year for all business
done for the Queen's service without fee or charge, "which will
not burthen her Majesty in particular at present."
Pp. 2. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 18.
PETER LEAINE to the GOVERNORS of the POST OFFICE.
[About    22 September, 9 a.m.   Received the mails and set sail.
3 Nov.] Details of journey and winds follow.
1  October, Tuesday.   Saw   Cape  Finistere.  Thursday,
anchored in the Bay of Wares [?] and delivered the mails
and consul's packets.  6 October:   Came   into the river
H.M.Ss. Royal Anne, St. George, Shrewsbury, Rupert, with two
Dutch men-of-war. The Alliance packet-boat sailed.
Other details follow, including the following:
10 October. Arrival of the Newark with a price of 48 guns
from the West Indies, but last from the Canaries.
13 October. The Oporto fleet came in, which sailed from
hence, but could not gain their port. One ship foundered and
two missing.
14 Oct. (Monday.) Arrival of the Prince George packet from
England.  Other details.
Tursday [Tuesday?]. Sailed hence Sir John Jennings with the
Devonshire, Cumberland, Northumberland, Essex, L[a] Firme,
Medway, Munk, Mary, Canterbury, Roebuck, Hunter (fireship),
Pelican (ketch).
Wednesday [16th]. Sailed hence the Pembroke, Tiger, and
Mary galley with ten merchant ships under their convoy.
18th. Arrival of a transport, separated from Sir C. Shovell.




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
19th. Arrival of H.M.S. Oxford, having on board the Earl of
Essex. Details.
Sunday, 20th. Took mails on board and Admiral Byng's and
the consul's packets; but detained by contrary winds.  The
Cambridge with several transports from Gibraltar and several
transports from Sir C. Shovell's squadron came in.
21st. The Milford and Bedford came in.
22nd. The Eagle, Tilbury, Lime cruiser, one fireship, two
hospital ships and above 30 English and Dutch transports
came in.
23rd. We took aboard a pilot and got over the bar.
Other details follow up to Nov. 2.
November 3. Anchored at Plymouth and delivered the mail.
Pp. 2. (Hol.?) Add. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 19.
G. GRAME to HEDGES.
By your warrant of 23rd of last month I was put into
the messenger's custody and have since remained a close
prisoner.
Mr. Ellece has twice examined me.     Pray consider my
examinations and let me be either brought to a trial or set
free.
P.S.-As I have been long abroad and my business and friends
want my presence, I hope for a speedy answer.
P. A. (Hol.) Add. Endd. generally and '1702'. Ibid, 20.
MEMORANDUM on the REGISTRATION of WOOL.
The following plain and easy method of registration throughout
England and Wales is humbly proposed by John Haynes:1. Within     days after shearing, the owner of the wool so
shorn, or his servant, shall make oath before some Justice of
the Peace of that county of the weight thereof and take a
certificate as follows:Form follows: —The owner or servant has sworn that the
weight was       and no more to the best of his knowledge and belief, he having seen the same weighed.
This certificate shall be taken to a registering officer, who
shall make an entry thereof in a book kept for the purpose.
2. Fellmongers who take wool from the pelt shall once a month
make oath of its weight, take a certificate thereof and enter it as
aforesaid.
3. No grower of wool, or fellmonger or other person shall
offer their wool to be sold before it has been registered with the
officer, who shall take the certificate of the justice and deliver
out another in this form:Form follows.  It states merely that the wool has been
registered, with date, amount and owner.
4. On the back of this certificate the owner must take a
receipt of the buyer. Owners of wool must be always ready
to show such a receipt for wool sold, or else forfeit  -.
Form of receipt follows.




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5. To prevent "jobbers* " and others buying up wool with
an intent to transport the same, it is proposed that none ought
to buy wool but the manufacturers or free wool staplers, or such
other person as shall be licensed by the Commissioners for Wool.
This licence shall be grounded on the recommendation of the
Company of Wool Staplers or some eminent clothiers, whereby
the integrity and honesty of the person may be known. Such
person to give bond of -- to the Queen not to transport wool
or be anywise abetting or consenting to any other persons
doing so.
6. One officer of register in a county may be sufficient to take
such entry, who shall (when required) return an account thereof
to the Grand Register to be kept in London. This officer for the
purpose of taking such entry shall attend every market day in
every market town in his county between 1 May and 31 July,
in such manner as follows:Viz. for Gloucestershire.
At Hampton on Tuesday.,, Tedbury,, Wednesday.,, Cyrencester,, Thursday.,, Gloucester,, Saturday.
This method should also be adopted in Ireland.
If it be thought fit to lay a tax on wool it should be paid when
the owner registers it and the owner should receive a receipt
for the duty with the certificate of registration.  To prevent
the farmers and growers suffering it should be provided that all
who buy wool from them should pay the tax as an earnest of the
bargain, and exclusive of the price of wool so bought.
P. 1. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 21.
MEMORANDUM on the EVILS CAUSED by the EXPORT of WOOL.
Our clothing wool, whereof one pack weighs 2401b., if wrought
into fine broadcloth, is sufficient for employing 63 people at
hard labour for a week; and double such a number if wrought
into hose. The 63 people are as follows:Three men to sort, dye, dry, mix and make the wool fit for
the scribler or stock-carder.
Five men to scrible or stock-card it.
Twenty women to spin it.
Twenty girls to card it.
Six men to weave it.
Two boys to wind quills.
Seven persons (six men and a boy) to scour, burl, full, dress,
rack and press it.
The cloth will then be worth 501. The wool costs 121.; the
dyeing and other charges 31. 10. Od.; the labour and charge of
working the wool into cloth 311. 10s. Od. The clothier's profit
is 31. 10. Od. Deducting therefore the 121. and the clothier's
profit, the loss to the country will be 341. 10. Od., besides what
the King will lose in his Custom.
* So this usage is 200 years old.




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
If this one pack of wool was to be wrought into hose, for which
the King receives 72d. a doz. Custom, there would then be employed
126 people in making it up.
During one year 30,000 packs of wool have been actually
landed in three harbours of France. By this export the King
lost 75,0001. Custom. If this had been made up in our manufactories, 1,889,940 people would have been employed in making
broadcloth, or twice that number in making hose. What a
great loss! And, at this time, many thousands of our poor are
ready to starve.
P. 1. Print. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 22.
"The DEPLORABLE CASE of the CHIEF and OTHER AGENTS or
OFFICERS that have been deputed and concerned in the
PREVENTING the CARRYING AWAY and the EXPORTATION
of the WOOL of this KINGDOM."
Shewing that:- The Commissioners under the Act of
1 William and Mary for preventing export of wool were discouraged in putting that and other laws in execution against
offenders merely for want of a fund for paying and maintaining
officers. Nevertheless on the pressing solicitation of clothiers
and traders in the North (who shewed that several thousand
packs of wool were yearly conveyed to Scotland and sent thence
(as Scotch wool) to France, to the great prejudice of English
industry), the said Commissioners in 1698 sent a number of officers
to the North, who, at the hazard of their lives, made many seizures
of wool.  Other officers were sent to the maritime counties of
England where, they made many more seizures, "some of which
seizures were, in violation and contempt of the laws, rescued
from the said officers and they themselves hurried into prisons,"
until the wool had been shipped away on ships which brought
great quantities of brandy, wine, silks and other goods, which
they received in exchange thereof.
The said officers hoped that, in so good a cause, they would
have regular salaries fixed on them, and many of them spent
part or all of their means; whereby they have not only been
rendered unable to prosecute the informations which they have
actually commenced in the Exchequer against offenders, but they
are now become incapable of further action without a present
supply of money.
The wool manufacture of the Kingdom is consequently going
abroad, which will be a very great loss to your Majesty and "to
our Kingdom in particular and to our trading and working people
in general, who in a short time may become a burthen too
unsupportable for the rich to bear." This " may be demonstrated
from a brief survey printed and presented to the last Parliament,
whereby was computed that by the exportation of thirty thousand
packs of wool," &c. [Sets out the facts shewn in the foregoing
memorandum.]
P. 1. Print. Endorsed (in print) and followed by:




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1702.
Names of several persons who, with others, have sent Wool to
France in the last three years.
Wraight, Rolfe, Brockmans, Handfield, Beane and his brother,
Hunt, Knatchbull, Carter, Rolfe and others, Barbor, Hammond,
Grewel, Johnson and Woodland, Hiller and Rablis, Fagg sen.
and jun., Gillett, Johnson, Spaine, Oldfield, Keeler, the widow
Marshall.
The weight sent by each is stated.
P. I. In all pp. 1I. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 23.
3 [Nov.?]. EXTRACT from MR. CONSON [Collector] to the COMMISSIONERS
[of the CUSTOMS?].
On Wednesday last the Chatham (Captain Bucknam) brought
in here the Duchess Dumain, a privateer of 75 men and 14 guns
which she took the 29th of October last. She has been cruising
westward of the Cape upwards of three weeks and saw about
40 privateers at one time or another in about the 49th parallel.
P. i. Ibid, 24.
LIST of the SHERIFFS for three years to the morrow of the
Feast of All Souls, 1702; also of those named for SHERIFFS
by the LORDS of the COUNCIL to the EXCHEQUER on the
same date in 1701.
Sheriffs for 1699-       Sheriffs named for
County.               1702.                    1701.




Berks.
Beds.
Bucks.
Cumberland.


George Blagrave, Esq.
John Breedon, Esq.
Richard Southby, Esq.
Sir John Burgoyne, Bt.
William Hillersdon, Esq.
Thomas Bromsell, Esq.
Richard Whitchurch, Esq.
Robert Weedon, Esq.
John Duncombe, Esq.
Robert Carleton, Esq.
Thomas Lamplugh of Lamplugh, Esq.
Richard Crackenthorpe, Esq.


Richard Southby, Esq.
John Winder of Bray.
John Hillersdon.
Sir William Rich, Bt.
John Wildman, Esq.
Nehemiah Brandreth, Esq.
Sir J. Osborne, Bt.
Maurice Abbott, Esq.
Sir Pinsent Charnock, Bt.
Thomas Bromsell, Esq.
Nicholas Johnson, Esq.
Sir J. Chester, Bt.
Sir H. Palmer, Kt.
Sir J. Alston, Bt.
John Duncombe, Esq.
Thomas Pigott.
Richard Crackenthorpe of
Newbiggin, Esq.
John Senhouse of Seascale, Esq.
John Dalston, Esq.
Christopher  Curwen    of
Camerton.




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
County.
Chester.
Cambridge and
Hunts.
Cornwall.
Devon.


Sheriffs for 1699 -1702.
Sir H. Bunbury, Bt.
Lawrence Wright, Esq.
Edmund Swettenham, Esq.
Richard P. Read, Esq.
Laurence Blatt, Esq.
Edward Nightingale, Esq.
Stephen Robins, Esq.
Charles Grylls, Esq.
Gregory Peter, Esq.
John Davie, Esq.
Arthur Tremaine, jun., Esq.
Sir John Rogers, Bt.


Sheriffs named for
1701.
John Davenport, Esq.
Edmund Swettenham, Esq.
Ranulf Wilbraham        of
Rhode, Esq.
Sir John Chetwood.
Ra. Leicester of Taft.
Sir Christopher Hatton, Bt.
Edward Nightingale, Esq.
Robert Hagger, Esq.
David Roland.
Ra. Marsh.
Sir Ro. Jenning.
William  Scawen  of Mollinock, Esq.
Hugh Tonkin of St. Agnes,
Esq.
William  Williams  of Treworthy.
Sir Peter Killegrew, Bt.
Gregory Peter, Esq.
Moses Gold, Esq.
Roger Woollacombe of Roughboro.
G. Parker of Burrington, Esq.
Sir John Rogers of Plymouth,
Bt.


Dorset.
Derby.


Robert Swayne, Esq.
William Fitz, Esq.
Nicholas Hardy, Esq.
Robert Revell, Esq.
Henry Bradshaw, Esq.
Sir John Harpur, Bt.


John  Richards of Warmwell, Esq.
Robert   Coker   of  Maypowder, Esq.
Edward Clavell of Purbeck.
ThomasTurbervillofBeer,Esq.
Robert Browne of Foston.
Nicholas Hardy, Esq.
Thomas Skinner of DulyC[].
Samuel Bagshaw, Esq.
Sir Edward Coke.
Samuel Pierrepointe of Oatesale, Esq.
Sir William Gresley.
Richard Bates.
John Bradshaw, Esq.
John Leech of Shepley.
Sir J. Harpur, Bt.
George Sitwell.




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1702.


County.
York.


Essex.


Gloucester.
Hertford.
Hereford.
Kent.
Lancashire.


Sheriffs for 1699 -1702.
Fairfax Norcliffe, Esq.
Robert Constable, Esq.
Robert Mitford, Esq.
George Pochin, Esq.
Edward Luther, Esq.
Peter Whitcombe, Esq.
Thomas Chester, Esq.
Richard Haynes, Esq.
Samuel Eckley, Esq.
Henry Gore, Esq.
George Nodes, Esq.
Thomas Blackmore, Esq.
John Hereford, Esq.
John De le Hay, Esq.
Robert Symons, Esq.
William Woodgate, Esq.
Isaac Loader, Esq.
Bowyer Hendley, Esq.
Blank.


Sheriffs named for
1701.
Sir T. Pennyman, Bt.
Robert Mitford, Esq.
Sir John Legard.
Edward Bagshaw, Esq.
John Edvards, Esq.
Thomas Webster, Esq.
Robert Breadon, Esq.
Edward Bullock.
Peter Whitcombe, Esq.
Samuel Eckley   of Hempsted, Esq.
William Heywood.
Sir John Guise, Bt.
William Kingscote.
Jonathan Castleman, Esq.
Sir Edward Fust.


Thomas Blackmore, Esq.
Sir Edward Seabright, Bt.
Robert Haddesley, Esq.
Edward Field.
Robert Chaplin, Esq.
Robert Symons, Esq.
John Noble.
Charles Cornwall.*
Herbert Westfaling, Esq.
John Read.
Sir Francis Lee, Kt.
Bowyer Hendley, Esq.
Sir Thomas Colep[e]per, Bt.
Thomas Golding, Esq.
R. Hart, Esq.
Blank.


Leicester.


Thomas Skeffington, Esq.
George Hewitt, Esq.
Thomas Charnells, Esq.


James Winstanley, Esq.
Sir R. Halford, Bt.
Charles Morrice.
Thomas Charnells, Esq.
James Armston.
- De la Fountaine.


* The name is usually spelt Cornewall. This and a large minority of other
names are written in a current hand, less formal than that of the majority.
All such insertions are in the right column.




524


STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
County.
Lincoln.
Monmouth.
Northumberland.
Northampton.


Sheriffs for 1699 -1702.
Christopher Beresford, Esq.
Robert Turwhitt, Esq.
Francis Fane, Esq.
Edmund Morgan, Esq.
Thomas Morgan of Llanrumney, Esq.
William Lewis, Esq.
William Wilkinson, Esq.
John Grey, Esq.
William Browne, Esq.
Elmes Steward, Esq.
William Ward, Esq.
Sir Cesar Child, Bt.


Sheriffs named for
1701.
Sir Hardolf Wastenes, Bt.
Ludovic Dymock of Kyme,
Esq.
Charles Caldecott of Bickering [Bicker?].
Francis Fane, Esq.
William   Lewis  of   Llanthewy, Esq.
Sir John Thomas, Bt.
Lewis Morgan, Esq.
Philip Cecil.
Gawen Annesley, Esq.
Thomas Foster of Edreston.
William Browne of Bowton,
Esq.
Sir James Clavering.
George Fletcher of Rothbury,
Esq.
Sir Cesar Child, Bt.
Sir J. Germaine, Bt.
Sir E. Norwich, Bt.
Sir J. Langham.
Rand[olph] Weeks.


Norfolk.
Notts.
Oxon.


Edward Lambe, Esq.
Robert Suckling, Esq.
William Newman, Esq.
Robert Hacker, Esq.
John Harbord, Esq.
William Burnell, Esq.
Thomas Cartwright, Esq.
Sir James Read, Bt.
Sir John Thornycroft, Bt.


John Harvey, Esq.
Sig. Trafford.
Roger Crow of Castar
[Cayster].
Thomas Berney, Esq.
Rd. Knight.
William Newman of Baconsthorpe.
Samuel Brunt, Esq.
John Digby.
Borlase Warren, Esq.
William Burnell, Esq.
Justinian Sheppard, Esq,
Jo. Dormer.
Sir J. Thornycroft, Bt.
Cecil Bishop.
Francis Clark.
Sir Edward Cobb, Bt.
Francis Keck.




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1702.
County.
Rutland.


Sheriffs for 1699 -1702.
Neh. Tookey, Esq.
Barth. Burton, Esq.
John Wingfield, Esq.


Sheriffs named for
1701.
Henry Hubbard, Esq.
John Wingfield, Esq.
Thomas Burwell.
N. Bullingham, Esq.
Charles Tirrell, Esq.


Salop.


Thomas Jones, Esq.
Sir Robert Corbett, Bt.
Edward Cressett, Esq.


Somerset.
Staffordshire.


Francis H. Newman, Esq.
William Hellyer, Esq.
Samuel Rodbart, Esq.
Oswald Moseley, Esq.
Benjamin Jolliffe, Esq.
Thomas Nabbs, Esq.


Roger Owen, Esq.
R. Loyd.
Edward Cressett, Esq.
John[?] Bridgeman.
Charles Baldwin.
Thomas Child, Esq.
Henry Bigs.
Thomas Carew    of Camerton, Esq.
Thomas Sumner.
Cornelius Lyde of Stanton
Drew, Esq.
John Mock [?].
Thomas Rodbart of Merriott,
Esq.
Chr. Farwell.
Samuel Rodbart, Esq.
Thomas Nabbs of Stafford,
Esq.
Humfrey Hodges.
Leigh Brooke, Esq.
Sir J. Harpur.
Ronald Okeover.
John Amflett.
Sir Thomas Lawley.


Suffolk.


Samuel Warner, Esq.
Henry Cooper, Esq.
John Scrivener, Esq.


John Scrivener, Esq.
John Currance, Esq.
Richard Phillips, Esq.
Sir Richard Allen.


Southampton.


Edward Chute, Esq.
John Leigh of Northcott,
Esq.
Edward Lisle, Esq.


Sir John St. Barb of Broadland, Bt.
Peter Betsworth.
Benjamin Ruddiard.
Charles Cole.
Edward Lysle [Lisle] of
Crookes Easton.
William Withers.




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1702.
County.
Surrey.
Sussex.
Warwick.
Wilts.


Sheriffs for 1699 -1702.
Leonard Wessell, Esq.
John Shorter, Esq.
John de Leau, Esq.
Thomas Alchorne, Esq.
John Barham, Esq.
John Ellis, Esq.
Henry Mathews, Esq.
Thomas Mann, Esq.
John Addis, Esq.


Sheriffs named for
1701.
John de Leau, Esq.
Sir J. Thornycroft.
James Debert, Esq.
R.[?] Blysse.
Edward Woodward, Esq.
John Ellis, Esq.
Thomas Chowne.
John Butler.
John Shudd, Esq.
Sir C. Bishop.
Edward Payne.
William Whitebread, Esq.
Henry Collins.
John Addis, Esq.
Francis Boughton.
Sir Clement Fisher, Bt.
Sir F. Skipwith.
Edward Boughton of Bilton,
Esq.


Francis Merewether, Esq.  William Beach.
Richard Jones, Esq.     Joseph  Holton  of TrowChristopher Willoughby, Esq. bridge, Esq.
Jo. Young.
Edmund Lambert of Boyton, Esq.
Richard Long.
Thomas Bennett of Steple
Aston, Esq.
Zachariah Baily.
Christopher Willoughby, Esq.


Worcester.


Benj. Jolliffe, Esq.     Thos. Savage, of Elmley
Thos. Savage, Esq.          Castle, Esq.
Higon[?] James, Esq.     Thos. Cookes Winford.
Humfrey Soley, Esq.
Sir Ja. Rushout.
Wm. Liggon, Esq.
Pp. 6 (large). Endd.  "Sheriffs Corporation, 1701-2." S.P.
Dom., Anne 2, 25.
A COMPARISON between the MONTHLY EXPENSE of the late
EXPEDITION under LIEUTENANT-GENERAL ST. CLAIR and
one now proposed.
This comparison is exclusive of the charge of the Office of
Ordnance, in which it is presumed there can be no material
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The troops for the late expedition consisted of 5,013 men,
who had with them 583 women.
The monthly expense of these for freight of transports, a hospital
ship, store ship, baggage and victualling ships, the agent's salary
and victualling the men and women, together with 180 persons
belonging to the train, amounted to 11,8191. 6s. 6d.
The troops for the expedition now proposed will consist of
2,000 men, who may have with them 200 women. The monthly
expense for these [same items as above] will be 5,4721. 5s. 6d.
Thus in six months there will be a saving [in the cost of the
second as compared with that of the first expedition] of
38,0021. 6s. Od.
Incident charges for necessaries in connection with the first
expedition, fitting the hospital ship &c. [details] came to 4,8211.
18s. 6d.
If the ships employed for the first expedition be continued in
service the money already laid out on fitting them will be sufficient
for any further service. If they are discharged and these goods
sold, they will fetch very little.
Pp. 1~. Endd. S.P. Dom., Military 3, 7.
FURTHER MEMORANDUM on the SAME SUBJECT.
Give particulars of some of the charges spoken of in foregoing.
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Latest date,
1703,     NOTES of INSTRUCTIONS to SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVELL.
1 Jan.    Instructions of May 4 (1702).
1. To go to the coast over against Pequais, make signals,
furnish arms &c.
2. To destroy salt works at Pequais.
3 and 4. To proceed to Palermo and Messina.
5. To Naples, signals, assist.
6. If any Imperial troops [are] in that Kingdom to co-operate
with marines, supply guns, mortars &c.
7. To send to Leghorn per [?] one from Prince Eugene, with
whom to correspond.
Further instructions [of same date].
1. To renew peace with Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli.
2. To persuade them to break with France and in that [?] case
to give presents as he thinks proper.
3. To assist Dutch to make peace with them in case of their [?]
rupture with France.
4. Before his return to send two or more ships to Leghorn
to take all ships of the enemy [?]* going in or coming out in breach
of [?]* neutrality, the Grand Duke not having observed it nor
done right to subjects, as Blackwell will tell him, and also [?] to
require the displacing of the Governor.
5. To require immediate satisfaction to Plowman if n*[not]
done already.
6. To require a declaration from the Grand Duke that [?] no
seamen sent detained be suffered to embark again as they please.
If satisfaction is refused, to exact it with damages.
7. If detach [i.e. if Sir C. Shovell detaches] ships to the
Adriatic, to destroy all French ships, even in Ven[etian?] ports.
To require of the Senate release of all [British] subjects and,
if refused, to take their subjects by reprisals.
8. To require satisfaction for ship at Malamocco [?] or [make]
reprisals.
Further notes follow as to later instructions to Sir C. Shovell,
letters written to him in May and August, instructions sent him
on September 3 and September 9, and a note of a letter to
Aglionby of Jan. 1, 1701, about sending to Cevennes.
Pp. 21 (small). Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 1.
1 Jan.    HEDGES to the COMMISSIONERS of TRADE and PLANTATIONS.
Whitehall  I send enclosed project from   M. Rozencrants, the Danish
envoy. You are to consider it and suggest any other points
* The notes are in several places difficult to read. Abbreviations are used
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we should raise for the advantage of trade in arranging the new
treaty with that Crown. Look into the Treaty of 1701 and
see if the Dutch have [under it] any advantages which we should
insist on having. Complaints have come from the English
factors in Norway that on their removal from thence, either to
come hither or to go elsewhere, they are obliged to show their
books and to pay " the 6 and 10 part " of what they are worth,
as if they were natives of that country. Consider a remedy for
this. Despatch.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 272.
1 Jan.    NOTTINGHAM to the COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED.
The Spanish admiral was discharged by her Majesty's command.
Three lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 187.
2 Jan.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Admiralty  Please request Lord Secretary Nottingham to inform his Royal
Highness of the Queen's pleasure as to the ships proposed for
the East India Company's service, which is pressing; and say that
the Royal Oak, Eagle, Sterling Castle and Lenox will probably
be ready to proceed with the trade to Portugal by the latter
end of next week. The other four cannot be so soon completed,
but will be hurried on as fast as possible.
P. i. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 1.
3 Jan.    SUBMISSION to ARBITRATION.
C    Made between Ozea Perdriau [or Perdrau?] of Cork and John
Neille, Proctor General and special on behalf of Messrs. Moses [?],
and Gibert of Bordeaux.  States that having disputes between
them on certain points in their accounts which could not be
settled without long suits, they agree to submit them to two
gentlemen of Cork, one chosen by each party, to whom they give
full power to determine them, agreeing to abide by their decision
as legally binding. They agree to put in bonds of 1001. conditioned
for their submission to the arbitrators' decision. They give
power to the arbitrators, in case they cannot agree on any point,
to appoint a third arbitrator to decide it. They have agreed to
appoint Michel Halman, merchant, and [blank], gentleman, of
Cork, and will submit to their decision.
Pp. 1, in French. Copy. Not signed or sealed. Badly written.
Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 26.
4 Jan.    HEDGES to M. ROZENCRANTS.
Whitehall Sends the Queen's reply* to his memorial, which was submitted
to her Majesty.
P. i. French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 272.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To Captain Gibson.
The Queen hears that it is necessary to put the men who have
come from the Downs to Spithead on shore, in order to get
* Not entered.


Wt. 3880.


A 34




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them fit to perform the voyage. She has directed Captain
Atkinson to do it. Take steps to prevent desertions.
P.. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 188.
2. To Captain Atkinson.
Gives him directions as mentioned in foregoing. The men
to be got fit as soon as possible for their journey to the West
Indies, for the Dutch fleet is ready and waits only for a wind.
P. i. Ibid, pp. 188-9.
3. To Colonel Columbine*.
Mentions substance of last but one.  Directs him to send
to-night directions to his officers for preventing the desertions
referred to therein.
P. ~. Ibid, 189.
4. To the Lord Treasurer.
3001. is necessary for medicines for the force going to the West
Indies. The Earl of Peterborough has advanced 1001., but the
medicines cannot be had without ready money. Pray consider
how it may be provided.
P. 1. Ibid, p. 190.
5 Jan.    The PRINCE'S COUNCIL to NOTTINGHAM.
Admfirlty  As four 70 gun ships will be probably ready for sea by the
latter end of this week, we think the trade for Portugal may
proceed with them with greater safety than they would do if
they waited for a larger convoy.
P. i. Signed by Rooke, Mitchell, Churchill and Hill. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 2.
5 Jan.    CERTIFICATE by ANT[ONY] COUGOTE, Rector of Milbrook and
Southampton.    Minister of the French Church.
I certify that on 3 December last, which was the Thanksgiving Day appointed by her Majesty, several French prisoners
came to the French Church during divine service and behaved
very scandalously, especially one Cilly. Many complaints were
made to me.   Susan Ligaudon, in whose house Cilly lodged,
reported that Cilly and others had determined beforehand to
come and affront the congregation and laugh heartily. Details.
P. J. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 2.
5 Jan.    H. MARSHALL to NOTTINGHAM.
The Earl of Peterborough asked me yesterday what assistants
I had to help me to execute my office as Commissary of the
Provisions; and when I told him that I had only one clerk, said
that I could not do my duty without more help, for that I must
be always, day and night, busy in getting provisions from on
board ships or otherwise, and my clerks must also be constantly
busy in the store houses, dealing with applications &c. [details].
I beg for more assistance. I ask, too, for a boat well fitted for
The name is spelt in several different ways.




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six or eight oars, and for oarsmen. The boat can be supplied
from Portsmouth dockyard, and men lent from the fleet.
P. 3. Signed. Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 3.
5 Jan.    NOTTINGHAM to the DUKE OF QUEENSBERRY.
Whitehal.  Great want of seamen for the fleet. Queen knows that Scotland
will, as formerly, provide considerable numbers and that the
Council there will take best and speediest methods for raising
them, if informed of her pleasure therein. Ships will be at Leith
at end of February to embark them, and each of them will receive
40s.E. as the Queen's bounty.
P. |. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 190, 191.
Same.     HEDGES to COUNT WRATISLAW.
Sends the Queen's answer to his memorial of A  December.
Details.
P. a.  French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 273.
7 Jan.    The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Sick and
Wounded   The Marquis Gallissonniere, M. Begon, M. Coyeux     and
Office.  M. Camilly (French officers) are still too ill to be moved. Count de
Mornay and his servants may be moved whenever you direct.
P. 2. Signed by Adams and Sherard.   Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 118, 4.
7 Jan.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.
iteha  1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
Queen's command:-That some of you who are physicians
yourselves visit the Marquis de la Galissonniere* and the other
French gentlemen who are prisoners here in town and see how
they are and whether they are able to travel to Oxford. Report.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 191.
2. To Mr. Crauford, Deputy Commissary of the Musters.
The Earl of Peterborough having got some recruits for
Sir Charles Hara's regiment, the Queen would have you muster
them here before they go to Portsmouth, and on their arrival
there and on their embarkation. Levy money will be allowed
only to those who actually embark.
P. i. Ibid, p. 192.
3. To the Council of Trade and Plantations.
The Queen has appointed Colonel John Seymour Governor of
Maryland. Submit a draft of his commission and instructions.
P. i. Ibid.
7 Jan.    MEMORIAL by PRINCE GEORGE OF DENMARK to the QUEEN in
Admiralty      COUNCIL.
Office.
Regarding the court martial on Captains Kirbey [Kirkby],
Cooper Wade, and Constable.
For this see Cal. of S.P., America and West Indies, under this date.
Pp. 21. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 3.
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7 Jan.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Admfirty   Please get from Lord Secretary Nottingham the Queen's approval of the draft instructions for Vice-Admiral Benbow, which
were sent him (Nottingham) some time ago, and have not been
returned; as the men-of-war are about to sail.
Pray lay enclosed (from   Vice-Admiral Benbow   describing
affairs in Jamaica) before his lordship.
P. I (small). (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 4.
8 Jan.    SAME to SAME.
Admralty   Captain Owen, with the Rochester and two other frigates, has
arrived at Spithead with soldiers.  There being no transports
ready for them their presence on the frigates causes sickness
to them and the sailors. His Royal Highness's command:-To
let Lord Secretary Nottingham know of this.
P. i. (Hol.) Endd.    Ibid, 5.
8 Jan.    HEDGES to the COMMISSIONERS of PRIZES.
Whitehall.  I have yours of the 4th with a copy of an information concerning goods to a large value plundered at Port St. Mary's by
Count Steinwer, Gentleman of the Horse to the Prince of Hesse.
You are to proceed according to law, and, if you want advice,
to take the opinion of the Queen's advocates and "Councill"
[counsel] thereon.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 270.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM to the LORD LIEUTENANT of IRELAND.
Lord Carlingford has sent his nephew, Mr. Throgmorton, to
Ireland to attend to his affairs, and has directed him to buy
some horses for the Bishop of Osnabrug. The Queen has been
acquainted with the matter and has allowed it. I am to let you
know that you may see that Mr. Throgmorton is not obstructed.
P. i. S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, p. 37.
9 Jan.    MEMORIAL by PRINCE GEORGE OF DENMARK to the QUEEN in
Admiralty      COUNCIL.
Office.  Soldiers should not be transported on H.M.'s frigates, as it is
bad for the health of the seamen. The Commissioners for transportation should, as in the last war, take care of that affair; and
the men-of-war be used only as convoys.
P. i. Signed by H.R.H. Countersigned by Burchett. Endd.
Read 14 Jan. and referred to Lord Secretary Nottingham to put
H.M. in mind of. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 6.
9 Jan.    DANIEL DE FOE to NOTTINGHAM.*
Apologises for his concealment and prays for the Queen's
mercy. Is ready to serve as a volunteer to any colonel of
* This document is preserved in the Museum of the Public Record Office, and
will be found in the Pedestal at No. 100. See its description in Sir H. C. Maxwell
Lyte's Offcial Catalogue (1912), at p. 85.




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horse in the Queen's Army in the Netherlands whom her Majesty
shall nominate, or to raise a troop of horse at his own charge
and serve at their head as long as he lives. Is ready with hand,
pen or head to show his gratitude if he is pardoned.
Pp. 2. (Hol.) with seal. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 27.
9 Jan.    COUNT DE MORNAY to NOTTINGHAM.
I send M. de Pontchartrain's letters, which will, I think, shew
that I have authority to treat about the cartel. Had you asked
me this question sooner I should have asked for a more ample
power, but I think this letter should suffice, because the ancient
treaties of exchange were made no otherwise.
The Commissioners have told me to be ready to leave for
Oxford on Monday. I shall always be ready to obey their
directions, although I am still very ill. If I have wished to stay
here it is only to finish the affair of the cartel, which you allowed
me to commence.
P. 1. (Hol.) French. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 5.
9 Jan.    M. DE SOREL to the DUKE OF [ORMOND?].*
Oxford.   Milor due,
Thank you for all your kindness. The Vice-Chancellor and
others here are very kind to us every day. If a prison could
ever be beautiful, this is so; but it never is so. We know we
must be patient, as we hear the cartel is almost broken off. We
have wine only for five or six days, and after that shall be reduced
to beer and water, which is bad for M. D'Aligre. The wine at the
inns is bad.  I desire leave of the Queen to go to London for two
days to order good wine. All our fellow countrymen send their
respects. Pray send me back soon to my wife. Details.
Pp. 3. (Hol.) French. Endd. Ibid, 6.
[10 Jan.]  The COMMITTEE [for Plundered Goods] to the QUEEN.
In obedience to your Majesty's Order in Council of 6 December,
we have been aboard the Oriana and Susanna transports, laden
with goods taken from the sunk galleons at Vigo. We found
the hatches all sealed down and the seals did not appear to us
to have been altered. We have given orders for unlading these
ships and the galleons as soon as the warehouses are able to
receive the goods.
P.,.   Signed by  Granville, Boyle and Rooke.   Endd.
"Committee Council " and with date. Ibid, 7.
10 Jan.   NOTTINGHAM to COUNT DE MORNAY.
Whitehall.  I return your papers, which contain rather instructions than
the power necessary to treat of and sign a cartel. When you have
proper authority, power will be given to Commissioners by the
Queen to arrange some fresh clauses and complete the whole matter
of the exchange of prisoners. When you get your power you
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will be permitted to return to London. If you wish to exchange
man for man it will be agreed to for the relief of those poor
people.
P. i. French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 193.
11 Jan.   GEORGE CLARKE to NOTTINGHAM.
AdOirty   His Royal Highness desires to know her Majesty's pleasure
as to when the four 70 gun ships, which are now ready for service,
should sail.
P. i. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 7.
11 Jan.   E. DUMMER to SAME.
Pescott Street, I purpose that the last sloop of the four, the Bridgewater, shall
be at Falmouth about 28 January for your orders, unless unavoidably prevented. News has reached Falmouth that the first sloop
reached Barbados, but I have not heard the date of her arrival.
P. ~. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 8.
11 Jan.   HEDGES to [WM.] LOWNDES.
Whitehal.  The envoy of Tripoli to the States General, who is recommended
to me by Mr. Stanhope (her Majesty's envoy at the Hague),
complains of his ill circumstances and sends a list of his things,
which he says are detained in the Custom House. He desires
them and some relief till he goes back to Tripoli. Pray submit
the case to the Lord High Treasurer for his directions.
P. A. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 270.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM to the COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED.
The Queen desires, as you know, that no French prisoners
should be kept at Portsmouth or near enough to it to see what
passes there. You are not to burden the sea-side towns with
too mnany of them. You must try and place them inland either
where there are troops to guard them or prisons to secure them.
You may tell Count de Mornay that I have often given orders
for releasing any French ships which were here before the war,
and am sure they have been carried out. Colonel Codrington
may indeed have threatened severe usage to the French officers
taken at St. Christopher's, being provoked to it by the escape
of those who were sent to Hispaniola; but he need not fear
that such threats will be carried out. Tell him that the prisoners
who escaped should be returned. It is a constant rule that a
guard should not be insulted when taking prisoners to any
place in their own Prince's dominions.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 192, 193.
Same.     HEDGES to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
To take steps to release two Swedish subjects who have been
pressed as sailors [details], and give them tickets for their wages.
P. t. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 332.




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12 Jan.    The COMMISSIONERS for SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Sick and
Wounded    We have already ordered the removal of all the prisoners
Office.  of war at Gosport to Farnham, and ordered that all other prisoners
set ashore at Gosport or Portsmouth be brought there. We have
not succeeded in getting the sheriffs to admit them into the
county jails, though Secretary Blathwaite assures us that wherever
we find suitable places for them within 80 miles of London we
shall have guards. Enclosed shew how unjustly the people of
Southampton complain of the infection spread by the prisoners.
Details. We send a letter received from our agent in Jersey.
P. i. Signed by Herbert. Adams and Sherard. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 9. Enclosing:A. Mathew Jobson, surgeon for sick and wounded seamen and
prisoners, to the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded.
The prisoners here are not, as alleged, very sickly.  Not one
has died since they have been here. Care is taken to quarter
any who fall sick, when necessary.
It is not true that they suffer because I am too ill to take care
of them. I have a cold, but only staid in two days. I
have trusted servants who look to them daily, and they do
not want medicine. We have not lost 40 [?] out of 300 who
were mostly sick with very malignant fever. The petitioners
making these allegations are malicious.
Pp. 1l. Copy. Dated, Southampton, 9 Jan., 1701. Ibid, 9A.
B. Edward Hammond, agent at Jersey, to Same.
On Sunday last a boat from St. Malo landed two merchants here,
whom I have in custody.
They said when examined that they came to buy stockings and
tobacco and to arrange a correspondence with these two
islands and so to have a constant trade to France. The
merchants here are disposed to have such a trade, and do
not want the French merchants who come here to be either
molested or imprisoned.  Lieutenant-Governor Collier has
written to Lord Secretary Nottingham about it and told me,
before several officers, that but for my depositing money for
maintenance of the French prisoners he would take no
cognizance of my authority from you or anyone else, but
only from the Queen and Council and bade me tell you so.
Pp. 1l. Copy. Dated, 23 Dec., 1702. Ibid, 9B.
12 Jan.    HEDGES to M. ROZENCRANTS.
Whitehall.
Yours of to-day. We cannot go further in renewing the Treaties
until we know how far the King of Denmark is satisfied with the
answer to your late memorial, regarding the arrears of the
subsidies paid by England to Denmark. Amongst the treaties
which should be renewed is that of 1696 and the article by which
the King of England agreed to pay the disputed 100,000 crowns.
Parliament has twice considered it, and has always refused to
grant the money. For this reason it seems necessary that the
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of all claims under that Treaty, or to find some other way of
accommodating the difference between us; or else leave the
matter out of this Treaty and put in a clause to say that it is
concluded without prejudice to the question of subsidies under
the Treaty of 1696. There is no deliberate delay, for the Queen
is resolved not only to renew the existing treaties with Denmark,
but to enter into a closer alliance with that Crown-one so close
that no enemy of either party can break it.
I shall make no delay in getting for you a reply to the memorial
sent as answer to a memorial handed in (as alleged) by
Mr. Stanhope at the Hague. I only wait to hear the state of
the affair from him.
Pp. 11. French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 273, 274.
12 Jan.   NOTTINGHAM to the LORD KEEPER.
Whitehall.  I understand from Sir Thomas Hanmer and Sir R. Mostyn
that there is a Commission of the Peace for Flint ready to be
sealed and sent down, but that it is delayed owing to alterations
in the list of the justices for reasons which they have given your
lordship under their hands. It will be very prejudicial if this
commission cannot be sealed to-day, so as to be sent down
against the next Sessions on Thursday. I join them in asking
y6u to despatch it.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 194.
[13 Jan.]  The EARL OF PETERBOROUGH to the DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.
Your Grace seemed to expect that I should explain my
thoughts to you on this occasion rather by a letter than by an
interrupted discourse in the House of Lords. If the Dutch forces
arrive and pursue the voyage, I am ready to go into my coach
in an hour's time.  In the last conversation I had with their
ministers, they pretend[ed] that their ships and soldiers were
ready and that the first fair wind would bring them to Portsmouth,
and that their memorial goes no further than to state that the
season is far gone and that they offer other services if those at
first desired cannot be effected. These easterly winds and fair
weather will not leave that matter long in suspense. If this
affair comes yet to depend on her Majesty's resolutions, I can
only say what I said the other night, "that five weeks' time
is sufficient to bring the greatest design in America to a decision
that a safe port and a convenient inlet for trade with the Spaniards,
whether it can be possessed in the beginning or end of a campaign,
the difference in respect to the Dutch is only this, that it may
now towards the latter end of the season be effected with less
expense to them, and their men and ships sooner returned and
exposed to less hazard; [and] that if the fleet sail by the end of the
month there will be near three months fit for service. 'Whether
any other design proposed can be of equal consequence to the
public I will not pretend to determine, but I can hardly pretend
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capital ships, being made wholly ineffectual to any considerable
design for want of this supplemental quota of force from the
Dutch, and the English troops and ships not possible to be brought
back time enough for any European service next summer." It
is useless for me to go immediately without sufficient force or
artillery for a sudden action.  Such attempts would be of no
service to the public, and we can do nothing till next season;
but attempts can be made upon us by our enemies.
Civil government in Jamaica (particularly getting the grant
of the revenues for 21 years, which they must comply with or
have the perpetual Act passed, as by my instructions) can be as
well despatched by my Lieutenant-Governor as by me; and
if there is a chance of any small military expedition, Colonel
Handeside has the reputation of being one of the best infantry
officers we have. Towards the end of the summer, according
to the Queen's designs or the motions of her enemies, I shall be
in a better position and readiness to go to the West Indies than
at present, since the short time I had to prepare caused me to
neglect all family and private affairs in the public interest. This
I was willing to do on a great occasion, but I do not think the
Queen will require it of me when there is no pressing public
work to do, and when I continue prepared to serve her in those
parts as soon as season and opportunity allow. Any designs
against the French islands may be pursued by " Coronell"
Codrington. They lie properly under his jurisdiction and station
and are inconsistent with the position of Jamaica, which is more
conveniently situated for designs against the Spaniards. I am
sensible of the honour the Queen designed for me and hope I
have been zealous in her service, "and I assure you my Lord,
the Queen shall ever find a real and hearty obedience from me
in what part of the world she is pleased to require my service
against her enemies."
P.S.-This settled fair wind makes me lament the present
disappointment the more.   The Dutch   excuses are more
extraordinary, since all the world knows that M. Pontis' [Pointis']
expedition was undertaken at this time. His success shewed
it was not too late.
Pp. 1. (Hol.) Add. Endd. with date. S.P. Dom., Naval
118, 10.
13 Jan.   The QUEEN to PRINCE GEORGE OF DENMARK.
St. James.  We see no reason to shew favour to Captains Richard Kirkby
and Cooper Wade, who have been condemned to be shot, or to
Captain John Constable, who has been condemned to be cashiered,
to be unfit for the Queen's service, and whom you say should be
sent prisoner from the Indies on the first occasion.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, p. 124.
[14 Jan.  COLONEL HOLT to [HEDGES].
South-    I have taken all the best information I could regarding the
ampton.] complaint against Captain Henley, and am sorry that the Duke of




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Marlborough and the "Cabinet Council" should be troubled
over so small a matter.  Vindicates Henley on grounds set out in
the affidavits of Rich and Sutton (see enclosures). Proceeds:The town complains of the great oppression from the number
of prisoners and of the liberty which any of them who will pay
the marshal a small fee can have to walk abroad.
Relates tenor of first enclosure and desires they may be laid
before his Grace.
P. 1. Signed. Endd. with date and " At Cab[ine]t, January 22,
Lord Marlborough said he would reprimand Captain Henley."
S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 11. Enclosing:A. Certificate of the Mayor and others of Southampton.
We certify that there being many French and Spanish prisoners
placed here, we have been much alarmed by mutiny amongst
them, but that, since Captain John Henley came here we
are made much easier by his conduct and care, and hope
to be preserved from all danger by his continuing care.
P. A.  Dated, 5 January, Southampton, with signatures of
Thomas Bracebridge, Mayor, William Godfrey, Sheriff, William
Bulkley, Ch. Smith, John Thornburgh, William Cropp, Thomas
Cornelius and Jonathan Ingles, justices, and of Adam de
Cardonnel, Robert Culliford, James Merick, Edmund Modey,
and thirty-two other citizens of Southampton.  Endd.  Ibid,
11A.
B. Affidavit of William  Rich, corporal of Captain John
Henley's company.
Sworn, he says:On 4 December last he was corporal of the guard where the
French and Spanish prisoners are kept in Southampton.
Captain Henley came at 8 a.m. on that day to look at the
prisoners, as he frequently did, through a large hole. Some
one or more of the prisoners spat in his face, which made
him angry.  He called on one Sutton, deputy marshal, for
the keys, and that the men who had so offended should be
discovered and brought out.  The prisoners refused to do
this, and the Captain, in anger, struck some of them with a
small sword in the scabbard without doing them any harm.
P. i.  Signed, and sworn before and signed by Thomas
Bracebridge, Mayor  of  Southampton.   Dated,   11 January,
170~. Southampton. Endd. Ibid, llB.
c. Affidavit of Francis Sutton, Deputy Marshal of the French
and Spanish prisoners.
Corroborates foregoing.
P. ]. Signed &c. as foregoing. Endd. Ibid, llc.
14 Jan.    JOHN POWELL to the EARL OF PETERBOROUGH.
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arrived at Spithead.  Governor Gibson sends his respects and
hopes you will lodge at his house.
P. 1. Signed. Add. to "The Earl of Peterborough at
Bow Street, Covent Garden; for her Majesty's special service,
London. Express."   S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 12.
Also envelope* in which the above letter was sent. Endd. as
follows:(1) This being for her Majesty's special service, all postmasters are ordered to forward the same from stage to
stage, as they will answer the contrary at their perils.
Portsmouth, 14 January. J. Gibson.
(2) Received at the Post Office at Portsmouth at 5 p.m.
and sent away by me: James Wansbrough.
(3) Received at Petersfield past 8 p.m. and forwarded
forthwith per John Corps.
(4) Received at Alton past 11 p.m. and sent away presently
per Mathew Hawkins.
(5) Received at Staines near 7 o'clock and sent away per
John Beauchamp.
P. 1. Ibid, 13.
14 Jan.    J. ELLIS to M. VRYBERGE.
Whitehall.  The Committee of Council beg you to attend at their meeting
at 9 a.m. to-morrow and to bring Admiral Allemonde with you.
Their lordships desire to speak with you before the Council.
The Prince's Council will be present at the same time. Pray
let me have an answer for the Secretary of State, who wishes
to inform the Lords of the Committee of Council.
P. i. In French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 274, 275.
15 Jan.    NOTTINGHAM to the DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.
Whitehall.  Consider enclosed draft warrant for furnishing the packetboats employed between Lisbon and Falmouth with arms and
ammunition, and let the Queen know if you have any objection
to the granting of what is desired. Further pleasure.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 195.
15 Jan.    ROYAL ORDER.
St. James'.  The following regulations shall be observed in St. James' Park,
and the keeper and his servants, gate keepers &c. shall take
care that they are duly obeyed.
1. "No groom, coachman or other person shall ride on the
grass.
2. No coaches or carts shall go on the grass.
3. No public passage shall be suffered through the Park with
carts.
4. No rude, disorderly people or beggars or rude boys shall be
admitted into the Park.
* The envelope (which is the first of its kind I have seen and in a primitive form
-a paper folded and sealed) is endorsed as shewn, addressed only " Ld. Peterboro."
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5. No person shall be permitted to sell anything there.
6. No persons shall be suffered to walk on the grass, but only
on the gravelled path or in the Mall, except only such as are
employed in the Park about planting and pruning the trees and
other work.
7. The park-keepers and others above mentioned are to take
care to keep hogs and dogs out of the park."
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 352, pp. 101, 102.
16 Jan.   ROBERT CROSFIELD to NOTTINGHAM.
I regretted incurring your lordship's displeasure more than
being taken into custody. I heard I was to be indicted at the
Old Baily, but believed in a little time your lordship's anger
would wear off.  I did not in the least intend to reflect upon
the present ministry, as anyone who reads the book will see;
and any remarks in it which may have been so taken were only
designed to reflect on the maladministration in the late reign.
No such charge could be brought against the Queen's Government,
which is only in its infancy. For the last seven years I have
been laying open the hyprocisy of the dissenting party, and
now am in such a position that I am better able to wound that
party than any man that may have ten times my sense. I have
tra[cked] their actions for many years past and can make all
honest men, even of their own party, desert them, and so "break
their heads as it were with a cushin," and will do it if I can
be discharged, for I have no bail.
P. i. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 28.
Same.     SAME to SAME.
"I having been occationally the cause of a bill's being brought
into the House of Commons entitled 'A Bill for the more free and
impartial proceedings in Parliament &c.,' and finding the said
bill would no ways answer the end for which it was intended,"
I thought I ought to draw up my reasons against the said bill.
When it was read a second time, I drew up the following reasons
and sent them to a person of honour, whom I believed to be
interested in the preservation of the Church of England. The
bill was to be read in the full house on the 14th, but was postponed
to the 16th. Meantime I send my reasons for fear the bill should
have passed the House of Commons and that your lordship may
see that no unkind usage can make me forget my duty.
I am delicate and have " an astmah " and feel the closeness of
the air and nearness to the water very much. I fear I shall soon
die if not set free, and pray for release.
P... (Hol.) Add. Ibid, 29. Enclosing:A. Reasons against passing a bill entitled, A Bill for the more
free and impartial proceedings in Parliament.
The passing of this bill will actually deprive all the trading
part of the nation of its birthright; for the writs which
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and corporations which have the right of election to choose
or elect members from among themselves, so that the trading
part of the nation will be deprived at once of their birthright,
few or none of them having the real estate qualification for
membership required by this bill, if it pass.
The passing of this bill will greatly disgust all the gentlemen
in the country whom it makes incapable of serving their
country in Parliament. All men are unwilling to be deprived
of that to which they have a legal right, even though they reap
no advantage thereby.
"The passing of this bill will greatly prejudice the Church of
England and strengthen the hands of the Republican party,
who represent themselves to the People to be the only friends
to trade &c.; so that if the Scotch Union should not take
place (which is much to be doubted) it may be of dangerous
consequence at this time to make so great an innovation in
the Legislative Power."
The bill, if passed, can be of no great benefit to the State, for
the gentlemen of England have now in a manner as much
influence as they might or could have if the bill were passed.
P. i. In same hand as the covering letter. S.P. Dom., Anne 2,
29A.
13, 14 and   THREE MEMORIALS by the PRINCES' COUNCIL regarding the
16 Jan.        NAVAL CAMPAIGN in the WEST INDIES.
Admiralty  For these see Cal. of S.P., America and West Indies, at these
dates.
Pp. 1, 2, and 2A, each signed by three or more members of the
Prince's Council. Each endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7; 8, 9 and 10.
17 Jan.    COUNT DE MORNAY to NOTTINGHAM.
Oxford.    I have yours of the 10th and instructions sent by you from
M. de Pontchartrain. These authorise me to consent to all the
terms of the proposals which were sent to France by the Lord
High Admiral. I do not think I need ask for a fuller power,
since treaties of that sort are always concluded by such writings.
As you know it was always your idea to agree on the terms
here and then send the formal Treaty to France to be signed,
as was done in the last war.
You told me that you were anxious to agree on reasonable
terms. M. de Pontchartrain put forward those of the last war,
to which you would not consent. The other terms sent to France
by his Royal Highness were accepted by the King, as I told
you six weeks ago. Nevertheless you have not let me have any
positive answer about them. If you have any additions to make,
they can be made when the Treaty is drawn up in form. It will
be sent to Calais, where M. de la Tour Montfort has authority to
sign it if the person who goes over has a like authority from
England.
If you desire that the Treaty should be signed here, I am sure
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and, as you say you have further articles to add, I beg that they
may be sent me, so that I may explain them to M. de Pontchartrain
at the same time as I ask for this authority. He will tell me the
King's views on them. Otherwise any step I might take might
be useless as beyond my authority. I doubt if the King will
consider the question of exchange of man for man unless everything is arranged at the same time.   I await your positive
proposals.
Pp. 21.   French.   Signed.  Add.    Endd.   S.P. Dom.,
Naval 118, 14.
18 Jan.   WARRANT to the Mayors, Justices, Constables &c. of CumDovenby.       berland to arrest CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER DALSTON.
The warrant sets out that Dalston listed one John Cubbidge* of
Cockermouth to serve as a soldier contrary to law, that it appeared
to several justices that Cubbidge was so listed without proper
authority and that Dalston was ordered by them not to trouble
Cubbidge further on that occasion, but that he re-took Cubbidge
contrary to law and in contempt of the said order. Proceeds:
You are therefore to arrest Dalston and bring him before me
with sufficient sureties to be bound for his appearing at the next
General Quarter Sessions of the Peace to answer on the matter
and meantime to be of good behaviour, which, if he refuse, you
are to convey him to the Common Gaol at Carlisle and deliver
him there to the keeper with this precept, to be kept there till
he do so or be released by due course of law. You are also to
cause Cubbidge to come before us or some other justice for
Cumberland to be discharged according to law.
P. 1. Signed by R. Lamplugh.     Addressed as in heading
and endd. as follows:Sir,
Captain Christopher Dalston came before me this morning
pursuant to your warrant. "We did not, as I remember, discharge
Cubbage* without his consent at our request upon his former
retainer by usual way of voluntary listing a man into the King or
Queen's service, nothing appearing to the contrary at the time,
otherwise than that he was duly listed; nor do I think the Justice
of Peace has anything to do in this case. If they do [anything],
I perceive the Queen would get few soldiers. If the man have a
mind to be acquitted he must appear before a Court Martial.
This is the judgment of your most humble servant.
R. MUSGRAVE."
P. a. (Hol.) In all pp. 1i. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 30.
18 Jan.   SIGN MANUAL WARRANT to COLONEL VENTRIS COLENBINE.
Whitehall.  To appoint John Bennet to the first vacant captaincy in his
regiment.
P. ~. Sign manual, and countersigned by William Blathwayt;
with note by Blathwayt, dated, 20 January, that the Queen desires
this warrant to apply to any other regiment under Colenbine's
command. Endd. S.P. Dom., Military 3, 9.
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18 Jan.    HEDGES to the LORD CHAMBERLAIN.
Whitehall.  The Queen has consented to be godmother to a son of one of
the Princes of the House of Saxony. I am to inform you of this
that you may give orders for the usual present of plate, which
is to be handed to the Baron de Ungern Sternberg, who came
hither with his master's letters to the Queen.
P. j. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 275.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM to LORD WALDEN.
The service for which the troops going to the West Indies
are designed is different from, and much shorter than, what
was originally intended.   Queen's command:-To      depute
Mr. Hezekiah Marshall to muster the troops there subject to
instructions from her Majesty. Please send me a deputation
to him that I may send it, with his instructions, to-night.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 194.
18 Jan.   INSTRUCTIONS  by the LORD HIGH ADMIRAL for CAPTAIN
HOVENDON WALKER.
I have ordered H.M.Ss. Resolution and Blackwall to join your
squadron at Barbados; or, if you have left there for the Leeward
Islands, the Resolution to go on there with the transports with
soldiers, naval stores and provisions, and leave the Blackwall
at Barbados for duty there. If these ships join you at Barbados
you are to take the Resolution under your command and leave
the Blackwall for duty at that island. If the Resolution joins
you at the Leeward Islands, take her and the transports with
her under your command and protection.
When joined, proceed in the service as a Council of War of
the sea and land officers [details] shall determine.  Proceed
with the utmost care in such service until May 20; and when
occasion arises, spare such men and guns as you can to assist the
officer in command of the land forces in any attempt on the
enemy which may be resolved on. If it be thought necessary
to leave a full regiment, or part of a regiment, at Martineco, if
Fort Royal shall be taken, you shall leave such ammunition and
provisions as the Governor or commanding land officer shall
desire and think necessary for such number of men as he shall
leave there.
Having done all you can against the enemy till May 20,
repair with all your ships, transports, stores and such soldiers as
the chief land officer shall appoint to Port Royal in Jamaica.
Join Vice-Admiral Benbow there and place yourself under his
command or that of the Commander-in-Chief of the squadron
for the time being. Carry to Jamaica as many French prisoners
(if any) as you can, that they may be brought to Europe.
Pp. 2. Draft. With note of the Prince's and Burchett's signatures. Underwritten:To Captian Hov. Walker, commander-in-chief of the ships
detached by Sir G. Rooke from the Cadiz fleet to the West Indies,
or the officer in his place.
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19 Jan.   HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.
Whitehall. To M. Vryberge.
The Queen has consented to give the Marquis de Galissonniere*
in exchange for two daughters of the late Sieur Ribaut, consul
of the States General at Rochelle, where the ladies are shut up
in a convent. It is now for you to nrgociate the exchange.
P. I, in French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 275.
2. To Count Wratislaw.
I send the Queen's answer to your memoir of -7 January.
To yours of 21 January the Queen answers that she will
scrupulously observe the terms of the Grand Alliance in which the
affairs of America are regulated. As the journey of Cardinal
Grimani from Italy to Vienna at this season is probably on some
important errand, please let me know what it is.
P. A, in French. Ibid, p. 278.
3. To the Lord High Treasurer.
I send the envoy of Tripoli's memorial. The Queen is willing
to do something for him, and desires you to consider how much
should be given and how.
P. A. Ibid.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To the Postmasters General.
Queen's command:-Give strict orders to the packet-boats
plying to Lisbon that they take no merchandize and no
passengers unless under passes from her Majesty's envoy in
Portugal if they are Englishmen, or from the King of Portugal
or his ministers if they are Portuguese subjects.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 195.
2. To the Prince's Council.
The Queen, having read his Royal Highness's report on the
case of Captain John Evans, is pleased to remit his suspension.
He may be employed again as his Royal Highness thinks fit.
Acquaint his Royal Highness with this.
P. W. Ibid, pp. 196, 197.
3. To Mr. Methuen.
I have yours up to December 26. You must insist that none
of our men-of-war or packet-boats be visited or stopped on their
voyages. However, to prevent abuses of any kind to which the
King of Portugal may object, the Queen has directed the
commanders of those vessels not to take any goods to or from
Portugal, and not to take any persons on board except with passes
either from the King of Portugal or his ministers or from yourself or some other of the Queen's ministers. If they suspect contravention of these orders by any packet-boat, you must send
some servant whom you can trust to inspect it and may do right if
you find a case for it, but if you find the suspicion is false,
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your certificate to that effect must be enough. The Queen will
punish herself any commander of a man-of-war who breaks the
rule, but will not permit the vessel to be searched.
I have communicated this to the Portuguese envoy. Inform
the King of it and it will surely satisfy him.
The convoy for Lisbon will reach almost as soon as this.
Our merchants complain of a tax, called a donation, laid upon
wine at Madeira, contrary to our Treaty. Get redress for
them. The Portuguese envoy here is sure they will satisfy us.
I have nothing to add on the main negociation. It is strange
that you have not yet got a plain and positive answer.
Pp. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 1, 2.
4. To Paul Methuen, jun.
Yours to 26 December received. The Queen has ordered a ship
to go and take off her subjects from Teneriffe.
In case your father should be come away, you may open my
letter to him and take it as directed to yourself.
P. ~. Ibid, p. 2.
5. To the Prince's Council.
The Queen would have the convoy for the East India ships
proceed as was formerly directed without the addition of the
service ships mentioned in your memorial of 14 January. Her
Majesty desires you to direct a ship at once to go and bring
her subjects home from the Canaries. Let me know before the
captain sails.
P. ~. Ibid, pp. 2, 3.
19 Jan.   INSTRUCTIONS by the LORD HIGH ADMIRAL to VICE-ADMIRAL
BENBOW, Vice-Admiral of the White and Commander-inChief in the West Indies (or any acting in his place).
1. I have ordered ten ships [names given] to join you at Jamaica
as soon as they have performed what service they can against
the enemy in the Leeward Islands. They will bring with them
transport ships with soldiers, victuals, naval stores &c., and in
all probability will arrive with you by May 20. When you
receive this, get all your ships together at Port Royal in Jamaica
in readiness to join the aforesaid ships from the Leeward Islands
when they arrive, and take them under your command; and
receive on your warships and transports (save such as by
charter-party are to discharge at Jamaica) such land forces as the
Commander-in-Chief of the land forces [which are to join you]
shall desire.
2. Consider what four vessels [details] had best be left behind
at Jamaica as a guard, and leave them there with a proper
commander-in-chief and instructions. Leave also the two fireships lately equipped by that Government.
3. You are to appoint such three other of your ships as you
think best to come home to England to act as convoy to the
trade which, we hear, is there ready to come home.


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4. Leave two other ships at Jamaica to come home with any
trade which is ready to come home at the beginning of August.
Both convoys to report at Plymouth and, failing orders there,
to come on to the Downs.
5. Detach two of the 4th rate ships with orders to go to Virginia
and join the other vessels (sent there direct as a convoy from
England) in convoying home the Virginia trade. The senior
officer on board the convoying vessels to take command.
6. This being done, you are to repair as soon as you can with
transports, victuallers and soldiers to Newfoundland, and
consider, at a Council of land and sea officers, how the enemy
may be attempted and destroyed at Placentia as well as at their
other settlements there, with their fishing tackle, shipping &c.
Employ your squadron to help in what may be agreed on. If you
can spare them, detach some vessels to attempt the enemy's
fishery on the Bank, and, after the attempt, to rejoin you at
Newfoundland, where you can re-form and come back to England
and Portugal.
7. If when you come from Jamaica you think that you will be
too early in Newfoundland, you are to go to Boston and take
aboard thence any soldiers which the Government there can spare
to help you at Newfoundland, provided that the Government there
can furnish embarcations to carry such men to Newfoundland
and back again. Otherwise you are not to take them with
you.
8. After the attempt at Newfoundland and the Bank and the
re-assembly of your squadron, you shall detach some ships to
convoy the fish ships for Portugal to that port (Lisbon) and
Oporto, from which these vessels shall at once return into the
Channel (with trade, if any), report at Plymouth, proceed to the
Downs and send in an account of their voyage. The commander
to make sure before he enters any port of Portugal that there
is not a rupture with that Crown. If he finds there is, he must
bring his convoys direct for England.
9. Having done this, come home with the remainder of your
squadron and such merchant ships as shall be coming over.
Take care that none of your ships bring over any fish except
what is wanted for the ships' company. If you have on board
any regiments intended for Ireland, land them at Cork, convoying
the transports thither. Bring thence any regiments which may be
ordered to England and ready to embark at Cork.
10. Do not imprest men from the privateers at Jamaica, as it
may disenable them to commit spoils on the enemy, unless it is
absolutely necessary to do so. If you do it, take as few as you
can.
11. If you have imprested, or otherwise obtained any men
from Jamaica, put them on shore before you leave, that they
may be employed in the service of the island, or at least so
many as you can conveniently spare.
12. Provide for bringing home any French prisoners who
may be taken and brought to you. [See foregoing instructions to
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Pp. 71. With note of signature by the Lord High Admiral and
countersignature by Burchett. Draft. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval
67, 34.
19 Jan.   INSTRUCTIONS by the LORD HIGH ADMIRAL to CAPTAIN LYELL
of the Resolution, at Spithead.
1. Receive Colonel Collenbine and such other officers as shall
accompany him, together with their servants and equipage,
allowing them victuals when aboard as to your ship's company.
If you cannot accommodate them all in the ship you command,
see that it is done aboard the transport ships or others in her
Majesty's pay that are bound to the West Indies.
2. As soon as they are accommodated, take the Blackwall
under your command, and use your utmost diligence to get in
readiness to accompany you all the transport ships with naval
or ordnance stores and provisions which shall be bound to
the West Indies.
3. When the Blackwall and these vessels are ready to sail,
proceed at once to Barbados and put yourself under the command
of Captain H. Walker, if you find him there, or anyone else acting
for him.
4. If you find Walker has gone on to the Leeward Islands,
leave the Blackwall to act as guard at Barbados and go on with
the other vessels to join him there. If, at Nevis, you hear that
he has gone to any of the English or French plantations, join
him there with the other vessels.
Note of clause for putting the ships' companies on short
provisions.
5. Take with you any vessels bound for Jamaica or Barbados
which are ready to sail and convoy them to those places.
Pp. 2|. Draft.  With note of signature of the Lord High
Admiral and countersignature by Burchett. Endd. Ibid, 35.
[About    SIR WILLIAM HODGES to HEDGES.
20 Jan.]  You lately ordered that the Spanish captain and one of his
men should return to Spain to get an exchange of forty-eight
English prisoners there, or a testification that there were no English
prisoners in Spain, for the forty-eight Spaniards now prisoners
at Southampton, and [you said that] the French King would
not exchange Englishmen for Spaniards, and that the forty-eight
Spaniards might be set at liberty.
The Englishmen who have been carried into the ports of Spain
by the French have been allowed to depart for Portugal in order
to embark for England. Fifty of them lately went from Cadiz
to Faro, and were taken aboard the Revenge (Captain Kerr).
Pray move her Majesty in Council that these poor Spaniards
may have their liberty; for, as Spain does not detain any English
seamen, it is not likely that France will surrender Englishmen
for Spaniards, there being so many Frenchmen now here; so
that these poor Spaniards may be left here till the war ends unless
they are allowed to go in exchange for the Englishmen daily
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Moreover their release may be of value to me and others of
her Majesty's subjects who have still great concerns in Spain.
Pp. 1i. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 31. Enclosing:
Memorandum by Count de Mornay.
Don Fernando Chacon has begged me that the thirty-five
Spaniards here should, as well as the Frenchmen who are
here, be exchanged for Englishmen who are prisoners of war
in France in the cartel which may be made by France and
England. I promised him to insert them in the cartel. I am
sure that the Comte de Pontchartrain will not object to my
having done this without having got his permission, for the
relief of these thirty-five men.
P. I. Small. In French. Dated, London, 20 Jan., 170g.
(Hol.) Ibid, 31A.
20 Jan.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Colonel Codrington.
I send your commission to command in the West Indies during
the time mentioned in your instructions. Hope for your success.
As sickness and war may make vacancies in your ranks, the
Queen would have you place half-pay officers (some of whom
have gone to the Indies) in the vacancies as they occur, suitably
to their rank. Your commission gives power for this.
"The French have represented to her Majesty that you have
threatened to hang some officers whom you took prisoners at
St. Christophers in case the French prisoners whom you sent to
Hispaniola, and who mastered the vessel on which they were
embarked and went with it to a French island, were not
restored." Now though they may justly be reclaimed, and her
Majesty does not believe you will execute these menaces, yet
for their satisfaction she asks me bid you not to execute them.
The officers will tell you what artillery and mortars are sent
with these ships.
P. i. with notes of enclosure of his commission (as above); his
instructions (as commander-in-chief) dated Jan. 18, 170~; orders
regarding distribution of prizes of Dec. 9, 1702, and orders and
instructions for trade also of Dec. 9, 1702.  Packet delivered to
Brigadier Colenbine, 21 January, 1701.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 3.
2 and 3. To the Prince's Council.
The Queen desires your opinion as to pardoning returned
deserters, and wishes orders to be given to all the men-of-war
that sail to Portugal [&c., as in Lord Nottingham's letter to the
Postmasters General of 19 January, 1703].
P. I and p. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 196, 197.
21 Jan.    HEDGES to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Whitehall.  Queen's command:-To move the Lord High Admiral to detail
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One of the packet-boats in use in that service is disabled and
beyond repair.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 271.
22 Jan.    NOTTINGHAM to CAPTAIN ATKINSON.
Whitehall.  The supernumerary ships not necessary for this expedition
to be discharged according to their charter-parties.
You were right not to unload the victuals. If not otherwise
ordered by the Prince's Council or the victuallers, let them travel
with the men. Do as you propose with the extra beds.
P. W. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 4.
23 Jan.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to JOHN ELLIS.
Admiralty  Sends, for Secretary Hedges, a letter (copy) from Captain Bloyce*
of the Swan.
P. i. Signed. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 11. Enclosing:Captain Bloyce to [Josiah Burchett].
I met at sea a galleot hoy belonging to Gottenburgh loaded with
brass, copper, pitch &c. bound for Rhoan [Rouen]. I thought
it best to bring her into the Downs till I heard his Royal
Highness's pleasure about her. On the 17th I met with a
Dane at sea that came from St. Martin's in France and
put into Brest water owing to bad weather. They say that
great preparations are being made there in order to fit out
what ships are in that port, that an embargo is laid on all
merchant ships and privateers, and that seamen, fishermen
and boatmen are summoned from all the ports to man the fleet.
P. i. Copy, dated from the Swan in the Downs, 22 January,
at 3 a.m. Ibid., llA.
23 Jan.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Vice-Admiral Benbow.
Yours to October 20 [details] and others from Mr. Browne and
Captain Whetstone received. The Queen is very pleased with
your conduct "and much offended with the baseness of those
officers who deserted and betrayed you." You will hear more
from the Prince's Council. I only lament your misfortune in
losing your leg. I hope this will find you otherwise well and
"that you are reserved to do her Majesty and your country
still greater services, of which no man is more capable than
yourself."
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 4.
2. To Colonel Beckford.
Yours to 16 October received.' Your accounts are very
satisfactory. In future no French who are taken are to be sent to
Hispaniola. The Queen is justly vexed with the officers who were
the occasion of Du Casse's escaping. Your zeal in service, &c.
P. I. Ibid., p. 5.
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3. To Colonel Handasyd*.
I send enclosed to you as Sir William Beeston is dead. Haines'
case seems hard. Examine it and report if he has been unduly
oppressed, so that the Queen may give him relief if he deserves
any and you cannot relieve him.
P. i, with note that it enclosed:A. The case between Joseph Haines and his wife.
B. Order in Council of July 9, 1702.
c. Copy of certificate of Mr. Montague, 17 April, 1701,t and
also the following:D. Nottingham to Colonel Dudley.
Yours to November 8 [details] received. There was no
intention to take any of the men you should raise and send
to Jamaica for recruiting the regiment there. They were to
serve in distinct companies and go back to New England when
their service was over. To prove this I am to tell you
now that you need not send any men whom you have raised
to Jamaica. If they have already gone they will be sent
back to New England and you may be sure of the Queen's
favour to them, and acceptance of your ready obedience
&c.
It is probable that the ships now at Jamaica will call at Boston
on their way home to England. If so, any of your men
there who please may join them on the services intended.$
They will be allowed to return to Boston when they please,
though, unless they go on ships belonging to New England,
they will scarce have opportunity for it.
In all (letter, notes and enclosure) pp. 1{. S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 209, pp. 5, 6.
4. To Colonel Codrington.
The Earl of Peterborough is not going (as Governor of Jamaica
and commander of the forces) to the West Indies.
Several ships are, however, going with soldiers, transport
ships and stores and I send by them a commission to you and
her Majesty's instructions.
I send you the names of some gentlemen who went with recruits
from Ireland, on an assurance from the Lords Justices of that
kingdom that, on a vacancy, they should be provided for. There
is reason for it, because at the same time some of the half-pay
officers refused to go. The Queen would have them provided
for next after the half-pay officers as follows:Lieutenants:-John Armstrong, Alexander Gray, John Alcock,
William Warsly.
Ensigns:-John Rallins, Charles Burton, Arthur Cavenagh,
William Dukenfield.
P. I. Ibid., pp. 6, 7.
* The name is spelt in several different ways.
~ The substance of A, B, and c not entered. It is merely noted that they
were sent.
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24 Jan.    HEDGES to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Whitehall.  By command:-I send the East India Company's memorial
as to the best way to suppress the pirates that infest the Indian
seas, for your consideration and report.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, pp. 359, 360.
24 Jan.    COUNT DE MORNAY to [NOTTINGHAM].
Oxford.   I send a letter received through Holland from M. de Pontchartrain since my last.* You will see that in France they expected
an agreement on the articles which had been sent there before,
and that I cannot answer positively on the new ones, which are
quite contrary to the first.
If you desire me to give an answer to the second, third and
fourth paragraphs of M. de Pontchartrain's letter, please tell
me how you would have them answered; so that I may add that
answer to what you have told me to say on the difference which
arose after the taking of St. Christopher's between the commanders
of the two nations. When you tell me what you would have said
I will send. my letter for M. de Pontchartrain to you. As to what
he says in the third and fourth paragraphs, it has been confirmed
by letters to me from all the officers who have remained at the
seaports, that naval officers visit, and seek to engage, the
French prisoners [in the English service] and clergymen to make
them change their religion.
Pp. 1I, in French. Signed. Endd. in Warre's hand. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 118, 15. Enclosing:A. M. de Pontchartrain to Count de Mornay.
1. I have yours of 26 December.     I am   surprised that
you  receive no reply to our answer to the proposals
of the Commissioners for Exchange of Prisoners. I hope
they will soon make up their minds. As the King has
consented to all their terms you have nothing more to ofer
them.
2. If what you hear about the treatment of the French prisoners
at Portsmouth is true, I am sure that the officer there will be
treated with exemplary justice.  Insist on  demanding
justice, since what has been done is contrary to international
law and punishable in all countries.
3. They write to me from Portsmouth that our prisoners are
still very ill, and that no care is taken of them. Complain
of this to Lord Nottingham, and tell him that our [English]
prisoners if ill, are placed in a hospital at Dinan, and that
when the number of sick there lately increased another house
was taken for them.
4. Escaped prisoners from Portsmouth bring us news that the
English officers often go amongst those who are there and try
to make them change sides, ofering them money, and that they
have got over three men from St. Malo. The King desires you
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to complain of this to Lord Nottingham and to send his
answer.
P. 4, in French. Copy. Signed by Count de Mornay and
dated by him as of 21 January. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 15A.
25 Jan.   CERTIFICATE by the OFFICERS and INHABITANTS of HOLCOM
[HOLCOMBE] PARISH, near Bristol in Somerset.
John Coulston came of a very good family. His grandfather
was a Justice of the Peace and was a great sufferer in Oliver's
time. His father was a very honest gentleman, and John Coulston
himself during his abode here behaved very honourably, having
given to the minister of the said parish 151. per annum, and
101. per annum to the parish poor, which was all the estate he had,
his family being formerly reduced. He is well affected to the
present Government, has been well educated and is a true
Churchman, and so was his father and grandfather; so we think
him a worthy person and capable to be instructed with any office.
P. i. Copy, with signatures (copies) of John Salmon, Roger
Felps, John Everatt, Samuel Turfut, Thomas Lane, George
Homener, Mibley Holage, Nicholas Nichols, Nicholas Stamp,
George Strencher, Thomas Tomson, Nathaniel Rogers, Roger
Colings, Denis Smith, John Talar, Stephen Partreax, John Cok,
Thomas Stone, William Pestvill, Roger Admunds. S.P. Dom.,
Anne 2, 32.
25 Jan.   JOSIAH  BURCHETT to the COMMISSIONERS Of SICR        and
Admiralty      WOUNDED.
Office.
Sends enclosure, and asks that directions may be givenl to
prevent the inconveniences which may arise from the liberty
granted to French officers who are detained at Plymouth.
P. A. (Hol.) Underwritten with note of address to the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded, but addressed, on back, to
Richard Warre. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 16. Enclosing:A. Commissioner St. Lo to [Burchett].
* * * Notwithstanding that all the French prisoners were
remanded to prison, I see many French officers have liberty
to go abroad when they please. Many of them have been
" two or three miles from Plymouth a fowling with the garrison
officers." It is thought that this familiarity is dangerous,
and I thought his Royal Highness should know of it * * *
P. i. Extract. Dated, Plymouth, 22 January, 1703. Ibid, 16A.
25 Jan.   M. DUBOURDIEU to [NOTTINGHAM].
My Lord.   I have seen Sieur Pagis.  He said to me that
Mercet, Fabrot, Faure and he had in their hands all the goods
which the Genevese had at the Exchequer, which may be worth
more than 300,0001. sterling.
Genevese merchants treated with the French ministers for
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Perdreaux, Faure &c. It is a fact that on the Place de Lion
their credit does not go far. They must draw, for their enterprise,
on the purse of Holland, England or Geneva. Their plans for
England and Holland will be disconcerted by what has been
done in relation to Huguetane, Seignouret, Pages.[Pagis] and
others.
But, my Lord, that is not enough. Geneva is a wealthy city.
The merchants here have 300,0001. sterling in the Exchequer. This
means more than 20,0001. (a year) in interest. News comes to
Geneva by post of the value of companies' shares &c., and they
have only to offer one or two per cent more and the owners [of the
money] remit to them the funds which they have here, of which
they can dispose to furnish [provisions] in compliance with their
treaty with France.
It would be a stroke to ruin their credit at Geneva.  This
would lance the source of evil. It could best be done if your
Highness would have Pagis, Mercet, Fabrot and Faure arrested.
After that means should be found to sequestrate the principal
and interest of the, Genevese so far as the justice and delicacy
of your Government would permit it. If the Republic protests,
they should be reproached for their neglect of the common cause
and the complaints made to them by the Emperor. They are
aware of the contents of treaties which were made with their
knowledge.
To save appearances you might have a memorial thereon
presented by Count Wratislaw, which should merely declare here
what his master's minister has done in Switzerland. I send
my views and am zealous if not able.
If you do not think fit to arrest Mercet, Fabrot and Faure,
pray have pity on Pagis, whose health and fortune suffer greatly.
He may be set at liberty without fear, on caution given, for he
is not the man to escape.
Pp. 3J. French. (Hol.) Endd. in Warre's hand. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 118, 17.
25 Jan.   COLONEL COLLIER to NOTTINGHAM.
Jersey.   I send enclosed, from which it appears that the prisoners
only came to Jersey to try to trade in tobacco &c.; but I think
they had some other errand. I will keep them prisoners till I
have further orders.
One of our privateers has brought in two barks bound from
Grandville to Dieppe, which have on board 1,400,000 oysters.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 44. Enclosing:A. Declaration by Edward Dumaresq.
A month ago the Sieur St. Paul, living at St. Malo with his
man, came to my house at 9 p.m. and asked me to go and
sit in my Court to hear a special statement. I did so, and
he asked me, as a friend of the Sieur la Vallee Bin, to protect
him in buying from me 6,0001. worth of tobacco, half for
himself and half for Bin's wife. I said I was surprised at
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an officer, and that I should have to hand him over to the
Governor, and that I should go and tell the magistrates. He
begged me not to, and to let him go to M1. Sealle or M. Pipon,
whom he had helped to get away from St. Malo, and that
he hoped to get Messrs. Orange, who were still near St. Malo.
[Details.]  I kept them  in my house, and informed the
Lieutenant Bailly [bailiff], who referred me to Charles
Dumaresq, justiciary, and said that then I could keep the
foreigners till to-morrow and then inform the Governor. I
did so next day, and handed over the foreigners' papers,
which they had given me.
P. {, in bad French. Signed. Dated, Jersey, 15 January.
S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 44A.
B. Examinations of Paul Causserouge de St. Paul and
Francis Brusley.
Taken before the Lieutenant-Governor, Lieut. Jean Durell,
Edward de Carteret, Baily [bailiff] of Jersey, and Philip [?]
le Geyt, Charles Dumaresq and Charles Poindestre, jurets at
Jersey, 15 January.
De St. Paul says:-Lives at St. Malo.   Arrived here nearly
a month ago. [Details.]   Went before Edward Dumaresq,
who   &c. [confirms   last  declaration].  Deponent  told
Dumaresq he had come to the island to try to trade and agreed
to go before the Governor, but begged that his arrival might
be kept a secret from the French in the island; otherwise it
would become known in France, and he would not dare
to return there.
Pp. 1*. Signed.
Brusley says:-I came to Jersey to serve St. Paul as I do
business in Jersey, as St. Paul said.  Confirms briefly the
foregoing.
P. J. Signed with Brusley's mark.
In all pp. 1. All in French. Certified true copies by Jean
Dumaresq, Greffier of the Royal Court of Jersey.          Endd.
Ibid, 44B.
26 Jan.    The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
ick ande    Send  enclosed.   Besides  the  1,000  English  prisoners at
Office.  St. Malo, there are others elsewhere.
P. J. Signed by Lee, Herbert, Adams and Sherard.       Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 18. Enclosing:A. Louis Magt [?]* to "Esq. Thomas Addison."
I am asked by Captain Francis Appleby, of the Bonaventure,
by Captain William Wanless, of the soldiers, and by the other
officers taken in the said ship to bring to your notice their
great indigence.  They have no credit except what I give
them, and beg your assistance and to know what you will
do for the poor soldiers, " which are all naked and shall
* The name is not clear. The letter is in English, but the writer is evidently
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hardly be able to withstand the sharpness of the winter."
Whilst awaiting your answer, I shall assist them to the best
of my ability. I have already asked our Commissary to
write to Paris about the allowance the King affords to all
officers in commission; and think "the demand shall be
brought to a good end."
In Dinan we have about 1,000 prisoners, and there are others
elsewhere. They are very anxious to hear that the cartel has
been settled, for many of them are in great want.  Polite
expressions and assurances of service.
P. 1. Dated at St. Malo, 17 January, 1703.  Signed. Add.
to  Addison, at the Navy     Office, Whitehall.  S.P. Dom.,
Naval 118, 18A.
26 Jan.    HEDGES to the ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Whitehall.  Pray consider how  prisoners pardoned by the Queen on
condition of their taking service in the Navy or Army may be
set free and drafted into the service immediately after the
warrants for pardons are signed, and without waiting for a general
pardon to come out. The Queen hears that there are many delays
in this matter, whereby the health of the pardoned prisoners is
impaired and the Queen loses the benefit of their services.
P. I. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 276.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To Colonel Gibson.
Queen's command:-To inquire into and report on truth of
enclosed. If true arrest Jackson and report, and meantime
appoint some other person to take care of the prisoners.
P. i, with note that a letter from Southampton to Mr. Cardonell,
dated 23 January, was enclosed, dealing with the mismanagement
of the marshal of the French prisoners.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 198.
2. To Count de Mornay.
Repeats substance of his last to Count de Mornay (see above,
at 10 January, 1703, pp. 533-4).
P. J. French. Ibid.
26 Jan.    ROYAL WARRANT to the LORD LIEUTENANT of IRELAND for
St. James'.    JOSHUA DAWSON.
Joshua Dawson has petitioned, shewing that:-The Governors
of Ireland have been used, on leaving office, to take with them " the
books of entries belonging to both their Secretaries' offices, wherein
were entered all King's letters, orders, warrants and letters
directed to and given by such chief Governors, the removal of
which has not only been a great injury to our subjects of that
Kingdom for want of copies of such orders upon many occasions,
but a great prejudice to all succeeding chief Governors in being
deprived of the knowledge and information of what had been
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Petitioner has been employed in the office of the "Chief
Secretary* to the said chief Governors " for many years, and,
during that time, has had many applications for copies of such
warrants and letters, which he has not been able to grant for the
above reason. He therefore prays for the erection of a Paper
Office in Ireland, in which copies of all these documents may be
kept, except private letters. He has been bred up in the Chief
Secretary's Office and has been zealous in his long discharge of the
duties of that office.
He prays for letters under the Privy Signet and Sign Manual
creating and erecting an office, to be called the Paper Office,
with directions to future chief Governors to allow him to take
copies of the books of entries of all warrants, orders &c., belonging
to either Secretary's office (private letters excepted), and that
a room be appointed for the office in Dublin Castle; and for
1001. a year for himself and his clerks, to be inserted in the Irish
Civil List as a perpetuity. You approve his request.
Pass patents under the Great Seal &c. erecting a Paper Office
accordingly, wherein shall be kept "duplicates and copies of all
King's and Queen's letters whereon any warrants, orders or
directions" shall be given by you and also duplicates of all
warrants &c. issued thereon; and also all other warrants,
petitions and letters which have [passed] or shall pass " the said
Secretaries' offices or either of them " (private letters excepted).
The patents shall grant to Dawson the office of Clerk of the
Paper office to hold during pleasure, to exercise by himself or a
deputy approved by you. Salary of 1001. a year, to be inserted
in the Civil List as a perpetuity. Allow Dawson to take all the
copies aforesaid " to be kept by him in the said office which is to
be an office of Record," and appoint and fit up at our expense a
proper room in the Castle to be his office. Favourable clauses.
Pp. 33. S.P. Signet Office 15, pp. 91-4.
27 Jan.    The PRINCE'S COUNCIL to NOTTINGHAM.
AdOfi.ty   Yours of the 20th on the matter of re-enlisting deserters who
desire pardon and re-enlistment. We are of opinion that if the
Queen is pleased to issue a proclamation offering pardon to all
such deserters as voluntarily enter themselves on a ship or vessel
by or before 15 March next it will probably bring several men
into her service at sea.
P. |. Signed by Rooke and Churchill. Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 7, 12.
Same.     JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Brigadier Collembinet, who is just going to the West Indies
with his regiment, says there is no order for embarking it yet.
I am sure orders have gone to the men-of-war, but he may be
referring to the transports which are to carry his men. The
* This phrase has sprung up since 1670, when I last was familiar with Irish
Records. In 1670 there was only one secretary.
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frigates are ordered to sea in company of the Portugal convoy if
ready at the same time.
Pray inform Lord Secretary Nottingham of what the Brigadier
says.
P. i. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 19.
27 Jan.   HEDGES to the LORD HIGH TREASURER.
Whitehall.  Mary Mayhook, widow of a seaman, when coming home from
Boston in the Expedition (Henry Lowther, master,) was taken by
a French privateer and lost 201. in clothes. The Expedition was
retaken by the   Weymouth.   Queen's command:-To    allow
Mary Mayhook 201. out of the salvage money. Give orders
accordingly.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 276, 277.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To the Postmaster[s] General.
I send enclosed from the Duke of Queensberry. He says there is
one in town empowered to adjust this matter. Wait on him
and find out who it is.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 199.
2. To the Commissioners for the Sick and Wounded.
Queen's command:-Remove immediately from Southampton
Captain Coshart and all the French officers who are prisoners
there to some inland town, where they may be kept close
prisoners. Your officer there has been very negligent in allowing
eleven of them to escape at one time, and your officer at Plymouth
is also negligent in letting the prisoners at Plymouth walk in the
town and go even two or three miles out of it. Queen's command:To find some place more suitable than Plymouth, where they
have an opportunity of seeing the preparations; and meantime
to guard them more carefully.
Send a weekly account shewing the number of prisoners.
P. 3. Ibid, pp. 199, 200.
3. To MAJOR HOOK, Lieutenant-Governor of Plymouth.
The officers of the garrison at Plymouth, as well as the Governor,
are to blame for the too great liberty allowed to the French
prisoners there; for they carry the French about the town and
to some distance from it "to shoot and for other diversions."
This liberty should not be suffered, and as the Commissioners
of Prisoners* are ordered to keep them more strictly whilst they
are at Plymouth, you will do well to prevent the garrison officers
from taking them abroad anywhere out of prison, so that the
proper officer may have no excuse for neglect of his duty.
P. i. Ibid, p. 200.
4. To the Duke of Marlborough..I send a letter from Colonel Colenbinet, on which I am not
competent or empowered to give an answer.
* i.e. for Sick and Wounded and exchange of prisoners.
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I have told Mr. Blathwayt to send orders to him to emtark.
P. J. Also note of enclosure. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 7.
5. To Mr. Blathwayt.
Colonel Colenbine writes that he has no orders to embark.
I thought you had taken care in that matter, for I presume that
the Prince or the Duke of Marlborough must sign them. No
time should be lost. The fleet has been ordered to proceed to sea
with the Portugal convoy for more safety.
Also note of information being sent to Admiral Allemonde.
P. i. Ibid, p. 8.
6. To Captain Atkinson, at Portsmouth.
Refers to Collenbine's having no orders to embark. Proceeds:The masters of the transports need only be ordered to obey the
commander of the ship on which Colonel Collenbine is, and, after
arriving in the West Indies, to obey the orders of the Commanderin-Chief of the men-of-war to which they may be attached from
time to time. Details.
P. i. Ibid.
7. To Brigadier Colenbine.
I have written for orders for you to embark your men, which
I hope you will soon have.
I do not know what may be necessary for your service, but
have acquainted the Duke of Marlborough with your letter, so
that you may have orders.
I hope you will not take it as a diminution to you that
Colonel Codrington, who is junior to you, is to command you.
He is Captain General and Governor of the Leeward Islands, and,
as such, has the right to command in operations which are almost
under his own Government. I need not argue this matter with
you, a zealous servant &c.
Colonel Codrington is, by his instructions, limited to a time
for his service, which will consist with the other service on which
you are commanded. I wish you success.
P. i. Ibid, p. 9.
8. To the Prince's Council.
Pray report on the enclosed request sent by the Dey of Tunis.
As the Queen will probably have a squadron in the Mediterranean
this year, and that will be a proper time to renew the peace
with the Governments of Algier, Tunis, Tripoli and also "Sally,"
and some presents are usually given to these Governments on
those occasions. Pray look into the existing treaties with them
and see what change, if any, should be made; and also consider
the question of suitable presents.
P. J. Ibid, pp. 9, 10.
28 Jan.   The PRINCE's COUNCIL to NOTTINGHAM.
Admirlty   Yours, with an extract of one from the Dey of Tunis.  We
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and to Algier, Tripoli and" Salley," and what stores the Dey of Tunis
desires. from her Majesty, and what alterations or additions may
or ought to be made to the present Treaties with each of those
Governments. 'We have no objection to the sending of the
usual presents to those places when occasion offers; as to which
you will hear best from the Lord High Treasurer's office and the
Office of Ordnance. As to the guns and mortars which the Dey of
Tunis desires, and the sails and furniture for five ships of war,
we cannot advise, except to say that we think it better that the
few merchants trading there should pay the additional 5 per cent
custom than that we should part with so many guns and stores.
If these guns and stores are sent, the presenting of them may be
treated as a precedent.
We have no additions or alterations to suggest in the treaties
unless the Queen, on advice of the Privy Council, thinks that
some such should be made.
Pp. 1l. Signed by Rooke, Mitchell, Churchill and Hill. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 13.
28 Jan.    The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Sick and   Send enclosed.
Wounded
Office.   P. I. Signed by Lee, Herbert, Adams and Sherard. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 20. Enclosing.A. Charles Taver, Surgeon of the sick and wounded at
Weymouth, to the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
A French prize of about 29 tons, loaded with salt, was brought
in here this morning. She was first taken by an English
privateer, retaken by a French privateer, and forced into
Portland Road by heavy weather. There the Castle, suspecting
them enemies, fired two guns and sent a boat on board, and
they surrendered. I secured three men of the French privateer
who were on board. They say that the French grand fleet
will not be fitted out this year, but they have about fifty
privateers belonging to St. Malo, some of considerable force.
They say there are about 700 English prisoners at Dinan, and
that M. Chateranaud * has not yet returned from Paris.
P. 1. Extract. Dated, 25 January, 1703. Ibid, 20A.
28 Jan.    NOTTINGHAM to the LORD TREASURER.
Whitehall.  Forwards a letter from Lord Hatton about the rights and
privileges of Guernsey, though it most immediately concerns
M. le Tebure. Asks that, if it seem reasonable, M. le Tebure
may receive such an order as will free him from unnecessary
trouble and charge.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 201.
29 Jan.    COUNT DE MORNAY to [NOTTINGHAM].
Oxford.   I am   sending copies of your letters and mine to M. de
+ See above, p. 186, note.




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Pontchartrain, and will send such reply as you desire to his last,
of which I send the substance. Details.
P. A, in French.  Signed. Endd. in Warre's [?] hand.  S.P.
Dom., Naval 118, 21.
29 Jan.   The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
WuSicknd  As ordered, we have directed Captain Cusart* and all the other
Wounded
Office.  French officers to be removed from Southampton to Farnham.
It is the only inland town wherein we have been able to procure
a small place for keeping prisoners at war. The inhabitants of
Southampton have spread such reports of infectious sickness
among the prisoners that though we inquired at all the principal
inland towns, and offered six times the rent formerly given for
the houses, we have not been able to obtain the accommodation
we require. We shall make further inquiry and, meantime,
take all possible steps to have the prisoners well secured where
they are, having frequently commanded our officers not to allow
any prisoner to walk about in the towns; but the closeness of the
prisons has made it absolutely necessary to remove many of
the sick to town quarters. There may, we fear, be a few cases of
escape, but we shall punish severely those who, by their neglect,
make such escapes possible, and hope thereby to prevent the
recurrence of them. Our officer at Plymouth is lately dead, and
we have given to his successor such instructions as will, we
think, obviate complaints from that quarter in the future.
We are gathering information with a view to sending you a
weekly abstract of prisoners, and as soon as we have received
that from Southampton, will write to Count de Mornay. The
Marshal at Southampton, in his letter of 10 January last, told
us he had buried thirty prisoners, and has 738 under him.
Since then we have heard that they have been more healthy
than before. We hope the complaints of neglect of the sick
prisoners will appear groundless. Two of this board who were
there were very well pleased with them, and the chief inhabitants
said that the prisoners wanted nothing that was necessary.
Pp. 2~. Signed by Lee, Herbert, Adams and Sherard. Endd.
in Warre's [?] hand. Ibid, 22.
29 Jan.   NOTTINGHAM to the ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Whitehall.  Queen's command:-To prepare a proclamation pardoning all
seamen and marines if they return to any ship of the fleet by
March 1 next. This shall free them from prosecution, but not
entitle them to any wages they have lost by desertion, and is to
be so worded as to convey no right by general terms to such wages.
Sends a petition. Queen desires a proclamation prepared as
desired, but not so as to pardon the actual murderer.
Also note that a petition from Hillingdon and Uxbridge was
enclosed for a proclamation in order to the discovery of the
murderers of William Harrison and Edward Simmonds.
In all p. S. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 201.
* Usually spelt "Coshart."




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29 Jan.
St. James'.


The QUEEN to the LORD LIEUTENANT of IRELAND concerning
Half-Pay Officers.
We have received from you, through our Lord Treasurer, the
annexed list of half-pay officers in Ireland who have refused to
go in our service to the West Indies. Give orders to determine
all payments to them from the date of this warrant.


Regiment.


Rank and Name.


From Cork:Lord Donegall's,   {     Ensign James Harrison.
Lord Donegalls..     Ensign Nicholas Holmes.
Lieutenant S. Ferguson.
Colonel Mitchelburne's  Ensign John Forsyth.
Colonel Mitchelburne s. *  E     n     Hamilton.
Ensign Andrew Hamilton.
Ensign Charles Johnston.
Colonel Villiers'.. Lieutenant Walter Travillion.
Lieutenant George Hewston.
Colonel Creighton's.   Ensign John Johnston.
Ensign James Laying.
Lord Charlemont's    Lieutenant Roger Holland.
Lord Charlemonts   Ensign John Henderson.
Sir George St. George's.. Ensign William Hamilton.
Late Brigadier Tiffin's.. Ensign Andrew Singleton.
From Limerick:Colonel Villiers'..   Quartermaster J. Boycott.
Captain Abraham Green.
Captain William Browning.
Captain Alexander Atchison.
Captain-Lieutenant John Orban.
Lieutenant George Graham.
Colonel Creighton's..  Lieutenant George Castrell.
Lieutenant George Johnston.
Lieutenant George Curry.
Lieutenant Guy Carleton.
Quartermaster Thomas Little.
Adjutant J. Clarke.
Ensign Henry Hodkinton.
(Captain J. McCormuck.
Colonel Mitchelburne's..  Captain J. Manson.
Captain George Gregory.
Captain St. Miller.
Captain Thomas White.
Captain J. Blair.
Captain William Hamilton.
Captain-Lieutenant Robert Maughein., S.oLieutenant William Brown.
Colonel St. John's
l..  Lieutenant John Miller.
Lieutenant Jeremiah Felton.
Lieutenant L. Stewart.
Lieutenant James Forbus.
Quartermaster Thomas Thornbury.


Wt. 3880.


A 36




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Lord Mountjoy's.  Captain John Murray.
Lord Charlemont's.Lieutenant Mark Smith.
Late Brigadier Tiffin's.. Lieutenant J. Donnelon.
Sir G. St. George's     Lieutenant Thomas Denny.
Lieutenant James Moore.
Earl Donegall's         Captain J. Davis.
Captain A. Gore.
From Galway:Lieutenant John Deane.
Lieutenant Luke Davis.
Captain Murtogh Cuningham.
Captain J. Woodward.
Captain William Gunter.
Captain Oliver Anktill.
Ensign John Wreckham.
Captain J. Dunbar.
Lieutenant J. Devitt.
Lieutenant Patrick Fox.
Pp. 2|. S.P. Signet Office 15, pp. 99, 100, 101.
29 Jan.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.
Whitehall 1. To the Prince's Council.
I send news from Dunkirk.
Command:-To send frigates to cruise thereabouts and
prevent such misfortunes.
Also send orders to the ship which has Sir B. Granville's goods
aboard to hurry on with all speed to Portsmouth in the hope
of catching up the West India ships and being able to go with
them. It would be prejudicial to the Queen's service to order all
those vessels to wait for her.
P. W. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 10.
2. To Sir Beville Granville.
Repeats substance of foregoing. If his vessel takes advantage
of the tides she should overtake him before he gets out of the
Channel, if not earlier.
P. J. Ibid, p. 11.
30 Jan.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Admiralty  Inform the Secretary of State that, the Prince's Council having
been told of the coming out of French ships from Dunkirk and
the capture by them of the Ludlow, orders have been sent to
the Weymouth, Lichfield and Lynn to leave the Downs and stretch
out towards Calais and thence to stand away towards Camper
Down off the Texel. Thence they are directed to stand over
towards the Bar of Newcastle and so to return by the East Coast.
By this means it is hoped the French ships may be met with.
Other vessels will be sent in quest of them as soon as may be.
P. i. Signed.   Add.  Endd.   S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 14.
Enclosing:-*
* See endorsement at end of the enclosure.




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1703.
A. Extract from a letter from George St. Loe, Esq., Commissioner
of the Navy at Plymouth, dated 26 January, 1701.
The Dutch privateers seize Swedes, Danes and Hamburgers
coming from France or Spain.  Yesterday I was on board
a Hamburger which was brought in hither. She was lately
from Malaga and Cadiz, which places are, they say, in
miserable condition for want of trade, and the French menof-war about those parts are very much afraid of our men-ofwar coming unawares on them. They have left the galleys
at St. Mary Ports and themselves are gone off to Talloon
[Toulon].
The French also report, to keep up the drooping spirits of
the Spaniards, that the Swedes and Danes are to join them
this summer with sixty sail, so that the English and Dutch
will not be able to look them in the face; "but I take it to
be only French news."
P. 1. Endd. " R. from Admiralty, January 30."  S.P. Dom.,
Naval 7, 14A.
30 Jan.   The LORDS JUSTICES of IRELAND to the LORD LIEUTENANT.
Dublin Castle. In obedience to your Excellency's order we have considered
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the three Chief Judges
and the Attorney and Solicitor General about the substance or
heads for such bills as may be properly prepared here before
the meeting of Parliament, and we send you a rough list* of them,
merely to show what sort of bills we intend to prepare when
ordered to do so. We did not ask the judges to sign this paper
as their opinion, because they and we thought that you wished
the matter to be treated by way of discourse only between us
and them, in order that we might send your Excellency such of
their views as we thought fit; but, nevertheless, we think it right
to lay before you plainly the opinion of all who joined in this
discourse. They are all of opinion that in view of the poverty of
the Kingdom the meeting of Parliament should be postponed
as long as possible, even to another year if that might be consistent "with the other circumstances and state of the revenue
and Kingdom "; that, if Parliament meet here this year it should
be as late as possible in the year; that the bills mentioned are
thought as proper to be sent over with the first transmission as
any they can think of. With regard to the Money Bill, we
considered whether the Parliament might not be more pleased
and more ready to give what money they are able to give if the
granting and manner of raising it were left wholly to themselves
without any Money Bill being prepared or offered by the Crown
at all; " and this being introduced by Mr. Solicitor, which brought
us upon the former famous point of Sole Right (his remarkable
part in which is not unknown to your Excellency), it concluded
(as appears by the paper) to be the general opinion of everybody
(the Solicitor excepted) that the Queen would think it convenient to


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bring in a Money Bill; and that if she should do so the proposed
Excise Bill would be the most proper." The Solicitor wished it
to be known that he thought it better that the Crown should
offer no Money Bill at all, and gave reasons which are too long
to be touched upon in a letter. He chiefly relied on the strong
reasons which there were at present to please the people, who
might be expected to be out of humour for giving money, and
thought that if money were expected from them they should be
gratified in the manner of giving it.
"As to what was objected for the contrary opinion by others
of the Queen's being advised in this to quit a right of which
the Crown had been so lately so very tender, his answer was that
once waving was not a quitting it; and that if it should be
constantly insisted on and practised by the Crown, the people
might with reason be jealous that their submitting to it would
establish it by their consent. Whether Mr. Solicitor or the rest
of the gentlemen consulted with are in the right or wrong as to
the point of their differing opinion and advice" is submitted
to your Excellency; also what part of this discourse you
will submit to the Queen.     We think that both parties
have said what they have said in a desire for the Queen's
service.
Together with the list of bills, we send you copies of the letters
which passed between the Court of England and this Government
on the occasion of the meeting of the late Parliament, so that
you may have precedents under your view. We shall obey
all your directions.
P.S.-The enclosed two letters are all that can be found relating
to the orders from England for calling of Parliaments, which
are entered in the Council books. Any other letters of the same
kind were "carried away by the several chief Governors, to whom
it appears that the first orders for preparation of bills were always
sent, and not to them and the Council."
Pp. 3j. Signed by the Earl of Mount Alexander and Thomas
Keightley. S.P. Ireland 363, 1. Enclosing:A. The Lords Justices of England to the Lord Deputy Capell.
As administrators of the Government in the King's absence,
we congratulate you on your entry into the Government of
Ireland and assure you of our readiness to give you our best
assistance in promoting the King's service there and the
welfare of his subjects. As the King left directions for the
immediate calling of a Parliament there, we desire you to
lose no time in causing such bills to be prepared as you think
#t to pass in the Parliament and, as soon as they are ready,
that they may be transmitted hither in form.
P. i. Copy, with signatures (copies) of Lord Somers (C.S.),
the Earl of Pembroke (C.P.S.), the Dukes of Devonshire,
Shrewsbury  and   Dorset, and   Lord  Godolphin.  Add. to
Lord Capell; and further note that the original was delivered
to  Mr. Aldworth   by   the Lord   Deputy's order.   Dated,
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30 Jan.    The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Sick and
Wounded    Send enclosed.   Despatched to Harwich at once to prevent
Office.  the escaped officers from getting away thence.  Have suspended
and replaced Jackson in the charge of the prisoners pending the
Secretary's directions.
P. ~. Signed by Lee, Sherard and Adams. Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 118, 23. Enclosing:A. Thomas Jackson, Marshal for the prisoners at Southampton,
to [the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded].
Last night news was brought that Cushart and Latooch, " who
is the Irish captain that was at London,"* made their escapes
by getting open the street door, which never had any key
left in it after the people went to bed. It is thought they went
to Winchester with a design to get to Harwich and go over
by the packet-boat.  I have despatched a messenger after
them [by the] London road who, if they go that way, will
certainly take them. I am now mounting horse to search
for them at some great Papists' houses near this town, but
wish their Honours to send a despatch to Harwich at once,
for, if we take them not, they will certainly be there. I have
prepared a house for the others and shall get them in, but
this is only a temporary arrangement, as the house is not
large or strong enough. The captives are all uneasy at this
news of no exchange this war.  No man can take more care
of them than I do.
P. 1. Copy. Dated [Southampton], 28 January, 170g. Ibid, 23A.
List of French prisoners on 30 January, 1703.
Plymouth, 1,106; Gosport, 68; Southampton, 823; Farnham,
178; Dover, 113; Yarmouth, 23; Exeter, 30; Kinsale,
354; Guernsey, 314; Jersey, 55; Tower Hill, London, 24;
Oxford, on parole, 32. Total, 3,420.
P. i (small). Ibid, 23B.
30 Jan.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Walter Devreux, at Folkestone.
To stop and secure, if possible, Captain Coshart, a Frenchman,
and one La Touche, an Irishman, who have lately escaped from
Southampton, where they were prisoners of war. If he can take
them, he will be well rewarded.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 202.
Same.      2. To the Commissioners of Victuals.
The soldiers going to the West Indies must be at short
allowance. The number of them is not 1,400, as was at first
intended.
P. i. Ibid.
* But apparently he was in the French service, and not, as one might expect, a
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1703.
30 Jan.   3. To the Prince's Council.
In view of the enclosed news [which is not entered] I suggest
that the Blackwall, as well as the Resolution, should convoy the
transport ships not only to Barbados, but further till they join
the men-of-war now in the West Indies.
P. A. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 11.
31 Jan.   COLONEL GIBSON to NOTTINGHAM.
Portsmouth. I have been at Southampton and applied to the Mayor and
other justices there. Jackson was before us, and also those who
carried him and the French captain to Gosport, who cannot
tell what they [Jackson and Coshart] did till they [the others]
came and fetched them back the next day.  I cannot yet find,
but must discover what they [Jackson and Coshart] did during
the day they were at Gosport, but I fear they were not idle. Depositions which I send shew that in Guernsey and Jersey they are
much afraid of him; and, if he be got over, I am afraid they will have
a bad neighbour of him. This captain knows all our creeks [?],
banks and sounds as well as any Englishman, and is more dangerous
in consequence. Those poor masters of Jersey and Guernsey
ask that they may have better convoy in future.
The Mayor was in doubt as to whether to put Jackson into
custody or not. I then showed him for the second time your
lordship's orders to me and said that if Jackson had been anywhere in the county, [so] that I could act as justice of the peace,
I should have put him in the county jail; and called on him to
imprison and supersede Jackson. They promised this.
Pp. 2. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 24.
Jan.      NOTE* for the DIVIDENT for JANUARY, 1703.
The figures on the left are 111. 6s. 8d.; those on the right
461. 6s. 8d.
P. i. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 33.
FEBRUARY, 1703.
1 Feb.    BERNARD ELLIS to NOTTINGHAM.
Guernsey.  In obedience to the Orders in Council of December 17 (issued on
Sir Thos. Hardy's complaint to the Lord High Admiral and received
January 16), I have done my best to arrest deserters from the
fleet who had got on to a Guernsey privateer. One, Brock, has
surrendered, and the rest, except John But, are, I hear, on the
Runner, privateer, Robert Slowley commander, now at Plymouth.
The Runner lately took a French privateer of 16 guns and brought
her into Plymouth.  She was formerly an English frigate, the
Falcon. Prisoners report fifteen men-of-war ready to sail from
Brest. Will look out for and secure deserters.
Pp. 1.   Signed.  Endd.  S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2,
45. Enclosing: -
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1703.
A List of deserters from H.M.S. Pembroke (Sir Thomas Hardy
commander).
Eleven names. Some are on the Runner now at Plymouth.
Short details.
P. 1. Dated, Guernsey, 1 February, 1702. S.P. Dom., Channel
Islands 2, 45A.
1 Feb.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Prince's Council.
The design of the squadron for Portugal seems to be at an
end. Advise what is to be done with the ships intended for
it. Confer on the matter with MM. Allemonde and Cruan,
who will be at home this evening in expectation of your making
an appointment for to-morrow morning. After meeting them
report the result to her Majesty at the Committee of Council
at St. James' at 6 p.m. to-morrow.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 279.
2. To M. Vryberge.
The Queen approves the use of the squadron intended for
Portugal here, as the Lord High Admiral and Admiral Allemonde
agreed at their meeting to-day. Please inform the ambassadors.
P. j. French. Ibid, p. 280.
1 Feb.    COLONEL GIBSON to NOTTINGHAM.
Portsmouth.  I send an affidavit received from the Mayor of Southampton,
and his letter, the last paragraph of which shews what he desires.
I know nothing of him, but presume that Mr. Cardonell, who
represents Southampton in Parliament, can give you some account
of him. I am. just going to muster and embark Brigadier
Columbine's regiment; and when that is done am going to proceed
with the two companies of Major-General Erle and the detachment of the "fuzaliers."  Some officers fear disturbances, but
I hope that the method I have taken will prevent them.
P. i. Signed. Add. Endd. With seal. S.P. Dom., Naval 118,
25. Enclosing:A. Thomas    Bracebridge,  Mayor  of  Southampton,  to
Colonel Gibson.
I send an affidavit* and will send any further news received.
If Mr. Jackson is removed, pray recommend me for his
office.
P. i.   Copy.  Dated, Southampton,   30  January, 170*.
Ibid. 25A.
1 Feb.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.
Whitehall.. To the Postmasters General.
You should go at once to the Duke of Queensberry and find
out from him who the person here is who has authority to adjust
the matter with you in relation to the [Scottish] post office. The
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Scots' Lords are leaving town, and the opportunity may be lost
unless you go to-morrow.
P. I. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 203.
2. To Captain Roope.
You must supply two transport ships at once for carrying
600 recruits to Holland. You may stop two of the transport ships,
which have been ordered to come away from the Downs, in the
hope that they may be readier for this service.
You are also to go to the Duke of Marlborough and receive
his further directions in this matter.
P. i. Ibid, pp. 202, 203.
2 Feb.    The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
WuSk nd   Three masters of English merchant ships, who have been released
Office.  from Ostend, have, in accordance with the terms of their release,
applied to us, on behalf of themselves and five of their officers,
for the release of two merchant masters and six seamen of that
place who are prisoners here. They tell us you sent them to us,
saying we had power to agree to the exchange. We have some
doubt as to whether yours of 23 December has given us that
power, and ask for special directions.
P. i. Signed by Lee, Sherard and Morley. Endd. S.P. Dom.
Naval 118, 26.
3 Feb.    MEMORIAL to the QUEEN in COUNcIL by PRINCE GEORGE OF
Admiralty      DENMARK, Lord High Admiral &c.
Office.
By an establishment made by King Charles II in Council
on 18 December, 1677, the following rules were established for
qualifying persons to serve as lieutenants in the Navy.
1. That they shall spend so much time actually at sea in one
or more voyages in the service of the Crown (after abatement
for all intervals) as shall together amount to three entire years at
least, and to have served in the quality and performed the duty
of an ordinary midshipman in some one of the ships of war for
one year at least of these three, receiving midshipman's pay
for the same.
2. The second part of the above not to apply to any who(a) has then served at sea for more than two years in the
quality of volunteer by warrant from his said Majesty
or the Lord High Admiral;
(b) abides the examination and answers in every respect
what is required from him except midshipman's service.
3. He shall not be under 20 years of age at the time of his
first admission to the said office.
4. He must produce certificates under the hands of his several
commanders testifying to his voyages, and to "his sobriety,
diligence, obedience to order, applications to the study and
practice of the art of navigation," and to his having served as a
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5. He must produce a like certificate under the hand of one
at least of the principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy,
who has served as a commander at sea, as also of two other
commanders of 1st rate or 2nd rate ships of war [details as to
alternatives], jointly certifying that, after examining him at
the office of the Navy, they are satisfied that he is able " to judge
of and perform the duty of an able seaman and midshipman,"
and has "attained a sufficient degree of knowledge in the theory
of navigation" to capacitate him for it.
By a long practice in the Navy, no young gentlemen have
been or ought to have been admitted to serve as volunteers in
the fleet by warrant from the Lord High Admiral who are above
the age of 16 years or under that of 14. It is common for them
to be admitted before they are 16 years old. When they have
served two years as a volunteer and one as an ordinary midshipman they are entitled to an examination and, if found qualified,
to the employment of a lieutenant, so that probably some of
them will by that time be not above 17 or 18 years old.
It is therefore proposed to her Majesty that when any young
gentlemen shall hereafter be admitted to serve as a volunteer
on any of her Majesty's ships at the age of 14 years, or between
that and 16, they be obliged actually to serve four years as a
volunteer and two as an ordinary midshipman before being
admitted to the examination for a lieutenant's office. And
whereas divers persons have from their youth addicted themselves
to the sea with hopes of preferment in the Navy, when they
have by their industry qualified themselves for employments,
and, in order thereunto, have served in the fleet as midshipmen
and mates, it is further proposed to her Majesty that, notwithstanding such persons have not served as volunteers by warrant,
yet that, if they have served three years in the Navy either as
mates or midshipmen (after abatements for intervals of voyages),
and produce certificates [details] of this, they may, as an
encouragement to them, be admitted from time to time to an
examination, and, if found qualified, to a lieutenant's office.
Pp. 3. Draft; with note of the Lord High Admiral's and of
Burchett's signatures. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 15.
3 Feb.    CAPTAIN COSHART to [NOTTINGHAM].
Southampton. I wrote to ask your leave to go hence and be with my brethren.
I wished to be treated as an officer of the King of France. I
desire to be protected by you against the insults which the
Sieurs La Rufie and Jouchee, officers of privateers, have put
upon me by reason of my last letter to your lordship. They
said I had written against them [?] and abused me violently,
as you will see by the evidence, signed, of eye-witnesses which
Count de Mornay will send to you. I hope for justice. I hope
you will not confound a number of prisoners who are here, who
had no part in the matter [,with the guilty;] and I hope for
justice to those who insulted me.
Pp. 21. Signed. In bad French. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 27.




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1703.
3 Feb.    WILLIAM SMITH to JOHN HOLLINGBERY, Mayor of Dover.
London.   There is one in Dover jail going by the name of Johnson. His
real name is Mark Goodyear, and he is one of the greatest villains
in the kingdom, as I and several other witnesses can prove at
the next Kent Assizes. Meantime, pray secure him, for it is
unsafe that so dangerous a person should go unpunished. Secure
him, and let me have an answer, to be left at the Sign of the
Black Bull in Tower Dock.
P. 1. (Hol.) Add. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 28.
3 Feb.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall  1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
Yours of yesterday. As to the three masters of English
merchant ships and their five officers, who were prisoners of war
at Ostend, and are now released on condition of obtaining the
enlargement of two masters of merchant ships and six seamen of
that country who are prisoners here, you must find out if the
Englishmen, on being taken, ransomed their ship of the privateer
and were taken to Ostend as hostages for payment of the ransom,
as has been too usually done.  If not, find out the facts as to
their capture, taking to Ostend and release, and report to her
Majesty.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 203, 204.
2. To Dr. Brampston.
Sends a memorial of the Portuguese envoy for consideration
and report.
Four lines. Ibid, p. 204.
3. To the Attorney General.
I send papers relating to one Jackson, for whose arrest and
bringing up in custody I have issued a warrant. Consider, on
the depositions, what prosecution the offence will bear and
what crime I may lay to his charge in the warrant of commitment.
Also  note.  Enclosed were a letter of Mr. Cardonell of
January 23, 1701, and depositions of John Hides, Joseph Man,
Charles Wallis, John Le Cras, William Snow, Daniel Tapin,
Aron Dereville and Moses Goodridge.
In all p. i. Ibid, p. 205.
4. To Paul Methuen [jun.].
I have read your father's letters to 15 January to the Queen.
To the demands which are put forward [by Portugal], no
answer can be given. It would be impossible to accede to them.
If the King of Portugal comes down to reasonable terms, which
your father did not expect, we may not be able to agree, but, at
least, there will be some ground for negociation and for a treaty
"it being most apparently as much for the interest of Portugal
as it can be for ours."
The envoy of Portugal here has not receded at all from the
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impossible to accede to them and hoped he might have reduced
them. But, after I had spoken with him at length and pointed
out the desirability of prompt and early action by Portugal, and
assured him of our willingness to do all we can, he said he would
write fully on the matter. It was right to let you know this.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 11, 12.
4 Feb.    HEDGES to the POSTMASTERS GENERAL.
Whitehall  Queen's command:-Forbidding passengers to go on the
packet-boats to or from Holland unless they have passes from
the envoy at the Hague, the Commander of the forces in the Low
Countries, her Majesty, the Captain-General of the forces [at
home] or one of the principal Secretaries of State. Give directions
accordingly.
P. i. A copy. Endd. S.P. Dom.,Anne 2, 34. Also S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 101, p. 279.
[4 Feb.]   PETITION to the QUEEN of JOHN HENRY and PETER HUXGUSTON,
of Amsterdam, merchants, shewing that:
Petitioners are burgers and merchant bankers in Amsterdam,
and deal in foreign bills of exchange. They lately sent several
bills payable in London to Paul Bretton of London, book-keeper.
These were drawn on English merchants in London, who have
drawn bills on petitioners, which they have accepted. The said
bills are now due.
Above three weeks ago Bretton was arrested on Secretary
Nottingham's warrant, and is still confined on suspicion of
remitting moneys for the subsistence of the French troops.
Petitioners are innocent of that matter.  When Bretton
was arrested, his papers were sealed up. Amongst them are
books and papers of petitioners. The bills [drawn on petitioners]
are due, and petitioners must make them good, and will be ruined
if those seized are not restored, so as to be paid.
Pray for restoration of the said bills to Bretton.
P. i. Endd. Generally and with date, and "To be put into
the hands of Secretary Hedges." S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 29.
4 Feb.    LIST of PERSONS whose names are to be inserted in the new
St. James'.    COMMISSION to be granted to the PRIVY COUNCIL of
SCOTLAND.
Prince George of Denmark.
James, Earl of Seafield, Chancellor; William, Marquis of
Annandale, Lord President of the Council; John, Earl
of Tullibardin, Keeper of the Privy Seal; James, Duke of
Queensberry, a Secretary of State; the Duke of Argyll.
The Marquesses of Atholl and Lothian.
Earls of Crawford, Erroll, Sutherland, Mar, Morton, Buchan,
Glencairn, Eglinton, Strathmore, Galloway, Lauderdale, Loudoun,
Finlater, Leven, Northesk, Forfar, Kintore, Breadalbin, Dunmore,
March, and Hyndford.
Viscounts:-Tarbat (a Secretary of State), Stair, Duplin, and
Roseberry.


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1703.
Lords:-Strathnewer [sic], Inverurie, Polwarth, Forbes, Ross,
Reay, and Boyle (Treasurer Depute).
The Master of Tarbat, Sir Hugh Dalrymple of North Berwick,
President of the College of Justice; Sir James Murray of
Philiphaugh, Lord Register; Sir James Stewart, Lord Advocate;
Roderick Mackenzie of Prestonhall, Lord Justice Clerk; Sir Colin
Campbell of Aberuchill;  Sir John Hamilton   of Halcraig;
Sir Archibald Hope of Rankeiller; Sir William Anstruther of
same; Sir David Falconer of Phesdoe; Stewart of Tillicoutrie;
General George Ramsay; Mr. Francis Montgomery; Sir James
Foulis of Colington; Sir James Stewart, Sheriff of Bute;
Sir Robert Sinclair of Stevenson; Sir James Primrose; Archibald
Douglas of Cavers; - Crawford of Kilbirnie; George Lockhart
of Carnwath; - Hope of Hopetoun; the Provost of Edinburgh.
Pp. 1. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, pp. 393-5.
5 Feb.    INSTRUCTIONS to the EARL OF SEAFIELD as Commissioner to
St. James'.    the GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the CHURCH of SCOTLAND.
1. Give the Assembly all assurances of our resolution to
continue Presbyterian government in the Church.
2. Let them know that we expect that at this time they will
regulate matters of order and discipline amongst themselves.
3. Hinder " the turning of those ministers out of their churches
who have qualified themselves according to law by taking the
oath to us. And for those who have not qualified themselves,
it being a civil affair, we shall give directions to our Privy Council
concerning them."
4. Take special care that nothing be done in the Assembly
prejudicial to our authority or prerogative, " and that they treat
of nothing but ecclesiastical affairs."
5. " Since the shortness of time by the near approach of the
Parliament's dyet doth press, you shall allow the Assembly to
grant a commission to such of their number as they think fit for
revising of their Synodical books and such other matters as
they judge proper to be tried by the commission."
6. "You may advise with our officers of State or members
of the Assembly that you think fit in matters of difficulty."
7. "It is not convenient that the Assembly should sit long
at this time." Excite them to complete the business that
must necessarily be now done and to leave the rest to the
commission and inferior judicatories.
8. Appoint a new Assembly to meet on [blank].
Pp. 1I. Ibid, pp. 401, 402.
Same.     LIST of NAMES to be inserted in the new Commission to the
LORDS and others of the EXCHEQUER of SCOTLAND.
Prince George of Denmark.
Earl of Tullibardine, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal; Marquis of
Atholl; Robert, Marquis of Lothian, and Lord Justice General.
Earls:-Mar, Morton, Galloway, Lauderdale, Leven, Northesk,
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Viscounts:-Tarbat (Secretary of State), Stair and Roseberry.
The Master of Tarbat.
Sir Hugh Dalrymple, Sir James Murray, Sir James Stewart,
Lord Advocate, Roderick Mackenzie, Sir C. Campbell, Sir J.
Hamilton, Sir Robert Sinclair of Steinston [Stevenson] Archibald Douglas of Cavers, and the Sheriff of Bute.
P. 1. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, p. 396.
5 Feb.    NOTTINGHAM to BRIGADIER COLENBINE.
Whitehall.  Details. Colonel Codrington's orders, as you know, are such
that he cannot delay you in doing the other service which you
are particularly to perform. You need therefore have no fears
on that point, and will, I hope, cordially co-operate with him in
the Queen's service whilst you are with him. Details.
All is in order for you to sail, and I wish you a fair wind.
P.. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 12.
6 Feb.    JOHN HOLLINGBERY, Mayor of Dover, to NOTTINGHAM.
Dover.  Johnson, whom I imprisoned two months ago for not taking
the oaths to the Queen, is still in prison here. I have received
the enclosed two* letters about him, and do not know how
to deal with that of the third, so send it. The persons who
wrote it are in London, and may inform you if they have anything
material to say. Pray send me directions what to do.
P. i.   Signed.  Add.   Endd.  S.P. Dom., Anne     2, 35.
Enclosing:A. John Yeats to the Mayor of Dover.
I hear one who goes by the name of Johnson is in Dover gaol,
"a little man in black, a very high nose, and wears his own
hair."  He goes by so many names he cannot be found in the
City of York, where he was in prison twelve months and pilloried
for perjury and forgery, by which he intended to take away
the lives of several honest gentlemen.  In that place he
went by the name of Bonan. He was in jail at the Savoy
last year, when he came from France under the name of Morgan.
He sometimes passes as a priest and sometimes as a
Presbyterian.  Other details.  His real name is Mark
Goodyear, and he was born in Holbourn in London.  He
has often tricked the Secretary of State. I desire to know
what he is in jail for now, that his further mischiefs may be
prevented.
P.S.-Direct "For John Yeats, at the sign of the Three
Falkens in St. John Street, near Hix Hall."
P. 1. (Hol.) Dated, London, 25 Jan. Add. Endd. Ibid, 35A.
General date, DOCUMENTS relating to the alleged IMPRESSMENT of MEN in
6 Feb.        CUMBERLAND.
1. Information of Captain Christopher Dalston, of Sir Richard
Temple's regiment, taken on oath at Hayton Castle on 6 February,
1702, before Sir Richard Musgrave, Bt., J.P.
* The second is probably Smith to Hollingbery (p. 570, supra), which is in the
Naval papers.




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Informant says that on Monday, 1 June last, at the house
of Mr. John Inman, of Cockermouth, in the aforesaid county,
he gave one shilling to John Cuppage, a fiddler in the said town,
as a retainer to serve in Temple's regiment. Cuppage accepted
the coin and was lawfully listed. Nevertheless, on 18 January
last, Richard Lamplugh, Esq., a J.P. for Cumberland, issued
his warrant to arrest informant and bring him before a Justice
to give security for his appearing at the next General Sessions of
the Peace to answer the premises and to be of good behaviour;
and informant was compelled to make immediate application to
Sir Richard for relief therein. Sir Richard had made a former
examination of the whole matter in the presence of Mr. Lamplugh,
and was satisfied that Cuppage had been lawfully retained. He
therefore superseded the warrant, and informant hoped to have
no further trouble; but Lamplugh, continuing his endeavours
to prevent him from enlisting men, issued forth another warrant
the very next day (January 19th) to arrest and bring before him
the said Cuppage and several of informant's other men. And
in pursuance thereof the constable of Lorton and about 14 or 15
men and horse, headed by Mr. Robert Lamplugh, son of the said
Richard Lamplugh, J.P., came to informant's house at Lorton,
assaulted informant and took away Cuppage and four other
of his soldiers and brought them before Richard Lamplugh, Esq.,
who detained Cuppage and sent the others back to their quarters,
as they tell informant. Informant believes that he can prove
that Lamplugh has kept Cuppage in his home and under his
sanctuary ever since the said rescue.
Pp. 1 j. Signed by Dalston, and taken and sworn before
Sir Richard Musgrave, who also signs. Endd. "Sir Rd. Temple,"
S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 36.
Certificate by William Tyson, Constable, and Anthony Preston,
Sergeant.
We certify that Captain Dalston, having a man deserted from
him at Whitehaven, had a warrant from Justice Gilping to search
for him, and that William Robertson, attorney, denied the
warrant when Dalston wished to search his house.
P. j (small).  Signed by the above.  Dated, 6 February,
1701. Ibid, 37.
Information on oath of Daniel Fisher and Joseph Tyson,
both of Lorton in Cumberland, yeomen, taken at Hayton Castle on 6 February, 170], before Sir Richard
Musgrave, J.P.
The informants severally say:-On or about 19 January last
Thomas Burnyeats, constable of Lorton, Robert son of Richard
Lamplugh, J.P., and about fourteen horsemen came to
Lorton to apprehend John Cuppage, Richard Mitchell, Henry
Wood, John Hodgson and Thomas Cunningham, soldiers in
Captain Dalston's company, &c., then quartered at Lorton,
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these people away and assaulted Dalston and blooded one of the
servants. Informants were present at the time.
P. 1. Signed by informants and taken [&c., as last but one].
Followed by:Information by Thomas Burnyeate, Constable of Lorton, taken
[&c. as foregoing].
Corroborates foregoing as to the arrest of Cuppage and the
others. They were brought before Richard Lamplugh, J.P., who,
having examined them, released all of them except Cuppage,
whom he kept, and still keeps, in his house.
P. 1. Signed by Burnyeate with his mark and taken &c. as
foregoing.
In all pp. 2. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 38.
Information of Joseph Relfe, William Ewart and Richard
Crosthwaite, all of Cockermouth, gentlemen, and of John
Peile, of Lorton, yeoman, taken on oath [&c. as foregoing].
They say severally:-On 1 June last they saw Captain Dalston
give John Cuppage one shilling at the house of John Inman in
Cockermouth as a retainer to serve in his [Dalston's] company.
Cuppage accepted it, and was lawfully listed according to
informants' judgment.
P. 1. Signed by all the informants and taken &c., as foregoing. Ibid, 39.
This concludes the documents relating to this case.
6 Feb.    The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Wounded   According to your orders, we send an account of the numbers
Office.  of prisoners at war in the custody of our several officers on
31 January last. We have told them to let us know of any
increase or decrease in these numbers from time to time, and
will send weekly lists.
P. R.   Signed by Adams, Sherard and Morley.      Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 30. Enclosing -
A. List of Prisoners referred to above.
Plymouth.. 1,116   Exeter....  30
Gosport....        68   Kinsale.... 354
Southampton..   823   Guernsey...314
Farnham..   173   Jersey..        55
Dover....   413   Tower Hill, London. 24
Yarmouth..    23    Oxford, on parole..  32
P. i. Ibid, 30A.
Same.     SAME to SAME.
In obedience &c. we asked the three English masters of ships
lately prisoners at Ostend as to the terms ot their release. They
were taken by men-of-war and did not ransom their ships, nor
were they detained hostages there, but were set at liberty on
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Ostenders who are prisoners here. They offered to make oath
of this, but we had no power to administer an oath.
P. S. Signed by Adams, Sherard and Morley.        Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 31.
6 Feb.    THOMAS RICE to HENRY LEE.
Southampton. I went to Lyndhurst on the 4th with Mr. Taunton, of this
town, to examine the Queen's stables.  They are very commodious [details of measurements], with good lodging-houses
over the stables and coach-houses. You can judge how many men
they will hold. There is one butcher in the place, and two or three
more three miles from thence, and at Ringwood there are many
butchers, some of which bring meat to Hampton market, which
is 16 miles away, and Lyndhurst is but seven from there. Kitchen
furnaces may be set up outside under a skilling of the side of
the stable or in one of the coach-houses.
Soldiers can be quartered in one of the four public-houses in
the place, or in the chambers over the stables, or in part of her
Majesty's house. It has now in it only a small family to keep
it clean. There is a great bakehouse within three or four miles,
and as for garden stuff those of the place bring it to market for
want of a trade for it at home.
Pp. 1 i. Extract. Ibid, 32.
6 Feb.    NOTTINGHAM to the LORD TREASURER.
Whitehall Recommends that Mr. Alexander Griffith, Attorney General
of New Jersey, be paid a year's salary of 601. in advance, as he
desires. This will promote the service by enabling him to go to
his duty.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 206.
7 Feb.    BRIGADIER COLENBINE* to [NOTTINGHAM?].
ortsmouth.  Yours of the 5th. I make no difficulty about serving under
Colonel Codrington, and am proud to serve the Queen in any
capacity. I am ready when wind and weather permit, and wish
all things in the expedition were so. I hope the wind will soon
prove kind.
P. i. Signed. Endd. in Warre's[ ] hand. S.P. Dom., Naval
118, 33.
7 Feb.    The FRENCH OFFICERS at FARNHAM to [SAME].
sFarnam   Twenty-five of us are here, sent hither by the marshal of
Southampton. They have shewn us the prison which is being
made ready for us. It is a place where the water lies, dark and
without windows, and very low. We can only hope for straw for
beds. If this happens we do not think we can live eight days.
At Southampton we had houses of the townspeople for prisons,
and behaved ourselves as we were ordered. We beg for a similar
favour here, or, at least, for a place where we can have beds by
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paying for them. We shall remember it, if granted, when any
[English] fall into our hands.
Pp. 2J. French. Signed by Charles Feret, captain of the
fleet [?] of the King of [France], De Sollign[e]s, Du Plessis,
Creeheoalleir [sic], Harel, S. Hermaden, Lievre and Havuffier [?].*
Endd. in Warre's hand. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 34.
8 Feb.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.
Whitehall.  1. To George Clarke.
Her Majesty desires all the general officers to be present at
the meeting at the Horse Guards and give their opinion in the
case of Sir Henry Bellasyse and Sir C. Hara, and lay it before
her Majesty as soon as possible. An account to be taken of
those who are present and absent. Give notice to all that the
may speedily comply.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 280.
2. To the Attorney General.
The town of Great Yarmouth have lately petitioned for
incorporation of themselves and the town of South Town in
Suffolk as a borough. The town claims an Admiralty jurisdiction
to the exclusion of that of the Lord High Admiral, which has
occasioned many disputes and obstructed the course of justice.
Consider the matter and report what grounds there are for this
pretence in their charter, and what may be done to settle the
matter and prevent the like inconveniences in the future.
P. W. Ibid, p. 281.
8 Feb.    ROYAL WARRANT to the MASTER GENERAL of the ORDNANCE
St. James'.    (Duke of Marlborough).
Having by warrant of 14 March last ordered a train of artillery
to be prepared to go over to Holland for our service there, we
now find it requisite that that train should be augmented. You
shall cause the several brass ordnance, mortars, ammunition
and other stores of war mentioned in a schedule hereto annexed
to be forthwith provided and made ready for our service. You
shall cause the officers, gunners, bombardiers and other
attendants belonging to the said train to be regulated and
established, with their respective pays per diem, as is mentioned
in a list hereto likewise annexed, " which we do hereby approve
of and establish accordingly," and shall pay these officers and
men out of the sums paid in from time to time to the Treasury
of the Ordnance for land service; the pay to commence from
18 February next.   You may also diminish the "natures of
ordnance" and proportion of ammunition and other stores
and attendants as you think fit, or add to them.
Pp. 1I. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, pp. 124, 125. Followed
by:* These names are very difficult to read.  I give the best reading I can
offer.


Wt. 3880,


A 37




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1703.
Schedule 1.
A proportion of ordnance, ammunition and other habiliments
of war to compose a train of artillery for the service of
her Majesty's forces in Holland.
Howitzers...........      4
Brass ordnance:
Demi-culvering[s]........     6
Saker[s]...........    14
Three-pounder[s]........    16
Travelling carriages. The complement is for:Demi-culvering[s]........     8
Saker[s]........    11
Three-pounders.......     nil.
Travelling  carriages with  limbers  for  three
pounders...........  19
Carriages with limbers for howitzers....     6
Spare limbersDemi-culvering[s]........     lp.*
Saker[s]'...........     2p.
Three-pounders........     2p.
Spare hind wheels forDemi-culvering[s]...      2p.
Saker[s]..........     3p.
Three-pounders........     3p.
Spare fore wheels forDemi-culvering[s].......     2p.
Saker[s]............     2p.
Three-pounders..........     2p.
Spare shafts............      p.
Spare extras forDemi-culvering[s].......     3
Saker[s]............     3
Three-pounders......     3
Howitzers.........     2
Spare wheels for howitzers.....        lp.
Round shot forDemi-culvering[s]........ 1,200
Saker[s]........ 2,540
Three-pounders...... 3,304
Tin cases filled with musket shot forDemi-culvering[s]......     240
Saker[s]..........    282
Three-pounders......   324
Howitzers.........    26
Kettle-drum complement........     1
Granado shells of 71 in........   735
Ladles and sponges forDemi-culvering..........  8 &  8
Saker[s]............14 & 14
Three-pounders........16 & 16
Howitzers......  4 &  4
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Ladle staves, 154; funnells of plate, 6; hand hatchets, 413;
bill hooks, 523; sheet lead, 5cwt.; field staves for the gunners,
14; crows of iron, 20; linch pins, 133 pr., forelockeys, 60 pr.;
sledges, 4; field beds, 49; field coynes, 114; field great tampeons,
10; do. small, 31; heads and rammers, great, 16p.; do. small, 60p.;
formers, 6, and 4 small; bridge barrells, 34; baskets, 100; paper,
Royal, 15 rhe [reams?]; oil, 10 galls.; starch, 301b.; needles,
30 doz.; thread, 301b.; lanthorns, ordinary, 29; do. tin, 12;
do. dark, 12; Musco lights, ordinary, 15; wadhooks, 49; handspikes, 66; powder horns, 60; priming irons, 110; linstocks with
locks, 30; tarpaulins, 60; aprons of lead, 8; marlin, 1341b.;
twine, 251b.; wire, 151b.; handscrews, 6; small hammers, 30;
pincers, 30 pr.; pairs of scales with weights and pile, 3; great
melting ladles, 4; do. small, 4; nails and spikes (details of
different sizes); tanned hides, 78; white rope (details of different
lengths and sizes); sheepskins, 84; hair cloths, 78; tallow,
5cwt.;   grease,  10lcwt.;  shovels,  4,000;   spades,   4,000;
pickaxes, 4,954; helves for same, 5,454; hand grenadoes, 5,794;
fuzes for do., 4,500; links, 500; iron bars, 20c.[cwt.?]; do. in
rods, 40 bundles; steel, 50[lb.?]; whip saws, 6; handsaws, 6;
slings for horses, 50; pontoons, 18; brass petards, 6; pitch,
4 barrells; tar, 4 barrells; candles, 4181b.; bare hides, 10
tarred thread, 261b.; felling axes, 59; small carts, 30; forge
carts, 2; sling carts, 1; small block carriages, 2; gynns furnished,
3; spare gin-head, 1; horse harness as follows-trace 122,
twill [?] 48, fore-horse halters nil; do. bit 176; do. hemp 30; tug
pins, 30 pr.; corn powder, 2,836 a barrells; match, 9tons 7cwt. 2qrs.
muskett shot, 106 tons;    carbine shot, 8tons 16cwt.;   pistol
shot, 3tons 14cwt.; flints, 298,662; bags filled wth musket
shot, 592; belts [?] for arms, 2; fuzes for the matrosses, 2;
cartouch boxes, 2; swords, 22; rugs, 50; brass kettles, 50;
swingle trees, 36; draught chains, 25 pr.; ridge ropes, 80;
draught ropes, 20; pickets shodd, 138; distinguishing flags, 3;
washers, 50; halberts, 8; straps of leather, 12 pr.; do. for the
muzzles, 6; draught ropes of 21 inch, 120 pa. [?]; carbines, 10;
hangers with brass hilts, 40.
Schedule 2.
A list of the officers, ministers and attendants appointed
to attend the train of artillery in Holland in 1703, with
their daily pay.                            Per day.
1. s. d.
Master General..........   0   0  0*
His secretary........   0  0  0
His clerk..........      0 0
Colonel............   1   5  0
Lieutenant-Colonel........   10     0
Comptroller..........   1  0   0
Major............   0 15   0
Paymaster..........   0 10   0
His assistant........   0  3  6
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Per day.
1. s. d.
Adjutant...........          06
Quartermaster..........   0  6 0
Chaplain........             0  6 0
Commissary of the horse......       0  6 0
Master Surgeon........   0  5 0
His Assistant.......   0 3 0
Provost marshal........   0  2  6
Kettle drummer.......   0  3 0
Do. driver........         0  1 6
A first company of gunners consisting ofA Captain.........   0 10 0
A Lieutenant....                           6 0
A Gentleman of the Ordnance....   0  4 0
Three sergeants, each 2s. 6d....      0  7 6
Three corporals, each 2s......    0  6 0
Thirty gunners at Is. 6d.......   2 5 0
Twenty-five matrosses at Is.....    1 5 0
A second company of gunners.
This has the same establishment as the
first company, but in addition the
following:Two fire-workers at 4s.......   0  8 0
Eight bombardiers at 2s.......   0 16 0
Commissary of the stores.....        0  6 0
His assistant.......   0  4 0
Two clerks at 4s. each......   0  8 0
Eleven conductors at 2s. 6d. and a conductor
and cooper at 3s.........   1 10  6
A Master carpenter........   0  4 0
His mate........             0  3 0
Six carpenters at 2s. 6d.......   0 15 0
Master wheelwright........   0  4 0
Three wheelwrights........   0  7  6
Master smith........      0  4 0
Two smiths at 2s. 6d.......  0  5 0
Master tinman..........   0  4 0
One tinman.......   0  2  6
A company of pioneers consisting ofTwo sergeants at 2s.........   0  4 0
Twenty pioneers at Is.......   1 0 0
A company of pontoon men consisting ofA Bridgemaster..........   0  5 0
Two corporals at 2s.........   0  4 0
Twenty pontoonmen.....   1 10 0
Pp. 61. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171, pp. 126-32.
9 Feb.    JOHN TUTCHIN to NOTTINGHAM.
I have cause to believe that, since your lordship's just management of printers and publishers, the method of printing pamphlets
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everything. I think it right to tell you that John Gellibrand,
quondam Clerk of the Cheque to the Messengers, has a post at
the Custom House, where he may be serviceable to such a trade,
he passing all books that are taken up there. He is put in there
by the Archbishop of Canterbury, has his warrant from the
Treasury and is paid at the Custom House. He is busy about
something and keeps company every night at a certain place
with some lords and others. I thought fit to tell you this knowing
your eyes cannot be everywhere.
P. i. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 40.
9 Feb.    PROPOSALS tendered to the QUEEN by SIR JEFFREY JEFFREYS.
Your Majesty has arranged a service of four packet-boats
to the West Indies, whereby frequent advices may be sent from
and to those parts. The same method will be advisable in
relation to communication with North America, "and New York
being the centre of those parts."
Sir Jeffrey proposes to furnish your Majesty with two vessels
suitable for that service. One of these, with twelve guns, forty
men, oars and strong fittings for the winter service, will leave
the Isle of Wight for New York in a month, stay there 30 days
only, in which time letters may be sent to and answers received
from New England, Virginia, Maryland and all adjacent Colonies,
and brought back to the Isle of Wight, at 2001. a month. From
thence the ship shall depart in twenty days or so soon as is
directed.
The other vessel to be fitted with eight guns and thirty men,
to be ready two months later and keep the same course, at 1501.
per month. By this means your Majesty and your subjects
may send and receive news from those parts every two months.
The ships must be allowed to take in passengers who offer,
and a few goods for ballast on both journeys, not exceeding
fifty tons and thirty tons respectively. The crews must be
protected both at sea and on shore, the hire to be paid quarterly
and to have three months' pay imprest.
P. 1. Endd. Ibid, 41.
9 Feb.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Admiralty  By command of his Royal Highness, I send the enclosed copy
of a letter touching the ill-treatment of English prisoners at
Dunkerque to be laid before her Majesty's principal Secretary
of State.
P. A.   (Hol.)   Endd.   S.P.  Dom.,   Naval   118,  35.
Enclosing:Captain Cock to the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
The English prisoners here are kept seventy or eighty in a room,
so that one half have to rise when the other half lie down.
They have tasted nothing but the worst of cheese, and what
they have had from the English nuns here and myself in
charity.  They are not allowed to leave their rooms on the
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in  common   where they   lie."  There are orders from
M. Pontchartrain to keep me under close confinement,
although the captain of a Dutch man-of-war taken last
summer by the gallies is at large. They scrutinise our letters
very closely. The reason given for this is that they hear
that the French officers and men in England are ready to
starve in their prisons.  I believe, on investigation, that
their informant on this point is the Count de Mornay, who
was taken at Vigo. "And not only these things, but matters
of more moment are very well understood here, insomuch
that in two minutes after my coming on board and before
anybody was spoken to, I was told by one of the ship, not
proper to be named, that they were purposely fitted out for
the taking of our ship and a less in the river, and did expect
a yacht to be sent over into Holland for a person of quality
and lately an Embassador "; but the damage received from
us has, I hope, prevented [this], for, had not the wind been
fair that day we were taken, so that we got in the next, both
our own and the enemy had sunk in the sea, the latter having
all night four and five feet of water in the hold.
I am assured here that if no cartel be arranged, there will be
no difficulty about my being exchanged for any French
captain, and beg that his Royal Highness will favour me
accordingly.  I hope to give a good account of the loss of
the ship.  On examination I find the killed and wounded
were about seventy.
Pp. 2. A copy. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 35A.
9 Feb.     The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Sick and
Wounded    We send a copy of a letter from       our new   Marshal at
Office.  Southampton.
The Duke of Ormond proposed to one of us that we should
exchange M. Soreli, now a prisoner at Oxford, for Captain Cock
of the Ludlow (5th rate), lately taken. We are told that M. Soreli
held important posts. [Details.] Besides your lordships' orders
to remove the prisoners from Southampton inland, we have had
complaints from the people of Southampton that the report of
sickness amongst those prisoners keeps people from their markets.
We have made inquiries and heard of some stables belonging to
the Queen at Lyndhurst.
Pp. 1j. Signed by Lee, Adams and Morley. Endd. Ibid,
36. Enclosing:A. Peter Stanley to the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
I have found from Coshart's servant that Latouche bought two
horses and that they [Latouche and Coshart] went to London.
Details A little brother of Coshart's is left there with an
ensign who was very intimate with them, and, I think, knows
where they are, and has, I am informed, heard from Coshart
since he left. I keep him here in case the Board wish to
send for and examine him.
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9 Feb.    COUNT DE MORNAY to NOTTINGHAM.
Oxford.   I have heard from M. de Pontchartrain. The King of France
is surprised at what is asked of me as to my powers, since the
Commissioners themselves sent me proposals for a cartel to
send to France and since I had signified his Majesty's consent
to you, and he had done all that could be expected of him.
[Details.] But I hear that the King consents to my treating
for a cartel for Spaniards taken at sea as well as French subjects
making separate treaties. If necessary, a power for this will be
sent me. I think therefore that all difficulties are settled; and,
as the power must now be on the way, we may begin. I am
to tell you again thdt M. La Tour Monfort, commandant at
Calais, has been authorised to sign [2] the matter and has a passport
for the person you send thither.
I am to say that unless the French prisoners in England are
better treated, retaliatory treatment will be dealt out to the
English prisoners in France. The English sick in France are in
hospitals at Dinant, of which they will be deprived unless there
is similar relief given in England. Repeats demand for punishment of an officer at Southampton.
Proceeds:-M Pontchartrain will be surprised that my protest
against the attempt to induce captives to enter the English service
is only answered by the Commissioners with recriminations.
As to the charge that such things are done in France, they could
not be done without express authority from the King. I will,
however, get proofs [details] that there is no foundation for the
charge. I have endeavoured to keep silence in this matter and
to bring the two parties together, for the relief of unfortunate men.
Pp. 3j.  Signed.  French. Endd. in Warre's[?] hand.  S.P.
Dom., Naval 118, 37.
Same.     SAME to the COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED.
Though the King [of France] is greatly surprised at the want
of punctuality which has been shewn in dealing with the cartel,
I am informed by M. de Pontchartrain that I shall soon have
power to treat for a cartel applying to both French subjects
taken at sea and Spanish subjects.
Expresses hopes for a speedy settlement, otherwise a number
of poor soldiers on each side will perish, which should not happen
amongst Christian peoples. Proceeds:-M. de Pontchartrain
tells me positively that there are as many prisoners in France
now as you can have in England. Thus a treaty for exchange
is as much to be desired on one side as on the other, and I shall
be always ready to deal for it when I meet with the required
sincerity.
P. I. French. An extract. Ibid, 38.
9 Feb.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.
Whitehal. To the Prince's Council.
By command:-I enclose case and request of Captain William
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any objection to exchanges of this kind being made and whether
you suspect that this ship was taken by collusion.
P. 2. S.P. Dom., Entry Book.204, p. 362.
2. To the Prince's Council.
To give order for clearing Andrew Peterson a Swedish subject,
lately pressed on the Mary. Leyoncrona's request.
P. i. Ibid, p. 363.
9 Feb.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
I see from your list of prisoners that 68 of them are still at
Gosport. All prisoners there and at Portsmouth and Plymouth
must be removed inland. Her Majesty consents to liberate
three French prisoners in exchange for the three English masters
who have been discharged. Let me know the names of those
whom it is proposed to set free, and their qualities.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 206, 207.
2. To the Lord High Treasurer.
Encloses Alexander Inglis' petition.
P. J. Ibid, p. 207.
3. To the Victuallers of the Navy.
As the supplies of provisions sent to Jamaica from here and
from New England and Carolina may be more than are needed,
command: To order your agent and Jamaica to sell any of them
which may not be required for the soldiers and seamen who remain in those parts after the service is over.  Keep accurate
accounts [details].
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 13.
10 Feb.   The PRINCE'S COUNCIL to HEDGES.
Admiralty  Yours of yesterday. We do not object to giving up
Captain Mathias Depray, of Dunkerque, in exchange for
Captain William Hester, who is now a prisoner there, if it does
not appear that Captain Hester's ship was collusively taken
(which does not appear here), and "that the French ship was not
actually a privateer and not a trading ship with a letter of mart.*"
P. j. Signed by Rooke, Mitchell, Churchill and Hill. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 16.
10 Feb.   HEDGES to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Whitehall.  I send M. Leyoncrona's request for release of several Swedish
ships which are embargoed here.   Command:-Consider and
report on it.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 363.
10 Feb.   AFFIDAVIT by JOHN LANE.
PDock.     Late purser deputy of H.M.S. Royal William.   Says:-To
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the best of his memory it was about the middle or the latter end of
November last that Sir G. Parker, Mr. Goring and two other
gentlemen, one of them being a Frenchman of small stature
and "a cast with one of his eyes," taken to be Captain Coshart,
came on board the Royal William with a boat and a boat's crew
from Hampton, and stayed there about a quarter of an hour,
From thence they rowed up the harbour and, Lane believes, went
on board the Victory. Three or four days later, he saw the
Frenchman again at Gosport, and, about a fortnight later, saw
him again riding out of Gosport.
When the said gentleman come on board the Royal William
none of the officers were on board but himself, the boatswain
being gone to work in the ordinary. The Frenchman conversed
with nobody there except those with whom he came.
P. 1. Copy, with copy of Lane's signature and of attestation
by D. Batwell. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 39.
11 Feb.   The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Siknded   We send enclosed relating to the escape of Captain Coshart.
Office.  Have arrested Sutton.
P. W. Signed by Lee and Herbert. Add. Endd. Ibid, 40.
Enclosing:A. Voluntary affidavit of " John Bechett," prisoner at war.
Deponent belongs to Coshart's ship. On the same night that
Captain Coshart went away he (Coshart) told deponent
that he had satisfied and contented  Sutton, under jailkeeper, that everything was ready and that they would go
away that night. Saw Coshart take money out of his pocket
and give it to Sutton.
P. W. Copy. Signed (copy) by " Jean Bechet," and with copy of
attestation before Adam de Cardonell, Colonel, dated, Southampton,
8 February, 170i. Ibid, 40A.
11 Feb.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.   T   the Prince's Council.
Her Majesty refers enclosed petition of Eleanor Wreen to you
and favours her request for payment of 11 arrears of pay owing
to her husband's services and her own condition. Give orders
to pay it unless there is strong reason against it; and, if there is,
report thereon.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 207, 208.
2. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
The Queen has received complaints from the French officers
regarding the accommodation provided for them at Farnham.
See it is as convenient for them as may be consistently with
security against escape.
You may not exchange-Sorelli for Captain Cock. The Queen
does not approve of Lyndhurst as a place for prisoners.
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3. To the Lord High Treasurer.
Queen's command:-To     consider the enclosed memorial
regarding the Alcalde of Rotta in Spain and his nephew, and
report what may be further done for them.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 209.
4. To the Prince's Council.
Sends enclosed from   Mr. Ellis, Lieutenant-Governor of
Guernsey, as to some men who ran away from H.M.S. Pembroke
(Sir Thomas Hardy). Sends also memorials by Mr. Henry Baker.
regarding the correspondence between French sloops and
privateers and the owlers of Romney Marsh. Report what
should be done to prevent the latter great abuse.
Also memorandum of the enclosed documents, which are as
stated above, and are dated 1 February, 1703, and 7 and
27 January (two memorials), 1703.
P. 1. Ibid, pp. 209, 210.
5. Same to the Lord High Treasurer.
By Queen's command:-Sends part of a letter from Consul
Lodington at Tripoli and a statement of his arrears, for such
order therein as the Treasurer thinks necessary.
His arrears are:
1.  s. d.
Salary at 3801. a year arrear to Christmas last........   475 0 0
Two bills of extraordinaries....  302 10 0
777 10 0
P. ~. Ibid, p. 210.
11 Feb.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
AdmiraltY  Pray move Lord Secretary Nottingham to advise the Queen
to send to the Council of Scotland for the seamen which the
frigates are going to that Kingdom in order to bring here for
the fleet.
P. i. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 17.
12 Feb.   The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Sick and  Yours of the 9th and to-day.  As to the first, the prisoners
Office.  whom we stated to be at Gosport are at Fortune, a little village
a mile from that place. They were too sick to be moved with
the others to Southampton, but will be sent there as they recover.
Our agent at Plymouth has orders to look out for some place
inland in which to keep prisoners and, meantime, to keep them
so close in prison that they cannot see what is going on in the
port. Details, with names, as to exchange of prisoners for English
prisoners at Ostend. Proceeds — If you approve of our discharging
these and of their being permitted, on their return to Ostend, to
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with Hendricksen and Jacks, we presume the English masters
will be acquitted of the obligations they entered into for this
exchange. They say the judge at Ostend assured them that if
these men were returned all the English prisoners at Ostend
would at once be liberated.
We have instructed our officer at Farnham to do what he can
for the accommodation of the French officers there consistently
with their security. He finds it very hard to find house-room
for them. Having your strict orders we had to order them to be
sent thither and accommodated as best could be. We have been
prevented from sending prisoners away from the seaport towns,
as you directed, by the difficulty of getting house-room for them;
but we hope that, as they grow more healthy (which they do)
the people will be less unwilling to let houses for the purpose.
We are negotiating, under orders from his Royal Highness for
the exchange of Captain Cock against Count de Mornay. We
have informed the Count of it and of the ill-treatment of the
English prisoners at Dunkirk, of which Captain Cock was an
eye witness. We have sent him the sense of Captain Cock's
letter and told him how much more cause for complaint those
prisoners have than the French prisoners here, who have 5d. a
day allowed for each soldier, 6d. for each commander of a
privateer, and 12d. for a commissioned French naval officer. Those
who are sick or wounded receive the same treatment as her
Majesty's own subjects.
We send a copy of part of a letter* from Count de Mornay
concerning his authority to settle a cartel.
Pp. 21. Signed by Lee, Adams and Sherard. Endd. S.P.
Dom., Naval 118, 41.
12 Feb.   E. BURT to [NOTTINGHAM].
Sick and
Wounded    The number of French prisoners who died up to Jan. 31 is 281.
Office.  I have spoken with somebody who hopes soon to take both
Coshart and "La Tooch."
P. i. (Hol.) Endd. in Warre's [?] hand. Ibid, 42.
13 Feb.   BRIGADIER COLENBINE to SAME.
Portsmouth.  Has got sailing orders and is going aboard. Presumes Plymouth
is the best place to which to send further orders.
Four lines. Signed. Add. Endd. Ibid, 43.
13 Feb.   HEDGES to the LORD HIGH TREASURER.
Whitehall.  The bearer, as previously reported, says he can give some
information as to abuses in the management of the revenue.
P. j. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 282.
13 Feb.   MEMORIAL by the LORD HIGH ADMIRAL to the QUEEN in
Admiralty      COUNCIL.
Office.
I ordered [details] the Muscovia and Loyal Merchant to carry
recruits to Holland, and to follow the directions of the
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Commissioners of Transportation. The Commissioners of the Navy
have given orders accordingly, but submit that the charge of
these vessels should not be paid out of money appropriated for
the Navy, which it cannot be without exceeding the estimates.
I therefore propose to the Queen that neither the charge of this
nor any other transportation be laid on the Navy.
P. 2. Signed.  Countersigned by Geo. Clarke. Endd.  S.P.
Dom., Naval 7, 18.
14 Feb.   EXTRACT from a LETTER from JOHN BLENKERN, a prisoner at
Dinant.       war.
The men in hospital die at the rate of eight or ten a day. If
this continues they need not trouble themselves about a cartel.
I never heard of any of them having any medicine, whatever
be their illness. There are about 550 or 600 English and Dutch
prisoners. Many have run away. About 28 are now going out
of hospital to the French privateers. Instead of being better
used, we are worse. The Governor is very sick, and if he dies
I fear we shall be worse treated.
P.. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 44.
15 Feb.   EXTRACT from the London Gazette.
Notice is given that, in this time of war, no person whatever
is to be received on board of any of her Majesty's ships as a
passenger or on board any of the packet-boats at Harwich or
Falmouth, or to go abroad from any port in England or Wales
without a pass under the Royal Signet and Sign Manual or under
the hand and seal of one of the Secretaries of State, unless they
be officers, soldiers and recruits for the forces in Holland or
Flanders. These must produce a pass from the Generalissimo or
General. Customs and port officers to take notice of this.
P. i. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 42.
Same.     DEPOSITION of CHARLES GORING.
In November last was at Portsmouth taking care of plundered
goods. One day got to Gosport with difficulty, owing to rough
weather. Dined there with Sir George Parker, Mr. Culliford, a
Custom officer at Southampton, and two other gentlemen from
the Custom House at London, who were to assist us to take care
of the Queen's duty. Mr. Culliford informed us that one
Captain Coshart was in the next room, that his keeper Jackson
had left him there, and that Culliford desired the captain might
dine with us.* We agreed. Before we went to dinner, Jackson
came in and told us he was going with a warrant to the Governor
of Portsmouth for M. De Le Agra.   I said I thought it very
improper of Jackson to carry Coshart into a garrison and
especially into the Governor's house, and that he had been guilty
of great neglect of his duty in relation to one Lewis de Lot,
that he [Jackson] had given in contradictory evidence to what
* The " he's " and " hims " are very complicated in this document. I think
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he had sworn in order to the condemnation of a prize, which
was like to create a lawsuit between the Lord High Admiral and
the Prize Office, and that I had already complained to the
Governor of him. He then desired Coshart might stay with us,
and that he would be back in half an hour. He never came back.
Coshart could speak no English and I no French, but Culliford
told me he was very unwilling to be left alone, and desired to go
over the water with us to be delivered to Jackson or the town
major. We went over (other details). Coshart was taken care
of that night by the town major and delivered back next
day.
Pp. 1a. Copy. Endd. with date. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 43.
15 Feb.    The MARQUIS DE LA GALLISSONNIERE to [NOTTINGHAM].
Oxford.  I send enclosed from  my correspondents in London, from
which you will see that we can get no money. We shall be in
great want, having hitherto lived at our own expense, and had
nothing from the Queen since we have been prisoners at war,
and do not know how we can live if we cannot be helped by our
friends at home. Pray present this to the Queen, that the
bankers of London may be allowed to help us.
P. 1. (Hol.) French. Endd. in Warre's hand. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 118, 45.  Enclosing:A. Couuren [sic] and others to the Marquis de la Gallissonniere.
We have long been ordered to pay you 200 guineas by M. De
Menues' [?] order, he having it from M. de Vanoles, the
same to M. Sosel [Sorel] and 4,000 francs to the Marquis
de Camilly, by order of M. Bernard. We are sure you
want the money which, at another time, we should have paid
at once; but we hesitate to pay at a time of difficulty and
danger.  We should have to be reimbursed by drawing on
Paris, and if we did this, should incur the charge of corresponding with France.  We desire to be of service to everybody, and especially to persons of your merit, who are in
trouble, but we cannot offend the Government. This is to
you and the other gentlemen.
P. 1. French. Dated, London, 13 February. Signed, Couuren,
Baudouin, Santiny and Seignorst [?]. Add. to Gallissonniere, at
Oxford. Ibid, 45A.
15 Feb.    E. DUMMER to SAME.
The following is a record of the voyage of the Bridgman:She left the Needles on 22 October, 1702, and arrived at
Barbados 18 November.
She left Barbados 20 November, and arrived at Antegoa
24 November.
She left Antegoa 26 November, and arrived at Monserat
27 November.
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She left Nevis 29 November, and arrived at St. Christopher's
the same day.
She left St. Christopher's 1 December, and arrived at Jamaica
6 December.
She left Jamaica 15 December, and arrived at Falmouth
2 February, 1703.
The total is 3 months and 13 days, and the captain thinks
that but for an interruption at Jamaica and some difficulty
with a privateer, he would have saved 12 days. He has not
lost a man, but had hard weather coming into the Channel.
P. i. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 46.
15 Feb.   JOSIAH BURCHETT to the COMMISSIONERS for SICK and
Admiralty      WOUNDED.
Office.
Yours of the 13th, enclosing that of your officer at Yarmouth.
As there is no means of transporting the prisoners there to
Dover, apply to Lord Secretary Nottingham for the Queen's order
to the magistrates at Yarmouth and elsewhere to receive the
prisoners into the county jails.
P..  Copy. Ibid, 47.
15 Feb.   PETER   STANLEY, Marshal for Prisoners at War, to the
Southampton.    SECRETARY to SAME.
Yours of the 11th, with an order from the Board for securing
Sutton. I applied to the Mayor who, with Dr. Cropp and
Mr. Cornelius, committed him to prison. He swore he was no
party to Latouche's and Coshart's going away, and that he had
no money from them. The magistrates did not think it well to
rely on a prisoner's evidence, as this might encourage them to
give false evidence, and also the prisoners might have been
actuated by malice, as they were more strictly confined than they
had been for some time. Pray let me know if Sutton may be
admitted to bail. I think if he had been guilty he would have
confessed. Coshart and Latouch used to get their money from
M. De veale, a French merchant in this town.
Pp. II. An extract. Ibid, 48.


15 Feb.    COUNT DE MORNAY to the COMMISSIONERS for SICK and
Oxford.       WOUNDED.
Yours of the 12th. If things are ordered as you have directed,
the French prisoners would be very wrong in complaining as
they have done, and still do. You tell me that you only
receive into your fleet Protestants who have certificates and
present themselves. This does not agree with what M. de la
Gallissonniere and I hear [to the effect] that a French minister
called Gogo visits the prisoners daily to try to get them to change
their religion and to engage, offering them money, and that,
on the day when the officers left for Farnham, there were four
sailors and a soldier who agreed to do so.
If these poor men are offered money and liberty [on these
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many will become Protestants; and those who give them money
can also give them certificates. Moreover, I do not see that you
have any greater right over Protestants than over Catholics.
Whatever faith they may believe, they are subjects of the
King of France.
As for the complaints you make of the ill-treatment of English
prisoners in France, and especially at Dunkirk, I have great
difficulty in believing them, because the officer in command
there is the most just and reasonable of men.  I am very
grateful for your suggestion as to my own exchange, and obliged
for your offer; but the Queen has long said that she would not
agree to particular exchanges until the whole question of exchange
was regulated. Moreover, Lord Secretary Nottingham has asked
me to ask for authority to treat for the cartel, and this will soon
arrive, unless it be true, as I hear, that the Queen has instructed
her Ambassador in Holland to treat for it. If that be so, and if
exchanges are made man for man, according to rank, I gladly
accept your offer, and pray you to remember it. Being the first
taken, I am entitled, by the laws of war, to be first released. I
shall rely on your justice.
Pp. 2J. Copy. French. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 49.
15 Feb.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.
1. To Sir George Parker.
Queen's command:-To come to town. I will tell you the reason
when I see you.
Three lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 211.
2. To Colonel Gibson.
Queen's command:-To send a report on the bringing of
Captain Coshart to Southampton by Sir George Parker and
others in November last, and the giving him into the custody
of the town major.
P.. ibid.
Same.     HEDGES to the COMMISSIONERS for SICK and WOUNDED.
Queen's command:-To give directions for allowing Captain
Martin de Sansinenez [sic], who lately commanded a Spanish ship,
and is now a prisoner at Southampton, to come up here with
any three men of his company.     Give these directionrs to
Sir William Hodges, who answers for the said prisoners, or whom
soever he shall appoint to attend you for the same.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 281.
General date, DOCUMENTS relating to the case of JAMES MORRISSE.
16 Feb.     Petition to Nottingham of James Morrisse, a young French
Protestant, now prisoner at Plymouth, shewing that:
He was born and bred a Protestant, as appears by annexed
certificates. Was sent to San Domingo and, in his return, was
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of his mother and family, to stay in England for liberty of religion
and to follow a trade.
Prays for release from prison.
P. i. Copy. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 44.
Certificate by -- Hugueville [?] and others.
Morrisse was born and bred a Protestant, but, because of the
persecution in France, could not there make a public profession
of it. Relates his capture, "by God's providence," and desire
of his mother and relatives that he should live in England and
learn a trade.
P. ]. Dated, London, 7 February, 1701. Signed by ----
Hugueville, minister, Jacob Assreni [ ], formerly minister of Dieppe,
S. Dubourdieu, minister, Michel de Caux, James de Caux,
Thomas Thomas, and Thomas Bareau. Ibid, 45.
Certificate by James de Joux and others.
By testimony of many refugees of Plymouth who knew
Morrisse's family at Dieppe, they corroborate foregoing. They
have seen Morrisse in prison and testify to his desire to remain
in England.
P. i. Dated, Plymouth, 29 January, 1701. Signed by James
De Joux, minister, Francis Delacombe, and James Delacombe.
Underwritten withNote by the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
They have no power to discharge French prisoners of war by
reason only of their being Protestants, unless they are willing to
serve in the Queen's Navy.
P. i. Signed by Lee, Sherard, Adams and Morley. Dated, Sick
and Wounded Office, 16 February, 1701. Ibid, 46.
This concludes the documents relating to this case.
16 Feb.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  I. To Sir Richard Cox, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in
Ireland.
Desiring his presence in England. The Queen is considering
many Irish matters in which he may be useful.
P. j. S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, p. 41.
2. To Paul Methuen, jun.
I have spoken with the envoy of Portugal on his master's
proposals, as they are now reduced. Details.
P. A. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 13.
3. To Sir Lambert Blackwell.
Yours, to January 28, I have read to the Queen. The answer
of Genoa evades the point on which you were to press, i.e. that
the Queen's enemies should not be supplied with ships or stores
by Genoese subjects. If any of them do it, the Queen will resent
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The Queen, I repeat, will not allow enemies' goods to be carried
in Genoese ships. She welcomes the Genoese concession of
magazines, but the Genoese consul says that salt will not be
granted at less than the usual price, which, as you said, they
had agreed to let us have at one-fifth thereof. Please explain
this discrepancy.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 14.
16 Feb.   BRIGADIER COLENBINE to WILLIAM BLATHWAYT.
Plymouth.  The four transport ships carrying my regiment have not
come down, though Captain Lyell tells me he gave the necessary
orders and signals.  All the officers were certainly on board
before I left Portsmouth, and I do not know why they didn't
sail.  The seamen on the Three Pilgrims mutinied. I tried to
inform Captain Lyell of the Resolution, but, before I got up with
him, he was past the Narrows, and the tide so far spent he could
not return, though he tried to; so all that could be done (the
other ships being under sail and the wind making it impossible
to go back) was to come on here and await those which have
not come. I cannot understand why the others have not come, for,
while speaking the Three Pilgrims, I saw them ready [details].
I hope those to blame will be punished, for we have lost time
and the best wind that could blow.
P. |. Signed. Add. Endd. With seal. S.P. Dom., Naval
118, 50.
Same.     SAME to [NOTTINGHAM].
Gives shortly the substance of the foregoing.'
P. i. Signed. Endd. in Nottingham's hand. Ibid, 51.
16 Feb.   The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to SAME.
Wounded   Fifty-four prisoners have arrived at Yarmouth, and as we
Office.  cannot get accommodation for them there we asked his Royal
Highness to give orders for some ships coming from the North
to call and bring them to Dover. His Royal Highness having
told us to apply to you, we send a copy of his letter.
P. 3. Signed by Lee, Adams, Sherard and Morley. Endd.
Ibid. 52.
16 Feb.   COLONEL GIBSON to [SAME].
Portsmouth.  About a week ago M. Dutot [?], a French prisoner, now turned
Protestant and married in Gosport (who escaped out of our town
prison some months ago, as I informed the Commissioners of
Sick and Wounded), came to me and asked for a warrant to
arrest Captain Couchart [Coshart]. I said to him the Queen's
proclamation was sufficient' warrant, but, he insisting, I thought
abundance of the law could not break the law, and gave him
my warrant, as he was positive that he could find Coshart. He
now comes back with a long story, which I enclose. I have
no good opinion of this gentleman, and wish he were settled
elsewhere.
P. ~. (Hol.) Endd. in Warre's hand. Ibid, 53.


Wt. 3880.


A 38




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1703.
[17 Feb.]  ROBERT PORTEUS to NOTTINGHAM.
One Richard Whitman, who is here to attest, informs me
that he met Captain La Touche in the house of William Games,
a victualler at Wapping Dock, on February 1, with a Mr. Morgin,
who is a pretended husband to the ship that Captain Damper
is going out in, and reports that he is a part owner of that ship.
Knowing La Touche, Whitman asked him how he came out of
prison. La Touche answered that he was cleared out and that
Morgin was his friend. Details. Morgin knows where La Touche
now is.
In answer to my questions, Whitman said he could not swear
whether the person he had spoken to was La Touche or Captain
Coshart, but knew that he was one who had been a prisoner at
Southampton in December [1702] and was called a captain.
Having taken steps [details] to get a description of La Touche,
I tried on February 13 to find him, but could not identify him
for certain, and they who were with him said they knew no man
by [that?] name and asked what order I had to search. I therefore write to acquaint your honour with what I have heard;.
and, if the parties or party be arrested, hope I may have the
bounty money promised in the Queen's proclamation.
P. 1. Signed by Porteus and Whitman. Endd. with date.
S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 47.
17 Feb.   COLONEL GIBSON to [SAME].
Portsmouth.  Yours of the 15th. Towards the end of November (I cannot
give the day) I was at one of our coffee-houses in company with
Dr. Sherrarde. The Town Major came to receive the word and
orders for the night-it being about the time of shutting the
gates. Before I gave him the word, he told me that Sir George
Parker had brought over from Gosport M. Coshart to see
M. D'Aligre, a prisoner then at the Town Major's house in
custody; but that he [the Major] had not allowed them to meet
till he had my consent. I objected, and said that if it were
not out of respect to him I would confine Coshart and Jackson.
The doctor was very much concerned, and sent for Jackson, then
at Gosport. I told the Major to tell Sir George Parker that I
would not comply with his desire, it being a thing I could not
answer. The enclosed* shew the sequel, and I am sure Dr. Sherrarde
and Sir G. Parker will both do me and the Town Major justice in
this affair, if asked.
The enclosed, to the best of my knowledge, are matter of fact.
Next morning Coshart was carried over to Gosport and delivered
to the Marshal, and the Doctor knows best how he reprimanded
him. I am sorry your lordship should have so much trouble
in this affair, but I could not avoid it.
Pp. 1I. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 54.
Same.     ROBERT DALZELL to [SAME].
Yours of the 15th to the Lieutenant Governor [Gibson] says
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that you are informed that when Captain Coshart was brought
over from Gosport by Sir George Parker and others he was
delivered to me. What I can say on the matter is as follows:-About sunset on the day in question, at the usual
time for firing the gun for shutting the gates, I was going
towards the main guard, and found standing near it Sir George
Parker, Mr. Goreing, and I think Mr. Bryan, with Lieutenant
Foulks, of Colonel Holt's regiment. The first three gentlemen
belong to the prize office. Captain Coshart, whom I had never
seen or spoken to before, was with them. The gentlemen had
brought him over from Gosport to pay a visit to M. d'Aligre,
a French prisoner of war, who was then detained at my house.
Corroborates the foregoing as to the refusal of the LieutenantGovernor [Gibson] and Commissioner [Dr. Sherard] to authorise
the meeting between Coshart and D'Aligre. At the time when
he was asked for leave, the Lieutenant Governor was at the
Point Coffee House, and Parker &c. remained at Norris' Coffee
House. Proceeds:-The Lieutenant Governor told me to keep
him [Coshart] till next morning in some proper place with two
sentinels. When I delivered Coshart these orders, there were
present Sir G. Parker, Mr. Goreing, Mr. Bryan, Lord Durzly,
Major Lawrence, Lieutenant Foulks and many others. I refer
for details to Major Lawrence's letters of this date.
Pp. 2k. (Hol.) S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 55.
17 Feb.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.
1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
The Queen approves your exchange of prisoners [details], and you
may tell those you discharge that you will set at liberty two
more, of the same quality as Hendricksen and Jacks, when the
names of any such two are sent you. The Queen approves of
Count de Mornay being exchanged for Captain Cock. If the
French won't agree to this, let me know.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 211, 212.
2. To the Prince's Council.
I send enclosure from the Duke of Marlborough that anything
which is wanting to enable the transports to join the men-of-war
for the West Indies, may be ordered by the Council.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 14.
17 Feb.   NOTE of [RICHARD WARRE] to the MAYOR OF DOVER.
Wrote that my Lord received his letter and sent for the two
persons who writ to him, William Smith and John Yeates,* whose
letters he enclosed, but they could not be found. [They were:-]
John Yeates, at the sign of the Three Falcons in St. John's Street,
near Hick's Hall. Three months ago lay there four nights, but
they know nothing more of him.
William Smith, at the sign of the Black Bull in Tower Dock.
* Also spelt ' Yates'




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1703.
Mrs. Bland, at the Cat and Dog in Rosemary Lane. Gone
thence, and letters to be delivered to Mr. Paddison. Gone thence
to quarters.
P. j. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 146, p. 3.
18 Feb.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
^Admraty   Lord High Admiral's request:-To move Lord Secretary
Nottingham for the Queen's orders to the Governor of Tilbury
to permit the vessels to proceed to Chatham that have ballast
aboard for her Majesty's ships, or appear to him to be on the
Queen's service.
P. i. Signed. Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 19.
18 Feb.   The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Sick and
ck andjiL  Send a list of prisoners; and letters* from Count de Mornay,
Office.  Captain de Gratton and their officer at Southampton.
P. j. Signed by Lee, Sherard, Morley and Adams. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 56. Enclosing:A. Return of the number of Prisoners at war in custody.
Plymouth, 1,116; Gosport, 68; Southampton, 823; Farnham,
173; Dover, 596; Yarmouth, 77; Exeter, 30; Kinsale,
393; Guernsey, 314; Jersey, 55; Tower Hill, London, 24;
Oxford, on parole, 32.
P. ~ (small). Dated, 16 February, 170X. Endd. Ibid, 56A.
18 Feb.   NOTTINGHAM to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Whitehall.
Refers John Colston's petition for consideration and report
as to how he may best be employed in the Queen's service.
Further pleasure. Note. The petition was enclosed.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 212.
19 Feb.   JOSLAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
AOfiralty  Inform Lord Secretary Nottingham that the Resolution and
Blackwall are stopped in Plymouth Sound, and that the Tilbury
4th rater is gone with the transports from Spithead to join them
there.
P. i. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 20.
Latest date, NOTES on the movements of MORGAN.
19 Feb.   Wednesday, February 17, he went to Long Acre, to a broker's
in|St. Martin's Lane, to Wido's [?] Coffee-house in Spring Garden,
to the Admiralty, to the Admiralty Coffee-house, to Hanel [?], a
Frenchman [?], in Warwick [?] Street, to King Street, near Golden
Square, to Devil tavern at Charing Cross. There he met five
gentlemen.  [Their  clothes  &c.  described.]  On  Sunday,
14 February, he went to the Chapel in Lincoln's Inn Fields and
thence to Clancy's, where he spent three-quarters of an hour,
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Mary Russell, now Collins, makes oath that some day within
a week past she saw Morgan go to the house of Clancy, an Irishman, in Long Acre, where La Touche was taken, and that he
staid in that house near an hour.
In all p. i. The deposition of Collins signed with her mark and
written and attested on 19 February, 170k, by Lord Secretary
Nottingham. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 57, 1 and 2.
19 Feb.   BRIGADIER COLENBINE to NOTTINGHAM.
Plymouth.
The ships which were delayed have arrived with my regiment. We shall sail as soon as the wind serves, unless otherwise
ordered.
P. j. (Hol.) Endd. Ibid, 58.
19 Feb.   MEMORANDUM by SIR G. PARKER.
Some day in November last, after working at Portsmouth
in connection with the landing of the Port St. Mary's plunder,
I and some other gentlemen went to dine at Gosport. Before
we sat down, Mr. Cullfort, an officer of Southampton, being in
company with us, was alone in the next room, and desired to be
admitted to dinner with us. We consented.
In the evening we were going over to Portsmouth, and he asked
leave to come with us, as he was alone. He said he had come
from Southampton with a design to wait upon some prisoners
who were taken at Vigo. Details. When we landed at the
"Pint a' Portsmouth" we met the Town Major, to whom I
referred Captain Coshart for leave to see M. d'Alleger [D'Aligre].
I saw Coshart afterwards in the coffee-house, but do not know
what became of him from that time to this.
P. i. Signed. Endd. Ibid, 59.
19 Feb.   [MAJOR] H. LAWRENCE to [NOTTINGHAM].
Portsmouth.
To vindicate Major Dalliele from the suspicion of neglect, I
beg to state what I saw in November last:As Major to Colonel Holt's regiment here, I have frequently
had orders from Colonel Gibson to make detachments to convoy
prisoners to Southampton. Amongst them was Coshart, whom
I at first treated with the decency due to his appearance, but he
soon "forfeited my condescension," and I had to give orders to
the officers at Southampton to treat him strictly. Details. He
made favour with his gaoler, who consented to many irregularities.
Confirms Colonel Gibson and Sir G. Parker [above at 17 and
19 February, 1703] as to the events before Coshart's escape.
Proceeds:-After supper I took him to my lodging, had my
field bed set up [for him] and never let him out of my
sight till I sent him under an officer's guard to Jackson, his
keeper.
Pp. 4 (small). (Hol.) bid, 60.




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1703.
19 Feb.    HEDGES to the POSTMASTER[S] GENERAL.
Whitehall.
The Holland mail to go to-night for Harwich. The packetboat not to sail thence till a flying packet arrives.
P. %s. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 282.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM to the LORD TREASURER.
1. Her Majesty desires your opinion on the enclosed petition of
Sir Alexander Bruce before she takes any action on it.
Note. Petition enclosed.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 213.
2. Queen's command:-To pay 2001. to the person by whose
means La Touche, one of the French prisoners who lately escaped
from Southampton, was captured. The money is to be paid
to Mr. Thomas Armstrong, and I will see it paid to the proper
person. His name must be kept secret, in order that he may be
better able to seize Coshart too.
P. k. Ibid.
3. Enclosed is an account of what the late King presented to
the Governments of Algier, Tripoli and Tunis; but your lordship
will see by another paper that things of another nature will be
more welcome at Algier. The Queen is willing to allow 3001.
to be laid out in a present to that Government and a bale of
cloth and a gold watch and two " prospective" glasses to each of
the Governments of Tunis and Tripoli. Give orders accordingly,
I have ordered Mr. Baker, late Consul at Algier, to attend you,
as he may be useful on this occasion.
P. *. Ibid, p. 214.
20 Feb.    MEMORIAL [to the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY?] by certain
Greenwich.     INHABITANTS of GREENWICH.
We hear that certain persons are trying by your Grace's interest
to procure the presentation to this vicarage when it shall fall
vacant. The incumbent is not likely to live long. We certify
that Mr. Turner is very acceptable to the parish, "having for
several years lived in our neighbourhood, and being much valued
by us for his prudent behaviour, profitable preaching, affection
to the present Government and zeal for the established Church.
We pray that by your interest he may succeed to the living
when it falls vacant.
P. i. Signed, Litchfield, Derby, Philip Becket, Isr. [?]
Clements, Robert Robinson, Gebriell Milliken [?], S. Cade, William
Hooker, Robert Robinson, Richard Crick, Nicholas Cooke, John
Stow, William Nepuen, Jo. Cottle, Robert Watson, Thomas
Robinson, Benjamin Dyer, Charles Guy, J. Guy, Searle Spranger,
John Blundell, Luke Cooke, Natha[niel?] Ryley, GabrieU Garrett,
Thomas Wiggell, John Tindalls, George Fuller, Thomas Dewell,
John Fisher, Ernest Madox, Genath Bestwick and Ambrose Page.
In all pp. 1I. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 48.




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1703.
20 Feb.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Mr. Blathwayt.
Is it true, as "the Committee of Council " are informed, that
the recruits brought up to the Savoy are ill-cared for, and have
to lie upon boards? Inform yourself, and send me an account
to lay before the Queen "at the Cabinet Council" to-morrow
evening.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 214.
2. To Mr. Couereu and Co.
The Queen permits you to pay 200 guineas to the Marquis de la
Gallissonniere, the same to M. Sorel, and 4,000fr. to the
Marquis de Chamilly, according to instructions which she hears
you have from Paris.
P. i. Ibid, p. 215.
3. To the Marquis de la Gallissonniere.
Informs him that the permission referred to in the foregoing
has been given.
P. J. French. Ibid, pp. 215, 216.
4. To the Governor of Tilbury.
The Queen hears that you stopped some ships with ballast
on board for her Majesty's ships without permitting them to
proceed to Chatham. Command:-Let all vessels proceed which
appear to you to be in her Majesty's service.
P. 1. Ibid, p. 216.
Same.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
1. To the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded.
The Queen approves the exchange of Captain William Hester,
who commanded the Diamond galley, taken in November last
by a French privateer, and now at Dunkirk, for Mathew du Prey,
master of the Bonheur, lately taken by her Majesty's ship Chatham
and now a prisoner at Plymouth. Take action accordingly.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 282.
2. To the Postmaster[s] General.
To send enclosed by a flying-packet to Harwich, whence the
packet is to be despatched as soon as they arrive.
P. J. Ibid, p. 283.
20 Feb.   WARRANT by the DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.
Office of  Appointing Peter Cotter kettle-drummer to the train of
artillery commanded by Colonel Holcraft Blood. Pay 3s. a day,
as from 18 February, 170J.
P. j. (Copy.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Military 34, 1.
20 Feb.   ROYAL WARRANT to the MASTER-GENERAL of the ORDNANCE.
St. James'. It is for the good of our service that a true state and
account of the present condition of all our garrisons, forts and




STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1703.
block-houses should be reported to us. No survey has been made of
them for a long time, so that their condition, and the aimpunt of
repair needed to fit them for defence of the realm, "against
foreign invasions or other hostile attempts that may be made
against our State and Government," cannot be known. We
authorise and desire you, taking the assistance of such officers,
engineers and clerks as you think fit, to make such a particular
survey of "all our said garrisons, castles, forts and blockhouses
situate upon the coasts, harbours, maritime places and frontiers
of this our kingdom and town of Berwick-on-Tweed." Consider
and certify how many of them are "useful and of such defence
as may make them capable of rendering us considerable service
at least of such importance as may countervail the charge of
their respective entertainments and supplies, how many ([because]
the sea hath forsaken them or in respect of any other important
defects in the situation, form, materials, endowments or other
remarkable decays) are become unserviceable and unfit to be
maintained " as being too chargeable to us; how many should be
maintained with a small number of men or otherwise; and of these
" to take due consideration of their fortifications and works and
of all annoyances which may make them subject to the danger
of a surprise." Return an estimate of the cost of necessary
repairs and of what entertainment (issued out of what fund
and upon what consideration) has been allowed for their support.
Say whether such consideration still exists and what change has
occurred since the allowance was first made.
If you cannot yourself undertake this survey, you may depute
such of our principal officers of ordnance as you approve to do
it, acting under your instructions, under which they shall make
a detailed return of the state of the fortifications, which you
shall send to us. You, or those under your orders, shall make
a return also of all the ordnance, platforms, carriages and habiliments of war charged out of our magazines and remaining in
any of our said forts, of the defects of such provisions and their
need of repair. You, or they, shall also report what ordnance
&c. is necessary in each of these forts, whether the officers, gunners
&c. that receive our pay are capable of discharging their respective
charges, what officers and men are allowed for each fort, at what
pay, what repairs are needed for the quarters of such officers
and men, what encroachments, if any, have been made to the
prejudice of the forts, what officers and men were allowed,
originally and now, for each fort,* whether all such officers and
men are in residence, and generally all particulars which you
think conducing to our service touching the said castles &c.
Lastly, have the remainder of stores in each fort examined and
get certificates from the person in command of each [details],
how their stores of all kinds have been expended or saved
according to our instructions for preventing waste. Where
particular commanders have been wasteful, certify their names
and defaults, and do not discharge them on their accounts till
you hear from us or the Privy Council.
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All officers, gunners &c. in forts are commanded to assist and
obey you in this service.
Pp. 5. Countersigned by Hedges. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 171,
pp. 156-161.
21 Feb.    EDWARD MORGAN to NOTTINGHAM.
Promises to reveal secrets and find out where certain persons
are. Protests his sincerity. Proceeds:-Your lordship can see
that my intention was real, seeing otherwise I had not gone near
La Touche nor troubled myself about it, knowing the consequences of such affairs. If the management of the affair had
been left in my hands, I might by to-morrow have been able
to give you some account of " Coshar." It was through me that
the information about La Touche reached you. Others are trying
to defraud me of the benefits of the Queen's proclamation. Details.
Pp. 2. With seal (bearing a swan). (Hol.)   Add. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 49.
22 Feb.    SAME to SAME.
I hope you have the letter I sent by Mr. Hill. Please order
me to be set at liberty. Whatever people may tell you, I do not
know where Coshart is. Subservient expressions.
Pp. 1i. Seal as foregoing. (Hol.) Add. Endd. Ibid, 50.
22 Feb.   NOTTINGHAM to the ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Whitehall.  Queen's command:-To prepare a proclamation commanding
all deserters to repair to their ships, promising pardon to all
such as shall return by 10 April next, and pardoning William
Gray, of Ipswich, who is condemned at Spithead for desertion.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 217.
23 Feb.    The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Sick end  Send enclosed. Observe that Count de Mornay does not refer
Wounded
Office.  to the proposal to exchange him for Captain Cock.
P. i. Signed by four Commissioners. Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 118, 61. Enclosing:A. Count de Mornay to [the Commissioners of Sick and
Wounded].
I send the letter I am sending to M. de Pontchartrain for you
to read and shew, if you think well, to Lord Secretary
Nottingham.
I make the complaints which you ask for. If you desire any
alteration in my letter, let me know and I will make it.
P. i. French. Signed. Dated, Oxford, 22 February. Ibid, 61A.
24 Feb.    REPORT on the GAOL DELIVERY of NEWGATE, the 24th of
February, 1701.
London and Middlesex. Condemned to die':Thomas Moore.-For privately stealing 10s. in money from
Hester Hebbard. Pardoned.




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1703.
Mary Fudge.-For privately stealing goods value 31. 13s. Od.
out of the shop of Elizabeth Hobday. Pregnant.*
Richard Gerratt.-For stealing a mare value 31. from
Elizabeth Holden. Transported.
Anne Denton.-For privately stealing goods value 408. from
Peter Reeves. Pregnant.*
John Estrick alias Howard alias Walker.-For a burglary
in the house of John Bourne and stealing his goods, value
101. and 1261. and goods value 121. from William Dawson.
Executed.
Mary Raby alias Rogers alias Jackson alias Browne alias
Crone.-Burglary in the house of Lady Rhoda Cavendish
and stealing her goods, value 1701. Pregnant.*
Burnt in the face, 15.
Respited from being burnt in the face, 5.
To be whipped, 6.
P. 1. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 51.
24 Feb.   CArTAIN [SIR] THOMAS HARLOW, commanding H.M.S. Grafton,
to [NOTTINGHAM].
I sent to Barnstaple and Falmouth for volunteers. Five
volunteers were brought from Falmouth yesterday. My master,
mate and midshipman were ill-treated at Falmouth. The Mayor
refused to enter any man he brought and suffered the people to
"palt" [pelt] them through the town when they beat up for
volunteers, put those he had entertained in prison, and afterwards
sent them on board the ships he was concerned in. If officers
are so treated by magistrates, we shall have an ill time of it,
and of what use is her Majesty's proclamation, and what use
is our expense if they " banter with the authority."
I send the names of the men enclosed. He had no presswarrant with him. I thought they might have interest enough,
being both of that country, to raise volunteers, "but in this,
as in other matters, meet disappointments by a disaffected sort
of people."
Pp. l1. Extract. Endd. in Nottingham's hand: Sir Thomas
Harlow. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 21.
24 Feb.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.
1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
Yours of the 18th. Queen's command:-To commit Sutton for
hig treason in corresponding with her Majesty's enemies.
P.  S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 217.
2. To Colonel Collier.
Yours of 17 December and 25 January.  Queen's command:To release the Esperance de Derniville and detain the French
merchant and others prisoner.
P. 1. Ibid, p. 218.
* This, no doubt, refers to the practice of respiting execution of female
convicts who were pregnant when convicted until after the birth of their
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25 Feb.   ROYAL WARRANT to the ATTORNEY or SOLICITOR GENERAL.
St. Jamees. To prepare a bill &c. to pass the Great Seal incorporating the
bailiffs, aldermen, burgesses and commonalty of Great Yarmouth
in Norfolk, and the town of South Town in Suffolk, by the name
of the Mayor, aldermen, burgesses and commonalty of the Burgh
of Great Yarmouth, in order to enable them to execute the
powers given to that corporation by an Act of Parliament
passed in 1699, for maintaining the piers and haven there. The
grant shall contain all the privileges mentioned in the annexed
schedule, and the persons whose names are therein mentioned with
all other usual privileges.
Pp. 1f. S.P. Dom., Warrant Book 350, pp. 317, 318.
Schedule.
The petitioners were, by a charter of 1668, united into one
corporation by the names of the bailiffs, aldermen, burgesses
and commonalty of the Burgh of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk.
They pray that they may have a Mayor instead of two bailiffs,
to be chosen from among the aldermen and sworn at the same
time as the bailiffs have hitherto been sworn, and that they be
incorporated as the Mayor &c. [see warrant above] of Great
Yarmouth, and that Benjamin Engle, Esq., may be the first
and modern Mayor of this town, and may continue so till next
Michaelmas.
By a charter of 22 July, 1608, they have twenty-four aldermen.
They desire that as these die they may be reduced to eighteen,
and ever after remain at that number. They desire that their
Common Councilmen who, by a charter of 8 January, 1664, are
forty-eight, be reduced by death to thirty-six, and kept ever
after at that number.
They desire the present High Steward, Recorder, and the rest
of the officers of the Corporation to be continued according to
the charters, except the bailiffs, and that there may be a man
learned in the law to be called the under steward of the said
borough, that Francis Long, Esq., be the first under steward,
to continue during good conduct, and that the High Steward,
Recorder and under steward continue in office during good
behaviour. The other officers to be elected according to the
custom of the borough, and the Mayor to have such power at
elections as the bailiffs now have.
That in case any Mayor refuse to serve, or be removed, the
senior, or any willing, alderman who is a Justice of the Peace
have power to call a Common Council of the borough, giving
three days' notice to each resident member, and that such Council
proceed to the election of a new Mayor.
That the Mayor may elect any other alderman to be his deputy,
who shall have power to execute all the Mayor's functions during
his absence.
The Mayor or (in his absence or sickness) the Deputy Mayor
to have power to call a Common Council, which shall have all
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By former charters the Bailiffs, Recorder and one other man
learned in the law, chosen by them at Michaelmas, were Justices
for the year ensuing. They desire that instead of this, the seven
senior aldermen of the said borough, now being, vizt., Benjamin
England, Peter Caulier, Sam Fuller, Nathaniel Symonds, Thomas
Godfrey, Antony Ellis, sen., and Gabriel Ward, and every Mayor,
from his entering and during office, and every Mayor, or ex-Mayor
who is still an alderman, and every High Steward, Recorder and
Under Steward, while he holds his office, shall be Justices of the
Peace for the said borough; and that they or any three of them
(of whom the Mayor or Deputy Mayor, Recorder or under
steward shall be always one) be justices to meet, call and adjourn
any Sessions [details]; and that all writs, precepts &c. of the
Sessions be directed to and executed by the officers of the said
borough without any warrant from the Sheriff or Coroner of Norfolk
or Suffolk in that behalf to be directed according to the charter of
Queen Elizabeth.
By former charters, the Justices of the Peace for Norfolk were
prohibited from exercising jurisdiction in Great Yarmouth, and
by the charter of 1668 the King granted to Little Yarmouth all
the privileges which Great Yarmouth formerly enjoyed. They
desire that the authority of the said Justices of the Peace of Great
Yarmouth may be extended to Little Yarmouth, and that the
Justices of Suffolk may be prohibited from officiating there.
They desire that each Mayor-elect, before he enter his office,
take the oath of office before the seven senior aldermen or any
two of them; and that all other officers of the borough take the
oath before entering on their offices [details].
They desire that the Mayor or Deputy-Mayor may hold all
such Courts and may enjoy all such privileges, fees, perquisites &c.,
as the bailiffs, jointly or severally, formerly had; and that the new
corporation have and enjoy all the lands, liberties, prescriptions,
fees &c. which the old corporation had; and that the Mayor may
elect a sword-bearer during pleasure.
Pp. 5J. S.P. Dom., Warrant Book 350, pp. 319-324.
25 Feb.    The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to [NOTTINGHAM].
SWiundd    Send list of prisoners, and an extract of a letter from their
Wounded
Office.  officer at Weymouth.
Four lines. Signed by four Commissioners. Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 118, 62. Enclosing --
A. Number of prisoners of war in custody on 25 February, 170g.
The total is 3,714. Number at each of the various ports given
[see above, pp. 575, 596].
P. i, small. Endd. Ibid, 62A.
B. Charles Taver, surgeon at Weymouth, to the Secretary to the
Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
The Conqueror, privateer, has just come in here and has brought
in a French prize of 26 tons and nine men, laden with wine
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from Bordeaux. I learn from  them only that Bordeaux
is full of soldiers and a revolt apprehended there. Soldiers
are being impressed night and day; but they believe the Grand
Fleet will not come out this year.  " The master is, as they call
him, a new convert, and he tells me that certainly the French
King hath an intent upon Holland, and he adds that about
60,000 militia men are raised at the country's charge," and
that Chateaurenought is still at Paris. They complain of an
extraordinary poverty. That is all at present.
P. ~. Dated, 22 February, 1702[3]. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 62B.
26 Feb.   [RICHARD WARRE] to MR. BURT.
WhitehalL  Lord Secretary Nottingham directs me to say that although
La Touche, who made his escape from Southampton, is now
committed to Newgate, he thinks he should be so far considered
a prisoner of war as to have the same allowance for his subsistence
which he had at Southampton, to commence from the time of
his commitment (19 February). Acquaint the Commissioners
with it. If they desire further directions they will be sent, " but
my Lord is now gone in haste to the House."
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 146, p. 3.
27 Feb.   J. HITE to HEDGES.
My Lord Marquis wants and expects the two men from me.
Other details.
P. I (small). (Hol.) Add. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 52.
27 Feb.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.
1. To Sir Thomas Harlow, Captain of the Grafton.
Your complaints of the Mayor of Falmouth have reached me
through the Prince's Council, but must be corroborated on oath
before the Queen can take any step. Send depositions in support
by those who have knowledge of these proceedings.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 218.
2. To the Mayor of Falmouth.
Complaint has been made that you discourage volunteers
and allowed some officers of the Grafton to be ill-treated when
they beat up for them, and imprisoned some who had listed
themselves. The Queen desires your account of this matter before
she acts.
P. I. Ibid, p. 219.
3. To the Lord Treasurer.
I enclose Mr. Burchett's to Mr. Warre of 23 February. The
Queen would have the galleons therein mentioned taken into her
Navy, and leaves it to your lordships to consider how this may
best be done and to give orders accordingly.
Note of enclosure.
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Feb.     WARRANT to the CLERK of the SIGNET attending.
St. James'.  To prepare a bill &c. to pass the Privy Seal licensing Sir Andrew
Forrester (who went to France since 11 December, 1688, without
leave), to return into and remain in England.
P. i. Draft. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 53.
MARCH, 1703.
1 Mar.    LORD HATTON to [NOTTINGHAM].
[NoKirbyhat  I beg your lordship's favour for the enclosed petition of the
juratts of Guernsey, which will be presented by the bailiff,
Sir Edmund Andros. The old court is ruinous and useless
and the hired room in which justice is now administered is so
small that it will not hold those who have to attend there, and
many of those attending have been almost suffocated. The
cost of repairing the old court is trifling; but the inhabitants
are so divided amongst themselves that they cannot agree on
anything. This and other necessary charges might be easily
paid by raising 2 sols. per pot on all wine sold by retail there
and 3 or 4 sols. on brandy; but whoever suggested such a course
would immediately be met by factious opposition unless it is
countenanced or commanded by the Queen.
It would be more acceptable if the Queen would add something
to it out of her bounty, though it should be only some part of
the duty on prizes brought in there.
Pp. 1i. Signed. Endd. in Warre's hand. S.P. Dom., Channel
Islands 2, 46. Enclosing:A. Petition to the Queen of the Lieutenant, Bailiff and Jurats
of the Royal Court of Jersey, shewing that:Their Court of Justice is so old and decayed as to be dangerous
to the petitioners and other inhabitants. As there is no
prison in the island, debts cannot be enforced nor the sentences
of the Court duly executed.
Pray for construction of a new Court and a prison, and for
such supply therefor as the Queen thinks fit.
P. i. Signed by Eleazar and W. Le Marchant, W. Marchant,
James de Beauvoir, Thomas de Lisle, J. and Peter Carey, John
Renouf, A. Andros and P. Martin, and underwritten with
Order, dated Whitehall, 8 March, 1701, signed by Nottingham:-Referred to the Committee of Council for Jersey and
Guernsey. Further pleasure.
In all p. 1. Ibid, 46A.
1 Mar.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.
1. To the Council of Trade and Plantations.
Encloses a memorial from Sir Jeffry Jeffrys and desires a
report. His former demands were rejected.
Note of enclosure.
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2. To the Postmaster[s] General.
Encloses Jeffrys' proposal for packet-boats between the Isle
of Wight and New York for consideration and report.
Note of enclosure.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 220, 221.
1 Mar.    HEDGES to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Whitehall.  Command:-Give directions that Baron de Schutz (Envoy
from Lunebourg) have a passage to Holland on board a yacht
or one of the men-of-war that attend the Duke of Marlborough
thither.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 365.
2 Mar.    The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Sik and   Since we heard that her Majesty did not approve of Lyndhurst
Wounded
Office.  as a place to keep prisoners in, we have looked out for other
places to which they could be moved from Southampton. We
found a house near Winchester with an old chapel attached,
which was formerly used for the same purpose, and agreed with
the present proprietor (who was only a small time in it) for it for
501. a year, and should have laid out 2001. in fitting it up and
strengthening it for the service, "but the house and chapel
belonging to one Mr. Fines, a Fellow of Winchester College, he
will not consent to our having it for this use." All, therefore,
that we can do to gratify the inhabitants of Southampton, who
complain of the number of prisoners there, is to move some of
them to Farnham, where we have made provision for about
160 more.
We have also looked about for a prison near Plymouth, and
have got an estimate of 6001. for building Trymenton [Trematon]
Castle for this service. We have laid this before his Royal Highness.
Pp. 1j. Signed by Adams, Sherard and Morley. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 63.
2 Mar.    BRIGADIER V. COLENBINE to [SAME].
Plymouth.  I do not pretend to judge whether the taking of Placentia
and destruction of the French fishery in Newfoundland is
important, but I must tell your lordship that a regular fortification of four bastions with a fort on an ascent is not to be taken
without men and cannon. This made me insist that my stay
in the West Indies might be regulated, and no draft made to
complete the three regiments there till I had taken the place.
I have often pressed for the ten 24 pounders and carriages
designed for that expedition. I have waited till Admiral Craden
[Graydon] came, and daily hoped to get the cannon and other
things to enable me to do my part by taking that place.
If it is still desired to take Placentia, the thing can be done
by sending some ships to Newfoundland to meet me there, which
will prevent the French from relieving it and bring me what
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P.S.-I want the ten 24 pounders or land carriages to take the
twelve iron 24 pounders, having to carry the cannon three miles
at least up an ascent (if the plan which you gave me is true),
four gunners with planks to make a platform, and blinds for the
battery; and " 12 tinkers mortars with shells conform to their
callibear."
Pp. 11. Signed. Endd. in Warre's hand. S.P. Dom., Naval
118, 64.
2 Mar.    ROYAL WARRANT to the ATTORNEY or SOLICITOR GENERAL.
St. James.  To prepare a bill &c. containing a charter for incorporating
the tanners in St. Mary Magdalene parish, Bermondsey. They
desire incorporation "for the better regulation, encouragement
and improvement of the said trade and preventing the several
abuses therein." The charter to incorporate the persons named
in the annexed paper in the manner therein expressed. The clauses
in that paper to be inserted and also such other reasonable clauses
as you think fit for our service and the public good.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 350, p. 325, followed by -
Heads of a new Charter for incorporationg the Tanners [as
above] and within 30 miles' distant from the said
parish.
1. All persons lawfully qualified to "use and exercise the art
and mystery of tanning leather " within the said area [see heading]
to be incorporated by the name of "The Master, Wardens and
Commonalty of the Art or Mystery of Tanners of the parish of
St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, in the County of Surrey, and
within 30 miles distant from the said parish." Right to sue and
be sued, perpetual succession, and a common seal.
2. One Master, two Wardens, and sixteen or more (but not
more than twenty-four) Assistants.
3. William Jeffreys to be the first and present Master and to
hold office till June 24, 1704, and then till a new Master is elected
and sworn in.
4. Joseph Heaton and -   Stenton to be the first and present
Warden * and to hold [&c. as in foregoing head].
5. Thomas Willard, James Lowder, James Moore, Trustram
Marris, Richard Baker, Jeremy Moore, William Cooke, Thomas
Coe, Gilbert Dunton, Daniel Shipton, Thomas Dockwra, Thomas
Law, Samuel Enderbury, John Shewelle, Charles Halsey, Robert
Leake, Thomas Jackson, Mathew      Lake, Joshua Carter and
Richard Coe to be first and present assistants; to hold for life
or till removed.
6. William East to be clerk to the Company, to hold for life,
and act by self or deputy.
7. On 24 June yearly, or within 14 days after, the Master,
Wardens and Assistants, or the major part of them   in Court
* In this and the next head several names have been erased, and others, which
I give, substituted. A marginal note says:-These heads of the charter were
taken off from the warrant and new ones annexed, signed by the Queen, with
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assembled, to elect a new Master and Wardens from amongst
the Assistants by plurality of votes. These to hold office till
the following 24 June or till their successors are elected.
8. All ex-Masters to be assistants, and all ex-Wardens to be
assistants and re-eligible as Masters or Wardens.
9. The Master, or, in his absence or non-existence, the upper
Warden, to have a casting vote when votes are equal at
elections.
10. No person may become Master or Warden till he has taken
in open Court before the Master, the oath substituted by
Parliament for the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and also
the oath for the due execution of his office and trust.
11. The present Master and Wardens to take the oaths
appointed by Act of Parliament and also the oath of office before
either of the Lord Chief Justices. The Assistants afterwards to
take the oaths before the Master or a Warden. In future a
Warden or two Assistants to swear the Master. Then the Master
the Wardens, and the Master or a Warden the Assistants.
' 12. Power to the Court of the Master, Wardens and Assistants,
or greater part of them, to remove any of their body for misdemeanour or any other reasonable cause, and replace them
by a fresh election, and to fill vacancies which occur by death
or surrender. Persons so elected to hold till June 24 following,
and afterwards till superseded by a fresh election.
13. The Corporation, or the Master, one Warden and any
eight of the Assistants, as a Committee, may keep a Court when
they think convenient and there deliberate on the affairs of the
Company.
14. The Corporation or committee, may choose beadles, underservants &c. [details], may appoint and summon sub-committees,
and make byelaws and impose and enforce (or remit) penalties
for breach of such byelaws. Fines and penalities to be recovered
by action of debt to the use of the Company and their successors.
The bye laws to be kept and the penalties enforced for breach
of them, "so as they be reasonable and not contrary to
law."
15. All Justices, Mayors, Sheriffs &c. to assist the Corporation
and their agents.
16. Power to the Corporation to purchase lands not exceeding
6001. a year in value.
17. Power to same to raise joint stock for company purposes
to any amount and to increase and diminish it as they see
Cause.
Pp. 5J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 350, pp. 326-331.
2 Mar.    NOTTINGHAM to the VICTUALLERS of the NAVY.
Whitehall.
Command:-To victual the ships bringing Brigadier Colenbine's
soldiers for a month whilst they are in Plymouth Sound. They
must not lose any opportunity of sailing or be delayed a moment
even though they have to sail without a full month's provisions.
P. i. S.P..Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 15.


Wt. 3880.


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3 Mar.    GEORGE CLARKE to HEDGES.
Admiralty  Yours of to-day. None of her Majesty's ships are at present
going to the MediterraneAn.
Four lines. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 22.
3 Mar.   JOHN SHERER, Mayor of Chichester, to NOTTINGHAM.
Chichester.  Three Frenchmen were brought before me to-day, which were
taken by the Custom House officers by the sea-side. I have
committed them to prison, and they say they were imprisoned
at Southampton and were endeavouring for a passage to France.
Their names are Jacques Bachelet, Noel Fautrel, and Nicholas
Boyaux.
P. i. Signed. Add. Endd. With post-mark of 4 March. S.P.
Dom., Naval 118, 65.
3 Mar.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.
1. To. the Council of Trade and Plantations.
Sends letters lately received from Colonel Dudley, and Rhode
Island, and the papers enclosed in them, for consideration and
report.
Note of enclosures.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 221.
2. To the Lord Treasurer.
Sends a bill of 1781. odd paid out by Colonel Dudley, the
Governor of New Hampshire, for the Queen's service. Queen's
command, to pay him.
P. i. Ibid, p. 235.
Same.     HEDGES to the PRnccE'S COUNCIL.
Command:-To direct that the first of her Majesty's ships
going to the Mediterranean Sea or the coast of Barbary receive
on board Bohas Pinchas, Envoy from Tripoli to Holland, with
his servants and goods, and set him ashore at Tunis or Tripoli.
He has come from Holland to England in order to go home. If
you object to this order, report to me.
P. I. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 365.
4 Mar.    COUNT DE MORNAY to [M. DE PONTCHARTRAIN].
Oxford.  I have had yours of February 8 and have written again to
Lord Secretary Nottingham. Details.
The Commissioners of Sick and Wounded have replied to my
complaints that, on investigation, they find the complaints of
the French prisoners were without foundation, that, if there had
been many deaths, this was because it had been necessary to
keep the prisoners more closely than before, contrary to the
Commissioners' desire, because more than 100 had escaped from
the places in which they had been put during their illness; that
the English in France were worse treated than the French in
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such places that half of them had to lie down to enable the other
half to sleep, whilst in England, even in the most confined places,
the prisoners had places in which to sleep and walk.
I answered that I was sure the orders of the Commissioners
had been as they stated, but that it was to be feared that those
who had to distribute food did not do so fairly, and mentioned
the many complaints I had received from prisoners at Plymouth
&c. [Details.] I also complained, as you directed, of the
attempts made to proselytise the prisoners and to induce them
to take service in the English fleet. They replied that, far from
persuading to such a change they had actually refused [to engage]
many who had publicly abjured the Roman religion, and that
they only engaged such as produced certificates from French
clergymen of their having been brought up in the Protestant
religion. They made a similar charge against the French officers
in France, to which I answered that no foreigner could be
embarked on a French ship without an express order from the
King; and that I knew the intendants of ports had orders
not to allow it. I had no answer to my complaint that French
prisoners had been ill-treated by an English officer at Southampton.
As to a cartel, the Commissioners say that when I have power
to deal for both French and Spanish prisoners they will give orders
for an attempt to arrange all points. I await that power and
will communicate it to them.
We have been moved here, and the town is our prison. The
Sieur Cochard escaped from  Southampton with La Touche, a
privateersman of Brest, since which they have transferred to
Farnham all the officers of the frigates who were at Southampton
as well as those of merchantmen and privateers. The Sieur du
Rodon has, at my request, been left behind to distribute their
most pressing necessities to the crews, who were mostly without
shirts or shoes. I have sent 551.E. to M. du Rodon for the crews
of the Gracieuse and Trompette, and other vessels [details], and
for 35 prisoners taken at Vigo. I have exact lists.
I have not been in London for six weeks, and do not know
how the prisoners are, but the Commissioners tell me they have
orders to treat them well unless complaints from France caused
that order to be changed. They asked me to tell you this.
Pp. 24. French. Signed. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 66.
4 Mar.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.
Whitehall.. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
Inquire into the case of William Keller, alleged to be a native
of Wolfenbuttell and detained on suspicion at Falmouth. If
you find his case is in the memorial (enclosed) of Count Wratislaw
states, set him at liberty, if you have no objection.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 283.
2. To Dr. Bramston.
Count Wratislaw has given a memorial stating that John
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a Bohemian. I send it, to be used as evidence of his nationality.
Give him all despatch.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 283.
3. To the Earl of Essex.
As the Duke of Marlborough has gone for Holland, I presume
you told him what you intended in regard to the persons whose
names I gave you at the House of Lords to be Deputy Lieutenants
for Hertfordshire. Pray let me know what you have decided
therein that I may acquaint the Queen.
P. i. Ibid, p. 284.
5 Mar.    The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Wck ond   Is it the Queen's pleasure that, pending the general cartel,
Office.  we should as a rule set free Ostenders whenever an equal number
of English prisoners at Ostend are liberated? We are now asked
to do this by some Englishmen lately liberated at Ostend.
Hitherto we have had special orders in each case from your
lordship.
P. ~. Signed by Led, Adams, Sherard and Morley. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 67.
5 Mar.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Prince's Council.
Captain Atkinson writes that by Colonel Featherston's order
he was to embark the forces at Harwich to-day, but that there
was no convoy arrived for them there last night.
P. *. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 222.
2. To the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded.
The Queen allows the exchange of Ostender prisoners for a
like number of her subjects that shall be released from thence,
provided they are of the same quality.
P. j. Ibid.
3. To Mr. Blathwayt.
To attend the Cabinet Council on Sunday* night with an
account when the two regiments designed for Holland will be
ready to embark.
P. i. Ibid.
6 Mar.    EDWARD SOUTHWELL to NOTTINGHAM.
Sends enclosed which he has received from Mr. Des Bouverie, a
merchant of London, and relates their purport.
Proceeds:-Most of the letters were from English prisoners at
Calais complaining of their want of money and letters from
French women to their husbands who are prisoners in England;
but four of them were from M. Pigault, a general factor at Calais,
and were directed to myself, to Captain Gibson, to M. Desbouverie,
and M. Minet, a merchant at Dover. They all deal with a
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proposal made by your leave [details] for the exchange of man
for man of some fishermen from Rye, Deal, Hythe, Hastings and
Folkestone. He says the Court of France have agreed and
accordingly does assure that whatever shall be sent over the
same number and quality will be returned. He sends a list
of in all thirty-seven men [details], whom he desires returned,
particularly John Blard, an old fishermaster of seventy, and
sends a list of those who will be given for them-in all twenty-nine
men. These, he says, are all the English fishermen that are at
Calais and Boulogne; but, if we send over all those he requires
he will make up the difference with other Englishmen. Details.
Captain Gibson suggests that this offer should be accepted,
and M. Pigault adds: If your Court would let all the fishermen
be free, the French Court will tell their privateers not to meddle
with yours.
Pp.   2.  Signed.  Endd.   S.P.  Dom., Naval    118,  68.
Enclosing:A. John Jordan [Mayor of Folkestone] to Jacob Des Bouverie.
The enclosed came last night by a boy that belongs to George
Chapman and John Hobday's boat's crew, landed out of a
French shallopp between Brockman's Barn and Hythe. As
there was one among the rest directed to you I thought it
well to send you the whole packet to be laid before the Secretary
of State or otherwise as you think fit.
P. i. Dated, 4 March [Folkestone]. Endd. Ibid, 68A.
B. William Pigault to Edward Southwell.
In sense of the covering letter. Old John Blard will die in
England if he is not soon returned, and has a large family.
Pp. 1. Hol. A friendly letter offering services. Dated, Calais,
8 March [n.s.]. Add. Endd. Ibid, 68B.
Mar.     HEDGES to SERJEANT BONITHON.
Whitehall.  Acquaint the inhabitants in the liberties of Westminster by
the proper officers that to-morrow, being the Queen's Accession
Day, will be celebrated as usual; so that the shops may be shut
and the day observed as a holiday.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 286.
8 Mar.    JOSIAH BUROHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Admiralty  Instructions are preparing for the Severn and Scarborough to
proceed to India in the service of the United East India Companies.
The Companies desire that the captains of these vessels may
have orders to consult constantly with the Governor and Council
at Bombay or any other Governors and Councils for England
in India, and to proceed as, after such consultation, may be
thought moat advisable and as the case may require. The
Prince fears that "(such a latitude may occasion the acting
something that may bring her Majesty into a war with the Grand
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you a copy of a clause that may be necessary to restrain those
captains in that particular, to be laid before Secretary Nottingham.
If he has no objection, kindly let me know, so that the instructions
may go to the Commander in Chief of the two ships.
Pp. 1.   (Hol.)  Add.  Endd.  S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 23.
Enclosing:A. The Clause aforesaid.
But you shall be careful not to do anything in execution of what
is directed by this article (or any other) which may occasion
a war [&c. as in covering letter] without orders under the
Queen's sign manual or from her principal Secretary of
State.
P. i. Ibid, 23A.
8 Mar.    The POSTMASTERS GENERAL to HEDGES.
General f ost  We hear from our agents at Harwich (dated the 7th) that the
Marlborough packet coming over thither with the mail from
Holland, was attacked by a privateer of 16 or 18 guns. She
fought for four hours and escaped into Harwich very badly
damaged. Fearing that the mails would fall into the enemy's
hands, the Captain had to throw them overboard.
P. W. Signed, R. Cotton, Tho. Frankland. Add. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 54.
'8 Mar.   The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
ick nd     Sending an extract of a letter received from a prisoner of
Wounded
Office.  war at Dinant to Mr. Aires, a merchant in London. Aires has
promised to bring them another prisoner who lately escaped
from that place, and will give an account of his treatment there.
Have heard that this is very different from what the French
receive here.
P. i. Signed by Lee, Adams and Sherard. Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 118, S9.
8 Mar.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Bishop of London.
The bearer has orders to proceed to Witham and take your
orders as to whom he should apply to in order to seizing the
persons suspected of an unlawful correspondence. Pray give
him orders.
P. I. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 284.
2. To the Lord Treasurer.
Mrs. MacCarthie, widow of Col. MacCarthie (commonly called
MacCarthie Reagh) petitioned shewing that her late husband
had a pension of 1001. a year from King Charles II on account
of his good service, that he greatly helped and succoured the
Protestants in the late war in Ireland, which was vouched for
by the Duke of Marlborough, and that the Duke gave an implied
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has been stopped ever since the Revolution; and asks that the
Queen will continue it to her.
The Queen, on reference to and report from the Lord Lieutenant,
is pleased to grant the petition, and wishes to give Mrs. MacCarthie
something to carry her to Ireland. You are to remember her Majesty's
pleasure therein. Please remember that the Duke of Marlborough
spoke in the petitioner's favour when it was last before the Queen.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 284, 285.
3. To the Duke of Ormond.
Mrs. MacCarthie's petition [sets out the facts, for which
see foregoing] was approved by the late Lord Lieutenant as fit to be
granted, and the Queen desires to relieve her. Give her a pension
in Ireland.
P. i. Ibid, p. 289.
8 Mar.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.
1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
I send extract from a deposition of her Majesty's Consul in the
Canaries relating the barbarous treatment of Richard Jones,
an English subject who was captured when a passenger on a
brigantine by a French Satia.* He died shortly afterwards of
his stripes. Write to Count de Mornay and complain of this
cruelty and demand the punishment of the French officer.
The Mayor of Chichester has imprisoned three persons who,
when arrested, admitted that they were escaped prisoners and
trying to get over to France. I have ordered him to give them
to your officers. Those who have once escaped should be kept
with " more severe care " than others.
Their names were Jacques Bachelett, Noell Fautrell and Nicholas
Boyaux.
Also note of the deposition of John Dussell, master of the
Logwood Merchant, bound from  Cork for Jamaica with beef,
butter &c., and taken and carried to Teneriffe by the French on
16 October last.
Pp. 1i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 223, 224.
2. To the Same.
I send a list of French fishermen prisoners at Dover, with the
names of some English fishermen now prisoners in France, for
whom they will be exchanged. Send them by Captain Gibson,
and, as there are more French prisoners than English, the difference
may be made up by the French returning the lieutenant and boat's
crew that were driven on the French coast this winter, and, if
these are not sufficient, by such others as may be most proper.
If there are any other French prisoners here the Queen will
release them in return for the like number and quality of English
prisoners from France. Also note of enclosed lists.
-. P- 1. Ibid, pp. 224, 225.
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3. To the Mayor of Chichester.
Consequential on the first letter to the Commissioners of
Sick and Wounded above, at this date. To deliver his prisoners
to the Commissioners' officer.
P.S.-To examine strictly, and report how these men escaped.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 225, 226.
Latest and   DOCUMENTS relating to the CASE of CAPTAIN MARTIN LAYCOCK.
generaldate,  Note of proceedings in the House of Commons.
9 Mar.
r  A petition of Captain Martin Laycock was presented praying
that his services and sufferings might be considered and that
he might be put on the list of broken officers to have half-pay.
Order. Petition granted. Signed by Paul Jodrell, Clerk
of the House of Commons. Note that there is due for the said
half-pay from 18 April, 1699, to 1 December, 1702, at 4s. a day,
2641. 8s. Od.
P. i. Small. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 55.
Captain Laycock to Hedges.
Relates his grievances. The Queen lately promised his wife
that he should be relieved and posted, and toldher to send in a petition to remind her Majesty of it. Proceeds:-My wife has been
too sick to petition, and I got a poor woman to hand in a petition
at the Council Board. It was returned to me with directions
to send it to the Secretary of State. I pray for leave to lay a
scheme before the House of Commons whereby several millions
will be brought into the nation and relieve taxation.     It
has been shewn to several members, who advise that I should
first get my liberty and lay it before the House in person. Pray
lay this petition before the Queen and let the bearer know when
she may wait on you for an answer.
P. 1. Small. Dated, Marshalsea prison in Southwark, 8 February, 1701. Add. Endd. Ibid, 56. Enclosing:Petition of Laycock, a close prisoner in the "c Knight Marshall
prison " in Southwark, to the Queen, shewing that -
Petitioner was arrested by an order from the Green Cloth in
St. James' Park on July 9 last. He has since been a prisoner
in the Knight Marshal's prison at Southwark, and has been
in great want. Has been ten weeks in bed with wounds and
incurred great expenses in getting them cured. He received
these in the nation's service. Raised men, fed them when
no money was coming, and waited several years to establish
his pension. He received neither small moneys* nor the
pension voted him by Parliament,t nor payment of his pay
or out of pocket expenses. Is very poor and his family
perishing. To enable him to show how seven or eight millions
of money may be brought into the nation:Prays that he be established in half-pay from the time he was
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voted into it by the House of Commons till he is posted, that
he may have the arrears of it for his family, and be able to
serve the Queen anywhere. Prays also for release from
prison.
P. 1. Small. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2,
Captain Laycock to Hedges.
Objects to being referred to Ireland for redress. Is not an
Irishman, and hopes he may have relief in England. His wife
is very ill, and will perish if not relieved, and he must stay with
her. Prays that his petition may be laid before the Queen, and
his wife's afflictions, which are worse than his, relieved.
Pp. 1J. Small. (Hol.) Dated, Marshalsea Prison, 13 February,
170~. Add. Ibid, 57.
Same to Same.
I have not as yet the Queen's answer, but am tossed to and
fro between England and Ireland. If, as I hear, two regiments
are being raised for Ireland, I hope I may be posted now. I am
not like the officers that threw down their commissions rather
than go to the West Indies. I want only to get there, and dare
say that I can do her Majesty more service there than any officer
in her service. I will, if allowed, send a petition and will suffer
death if I am not several millions in her Majesty's interests.
Pray let me know what I have to depend on, or I will send
to the Emperor's ambassador or Dutch Envoy for employment
before the campaign begins. I have seen much service.
P. 1. Small. (Hol.) Dated, Marshalsea Prison, 26 February,
170f. Add. Ibid, 58.
Same to Same.
Prays for relief and to be posted in some one of the new
regiments of foot for the raising of which, he hears, commissions
are being issued. Is penniless and cannot buy bread for his
family. Other details.
Pp. 1t. Small. (Hol.) Dated, Marshalsea Prison, 9 March,
1701. Add. Ibid, 59.
This concludes the documents relating to this case.
9 Mar.    COLONEL COLLIER to [NOTTINGHAM].
Jersey.   I have liberated the Esperance de Derniville.  One, Manwaring,
who is appointed here by Mr. Dod to take the Lord High Admiral's
part of the prizes, objected, and said the boat was condemned
and to be " aprized "; so I had her "aprized," and her " apraisement" was 30 livers, and the master has given security to pay the sum
if due. The ship was seized long before Manwaring arrived here;
so I think his claim bad, but shall do nothing till I have your
orders.
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9 Mar.    MEMORIAL by PRINCE GEORGE OF DENMARK.
Office.Y  On pressing men from the ships going to Virginia.
For this see Cal. of S.P. Colonial (America and West Indies), at
this date.
Pp. 1i. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 24.
9 Mar.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall  1. To Captain Gifford.
Directions have been given to the Governors of the Post Office
to deliver three posts a week in the evenings at Portsmouth,
which is for her Majesty's service. Thank you for remembering
about the wine. Hope you will soon get some good from the
prizes.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 285.
2. To the Postmasters General.
Gives the directions mentioned in foregoing. Details.
P. i. Ibid, p. 286.
3. To Baron Price.
Samuel Bugler, John and William Barber and William Warren,
having been concerned in the killing of George Jey, William
Warren confessed and discovered the rest, and several gentlemen
of the country desire that his evidence should be admitted against
the rest. At their desire, I tell you so. They are to be tried
before you at the next assizes at Dorchester.
P. i. Ibid, p. 285.
4. To Baron de Schutz.
Sends for his special care and conveyance an autograph letter
from the Queen to the Electress Dowager of Brunswick [Hanover].
P. t, in French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 105, p. 2.
9 Mar.    COLONEL THOMAS SAUNDERSON to JOHN ELLIS.
Asks that the three commissions now passing to officers may
be dated 25 December; otherwise the officers in question will
suffer by being respited on the muster from that day.
P. i. Signed. Add. S.P. Dom., Military 3, 10.
10 Mar.   COPY of a LETTER signed R.S., and dated as in margin.
CoffLydose.  It is very strange that after persuading Holland to forbid all
commerce with France, one Gipson should come upon the
Exchange and tell the merchants there that he is going to France,
and desire their commissions and letters, that he shall "keep a
public office in Waghorn's coffee-house to receive all people
that hath any commission to give him, and that this place should,
in the face of a Government, be crowded with people sending
messages and letters thither."
It is strange that, when we desire the Dutch not to exchange
prisoners taken at sea but in concert with us, this Gipson shall
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an order on commission from the Prince to exchange fifty now."
How this sounds on the exchange you may guess.
Last war you had officers to prevent corresponding when
the commerce of letters through Holland was not forbid; and
this war you have none.
The commanders for exchange of prisoners were not allowed
to go ashore during last war, and now you make them negociators.
When these strange abuses are rectified you shall hear of them
from
P. 1. Copy. Endd. [in Warre's hand]. Copy of a letter from
an unknown hand to the Admiralty; received from Mr. Clarke,
12 March, 1701. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 25.
10 Mar.    JosIAH BUROHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
AdOffilty  Inform Lord Secretary Nottingham that the Commissioners
of Victuals have been ordered to take steps to prepare a supply
of oil and wine at Genoa or Livorno sufficient for 20,000 men
for two months.
P. i. (Hol.) Add. Endd. Ibid, 26.
10 Mar.   Extract from a Letter from CAPTAIN SOANES of the Dolphin,
dated 10 March, 170g.
I have just now stopped a Danes' ship bound for St. Martin's
in France, laden with deals, Newcastle coals and some provisions.
I desire instructions as to keeping her or letting her go.
P. i. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 70.
Same.     Same from CAPTAIN COCK to his brother, dated 10 March,
170i.
I wish they were again put in mind of the dismal state of the
poor men here. It is so miserable that notwithstanding a
thousand solicitations by me, we must inevitably lose more men
by sickness than we did in battle, and they were very nearly eighty
killed and wounded by our last computation. Should the cartel
not be settled, I hope some way will be found to write to the
Court of France and complain of this treatment. They get but
2 ounces of cheese and a little bread per day. Seventy or eighty
are kept in a small room, "where half stand while half lie."
I believe also the [French] officers are not confined, as I have
told you I am, to a house. Pray inform me on this.
P. i. Endd. Ibid, 71.
10 Mar.   HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Lord Treasurer.
The Queen is anxious to do something for Michael Arnold,
whose petition is enclosed, and desires you to give him some
post in the Revenue.
Also note. Arnold's petition set out that his father was brewer
to King Charles II and King James II, till chosen Member of
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till King James went away, and that then his father " was barbarously used by the name of Jacobite &c." His father was
confined to his house for his own protection, " and died of grief."
Petitioner was forced to leave his trade to his utter ruin, and lost
above 2001. in beer and casks unpaid for in Whitehall cellar.
No trade and seven children. Prays for help.
In all p. j. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 287.
2. To Mr. Sansome.
Yours re the two French prisoners has been sent to the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded &c.   Your letter about the
landing of men from a French sloop near Seaford seems to
require further directions from the Commissioners of Customs,
to their coast officers with a view to preventing such landings
and the carrying of letters and goods, which seems to be their
object in thus venturing to come ashore. The officers at Chichester and Bourne did their duty well, and deserve encouragement at a time when it is so necessary they should do it.
P. i. Ibid, p. 310, ad fin.
10 Mar.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Witehall.  1. To the Prince's Council.
The Queen approves the proposed addition to the instructions
to the commander of her ships going to the East with the United
East India Company's ships.
P. I. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 226.
2. To Edward Southwell.*
There was an Irish ship at Rochelle on i February last, which
passedfor a Swedish ship. She may be one of those whose names
I gave you, which " do use the French trade." It would be very
fit to examine such ships as have lately come into the ports of
Ireland, or may soon come hither (for this was designed to return
to Ireland), whence they came; that this practice may be stopped.
P. i. S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, p. 117.
11 Mar.    The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Wounded    We send an extract from our agent at Plymouth re escape of
offie.  prisoners. His Royal Highness informs us that he does not
think it expedient to incur the charge of fitting up Trymenton
[Trematon] Castle. We also send a total of the prisoners at war
now in custody.
P. i. Signed by Lee, Sherard and Adams. Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 118, 72. Enclosing.A. Kym[pton] Mabbott [as above] to the Commissioners
of Sick and Wounded.
Seventeen of the prisoners taken by the Medway escaped by
breaking a large hole in the wall of Cockside Prison and
wading away to dry land through mud when the tide was
out. They then divided. Some went to a small village,
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where we took them, and they say that six others were resolved
to go to West Chester and not to travel except at night, and
the other seven were to go aboard a Dutch privateer.
I am searching for them. Some of them are Irishmen, but
speak French well enough to pass for Frenchmen. I wish
Captain Good had called for them as the Board writ. I wish
I had order to fit up Trimeton [Trematon] Castle for them,
from whence they could not escape.
P. 1. Extract, Dated 7 March, 170*. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 72A.
B. Number of prisoners at war in custody, 9 March, 170*.
In  all 3,784, kept at   Rochester,  Plymouth,  Gosport,
Southampton,  Farnham,   Dover,   Yarmouth,  Kinsale,
Guernsey, Jersey, London and Oxford.
Numbers at each place given in detail.
P. a (small). Ibid, 72B.
11 Mar.    NOTTINGHAM to BRIGADIER COLENBINE.
Whitehall.  Though you have no spare cannon, yet those of the ships may
be put on land carriage on occasion. Details.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 15.
11 Mar.    MEMORIAL by PRINCE GEORGE OF DENMARK to the QUEEN
Admiralty      in COUNCIL.*
Office.
As the six marine regiments are designed only for the service
of her Majesty at sea and are reckoned as part of the 40,000 men
given by Parliament for that purpose, and as several inconveniences
have arisen in manning the fleet by reason of those regiments
not being complete and under the same command with the rest
of the men employed there, I propose to the Queen that the said
regiments be put entirely and immediately under my particular
care, the better to carry on the public service, and that
Colonel Seymour's regiment be made one of them instead of that
under Colonel Harry Mordaunt, now at the [Channel] Islands.
P. ~. Signed, and countersigned by George Clarke. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 27.
12 Mar.    COLONEL COLLIER to NOTTINGHAM.
[Jersey.]  The French merchant who came here [see above, p. 345] says
he is a Protestant. He prays that his attempt to trade here may
not be made known to the French prisoners here, as trading with
the enemy is severely punished [details] in France.
He further offered to bring me news from time to time from
St. Male's to any rock I might appoint here; and only asked
that whenever he brought such news he might be allowed to
carry back, for ready money, tobacco, stockings and drapery.
He said he could only offer his oath and bond for this; and,
in answer to my warning, said he could never be discovered, for
that he would write nothing until he was on a rock near this
island, and, then, would write in cypher only known to him and me.
He could easily obtain the large quantity of tobacco and
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drapery, which he would get here from a merchant who
would not discover him, "provided I would wink at it." I said
I would consider it and send him back to his confinement.
He has some credit in France. I desire to know how I shall
answer him.
Pp. 1i. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 48.
12 Mar.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall. 1. To the Lord Treasurer.
Queen's command: To give the necessary directions on a
paper sent by the Bishop of London and enclosed.
Enclosed was a memorial from the inhabitants of New York
asking for a grant of a little farm adjoining the town of New
York "for a glebe to the Rectory of Trinity Church, newly
erected by the inhabitants in the same town," and to build a
school upon, [and] half an acre of ground lying just before the
church to build upon it a house for the Minister.
An escheat in West Chester in the province of New York of
100 acres belonging formerly to one William for a glebe to the
church there settled.
All this is humbly requested by Lord Cornbury and the
inhabitants.
P. A. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 228, 229.
2. To Mr. Roope.
Command:-Provide an extra ship to transport the soldiers
to the West Indies if you can, to avoid unhealthy crowding.
If you cannot provide one before the first favourable wind, they
must go as they are. The Queen will have no further delay.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 16.
Same.     HEDGES' LETTERS.
1. To the Postmaster[s] General.
Give your agent at Harwich order to send away to-night's
mail, as well as the former, by extraordinary packet-boats, if
none of your boats are in when this post gets to Harwich. Dispatch is necessary. All officers must have passes from the General
or a Secretary of State.
P. I. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 288.
2. To the Prince's Council.
For release of Danish sailors [pressed for service] on her
Majesty's ships. Similar to the letter of 13 October, 1702 [above,
pp. 268-9] in favour of Swedish subjects.
The letters are dated, and for release of one or more Danish
subjects, as follows:-15 February, two; 18 February, six;
12 March, eleven. Names given in each case.
Three separate letters. In all about pp. 2. S.P. Dom., Entry
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13 Mar.    GEORGE CLARKE to HEDGES.
Admiralty   Sends enclosed.
OFour lines.  Signed.   Endd.   S.P. Dom., Naval      7, 28.
Enclosing:The Navy Board to [George Clarke].
As directed by his Royal Highness we have perused the extracts
of letters which came from the Queen's Envoy Extraordinary
in Sweden and Mr. Jackson, her Majesty's Commissary at
Stockholm, touching the procuring of masts for the Navy, and
also that from my Lord Baby about supplying the Navy with
tar and pitch from  Queenbrough.
For the first two we have always desired that an open trade
be obtained with Sweden for masts, tar, pitch and other naval
commodities as formerly, so as the English merchants might
be able to supply the nation in general as well as the Navy in
particular with the said commodities in the customary
methods; but as her Majesty was imposed upon last year
in the tar and pitch, so the King of Sweden's letter to the
College of Admiralty seems to be worded with such caution
as that it may be doubted whether those gentlemen will succeed
in their endeavours.
Masts from  6 to 15 or 16 hands have usually been had from
Norway more cheaply than from anywhere else. It is
believed they can still be had thence, so that only those of
greater sizes need be looked for.  We do not see how to
get any; for when we lately named a day to treat for large
masts "from Poland, Sweden, New England or any other
country," nobody came to offer us any.
Those mentioned in Mr. Robinson's letters to be at Riga are of
very proper sizes for the Navy. Those at Danzig will also
be useful. He should encourage not only the sending of
those parcels, but also of other consignments of the largest
size. Those mentioned to be at Gottenburgh are no larger
than what we already have from   Norway. Any of them
which are of fifteen hands or more would be very acceptable
to the Navy at this time.
Mr. Jackson says he has sent a person into the country to look
for large masts, but we do not know if he will be able to find
any, if the King of Sweden will allow the export, or to what
port they will come if they come at all. In case he does
succeed in getting any, we think he should have particular
instructions not to send any here which are not sizeable,
sound and good, and to see that the freight be as cheap as
possible by bringing them over in ships which bring over
iron and other goods. In the management of this much
money may, we are told, be saved. If thought fit he should
be instructed to draw bills on this Board for his payments
and to take vouchers for all of them.
As for Lord Raby's letter about supplying the Navy with tar
and pitch from Queenbrough, we think it very desirable that
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be so much dependent on Sweden. To that end his lordship
should be acquainted with the prices usually given in Sweden,
which are (as we are informed) 61. 10s. Od. a last for tar and
111. 10s. Od. a last for pitch. Each last contains twelve
barrels, and each barrel of tar thirty-six gallons; and each
barrel of pitch to be of three hundredweight-for his lordship's
better government in promoting the same. Finding that
Mr. Gould and Mr. Hall are better able to advise on this
than we are, we desired them to wait on Mr. Secretary, and
beg you to communicate all to his Royal Highness.
Pp. 31. Copy. Endd. with date 10 March, 1701. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 7, 28A.
13 Mar.    The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Sick and
Wounded     We send, as directed, an abstract of the complaints of the
Office.  English prisoners in France with, opposite each item, an account
of how well our French prisoners are treated.  These complaints
are based on the sworn report of a master of a ship lately escaped
from Dinant, or on other trustworthy information.
If the French are treating our men so in order to force the
Queen to agree to a cartel, we think the French gentlemen at
Oxford should be told that unless their prisoners are better
treated they must expect, without distinction, to be dealt with
in the same manner.
Pp. 1i. Signed by     Adams, Sherard    and Morley. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 73. Enclosing -
Abstract and Account as in the covering letter.
1. (a) In France. The French King's pretended allowance
for prisoners of war at Dinant is 5 sous per diem, but instead
thereof they have victuals provided by the Keeper, who cheats
them of half. Those few who have the privilege to get money
receive only 3 sous (2d.) a day.
In Dunkirk the prisoners have only about 2 oz. of stinking
cheese and a little bread.
The prisoners at Ostend speak well of their treatment, but
have only 3 sous a day for subsistence.
(b) In England. Her Majesty's allowancefor the subsistence
of commissioned officers of the French ships is 12d. a day,
for commissioned officers of privateers 6d., and for common
seamen 5d. In one place, pending the fixing of coppers (for
cooking meat), the prisoners were kept on bread, butter and
cheese, and had also lid. a day in money. The established
allowance at all ports is nowSundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays-meat.
Mondays and Fridays-wheat or pease.
Wednesdays and Saturdays-butter and cheese.
2. (a) In France. At Dinant they have no straw, but lie
on the damp ground, where also the vault belonging to the
prison breaks in upon them, which is an intolerable nuisance.
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three or four days before being removed, which proves
infectious to the others, who are 600 or 700 in number.
In Dunkirk they are also crowded 70 or 80 in one small
room, where one half must stand up while the other lies down.
(b) In England. The agents have orders to provide fresh
straw every fortnight and tubs and other necessaries for
keeping the prisoners clean and removing nuisances. The
sick are kept apart and are doubtless carried out of the prison
immediately upon their death. In even the narrowest places
of confinement they can all lie down, and, in most of them,
have courtyards in which to exercise.
3. (a) In France. Some mar[iners] who, at Dinant, were
allowed, for money, to bury their dead, were insulted by the
mob, which was allowed to throw stones and dirt at them.
One of them was knocked down and another thrown into
the grave.
(b) In England. No such complaints can be made.   One
officer who proposed corporal punishment for escaped prisoners
was forbidden to do more than confine them more closely and
ordered on no account to beat them.
4. (a) In France.  The captain of the Ludlow   in Dunkirk
writes that so little care is taken of the sick that they will
shortly lose more by sickness than by battle, which was
eighty out of 300.   They lie so near death before being
removed to hospital that many die on the way there, "the
hospital itself being worse than a hogsty, the rain falling in
and standing there, which makes it as bad as a prison, and
that in the said hospital they are not allowed any physic."
(b) In England. All the agents have orders to make the same
provision for sick prisoners as for the sick and wounded
Englishmen. They are removed into the hospital or town
quarters, where the Queen pays 12d. a day each for their
maintenance, besides physic. Our physicians and surgeons
visit them daily, and their own surgeon is allowed to do so too.
This is still allowed, though several of the said surgeons and
sick have "been so disingenious " as to run away from
their hospitals when the pretence of extraordinary weakness
had made the guards a little remiss in their duties.
5. (a) In France.   The hospital at Dinant differs from
the prison only in being a little more airy. The sick are
sent back to prison as soon as they can walk, and generally
die on their return, so that many, to escape that fate, petition
to serve in their privateers, which has been done by twentyeight or thirty at one time.
(b) In England.   Far from being forced or encouraged to
serve in the English fleet, many French prisoners have been
refused leave to do so when they applied. Only in ten or
twelve cases has such leave been given, where the applicants
produced certificates from French Protestant ministers of
their having been educated in the Protestant religion.
6. (a) In France. The masters of ships at Dinant are not
allowed to relieve their men, being knocked down by soldiers


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for coming within call of them. They have been abused for
giving them money when sent out for wood or water.
(b) In England.  Sofar is thisfrom being the case that when
lately the French officers were removed from Southampton
to Farnham, one of them was left behind under a particular
guard, at the request of Count de Mornay, on purpose to
distribute some money sent by him to the other prisoners
there.
7. In France. Some English prisoners were lately drowned
by the breaking of the bridge going into the Castle at Dinant.
This may have been an accident, and no blame unless there
was negligence in not trying to save them.
8. (a) In France. Richard Jones, a passenger on the Logwood
Merchant, was taken and carried into the Canaries by the
St. Joseph de Marseilles (Claudio Rebein, [?] master), and,
whilst the said commander had a commission from the General
of those islands, " barbarously whipped to death by order of
the said commander."
(b) In England. No such inhumanity has ever been known.
Pp. 21. Closely written in parallel columns   S P. Dom.,
Naval 118, 73A.
13 Mar.    RETURN of PRISONERS.
Sick and
Wounded        Last return (9 March)....... 3,784
Office.       Since dead..........    17
Escaped.........
3,767
Since taken..........   259
Total to-day.... 4,026
P. I (small), Endd. Ibid, 74.
13 Mar.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
1. To Mr. Ambler, at Spalding, Lincolnshire, J.P.
An officer of Lieutenant-General Stuart's, who has lately been
recruiting near you, says on oath that you rescued one, Jeremy
Field, who had willingly enlisted at Dunnington, before John
Burbidge, a constable there, whose certificate has been sent up,
and who, it is said, declared the same to you. The Queen desires
explanation of such conduct, which is contrary to your duty as a
magistrate and against her service.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 288.
2. To the Dutch Ambassadors.
The Queen approves your Excellencies' suggestion as to the
giving back to the owners the property captured in the Bay of
Cadiz or at Port St. Marie, and has ordered her Envoy at the
Hague to let the Pensionary know of it.
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14 Mar.    NOTTINGHAM to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Whitehal.  The Queen has considered the representations of the Old East
India Company concerning the St. George (Captain Dampier),
the Fame (Captain Pullerine) and some other ships which are, it is
said, fitting out to cruise against the Spaniards in the West Indies.
Stop the ships till you have investigated the matter and
reported your opinion on it.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 226.
14 Mar.    MEMORANDUM from GENOA.
enoa.   I enclose a small draft of the entrance and port of Toulon,
which is very intelligible. The new port, No. 1, has very bad water,
and is only used for careening ships. As soon as careened they
go into the bay, as the worms in the new port are very prejudicial.
Details. It is very easy now, with very little force, to burn all
their ships, especially the great ones which lie within the chain.
They are close together, and there is no room to remove them
out of danger. It is very easy going into the Bay No. 10, and
few ships might do the work, their forces being inconsiderable.
Details. If one ship were lit, all the rest would take fire, as
they are so close together.
Two of the three ships building are being built for the Maltese.
They work but slowly on them,.
P. A. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 52.
About     MEMORANDUM on the FRENCH SQUADRON.
same.*    M. Coetlogon's squadron consists of five ships. Names and
crews given. These will soon be ready to sail. M. de la
Harteloiere's squadron is of four ships. Same details given.
Coetlogon's squadron will sail first. Four galleys will, it is said,
sail from Toulon to Languedoc.
The fleet at Toulon, "which the Great Admiral of France
is to command," will consist of at least 22 ships. Names and
guns of eight ships given. Fourteen more preparing.
Taking these three squadrons together and adding thereto
the two vessels from Port Louis, it is estimated that the fleet
will consist of not less than 36 ships from 40 to 100 guns.
P. J. Ibid, p. 53.
15 Mar.    The BISHOP OF LONDON to HEDGES.
Mr. Scot, the bearer, is the person to whom the Queen has
given the living of Sutterton in Lincolnshire. He has a large
family, and a small vicarage has left him very poor. He deserves
your charitable consideration.
P. i. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 60.
15 Mar.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.
Whitehall.  To the Mayor of Oxford.
Queen's command:-To appoint a guard to watch the French
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gentlemen, now prisoners in Oxford jail, until they can be brought
up to London.
P. A. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 227.
2. To Mr. Blathwayt.
Queen's command:-To send a troop of Dragoons to Oxford
to bring up the French prisoners. Care to be taken that none
escape. Deliver them to the Keeper of the Gate House, Westminster.
P. i. Ibid.
3. To Count de Mornay.
The Queen continues to have complaints of the ill-treatment
of English prisoners in France from different places. It is clear
that her protests are unavailing in spite of all that has been
done for the French prisoners here. The Queen therefore thinks
that the French prisoners here cannot any longer enjoy their
present treatment, and has ordered that they be all confined
and that the gentlemen at Oxford shall no longer have their
present liberty. I am to let you know this.
P. 2, in French. Ibid, pp. 227, 228.
4. To Captain Baker.
Inquire into enclosed complaint against the constable of
Newhaven for suffering some Frenchmen to escape. Note of
enclosure.
P. J. Ibid, p. 228.
5. To Mr. Blathwayt.
Re conduct of prisoners to London from Oxford. They are
to be brought up as the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded, or
their agent, direct.
P. i. Ibid, p. 229.
16 Mar.    COLONEL COLLIER to [NOTTINGHAM].
Jersey.   Escaped prisoners from  Dinant report thirty ships fitting
out at Brest, that a regiment and a half quartered at Dinant
had orders to prepare for a march, it is believed, to Flanders,
and that of all the privateers fitted out at St. Malo's only four
were left, the others having been taken or destroyed this
war.
P. i. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 49.
16 Mar.    The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to the SAME.
Wounded    After attending at the Committee of Council yesterday we
Office.  gathered the sense of the meeting to be expressed in your lordship's order to us:-For the present to reduce the subsistence
of the French prisoners of war to 3d. a day, letting them know
the reason, and that they may expect further hardship if the
cruelty practised in France is not speedily redressed. We send
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agents, and of a letter to Count de Mornay [see below for substance].
If these are not according to directions, please let us know.
Pp. 1|. Signed by Lee, Adams, Sherard and Morley. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 75. Enclosing:A. The Commissioners of Sick and Wounded to Count de
Mornay.
Her Majesty having lately received many grievous complaints
of their sufferings [i.e., the English prisoners in France*],
has given directions for a very mild measure of retaliation
upon the French prisoners here.  We have accordingly given
to our agents the orders of which a copy is herewith. We
might say more about the cruel treatment of prisoners in
France.   Refer to the leaving behind of an officer at
Southampton for relief purposes. Proceed:-If an English
officer even tries to relieve his men with money, he is beaten
for it by the soldiers, and men are knocked down and insulted
whilst burying their dead.  Were this not sworn to by creditable witnesses we should not believe a Christian people could
be guilty of such inhumanity. The denying of physic is
an act of barbarous inhumanity, and these things are so
highly resented by her Majesty that unless she speedily
receives very good assurances of their being redressed, we
shall have orders to treat the other French prisoners in the
same way, and to arrest and confine you and all the other
gentlemen with you and feed you on the same sort of diet
as the English prisoners in France are compelled to take.
You had therefore best make speedy representations to your Court.
P.S.-It is judged that your groundless reports of the illtreatment of French prisoners here may have contributed
to the cruelties practised in France.
Pp. 1a. Extract. Dated, Sick and Wounded Office, 16 March,
1701. Ibid, 75A.
B. The Commissioners of Sick and Wounded to Kympton
Mabbott, Marshal of the prisoners at Plymouth.
Recite the information received of cruel treatment of English
prisoners in France [see above, pp. 624-626] and the
kindness shewn to French prisoners in England [for which
see same]. Direct the reduction of the subsistence money
for each prisoner to 3d. a day. Proceed:-You may tell
the prisoners why this is done, and also that though the Queen
for the present, of her great goodness continues their allowance
of straw and physic, yet, unless the cruelty used towards
her subjects in France be speedily stopped, " her justice will
call for such a retaliation as may (if the French King has
any tenderness or regard for his own subjects) induce him
to give effectual directions that those of her Majesty's whom
the chance of war shall bring into his power may be used like
fair and honourable enemies."
Pp. 1H. Dated, Sick and Wounded Office, 16 March, 170i.
Ibid, 75B.
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c. The Commissioners of Sick and Wounded to Kympton
Mabbott.
As the design of this retrenchment is only to induce the French
King to cease to treat English prisoners as he has been doing
you are not only to read out this order publicly to them, but
you are to permit any who wish it to write to France, their
letters being first sent up to this Board to be perused. If
you find any among them through whom you think this order
might be sent to the French Court, you may give them copies
of it as from yourself; and assure them that as soon as the
Queen hears that the prisoners there have the benefit of the
French King's pretended allowance of 5 sous a day, and
are otherwise taken care of as those here have hitherto been,
they will receive the same here.
P. ]. Dated, Sick and Wounded Office, 16 March, 170*.
S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 75c.
About     JOHN SHERER, Mayor of Chichester, to [HEDGES]*.
16 Mar.    Yours of March 8th.     The prisoners say they came out of
the prison at Southampton when their keeper was at dinner,
finding the door open.
I believe they intended to seize a boat and get to France, they
being all taken by the seaside. Two more have since been taken.
A messenger from the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded has
just come for them. I will hand them over, as ordered, and take
his receipt.
P.;, with p.s. Signed.  Undated. Endd. "Recd. 17 March,"
and "Recd. 18 [or 28]." Ibid, 76.
16 Mar.    HEDGES to the MAYOR OF HARWICH.
Whitehall.  To examine Stephen Smith of the Gun at Harwich. A Frenchman named Senede, resident at Witham and lately arrested on
suspicion of treasonable correspondence, says he often went to
Harwich and associated with Smith. Send a full account.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 290.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To the Governor of Berwick.
Thanks for yours of the 10th. Send me more news on the
matter when you have any.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 229.
2. To the Attorney General.
Sends Lord Keeper's report on a grant depending at the Great
Seal of the constableship of St. Briavel's Castle and wardenship of
the Forest of Dean to Lord Berkeley. Directs him to prepare a
warrant for a grant to the Earl of so much as her Majesty can
grant of the former grant. Enclosing:The report aforesaid.
In July last I received your Majesty's warrant under your
* Nottingham (not Hedges) wrote to Sherer on this matter on Maroh 8; (see
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Privy Seal to make out letters patents under the Great Seal of
England in words contained in the warrant, which purports
to grant to the Earl of Berkeley the offices of constable of
St. Briavels and Warden of the Forest of Dean during
pleasure.
A caveat was shortly before entered by the Duke of Beaufort
against the passing of the grant. I have since heard counsel
on both sides and report.The castle and manor of St. Briavels are part of the Queen
Dowager's jointure, and the Duke of Beaufort has a lease
under the Queen Dowager and her trustees for a long term
of years yet to come. During this period the castle and
manor are the particular estate of the Duke, and his counsel
insisted, and I take the law to be, that during the currency
of his grant your Majesty cannot make a constable or keeper
of the Castle other than the Duke himself, " every man by
the law having the custody and ordering of his own house."
It is alleged  by   the Duke's counsel, and    admitted  by
Lord Berkeley's, that the wardenship of the Forest of Dean
has for some years been granted with the said office of constable
of St. Briavels Castle for life to the person who has been
farmer under the Crown of the said castle and manor.
King Charles II, by his letters patents dated 16 June, 1660,
granted the said offices to the late Duke of Beaufort, then
Lord Herbert, for his life. He enjoyed the same under that
grant till 1697, when the grant became void by reason of the
Duke's failing to sign the Association. At this avoidance the
offices were granted by King William III, during pleasure,
to the Earl of Berkeley, by whom they were enjoyed till the
late King's death.
The Duke's counsel alleged before me that it will be a prejudice
to the land which he holds under the Queen Dowager if he does
not have the wardenship; but no proof of this was offered,
and, even if it were, that would not alter your Majesty's right
to grant the office of warden, which is, I conceive, in your
Majesty's power to grant at your pleasure. It is " entirely
in your Majesty's own Royal breast" how far you will
consider the Duke's convenience. The grant therefore, as
contained in the warrant under the Privy Seal, should not
7pass. But if your Majesty so desires, you may grant to the
Earl of Berkeley the wardenship of the Forest of Dean only.
Pp. 3. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 236-239.
3. To the Lords Justices of Ireland.
Yours of the 6th received.   Please send Baron Dalez to me
as soon as may be.
Two ships have lately arrived at Dunkirk from Waterford
laden with butter. Details. Masters' names, Anderson alias
Elliott and Geraldine alias Fitzgerald. They pretended to be
bound for Middleburgh in Zealand. Inquire for them on their
return and have their sureties and freighters prosecuted with
the utmost severity.
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4. To M. Jurieux.
Pray write to your correspondents in all the ports of France
to let you know what ships arrive there from time to time
belonging to the English or their allies, their names, masters and
cargoes.
P. F. French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 21.
5. To Mr. Methuen.
Yours of February 20 read to the Queen in the Cabinet.
Command:-To tell you that it will be very difficult for the
Queen and the States to perform their obligations under the
Treaty to which you and M. Schonenberg have bound them.
But the advantage of Portugal's alliance with them is so great
that the Queen will omit nothing that is any way possible for
her to perform. It is hoped the States will co-operate heartily
in this. It is strange that the Emperor's minister should have
objected to giving up Badajos, considering how much the
Emperor will, or may, get by this alliance, whereas we get nothing
but what is common to all Europe by reducing the power of
France. Count Wratislaw will certainly be inexcusable if he refuses
to refer the determination of this place to the Queen and States,
as is proposed [by us]. The King of Portugal may also refuse
to do this, but if he accepts Badajos or if he assents to the
reference,* you must press the Ambassador to accept it also; or
in the last resort press Count Wallenstein even to yield Badajos at
once to Portugal. I have urged on Count Wratislaw the
importance of obtaining Portugal's alliance, and urged him to
write to Count Wallenstein not to lose it for a trifle, especially
when the conjuncture of affairs in Europe makes this alliance
so necessary for the Emperor, not only in respect of Spain, but
in regard to Germany itself, "where the Elector of Bavaria
is a heavy burden upon him and the advances of the French are
of great consequence, from which nothing can divert so effectually
as a war upon Spain."  I think that Count Wratislaw will write
in this sense, and that Count Wallenstein, though he cannot yet
have orders from the Emperor, will be more likely to agree with
us than formerly. Pray manage the affair with a just regard to the
Emperor's interest, and so as to end it by bringing the King of
Portugal into the war.
I must now tell you that the Portuguese Envoy was with me
this morning, and that from the questions he asked, it is plain that
he thinks that the coming in of Portugal is already concluded
(whether by the granting or the not asking for Badajos, I do not
know). Then he asked me when the troops agreed on would go
to Lisbon. I said I could not answer this question till it was
known how many were to be sent and from where. I asked himwhat he could as little answer-whether the King of Portugal
would expect that all the troops agreed on should have actually
arrived at Lisbon before he declared war. I pointed out that
whatever we promised we should certainly perform, but that
it would of course take longer to send all than to send a part, and
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that if his master's declaration were not made till all had arrived,
an opportunity might be lost of doing with a few men what a
larger number could not afterwards perform. He seemed to
agree to this, but could not tell what his master would do. I
send this information, as it may be of use to you; for he will
probably report what passed between us.
Pp. 2. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 16-18.
6. To the Duke of Marlborough.
Refers to the subject of Badajos mentioned in his despatch
of this date to Mr. Methuen [see foregoing]. It is reasonable to
hope that Count Wallenstein either has had or will have orders
to assent to the surrender of Badajos to the Portuguese.
Proceeds:-The Emperor has resolved to show more deference
to the Queen than hitherto. On the supposition, therefore, that
such a Treaty is made, it may be well for your Grace to consider
how we and the States may perform our part of it, which is
12,000 men, and, in particular how our moiety of 6,000 is to be
made up, what we have here and in Ireland, and what may
be had out of Scotland towards it; "and your Grace may
remember what I suggested of troops from your army to be replaced
by others from some German Princes."  Repeats substance of his
conversation with the Portuguese Envoy as to desirability of
not delaying the Portuguese declaration till all the forces
stipulated for have arrived in Lisbon. Proceeds:-The difficulty
of getting 12,000 men together and of transporting them at once,
if we had them, makes me offer the matter to your consideration.
The time prefixed for the Mediterranean squadron has elapsed,
and we do not hear that the States will concur with us in this
design, though we depend upon it. I therefore only mention, first,
that Sir C. Shovell, who is to command it, and the Prince's Council,
think it should consist of thirty-two capital ships, besides frigates
&c. Of this the Dutch proportion is twelve ships, of which we
have here but six, and our twenty are ready. Secondly, the
departure of the ships should be hastened and ought not to be
postponed on account of the Dutch merchants, who wish to go
with the squadron. Such a delay lost our fleet last war in Lagos
Bay and will frustrate the whole design.
Count Wratislaw asks me every day for the Queen's moiety
of the 100,0001. for Italy. You know why it is delayed. I know
it is not proper for us to solicit the States, but your opinion of
the advantage thereof to the common interest would no doubt
forward the success of Count de Goes' solicitations.
Colonel Codrington has received his orders, and some of the
troops from Cadiz and Ireland reached him on 23 January. The
others were daily expected from Barbados. He has raised a
regiment of twelve companies and two additional companies,
and does not doubt of success. I hope soon to send your Grace
good news from those parts. "That we may hear nothing else
but good from you is the hearty wish of your Grace's &c.
Nottingham."
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7. To the Prince's Council.
I suppose that the ships designed for the Mediterranean
expedition and all relating to them are so far advanced that if
the Dutch ships agreed on to go with them should arrive there
will be no delay in their starting. I think it necessary for you
to tell the merchants when the ships to form part of the squadron
will go from the Thames to Spithead, that the merchantmen
may make use of them so far as a convoy; also to inform the
officers of ordnance that they may put as many arms as practicable
on those men of war and order any ship which they use to
carry the rest to go with them.
P. W. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 21.
8. To the Officers of the Ordnance.
The Queen desires 20 land carriages for great guns of 241b.
balls, four mortars with shells in proportion, and 4,000 muskets
and powder and ball prepared and put on board some of the
ships designed to serve under Sir Cloudesly Shovell. The Prince's
Council will give you notice where these are, some being in the
river and some at Portsmouth. I am informed that the shells
for the mortars cannot be stored in the men-of-war, so that
there will be need for a transport ship. I will get you herMajesty's
warrant in form, but send you this notice to save time.
P.S.-More than a proportionable quantity of powder and
ball may be needed. Details.
P. i. Ibid, pp. 21, 22.
16 Mar.   A PROCLAMATION of INDEMNITY to be published in Scotland.
St. James'.  Recites desire for peace and justice, by exercise of the Royal
clemency in reclaiming offenders.  Proceeds to declare pardon
to all the Queen's subjects of all crimes of "perduellion,
rebellion, treason, concealing of treason, harbouring, resell, supplying and corresponding and intercommuning with rebels and declared
enemies, the impugning the dignity and authority of the Estates
of Parliament and all other kinds of treason or lese Majestie,
whetlher common or statutory," and all acts of slandering the Crown
or of malversation committed before this date. Favourable clauses.
All forfeitures, sentences, &c., already paid and transacted are excepted, and also all murders, witchcrafts &c. [List of ordinary
crimes follows.] The heralds to make due proclamation of this
pardon at the Market Cross, Edinburgh.
Pp. 21. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book, 18, pp. 482-485.
17 Mar.   JAMES PINNELL, Mayor of Oxford, to NOTTINGHAM.
Oxford'  I have arrested the persons named in your lordship's warrant,
and have them in the common jail here under a good guard.
Professions of loyalty.
P. i. Signed, with seal of the City.  Add.  Endd.  S.P.
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17 Mar.   The MARQUIS DE LA GALLISSONNIERE to NOTTINGHAM.
Oxford prison. I was arrested last night at my house and brought to prison.
I was held by the arm as if I were a thief. It is a great indignity
to an officer who has served with honour for forty years to be
treated as a criminal. I have not a bed to lie on, and my servants
have not been allowed to get for me what I want. Pray intercede
for me with the Queen for treatment as a prisoner of war. My
servants should be allowed to bring me food.
P.S.-I am still much inconvenienced with rheumatism.
Pp. 1, (small). (Hol.) In  French. Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 118. 78.
Same.     COUNT DE MORNAY to the SAME.
I received your lordship's when in prison, where we have been
since 11 p.m. last night. I wish I had had it before, for we
would have yielded without force or constraint to any orders
which we knew came from the Queen. We have already done so.
Force was not necessary, nor should we have been disarmed in
our houses or treated in the streets like criminals.
As to the cause of our arrest:-I cannot believe that the
Queen's subjects are subjected to the greatest hardships. When,
on the complaint of the Commissioners [of Sick and Wounded],
I recently applied to M. le Comte de Pontchartrain, he immediately
sent certificates signed by all the prisoners rebutting the charge
of cruelty. I hope you may find that these present complaints
also have no foundation, and have cause to regret the way in
which we have been treated. I cannot agree that the French
prisoners here are well treated. I have received and continue
to receive many grievous complaints. Nothing could be worse
than the condition of some of those wretches. But for the
help which I was able (by order of M. de Pontchartrain) to send
them, many more of them would have died. We make no
complaint of our treatment at Oxford up to now, and have not
abused the liberty given us. We have now, however, to complain of undeserved treatment, and can prove that the reports
which the Queen has received have no foundation.
We have had to pay largely for the accommodation we have
had here. Had the English officers in France done the same
they would not have made the [alleged] complaints in different
places, complaints wholly contrary to the purport of the last
letter received by Count de Sorel, of which I sent a copy to the
Commissioners of Sick and Wounded. At Dunkirk they are
allowed all amusements, and dine daily at the Commandant's table.
We here are treated like criminals.
Pp. 3, in French. Signed. Endd. Ibid, 79.
17 Mar.   HEDGES to the LORD TREASURER.
Whiteh&U.  I send Captn. Henry Thomas's petition and the late Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland's report thereon. The Queen desires to do
something for him. Further pleasure.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 291.


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About     PETITION to the QUEEN of SIR ALEXANDER RIGBY, WILLIAM
18 Mar.       SHEPARD and WILLIAM PLOWMAN, shewing that:In spite of the support given by your Majesty to petitioners'
complaints, they have not yet received reparation of the Great
Duke of Tuscany, and are, consequently, in great misery. They
refer to their answer to the Tuscan envoy's memorial, and pray
for the Queen's determination of their deplorable case and orders
for execution thereof.
P. I (large). Followed by:Answer of Rigby, Shepard and Plowman* to a memorial
presented to the Queen by the Great Duke's Envoy on
March 18, 1702.
We acknowledge your Majesty's clemency to us and due regard
to the dignity of the Great Duke. We confine ourselves in this
answer to matters of fact, and hope to justify ourselves by the
Great Duke's own narrative.
The charge against Plowman, based on an alleged promise not
to molest the French, has been already made, and examined by Sir
Charles Hedges. The Lords Justices decided, on his report, that the
proceedings at Florence were against the law of nations and that
the Great Duke was liable in damages, and that the laws would
vindicate the King's [King William III's] demand for satisfaction.
A copy of this decision was sent, by the King's order, to the Great
Duke.
The sentence of the Great Duke on Plowman alleged that the
promise was given to the Duke himself. The memorial to the
late King says that it was given to Signor Teresi. The present
memorialt says that it was given to the Great Duke and the
principal ministers of his Court. This shews that the first
allegation could not be supported by evidence. Plowman did
not, as implied in the last memorial, try to fly from justice. When
he returned from the Levant he appeared openly at Messina and
Naples, and, being confident of his innocence, left those places
and returned towards Florence and Leghorn. On his way there
he was ignominiously surprised at Rome.
It is not true, as alleged in the last memorial, that none of the
Replicants' goods were seized except those in the Great Duke's
territory. Other of their goods were seized [details] by the
Duke's ministers at Naples, and the materials deposited at
Leghorn as a pledge for Plowman on condition of his liberation were
in the most disparaging manner put up to public sale, whilst
he remained in prison in breach of the agreement [to liberate him].
"These goods cost double the sum of what the Great Duke
acknowledges their proceeds to be, and his sentence and
countenance to the French encouraged them to seize and swallow
up the Replicants' effects in sundry other places, which cut the
sinews of their credit and caused all their correspondents to
abandon them."
*Referred to in this document as " the Replicants."
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In place of the articles of neutrality and the Great Duke's
ordinances, " natural neutrality " is now put forward as a ground
for objecting to the fitting out of English privateers at Leghorn.
This is a thing unknown in international compacts, and which,
as the Replicants submit, can have no determined sense to the
prejudice of a neuter nation. "The French armed out from
Leghorn," notwithstanding the cartel, and the Great Duke's
ordinances and natural neutrality. The Replicants bought and
fitted out at Leghorn their ship Charles, and obtained a commission from England for Captain Pickering, who took prizes
and brought them into Leghorn. No complaint was made of
this proceeding, though the Charles went in company with the
Philip and Mary, John Brome commander.
In his last memorial are put forward for the Great Duke's
vindication three arguments.
1. William Plowman's consent for the delivery of the effects
to the French, the confession of his fault and his acknowledgment
of the Great Duke's clemency.
2. That the whole transaction passed in sight of a minister
of the Crown of England.
3. That the late King, by his minister, declared his satisfaction
with the manner in which the affair had been carried and ended.
The Replicants answer first, that since the Great Duke relies
on these three points, they hope that, if they can be shewn to be
bad, he will no longer deny or delay just reparation.
As to the first point. Any confession or admission made by
William Plowman was made under duress and in fear, and for his
self-preservation and after 32 months in a dungeon. It was
but an extorted compliment to the Great Duke.
As to the second: Sir Lambert Blackwell, the minister for
England, was in London when Plowman was arrested, and for some
time after, and first heard of the transaction by a letter of
Oct. 9, 1699, from the Duke's Secretary of State, M. Montomagni.
Sir Lambert protested against the treatment of Plowman to the
French Envoy and Consul, and asked them to keep the goods,
money &c. taken from him till the third article of the Treaty
Ryswick should have been explained by their Sovereigns [i.e. the
Kings of England and France]. It cannot be said that an English
Envoy knew of transactions if he were merely present at Florence
when the acts complained of took place, since they took place
secretly in a dungeon. Such an argument might be used to
justify all sorts of oppressive measures. [Details.]
As to the third: King William III never expressed such satisfaction as alleged. When all the facts became known to him
[details] he demanded reparation and damages by his Envoy of
the Great Duke, according to a detailed account. This demand
the Queen has approved and renewed.
The Replicants admit the Great Duke's candour in owning
(1) the prizes taken by Captain Broom, who had a commission
from England; (2) the surprising, seizure and detention of
Plowman; (3) the arbitrary sentence pronounced against him
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surrender to France, and all this notwithstanding several letters
written by the late King.
On these admissions the Replicants' case stands. They, therefore, pray for reparation and that the promises made to his late
Majesty will be made good to the Queen. The Replicants did
nothing contrary to the law of nations, but merely embarked on
lawfully commissioned ships which, in accordance with the rules
of war, were acting against a common enemy.
Pp. 3. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 61.
18 Mar.   INFORMATION of GEORGE DUNN.
Lives in Shoe Lane, near Holborn.
Sworn, he says:-Was talking with Thomas Wadley (to be
found in the Mint or the Rules) about his going abroad. Informant
told Wadley he would be taken up by virtue of a late Act about
prisoners on Tuesday last, the 16th of March, at Southwark.
Wadley* answered him "in these words or to this effect, 'God
damn the Judges and their warrants and the Parliament for
making such an Act, and that brandy-nose bitch, the Queen,
for signing it, but I suppose she will not stay to sign any more, for
I believe she will run after her father into France before another
Parliament comes.' "
A week ago informant heard William Wadley, brother to the
said Thomas, speak words much to the same effect.
P. 1. Signed by Dunn, and sworn before Richard Warre,
who also signs. Written and endd. in Warre's hand. Ibid, 62.
18 Mar.    The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Sick and
Wounded    Send enclosed.
Office.   Three lines. Signed by Lee, Adams, Sherard and Morley.
Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 80. Enclosing:A. Kympton Mabbott to the Secretary to the Commissioners for
Sick and Wounded.
Captain Serville, who was sick in town quarters, has escaped
on a Dutch privateer, where I believe seven of the seventeen
who broke prison are with him; but we have searched and
cannot find them. The soldiers implicated have been severely
punished. I wish some course was taken to prevent the
Dutch privateers from  receiving such men. They think
nothing of it, and if it is not stopped, I fear they will get
many more away from us.
P. I. An Extract, dated 16 March, 1701 [Plymouth]. Ibid, 80A.
18 Mar.    HEDGES to BARON PRICE.
Whitehall.  The Queen will no doubt pardon William Warren, on whose
behalf the Justices and gentlemen of Dorset have petitioned
her. But it is regular that you should send an account of the
trial. Please do so soon.
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Note. Sent to Launceston, and a copy sent on 23 March to
Exeter.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 291.
18 Mar.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Dr. Bramston.
Consider enclosed memorial from the Portuguese Envoy and
report in time for me to lay it before the Queen to-morrow
afternoon. If this is the same ship as you reported on before,
say so.
Enclosed: Memorial saying that the Santa Maria or St. Marie
(Captain, F. Aviz de Mattes, and proprietor, Pedro de Miranda),
had been seized by the Medway on a journey from Portugal to
Holland, and carried into Plymouth.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 230.
2. To the Commissioners of Trade &c.
The Turkey Company have required an oath of all their factors
in Turkey against selling upon trust (copy enclosed), and have
enforced it with an order of 24 Oct., 1701 (details given)
and another order of May 12, 1702, for suspending all persons that decline the oath from their liberty of trade, whereby
they will incur a penalty of 20 per cent on all goods received or
laden by them on any account. Some of the members of the
Company are against the imposition of this oath, and selling on
trust is practised by all the " Frank " merchants in Turkey. This
oath not only hinders that but prohibits the factors from trusting
for their own goods and even those of the growth of Turkey.
It is a question if they have power to impose this oath; but
the Queen desires you to consider how far it is advantageous to
English trade, and report.
P. i. Ibid, pp. 230, 231.
Same.     RICHARD WARRE* to JOSIAH BURCHETT.
W[hitehall]. I send the names of some Venetian subjects on the Queen's
ships, whose release the Venetian Ambassador has desired. My
Lord desires you will communicate this to the Prince's Council,
that directions may be given for their release to the Venetian
captain, who will wait on you for them. Names of four seamen
given.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 146, p. 4.
19 Mar.    DR. GEORGE BRAMSTON to [NOTTINGHAM].t
Comons.'   Pursuant to your order I have perused the memorial of the
Portuguese Envoy relating to the Santa Maria of Lisbon, seized
by the Medway (Captain Littleton). I have also perused the
depositions of the ship's company, and find there are so many
suspicions that the property of the ship and lading ought to be
made out in a judicial way.
* Unsigned; but later letters in this little book are signed by Warre, who was
at the time one of the under-secretaries to Lord Secretary Nottingham.
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Some of the company say that:The alleged owner, Peter Marianta, is a poor shop-keeper in
Lisbon, who sells cheese &c. in a small way, and was never, so
far as deponents know, the owner of any ship.
The pretended pilot is really the master and is a Frenchman,
the Portuguese master being only "for colour." The real owners
are two Frenchmen, Michael Levegue and James Legrete, natives
of Rochelle, and merchants in Lisbon. Garsein, Antonio Samara
and Brukus, three other owners, are Flanderkins, who appointed
Lassale to be the true master. He has sailed in several ships
from Lisbon for eight or ten years on their account as owners.
The ship is of about 250 tons; and the owners, in order to
get the present Portuguese pass, gave Marianta 8,000 crusadoes
to buy her and get the pass. Marianta afterwards returned the
8,000 crusadoes to the Frenchmen; all of which one of the now
ship's company swears that he saw.
These facts appear from several examinations taken at Plymouth
P. 3. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 63.
19 Mar.    NOTTINGHAM to the COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED.
Whitehall.  The Queen consents to Captain Vancaltendyke* being given
in exchange for Captain Thomas Cooke.
Six lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 231.
19 Mar.    The COMMISSIONERS for SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
uiandd     1. According to your commands we report that Captain Thomas
Office.  Cooke, commander of one of her Majesty's packet-boats, is of
equal rank with Captain John Vancattendyke, commander of a
Dunkirk privateer, and fit to be exchanged for him.
P. i. Signed by Lee, Adams and Sherard. Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 118, 81.
2. We propose to send enclosed offer to France by Captain
Gibson, subject to your commands.
Five lines. Signed by Lee, Adams and Sherard. Endd.
Ibid, 82. Enclosing:A. The proposal referred to above.
The cartel for general release of English and French prisoners
may take some time to arrange, and applications have been
made to us by several French prisoners that, in the meantime,
they may be exchanged for English prisoners in France of the
like quality. M. Pigault, merchant of Calais, also tells us that
under orders from the French Court he will send over the
English prisoners named in the annexed listt if and when
we send over the French prisoners named in the same.  We
have sent over the named Frenchmen with Captain Gibson in
the Dover transport, and desire the return of the Englishmen.
If, by death or extremity, any of them cannot be sent, they
may be replaced by Lieutenant Bayley, late of the Sorlings,
lately driven upon the French coast and supposed to be now
* Spelt in the next document " Vancattendyke."
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at Calais. The credit we give to M. Pigault's letters makes
us believe that our word will be taken to release any French
prisoners  desired  in  exchange for  the English mentioned in the second annexed list*, if the latter are
returned by Captain Gibson. We will release them provided
that any inequalities which may be found in comparing them
be adjusted afterwards by releasing such other or more important prisoners as we may demand.  We request the Chief
Officer of Marine to deliver to Captain Gibson a receipt
for those sent over and a list of the prisoners sent back in
exchange to England, with names and the date of their
capture, in the annexed* form. Captain Gibson has orders
to give any receipts, accounts &c. which are desired of him.
If the said Chief Officer has any proposals to send us regarding
the keeping accounts of exchange of prisoners pending the
cartel, we will answer them.
Pp. 1a. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 82A.
[20 Mar.]   [The ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S ACCOUNT of a REPORT
at CROYDON.]
John Bryan of Godston, oatmeal maker, called at Mr. Ambrose
Parker's of Waddon, near Croydon, [and] upon his bailiff, one
Costins, and told him the news of the Queen's death &c., and
said that he heard it at a coffee-house. Mrs. Mary Pryce, servant
to Mr. John Parker, heard it from Costins going to church in the
afternoon. She asked Captain Foster if the news were true,
and he said that he had not heard it. He sent one, Norman, the
sexton of Croydon, to Mr. Whitacre, to find out if it were true.
P. I. Endd. as in title and with date. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 64.
20 Mar.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1 To Colonel Gibson.
I send M. Vryberge's (the Dutch Envoy's) letter. If the case
is as he says, let the Dutch sailor in question go free, unless you
have reason against it.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 292.
2. To the Prince's Council.
At desire of the Swedish Envoy, M. Leyoncrona, direct steps
to be taken to liberate Andrew Johnson, a Swede, lately pressed
on her Majesty's ship Firedrake. Details.
P.. Ibid.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
As so many prisoners have lately escaped, Queen's command:
to consider and report how they may be safer kept.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 232.
* Missing.


Wt. 3880.


A 41




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1703.
2. To the Lord Treasurer.
I send a letter from Mr. Baker, late Consul at Algier, concerning
two Turks who lately made their escape out of slavery and are
now in England, that you may allow them something for food
and clothing.
On 11 February last I sent you a memorial from the Duke of
Ormond concerning the Alcalde of Rota and his nephew. I now,
by command, send you another from the same source, that you
may give such directions therein as you think proper.
Note. The documents referred to were enclosed.
P. I. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 232, 233.
3. To Sir Thomas Hopsonn.
To send up John Bone of West Cowes, who has lately come from
France and has information for her Majesty's service.
P. I. Ibid, p. 233.
4. To the Marquis de la Gallissonniere.
Enclosed will show you how the English officers are treated
in France. As they are so treated, you cannot be surprised
at your treatment. You must blame Count de Mornay, who
threatens that the English prisoners in France will be treated
cruelly, intrigues against them, refuses to believe the evidence
of their ill-treatment, though well attested, and declares that
the French prisoners here complain constantly of ill-treatment,
though he knows that they are treated as well as the Queen's
subjects.
Your remedy is in your hands, and you will receive the treatment due to your rank when the English prisoners in France are
properly treated. The Queen will at once give orders for this
to be done.
P. 1. In French. Ibid, pp. 233, 234. Enclosing:Memorandum from Arras [?], 21 Mar., 1703.
Last Saturday I was sent here with the other officers of Dunkirk.
We arrived to-day after a most troublesome journey of seventy
miles, over the worst roads you can imagine. I am now
shut up in a citadel and barracks. It is the place where
they put soldiers, and as miserable as such places usually
are. Nobody who can speak English is allowed to speak
to us. It is the criminal prison into which prisoners of
war have never before been put. My only fault is that I
complained of the Commissary of Marine to the Governor
of Dunkirk, and of our treatment. It still goes on.
P. i, in French. Dated, Arras, 21 March, 170g.
Pp. 1~. Ibid, pp. 234, 235.
21 Mar.   The MARQUIS DE LA GALLISSONNIhRE to [NOTTINGHAM].
Oxford prison. I am sending to M. de Pontchartrain the note of complaints
of the treatment of English prisoners in France which your
lordship has sent me. If there has been such ill-treatment it
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negligence occurs in England as well as in France, and we have
had much evidence of it sent to us.
Pp. 11 (small). (Hol.)  French.  Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval
118, 83.
22 Mar.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded.
The Queen approves of your proposal re the exchange of
prisoners with France. Despatch it, as you suggest, by
Captain Gibson.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 236.
2. To the Lieutenant General and Principal Officers of the
Ordnance.
Yours of 19th. The four mortars should be two of 13 and two
of 10 inches. To each of them the shells and carcasses should be
in the same proportion as the Duke of Ormond had. With them
must be sent the proper number of bombardiers. To the 4,000
muskets [must be added] 100 rounds of powder and ball, and
there must be also added bayonets, cartouches and as many
swords and belts; also 20 rounds of powder and ball for 20 great
guns of 24[lb.] ball.
The carriages, muskets, swords and mortars may be stored
in the men-of-war, but the ammunition, shells and carcasses
cannot be carried in them, and must go in a special store-ship.
An officer should be sent to take care of them.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 22.
23 Mar.    FRANCES ELLTON [nee [?] DURNFORD] to the QUEEN.
Hereford.  Your many favours, and our old friendship, induce me to
make a request in favour of a friend whose life, without your
intervention, will be wrongfully taken away. Thomas Pritchard
of Hereford, glover, aged about sixty, was for twenty years
in the service of the Crown, and is now a pensioner at Chelsea.
He was for 30 years a reputable householder, " keeping his trade
going by means of his wife in his absence, in St. James' Street
near Pickadilly."  Being sick he came to Hereford for hits health
last autumn. A robbery having been committed on 9th October
last, he was seized for it by some malicious persons; but when
those who had been robbed viewed him, they " denied him and
his horse." Yet some time afterwards they retook him and
swore against him. I send an abstract of evidence given for
and against him at the trial to inform you and assist your charity.
All the witnesses for him are of high character, &c.; and I, as
one, am deeply concerned for him. Several of the jury already
repent their rash verdict against him. He is under sentence of
death and to be executed in Easter week. I beg you will receive
this request favourably.
P. i.  Signed.  "Frances Ellton-Durnford was."    Endd..S.P, Dom., Anne 2, 65,




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1703.
23 Mar.    The MARQUIS DE LA GALLISSONNIIRE to [NOTTINGHAM].
London prison. I am in a dreadful cell with the conduit of a privy in it.
M. Begon, my brother-in-law, and my servants Are separated
from me. I regret the complaints of the officer, which you sent,
but there is a great difference between being lodged in a barrack
[as he is] than in a cell. I pray for an order for better treatnient,
and, as I know, have served for long.
I have written to M. Pontchartrain and enclosed yours to me
at Oxford and the complaint you sent. Pray let me know if
you wish me to write again. Pray ask for favour from the Queen
for me and the other gentlemen*.
Pp. 3 (small). (Hol.) French. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval
118, 84.
23 Mar.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Lord Treasurer.
Mr. Methuen writes that a great deal of French wine will come
in our next ships from Portugal, having been brought there from
France and put into Portuguese casks. Queen's command to
tell you this.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 239.
2. To the Prince's Council.
The Queen has heard that the Genoese cover the trade of the
French and Spaniards and shelter their goods on board Genoese
ships under feigned bills. Her Majesty would have you give
orders to the commanders of her ships to search Genoese ships
and, whenever they find just cause of suspicion, to bring the ship
in to be examined and proceeded against according to justice.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 23.


23 Mar.    ROYAL LETTERS.
St. James'.  Directing that the six marine regiments designed only for
service at sea be henceforth under the sole control of the Lord
High Admiral. As Colonel H. Mordaunt's regiment, which is now
in Jersey and Guernsey, is one of the six, it shall cease to be
reckoned as one of them, and the regiment commanded by
Brigadier William Seymour shall be substituted for it as one of
the six. Mordaunt's regiment shall be reckoned as a land regiment for the future. Consequential changes to be made in the
establishments of the land and sea forces. Details.
Pp. 1J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 170, pp. 138, 139.
24 Mar.    The COMMISSIONERS of TRADE and PLANTATIONS to NOTWhitehall.     TINGHAM.
We are inquiring into the matter of the oath required by the
Turkey Company of their factors. We cannot find out which
members object to the oath, and ask for their names in order
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that we may summon and hear them, as well as the Company's
reasons for the oath.
P. i. Signed by Dartmouth, Cecill, Blathwayt and Prior.
Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 66.
24 Mar.    The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Wounded    We send an extract* of a letter which was sent us to-day by
Office.  Colonel Willet, a merchant in London. Would it not be for
the Queen's service to send 100 or 200 prisoners from Plymouth
to St. Malo by a vessel which may bring back an equal number
from Dinant of such English who have suffered most from the
ill-treatment of the officers there?
P. W. Signed by Lee, Sherard and Morley. Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 118, 85.
24 Mar.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Sheriff and Under-Sheriff of Hereford.
Queen's command:-Not to execute Thomas Husbands, a
convict in Hereford jail, till 5 April next.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 239.
2. To the Prince's Council.
The Commissioners of Trade and Plantations have laid before
the Queen in Council a list of supplies and directions which they
think should be sent by the next convoy to Newfoundland.
Dispatch is necessary. The Queen approves the list and has
directed that the proper officers be informed that the particulars,
so far as necessary, may be prepared before the next convoy
goes. I send an extract of it dealing with those things which
relate to the Admiralty, for submission to his Royal Highness
and receiving his directions thereon.
Note. Enclosed the extract aforesaid dated 19 March, 170*.
P. i. Ibid, p. 241.
3. To the Lord Treasurer.
Similar to foregoing, but sending so much of the list of supplies
&c. as relates to the Treasury. The Commissioners of Trade and
Plantations think that clothing and provisions for the company
of foot (of eighty men besides officers) in Newfoundland should
be now sent out. The extract is sent that he may give the
necessary directions for dispatch by next convoy.
Note. Enclosed the extract aforesaid.
P. i. Ibid, p. 242.
4. To the Principal Officers of the Ordnance.
Similar to foregoing, but sends so much of the list as relates
to the Ordnance.
Note. Enclosed the extract aforesaid.
P. j. Ibid, p. 243.
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1703.
24 Mar.   HEDGES to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Whitehall.  Her Majesty restores Lord Archibald Hamilton to his place
in the Navy. Inform his Royal Highness.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 367.
25 Mar.    COUNT DE MORNAY to [NOTTINGHAM].
London.   I have always, since a prisoner of war, obeyed your lordship's
directions; and if I have not done so exactly in recent days,
it is only because they were sent me by simple written orders without
explanations as to what you really desired. If you wish me
still to write, pray send some one whom I can understand to tell
me what your wishes are. I shall report them to M. de
Pontchartrain with the same accuracy as before.
I have had fresh letters of complaint from the French prisoners
in England, and will shew them to anyone whom you send. I
supposed that you gave me leave to write to M. de Pontchartrain
with the intention that I should let you have his answers.
The object of my letters has been, and will be, to improve
relations.
Pp. 3 (small). French. (Hol.) Endd. in Nottingham's [?] hand.
S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 86.
Same.     DENNIS DUTRY to [HEDGES]*.
As it was by your intercession that the Queen remitted her
share in certain brandies, the property of Dutch merchants taken
on the Three Friends on a voyage from Bayonne to Amsterdam,
and condemned as prize [I apply to you]. The Queen ordered
the Commissioners of Prizes to account to the owners for her
share. I told them so, and they drew a bill on me for 3001., which
I accepted and paid, expecting to be reimbursed from the said
share; but this, though I have several times applied to the
Commissioners, I cannot obtain. I am in danger of losing my
3001. and the costs of obtaining the remission.
Pp. 1, in French. Signed.  Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 67.
25 Mar.   INFORMATIONS AGAINST JOHN WHITE, a Popish priest.
Westandter  1. Mary Newbury, wife of Mark Newbury of Wandsworth, says
Middlesex. on oath:One Mrs. Forster, living near the Vine tavern in Holborn, makes
it her business to draw the Queen's subjects from Protestantism
to the Popish religion. She and White have lately used many
arguments to bring over deponent, and persuaded her to go to
mass, perform many of the ceremonies of the Church of Rome and
leave the Church of England. White directed Forster to give
deponent a Popish catechism, and Forster directed her to drink
this health: " Confusion to the old overthrown Olive and
prosperity and honour to the young Cedar "-which, Forster
owned, meant the Queen and the pretended Prince of Wales.
* Unaddressed; but see Hedges to the Dutch Envoy above at p. 279.




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Forster's maid, named Cicely, to-day assaulted deponent in
Lincoln's Inn Fields.
P. i. Copy, with copy of deponent's mark and note that it
was taken and sworn before Ger[ald] Ireton.
2. The aforesaid Mary Newbury says further on oath:She went to the Portugal ambassador's chapel about a fortnight since and there saw White officiate as a priest and administer
the Sacrament. Afterwards the priest told her to go to
Mrs. Forster's house in Holborn to be further instructed for
changing her religion. He followed her there, persuaded her to
change her religion, and directed Forster to give her a catechism
for her further instruction, and ordered the deponent to come on
the following Sunday to Forster's house to hear mass.
P. i. Copy, &c., as foregoing.
In all pp. l1. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 68, 1 and 2.
MEMOIR on the sums which must at once be paid to the
TROOPS recently engaged afresh in the service of the
Queen and on the State at that date.


About.
25 Mar.


Miinster.
By virtue of Art. 6 of the Convention of March 13,
1703, three battalions, each of 817 men including staff
[must be paid] from 25 March, and a month's pay
is to be given them when they come to their frontiers.
This amounts to...
By Art. 13 of the same the Bishop [of Miinster]
is promised 150,000 florins*, half to be paid at the
exchange of ratifications and half two months later..
Osnabrugge.
There will be due for one month's pay of the regiment of 820 men and staff given by the Bishop under
the convention of 22-February, 1703 (to commence
15 days before they reach the frontier, where they
are expected soon)..


Francs.
40,017 0
75,000 0
12,729 14






Holstein-Gottorp.
According to Art. 3 of the Convention of 15 March,
1703, there must be paid to the Duke 100,000 crowns,
one-half fifteen days after the ratification and the
other half when the subsidised troops (two regiments
of dragoons, each of 561 men, and two of infantry,
each of 881 including staffs) reach their frontier.. 250,000
When these regiments reach the frontier there
must be paid to them a month's pay of 42 days..  66,296
East Friesland.


0


16


Levy money for a regiment of infantry (800
men, including staff), according to the capitulation
* The sum  is here stated as 60,000 crowns or "150,000 fl."; but the final
calculation is stated to be in "francs." A rough calculation at the end shows
that the final total is divided, approximately by 11 to reduce it to pounds sterling.




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of 23 February, 1703..
One month's (of 42 days) pay
" Walef."


Francs...   41,250  0. 13,050  0


Levy money for a regiment of 624 dragoons
(including staff), according to the capitulation of
22 February, 1703..
A month's (42 days) pay of same..
" Jamart."


79,380 0
17,657 0


Levy money for a regiment of infantry
including staff) under same of 19 Feb., 1703
Forty-two days' pay..
Saxe Gotha.


(799,.  41,250   0.  13,050   0


Levy money for two regiments of dragoons (each
449, including staff) and two of infantry (each 857,
including staff)..........     231,900  0
Forty-two days' pay.....56,185 0
The total of these is 937,765 10, of which the
English share (one half) is 468,882 15.
Pp. 3, in    French. Add. to   Secretary  Hedges.  Endd.
"Received from Monsr.Vreberg, April 10, 1703. Pay for additional
troops." S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 69.


25 Mar.    COLONEL COLLIER to NOTTINGHAM.
Jersey.   I send intercepted letters from Plymouth to St. Malo.*
Englishmen escaped from Dinant confirm the news of a fleet
fitting out at Brest, and that the garrison at Dinant had orders
to be ready for a march.
P. l. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 50.


25 Mar.
Sick and
Wounded
Office.
25 Mar.
Transport
Office.


RETURN of PRISONERS of WAR.
Last list, 4,026. Since dead, 23. Escaped, 10. Since taken,
105. Total to-day, 4,098.
P. i (small). Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 87.
The COMMISSIONERS of TRANSPORTS to SIR GEORGE ROOKE.
We are making up the accounts of the transports which went
to Spain under your command. Have you anything to charge
them with before we clear them?
P. i. Signed by Atkinson and Roope. Endd. Ibid, 88.


25 Mar.    NOTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whiteall.  1. To the Bishop of London.
Sends petition of Edmund Heywood, clerk, to the Queen, in
which he asks for presentation to a small rectory in the see of
London, for report.
Note. Enlosed the petition.
P. s. 8.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 240.
* Missing.




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2. To Mr. Justice Gould.
To report on the trial of Husband [s], now a convict in Hereford
jail, before April 5, to which his date his execution has been
postponed. Has sent a similar letter to Mr. Justice Blencowe.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 240.
3. To [George] Clarke.
Similar to the Secretary's letters of March 24 (above, p. 645)
in regard to the list of things which it is proposed to send by
the next convoy to Newfoundland. Sends to Clarke a copy of
such part of the list as deals with the company of foot there,
to be submitted to his Royal Highness for his orders.
Note. Enclosed, The extract, add " Prince as Generalissimo."
P. A. Ibid, p. 244.
25 Mar.    The LORDS JUSTICES of IRELAND to NOTTINGHAM.
Dublin Castle. Yours of the 16th. We have given notice to Baron Dalez
to attend you at once. Special care shall be taken, as soon as
the ships which you mention to have gone to Dunkirk return
to Cork or Waterford, or elsewhere here, that both the ships,
the merchants and their bonds may be prosecuted with the
utmost severity. No favour should be shown to those who
trade with the enemy, which we shall always discountenance
to the utmost of our power.
P. A. Signed. Endd. S.P. Ireland 363, 2.
26 Mar.    The EARL OF BURLINGTON to [SAME].
M. de Pimont, who is now a prisoner of war, is an old friend,
and I therefore trouble you on his behalf. He thinks that he is
being kept close prisoner not by the Queen's or your order, but
by a jailer who wants to get money from him. Eight prisoners
are kept in a little room with two windows. They have nothing
to lie upon that can be called beds, which they cannot get for
money, nor any food or drink they can take. Their servants
are taken from them and others, whom they cannot understand,
given to them. I went to the prison to see him, but the jailer
would not let me see him, but said that several people had seen him
that day, and that he had orders to let no more do so. He said
it was a verbal order. I thought it strange that a peer and Privy
Councillor could not see a prisoner as well as his gaoler.. He
would not permit the prisoner to come to the window and talk
to me in my coach. If such treatment is authorised by you,
pray let me have a line to say so.
Pp. 4 (small). (Hol.) S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 70.
About     M. DE PIMONT to [the EARL OF BURLINGTON?].
Same.     Thanks him for his kindness. Has just heard of his father's
death, and will be ruined unless he goes to France. Begs for a
present of [Burlington's] portrait, which will be as dear to him
as " that of a mistress."
Pp. 21 (small). (Hol.) Not addressed.* Ibid, 71.
* Possibly an enclosure in the foregoing.




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26 Mar.     HEDGES to the LORD CHIEF BARON.
Whitehall.  Report if William    Ellis is fit for the    Queen's mercy.
Convicted last Chelmsford Assizes; burglary. He petitions,
shewing it was his first offence and to a small value.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 292.
26 Mar.     INSTRUCTION for the DUKE OF ORMOND as LORD LIEUTENANT
St. James'.      OF IRELAND.
We have appointed you Lord Lieutenant and give you full
authority to keep the peace, the laws and the commendable
customs of Ireland and to govern all our people there, chastise
and correct offenders, and countenance such as shall do well.
For your guidance we prescribe as follows:-*
1. Similar to Clause 2 of Robartes' instructions.
2. That "Forasmuch as the principal foundation of good
success in all our actions doth rest upon the service of God, we do
especially require it from you that above all things you endeavour
to settle matters so in the church that Almighty God may be
well served, in order whereunto you are to take care that the
spiritual livings in our gift, as they shall become void, be supplied
with pious and orthodox persons, and who, being of good repute,
may reside upon their benefices; and you are also to persuade
other patrons of livings to do the like and to avoid all manner
of corruption in bestowing the same."
3. Similar to Clause 3 of Robartes' instructions.
4. As we have appointed Commissioners to manage the whole
of our revenue in Ireland, we direct you to countenance them
and their officers and take care that our Judges, and especially the
Barons of the Exchequer, do the same. Call on the Commissioners
frequently for reports on their proceedings and transmit an
account of these to us.
5. Repeats Clause   11  of the   1st Marquis of Ormond's
instructions.
6. Letters received from us for disposing of money to public
uses shall take precedence of any letters which we may send
at the same time granting sums to private persons.
7. If it should happen at any time that our revenue is insufficient
to meet our charge, you shall pay no pensions till the civil and
military lists have been paid. If, after that, there is not sufficient
money to pay all pensions, they must all be reduced in proportion.
8. Give no orders on any letters which shall come from us
granting any money or lands or releasing or abating any quit
rent or sum due to us until a petition for it has been presented
here and sent to you for report, or presented to you and recommended by you to us.     In the former case, after your report
* See the instructions to the 1st Marquis (afterwards 1st Duke) of Ormond as
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in Cal. of S.P. Ireland, 1660-1662, at pp. 555-58;
the drafts for instructions, and instructions to Lord Robartes in Ibid, 1666-69,
pp. 740-746 and 759-61; and the instructions to Lord Berkeley of Stratton,
Ibid, 1669-70, pp. 78-81. These instructions are calendared with reference
to the instructions set out in those volumes. A critical comparison of thevarious
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(if it is favourable), the petition shall go to the Lord High
Treasurer of England or Commissioners for his office, who shall
be informed of your views on it. A report from the Treasury is to
be made upon it before any letter is signed.
9. Repeats clause 4 of Robartes' instructions (concerning
exact musters). Form of oath for all officers, soldiers and
governors of towns and castles follows. It is "to be true to our
Sovereign Lady Queen Anne and to serve her honestly and
faithfully in the defence of her person, crown and dignity against
all her enemies and opposers whatsoever," and to obey her and
her superior officers' orders.
10. Repeats clause 6 of Robartes' instructions (army quarters),
but omits the restriction of officers' leave to three months. Adds:
If any officer misbehaves you may either try him by a proper
Court or else suspend him till you have represented the matter
to us and received our pleasure on it.
11. " Being informed that there have been frequent duels and
quarrels between the officers of our army there, we... authorise...you to cashier from time to time all such officers as shall
send, receive or deliver any challenge, or give any real affront
to any other, the same being made appear to you." Any person
so cashiered shall not be re-employed in our service.
12. Repeats clause 15 of Berkeley's instructions (concerning
forts and saltpetre).
13, 14, 15 and 16. Repeats in substance clause 12 of Robartes'
instructions (trade, "Protestant strangers," export of wool and
vending of small coins). Clause 13 adds:-" And we particularly
recommend to you the improvement and encouragement of the
linen manufacture there."
17. To help you in your office we declare that we will entertain
no complaint of injustice or oppression against anyone in Ireland
unless it appear that the complainant has first made his address
to you. The places in the Chief Governor's gift are left to your
patronage, and we will grant them to no one upon application
made to us here.
No new offices shall be erected in Ireland without your
knowledge. All orders for payment of money shall be directed to
you; and no patent granting land, money or abatement of rent
shall pass here without your knowledge. We have had this rule
entered in the offices concerned here.
18. We leave it wholly to you to give licence of absence out
of Ireland to any Bishop, Privy Councillor, Officer or Judge.
19. When any vacancy occurs in any ecclesiastical or civil
temporal office which we have by your commission reserved
to our disposal, you shall let us know of the vacancy and recommend a person for it. We will not grant such office until we have
had your recommendation, and if we decide to appoint any
person other than him whom you recommend, we will not do
so till we have had your opinion on the appointment we propose
to make.
20. You shall from time to time make particular report to us
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favour them; to which end you are not to grant the reversion
of any office, and to take care that all vacant offices be granted
only during our pleasure. In future no civil or military appointment shall be sold, under penalty of its vacation by the buyer.
Only the allowed and proper fees shall be taken by civil officers.
Penalty-discharge and prosecution.
21. Give no orders on any letters signed by us for grant of any
land, pension or title there unless it has been entered in our Signet
Office here, whereby the scandal of granting the same thing to
several people may be avoided.
22. It having been represented to us that several rebels and
fugitives pass over from Scotland into Ireland and shelter there,
we direct you to establish a correspondence with the Council
of Scotland and to establish a packet-boat for that purpose, if you
find it necessary, and to give order for arresting such fugitives
as you shall have the names of from time to time from Scotland,
and sending them back there to be tried.
23. All matters coming from you and touching our revenues
shall be sent to the Lord Treasurer or Commissioners of the
Treasury, and all others to Lord Secretary Nottingham.
24. Repeats clause 15 of Robartes' instructions [re conflicting
orders].
25. Inform yourself what has been done in execution of the
recent proclamations requiring the Papists to bring in their arms;
and see they are executed, so that no Papist be allowed to carry
arms unless allowed to do so under a capitulation of some town.
Endeavour to check abuse of those capitulations and restrain
the keeping of arms as far as possible.
26. Settle the militia in all counties according to the present
rules, so far as is legal and practicable.
27. Do not reverse outlawries; but, on a good case for reversal
being made to you, report to us on it.
28. See that the articles given to Limerick and Galway are
strictly carried out without granting any further privileges thereunder than we are in honour bound to do.
29. Call no Parliament under your general powers unless you
have our particular orders to that effect.
Pp. 11. S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, pp. 118-129.
27 Mar.    The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
WoSindd    Send enclosed.
Office.   Three lines. Signed by five Commissioners. S.P. Dom., Naval
118, 89. Enclosing --
A. Count de Mornay to the Commissioners of Sick and
Wounded.
I am ready to write to France for my particular exchange if it
is desired. I should have passed for a silly person (un 6tourdi)
if after having asked for power to treat for a general cartel I
had solicited my private release before my request was
answered from France. Perhaps the orders issued in France
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I have written to have this done, and will write again if you
so desire. If you send me the complaints you have received,
I undertake to have them remedied in 15 days, or else
certificates produced to show they are false. Pray send
some one with whom I can talk at length.
I made complaints to you and Lord Secretary Nottingham
only on many written informations which I received and
in the execution of orders which I received from France.
Pray send an answer.
Pp. 3 (small). French. (Hol.) Dated, London, 27 March, 1703.
Add. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 89A.
27 Mar.    The LORDS JUSTICES 'f IRELAND to NOTTINGHAM.
Dublin Castle. Baron Dalez, to whom the French Protestants in the Cevennes
wrote the letter of which we lately sent a copy, is the bearer of
this letter. We have sent him over and paid his journey, and
hope he may arrive in time for any commands which the Queen
or your lordship may think fit to give him.
P. i. Signed. Endd. S.P. Ireland 363, 3.
29 Mar.    The MARQUIS DE LA GALLISSONNIERE to SAME.
Westister   I had no time the other day to ask you to forward my letter to
M. de Pontchartrain complaining of my pitiable state and of
that of the other officers here.
I have seen a copy of an order of the Commissioners [for Sick
and Wounded and Prisoners], in which they say we are to be
given only " 3 sols' " allowance, because the English prisoners in
France are badly treated. Had,I known of this charge, I could
have written to France, where they would have ordered that
this abuse should cease, or else sent certificates to prove that
there was no such ill-treatment. Letters of M. de Pontchartrain,
which I have seen, shew that the King of France desires that
the English prisoners should be well treated in all ways.
We are very badly treated here, and can only save our lives
by paying for relief at a price which will ruin us. We should
willingly pay for our keep if some rules as to what we should
pay were made and observed, and beg you to send a Commissioner
to see that this is done. We cannot go out of the terrible places
where we are to breathe the air without paying the jailer. It is
a shame that officers of distinction should not have their valets
to serve them and should be treated as criminals. A distinction
has always been drawn between prisoners of war and other
prisoners. Pray send to inspect our condition and let me know
what you ask that M. de Pontchartrain should do in order that
the prisoners on both sides may be promptly relieved. I desire
leave to write home, and paper and ink for the purpose.
Pp. 2. French. (Hol.) Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 72.
29 Mar.    SIR GEORGE ROOKE to [WILLIAM] LOWNDES.
[Jermyn]   I send a letter received from the Commissioners of Transports
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ships which were with me on the late expedition. If they have
contravened these, I presume the Lord Treasurer will know
about it through his Officers of the Customs; and will, I
hope, give what orders he thinks necessary. The enclosures are
sent to be laid before him.
P. 1. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 73.
29 Mar.    MR. JUSTICE GOULD to [NOTTINGHAM].
I received yours to-day at Wells and, as her Majesty requires,
send an account of Thomas Husbands' trial. There was good
evidence against him and one Pritchard, who were indicted by
two indictments for stealing a bridle from one and some money
from another. There was wounding. One witness for the
Crown had ridden with them, and suspecting them to be highwaymen, had taken note of them and their horses. Seven witnesses
came to support an alibi for the defence, swearing that the prisoner
was with them at an alehouse in Hereford at the time on 9 October
last when the robbery was committed about four miles away.
Details. He was found guilty.
The Mayor of Hereford has since then written to me saying
he thinks the man is not guilty and that this is the opinion in
Hereford, wherein he differs from what he thought at the Bench.
Three or four of the jurymen also came to me and expressed
dissatisfaction with the verdict which they had given. I therefore granted a reprieve pending further advice. I saw a certificate
of the Justices of the Peace of Middlesex and the curate, churchwardens and overseers of the poor and many other parishioners
of St. Giles' in the Fields in favour of Husbands, who was also
indicted before me twice, for the same offence, on the same day, but
as no evidence was offered against him he was acquitted.
Pp. 1W. Signed. Endd. Ibid, 74.
29 Mar.    HEDGES to the LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.
Whitehall.  Refers to Thomas' case.* Queen's command:-To provide
for him by way of pension or otherwise in Ireland.
P.;. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 295.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To the Sheriff or Under-Sheriff of Hereford.
Respiting execution of sentence on Thomas Pritchard till
April 5.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 244.
2. To Mr. Justice Gould.
To report on Pritchard's case before April 5. Refers to foregoing. A similar letter has been sent to Mr. Justice Blencowe.
Also note of the letter to Blencowe.
P. j. Ibid, p. 245.
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3. To the Postmasters General.
Queen's command:-Order the postmaster at Harwich not
to send away horses with any express or other person that comes
over in any packet-boat from Holland, except the express be
addressed to a Secretary of State or the Admiralty, till six hours
at least after the mail shall be gone from there. Send orders
to all postmasters on the road to take care that the mail be
constantly sent forward with all speed.
Give particular directions for this mail to go quickly.
P. J; S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 245-6.
30 Mar.   The QUEEN to the PARLIAMENT OF SCOTLAND.
St. James'. We thought to have brought you together sooner, but have
been so occupied with great affairs this winter that we could not
do so. We have often assured our subjects of our intention
to protect them in their religion, rights and liberties as established
by law, and if there be anything else necessary for the peace
and good of Scotland, we shall always be ready to have it
"timeously " provided for.
You see how we are engaged in "a great and necessary war
for the defence of the Protestant religion and the preservation
of the liberties of Christendom," and hope you will be ready to
guard against all dangers that may threaten from it. We would
in particular have you consider the state of our forces, forts and
garrisons, that they may be duly maintained, and make due
provision therefor, and for the safety of the country. We commend to you the making and amending of laws for the improvement of trade. We are anxious for the promotion of religion,
virtue and true piety, suppressing vice and immorality, and
providing for the poor.
We have appointed the Duke of Queensberry our Commissioner
for your meeting, and feel sure you will approve of him.
"This being your first meeting, and we having recommended
nothing but what is for your own security and welfare, we
confidently expect a suitable return and a dutiful and cheerful
concurrence in what we propose; and that, all differences and
animosities laid aside, you will with concord and diligence bring
matters to such a happy conclusion as shall establish a lasting
union betwixt us and our people."
Pp. 1|. S.P. Scotland, Warrant Book 18, pp. 508-510.
30 Mar.    The PRINCE'S COUNCIL to NOTTINGHAM.
OAdffire  We have received your enclosure from the Commissioners of
Trade and Plantations, in which they ask that the crews of
her Majesty's ships bound to Newfoundland may assist in the
work on shore there and that a boom be sent out for the protection
of the harbour of St. John's. It is absolutely necessary that the
ships of war should cruize off the coast for the protection of the
fishery and themselves, until the trade shall be ready to come
away, so their men can't be spared from them. These ships
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should be told to cut masts there in the winter for the purpose,
and to send them down on the snow.
Pp. 1I. Signed by Mitchell, Churchill, Hill and Bridges.
Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 29.
30 Mar.    The MARQUIS DE LA GALLISSONNIkRE to NOTTINGHAM.
Wetiister  Returns a draft letter from himself to M. de Pontchartrain,
also a declaration of the French prisoners in England, shewing
their miserable condition. Will send anything more he likes
to Pontchartrain. Prays for leave to write home.
P.  i (small). French. (Hol.)  Add. Endd. S.P.    Dom.,
Naval 118, 90.
30 Mar.   [RICHARD] HILL to [SAME].
miralty    M. de Chamilli, now a prisoner in the Gatehouse, has received
advice from Paris that the King of France is willing to give up
the lieutenant of the Ludlow (now a prisoner at Dunkirk) in
exchange for him, and his relations are very anxious for his
release. Pray let me know if Chamilli may go free in this way.
The Prince's Council are very anxious for the release of
Captain Cock, now a prisoner at Arras. May they promise that
Count de Mornay, or any other French prisoner, of equal rank,
will be given for him?
Pp. 2 (small). (Hol.) Endd. Ibid, 91.
30 Mar.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To M. Rosencrants [the Danish Envoy].
I send a project for renewing the treaties between England
and Denmark, which will be carried out as soon as you please.
Three lines, in French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 293.
2. To the Mayor and Burgesses of Liverpool.
I had laid your petition re the soil of Liverpool Castle before
the Queen before your letter came. It has been referred to the
Chancellor of the Duchy for report.  Further pleasure. I shall
help you, then as before, as far as I can.
P. j. Ibid, pp. 293, 294.
3. To the Lord Treasurer.
My letter to Mr. Stepney and Lord Nottingham's to Mr. Methuen
relating to the treaty with Portugal, were read and approved
at the Cabinet to-day, and declared agreeable to what was resolved
on Sunday; which I need not repeat. We are both sending
copies to the Duke of Marlborough, that he may know how things
stand, and he is to speak to the Pensioner so that the States'
ministers at Vienna and Portugal may have instructions on that
subject similar to those given to her Majesty's envoys.  The
Emperor has sent a letter to the Queen [partly set out], in which
he commits to her care the managing of the whole matter of
bringing in the King of Portugal, so that there is now greater
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will probably see Count Wratislaw, who is going to Newmarket
to-morrow, and see if he has anything further to offer. This
should be done before the Queen gives him an audience.
P. a. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 307.
30 Mar.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.
1. To the Earl of Burlington.
As English-speaking people are not allowed to see the English
prisoners in France, the Queen has ordered that nobody who
can speak French may go to see the French prisoners now in the
Gate House. Had I known of your desire to do so, you would have
been told earlier.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 246.
2. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
Queen's command:-Send an account of what county prisons
will be most fitting to receive the French prisoners in, and how
many may be put in each.
The Queen approves your proposal to send a ship from
Plymouth to St. Malo's with French prisoners, which may bring
back an equal number. Send them. Your proposal is based on
a letter purporting to come from the Sieur de Saint Sulpice,
Intendant of St. Malo, and several of the French gentlemen here
say he is to be relied on, and that they know the letter is in his
hand. Accordingly you must send it back with the ship. The
Queen desires you to get a certificate under the Marquis de la
Gallissonniere's hand that the vessel is going with prisoners and
going to bring others back, for her safety on her voyage and
return. This declaration you are to deliver to the master.
The Queen desires some of you to go to the Gate House and
report generally on the accommodation of the French gentlemen
there and on the alleged exactions of the gaoler. Also you are to
write to the Sieur de Saint Sulpice telling him what prisoners
you are going to send over, proportioning the same to the English
whom you may expect. You must send me a list of the English
officers now in France and of the French officers whom you
propose to exchange for them. Particularly see that Mr. Wanlesse,
the officer in chief who commanded the recruits going to the
West Indies, be exchanged.
Pp. 1I. Ibid, pp, 246-248.
3. To Mr. Methuen.
Yours of 9 March, o.s. I hear the treaty is practically concluded; but the Portuguese Envoy added that he had been
told to tell me that his master would not declare war until the
Archduke came to Portugal. He said the same thing some time
ago, but promised to write and try to dissuade the King of
Portugal from this step after he had heard me on it. My arguments
were that, the Archduke could not be in Portugal before the
autumn, because of the preparations he must make to go there,
but chiefly because the Emperor would not venture him there


Wt. 3880.


A 42




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1703.
in the hot months; that the delay would enable Spain to arm
and greatly increase the difficulty of reducing her to [obedience
to] the Archduke; that if the Emperor and the Allies, immediately
upon the declaration of war by Portugal, declared the Archduke
King of Spain, the King of Portugal would have the strongest
possible security that the Emperor would never recede from that
step. Such a recession I found, from the Envoy's discourse,
to be the thing which the King of Portugal most feared-and
not without reason, as it appears that the Emperor is "more
concerned for Italy than Spain." I was therefore surprised to
find that the King should still insist on it.
Art. 19 of the project to which you desired the King's assent
does not stipulate for it, merely saying that the Archduke
shall come to Portugal and be received, and specifying no
time; whereas Art..23 provides that it shall take effect
on the exchange of ratifications. Your recent letters [details]
spoke of some points which were still insisted on, but not of this.
As, however, the King of Portugal's attitude may be really what
his Envoy here describes, and as the presence of the Archduke
would no doubt greatly contribute to success in Spain, her Majesty
has told Secretary Hedges to instruct Mr. Stepney to urge the
Emperor to declare him King of Spain at the moment when
Portugal declares war, and to say that her Majesty and the Dutch
will do so too, and probably the Allies will follow. He is also
to press the Emperor to state publicly that he will send the
Archduke to Spain in the autumn and to do so in fact.
"'Tis to be feared this pressure will be misinterpreted by the
Emperor, as if the Queen and States had still in view the Partition
Treaty, and, could Spain be regained to the House of Austria
and consequently that trade to England and Holland, they would
not be concerned whatever become of Italy, and though this
be a very unreasonable jealousy, and must proceed from their
not understanding our interests, and tho' this pressure of the
Emperor to send the Archduke..... may minister to this
jealousy, yet because, as I said, his presence is very useful and
lest Portugal should finally insist on it," Mr. Stepney has been
instructed as I have told you.
It is still, however, possible that the Emperor will not consent
to send the Archduke at once or to fix a time for sending him,
either because of his affection for him or because he will not
venture him there till we have taken some port in Spain, to which
he may retire if he is pressed. For this reason you are to urge
the King of Portugal to act promptly and not to defer his
declaration till the Archduke arrives, but to acquiesce in the
Emperor's and Allies' treating him as King of Spain and
the general promise to send him to Spain. Urge on the King the
great advantage which he will gain by this treaty. Considering
the difficulty which Count Wallesteyn made in agreeing to it
and the concession of Badaios, surely the King should not, by
sticking to his point about the Archduke's arrival, give the
Imperial Court this chance of receding from it, which it is easier
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659


1703.
now be sure of all the clauses concerning the Emperor; for the Queen
has to-day received a letter from the Emperor placing his interests
in the matter of the treaty unreservedly in her hands. Portugal
should not hazard her prospects by insisting too rigorously on the
Archduke's coming before the declaration of war.
Pp. 21. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 23-25.
4. To the Lords Justices of Ireland.
The Queen has appointed the Duke of Ormond Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland, and would have you communicate constantly with
him during his stay in England and let him know all that
passes.
P. i. S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, p. 117.
31 Mar.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  i. To Mr. Ireton.
Queen's command:-To discharge the bail (if any was taken)
of White, the priest. He was born in Spain, and entered in the
Secretary's office as appertaining to the Envoy of Portugal; and
does not appear to have officiated elsewhere than in the Envoy's
chapel.
P. 8. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 248.
2. To the Prince's Council.
Queen's command:-To pay [a sum equal to] 632 pieces of
eight and four ryalls plate old money, to Sir Thomas Frankland.
Mr. William Frankland has spent this sum in clothing and providing sixty-one English prisoners at Bayonne, and asks that the
sum be paid to Sir Thomas.
P. i. Ibid, p. 249.
31 Mar.    MR. JUSTICE GOULD to [HEDGES].
I have the Queen's command to report on the trial of the
convict Thomas Pritchard, who was indicted for robbery with
Husbands.* The evidence against them was the same, and was
directly opposed by evidence for the defence; but the jury
convicted. I left him for execution, but at Monmouth I received
a letter from the Mayor of Hereford, of which I send a copy,
and a letter from the parson of the parish, certifying to the like
purport. The same things were alleged for Pritchard as for
Husbands, except the certificate of the Justices. He lived at
Hereford, and was a cyder buyer. "I must confess there was
desperate swearing."
P. i (small).  Signed.  Endd.  S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 75.
Enclosing:Charles Carwodine, Mayor of Hereford, to Mr. Justice Gould.
Since your lordship left here I find a general opinion among
* see above, p. 654 and below, p. 670,




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1703.
the citizens that Pritchard and Husbands who &c. [see foregoing], were not guilty. I have known them both for many
years, and also known most of the witnesses in the case,
and I share the general opinion here. I ask for their reprieve,
as I know you would not have the innocent suffer. I hope
time will discover the true offenders.
P. i (small).   Copy.   Dated, Hereford, 23 March, 1702.
S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 75A.
31 Mar.    HEDGES to COLONEL CHURCHILL.
Whitehall.  Recommends Samuel Eyres as a transporter of French prisoners.
Two hundred of these are now to go from the West of England
to St. Malo.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 367.
March.     MEMORANDUM on sending the ENGLISH FLEET to NAPLES.
There are great inconveniences and risks in sending either the
whole fleet, or a detachment, as far as Naples. It will take five
months at least to get there and back, and "if the fleet stays
to do any service there, either by descent or otherwise, it will
then be so late in the year that they will run great hazard in
coming in with [sic] the Channel at their return and getting into
their ports."
The carrying the Grand Fleet to Naples will leave the French
absolute masters of these seas. If a large detachment go, England
will still be exposed to great danger by not having sufficient
force left to oppose the French at sea, and the detachment will
run a risk of being destroyed by the French Toulon fleet coming
down to join the French Western fleet, and lying together at
Cadiz to intercept the said detachment.
If a small detachment is sent it will be even more exposed,
and will not be capable of doing any service there.
Pp. 1* and p. 1. Two copies.     Undated.*  The first endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 92, 93.
Same.     NOTE for the DIVIDENT for MARCH, 1703.t
Mentions fees for the Yarmouth charter, a licence in perpetuity
to the Master and Fellows of Caius College, Cambridge, and a
number of creations.
Total of left column 61., and of right 821. 16s. Od.
P. i. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 76.
[Same.]    ROYAL WARRANT to the LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.
The Commissioners for managing our revenues in Ireland
have transmitted to the Lord Treasurer here the following book,
shewing:* I see no reason to move the documents from this date, where they were
found. See the Instructions to Sir C. Shovell below at 7 May, 1703.
t See the entry at 31 March, 1702, supra, pp. 15, 16.




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66L


1703.
[March.]   (1) The plus and undisposed lands in the several districts
mentioned, their acreage and the yearly quit rent charged on
them, and the arrears of such quit rents unpaid between Christmas,
1682, and Christmas, 1701, amounting to 6,4351. odd, which
charge has by mistake been continued hitherto, as appears by
the reasons given in the book by the Commissioners; and
(2) Arrears of Crown rent due from the several rectories
that pay port-corn to the Chief Governor from Christmas, 1682,
as they were returned by the collectors of the several districts
therein, to Christmas, 1701, amounting in all to 1,4221. odd;
which rectories were granted by letters patents from the Crown
to the clergy at a rent to the Crown therein mentioned, and a
certain amount of corn [details], which corn was not paid and,
the collectors not being able to collect it, became insolvent;
but care has been taken, by an agreement between the parties,
to provide that no such arrears shall accumulate for the future
and
(3) The arrears of quit rents due from forfeited lands which
were granted to various persons by King William III, or
previously due from such lands, which sums have been lost to
the Crown by the effect of the Act of Parliament for reassuming
the forfeited lands in Ireland, amounting in all to 4,8771. odd.
The Commissioners of our Revenue there further report to the
Lord High Treasurer that they have laid this book before the
Barons of the Exchequer there, who have no objection to its
being discharged. Forthwith give orders to discharge the said
sums, which amount in all to 12,7351. odd out of the accounts of
the several collectors, as desired by the said Commissioners.
To the end that the undisposed lands in Ireland (which have
hitherto been erroneously accounted for as quit rents) may for
the future be managed for our best advantage, give directions to
the said Commissioners to set them  under such restrictions as
they think necessary, and with the approval of you as Lord
Lieutenant &c. for any term not exceeding thirty-one years.
Details.
Pp. 1j. S.P. Dom., Signet Office 15, pp. 108, 109.
[Same.]    ACCOUNTS referred to in the foregoing Warrant.
ACCOUNT I.
Shewing the plus and undisposed lands [&c., as in foregoing].
Gives the several townlands and the acreage of undisposed
lands in them and the arrears due in each case. The townlands
are classified according to districts, and the totals of the
thirty-four districts [full details of which are given in the text]
are as follows:




662                 STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1703.
[March.]


Year's  Total arrears
District.   Acres.  charge.  of district... ~ ~ ~ _.,      I __       _ _  _


~ s. d.        ~
Athlone....    2,924*    42  0  0*       166
Armagh....      625     16 0   0         5
Baltimore..    2,568     39  0  0       230
Blarney....    7,686    117  0  0       905
Clonmel....    2,588     27  0  0       236
Cavan....   1,658     22  0  0       197
Coleraine..            72      0 19  0         9
Cork....      70      1 0   0         10
Dundalk..     965     23  0  0        18
Dingle....       14,279    216 0   0      1,682
Dublin....       25      0 10  0         6
Drogheda..      99      2 0   0        24
Ennis....   1,934     29  0  0       194
Foxford....    3,419     34 0   0        136
Galway....      221      1 0   0        31
Kilkenny..    1,237     25 0   0       140
Kinsale....      217      3  0  0          7
Killybegs..     157      2  0  0
Loughrea..    3,079     30  0  0       205
Londonderry..      53      0 14  4
Limerick..     130      1 0   0        27
Lisburn....     214      2 0   0
Moyallow..    7,802     99  0  0       973
Maryborough..   1,994     40  0  0        184
Naas....   2,238     45  0  0         40
Ross....   2,552     50  0  0       635
Sligo....   3,724     37  0  0       217
Strangford..       84      1 0   0         9
Strabane..      60      0 16 2         12
Trim..      990     20  0  0         1
Waterford..      646     12 0   0
Wexford..     817     16 0 0          13
Wicklow..    1,616     32  0  0        103
Youghal....     1,198     18 0   0         5






67,954  1019 0 0     6,435
ii,,l  I I i i i i i i i Ii i i Iiiiiiiiiiiiii


Pp. 23j.   S.P. Signet Office 15, pp. 110-133.
Followed by:Memorandum     [by the Commissioners of the Irish Revenue?]
entitled "Reasons humbly offered for the striking of the
arrears grown due on this article out of charge."
The quit rent is payable in England by the Act of 17 Car. I
in England, and by the Acts of Settlement and Explanation in
Ireland.
* In this table the odd roods and perches and the odd shillings and pence of
arrears are for brevity omitted. Both are stated in detail in the original.




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1703.
[March.]   In 1660 the Surveyor General of Ireland returned to the Barons
of the Exchequer there a book of all the lands surveyed and
forfeited in Ireland. On this the Barons issued books containing
the particular lands in each county, with direction to named
Commissioners to make returns shewing who the persons were
who were in enjoyment of these lands. Returns being made
thereof, the Auditor General assessed the yearly quit rent on
all the said lands according to the said returns. They stood
so charged until the said lands were granted by decrees or
certificates, and letters patents by the Commissioners of Settlement pursuant to the Acts. The persons who got these grants
or decrees became then liable for the quit rent.
A great deal of land was, however, not disposed of by these
Commissioners; most of it very rough and not worth the quit
rent assessed on it. These lands have hitherto remained charged
with quit rent. The farmers of the Revenue were to have no profit
from them, but were allowed to deduct from what they paid in
the amount of the quit rent due from them.
From those lands, whose value fell much short of the quit rent
charged on them, great arrears are due from 1682 to 1702. These
can never be collected. If these were wiped out and directions
given to the Commissioners of the Revenue to set the lands in
question at the best price to be got, a rent equal to the amount
of the quit rent could now be got from them. Such insolvency
would be prevented for the future.
The Lord Lieutenant asked us* to draw out a state of the case
for the opinion of the Attorney General. The case is as follows:The Surveyor General, pursuant to    an order from    the
Exchequer, made a return of all the forfeited lands returned
by the Down Survey in the various counties in Ireland, with the
number of acres in each denomination to which the Auditor
General placed the quit rents payable thereout.
Several of these lands were passed in letters patents or decreed
to innocent persons; in which case the quit rent charged on them
was stated in the patents and decrees, and then put out of charge.
Several of these lands remain undisposed and these remain charged
with the quit-rent. They are called either "undisposed lands "
(entire denominations of land) or "plus lands," i.e. portions of
denominations granted to no one, and still charged with quit rent.
The undisposed lands were mostly so coarse that the adventurers
and soldiers preferred remaining unsatisfied to taking them
under the quit rents to which they were liable. Thus the
mountain of Pobble O'Keife in the barony of Dunhallow
[Duhallow], co. Cork, is returned by the Down Survey at 5,981
acres, and the quit rent put on it is 901. odd. These lands,
"upon the cant," would not be set for more than         101.
The collector returns a deficit of 801. odd, which, for the nineteen
years since the Revenue has been out of farm and in management,
amounts to 1,5351. odd. This is one of several cases.
* I do not know who "us" refers to; but I have conjectured, as shewn in
the heading to this memorandum, that the draftsmen are the Commissioners of the
Revenue in Ireland.




664
1703.
[March.]


STATE PAPERS, DOMEST1O.
Queries.
1. Can the said mountain be properly said to be charged
with a quit rent, seeing that it has never been p*ssed and the
land is in the Queen's hands and the full value thereof received
by her?
2. How can the 1,5351. odd be struck out of charge and a growing
arrear prevented during the Queen's perception of the full
profits?
Answers1. The rent received by the Queen is plainly no quit rent,
for it is the full entire profit of the land, and the Queen is in
possession. The lands in question should not be continued in
the roll of quit rents, since it is no quit rent.
2. The best way to strike out is to enter some memorandum
or other relation of the whole in the rolls of quit rents, and set
out the facts, and that the rents have consequently been taken
out of the quit rent roll and put down under another head of
Revenue to which they more properly belong. There can be
no objection to this course. Signed, Robert Rochfort.
Pp. 3. S.P. Signet Office 15, pp. 134-136.
ACCOUNT II.
Shewing (a) the Crown rents due out of the several rectories
that pay port-corn to the Lord Lieutenant [&c., as in
covering letter (above, p. 661.)].


Districts and Tenants'                                                  Total of
Names.                     Rectories, &dc.        Arrears.     each district.


1. s. d.


1. 8. d.


1. Dublin.
Chief Governors of
Ireland
Do.
Robert Preston
2. Strangford.
Dean of Down


3. Naas.
Chief Governors
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.


of Ireland
o o


4. Trim.
Sir H. Peirse
Alexander Ennis..
Henry Pemberton..
Nicholas Ashe
Incumbent of
H. Mannypenny
Incumbent of
Do.
Christopher Kerdiffe
Thomas Aylmere
Incumbent of
William Crowe's heirs
Incumbent
Do.


Alterages and Rectory
of Kilmainham
Receiver Santry &c..
Ballymadun
Rectory, Down &c.
Ballynesullagh
Confey.
Tristledelane
Leixlip..
Dollardstown
Tristernagh
Donamore
Ardsallagh
Trim Rectory
Sourlockstown..
Killclone
Assey...
Rattaine
Killtayle
Killogonegan..
Trevett
Odder
BaUymaglasian
Dunsaughlin..


55 5 0
282 0 0
12 15 0
52 0 0
110 6 0
36 14 6
49 7 4&
52 8 0
36 0 0
72 0 0
20 0 0
33 4 10
123 0 0
19 8 6
45 0 0
22 10 0
55 10 0
5 5 0
42 0 0
29 12 9
57 3 10
44 2 5
296


350 0 0
52 0 0
284 15 10




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1703.
[March.]


Districts and Tenants'                                  Total of
Names.              Rectories, &c.    Arrears.  each district.
I  s.  d.   1.  s.  d
Henry Harrington.... Rathregan....   5 8 0
Dr. Henry Bolton.... Ratoath....  33 10 7
Incumbent...... Creekstown....      12 2
John Shelly.... Flemingstown..      24 0 0
Arthur Savage.... Dunboyne..  65 5 0
Incumbent.... Killpatrick..       12 0 0
Alexander Ennis.... Killbegs..        12 0 0
736 2 5
Total of the several foregoing districts, 1,4221. 18s. 31d.  The
reason for striking off the arrear appears in the Title.
(b) Arrears of quit rents due out of the forfeited lands on the
grants made thereof by his late Majesty or due before
the said grants, which are all lost to the Crown by the
late Act of Resumption.


Districts and Names of
Grantees or Tenants.....


Denominations.


Arrears.


Totals of
Districts.


-   ________         ______ ----------- ---   - j


-I _


1. Armagh:James Puissar
Major-General Stewart
William Woolesly..
2. Athlone:Loghlin Flynn
James Tobin
Edward Lynes
Robert Nugent
Patrick Everard
Walter Delamore
Robert Fitzgerald.
Garrett Dillon
Edmund Fitzgerald
Loghlin Kelly
Christopher Dillon
Earl of Albemarle..
Lord Mountjoy
Alexander Stewart
Gust. Hamilton..
3. Blarney:Lord Woodstock
Earl of Romney
Earl of Albemarle..
Lord Rochford
William Spencer
4. Clonmel:Earl of Romney
Earl of Athlone
5. Cavan -
Lord Slane..
6. Cork:Earl of Romney
William Spencer
7. Dingle:Christopher Rice
Hierome Sankey


Loghill &c.
Currahanlan &c.
Drumkirk
Cryagh &c.
Garmurreagh &c.
Clonmanymore &c.
Knockanboy &c.
Cloonegarragh &c.
Clooncony &c.
Killmullroony &c.
Cargin &c.
Feaghmore &c.
Knockdrumdonnell
Moyvannon &c.
Rathnelonaught
Lishallow &c..
Boraskeen &c.
A house &c.
Old Castle &c..
Clonshanafin &c.
Spike Island &c.
Ballyshangall
Rectory [of] St. Owens


1.  s.  d.
520
2 19 4
3 4 101
29 18 0o
4 19 71
40 11 10
1 16 54
2  8  9
289
58 8 01
21 5   3
2  8  71
15 5   0o
3 4   31
14  7 6j
30 16 7
18 0   91
1 5 o0
0 11 0
52 17 3
184 10  84
1 5    i5
240 11  6
0 12  0
76  7 5S
22 15 41
2  4 Of
85 13 41
250
41 18 0
187 10 10




1.  8.  d.
11 6 24
240 16 91
479 16 101
99 0 10
2 4 01
87 18 41. Killcorkey. Lissernan


Lissreagh.. Coole &c... Templebreedy tithes.... Dowglass &..... Killmanaheen &o.




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC... _


1703.
[March.]      Districts and Names of
Grantees or Tenants.
Henry Owens
Sir Edmund [sic] Biron
Earl of Bellamont..
James Puissar
8. Drogheda:Major-General Stewart
Lord Rochford
Earl of Albemarle..
Earl of Athlone
9. Dundalk:
James Puissar
Lord Rochford
William Woolesly..
10. Dublin:Earl of Bellamont..
Lord Mountjoy
Major-General Stewart
James Puissar
William Woolesly..
Walter Delamere
Earl of Albemarle..
Lord Mountjoy
11. Ennis:Earl of Albemarle..
Major-General Stewart
Lord Clare
12. Foxford:Lord Mountjoy
Alexander Stewart
13. Galway:Earl of Clanricarde
Sir D. Treswell
Lord Mountjoy
Alexander Stewart
14. Kilkenny:
Daniel Redmond
Lord Galmoy
Edmund Blanchfield
Lord Rochford
Earl of Albemarle
15. Kinsale:Earl of Romney
William Spencer
16. Loughrea:Loughlin Donelan..
Lord Athenree
Giles Bourke
Earl of Clanrickard
Francis Madden
Roger Horan
Thomas Mannin
Earl of Clanrickard
Nicholas Bermingham
Philip Purcell
Lord Mountjoy
Sir Edward [sic] Biron




Denominations.
Cahirdigan &c.
Loughtown &c.
Manor [of] Mullahiff &c.
Duaghnefely.
Starrow &c.....
Gaffnyes &c...
Readstown &c.
Garlandstown....


Stonestown..
Williamstown..
Killany Rectory


A house &c..
Do.
Do..
A rent charge..
Dainstown
Abbotstown &c.
Ballynode &c.
Damestown..


Ballyhynane &c.
Cooshtrinane &c.
Cornekelly


Arrears.
1. s. d.
72  6  3
22  5  0o
368 13 11i
49  3 11
2 10  74
3 15 11
0 12  6
7 18 11i
15  9 101
2 18  9
800
2 18  9
24 19  6
4  4  34
6  7  6
4  0  11i
1 10  54
27  7  64
6 16  1
792  1  84
4 15  5
97 10  74
28  1 0o
3  5  31
9 10  0
42 13  4
6 15  0
9  6  2
962
21  6  21
160 13  7
98 12 10
339  5  84
0  8  6
086
0 16  6
3  0  0
300
7 10  8
3 14  9
0  7 10i
25  2  84
15 11 10
4  1 61
3 16  14
67 10  0
3  4  14
15  5  3
6 18  11
1 2   3i.Totals of
Districts.
1. s. d.
741 17 114
14 17 11i
26 18 74
78 5 1
894 7 84
31 6 44
68 4 6
620  6 104
3 16 6


Feaghmore
Seafin..


Knockderry &c.
A house &c...
Maghery &c.
Ballyboggan &c.
Ballyshanboy &c.
Grange &c.
Bennettsbridge
Grange &c.
Blanchfieldsland


Two houses
Impropriations


Ballinvally &c.
Carrendue &c.
Cappagh &c...
Loghanroe &c.
Killeen &c.
Clonshee &c..
Do.
Brushagh
Levally &c.
Flashabegg &c.
Cahirseily
Clonshee &c...


~




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1703.
[March.]


^ — -- ---- -- -


Districts and Names of
Grantees or Tenants.


Denominations.


Arrears.


Totals of
Districts.


I                                             I


Alexander Stewart
Earl of -Albemarle..
Major-General Stewart
17. Moyallow:Richard Nagle
Lord Rochford
Earl of Albemarle..
Major-General Stewart
18. Maryboro':Jeremy Coghlan
Alexander Stewart
William Woolesly..
Earl of Albemarle..
Edward Fitzpatrick
Gust. Hamilton
19. Naas:Earl of Athlone
Do.
Sir M. Eustace
Francis Leigh
Lord Rochford
James Puissar
Earl of Albemarle..
20. Ross:Lord Rochford
Arthur Radmore..
Earl of Athlone
21. Trim:Lord Rochford
Major-General Stewart
Lord Rochford
Earl of Albemarle..
Lord Dungan
Earl of Romney
Thomas Luttrell
Mordecai Abbott..
22. Wexford:
Patrick Fitzjohn Cowell
Earl of Albemarle..
Walter Delamare
23. Waterford:William Woolesly.
Earl of Albemarle..
James Puissar
24. Wicklow:
Henry Luttrell
Arthur Radmore
Earl of Bellamont..
Earl of Albemarle..


Mucklone
Mote Killone &c.
Annagh &c.
Crogh &c.
Brittas &c.
Dromagh &c...
Clongeele &c.
Lisderge
Ballycollane &c.
Killian &c.
Ballygartbunagh &c.
Donnoghmore &c.
Rathbyne &c...


Castletown &c.
Part of Clane &c.
Donoghmore tithes
St. Francis Chapel
Narragh tithes
Knockbower &c.
Balleyleane &c.


&c...Rathduffe &c.....Houses &c... Killbeckillagh tithes... 8. d
698
578
0 12 1
0 14 4
3 17 9
17 13 10
103
1 0 3
18 6 7
35 5 11
935
15 7 7
0 7 1C
1 2 9
6 10 (
6 7 1
19 15 C
0 3
135 13 1
464 8 E
62 17 e
202 18
1 1 1
5 8 (
109 14 (
38 10
0 14
1 16
1  9
7 12 1
1 16
1 16
19  6
27 10
5  9
21 2
30 17
10 10
9 11
1 11
1 51
10 0 1


k.   1.  s.  d.
166 14 9
23 5 11}
79 14 2i
)
)
-   695 15  1k
21
5
_ 209 7 4
2k
li
4
4
9
31
-    52 16 4k
3
6
2
-    62 9 11
9
6t
11
-    22 10 I1.4,877 9 Oi


Rathwire &c...
Ballyoughter &c.
Rahaspuck
Maudlins &c...
Moyglare tithes &c.
Prieststown &c.
Mabbstown &c.
Gibbonstown &c..Tincurry &c...Ballynemony &c..Ballygow &c...


Cullin &c... Ballysallagh &c..Arderry &c...


Rahanaclagh &c.
Enegly &c.
Eneregly &c...
Eadstown
Total,.


I I~ —




Pp. 5i. S.P. Signet Office 15, pp. 137-142.




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1703.
[March.]   Reasons humbly offered [by the Commissioners of Revenue in
Ireland?] for striking off the arrears in this article.
By the Act of Resumption all the forfeited lands were vested
in the trustees free of all quit rents that had " incurred ',' [accrued]
before their investiture. They were so to remain after sale of
them, so that the Queen is for ever barred from coming upon the
lands themselves. The reason that the foregoing arrears were
in arrear at the passing of the Act of Resumption was this:We can issue no charge to our collectors on the passing new
patents unless the same be transmitted to us by the Auditor
General. We often called upon him for the same, who did what
he could to oblige the patentees to enter their patent[s] with
him; but the patents, being many, were not all entered with
him at the time, and therefore could not be collected. We
advised with the " King's Councell " as to whether, since we could
not go on the lands, we could recover these arrears from the
patentee. They advised on June 15, 1700, that the English
Act had made void all grants from the King; and that the grants
being void the conditions in them were void and that, as the
Act is drawn, the King was without remedy for recovery of the
arrears.
P. i. S.P. Signet Office 15, 143.
1 Ap.     HEDGES to WILLIAM BLATHWAYT.
Whitehall  The Duke of Marlborough is much disappointed that cloth
has not come for the foot. I am told the fault lies on the clothiers
and transport officers. Please give notice to those concerned to
come to Lord Secretary Nottingham's office in the Cockpit
to-morrow at 11 a.m. to clear the matter up.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 293.
2 Ap.     The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to NOTTINGHAM.
Sick and
Woinded    According to your orders we have directed a vessel to be
Office.  prepared to carry over 200 prisoners from Plymouth to St. Malo.
The Marquis de la Gallissonniere will give a certificate in addition
to that of M. de Saint Sulpice to secure the vessel during her
voyage. Mr. Wanless is the only English officer we know of
who is a prisoner at Dinant; and we shall make a special request
for his return. We propose to send off the oldest and most
sickly prisoners now, and that English prisoners of the like
sort be sent home in exchange for them. After them we may,
if you please, give preference to those who have been longest
confined; and will tell our agent to make a list of the men whom
he sends; and the master of the vessel shall have it and also a
request to the Sieur de Saint Sulpice to desire the return of the
like number and quality, or as many more as he pleases for the
like to be returned hereafter by us.
We have visited the French gentlemen in the Gate House.
They were indifferently lodged, and have since been removed to
better quarters. As they complain that the jailer makes them
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details; we shall send them when received. The jailers, whether
in London or the county towns, are no officers of ours; and we
think it better, " beside "* these complaints, to keep the prisoners
where they are [than to move them to the county jails], for the
following reasons:First, the prisoners being over 4,000, would require twenty jails,
holding 200 each, or, in view of the size of the jails and of other
prisoners, forty jails.
Secondly, The [county] jailers being no servants of ours,
we could not get from them such accurate accounts of the names
and qualities of the prisoners and of the way in which her Majesty's
allowance for them is spent as we now have from our Marshals.
They send these in books according to the enclosed forms.
Without such accounts it would not be possible to prevent the
expenditure of much money "in her Majesty's wrong."
Thirdly, To carry prisoners to the jails, to bring them back
for exchange and to pay for their keep will be very expensive.
Fourthly, Very spacious and convenient prisons have been fitted
up for them at Dover Castle, Southampton, Farnham, and
Plymouth. At Southampton they have room for some hundreds
more. At Farnham there is no complaint as to accommodation,
and from Plymouth we are now taking 200 away, which will
stop overcrowding.  If the exchange of prisoners goes on, we
shall soon have more accommodation than we need; and we
have just been offered a house at Winchester for 201. a year
that will hold 500 men. We could get accommodation there
for 1,000 more for less than it would cost to move the prisoners
to the county jails and keep them there. We can give further
reasons, and, if they are desired, request an interview.
Count de Mornay asks for leave to go to France to arrange a
cartel. If the complaints which he sends are true we will have
them remedied and the officer punished.
Pp. 4. Signed by three Commissioners. Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 118, 94. Enclosing:
A, B, c and D. Four blank forms for returns as to the French
prisoners, shewing:A. The prisoners received into the custody of --, Marshal
at the port of --
Details:-By what ship taken, when, name of prize, name
and rank of captives, nationality, and date of reception into
custody.
B. Decrease of prisoners at —
Details as before, but the account to show how the prisoners
were disposed of.
c. The charge of prisoners received into sick quarters at ----,
between 1 January, 1703, and 31 March, 1703.
Details in conformity with heading, as to date and nature
of sickness or wound, treatment, duration of illness, burial &c.
D. Charge of prisoners received into custody at ---- between
1 January, 1703, and 31 March, 1703.
Details in conformity with heading. Summarises A, B and c.
* Apparently the writers mean "in spite of,"




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1703.
The above are specimen forms, and are, apparently, forms
sent or to be sent to Plymouth, and have the blanks filled up
in red ink accordingly.
In all pp. 4 (small). S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 94A, B, c and D.
2 Ap.    HEDGES to COLONEL GIBSON.
Whitehall.  I send M. Vryberge's answer in the matter of a Dutch seaman,
-who wants to go home. The matter being as the Envoy represents
it, let the seaman go.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 295.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
In exchanging prisoners, pick out such Frenchmen as were
taken on merchant ships or fisher boats, and leave those [taken]
on privateers to be last exchanged. Many of the privateersmen
being St. Malo men, M. de Saint Sulpice will probably ask for
them; but you probably have enough others belonging to that
port to make up the number, though all you send should not be
Malouins. Details.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 249, 250.
2. To the Sheriff of Hereford.
Queen's command:- -Respite execution of sentence on Thomas
Husbands and Thomas Pritchard till further order from her
Majesty.
P. i. Ibid, p. 250.
3. To the Duke of Marlborough.
If any credit is to be given to what Mr. Methuen and the
Portuguese Envoy here say, the treaty with Portugal is concluded,
and we must consider how to fulfil our obligations under it.
I believe we could easily raise one or two regiments of French
refugees. This would save our own subjects, who will be wanted
to fill our regiments, for which it is already difficult to get enough
recruits. It will be possible to make some attempt on the coast
of France with the men we must send to Portugal, and for this
purpose the French refugees will be specially suitable. When
there is no further service for them it will be easier to disband
them than the English, and they will expect less.
I should like your views as soon as possible,.that nothing may
be left undone on my part.
I know well that compliance with what we have undertaken
by the treaty with Portugal will depend on our success abroad.
I have no doubt of the result where your Grace is in command,
but I fear even that will not render possible such a detachment
from your army as this treaty will require, unless matters in
Germany are more prosperous than as yet seems likely. However, if I might suppose such a case as I wish, and that we could
have troops embarked and ready to sail by Midsummer, we
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before it will be necessary for them to be in Portugal, "where
by reason of the heats they cannot take the field till the beginning
of September." Your Grace is the best judge of these matters,
of which I know nothing; " and besides I am biast by an opinion
that we shall never have any decisive success nor be able to
hold out a war against France but by making it a sea war and such
a sea war as accompanies and supports attempts on land."
We have no news yet here of the Dutch ships, which should
join the Mediterranean squadron. If they disappoint us it will
cause much clamour here. I believe I shall be able to discover
the way of Isaac Boben's correspondence, and to inform you.
Pp. 1I. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 26, 27.
About     INSTRUCTIONS to   LORD  COMMISSIONER   QUEENSBERRY   for
2 Ap.*        HOLDING the SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT.
St. James'.  1. You may give our assent to any laws that shall be proposed
for the protection of the Protestant reformed religion.
2. You may give our assent to an Act ratifying Presbyterian
Church Government by Kirk Sessions, Presbyteries, Synods and
General Assemblies.
3. You may pass an Act allowing the episcopal ministers to
preach in meeting-houses in such terms as the Parliament shall
propose, "they always qualifying themselves by taking the
Oath of Allegiance and signing the assurance.
4. You are to endeavour to obtain an Act asserting and recognising our right and title to the Crown of Scotland.
5. You are to pass Acts necessary against the Popish priests,
and for suppressing the growth of Popery.
6. You are to give our assent to such Acts as may be proposed
"for punishing and restraining profaneness and immorality."
7. You are to endeavour to obtain competent.supplies for
maintaining the forces on the present establishment and providing
and repairing garrisons, to take effect after the present cess
laid on by the last Parliament expires, for so long as allowed
by Parliament.
8. You may pass any Acts proposed to prevent the irregular
marching and quartering of our forces and for payment of what
shall be supplied to them.
9. Same with regard to prevention of Highland thefts and
robberies.
10. You may give our assent to what laws shall be proposed
for the more effectual clearing and assuring of private men's
rights, the more easy administration of justice and better
punishing of crime, for renewing former laws altering or rectifying
the regulation of judicatories and granting a new commission
for that end, the Commissioners being always named by us.
11. You are to pass such Acts as are proposed for accommodating the differences between Royal and other burghs concerning
the Act for communication of trade.
* Dated-April, but immediately follows an entry of 2 April in the Warrant
Book.




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12. You may consent to such Acts as are proposed for making
up the records of tithes and for obviating the inconveniences
that may arise by their loss.
13. You are to pass such Acts as shall be necessary for the
regulating and encouraging of trade and for erecting manufactories and companies of trade, "and especially of fishing."
14. You are to pass Acts for encouraging the planting, enclosing.
and other improvements of ground.
15. You are to pass Acts for better maintaining and employing
the poor.
16. You are to pass such Acts as shall be thought needful
for regulating coin and coinage.
17. You may consent to such Acts as shall be proposed for
defining and determining what is high treason, for clearing,
mitigating and otherwise amending the former laws "anent
leasing, making, depraving and misconstruing in relation to
government."
18. You may give our assent to an Act increasing the salaries
of the Lords of Session, the Parliament providing a fund for that
end.
19. You are to endeavour to procure an Act clearing and
asserting the jurisdiction of our Exchequer or what relates to
our revenue.
20. You are to pass an Act allowing the Commissioners of our
Treasury and Exchequer to set tacks of the annexed property,
and particularly of Orkney and Zetland by way of roup to the
highest bidder, not exceeding twenty-one years, notwithstanding
any Acts of "annextion" or other Acts to the contrary, and
empowering us to give some suitable consideration to the Earl of
Morton out of those islands for extinguishing his pretensions.
21. You are to endeavour to have the prohibition against
importation of French wines taken off, without prejudice to the
prohibition of trade with France during the war.
22. You are to endeavour to obtain an Act rescinding or
suspending the premium allowed by the Act of 1695* for exporting
victual, or to obtain a fair equivalent.
23. You may pass an Act or Commission for plantation of
Kirks or valuation of teends.
24. You may pass an Act declaring that in future titles of
honour cannot be transmitted upon the signature with the former
precedency.
25. You are to give our consent to an Act of Pardon and
Oblivion consonant to our Act of Indemnity published there.
26. You shall give our consent to such Acts as shall be judged
necessary for regulating the Post Office.
27. You are to pass Acts naturalising foreigners who live in
Scotland and are not Popish.
28. You may adjourn [the Houses] from time to time and use
all your authority as you shall think best for the conduct of
our affairs.
* See Acts of the Parli*ment of Scotland (1822) Vol. IX, p. 458.




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29. You may confer knighthoods on deserving persons, not
more than six.
30. You are to conclude the session "as calmly as you can,"
and as soon as practicable, and summon the next meeting for
[blank].
Pp. 31. S.P..Scotland, Warrant Book 18, pp. 513-516.
3 Ap.     The PRINCE'S COUNCIL to NOTTINGHAM.
Admiralty
Offie.y   We have by the Queen's command considered the representation
of the Old East India Company concerning Captain Dampier
in the ship St. George, Captain Pullerine in the ship Fame,
and some other vessels now fitting out to sea, in order, as it
is said, to cruize on the Spaniards in the West Indies. We sent
for the persons concerned, and told them that the Company were
afraid that something might be done by them (the vessels)
which might be prejudicial to the Company's affairs in India,
and recommended them to give such security to Dr. Bramston,
Surrogate to the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, as might
satisfy the Company. We send Dr. Bramston's report on their
security for her Majesty's consideration and approval, pending
which the ships are, by her Majesty's orders, stopped in the
Downs.
P. 1.   Signed by Mitchell, Churchill, Hill and Brydges.
S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 30. Enclosing:A. Dr. Bramston's report as above.
The securities given in are 3,0001. for each ship (gives names of the
sureties).  They amount to three times what is required by
her Majesty's instructions for privateers
P. 1. Copy. Signed (copy). Ibid, 30A.
Also enclosing [?].
B. Notes on the owners of and sureties for the Fame and St.
George.
Twelve names of joint owners given; also three names of sureties.
In all p. i. Ibid, 30B.
3 Ap.     The COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to [SAME].
Sick and
Wounded    Yours of yesterday crossed ours. We still think we should
Office.  send away the old and sick prisoners first. These, though taken
in privateers, cannot be more serviceable than merchant seamen
or fishermen,* and we suggest that we should adhere to our plan.
When we get our English prisoners back in exchange (and we
hope to get back many more than we send), we may refuse them
their privateers-men if they demand many of them. We will
give orders that Le Griel shall not be sent over.
We send enclosures from   the Marquis de la Gallissonniere
[details] and from the French prisoners in the Gate House as to
their gaoler's exactions.
Pp. i. Signed by four Commissioners. Endd. in Warae' [(]
hand. S.P. Dow.. Naval 118, 95.
* Nottingham had directed that men taken in privateers should be sent back
to France last; see above at 2 April, 1703.


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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1703.
3 Ap.    HEDGES to the VICE-CHANCELLOR of OXFORD.
Dr. Sherard is in the Queen's service, but is pressed to return
to "the College." The Queen is anxious to keep him here
and to send dispensing letters to you for excusing him from
residence, but does not know what her dispensing powers are in
this matter. She will be tender of your rights. Pray find a way
to avoid his suffering by being in the Queen's service. If a letter
is necessary, I will send one in the form you like best. Pray
arrange that no act is done to Dr. Sherard's prejudice until
you hear further from me.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 294.
3 Ap.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
Mayor of Chichester writes that Nicholas Furnace, a French
prisoner, has been taken at the seaside. He escaped from
the Tower alehouse. Send your officers to take him, and keep him
more severely. Have you had any account from them of how
this man and others escaped? If so, send it, that they may, if
negligent, be punished.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 251.
2. To Same.
The Queen approves of the enclosed certificate and letter of the
Marquis de la Gallissonniere, and would have you send them
away. Notwithstanding previous directions, 5d. a day is still to
be allowed to the prisoners of war.
Note.-Enclosed was a letter from Gallissonnibre to M. de
Pontchartrain and a certificate from the same as described in
Nottingham's letters of 30 March to the Commissioners of Sick
and Wounded.*
P. I. Ibid.
3. To Sir Cloudesly Shovell.
Queen's command:-To receive on board your squadron for
the Mediterranean the presents which, by her Majesty's orders,
have been prepared for the Governments of Algiers, Tunis and
Tripoli. Order Mr. Wyndham Cole and Mr. Robert Cole, who
are nephews to her Majesty's Consul at Algiers, to be received
on board the same ships and carried to Algiers; and give passage
thither to the two Turks who recently came here after escaping
from slavery, and to Bohas Pinhas, a Tripoli Jew, who was sent
by that Government to Holland, and has now come here to get a
passage home.
P. A. Ibid, pp. 251, 252.
4 Ap.    The MARQUIS DE LA GALLISSONNIiRE to [NOTTINGHAM].
Westminster.
Prson. ' I am informed by Mr. Hill and Dr. Sherard that the Queen is
anxious to complete the cartel, but that the French Government
* Sae Above, p. 657.




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had apparently changed their minds, as no full power had been
sent to Count de Mornay as promised by M. de Pontchartrain.
I will write myself, as Mr. Hill suggests, if I hear you approve
of it.
We hope for relief in the matter of the complaints sent.
Pp. 1A (small). (Hol.) In French. Endd. in Warre's [?] hand.
S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 96. Enclosing -
A. Memorandum from the French officers who are prisoners
of war in Westminster prison.
They ask that a person be sent to regulate the price of rooms
let to them. They are charged 11. Is. a week for each room.
They ask liberty to go from their rooms to visit one another,
and to walk in the court without having to pay 6 sols each.
They desire that their servants may be allowed to prepare their
meals without having to pay a daily fee for leaving the separate
prison in which they [the servants] are kept.
They complain of being kept in cells, on rotten beds without
sheets or bedclothes. The naval officers have to sleep on
plank beds. They ask for beds and palliasses.
They ask for leave to buy their provisions freely and not to be
compelled to buy anything from the jailer, who charges high
prices; and for leave to speak to those who give them money.
Pp. 1|. In French. Ibid, 118, 96A.
5 Ap.     NOTTINGHAM to P. BROWN (gaoler at the Gate House).
Whitehall.  You are to take no fees from the French prisoners for their
lodging or otherwise. The Queen intends to pay you for it.
You are not to demand any money for letting them go into
the court of the prison. You are to permit their servants to
come to them and attend them, but those servants must not
leave the prison. One such servant may go out every day to
buy provisions, and you must send some one with him to prevent
his carrying letters or going elsewhere than where he gets provisions.
You are to let such of them as now lie on boards have beds
fitting for their condition.
You may permit them to visit one another under such conditions
as are required for safety.
In all other points observe your former instructions.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 252-3.
5 Ap.     LORD HATTON to NOTTINGHAM.
Kirby.    There are now more than 400 prisoners in Guernsey, more
than the garrison, and they are likely to increase by captures
by privateers. Over twenty local privateers, and several from
England frequent the place, and victual there. These privateers
and prisoners are likely to starve the island, and the islanders can
carry on no trade for need of convoys. Frigate urgently needed.
The Lieutenant-Governor wants a holiday. An earthquake was
lately felt there, accompanied by a loud noise.
Pp.   li  (small).  Signed.  Endd.   S.P.  Dom.,   Channel
Islands 2, 51.




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STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1703.
6 Ap.     HEDGES to the COMMISSIONERS for SICK and WOUNDED.
Whitehall  Queen's command:-The Spanish prisoners to have the same
liberty as they had before the recent instructions-which only
apply to the French prisoners-were issued.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 295.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To the Marquis de la Gallissonni~re.
Sends the orders to the gaoler (see above at 5 April, 1703),
which will show how the Queen is anxious for the French prisoners
to be well treated. If any gentleman wants to see his banker,
leave will be granted on application.
P. i. In French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 253, 254.
2. To Dr. Bramston.
To take assignment of certain security offered by the owners
of the St. George and Fame [details].  When this is done, the
Queen will direct the embargo to be taken off and those ships to
go on their voyage.
P. f. Ibid, p. 254.
3. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
The French seamen sent to the Gatehouse on Sunday may
act as interpreters between the French prisoners and the keeper's
servants, but there seems no reason why the prisoners and the
seamen should be allowed to converse more than is necessary
for that purpose.
Dr. Amiott may attend on the Marquis de la Gallissonni6re as
a physician; but you must send somebody with him to see that
this visit of a physician is not made use of for any other purpose.
Acquaint the Marquis that we are quite ready to treat with
him for a cartel, but that the commission or full power, to whomsoever it be sent, must be sufficient and clear.
P. t. Ibid, p. 255.
4. To the Council of Trade and Plantations.
By Queen's command:-I send you an extract from       the
Prince's Council's answer to your proposals that the seamen
should assist in the work on shore in Newfoundland. Pray
consider and report on it. Further pleasure.
The extract aforesaid:In answer whereto we have to say that it is absolutely necessary
that the ships should cruize off the coast for the protection of
the fishery and themselves, so that their men can't be spared.
Proceeds as in the Prince's Council's letter of 30 March, 1703, above.
P. I. Ibid, p. 256.
7 Ap.     SIR CLOUDESLY SHOVELL to NOTTINGHAM.
Mapplace.  I have ordered the presents &c. you mention to be received
on board the Warspight (Captain Edm. Loades), now in Long
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cannot be got ready by then, I hope they may be sent to
Portsmouth, where the fleet is directed to sail. Yesterday,
we came out with the great ships from Blackstakes to the
Buoy of the Nore; and I suppose they will sail in two or three
days for the Downs.
P. f. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 67, 36.
7 Ap.     MEMORIAL by the LORD HIGH ADMIRAL.
Admiralty  Sir George Rooke informs me that the Barfleur, Newark and
Queen are unfit for service owing to not having sufficient men.
I therefore propose to the Queen, as advantageous to her service,
that these three ships be paid off and laid up at Chatham, and
that their foremast men be put aboard the new frigates fitting
out in the Thames, that these may be sooner fit for sea.
P.  i. Signed. Countersigned  by  George  Clarke. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 31.
7 Ap.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Prince's Council.
Command:-To give orders for an agent of the Victuallers
to go with Sir Cloudesly Shovell to take care of the provisions
brought aboard or bought later, and to send money for the payment of short allowance money from time to time. Sir Cloudesly
has asked for this.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 27.*
2. To the Lieutenant-General and Officers of the Ordnance.
Such things as are designed to be sent to Newfoundland should
be put on board some transport ship and ordered at once to
Plymouth, to be ready to sail with the Centurion, which is ordered
to go thence next month.
P. 1. Ibid, p. 28.
3. To the Commissioners of Prizes.
Queen's command:-Appoint an officer to go with Sir Cloudesly
Shovel's squadron and look after any prizes which. the ships
may take. Direct him to obey Sir Cloudesly or the commanderin-chief for the time being, and give him instructions for the
valuation and disposal of prizes in such manner as you think
best for the service.
P. j. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 257.
8 Ap.     RICHARD WARRE to MR. BURT.
Whitehall.  I send letters from the Mayor of Chichester and from Mr. Clarke
of Brighthelmston. Lord Secretary Nottingham desires you
to acquaint the Commissioners with them, that they may order
their officers to take and keep the Frenchmen in question. Details.
P. i. Unsigned, but in Warre's hand. S.P. Dom., Entry Book
146, p. 4.
* This letter is not entered as from Whitehall, but the other two of the same
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9 Ap.    DR. BRAMSTON to NOTTINGHAM.*
Doctorns   The owners of the St. George and Fame have appeared at the
Court of Admiralty and have entered into a recognizance of
3,0001. to indemnify the security which they had before given
for the civil and honest behaviour of the officers and men
belonging to the said ships.
P. j. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 32.
9 Ap.    NOTTINGHAM to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Whitehall.  I send draft order to Vice-Admiral Leake, which her Majesty
has approved, for you to dispatch it.  I also send you some
accounts of the maritime affairs of France, and the Queen
would have you consider among yourselves what other services
besides what Vice-Admiral Leake is employed in may at present
properly be attempted, that you may be able to give her Majesty
better satisfaction when you attend on Sunday night. In case
you may not have enough ships (exclusive of Sir C. Shovell's
squadron) for those services, speak with him, and let him know
that he must attend the Queen at the Cabinet on Sunday, because
her Majesty will then speak with you and him about the squadron
designed for the Mediterranean.
P. i. The enclosed documents not entered. S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 209, p. 28.
About     DEPOSITIONS of CECILIA BUDD and others.
10 Ap.    [These depositions are endorsed April 14, on which date warrants issued to arrest Reed and his passengers, which will appear
in the Table of Secretaries' warrants at end of 1703. Possibly
these depositions contain the information referred to in those
warrants.]
Cecilia Budd:-She went with the Duchess of Powys to Ghent,
and has been there five years with her. Came over in the William
and Mary yacht (Captain Robinson). The painter [?]and dancing
master are lately come into the family.
Marie du Rieux, native of Tournayt:-Has been four and a
half years with the Duchess. Was never in England before,
and only five weeks in Holland. Came in Mr. Reed's vessel.
In all p. i. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 77.
Edward Bryer:-Is gentleman to Lord Powys. Has been
out of England about five years. Went over with my lord, and
came back to fetch my lady. Has been all the time at Ghent
except when my lord came to Rotterdam last December, where he
lived publicly. Was seized there with some of my lady's servants
and kept under arrest for twenty-four hours, as having the Prince
of Wales with them, they taking my lady's page for him. Came
over in Reed's hoy with thirteen of my lord's servants and other
passengers whom he does not know. Lord Powys waited on the
Duke of Marlborough.
P.. Endd. Ibid, 78.
* See the Prince's Council to Nottingham above at 3 April, 1703.
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Mary Ireland:-She is one of Lady Powys's servants, and has
lived with her fifteen years. Has only been out of England
about five weeks. They came over in the William and Mary
yacht with a woman and David Tate, a footman. The rest of
my lady's servants and one of her daughters came in Reed's ship.
Eleven servants came over with Reed. Some of them were
imprisoned at Rotterdam on information that they were bringing
over a Prince; but the informer, who was, she thinks, a Frenchman,
ran away. My lady's servants were here, except Mary Williams,
who was left to look after a small child.
P. 1. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 79.
James Baker:-Is Lady Powys's page, and has lived with her
about seven years. His father is in France, and his grandfather
on his mother's side is living in St. Anne's parish. He is a
pawnbroker named Blackmore. Was imprisoned at Rotterdam,
but does not know why.
Lewis [?] de Grave, native of Ghent:-Has been about three
months footman to Lady Powys. Was never in England before.
Came over in Reed's boat with six or seven passengers besides
my lady's family.
P. i. Endd. Ibid, 80.
Peter Lully, a Fleming of Ghent:-Is a music and dancing
master and in Lady Powys's employment; teaches the young
ladies. Left England about eleven months ago to see his friends.
Lived a year with Colonel Wharton and with one Lavarty, a
dancing master. Is not naturalised. Was not taken up in
Holland. Has lived three or four years in England, before which
he lived at Ghent, his native place. Came over in Reed's ship
with my lady's servants, and saw six or seven other passengers
in her, whom he did not know.
P. j. Endd. Ibid, 81.
Adrian  Duval, native  of Rouen*:-Three   months ago
Lady Powys took him into her service at Ghent as gardener.
Has never been in England before. Was arrested on suspicion
that her little page was the Prince of Wales. Came over in
Reed's ship. Corroborates foregoing as to those on board her.
P. i. Endd. Ibid, 82.
Elizabeth Fay:-Has been at Ghent two years in the Duchess's
family. Came over in Reed's vessel.
Anne Lewis:-Has lived with Lady Powys one and a half
years, who sent for her out of Montgomeryshire. Was born by
Powys Castle.
P. i. Endd. Ibid, 83.
Claudius Pinet, born in Picardy:-Has been clerk of the
kitchen to Lord Powys at least eighteen years. Is not naturalised.
Came over in Reed's vessel; but did not know the other
passengers except the family.
Thos. Fay:-Is Lord Powys' coachman. Three years' service
with him. Came over in Reed's vessel.  Corroborates foregoing.
In all p. i. Endd. Ibid, 84.
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10 Ap.    JoHN [SHARP] ARCHBISHOP OF YORK to [NOTTINGHAM].
Bishopsthorp. Thanks for your favours in London. I found both your
brothers here, and hope to enjoy their company for a month
more. As you permitted, I put two or three things before you
which I had not time to leave with you, and beg you to remember
them.
The Queen has promised Greenwich rectory, when it falls vacant,
to Mr. Turner. I recommended him as all whom I spoke to gave
the best accounts of him. I enclose the parishioners' letter
in his favour.
Mr. Lany was eleven years chaplain to the late King's household at Kensington. He had 801. a year allowed him, which
remained unpaid for three years, and had no preferment allowed
him, so petitioned the Queen to consider his circumstances.
The Queen promised to give him a good living. Pray remember
this when occasion arises, if the Queen does not remind you.
The Queen promised to make an allowance of 601. a year, I
think, to Dr. Cockburn at Amsterdam, and told us last week
she would order payment of it. Dr. Cockburn has appointed
Mr. Sartre,* prebendary of Westminster, to receive the money, of
which the first quarter is now overdue. If you will remind her
Majesty of it, Mr. Sartre will wait on you to receive directions
on it.
Pray remember Sir William Sharp, who has nine children,
and is very poor. All Scotchmen whom I have spoken to agree
as to his integrity and ability to serve the Queen.
Polite messages to yourself and Lady Nottingham.
Pp. 3. (Hol.) Endd. in Nottingham's [?] hand. S.P. Dom.,
Anne 2, 85.
10 Ap.    The LORDS JUSTICES of IRELAND to [SAME].
Dublin Castle. We shall, as ordered, constantly correspond with the Lord
Lieutenant while he is in England.
P. I. Signed. Endd. S.P. Ireland 363, 4.
12 Ap.    SIR GEORGE ROOKE to [SAME].
On bRIyd the I arrived here with the ships in the margint yesterday. Coming
Soue eign in from the Gunfleet, I saw several of the yachts making up the
the Downs. river from Holland. They signalled to speak, and said that the
day before when they were under the convoy of the Salisbury
and Adventure with a great fleet of merchantmen, they met
M. Pontie [Pointis] with seven men-of-war 13 leagues E.S.E. of
Orford Ness. They think he took the two warships and many of
the merchantmen. I immediately detached Rear-Admiral "Binge"
with five ships [names givenf] to make for the coast of Flanders
and prevent the French ships and prizes from getting into
Dunkirk or Ostend, and sent off my 20-oared boat to RearAdmiral Beaumont in the Downs with orders to make up a
*Le Neve (III, 362) gives him as " Sartrens or De Sartre."
t Ten names given in margin.
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squadron at once and sail to the same place. This is all I can
do now, and I fear " I had need do more than possibilities to please
all people." Beaumont is on the back of the Goodwin working
Eastward, but delayed by want of wind when the tide is against
him.
I shall work my way to Portsmouth, as I think the squadron
for the Bay will be sooner ready by my being there.
Pp. 2. Signed. Endd. in Nottingham's [?] hand. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 118, 97.
12 Ap.*   MEMORANDUM    on the FRENCH     NAVAL PREPARATIONS at
Genova.       TOULON.
Enclosed gives a list of all the ships they arm out of Toulon
this year. Those marked L are in the Levant, those marked
C gone westward it is believed for Cadiz. The rest are careened
and marted [masted?] and gunned, wanting only men, which
they said they were expecting from West France. In addition
to those in this list, there are seven old ships at Toulon which
are to be broken up. They are building one ship for the Maltese.
With my friend came a Commissary to buy timber, but no one
here will sell him aught. They fear no attack by sea on Toulon,
and have only a few soldiers, and having only fitted two out
of the six half moons of six guns each at the entrance to the
port.
Two French men-of-war are expected at the latter end of the
next month with eight merchantmen from the Levant. They
are to touch at Leghorn, and so to Marseilles. They are very
rich, and it is a pity we have no frigates to intercept them. One
Padrone Marcus, a Genoese, who was employed in the last war
and is a bold and experienced fellow, was freighted this week
to go to a river in Languedoc with a letter from a great man.
He is to carry the letter till he meets our fleet or a squadron.
He binds himself to go as far as Lisbon in his felucca. 'Tis to
encourage our fleet to appear on the coast when the country
would rise, being " mature for a turn." He is to have 80 pistoles
down and 70 at Lisbon, or when he delivers the letter. He
navigates with ten men and a boy with Naples colours.
List of vessels follows, shewing:1. Twenty-two men-of-war with their guns, crew of men
and of boys. In some cases they are marked L or C, as stated
above.
2. Four fireships [brulloiz], with similar information to guns
and crew.
3. Three storeships [fleutes], with same information.
In all pp. 1i, S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 50, 51.
13 Ap.    GEORGE CLARKE to HEDGES.
omie.ty  Sends enclosed account of the misfortune at sea, which will
tell also what has been done to intercept the French. Sir George
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and the Prince have sent the same orders to Rear-Admiral
Beaumont.
P. j.   Signed.  Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 98.       Enclosing:A. Sir George Rooke to [the Prince's Council].
I arrived here this morning with the Royal Sovereign and
ten other vessels (names given). Yesterday, as we came from
the Gunfleet the yachts made signal to speak with me, and
reported that the day before M. Pointy [Pointis] and seven
French  men-of-war came up with the Salisbury      and
Adventure and their convoys from Holland, and that they
feared the men-of-war as well as several of the merchant
ships were taken.  Upon this I immediately sent RearAdmiral Byng, in command of the Ranelagh, Somerset,
Torbay, Cambridge and Winchester to lay in the fairway
between them and Dunkirk. I saw    them  join a Dutch
Rear-Admiral and four ships before night. I send copy of
these orders and of those which I sent to Rear-Admiral
Beaumont by my 20-oared boat. As I came through the
Gull Streams this morning, I saw him sail about the South
Sand head with eight sail of frigates. I directed Admiral
Byng to join the Winchester to Rear-Admiral Beaumont, she
being a clean ship.
I send enclosed just received from Beaumont.
Pp. 1. Extract. Dated aboard the Royal Sovereign in the
Downs, 13 April, 1703. Enclosing further.:Rear-Admiral Beaumont to Sir George Rooke.
I had your orders to sail last night, and should have done so
if I could have got pilots. Am surprised at "the accident,"
and hope it may not be so bad as it appears, for I am sure
neither Pointy [Pointis] nor any of the men-of-war are out,
but only privateers. There was not a ship in Dunkirk road
on Thursday night, and on Friday the Dutch Rear-Admiral
came past both places and no ship was there. I shall go
before Dunkirk and Ostend with eight ships [names given].
The fleet met the enemy so near Ostend that they certainly got
in the next morning.
P. '. Dated aboard the Mary in the Downs, April 12.
In all pp. 2. Endd. Ibid, 98A.
13 Ap.     HEDGES' LETTERS.
WVhitehall.
WAhitehall.  1. To Captain Gifford.
In spite of what I said to them, I find the Governors of the
Post Office will not arrange that the post comes into Portsmouth
about five or six in the evening, as it does to Deal; so I shall
obtain an order from her Majesty for them to arrange it so. I
am glad you are better. Thank you for looking out for some good
wine for me. It will come very seasonably.
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2. To Mr. Edisbury.
Complaints have been received [details] of crowds of poor
people, soldiers' wives and others at Harwich. Command:To allow soldiers that are left behind, and their wives, or the wives
of those now in Holland, to go over there in the packet-boat;
and to tell the packet-boat commanders to bring over no one
from Holland without a pass from the Commander-in-Chief of the
forces there or her Majesty's special Envoy at the Hague. This will
prevent poor people coming over who burden the town. Her
Majesty has signed a warrant to the Postmaster General to
allow officers of the army to go over free in the packet-boats.
P. l. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 297.
13 Ap.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Prince's Council.
Queen's command:-To take the embargo off the Fame and
St. George. Lay this before his Royal Highness for the necessary
orders.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 257.
2. To John Noble, Sheriff of Herefordshire.
You did well not to execute sentence on Pritchard and Husbands.
Details. The Queen will pardon them.
P. 1. Ibid, p. 258.
3. To the Prince's Council.
I hear by letters from Lisbon of March 23 that Captain Wishart
with the men-of-war and merchantmen was to sail thence on
last Friday or Saturday fortnight, sending two ships ahead to pick
up the merchantmen which were ready at Oporto and Viana. Can
you not strengthen that convoy and so prevent such a misfortune
(by French ships from Rochfort or Brest), as lately happened
to the convoy from Holland?
P. i. Ibid, pp. 258-9.
4. To Mr. Methuen.
Yours of 23rd and 24th received. It is extraordinary that
Portugal should propose any new terms after the articles were
agreed and only wanted to be put into form; but as she seems
to have receded from them, and they are capable of accommodation,
probably all will be well before this reaches you. If not, what
I have now to write will help towards that result.
You speak of three points in dispute: the time of the payments, the twelve ships to be at Lisbon when no greater [British]
fleet is in those seas, and the composition of the debt to the
Dutch. The Portuguese Envoy, however, tells me that it is
only on the last two points that any difference remains. We
have written Mr. Stanhope, and have pressed the Dutch Envoy
here to get the Dutch to give in on the matter of the salt. We
hope that this point will not delay the conclusion of the main
treaty. If it should remain unsettled, no doubt it will be
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If the King really insists on twelve ships of war being always
in Lisbon &c., you may agree to it, though it will do him little
good. If they are to stay literally in the harbour, they can be of
little use, and in no case will they be allowed to be under his
orders. This has never been permitted. On the other hand,
it would be to our interest to have twelve ships, English and
Dutch, whose port is Lisbon, always ready. Convenient for
cleaning, &c. To such a suggestion you may agree. Moreover,
lest the King of Portugal should think this would not be of service
to him (though it will give great security to his trade), you may
assure his Majesty that the flag commanding officer will have
positive orders to protect his coasts against any insults by the
French and to protect his interest as far as possible if any French
attempt is made on Lisbon by sea.
Count Wratislaw is informed that you and M. Schoneburg
have refused to sign the article that no peace shall be made by
which the Crown of Spain is left to Philip V or any Prince of the
House of Bourbon. I cannot believe that you have refused
this. If so, assent to such a clause now, and no doubt M. Schoneburg will do the same.
Pp. 21. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 29-31.
14 Ap.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to RICHARD WARRE.
Admiralty
Offise.  Inform  Lord Secretary Nottingham  that steps have been
taken by orders to Sir G. Rooke, to strengthen the convoy
coming home from Lisbon. Other vessels [details] have been
ordered to sea from Plymouth for the same purpose.
P. i. (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 33.
Same.    SAME to SAME.
I send for Lord Secretary Nottingham news* from the Adventure,
one of the convoys which lately came from Holland. She brought
ten merchantmen into the Nore. Others made their way to
Holland. There is no news from the Salisbury. The captain
of the Adventure fears that she and a great part of the convoys
are taken.
Lieutenant Dyas, of the Newcastle, was two days ago on the
packet-boat that came from Calais to Dover with prisoners.
Her captain said that Ponty [Pointis] and all his squadron are in
Dunkirk unrigged, that a St. Malo privateer of 40 guns and 245
men sailed from Dunkirk and took a Dutch man-of-war of 50 guns,
and that both of them were taken by three English ships of war
off the Texel; that the Emperor is reported to be dead or
dangerously sick, and that the Dunkirkers are so poor they cannot
fit out privateers, so many being taken.
From the foregoing it is plain that the ships which met our
convoys from Holland were privateers only. Probably most of
them came out of Ostend.




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P.S.-I doubt the recapture story. We have no ships thereabouts.
Pp. 1. (Hot.) Enhdd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 34.
14 Ap.    NOTTNGHAM's LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Commissioners of Prizes.
The Lieutenant Governor of Jersey has been ordered (see
following) to release a small bark, the Peter of Royan. Send
similar orders to your officers there if you think that, otherwise,
there would be a dispute about executing the order.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 259.
2. To the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.
As described in foregoing. William Drovet, or Drewit, by his
petition, shews that his father arrived at Jersey from Bordeaux
river on May 6 last, and delivered his cargo to its owners there,
further that petitioner is a Protestant, and came to settle in
England with three Protestant seamen, all ready to serve the
Queen. Petitioner has served the Queen on several ships for 14
years, and asks for release of the Peter, when his father and
the seamen will come to England. Release her.
P. 1. Ibid, pp. 259, 260.
15 Ap.    HEDGES to the PRINCE's COUNCIL.
Whitehall.  I send for the Lord Admiral's consideration and report papers
relating to the embezzlement out of the galleons and a retaken
Dutch ship. They come from the Lord Treasurer.
Note.-The enclosed documents were an order by Sir G. Rooke
to the commanders of the Queen's hired ships and vessels, dated
15 October, 1702, a letter from the Commissioners of Prizes to
Mr. Lowds [Lowndes] with an account of such transport ships
as had unladen in London, but had not delivered to the prize warehouses according to the accounts they gave in to Sir G. Rooke,
and the Commissioners of Customs' letter to the Lord High Treasurer
with an affidavit from their officers at Plymouth.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 296, 297.
15 Ap.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.          *
1. To the Prince's Council.
The Queen consents to the Queen, Barfleur and Newark being
paid off and laid up at their moorings at Chatham, and their
foremast men moved into the new     frigates fitting out in
the Thames.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 260, 261.
2. To Captain Atkinson.
Command:-Provide 1,000 pair of shoes to go on board one of
Sir C. Shovell's ships.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 31.
16 Ap.    GEORGE CLARKE to ELLIS.
Admiralty  Sends enclosure.
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Three lines. (Hol.) S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 35. Enclosing:A. Captain John Robinson to [George Clarke?].
Besides Lady Powis, I brought over Mrs. Blount with one
maidservant. She has a pass from the Queen's Envoy at
the Hague (Mr. Stanhope), and an Englishman and two
Dutchmen with the like passes; also Mr. Solomon Pereyra
and his servant, both Jews, and recommended by Mr. Isaac
Pereyra. He had no pass, but is a merchant residing in
Lime Street, London. I have brought over no other
passengers. If his Royal Highness would see any of these
persons, I am told they are to be found on the Exchange of
London. When commanded, I shall endeavour to produce
them.
P. 1. Copy. Dated, William and Mary yacht, Deptford,
16 April, 1703. Ibid, 35A.
16 Ap.    HEDGES to the ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Whitehall  Queen's command:-To prepare for the Queen to see to-morrow
a proclamation stating that whereas undesirable foreigners and
disaffected persons have come to England from beyond seas,
all captains and masters of her Majesty's ships and merchant
vessels are forbidden to bring over any person unless he have a
pass from the General or Commander-in-Chief of her forces,
or from her Majesty's minister to the country where he is taken
on board, on pain of prosecution.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 296.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To the Lord Treasurer.
Queen's command:-Order John Forster, the Surveyor at
Dover, to restore to Captain Gibson 5001. which he took from
him pending directions. Gibson received the money from several
people at Calais to pay to the French prisoners here and pay
those who had given them credit.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 261.
2. To the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded.
Captain Gibson has received from the Sieur la Tour Montfort
assurances that on bringing to Calais the fishermen of Dieppe
and elsewhere, now prisoners here, he will receive as many English
of the same quality in exchange. Queen's command:-Send
the captain over with those prisoners.
Inform Count de Mornay that the French ships detained at
Guernsey have long been released, and that I know of no prosecution against any Irish taken in French ships. If you hear of any,
let me know of it before you mention it to him.
Inform the prisoners at the Gate House that as news has come
that the English prisoners in France are better treated, the Queen
has ordered their removal thence to the Tower, where they will
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should be treated at least as well as the English prisoners in
France. This shall be done at once.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 261-262.
16 Ap.    CAPTAIN HOVENDEN WALKER to NOTTINGHAM.
On board
H.M.S. Boye, On 12 March some of the forces under General Codrington went
at Guadeloupe.ashore at Guadeloupe, about two leagues to the northward of the
town, and were very warmly received by the French, who had
made breastworks everywhere. Our men, however, forced them
from their trenches, and the next day almost all the soldiers and
400 sailors, going ashore, occupied the town and there lodged
all the forces-the French having quitted it. The Chichester
on the evening before silenced some French batteries which were
placed between the town and place of landing.
On the 15th I sent guns and ammunition ashore to open on a
fort which the French still had and which commanded the town.
They held out till 2 April, when I ordered two ships to open
on the Castle, their trenches and line of communication. The
Castle had been much battered by the guns ashore; and the next
day the French blew up the Castle and fort and retired to the
impenetrable woods and mountains, which are their only refuge.
Out of these hunger alone will chase them; and our provisions
are not enough to do it, as the Resolution has not yet come. In
all this fighting, strange to say, not one French prisoner has been
taken.
Pp. 14. Signed. Noted a duplicate. Add. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 118, 199.
17 Ap.    NOTTINGHAM to the COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED.
Whitehall.  To send the person seized at Dartmouth to Farnham  or
Plymouth. The French prisoners there will be probably able to say
whether he is the Irishman who is gaoler of the prison at Dinant.
The English prisoners lately at Dinant may be able to identify
him. Take special care that he does not escape.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 262, 263.
17 Ap.    ELEAZER LE MARCHANT to -.
Guernsey.  Robert Lee is the most fit man in the island to be agent to the
Lord High Admiral. He performed that duty well during the
late war. An owner or husbandman [?] of privateers should
not have that post, as is now the case. Mr. Lee has his accounts
regarding prizes ready to send to the Admiralty, but cannot
send them for want of a frigate. He dares not trust them to
vessels that are "runors," which would probably throw them
overboard. Pray inform H.R.H. of all this.
P. I. (Hol.) Badly spelt. Add. to a lady unnamed. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 52.
18 Ap.    HEDGES to the COMMISSIONERS of CUSTOMS.
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of the said ships have been guilty of embezzlement, and, if so,
see that they are prosecuted before the High Court of Admiralty.
P. i (with note of papers sent). S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101,
p. 299.
19 Ap.    HEDGES to LORD CONINGSBY.
Whitehall.  Sends Elizabeth Wanless' petition, and Queen's command to
pay her 201. to support her husband: the money to be stopped out
of his pay.
Note.-Her petition states that her husband was sent from
Ireland to the West Indies, and was, on the voyage, captured by
the French on 28 November last. He was carried to Dinant,
and has since remained there. Very poor. Contracted debts
there, which will detain him if he is released. She prays for a
sum for his relief or arrears of, his pay.
P. ~. Ibid, p. 298.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
The Queen intends to remove the French officers from the
Gate House to the Tower. Go there and report whether there
is enough accommodation for them in time for your report to be
laid before the Queen at the Cabinet Council to-morrow morning.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 263.
2. To the Prince's Council.
I hear from Pisa that one Captain Pickering brought pitch,
tar &c. under Swedish colours to Marseilles, and that a ship,
supposed to be his, was coming into that port on March 31. Give
orders to arrest any ship commanded by this officer pending
inquiries.
P. i. Ibid.
20 Ap.    HEDGES to WILLIAM JENNINGS and THOMAS RENDA.
Whitehall.  To assist bearer, who is warranted to arrest Richard Paine
and other deserters from Lieutenant-General Stewart's regiment,
and believed to be in or near Wallingford. They are to be sent,
if need be, from constable to constable up here.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 299.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
The commanders of French merchant ships who are prisoners
at Farnham complain that they are treated as common seamen.
Queen's command:-They must be treated with the distinction
with which Englishmen of their quality are treated in France.
Remove the French prisoners from the Gate House to the
Tower. No fees for lodging &c. to be charged them there.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 264.




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2. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
The Queen will not accept the service of any French prisoners,
however anxious they may be to enter it; but if any are real
Protestants and want to stay in England, do not send them
back to France when exchanging prisoners. None, even though
Protestants, are to be released without her Majesty's special
order.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 264, 265.
3. To Edmund Maine, Esq., at Berwick.
Queen's approval. Continue your care in her service.
P. i. Ibid, p. 265.
4. To the Prince's Council.
Queen's command:-Take no French into her service, that the
French may have no excuse for forcing English into theirs.
P. J. Ibid.
5. To Colonel Ellis, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey.
Leave has been granted to you to come over to Bath for your
health. You will, of course, take care that the Queen's service
does not suffer by your absence.
P. i. Ibid, pp. 265, 266.
6. To Captain Gibson.
Queen's command:-Not to bring over from Calais any English
master taken by the French who ransomed his ship.
P. i. Ibid, p. 266.
7. To the Commissioners of Transport.
The Queen approves your proposal for making serviceable
some beds, rugs and pillows returned from the late expedition
to Spain at a cost of 2s. 6d. each. Take steps accordingly.
P. J. Ibid, pp. 266, 267.
8. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
There are about 400 French prisoners at Guernsey and will
probably be more. They are more numerous than the garrison,
and there are not sufficient victuals for them, which is dangerous
to the island. Consider means of moving the prisoners who are
there, or may come there, to some other place. Details.
P. i. Ibid, p. 267.
9. To the Prince's Council.
The Queen approves the enclosed letter from the Council of
Trade and Plantations with regard to seamen assisting in the
fortification of St. John's, Newfoundland, and their estimate for
some stores necessary for the boom there. Queen's command:Lay these particulars before the Prince, that he may give the
necessary orders therein.
Also details of anchors, chains and iron asked for. The cost
of these is 231. 15s.
P. i. Ibid, p. 268.


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10. To the Lord Treasurer.
By command:-I send you an estimate regarding the expenses
of laying the boom at St. John's, received [&c., as foregoing], so
that you may give orders for sending this money as you think
necessary.
The estimate:
1. s. d.
To 25 men of the garrison at 12d. a day
extra for about 70 days. (The time will
vary according to the difficulty in getting
timber.).....   87 10 0
Carpenters' work in making the boom..  15 0 0
Care of the "Shalloway " or boat to bring
the trees......        30 0 0
Extraordinary charges........  20 0  0
The "skifft" [skiff] to attend the boom on
all occasions..........   6 0 0
158 10 0
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 268, 269.
11. To M. de Pimont.
You will be given in exchange for any Englishman of like quality
to yourself.  When I hear that the French Court agrees to
this, I will do all I can to hurry the matter.
P. 1, in French. Ibid, p. 269.
12. To the Count de Mornay.
Having told you that nothing was wanting for the completion
of a cartel but that you should have a full power in proper form
to treat, I am surprised at the power which you have sent me.
This is the only cause of delay. The English officers would not
dare to take French sailors into service in their ships (which
M. de Pontchartrain supposes to be the cause of delay), for the
Queen has given a positive order that this shall not be done.
Not even the poor French Protestant prisoners, who prefer
captivity in England to the sufferings which they undergo in
France [are allowed to enter her service]; and the Queen hopes
that, this being so, the French King's order against the enlistment
of English prisoners will be extended to his fleet as well as to his
army.
As for the French prisoners, though the Queen has heard
complaints that the English prisoners in France are nearly
starving, she has voluntarily ordered that deductions made
from the pay of the French prisoners here for their food be
restored.* You (the French officers here) will be treated according
as the Queen hears that the English officer prisoners are treated
in France. Please make any suggestion you can as to how the
* This passage is not quite clear in the original; but I think I give the general
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orders of the Queen and the King of France may be carried out;
and please inform the Marquis de la Gallissonniere of the contents
of this letter.
Pp. 21, in French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 270-272.
13. To Lord Treasurer Godolphin.
Captain Atkinson has provided 1,000 pair of shoes, and disposed
of them as ordered. The cost was 971. 18s. 4d. He should be
reimbursed.
He also provided 543 beds for Colonel Holt's regiment. Kindly
inform him where he should place the charge for them.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 31.
21 Ap.    VISCOUNT HATTON to NOTTINGHAM.
[Norbtats   I think it would do as well to send a general recommendation
to the bailiffs and jurats of Guernsey to rebuild their Court as to
direct any particular way to raise money. Such answer will
require no debate with the Lords of the Council. Details.
P. i (small). (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 53.
21 Ap.    NOTTINGHAM to CORNELIUS SMITH, at Dover.
Whitehall.  I have good reason to suspect that one Thomas Noel is an
instrument for carrying on a correspondence with France.
Details. Observe him carefully, and, if you find my suspicion
justified, try to secure both Noel and his letters and intermediaries.
Although you should not need it (as it is the duty of all good
subjects to inform against such spies), I allow you to show
this letter to any magistrate to whom you may have to apply.
Meantime keep it very secret. Your expenses will be paid and
your trouble rewarded.
P. W. Note: sent to Mr. Breton. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209,
p. 32.
22 Ap.    HEDGES to COUNT WRATISLAW.
London.   You did not shew clearly that M. Crock was a subject of the
Empire, and he appeared rather to be a Frenchman. If you
certify that he is of the Empire, I will see that he has his passport
out of consideration for you.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 300.
22 Ap.    NOTTINGHAM to SIR JAMES ETHERIDGE.
Whitehall.  Examine as to the truth of the enclosed affidavit of Mr. Henry
Gooding, which was brought here this morning, and take steps
that the offender may not escape. Mr. Gooding will wait upon
you for particulars. Report.
P..
Also note of the information taken before Richard Warre,
against Corporal Cotterell of Great Marlow, innkeeper, and
Mr. Hood who lived in Mr. Duffell's house in Bucks. The substance
not stated.
In all p. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 272, 273.




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1703.
[23 Ap.]   LIST.
Of French prisoners committed to the Tower by virtue of
Lord Secretary Nottingham's warrant.
Identical with the list at 24 April, 1703, q.v., below, p. 693.
P. i. Endd. with date. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 86.
23 Ap.    MEMORIAL by the LORD HIGH ADMIRAL to the QUEEN IN COUNCIL.
Admiffalt  Frequent complaints are made to me that when her Majesty's
ships touch at Jersey or Guernsey the crews desert to serve in
the privateers. The Governors and Lieutenant Governors of
those islands should be ordered to search their respective islands,
and all privateers thereto belonging, with care for such deserters
and to arrest and replace them on one of her Majesty's ships:
Pp. I1. Signed, and with counter-signature of George Clarke.
Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 36.
23 Ap.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.. To the Lieutenant of the Tower.
Receive herewith several French officers, prisoners of war.
Queen's command:-To accommodate them according to their
quality and allow them to walk on the parade at proper times.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 273.
2. To the Prince's Council.
Colonel Collier, the Lieutenant-Governor, reports that, according
to order, the Esperance de Derneville has been released in Jersey,
but that the master was first compelled to give a bond to the
agent who cares for the Lord High Admiral's share of prizes,
that if 30 liverets was to be paid, being the appraisement of the
boat, it should be done. Queen's command:-To cancel and deliver up the bond.
P. j. Ibid, pp. 273, 274.
3. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
I send a warrant and letter* for receiving the French [officers]
prisoners into the Tower and a warrant to the Keeper of the
Gate House to receive them. It might be well if you saw them
safe to the Tower, if possible, to-day.
P. i. Ibid, p. 274.
Same.     HEDGES to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Command:-To prepare at once instructions for Sir Cloudesly
Shovell that he may lose no time in starting if the Queen decides
to send him with a squadron to the Mediterranean.
P. j. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 373.
24 Ap.    NOTTINGHAM to the AGENT of the POST OFFICE at Harwich.
te   If one named Reinalducci, or anything like it, arrives from
Holland by the packet, take care to stop him even if he has
Mr. Stanhope's pass, or any other, and keep him till you have
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reported and had further orders. If the register, which I hope
you keep, of arrivals shews such a person to have arrived, let me
know when he came, where he went to, and any other " necessary
circumstance." Observe secrecy in this.
P. 1. Copy. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 87. Also p. i.
S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 275.
24 Ap.    THOMAS DUNN and RALPH ELMSALL to JOHN WYCH.
Narva.
Since our last we hear only that the " Russe " has a numerous
army near his frontier, and, according to the best information,
will certainly besiege this place. There is nothing to hinder
them, Slippenbach's army being dispersed and Croncort's the
same. We hear of no succour from Swede-land; "yet is
thought" nothing will be attempted till the grass is grown,
which will be in about five weeks, although they begin already
to make some small ravages. They have also an army by
Notteburg, with which, it is reported, that they will attack Nyen.
If a sudden peace is not made in Poland, the King of Swedeland's
affairs in these parts will be in a miserable condition. Quantities
of goods lie at Wyborg. Considering the danger in loading if
the Russe takes either place, and as we have nothing to show that
we are friends to the Russe, we ask you to get our passes from
the Queen of England. We have herewith ordered our friend
Mr. Rimington to make good to you any disbursements which
you may incur in connexion therewith. At the beginning of
the war, several of our fellow countrymen had passes from the
late King, which were much respected by the Russes. We hear
that England and Holland may send a fleet into the East sea to
compel Sweden to make peace. If so, it will not be possible for
us to stay here, for the inhabitants will be inveterate against us.
We should be glad to hear from you if this fleet will come, also
what chance there is of peace with the Russe.
P.S.-No ships are yet here, but they are expected daily, the
sea being clear of ice.
Pp. 21. Signed. Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 88.
24 Ap.    NOTES of FEES due to the LIEUTENANT of the TOWER of
LONDON.
On the date in margin the following noblemen and gentlemen
were committed prisoners to the Tower. The usual fee to the
Lieutenant is 1001. for a nobleman and 501. for a gentleman, so
that in all 1,2001 is due.
Names:-The Marquises D'Aligre and de la Gallissonni&e;
the Count de Mornay; MM. Sorel, Pimont, De la Grois, Maison
Fort, De Coyeux; Chevalier de Tour [de] Landre; Chambellan
Gratton; Ml. De Lambour, Du Chattell, De Cotte Cott, Durand,
Du St. Fray, Corvett, Romaine, Felicien, Pigeon, Pubeloy
(Guarde de la Marine), Begon (same).
P. t. Endd. Ibid, 89.




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1703.
26 Ap.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
[Whitehall]  1. To the Lord Mayor.
Command:-To celebrate the Prince of Baden's victory and
repulse of the French, with the usual ringings in the City.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 276.
2. To the Prince's Council.
Queen's command:-Report what is the best way to purchase
La Finesse. She was lately condemned as prize, and she is
suitable for patrolling the coasts of Kent and Sussex to prevent
correspondence with France and the " running of goods."  Meantime, prevent this vessel being otherwise disposed of.
P. i. Ibid.
Same.     HEDGES to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Command:-Six ships to be laid up and paid off at Portsmouth,
as the Lord High Admiral suggests.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 204, p. 369.
27 Ap.     PIERRE DU SOULEY [?] to [NOTTINGHAM].
London.    I spoke to the Speaker [M. L'Orateur] about a person fit to
translate the Gazette, who told me to tell you of him. I therefore
send enclosed and shall wait on your lordship [Votre Grandeur]
to-morrow to know if he will suit.
Pp. 14 (small). (Hol.)   French.  S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 90.
Enclosing:A. Description of M. Pierre De La Touche.
He is a French refugee of merit and has been here seventeen
years. He is of good character, and was Master of the Pages
to the late Queen, in which employment he acquitted himself
with much honour. He is of Saumur, one of the towns in
France where they speak French best. Seven years ago he
wrote a book on the art of speaking French well, which he
dedicated to the Duke of Gloucester. He also understands well
the humanities, geography, history, fortification and other
things which qualify him to translate the Gazette well.
He is particularly well known to Lord Jersey and Lord
Northampton, the Bishop of London and several persons of
quality.
P. ]. French. Ibid, 90A.
27 Ap.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1To the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.
Command:-Make search for sailors who have deserted the
Queen's ships and entered privateers at Jersey; seize them and
put them aboard some ship, that they may be returned to her
Majesty's fleet.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 277. Also note of same.
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2. To Colonel Farewell.
Sends an order on Captain Atkinson for as many beds as may
be wanting for the ordinary Frenchmen in the Tower.
Also the order. The beds are for the French officers' servants.
P. W. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 277, 278.
3. To the Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey.
Similar to No. 1 above.
P. i. Ibid, p. 314. Also note of same; Ibid, p. 277.
28 Ap.    SECRETARY SOUTHWELL to NOTTINGHAM.
Three men-of-war ate reported at Dublin on the 21st, and the
two regiments were to be embarked at once and go to the Downs
for pilots, and so on to Holland.
P. i. Endd. with date. S.P. Ireland 363, 5.
28 Ap.    JOSIAH BURCHETT to HEDGES.*
dmircey   The Lord High Admiral desires you to recommend someone
as Deputy Judge Advocate of the Fleet, who will be sent to sea
with Sir C. Shovell's squadron.
P. i. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 37.
28 Ap.    Louis MAGET to SAMUEL EYRE, Merchant, in London.
St. Malo.  Our Commissary arrived here yesterday, and I have had a long
talk with him about settling the cartel; [and we agreed] to
exchange man for man and quality for quality, and the freight
of the packet to be 10 livres tournois for each French prisoner
delivered here. If, owing to any order from the King of France,
the ship is not cleared in eight days, an allowance for demurrage
[details]t will be made to the captain or master and his crew.
He agrees to this. You have now only to give your orders to whom
you please to be your agent here. If you appoint me, I will
serve you well.
I will at once forward the passports you asked for when I
receive them; but whether they come or not, send the packetboat, for the Commissary has given me an order under his hand
for her safety.
P.S.-I enclose the agreement for the exchange of prisoners,
which I have received from M. de St. Sulpice since I wrote the
above. If you disapprove of anything in it, let me know, that I
may have it changed. I send a copy of it to Mr. Humphry Willet,
who says he has got permission from the Court to send 200 French
prisoners to this town. We expect them daily, and he is to have
200 English prisoners in exchange. This is only a beginning.
If you please to use me here, please send me full powers. Am
sending another copy to Plymouth in case this miscarries.
Details.
* As well as being a Secretary of State, Hedges was Judge of the Court of
Admiralty at this time.
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1703.
Pp. 2, in bad English. Signed. Add. Endd. with note (inter
alia) that 10 livres=12s. 6d. and 42 crowns a Louis d'oro.
S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 100. Enclosing:A. Declaration by M. de St. Sulpice.
As Commissary of the Marine in the Department of St. Malo,
I declare that I have power from the Court of France to give
English prisoners who are in France in exchange for French
prisoners sent from England, man for man and quality for
quality, giving to the masters who shall bring French prisoners
10 livres for freight, and provisions for each prisoner. If the
English ships bringing over prisoners are kept more than
eight days, 3 livres per tbn per month shall be paid them for
demurrage, and 60 livres for the pay and provision of the
master and 24 livres for the pay and provision of each sailor.
Durin their stay the master and crew shall be kept at the
expense of the French Government, and shall not be
imprisoned, and the whole shall be managed according to
the cartel in the late war. The Commissioners are requested
to send over first the oldest prisoners, and I shall do the same
here.
Pp. ij, in French. Signed. Ibid, 100A.
B. An incomplete translation of foregoing into English.
P. I. Endd. Ibid, 100B.
28 Ap.     HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Prince's Council.
You are to attend the Committee of Council at Lord Nottingham's
office at 10 a.m. to-morrow, and to bring with you instructions
for Sir George Rooke concerning such services as may be thought
practicable on the French coast and in the Bay. It is intended
that he shall go to sea at once.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, p. 71.
2. To Same.
You will understand from Sir Cloudesly Shovell that Malta
is not to be mentioned in the Lord High Admiral's instructions.
Sir Cloudesly will tell you how it is to be altered. The Lords
of the Committee of Council also direct that the following additions
and alterations be made in them.
1. Sir Cloudesly to be left discretion as to when, in the month
of September, the fleet shall return from the Mediterranean.
2. Sir Cloldesly to have leave to send away one to treat with
the Governments on the coasts of Barbary. Your instruction
to be framed accordingly.
3. You are desired to send to the Turkey Company and adjust
with them the time for their ships' return to the rendezvous.
My Lords think it should be as soon as possible, but leaving to
Sir Cloudesly's discretion to enlarge the time if he thinks this
can be done with safety.
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29 Ap.    PIERRE DU SOULEY [?] to [NOTTINGHAM].
London.   I have, according to your lordship's orders, spoken to Mr. Howard
and to Mr. Edger on the subject of the Gazettes. They tell me
they have no orders on the matter. Pray give me an order to
those gentlemen, so that I may recommence my small trade for
the relief of my poor family. I humbly await an answer at your
lordship's house.
Pp. 1 (small). (Hol.) French. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 91.
29 Ap.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
One of you who is a physician will please to go to the Tower
and see if M. de Maisonfort is, as alleged, so troubled with colic
that the only cure is the bagnio. If it be so, give him leave to
come out on parole, that so he may make use of the bagnio.
P. ~. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 278.
2. To same.
Report to the Queen how far Hertford, Reading and Aylesbury
are fit places to receive prisoners. The Queen approves of them,
and there is a new hospital vacant at Hertford. Say which is
the fittest of them.
P. i. Ibid, p. 279.
3. To the Prince's Council.
Command:-To have a ship ready to go at once to Portugal as
ordered by her Majesty or a Secretary of State.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 32.
30 Ap.    REAR-ADMIRAL BEAUMONT to ----
H'tMhSD Mwn'  All I can find out about the Irish vessels trading to Dunkirk
is that the master of one of them is called Edward More. His
ship is square-sterned and arrived at Dunkirk about seven weeks
since, laden from Galway, but is thought to belong to Waterford.
He was last year at Christiansand in Norway with two other
Irish pinks, one [with] a crown in her stern and the other a
blackamoor's head.
P. J. Extract. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 7, 38.
30 Ap.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.]  1. To the Prince's Council.
I send you copy of the Articles intended with Portugal in
regard to the fleet that you may be better able to give your
opinion on them when you attend the Cabinet Council at my office
at six this evening; and, that this matter may be settled consistently
with her Majesty's honour and the satisfaction of the King of
Portugal, bring with you an account of how the command has
been settled on previous occasions when the English fleet has
acted as auxiliary, and particularly of the regulation made when
the fleet went to Barcelona.
P. 4. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 33.




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1703.
2. To the Pensioner [Grand Pensionary].
Command:-To tell you that we are informed that the people
of France as well as in the Cevennes are well disposed for a
rising if they would be supported in it-particularly about
Bordeaux. The project for this support, which has been submitted to her Majesty, can be carried out with 12,000 men,
especially at this time of the year, when the fleet is at sea, or
ought to be so. But as it is impossible for the Queen and the
States General to raise so many men in time for such an expedition, so it is to be wished that the expense thereof should
be avoided if, by any other means, the design can be pursued.
The only alternative is to take such a number of men from
our united forces under the Duke of Marlborough. We hope
your affairs may be in so good a posture that these may
be embarked and on our coast by the end of June, after which
there will be two months for them to act before they need be sent to
Portugal (if that Treaty is successful, as we hope), and the design of
sending them to Portugal will serve to cloak the intermediate design
against France. This will in itself divert the arms of France,
and, if it induces a revolt, will be very fatal to the French King,
and in the meantime it is the surest method of diverting him
from those advantages he has in most places against the Allies.
The Queen has therefore commanded me to write on this matter
to you, as I have done to the Duke of Marlborough, and earnestly
to recommend it for you to help, and hopes that you will resolve
on it at once and carry it out with vigour.
Permit me to add that I have long thought that no war can
be so dangerous to France as one which is carried on in this
way, i.e., "by a fleet and an army accompanying it, and this
I say, although there were not such a prospect as there is of the
French themselves concurring with us. I think the reasons for this
assertion are so plain that I need not mention them, and the
last war is an unhappy instance of the truth of it." I leave the
matter in your hands, the project to be worked out by you in
concert with the Duke of Marlborough. Pray let me know what
we are to expect, that no time may be lost on our part.
Pp. 1i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 33-35.
3. To the Duke of Marlborough.
Sends copy of foregoing, and discusses its substance. The
force promised to Portugal is 10,000 foot, 1,000 horse and 1,000
dragoons, to be mounted in Portugal. Proceeds:-This is thought
to be the least number requisite for this design. If so many men
cannot be spared from the armies under your command, if the
States will send 6,000 of the troops under their pay and so many
of the troops in her Majesty's pay as will make up two Irish and
two Scotch regiments and one of French to be raised here to
the like number of 6,000, this will answer the end and in some
degree obviate the objection they may have of sending away
the whole 12,000.
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them by an equal number, which may be had from the Princes
of Germany, then, to further so great a service and prevent the
expenditure on our fleet from being wasted, you may concur
with them [the States General] in any Treaties they make for
troops in lieu of those which shall be sent on this service. All
of these are to be at the joint and equal expense of her Majesty
and the States.
P. A. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 35.
4. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
Queen's command:-Send a vessel to St. Malo for exchange of
prisoners.
Four lines. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 279.
30 Ap.    HEDGES to SIR GEORGE ROOKE.
Whitehall.  Besides the instructions which you have from his Royal Highness,
my Lords have advised the Queen to give you those enclosed,
which I send by her command. You will find by them that you
are not only to annoy the enemy, but to find out as best you
can what further services will be practicable in case that by
the end of June (by which time it is expected you should return),
the Dutch squadron for the Channel service should join you
with 10,000 land forces on board.
The descent according to the enclosed project and the destroying
the saltpans are the principal services thought on at present,
concerning which her Majesty would be informed as soon as you
can. The other paper came with the foreign letters to-day, and
is sent for your information, and was, I believe, partly the
occasion of despatching your instructions to-night. If I had
had time I should have told you, before it was signed, what
is now sent you in writing. Should you have any suggestions
as to how anything may be better turned or framed, I will try to
get it done accordingly and send it after you. "I most heartily
wish you success in all you undertake."
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 72, 73, followed by:Instructions to Sir G. Rooke.
1. You are to bur, sink, destroy, harry &c. the ships and
coasts of France and Spain and the saltpans, and to inform yourself as best you can [&c., as in the preceding letter, par. 1. re
arrival of Dutch force &c.]. Get the best information as to how
such designs may be put in execution.
2. Inform yourself as well as you can of the inclinations to rebellion of the people at and about Bordeaux and how they may
best be supported; also of the passage into the river of
Bordeaux, and how practicable it is to enter into it, and with
what sort of ships, and of the best means for making a descent in
or near that river.
In putting these instructions in force, you are, as often as you
think fit, to call a Council of flags and captains, and act according
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as far on such services as shall be thought reasonable and most
conducive to the annoyance of the enemies.
Pp. 1i. In all pp. 21. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 72-74.
April.    NOTTIGHAM to SIR ROBERT SUTTON.
Whitehall.  The Queen has written letters on behalf of Mr. William Pentlow
and his mother to the Grand Signior and the Vizier. Command:To deliver them in person if you have occasion to go to Adrianople.
If not, deliver them in the usual way. Do all you can to get
satisfaction for them.
P. f. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 278, 279.
April.    NOTE for the DIVIDENT for APRIL, 1703.
Mentions Lord Granville's three offices, the Duke of Schomberg's
annuity, and the discharge to Sir Joseph Williamson's heirs.
Left-hand figures,* 31. Right, 181. 18s. Od.
P. i. Endd. as similar previous notes. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 92.
About     REAR-ADMIRAL WHETSTONE to [HEDGES].
April.    I hope my letters of 16 February arrived by H.M.S. Bristol,
which I sent to convey home some merchantmen and the prisoners
Captains Kirkby, Wade and Constable. All the captains advised
this, fearing that, in the consternation caused by the fire, they
might escape. They sailed on 14 February. I sailed with them
as high as Hispaniola, and afterwards went in search of some
merchant ships and a convoy from France, of which I had
information. Cruised for five weeks in search of them and then
looked into Port Louis, where there was only one, formerly
chased in by our cruisers. Relates his movements in search
of French, and detachment of Captain Vincent in the Defiance.
Captured or drove ashore three privateers. Burnt or sunk vessels
in the Cue. The French compute their loss by these burnings &c.
at 18,0001. Further movements and detachments. Receipt
of his Royal Highness's despatch of 23 January off East of
Jamaica. Is fitting out, expecting reinforcements from Windward,
and hopes to be ready to execute his Royal Highness's orders.
Does not give details, lest the merchant ship which takes this
should be captured.
Pp. 1I. Undated. Signed    "W.W."    Endd. A   duplicate.
S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 101.
MAY.
1 Mlay.   NOTTINGHAM to PAUL METHUEN.
Whitehall.  Your father and the Portuguese Envoy give such good
assurances of the King of Portugal's intention to enter the Grand
Alliance, that the Queen sends this express, that no time may
be lost in perfecting it. Directions are enclosed, and when
M. Schonberg sees them   (and you must in all things act in
concert with him), it is probable he will consent to them. The
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things he objected to were so slight that I wonder your father
despaired of convincing him, and left before the treaty was
concluded.
I send enclosed a copy of the project to which the King of
Portugal would have agreed if M. Schonberg had done so, but
the 19th and 20th articles have been altered here and are sent
as altered. To the 17th words have been added which I hope
will be as satisfactory to the King of Portugal as if the words
were inserted which his Majesty desired.* These could never be
assented to, for no English fleet or squadron has ever been
subject to any orders but those of the Sovereign. We have
persuaded the Envoy on this point, who said he would write
accordingly; so we hope his master will be persuaded also.
As to the 19th and 20th articles, they explain themselves.
You, who know how jealous we are of our honour at sea, will
recognise that it is impossible to subject our ships to the command of any other. I may mention, to satisfy Portugal, that
when the English and Swedish squadrons were joined, as is
mentioned in this article, the King of Sweden was aboard his
fleet in person. For the same reason similar changes have been
made in articles 6 and 7 of the project of defensive and offensive
alliance (No. 2).
Details as to the form of signing the Treaty and precedence in
signing. Refers to the precedent of the Marriage Treaty of
King Charles II. Proceeds:-The Queen does not wish to claim
anything against precedent, nor to yield any point of honour
which her ancestors enjoyed. You should inform yourself of
what was done in the case of King Charles II's Marriage Treaty.
If it was then yielded that King Charles and the King of Portugal
should be interchangeably first named, we cannot insist on anything else now. If the precedent is doubtful and Portugal insists
on her contention, then it will be best that all the parts of
the Treaty should not be signed by all the ministers, but that
the Portuguese minister should sign parts to be given to the
ministers of all the Allies, and the ministers of the Allies sign a
part to be given to the Portuguese minister. A declaration should be added that if the practice has been different it
shall be set right in the ratification.
You must look on the enclosed as instructions to you for
concluding the Treaties. The captain of the ship has orders to
wait till you dismiss him, for the Queen expects that a few days
will shew whether the King of Portugal will sign or not. Your
father thinks that he will not sign till the question of the salt
has been adjusted. You must press him for a definite answer
whether he will or will not sign, on these terms, when the salt
question is adjusted, and send away this ship with his answer.
We expect daily letters from Holland, which will bring orders
to M. Schonberg about the salt.
Pp. 2^, with note that these papers were enclosed, viz., No. 1,
No. 2 [both unnamed], and a copy of the articles to be left out of
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3 May.
Whitehall.


the project for the offensive and defensive alliance. S.P. Dom.,
Entry Book 209, pp. 36-38.
HEDGES to SIR GEORGE ROOKE.
I have had your instructions amended, to correct an error
[details], and signed again by the Queen. There is an additional
article re calling Councils of War, according to whose resolutions
you are to carry out your instructions. As to getting information,
you are to do no more than find out the state of mind of the
people and what advantages may be gained on the coasts. You
are not obliged to make any descent, or put any men ashore,
unless a Council of War approves such a step.  Details. I am
sorry you have gout.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, p. 75.


Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
1. To the Lieutenant of the Tower.
Command:-To deliver to the Commissioners of Sick and
Wounded the French officers and men named in a list which will
be delivered to you herewith,* signed by them.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 280.
2. To the Lord Treasurer.
The Queen desires the ship Finesse to be bought and employed
in her service on the coast. Enclosed from the Admiralty will
shew you what has been done [in purchasing her]. Pay for her.
Note of enclosure from the Admiralty Office of same date.
P. i. Ibid.
Latest date,  CERTIFICATE of the BRITISH CONSUL at the CANARIES.
3 May.    Whereas the Anne of Bridgewater (John Gruzilier, master)
arrived from Bideford at Teneriffe on 15 May, 1702 (n.s.), laden
with wheat and consigned to Richard Mead, of that island, and
whereas having unloaden such wheat, she was set to freight
by Gruzilier and Mead to Dr. William Davies, also resident there,
to go hence to Fuerteventura, and there to load with orchill
and return to England, on the said Davies' account, and
accordingly sailed for Fuerteventura on 25 or 26 May, and arrived
there the 28th and began to load the aforesaid orchill, but on
2 June following was seized by the Spaniards in the said island,
and the master and all the crew made prisoners, and the ship,
her fittings &c., and all the orchill on her or about to be laden,
declared confiscated, and because during the war no witnesses can
be examined to verify the premises:-Therefore Michael Bigger
appeared at Davies' request before me, her Majesty's Consul in
the Canary Islands, and, on interrogatories, deposed as follows:Was resident here when the Anne arrived in May, 1702. Agreed
to go as factor for Davies to Fuerteventura to load orchill on the
Anne for Davies' account. Went there accordingly in May,
1702, and  purchased 1,642 quintals of orchill, which was
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worth 39,260 ryalls. Of this 230 quintals were put on board
the ship and the rest lay ready on shore for embarking. On
2 June the maestro of the ship was seized by Spanish officers (names
and details given), and all her provisions and tackle, and all the
orchill on her or on shore, were also seized. They arrested all the
crew on her and deponent, and also seized scales, money &c. [details], all the property of Davies, all of which were made prize
and confiscated to the King of Spain by the Reprisalia. All
this was done before war was proclaimed between England and
Spain, which was not declared in Madrid till 19 June or here
till 9 August.
Pp. 1!. Sworn at Teneriffe, 3 May, 1703, and signed by Bigger;
also signed by Ambrose Roope, Consul. Followed by,
Certificate by James Thornehull and John Thomas.
They certify that Roope is her Majesty's Consul at the Canaries,
and should be credited. They know all the parties and facts
mentioned above and corroborate the foregoing statement.
The venture to Fuerteventura was for Davies' account only,
we have heard so from others and Bigger owned these depositions
in their presence.
P. ~. Dated as foregoing.
In all pp. 2. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 102. Also another copy
of both certificates. Pp. 2. Ibid, 103.
Certificate by John Gruzilier*, William Gilles, Peter de la
Tour, James Rowe and Henry Alleyn.
Corroborate foregoing statement. The Spanish officers who
seized the Anne were armed with daggers and pistols. As the
Spanish authorities will not suffer any attestation or protest to
be made by any public notary, this testimony was procured by
Davies that the matter of fact may appear to any assurers or
others concerned in the said ship or cargo.
Dated Orotava, 3 October, 1702. Signed by the five deponents,
Rowe and Alleyn signing by Gruzilier and William Gilles.
In all pp. 3 (large). Copy. Endd. Ibid, 104.
4 May.    J. TUCKER to VICE-ADMIRAL LEAKE.
Whitehall Sends enclosed packet for Sir G. Rooke.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, p. 76.
Same.     HEDGES to SIR GEORGE ROOKE.t
Similar to same to same of May 3 [above, p. 702].
Proceeds:-Your instructions have been sent to Plymouth
together with a packet from the Prince's Council. They were
to be sent out to you when you arrive off Plymouth, but I now
send duplicates to Spithead, as I hear you have returned there.
Send any observations you may have to make on them, and I
will try to get you satisfaction therein.
P.. Ibid, pp. 76, 77.
* Also spelt " Gruzelier."
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4 May.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Count de Mornay.
The Queen has given orders regarding your lodging and the
payments asked of you, which I am sure will be carried out.
La Touche was imprisoned not because he escaped, but because
he behaved in a way which rendered him liable to be treated as a
spy, and not as a prisoner of war. I have had his chains taken
off. The jailor put them on without orders. Details.
P. i. French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 284, 285.
2. To the Lieutenant-General and Officers of the Ordnance.
The Queen approves your suggestion that the master-gunner
at Jamaica be recalled as no longer useful. You are to give
orders accordingly.
P. a. Ibid, p. 281.
3. To Same.
I send a fresh report received from the Commissioners of Trade
and Plantations as to what more is necessary for the boom at
St. John's, Newfoundland, with the estimated cost, to be laid
before the Lord Treasurer that he may order the money.
P. i. Ibid. Enclosing:1. The report aforesaid.
The boom is very necessary to protect shipping and the country,
and the person who suggested it, who seems capable, should
be sent out by this convoy for the more speedy completing of
the work. The additional charge proposed for his attendance
andfor materials which he proposes to take out is 751. 6s. over
and above the former estimate of 1581. 10s.
P. i. Dated, Whitehall, 29 April. Signed by [Lord] Weymouth
and Robert Cecil, Ph. Meadows, Mat. Prior, William Blathwayt,
and John Pollexfen.
2. Estimate by John Roope of the proposed increased expenses
for materials and wages in connexion with the boom at
St. John's.
The materials and implements (axes, screws, saws, sledges,
rope &c.) come to 231. 6s.; and the proposed increase in
Roope's wages [details given] is 521. Os. Od., and he asks
for an order to the Captain or Governor of the forest in
Newfoundland to give him 25 or 30 men, as he may want
them. Pp. 1I.
The letter and two enclosures in all pp. 21. Ibid, pp. 281-284.
4. To the Prince's Council.
Command:-To write to the Earl of Orford for, and send in,
copies of the instructiohs and orders as to command and councils
given him when the fleets under his command were to join that
of Spain, and [to send] the same for the time when the English and
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These will be laid before her Majesty, who thinks Mr. Methuen
should be informed of them.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 38.
4 May.     COMMISSION to SIR CLOUDESLY SHOVELL.
St. James.  We have thought it fit to appoint a proper person to renew
and confirm in our name the Treaty of Peace &c. made between
our predecessors and the respective cities and kingdoms of
Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, and to make the proper alterations
therein and additions thereto, and to conclude a peace in our
name with the Emperor of Morocco, and, meantime, if necessary,
to prolong the Treaty made [with Morocco] by Captain George
Delevall, which has been already several times renewed and
confirmed. We commission Sir Cloudesly Shovell, or such person
as he shall authorise, to treat for and conclude such a peace with
the Emperor of Morocco, or his appointed ministers, and with
the Governors of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. Promise to confirm,
in usual form.
Pp. 1t. Overwritten with copy of Royal Sign Manual. Ibid,
pp. 39, 40.
Also warrant of same date to the Lord Keeper to affix the
Great Seal to the foregoing Commission.
P. -I. Overwritten as the Commission above, and countersigned
(copy) by Lord Secretary Nottingham. Ibid, pp. 40, 41.
Same.     INSTRUCTIONS to SIR CLOUDESLEY* SHOVELL, Kt., Admiral of the
White and in command of her Majesty's ships employed
and to be employed in the Mediterranean Sea.
1. On arriving in the Mediterranean you are, notwithstanding
any previous orders, to go to the coast of France over against
Pequais and Porto Cete, and if you see any persons on the shore,
observe if they signal to you. If not, signal to them according
to the annexed paper. If you find they are friends, send a boat
and bring aboard as many of them as desire to come to inform
you of the condition of the Cevennois. If you find they can securely carry away shoes, arms and ammunition on shore, to their
companions in arms in that country, give these to them in such
quantity as you think fit, out of the stores sent with you, which
are principally intended for them. Give them also money, as
you think proper and needful.
2. Enquire particularly if there is any possibility of destroying
the salt works at Pequais, and, if you find it practicable, land
marines for the purpose, taking with them any Frenchmen who
will go with them and may conduct our troops to the performance
of this service.
3. Having performed these services, or as much of them as is
practicable, you are to proceed to Palermo in Sicily and observe
and signal [as before]. If you find it feasible you are to co-operate
* So spelt here; usually " Cloudesly"; but there seems, so far as I can judge
from these papers, to be no right way to spell the name.
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with them in "the attempt,"* assisting them with so many or
our ships, bomb vessels and marines, as are necessary, and in such
other ways as you think proper.
4. If you succeed in this attempt and find it practicable to
take Messina, "you are in that and all other things to assist
them in freeing themselves from the slavery of France and the
present Spanish Government, and to reduce that island to the
dominion of the House of Austria."
5. You are then to proceed to Naples and the coast of that
kingdom, and, on signals given, to assist the people to shake off
the French and Spanish power in favour of the House of Austria.
[6.] If any part of the Emperor's army should be in the Kingdom
of Naples, you are as far as practicable to co-operate with the
officer in command of it for the reduction of Naples or any other
part of that kingdom, and, for that purpose, land our marines
and supply them with mortars and cannon out of our ships, which
you are to place on the land carriages you have with you; and
in all ways "to support and assist the Emperor's army or any
others that declare for the House of Austria."
[7.] When on the way to Sicily, send in a ship to Legorne to bring
off any person who is there, and sent by Prince Eugene to tell
you of his movements, so that you may better know the Prince's
plans and better concur in any attempt he shall make against
the enemy. Correspond with the Prince for this purpose and
co-operate with him in all things in which it is fit for our ships
to join.
Having performed these services, or as many of them as you
have strength and time to do, pursue your other instructions
for your return to England.
Pp. 2. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 41-43. Followed by:Signal for knowing our friends.
They on shore to make and continue three smokes at once
in the day and as many fires in the night, about one rod distant
one from another, and to continue them till they are answered
from our ship or boat by setting three fuzes on fire one after the
other.  If we make the signal first, we will light out three fuzes
all together, one at each end and the other in the middle of the
ship or boat, which is to be answered by three smokes by day
and as many fires by night.
P. i. Endd. Ibid, p. 44.
4 May.    [FURTHER] INSTRUCTIONS to SIR CLOUDESLY SHOVELL.
St. James'.
ames. When you arrive in the Mediterranean Sea you are, when
you think it most consistent with the other part of your
instructions, to go with our fleet, or detach one or more ships,
to the coast of Barbary, authorising by a deputation under your
hand and seal &c. [details], our Consuls at Tunis, Algiers and
Tripoli, or such other person on our fleet as you think fit, to
treat with the governments of those places for renewing the
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Treaties we have with them, and conclude the same on the terms
we mentioned in our instructions herewith, and "thereupon to
make to them the several presents which we have ordered to be
sent with you for that purpose."
2. If you can prevail with these Governments to declare war
against France, you shall, on such declaration and some hostility
actually committed, give such presents as you judge proper and
expedient to induce them to it.
3. In case of such a rupture with France, and that the Dutch
Admiral has orders to treat a peace with them, you are to assist
him in that negociation.
4. Some time before you return, detach two or more ships to
Legorn with orders to the commander to take or destroy any
of the enemy's ships going into or coming out of that port, notwithstanding any agreement made by our Consul for the neutrality
of the said port, declaring the reason for your action to be that
the French have not observed the same neutrality, and that
the Great Duke has not done right to our subjects; as you will
be fully informed by our Envoy, Sir Lambert Blackwell, on that
account. The commander [of the detached ships] shall demand
the immediate removal of the Governor of Legorn.
5. If Sir Lambert has not obtained satisfaction for [William]
Plowman, gent., and our other subjects interested with him,
the commander is to require it to be made at once.
6. He is further to demand a positive declaration and assurance
from the Great Duke that for the future no seamen, our subjects,
shall be detained in his dominions against their will, but shall be
permitted to embark on our ships or those of our Allies. If these
demands are not satisfied then or sooner, you shall return to
Legorne and by all means exact reparation, both for the said
injuries and for the damages we shall sustain in exacting it.
7. If you detach any ships into the Adriatic Sea, order the
commander to take every opportunity to destroy any French
ships which may be in the Venetian ports, directing them to
require from the State of Venice a release of our subjects who
are detained in their service in their ships, galleys or dominions.
Direct him, if this is refused, to take such Venetian subjects as
he can out of their ships and keep them till ours are delivered up,
or bring them to England.
8. He is to require immediate satisfaction for the ship which
they suffered to be burnt by the French at Malamoco, of which
he will receive fuller information from Consul Broughton at
Venice. In case of refusal, take reprisals and order the commander of the Adriatic detachment to do the same.
Pp. 2. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 44-46.
4 May.    CIRCULAR LETTER sent to the CONSULs at ALGIERS and
Whitehall.     elsewhere.
Her Majesty has ordered a squadron of ships to proceed to the
Mediterranean. Her Majesty expects you to correspond as
often as you can with Sir Cloudesly Shovell, who is in command,
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and especially of such as will enable him to protect her Majesty's
subjects and those of her allies, and to annoy the enemy.
If you have any account of the enemy's ships at Toulon,
Gibraltar or Cadiz, you are as soon as possible to send it to
Sir Cloudesly.
As you are to assure the Government of Algiers that her
Majesty's officers have orders to protect their ships that shall
come to our fleet and convoys, and that therefore, as they need fear
no injury from the Dutch who are joined with us, so it is but
just that they should not attempt to do any injury to the Dutch
whilst they are under the protection of our fleet and convoys.
You are to acquaint the Government with this, which the Queen
thinks a very fair arrangement.
Note.-This letter was written to the Governments of Algiers,
Tunis and Tripoli; the two first paragraphs to the Consuls at
Genoa and Legorn, and the first paragraph only to the Consuls at
Venice and Zant.
P. t. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 49, 50.
4 May.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
hitehall.  1. To the President and Governors of " Christ Church Hospital."
"The Queen thinking it is for her service that the boys of
her Hospital of Christ Church that are by King Charles II's
foundation bred up there in learning mathematics and navigation,
should, when they are fit to go to sea, be placed on board her
Majesty's ships, I am commanded... to signify... that
such boys should be bound out to captains and commanders of
her ships, and not to any others."
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 301.
2. To Mr. Hill.
The Queen has directed Lord Secretary Nottingham to write
to the Governor of Ostend that she hopes that Mrs. Wich and
her children, who were lately taken going to Holland and carried
into Ostend, will be treated as belonging to a public minister,
her Majesty's resident at Hamburg, and released to go there.
Command:-To mention the matter to your friend Mr. Zimmorain[?]
at Ostend, ask him to press it, and say that if this privilege is
not accorded, as many women and children and servants
will be given up in exchange for them.
P. i. Ibid.
3. To Dr. Bramston.
Complaints from Danish Envoy. Send a list of all Danish
ships detained and condemned during this war.
P. Ibid, p. 302.
4. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
The Queen has consented to M. de Gallissonniere being
exchanged for the daughter of a Dutch Consul, who is detained
in France. Therefore do not exchange the Marquis for any
English officer till you hear further.
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5. To Captain St. Loe.
Inform yourself as soon as possible whether a vessel called
the Freedom (Floris van der Raet, master), from the Canaries
with goods, brought thence upon occasion of the war, is detained
at Plymouth and for what cause.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 303.
6 May.    PIERRE Du SOULEY[?] to NOTTINGHAM.
London.   Prays that orders may be given for him to have Gazettes as
[Lord Secretary Nottingham] had already promised. Has no
other means of livelihood for his family.
P. 11 (small). (Hol.) French. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 93.
6 May.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.
Whitehall. To the Prince's Council.
The Queen, on the report on the petition of Mrs. Hollyman,
widow of Captain Hollyman, directs that she have a pension of
1001. a year settled on her to be settled on the ordinary estimate
of the Navy. Inform his Royal Highness.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 304.
2. To the Same.
As the Marquis of Carmarthen is not ready to go to sea, and
as it is needful to have a Vice-Admiral of the Red, and Sir Stafford
Fairborne has asked to be allowed to serve again in the fleet and
is ready to go to sea now, the Queen directs a commission to be
made out for him as Vice-Admiral of the Red and to John Graydon,
Esq., now Vice-Admiral of the White, as same. Both commissions
to bear the same date. Command:-To lay this before his Royal
Highness, that he may please to give directions therein at once.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, p. 77.
7 May.    ACCOUNT SHEWING the LossEs in OFFICERS and MEN between
12 March and 7 May, 1703.
Officers killed:-Major Morgan, Captains Brooks and Knox;
Lieutenants Knox, Thompson, Holmes, Parron, Smith and Craven.
Officers wounded:-Colonels Bristow and Byam; Captains
Gerey, Fitzpatrick, Sinklar, Curry, Delony, Earquott and Brooks;
Lieutenants Gossett, Crosby, Milliner, Morris, Moore, Boppell,
Jefferyes and Godfrey; Ensign Robins.
Officers dead:-Colonels Hamilton and Cary; Lieutenants
Crull, Milliner, Mabott, Buckton, Humes, Ennis and Smith.
Soldiers:-Killed, 154; wounded, 211; dead, 72; deserted, 59;
prisoners, 12.
P. l. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 105.
7 May.    HEDGES to the POSTMASTER[S] GENERAL.
Whitehall.  Command:-The packet-boat from Harwich not to go with
to-night's mail till the Queen's letters get there. These will be
sent you to-morrow.
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7 May.    CERTIFICATE by HEDGES.
Whitehall.  John Jones, who says he is riding surveyor of the Customs about
Lydd in Romney Marsh, has said on oath in my office that he
arrested John Perry, Thomas Yoward and Frances Richardson,
three persons who lately came from St. Vallery in France and
were put ashore by a French vessell at the lighthouses near Lydd.
They confirm this by their examinations. They were taken
before the magistrates at Lydd and sent here for further
examination and to be dealt with according to law.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 304.
Same.     HEDGES to ADMIRAL GEORGE CHURCHILL.
Sir G. Rooke being too ill to go to sea on the expedition, the
Queen has appointed you to proceed on it as Admiral of the
Blue. I send you instructions and wish you all success.
P. J. Enclosing:Instructions as aforesaid given at St. James', May 7, 1703.
These are similar to Sir G. Rooke's instructions of 30 April,
1703, q.v. above, pp. 699, 700.
In all pp. 2. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 78, 79.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM to SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVELL.
You will receive herewith a commission to treat with Algiers,
Tunis and Tripoli [see above, p. 705] for renewing the peace, and
some instructions for that purpose; also instructions for services
to be done in the Mediterranean [see above, pp. 705-6]; also some
advices from Genoa with a plan of Toulon and account of the ships
there [see above, pp. 627, 681], and some letters to the Consuls in the
Mediterranean and those on the Barbary coast [pp. 707-8].
You may expect a friendly reception on the Barbary coast,
and even the Dutch will be permitted to come into their ports
with French or Spanish prizes, they doing no hostility in sight
of the Barbary ports and putting up English colours.
You have already received a draught of Buccari in the
Adriatic Sea, and I have to tell you that at Ragusa you will
be well received and supplied, for money, with what the place
affords.
You are directed to go first to Palermo, because the people
there are disposed to revolt and expect your assistance.
The extra 2,0001. you will receive from the Lord Treasurer
is intended for any occasion of land service, but especially for
the Cevennois, if you can have any occasion of sending it to
them.
Referring to the signals [see above, p. 706], they may be made
on the French coast by people who are your enemy; so the word
by which you will know your friends is " Londres."
The officers of Ordnance will describe to you the arms sent
with you, which are chiefly intended for the Cevennois, as also
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The Maltese have for some time treated our ships ill in the
matter of provisioning, and now refuse to let Dutch privateers
with prizes into their port. This is a breach of neutrality, and
you must endeavour to secure for us in this matter treatment as
good as our enemies enjoy, both for England and Dutch men-ofwar, privateers and merchantmen.
Last and important. You cannot expect to hear from hence
of any preparations the enemy may make to intercept you on
your return at Cadiz. I therefore think it very advisable that
when you return to Leghorn you should hire some neutral vessel
to go on before you to the Straits and bring you back an account
of what ships of war may be at Cadiz and Gibraltar for your
better guidance. I wish you all success.
Pp. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 53-55.
Followed by.List of papers sent to Sir Cloudesley Shovell on 19 May, 1703.
These are his commission, instruction &c. [see the preceding
letters]; also treaties with the Barbary States, and additional
articles made with them. All acknowledged received by Sir
Cloudesly Shovell on board the Triumph on 20 May, 1703.
P. i. Ibid, p. 55.
8 May.    COLONEL COLLIER to [NOTTINGHAM].
Jersey.   Has released the Peter of Royan, as ordered.
P. i (small). Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands
2, 54.
8 May.    WARRANT by the COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED to
Sick and      KYMPTON MABBOTT.*
Wounded
Office.   To deliver 200 of the French prisoners at war now in his custody
to Captain F. Purchase, commander of the Plymouth transport.
Choose first those in enclosed list; then all women and children
with their husbands or fathers, then those who by age, wounds
or other reasons are least able to endure imprisonment, then
those who have been longest in prison. They are to go to
St. Malo in France. Take Captain Purchase's receipt for them.
P. 1. Copy. Signed (copies) by Herbert, Adams and Sherrard.
S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 106. Enclosing:List of French prisoners at war who are particularly desired to
be sent from Plymouth in order to their exchange.
Gabriel Arnaud, seaman.
Dupassy Leger, shopkeeper of Nants-six guineas.
Captain De L. Boudavin, commander of a privateer and said
to be very ill and much wounded.
Francis Boudavin or Bodavin, a youth, his brother.
John Thomas, master of the Belone.
John Cartheau, a passenger —gave two guineas.
Clement le Febure, Jacques Aubere and Guillaume L. Cardonier.
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These three are masters of French fishing vessels. The
first two gave eight guineas, the last two.
Anthony de Jonchore, a seaman.
De la Vigne Buisson and Michael Quesnell, each of whom gave
two guineas.
Johannes de la Ralde, a boy ten years old, with the ship's crew
of his father, Martingo de la Ralde, who died at Plymouth.
Johannes Demetsagne, with four or five more seamen belonging
to Captain Deturbide.
Johannes Buadart, master of the Golden Star, taken by the
Mary galley.
Johanes Depre, cabin boy aboard the Laboucheine.
Jan Wanden, doctor on board the said ship.
Benedictus Cassier.
Francis and Benedictus, boys.
Captain Pont [and] Guil. Simon, commanders of the Fortune,
of St. Malo.
P. 1. Signed by E. Burt, Clerk to the Commissioners. S.P.
Dom., Naval 118, 106A.
8 May.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Francis Jones [postmaster at Falmouth].
Send away the packet-boat for Lisbon as soon as you receive
the enclosed packet for Mr. Methuen, the Envoy in Portugal.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 285.
2. To the Lord Treasurer.
Queen's command:-To report on Mr. Methuen's demand
(enclosed) for more than 7001. for expresses and other charges.
Also note of the demands [no details].
P. i. Ibid, pp. 285, 286.
3. To the Officers of the Ordnance.
Sends by command a note of arms, powder, cannon, balls,
&c. [details given], that they may report what portion of them
may be supplied out of her Majesty's stores without prejudice
to her service, and how soon the workmen employed could provide
them, if money were found for the purpose.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 56.
9 May.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To Sir George Rooke.
The Queen, on hearing of your indisposition, gave Admiral
Churchill instructions to take the command of the expedition
which you were to have taken. Hearing from you at Portland
that you are better, she commands you, if you find yourself
able, of which you alone are to judge, to keep the command,
though Admiral Churchill's instructions are of a later date than
yours. This is sent for security, though you and Admiral Churchill
would no doubt have so read your instructions even without this
letter.
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2. To Admiral Churchill.
Similar to, and consequential on foregoing.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 80, 81.
10 May.    ANTONIO VERRIO* to WILLIAM LOWNDES, " Secretary to the
Hampton        Queen in the Treasury."
Court.
Having finished the Queen's staircase at Windsor with her
Majesty's satisfaction, and her Majesty having commanded me
to do a great work at Hampton Court, I am unable to do it without
money, and pray that you will intercede for me with my Lord
Treasurer for payment for the staircase, according to the report
thereof which will be made by Sir Christopher Wren.
P.. (small). (Hol.) In French. Add. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 94.
10 May.    HEDGES to LORD GRANVILLE, Lieutenant General of the
Whitehall.     Ordnance.
The Queen last night received news from     the Duke of
Marlborough of the surrender of Bonn. Command:-To cause
the guns to be fired round the Tower as is usual upon such
occasions.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 305.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM to the LORD TREASURER.
Sends copy of a letter from the Commissioners of Trade &c.
[not entered]; also one from the Office of Ordnance, that what is
necessary therein may be forthwith dispatched.
P. i. Enclosing:The principal Officers of the Ordnance to Lord Secretary
Nottingham.
According to precedent, it is the business of the Navy, and
not ours, to furnish what is needed for the boom at St. John's,
Newfoundland.
P. i. Signed by Musgrave, Bridges and Lowther. Dated Office
of Ordnance 6 May. In all p. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p.
286.
10 May.    ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS to SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVELL.
St. James.  These are for your guidance in making treaties with Algiers,
Tunis and Tripoli, pursuant to your Commission [above, at 4 May,
p. 705]. For this purpose we send you copies of the [existing]
Treaties with them and also of the confirmation of the Treaty
made in August, 1700, with Algiers by Captain Munden and
Consul Cole, and of some additional articles concluded with
Tunis and Tripoli, respectively, by Vice-Admiral Aylmer and
Consul Baker. Consul Cole has renewed the Treaty with Algiers
since our accession in general terms only.  On consideration
therefore of the Treaties with Algiers, we find that Captain Munden
confirmed a Treaty which in one point differed from what had
* See Jiiowy of Natiol Biography, s. v., " Verrio."




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formerly been agreed on concerning passes. We would have you
stipulate in this matter that, in case of a ship having no pass,
the ship shall be confiscated and the master may be detained,
but that all the other seamen and the passengers shall be free,
and that all the goods shall be restored without any embezzlement.
You are to insert therein the second additional article concluded
by Vice-Admiral Aylmer with Tunis in May, 1699, for preventing
our subjects being seduced to turn Turks, a copy of which is
herewith. This is a better article than that in the Treaty made
in 1676 by Sir J. Narborough with Tripoli.
You will also have copies of four articles concluded by
Consul Baker with Tripoli, in October, 1694, and confirmed on
1 June, 1699, by Vice-Admiral Aylmer. Insert them in the
Treaty with that Government, and in all other respects renew
the Treaty made with Sir J. Narborough in 1676.
In confirming the Treaty made by Consul Goodwin with
Tunis in October, 1686, the Governors of that City and Kingdom
promised within three months to reduce the customs on English
goods to three per cent., and not raise them again, or else at
the end of six months to raise the customs on the French nation
to ten per cent. It having been afterwards agreed by ViceAdmiral Aylmer (absolutely and without reference to any other
nation) that for the future English subjects should not pay more
than three per cent, and this having been practised in the time of
the late Dey, you must insist on its continuance and upon its
being expressly stipulated for in the Treaty; since the present
Dey has threatened to raise the customs again [against English
goods] to ten per cent unless he be gratified in his unreasonable
demands for arms, guns &c., to be sent to him.
Take care to insert in this Treaty the second additional article
referred to above, and concluded in May, 1699, by Vice-Admiral
Aylmer.
Several articles in the Treaties with Algiers and Tripoli do
not appear in our Treaty with Tunis. Endeavour to get as
many of them put in as you think right and advantageous to us.
These are the things which at present occur to us; but if you,
on the place, or on getting further advice, think that some further
points should be added, we leave it open to you to make such
articles in that behalf as you think proper.
Endeavour to obtain these alterations; but if you cannot
do so, confirm the Treaties as they now stand.
Pp. 21. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 46-48.
10 May.    HEDGES to SIR CLOUDESLY SHOVELL.
Whitehall.
teha I send your instructions, and will send further explanations if
you desire them.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, p. 81. Enclosing:Instructions to Sir Cloudesley Shovell, Admiral of the White,
and Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's
ships in the Mediterranean.
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to Lisbon, Leghorn and Genoa, and having allotted particular
convoys to Smyrna, Constantinople and Scanderoon, and
sent away the Turkey trade, you are to sail with the remainder
of the ships and with the Dutch ships under your command
to the coast of Naples and Sicily. Having arrived there,
you shall call a council of English and Dutch flag officers
any colonels of English and Dutch marines and land forces
on board and there consider how best to help any forces of the
Emperor which you may find in those parts with marines,
mortars and guns, and with the ships, in any attempt which
those forces, or any others in favour of the House of Austria,
may make. Join with them in annoying the enemy according
to any resolutions which such Council of War may take.
2. Use all opportunities to sink or destroy the enemy's ships
and stores, and to attack Toulon, Cadiz, or any other place on
the enemy's coast, so as such attack shall not prejudice the
main service on which you are employed.
3. If you should hear that there are any considerable magazines
of the French near Genoa which may be destroyed by landing
a party, and find, by a Council of War, that these may be
destroyed by landing the marines at Porto Spezie or elsewhere,
you are to.make the attempt. Assist the landing and reembarking of our men in all possible ways, so far as consistent
with the safety of our ships.
4. If you capture store ships, you may use the stores after they
have been valued by a prize officer, or some other officer
appointed by you. A just account of such stores used must
be kept and returned to the High Court of Admiralty. Part
of the stores, as you think fit, may be given to refresh and
encourage the men. You may dispose of such other prizes
as you take, with the privity of the prize officer, provided the
cargoes are perishable and cannot be preserved without great
inconvenience to the fleet. If any cannot be sold, and are
an incumbrance to the fleet, you may destroy them with the
advice of the flag officers and the privity of the prize officer.
An exact account to be kept in all cases.
5. If you are in want of water or of fresh provisions and can
get them on the enemy's coast, you are empowered to make
a truce and treat with them on those occasions.
6. You may give rewards for extraordinary services out of
the contingent money for the fleet.
7. You shall treat with the subjects of the Grand Signor and
with all other Princes and States who are in amity with us
or the States General; and see that the Dutch do not molest
any who are in amity with us, even though they be not so
with the States General. If you are ill-treated by any neuter
nation, and find that they do not treat you as well as they
do the French, or act unfriendly towards you, you may demand
satisfaction for such treatment, and, if it is refused, take it
by force, provided it is done in your return.
8. After doing all the service you can for us and our allies,
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returning home, and the best means of getting back all men
guns and stores which have been landed, unless it be judged
best for the service of our allies to leave such stores or guns
where they are. You shall consider the best means for
annoying the enemy on the way home, and put into execution
the plan resolved on, providing for picking up the convoy
detachments and for bringing back as many ships as possible
under your convoy.
9. If you hear that any French ships are in the " Adriatique"
and molest the Emperor's convoys for Italy, you may, if it
is judged safe for your ships after such a detachment
is made, send thither such number of ships as may
be thought expedient by a Council of War, to destroy any
French or enemy ships " in any place or port within that
gulf, except the roads and ports of the Grand Segnor, giving
the commander-in-chief of those ships instructions to inform
you of the condition of the port of Buccari and the forwardness
of the fortifications thereof, and with what safety any of our
ships may remain there "; and giving him orders when and
where to rejoin you.
10. Communicate your instructions to the Dutch Admiral,
and ask for his.
Pp. 5. Dated at St. James', 7 May, 1703. S.P. Dom., Entry
Book 208, pp. 82-6.
11 May.    HEDGES to the POSTMASTER[S] GENERAL.
Whitehall.  Similar to same of 7 May, 1703 (above, p. 709).
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 305.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM to FRANCIS JONES.
Delay the packet-boat for Lisbon till further order.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 287.
11 May.    [SAMUEL EYRE] to Louis MAGETT.
London.   I am  providing a vessel [details] to bring over 200 French
prisoners and to return with as many English as she can take in.
I note M. de Saint Sulpice's undertaking to pay demurrage as
per last cartel, and am satisfied. Ten livres for each French
prisoner, which he offers, is not enough, owing to the debasement
of the French coin. I must have a "louis de Oro " for each
prisoner, which was equal to 10 but is now equal to 14 livres.
Charity begins at home, and I can give no better terms. Details.
P. i. Endd. with writer's name and note that the letter was not
sent. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 107.
11 May.    RICHARD WARRE to JOSIAH BURCHETT.
Re the instructions sent to Lord Orford during the last war:A part of them, which you know, is necessary, and it would be
well if they could be produced without his taking the trouble
to come to town. This might be done by sending his key to you,
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readily find this. My lord desires you to write something to this
effect [to Lord Orford] by to-night's post. Details.
P. 4. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 146, pp. 5, 6.
11 May.   ROYAL LICENCE to SIR CLOUDESLY SHOVELL.
St. James.  On account of the distance which you are going in the
Mediterranean, we authorise you to exchange any enemy prisoners
which you may take for their English prisoners taken by them.
Wherein you are to proceed by the same rule as we have enforced
in England pending a cartel-i.e. man for man and quality for
quality. We leave it, however, to your discretion to depart
from this rule if special circumstances justify it.
P. 4. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 49.
14 May.    HEDGES to ADMIRAL CHURCHILL.
Whitehall.  Mine of the 9th, which missed you at Plymouth, has been sent
in duplicate to meet you at Portsmouth. I am sorry it did not
reach Plymouth in time to prevent your going further.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, p. 87.
14 May.   NOTTINGHAM to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
I have acquainted her Majesty with Dr. Bramston's report
re one Tyly, an Englishman, and an Irishman taken by
Captain Lechmore out of a retaken English merchant ship. The
Queen would have the Englishman pardoned and employed on
one of her ships, and the Irishman also if he is a Protestant and
you think fit.
Her Majesty   approves the suggestion  of Rear-Admiral
Beaumont conveyed in yours to me of the 12th, and he should
act accordingly unless you give him other directions.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 56, 57.
15 May.   LIST of MERCHANT SHIPS BOUND from JAMAICA to ENGLAND.
Thirty-five ships, the names, guns and destination of which
are given. The destination is in every case either London or
Bristol, except in one, Liverpool, and in one, Virginia. The ships
are all to be ready on 15 May. The names of the masters are as
follows:
Robert Ranson, Thomas Wilkinson, James Tanner, John
Lodge, John Crowder, Robert Doulinge, John Sumners, Thomas
Ward, William Hilliard, John Hicks, John Read, Thomas Upton,
Gilbert Bant, James Smith, Daniel Noyes, Antony Madden,
Thomas Richard, William  Rowse, Antony Bristlebolt, William
Wassall, Joshua Thomas, Henry Perryne, John Gladman, George
Thomas, John Flavell, George Wake, John Hoart, James Osbourne,
John Wright, Nathaniel Millner, William Rogers, John Ackerly,
John Parker, William Beevin.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 108.
15 May.   HEDGES to the COMMISSIONERS of SICK and WOUNDED.
Whitehall.  The Queen directs, on the petition of Burdon and Hogg, of
Bideford (enclosed), that Joseph Laroffey, named in the petition,




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and now prisoner at Southampton, be detained there till the
petitioners' hostages be sent back from France and satisfaction
made for robbing the ships.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 305.
15 May.    COLONEL COLLIER to NOTTINGHAM.
Jersey.   Prisoners escaped from Dinant say that English prisoners there
are much worse treated than heretofore. They heard that a
squadron of ships was fitting out, but do not know whither it is
bound.
Privateers have brought in prizes laden with charcoal and
ballasted with sea-coal.
P. i. Signed. Endd. S.P. Dom., Channel Islands 2, 55.
16 May.    CAPTAIN HOVENDON WALKER to SAME.
Aboard the
Boye, Nevis.  Details as to receipt of letters. Has been ill. Proceeds:I have been at Antegua and had to supply the garrison with
common powder for their musquets, having no small powder.
Their arms were very bad, only 50 flints being serviceable out of
1,000. The musquet balls which I was able to give them were
taken out of partridge shot-cases. I had to stop the victuallers
going to Jamaica, otherwise we must have run short of provisions,
and have made for Jamaica instead of " Gardeloupe." A collision
between a transport ship and mine forced me in to Mountserat for
repairs. We anchored at the north part of "Gardeloupe" on
March 9, and after landing a small party, which met no
opposition, we came in nearer to the town on the 10th.
The troops, which were on shore two months, had no other
provisions but the Queen's. The English being masters of the
town and fortifications, I supplied Major Codrington with some
boats, and he sent out parties, which brought in some cattle
and destroyed several plantations. But provisions fell short,
especially bread, and on April 25 I had to put the men on
short allowance, that it might if possible last to Jamaica, where
I was to sail, by his Royal Highness's orders, on 20 May.
On April 25, at a Council of sea officers, all agreed that
we should take 15 days to sail to Jamaica and should stay at
some of the Leeward Islands to prepare for doing so.
On 30 April General Codrington, who had been very ill for
some time, left "Gardaloupe" and returned in the Maidstone to
his Government. He left Colonel Whetham in command, who
being also very ill, handed over soon to Colonel Wills, and went
to Antegua.
On 3 May, at a Council of sea and land officers, it was
decided without dissent to re-embark the men, and this was done
on 7 May without loss of a man. The town and fortifications
were burnt, and the enemy's guns either burst or taken aboard.
The latter were left at the Leewards to supply the ships whose
guns had been split ashore at the batteries which were raised there
by the seamen I sent ashore. This was a very difficult task,
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The mortality on board ship has been very great-in all 760
men, besides the many buried by the transports; but amongst
the soldiers the sickness has not been so great.
The soldiers allotted to the Leeward Islands are all ashore,
and on the 20th I shall sail for Jamaica, pursuant to his Royal
Highness's orders.
Pp. 31. (Hol.) Endd. "Received 12 July."     S.P. Dom.,
Naval 118, 109.
17 May.    HEDGES' LETTERS.
Whitehall..,
1. To the Prince's Council.
I have heard from Sir George Rooke from off Ushant on the
12th, and he sends resolutions of the Council of War, which decide
that the fleet should go as far as Belle Isle, but that it is not
safe to go further so early in the year; and that from thence
frigates might be sent out to gain intelligence.  He says that
M. Coetlogon has left Brest. The Queen has decided to call
his fleet home, as soon as the frigates rejoin him, to be sent on
other services. The Lord High Admiral to send directions therein
accordingly.
P. j. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 208, pp. 87, 88.
2. To George Clarke.
The Queen has further directed to add words to Sir G. Rooke's
orders for bringing him home promptly without waiting for the
frigates which he sent out, if it can be done with safety. Details.
He is to send them word to follow him to England.
P. J. Ibid, p. 88.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS,
1. To the Prince's Council.
Queen approves proposed pension of 3001. a year to
Sir Edward Gregory in consideration of his age and long service.
Lay this before the Lord High Admiral for his directions therein.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 287.
2. To the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded.
Queen approves your proposals of the 15th to remove the French
officer prisoners from Yarmouth to Norwich, from Dover to
Canterbury, from Southampton to Winchester, and from
Plymouth to some place ten or twelve miles from the port. Give
orders accordingly.
P. i. Ibid, p. 288.
3. To Sir Cloudesly Shovell.
I send this by the persons mentioned to you. The Queen would
have you receive them aboard and desires that they be treated
with civility.
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4. To the Marquis de Miremont.
If you will send to my Lord Treasurer the French gentlemen
whom you have destined to embark on the fleet, he will furnish
them with money; because they are to leave here at once for
Portsmouth. I send a letter herewith to Sir Cloudesly Shovell
to receive them on board the ship which he shall find most proper
for them.
P.;. French. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 57.
17 May.   WARRANT    by  REAR-ADMIRAL   WHETSTONE    to  CAPTAIN
Port Royal.    HUNTINGTON, of the Dunkirk.
By virtue of an order from the Lord High Admiral, you are
to sail with your ship and the Kingston and Greenwich (who are
to take orders from you), and take under your care all such
merchant ships as are ready to go with you to England. Take
all imaginable care of their safety. Direct the Kingston to sail
at night in rear of the fleet, the Greenwich on either wing to keep
the ships from straggling. You shall lead the van with the light
and not suffer any of them to go ahead of you by day or by night
or to go out of shot of you to windward. Be careful not to over
press the merchant ships by carrying too much sail, " they being
deep and heavy ships." On all emergencies advise with the
captains of her Majesty's ships with you, and make straight
for England. Go into Plymouth for orders, if you get none to
the contrary, go on to the Downs. Report as often as you can
to the Lord High Admiral. See the ships of Bristol safe into
Cork or Kinsale, or send one of the warships with them as far as
Lundy Island. On arriving in England, give an account at once
of all French prisoners in your charge. Words of warranty.
P. 1. Signed. Dated as in margin "on board H.M.S. Bredah
at the Keys before Port Royal, Jamaica." Endd. S.P. Dom.,
Naval 118, 110.
Same.     SAME to CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER FOGG, Commander of the
Falmouth.
You are to sail with your ship and the York for Virginia, to
pick up the ships at Virginia appointed for that convoy. If you
are the eldest captain, you are to take from the ships there their
orders for your further proceeding; but if not you are not so,
you and the York are to take orders from the senior officer.
As a very rich and large fleet of merchantmen is going home
hence with the Dunkirk, Kingston and Greenwich, and cannot
(it is thought) go through the Windward passage, but must go
through the Gulf, you are ordered, for strengthening that convoy,
to join it till the ships get through the Gulf.
If then you see nothing that may do them harm, proceed as
before and make the best of your way to Virginia. When with
the Jamaica convoy, take command as the eldest officer. Words
of warranty.
P. i. Signed. Endd. Ibid, 111.




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1703.
17 May.    ORDER IN COUNCIL.
St. James'.  Present:-Queen in Council.
Samuel Alston's petition read. He was without cause turned
out of the band of gentlemen pensioners, which employment cost
him 5001., by the late Lord Lovelace, as the Duke of St. Albans
certified. Prays for confirmation of an Order in Council of
23 May, 1695, by which he was recommended by the then Lords
Justices to the Duke of St. Albans for admission on the
first vacancy.
Sets out the order of 23 May, 1695.
Order. Petition granted.
Pp. 1    i. Signed by John  Povey.   Endd.    S.P. Dom.,
Anne 2, 95.
18 May.    NOTTINGHAM to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Whitehall.  I sent you on 24 March a representation from the Commissioners
of Trade and Plantations, approved by her Majesty. One article
in it chiefly concerned the Treasury which I sent to the Lord
Treasurer. He has now given orders in it, in so far as it relates to
his office, and I send it to you inasmuch as some particulars in
it require orders to the captains of the convoy and Victuallers of
the Navy, who are under his Royal Highness's directions. Lay it
before him for the necessary orders in conformity with her
Majesty's pleasure in Council.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 288, 289. Enclosing:Extract of a Representation (&c. as above) relating to thedefence
of Newfoundland, dated 19 March, 170~, and approved
by her Majesty in Council on 20 March, 1701.
It is now time to send by convoy supplies for the company of
-  officers and 80 men quartered in Newfoundland. We
send the annexed account of what is necessary in clothing
and provisions.
In relation to the provisions, they cannot brew in Newfoundland
in winter with malt, and can scarcely do it in summer, but
brew much more easily with.  " rolosses."  They have in
previous years been obliged to exchange the malt sent hence
for " molosses," so we think that the price of the malt usually
sent, and not the malt itself, should go. This would save
freight, and avoid accidents of transit. The commodore in
command to prevent embezzlement.
Pp. 1}. In all pp. 21. Ibid, pp. 288-291.
18 May.   REAR-ADMIRAL WHETSTONE to the SECRETARIES OF STATE.
at thedys  I send duplicate of mine of April 17, which I hope arrived safe.
[Port Royal]. I hope the ships to windward will come down before the season
advances. Newfoundland coast dangerous in winter. No appearance or news of those ships yet.
Relates the detachment of convoy ships to take merchantmen
to England, his orders to Captain Fogg &c. [see above, p. 720].
Proees. —They are taking home 130 French prisoners. The


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722


STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1703.
Canterbury has returned from a cruise to Petit Guava. She
took a French ship [details of capture]. I will send an account
of the prize and her cargo.
P. 1. Signed. Add. Endd. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 112.
18 May.   HEDGES to the MAYOR OF DOVER.
Whitehall.  You were right in putting the twenty-one soldiers lately come
from France into quarters. Continue to allow them 5d. a day
and to have care taken of them. You will be reimbursed.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 306.
18 May.   NOTE from the LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.
To have it determined in the Cabinet Council whether the
Lord Lieutenant shall offer a Money Bill (prepared at Council
Board) to the Parliament of Ireland or not, and that whatever is
resolved on be added to his instructions, which cannot be signed
until this point is determined.
Further, if it be thought fit to offer such Bill whether this
addition to the 29th instruction be sufficient:
"Nor until a Money Bill and such other Bills as you and our
Privy Council there shall think expedient for our service and the
good of that our kingdom be first transmitted to us in form under
our Great Seal of Ireland."
P. I (small). Endd. with date and "R. from D. of Ormond."
S.P. Ireland 363, 6.
18 May.   NOTTINGHAM to the SAME.
Whitehall  The Queen intends to summon a Parliament in Ireland this
summer, and some Bills must be annexed to the Commission
empowering your Grace to hold one. Command:-So soon as
you arrive in Dublin transmit some Bills in form to be considered
here and sent annexed to your Commission to call and hold a
Parliament. This should be done at once.
P. 1. S.P. Ireland, Entry Book 3, pp. 129, 130.
19 May.   NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall  1. To the Lord Treasurer.
Queen's command:-I send you enclosed petition of the Yeomen
of the Guard. Consider it and give such directions for their
gratification as you think proper. Note of enclosure.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 291.
2. To Francis Jones, at Falmouth.
Continue to stop the packet-boat with the mail despatched
from London on the 11th; but send away at once the boat with
the letters sent before that day and particularly those which I
sent on the 8th for Mr. Methuen.
P. i. Ibid, p. 292.
3. To the Lord Treasurer.
The Queen intends to send Mr. Halley to Vienna and thence




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723


1703.
to Buccari. Command:-To give him so much money as you
think necessary for that service.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 293.
4. To the Recorder of [London].
Command:-To suspend execution of Jane Housdon. The
Queen has determined that she shall be transported, for which
you are to take the proper steps.
P. I. Ibid.
5. To the Attorney or Solicitor General.
I send by command the case of the French weavers for
your consideration and report.
Also note that the French weavers set out their liberties under
King Charles (II), King James and King William, which are
now denied, and pray relief.
P. i. Ibid, p. 296.
6. To the Lord Treasurer.
I send by command Elizabeth Barker's case for your consideration and report.
Also note. Petitioner set out that she is the daughter of Hugh
Peters, who had a small estate, real and personal, in New England,
that on 1 November, 1659, he by deed granted it all to her, but
that in 1660 he was condemned and executed for high treason
and his estate forfeited, but his small estate in New England
was never seized for the Crown. She asks for the Queen's letters
to the Governor of Boston Colony to pass a patent to her for the
said lands, formerly her father's.
P. t. Ibid, p. 297.
19 May.    HEDGES to WILLIAM BLATHWAYT.
Whitehall.  Re the twenty-one soldiers [mentioned in my letter to the
Mayor of Dover of 18 May]. My Lords desire you will take
proper care that they do not desert till Captain Brodie comes
over, and meantime that they be subsisted and the Mayor of
Dover repaid what he has paid out for them.
P. j. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 306.
20 May.    ROYAL LETTERS.
St. James'.  The following regulations shall be observed in St. James' Park
under pain of the Queen's displeasure.
1. Sentinels or gatekeepers to be placed at every public gate
leading into the Park, " and directions given them by the Deputy
Ranger not to admit any ordinary or mean people, beggars or
dogs into the Park, nor any persons who carry any sort of
burthens."
2. No coaches whatever to be admitted to the Park except
those bearing the Queen's livery or that of the Prince Consort,
"except the Duke of Buckingham, and only from his house
through St. James' Mews passage into St. James' Street and
no otherwise, and except also the Earl of Bradford."




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1703,
3. No public carting to be made through the Park, but only
employees engaged in repairing the Park to be allowed to
cart.
4. Nobody to ride through or about St. James' Park on horseback, except only Henry Wise.
5. " No person to walk on the grass, but on the Mall or gravelled
foot-path, and in all wet weather to walk only on the gravelled
foot-paths and not on the Mall; and that no person be admitted
to walk in the Park with pattens."
6. "No person to presume to go into the wilderness or
plantation where the deer lie, nor to disturb them or any of the
wild fowls, nor to disturb the colts or fillies."
7. No person to make any doors, passages or encroachments
into the Park or throw down or demolish any of the Park walls.
8 "No person to presume to sell anything whatsoever in the
Park or dry any linen therein."
9. The officer on guard to send a corporal and soldiers when
necessary to assist the keepers in enforcing these regulations and
bringing offenders before a Justice of the Peace.
Pp. 2. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 352, pp. 163, 164.
20 May.   HEDGES to the PRINCE'S CoUNCIL.
Whitehall.
Whitehall  Queen approves Mr. Bowles' petition. He is to have 3001. a
year pension out of the ordinary of the Navy for so long as he is
out of employment.
P. a. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, p. 308.
20 May.    COLONEL RICHARDS to HEDGES.
[Albuqurque. Albuquerque, a much more considerable town than Valentia, is
ours, at least they have demanded to capitulate. " That which
heightens our good fortune is that we have not cannon shot to
continue firing two hours longer. I would not discover this secret
did I find myself guilty of so great a fault."
I shall starve in this country if the Queen does not pay me,
as frequently promised.
P.S.-I am told cannon shot has arrived.
Pp. 1k (small). (Hol.) Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 96.
21 May.    HEDGES to the ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Whitehall  Lord Montgomery having lately come into England and having
presented himself to me, I have, by her Majesty's direction, taken
bail for his appearance before me or Lord Secretary Nottingham
whenever required. The Queen desires you to consult with the
other Q.C.'s, to report what should be done in this case. You
have already had the facts.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 101, pp. 309, 310.
Same.     NOTTINGHAM to the PRINCE'S COUNCIL.
Do you think it well to give up M. Sorelli [de Sorel] in exchange for Lieutenant Baily and a Captain of Grenadiers?




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726


1703.
The Queen has appointed a Cabinet Council to be held at
Windsor every Sunday* in the afternoon during her stay at Windsor,
and particularly that the Lords shall attend her there next Sunday.
I let you know of this that you may attend there next Sunday
and during the Queen's stay, as you did last summer.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 58.
22 May.    [RICHARD WARRE] to MR. BURT.
Whitehall,  Sends enclosed to be shewn to " the Commissioners " tlhat something may be done to relieve the English mariners at Marseilles.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 146, p. 5. Enclosing -
Memorandum from Genoa.
Here is come in a felucca in five days from Marseilles, where
the English mariners begged up and down the streets, having
no allowance.
P. i. Dated, Genoa, 5 May, 1703. Ibid.
24 May.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Officers of the Ordnance.
I return yours of the 18th to the Lord Treasurer re the boom
in Newfoundland, and the letter from the Commissioners of Trade
and Plantations, which have been laid before the Queen. Command:-To provide the materials represented in the memorials
annexed to the Commissioners' letter, to go to Newfoundland by
the next convoy. Apply to the Lord Treasurer for the necessary
money.
Also note of enclosures.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, pp. 293, 294.
2. To Kenrick Edisbury, Agent of the packet-boat at Harwich.
Send away at once the fastest sailor at Harwich [with enclosed];
to be given to M. Vanderpoole at the Brill, the captain taking his
receipt for them, that he may despatch them with all speed.
The captain is to throw them overboard in case of inevitable
danger of capture, and to have a weight ready tied to them for
that purpose. Express command of her Majesty.
P. i. Ibid, pp. 294, 295.
3. To the Prince's Council.
Command:-To send you enclosed from Scotland, that cruizers
may be appointed to clear that coast, which the Queen thinks
necessary for trade. Receive his Royal Highness' directions for
prompt action in the matter.
Her Majesty approves his Royal Highness' memorial for
stopping the press on or about the Thames on this side of the
Hope point. Give the necessary directions.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, pp. 58, 59.
* Note a regular order for the Cabinet to meet on Sunday.




726


STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1703.
25 May.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Lord Treasurer.
I send part of a letter from Sir C. Shovell re imprest money
for the contingencies of his squadron, that you may give the
necessary directions.
The discoverer of Daniel Fooe [De Foe] claims the 501. reward
offered in the Gazette for information which should lead to his
arrest, but does not wish his name known. If you will pay the
money to Mr. Armstrong, I will see that the right person gets it.
Note.-Sir C. Shovell asked for 2,0001. for contingencies.
Details.
P. 1. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 295.
2. To Francis Jones, at Falmouth.
On receipt of this send away the packet-boat with the letters
of the 11th and tornight's mails.
P. 1. Ibid, pp. 295, 296.
3. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
Two French officers, Knights of Malta, captured in the
Mediterranean by the Sea Horse (Captain Samuel Jones), will
reach Deptford in her on Thursday. Send and take them into
your care, treating them as prisoners of war.
P. i. Ibid, p. 296.
4. To Sir Cloudesly Shovell.
The Lord Treasurer will give directions to have you paid at
Portsmouth.
P. J. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 59.
24-27 May.  London Gazette for this date.
Pp. 2. Printed by Edward Jones, in the Savoy. S.P. Dom.,
Anne 2. 97.
27 May.    PIERRE DUZOULEY to NOTTINGHAM.
London.   I am very poor and beg to be re-established in my small
business. Having had no Gazettes for nearly nine months from
the office, I have had to borrow more than 501. to keep my
children. I have always behaved like a good Protestant refugee
and acted for the good of the State. I shall await your answer
at the foot of your stairs. The Speaker will have told you of other
circumstances of my case [details], so need say no more of them.
Pp. 1I. (Hol.) In French. A subservient letter. Ibid, 98.
29 May.    NOTTINGHAM to SIR CLOUDESLY SHOVELL.
Whitea  I send extract of a letter just received, which may be useful
to you in the Mediterranean, and a translation. I do not know
who wrote it, but he seems to give a good account of the Port of
Toulon.
Note of the enclosure [see above, p. 627].
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 60.




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1703.
General date, DOCUMENTS RELATING to the CASE of MARGARET ATCHERLEY.
about     Petition of Margaret Atcherley, an infant of 18 years only,
30 May.        daughter and  heir of Richard Atcherley, deceased,
Thomas Harwood and Margaret his wife (late the wife
of Richard Atcherley, and mother and guardian of the
said Margaret), and Richard Hill, uncle to Margaret
Atcherley, shewing that:A marriage has been arranged by Tho. Harwood, Mrs. Harwood
and Hill, between Margaret Atcherley and Robert Lowndes, Esq.,
son and heir apparent of William Lowndes, Esq. Hill has agreed
to give the bride 4,0001. as a marriage portion. This is more
than her whole estate is worth; "but Hill will give it if he may
have all such estate.
Lowndes, in consideration of the said 4,0001., has agreed to
make a suitable provision for the said Margaret Atcherley and
the children of her said marriage.
Part of Margaret Atcherley's estate consists of lands, tenements,
tithes &c. in Weston Lullingfield in Salop, and of a messuage in
Shrewsbury. These together are worth 1001. a year and no more.
On the marriage of Margaret Atcherley's parents these lands were
settled by indentures dated on 6 and 7 June, 1680, to the use of
Richard Atcherley for his life, and after his death on his wife
for her life for her jointure, and after her death on the heirs of his
body lawfully begotten on hers and their issue, and, failing them,
to the other heirs of the body of Richard Atcherley, and, failing
them, to his right heirs for ever.
Margaret Atcherley, being the only daughter of the marriage,
is thereby seized of all the premises in reversion expectant on her
mother's life interest, to herself and the heirs of her body, with
remainder to herself in fee.
It would be to her advantage to convey the estate for the
considerations aforesaid to Hill, but this cannot be done unless
she is permitted to suffer a common recovery by warrant under
the Privy Seal.
Prays for letters under the Privy Seal to the Lord Chief Justice
and other Justices of the Common Pleas to permit her to appear
by her guardian in the said Court and suffer the said recovery for
the purpose of a conveyance to Hill and his heirs in such a way
as may be advised, according to the said agreement.
Order. 28 May, Whitehall. Referred to the Attorney or
Solicitor General. Further pleasure.
P. 1, large. The reference signed by Nottingham. Endd.
S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 99.
Report of the Attorney General on the foregoing petition.
Recites the facts and submissions of law alleged. The value
of the lands in Salop is under 1001. a year. Proceeds:-Privy
Seals such as that now prayed have often been granted, and
may be so in this case.
Pp. 1i. Signed. Ibid, 100.


This concludes the documents relating to this case.




728


STATE - PAPERS, DOMESTIC.


1703.
30 May.    LORD WEYMOUTH to HEDGES.
[Longlea].  A relation of mine, Mrs. Thynne, has a suit in Chancery with
one Brett, about a lease let by Mr. Thynne, who was murdered.
She has great reason to think it "was made for brokage of the
marriage with my Lady Ogle." At the hearing of the cause,
Mr. Smith, who is nearly allied to you, will be called. He was
then registrar of the Ecclesiastical Court, and examined
Major Brett on interrogatories. The favour I would beg of you
is to ask Mr. Smith to remember as many circumstances as he
can of what happened at the time of Brett's examination.
P. 1 (small). (Hol.) Add, Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 101.
31 May.    NOTTINGHAM'S LETTERS.
Whitehall.  1. To the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded.
Command:-Send the [two] Knights of Malta to the Tower
to be treated as prisoners of war.
P. i. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 104, p. 297.
2. To the Prince's Council.
Command:-To order the Navy Board to pay Consul Erle's
bills from Lisbon. They are for 491. 3s. 3d. for piloting her
Majesty's ships in and out of Lisbon.
The Queen approves of five ships being joined to Sir Cloudesly
Shovell's squadron. Give orders for them to be ready to proceed
with Sir Cloudesly if ordered.
P. *. S.P. Dom., Entry Book 209, p. 61.
May.     NOTE on the DMIVDENT for MAY, 1703.*
The left column, 111. Os. Od.; the right, 471. Os. Od.
P. I. Endd. S.P. Dom., Anne 2, 102.
1702.
6 Oct.    CERTIFICATE by the ENGLISH CONSUL and MERCHANTS at
Teneriffe.    TENERIFFE.
That the persons who signed the certificate (S.P. Dom., Naval
118, 104, q.y., supra, p. 703) are the master and crew of the Anne
of Bridgewater, and were on board when she was seized at
Fuerteventura.
P. i (large). Copy. Signed by Consul Roope and by M. Robins,
C. Harrison, J. Whitton, Ch. Savage, P. Lynch, J. Lorking, T.
Michell, J. Trollop and J. Thomas. S.P. Dom., Naval 118, 104
verso.


* See entry of 31 March, 1702, at pp. 15, 16.




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(731 )


GENERAL INDEX.


N.B.-In the following Index the great
majority of the persons mentioned
in lists of commissione and the like
appear under the surname only.
A
Abbington, Richard, 388.
Abbott, Maurice or Morris (Beds),
395, 521......., M.,  66 7.
Abbotstown, 666.
Abercorn, James Hamilton, 6th Earl
of, 143.............. and lighthouses in
Ireland, 227.
Abercromby, Abercromby, Abercrumy, of Glassask, 354....... Alexander, 289......., Sir  James,  354........ of  Tullibodie,  354.......  376.......,Capt. James, 376.
Aberdeen, letters from (?), 283........ M.P. for, 283 and note........ postage from to Edinburgh,
284.
Aberdeenshire, 355......., lands in, 455, 468, 477........ sheriff of, 355.
Abergeldie, 355.
Abergeldy (2), 355.
Aberuchil, Aberuchell, 353, 460, 572.
Abingdon, Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl
of, 70, 218, 389, 390, 391, 488.
Abington, Capt. A., 364, 368..
Accession Day, to be a holiday, 613.
Accounts, Commissioners of, letter
from, 241.
Achison, Capt. A., 159.
Ackerly, J., 717.
Acton, A., 136, 370.
Adam, H., Town Clerk, Leeds, 507.
Adams, 2nd Lieut. R. (Mordaunts),
363......., Dr. R. (a Commissioner of
Sick and Wounded), 117, 279;
and see Commissioners,- &c....... John, M.A., 359........ Capt. (Villiers'), 364........ ieut, Wm. (Webb's), 374........ Lieut. Wi. (Romney's), 380.


Adamson, John, 459.
Addee, 230.
Addingham, 103.
Adderstone, Edreston, Foster of,
524.
Adin, Mr., 338.
Addis, J., 526.
Addison, Thomas, 554.
Aden, barony (Scotland), 477.
Adjutant General (Scotland), 69, 467.
Admiral, Lord High. See Pembroke,
and    George,  Prince   of
Denmark........ C o m m i s s i o n e r s   f o r   o f f i c e   o f,
172.
Admiral of the Blue, 21........ of the Fleet, 21; and see
Rooke and Shovell......., in America, etc., 29.
Admiralty and Navy, Solicitor to,
315, 316....... Coffee  House,  596...... Court of, 512, 673.............. and foreign vessels,
412............,   H e d g e s   a n d,   6 9 5 n............... Commissioners of,
Appeal from, 486.............. Deputy Registrar of,
257..........,.,  and offences on the
high seas, 299............... in Barbados, 172............. Procurator-General
of, 53, 62, 305, 312.............. and prizes, 53, 62,
91, 97........ Commission of Oyer and
Terminer for, 257......., Office of, letters from, passim;
and see Burchett; Clarke;
Pembroke; George, Prince of
Denmark;    and   Prince's
Council........., Commissions of
Inquiry from, 271.........., and Newfoundland,
645....... Secretary to. See Burchett....... and see Navy.
Admunds, R., 552.
Ad quod damnum, writ of, 448, 486.
Adrianople, 700.
Adriatic Sea, England in, 707, 716......., detachment to, 215, 216.




732


GENERAL INDEX.


Advocate General, etc., 313, 367.
Africa, treating with States in, 696.
African Co., Royal, and French
Guinea Co., 416, 417....... and France, 80, 81......., wish to enlist prisoners of
war, 264........ their trade  in  negroes, 29........ and see Royal African Co.
Aghada, Union of, 83, 398.
Aghmouty, J., 158.
Aglionby, Eglionsby, William, 48
and note, 53, 62.............. Envoy  to  Switzerland, 497.
Aim6, William, 117.
Aires, Mr., 614.
Aitkine, John, 469.
Aix, Isle of, 93.
Albermarle, Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of, 667............, officers of his troop,
383.
Albery, J., 90, 264.
Albuquerke, Albequerke, Duke of,
49, 110, 181.
Albuquerque, Albuqurque, letter
from, 724.
Alchorne, T., 526.
Alcock, Lt. J., 550.
Aldborough, defence of, 170, 419.
Aldebert, 234.
Alderson, G., 324.
Aldgate, storehouse at, 370.
Aldridge, F., 158.
Aldworth, Richard, 144.
Aleppo, pass for English merchant to
via France, during war, 408,
409.
Alesieu, 230.
Alexander, 372........ Capt. T., 160......., R., 471.
Alexandria, trade to, 243.
Algiers, 674........, Consul or late Consul at, 162,
497, 642, 674......,. treaty with, 705, 706-7............. of 1713 with, 713........ presents for, 497, 598.
Allardeis, Provost, 283.
Allardyce (same?), 353.
Allemonde, Almonde (Dutch Admiral), 83, 97, 108, 131, 216,
236 and note, 539, 567.
Allen, Ensign J. (Cutts'), 383........ Henry, 508n, 509, 510......., Richard, 289........ Allin  alias Anguish, Sir R.,
(D.-Lt., Ipswich), 393, 523........, Alderman William (of Chester), 249.......,James (shipmaster), 278.
Allenaquith, 354.
Allengreg, 354.


Aliens (Scotland), 355.
Alleyn, H., 703.
Allison, 363........ William, 381.
All Saints, Oxford, petition of inhabitants of, 141.
Almonde. See Allemonde.
Almoner, Lord, 10, 24, 26, 52.
Almsmen, application for warrants
for, or warrants for, appointment of, 423, 433, 445, 447,
450, 510.
Alphen, 363.
Alston, Sir J., 521........ Samuel,  order  on  his  petition, 721.
Althorp (Isle of Axholm), memorial
by parishioners of, 267........ Rector  of, 267, 359.
Altor, 354.
Alves, 452.
Amatis, 229.
Ambergrease, 432.
Ambler, -, J.P. (Spalding), 392,
626.
Ambrose, Edw., 392.
Amelat, Monsieur, 513.
America, Admiral in, 29........ mail service to, 581........, and  see  W est  Indies  and
America.
Amersham, 123.
Amflett, J., 525.
Amiott, Dr., 676.
Amsterdam, merchant of, 250, 646........ merchants    of, petition
Queen re bills of exchange,
571........ allowance  to  English  chaplain [?] at, 680........, and  see United  Provinces.
Anderson, 364....... alias Elliott, 631........ Capt., 127........ S., 56........ Sir J., 392.
Andre, F., 64.
Andrewes, J., 339.
Andrews, 364......,., 391......,T., 48......., Sir John, 391.
Andros, A., 606.....,  A. (same?), 260........ Sir E., 86, 201, 260, 297.
Anglesey, 505........ John  Annesley, 4th  Earl of,
391.
Anguish. See Allen.
Anktill, Anktell, Capt. 0., 158, 562.
Annagh (co. Galway), 662, 667.
Annand, 377.
Annandale,    William   Johnston,
1st Marquis of, 169, 456,
571.




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Annandale, William Johnston-cont............... President of Privy
Council (Scotland), 479......,......, Councillor of Treasury (Scotland), ibid.
Annapolis, 185.
ANNE, Queen; coronation oath of in
Scotland, 1........, her policy in Scotland, 7, 8,
58, 59, 143, 655; and see
Scotland........ and Scotch Kirk, 13, 58.......,  Dominican    conspirator
against, 21........ and petitions for charity,
24........ jewels for her coronation,
27........, William  III's papers and,
53........ scandalous words against,
59, 638........ and  Deputy  Lieutenants,
114........ and Honble. Artillery Company, 140........ going to Bath, 217........, her pictures in Holland, 218........, at  Oxford, 222-3........ going  to  Bristol,  236......., and Oxford Academy, 240........ and plunder at Port St.
Mary's, etc., 271, 272, 310........ her attitude as to Lord
Almoner, 304......, old servant of, 427........ and Kirkby, Wade and Constable, 537,....... will be a god-mother to a
Saxon Prince, 543........ and Electress of Hanover,
618........, rumoured death of, 641.
Annesley, G., 524........ and see Anglesey.
Anstruther, Sir W., 477, 572.
Antigua, Antegoa, Antegua, Antegoe,
213, 214, 267, 441, 589.
news from, 185.
letter from, 511.
Antistes, Most Rev., 514.
Apothecar:es, Society of [London],
their memorandum     as  to
medicine for the public service, 334-5.
Appleby, minister of, 103.
Appling, 363.
Apprice, R., 395.
Apsley, 383.
Arabin, 229.
Arbitration (commercial), case of
submisssion to, 529.
Arbothock, 353.
Arbuthnot, J., 353.
Arohangel, 116, 420.


Archangel-cont......., many ships gone to, 150......, silk trade via, 427.
Archbald, 363.
Archer, S., 158.
Arckman, 373.
Ardentine, 354.
Arderry, 667.
Ardlogie, 455, 456.
Ardmannock, lordship of, 478.
Ardmellie, Ardnellie, 354, 355.
Ardoch, 354.
Ardsallagh, 664.
Areskine. See Erskine.
Argill, 374.
Argyle, Archbald Campbell, 1st
Duke of, 2, 169, 353, 456..........,, a Major-General,
461, 469, 476............... release to, ibid.
Argyleshire, 355.
Ariskine. See Erskine.
Arlington House or Goring House,
414.
Arlington, Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of,
414.
Armagh, Archbishop of, 143, 332....... district, 665.
Armston, J., 523.
Armstrong, 373.......,. -, 377........ Mr.,  726....... Lt. J., 550........, Sir Thomas, 598.
ARMY, the:
recruiting for, 4, 568, 626.
pay of, 5........, in  W est  Indies,  151-2.
tents for, 11.
deserters from, 27, 688.
in Scotland, 68-70, 531.
in Ireland. See Ireland.
plunder by. See Plunder, and
St. Mary's port.
debts due to, 317.
Commissions in, full list of, 360
seq.
Provost Marshal and Judge
Advocate, 361, 486.
Apothecary General, 385.
fuzees and arms for, 386.
warrants relating to, 497 seq.,
577-80.
Courts Martial, 500.
full train of artillery, 577-80.
recruits ill-cared for, 599.
half-pay officers in Ireland, 561 -2.
supply of cloth for, 668.
Arnall, Capt. T., 81, 417
Arnatt, 369.
Arnaud, G., 711.
Arncaple, 354.
Arnot, Alexander, 471.
Amtillie, 354.




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Arnold, Michael, 619.
Arran, Charles Butler, 2nd Earl of
5, 94, 288, 387.............. his regiment, 369,
372, 387............, Brigadier-General,
362.
Arras, memorandum from, 642.
Arthington, C., 394.
Arthur, Sir D., banker in Paris, 323.
Arthure, James, 471.
Artillery, 22, 23, 499, 608....... in Scotland, 69........ needed for siege operations,
608......., detailed account of train of,
577-80....... Co. of London, Queen and,
140............, their ground at Moorfields, ibid......., Garden, 370.......  Co.  (Scotland),  452.............., captain of, 472.
Arundell of Trerice or Trerise, John
Arundell, 3rd Baron, 391.
Ash, Isle of, 31.
Ashby, 373.
Ashe, Chas., 373......., N., 664.......  (Bp. of  Clogher),  332.
Ashley, Mr., 393.
Ashton, 380.
Ashurst, Sir H., 394........  Sir  W illiam,  245.
Aslisk, 354.
Aspin, 363, 384.
Assembly (General), of Scotch Kirk.
See Scotland.
Assey, 664.
Assin, 355.
Astley, Sir J., 392.
Assreni, Jacob, 592.
Atcherley, Margaret, case of, 727........ Richard, deceased, 727.
Atchesone, A., 477........ R., of Sydserfe, ibid.
Atchison, Capt. Alexander, 561.
Athenry, Athenree, Edward Bermingham, 17th Lord, 666.
Athlone, 156, 157....... district, 662, 665........ Godert de Ginkel, 1st Earl
of, 665-7.
Atholl, Athole, John Murry, 1st Marquis of, 353, 571.
Atkins, 383......., S., 317, 319.
Atkinson, 2nd Lieut. (Fox') 363........ Adjutant J., (Schomberg's),
379,......   R ev.  J.,  103,  358......., Samuel, a Commissioner for
Transport,   passimn.   See
Transport.


Atkinson, Capt., 258, 612.
Attorney or Solicitor-General, petitions referred to, passim in
Table of Petitions (q.v.)........ in Ireland. See Ireland and
Rochfort........, warrants   to   (Table   of),
482-9........, fees  paid  to  by  Solicitor  to
Admiralty and Navy, 316....... and St. Briavel's, 630-1....... and  Atcherley's case, 727........ and  see  Northey.
Atwood, L., Chief Justice of New
York, complaints of, 276, 339,
511 (?).
Aubere, J., 711.
Aubin, 231.
Auburn, 82.
Aucheries, New Town of, 477........ Old Town of, ibid.
Auchermerland, 473.
Auchinbreck, 354.
Auchintoull, 354.
Auchlyne, 355.
Auchmedden, 355.
Auchnagern, 354.
Auchquittrie, 481.
Auchslassen, 354.
Auchterhouse, 353.
Auchterless Meldrum, 468.
Auchterlonie, John, 353.
Auchtertyre, 353.
Audugar, 300.
Auldearn, 465.
Aurelle, P., 230.
Austen, Austin, Lieut. Ed., 380.
Austin, J., 395........ Thomas, 13........ Sir R., 392, 394........ Capt. W illiam, 374.
Austria, House of, England's support
of, 131.................,.,  in   Italy,
706; and see Emperor, and
Charles, Archduke of.
Auverquerc, 433.
Avener to the Royal Stables, 40.
Avignon, citizens of, in England,
410.
Axholme, 359.
Aylesbury, 697.
Aylmer, Vice-Admiral, 713.
Ayloffe, 316........ Benjamin, 33........ Henry   (perhaps  same  as
last but one), 502.
Aylmer, Vice Admiral Matthew, 394,
437........., report on petition of,
275, 276............. letter  from, 277.
Ayrshire, lands in, 473.
Aylyff, 378.
Ayslaby, J., 394.




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735


B
Babb, 75.
Bachelet or Bachelett, Jacques, 610,
615.
Bacon, R., 133, 134.
Bacon, Sir R., 392....... Waller, 397.
Baconsthorp, 524.
Badajoz, Badaios, Badajos, Portu
gal and, 632, 633, 658
Baden, Louis Prince of, victory of,
694.
Badenoih, Quarter Master, 378.
Badenscoth, 355.
Badminton, 411.
Bafiniac, 231.
Bagly, Thomas, 491.
Bagnall, A., 415........ Dudley, 415, 502........, E n sign   J.,  160.
Bagshaw, Edward, 523........ S., 522.
Baignoulx, 233.
Baillie, William, of Dunnen, 354.......... Commissary of Inverness, ibid....... J ean,  4 8 1........ L t.   R.,   4 0 9.
Baily, Lt. (E. Marlborough's), 374,.........., (E. Orkney's), 366,
377........ Lt. (exchanged), 724........ Capt. J., 372.
Bain, 233.
Baine, Sir D., 355.
Baines, Lt.-Col. J., 385.
Bairam  (feast), 497.
Baird of Auchmedden, 355........ James, W. S., 465, 478.
Bakefield, 433.
Baker, 194, 206.......,  H.,   1 8 8,   1 8 9.......  J.,   5 9,   6 6,   8 4........  J a m e s,   6 7 9.......K.,  40......., Captain, 45, 337, 628........ Consul, 598, 642, 713, 714.
Baker's Chronicle, 242.
Baewell, Thomas, 449.
Ba well (Derbyshire), 449........ is  a  very  large  parish, ibid.
Balandry, 228.
Balcarres, Colin Lindsay, 3rd Earl of,
460.
Balch, Mr., 203.


Balchen, Balchin, Capt., 63, 75 and
note, 181.
Balchiry, 355.
Balconie, 465.
Balcross, 474.
Baldwin, Charles, 525.
Balford, Lieut., 362.
Balfour, 353.
Balgonie, 353.
Ball, Lieutenant, 362.
Ballantin, 376.
Ballenteine, 354.
Ballet, 368.
Ballindalloch, 353.
Ballinvally, 660.
Ballyboggan, 666.
Ballycolane, 667.
Ballygartbunagh, 667.
I Ballygow, 667.
Ballyhynane, 666.
Ballyleane, 667.
Ballymadun, 664.
Ballymaglassan, 664.
Ballynemony, 667.
Ballynesullagh, 664.
Ballynode, 666.
Ballyoughter, 667.
Ballysallagh, 667.
Ballyshanboy, 666.
BallyshangaU, 665.
Balmier, Lieut., 364.
Balnagowan, 354.
Baltasard or De Baltasard, 224 and
note.
Baltic, trade in and England, 33.
Baltimore, 423, 662.
Banaster, Mr., 170.
Bancons, 230, 234.
Banffshire, Sheriff of, 353, 467, 474........, lands in, 255, 477, 481.
Banfill, John, 24.
Bankham, R., 159.
Banks, Sir J., 392.
Bant, J., 717.
Bantry, 157.
Baraton, 364.
Barbados, 84, 185, 203, 589, 633........ news from, 30-31, 60, 81........ Secretary  in,  484........ convoy  to, 52, 566........, despatch for, 96, 116........ squadron  for, 109, 543, 547........, c o m m i s s i o n   f o r   G o v e r n m e n
of, 119, 132, 171-2........ Admiralty Courts in, 172......, guardship for, 547.
Barbaut, 233.
Barbary, Shovell, and, 710............. and see Africa.
Barber, J., 618......., W., 618.
Barbier, 234.
Barbley, 376.
Barbor, -, 521.
Barcoldin, 354.




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BarcusiP, 232,
Bardiere, Gabriel, 403.
Bareau, Thomas, 592.
Bargany or Bargeny, John Hamilton,
3rd Lord, 452.
Bargrave, Charles, notes from, re
plunder, passim, 307-10....... Lt.-Col., 394........ J., 526....... R., 385.
Barker, Lieut. G., 374........ S.  (Deputy  Lieutenant  of
Gloucestershire), 396........, C ap t.,  63,  75,  181........, E lizabeth,  723........ S ir   T.,   3 9 6.
Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln, 515.
Barmetre, 228.
Barnard, Edward, 395.
Barnardiston, Sir S., 393.............. his  case,  418........ S.,  3 9 3.
Barneill, 452.
Barnes, Burnet of, 383......., Hamilton of, 354.
Barnes, Sub-Brigadier, 481.
Barnstaple, and the Navy, 602.
Barrack Masters (Ireland), 157.
Barran, -, 510.
Barrell, 380.
Barrett, J., 491.
Barrington, John, 29.....,......, and see Victualling,
Commissioners of......., Sir Charles, 396, 397.
Barrott, 374.
Barrow, 427.
Barry, John, 447.
Barrymore, James Barry, 4th Earl
of, to be a Colonel, 365, 374.
Bartholomew, Capt. R., 309.
Bartholomew Lane (London), 24.
Bartlett, H., 393.
Barton, Lieut. R., 377.
Basil (Bale), 513, 515.
Baskervile, Thomas, 97.
Bassett, F., 391.
Bastin, Martha, 40.
Batcheler, J., 396.
Bateman, R., 391......., — J.P., 210......, T., 368.
Bates, Edward, 391........ J.,78......., R., 522.
Bath, Randolph, 369, 386.
Bath or the Bath, Queen going to,
217........ letters from, 222, 224 et seq.
(see Hedges' letters).............. come to London in
a day, 250 note.
Bathurst, Sir B., 13, 40, 365, 396,
501.............. letter from, 324.


Bathurst-ornt........ V., Judge  Advocate  of  the
Navy, 49, 155, 178 seq. to 183............., letter from, 145.
Batt, 303.
Batten, Edward, 310.
Battersby, N., 425.
Baubet, 469.
Baudouin, 589.
Bavaria, Elector of, 263........ Envoy from, 411.
Bawnsdale, 456
Bawtry, 394.
Bayley, Lieut. (of the Sorlings), 640.
Baynes, Quartermaster Richard,
389.
Bayonne, 171, 646........ English  merchants  at,  266,
298, 312, 313, 333........, to  be  released  ibid.
Bayse, 233.
Beake, Anne, 335........ Gregory,  388.
Beane, -, 521.
Beanes, Mrs., 324.
Beauchamp, 232........ John, 539.
Beaucourt, 230.
Beaufort, a French pensioner, 234.
Beaufort (Inverness), 466.
Beaufort, Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke
of, and St. Briavel's, 631.
Beaulieu, 230.
Beaumont, Sir G., of Leicestershire,
339........ Captain,  commander    in
Downs, 25, 43, 111, 134, 697..........,off Dunkirk, 163,
198-9, 217, 260-2, 406.............. orders to, 198, 261,
680........, and Pointis, 682.............., on Irish trade, 697.
Beauregard, 374.
Beavoir, 388.
Beccles, 133.
Bechet, Bechett, J., 585.
Beckwith, 364.
Beckford, Col., 549.
Bedchamber, Page of the, 41.
Bedford, Captain. 364......., Samuel, 395.
Bedford, Wriothesley, Russell, 6th
Duke of, 70, 390, 394........ Francis Russell, 4th Earl of,
243.
Bedfordshire, 70......, Sheriff of, 521........  Lord   Lieutenant  of,  and
Deputy Lieutenants for, 390,
394, 395.
Bedingfield, Sir R., 313........ Sir H., 242.
Bedora, 230.
Bee, Mr., 222.




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737


Beek, M. van, 291.
Beeke, R., 391.
Beer, 522.
Beeston, Sir William, 56, 550.
Beevin, William, 717.
Begat, 234.
Begon, M., sen., 344......., jun., 333, 344, 346,
531, 644, 693.
Belasyse. See Bellasys.
Belcastle, Brigadier, 227.
Belet, 234.
Belford, 363.
Belhaven   (and   Stenton),  John
Hamilton, 3rd Lord, 303......., letter from, 512.
Bell, the, at Edmonton, 66.
Bell, 2nd Lieut. (Villiers'), 364....... Ensign D. (Steuart's), 378.
Bellamont. See Bellomont.
Bellamy, William, 502........ Edward, 510.
Bellasys, Bellasyse, Belasyse, Col. Sir
Henry, 160, 174, 296, 362,
367, 369, 403.........., charges against, 254,
294............. letters from, 294,
341............., inquiry into his conduct, 297, 320, 321, 325,
577.........., his defence, 331-2,
341............., his regiment, 368,
369........ Ensign W., 369.
Belleau, 230....... Major L., 385.
Bellegarde, 232.
Belle, Isle, 719.
Bellew, Richard Bellew, 3rd Baron,
437.
Bellew, Major T., 411.
Bellmaduchie, 355.
Belloan, 355.
Belloes, Sir H., 134.
Bellomont,   Bellamont,   Richard
Coote, 1st Earl of, 449, 666.
Bellot, R., 391.
Belorient, 233.
Benbow, Vice Admiral John, 163.......,..,... in West Indies, 30,
52, 64, 60, 122, 406.............. and pressing men,
etc., 55, 147............, and English canvas,
92............., supplies for, 95, 97.........,,news from, 147, 174,
176, 176........,and  Governor of
Havana, 174, 175............, on  English  pride,
190.
Wt. 3880.


Benbow, Vice Admiral John-cont.,........... instructions for, 532,
545-6.............. and   Lord   Peterborough, 348..............Capt. H. Walker to
join, 543............... Nottingham   commends, 549............., has lost a  leg, 649.
Benedict, 363.
Benjamin, 346.
Bonn, Thomas, 41.
Bennerman, 377.
Bennet, 104......., B., Lieut.-Governor of the
Bermudas, 64-65........ Sir R. (Deputy Lieutenant
for Cambridgeshire), 395........ J. (Deputy Lieutenant for
Cambridgeshire), 395......., Quarter master J., 380.......  John  (Colenbine's), 542........ Michael, 223.............. deposition of, 215....... W illiam, 393............... and see Arlington.
Bennettsbridge, 666.
Benning, H., 450.
Benson, 376......., Francis, 381.......,    394....... William, 392.
Bentinck. See Woodstock.
Berault, 230.
Beresford, T., 524.
Bergen, trade with France, 337.
Berkeley, Berkely, Charles Berkeley,
2nd Earl of, 143....... f......, Lord Lieutenant
(Gloucestershire), 71, 104, 266,
396............. and Forest of Dean
&c., 488, 630-1.............. as Viscount Dursley,
488.
Berkeley (of Stratton), William
Berkeley, 4th Baron (Master
of the Rolls, Ireland), 402........ and see Fitzharding...... John, 396.
Berkly, Lieut. R. (Foot Guards),
380.
Berks, 70....... Sheriffs of, 511, 521........ Lord Lieutenant and Deputy
Lieutenants for, 389, 392.
Berlin, Envoy at, 493.
Bermingham, Nicholas, 666.............. and see Athenry.
Bermingham's    Tower    (Dublin),
Records in, 226.
Bermondsey, 444......, Tanners of, incorporated,
608 seq.


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Bermudas, 81, 116.
Bern, Berne, Canton or City of, 436,
613, 515.
Bernard, French pensioners (2),
233....... First Lieutenants (2), 364......, Ensign P. (Fergusone's), 373.....   Sir R., 393.
Bernarden, 233.
Bernay, 232.
Berney, T., 524......., Sir R., 392.
Berrisford, C., 392.
Berry, 380....... J., 257, 258....... R., examined, 259....., Lt.-Col., 158......  R., 158.
Berry Street, Edmonton, 59.
Bert, N., 423.
Bertie, Hon. C., Hon. P. and Hon. J.,
392........  H o n.  H.,  3 9 1....... Peregrine, of Gedney, 392.........,and see Lindsey, Willoughby, and Abingdon.
Bertis, J., 289.
Berwick-on-Tweed, 371........ Town  M ajor  of,  382........ surgeon  of garrison  in, ibid....... Governor of, 630.
Besbreech, 2nd Lieutenant, 362.
Bessiere, 232.
Best, N., 423.
Bethell, H., 395.
Betsworth, P., 525........ Capt. R.,  136, 363, 369.
Betty, 376.
Beverley, A., 381.
Bibby, 380.
Bicker, Bickering, 524.
Bickerstaff, 369.....,R., 158.
Bickerton, Henry, 74.
Bickley, Sir F., 392.
Bide, Sir T., 392.
Bideford, 46, 702, 717.
Bigger, M., 702-3.
Bigos, 230.
Bigott, 369.
Biggs, Lieut. M., 388.
Bigs, H., 525.
Bilbao, 267, 408, 412.
Billamurkie, 355.
Billenders, 64.
Billiard, Capt., 164.
Billing, Lt..Col., 369.
Billingsly, Billingsley, Chandelor, 66,
72.....,  C a p t.  C h risto p h e r,  3 7 2........ 2nd  Lieutenant,  362........ Capt. Charles, 377.., Lieut. D., ibid.
Billiter, Square, London, 59.
Bills, Mr., 10,


Bills of Exchange, Foreign; effect of
seizure of, 571.
Bills of Mortality (in Ireland), 227.
Bilton, 526.
Bing, Lieut., 362.
Binge, 369....... and see Byng.
Binghams, Elizabeth, 40.
Binning, Sir W., 456.
Binning and Byres. See Haddington, Earl of.
Birkenboig, 354.
Birney, Birny, Walter, 465, 480.
Biron, Sir Edmund, 666........ Sir  Edward  or  Sir  Edmund
(probably same), 666.
Bishop, C., 524........ Sir C., 526,....... Richard, 375.
Bishopslands, 473.
Bishopsmill, 355.
Bishops rents (Scotland), charges on,
460.
Bishopsthorp, letters from, 680.
Bissett, 2nd Lieut. (Villiers'), 364........ Col. A., 387........ Lieut. Andrew,  383.
Bisset, Ensign J., 377......., of Lessendrun, 355.
Bissett, Capt. William (Seymour's),
375, 388.
Blacader, 373.
Black, 377.
Black Bull (inn), 570.
Blacket, Sir E., 394.
Blackmore (a pawnbroker), 679......., Thos. (Deputy Lieutenant,
Tower Hamlets), 391........ Thos. jun. (same), 392........ Thos. (same, Herts), 523.
Blackness, 353........ garrison  of, Governor of, 472.
Blackstakes or the Black Stakes, 56,
163, 677.
Blackwell, John, 396......., Capt.-Lieut. L., 369........ Sir Lambert, Envoy  at Tuscany and Genoa, 87, 245,
497, 592, 637, 717.
Blackwood, Robert (2), 473.
Bladen, Mrs., 197, 426.
Blagrave, G., 521.
Blair, Alexander, 353......, David, 458........ J., 159.
Blairhall, fiar of, 353.
Blairquhen, Blairqwhen, 472 and
note, 473.
Blake, 200........ 377........ K., 184.......,R., ibid......., William, 355.
Blakeney, Capt., 364, 388.
Blanchfield, Edmund, 666.




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739


Blanchfieldsland, 666.
Bland, Lieut., 364......, H., petition of, 67-8......., Mr., 596........ Sir J., 394.
Blandford. See Marlborough.
Blane, 373.
Blaney, 316, and see Blayney.
Blantyre, Alexander Stuart, 5th
Lord, 135, 142, 169.
Blanville, 246.
Blard, J., 613.
Blarney district, 662, 665.
Blashford, W., 158.
Blathwayt,   Blathwait,  William,
Secretary of War etc., 48, 410,
535.............  commission  to,
94........... Clerk  to  Privy
Council, 487........., Commissioner of Trade
etc., 488.........,,and arrears due to
Prussia, 269........ William  (Deputy  Lieuttenant of Gloucestershire, perhaps same), 396.
Blatt, L., 522.
Blayney, Blaney, William  Blayney,
6th Baron, and Sligo, 157.
Bleach, Elizabeth, 324.
Blencowe, Mr. Justice, 331, 649.
Blenkern, J., letter from, 588.
[Blessington,] Blessinton, Murrough
Boyle, 1st Viscount, 143, 220,
435.
Blinman, 364.
Bliss, T., 394.
Blofeld, T., 392.
Blood, Lt.-Col. H., 372......., Ensign Edmund, 373.
Bloodworth, etc., C., 393.
Blosset, 232.
Bloundell, 438.
Blount, 364......., Mrs., 686.
Bloyce, Bloyes, Captain, 549.
Blynman, 388.
Blysse, R., 526.
Bockhampton, 310, 439.
Boddern, 355.
Bodenham, 380.
Bogie, Lady, 476.
Bohas Pinchas, Envoy from Tripoli
to Holland, 610.
Boisbeland, 233.
Boisdaune, 369.
Boisragon, 376.
Boisviban, 229.
Boley, J., 508.
Bollengur, Charles, 64.
Bolles, Sir J., 119, 509.
Bolton, Charles Powlett, 2nd Duke
of, 71, 390, 393, 485, 282.


Bolton, Ensign Jas. (Chas. Churchill's), 375........ Dr. H., 665........ Capt.  Richard   (Emanuel
How's), 377.
"Boltsprits," 26.
Bomb vessels, 22.
Bonabel, 231.
Bonamy, J., 311, 380.
Bonan, 573.
Bonard, 2nd Lieut., 362.
Bond, Elizabeth, 324......., J., 395.
Bonhard, 353.
Bone, John, 642.
Boniface, 232.
Bonn,   taken,  rejoicings  after,
713.
Bonner, Bishop of London, 242.
Bonneval, Bonnival, 232, 234.
Bonningtoun Willie, 481.
Bontons (2), 234.
Bonython, Sergt., 613.......  C., 395.
Booth, Capt. and Adjutant E., 374.
Boothby, T., 339.
Boppell, Lieut., 709.
Boraskeen, 665.
Borbunn, 355.
Bordeaux, Burdeux, 56, 141........ pass to, in war-time, 410........ news from, 605........ proposed   landing   at,  698,
699.
Bordenave, P., 229.
Boreman, Sir William, 429.
Borlom, Borlone, 473.
Borough Rectory, 358.
Borr, Bor, Major J., 363, 382.
Borrowfield, 353.
Borthick, Major, 373.
Borthwiek, Capt. H. (Fergusone's),
373, 454.
Boscawen, Hugh, 391........ Hugh (probably same), 384.
Bose, 232.
Bossugue, Jer., 471.
Bostaquet, 232.
Boston (Lincolnshire), 405....... (New England), 546, 547.............. Governor of, 723.
Bosvile, G., 448.
Boteler. See Butler.
Bouchar, James, 409.
Boudavin, De L., 711.
Bouges. See Bruges.
Boughton, E., 526.......,F., 526.
Bouherau, Elias, 227.
Bouillon, J., 260.
Boully, 377.
Boulter, William, 162.
Bourbon. See Toulouse.
Bourdin, 233.
Bourdique, 232.




740


GENERAL INDEX.


Bourg, Charles, 363.
Bourgh, J., ibid.
Bourk, Bourke, 2nd Lieut. (Saunderson's), 364....... Giles, 666........, Alderman James, 220......., and see Clanricarde.
Boutherie, J., 229.
Bowell, T., 133.
Bowen, William, 204, 205.
Bower, John, a minister, warrant for,
203-4.
Bowles, petition of, 724......., Capt. P., 450.......,  Tobias,  his  interesting
scheme of naval outposts and
defence, 196, 197.
Bowly, Mr., 325.
Bowmain, the Laird of, 353.
Bowme, John, 602, 620.
Bowsher, W., 447.
Bowtell, 363.
Bowton, 524.
Bowyer, A., 393.
Boyaux, Nicholas, 610, 615.
Boyce, Rebecca, 40.
Boycott, Quartermaster, J., 159, 561.
Boyd, 373.
Boyde, F., 158.
Boyer, 229, 233....... Sir W., 391.
Boyle, Comet, 379........ S ir   J.,  377.......,  D avid   B oyle,   1st   L ord
(afterwards Earl of Glasgow),
476, 572........ Hon. Henry, 5, 19, 25, 27..........,.. Under Treasurer of
the Exchequer, 484............., Chancellor of the
Exchequer, ibid............  and see Treasury,
Commissioners of........ M.  See  Armagh............... and see Blessington,
Burlington, Cork,   Orrery,
Shannon.
Boyn, 354.
Boyn [Boyne], the, 447.
Boynton, Sir G., 395......., S., 447.
Boy's Alley, 165.
Boys, Thomas, 491.
Brabazon. See Meath.
Bracebridge, Thomas, Mayor of
Southampton, 538.
Braco, 354.
Bradbury, 383.
Braddock, Capt. and Major E., 383,
386.
Bradenham, R., his case, 419.
Bradford, Francis Newport, 1st Earl
of, 70, 390.


Bradninch, 504.
Bradshaw, 362........ J., 394........ Henry, 510, 522........ Sir  J.,  395........ Mr., bailed, 268......., William, 48.
Bragard, 230.
Braines, Capt. Thomas, 307.
Brakell, Capt., 199.
Brampton, 394.
Bramston, George, LL.D., 91, 209,
211, 313, 491, 492, 676, 717............., and points of international law, 144, 200-1, 250,
570, 639-640.............. examinations before,
257-9..........., reports of, 673, 678.
Brandreth, N., 521.
Branthwaite, R., 392.
Brassard, 231.
Brasselay, 229.
Brattle, D., 391.
Braxter, Major W., 377.
Braxton, Captain, 366.
Bray, Cornet, 368........, Edmund, 396.
Bray (Berks), 521.
Breadalbin, John Campbell, 1st Earl
of, 353, 571.
Breadon, R., 523.
Brecknockshire, 70........ Lord Lieutenant of, 389.
Breckstone, 316.
Breda, Treaty of, 149.
Bredy, S., 371.
Breedon, J., 521.
Brehat, 340, 343.
Bremont, 231.
Brend, F., 395.
Brereton, Brerton, 2nd Lieut. (Mordaunt's), 363........ Capt. (Saunderson's), 364......, Edward, 271........ Capt. Thomas, 249.
Brerewood, 369.
Bresbin, 364.
Brest, 118, 121, 122, 187, 246, 257,
258, 259........, preparations at, 193,549,648.
Breton, Bretton, Paul, of London,
a suspect, 510, 571........ R.  (Deputy  Lieutenant  of
Kent), 394.......  Mr.,  at  Dover  (perhaps
same), 184....... Lieut. Samuel (Earl of Oxford's), 369........ Lt.-Col. W illiam, 377.
Brett, Elie, 260......., Major, 728.
Brewer, Col. Richard, 152, 160, 251,
385, 403....... Cornelius, 35.


I............... and  St. Jam es' Park,
723.




GENERAL INDEX.


741


Brewing, difficulties of, in Newfoundland, 721.
Brexton, Capt., 362.
Bridgeman, J., 565.
Bridger, 381.
Bridges, Brydges, Ensign   Brook
(Bridges'), 373......, Capt. (R.N.), 177...., Edward (great grandson of
Sir Thomas (1)), 243........ Edmond, afterwards 2nd
Baron Chandos, 243....... George Rodney (pensioner),
227......., Sir Giles, 243.,..., Henry son of Sir Thomas (1),
242....... J., Commissioner of Public
Accounts, 241, 344......., Sir John, and Queen Mary I,
242......., made Lord Chandos,
etc., 242, 243.........,  and see Chandos...........,   his issue, 243......., Sir  Matthew,  160............. officers in his regiment, 372-3........ Ensign  Robert (Bridges'),
373..........,, Shem  (Deputy
Lieutenant for Surrey), 393........ Thomas, or Sir Thomas (1),
(Lieutenant of the Tower),
242, 243............ and   Queen   Elizabeth, ibd........, Thomas his son,
243......., Sir Thomas (2), 243........ Thomas, grandson of Sir
Thomas (1), 242,....... Sir Thomas (3), of Keynsham, 242-3......, Thomas (who died in Holland), 243.......,   W illiam,  Master  Surveyor
of the Ordnance, 370......., Sir William, afterwards 4th
Baron Chandos, 243........ William, 7th Baron Chandos,
243......-, and see Bruges.
Bridgewater, Scroop Egerton, 5th
Earl of, 113, 389, 390.......  (Som erset),  728............., ship  of,  141, 702-3,
728.
Bridlington, Burlington, 269........ defence of, 292, 388.
Brigadiers-General, 361....... (Scotland), 461.
Brigadiers of foot, 362,
Brigant, M., 128.
Briggs, H., 48.


Bright, Lieut. Dan (E. Marlbro's),
374........ Comet Th. (Lloyd's) 376........ Mr., 307.
Brighton, Brighthelmston, Brightamsted, 83, 84, 677........ defence etc. of, 420.
Brikliehead, 354.
Brill, the, 164, 725.
Bringfield, 383.
Brisac, 230, 231.
Brisbien, 377.
Bristol, 46, 95, 96, 149.......,   M a y o r   o f,   a n d   p r e s s i n g   m e n,
65.............. and Queen Anne,
236........, ships of, 84, 720........ news  from,  150........, Royal visit to, 236......., Lord Lieutenant and Deputy
Lieutenants for, 396.
Bristlebolt, A., 717.
Bristow, Capt. J. (Earl of Romney's), 380......., Col., 709.
Brittas, 667.
Broadland, 525.
Broadnax, Col. W., 394.
Broad Seal, device for, 505.
Brock, 566.
Brockhurst, 388.
Brockman, Brockmans, W., 394, 521.
Brockman's Barn, 613.
Broderick, 316........ Sir Allan (Solicitor-General,
Ireland), 332, 398............. Lord Justices of Ireland on, 563, 564.
Broderip, R., 393.
Brodrick, Thomas, 144.
Brody, George, of Aslisk, 354....... A l e x a n d e r,   o f   D u n n a i r n,   i b i d........ the Laird  of, ibid.
Bromley, 241........ J., 395......., W., 344.
Broming, Capt. T., 309.
Bromsell, Thomas, 521.
Bromwell, J., 392.
Brooke, G., 159......, L., 525......  W.,  349.
Brooke, Fulke Greville, 5th Baron,
letter from, 256.
Brooks, Capt. Oliver (Bridges'), 372.......,Capt., 709......., 2nd Lieut. (Fox's), 363.
Broom, J., 244, 245, 637.
Broome Park, Brome (Suffolk),
letter from, 132-3.
Brooseholme Hall, 394.
Brossard, F., 141.
Broughton, -, Consul at Venice,
235, 311, 707.




742                     GENERAL INDEX.
Brown, Browne, -     (arrested at   Bruniguel, 230.
Canterbury), 4.               Brunstead, D., 319....... (barrister), 316.            Brunswick-Lunebourg, and    Eng-......, Mr. (West Indies), 549.          land, 132....... Edward (Deputy Lieutenant......, Envoy to Courts of, 411,
for Rutland), 396.                  493, 495....., Samuel (Deputy Lieutenant,    Brunt, Samuel, 524.
same), ibid.                  Brunville, 230......., Elizabeth, 335.             Brushagh, 666......., Ensign (Earl of Hunting-    Brushfield, 381.
don's), 364.                  Brusley, Francis, 554........ Lieut. George (Earl of Ork-  Brux, 354, 355.
ney's), 376.                  Bryan, 231......., Lieut. Henry (Earl of om-......., Mr., 595.
ney's), 380....... John, of Godstone, 641......,, Capt.-Lieut. Jos. (Earl of...... or Bryant alias Harris, 171,
Orkney's), 366, 376.                 188......, J., Surgeon, 371, 381, 383.  Bryant (pensioner), 234.............    Surgeon-General    Brydall, 384.
(perhaps same), 366.          Brydges. See Bridges......., John (merchant of London),  Bryer, Edward, 678.
349.                          Buccaneers, bucquaniers, use a light....... P., a gaoler, 674.          musket,  272........ Ralph, 378.                Buccari, 710, 716......., R., of Frampton, 393.......  Edmund Halley to visit,....... Lieut. Randle (Earl of Der-       723.
by's), 378.                   Buchan, Cunningham of, 353......., Richard (servant to Vene-...... David Erskine 21st (or 9th)
tian Envoy), 408.                   Earl of, 353, 571........ Robert, 522.          Buchannan, Archibald, 466........ Sarah,  189.               Buck, 374......., Ensign T. (Earl of Rom-    Buck, Sir W., 392.
ney's), 380.                  Buckeness, 186...... T. (Deputy Lieutenant for     Bucklersbury, 117.
Gloucestershire), 396.        Buckingham (and Normanby), John...... Thomas (Deputy Lieutenant          Sheffield, 6th (or 1st) Duke of,
for Bedfordshire), 395.             723........, Lieut. Thos. (Fox's), 363.  Buckinghamshire, 70........ Thomas, a criminal, 335......... Lord Lieutenant and Cu8to....... Lieut. William (St. John's),  Rotulorum of, 113, 389, 390,
159, 561.                           391........... (Earl Shannon's)......, Deputy Lieutenants for, 390,
362.                                391......, W illiam, of Bowton  (North-....., Sheriffs for, 521.
umberland), 524.              Buckle, Sir Christopher, 393............. (almsman), 423.       Bucknall, Sir J., 392, 394......., R., 78.
Browning, J., 159.                  Buckton, Lieutenant, 709......., Capt. W., 561.              Budd, Cecilia, 678.
BruachBruack?], 355.               Buffkin, Major R., 394.
Bruce, Capt. Thos., 377.            Bugler, Sam, 618......., Sir Alexander, 598.        Buggins, Major J., 394......., Lieut. James, 471.          Buisson, 552......., Lt.-Col. J., 354......., De la Vigne, 712........ James, 348.                 Bulkley, Lady Sophia, 510........ Dr. G., Ph.D., 509........W   illiam, 538......., Thomas, 469.                Bull, M., 324.
Brugend, 456.                       Buller, Lieut. Saml. (Granville's),
Bruges, Bouges, Bridges, 50, 64, 269,     373.
409......., of Morvall, 311.
Brugnier, 229...                            James (Deputy Lieutenant
Brugnieres, 231.                          for Cornwall), 391.
Brukus, 640........ Capt. B. (Villiers'), 364,
Brunel, 229.                              388.
Brunevall, 233.                     Bullingham, N., 525.




GENERAL INDEX


743


Bullock, E., 523.
Bulls, Bay of, 301.
Bunbury, Sir H., 522.
Bunce, Sir J., 440......., W., 440.
Bunch, Mary, 335.
Bunckley, Sir D., 393.
Bunhill, 354.
Buntine, jun., of Ardoch, 354.
Burbidge, J., 626.
Burch, T., 160.
BURCHxETT, Josiah, Secretary to the
Prince's Council:.....,.......,letters from, 30, 36,
43, 52, 53 et seq. See below.............. on despatches to
West Indies, 81, 116.............,on Dummer, 161..............on East India Co.,
161, 339.............. on state of the Fleet,
162, 323............. on French Fleet,
186-7, 198.............. on Colonies supplying fleet, 253............, on return of expedition to Cadiz, 284.............., on Virginia trade, 325............., on trading with the
enemy, 337............., on East India trade,
347......,......., on Benbow  and
Peterborough, 348.......,......, on Portuguese, 349............., on   transport of
troops, 352............, his petition, 430............, on convoy to Portugal, 529......,....... on Benbow's instructions, 532..........., on prisoners, 552,
581............... on naval loss, 562............, on men for Navy,
586............. on convoys to East
India, 613.........., and oil, 619......., on convoy, 684............... on a deputy Judge
Advocate, 695.
Burchett, - (a shipbuilder), 326.
Burd, Edward, 464.
Burdett, B., 87.....     R., 397.
Burdeux. See Bordeaux.
Burdon, 717.
Bureau, 234.
Burges, S., 491.
Burgess, 164.
Burgh, 376.


Burgh —cont....... Capt. T., 78, 79....... W., 159, 167.
Burglary, a common offence, 335.
Burgoyne, Sir J., 395, 521.
Burleigh, H., 158.
Burley (Rutlandshire), Lord Nottingham at, 252.
Burlington, Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl
of, 71, 340, 390, 394, 398,
649, 657; and see Bridlington.
Burnbank, 353.
Burnel, Burnell, W., 396, 524.
Burnet, Alexander, of Knox, 353........ James, 481....... Sir  T., 353........ William, of Barnes, 481.
Burney, Capt. James, 307, 309.
Burnham (Somerset), minister of,203.
Burnyeate, Thomas, 575.
Burray, Stuart of, 467.
Burridge, Richard, pilloried, 336.
Burrington, 522.
Burrisyards, 354.
Burston, Capt., 364.
Burt, E., 712.........,.... letter from, 587.
Burton, B., 396, 525........ Ensign Charles, 550.......  tH., 40......., 2nd   Lieut.  (Visct.  Shannon's), 362..., R., 59, 66....... or Barton, Capt. R. (Lumley's), 372......., Thomas, D.D., 358, 359.
Burwell, T., 396, 525.
Bury, Jacob, 118......,Jos., 411........ Mr. Justice, 331....., Lieut. Wm., 374.
Bury St. Edmunds, Justices of,
letter from, 133 and note.
Bush, Arthur, 78........ Adjutant and Lieutenant E.,
375........ Ensign T., ibid.
Bushell, J., 159.
Busted, 363.
But, J., 566.
Butcher, W., 395.
Bute, Sheriff of, 572, 573.
Butler, Boteler, Sir P., 239, 394......., Mr., 239......., Col. J., 437-8.....,,J. (Sussex), 526....... John, 367......., Joseph, 366........ Mr.,  165.......,W., 395.......,   a n d   s e e   O r m o n d,   G a l m o y   a n d
Arran.
Butlerage and prisage duties in
Ireland, 219.
Butling, Benjamin, 163, 491.




744


GENERAL INDEX.


Byam, Col., 709.
Byerly, R., 344, 394.
Byng, Binge, 381....... Capt. or   Rear   Admiral
George, 212, 680........... his case, 129, 130,
418.
Byron, William Byron, 4th Baron,
395.
Byrche, Mr. Justice, 331.
Bywater, 205.
C
Cabinet Council, the, 9, 14, 19, 21,
29........ meets on Sunday, 203, 239
and note, 612 and note, 725 and
note.
Cabrol, 231.
Cadbury, N., 180.
Cadiz, 1Q8, 109, 119, 124, 125, 192,
212, 255, 262, 407, 450, 547,
633, 715......., news from, 563......., prisoners at, 212........ the English attempt on. See
Expedition........ retreat from, 268.
Cadogan, Mr., and England's debt
to Denmark, 42, 43.
Cadour, C., 471.
Caesar, J., 392.
Cage, Lieut. J. (Earl of Essex's), 382........ W. (Deputy Lieutenant for
Kent), 394.
Cahirdigan, 666.
Cahirseily, 666.
Cailhot, J., 229.
Caithness, lands in, 473......., John   Sinclair, 28th  or
8th Earl of, 353.
Caius (Gonville and Caius), College,
Cambridge, 660.
Calais, 266, 281........, letters  from, 286-7........ Governor of, 112.
Calby, M., 280.......,. R., ib d.
Calder, Laird of, 354........ Sir James, of Muirtown,
ibid.....,., James, jun., of Muirtown,
ibid.
Caldercott, Charles, 524.
aidwell, Henry, 289.......,Capt. W.,  447.


Callender, J., of Craigforth, 479.
Callier, P., 76.
Calne, Secretary Hedges and, 173.
Calthrop, C., 393.
Calvairac, 230.
Calverley, W., 394.
Calvert, 368.
Camaret, Camrett, Bay of, 56.
Cambes, 229.
Cambo, 459.
Cambrai, Cambret, 174.
Cambridge (University), letters to
Vice Chancellor of, 360......., St. John's College, Fellow of,
ibid......., Queen's College, Fellow of,
ibid........ Gonville  and  Caius  College,
660.
Cambridgeshire, 70......., Sheriffs, 522........ Lord  Lieutenant of, 390.... Deputy  Lieutenants for,
395.
Cambuswallace, 354.
Camerton, 521, 525.
Camilly, Chamilly, Chevalier or
Marquis de, 327, 333, 340,
531............. money for, 599.
Camisards, the, 513 and see Cevennes.
Campbell, Campble:.......of Glenderowell, 354, 472........ Alexander,  of  Barcoldin,
354........ Capt. Alexander (Ferguson's), 373, 472........ Alexander, of Kilmartin,
354.............,of Lochneill, 354......., Capt. Alexander, of Ottar,
354......, Archibald, of Clunys, tutor
of Isla, 354..........of Innira, 354......., Master Charles, 469......., Sir Colin, of Aberuchill, 460,
672......., Sir C. (probable same), 573......, Colin, of Ardentine, 354......., Sir Colin, of Arkinlas, 354......., Colin, of Lochleane, 353......., David, 469....... Donald, of Glencarodale,
354......, Duncan, of Dalneives, 353........ Lieut. Duncan (E. Barrymore's), 374........ Capt. Hugh (Mitchelburn's),
158........ Capt. James (Row's), 378......., James, of Kerinoch, 353............. (jun.), of Aberuc uill,
353.




GENERAL INDEX.


745


Campbell, James-cont......,........ of Arkinlas, 354........ Sir John, of Carrick, 354........ Sir John, of Auchinbreck,
354......., John, of Innellan, 354............, of Mamore, 354..........., of Glensadell, 354....... Mungo, of Burnbank, 353........., of Kinloch, 353........  Patrick, of  Barcoldin, 354......., Sir Neil, of Allengreg, 354........ Robert  (jun.),  of  Carrick,
354......., 2nd Lieutenant W. (Row's),
378........ Capt. William (Row's), 378............. (Charlemont's), 160.,..........., and see Argyle, Breadalbain and Loudoun.
Campion, 384........ J., 239......., W.,   3 9 4.
Canada, French in, 447.
Canary Islands, 545........ merchants in, 187, 256........ wine  from, 257........ certificate from  Consul at,
702-3........ atrocity at, 626.
Canterbury, Arches Court of, 317......., Archbishop of, 311, 313, 486,
489, 641.............,and St. David's, 268........ Vicar General of, his Court,
313........, Prerogative  Court of, 313........ Cathedral, 445........,... almsman's places
in, 423, 511.........., Canonry or Prebend
of, 359........ prisoners  for,  719......., suspects stopped at, 3, 4.
Canvas, English, and Dutch, 102..........., complaints of, and
preference of Navy for Dutch
canvas or duck for sails,
92, 93, 99.
Canvelos, 301.
Cape Clear, 209, 247, 405, 406.
Capel, C., 136......... Comet A., 382.
Capell, Arthur, Capell, 1st Baron,
Lord Deputy or Lieutenant
of Ireland, letter to, 564.........., and see Essex.
Cape Prior, 64, 76.
Cape Race, Cape Rase, 263.
Cape St. Vincent, letter from off,
259.
Cappagh, 666.
Carboneur, 447.
Carbury, Carbery, John Vaughan,
3rd Earl of, 170.


Cardiganshire, Lord Lieutenant of,
389.
Cardonier, G., 711.
Cardonnel, Coret M., 379.
Cardonnell, A. de (M.P., Southampton), 538, 555, 567, 570, 585.
Carew, Capt., 364......,N., 397........ Sir N., 399........ T., of Camerton, 525........ Major Thomas, 382.
Carey, J., 606......, P., 606....... Col. Thomas, 65.
Careye, J., 260.
Cargin, 665.
Carhais, 391.
Caribbees (Islands), 54, 432......., " Emperor of the," 432.
Caries, 232.
Carington, 459.
Carleton, G., 159, 160....... L., 158........ Robert, 521.
Carlingford, Francis Taaffe, 3rd Earl
of, 532.
Carlisle, Chas. Howard, 6th Earl of,
5, 19, 25, 71, 225, 236, 259,
265, 290, 385, 390, 502.............. letter from, 110....... See of, Bishop or BishopElect of, 95, 103, 358, 359........   A r c h d e a c o n   a n d   P r e b e n d a r y
of, 103....... (City), Governor of, 225, 236,
385.............. Lieutenant Governor of, 290, 386.
Carlow, County, estate in, 425.
Carmarthen,   Peregrine  Osborne,
styled Marquis of, 22, 66, 709.
Carmarthen borough, Lord Lieutenant of, 390.
Carmarthenshire, Lord Lieutenant of,
389.
Carmichael, J., 456....... William, 466.
Carnarvon, 505.
Carncastle, 424.
Carnegie, 353; and see Northesk.
Carnwath, 572.
Carolina, 65, 81.
Carpenter, Joseph, 384....., W., 220.
Carr, Capt. R. (Orkney's), 376....... Lieut. T. (same), 377........ Lieut. W illiam   (same), ibid.............. (Webb's), 374.
Carrendue, 666.
Carriages (the Royal), Clerk of,
429.
Carrick (Ayr), 473.......,  (Campbell of), 354.
Carrickfergus, 156, 157.
Caiden, 353.




746


GENERAL INDEX.


Carrington, 373.
Carse, Carss, 353.
Carse, Ensign, 378.
Carstairs,  William, Chaplain  in
Ordinary (Scotland), 457.
Cartaut, 203.
Cartel. See Prisoners of war, and
Mornay, Count de.
Carter, -, 521......., Charles, 450......., Capt. (Earl of Shannon's),
362......., Joseph, 608......., R., 160.
Carteret, Sir Charles, 203, 489......., Edward, 489.
Carthagena, 150.
Cartheau, J., 711.
Cartier. See Latouche.
Cartlitch, J., 335.
Cartwright, T. (Sheriff and Deputy
Lieutenant for Oxfordshire),
391,524......., W., of Normanton, 396...........,.. of Ossinton, ibid.
Carver, J., 492.
Carwardin, 364.
Carwodine, Charles, Mayor of Hereford, 659.
Cary, Col. Thomas (of Carolina), his
fast galley, 51......, Col. (dead), 709......., Capt. G., 378......., Lieut. T., ibid........ 2nd   Lieut.  S.,  389.
Casewell, 364.
Cashell, G., 159.
Cason, Major J., 394.
Cass, J., 391.
Cassier, B., 712.
Castagnies, J., 412.
Castall, R., 349.
Castar. See Cayster.
Castel Verdun, 230.
Castle, Edward, Bookbinder, etc.,
505.
Castle Coote, Charles Coote, styled
Viscount, 409.
Castle Cornet, 89.
Castlefranc, A., 230....... G., 230.
Castlehaven, James Touchet, 6th
Earl of, 243.
Castle Hill, 354.
Castlemaine, Roger Palmer, 1st Earl
of, 329.
Castleman, J., 523.
Castle-ny-Park, Castleney Park, 227.
Castle Stuart (Scotland), 460.
Castleton, George Saunderson, 5th
Viscount, 184.......  J., 134......, Sir J., 392.
Castrell, Lieut., 561.
Cat and Dog (Inn), 396.


Catcheart, J., 158.
Catelyn, Francis, 510.
Cater, 374.
Cathcart, A. (merchant), his losses,
422........ Allan, master of, 475......., Captain Allan, his eldest son,
ibid........, Charles, his  2nd  son, ibid.
Catherine (Queen Dowager), and St.
Briavel's, 631.
Caulfield, Lt.-Col, J., 159........ and  see  Charlemont.
Caulier, P., 604.
Cauzie, J., 410.
Cavan, 157, 662........ (district), 665.
Cave, Sir R., 339.
Cavenagh, Ensign A., 550.
Cavendish, Lady Rhoda, 602............. and see Devonshire,
Hartington.
Cavers, 468, 572, 573.
Caviletown, 474.
Cayster, Castar, 524.
Cecil, Cecill, Lieut. A. (Lord Cutt's),
383......., G., 411........ Philip, 524......., Robert (Deputy Lieutenant
of Hertfordshire), 392...........,.. (of the Council of
Trade, etc.), 48, 149, 488........ Capt. R. (Lord    Lucas),
580........ Comet W. (Lord Rabys),
376.
Celeriez, 232.
Cette, Porto Cete, 705.
Cevennes, the, Camisards in, 513.
Cevennois, 653....... English fleet and, 705,
710........ help  for, 698......., arranged signal to, 706.
Chabert, 231.
Chabriere, 228.
Chabrolle, 233.
Chacon, Don F., a prisoner, 324 -5.
Chafing, T., 393.
Chaigneau, 371.
Chalamel, 230.
Chalke, A., 324.
Chalmers, J., 470.
Chamard, 231.
Chamber, Treasurer of the, 484.
Chamberlain, John, J.P., 21......   Mr., 325.
Chamberlain's "Present State of
England," 311, note.
Chamberlayne, T., 396.
Chambers, 374.
Chambrier, 234.
Chamflury, 232.




GENERAL INDEX.


747


Chance, Joseph, 509.
Chancellor of the Exchequer (Ireland), 401.
Chandos, Sir John, K.G. (temp.
Ed. III), 242.
Chandos of Shuedly [Sudeley]
Castle:
John Bridges, afterwards 1st
Baron, 242........ his services to Mary Ist,
ibid.
Edmond Bridges, 2nd Baron,
243.
Giles Bridges, 3rd Baron, ibid.
"Sir" William    Bridges, 4th
Baron, ibid.
Grey Bridges, 5th Baron, ibid......., his children, ibid.
George Bridges, 6th Baron,
ibid........ his title to the Crown,
ibid........ his wife &c., ibid.
Wm. Bridges, 7th Baron, 241,
243....... grant to, 241......., pedigree of, 242, 243.
Channel Islands and privateers,
692........ and  see  Collier;  Ellis;
Guernsey; Jersey.
Chanquion, 228.
Chantrell, 383.
Chany. See Cheney.
Chapeau Rouge, 9, 106.
Chapell, 229.
Chapel Royal, organists at, 435.
Chaplains in Ordinary (Scotland),
457, 458.
Chaplin, R., 523.
Chapman, G., 613.......,R., 391.
Chappell, Mrs., 104.
Charing Cross, 596.
Charlemont, 156, 157......, exp en ses   at,  78......, Wm. Caulfield, 2nd Viscount,
159, 401, 561, 562.
Charleriace, 355.
Charles II, lease of land in Limerick
by, 219, 220.
Charles, Archduke of Austria called
King of Spain, question of his
going to Spain, 657-9............, and see Nottingham.
Charlet, Lieut., 409.
Charleton, J., 392, 395........, Christopher, 404.
Charlett, Dr., letter from, 349.
Charleville, 157.
Charnell, 2nd Lieut., 362.
Chanells, T., 523.
Charnock, Dr., 250........,  Sir  P.,  521.


Charrier, 233.
Charters, Lieut. R., 469.
Chaseloup, 363.
Chateau-Regnaud, Chateaurenault,
Chateaurenaud, Chateaurenno, Chaterrenno, Shaternoe,
etc. (F. L. de Rousselet,
Comte de):....... movements of, 60, 129, 17rW,
186, 187, 189, 191, 192, 200,
212, 216, 247, 251, 262, 298,
605........ Shovell on, 193......., his force, 216.
Chatel, M. du, 339, 340.......,...ill, 346.
Chatham, 500........ prisoners at, 328........ ships at, 325-6.
Chatine, jun., 232........ sen., 232.
Chaundler, R., 393.
Chaworth, Patrick, 396.
Cheese, for London, 75.
Chelar, 229.
Chelevette, 141.
Chelmsford, 14.
Chelsea, Hospital or College, 318,
431, 434............... poverty   of pensioners of, 434..........officers in, 136, 369 -370, 382..............pensioner at, 643.............. Governor of, 368,
387.............. admission to, 198.
Cheltlin, R., 239.
Chenevix, Major, 372.
Cheney, Chany, R., 350.
Cherbourg, Cherbrooke, Sherburgh,
43, 75...... ship of, 211.
Chesham, 123.
Cheshire, 316....... and wool export, 295......., chamberlain of, 489......., Sheriffs, 412, 522....... Lord Lieutenant of, 390.
Chester, 13......., Alderman of, 249......., Governor of, 367......., Customer of, 419....... Lord Lieutenant of, 390....... Castle, <" Invalides " at, 381.
Chester, Sir J., 339, 390, 521......., T., 396, 523.
Chetwood, Sir J., 412, 522.
Chevalier, S., petition of, 345.
Cheyne, Wm. Cheyne, 2nd Lord, &c.,
113, 389, 390.
Chichester, 83, 620......., Mayor of, 610, 615, 630, 674,
677........ and see Donegall.




748


GENERAL INDEX.


Chidleigh, 242.
Chief Engineer to the Army (Scotland), 69, 469.
Child, Sir Cesar, 524.
Child, Lieut. R. (Earl of Essex's),
382....... Thomas, 525.
Chilton, James II and, 427.
Chipping Barnet, inn at, 509.
Cholmondely, Major-General, 322,
362, 367, 370......,...,.. commissions in his
troop, 370.
Chowne, T., 526.
Christchurch (Dublin), Dean of, 226...........   Dean  and  chapter,
227............., Singers of, 226....... (Oxford), 505, 506..............  Canonry   in,  358,
359............ Dean, &c. of, 329..............., almsmen  at, 510-11.
Christchurch  Hospital  (Christ's
Hospital), and naval. cadets,
708.
Christian, Mr., 516........ 2nd Lieut. (Saunderson's),
364.
Chudleigh, Hugh, 40, 365, 501........ Thomas, 388.
Church of England, endowment for
a parish in, 449........ appointments, preferments,
&c. in, 357-9.
Church, 364....... George, 158.
Churchill, Col. George, 509........ George, Vice Admiral of the
Red, 191, 277........., Shovell and, 194............., his appointment as
Admiral of the Blue, 276, 710,
712, 720.........~, * and   the   Navy
Board, 25......., Lieut.-General Charles, 282,
322, 361, 375, 388, 391........., Lieutenant of the
Tower, 485..........., his officers, 375......., Captain Joseph (Churchill's),
375...., Captain  Charles  (same),
375......., and see Princes Council and
Marlborough....., William, bookbinder, etc. to
Queen, 505, 508., a pirate, 185.
Chute, Edward, 525....... Sir G., 394.
Cicely, 647.
Cilly, a French prisoner, 530.
Cinque Ports, warden of, 488.


Cirencester, Cyrencester, 217, 519.
Civil Law, Doctor of, 316.
Clancy, 596, 597.
Clane, 667.
Clanricarde, Clanrickard, Richard
Bourke, 8th Earl of, 666.
Clapham, 366.
Clapton, J., 372.
Clare, Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl, or
John Holles, 4th Earl of,
666.
Clarges, Sir W., 393, 394-5.
Claringburne, 375.
Clark, Clerke, Clarke, H., 184........ M., ibid........ Lieut. (Villier's), 364........ Ensign  E. (Lumley's), 372.., Ensign (Gibson's), 363.......Francis (Sheriff and DeputyLieutenant for Oxfordshire),
391, 514....... George, Advocate-General,
etc., 136, 188, 218, 588............. on Commission for
Sick and Wounded, 117.............. letters from, 149,
151, 164, 297, 320, 330, 534,
610, 623, 681, 685............, warrant for commission  to  as   AdvocateGeneral and Judge Marshal,
486............., Secretary to Lord
High Admiral, 106....... Godfrey (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Derbyshire), 397...., Adjutant J., 159, 561........ Cornet J., 379......., Ensign J. (Earl of Barrymore's), 374....., J.,  a  criminal,  335........ Sir  J., 91....... Capt. R., 210.., Sir S. (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Suffolk and Cambridge),
393, 395......., and         men    for  sea
service, 133......., Samuel, Clerk  of the Cheque,
40.......  T., 239.
Claussade, 232.
Clavell, Edward, 522.
Clavering, Sir J., 524.
Clavers, 374.
Clavie, 232.
Clavier, 234........ P., 232.
Clayton, 378......, Sir Robert, Commissioner of
Lieutenancy for London, 499........ W., 446.
Clement, J., 158.......,S   201.
Clendon, 374.




GENERAL INDEX.


749


Clerk. See Clark.
Clerk of the Pells, 344.
Clervaux, 229.
Clevage, 353.
Cleveland, Thomas Wentworth, Earl
of, 413.
Clift, 316.
Clifton, James, 79.
Clignet, Mr., 224.
Clitheroe, 410.
Clogher, St. George (Ashe), Bishop of,
143, 332.
Cloncaird, 452.
Clongeele, 667.
Clonings, 101 note.
Clonmanymore, 665.
Clonmel, 157, 662.
Clonshanafin, 665.
Clonshee, 666.
Clooncony, 665.
Cloonegarragh, 665.
Cloth, sent as a present, 598.
Clovalg, 354.
Cloyne, John Pooley, Bishop of, 398........ Charles Crow, Bishop, of, 83,
398.
Clunys, 354.
Clutterbuck, Mr., 306.
Clyns [?], 355.
Coabardie, 355.
Coachman, C., 412.
Coakley, 364.
Coale, 354.
Coale, Capt., 177.
Coast defence in war, 118.
Cobb, Sir E., 391, 524.
Cobham, 363.
Cobley, R., 159.
Cochran. See Cockran.
Cock, Capt. (of the Ludlow), 585,
587, 595............, letters from, 581-2,
619........ William, 299.
Cockburn, 376........ Dr., 680.
Cockerell, George, 81.
Cockermouth, 574.
Cockledge, 376.
Cockpit, the (Treasury Chambers), 164............., letter from, 206, 218,
222............... Council Chamber in,
278.
Cockran, Cochran, Cockrain, Lieut.
(Holt's), 363............... Mr., 323..............,W m., 458.
Cocks, J., 258, 488.
Cockside prison, 620.
Coolarahy, 355.
Codds, 363.
Codrington, Col. (Governor of Leeward Islands), 96, 634, 537,
548, 573, 576, 633.


Codrington, Col.-cont.............. and  French  prisoners, 548.............. at St. Christopher's,
251.
Coe, R. (tanner), 608......., Thomas, ibid.
Coetlogon, Cotelogon, M., 60, 627.
Coffin or Corfield, G., 50, 490.
Cogan, Sir A., his loyalty to Chas. I,
430.
Coghlan, 378......., Jeremy, 667.
Coinage, false, 335.
Coining, alleged offence of, 28.
Cok, J., 552.
Coke, 241....... Sir  E., 522.
Coker, R., 522.
Cokerell, Capt., 417.
Colby, Coleby, Thomas, 151, 220,
502.........., and see Victualling,
Commissioners of.
Colbourne, 363.
Colchester, M., 396.
Coldstream Guards, 386.
Coldwell, 376.
Cole, C., 525........ Robert, Consul (Algiers),
162, 497, 674.............. and see Algiers......., M., 159, 335.......  S., 349....... Capt. BR. (Lord Cutts'), 383....... Thomas (at Cowes), 54, 60,
309, 310....... Wyndham, 674.
Coleby. See Colby.
Coleman, 363.
Colenbine, Collembine, Collenbine,
Col. and Brigadier Ventris,
338, 388, 500, 530, 542, 547,
556 note, 567, 576 note.............. his orders, 556, 557,
587.........., at Plymouth, 593..........   his expedition delayed, 593.............. about to sail, 597.............. on his prospects and
needs, 607, 608..........., victuals for, 608............... his guns, 621.
Colepeper, Sir T., 394, 523.
Coleraine, 662........ Henry Hare, 2nd Baron, 394.
Coles, G., 425.
Colinge, B., 48.
Colings, R., 552.
Colington, 572.
Colladon, Sir T., 136, 370.
Collen, Sir R., 395.
Collembine. See Colenbine.
Collier, Lieut. P. (Belasyse's), 369




750


GENERAL INDEX.


Collier-cont........ Lieut.-Col. Thos., Lieutenant Governor of Jersey, 692,
711.
7........      on   LieutenantGovernorship of Jersey, 173,
200, 385............., garrison of Jersey,
36............., declaration of war,
61, 135, 327-8............., services  of,  173.............,prisoners, etc., 123,
173, 204, 214, 246, 247, 267,
327-8, 535, 718............, his action at Jersey,
345...    9......... on trade with enemy,
553-4............,. on prizes, 617..........., on correspondence
with France, 621........ William, a German, 264.
Collingwood, 363.
Collins, Ensign, 363......, George, 408........ H., 526.
Collins alias Russell, Mary, 597.
Colloden, 354.
Collom, 364.
Collover. See Colover.
Collyar, 363.
Colom, 365.
Colombier, 229.
Colover, Collover, Culliford, Robert,
a pirate, pardoned, 19, 95,
490.
Colquhoun, J., 471.
Colreane, 354.
Colson, John, 447.
Colston, 380......, J., 596.
Colt, Col., 259........ Sir  H enry  Dutton,  21.
Columbier, 234......., Capt. A. (Webb's), 374.
Colvill, Joseph, 395.
Colville, 376.
Colyear. See Portmore.
Comarques, 229.
Combe Brune, 230.
Combe Crosse, 229.
Combes, Thomas, 35, 41.
Combs, Elizabeth, 324.
Commissary General of Musters,
386.
Commission, to Blathwayt, 94....... to Earl of Marlborough (warrant for), 5, 6.
"Commission of Review," asked
for, to consider an appeal from
the Court of Delegates, 268........, com position  of, ibid.
Commissions in the Army (Table of),
360 seq.


Commissioners for registering seamen, 130....... for stating accounts of the
Army (Ireland), 422....... for Wool, 519....... of   the   Treasury.   See
Treasury........ of Sick and Wounded, and
exchange of prisoners. See
Sick and wounded.......  or  Council  of  Trade  and
Plantations. See Trade and
Plantations....... of Victualling. See Victualling....... of Transportation or Transport. See Transport.
Committee of the Privy Council,
meetings of, in London, 239,
240........ and Dutch Envoy, 539........ and  see  Cabinet.
Common recovery, application for
leave to suffer, 727.
Commons (House of), Journals of,
extract from, 511.
Compaing, 232.
Compton, Brigadier-Gen. H., 361,
385........ F., 368........ and see Northampton.
Comry, 353.
Concalle (Brittany), 257.
Conception, Bay of, 447.
Condon, Thomas, 40.
Confey, 664.
Conges d'elire, 357-9.
Congleton, David, 477.
Congrave, Capt. R., 374.
Congreve, Capt. W., 376.
Coniach, 355.
Coningsby, Thomas Coningsby, 1st
Baron, 143, 166, 391, 400.
Connaway, Sir J., 391.
Conniers, Lieut., 363.
Conquett, Conquet, Road of, 97, 98.
Constable, Capt., 531, 537, 700......., R. or Sir R. (Deputy-Lieutenant and Sheriff for Yorks),
395, 523........ R.  (Deputy.-Lieutenant  for
the Tower Hamlets), 392......., Y., 395.
Constantin, 229.
Constantine, 229.
Constantinople, 715.
Contraband, proviso against carrying, included in passes, 409,
412, 694.............. and see International
Law.
Convicts, female, reprieved if pregnant, 335, 490, 602........, and  see  Criminal matters.
Convoys, regulation for, 720.




GENERAL INDEX.


751


Conyers, 316......, Sir G. (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Huntingdon), 393......., J. (Deputy-Lieutenant for
Essex), 397.........,.,. petition of, 449......., L.,  82,  508.
Cooke, Cook, E., 396.......  G., 415........  Sir   G., 394....... J., wire-drawer, 509........ J. (auditor of Duchy of Lancaster), 502........ Sir John, Judge Advocate
or Advocate General, 272,
299, 313, 419, 484.......  M ary, 490........Lieut. John  (Fusiliers), 384........ Capt. Thomas    (Earl of
Derby's), 378......   alph, Deputy-Treasurer
(Chelsea), 136, 370........ Lieut. Robert (half-pay),
160........T., 509........ T. (barrister), 271, 331........ Sir T. (Alderman and Deputy-Lieutenant for Tower
Hamlets), 245, 391....... Thomas (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Derbyshire), 397........ William (tanner), 608........ Sir  W.,  392.
Coole, 665.
Cooling, A., 335.
Cooper, Capt., 177........, Charles, 188, 194........ Lieutenant J. (Earl of Orkney's), 377........ 2nd  Lieut. (Holt's), 363......., H.,  525.......  W illiam, 382........ Sir W illiam, 392.
Cooshtrinane, 666.
Coote, Harry, 409......., Ensign, 364........ Capt. R., 379........ Col. Richard, 5, 143........ Thomas, a Judge (Ir), 332,
399, 402....... Thomas, Pursuivant, 502........ and see Bellomont, Castle
Coote, and Mountrath.
Cope, D., 159........ Sir J., 391.
Copenhagen, 337......., Envoy at, 492.
Coper, B., 239.
Copley, Sir G., Commissioner for
Accounts &c., 344, 394.
Copsey, 384.
Corban, 497.
Corbett, Capt. R., 265....... Sir R., 525.
Corbettes, 229,


Corbit, W., 470.
Corbusier, M., 45.
Corey, Capt., 363.
Corfield or Coffin, 50, 490.
Cork, City, 156, 403, 720......., arbitration at, 529........  B o r d e a u x   m e r c h a n t s   a t,   5 2 9........ officers at, 561........ deserters at, 54........ harbour, 93........ resident near, 259........ troops embarked or landed
at, 546........ school at, 257............,  French   pupils  at,
257........ storehouse of, 226........ and trade with enemy, 649........ troops from, 22........County, lands  in,  663....... district, 662, 665.
Cork, Charles Boyle, 3rd (or 4th)
Earl of (1698-1704), 143.
Cornaud, 381.
Cornekelly, 666.
Cornelius (Thomas), Mayor of Southampton and prisoners of war,
265, 538, 590.
Cornellious, Mrs. Roberte, 40.
Cornewall, Capt., 93, and see 523n.
Cornish, William, 410, 411.
Cornwall, steward of Duchy of, 503........   L o r d   L i e u t e n a n t   a n d   D e p u t y
Lieutenants for, 391, 397........ defence of coast of, 428-9........ Sheriffs of, 277, 522........ and  wool export, 295.
Cornwall, Charles, 523 and note.
Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, 4th
Baron, 71, 390, 392....,......., on   pressing   men,
132 seq......., Capt. F. (Webb's), 374.
Corps, J., 539.
Corunna, 49, 51, 84, 108, 192....... news from, 120, 149, 177 -183......., hard  to  get into, 63......., details of harbour and forts,
76........ packet service between England and, 30........ and see Expedition, and
Munden.
Corvett, 693.
Cory, Capt. H., 389.
Coryton, Sir W., 391.
Cosby, H., 159.
Coshart, Cushart, Couchart, etc.,
Capt., 557, 587............. letters from, 243,
569.............. escape of, 565, 566,
582, 585, 588-9, 591, 593, 594,
595, 611.




752


GENERAL INDEX.


Coshart, Capt.-cont.........., knows our coast,
566.
Costins, 641.
Cotelogon. See Coetlogon.
Cotter, Peter, 599.
Cotterell, Cotteril,  Cottrell,  Sir
Charles, 83, 297, 485, 486............., Charles his son, 485........ Corpl., 690.
Cotton, B., 159.......  F., 324........ Capt., 63, 180, 181......., Sir G. (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Cambridgeshire), 395......,J., 411......., Sir J. (Cornwall), 391........ R., passes  to  Montpelier  in
war-time for his health, 411........, Sir R. (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Cambridgeshire), 395............ and see Postmasters.
Cottrell. See Cotterell.
Couchart. See Coshart.
Couchman, Charles, 409, 510.
Couereu or Couuren, French banker
in London, 589, 599.
Coughlane, 384.
Cougote, Anthony, rector of Millbrook, 530.
Coulon, 229,....... 230.
Coulston, J., 552............, his father's charity,
552.
Coup, Elizabeth, 410.
Courland, James, Duke of, 432.
Courselles, 231.
Courteille, 233.
Courtney, 2nd Lieut. (Villier's),
364......., Capt. William, 41, 388.
Courts Martial, 500............. at sea, judges' opinion on, 331............., Clerk of the (Scotland), 69.
Coutance, 246.
Couteau, C., 230.
Coutenville, 246.
Covent Garden, Convent Garden,
coffeehouse in, 82.
Coventry, Bishop of, 329........ Lord Lieutenant of, 390.
Coward, Capt., 78.
Cowell, P. F., 667.
Cowes, 120........ affairs at, 43, 46-7, 54........ collector at, 43, 54, 60........ French ship seized at, 53,
60........ plunder at, 309, 310.
Cowley, W., 239.
Cowper, 316.
Cox, Charles, 393.


Cox, Sir R., Chief Justice, Common
Pleas, in Ireland, 144, 396,
399, 402, 592..........., and see Diston.
Coyeux, M. de, 327, 333, 531, 693.............. ill,  346.
Crackanthorpe, R., 521.
Craden. See Graydon.
Crafts, 376.
Craggs, J., 397.
Craigforth, 479.
Craigg, Joseph, 40.
Craighead, R., 348.
Craighouse, 465.
Craigie, James, jun., 355.
Craigievar, 354.
Craighall, 355.
Cramarby. See Cromarty.
Cramathe, 228.
Cranford, Thomas (merchant), 473.
Cranston, 373.
Crauford, Mr., Deputy Commissary
of Musters, 531.
Craven, Lieutenant, 709....... William Craven, 2nd Baron,
389, 392.
Crawford, John Lindsay, 19th Earl of
of, 469, 571.......,of Kilburnie, 572....... Capt. John (Row's), 378.
-....., D., 136, 369......., Lieut. (Gibson's), 363........ Robert (Governor of Sheerness), 368........ R o b e r t   ( D e p u t y - L i e u t e n a n t
for Kent), 394.
Crawley, Richard, 257.
Creed, 379.
Creeheoalleir, 577.
Creekstown, 665.
Creighton, Col., 159, 422, 561.
Cresseron (2), 230.
Cresset, Jas., 142, 493..v.......      value of his opinion
on diplomatic etiquette, 250,
251............. his    expenses  at
Hanover, 495, 496.
Cressett, Edward (Salop), 525.
Creswick, H., 396.
Creuseau, 379.
Crickett, Capt., 310.
Criminal matters (pardons, reprieves
etc.), 14, 15, 19, 24, 25, 26,
27, 28, 50, 57, 79, 194, 200,
202, 204, 205, 206, 224, 277,
285, 292, 335, 338, 489-92,
649, 650, 654, 659, 660, 670,
683, 723........ respite of pregnant convicts,
335 note, 490 note, 602 note....... youthful offenders, 349-50,
492....... Table relating to, 489-92.
Cripigny, Capt.-Lieut., 469.




GENERAL INDEX.


753


Crispinall, N., 410.
Crofton, G., 159.......,R., 160.
Crofts, 380....... Mr. and Mrs., 516........ and see Monmouth.
Crogh, 667.
Cromarty, Cramarby, 355.
Cromer, 405.
Crommelin, Lewis, and linen in IreIreland, 331, 332.
Croncort (General), 693.
Crooke, printer in Ireland, 78.
Crookes-Easton, 525.
Cropp, Dr. William, 538, 590.
Cropply, W., 393.
Crosby, Lieutenant, 709.
Crosfield, Robert, letters from, on
dissenters, on a bill in Parliament, etc., 540, 541......., T.,  415.
Cross, Lieut. J. (Levesey's), 387............... (Earl of    Barrymore's), 374........ J. (Deputy Lieutenant for
Buckinghamshire), 391.
Crossat, 231.
Cross-regal, 458.
Crosthwaite, R., 575.
Crow, R., 524.
Crowder, J., 717.
Crowe, William, 664........ Capt. J., 177......., Capt. L., 177........ Charles, Bishop of Cloyne,
becomes Bishop of Raphoe,
398.
Crowne, John, his petition, 130.
Crowther, 372.
Croxton, 380.
Croy, Lieut. P., 373........ Ensign  D., ibid.
Croydon, Queen's death rumoured at,
641.
Cruan, M., 567.
Crull, Lieutenant, 709.
Crumpton, 384.
Crunam, 355.
Cryagh, 665.
Cubbage, etc. See Cuppage.
Cue, the (Hispaniola), 700.
Cuffell, 438.
Cullen, 354.
Culliford, R., a pirate. See Colover.
Culliford, Capt. (R.N.), letter from,
on his capture, 47.........., onpressedmen, 199 -200....... R. (of Southampton, per.
haps the same as foregoing),
538, 688, 589, 597........, Capt. J. (Belasyse'), 369........ William, to be Lieut.-Col.,
371.
Wt. 3880.


Cullin, 667.
Cullum, Sir D., 392........ Thomas, 35.
Culmore, 156.
Culross, baillie of, 472.
Culwhoon, Sir H., 354.
Cumberland, Lord Lieutenant of,
390........ D e p u t y - L ie u te n a n t s   f o r,   2 5 9,
265........ and wool export, 295......., Sheriffs of, 412, 521........ Justices  of, and  enlistment, 542, 573-5.
Cumberlidge, J., 335.
Cumcutter, 477.
Cuming. See Cumming.
Cumming, Cuming, Sir Alexander,
354, 355........ John of Ernside, 452........, Lieut. John  (Villiers'),  388....... Mathew, 464.
Cummins, J., 397.
Cumstock (Devon), 312.
Cunningham, Lieut. Alexander, 378........ Col., 12........   E n s i g n   D.   ( E a r l   O r k n e y ' s ),
377.......  J., 471........ Margaret, 473........ Capt. J. (Earl Orkney's),
377......., Michael, 158......., Capt. Mur., 159, 562........ R. (Lord Jedburgh's), 452......., Ensign Robert (Gibson's),
380........ W illiam, of Buchan, 353......., Henry, of same, ibid...., John,  of  Ballindalloch,
ibid....... Thomas, 574........ and see Glencairn.
Cuppage, Cubbage, Cubbidge, J.,
542, 574, 575.
Curragh, The, (Kildare), gamekeeper at, 78.
Curraghanlan, 665.
Currance, J., 525.
Currer, H., 394.
Currie, Robert, 465.
Curry, Capt., 709......., G., 159.
Curson, J., 397.
Curtis, Elizabeth, 324.
Curwen, Christopher, 521.
Cushart. See Coshart.
Custom House, officers of, 49.
Customs, Commissioners of, 50, 262,
293.........,, officers   of,  and
pressing men, 65, 83, 84.............. sloops of, 98............, and wine trade, 448............., and plunder, 308, 309.
A 48




754.


GENERAL INDEX.


Customs, Commissioners of-cont........... riding surveyor of,
710.......      at Whitehaven,
516.
Cuthbert, G., 354.
Cuttle, 374.
Cutts, John Cutts, 1st Baron, 362,
370, 395..............., his regiment, 366,
383.
D
D'Abbadie, 229.
D'Agar, Mrs., 148.
D'Agneaux, Mrs., 148, 375.
Dagos, 234.
Dahlem, 363.
Daines, Sir W., 396.
Dainstown, 666.
DakeynsDakakins, Dakeyne, Dakyns,
Charles, Surgeon, 383........ Adjutant and Lieut., 377........ Sub-Brigadier, Charles, 385.
D'Albenas (2), 233.
D'Albenquie, 231.
Dalbon, 230.
D'Alby, 231.
Dalez, Baron, 649, 653.
Dalhousie, William  Ramsay, 5th
Earl of, 471.
Dalhowand (or Dallnovan), 473.
D'Aligre, Marquis, a prisoner of war,
317, 588, 594, 693..............  treatment of, 324............  letters from, 336,
340..............  to  go  to  Oxford,
317.
Dalkings, T., 378.
D'Allam, J., 345.
Dallas, Charles, 456, 464.
Dalliell. See Dalzell.
Dallnovan (or Dalhowand), 473.
Dallons, 229.
Dalmas, 232.
Dalmungo, tutor of, 353.
Dalneives, 353.
Dalquharran, 473.
Dalrymple, Sir D., 278, 319, 466, 476........ Sir  H enry,  572, 573........ and see Stair.
Dalston, Capt. Christopher, 521,
573-5..............  and  enlisting,  542......  J., 412.


Dalston-cont........ R., 267.............. his house in Pall
Mall, ibid.
D'Alteirat, 232.
Dalton, E. A. Esq., 381 note......., R., 329.
Dalwig, M., 195.
Dalwyn, 473.
Dalyel, Daliell, Capt. (Gibson's), 362.
Dalyell, Capt. T. (Ramsay's), 471........ Lt.-Col.,  378........ Major  Robert,  594, 597.
Dalzell, Captain R., 380.
D'Amboix, 234.
Dambon, 231.
Damestown, 666.
Dampier, Damper, Capt., 594, 627,
673.
Dampieres, 232.
Danby, 369.
Dancourt, 363.
Dangilband, 230.
Dangyies, 452.
Daniel, 373......., I., 395.
Danny, 233.
Dansey, 378.
D'Ansty, 374.
Danzig, 623.
D'Appeliz, 231.
Daraeckmalnack, 355.
Darby, Lieut., 363......, Capt., 388.
Darcy, T., 411.
Darenne, 234.
Darjaxbrie, 473.
Darley, R., 395.
Darnell, Serjeant-(at-Law), 316.
Darques, 229.
Darreche, S., 412.
Darrighshoco, 473.
Dartford, 111........ Justices for, 111.
Dartmouth, William   Legge, 2nd
Baron (afterwards 1st Earl of),
149, 488.
Dartmouth, 46, 75, 91, 185, 687........, plunder  at, 310.
D'Arzeliers, Marquis, 232.
Dashwood, 369........  Sir   Samuel,  245,  313,
393....... Sir Robert, 391.
Dassas, 231.
D'Aubemarques, M., 224.
Daubusarques, 228.
Daussebille, 233.
Daussy, 233.
D'Autraques, Baron, 234.
Dautevil (2), 230.
Davall, Sir T., 391.
Davenant, George, 165...... Henry, 496.
Davenport, 2nd Lieut., 362.




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GENERAL INDEX.


755


Davenport-cont........ J.,  5 2 2........ Lt.-Col.,  365,  383.
Davessem, 230.
Davidson, Lieut. (Gibson's), 363........, Capt. (Gibson's), 380, 385.
Davis, Davies, J., 522........ Giles (merchant), 349....... J., 159........ Jane, 40........ Lieut. (Gibson's), 363........ Lieut. L., 158, 562........ Capt.  J.,  562........ Lieut. R. (Belasyse'), 369........, T oby,   509....... William (Teneriffe), 702.
Davison, Lieut. (Saunderson's), 364......., 2nd Lieut. William  (same),
368.
Davy, Robert, 392.
Dawes, 373.
Dawks I, printer in London, 314.
Dawly, H., 393.
Dawnay, 395....... and see Downe.
Dawson, Josh. (secretary to Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland), 54............ and    State  Paper
Office in Ireland, 555, 556........ Capt. R., 222....... William, 602.
Day, 2nd Lieut., 364......, John (of Bristol), 95, 96, 249........ Sir Thomas, 396.
Deadman's Head, letter from near,
195.
Deakins, Elizabeth, 335.
Deal, 305, 612........ notes from re plunder, 307 -310........ petition  from  Bowles at,
196....... sick at, 306.
Dean, 367.
Dean, Forest of, 488..........., officers of, etc., 503........, and  St. Briavel's
Castle, 630-1.
Deane, 316......., Lieut. J., 158, 562.
De Bancon, 230.
De Baltasard, 224 and note.
De Beauvoir, Daniel, 44......., Thomas, 44........ J., 606.......,  W.,   505.
De Berdt., J., 64.
De Bernoye, Abel, petition of, 202.
Debert, J., 526.
De Bette, 231.
Debize, 373.
De Boismorel, 369.
De Boisrond, 231.
De Bolleroy, 234.
De Brisay, 230.


De Brusse, 230.
De Cardonnel. See Cardonnel.
De Carteret, Edward, 554.
De Carvalho, B., 72.
De Caux, J., 592......., M., 592.
De Clouseaux, 363.
De Composano, F., 300.
De Contiere, A., 160.
De Cossio, J. J., 300.
De Cotte, Cott, M., 693.
De Cowe, 374.
De Culant, 380.
Deering, 374........ Sir  Charles, 394........ James, 24.
De Foe, Daniel, letter from, 532.............. discovery of, 726.
De Gailly, 230.
De Ginkel. See Athlone.
De Goes. See Goes.
De Gojac, 369.
De Grave, L., 679.
Deguan, 364.
De Guilhen~ 231.
de Hague. See La Hogue.
De Joux, J., 592.
Dejoy, 364.
Dejoye, 231.
De La Bastide, 385.
De la Baume, 234.
Delabere, K., 396.
De La Boullage, 363 and note.
Delacombe, Francis, 592........ James, 592.
De La Court, 229.
De La Fountaine, 523.
De la Gardiolle, 234.
De la Grois, De Lagroix, De le Agra,
M., 327, 333, 340, 588, 693.
De la Hay, J., 523.
De la Haya, R., 300.
De la Harteloiere (French naval
officer), 627.
De L'Aigle, 231.
De la Maugere, 233.
De Lambour, 693.
Delamere, Delamore, or Delamare,
W., 665, 666, 667.
De La Mott, 234.
De la Muse, 230.
De La Noe, 363.
De La Noue, T., 411.
De la Porte, 234.
De la Plague, 234.
De la Ralde, J., 712......, M., 712.
De la Rochefoucauld. See Lifford.
De la Soradiere, 234.
De la Touche. See La Touche.
De la Tour, P., 703.
De la Tour Montfort.  See La Tour
&c.
De la Val, 234.
Delaval, Delavall, Sir J., 421, 507.




0


756


GENERAL INDEX,


Delaval, Delavall-cont........ Sir Ralph, 276.
Delawne, Col. W., 394.
Del Camino, Don J., 300.
De le Agra. See De la Grois.
De Leau, J., 526.
Delegates, Court of, 268, 421.
De Leigne, D., 392.
De Leucourt, Marquis, 234.
De Leuze, 230.
Delevall, Capt. George, 705.
De Ligniere, 363, 367.
Delisle, 229, 234......., Thomas, 44, 260, 606.
Delivron, 364.
Delm6, P., 349.
Delmotersea, C., 410.
De Loches, 224 and ote....... (perhaps same), 230......., (perhaps same), 234.
De Longpr6, 230.
Delony, Capt., 709.
De Lorme, 231.
De Lorthes, 233.
De Lot. See Dutot.     *
Delpy, 230.
De Magny, 230.
de Maran, M., 184.
De Maisonfort, M., ill, 697.
De Mattes, F. A., 639.
De Membray, 234.
De Mesnil, 232.
Demetsagne, J. C., 712.
De Mezerac, 230.
De Millon, Capt., 362.
De Miranda or Marienta, P., 639, 640.
De Mocais, M. de, 72.
De Montand, A., 233....... S.,   2 3 3.
De Montaut, 234.
Dempster, 373.
De Neufville, D., 279.
De Neuville, 234.
Denis, P., 232.
De Nitschwitz. See Nitschwitz.
Denmark, 563........ Envoy from England to, 37,
493, 495............. from, 171, 656........ England's debt to, under
Treaties, note on, 42, 43, 73........  ships  of,  embargoed   or
seized, 63, 71, 144, 348, 563,
619, 708......., sailors of, released, 622......, Treaty  with,   considered,
528-95, 535-6............... to be renewed, 656........ Admiral of, 305.
Dennis, Mathew, 395.
Denny, 373....... Lieut. T., 159, 562.
Denrothes, 233.
Dent, 371.
Denton, Anne; 602......., Sir E., 390.


Denty, 381.
De Ollons, 234.
De Paz Faxardo, E., 300.
De Pelissier, 230.
Deperay, 229.
De Pimont, Pimont, Monsieur, 327,
330, 340, 693............. to  be exchanged,
690............., letter from, 649.................... Lord Burling.
ton on his treatment, ibid.
De Poncet, 230.
Deppe, 233.
Depray, Duprey, Capt. M., 584,
599.
Depre, J., 712.
De Pres, 233.
Deptford, 326........ letter from, 680.
De Putron, William, 260.
Deputy Lieutenants for Counties,
etc., 266, 267, 339........ Table  of, 390-397.
De Rabiniere, Lt.-Col., 362.
De Raes, A., 64.
De Rassa, Count, 412.
Derbier, 345.
Derby, Ferdinando Stanley (14th or
5th) Earl of (1593), 243......., James Stanley, 19th or 10th
Earl of (1702-1736), 259, 489................ officers of his regiment, 378.
Derbyshire, 70......., Lord Lieutenant and Deputy
Lieutenants for, 389, 397........ Sheriffs for, 522........ lands  in, 449.
Dereville, A., 570.
De Rieux, Mary, 678.
Dering, Charles, 144........ Henry, LL.D., 358.
Derniville, 345.
De Rochblave, 230.
Deross, A., 50.
De Rousselet. See Chateau-Regnaud.
Derry, Bishop (William  King) of,
424.
Dertous, 232.
De Ruvigny. See Galway,
Desagmoig, Catherine, 260.
De Sailly, 233.
De St. Paul, Paul C., 553, 554.
De St. Sulpice, M., 695, 696.............. letter  from,   to
Lieut.-Governor of Guernsey,
72.
De Sansinenez, or De Sansenea, Capt.
M., 443, 591.
De Sartre. See Sartre.
Desasure, 375.
De Saumarez, Seigneur, 260.
De Savory, J., 229.
Desberbiers, 232.




GENERAL INDEX.


757


Desbordes, 364.
Desborow, B., 397.
Des Bouverie or Desbouverie, J.,
612, 613.
Desbovery, J. (Deputy Lieutenant
for Kent, same?), 394.
De Schutz. See Schutz.
Desclaux, 230.
Des Crosse, 229.
De Sediere, 363, 384.
Desemblands, 231.
De Senegas, 230.
Deserters, question of pardon of,
555, 556.
De Sesrieres, 234.
Deseury, 229.
Des Fourneaux, 229.
Desford (Leicester), vicar of, 184.
Desibourg, Lt.-Col., 379.
Des Isles, 229.
Des Landes, 231.
Des Loires, 228.
Desmarest, 231.
Desmareste, 229.
Desodes, 231.
De Solignee, 234.
De Sollignes, 577.
De Sorel, Sorelli, M., 724, and see Sorel.
D'Esprandieu, 231.
Despiere, 234.
De Sultanan, C. B., an Armenian
merchant, and silk trade,
427.
De Tour de Landre, Chevalier, 693.
De Travessy, 234.
Deturbide, Capt., 712.
Devaux, 371.
De Veale, 590.
De Veer, Capt., 199.
Devenish, Capt. Edward, 388.
De Vere. See Oxford.
Devereux, Ensign Essex, 378......,   W alter,  197,  206,  293,  565.........., letterfrom, 190......, Lieutenant Walter (Bridges'),
372.......   Capt.-Lieut.,  365.
De Vie, Isaac, 304.
Devit, Devitt, Lieut. J., 159, 562.
De Vizarren, 303.
Devon, Philip, 24, 489.
Devon, Lord Lieutenant of, 389........  Sheriffs  of,  522....... and wool export, 295.
Devonshire, William Cavendish, 1st
Duke of, 70, 389, 397, 430,
488, 489.
Devoren (Poveran), 481.
Dewey, James, 21.
De Yiera, J. B., 300.
D'Harcourt, 364.
D'Hervart, Philip, Envoy to Switzerland, 263, 497.
D'Hevertworth, 282.
D'Hours, 229.


D'huglas, 231.
Dias, M., 409.
Dickenson, Dickinson, 377....... W., 395.
Dickson, J., 471.
Diebson, 377.
Dieppe, Deip, etc., 44, 47, 113, 280,
340, 553........ burnt, 174.
Dier, Baron de, 297.
Digby, J., 396, 524.
Diggs, W., 394.
Dilkes, Lieut. Charles, 383.
Dilley, 257.
Dillington, 380.
Dillon, Garrett, 665......., Christopher, ibid..........., and see Roscommon.
Dinan, Dinant, 270, 322, 323........ English prisoners at, 615,
624, 625, 687, 718........ 1,000  English  at,  555.............. hospital for, 551........ letters from, 332, 588.
Dinduff, 473.
Dingle, 157, 662, 665.
Dininno, 459.
Diplomatists, Table of warrants for
expenses of, 492 seq.
Dipple, Laird of, 354.
Dirickson, J., 348.
Disalnais, 380.
Diston alias Cox, 57, 490.
Dive, L., 395.
Divident, the, 15-16, 44, 95, 148,
204, 225, 262, 282, 324, 356,
566, 700, 728.
Dixey, E., 159.
Dixodun, 230.
Dixon, 257, 363.......,H., 158.
Dixwell, Sir B., 96, 162, 394.
Dixy, Sir W., 339.
Dobbins, 380........, John, 24.
Dober, M., 47.
Dobree, T., 260,....... William, 44.
Dobson, Gilbert, 76.
Dobyns, H., 415.
Dockwra, Docwra, Ensign G. (Earl of
Romney's), 380.......,T., 608........ William, and penny post,
430.
Docton, 364.
Doctors' Commons, opinion of civilians at, 286......., letters from, 312, 639.
Docwra. See Dockwra.
Dod, 617.
Dodd, 316.
Dodeswell, P., 396.
Dodson, T., 159.
Dog, the (Inn), 82.




758                      GENERAL INDEX.
Dogger Bank, 27, 199.                Douglas-cont.
Dogs, not allowed in St. James'....., Lieut. James (Row's), 378.
Park, 540.......,Lieut. John (Row's), ibid........ and see Hounds....., Capt. G. (Earl of Jedburgh's),
Doiley, 366.                               470.
Dolbell, E., 201......, Lieut. J. (Ramsay's), 470.
Dolben, Mr. Justice, 402........ Ensign Charles (Ramsay's),.............. payments to, 399,           ibid.
400......., Ensign R. (Maitland's), 471.
Doleman, 392......, Robert, Steward of Orkney,
Dollardstown, 664.                         etc., 467.
Dolling, 364......... and see Forfar; March;
Dollon, 229.                               Morton; Queensbury; Selkirk.
Dolman, J., 160.                     Doulinge, R., 717.
Dolton, T., 395.                     Dourer, 363.
Domerques, 231.                      Dove, Mr., 59, 66.
Dominican Friar. See Tyrconnell.     Dovenby   (Cumberland),  warrant
Donagon, D., 289.                          addressed from, 542.
Donamore (Meath), 664.               Dover, 746.
Donegall, Arthur Chichester, 3rd......, Mayor, etc., of, 16, 305, 483,
Earl of, 159, 561, 562.              570, 573.
Donelan. See Donnellan......., English deserters at, 27, 39,
Donnoghmore (Queens County), 667.          50, 73.
Donnellan, Donnelon, Donelan, L.,......Castle, 65, 66, 101, 162.
666............. Constable of, 488........ Lieut. J., 160, 562......., prisoners of war at, 75, 91,....... Nehemiah, 402.                     96, 101, 102, 126, 184, 203,
Donnelly, J., 158.                         281, 298, 506, 669.
Donolough, 332........ house for in, 264.
Donoghmore (Kildare), 667........suspects at, 3.
Dorchester, 442........ Macky at, 284, 286........ Assizes at, 490........ merchant at, 612.
Dore, 382......, surveyor at, 686......., J., 159.                    Doveran. See Devoren.
Dormer, Capt. C. (Earl of Oxford's),  Dowgalstown, 479.
369, 586.                      Dowglass (co. Kerry), 665........ Lieut. James (Earl of Rom-  Down, Archdeacon of, 424.
ney's), 366......., Dean of, 664........ J. (Deputy-Lieutenant for......Rectory, 664.
Oxford), 524...... and Connor, Edward, Bishop....... Lieut. Ph. (Earl of Rom-          of, 143.
ney's), 380........, Chancellor of, 424.
Dornant, S., 159.                    Down, Survey the, 663.
Dornell, Major, 364.                 Downe, Sir J. Dawnay, 1st Viscount,
Dorper, L. de, 64.                         394, 395.
Dorrell, H., 391.                    Downes, 369.
Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of, 390.     Downing, George, 412........ Deputy Lieutenants for, 393.  Downs, the, 25......., and wool export, 295........, ships in, etc., 43, 163,.......  Justices,  etc.  of,  638.        529........ Sheriffs  for,  522.       D 'oyly,  169......., Charles Sackville (9th or 6th)....... 2nd Lieut. (Villiers'), 364.
Earl of (1677-1706), 71, 390...... R., Major, Tower of London,
Doucett, 359.                              374.
Douglas, Archibald, of Cavers, 468,  Doyne, R., Chief Baron of the Ex572, 573.                            chequer, (I), 144, 400, 402......., Capt. (R.N.), 122, 135, 291.  Dragoons, Royal Scotch, 288........ General, 174............. and see Army, Corn-....., Lieut.  Archibald   (Fer-         m issions.
gusone's), 373.                Drake, 377........ Major Archibald, 469.       Draper, M., 160........ Ensign George (Fergusone's),......, W., 397.
373.                           Draycott, 373........ Capt. Charles (Earl of Mar's),  Drew or Duell, Charles, deposition of,
464.                                 182,




GENERAL INDEX.


759


Drewit. See Drovet.
Drisdale, T., 159.
Drocer, 378.
Drogheda, 157........ Henry Moore, 3rd Earl of,
18, 143, 158........ district, 662, 666.
Droiet, James, 328.
Dromagh, 667.
Drouart, 363.
Drouett, James, 235.
Drouthon, 229.
Drovet, Drewit, W., 685.
Drumkirk, 665.
Drummin, 355.
Drummard, Archibald, 469.
Drummond, James, 353........ John, ibid....... Capt. William (Fergusone's),
373....... Lieut. Thomas (same), ibid.
Drummuire, Laird of, 354.
Drumraick, 468.
Drumwhindle, 355.
Dryden, Rev. Jonathan, 358.
Duaghnefely, 666.
Du Barry, 231.
Dubay, 229.
DUBLIN, City:............, address from, 13............. Archbishop       (N.
Marsh) of, 18, 143, 227, 332............ and trade to Cumberland, 89.............. forces  in.  See  Ire.
land.............. Town Major at, 78,
157............., Mayor, etc., payment to, 226....... Castle, 226............., firing, etc., in, 152.............. keeper of, 226........ deserters from Royal Navy
at, 54........ trade of, 39......, passes from, 412....... University.  See Trinity  College........ district of, undisposed lands
&c. in, 662, 664, 666....... and see Ireland.
Dubothet, 230.
Dubourdieu, S., a minister, 592............. letter from, 552-3.
Du Bourgay, 372.
Du Buc, 234.
Due, Sieur, 224.
Du Casse, Duras, M. (French naval
commander), 36, 216, 441............, his force, 217.............. escape of, 549.
Du Causse, 233.
Du Chesne, 229,...... Lieut., 363.


Du Chine, 229.
Du Chot, 205.
Ducke, R., 222.
Duckson, 373.
Du Cournan, D., 409.
Ducroes, 382.
Duddleston, Sir J., 396.
Dudley, 376........ C o l.   ( G o v e r n o r,   N e w   H a m p -
shire), 16, 550, 610........ and  see  Northumberland.
Duell. See Drew.
Duelling in Irish regiments, 651.
Dufaure, J., 205.
Du Faux (2), 230.
Dufay, 229.
Dufeif, J., 412.
Duff, Ensign, 375........ Alexander, 354........ Major S., 369.
Duffaine, 377.
Duffell, Mr., 690.
Duffus, J. Sutherland, 2nd Lord,
353.
Dufie, 231.
Dufossat, 230.
Duglas,Ensign J., 374; andseeDouglas
Dugwery, 374.
Duhallow, Dunhallow, 663.
Du Hornet, 231.
Duke, Sir G., 392.
Dukinfield, Ensign W., 550.
Du Lac, 234.
Du Laussac, 234.
Duley, 522.
Dullery, 353.
Dumaresq, Charles, 554........ Jean, 554........ Edward, Greffier (Jersey),
553, 554.
Du Marest, 229.
Dumas, 231, 234........ P., 232.
Dumay, 229.
Dumbar, Dumbarr, Ensign, 454........ James, of Balcross, 474......., Sir William, of Down, ibid........ James, jun., of same, ibid........ R., of Dumseall,  354........ and see Dunbar.
Dumbarny, 353.
Dumbarr. See Dumbar.
Dumbarton Castle, Governor, etc. of,
472.
Dumbartonshire, 355.
Dumblane, Dumblanen, Minister of,
477........, Schoolmaster of, ibid........ Church and Bishopric of, ibid.
Dumble, Capt. P., 309.
Du Meney, 230.
Dumericque, 375.
Dummer, Mr., and correspondence
with the Colonies, 28, 90, 136,
146, 161, 225, 333, 338, 533.




760


GENERAL INDEX.


Dummer, Mr.-cont........... his plan accepted,
213............... details of his plan,
114, 213, 214, 252......... letters from, 61, 589........... Postmasters on his
proposals, 211.
Dumseall, 354.
Dunbar, Lieut. J. (Row's), 378........ Capt. J., 159, 562........ Dunbarr,  of  Bishopsmill,
355........ L.,  of  G range,  354......., of Castlefield, 354...... Lieut. A., 470......., and see Dumbar.
Dunboyne, 665.
Dunbreck, 378.
Duncan, Capt. M., 374........ Alexander, 353.
Duncannon, 156, 157.
Duncanson, Lt.-Col., 364.
Duncombe, Duncomb, 365........ Anthony, a Commissioner of
Prizes, 271........ Anthony, Governor of Scarborough    Castle  (perhaps
same), 370......., Sir C., 394......., Mary, 424......., F., 391........ J.  (Sheriff   of   Buckinghamshire), 521........ Mrs., 148....... William, 395.
Ddndalk, district, 662, 666.
Dundarcus, 452.
Dundass, 377.
Dunder, D., 584.
Dundrennan, 458.
Dundrum, 226.
Dunduff, 452.
Dungan,   Thomas    Dungan,   2nd
Viscount [?], 667; and see
Limerick.
Dungannon fort, 437.
Dunkirk, Dunkerque, etc., 85, 92,
134, 163, 164, 199, 406, 625,
631, 649, 680, 682, 697......., Major-General of Marine at,
184......, French   fleet  at,  198,  199,
261, 562.............. cruisers to  watch
them, 562......., Lieutenant-General of Admiralty at, 205......., official documents from, 205,
206......., English prisoners at, 266,
581-2, 583, 587, 635......., squadron of, passim, 405 -407........ poverty at, 684.


Dunmore, Lord Charles Murray, 1st
Earl of, 571.
Dunn, George, information of, 638........ Thomas,  and  Baltic  trade,
693.
Dunnairn, 354.
Dunnen, 354.
Dunnington, 626.
Dunnose, 47.
Dunsaughlin, 664.
Dunton, Gilbert, 608.
Dunwall, Ab., 471.
Du Parc., 233.
Du Passy, 234.
Du Perse, 233.
Du Plessis, 577.
Du Plessy, 233.......  Quarter Master, 363.
Duplex, 363.
[Dupplin,] Duplin, Thomas Hay, 1st
Viscount, 353.
Du Pratt, 231.
Dupr6, 232.......,H., 260; and see Depray.
Du Puy (4), 229, 231, 232, 234........ J., 203.
Durand, Monsieur, 693.
Durans, 374.
Duras. See Du Casse.
Durban, 231.
Durell, Jean, 554........ M., Sheriff of Jersey, 9.
Du Resty, S., 62.
Durham, Lord Lieutenant of, 389........ J.P.'s for, 431....... and wool export, 295.
Durham, J., 471........ W., 363.
Durley, Captain, 56.
Durnford (Elton), Frances, letter
from, 643.
Du Rodon; Monsieur, 611.
Durran, 377.
Durrell, Capt. H., 375, 388.
Durseley, Durzly, Lord, 396, 595........ and see Berkeley.
Dury, 376.
Dury, Theo., 469.
Durzley. See Durseley.
Du St. Fray, Monsieur, 693.
Duserre, 231.
Du Souley, Duzouley, P., letters
from, 694, 697, 709, 726.
Dussont, 230.
Dutch. See United Provinces.
"Dutch Catechism, The," author of,
pilloried, 336.
Duterm, 384.
Du Torall, 231.
Dutot, De Lot, L., a French prisoner, 588, 593 and Addenda.
Dutry, D., letter from, 646.
Dutton, Sir R., 396.
Du Val, Duval, 229......., Adrian, 679,




GENERAL INDEX.


761


Du Val-cont....... P., 232.
Du Vias, 234.
Duzouley. See Du Souley.
Dyas, Lieutenant, 684.
Dyer, Peter, 57, 490......., J., 239.
Dymoke, Hon. C., 392......., L., 524......... M r.,  on   Lincolnshire   coast
defence, 171.
Dythick, H., 391.
E
Eadstown, 667.
Earl Marshal, 385.
Earle, Consul at Lisbon, 32, 194,
728........ and  see Erie.
Earnside, 452.
Earquott, Capt., 709.
Earskine. See Erskine.
East, William, 608.
East Country or Eastland, trade to,
etc., 406, 407........ important for naval supplies, 326.
Easter Ortoun, 452.
Easter Fearn, 354.
East Friesland, subsidy for, 647, 648.
East Grinstead, market at, 449.
East India Company, protection of
their trade, 343, 344, 347, 545,
613, 620........ pirates and, 347, 551........ 'the   Old,' 627........ the two Companies, 442,
443........ and privateers, 673........ ask for convoy, 161, 339.......,names of members, 339......., convoy for, 97, 339-40......, Naval officer (R.N.), takes
service with, 449.
East Indies, 406, 407.
Eaton, 369........, M ary, 40.
Ecclesiastical Courts, expenses of
litigation in, 421......., litigation in Ireland, 424.
Echlin, Col., 158......., Sir H., 402.
Eckley, S., 523.
Edgecombe, R., 391.
Edger, Mr., 697.
Edgeworth, 383....... Lt.-Col., F., 159......,  F.,  ibid.


Edinburgh, Castle, Governor of, 476............... Governor and Constable of, 479............., gunner in, 480........ master tailor in, 482........ Provost of, 572........ Commissaries of, 468....... Council of State, Treasury
and Exchequer at, 240....... letters from, 148, 167........ and see Scotland.
Edisbury, K., 15, 39, 683, 725.
Edmonds, Sir T., 442.
Edmonston of Cambuswallace, 354.
Edmonton, 59, 66.
Edmunds, 372......., Mr., 347.
Ednample, 353.
Edreston. See Adderstone.
Edvards, J., 523.
Edwards, Ensign (Earl of Huntingdon's), 364........, Ensign G. (Earl of Barrymore's), 374.....,..,Capt., 311, 362..., M., 189....... Thomas, Deputy-Lieutenant
(Ely), 395..........., Deputy-Lieutenant
(Bristol), 396.
Edwin, Sir H., 245.
Egerton, William, 48....... and see Bridgewater.
Eglinton,  Eglintoun,   Alexander
Montgomerie, 9th Earl of, 2,.
460, 571.
Eglionsby. See Aglionby.
Eight, 355.
Elfrey, Robert, 264.
Elgin, baillie of, 354....... and  Forres, 451.
Elginshire, 355.
Elison, 376.
Elizabeth Castle (Jersey), '235.
Ellice. See Ellis.
Elliot,  2nd  Lieutenant  William
(Row's), 378.
Elliott, Lieutenant (Villiers'), 364.
Ellis, Ellice, Anthony, 604....... Bernard, Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey, 36,99,296,689.........,  commission  to, 498.............. on   declaration  of
war and its results, 56, 71, 86,
210.........., on La Boulay, 235............. on privateers, 110.........., on   deserters,  566,
586........Elizabeth, 324........ John, 82, 240, 246..........,, letter from, 539........ J. (Deputy-Lieutenant for
Sussex), 526......., Welbore, D.D., 359, 360, 381.




762


GENERAL INDEX.


Ellis —cont......., William, 650........ Ensign William (Seymour's),
375........ Mr., 518.
Ellison, Fr., 376.
Ellton, Frances, letter from, 643.
Ellyott, D., 391.
Elmley Castle, 526.
Elmsall, Ralph, and Baltic trade,
693.
Elphinston, James, 354-5.
Elton, M., 189....,... Elizabeth, ibid.
Elwes, Elwis, Capt., 63, 75, 181........ Sir G., 133, 393.
Elwick, Robert, 267.
Ely, Bishop of, 313........ Isle  of, Deputy-Lieutenants
for, 394, 395.
Embargo, the (in 1702), 64, 113, 141........ effect of, 61, 76, 93.
Embree, Joseph, 159.
Emperor (Leopold II), England and,
174, 215, 246-7, 715......,. Count Wratislaw  on  his
plans, 255....... and England re Portugal,
632, 633, 656, 658........ reported dead, 684........ Envoy to, 493.
Enderbury, S., 608.
Eneregly, 667.
England, John, 382........  L ieutenant  T.,  374.
Engle, Benjamin, 603.
English, R.. (a criminal), 491........ R. (Controller, Chelsea  Hospital), 136, 370.
Ennis, Alexander, 664, 665........ L ie u t.,   7 0 9.
Ennis, co. Clare, 662, 666.
Enniskillen, Inniskilling, 157, 422.
Entwistle, Mr., 5.
Envoys, usual allowance for, 219........ and see Table, p. 492 seq.
Eregly, 667.
Erle, Earl, Major-General, T., 17,
332, 397, 400, 403, 499-500,
567........ Thomas, Governor of Portsmouth, 367........, Thomas, Deputy-Lieutenant
(Dorset), 393........ Capt. (Huntingdon's), 364.
Ernside, 355.
Errington, Elizabeth, 411.
Erroll, John Hay, 12th Earl of, 353,
571.
Error, writs of, 426, 427.
Erskine, Erskyn, Ariskine, Earskine,
Areskine, Arskin, Sir Charles
of Cambo, 459........ Mary, 40........ (C ap t.),  174.


Erskine-cont........ Capt. H., 378......, Lt.-Col. J., 472........ Lieut.  James  (Earl  of Orkney's), 377....... Lieut. John (same), ibid........ Lieut.-Col. John, 353........ John, jun., 353........ Sir J., 354........ and see Buchan, Kellie, Mar.
Erwyn, 363.
Escher, Sir J. R., 515.
Escurre, 233.
Esle, 451.
Essex, 70....... and wool export, 295........ Lord Lieutenant and Deputy
Lieutenants for, 390, 396........ Sheriffs for, 523........ Algernon  Capell, 2nd or 22nd
Earl of (1683-1710), 70, 322,
390, 392............,. a Brigadier-General,
361..............  officers  in  his  regiment, 382.
Estanier, 231.
Estilles (looms), 331.
Estrick alias Howard alias Walker,
J., 602.
Etherege, 380.
Etheridge, Sir J., 391, 690.
Eugene, Prince of Savoy, defeats
French in Italy, 217, 218,
247............  England and, 215.............. Shovell and, 706.
Eustace, Sir M., 667.
Euston, 414.
Evans, 375......, G., 180.....*., J., 292, 449........ George, 358......., Michael, Prebendary of W estminster, 358........ Capt. J. (R.N.), 308  and
Corrigenda, 544........ Capt. William (Foot Guards),
380........ Lieut. (Marines), 364.
Everaert, C., 300.
Everard, Sir H., 171, 188.......-. P., 665.
Everatt, J., 552.
Eversfield, Charles, 423-4, 488...........,.,. his married sisters,
424.
Evertsen, Vice-Admiral (of United
Provinces), 198, 199.
Every, Sir H., 397.
Ewart, William, 575.
Ewell (Surrey), 483.
Ewelme, Hospital at, Almsman at,
511.
Ewing, 378.




GENERAL INDEX.


763


Exchange of Prisoners. See Sick
and wounded.
Exchequer, Under-Treasurer, of, 484........ and see Treasury.
Exchequer Office, in Inner Temple,
277.
Exeter, Assizes at, 24, 490........ Sessions  at,  57........ short of coal, 161........ prisoners at, 575, 596........ Bishop  of, 391......, Countess of, wife of Thomas
Cecil, 1st Earl of, 243........ Lord Lieutenant of, 389.
EXPEDITION, the (to Cadiz, 1702):
Irish troops for, 4, 5, 11, 12, 18,
and see IRELAND.
preparations for, 10-11.
staff for (details), 17.
Dutch co-operation in. See United Provinces.
artillery for, 22-3......., officers, mortars, etc.,
23.
provisions for, 32, 96, 108, 120.
pay of soldiers in, 33.
transport for, manning ships,
etc., 65, 72, and see Transport,
Rooke.
detachment for the Adriatic,
215, 216.
Ormond's views on, 103.
everything ready for, 105.
health of horses, 105.
supply of powder for, 105, 111.
Rooke's instructions for, 108 -110.
bringing up late ships, 122.
sickness on, owing to heat, 125 -6, 163.
beds for men on, 129, 130, 131,
134, 140, 185.
and Corunna project, 131.
R6oke's letters on. See Rooke.
food for horses, 186.
return of, and plunder by force
on. See Plunder.
General Thanksgiving for success
of, 283.
storeships, etc., return, 284.
victuals for, return of, 290.
Rooke to report on, 297.
severe criticism on by Harding,
301-3.
Exton, A., 40.
Extraordinary expenses of diplomatists, 492 seq.
Eyre or Eyres:......  Charles  N.,  498............ (barrister), 316........ Charles  (perhaps  same),
277....., Lieut. H. (Bridges'), 373........ Samuel, 126, 660, 695............., letter from, 716.


Eyre or Eyres-cont........ William,,/397.
Eyton, 373, 380.
F
Fabre, 232.
Fabrot, 552, 553.
Fagel, J., 408.
Fagg (2), 521.
Fairborne, Sir Stafford, 41, 43, 47, 93,
131, 192, 709........ C a p t.   W i l l i a m,   l e t t e r   f r o m,
511.
Fairburn, 355.
Fairfax, Captain, 63, 75, 181........ Henry,  Dean   of  Norwich,
358.............,.  (D e p u t y -L ie u te n a n t
of Yorkshire), 394......, T h o m a s   F a i r f a x,   5 t h   B a r o n,
394.
Fairfoul, Colin, 472.
Fairlie, 378.
Fair Isle, action near, 186.
Fairweather, A., 324.
Falaise, 230.
Falconer, Sir Alexander, 353........ J. or Sir J., of Phesdoe, 353,
572.
Fallais, John, an illiterate, 9.
Falmouth, 46, 75, 91, 81, 163, 182,
317, 406, 722......., letter from, 119........, notes   from   re   plunder,
passim 307-310........ defence of, 406......., and the Navy, 602........ and  recruiting,  605.
Falquier,.232.
Fane, Fr. (Lincolnshire), 392, 524........ Sir H., 144........, Mildmay, 210........ Thomas, 210........ and  see W estmoreland.
Fanevin, 353.
Faning, N., 220.
Fannachie, 354.
Fanshaw, Mary, 29........ William, 39.
Farange, 229.
Farewell, James or Col. James,
Deputy Lieutenant of the
Tower, 250, 371, 695.
Farinel, B., 232.
Farjon, 231.
Farley, Capt., R., 439......., Lieut. R., 439.




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GENERAL INDEX


Farley-cont........ John, 440.
Farmer, J., 389.......  W., 335.
Farnham, prisoners at, 328, 336, 376,
535, 585, 596, 587, 669, 688......., letter from, 576.
Farneze, 355.
Faro, 547........ letter from, 301-3.
Farquharson, Farwharson, J., 471....... of Invercall [Invercauld], 354....... jun., of Allenaquith, ibid.
Farrar, Capt.-Lieutenant (Essex'),
382......., W., sen. (Deputy-Lieutenant,
for Bedfordshire), 395.
Farrer, 316........ W illiam,  317,  319.
Farrington, Col., 248, 249.
Farwell, J., 391........  C hristopher,  525.
Farwharson. See Farquharson.
Faulconer, 378.
Faure, 233........ 552, 553.
Fautrel, Fautrell, N., 610, 615.
Favieres, 231.
Fawconer, J., 393.
Fawks, T., 394.
Fay, Thomas, 679......., Elizabeth, 679.
Feaghmore, 665, 666.
Featherston, Fetherston, Col., 612......., T., 158.
Featherstonhaugh, Fetherstonhaugh,
2nd Lieutenant, 363........ John, Lieutenant-Governor
of Carlisle, 386.
Felicien, 693.
Felps, R., 552.
Felton, Captain Jeremy, 159, 561........  John   (Montgomeryshire),
444........ Sir T., 392.
Fen, Nicholas, 48.
Fenovillet, 233.
Fenwick, E., 412.
Feret, Capt. Charles, 577.
Ferguslie, 458.
Ferguson, Fergusone, J. (and Pitfour), 465-6....., Lieut. S., 158, 561........ C o l.,   6............., his officers, 373...... A., 348........ Lieut. John, 373........ Ensign Thomas, ibid.
Ferhill, 355.
Fermen, John, 263.
Feron, 229.
Ferott, 231.
Ferragut, S., 159.
Ferrand, 230......, R., 394.


Ferrar, W., jun., 395.
Ferrars, Capt.-Lieutenant, 380........ Ensign Joseph, ibid.
Fetherston. See Featherston.
Fetherstonhaugh. See Featherstonhaugh.
Fettiplace, Charles, 310..... Thomas, 392.
Feversham, James II at, 427.
Ffloyd, 233.
Field, Edward, 523........ Jeremy, 626.
Fielder, William, 41.
Fielding, Sir C., 143........ Ensign E., 380........ G., 368.
[Fiennes], Fines, Mr., Fellow  of
Winchester, 607......    and  see Saye.
Fife, lands in, 467........ Royal Lordship of, 454.
Figuel, H., 366.
Filbridge, 364........ J., 366.
Filkes, 380.
Finch, 374........ George  and  Thomas, petition
of, etc., 299, 300............., their partner Harding, interesting letter from,
301-3.......Hon. H., 393, 394........ Dr. L. W., 359........ Henry, Dean of York, 358,
359........ and  see Nottingham.
Findlater, Finlater, James Ogilvie,
3rd Earlof, 353, 571.
Fines. See Fiennes.
Finisterre, Cape, 209.
Finlater. See Findlater.
Fire insurance, 445.
Fish, J, 335........ Capt. L. (Seymour's), 375......, Nathaniel., 289.
Fish for Portugal, 546.
Fisher, Sir C., 516......., Daniel, 574........ Rev. Joseph, 103, 358.
Fishermen, idea of immunity of
from capture in war time, 613.
Fishwick, 363.
Fitch, J., 202.
Fitz, William, 522.
Fi[tz] Clement, J.P., 260.
Fitzedmunds, 374.
Fitzgerald, L., 400.......... case of, 100, 101.....,  R.  (Athlone),  665........ Edmund  (same),  ibid.
Fitzharding, John   Berkeley, 4th
Viscount, 484.
Fitzharris, A., 425......., Sir E., ibid.
Fitmaurice, T., 378.




GENERAL INDEX.


765


Fitzmorris, W., 158.
Fitzpatrick, Capt., 308........ Capt. Richard (same?), 384......., Capt. (same?), wounded, 709......., and see Upper Ossory.
Fitzrichard, P. W., 220.
Fitzroy. See Grafton; Northumberland.
Fitzthomas, F. C., 220.
Fladman, J., 717.
Flanderkins, 640.
Flashabegg, 666.
Fleet (prison), Warden of, 427.
Fleetwood, Mr., 95....... William, prebendary  of
Windsor, 358.
Fleming, 378......., T., 353........ and see Slane.
Flemingstown, 665.
Flemish Road, Dunkirk, 261........, French at, 198.
Fletcher, 372.
Fletcher, George, of Rothbury, 524........ George (perhaps same?), 265......., M., 335.......  R., 239.
Fleury, R., 159.
Flint, Commission of the Peace for,
536.
Flood, Fr., 160.
Florence, 636.
Flower, First Lieut., 364........ Capt. Thomas (Kilkenny),
case of, 417........ Capt. William, 159, 270, 417............., his petition, 417.
Floyd, regiment of, 11.
Floyer, Capt., 362.
Flynne, L., 665.
Fobyn, J., 160.
Fogg, Capt. Christopher, 720, 721.
Foissac (2), 231.
Folewood Park, 485.
Folkestone, 7, 612........ Mayor of, letter from, 613.
Fonjuliane, 233.
Fonsuliane, 232.
Fontanier, 232.
Fontalba, 232.
Fonronce, 230.
Fooe. See De Foe.
Forbes, Forbis, Arthur, Lord, 376........ William, Forbes, 12th Lord,
459, 462, 572........ A. of Brikliehead, 354........ R., of Lerney or Learnie,
355, 465........ J., of Inverarnan, 355......., A., of Eight, ibid......., A, of Auchintoull, 354........ J., jun., of Culloden, ibid........ William, jun., of Craigievar,
ibid......., Sir John, ibid.


Forbes-cont......., A., of Brux, ibid.......  William, of Moneymuk,
ibid........, Roderick,  jun.,  of  Brux,
355........ L i e u t.   J a m e s   ( S t.   J o h n ' s ),
159, 561........ Lieut. (Saunderson's), 364........ P., of Balfour, 353....... J., of Thorntoun, 353........ and  see Granard.
Ford, a warder, 142........ George, 392........ J.,   u t t e r s   i l l   w o r d s   a g a i n s t
the Queen, 204........ Capt. Lieut. (Mordaunt's),
363......., W. W., 427.
Forden, 353.
Forest of Dean, 488.
Forester, Sir H., 392.
Forfar, Archibald Douglas, 1st Earl
of, 571.
Forfarshire, 355......., Sheriff of, 467.
Forfiquier, 232.
Forglen, 354, 481.
Fornehead, 194.
Forrester, 606.
Forster, Foster, John (Dover), 686........, Mrs., 646, 647....... Capt. (and Pendennis Castle),
123, 200........ Thomas, of Edreston (Adderstone), sheriff of Northumberland, 524........ C a p t.   S.   ( M o r d a u n t ' s ),   3 6 3........, 2 n d   L i e u t e n a n t   ( s a m e ),   i b i d.
Forsyth, Forthseith, Ensign J., 158,
561.
Fort Caesar, Castle of, 184, 189.
Fortenier, 233.
Fortescue, Mr., 243.
Forth, Samuel, 158.
Forthseith. See Forsyth.
Fortrye, J., 48.
Fort St. David's (India), 296, 443.
Fort St. George (India), 296, 443.
Forts and Garrisons. See Ordnance.
Fortune (Hants), 586.
Fort William, regiment at, 69........ Governor of, 354.
Fosbrooke, T., 412.
Foster. See Forster.
Foston, 522.
Foubert, M., 240.
Foulis, Monro of, 354.
Foulis, Ensign G., 471........, Sir J., of Colington, 572.
Foulke, Capt. (Fox's), 363.
Foulke, 2nd Lieut. James (Hara's),
384.
Foulks, Lieut. G. (Holt's), 363, 595........, Adjutant, 364.






766                      GENERAI
Fountaine, 228.
Fourbin, Monsieur (a French naval
officer), 215............... his  force, 217.
Fowke, Capt. J. (How's), 377.
Fowey, plunder at, 310.
Fowlis, Capt. (R.N.), 407.
Fownes, R., 393........ William, 332.
Fox, Lieut. Andrew (Earl of Essex's),
382......., Charles (Deputy Lieutenant
for Suffolk), 393........ Col. Edward, regiment of,
282, 363, 366, 382, 388, 389........ E liz a,   3 2 4........ Lieutenant  P., 562........ Sir St., 5  and  note, 19, 25, 27,
30, 40, 365, 501; and see
Treasury, Commissioners of.
Fox's History, 242.
Foxford, district, 662, 666.
Foxley, Lieut., 385.
Foxworthy, Francis, 206, 491.
Frair Auzzindere, 355.
Fraiser. See Fraser.
Fraissinet, 229.
Fraizer. See Fraser.
Frampton, Tr., 393....... Gyles, ibid.
Frampton, Brown of, ibid.
FRANCE, Frenchmen, the French:
English policy as to, 3.
post to, 7.
naval preparations in, 9, 36, 56,
93, 181, 628, 648.
possible naval action by, 25.
and West Indies, 30-31.
privateers of, 31; and see Privateers.
suspected spy of, 43.
correspondence with, 45........ effect of its stoppage
in war time, 45.
seizure of French ships, 46, 47,
50.
troops massed near Cherbourg,
61.
prisoners in England, 65, 69, 75,
610, 611; and see 'Prisoners.'
England's naval strategy and,
80.
African Co. of, and English
African Co., 80, 417.
Shovell on preparations of, 121 -2, 193.
to supply Spanish West Indies
with negroes, 80.
Englishmen on privateer of,
85.
at Newfoundland, 113.
at Cadiz, 113.
at Corufia, 120, 149.
Steps in war with, 126-7.


INDEX.
FRANCE, Frenchmen, the Frenchcont.
French East Indiaman, 150.
naval stores from Sweden for,
150.
at Havana, 150.
Protestants of, and English
fleet, 164.
what men they will want, 186 -7.
soldiers in their ships, 187.
preventing correspondence with,
191.
at Dunkirk. See Dunkirk.
refugees, etc. at Guernsey, 204.
in Adriatic, 215, 216.
wrongful imprisonment in, 266.
rejoicings in, 268.
prisoners from, in Dutch privateer, 270.
English prisoners in, 298, 312,
313.
French residents in England,
304.
English bankers in France, 323.
pass to, during war, 410.
ships of, on Cornish coast, 428-9.
treason to return from, 437 etc.
bakers from, 444.
in Canada, 447.
at Antigua, 511.
search of neutral ships bound
for, 511.
capture Ludlow, 562.
intend to attack Holland, 605.
coal for, 619.
details of Toulon and French
squadron, 627.
French in England, 644.
wine from, via Portugal, 644.
and England in Mediterranean,
660.
success of, on East Coast, 680.
preparations at Toulon, 681.
Irish on ships of, 686.
prisoners better treated in, 686.
alleged enlistment of, in England, 689.
and England in Italy and
Africa, 705-8.
Protestants from, in English
fleet, 720.
weavers from, in England, 723.
and See Gallisonniere, Mornay,
Pontchartrain,   Privateers,
Prisoners.
Francia, F., 59, 66,......, P., 256.......,M., 430.
Frankland, Sir Thomas, 659............,, and see Postmasters,....... W illiam,  659.
Franklyn, C., 48.
Franks, John, 40.
Frant, Charles, 508.




GENERAL INDEX.


767


Fraser, Fraiser, Fraizer, of Bruach,
355....... of Tomick, 355........ A., Sheriff of Aberdeen, 355........ Capt., of  Beaufort, 466........ John, 466........ Robert, advocate, 474........ 2nd  Adjutant Alexander,
471........ Charles Fraser, 4th Lord,
353, 471......., James, of Relict, 354........ James, of Auchnagern, ibid........ James (Sec. Chelsea Hospital), 136, 369........ Capt. Simon, 457.
Frechville, Lady, 487.
Freckleton, 372.
Freeke, Lt.-Col., 157.
Freeman, 374......., R., 392.
Freke, T., 393.
French Church [in Dublin?], payment to minister of, 227.
Fresco, 473.
Friendly Society, 445.
Frost, Capt. J., 309, 310.
Froud, Lt.-Col., 366.
Frowde, Ath., letter from, 74........  P h.,  293.
Fry, 378....... George, 509.
Fudge, Mary, 602.
Fuerteventura, 702, 728.
Fulham, 123.
Fullartine, Capt., 421.
Fullarton, Isaac, 353.
Fuller, Benjamin, 604........ Samuel, 604.
Furnace, N., 674.
Furzer, D., 311, 326.
Fust, Sir E., 396, 523.
Fyvie, 455........ Kirktown of, ibid........ market  at, ibid.
G
Gabern, R., 239.
Gabriell, 378.
Gaden, 258.
Gaffnyes, 666.
Gagnier, J., 359.
Gaile, 372.
Gairlies, 468.
Gairloch, 355.
Gaiston, 377.
Gale, Thomas, Dean of York, 358,
Gallany, 354.


Galleons, the (Spanish fleet from
the West Indies), 263, 264........ supposed return of, 268, 303.....o...,., and see ChateauRegnaud........ some  burnt at Vigo, 282........ spoils from, 290.............. to be sent up to
London, ibid.
Gallery, 200, 204.
Galliaroy, 234.
Gallisian, 232.
Gallissoniere, Marquis de la, to go to
Oxford, 317, 333.............. letters  from,  338,
344, 346, 589, 642, 644, 674-5.............. is ill,  346, 531, 676............. money  for,  599.......*  4..... to be exchanged,
544............. on  treatment of
prisoners, 673, 674........... sent to the Tower,
693.
Galloway, James Stewart, 5th Earl
of, 468, 571, 572........ Bishop of, 468.
Galmoy, Pierce Butler, 3rd Viscount,
666.
Galway, 156, 157, 662, 697........ Articles of, 652........ East India ships at, 97........ officers at, 562........ Henry  de Ruvigny, 1st
Earl of, 157.............. and a Swiss officer's
complaint, 223, 224-5........ John (sic), Earl of, 143.
Gally, 230.
Gally le Pere, 233.
Games, William, 594.
Gangani, J., 293.
Ganspoule, Captain (Holt's), 363,
365.
Gape, J., 415.
Garbatyes, 451.
Gardeloupe. See Guadeloupe.
Garden, Ensign G., 471.
Gardiner, Gardener, Gardner, Capt.
Thomas (Marlborough's), 374,......   Lieut.  Robert  (Marlborough's), ibid........ Lieut. Patrick  (Earl of  Derby's), 378....... Capt. R. (Belasyse'), 369......, Surgeon-General, 352........  2nd   Lieutenant  (Sanderson's), 364....... F. (Deputy Lieutenant for
Norwich), 392........ Stephen, Bishop of Winchester, 242......., Thomas, Keeper, etc. at the
Tower, 374......, William, 423.




768


GENERAL INDEX.


Garipuy, 230.
Garlandstown, 666.
Garloch, 480.
Garnier, 136, 370.
Garmurreagh, 665.
Garrard, Garret, Garrett, Gerrard, Sir
Samuel, 245, 313, 391......., Thomas (J.P. Berks), 310,
392........ Capt., 280.
Garrett. See Garrard.
Garrison (a pensioner), 234.
Garrisons. See Ordnance.
Garrway, P., 48.
Garsein, 640.
Garshores, 471.
Garth, 382.
Gascoing, M. de, 345.
Gask, 354.
Gassaud, 229.
Gastrill, Francis, D.D., 359.
Gatehouse, 656, 668, 673........ prisoners to  be removed
from, 686, 688.
Gates, Capt. Alexander, 81, 417.
Gates, Sir J., 374.
Gateside, 480.
Gatine, 232.
Gaubert, 232.
Gaume, 233.
Gauteron, 232.
Gay, T., 370.
Gazette, Gazettes, the London, 709............. translation of, 694........ Print of the, (May, 1703),
726........, and  see  Du  Souley.
Geanhill, W., 369.
Geddes, Andrew, 451........ Archibald, 451.
Gedney (Lincs), 392.
Gee, W., 395.
Gel], Sir P., 397.
Gellibrand, John, 581.
Gemaler, le, 345.
General Post, Office, letters from, 74,
211, 278........ and see Postal arrangements,
and Packet boats.
General Thanksgiving, Proclamations for, 283.............. in Ireland, 291.
Geneste, 230.
Geneva, and London finance, 552,
553........ merchants of and France,
552, 553.
Genoa, 497, 619, 708, 710........ and  duties  of neutrals, 592,
593, 644........ and  salt for Navy, 593........ memoranda from, 627, 681........  trade  w ith,  715........ news from, 724.
Gentleman pensioners, 721.


GEORGE, Prince of Denmark, Prince
Consort and Lord High Admiral, 42, 486............... and Queen's coronation oath, 1, 2.......... appointed       Lord
High Admiral, 85 note, 95,
487.......... on the embargo,
93.........., on exchange of
prisoners, 94.............., Secretary to, 106..............,  instructions  of,  to
Shovell, 121-2............,, on powers of Governor of Barbad6s, 132.............., and Honourable
Artillery Company, 140............, advocate to, 147.............. on manning ships,
151............. on  coast defence,
151.............. reports by, 275-6,
296, 303-4, 305, 309-20............. his  regiment,  375,
388............,,   Generalissimo  in
Scotland, 466.................   in England
and Ireland, 488........., Constable of Dover,
Windsor and Cinque Ports,
488.............. to fly Royal Standard, 503............. and Captains Kirby, Wade. and    Constable,
531........., and transport of
soldiers, 532..........  his instructions
as Lord High Admiral to
Benbow and Lyell, 545 -547..........., memoranda by, 587,
588, 618, 621, 677, 692............,...,  on  naval
service, 568-9.............  his share of prizes
taken in Channel Islands,
692.
Geraldine alias Fitzgerald, 631.
Gerard, Cheek, 487....... and see Macclesfield.
Gerey, Capt., 709....... or Gezey, 364.
Germaine, Sir J., 524.
Germany, Princes of, proposed
Treaty with, 699.
Gerratt, R., 602.
Gerrard. See Garrard.
Gervaisot, 234.
Gery, Charles, 395.




GENERAL INDEX.


769


Gerdes, William, 44.
Ghabarre, a Spanish, 167 and note.
Ghent, 678.
Gibbonstown, 667.
Gibbs, 373.
Gibern, 233.
Gibraltar, 109, 192, 212....... idea of taking in 1702, 109.
Gibson, Captain, 112, 612........, Lieut. James, 385........ Col. John, 174, 222, 385, 318,
365, 380, 539............. his regiment, 123,
248, 362, 363.............. and exchange of
prisoners, 641, 686, 689............., letters from, 324........ Ensign  (2) (Gibson's), 363........ Ensign Samuel, 381.
Giffan, 353.
Giffard, Gifford, Capt., 615........ William, 166........ F. (Holt's), 364.......,  Fitzmaurice   (Rodney's),
372.
Gight, 455.
Gignoux, Capt., 363, 366.
Gilbert, 203........ Mary,  423........ N., 423.
Giles, 369.
Gill, J., 394.
Gillam, Elizabeth, 447.
Gilles, William, 703.
Gillespey, T., 158.
Gillett, -, 521.
Gilpin, Mr., 516.
Gilping, -, J.P., 574.
Ginckle, General, 318......., and see Athlone.
Gincks, 363.
Ginkel or de Ginkel. See Ginckle.
Gipps, Sir Richard, J.P. (Bury St.
Edmund's),   and    Deputy
Lieutenant  (Suffolk),  133,
393.
Gipson, Capt., Mayor of Dover, 203.
Girard, 232.
Girdler, Serjeant, 316.
Girvan Maines, 473.
Gittings, 375.
Glack, 355.
Gladman, J., 717.
Glamorgan, Lord Lieutenant of, 389.
Glasgow, port officer at, 464.
Glasier, Mr., Proctor-General to
Admirality, 53, 305, 306............, letter from, 312.
Glasse, Glass, J., 353.......,R., 48.
Glasshampton, 504.
Glatigny, 230.
Gledhill, 380.
Glemham, T., 397.
Glenberrie, 353.
Wt. 3880.


Glenburyet, 355.
Glencairn, John Cunningham, 11th
Earl of, 571.
Glencarodale, 354.
Glendarawell,  Glenderowell, 354,
472.
Glendinning, 373......., R., 468.
Glendoak, 353.
Glendurack, 354.
Gleneagies, 353.
Glenfarquhar, 353.
Glenforth, 468.
Glenour, 473.
Glensadell, 354.
Glensyd, 452.
Gloucester City, 242, 519.......  Deputy    Lieutenants  for,
396........ Aldermen of, ibid........ P r i n c e   W i l l i a m,   5 t h   D u k e   o f,
41.
Gloucestershire, Lord Lieutenant and
Deputy Lieutenants for, 104,
396......... heriffs, 523.
Glyn, Denis, 391........ Sir W., 391.
Godard, J., 345......., R., 460.
Godart, Alexander, 368.
Goddard, W., 48.
Godfrey, Godfry, Cornet, 372........ Charles, 485........ Col., 433.......  C. G., 409........ Edward, 39........ Lieut.,  709........T., 604........, W illiam,  Sheriff  of  Southampton, 538.
Godolphin, Hon. F., 391........ Henry, D.D., 313........ Kedalfen, Sidney Godolphin,
1st Baron, 95, 137, 241, 414,
486, 487........ Sidney, Esq., 385........ Sir W., 391.
Godsone, Godston, 641.
Goes, Count de, 633.
Goffe, J. alis White acias Gaffney,
335.
Gogo, 590.
Gold, T., 365........ Moses, 522.
Golden Square (Middlesex), 596.
Golding, T., 523.
Goldsmith, the Queen's, 27.
Golfin, N., 387.
Good, Capt., 177, 193, 247, 621.
Gooding, Henry, 690.
Goodman, Capt., 45.
Goodrich, Sir H., 394.
Goodridge, M., 570.
Goodwin, 372.
A 49




770


GENERAL INDEX.


Goodwin, N., 395.
Goodyear, Mark, 573.
Gordon, Lieut. Adam, 471........ Adam, 354........ Alexander, of Pillurge, 355...... Capt. Alexander, 480........ Ensign Alexander, 377........ Elizabeth, 354........ Adjutant  Charles, 471.., Lieut. G., 377........ Sir George, of Gight, 455........ Sir J., of Lessmore (Lesmore), 354, 355 and Corrigenda........ J, 409......,. J. of Glenburyet, 355....., Francis, of Frair Auzzindere,
jun., ibid........ J., of Nethermuir, ibid.............  of  Ferhill,  ibid........ J., of Ardm ellie, ibid........ G., of Badenscoth, ibid........ J., of Barnes, ibid......., G., of  Rothnay, jun., ibid......., J., of Drumwhindle, ibid........ -, of Coclarachy, ibid........ Jas., of Auchlyne, jun.,
ibid........ H., of Abachie, ibid........  -,   o f   C o n ia ch,  ib id........ Ch., of Abergeldy, ibid........ Ch., of Abergeldie (same?),
ibid........ C., of Glendurack, 354....... -, of Drumwhinlie (perhaps same as     Gordon  of
Drumwhindle above), ibid........ J.,  of  Ardnellie  (perhaps
same as J. Gordon of Ardmellie above), 354........ Nathaniel, 474........ Capt. Peter, 377........ Robert, writer, 473........ Sir R., of Gordonstown, 354,
451........ Capt. W., 471., and see Strathnewer.
Gordonstown, 354.
Gore, Capt. A. (Ireland), 159, 562........ Henry  (Sheriff; Herts), 523........ Capt. (Holt's), 363, 364........ Capt. H. (Duke of Ormond's),
381........ Lt.-Col. Francis (Lloyd's),
376........ Ensign   Richard   (Coldstreams), 383........ Capt.-Lieut. Richard (Coldstreams), 387........ W. (Deputy Lieutenant for
Essex), 392......, Sir William, Lord Mayor of
London, 393, 499......,....., letter from, 195.
Goree, 111.


Gores, Capt. R., 376.
Gorges, Col. R., payment to, 256.
Gorhambury, letter from, 110.
Goring, Goreing, Mr., 310, 595........ Charles, 588-9.
Goring House or Arlington House,
414.
Gorsuch, 380.
Gorthy, 354.
Gosport, 566, 584, 585, 586, 597........ Coshart and, 588-9........ sick at, 306.
Gossett, Lieut., 709.
Gosslin, Peter, 44............., jun., 44.
Gostling, 309.
Gostwick, Sir W., 395.
Gottenburg, 406, 549, 623.
Goubert, 229.
Gough, R., 339.
Goulane, 229.
Gould, Edward, and others, Leghorn
merchants, petition as to their
treatment, 87, 88........ Mr., 624........Mr. Justice, 200, 204, 331,
335, 654, 659........ Serjeant (same?), 316....... J. (Deputy Lieutenant for
Dorset), 393.
Goullin, 233.
Gourden, 379.
Gout, cases of, 232, 315.
Gower, Gore, Sir. J. L., 223, 434, 487........ Sir William, 245.
Grace, 2nd Lieut. (Shannon's), 362........ Ensign, 364.
Gracechurch Street, 59.
Grafton, Charles Fitzroy, 2nd Duke
of, 95, 414, 487.
Grafton, Northants, 414.
Graham, Grahme, Grame, G., 159........ Dr. G., 509....... G., letter from, 518.......  J.  of  Dowgalstown,  479......., of Gorthy, 354......., of Phintrie, 355.......  Col.,  103....... Lieut. (Gibson's), 363........ Lieut. James, 377.
Granard, Arthur Forbes, 2nd Earl
of, 227.
Grance, 231.
Grand Alliance, 73........ Sweden and, 262.
Grandry, 232.
Grand Signor, 700........ Shovell's instructions as to,
715, 716.
(Grand] Vizier, the, 700.
Grandville, Granville, oysters from,
553........ Governor of, 246.
Grange (co. Kilkeuny), 666.
Grange (Scotland), Dunbar of, 354.




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771


Grant, Capt. W., 353, 472........ Patrick, 353......., F., of Cullen, 354......., J., of Clayfoors, 354.......,-,  of  Ar tillie, ibid.....    -, of Ballenteine, ibid........ Lodovick, of Ottar, ibid........ Alexander jun., of Ottar,
ibid........ Alexander, of Gallany, ibid.
Grantham, V., 392.
Granvile, Granvill, Granville, Col.,
223.......,   J.,  Lieut.-General,  of
Ordnance, 370, 499....... Rt. Hon. J., Lord Lieutenant
(Cornwall), 391, 397............ Steward of Duchy of
Cornwall, 503........ Sir Bevill, 562.............. Governor of Barbados, 171....... John Granville, 1st Baron,
700, 713........ Monsieur, 512........ and see also Grandville.
Graton, M. de, 172, 184, 189, 291,
596............... escape of, 304, 305,
306.
Gratton, Chambellan, a French
prisoner, 693.
Gratwick, William, 21, 115.
Grave, 174.
Gravelines pits, 261.
Gravesend, 367....... Surgeon to garrison of, 375.
Gray, Lieut. Alexander, 550........ Ensign J., 471........ Ensign W. (Fergusone's),
373.
Graydon, Craden, Vice-Admiral or
Rear-Admiral J., 337, 607,
709.
Grearson, 375.
Great Marlow, 690.
Great Mogul. See Mogul.
Great Seal (Ireland), Commissioners
of, 401.
Great Wardrobe, 484....... Master of, 18, 398.
Great Yarmouth, 433........  See also Yarmouth.
Greaves, 376.
Green, Lieut. G. (Granville's), 373....... Lieut. Charles (Lord Raby's),
376........ Capt. Ab. (Creighton's), 159,
561.
Greencloth [Board of], 409, 429,
450........ 2nd clerk of, ibid.
Greenfield, -, jun., 391.
Greenhill, Capt., 177......, Sub-Brigadier, 381.


Greenwich, Hospital, 282.............. 'Invalides' at, 381......., Rectory of, 680........ some  inhabitants  of, names
of, 598.
Greenyards, 353.
Greg, Hugh, 304, 492............, his executors, 496........ M., 496............ and debts of her
brother, the late Envoy to
Denmark, 304.
Gregory, Lieut. James (Stewart's),
378........ G., (Deputy Lieutenant of
Middlesex), 396........ C a p t.   G.   ( H a l f - p a y   O ffi c e r ),
158, 561.
Grenadiers, Officers of, 362 seq, 362
note, 364 note.
Grenier, 232.
Gresham, Sir E., 486.
Gresley, Sir W., 397, 522.
Greville. See Brooke.
Grewel, -, 521.
Grey, J. (killed), 338........ J.  (Sheriff  of  Northumberland), 524........ and  see Stamford.
Gribley, Gribby, Edward, 206, 277.
Griffin, Capt., 371.
Griffith,  Alexander,   Attorney
General, New Jersey, 576........ Sir B., 395.
Grill, Nicholas, 388.
Grills, 373; and see Grylls.
Grimani,   Cardinal,  his  winter
journey, 544.
Grimington, M., 421.
Grimmels, Nether, 473......., Over, 473.
Grimsby, note from, 222.
Grimston, 395.
Grinder, P., 232.
Grisons, the, 512, 513.
Groa. See De la Grois.
Groffin, 366.
Grognet, Francis, and the Vaudois,
etc., 436, 437.
Grosvenor, Coret A., 373........ John, 419........ Sir Richard, service  of, ibid........ M., 412.
Grove, 384.
Groves, Major H., 372.
Gruinard, 355.
Gruzilier, J., 702, 703.
Grylls, Charles, 522; and see Grills.
Guadeloupe, Guardeloupe, landing
at, 687, 718........, withdrawal from,  718...... French near, 30.
Guan, Guen, Paul de, 29.
Guastalla, Guastela, captured by
French, 268.




772


GENERAL INDEX.


Guerin, 229.
Guernsey, 29 (and see Channel
Islands, and Ellis, B.).
Queen proclaimed in, 30.
garrison, 36, 644.
declaration of war in, 56.
litigation in, 86.
Commissioners of Prizes in, 86,
311...... of Sick and Wounded in,
86.
grievances in, 89, 90.
protection of, 92, 99, 201, 210,
311, 566.
convoy from, 99, 102, 323.
French vessels and subjects in,
223, 266, 268, 297, 340.
Lieut. Bailiff of, 29, 260, 504,
505............. (late), 260.
Royal Court of, 260, 323........ Jurats of, 29, 504, 505.............. letter from on
litigation, 44........ proceedings  in, 44........ Greffier of, 504........ Procureur of, 381.
Lieut.-Governor of, 30, 311, 498,
and see Ellis, B.
prisoners at, 279, 297, 596, 675,
689.
wool for, 294.
rich ships ashore at, 296.
Prize Court wanted at, 311.
ships detained at, 323.
Dean of, 367.
Controller of, 505.
Governor of, 498, 504, 505; see
Hatton.
Commander-in-Chief at, 367.
New Court wanted in, 606, 690.
privateer of, 566.
earthquake at, 675.
French at, 686.
letter from, 687.
Guest, Mr., 307.
Guidot, 316.
Guiget, Capt., 470.
Guilford, Gulford, Francis North,
2nd Baron, 391.
Guilhermin, 234.
Guillaume, S., 260.
Guillhon, E., 230.
Guinea, voyage to, 258........ pirates  on  coast of, 258........ cruisers on  coast of, 327....... Coast, French and English
rivalry on, 417....... Company, 150, 264.
Guiraud, M., 224.
Guiraudet, 229.
Guise, Sir J., 396, 523.
Guison, 374.
Guisott, 232.
Guldenlew, Admiral, Count, 305.


Gulford. See Guilford.
Gull Streams, the, 682.
Gunfleet, the, 111, 406, 407.
Gunter, Capt. W., 158, 562.
Guy, 234.
Guyan, 372.
Gwyllim, Gwyllym, Isabella, 442........ Lieut.-Col., 157, 400.
Gwyn, Francis, 144.
Gwynn, Cornet J. (Ross'), 376........ Francis, 332........., 159.
Gylby, William, Lieut.-Governor of
Hull, 379....... William (Deputy Lieutenant of Nottingham), 396.
H
Hacker, R., 524.
Hackett, N., 391.
Hackney, 395.
Hadden, 377.
Haddesley, R., 523.
Haddington, Thomas Hamilton, 6th
Earl of, made Earl, etc., and
Lord Binning and Byres, 474.
Haddo, 355.
Haddock, Sir R., 324, 326........ Lieut., 364.
Hadleigh (Essex), 483........, charter of, 44.
Hadley, 9, 392.
Hagerty, R., 158.
Hagger, R., 522.
Hague, Envoy at, 210.
Hailes, 476.
Haines. See Haynes.
Haistwell, 12.
Halcraig, 572.
Halden, J., 353.
Hale, Mr., 624.
Hales, Christopher, 392........ Francis,  396........ James, 509........ Sir T., 394........ Col. John, 387.
Halford, Francis, 415........R.,  396........ Sir R., 339.
Haliburton, of Pitcurr, 353.
Halifax, Charles Montagu, 3rd Earl
of, Auditor of the Exchequer,
warrants to, 5 and note, and see
Treasury.
Hall, Charles (of Bockhampton),
310.




GENERAL INDEX.


773


Hall-cont....... Christopher, 65......., C. (Wyndham's), 372......., J. (Barrymore's), 374.. U., 393.
Halley, Edmund, 412.
Hallworthy, M., 395.
Halman, Michael, 529.
Halsan, Quarter-Master, 362.
Halsey, Charles, 608....... T.,   3 9 2.
Halsted, H., 126.
Halting, R., 348.
Halton, Timothy, D.D., 505.
Haltoun. 468.
Halyeards, 477.
Ham, H., 191.
Hamars, 374.
Hamburg, 406........ trade with and convoy, 163,
196, 407........ ships of, seized, 563........ R esident at, 708.
Hamerley, J., 159.
Hamill, Capt. H. (Half-pay), 159.
Hamilton, Andrew, 158....... James Hamilton, 4th Duke
of, letters from (from Scotland), 135, 142, 148, 169..........., and     Countess of
Marlborough, 142...,..., Anne, Duchess of, 451............., and Holyrood, 482........  Col.  (dead),  709........ Ensign Alexander (Earl of
Orkney's), 377........ Ensign Andrew (Mitchelburne's), 561.......  Col. Andrew,  130....... Major Andrew   (Orkney's),
377....., Lieut. Archibald (same), ibid......., Capt. Archibald and Adjutant (same), ibid........ Lord Archibald, 646......., Archibald, advocate, 464....... Clode [Claude?], of Barnes,
354....... Col. (under Duke of Monmouth), 258........ Gustavus,  665........ Capt. Jam es, 41........ Sir J., of Halcraig, 572, 573........ Col., and Pennsylvania, 441...... Col. F., 160........ Col. F. (perhaps same), 115........ Brigadier-of-Foot Frederick,
362........ Col. George, 160........ Col. or General Gustavus, 4,
322, 422, 361........, Lieut.-Col. H., 378........ Lieut.-Col,  158........ Ensign, James, 471.,....., James, of Coabardie, 355.


Hamilton-cont........ James,  of  Donolough,  332........ Major Sir R., 471........ Capt. R. (Orkney's), 366, 377........ Capt. Thomas, 470........ Capt. J., 470........ Mary, 5........ Lieut.-Col. R., 158........ Capt. William (St. John's),
561......., Lieut. William (Belasyse's),
369........ W. (St. George's), 159, 561....... William  (Creighton's), 159........ William (St. John's), 159............. and see Abercorn;
Bargany; Bellaven; Haddington; Orkney.
Hammell, James, 35.
Hammocks, Hamaccoes, 348 and
note.
Hammond, -, 521......., J., D.D., 505........ Edward, letter from, 535.
Hamoaze, the, 92.
Hamon, 371.
Hanond, Gervase, 197........ William, 197.
Hampden, R., 391.
Hampshire, Hants, 13, 191, 295........ Lord Lieutenant and Deputy
Lieutenants for, 353, 393........ Sheriffs of, 412, 525.
Hampson, Sir D., 390.
Hampton (Gloucestershire), 519.
Hampton Court, letter from, 713............ Verrio's decoration
of, 713.
Handeside, Handasyde, Hendeside,
&c., Col. Thomas, 368, 550............ a  fine  soldier,  537.,..,.......,, spelling of his name,
550 note........ Ensign, 363.
Handfield, -, 521.
Hanger, Sir G., 396.
Hanmer, Sir T., 536.
Hanover, 142........ Sophia,  Electress  of,  question of English Ambassador
kissing her hand, 250-251,
259-260........ and  see Sophia.
Hanse Towns, Resident to, 492.
Hanton, Jarvis, 41.
Hants. See Hampshire.
Hara, Major-General Sir Charles,
296, 383, 531..........., charges against, 254............. inquiry   into  the
charges, 297, 320-2, 329, 577.........., o,,  commission to, 361.
Haraway, 377.
Harbledown, 444.




774


GENERAL INDEX.


Harbord, J. (Notts.), 524......., J. (Norfolk), 392........ and see Herbert.
Harcourt, Mr., 83........ Sir S., Solicitor-General,
313, 331, 391.
Hardin, Hardine, Lieut. Alexander
(Lucas'), 380......., Lieutenant (Gibson's), 363.
Harding, Edward, 299..............,   interesting   letter
from on Port St. Mary's, 301-3.
Hardistie, 381.
Hardy, Nicholas, 522....... Sir Thomas, 566, 567, 586.
Hare, Andrew, 441......., Joseph, 289........ Sir R., 392......., and see Coleraine.
Harel, 377.
Harford, D., 158.......,Sir R., 523.
Harivell, 378.
Harlech, Harleigh, Castle, Governor
of, 498....... Town, fair at, 498.
Harlington, 372.
Harlow, Capt. Sir T., letters from,
602, 605............ trial of, 145.
Hamage, 364.
Harpur, Sir J., 397, 522, 525.
Harrington, H., 665.
Harris alias Bryant or Bryan, 171,
188.
Harris, a surgeon, 60......, Lieutenant (Saunderson's),
364......, Surgeon Archibald, 380........, Elizabeth,  189......., G.,   1 6 0........ Adjutant and Capt. (Fox's),
363........ Ensign (Huntingdon's), 364......., Ensign E. (Seymour's), 375......, Cornet (Raby's), 376......., Henry, Chief Engraver of
the Mint, 28, 501, 503, 505,
506, 507......, J., 409.
Harrison, (Holt's), 364........ (Charles Churchill's), 375...C......, 728........, Edward,  339........ H enry  (H ow's),  377........ J.  (R aby's),  376....., Ensign James (Earl of Donegall's), 159, 561........ Cornet (Earl of Oxford's),
386......., Michael, 398.......,., 369........ T. (Earl of Oxford's), 369........ T. (Deputy Lieutenant for
Yorkshire), 394.


Harrison-cont......., Ensign T., 388........ William, 48.
Harrys, E., letter from, 107.
Hart, 462.......   D. (Chaplain), 363.., Ensign P. (Belasyse's), 369........ R. (Sheriff of Kent), 523....... R., Surgeon, 363.
Hartington, Wm. Cavendish, Marquis of (afterwards 2nd Duke
of Devonshire), 40.
Hartsmere, hundred of, 133.
Hartstongue, Sir E., 219.
Harvey, Harvy, Dr., 21........ E. (Deputy Lieutenant for
Surrey), 393......., Edward, 410....... Gideon, 382........ J. (Deputy Lieutenant and
Sheriff of Norfolk), 524......., D. (Deputy  Lieutenant  for
Suffolk), 393........ J. (same), ibd...,.... J. (Deputy Lieutenant for
Bedfordshire), 395........, Adjutant J. (Earl of Oxford's), 369........ Quarter-Master J.(same),368......., Mr. of Edmonton, 59, 66.
Harward, 375.
Harwich, 15, 37, 66, 75, 115, 305,
624....... posts or packet boats from,
67, 548, 655, 662....... privateer at, 96, and see
Lawrence........ certificate from, 118........ proposal to  ship  horses from,
129......, passes via, passim, 408-412......., packet at, 725......, Gun Inn at, 630.
Harwood, George, LL.D., 313...R....Richard, 388......., Capt.-Lieut. R., 158......, T., 727......, M., 727.
Haslerigg, Adjutant W. (Bellasyse's),
367, 369.
Hastings, 7, 612...,.., Ferdinando or Capt. Ferdinando, 123, 374........ Lieut. A. (Earl of Romney's),
380......, R. (Deputy Lieutenant of
the Tower Hamlets), 392; and
see Huntingdon.
Haston, 364.
Hatchet, Lady E., 421, 422.
Hathway, A., 40.
Hatsell, Serjeant or Baron, 24, 25,
27, 28, 316.
Hatton, 362......, Sir C., 395, 522,




GENERAL INDEX.


775


Hatton —cont....... Christopher Hatton, 1st
Viscount, 92, 367, 498.............. letters  from,  86,
200, 260, 311, 606, 675, 690.
Hattoun, 355.
Haughton, Ensign, 363.
Hauteclaire, 364.
Havanna, 60, 175, 176, 187.
Haven, Ensign, 363.
Haverfordwest, Lord Lieutenant of,
389-390.
Havuffier, 577.
Hawker, Lieut.-Col., 382.
Hawkey, or Hawke, D., 280.
Hawkins, Edward, 28........ Sir  J.,  396........ Jeremy, 368........ M., 539........ W., Wardrobe     Keeper
(Chelsea Hospital), 136, 370........ William, Chaplain of the
Tower, 386.
Hawks, 379.
Hawksworth, Sir W., 394.
Hawles, 316.
Hawley, Ensign J. (How's), 377........ Cornet E. (Essex'), 382........ Edmund, 278........ H.,   3 9 5.
Hay, Lieut. Theo. (Orkney's), 377........ Lieut. G. (Row's), 378........ Andrew,  354........ Archibald, 471........ Lord William, 471......., and see Dupplin, Erroll, Walden.
Hayes, Lieut. A. (2), 374.
Haylett, 369.
Hayne, Capt. J., 160.
Haynes, a boy criminal, 349, 350........ Haines, John, and wool
registration and export, 294,
518-520......., Joseph, 550.......   R.,   5 2 3.
Hayning, 455.
Hayter, R., 189.
Hayton Castle, 573.
Hazzi, Christopher, 293.
Head, 382....... Sir F., 394.
Headlam, W., 395.
Health, R., 239.
Heart, R., 367.
Heath, Robert, 78......., S., 368.
Hebbard, Hester, 601.
Heblethwaite, J., 395.
Hedges, Capt. (Villiers'), 364.
HEDaGS, Sta CHAMLEs, Secretary of
State and Judge of the High
Court of Admiralty, 297........becomes Secretary
of State, 45, 487.


HEDGES, SIR CHARLES ---nt.,............ letters from, 46 et seq
passim (see below)............ on outbreak of war,
46........... is a Commissioner
for Trade and Plantations,
48.............. on  deserters, 50............ on Queen's charity,
52.,....., on  the fleet and
privateering, 56...,....,     on  transport  of
horses, 106............ on despatch of Sir G.
Rooke, 111, 112........... on transports, 116,
117, 140............ on   Muscovy   merchants, 116........, on         fireships and
raising men, 118........... on the Expedition,
122, 129, 195.,...... on manning ships
left at home, 123.............  on Treaties with
United Netherlands, 125, 134,
246, 271..........      on Sir J. Munden,
126, 128, 142........... on " free goods, free
ships," 128.,........   on the St. Alban's
affair, 128, 147............... on  policy in the
West Indies, 131............ on Treaties with
Brunswick-Luneburg,    and
pillage, 132............... on Pointis, 134.............., on Hanover and
Brunswick Wolfenbuttel, etc.,
142.,t.......1 on Dutch ships,
etc., 162.....,........   on  French  Protestants, 164............... on   his boroughs
(Malmesbury and Calne), 173.......... on   trading with
France, 185............... on convoys, 196.............. on Suffolk DeputyLieutenancy, 209............. on Rooke's new in.
structions, 214, 215, 255.............. on Lord Carlisle,
225............... on meeting ofParliament, 235, 239............... on Tilbury, 239.............. on the Academy at
Oxford, 240 and note,




776


GENERAL INDEX:


HEDGES, SIR CHARLES-cont........... consulted on international law, 245............ on Portugal and
England, 246............. on   Chateau-Regnaud's return, 247, 251......         on   successes in
Portugal, 247..........., on Dutch prizes,
249.............. on question of
etiquette, 250-1.,....... on St. Christophers,
Jamaica, etc., 251.....,,.... on excesses by English troops, 253............   on drawing Sweden
into the Grand Alliance, 262.......... on foreign news,
263-4..,........ on pressing foreigners, 268-9.............., on Vigo, 269............ on plunder, 271-2............... on escort to Levant,
273.......,, on reports, audiences, Cadiz, etc., 297............... is ill, 297.............,on Mrs. Greg,French
in England, etc., 304.......,..... is on the St. Paul's
Commission, 313.............., on Belasyse and
Hara, 325, 577.............. on plunder running,
328.......,......, on reprieve and Lord
Winchilsea, 338.............. on  prizes, 348.........., a  Deputy  Lieutenant for Surrey, 393...........   is   Judge  of   A dmiralty Court, 501, 695.................   his pay as,
continues, 501.......,..... on  Anglo  Danish
Treaty, 528-9, 535....,.. on Tripoli Envoy,
534.............. on Swedish subjects,
ibid.........., on exchanges, Cardinal Grimani, Tripoli, &c..
544............... on packet boats,
548, 571, 683, 709........... on deserters, 555..,........ on Portuguese Expedition, 567............., on    exchange of
prisoners, 583-4, 599............ on foreign subjects
in England, 611-12.


HEDGES, SIR CARLFS ---cont.............. on Mrs. McCarthie,
614-15.............,  on  Post Office,
criminals, etc., 618............. on  Arnold,  619-20.............. on French prisoners,
620............, on   packets  and
Danish sailors, 622-3....... ~......  on   recruiting,
plunder, etc., 626.............. on Rigby's case, 636............., on release of sailors,
641...............  on  Liverpool,  and
foreign affairs, 656............. on cloth for army,
668............,  on  Dr.  Sherrard,
674............... on prisoners from
Spain, 675............ on posts, 682.............. on embezzlement,
685, 687-8..........,  on  prohibiting
foreigners, 686.............. on Shovell's instructions, 696, 714-5..........., on Rooke's instructions, 699, 702, 703............, on Christ's Hospital,
Mrs. Wich, etc., 708.........,.... on Captain and Mrs.
Hollyman, 709............. on  riding officers,
ibid............ on  the  Admiral  of
the Blue, 710.............,  on  Rooke's  illness,
712..   ~.........  and  Admiral
Churchill, 713, 717............,. on taking of Bonn,
713..............., on  fleet movements
and Rooke, 719...............  on  prisoners,  721,
723..........., on  Lord  Montgomery, 724.
Hellows, 373.
Helmsley, Lieut., 363.
Helourey, Yves, 340, 343.
Helsetter, 473.
Hemery, A., 345.
Hempsted, 523.
Henderson, Ensign J., 160, 561....... James, a footman, 41.
Hendesyde. See Handeside.
Hendley, B., 523.
Hendricksen, 587.
Hendrixsen, L., 269.




GENERAL INDEX.


777


Henley, Henlye, Anthony, 393....... Capt.,  342..........., and French prisoners
342, 537, 538........ Capt. J. (Holt's), 365.
Henning, Capt., 362.
Henrard, 233.
Henry, J., 571......., M., 260........ Jacques,  311.
Hensburgh, R., 385.
Henshaw, Charles, 87.
Hepburn, Patrick, 478.
Herbert, Henry Somerset, styled
Lord (afterwards Duke of
Beaufort), 631.
Herbert, Harbord, Harbert, Capt.
(afterwards Earl of Torrington), 173......., James, 394........  M r.,  117........ P., 279........ James (Deputy Lieutenant
for Bucks), 391........ J. (Deputy Lieutenant for
Oxford), 391...........,   (Deputy Lieutenant
for Kent), 395........ and see Torrington and Pembroke.
Hereford, 242, 649........ letters from, 643........ trial at, 643, 659, 660......., Mayor of, 654, 659, 660.
Hereford, John, 523.
Herefordshire, 70......., Lord Lieutenant of, 390........ Sheriffs  of, 523, 683.
Hermaden, S., 577.
Herne, and Herne Bay, hoymen,
inhabitants etc. of, 416........ the bay exposed to French,
ibid.
Heron, H., 392........ Lieutenant, 363.
Herringston (Deputy Lieutenant for
Dorset), 393.
Herron, of Larg, 468.
Hertford, 70, 697........ Charles Seymour (?), Earl of,
243........ Town Clerk of, 505.
Hertfordshire, Lord Lieutenant and
Deputy Lieutenants for, 390,
392, 612........ Sheriffs of, 523.
Hesketh, Th. (Deputy   Lieutenant
for Yorks), 395.
Heskith, Lieut. Thomas, 378........ Ensign  J., ibid......., Chaplain (Fox'), 363.
Hesse-Darmstadt, Prince of, 106,
110, 140, 174, 288............... desires a frigate to
go to Lisbon, 106.


Hester, Capt. W., 583, 584.
Hethrington, 363.
Hetley, Capt. John (Chas. Churchill's), 375, 388.
Hewer, W., 393.
Hewet, Thomas, 396........ Ensign,  363.
Hewitt, G. (Leicester), 523.
Hewston, G., 159, 561....... Thomas, 441.
Heyet, J., 396.
Heymans, James, 409.
Heywood, Edward, 648....... W., 523.
Hickman, Sir W., 395.
Hickman-Windsor. See Plymouth.
Hicks, J., 717......., M., 491........ T., 239.
Hicks' Hall, Hix Hall, 573.
Hides, J., 570.
Hient, Eliz., 189.
High Lake (Hoylake), letter from,
55.
Highland of St. Alban's (Isle of
Wight), 161.
Highlands, The. See Scotland.
Highmes, 381.
High Peak, manor of, 449.
Hildesley, 364.
Hildyard, Sir R., 395.
Hilhouse, 480.
Hill, H., 133........ Capt. J. (Ross'), 376........  C a p t.   J.   ( C o l d s t r e a m s ),   3 8 7.......  John,  289....... Lieut. (Earl of Shannon's),
362....... C o r n e t   M.   ( T e v i o t ' s ),   4 5 4......., (Messenger), 509, 510....... N., 411......., Richard (1), Latin Secretary,
485......., Richard (2), 5 and note, 25,
27, 30, 708..............  (3), letters from, 288,
324, 352, 656..............   Shovell and, 194,............. and see Treasury,
Commissioners of, and Princes
Council........ R ic h a r d   (4 )   (p e r h a p s   s a m e ),
727........ Richard (5) (perhaps same
as no. 3), 50.
Hillar, -, 521.
Hillersden, Hillersdon, J., Sheriff of
Berkshire, 511, 521......., William (Deputy Lieutenant
and Sheriff of Bedfordshire),
395, 521.
Hilliard, W., 717.
Hills, 378.
Hillyard, 316.
Himans, Mr., 41.




778


GENERAL INDEX.


Hind, Elizabeth, 189.
Hingston, 375.
Hispaniola, 212.
Hitchman, 164.......  T., 491.
Hite, J., letter from, 605.
Hoart, J., 717.
Hobart, 383.
Hobday, J., 602, 613.
Hoby, T., 393.
Hodges, H, 525......., Sir W., 443, 591.......,...... letter from, 547........ J., 159.
Hodgkinson, H., 159.
Hodgson, J., 574.
Hodkinton, 561.
Hogg, 717.
Holage, N., 552.
Holborn (Middlesex), 646.
Holburn, 354.
Holcombe (Somerset), inhabitants of,
552.
Holden, Elizabeth, 602....... S., petition of, 57-8.
Holder, J., 416........ G., 136, 370.
Holding, Anne, 26....... Capt. William, 26.
Holdsworth, Arthur, 35.
Holland, 25....... and see United Provinces.
Holland, Sir J., 392........ Captain, 362....... R., 160, 561.
Hollanworth, Mr., 307.
Holles. See Newcastle and Clare.
Holliday, 377.
Hollingbery, J., Mayor of Dover,
126.
Hollingworth, Mary, 184........ Richard, D.D., ibid.
Hollyman, Capt., 177, 709........ Mrs., 709.
Holman, Capt., 291, 292.
Holme, 378.
Holmes, G., 159....... Ensign N., 159, 561........ Lieut. (dead), 709........ Capt. Richard (Coldstreams),
383, 387....... Lieut..Col. R., 366.......  W illiam,   348.
Holstein-Gottorp, subsidy for, 647.
Holt, Lord Chief Justice, 3, 200,
204, 331.............. letter from, 350........ Col.  H.,  363,  365,  383.....,......., beds for his regiment, 690........., letter from, 537........ R. (Deputy Lieutenant for
Hants), 393.
Holyrood Palace, Chancellor's apartments in, 482.


Holyrood Palace-cont....... Royal Commissioner's apartments in, 451........ repairs in, 456.
Holy Trinity (Colchester), 483.
Home, 376.
Homener, G., 552.
Honywood, 364.
Hood, Mr., 690.
Hook, Lieut. T., 378......., Ensign W., ibid.
Hooke, -, Secretary of Prince
George of Denmark, 42, 223........ Major, 557.
Hookes, Nicholas, affidavit of, 209.
Hooper, 316........ Edward,  393........ Capt. John, his petition, 12.
Hooton, Edward, 41.
Hope, Sir Alexander, of Carse, 353......., Sir Archibald, of Rankeiller,
572....... of Hopetoun, 572.
Hope point, 725.
Hopetoun, 572.
Hopkins, 303.
Hoppus, G., 444, 511.
Hopson, Hopsonn, Vice-Admiral Sir
Thomas, 55, 83, 253............, letter  from,  350........ Richard, 365.
Hopton, Lieut. T. (Bridges'), 372........  Major   W illiam   (Handesyde's), 368.
Horbury, Horberry, Martin, 267 and
note, 359..I.......... letter  from, 267.
Hore, 376.
Horn, Capt. and Adjutant A., 378,
379.
Hornby, 373.
Horer, 364.
Horse Guards, Marshal of, 368............, letter from, 297.
Horse Guards (Ireland), stables for,
152.
Horsell, E., 415.
Horseman, Edward, 396.
Horses, expense of transport of, 13,
14.
Horsey, 380........ R., 87.
Hoskins, B., 335........ Sir W., 393.
Hotham, Sir C., 395.
Houblon, J., 151, 220, 349.
Houil, 297.
Houlder, George, Spaniel Keeper to
King Charles II, etc., 39.
Hounds, a pack of, sent abroad, 408.
Housden, J., 442, 723.
House of Lords, address of, re Lord
Almoner, 384.
Houston, Sir J., 354......., William, 170.




GENERAL INDEX.


779


Hovendon, A., 159.
How, Howe, Mr. (in the Militia), 114........ a pirate, 185......., Mr., of the Privy Council,
223....... Col, 104, 160............ his officers, 377....... Rt. Hon. J., 396........ J., licensed to hunt, 503....... R., 396....... Ensign, Em., 374, 377....., Scroope Howe, 1st Viscount,
395.
Howard, Mr., 697........ 2nd Lieutenant, 362........ Lieut.-Col. P., 363, 382.......  H on. P.,  394....... William, of Covent Garden,
82........ Capt. W., arrest of, 508......., W. (Pewterer), 239........ Henry, Lord, Ambassador to
Morocco, 173........ and see Norfolk and Carlisle.
Howe. See How.
Hoylake. See High Lake.
Hozier, T., 509.
Hubbard, H., 525.
Hubert, 232.
Hubblethorne, Capt. Charles, 227.
Huddleston, Andrew, 265.
Hudson, D., 160.
Hudson Bay Company, 421.
Hugh, Mr., 73.
Hughes, Capt., 86......, H., 293....... Thomas, 227.
Huguetane, 553.
Hugueville, -, 592.
Huguston, P., 571.
Hull (Kingston-on.), 46, 75, 222,
500........ Governor of, 368.
Hull, E., 349......., Thomas, 373......, W illiam,  202.
Humber, the, defence of, 171, 406.
Hume, Humes, Sir Alexander, 173,
174 and note......, Lieutenant, 709........ Ensign (Ramsay's), 471........ Ensign R. (Belasyse's), 369., and see Marchmont, Polwarth.
Humphrys, J., 158....... Lieut.-Col., 368.
Hunt, 521......., Capt. H., 376.
Hunter, 376.
Huntingdon, 70......, George Hastings, 25th Earl
of, 111, 364, 365, 366.
Huntingdonshire, Lord Lieutenant
of, 389, 392......., Deputy Lieutenants for, 392.


Huntingdonshire-cont........ Sheriffs of, 522.
Huntington, Capt. J., 720........ Mary, and   Bishopric  of
Raphoe, 416, 436........ Bishop of Raphoe, 398............... Lord Lieutenant on,
436.
Huntly, 312........ Richard, 299.
Hurst Castle, 333.
Husbands' case, 645, 649, 654, 659,
660, 670, 683.
Hussey, N. (Romney's), 380......., P., 393........ Thomas (Romney's), 380........ Thomas (Steuarts), 378.
Hutchins, S., 349........ Thomas (and others), affiidavit of, 310-311.
Hutchinson, Alexander, 348........ John, 348........ Julius, 396.
Hutchison, 364.
Hutton, Francis, 267.
Hutts, J., 239.
Huysh, 374.
Hyde, Henry, Viscount, 487........ Capt. Thomas, 41........ Capt. W. (Earl of Barrymore's), 374.
Hyde Park, Keeper of, 144-5, 504.
Hydes, William, 27.
Hygham, 378.
Hyndford, John   Carmichael, 1st
Earl of, Secretary of State for
Scotland, 2, 454, 455, 457 and
note, 462, 463, 571.
Hythe, 612.
Idiot, custody of, 423.
Illingsworth, 379.
Imperialists, success of, 250.
Ince, Ensign, 363.
Inchberry, 452.
Inches, 354.
Inchiquin, William, O'Brien, 3rd
Earl of, 143.
Inchlyon, 452.
India, sea rovers in seas of, 442..........,, measures against,
379.
Ingleby, 316.
Inglegate, J., 270.
Ingles, Jonathan, 538.
Inglis, Alexander, 377, 584,




780


GENERAL


Inglish, Surgeon Alexander, 372.
Ingoldsby, Brigadier and MajorGeneral R., 116, 160, 361,
391, 403......,........ a Privy Councillor
(I), 404........ Capt. James  (Earl of  Marlborough's), 374.
Ingram, Ensign W. (Bridges'),
373........ William, of Thorpe, Deputy
Lieutenant of Yorks, (W.R.),
394........ and see Irwin.
Inman, J., 574, 575.
Innellan, 354.
Inner Temple, Exchequer office in,
277.
Innerugy, 477.
Inies, 377........ Laird of, 354.
Inness, William, 473.
Inniskilling. See Enniskillen.
Insurance, Marine, 416.
International Law, matters of:....... retorsionon  Spain, 188........ outbreak of war, 91, 128........ neutrals  and  neutral  duty,
200, 245, 592-3, 707........ wrongful imprisonment, 266........ right of search, 511, 544,
545........ trading with the enemy, 185,
549, 618, 620, 631, 646, 649,
688, 697......., bills of exchange, 571........ treatment of prisoners, 551......., neutrals and enemies goods,
644........ Tuscany  and, 636-8........ " natural neutrality,"  637.
Invalids, Intendant of (Scotland),
69.
Invalides, Company of, at Chester
Castle, 381.
Inveranssy, 355.
Inverarnan. See Inverernan.
Inverary, Inverurie, John Campbell,
styled Lord, 572.
Invercauld, Invercall, 354.
Inverernan, Inverarnan, 355.
Invereshie, 355.
Inverness, Commissary of, 354.
Invernesshire, 355.
Inverugie, 477.
Inverurie. See Inverary.
Ipswich, 91, 326........ Justices of, and pressing men,
133........ Deputy Lieutenants for town
and hamlets of, 393.
Irby, 380.
Irdell, Francis, 348.
Ireland, J., 164, 491......., Mary, 679.


INDEX.
IRELAND:
troops from, for West Ihdies,
&c., 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 22,
26, 37, 120.
arms &c. for, 10, 256.
Lords Justices in, 18, 659, 680........ payment to, 400....... letters from, 563, 649,
653.
Courts Martial in, 20.
Act of Resumption, &c., 52, 661,
665-7.
pressing men in, 54, 55.
new regiments in, provision for,
77, 79.
allowance by concordatum   in,
77-9.
Records in, 78.
rent for Parliament House in,
78, 79.
French Protestants in, 78, 228 -234.
hemp manufacture in, 78.
ships embargoed in, 88.
men from, for fleet, 98.
pay of troops or officers in, 115,
116.
regiment for, 123, 222.
question of "free ships, free
goods " in, 128.
Principal Secretary of State in,
137, 556 and note.
two Secretaries, 555-6.
Lord Lieutenant, 152....... (after March, 1703).  See
Ormond.
List of Privy Councillors in,
143, 144.
military pensioners in, 157.
military establishment in (full
details), 152-158.
economies in firing &c. in, 157-8.
full list of reformed officers in,
158-60.
Paymaster-General of Forces in,
166, 247, 256.
Deputy Paymaster-General of
Forces in, 166.
expenses of regiments in, 166.
Marshal of the Four Courts, 167.
Comptroller-General in, 167.
Commission of Appeal in, desired, 203.
Commissioners of Appeals in,
228.
butlerage &c., duties in, 219.
French privateers on coast of,
209.
civil establishment for, 225-8........ summary of, 228.
Court of Exchequer, 226, 401:......, Chief Baron of, 332, 402,....... Barons of, 402......., officers of, 226.
Lord High Treasurer in, 226, 398.




GENERAL INDEX.


781


IRELAND —ont.
Court of Queen's Bench in,....... officers of, ibid........ Chief Justice of, 332,
399, 402.
Attorney General, 332, 398, and
see Rochfort.
Court of Chancery, 226........ Masters of, 402.
Lord Chancellor, 226, 401.
Master of the Rolls,. 143, 226,
402.
Court of Common Pleas, 226........ Chief Justice of, 332,
399, 402.
State Physician, 226.
Keeper of Rooms in Dublin
Castle, ibid.
Exchequer Chamber, ibid.
linen looms for, 331, 332.
customs officers in, 226.
creation money, 227.
Perpetuities, ibid.
bills of mortality, ibid.
Pensioners in, 227, 228-34.
Concordatums, provision as to,
228.
pay of troops in, or for, 247-8,
249.
Deputy Receiver-General in, 248.
Poundage and Pells fees, 249.
Receiver-General, 249.
Officers in, to go to their posts,
251.
Master-General of Ordnance,
256, 401, 404.
ammunition in, or wanted, 256.
prisoners of war in, 281.
General Thanksgiving, 291.
regiments on establishment of,
318.
Roches in, education of, 319.
frigates on coast of, 163....... pay for, 342.
Presbyterian ministers in, allowance for, 348.
Warrants relating to (Table), 397
seq.
Great Seal &c. of, 397-8.
Muster - Master - General, &c.,
398.
Solicitor-General, 398; and see
Broderick.
Judges on circuit, 399.
Commissioners of Excise and
Revenue, 399, 403, 404....... for stating accounts for
the Army, 422.
Judges in, 143-4, 399, 400, 401
(and see names of the Judges).
Chancellor of the Exchequer,
143, 401.
Vice Treasurer, Receiver-General and Paymaster-General,
400, 403.


IRELAND-cont.
Commissioners of Great Seal,
401, 402.
military stores for, 404.
tents for, 404.
Forfeitures Act in, 415.
London merchants and protection of coast of, 423.
ecclesiastical litigation in, 424.
Prerogative Court in, ibid.
Broad Seal and Court Seals for,
507.
horses from, 532.
State Paper Office established in,
555-6.
half-pay officers in, cashiered,
561-2.
question of Parliament in, 563.
supply in, Parliament bills, &c.,
563, 564.
is poor, 563.
money bill in, 563-4.
and trade with France and
Spanish  Netherlands,  620,
649.
French prisoners are Irishmen,
621.
and trading with enemy, 631,
649.
troops from, 633.
duelling, 651.
linen trade, 651.
and Scotland, 652.
Roman Catholics and arms in,
652.
long entry relating to revenue
in (with full details), 660 -*667.
history of quit rents in, 662-3........ suggestions  to  strike
off, 668.
regiments from, 695.
question of money bill in, 722.
Parliament to be called in, 722.
Ireton, Lt. and Lt.-Col. H. (Grenadier Guards), 370....... Henry, Deputy Lieutenant
of Gloucestershire, 396.............., (same?), 105, 114.
Irving, Alexander, of Drummin,
355.
Irwin, Alexander, reward to, 78........ Captain  and    Adjutant
Alexander (same?), 376, 377....... Edward Ingram, 2nd Viscount, 71, 389.
Irwyn, G., 158......., L., ibid.
Isarn, 233.
Isla, tutor of, 354.
Isle of Wight, Governor of, 370.
Issauld, [Isauld], 473.
Italy, Eugene's victory in, 218........ money   for   France   goes
through, 185.




782


GENERAL INDEX.


Italy-cont......., England and France in, 706.
Izard, Frances, 183.
J
Jacco. See Jacquau.
Jack o' the Basket, 333.
Jacks, 587.
Jackson, a prisoner, 595......., Mr. (Commissary, Stockholm), 623......., D., 40......., Ensign J., 378........ John  (merchant),  349........ Joseph, an English merchant
at Leghorn, 87........ Lieut. Joseph (Hara's), 384........ Richard   (Mitchelburn's),
158........ R ichard,  408........ Lieut. R. (Bellasyse's), 369........ Sub-Lieut.  R.  (Grenadier
Guards), 371........, Samuel, 239........ Ensign Thomas (Lumley's),
372........, Thomas, marshal of prisoners at Southampton, 243, 244,
555, 588, 589.............., suspended, 565, 566,
568, 570........, Thomas  (tanner),  608........ William (Deputy Lieutenant
for Bristol), 396.
Jacob, 374....... John (Deputy Lieutenant
for Gloucester), 396........ John, letter from, 332........ S ir   J.,   3 6 5.
Jacobs, Lucy, 324.
Jacome, G. J., 300.
Jacquau, Jacco, M., 102, 128.
Jairlet. See Yarlet.
Jalaquier, 229.
JAMAICA, 30, 54, 64, 81, 84, 109, 116,
136, 146, 147, 152, 175, 213,
214, 385, 490, 545, 584.
Governor Selwyn of, 55, 96........ dead,   251.
Governor Beeston of, 55.
Benbow on state of, 176.
new officers for, 251.
new Governor's equipage, 265.
gunner for, 704.
troops for and Irish Exchequer,
342.
defence of, 345.


JAMAICA —c  nt.
Lord Peterborough going to,
274, 276, 279, 298, 526-7.
and pressgang, 346, 546.
men raised in, 559.
ships for, 717.
And see West Indies.
Jamart, subsidy for, 648.
James, 383........ A., 239........ Sir  Cane, 395, 396........ H., 526........ Margaret, 146, 423.
Janka, J., 611.
Jason, 376.
Jedburgh, John Kerr, Lord, afterwards Marquis of Lothian, 452,
469.
Jefferson, 377.
Jeffreys, Jeffrys, Jeffries, Jefferyes,
Capt. Francis, 374........ Sir George, Chief Justice,
arbitrary judgment of, 418........, Sir James, 157......., Ensign James, 374........ Lieut. (wounded), 709........ Sir Jeffrey, 245...........,,   his  proposal,  581,
606, 607........ William (tanner), 608.
Jenings. See Jennings.
Jenison, R., 438.
Jenkins, Lieut. Newce, 380....... Toby    (Deputy   Lieutenant
for York), 394........ Tobias (same?), 395....... W illiam, 509.
Jenkinson, Sir R., 391.
Jennings, Jenings, Jenning, Capt.,
afterwards Sir John (R.N.),
92, 128, 372 517........ John (Deputy Lieutenant for
Middlesex), 395........ Sir  Jonathan    (Deputy
Lieutenant for Yorks, W.R.),
394......., Richard (Villiers'), 159........ Sir Roger, 395, 522......., William, 688.
Jermyn Street (London), letter from,
653.
Jernac, 231.
Jersey, Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of,
145, 504, 694.
JERSEY, letters from, 36, 61, 89, 644,
and see Collier.
garrison at, 36, 61, 89, 644.
protection of, 92, 107, 163, 311,
566.
dragoons needed in, 107.
Lieut.-Governor of, 200, 385,
and see Collier.
prisoners escape from, 214,
215....... brought into, 246.


0




GENERAL INDEX.


783


JERSEY-cont.
and French prisoners, 267, 292,
596.
wool for, 294.
Greffier of Court of, 380, 544.
trade of with France in wartime, 553-4.
news from, 628.
release of vessel at, 685.
deserters at, 694.
And see Channel Islands.
Jervoyce, T., 393.
Jevon, Edward, 588.
Jewel, 363.
Jewels, (Queen's), Master of the,
485.
Jey, George, 618.
Jobbers (of wool), 519 and note.
Jobson, M., letter from, 535.
Jocelin, Sir R., 392..Jocelyn, Major G., 366, 381, 409.
Jodrell, Paul, sen., 489, 616...........,. jun., ibid.
Johnston, Johnson (a convict), 205......, (a wool-runner), 521......, alias  Goodyear,  a  prisoner
at Dover, 570, 573; and see
Goodyear......, Ambrose, 305........ Sir A., of Warieston, 476........ Capt., 460......., Elizabeth, 324........ Ensign  Charles (Mitchelburn's), 158, 561........ George (Creighton's), 159,
561....... Sir Henry (Deputy Lieutenant for Berkshire), 392........ Sir H. (same?) (and Aidborough), 419......, Sir Henry (same?) (Deputy
Lieutenant for Middlesex),
394, 413......        (same?) (Deputy
Lieutenant for Oxfordshire),
391......, Ensign James (Wolseley's),
158........ Lieut. James (Ramsay's),
470........ Ensign J. (Creighton's), 159,
561........ Ensign John (Stuart's), 378..., Adjutant John (same), ibid......., 2nd Lieut. John (Hara's), 384....... Lieut. John (Ross'), 289, 376......., Rev. J., 375......,  Sir  J.,  of  W esteraw,  469........ Martha, 413....... Mrs., 183....., Nicholas (Sheriff of Bedfordshire), 521........ Robert, 41......,  R o b ert   (W o lseley 's),   1 5 8.


Johnston-cont........ Capt.  Robert   (Earl   of
Derby's), 378........, 2nd  Lieut. Samuel  (Row's),
378........ Thomas, 446........ Thomas (Creighton's), 159....... W. (merchant to Portugal),
349....... William, 391....... and  see Annandale.
Joliffe, B., 525, 526.
Jonchore, A. de, 712.
Jones, Capt. -, to be a Major, 237........ Christopher, 267........ D., 86........ Edward (of Penzance). 280........ Edward, (printer), 726........ Major  Edward,  385........ Francis (Falmouth), 726.......,Hugh, notes from re plunder,
passim 307-310....... Isaac, 487......, Jane, 227........ John (riding-surveyor of the
Customs), 710......., Capt. J. (Barrymore's), 374........ Mary, 335, 347....... Mrs. (pensioner in Ireland),
403......., Reynen (Deputy Lieutenant
for Gloucestershire), 396........  ichard, (Deputy-Lieutenant for Berkshire), 392........ Richard,  captured   and
beaten to death by French
615, 62)........ Capt. Samuel (of the Sea
Horse), 726......., Capt. Thomas (Barrymore's),
374........ Thomas (Sheriff of Salop),
525...., Walter, 309....., William, 257, 258........ Lieut. William  (Lumley's),
372....... And  see Ranelagh.
Jordaine, 380.
Jordains, the, 150.
Jordan (Ireland), 78........ Lieut. (Holt's), 363......., J. (Mayor of Folkestone),
613........ J. (a French seaman), 410.
Joreye, J., 395.
Jouch6e, 569.
Jouset, Francis, 141.
Judge Advocate (of the Navy), 272,
286.
Judges, opinions of, 283, 285....... and Court Martial at sea,
331.




784


GENERAL INDEX,


Judges-cont.....   names of, 331.
Jukes, 377.
Julien, 224.
Justice Clerk (Scotland), 353.
Justice General (Scotland), 353.
K
Kane, 378.
Katchmayd, T., 396.
Kay, 379........ S ir   J.,   3 9 4.
Keck, Capt., 63, 75, 181....... Francis (Sheriff of Oxfordshire), 511, 524.......  S., 210.
Kedalfen. See Godolphin.
Keeler, -, 521.
Keeling, 363.
Keeper of the Privy Seal (Scotland),
353.
Keightley, Thomas, Lord Justice of
Ireland, 17, 144, 227, 332,
399, 400, 404.
Keith, G., 454....... of Keithfield, 355........ Lt.-Col. R., 471....... William  (Scottish agent in
London), 207, 283............. letters to, 135............... his address in London, 284....... Sir W., 355........ and see Kintore.
Keithfield, 355.
Keller, William, 611.
Kellie, Alexander Erskine, 3rd Earl
of, 467........ Alexander, 4th Earl of, ibid.
Kelligrew. See Killigrew.
Kelly, 376......., L., 665.
Kemp, Sir R., 392.
Kempe, Capt. 363.
Kempenfelt, 375, 383.
Kemplairn, 354.
Kempthorne, Admiral, 173.
Kendall, George, 481.
Kenge, Charles, 411, 509.
Kennedy, Elizabeth, 243........ S ir   J.,  2 4 3........ Sir J., of Kirkmichael, 473....... Sir T., of Kirkhill, 456, 473.
Kenny, 375.
Kensington (Palace), chaplain to
household at, 680.


Kent, 191, 293........ Lords  Lieutenant  for,  394........ Sheriffs for, 523........ protection  of coast of, 73.
Kenton, Capt. Alexander,'309, 310.
Kentum. See Keynsham.
Kerdiffe, Christopher, 664.
Kerington, Kerrington, R., 133, 393.
Kerkby, Roger, 367.
Kerinoch, 353.
Kerr, Ker, Alexander, letter from, 283......., Lord John, 469........ Capt. (Revenge), 177, 547......., Capt. Thomas (Orkney's),
377....... Capt. W. (Orkney's), 366,
377........ Lieut. W. (Fusiliers), 384,....... and    see  Jedburgh   and
Lothian.
Kerrington. See Kerington.
Keynsham, Kentum, 242.
Kidd, Lieutenant A., 376........ Capt. (a pirate), 185, 419.
Kilburnie, 572.
Kildare, William, Bishop of, 143, 402........... a Commissioner of
the Great Seal (I), 401.
Kilkenny, 157....... district, 662, 666.
Killany, 666.
Killbeckillagh, 667.
Killbeggs, 665.
Killclone, 664.
Killcorkey, 665.
Killeen, 666.
Killegrew, Kelligrew, H., 392........ Sir  P., 522........ Lt.-Col. R., 376........ late  Admiral,  60,  276,  502.............. report  on  his  case,
21-2, 48........ Capt. (Huntingdon's), 364.
Killiane, 667.
Killiehuntlie, 355.
Killine, C., 411.
Killingworth, E., 48........ Serjeant, 316.
Kilmanaheen, 665.
Killmullroony, 665.
Killogonegan, 664.
Killpatrick, 665.
Killtayle, 664.
Killybegs, 662.
Kilmainham, 664.
Kilmartin, 354.
Kilmilns, 354.
Kilraick, Kilraicke, Laird or Ross of,
354, 472.
Kilravock, 465.
Kincardin of Neill, 465........ borough of barony of, 465.
Kincardineshire, 355.
Kincraigie, 354.
Kindess, 354.




GENERAL INDEX.


785


King (messenger), 269......., CoL (Romney's), 366, 394........  D r.,   3 1 6....... Mary, 40......, Lieut. Robert (Mountjoy's),
159........ Sir R., 144......., Capt. Thomas (Romney's),
380........ Lt.-Col. Thomas (Lieutenant
Governor of Sheerness), 375........ Lieut. William   (How's),
377.
King Street (Middlesex), 596.
King's Advocate, the, 316.
King's barnes (Fife), 467.
Kingscote, W., 396, 523.
King's Sergeant, the, 316.
Kingsmill, H., 392.
Kingston (Surrey), Assizes at, 204........ Justices of, 202.
Kingstoun,  Kingston,   Alexander
Seton, Viscount, 476.
Kingsworth, R., 158.
Kininmond, Kinninmond, James,
476..... M  rs.  G.,  476...... Patrick, 476.
Kinloch, 353.
Kinsale, 19, 22, 78, 120, 156, 157,
403, 440, 662, 726......., Corporation of, and guard at,
68........, and naval servants,
48, 49......., shipyard at, 68........ prisoners at, 144, 279, 281,
596........ fort at, 227........ news from, 209......, Naval Commissioner at, 502.
Kinstearie, 465.
Kintore, Sir John Keith, 1st Earl of,
353, 571, 572.
Kirby (Northants), letters from, 86,
201, 311, 675.
Kirby Stephen, vicarage, 358.
Kirkby,   Kirbey,   Kirby,  Capt.
Richard, 531, 700........... letter from, 30.
*,....., to be shot, 537.
Kirkealdy, Kirkaldi, 258.
Kirkcudbrightshire, lands in, 468.
Kirke, Capt. P. (Belasyse's), 369......., Major George (Oxford's),
368.
Kirkhill, 473.
Kirkmichael, 473.
Kirkpatrick, James, 348.......,J., 441.
Ktpirtow,  353.
Kirktown, Capt., 307.
Kiteon, J., 509.... Capt. T., 385.
Knat, 210.
Wt. 3880.


Knatchbull, 521........ Sir T., 394.
Knight, 364........ Is., 394......., J., 335........ Richard, 524.
Knightly, 369.
Knish. See Kuish.
Knockanboy, 665.
Knockbower, 667.
Knockbrick, 473.
Knockderry, 666.
Knockdon, 473.
Knockdrumdonnell, 665.
Knowles, J., deposition of, 179.
Knox, Capt. J. (Essex's), 382, 384........ Capt. (dead), 709........ Lieut. (dead), 709.
Kuish or Knish, L., 413.
Kuyper, G., 291.
Kygo, 378.
Kyle, Frederick (St. John's), 159........ Sir W., 391.
Kyme, 524.
Kyrle, Lieut. W. (Wyndham's), 372.
L
Labalme, 229.
Labarthe, Col., 438.
La Basoche, 233.
La Bastide, 229, 232.
La Bastide Barbut, 233.
La Bastide de Lon, 232.
La Bat, 230.
La Battie, 231.
La Bauleray, 232.
La Bauve, 231.
La'Beissade, 230.
La Billiere, 231.
La Boissiere, 231.
La Boissonade, 233.
La Boulay, La Boulaye, Lieut., 235............. to come to England,
265............... case of, 260, 323......., sen., 233........ jun., 233.
La Bouthetiere, 228.
La Brissoniere, 231.
La Bross Fertin, 233.
La Brousse, 232.
La Caltiee, 228, 229.
La Chancellerie, 234.
La Chapelle, 229.
La Charrois, 231.
La Chereis, 230.


A 50




786


GENERAL INDEX.


La Glide, 232.
La Columbine, 231.
La Cond, 374.
Lacost, 369.
La Cost de St. Jour, 233.
La Coste, 230....... (2), 231.
La Coudriere, 228.
La Coudrieres, 232.
Lacroix, D., 203.
La Cronisette, 234.
Lade, J., 393.
La Fabreque, 228.
La Farell, 374.
La Faussille, 232.
La Fitte, 231.
La Fonte, 231.
La Fortelle, 232.
La Garde, 232, 233.
La Grave, 232.
La Groix. See Delagrois.
La Groye, 231.
La Halle, 375.
La Hauteville (2), 234.
La Hogue, de Hague, Cape, 97.
Laine, 233.
Lake, M., 608...,... W., 395.
La Lande, 229........231....... (2), 234.
La Lau, Lt.-Col. S., 366, 380.
La Lauze, 231,
La Malquiere, 228.
La Maria, 232.......,233.
Lamb, Ed., 524......, James, 103.
Lambourg, M. de, 340.
Lambourne, 310.
La Mecourt, 231.
La Meloniere, 229.
La Merie, 231.
Lamerie, 233.
La Milliere, 228, 229........  en., 232........y j n., 232........ Lieut.  Charles  Q.  (Raby's),
376.
La Moliere, 233.
La Mott Champy, 234.
La Motte (2), 233.
La Motte, Brocas, 230.
La Motte Cercler, 232.
La Mouline, 233.
Lamplugh,   Richard,  J.P,,  and
listing men, 521, 542, 574,
575......, Robert, 574, 575......., Thomas (Sheriff of Cumberland), 521.
Lamy, 233.
La Naive, 233.
Lanark, Commissary of, 456.
La Nauze, 231.


Lancaster, borough, streets of, 267........ County Palatine or Duchy,
butler of, 32............., Chancellor of, 502.............. auditor of Revenues
of (North Lancs), 502........ County of, and wool export,
295........  Deputy   Lieutenants  for,
259.
Lancaster, 2nd Lieut. (Holt's), 363.
Landguard Fort, 371.
Land Revenues, concealed, 418.
Landau, taken by Imperialists, 250,
251.
Lands End, 196.
Landurno (France), 411.
Lane, Dr., 316........ Edward,  391........  Ensign   W.  (Granville's),
373........ John, affidavit of, 584-5......., R., 395........ Thomas,  392........ Thomas  (Holcombe),  552.
Lanfant, 234.
Lange, 233.
Langford, E., 136, 370.
Langham, Sir J., 524.
Langhorne, 373........ Sir  W.,  394.
Langlade, 232.
Langley, T., 395.
Langon, 231.
Langrish, Charles, letter from, 67.
Langston, Brigadier-General F., 362,
432-3, 500.
Langton, George, 317, 319.
Lant, Lieut. J., 368........ T.,  397.
Lantal, 231.
Lany, Mr., 680.
Lanyon, William, 280.
La Pallise, 234.
Lapis lazuli, 432.
La Placette, P., 404.
La Porte, 230.
La Primaudaye, 233.
Larg, 468.
La Rice, 230.
La Rissoles Falentin, 233.
La Rivaliere, 231.
Larkin, George, letter from, 185.
La Rochelle, 344.
Laroffey, J., 717.
La Rogue, 229........ A., ibid.
La Roque, P., 376.
La Rouviliere, 233.
La Rufie, 569.
Lasalle, 231........ 640.
La Salles, 229.
La Sautie, 234.
La Sauvagie, 230.




GENERAL INDEX.


787


* Lascells, Lieut. W., 377.
Lasserre, 233.
Lathum, J., 169.
Latin Secretary, 485.
Laton, 369.
La Touche, 231.
Latouche or Cartier, James, examination of, 257........,, his Irish ancestry,
257........... his French   commission, 257........., his connexion with
Ireland, 257........ escape of, 565, 582,
587, 594, 611........, reward for capture
of, 598............... his betrayer, 601............, treatment of, on recapture, 605......., St. F. de, 233.
La Tour, 232...... Capt. (Huntingdon's), 364.
La Tour Montfort, M. or Sieur,
French officer at Calais, 541,
583, 586............. letter from, 286-7.
Lauderdale, John Maitland, 5th Earl
*of, 571, 572.
Launceston, 206....... Assizes at, 277.
Laussar, 230.
Laval, 233.
La Vallee, Bin, 553.
Lavally, Lieut. Charles (Bellasyse's),
369.
Lavarty, 679.
Lavaure, 203.
La Vivarie, 230.
Law, Adjutant Charles (Lumley's),
372......., Ensign M. (Lumley's), 372........ Ensign P. (same), ibid......., Thomas, 608.
Lawley, Sir T., 525.
Lawrence,   Laurence,   Lawrance,
Laurans, &c., Capt. Francis, a
prisoner and said to be a
pirate, 164-5, 205 and note,
206, 509........., examination of, 85,86......., Capt. Joseph (Holt's), 371.
-.., Ensign R., 375........ Major H., 595............., letter from, 597........ Stephen (a pewterer), 239........ Dr. Thomas, 384........ Lieut. Col., 471.
Lawson, Lieut. (Gibson's), 363......., Enign Gideon (How's), 377....... Lieut. James (Fergusone's),
373.
Laycock, Capt. Martin, case of, 616,
617.


Laying, J., 159, 561.
Layne, R., 396.
Leaine, P., letter from, 517.
Leach, Capt. A., 372.
Leadenhall Street, London, 59.
Leagar, 231.
Leake, Capt. or Vice-Admiral J., 113,
124, 163, 177, 292, 678.......e...~, instructions  to,
137-9....... R., 608.
Learmont, Lieut., 363.
Learnie, 465.
Le Blanc, 229.
Le Brigaut, Francis, 410, 509.
Le Brun, 234.
Lechmere, 316.
Lechmore, Capt., 717.
Leclair, Thomas, 412.]
Le Cocq, 233......  P., 311.
Le Conte, 234.
Le Coudier, Abraham, 250.
Le Cras, J., 570.
Lediard, T., 293, 409.
Lee, Sir F., 523......., H., 279.
Lee, Ley, Col., 117, 126.............. and     see  Commissioners for Sick and Wounded........ Col. H. (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Kent), 394........ Robert  (Guernsey),  86, 311,
687........ Sarah, 411......., Lieut. William (Fox's), 363........ Capt. William, 389.
Leech, J., of Shepley, 522.
Leeds, Town Clerk of, 507.
Leeward Islands, 31, 81, 96, 109,
116, 152, 441, 543, 545, 547........ force in, 385.
Le Febure, C., 711.
Legan. See Leogane.
Legard, Sir J., 395, 523.
Legat, Legatt, H., 119, 411, 509.
Leger, D., 711.
Le Geyt, Philip, 554.
Legg, Legge, Lieut. Richard (How's),
377......., L., 40......., W illiam, 227......., and see Dartmouth.
Leghorn, tivornia, 149, 619, 636,
706, 707, 708, 711, 715......., English merchants at, 243,
244..............,grievances of, 87,
149......., importance of harbour of,
87......, and filibustering, 637.
Legrete, J., 640.
Le Griel, S., 280, 673.
Leicester, R., 522.




788


GENERAL


Leicester-cont........ Assizes at, 490......., Town Clerk of, 508.
Leicestershire, 70....... Lord Lieutenant of, 390......., Deputy Lieutenants for, 339...., Sheriffs for, 523.
Leigh, 316........  C harles,  395........ Francis (in Ireland), 667........ J., 415........ J. of Northcott, 525........ Ensign W. (Earl of Derby's),
379.
Leighton, Col. B., 427........ Robert, 311.
Leith, 198, 199........ Clerk  of Cocquett  at, 481.
Leith, A., of Balchiry, 355.......  G.   o f   C h a r le r ia c e,   i b id....... G., of Threefield, ibid........ J., of Inveranssy, ibid........ J., of Leith-hall, ibid....... J., of Whitehaugh, ibid........ P., of Craighall, ibid.
Leith-hall, 355.
Leixlip, 664.
Le Marchent, El, 260............... letter from, 687........ W., 606.......,W., jun., 260.
Le Mesurier, 367........ P.,  260.
Lemon, 316.
Le Mot Grinder, 230.
Leneve, -, 21.
Lennox, Lenox, William, 474......, and see Richmond.
Lentilhac, 233.
Leogane, Legan, 147.
Leonard, 362.
Leonard, Sir S., 394.
Le Petit, 233.
Le Pointell, Charles, 160.
Lerney, 355.
Le Rouviere, 229.
Le Roy, Surgeon, 379.
Leslie, 377........, Lieut. James (How's), 377....... Lieut. J., 471....... Ensign L. (How's), ibid........ Patrick, 354.....,  and  see  K ellie  and  Leven.
Lesmore, Lessmore, 355 and corrigenda.
Lessendrum, 355.
Lessmore. See Lesmore.
Lestablere, 230.
Lestanguet, P., 230.
Lestock, 193.
Lestrille, 233.
Letherland, 28.
Letten, J., will settle in Aleppo,
408-9.
Letters of Marque, to issue, 505.


INDEX.
Levallie, Lieut. James (Earl of i
Derby's), 378.
Levally, 666.
Levant, The, 630........ France and, 681........ merchants of, 273......, escort for ships of, 276.
"Levant " [wind from the], 303.
Levegue, M., 640.
Leven, David Leslie, 5th Earl of, 353,
476, 571.
L'Eveque, Lieut. (Earl of Shannon's),
362.
Levesay, Col. J., 385, 387.
Leveson, 376.
Levingston. See Livingstone.
Levinz, Sergeant, 316.
Levy money, 531.
Lewchat, 353.
Lewen, J., 349.
Lewin, S., 393.
Lewis of Baden, Prince, 36.
Lewis, 312........ Benjamin, 299........  Adjutant,  and   Lieut.
Charles (Earl of Romney's),
380........ Ensign Henry (Granville's),
373......., Mary, 26......., T., 408......, William, 396........ William, of Llanthewy, 524.
Lewis, The (Island), 482.
Lexington, Lexinton, Robert Sutton,
2nd Baron, 259.
Leyde, N., 335.
Leyden, Postmaster at, 224.
Leyes, 353.
Leyoncrona, M. (Swedish Envoy),
268, 584, 641.
Leyton, 380.
Lezardrieux, Lesardieux, 340, 343.
Liard, 376.
Libb, R., 391.
Licences of absence, 6, 412, 511.......  to  return  from   abroad, 505....... to hunt, 503, 504, 505.
Lichfield, Bishop of, 329.
Lieth, J., 354.
Life Guards (Scotland), Commissions
in, 469.
Lifford, Frederic de la Rochefoucault, 2nd Earl of, 231.
Ligaudon, Susan, 530.
Liger, 233.
Liggon, William, 526.
Lile du Roy, 233.
Lilienroot, M., 125.
Limarest, 230.
Lime   Street  (London),  Jewish
merchant in, 686.
Limerick, 156, 157, 174, 450......., siege of, 78.........., and garrison, 435.




GENERAL INDEX.


789


Limerick-cont........ parade ground in, 220........ streets in, 220........ Aldermen of, 220........ Thomas Dungan, 2nd Earl
of, 440......., officers at, 561-2........ Articles of Treaty  of, 652....... district, 662.
Lincoln, Bishop of, 313, 515....... (City), Lord Lieutenant of,
390.
Lincolnshire, Lord Lieutenant and
Deputy Lieutenants for, 392........ Lord Lieutenant of, 390........ and wool export, 295........ Sheriffs of, 524.
Lincoln's Inn Fields, 596.
Lindall, Lieut. W., 378.
Lindcrott, Lieut. C., 376.
Lindhurst. See Lyndhurst.
Lindsay, Lieut. F. (Fergusone's), 373.
Lindsey, Capt. J. (Earl of Orkney's),
376........ Robert Bertie, 4th Earl of
(afterwards 1st Marquis of),
71, 390, 392....... and see Balcarres and Crawford.
Linen in Ireland, looms for, 331,
332.
Lion or Lyon King of Arms, 220,
459.
Lion, Place de, 553.
Lisbon, 32, 84, 114, 126, 127, 192,
407, 715........ English ships to be laid up
at, 255........, credit  at,  127........, packet  for,  211,  218,  317,
320, 716........ Consul at, 3, 194, 728.
Lisburn, 662.
Lisderge, 667.
Lishallow, 665.
Lisle, Edward, 525........ Patrick, 372....... 2nd Lieut. T., 366.
Lissernan, 665.
Lissreagh, 665.
Lister, J., of Bawtry (Deputy-Lieutenant of Yorkshire, W.R.),
394........ Thomas (Deputy-Lieutenant
of Yorkshire, W.R.), 394....... Thomas, 317, 319........ William (Deputy-Lieutenant
of Yorkshire, E.R.), 395.
Little, Cornet A. (Duke of Schonberg's), 379........ Ensign B. (How's), 377......., Quarter-Master T., 159, 561.
Little Camena, 175....... Forps, 452....... Sawkill, 103.


Littleton, Capt., 177........ Dr.,  316........ Sir Thomas (Treasurer of
Navy), 8, 504.
Liverne, 229.
Liverpool, 46........ Constable of Castle of, 32,
434........ Mayor, &c. of, and  Castle of,
656.
Livingston, Levington, Levingston,
Lyvingston, of Greenyards,
353........ Lt.-Col. Alex., 373........ Capt. D., 472........ J a m e s,   c o m m i s s i o n   t o,   4 5 3........ Licut.  Jas.  (Earl  of  Orkneys), 377........ John, a  suspect, 41. 72, 75,
508, 509........ Capt. John, 303, 512 and see
Teviot.
Livornia. See Leghorn.
Livres T'ournois, 695........ value  of, 696.
Llanrumney, 524.
Llanthewy, 524.
Lloyd, Col., Duke of Ormond and,
33........ David, 507........ G.  (i)eputy-Lieutenant  of
Gloucestershire), 396........, Lieut.  John  (How's),  160........ Quarter-Master  John,  386........ Major, 308........ Dr. Owen  (S.F.,  T.C.D.), 6,
360........ R. (Sheriff of Salop), 525........ Thomas (Paymaster of the
Works), 25........, Capt.  Thomas  (Invalides),
381........ Cornet W. (Lloyd's),  376........ C a p t.   W i l l i a m   ( C h u r c h i l l ' s ),
375........ Brigadier W illiam, 322, 361.......,....... his officers, 376.
Lloyd's Coffee House, letter from as
to Dutch trading with enemy,
618.
Loader, Isaac (Sheriff of Kent), 523.
Loades, Capt. Edmund, 199, 676.
Loches or de Loches, 224.
Loches, Captain D., 374.
Lochleane, 353.
Lochneill, 354.
Lock, 383.
Lockhart, George, 572.
Lodge, J., 717.
Lodington, Benjamin, 497, 586...... J., 87.
Loe, Anne, 324.
Loft, S., 415.
Loftus, Col. E., 168.
Logan, J., 289.




790


GENERAI


Loghanroe, 666.
Loghill, 665.
Logie, 354, 355.
Logie, William, 355.
London, Lord Mayor of (Gore),
letter from, 195....... Bishop of, 313, 507, 614,
694........., letter from, 627......., Diocese, Chancellor of, 313......., City, Sheriffs of, 313........  Lieutenancy   of,  MusterMaster to, 165.............. Clerk to, 166........ prison, letter from, 644......, Sunday observance in, 21........ supply of food for, 75......., inns   in  284......., purse-cutting common  in,
349......., collection for poor in, 507......., arms of, 324......., streets  in  or  near, 596........ public rejoicings in, 218,
250, 282........ Lord Mayor of, to attend
Council at Windsor, 219........., and St. Paul's, 313.............. and  Commission  of
Lieutenancy of, 499.............. and  poor, 507........ R ecorder  of,  21.............. letter from, 349........  and  see  Apothecaries  and
Bonner.
London Gazette, notice from, 588.
Londonderry, 156, 157....... district, 662.
Long Acre (London), 596.
Long, Francis, 603.
Longchamp, 230.
Longford, 157......, Ambrose Aungier, 2nd Earl
of, 159.
Longleat (Wilts), letter from, 728.
Long Reach, 676.
Looker, 379.
Lord Keeper, 103, 292........ and  see  W right.
Lord Lieutenants of Ireland. See
Rochester and Ormond.
Lord Lieutenants of Counties, and
pressing men, 70, 71......., and see Table, 389, 390.
Lord Privy Seal, fees to, 356 note.
Lord Treasurer, references of petitions to, passim in Table of
Petitions.
Lorinan, G., 78.
Lorking, J., 728.
Lorton, 574, 575.
Lothian, Robert Kerr, Marquis of,
2, 480, 571, 572.
Loudoun, Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl
of, 571.


J INDEX.
Loughrea, district, 662, 666.
Loughtown, 666.
Louis d'oro, value of, 696, 716.
Louvigny, 229........ Sieur de, 207.
Lovelace of Hurley, John, Lovelace,
2nd Baron, 413........ Lady   Anne   (W entworth),
Baroness, ibid........ John Lovelace, Major, 3rd
Baron, 383, 413, 721.
Lovell, John, 104, 124.
Lovett, J., 332.
Lowder, J., 608.
Lowestoft, defence of, 433-4.
Lowndes, R., 727........ William, 171, 727.
Lowther, Henry (Expedition), 557........ James, Storekeeper, 384........ (Officer of Ordnance), 713....... Sir John, 516............., letter from, on pressing men, 89-90........ Robert,  487......., Sir W., 394.
Lubieres, 229.
Lucas, Capt. J. (Fusiliers), 384........ Capt. R. (Granville's), 373........ Robert Lord, 381, 385,
390......,.... his  officers,  382........ Thomas, 349.
Luce, Marie, 260.
Lucy, R., 420-1..............  Bishop   (of  St.
David's), 420-1.
Luddie, 355.
Ludquharne, 355.
Lugandy, 232.
Luke, 375........ Capt. Oliver, 388.
Lullin, 552.
Lully, P., 679.
Lpmley, Col., 288......., Major-General H., 94, 362.........., his  officers,  372........ and  see  Scarborough.
Luneburg, House of, Treaty with, to
be ratified, 344.......,   Envoy  of, 607.
Lunsford, Lady, 183........ Sir H., 183.
Luss, 354.
Luther, E. (Deputy-Lieutenant and
Sheriff of Essex), 397, 523.
Lutterell, Luttrel, Lt.-Col. Alexan.
der, 382........ Col. H., 157......., Lt.-Col. W., 364, 388.......,H., 667......., T., 667.
Lutwich, Serjeant, 316.
Lyall, William, 377.
Lydall, R., 488.............., his invention, 420.




GENERAL INDEX.


791


Lydall-cont........ Thomas, 487........ and see Lyddell.
Lydd, 710........ Bailiff &c. of, 104.
Lyddell, Lydall, D., 25, 311, 326.
Lyde, Cornelius, 525.
Lyell, Captain, 593.......... instructions   for
(Collenbine's expedition), 547.
Lygrove, 396.
Lynch, J., 394........ P., 728.
Lyndhurst, Lindhurst, 485...... not  to  be  used  for
prisoners, 585........, the Queen's stables, at, 576.
Lynes, Edward, 665.
Lynn, 405....... and Walsingham (division of
Norfolk), 392.
Lyon, J., 381........ of Auchterhouse, 353........ of Carss, 353........ and see Strathmore.
Lyon King at Arms. See Lion.
Lyons, 378.
Lypiat, 396.
Lysle, Capt., 363.
Lyster, Capt., 36........ and see Lister.
Lytton, Sir W., 392.
Lyvingston. See Livingstone.
M
Mabbott, Kympton, 629, 630, 711............. letters from, 620,
638.
Mabbstown, 667.
Mabott, Lieut., 709.
Mac, Me, or M':Macarthy,   McCarthie,   Mrs.
Mary, 440, 614-5......., Col. (M'Carthie Reagh),
440, 614-5.
Macartney, James, a Judge (I),
399, 402.
McBridge, J., 348.
McCarthie. See Macarthy.
McClellan, Anna, 474.
Macclesfield, Charles Gerard,
late (2nd) Earl of, 115........ Fiton Gerard, Earl of,
399.
McConway, George, 377.
McCormuck, Capt. J. (Mitchelburne's), 158, 561.


Mac, Mc, or M' —cont.
McCuistion, Ensign J., 160.
McDonald, Allaster, 15.
MacDougall, -, 454.
McHenry, 378.
Machenville, 232.
Mackintosh, McIntosh, of Borbunn [?], 355........ L.,   353.
Mackarly, A., of Arncaple, 354.
McKay, 473........ and   see  Macky   and
Reay.
McKenzie, Sir J. of Coale, 354........ Simon, ibid........ R o r y,   o f   R e id   C a s t le,
ibid.............. of Prestonhall,
355........ Alexander, jun., of same,
355........ J o h n,   o f   A s s i n,   i b i d........ S., of Aliens, ibid......., K., of Stratnatt, ibid........ G.,   o f   C r u n a m,   i b i d..... G.,  of   Billamurkie,
ibid........ A. of Belloan, ibid........ R., of Fairburn, ibid.............. of Upplecross,
i bid........ C.,   o f   E r n s i d e,   i b i d........ K.,   o f   C r a m a r b y   [C r o -
marty?], ibid........ J., of Farneze, ibid........ Capt. J., of Clyns [?],
ibid........ A le x a n d e r,   o f   D a r a c k -
malnack, ibid......   K., of Gairloch   or
Garloch, 355, 480........ Alexander (father of
foregoing), 480........ -, sen. and jun. of Ballmaduchie, 355........ Charles, ibid........ K., of Luddie, ibid........ Colin, advocate, ibid........ Major D., ibid........ K.,   u n c le   to   R o s e h a u g h,
ibid......, A., uncle to Earl of
Seaforth, 355, 482............... of Gruinard,
355......., Dr., of Logie, ibid........ Ensign C., 377........ Lieut. -., 377........ Capt. Robert, 376....... Lieut. Alexander (Ramnsay's), 471......., Bernard, a blind minister, 466........ J am es,   so n   to   V isco u n t
Tarbat, 458.




792


GENERAL INDEX.


McKenzie-cont........, Roderick, of Prestonhall, Justice Clerk, and P.C.
(Scotland) (perhaps same as
Rory of Prestonhall, supra),
480, 572, 573......, and see Seaforth.
Mackerrell, William, 480.
Mckgill, Col. George, 462.
Mackie, James, 472........ of  Larg,  468.
McKlean, 373.
Mackran, Charles, 364,
Mackreath, William, 378.
Mackworth, Sir Thomas, 396.
Macky, Mackay, J., his memorial
on carriage of letters between
England and France, 45.............. and exchange of
prisoners, 112, 284, 286............... letterfrom, 291.
Macleoid, Ensign N., 470.
McCload, A., of Catbow, 354.
McMillan, J., of Brockloch, 468........ William, ibid.
McMitchell, John, 373.
McNeal, Robert, 41.
McPherson,    McPharson,   of
Killiehuntlie, 355........, of Invereshie,
ibid,
McQueen, Ensign, 377.
McViccar, N., 471.
Macers (Scotland), 460.
Madden, A., 717........ Francis, 666.
Madeira, 545......, ships take in water at, 259.
Madrid, 122.
Maestricht, 174.
Maffei, Count, 410.
Magdelene, the, 141.
Maget, Magt or Magett, Louis, 554
and note, 716............., letter from, from St.
Malo, 554, 695.
Maghery, 666.
Maghlin, J. (St. John's), 159........ R. (same), 159.
Magrath, Sir John, 40.
Maidstone, Assizes at, 485.
Maidwell, Lewis, 311.
Maiguen, 234.
Maillefais, P., 443.
Mainauduc, 230.
Maine, Capt. (R.N.), 177......., Edmund, 686.
Maisonfort, M. de la, 340, 693.
Maisonneuve, 229.
Maister, William, M.P., 27.
Maitland, 354.
Maitland, Lieut. Charles, 373........,Brigadier   James,  455,
463.


Maitland, Brigadier James —cont............. officers in his regiment, 471........ Lieut. John, 471........ Ensign  Richard, 471......., 2nd Lieut. R., 470......., and see Lauderdale.
Maitre, Robert [?], 279.
Major-General of the Forces (Scotland), 69, 469, and see Commissions, Table of.
Majors-General (England), 361.
Malaga, 57, 212......., news from, 563.
Malamocco, 528, 707.
Malchor, M., 325.
Malcolme, J., 348.
Maldaback, Laird of, 354.
Malherbe, 234.
Malherbie, O., 229.
Malin, Thomas, 393.
Mall, the (in St. James' Park), 540.
Mallabor, N., 395.
Malleray, 229.
Mallie, 229.
Mallow, Moyallow, 662, 667.
Malmesbury, Secretary Hedges and,
173.
Malt, loans on, 16.
Malta, French ship for, 681.
Maltese, English and, 710.
Mamore, 354.
Man, J., 570.
Man, Isle of, 102.
Manaton, H., 391.
Manchester, Charles' Montagu, 4th
Earl of, Secretary of State,
70, 243, 389, 392............. letters from, 3 seq.............., and  suspects,  3,  4,
24, 27.......... and
policy, 3.............. and
pany, 29.


Queen Anne's
African Com-..........., and deserters, 32, 37,
38-9.
Manley, Capt. (Holt's), 363......., Mr., 307.
Mann, T., 526.
Manners. See Rutland.
Manning, Henry, 380.
Mannypenny, H., 664.
Manroe, Capt. Andrew, 373.
Mansel, Thomas, 380.
Mansell, Capt., 362.
Mansfield, (Notts), repair of school
at, 282......., 353.
Manson, Capt. G. (Mitchelburne'p),
158, 561......., Lieut. G., 160.
Mauwaring, 617.
Mapas, ohn, case of, 99, Q10, 400.
Mapledoran, William, 28.




GENERAL INDEX.


793


Mar, John Erskine, 23d or 6th
Earl of, 2, 353, 462, 472,
571............, Colonel of a regiment, 463, 464............. officers of, 464.
Maran, 412.
March, William Douglas, 7th Earl of,
479, 571, 572.
Marchant, W., 44, 606.
Marchay, 231.
Marchmont, Patrick Hume, 1st Earl
of, 451.............. and Assembly of
Scotch Kirk, 2-3.
Marconay, 233.
Marcus, Padrone, 681.
Marese, or Marossa, J. B. de, 50, 64,
409.
Marechall, 230.
Margarett, Paul, 369.
Marianta. See De Miranda.
Maries, Charles, 508.
Marines, Superintendent   of  (in
France), 112.
Marine regiments, 363, 364, 644.
Marion (merchant), 300....... (trumpeter), 478.
Marischal, Earl, 353. See Marshal.
Market Overton, 427.
Markham, Joshua (Mitchelburne's),
158......., Lieutenant Governor, 419......., Major, 362, 375.
Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st
Earl and Duke of;............. commission to, 5-6,
16, 361,483.............., his salary, 13.............., and the Expedition,
16-17............, his successes, 217,
247............., to be consulted re
Sweden, 262............ convoy for, 276-7............ and    Treaty  with
Brunswick-Luneburg, 344............. grants to, creation
of Duke, &c., 356, 489............. Master-General of
Ordnance, 370, 386, 498-501,
and see Ordnance.............. important warrant
to, 599-601.............,. his regiment of foot,
373-4.............. warrant by, 599......., Countess of, and Duke of
Hamilton, 142.
Mrosa. See Marese.
Mawrells, J., 86.
Marriott, J., 396.
Marris, T., 608.
Marseilles, 688.


i Marseilles-cont........English sailorsbegging at,725.
Marsh, Narcissus.  See Dublin.
Marshal, Marshall, Earl (Earl of
Carlisle), 502........ Hezekiah, 272, 333, 386,
506, 543............... letter from, 530........ J., 470.......,  Q u a r t e r - M a s t e r   W i l l i a m,   3 6 9.;......  illiam, Earl of, 477. See
Marischal.
Marshalsea prison, letter from, 616,
617.
Marsham, William, 369........ Sir Robert, 394.
Marston, 394........W., 415.
Martell, 231.
Martial Law, may be executed on
ships for offences committed
by troops landed in foreign
countries, 285, 286.
Martin, Ensign Edward (Bridges'),
373........ Ensign Henry (Drogheda's),
158........ Jean, 260........L.,  ibid........ P., ibid........ Peter (Jersey), 86, 606........ Richard, 358.
Martinique, Martineco, 31, 54, 60,
193, 543.
Martyn, Mr., prebend for, 16, 358.
Martyr, 384.
Mary I, Queen of England and
Princes Elizabeth, 242.
Maryborough, 157, 662, 667.
Mary-dikes, 456.
Mary Gallant (Island), 441.
Maryland, 446........ Governor of, 531.
Marvott, Isaac, his case, 418.
Masclary, H. 367.
Masham, Sir F., 396........ Ensign S., 383........ Lieut., 362........ Winwood, 387.
MAasillos, 229.
Mason, Daniel, 385.
Masse, 231.
Massingfeld, Sir W., 392.
Massot, 232.
Master of the Horse, 483........ his rights, 501.
Masts for Navy, 623.
Masuel, D., 232.
Mata Gorda, 301.
Mathews, Matthews, Ensign Edward
(Coldstreams.), 387......., H. (Warwick), 526....... L., Archdeacon of Down, &c.,
424.
l....... Luke, case of, 14.


v




794


GENERAL INDEX.


Mathews-cont....... Mary, petition of, 14........  Mr.,  203........ Ensign  W. (Coldstreams),
366........  Brigadier  and   Lt.-Col.
William, 361, 383, 385, 387....... Major William (Coldstreams),
383.
Matier, H., 170.
Maudlins, 667.
Maugham, Capt. George, letter from,
31.
Maughein, Capt.-Lieut. R., 561.
Maugie, Lieut. F., 372.
Maugridge, J., warrant to, 366.
Maundy, the, 10.
Maurice, John, 380........ Captain (R.N.), 171........ Mrs., 227.
Maxey, J., 187.
Maxwel, Maxwell, Maxwill, Ensign
J. (Ramsay's), 470........ 2nd Lieut. P., 378......, Capt. William (Maitland's),
471.
May, Ensign Chas. (Bellasyse's), 369........ Capt. G., 318........ H.  (Clerk  in  Ireland),  78.
Mayboll or Moybole, 452.
Mayfair, murder in, 83.
Mayhook, Mary, 439, 557.
Maynard, 2nd Lieut. (Mordaunt's),
363........  F.  (St.  George's),  159........ Capt. (R.N.), 177......, William, or Hon. William
(J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant
for Suffolk), 133, 393.
Mayne, Simon, 29...........   and see Victualling,
Commissioners of.
Maypowder (Dorset), 522.
Mazeres, 228.
Mead, P. (merchant), 187......, Major P., 373.......  R ich ard,  702.
Meadows, Sir P., 48, 149, 488........ R. (Harwich), 118.
Meath, Bishop of (generally), 227....., Richard Tennison, Bishop
of, 143, 424......., Edward Brabazon, 4th Earl
of, 143, 402.....,....      Commissioner   of
Great Seal (I), 401.
Meautys, Elizabeth, 40.
Meckle Forps, 452.
Mediterranean Sea, English and
French in, 84, 85, 633........ instructions to convoy in,
139......., idea of a squadron in, 678,
696, 705-6....... Shovell and, 528.


Meers, Sir T., 313, 392.
Megginsh, 353.
Meggott, G., 393.
Meikle Shallochan, 473.
Melcombe Regis, 64.
Meldrum, Alexander, 355, 468.
Melksham, Mesham, 142.
Mellish, S., 394.
Melon, 234.
Melroy, Lieut. Francis, 374.
Melvill,  Melville,  Lieut.  John
(Prince's), 375........ Lieut. William  (Earl of
Orkney's), 376.
Mendez, Dr., 119.
Menstrie, 354.
Menzies, J., 353.
Meoles, Capt. John, 375.
Mercer, J., 353........ Ensign, 364.
Mercet, 552, 553.
Mercier, 230........ 233........ 234.
Meredith, Meredyth, Col. Thomas,
5, 403........ Richard, 419.
Merewether, F., 526.
Merick, James, 538.
Meridall, Capt., 157.
Merideth, William, 412.
Merioneth, 505.
Merivall, F., 230.
IMermaid, the (tavern), 170.
Merry, Anne, 40.
Merrye, 136.
Merrywether, Anne, 491.
Mery, Lambert, 234.
Mesham. See Melksham.
Messina, 528, 636, 706.
Mestie, 233.
Mesurier, T., 201.
Methuen, Methwen, John (Lord
Chancellor of Ireland  and
Envoy   to  Portugal), 103,
119, 120, 121, 126, 131, 143,
191, 192, 195, 497 [?], 544,
570...............  may    have  left
Portugal, 545............ on Portugal's attitude, 246-7............... rights of, as Lord
Chancellor of Ireland reserved,
401............... his [?] demand for
extraordinaries, 712........ Paul (son of foregoing),
Envoy to Portugal, 545, 570,
592, 670, 700-1.
Mews, Royal, Keeper of, 41.
Mexico, 122........ Vice-King of, 49.
Meyrick, A., 40....... J., 40.




GENERAL INDEX.


795


Michel, 230........, C harles,  32........ T.,   728.
Micklethwayte, T., 395.
Middlebo(urg), 54, 631.
Middlesex, gaol delivery for (Dec.,
1702), 335-6........ Lord  Lieutenants for, 390....... Deputy Lieutenants for, 394.
Middleton, Robert (chaplain, Row's),
378........ Lieut. William (Granville's),
373.
Midhope, Elias, 448.
Miget, 385.
Milard, Sir W., 395.
Mildmay, Thomas (Earl of Drogheda's), 158.
Mildway, B., 397.
Miles, 2nd Lieut., 362.
Millecent, J., 395.
Miller, Ensign John (Coldstreams),
383........ Lieut.  J., (St. John's),  159,
561........ Capt.  S.  (Mitchelburne's),
158, 561.
Millery, 233.
Milliner, Lieut., 709.
Millner, Nathaniel, 717.
Mills, Samuel, 394.
Miln, Charles, 471.
Milnhouse, 474.
Mimet, 231.
Minehead, 267, 411........, merchants  of, 441-2.
Minet, M., 287, 612.
Mings, Capt., 177.
Minshull, Capt. (Stringer's), 94.............. to be Major (Levesay's), 386.
Mint, the, 638........ and coining offences, 28........ money  for, 30, 501.
Miremont, Armand, MIarquis de, 229,
720.
Mitchelburne, Col., 158, 561.
Mitchell, Sir David, 272........ J. (Deputy-Lieutenant for
Surrey), 393........ J.  (Deputy-Lieutenant  for
Dorset), 393......., R., 393......., and see Prince's Council.
Mitford, 375........ Richard  (soldier), 574........ R.,  5 2 3.
Mith, Stephen, 187.
Mock, J., 525.
Mockford, Mr., 309.
Moderator (of the Commission of the
General Assembly in Scotland), 10.
Modey, Edmund, 538.
Mogg, John, 611.


Mogul, the, and English in India,
296, 443, 613, 614.
Mohun [of Okehampton], Charles, Mohm, 4th Baron, 115, 248
and note, 249, 410.............. officers in his regiment, 371.
Molesworth, Molsworth, Mowlsworth,
Sir J., 391........ Ensign   Richard   (Earl  of
Orkney's), 366, 377......., Robert, P.C., Ireland, 144.
Molie, 230, 231.
Moliers, 228.
Molineux. See Molyneux.
Mollinock, 522.
Mollish, Edward, 396.
Molsworth. See Molesworth.
Molyneux,   Molineux,  of  Maryborough, Win. Molyneux, 5th
Viscount, 434......., D., 396......., Sir F., 395........ Thos., 393.
Miompesson, 316.
Monatt, 377.
Moncal, 231......., Major, 374.
Monckton, R., 394.
Moncornet, 229.
Moncreif, -, 476.
Moncreife, H., 454......., Ensign Henry (Fergusone's),
373......., Sir Thomas, 458.
Money, French and English, relative
value of, 696, 716.
Moneymusk, 354.
Monfort, P., 230.
Mongaud, 234..Monger, Capt., 363, 366.
Monginet, 233.
Moniegoff, 468.
Monjoy. See Mountjoy.
Monkton, R., 395.
Monledier, 230.
Monmouth, James Scott or Crofts,
1st Duke of, 258.
Monmouthshire, 70......., Lord Lieutenant for, 390......., Sheriffs of, 524.
Monness, 353.
Monnipennie, Alexander, 468.
Monno, 473.
Monnoux, L., 395........ Sir P., ibid.
Monpinson, 234.
Monro, G., of Colreane, 354....... G., of Newmore, ibid......., Sir R., of Foulis, ibid.
Monrow, 378.
Monroy, 233.
IMonsehole. See Mousehole.
Monserat. See Montserat.
Montagu, Montague, 316.




796


GENERAL INDEX.


Montagu-cont........ Capt. Irby (Earl of Romney's), 386......., Ralph  Montague,  1st  Earl
of, 18, 398........ and see Manchester and
Halifax.
Montander, Marquis de, 227.
Montargus, Lt.-Col., 157.
Montau, 233.
Montezuma, 263.
Montgomery, Alexander, Lord (Scotland), 453, 467........ Francis, 572......, of Giffan, 353........ Ensign H., 325, 377........ Robert (Creighton's), 159........ William, 366......., William   Herbert, styled
Viscount (son of Marquis of
Powis), 329, 330.............  Lady    Mary,  his
wife, 329............, his petition, 73,
415-16.............,  AttorneyGeneral's report.on (details),
74...........,, is in England,
724......., and see Eglintoun, Mount
Alexander and Powvs.
Montgomeryshire, 329, 679......., Sheriff of, 412, 444.
Montigny, 229.
Montingi, M., 208.
Montomagni, M., 637.
Montpelier, pass to for health's sake,
in war-time, 411.
Montsehole. See Mousehole.
Montserat, Monserat, Mountserat,
213, 214, 589, 718.
Moodie, Capt., letter from, 253.
Moore, Moor, Arthur (Deputy Lieutenant for Surrey), 393........ Lieut. J. (Invalides), 381........ Lieut. James  (St. George's),
562......, James (tanner), 608....... Jeremy (same), 608..., John. See Norwich......., Capt. Joshua (R.N.), letter
from, 187........ 1st Lieut. (H. Mordaunt's),
363........ Lieut., 709....... Thomas, a convict, 601......, Capt. Thomas (Coldstreams);
383....... Lieut. W. (Earl of Orkney's),
376........  Lieut.  W illiam   (Lord
Raby's), 376....    and 8ee Drogheda.
Moorfields, 140.


Mordaunt, Mordant, Capt. Charles
(Mordaunt's), 363........ 2nd Lieut. Charles (same),
ibid......., 2nd Lieut. Henry (same),
ibid........., (same), to be Captain, 367....... Col. H. (Channel Islands),
246, 260, 363, 367, 384, 621............., his companies, 61,
90..............   his regiment, 384,
644.....,...Sir J., 394........ Lt.-Col. L., 246, 363, 384..........,. and see Peterborough.
Morden, Major, 378.
More, Edward, 697....... J., of Stonywood, 355......., and see Moore.
Moreau, 385.
Morenier, 377.
Moreno, J. A., 300.
Moreton, M. D., 396.
Morgan, Col., 83........ Edward, 594............. letters  'from,  170,
601.........,  and the discoverer of
Latouche, 601....a.......      alias Goodyear,
573................,  his  movements, 59.6, 597........ Edmund (Sheriff of Monmouth), 524......., Capt. J., 394........ Lewis (sheriff of Monmouth),
524........ Major,  709........ T. of Llanrumney (sheriff
of Monmouth), 524........  Thomas     (Deputy-Lieutenant for Gloucestershire),
396........ T. (Lord Charlemont's), 160.
Morice, Morisse. See Morrice.
Morin, Lieut. Guy (Horse Guards),
383.
Morison, Capt. Henry, 387...... William, of Pitfour, 465.
Morlaix, 258......., cloth from, 71.
Morley, Dr,, 117, and see Commission of Sick and Wounded.......  George (Commissioner of
Prizes), 271....... Richard, 371......, Dr. C., Physician General,
366....,.., S., 409.
Mornay, Count de, a French prisoner
in England, 264, 266, 313, 333,
336.




GENERAL INDEX.


797


Mornay, Count de-cont.........., and Cartel for sick
and wounded, 88, 280, 281,
282, 284, 287, 290, 340.............. treatment of, 162,
172, 184, 207, 218, 704, and
see Prisoners of War............... on ill-treatment of
French prisoners, 286, 287,
288, 298, 610-11.....,........ on English prisoners
in France, 298, 610-11............., on Graton's escape,
306.,...... removed to Tower,
312, 315, 693.......,        memoranda from,
315, 601............... togotoOxford,317,
531, 533...............  is  ill,  346..........., on Spanish prisoners,
548.............. on exchange, 551,
583.............,  on  proselytising
prisoners, 590-1............... allegation against,
582........... exchange of, 587,
591, 595............, arrested, 635............. Nottingham    and,
642............... vindicates his actions, 646............... on his own exchange,
&c., 652-5.
Morocco, Treaty with Emperor of,
705... Ambassador to, 174.
Morray, Capt. James, 376.
Morice, Morrice, Morisse, Morris,
Charles (Sheriff of Leicester),
523....  Castilian, Common Clerk of
Leeds, 507....... Thomas, reports by, 316,
317, 319... Lieut., 709....... James, case of, 591-2....... Mr. or Charles (Marshal of
Dover Castle), 101, 237, 264........ John (Messenger), 510......, Lieut. Thomas (Bridges'),
372......, Lieut. George (Howe's), 377....... Mr., 237.
Morris. See Morice, &c.
Morsey, 372.
Mortimore, S., 159.
Morton, James Douglas, 12th Earl of,
2, 221, 571, 572.
Morton, Elizabeth, 423.......,T., ibid.


Morton-cont........ S.  P., 393........ Thomas, 146.
Morvall, 391.
Moryson (Holt's), 379....... (Coldstreams), 383.
Moscovy. See Muscovy.
Moseley, Oswald, 525....... T., 394.
Moses, Ensign (Granville's), 373........ Mr., 529.
Mosier, J., 510.
Moss, Margaret, 450.
Mossway, M. (St. John's), 159.
Mostyn, Sir R., 536.
Mote Killone, 667.
Motram, Mrs. L., 319.
Moulins, R., 239.
Mountalexander, Hugh Montgomery
2nd Earl of, 17, 143, 332, 400,
402, 403.............,  Master  of  the
Ordnance (Ireland), 401............... Commissioner of
Great Seal (Ireland), ibid.
Mountford, 368.
Mountjoy, Monjoy, William Stewart,
2nd Viscount, 4, 438, 665,
666..............   h i s   r e g i m e n t,   1 5 9,
562........ Major, 157.
Mountjoy Castle, 438.
Mount Orguil [Orgueil], Castle of,
214.
Mountrath, Charles Coote, 3rd Earl
of, 143.
Mount's Bay, Cornwall, 93, 144, 280,
428.
Mountserat. See Montserat.
Mousehole, Monsehole, Montsehole,
428, 429.
Mowet, Capt. J., 475.
Mowlsworth. See Molesworth.
Moyallow. See Mallow.
Moyboll or Mayboll, 452.
Moyglare, 667.
Moyle, Capt. J., 115......... W., 391.
Moyser, J., 394, 395.
Moyvannon, 665.
Mucklone, 667.
Muir, Dame Jean, 476.
Muirhead, J., 471.
Muirtown, 354.
Mullahiff, 666.
Mullett, 157.
Mullingar, 157.
Mlilins, Quarter Master and Lieut.
(Fox's), 363.......  Richard, 388.
Mulho, 316.
Munden, Sir John, Rear-Admiral of
the Red, 189.,........... as   captain,  713.




798


GENERAL INDEX.


Munden, Sir John-cont...........    orders to, 49, 51,
53.,....... about to sail, 57..,.......,, Councils of war
under, 63, 75............ Rooke and, 109.............. comment on, 110......... first news of his
failure, 119............... report from, 120........ feeling against, 126.,....... letters as to, 128............... to be tried, 141, 142 -3, 164......,..... difficulties as to his
trial, 145, 151............... letter from, 165..........., full details of his
trial and acquittal, 177-83,
178 note.............. Sir William Gore on,
195....... commands at Spithead, 201......,., Government not
satisfied with his acquittal,
201.
Minster, subsidy to, 647.
Munton, W., 392.
Murray, Lt.-Col. A. (Lord Charlemont's), 159......., Capt. Edward   (Earl of
Orkney's), 377... Lieut. Ed. (same),  377......., Frances, 40......, Capt. G. (Ferguson's), 454......, Capt. (intimate with suspects), 82........   M r s.,   8 2....... Capt. J. (Mountjoy's), 159,
562........ Capt.  J.  (Ram say's),  471....  2nd Lieut. J. (Ramsay's),
470......., Sir James, of Philiphaugh,
Clerk of the Registers, &c.
(Scotland), 475, 572....., Sir J., of Glendoak, 353......, Sir Patrick, of Auchtertyre,
353......., Patrick, of Dullery, 353...,  Patrick   (Mitchelburne's),
158......., Brigadier-General, R., 361., Lieut. W. (Earl of Orkney's),
377......., Robert (barber), deposition
of. 117......., Capt. William (Grenadiers,
[Scotland]), 462.....,  Capt. William (Row's), 378., Ensign        William   (Foot
Guards [Scotland]), 471........ and see Athole, Dunmore.


Murrays, 479.
Murry, Benjamin, 408........ William, 462.
Muscat, Arabs of, 443..............their insolence, 296.
Muscovy, Moscovy (Russia), Czar of,
letter to, embellished, 505....... merchants to (English), their
fears as to trade, 116........ and  see Russia.
Muscovy lights, 23.        A
Musgrave, Christopher, Clerk of the
Ordnance, 106, 404, 499, 713........ Sir Christopher, 103........ Sir R., Bt., M.P., 542, 573-5.
Mushat, R., 471.
Muster-Master-General (Scotland),
69, 469.
Musters, Commissary of, 379.
Mutiny, 593.
Mutiny Act, Court under, 500.
Myvod, 381.
N
N., N. (a Jesuit), 438.
Naas, 662, 664, 667.
Nabbs, T., 525.
Nagle, R., 667.
Nairn, County of, 355.
Nairn, Capt.-Lieut., 471.
Nancy, 410.
Nanfan, 365.
Nantes, 141........ ship of, 278.
Napier, Francis, 353........ Sir J., 395........ Sir Nathaniel, 393.
Naple, R., 667.
Naples, 636, 706........ English fleet and, 660.
Napper, 374.
Narborough, Sir J., 714.
Narragh, 667.
Narva, English traders at, 57........ silk  trade  via, 427........ letter from, 693.
Nash, Capt., 15......., S., 349.
Nassau de Zulestein. See Rochfort.
Navarre, College of, 359.
Navez, 231.
Navigation, Act of, enforcement of,
149.
Navarro, Don B., 510.
NAVY, the ROYAL:
pay of, 8.
masts, &c. for, 26, 326.
hemp for, 93.




GENERAL INDEX.


799


NAVY, the RoYAL —cont.
weekly reports on, asked for,
146.
French Protestant desires to
serve in, 146.
Burchett on. See Burchett.
proposals for manning in 1703,
285.
account of condition of (Nov.,
1702), 287, 292.
Clerk of the Acts, Surveyor,
Comptroller of Accounts, and
Commissioner General of, 311
and note.
prospects of for 1703, 323, 325-6.
sailors for, 352.
weekly reports on, Table of,
404-407.
what ships ready next year,
405, 406.
Treasurer of, 504.
ships of, not to carry cargo, 546.
requirements for naval lieutenants, 568-9.
salt for, 593.
difficulty in raising men for,
602.
ballast for, 596, 599.
a few French serve in, 625.
talk of fleet going to Naples,
660.
talk of fleet going to Portugal,
701.
and Christ's Hospital, 708.
And see Burchett, Rooke,
Shovell and Admiralty.
NAVY BOARD, the, 265, 558.
names of, on different days,
311 and note, 326, 332.
Prince's Council control, 194.
to pay Commissioners of Sick
and Wounded's expenses, 212,
305, 311.
and victualling, 290.
and fleet in 1703, 325-6-7.
and French prizes, 326.
and convoys for 1703, 326-7.
plunder, 332.
and supply of pitch, tar and
masts for Navy, 623.
Nayden, Anne, 40.
Neale, 316.,...... T., 393.
Nefetell, T., 201.
Negroes, trade in, 29, 80, 258, 259.
Negus, -, 21......,. Capt. D., 389........ Major F., 375.
Neille, J., 529.
Nelthorpe, 374.
Nent, William, 64.
Nermond, Count, 263.
Nesbitt, J., 158......   W.,   1 5 8.,..., H., 158.


Netherlands, the Spanish, English
traders to, 64............., and see  United
Provinces.
Nethermuir, 355.
Neufeville, D. de, 291.
Neuville, Baron de, his petition, 24.
Nevill, Mr. Justice, 331.
Nevis, 44, 54, 213, 214, 589, 590........ news from, 31, 417, 718.
Newark, 151, 358.
Newbiggin, 521.
Newbury, Mark, 646........ Mary, 646, 647.
Newcastle, 46........ coals  from,  for  France,  in
time of war, 619........ Lord  Lieutenant of, 389........ trade of, 406........ John  Holles,  3rd  Duke  of,
70, 71, 390, 395, 485.............. Governor of Hull,
368....... (co. Down), 226.
New College, Oxford, and Winchester Scholars, 48.
New England, 81........ masts, &c. from, for Navy,
26........, Hugh  Peters' estate  in, 723.
New Forest, Warden, &c. of, 485........ licence to hunt in, 504.
Newfoundland, 60, 81.
fish trade of, 81, 82, 87, 163.
French and, 97, 106, 110, 113,
116-7, 346, 607.
convoy for, 106, 121, 124, 125,
138, 139, 163, 193, 277, 406,
407, 447.
garrison at, 296......., supplies for, 645, 649,
689, 721.
Capt. Leake and, 163, 292, 296.
instructions for squadron going
to, 137-9, 546.
Brigadier Colenbine and, 607.
defence of, 9, 20, 38, 655, 676,
689.
boom at St. John's, 690, 724,
725.
brewing difficulties in, 721.
Newgate (London), Keeper of, 509........ convicts at, 188.............. in  Feb., 1701, 601,
602.
New Hampshire, payment to Governor of, 610.
Newhaven, defence of, 420.
New Inn, Middlesex, letter from,
57.
New Jersey, 576........ East, 130....... West, 130.
Newlyn, Nulyn, 127, 280, 316, 428,
429.




800


GENERAL INDEX.


Newmarket, Imperial Ambassador
goes to, 657.
Newman, Mr., 310......,F. H., 525......, William, 524.
Newmills, 476.
Newmore, 354.
Newport (counsel), 316.
Newport, Isle of Wight, 310........ (Flanders), 264.
Newry, 438.
New Sarum, Assizes at, 491.
Newtill, 355.
Newton, Henry, LL.D., AdvocateGeneral to Prince Consort and
Chancellor of London diocese,
91, 148, 313, 331........ Isaac, Master of the Mint, 30,
501, 517, and see Mint....... Capt. J. (Foot Guards), 380.
Newtown, 353.......,  o f   L ires,   4 7 7.
New York, 581........, Governor (Bellomont) of,
440, 449......, cruisers near, 327......, inhabitants of ask for glebe
for Trinity Church, 622......., complaints as to Chief
Justice and Solicitor of, 276......., convoy from, 346......., news from, 339......., company in, 365,
Nicholas, Sir J., 393....... (a French pensioner), 229........ Mr. (at Port St. Mary's), 302........ Paul, a convict, 224.
Nicholas Street, Limerick, 220.
Nicholls, Nichols, Nicolls, 2nd Lieut.
(Mordaunt's), 363........ Ensign T. (Webb's), 374....,   Capt.  Francis    (Horse
Guards), 383........ Ensign (Huntingdon's), 364......, 2nd  Lieut.  (Saunderson's),
364....., John   (of Cornwall), 144,
428........ John, of Trewarne, Cornwall (probably same), 397......., Mary, 336......., N. (of Holcombe), 552.
Nicholson, Nicolson, Archdeacon,
his promotion, 103, 358, 359.....,  C a p t.   C.,   160......, Col. (Governor of Virginia), 113, 269.
Nicolls. See Nicholls.
Nicolson. See Nicholson,
Nightingale, Edward, 522.
Nimes, silk workers from, 445.
Nissole, 232.
Nitschwitz, Nitz Schwitz [Baron de],
297, 412......., and see De Nitschwitz.


Noades, J. (surgeon, Chelsea), 136,370.
Noble, A., 159......., Edward, 397........ John,  Sheriff  of  Herefordshire, 523, 683.
Nodes, G. (Sheriff, Herts.), 523.
Noel, Noell, Hon. J., 396........ Thomas, 690.
Norborne, J., 338.
Norcliff, W., 382.
Norcliffe, F., 395, 523.
Nore, the, 72, 98, 407.
Norfolk, Archdeacon of, 237....... Henry Howard, 14th Duke
of, 82........ Thomas, Howard, 15th Duke
of, 82.............. his  minority,  385.
Norfolk (Shire of), Lord Lieutenant
and Deputy Lieutenants of,
389, 392........ Sheriffs of, 524......., and wool export, 295.
Norham, B., 336........ E., 336.
Noridge, Norridge, 374........ Mary, 40.
Norman, J., 65.
Normanby, John Sheffield, 1st Mar.
quis of (afterwards Duke of
Buckingham),Keeper of Privy
Seal, 44, 389, 502.
Normanton, 396.
Norreys, Sir E., 391.
Norridge. See Noridge.
Norris, Capt., 61........ Erasmus, 66......., Richard, 378....... alias Morris, R., 335.
Nortcliff, T., 388.
North, Oliver, 209, 425........ and see Guilford.
North [de Kirtling] and Grey [de
Rollestdn], William North, 6th
Baron, 380.
Northampton,   George   Compton,
11th or 4th Earl of (1681 -1727), 16, 70, 390, 483, 694.
Northamptonshire, 70........ Lord Lieutenant of, 390......., Sheriffs for, 524.
North Berwick, 477, 572.
Northcote, 364.
Northcott, 525.
Northesk, David Carnegie, 4th Earl
of, 353, 467, 571, 572.
Northey    [afterwards  AttorneyGeneral?], 316.
Northey, Sir Edward, AttorneyGeneral, 313............... warrant to, 313.............. opinions or reports
of:
on Lord Montgomery's
petition, 74.




GENERAL INDEX.


801


Northey, Sir Edward, opinions or
reports of-cont.
on Fitzgerald's case, 100.
on Mapas' case, 99.
on Mutiny Act, 188, 273.
on Martial law, 273, 330,
331.
on Holman's case, 299.
on Poole Myvod, 330....... W., 397.
Northumberland, John Dudley, 1st
Duke of (circ. 1553), 242....... George Fitzroy or Palmer,
2nd Duke of (1674-1716), 70,
389, 393............ Constable, Keeper
Governor, &c. of Windsor
Castle and park, 498........, Lord Lieutenant of, 389......., Justices of the Peace of,
431........ Sheriffs of, 524......., and wool export, 295.
Norton, Captain R., 379.,..... R.I, J.P., Bury St. Edmunds
and Deputy-Lieutenant of
Suffolk, 133, 393........ R., Deputy-Lieutenant for
Hants, 393........ W., Deputy-Lieutenant for
Yorks, W.R., 394.
Norway, masts from, 623.
Norwich, Erasmus, 59.
Norwich, City, prisoners for, 719............, Deputy-Lieutenants
for, 392......., Lord Lieutenant and Deputy
Lieutenants for, 389, 397....... (Cathedral), almsman  at,
510......., Chapter house at, 237......., Clerk of chapter at, ibid......., scandal at, ibid......, Dean of (Prideaux), 358......,....... letter from, 237......., Recorder of (Davy), ibid......., Bishop of (Moore), ibid.......   Division  (of  Norfolk),
Deputy Lieutenants for, 392.
Norwich, Sir E., 524.
Nott, Major, 363, 371.
Notteburg, 693.
NOTTINGHAM: Daniel Finch, 14th
Earl of: Principal Secretary
of State:............. becomes Secretary
of State, 45, 95, 484...,.,....... letters from, passim
after 46, see following entries............  on coming war, 46............. on pressing men, 53,
84, 98.......,...... on seizure of French
and Spanish ships, 59.,.......,. and Weymouth, 64.
Wt. 3880.


NOTTINGHAM: Earl of-cont.............. on  mails  to  W est
Indies, 84............., on   prisoners at
Dover, &c., 96, 121...........  and Rooke, 98.........., and Governors of
the Plantations, 105.,............ on prisoners, despatches, packet boats, 114.............. on Deputy-Lieutenants, ibid.............. on troops, deserters,
convoys, &c., 120-1............ on Virginia, barracks,
garrisons, 123.,..9......... on the Expedition
(1702), Colonies, &c., 130.,.....,..,.... on Methuen and
Jersey, 131.............. on embargo, 141............. on Margaret James,
correspondence with America,
state of Navy, &c., 146............... on de Mornay, and
Consul at Algiers, 162............., on Judges going
Circuit, 164, 170.............., on French prisoners
of war, 165, 184, 189, 264,
337, 339, 347, 351, 531, 555,
557, 627-8, 641, 642, 643,
657, 670, 675, 676, 686, 688 -90, 692, 697, 702,704, 719, 724.........., on      Commissions
for the Tower, 169.......,...... on  retorsion,  &c.,
188, 189............. on pressed men and
plunder, 201......,......,on   Dummer's  proposals, 213.,......... on African Co.,
prisoners, &c., 264, 265.............. on W est India Ports,
Governor of Jamaica, &c.,
265............., on La Boulay and
Deputy Lieutenants, 265............,  on exchange of
prisoners, &c., 266, 269, 270,
287, 288, 584.....,....... on   Deputy-Lieutenants, 266-7............ on guarding prisoners, 267......,      on detention of
ships, 268............., on  sick  and
wounded, tents, Rooke's return, &c., 270.............., on Sir D. Mitchell
and plunder, 272............. on  Scotch Union,
prisoners, &c., 278.
A 51




802


GENERAL INDEX.


NOTTIGHAM: Earl of —cont.......,.....  on disembarking
horse, &c., 290......,......, on Holman's case,
291, 299, 305, 306, 312............ on Bridlington, prisoners at Jersey, transports
and Newfoundland, 292............., on Ormond's report
of the Expedition, Governor
of Jamaica, and Brigadier
Seymour, 298........,.,on Graton's case,
Johnson, and Consul Broughton, 305..~...,,.....    on   Maidwell's
scheme, 311-12............. on Scotch postal
officers, 319........... on Courts Martial,
333......., on plunder, 334.............. on Ireland, Jamaica,
&c., 338....... on release of French
vessels, 343............on convoy to Portugal, 351............. on deaths in the
Navy and Army, 353............  passes signed by
him alone, 410 and note............. on putting West
Indian troops ashore, 529 -30.............. on recruiting in
Scotland, Governor of Maryland, &c., 531.............  on  arming   the
packets, 539......,...... on service in the
West Indies, 543...,....., on packet boats,
Capt. Evans, and right of
search, 544........, on news from Dunkirk, 562............, on West India fleet,
562, 565.,...........,  on  escape  of
prisoners, 565.......,.....,on post to Scotland,
567-8.......,...... o n   c a p tiv e s   ra n so m -
ing themselves, 570.,........     on  Jackson  and
Portugal, 570, 571.......,......   " manages"  the
Press, 580......,....., on  deserters, &c.,
586, 694.............. on Portugal and
Genoa, 592.............. on    exchange  of
Count de Mornay, 595.


NOTTINGHAM: Earl of-cont............., on reward for captives, presents for Algiers,
&c., 598........... on recruits, money
for prisoners, &c., 599......., on recruiting, &c.,
605........... on Jeffrys, 606..,...     on Colenbine's ships,
609...,......, on French cruelty to
fishermen, &c., 615.......... on   New    York
Church, transports, &c., 622....... on St. Briavel's and
Dean Forest, 630.........., on trading with the
enemy, 631-2..........,     on Portugal and the
Allies (important despatches),
632, 633, 657-9, 670-1, 683 -4, 700-1....., and         Mediterranean,
634............. and ordnance, 634,
643............., on  Turkey  Co., &c.,
639......... on       Algiers and
Rota, 642.......,....... on Newfoundland
garrison, 645, 649....,,    on pardons, 649,
654, 670....,........ on posts, 655, 716..........    on  White   and
Frankland's cases, 659.......,  on raising refugees
as soldiers, 670............  on escapes, exchanges, Algiers, &c., 674............ on privateers, 676........,...., on victualing and
prizes, 677............. on Mediterranean
squadron, 678.
~......,....on  privateers,  pardons, &c., 683.............. prizes and release of
ships, 685............. on  laying  up  ships,
supplies, &c., 685...,......, on fishermen, &c.,
686-7.........       on  trading  with
enemy, 688....,....... on  Guernsey, Newfoundland, &c., 689-90....,....,.. victory and prizes,
694.............. on packets, Portugal, and the Fleet, 697............ his notions of war
with France, 698.




GENERAL INDEX


803


NOTTINGHAM: Earl of-cont.............., on prisoners, purchase of ship, &c., 697, 702............... on Jamaica, Newfoundland, &c., 704, 713, 721............... on pensions, &c.,
719............... on Ireland, 722............... on Yeoman of the
Guard, packet boats and
Halley, 722............... on Newfoundland,
packets and cruisers, 725.
Nottingham, King's Iheadow    at,
485....... Lord Lieutenant of, 390.
Nottinghamshire, 70......., Lord    Lieutenant  and
Deputy-Lieutenants of, 390,
395........ Sheriffs for, 524.
Noxton, T., 444.
Noyes, D. (merchant), 717......., Samuel (chaplain), 377.
Nugent, Elizabeth, 324........ R., 665.
Nulyn. See Newlyn.
Nuting, 12.
0
Oakham, convictions at, 205.
Oakley, 48.
Oath of Office, judges on taking of,
283.
Oaths and test, justices must take,
235-6.
Oatesale, 522.
O'Brien, Mrs. Kathrine, 227....., and see Inchiquin.
Ochterloine, James, 471.
Odat, 232.
Odiarne, 373.
O'Donnell, Col., his pension, 157.
Odder, 664.
Offdris, N., 54.
Offley, J., 395.
Ogilby, Lt.-Col., 383.
Ogilvie, Sir A., of Forglen, 354, 482......,........ long grant to, 481........ 2nd Lieut, J. (Row's), 378......, Ensign (Fergusone's), 373.......ornet W. (Jedburgh's), 470........ Comet J. (Jedburgh's), 470........ Lieut. James (Ramsay's),
471.


Ogilvie-cont........ Lieut. G. (Orkney's), 376........ P., of Cairnbailg, 355........ P a t r i c k   o f   H a l y e a r d s,   4 7 7......., Sir P., 354............,, sen., of Kemplairn,
ibid......., Capt. P. (Maitland's), 471........ Lieut. James (same), 471........ and  see Finlater.
Ogle, Samuel, 399, 404........T., 159........ Sir T., 368.
Oglethorpe, Major (Mohun's), 366,
371......., L. (Deputy-Lieutenant for
Surrey), 393.
Okeover, R., 525.
Olanier, J., 443.
Old Castle (Blarney), 665.
Oldfield, 374, 521........ A., 410........ Samuel, 410.
Oldmire, 451.
Oldys, Alexander (Tidcomb's), 160........ William, D.C.L., 271, 316........ William, 271.
Oleron, Isle of, 93, 412.
Olieu, Claud, 410.
Oliphant, Francis, 471....... of Gask, 354.
Oliver, 382.
Onslow, Sir R., 393........ ID., 393.
Oporto, Port O Port, 267......., fleet of, 517.
Orban, Capt.-Lieut.. J., 159, 561.
Orchill, 702.
Ord, 364.
Ordies, 452.
Ordnance, office of, 11, 19.
to prepare a train of artillery, 22,
23.
Board of, 105.
Clerk of, 106, 499.
Surveyor of, 162, 370.
and tents, 270.
and light muskets for West
Indies, 272.
Master of the (Ireland), 401.
Master-General of, 370, 386;
Table of Warrants to, 498 -501.
Lieut.-General of, 370, 499.
artillery from, 499, 643.
staff of the office to be enlarged,
500.
and West Indies, 500-501.
warrants to Master of, for train,
&c., 577-580........ to survey of forts, &c.,
599-601.
names of principal officers of,
713.
and Newfoundland, 645, 713.




804


GENERAL INDEX.


Ordnance-cont.
and fire insurance, 445........ Master of the (Scotland),
69........ establishment for (Ireland),
155.
Orferer, Orfeur, Capt., 362.
Orford, Edward Russell, 1st Earl of,
80, 395, 704.
Orford Ness, 680.
Orkney, George Hamilton, 6th Earl
of    (1696-1737),   MajorGeneral, 361, 403, 481.............his regiment, 366,
376, 377.
Orkney Islands, Earl of Morton and,
221.
Orkney and Shetland, 672........ Stewards of, 467.
Ormerod, Isabella, 324.
ORMOND, James Butler, 2nd Duke of,
71, 143, 146, 217, 365, 367,
390.........., and the Expedition,
9, 11, 14, 16-17, 25, 64, 74-5,
120.............. proposed staff for,
17.......,..., and pay of soldiers,
33, 36............, his views on the
Expedition, 103............. and Councils of War,
109............ and butlerage and
prisage duties, 219...........,further instructions
to, 252............. orders to re plunder, 254........... his good conduct at
St. Mary's port, 254, 255..........,  his position  at
Cadiz, 262............. wants provisions,
262............... orders to  re plunder,
272.......... orders to re reports
on the Expedition, 297, 298.........    and Count de Mornay, 315......., and Bellasyse and Hara, 320,
321, 330............, and prisoners of war,
327............,..., requests
that they be well treated at
Oxford, 349........,         this  officers, 381.........,,and Alcalde of Rota,
642.
*....,...... instructions to, as
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
650-2.


OReMOND, James Butler-cont.....,.....,, appointed  Lord
Lieutenant there, 659........ James Butler, 1st Duke of,
429.
Orr, Thomas, 348.
Orrery, Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of,
219.
Ortegal, Ortugall, Ortugal, Cape,
mentioned in Munden trial,
passim, 177-183.
Osbaldeston, Sir R., 395........ W.,  395.
Osbourne, Osborne, Osburn, Ensign
A. (Orkney's), 377........ Sir J., 395, 521......., J., 717....... and see Carmarthen.
Osnabrug, Osnabruck, 410........ horses for Bishop of, from
Ireland, 532......., subsidy for, 647.
Ossinton, 396.
Ossory, Bishop of, 219.
Ostend, 568, 575, 587, 680, 682, 684........ Governor of, 708.
Ostenders, 243........ exchanging  of, 612.
Ottar, 354.
"Outreiking," vessels, 466.
Overhailes, 477.
Overkirke, H., 483.
Overlaggan, 468.
Overton, H., 48........ Ensign, 363.
Ovid, J., 490.
Owen, Capt., Wm., R.N., 81, 338,
417, 532.............. letter from, 352......., Cornet (Essex's), 382....... Lieutenant (Huntingdon's),
364........ 2nd  Lieut. (Mordaunt's),
363...... H., 159........ Lieut. J. (Fox's), 366....... R. (Sheriff of Salop), 525..., Ensign W. (Barrymore's),
374.
Owens, H., 666.
Oxendon, Capt. (Fox's), 363........ George. LL.D. (Court of
Arches), 41, 313........Sir J., 394.
Oxford, City or University:
Winchester scholars and New
College, 48.
church falls at, 141........ new  domed roof proposed for, 141.
Queen going to, 217....... well received at, 222-3....... and Academy at, 240....... Mary  I.  proclaimed  at,
242.




GENERAL INDEX.


805


Oxford-cont.
Queen and Public Orator at,
240, 250....... and question of priority
at, 250.
officer prisoners of war going to
or at, 317, 327, 328, 333, 336,
339, 340, 346, 575, and see
Mornay and Gallissonniere........ received at and shewn
round, 349....... ask leave to shoot, but
refused, 349, 351.
a pleasant place, 351.
Cathedral of, 450.
sporting licence to Dons at, 505 -6.
almsmen at, 510-511.
letters from, 533, 541, 551, 589,
and see Mornay and Gallissonniere.
bad wine at, 533.
prisoners at, arrested, 634, 635.
Vice-Chancellor of the University, 674.
Oxford, Aubrey de Vere, 20th or 11th
Earl of (1632-1703), 71, 123,
368, 386, 390, 396..........., his regiment, 348,
386, 433.
Oxfordshire, 70........ Sheriffs of, 70, 511, 524........ Lord Lieutenant and Deputy
Lieutenants for, 389, 391.
P
Pacey, J., 158.
Pack of hounds, pass for, to go
abroad, 408.
Pack, J., 409.
Packet-boats, 30, 34-5, 72, 88, 91,
114........ and deserters from abroad,
37........ and Royal Navy, 39, 81........ protection of, 104, 351....... to take no passengers, 544,
571, 683........ to the Brill, 548, 725........ ordered to sail, 598, 721,
and see Posts........ between Scotland and Ireland, 652.
Paddison, Mr., 596.
Page, G., 428.
Paget   [de  Beaudesert], William
Paget, 7th Lord, 70, 389.


Pagett, Hon. H., 391, 394.
Pagez, 230.
Pagis, Pages, 552, 553.
Paine, Richard, 688.
Paini, Anthony, 408.
Pajeou, G., 232....., L., 232.
Palermo, 528.
Palfry, 375.
Pall Mall, house in, 267.
Pallesser, Capt., 364...... Lieut., ibid.
Palmer, Charles, and Royal Household, 429............ and the Revenue,
429, 430....... Sir H., 394, 521.......  J., 339........ Rebecca, 40........ Capt. William  (Lumley's),
372........ and see Castlemaine and
Northumberland.
Palmes, Lt.-Col., 372.
Palms, 379.
Pamphlin, J., 395.
Panton, 372.
Papaut, 229.
Papin, 231.
Pardon, General Circuit, 57, and see
Criminal Matters.
Pargiter, 372.
Paris, 230....... University of, 359.
Parke, Reuben, 392.
Parker, Ambrose, 641........ J., ibid...... -, of Brooseholme, 394....... Capt. (Lord Shannon's), 362........D., 239......., Sir G., 386, 585, 588, 591,
594..............on Cosharts' escape,
597.....,H., 48........ Cornet M. (Ross'), 376........ 2nd Lieut. Jerome (Hara's
Fuziliers), 384, 389........ G., of Burrington (Sheriff of
Devonshire), 522.....   John, ship-master, 717........  Lawrence  (Deputy-Lieutenant of Southwark), 393....... Lady M., 335....... Sarah, 324.
Parliament (English), date of meeting of, 235, 237, 239....... in Scotland.   See  Scotland....... in Ireland. See Ireland.
Parr, W., 158.
Patron, Lieutenant, 709.
Parsons, 378......., Sir J., 445.
Parton [Partan], 468.




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GENERAL INDEX,


Partreax, Stephen, 552.
Pascal, 233.
Passes and Post Warrants, Table of,
408-412.
Passy, 231.
Paston, Charles Paston, styled Lord,
385.
Patersone, Commissary, 355.
Patillo, 375.
Patriarch, 363.
Patrolling coasts, 694.
Pawle, William, 280.
Pawlett Poulett, John Poulett,
4th Baron (afterwards 1st
Earl Poulett), 235, 389.
Payler, Sir W., 395.
Pay-Master of the Marine Forces,
484....... of the Works, 16, 25, and see
Army: Ireland.
Payne, Edmund, 526....., R., 396........  L ieut.  W m.,  372.
Paynter, Francis, and prize money,
500.
Payton, C., 395.
Pearce, Peirse, Peirce, Pierce, Ensign C., 383......., Lt.-Col., 374........ J.,  159........ S ir  H.,  6 6 4........ Thom as,  387........ Capt. P. (2nd Foot Guards),
365........  Capt.  T.  (Coldstreams),
383.
Pearls, 432.
Pearson, 377.
Peck, H., 159.
Pedley, 393.
Peeblesshire, lands in, 481.
Peirce. See Pearce.
Peirin, 232.
Peirse. See Pearce.
Peirson, Sir M., 395.
Pelat, 230........232.
Pelham, H., 344......., N., 425........ Thomas, Commissioner of
the Treasury, 5 and note, 8,
13, 19, 25,27, 30; and see Commissioners of the Treasury.
Pellett, W., 393.
Pellow, John, 280.
Pells, Clerk of the, 344.
Pemberton, H., 664.
Pembroke, - Earl of, 243.
Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, 27th
Earl of, Lord High Admiral,
25 and note, 486..........,.. reports by, 21,52.......,,     on  French  movements and Anglo-Dutch co.
operation, 25.


Pembroke, Thomas Herbert-cont.............. on guard at Kinsale,
48............. and  Munden, 49.............. on seizure of French
ship, 50............. on   Colonial ships'
colours, press-gang, &c., 55..........   as  Lord  Lieutenant
of several counties, 70, 71,
389-90.............. on spies, 75.............. on naval strategy,
80............     on African  slave
trade, 80, 81.
Pembrokeshire, Lord Lieutenant of,
389.
Pendarvis, Alexander, 391.
Pendennis Castle, 67, 91, 123, 384........ Lieut.-Governorship of, 200.
Penfold, Dr., 316.
Penn, R. (Deputy-Lieutenant of
Bucks), 391.......  W illiam, 419, 441.......,...., memorandum   from,
130.
Pennsylvania, 81, 419........ Governor of, 441.
Pennyman, Sir T., 523.
Pennyston, Peniston, Penningshall,
fair at, 448, 449.
Penobscot, 130.
Pensioner; the (of the United Provinces), 698.
Pensions to officer's widows, 323,
324.
Pentereau, 232.
Pentlow, William, 700.
Penyston, Sir F., 391.
Penzance, 127, 130, 428......., depositions as to Le Griel
and, 280........ seal of town of, 280 and note........ Mayor  and  Justice  of, 280.
Pepin, J., 230.
Pequais, 528, 705.
Perchard, D., 201...... J., 201.
Percivall, 4.
Perdreaux, 553.
Perdriau or Perdrau (perhaps same),
529.
Pereyra, Isaac, 686........ Soloman, 686.
Perkins, Sir T., 395......., T., 425.
Perpetuities (in Irish Civil List), 227.
Perrot, 378.
Perry, J., 395....... John, arrested, 710.
Perryne, H., 717.
Persia, silk trade from, 427.
Perth, baillie in, 353.
Perthshire, 355.




GENERAL INDEX.


807


Pescott Street [London], letter from,
534.
Pestvill, W., 552.
Peter, Gregory, 522.......,   S.,   3 4 9.
Peterboro, Charles Mordaunt, 3rd
Earl of, 70, 271, 274, 276, 282,
298, 348, 356, 386, 390, 530,
531......... on his service in
West Indies, 536-7.......,....., lives in   Covent
Garden, 539........... not going to West
Indies, 550.
Peters, Hugh, executed, 723.
Peterson, Andrew, 584.
Petervell, 455.
Petit Guava, 147, 175, 470, 721.
Petitions, Table of, and of orders
on, 412 seq.
Petty, 376.
Pewterers' Company (London):............. want new   charter,
426.............. warrant for renewing
their charter, with details as
to rights, &c., 237-9............., names of Master,
Wardens and Assistants, 239.
Peyton, 375......., Captain, 160....., Lt.-Col. and Courts Martial,
500.
Phesdoe, 572.
Philiphaugh, 474, 572.
Philips. See Phillips.
Philipson, J., 319.
Phillips, Philips, Commander G.,
428....... Capt. J. (Holt's), 363, 379........ Lieut. (Coldstream's), 379......., Ensign   J.  (Bellasyse's),
369........ Capt. Richard (Bellasyse's),
569....... Mary, 324........ R. (Sheriff of Suffolk), 525........ Lieut. R. (Stewart's), 378.......   Ensign   William  (Lord
Mohun's), 371........ Coret   Walter (Earl of
Essex's), 382.
Philpot, Philpott, J., 159.....  R., 375.
Phintrie, 355.
Phiswick, 365.
Phoenix Park, tithes of land in, 227......, repairs in, 79.
Physician General (Scotland), 69,
461.
Physicians [Royal] College of, 334.
Piccadilly, Pickadily, 347, 643.
Picken, R., 159.
Pickering, Capt. (a privateer), 637.


Pickering, Capt.-cont............., suspected to trade
with enemy, 688........ 1st Lieut. (Holt's), 363........ Sir H., 395........ Lieut. J. (1st Foot Guards),
380........ Thomas, 210.
Piedmont, 224.
Pierce. See Pearce.
Piercepont, Pierpont, Pierrepont,
Pierrepointe, Jervaise (Deputy-Lieutenant for Bucks), 391........ Samuel (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Derby), 397, 522........ William  (Deputy-Lieutenant for Notts), 396.
Piesley, William, J.P., 505.
Pigaulle, Pigault, M., 287, 612, 613,
640, 641.
Pigeon, 693.
Pigott, Piggott, Thomas (Sheriff of
Bucks), 521........ G., 395........ Capt. (Villiers'), 364........ Chaplain  (Holt's), 364........ T h o m a s   ( D e p u t y - L i e u t e n a n t
for Bucks), 391....... Lieut. Thomas (Bridges'),
373.
Pilkington, Sir L., 394.
Pillage, on captive ships, 132,
Pillory, the, 336.
Pillurge, 355.
Pilot, J., 159.
Pimlico, 414.
Pimont. See De Pimont.
Pinchinat, 232.
Pinckney, R., letter from, 57.
Pindar, R., 396.
Pineau, 229.
Pinet, 234......, Charles, 679.
Pinhas, B., 674.
Pinnea, W., 234.
Pinnell, J., Mayor of Oxford, letter
from, 634.
Pinnock, 364.
Pinsun, 229.
Pint a Portsmouth. See Point.
Piper, 380.
Pipon, Monsr., 554.
Piracy, trials for, at Old Bailey, 490,
491.
Pirates, 343........ in Indian seas, 551.
Pisa, news from, 688.
Pitcurr, 168.
Pitfour, 465.
Pitfield, A., 395.
Pitmedden, 355.
Pitmillie, 468.
Pitmurchie, 465.
Pitt, George, Deputy-Lieutenant for
Bucks, 392, 393.




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GENERAL INDEX


Pitt —cont........ Lieut. Joseph (Wood's), 373.
Placentia (Newfoundland), 263, 346,
546........ fortifications at, 607.
Plaffay, 229.
Plantamour, Philip, 493.
Plantations, defence of, 39......., posts to, 47, 161.
Plate, 365.
Plessier, 229.
Pleydall, R., 396.
Ploen, Duke of [John Adolf, Duke
of Holstein-Ploen], 496.
Plowman, William, 87, 707.............. his proposals for a
fast privateer, account of his
losses, &c., 84, 85.............. and Tuscany, 243,
244.............. case of, 636-8.
Pluballet, 258.
Plummer, 4........ J., 392.
Plunder, from Port St. Mary's, 225,
253-5, 299-303........ arriving  home, 270,  533......., regulations for checking, &c.,
270, 271, 272......., legal opinion as to trial for,
&c., 271, 273-4......., landing of, 275......., how to try guilty soldiers,
285......... Bellasyse and, 293........ Harding's letter on, 301-3....... details as to, from  many
sources, 306-310.
Plunkett, Pluncket or Plunket, -,
363........, C atherine,  400........ Thom as,  99,  400.
Plymouth, 46, 65, 67, 75, 91, 92, 129,
163, 181, 205, 281, 298, 500,
552, 557, 584, 586, 596.
letter from, 149.
news from, 263.
Lieutenant-Governor of, 270,
557.
large ships to refit at, 290.
information from, 291.
Mayor of, 291, 299.
notes from re plunder, 307-310.
prisoners at, 645, 657, 668,
and see Prisoners.
Plymouth, Thomas Hickman-Windsor,  Earl of   (1682-1687)
or Other Windsor, Earl of
(1687-1725),  regiment  of,
439.
Pobble O'Keife, 663.
Pochin, G., 523.
Pocklington, 393.
Pocock, 316.
Poindestre, Charles, 554.


Point Coffee House (Portsmouth),
or "Pint a Portsmouth,"
595, 597.
Pointis, Ponty, &c., Jean Bernard
Desjeans, Baron de, 145, 217
note, 537.............. at Dunkirk, 134,
198, 199, 217..............,   t h o u g h t   t o   h a v e   l e f t
Dunkirk, 261.............. may be there, 262.............. alleged success of,
680, 682, 684.
Poitevin, Pottavin, Poittavin, L., 47,
60. 72, 75, 508, 509.
Poland, Envoy from, 412.
Pole, Samuel, 397.
Poleardah, 473.
Pollexfen, J., Commissioner of Trade,
&c., 48, 149, 488........ Capt. (Marlborough's), 374.
Poison, D., 354.
Polwarth, Patrick Hume, 1st Lord,
469, 572.
Pont, Captain, 712.
Pontales, 301.
Pontbisson, J., 230.
Pontchartrain, Louis Ph6lypeaux,
Comte de (Chancellor of
France), 71, 88, 172, 246, 264,
266, 286, 298, 312, 323, 337,
338, 340, 533, 541, 542, 551,
583, 635............... letter from, 551.
and see Mornay, Gallissniere
and Prisoners.
Ponte Vedra, 108, 192.
Ponthieu, 233.
Ponty. See Pointis.
Poole Mrs., of Seperton, 243.
Poole (Borough), Mayor of, 9......., Lord-Lieutenant of, 390.
Poole Myvod, tithes of, 329, 330.
Pope, 379.
Popely, 326
Popple, Mr., 64.
Porchester, Portchester Castle, 165.
Pork, for the Navy, 150.
Portchester. See Porchester.
Port Corn (in Ireland), 661, seq.
Port Louis (France), 121, 187, 246,
627........ (Guadeloupe), 700.
Port Royal (Jamaica), 543, 545, 720,
721, and see Whetstone....... (near Port St. Mary's), 301.
Port St. Mary's, plunder from, 225,
and see Plunder.
Port St. Piers, 31.
Portal, 230.
Porter, 2nd Lieut. (Fox's), 363........  Richard   (Deputy-Lieuttenant for Suffolk), 393......., Robert (Deputy.Lieutenant
for Notts), 396.




GENERAL INDEX.


~809


Porter-cont........ Capt. J., 115........ W., 402.
Porteus, R., letter from, 594.
Portland Castle, condition of, 67....... Road, 67.
Portlock, J., 388.
Portman, H., 393........ S.,  395.
Portmore, Portsmore, Sir David
Colyear, 1st Lord (afterwards
Earl of Portmore), MajorGeneral 308, 322, 362.
Porto Rico, 60.
Porto Spezie. See Spezzia.
Portsmouth, 46, 47, 65, 67, 72, 124,
134, 162, 217, 220, 221, 234,
285, 306, 324, 333, 500.
Victualling office at, 222.
accoutrements to go to, 236.
prisoners of war at, 266, 328,
551, 584.
Governor of, 367.
ships at, 406, 407.
large ships to refit at, 290.
Lieutenant-Governor of, 292,
380, 414.
Town Major of, 380.
buildings at, 414.
letters from, 538, 566, 597.
notes from, as to plunder, 306 -310.
physician and surgeon at, 367.
post from or to, 539, 618.
and see Point.
Portugal, 497, 530.
and England, 3, 124, 126, 127,
246-7, 255.
and fish trade, 82, 346.
and embargo, 82.
mail to, 127.
pass to, 409.
and English packets, 544.
traders to, petition of, 349.............. granted, 351.
Expedition to, 567.
Envoy of, 570........ his chapel, 647, 659.
questions of Treaty with, 570-1,
632, 633, 656, 657-9, 683-4,
700-1.
fish for, 546.
and French wine, 644.
King of, naval demands of, 684,
701.
and salt question, 701.
Postal arrangements, 64, 65, 66, 211,
252, 278-9, 280, 654....... effect of war on, 45, 46........ a Penny   Post set up,
430....... packets armed, 498, 539,
581........ speed of delivery from Bath,
250.


Postal arrangements, speed of delivery-cont.......         from  Portsmouth,
539, 618, 682............  from   Deal,  682.............. from Portugal, 722....... in  Scotland,  319..... and  see  Dummer    and
Jeffreys, Sir. J.
Postage, cost of abroad, 494, 495 seq.
Postmasters-General  or  Commissioners of the Post Office, 7,
37 and note, 46 and note. 71, 84,
88, 104, 333, 351, 507......., letters from, 34, 211, 278,
319........ and Scotland, 567.
Post Warrants. See Passes.
Potitot, 230.
Pott, J., 66.
Pottavin. See Poitevin.
Potter, 364.
Potterfair, 455.
Potts, J., 59........ Sir  R., 392.
Poulett. See Pawlett.
Poullet, J., 260.
Poulteney. See Pultney.
Povey, 380....... John, 487.
Powell, H. (Steward, Chelsea Hospital), 136, 370........, John (of Portsmouth), letter
from, 538........ Mr. Justice, 206, 316, 331....... Samuel (Deal), 308........ 2nd Lieut. (Shannon's), 362........ C h a p l a i n   ( W e b b ' s ),   3 7 4......., Ensign (Huntingdon's), 364........ Thomas (pewterer), 239........ (barrister), 316.
Powis, Sir T., 316....... and see Powys.
Powlet, Norton, 393....... Lord William, 393....... and see Bolton.
Pownall, Lt.-Col., 364.
Powys, Mr. Justice L., 28, 331.........,..   T., 331.
Powys, Duchess of, 6............. case of, 686........, depositions regarding, 678-9.............. her music-master,
gardener, &c., 678, 679......, W illiam   Herbert,  2nd  Earl
and titular Duke of (1696 -1745), 678........ William  Herbert, 1st Earl
and Marquis of, &c. (1667 -1696), outlawed, 329.
Poyntz, Capt. J., and    Tobago,
432.
Praed, J., 391.
Prat Laine, 234.




810


GENERAL INDEX.


Prat, Pratt, Henry, his map of
Ireland, 78......, J., and tents for Ireland,
404....... John (Town Clerk of Berwick), 382......., Sergeant, 316.
Presbyterian Ministers, in Ireland,
payment to, 227,
Press, control of, 580-581.
Pressac, 233.
Pressing  sailors and  compulsory
service, 51, 53, 55, 65, 94, 98,
110-111, 546..... in Ireland, 51, 53........ in the English counties, 70,
71, 133-4........, worthless men pressed, 199 -200....... Dutchmen pressed, 149........ Hopson on difficulties of,
83........ liberation of foreigners, 641....... press relaxed on the Thames,
725.
Preston, 375........ Antony (Sergeant), 574.......  Charles, 454......, Major, ibid...... J., 335......, R., of Ballymadun, 664........Capt. W., 470.
Prestonhall, 355, 572.
Pretty, 363.
Priaulx, 86, 297.
Price, Capt., 63, 75, 181........ J.,  deposition  of,  179..... R.,    391.......,T., 158.
Prichard, Sir William, 391.
Pride, Rebecca, case of, 241-3.
Prideaux, Edward, 391......, Humphrey, Dean of Norwich, 95, 358.
Prieststown, 667.
Primerose, Sir Archibald, of Carington, 459.
Primrose, Sir James, 572........ Ensign   Archibald  (Seymour's), 375........ Capt. Gilbert (Earl of
Romney's), 380......, and see Rosebery.
Prince's  Council  (or  Admiral's
Council):....... on Rooke's, strategy,...... Shovell and, 194......., control Navy Board, 194......., on  suspected  traitors, 257......., on arming Boyne, 276......., on   escort to  Levant, ibid......., on East India trade, 343-4........ on fleet for, 1703, 325......, on frigates in Irish service,
342.


Prince's Council-cont........ on Portugal convoy, 530........ and deserters, 556....... on Newfoundland, 655-6... on privateering, 673..., to   attend  the  Cabinet
regularly, 725,., and see Prisoners of War.
Pringle, John, 455...R., 454......., Thomas, 466, 476.
Prior, Cape; Sir J. Munden off,
passim, 177-183.
Prior, Mathew, 48, 149, 488.
Prior's Miln, 455.
PRISONERS OF WAV, 72, 92, 101, 113,
141, 144, 328, 356, 533..., Magistrates to receive, 75.., at Sheerness, 77......, charge allowed for keeping,
90-91......., treatment of, &c., 162, 172,
218, 266..., lodgings for officers, 166., not to be kept in Newgate,
188........ English prisoners in Spain,
212..., cartel for exchange of, suggested, 88, 94, 112, 212, 264,
269, 280-2, 284, 287, 290, 291,
533 (and see Sick and
Wounded)..., at     Southampton, 243-4,
538......., at Jersey, 246, 267..., exchange of, 264..., African Co. will take into
service, 264......, house for, in Dover, 264........ guarding at Southampton,
265, 267........ question of terms of general
exchange, 266, 347-8....   total number of in England,
&c., 279, 575, 596, 604, 621,
626, 648......, Count de Mornay on the
cartel, 286, 287, 337......, removed to Tower, 312, 315......., at Plymouth, 313......., eminent prisoners to go to
Oxford, 317, and see Oxford....... Spanish Admiral taken at
Vigo, 317, 337, 351..., English merchants on treatment of Spanish, 325... at Portsmouth or Chatham,
328......, they object to written obligations, 336., on parole, 351......, misconduct of, 531....... removed from Gosport, 535....  at Southampton, 635, 638.




GENERAL INDEX.


811


PRISONERS OF WAR.-cont........ alleged attempts to proselytise, 551, 591, 611....... English, in France, 551, 554,
610, 611, 689-90........ exchange of, 568, 575, 582,
583, 599, 640-1, 645, 647,
668, 673, 695............... Spanish and English,
547-8....... too well treated at Plymouth, 552........ allowed to shoot, 552, 557....... to be removed from Southampton, 557......., escape of, 565, 610, 615, 620,
630......., Lyndhurst and, 576......., officers at Farnham, 576............ names of, 577......., English ill treated at Dunkirk, 581-2, 591, 642........ at Plymouth, Gosport, &c.,
586........ English ill-treated at Dinan,
588......., want money at Oxford, 589....... at Yarmouth, 593......., efforts to house, 607........ exchange of Ostenders, 612........ suggested exemption of
fishermen from capture, 613.., fishermen exchanged, 615......, comparative statement of
treatment of, in England and
France, 624-6, 629......., more stringent treatment of
in England as a retorsion,
628, 629,   653,  and  see
Mornay, and Gallissonniere........ escape of, 638, 641......, Lord Burlington and, 649,
657........ report on treatment of, &c.,
668-9, 673......., and county jails, 669......., demand of, 675........ at Guernsey, 675, 689......., money for French, 686........ removed from Gate House
to Tower, 686, 692........ Protestants amongst, how
dealt with, 689........ alleged enlistment of, 689......., terms of exchange of, 696......., fresh suggested quarters for,
697......., Shovell may exchange, 717........ officer prisoners moved, 719........ 5d. a day for, 722.
PritbhaId, Sir William, Commissioner of Lieutenancy of London, 499.
Pritchard's case, 643, 654, 659, 660,
670, 683.


Privateers and privateering, 91, 127,
210....... French or Spanish, 27, 43,
46, 56, 61, 110, 205-6, 209,
257, 265........ commissions for, 131........  E n g l i s h m e n   o n   F r e n c h   p r i v -
ateers, 625........ English to  give security,
673........ exchange   of   captured
privateersmen, 673........ few  French  about, 628........  E n g l i s h   fi t t e d   o u t   a t   L e g -
horn, 637.
Privy Kitchen, the, 450.
Privy Seal, Keeper of (Scotland), 353........ Keeper of (England) pay  to,
502............,fees of, 356 and note.
Prizes of war, 646....... officer for, on board the
Mediterranean   fleet,  his
duties, &c., 715......., may be destroyed or sold,
715.
Prize Appeals, Commissioners of,
279......., letters of marque, 503.
Prize Court, 503......., wanted in Guernsey, 311.
Prize law, case on, 291, and see Admiralty.
Prize money, distribution of, 500.
Prizes, Commissioners of or for, 99,
102, 318.............  letter from, 271,
272............... names of, 271.
Probert, H., 396.
Proby, 393.
Progers, Edward, 227.
Projers, 82.
Proprietary charters, 130.
"Prospective [perspective] Glasses,"
sent as present, 598.
Prou, 233.
Provost, J., 448.
Provost Marshal, 286........ staff for, at sea, 74-75.
Prugeon, J., 511.
Prussia, King of, his claims, 104 and
note........   A m b a s s a d o r   o f,   a n d   a r r e a r s
due to, 269.
Pryce, Mary, 641.
Pubeloy, 693.
Public Accounts, Commissioners for
taking, names of, 344.............. letter from, ibid.
Pudsay, A., 394.
Pue, Mrs., 197.
Puisieux, Monsieur, 512, 513.
Puissar, James, 665-667......., Mrs. K., 227.




812


GENERAL INDEX.


Pujula, D., 380.
Pullerine, Capt., 627, 673.
Pultney, Poultene, Lieut. (Horse
Guards), 371....... John (Ordnance Office), 384....... William (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Middlesex), 395.
Pumfrey, Christopher, 471.
Pupplett, R., 133, 392.
Purbeck, 522.
Purbeck, Island of, 90.
Purcell, Mr., (organist), 435.......,  P h il.,  6 6 6........ Col. T., 437.
Purchase, Capt. F., 711.
Pursuivants (Ireland), 78.
Purvis, Capt. G,, 308.
Putland, Thomas, 249.
Puyehenin, 230.
Pyeo Capt. Richard (Mordaunt's),
363, 366........ Edmund, 392......, Sir C., 397.
Pyle, R., 48.......  W illiam,  397.
Pyne, 375......., Sir  R.,  C.J.Q.B.  (Ireland),
143, 399, 402.
Q
Quary, Col., 209.
Queenbrough, 210, 623........ Deputy Mayor of, 210.
Queensberry, James Douglas, 2nd
Duke of, Royal Commissioner
in Scotland, 292.............. and Coronation oath,
2.........,...as Royal Commissioner, 59, 148, 451, 452, 453,
557, 567, 571, 655............ Secretary of State
(Scotland), 454, 455............,,   Queen's letter to, 99............. pardon  and  discharge to, 221.............  instructions to  re
Scottish Parliament, 671-2.
Queen's College, Cambridge, letters
to, 360.
Quesnell, M., 712.
Questell, R,, 412.
Quick, H., 239.
Quinsac, 232.
Quinson, 234.


R
Rabesnier, 375.
Rablis, 521.
Raby, Lord, Thomas Wentworth,
3rd Baron, afterwards Earl of
Strafford, 94, 113, 250.............. his  officers,  376............ and naval supplies,
623-4.
Raby, Mary (several aliases), 602.
Rada, Marquis de, 174.
Radley, M., 324.
Radmore, A., 667.
Radnorshire, 70......., Lord Lieutenant of, 389.
Raelton, Thomas, 21.
Ragusa, 710.
Rahanaclagh, 667.
Rahaspuck, 667.
Rainsford, Capt. F. (Hara's), 384....... 2nd Lieut. (Villiers'), 364.
Raleigh, 373.
Rallins, Ensign J., 550.
Ramsay, Major-General, G., 461,
462, 470, 572........ Ensign J., 470....... Lieut. William, 471........ Major Alexander, 471......,. Major John, 471........ James, 452......., Colin, 452........ Lieut. Colin (Fergusone's),
373....... James, of Newtown (J.P.,
Scotland), 353........ Sir James, 353......., Lieut. William (Ramsay's),
471..........., and see Ramsey and
Dalhousie.
Ramsden, Lieut. (Cutts'), 383....., J. (Deputy -Lieutenant of
Yorks), 394.......  Sir W., 394........ R. (Deputy-Lieutenant for
Yorks), 395.
Ramsey, 2nd Lieut. (Holt's), 363........ Ensign R. (Earl of Marlborough's), 374........ and see Ramsay.
Ramsgate, Romansgate, 389.
Rand, Major N., 394.
Randall, M., 393.
Randolph, Mr., 64, 71, 81........ letter from, 645.
Ranelagh, Richard Jones, 1st Earl of,
16, 36, 227, 426.




GENERAL INDEX.


813


Rankeiller, 572.
Ransford, E., 40.
Ransoming of captured ships, discontinued, 689.
Ranson, R., 717.
Raphe, William, 349.
Raphoe, Charles Crow, Bishop of,
398......., Huntington,  Bishop  of,
ibid.
"Rapperees," 426.
Rashleigh, J., 391.
Rassa, Count di, 203, 509..........,... a prisoner, 207.
Rathbyne, 667.
Rathduffe, 667.
Rathnelonaught, 665.
Rathregan, 665.
Rathwire, 667.
Ratisbon, Envoy at, 493.
Ratoath, 665.
Rattaine, 664.
Rattcliffe, Sir R., 392.
Rattiarne, 373.
Rawdon, 384.
Rawleigh, 380.
Rawson, J., 490.
Raymond, 316.
Rayner, Mary, 40.
Read, Reid, Reed, Lieut. Alexander,
576........ Capt. F. (Bridges'), 372.., Sir J. (Sheriff of Oxon),
524........ Gabriel, 160....... John (ship-master), 717.. Mr. (and his ship), 678,
679......., Jirvis (merchant), 187........ John (Sheriff of Hereford),
523......., M., a minister, 477........ Lt.-Col. R., 353, 471........ Ensign William, 377......., R. P., 522.
Readich, 378.
Reading, 697........ Edmund, 393.
Readstown, 666.
Reay, George Mackay, 3rd Lord,
572......., and see Rhea.
Rebow, Sir I., 396.
Reckham, J., 158.
Recorders. See Criminal matters.
Records, Keeper of, appointed,
485......., in a library at Whitehall,
ibid.
Reculvers, the, 47.
Redbergg, 485.
Reddall, Capt. F., and Indian sea
rovers, 379.
Reddich, 378.
Redding, T., 239.


Redmond, D., 666.
Redriff. See Rotherhithe.
Reed. See Read.
Reeves, Cornet J., 379........ P.  (London?),  602........, Lieut. P., 157.
Regnoso, 303.
Reid. See Read.
Reid Castle, 354.
Reinalducci, 692.
Relfe, Jos.- 575.
Relict, 354.
Renda, Thomas, 688.
Renouf, John, 44, 606....... C., 260.
Renovard, 376.
Renton, 378.
Reresby, Sir W., 394.
Resumption, Act of. See Ireland.
Revell, R. (Sheriff of Derby), 508,
509, 522.
Revett, 383.
Revy, Thomas, 78.
Reynell, Sir R., 402..............  his  father,  late
C.J.K.B. (Ireland), 402.
Reynold, Sir R., 394.
Rhea, [Reay], 473........ and see Reay.
Rhinedalians, 512.
Rhoane. See Rouen.
Rhode Island, 81, 610.
Ribaut, Sieur, 544.
Ribier, 373.
Ribot, 230.
Rice, Christopher, 665......., Thomas, letter from, 576.
Rich, 380....... William, 538....... Sir William, 521.
Richard, T., 717.
Richards, Col., letter from, 724........ J., of Warmwell, 522......., 2nd Lieut. (Holt's), 363.
Richardson, 316......., Francis, 710........ Cornet, 470........ Lieut. James, 471........ Lieut. John  (Raby's), 376......., Robert, 41......., William, 433........ Richbell, A., 437........ E., 437.
Richier, J., 345.
Richmond, Charles Lennox, 1st or
6th Duke of (1675-1723),
letter from, 340.
Richmond, inn at, 82.
Riddell, A., 455.
Rider, William, 408.
Ridley, 385.
Rientor, 230.
Riga, 623.
Rigaudie, 229......., 232.




814


GENERA


Rigby, Sir Alexander, 87..........,,  his case against
Grand Duke of Tuscany, 244 -6, 636-8....... Capt. Edward (Gibson's),
362, 365.
Rimbliere, 230.
Rimington, Mr., 693.
Ringwood (Hants), 576.
Ringwood, H., 78.
Ripon, Mayor of, 94.
Rippet or Rippert, R., 257, 258
and note.
Rivall, L., 363......., P., ibid.
Rivals, 231.
Rivasson, 373.
Rivers, Richard Savage, 8th Earl of,
31, 71, 390, 434, 503.............. officers under, 385........ Sir G., 394.
Rivery, 233.
Rivet, Col. Edmund, 387.
Roade, 522.
Roane. See Rouen.
Robarts,  Robartes,  Roberts, F.
(P.C., Ireland), 143, 399, 403,
404........ Richard (Winchester), 48......., Sir T. (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Kent), 394........  Hon.  F.   (Deputy-Lieutenant of Cornwall), 391........ William (Paymaster of the
Works, Windsor), 18.
Robertson, L., 353........ A., 353.
Robins, Ensign, 709........ William, of Inshes, 354.
Robins, Stephen, 522.
Robinson (barrister), 316........ Capt.-Lieut. (Holt's), 363........ Lieut. G. (Wyndham's), 372....... Ensign J., 387....... Capt. J. (of the William and
Mary), 678............... letter from, 686.......  John,  D.D.,   Envoy    to
Sweden, 8, 497............, his expenses, 494,
496........ Sir   John (Deputy-Lieutenant for Suffolk), 393......., Lieut. M. (Schomberg's),
379......, William, or Sir William
(Paymaster   and   DeputyReceiver in Ireland), 144, 166,
248, 332, 394, 402....... William, of Hull, 222....... Mrs., 183.
Roche (of Fermoy), David Roche,
9th Viscount, pension to, 402.............. his brother and
sister, 319.,L INDEX.
Rochefort,   Rochfort,   Rochford
(France), 121, 122, 246, 266,
281.
Rochelle, 544........ preparations at, 193.
Rochester, 306.......,Bishop of, 313.
Rochester, Lawrence Hyde, 4th or
1st Earl of (1682-1711), Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, 402.............. and   Bishop   Huntington, 436........ Jane, 423......., R., 423.
Rochestown, 100.
Rochford, William  H. Nassau de
Zulestein, 1st Earl of, 665 -667.
Rochfort, Rochford, Robert (Attorney-General, Ireland), 83,
332, 398.......,...... and quit-rents, 664.
Rochmont, 233, and see Rochefort.
Rodbard, Rodbart, S., 224, 525........ T., of Merriott, 525.
Rodney, 2nd Lieut. Henry (Holt's),
363........ to be Captain, 372........ Lt.-Col. (Holt's), 363, 382.
Rodway, 396.
Roe, Lieut. W. (Seymour's), 375.
Rogers, Coret Francis (Ormond's),
381........ Edward (Villier's), 159........ Sir J., of Plymouth, 522........ N. (Holcombe), 552......., Capt. T., 310........W., 717.
Roland, David, 522........Elisha, 260, 381.......,S., 260.
Rolfe, 521.
Rollo, H., 353.
Rolls, S., 393.
Romain, Romaine, M., 340, 693.
Roman Catholics, complaint against,
646, 647.
Romansgate. See Ramsgate.
Romney, 7....... Marsh, and trading with
the enemy, 323.
Romney, Henry, Sydney, 1st Earl of,
11, 71, 113, 125, 394, 665 -7......., and the Expedition, 16, 22......., regiment of, 366, 380.
Roodset right, 477.
Rook, Lt.-Col. H., Hamond or Hey.
man, 365, 375....... Ensign James (Seymour's),
375.
Rooke, Admiral Sir George, &c., 25,
62-3, 65, 95, 163, 394, 406.....,....... on    manning   the
ships, 72,




GENERAL INDEX.


815


Rooke, Admiral Sir George-cont.......... on the Expedition,
his difficulties, &c., 94, 161,
163, 167...,........ pessimist views of,
96, 97............ on the great ships,
97, 128............   on need of cruisers,
97, 122-3............... must have supplies
before he sails, 103............ instructions to, for
the Expedition, 108-110...,.~ ~.......,,  sent  him,
111-2.....,......  warrant to, to sail,
112...........    on French at Cadiz,
119............ on    health  of his
force, 125-6........      and Spain, 144............ sailing orders from,
151.............. question of his big
ships, 160.       a,......, news from, 185.......   Vice Admiral of
England, 483......., further instructions
to, 176, 192, 256............  Hedges and, 195.........., his personal grief,
196.......... to detach ships to
Adriatic, 215, 216...........and plunder, 225.........., leaves Shovell at
Vigo, 290.......... to report on Expedition, 297............... said to disagree with
Dutch, 302......... and Bellasyse and
Hara, 320, 330........, and D'Aligre, 324.......,.. his command and
Admiral Churchill, 712......,...... his illness, 712.,......... his movements, 719.
Rooke, 2nd Lieut. (Sanderson's),
364.
Roope, Consul at Teneriffe, 728..., John, 704....... Nicholas (a Commissioner
for Transport), going West,
194....... and see Transport, Commissioners for.
Rootes, N., 336.
Roper, C., 239....... Richard, 491.
Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, 4th
Earl of, 219, 227.


Rose, A., 348....... Captain, 365.., Chaplain, 364....... Hugh, 465......, Major, 364, 366..., Thomas, 41.
Rose, the (coffee house), 82.
Rosebery, Archibald Primrose, 1st
Viscount, 571, 573............, his  coat-of-arms,
459.
Rosehaugh, 355.
Rosemadack, Count, 263.
Rosemary Lane, 596.
Rosieres, 232.
Ross (1), place names:
Ross (Scotland), Bishopric of,
466........ Sheriffship of, 482........ lands in, 480....... Earldom of, 455, 478.
Rosshire, 355.
Ross and Cromarty, lands in,
478.
Ross Castle (Ireland), 157.
Ross district (Ireland), 662, 667.
Ross (2), persons:Ross, Col. or Brigadier Charles, 106,
362, 399............. his regiment of
Dragoons, 94, 247, 288, 289................    transport
for, 288-290................   arms  for,
387............, his commission, 499........ Ensign David (Maitland's),
471........ D., of Balnagowan,  354........... tutor of Kindess,
ibid....... William, of Easter Fearn,
ibid........ H.  (J.P.,  for  Highlands),
ibid........ J., of Rosshill, 355....... William  Ross, 12th Lord
(P.C. Scotland), 572....... of Kilraick, 472............ his brother, ibid.......   R o b e r t   o f   A u c h s l a s s e n   ( J. P,
for Highlands), 354......., William, 289....... William   (J.P. for Highlands), 354........ Capt.-Lieut. W. (Ross'), 376.
Rossillon, 231.
Rossington, 372.
Rossiter, 376.
Rossy, 467.
Rothbury, 524.
Rota, Rotta, 247, 301, 330, 341....... Alcade of, 586, 642.
Rotherhithe, Redriff, 51.
Rothmay, 355.




816


GENERAL INDEX.


Rotterdam, 678....... Pensioner of, 66.
Rou, 234.
Rouen, Roane, Rhoane, 258, 549.
Rouge Rose Pursuivant, 502.
Roughboro, 522.
Rousse, 229.
Rousset, 229.
Rouviere, 232.
Rouvieres, 228.
Row, Rowe, Anthony (DeputyLieutenant for Middlesex),
395........ Anthony   (probably  same),
Keeper of Hyde Park, 144,
504, and Addenda........ Col. Archibald, 6, 463.............., his officers, 353, 378,
472......., Capt. J., 378........ Jam es,  703........ 2nd  Lieut. W illiam,  378.
Rowland, D., 395.
Rowles, 383.
Rowney, T., 391.
Rowse, W., 717.
Royal African Co. See African Co.
Royal chases, Chief Justices in Eyre
of, 488.
Royal Fuziliers, officers in, 383-4....... Mews.  See  Mews....... Stables. See Stables.
Royal Warrants, Table    of, 482
seq.
Royall, 232.
Royau, 685.
Royden, M., 389.
Royer, J., to embellish a letter to the
Czar, 505.
Rozell, Thomas de, 44.
Rozencrants, Mr., 528, 535.
Ruben, L., 264.
Rudbergh, 485.
Rudston, Sir T., 395.
Rudyerd, Ruddiard, Benjamin, 412,
525.
Rufane, 363.
Rules, the (London), 638.
Rumball, G., 335.
Rushout, Sir J., 526.
Russell, Lieut.Christopher (Bridges'),
372........ Edward, styled Lord, 395,
484........ Sir F. (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Gloucestershire), 396........ K atharine,  243........, M a r y,   4 0........, Captain  R. (Guards), 380........ W. (Deputy-Lieutenant for
Cambridgeshire), 395......., and see Bedford and Orford.
Russia, may invade Sweden, 693......., trade to, 87, 406.


Russia-cont...... or Muscovy Co., their case,
33, 420............... Governor of, 33.
Ruthven, Sir Alexander, 471.
Rutlandshire, lands in, 427......., Lord Lieutenant and Deputy
Lieutenants for, 290, 390, 396......., Sheriffs of, 525........ John  Manners,  9th  or  10th
Earl and afterwards 1st Duke
of, 70, 390.
Ruynat, 230.
Ryder, R., 395........ Richard, 21......., T., 394.
Rymer, Thomas, B.A., 360.
Rye, 305, 612........ post from to France, 7........ suspects  at, 7, 24.
Ryswick, Treaty of, 91, 312, 333, 341............ 3rd article of, 637
Ryves, 380.
S
Sabter, Capt. J., 384.
Sacheverell, Sachevirell, R., 396 and
note.
Sackville. See Dorset.
Sailly, 233.
St. Agnant, 233.
St. Agnes, 522.
St. Albans (Herts), dispute in the
Corporation of, 63, 128, 147,
415....... Mayor of, ibid......., Aldermen  of, ibid.
St. Albans, Highland of, 47........ Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke
of, 227 (1695), 721.
St. Anne's parish [Westminster?],
pawnbroker in, 679.
St. Asaph, Bishop and diocese of,
329.
St. Aubin, St. Obien, P., 257, 258,
258 note.
St. Aubin's pier (Jersey), 235.
St. Aubyn, Sir J., 391.
St. Barb, St. Barbe, Sir J., 393, 525.
St. Barnaby the Apostle, fair at
feast of, 448.
St. Briavel's Castle, 488........ Constableship of, question as
to, 630-1.
St. Bride's (parish), London, 142.
St. Christopher's, 31, 534, 548, 590......., taken, 261.




GENERAL INDEX.


817


St. Christol, 229.
St. Clair, Lieut.-General, 526....... Ensign  James  (Earl of
Orkney's), 377.
St. Cyr, 233........ Bishop Lucy of, 420-1.
St. David's, Thomas Watson, D.D.,
Bishop of, 420-1.............. his petition, efforts
at reform, charges against
him, &c., 268.
St. Denis, 174.
St. Etienne, 233.
St. Fauste, 233.
St. Felix, 231.
St. Francis' Chapel, 667.
Saint Fr6, or St. Free, M. de, 327,
333.
St. Gabriel, 232.
St. George, 372........, Col. Sir G., 159, 561, 562........ Sir H., 313........ Sir T., 313.
St. George, College of (San Lucar),
301.
St. Germain, 232.
St. Germains-en-Leye, letter from,
322.
St. Giles' in the Fields, 654.
St. Helen's, 47, 75, 122, 406........ and see Rooke, Sir J.
St. Helena, 343, 344.
St. Hypolite, 230.
St. James' Mews' Passage, 723.
St. James', Palace or Court of (Middlesex), passim.
St. James' Park (Westminster), Regulations for (on coaches, carts,
the Mall, dogs, beggars, deer,
wildfowl, drying clothes, and
other matters), 539, 540, 723,
724........ special entree to, 723.
St. James' Street   (Westminster),
643, 724.
St. Jean de Luz, 258.
St. Jeme, 230.
San Jestivan, M. de, 300.
St. John, 241........ Colonel T., 159, 561.
St. John, Newfoundland, 655........ defence of harbour of, 38,
139........ and see Newfoundland.
St. John Street (London), 573, 595.
St.  John's   College,  Cambridge,
Fellow of, 360.
St. Johns, Sir W., 393.
St. Julien, 234........ Chevalier, 136.
St. Just, 364.
St. Katherines, abuses at, 9.
St. Leger, 230....,., Capt. G., arrest of, 508.
St. Leonard's (Colchester), 483.
Wt. 3880.


St. Lo, Commander or Capt., 92,
132, 149, 253, 263, 380, 552...........   letters from, 129,
149, 205, 563.
St. Loup, L., 232.
St. Lucar, San Lucar, 264, 301.
St. Maison, 232.
St. Malo, 9, 43, 97, 131, 257, 258, 266,
270, 281, 657, 688, 695, 696........, and  the  war, 61, 86........ t r a d e   o f   E n g l i s h   s h i p s   f r o m,
71........ English  merchants well
treated at, 101....,... privateers at, 110, 196........ and Newfoundland, 110........ prisoner at, 332........ prisoners well treated at,
267........ 1,000  English  prisoners  at,
554....... and Jersey, 535, 621.
St. Martin, 231.
St. Martin's (France), 56, 549.
St. Martin's Lane (London), 596.
St. Martins, Vintry (London), 24.
St. Martins (in France), 549.
St.  Mary-le-Strand   (Middlesex),
parishioners of, and Savoy
chapel, 275.
St. Mary Magdalene (parish), Bermondsey, Tanners of, 444,
608 seq.
St. Mary's Port, Porte Ste. Marie,
532, 563......., taking of, 247, 252........,   c h a r g e   o f   E n g l i s h   e x c e s s e s   a t,
253-5, 294, 330, 341........, p i l l a g e   o f,   a n d   p l u n d e r   f r o m,
see Plunder........ ill-effect  of  plunder  of  on
English merchants, 299-303.
St. Maurice, 231........ 233.
St. Meard, 232.
St. Mesnien, 230.
St. Michel, the, 160.
St. Mosse's or St. Maw's Castle, 384.
St. Nicholas, 483.
St. O'Bien, P., 257.
St. Owen's Rectory, 665.
St. Pau, 231.
St. Paul's (London), new Commission for rebuilding (with
names of Commissioners and
details), 291, 313, 314.
St. Paul's, William Sherlock, Dean
of, 313....... Residentiaries  of, ibid.
St. Peter, river of, 301.
St. Phelipe (near Cadiz), 301.
St. Philibert, 230.
St. Pierre, 376.
St. Puy, 231.
St. Quintin, Sir W., 395.
A 52




818


GENERAL INDEX.


St. Sauveur, 233.
St. Sebastian, 258........ wine from, 448.
St. Sulpice, M. de, 657, 668, 716.
St. Thomas, 174.
Saint Valerie, Valery, St. Vallery,
323, 710.
Saladin, 552.
Salenove, 363.
Saleure, 512.
Salfleet, 171.
Salisbury, Capt. Charles (Cutt's),
365, 371, 383.
Salisbury, Countess Dowager of, 411........ President and Chapter of,
359........ Deanery of, ibid.
Salles, 229.
Salmon, G., 552.
Salmon, W., 393.
Salop, 70........ Lord Lieutenant of, 390........  Sheriffs   of,  525.
Salter, Lieut. (Villiers'), 364.......Capt. J., 389.....,  L ieut.  B.,  384.
Saltpans (in South of France), 699,
701......., plans against, 705.
Salvage at sea, 445.
Samara, A., 640.
Sambrooke, Sir J., 394.
Sampson, William, 159.
Sandalands, 377.
Sanders, John, 25, 489.
Sanderson. See Saunderson.
Sandes, T., 435.
Sandford, Simon, 85, 86.
Sands, Lieut. H., 369.
Sandside, 473.
Sandwich, 305.
Sandys, Capt. E. (Earl of Oxford's),
368, 369........,  L ieu t.  H.,   369........ P. (Wolseley's), 158........ S ir   K.,   39 4........ Thomas, Rectory  for,  358.
Sankey, Hierome, 665.
Sansom, Sansome, J., 96............., letter from, 50......*,....., his son, collector of
Customs at Bristol, 50, 96.
Sanson, J. (Deputy-Lieutenant for
Bristol, probably same), 396........ Mr., 620........  C ap t.   W.,   508.
Santa Cruz, 187, 263.
Santel, 231.
Santiny, 589.
Santry, 664.
Sargesson. See Sergison.
Sargent, T., 374.
Sartre, Sartrens or De Sartre, 680
and note.
Sassos, J. B. de, 300.


Satia (fast pinnace), 615.
Sauchie, 353.
Saunders, Lieut. (Earl of Shannon's),
362.......Coret Richard  (Wyndham's), 372.
Saunderson, Sanderson, Col. T., 364,
368, 385.............. letter from, 618........ J., 365........ 2nd  Lieutenant, 364........ Stephen, 389........ T., 184........ and see Castleton.
Saurin, 229.
Savage, Arthur, 665........ Charles, 728........ P.,  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer (Ireland), 143, 401......., Thomas, 526........ and see Rivers.
Savery, M., 45.
Savounet, 229.
Savile, Saville, Savill, 375......., G.,  396........R., 158........ William, 396.
Savoy (Middlesex), Laboratory at,
126......., printer in, 726.
Savoy Hospital (Middlesex), 162......., widows for, 183, 184......., prisoners of war at, 264....... warrant for charter for refounding of, 274, 275........ details as to its revenues, 274........ Master,  Chaplain,  &c.  of,
274, 275........ constitution  of,  powers  of
Visitor, &c., 275....... poor of, to wear black gowns,
&c., 275........ inhabitants  of  St.  Mary  le
Strand to use chapel of, 275........ used as a barrack, &c., 275.
Savoy (Italy), Duke of, 224, 436......, Envoy of (pass to), 410.............  his servant, 4.
Sawle, 379.
Saxe Gotha, subsidy for, 648.
Say (or Saye), and Seal (or Sele),
Nathaniel Fiennes, 4th Viscount, 391.
Sayer, Edward, 483.
Sayers, G., 394.
Scanderoon, Scanderoone, 149, 715.
Scaubergue, 234.
Scarboro, Scarborough, Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of, 71, 362, 389.......  Castle,  Governor of, 370.
Scardaville, Scardville, Henry, Dean,
365, 379.
Scarfe (or Scaife), Adjutant, 307.
Scarthingwell, Scarthingwill, 197.
Scawen, Lieut. Francis, 383.




GENERAL INDEX.


819


Scawen-cont.......,William, 522.
Schaffhousen,  Schaffhausen,  513,
515.
Schemberg, A., 158.
Schomberg,   Schombergh,   Schonburg, Schonburgh, &c., Mainard Schomberg, 3rd Duke of,
76, 94, 288, 365, 371, 433,
700.......,...., his officers, 379.
Schoneburg,    Schonenburg,    M.
[Dutch Envoy at Lisbon], 203,
632, 684, 700, 701.
Schonvelt, 134.
Schutz, Baron de, 607, 618.
Scilly, Sully, Sorlingues, Isles, 46,
196......., Governor of, 385.
Scobell, Francis, Commissioner of
Accounts, 241, 344.
Scot. See Scott.
SCOTLAND:
Coronation oath in, 1.
Privy Councillors of, 1, 2.
two regiments from, 6, 8.
Parliament adjourned in, 7, 278....... to meet, 103.
Queen Anne and, 8, 99, 167, 168,
169.
Union of, with England, Act for,
51, 137, and see Union.
Church of, Assembly of, 10...........,, Moderator of,
13.
and pressing sailors, 51, 53.
Chancellor and Treasury of, 10.
Queen Anne's letters to Parliament of, 58, 59, 143.
standing force of garrisons in
(details), 68-70.
affairs of, 102-3, 167-9, 207-8.
Hamilton's letters from, 135,
142.
affair of the Abjuration, 135......., Advocates, 135, 142,
148........ address from to Queen,
142, 148.
Parliament of, 168.
journey from, to London, 168.
post-renters of, 278, 319.
Election prospects in, 207.
new Parliament soon, 208-9.
Election ordered, 220-1......., news of, and members
elected, 283, 284.
Secretaries of State of, 319.
sailors to be raised in, 352.
Commission   to  Justices  for
Peace of Highlands in, 353-6.
Table of Warrants relating to,
451 seq.
General Assembly of Church of,
Commissioners of, 451, 572.


SCOTLND, General &c.-cont.
instructions to, 572.
Royal Commissioner in. See
Queensberry.
Parliament to meet, 453....... adjourned, 456.
arms for and fortification of,
452.
Keeper of Privy Seal in, 456.
Guards attend Parliament in,
457, 459.
War proclaimed in, 457.
Two years' poll (tax) in, 458.
Treasury Clerk in, 458.
Commander-in-Chief in, 461.
other General Officers in, ibid.
raising troops in, 463.
Clerk of the Registers, &c., in,
464.
Commission for Union with England, 467, 489 and note.
"searcher for taxable imports"
in, 465.
Generalissimo in, 466.
Lord Advocate in, 466.
defence of coast, 466, 725.
Exchequer, Usher to, &c., 467.
Commissions in Scotch regiments, 453-4....... (detailed   table),  469 -472.
Secretary of War in, 469.
Highlands of, peace of, 472.
"roup " of the customs, &c. of,
474.
Clerk of the Registers, &c. in,
475.
Customs to be "in collection,"
475-6.
Clerk of the Privy Council, 476....... of the  W ardrobe, 478.
Apothecary to Army in, 478.
trumpeter in, 478.
President of the Privy Council,
479.
Keeper of the Privy Seal, 479.
Justice  Clerk  and   Justice
General, 480.
Levying recruits in, 481, 531.
Master Tailor in, 482.
free coinage in, tax for, 482.
Mint-house in, ibid.
Postal difficulties in, 567.
new Privy Council of, 571-2.
sailors from, 586.
and Ireland, 652.
instructions as to Parliament
in, 671-3.
fishing in, 672.
Orkney and Shetland, revenues
of, 672.


Scotland Yard, prisoners at, 312.
Scott, Scot, Lieut. D., 471.




820


GENERAL INDEX.


Scott-cord......, Lieut. I. (Earl of Barrymore's), 374....... Coret F., 470........ Lord Henry, 381.., Lieut. H. (Churchill's), 375........ Sir  Jam es,  467....... Capt. James    (Ramsay's),
470........ James, sen., of Logie, 353........ James, jun., of Logie, ibid......., Mr. (Clerk), 627....... Lieut. Robert (Maitland's),
471....... Capt. Thomas (Ramsay's),
471....... Lieut. Thomas     (Earl of
Derby's), 378........, 2nd Lieut. William (Holt's),
384.
Scrayingham, Sheringham, Scraghingham [Yorks], 358.
Scribling (Wool), 519.
Scrivener, J., 525.
Scroop, 364.
Scrymgeor, J., 353.
Scrymsour, Lieut. A. (Churchill's),
375.
Scudamore, J., 411.
Scurlockstown, 664.
Seafin, 666.
Seabright, Sir E., 523.
Seabrooke, E., 415.
Seacrab engines, 445.
Seafield, James Ogilvie, 1st Earl of,
Secretary of State (Scotland),
(afterwards Earl Finlater), 2,
13, 169, 353, 453, 457, 571............. on pressing sailors,
51, 55-6............., on Jacobite officers,
102............., warrant  for  appointment of, 461.............., his executors, 467.............. sheriff of Banff, 467............ to be Lord Chancellor (Scotland) and Custos
Sigili (Scotland), 474..,..........., to  be a Commissioner of the Treasury (Scotland), ibid............, exonerated in form,
475............, rooms for, at Holyrood, 482.
Seaforth, William  Mackenzie, 5th
Earl of, 355.
Seal, P., 267.
Sealle, Monsieur, 554.
Seals, use of King William's, 501....... for the Courts, 506.
Seares, 369.
Searle, S., 237.
Seaseale. 521.


Seater, Capt., 310.
Seaton, R., 470.
Sebille, 104.
Secretaries of State, salaries in their
offices, 516, 517, and Corrigenda....... warrants by, 508-10.
Sedley, Charles, to be a bart., 129,
504......., Richard, 504.
Sedgewick, Sedgewicke, Joseph, 359........ S., 335........ Z., 293, 408.
Seigneuret, 553.
Seignorst, 589.
Seile, Andrew, 35.
Selby, Serjeant-at-Law, 316....... James, 391.
Selioke, J., 415.
Selkirk, 455.
Selkirk, Charles Douglas, 2nd Earl of,
removed from his office, 464.
$ellier, M. le, 345.
Selwyn, Brigadier or Major-General,
W. (Governor of Jamaica), 55,
71, 96, 147, 151, 251, 361,
368...... Ensign C., 383.
Senede, 630.
Senhouse, J., 521.
Sequeville, 229.
Seranne, Charles, 410.
Sergison, Sargesson, Mr. or Sir
Charles, 25, 311, 326.
Serjeant, Job, 509.
Serjeants-at-Law, 316 and note........ opinion of, 286.
Serville, Capt. (French), escapes,
638.
Seton, Ensign G. (Fergusone's), 373........ Sir G., 477........W illiam, 355....... and see Kingstoun; Wintoun.
Seve, 233.
Seville, English merchants imprisoned at, 303....... goods sent to, during war,
408.
Seward, J., 442.
Seymour, Seymer, Sir Edward, Recorder of Exeter, 57, 223.............. licensed  to  hunt,
504....... Ensign Henry (Seymour's),
388....... Sir H. (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Bucks), 390........ Henry (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Dorset), 393......., Capt.  John  (Earl  of  Rom -
ney's), 380......, Col. J. (Governor of Mary.
land), 531........ Lieut. Jo. (Earl of Orkney's),
376.




GENERAL INDEX.


821


Seymour-cont....... Sir Thomas, 242.......  Brigadier W illiam, 298, 322,
361, 621, 644.............. his officers, 375, 386........ C o l.   W i l l i a m,   1 6 0........ William, 310, and see Somerset.
Shad Thames, 165.
Shakerley, 367........ P., 446.
Shakle, T., 239.
Shakleton, R., 394.
Shallcross, S., 158.
Shales, Charles, 27.
"Shalloway " (boat to float trees),
690.
Shankstown, 473.
Shannon, Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount, 283, 375, 387........., Commissions in his
regiment, 362.
Sharp, Sharpe, J. See York....... Sir W., 680........ Capt. Walter, 378....... 2nd Lieut. (Saunderson's),
364....... William, 450, 471, 511.
Shatemoes. See Chateau-Regnaud.
Shaw, Ensign, 471........ Francis, clerk, 368....... Sir J., 394, 435........ J., of Dalwyn, 473........ J., jun. ibid........ Q., ibid.
Sheerness, 310......., Governor of, 72, 368....... letter from, 210........ officers at fort of, 375.
Sheffield. See Buckingham.
Shelburne, Henry Petty 3rd or 1st
Baron  (afteruards Earl of
Shelburne), 143.
Shelbury, J., 159.
Sheldon, 371........ J., 48.
Shelley, John, 665.
Shepard, William, and Tuscany, 89,
243............., case of, 636-8.
Shepardson, J., 158.
Shephard, J., 524........ Thomas, 381.
Shepley, 522.
Sherard, Bennet Sherard, 3rd Baron
(afterwards  Earl of  Harborough), 70, 290, 390, 392,
396........ Phil, 396.
Sherard, Sherrarde, Dr., Commissioner of Sick and Wounded,
117, 594........   '" and his college, 674..., and see Sick and Wounded........  W.,   2 7 9.


Sherard-cont........ Capt., 308.
Sherbourgh. See Cherbourg.
Sherer, John, 610..........,..., letter from, 630.
Sheriffs in England and Wales, 328,
521-6........ Orders in  Council as to, 328.
Sheringham. See Scrayingham.
Sherkyn Fort, 423.
Sherncote, 483.
Sherrarde. See Sherard.
Sherwood Forest,.485.
Shetland, Zetland, Islands, Earl of
Morton and, 221....... and see Orkney.
Shewelle, J., 608.
Shewrarie, 473.
Shierston, 364.
Shiker, J., 264.
Shipley, Mr., 117, 118.
Ships, list of, 56, 62, 175.
SHIPS, names of:Adventure, 140, 308, 680, 682,
684.
Advice, 139, 325.
Albion, 35.
Alliance, 157.
Anglesey, 236.
Angola, 81.
Anne, 201, 702, 703, 728.
Asia, 35.
Assistance, 138 note........ letter from, 60.
Baltic Merchant, 31, 32, 33, 38.
Barfleur, 328, 677, 685.
Bedford, 93, 311.
Belone, 711.
Benjamin, 31.
Berwick, 92.
Betty, 267.
Blackwall, 56, 261, 543, 547,
566, 596.
Blessing, 31.
Bonadventure, 80.
Bonheur, 599.
Boyne, 109, 274, 276........ letters from, 687, 718.
Bredah, 60, 147, 175........, warrant or  letter  from,
720, 721.
Bridgeman, 265, 333, 589.
Bridgewater, 534.
Bristol, 30, 175.
Brittania, 151, 160.
Burford, 122, 126, 259.
Cambridge, 319, 518, 682.
Canterbury, 175, 517, 721.
Carcas, 175.
Carlisle, blown up, 26.
Centurion, 289, 677.
Charity, 307, 309.
Charles, 35, 95, 119, 138 note,
325, 352, 637....... despatches sent on,95,96,




822


GENERAL INDEX.


SHrPS, names of —cnt.
Charlotte, 398.
Chatham, 599.
Chichester, 109, 259, 687.
Citadelle, 171.
Clover Blade, 54.
Colchester, 175.
Conqueror, 604.
Content, 94, 151, 325.
Cornwall, 193, 220.
Cowdsley, 416.
Crown, 198, 261, 325.
Cumberland, 109, 517.
Dartmouth, 261.
Defiance, 147, 175, 700.
Delight, 308.
Deptford, 65.
Despatch, 73, 498.
Devonshire, 517.
D'Hanus, 230.
Diamond, 599.
Diana, 257.
Dixwell, 328.
Dolphin, 76, 110, 177-183, 351,
498, 619.
Dover, 25 note, 102.
Dragon, 194, 201, 212, 325.
Dreadnought, 675.
Duchess, 450.
Dunkirk, 175, 720.
Eagle, 93, 351, 498, 518, 529,
591.
Eaton, 428.
Elizabeth and Mary, 307, 308,
309.
Esperance or Esperance de Derniville, 345, 602, 617, 692.
Essex, 17, 56.
Exchange, 289.
Exeter, 93, 96, 98, 113, 124, 125,
138 note.
Expedition, 109, 557.
Experiment, 175.
Falmouth, 175, 720.
Fame, 627, 673, 676, 678.
Faulcon, 181, 566.
Firme or Le Firme, 450, 517.
Flamborough, 25 note, 85, 306,
323, 433.
Fly, 73.
Fortune, 712.
Fowey, 147, 150.
Freedom, 709.
Friends' Adventure, 308.
Friends' Goodwill, 35.
Fubbs, 274, 276.
Gamboa, 258.
Golden Star, 712.
Gracieuse, 611.
Grafton, 450, 602, 605.
Greenwich, 720.
Grifin, 308.
Hampshire, 25 note.
Hampton Court, 94.
Hannah, 141.


SHIPS, names of-cont.
Hannibal, 149.
Hastings, 47.
Hispaniola, 534.
Honour's Adventure, 309.
Hopewell, 90, 267.
Hudson Bay, 261, 421.
Humber, 182, 183, 212.
Hunter, 517.
Ipswich, 75.
Jacob, 498.
James, 93.
James and Sara, 35.
Jesus Maria, 412.
John, 75, 113, 310.
John and Susan, 180, 182.
John Square, 201.
Joseph, 65, 114.
Joseph, J.M., 72.
Joseph and Thomas, 310.
Justice, 76.
Kent, 92.
Kingston, 175, 720.
Kinsale, 31........ letter from, ibid.
La Boucheine, 712.
La Finesse, 694, 702.
Lancaster, 110 and note, 151,
178, 179, 220.
Lawrell, 308, 411.
Lenox, 529.
Lichfield, Litchfield, 25 note, 562.
Lime, 518.
Logwood merchant, 615, 626.
London, 26.
Looe, 138 note.
Lowestoft, 191.
Loyal merchant, 587.
Ludlow, 625, 656........ taken by French, 562.
Lyon, 562.
Magdalen, 410.
Maidstone, 718.
Mairmaid, 51.
Mansbridge, 265, 333, 338.
Margate, 147.
Marlborough, 614.
Martin, 246.
Mary, 122, 278, 310, 337, 408,
517, 697, 712.
Mary and Margaret, 308.
Mary and Sarah, 289........ of Maran, 412.
Mary Rose, 173.
Medway, 25 note, 517, 620, 639.
Merlin, 198.
Mermaid, Mermayde, 25 note.
Messenger, 325.
Mildford, Milford, 127, 518.
Monck, Monke, Munke, 122,
443, 517.
Monmouth, 163.
Musovia, 588.
Namur, 161, 160, 220.
Nassau, 194, 212.




GENERAL INDEX.


SHIPS, names of-cont.
Neptune, 210, 677.
Newark, 210, 517, 677, 685.
Newcastle, 684.
New Judith, 408.
Newport, 65, 171, 202.
Nicolas, 340.
Nonsuch, 141, 408.
North Star, 56.
Northumberland, 517.
Norwich, 291.
Nostra Senhora, &c., 72.
Nostra Signora, &c., 408.
Notre Dame de Bayonne, 62, 209,
412.
Olive Branch, 289.
Orange, Prince of, 35.
Orford, 56, 61.
Oriana, 308, 533.
Oxford, 340, 343, 518.
Owler, 222.
Pelican, 517.
Pembroke, 96, 98, 306, 517, 567,
586.
Penzance, 12.
Peregrine or Perigrine, 66, 72,
114.
Peter, 711.
Philip and Mary, 244, 637.
Plymouth, 109, 307, 325, 711.
Postilion, 326, 406.
Prince George, 94, 517.
Providence, 35, 309, 310.
Queen, 160, 177, 180, 181, 189,
200, 677, 685.
Ranelagh, 261, 319, 682.
Reserve, 138 note.
Resolution, 236, 543, 547, 563,
593, 596, 687.
Restoration, 76, 122.
Revenge, 122, 161, 547.
Rising Eagle, 150.
Rochester, 162, 326, 352, 532.
Roebuck, 517.
Royal Africa, 81, 317.
Royal Anne, 517.
Royal Oak, 529.
Royal Sovereign, 96, 103, 161,
186, 191, 195, 225, 305, 330,
406, 680........ letters from.' See Rooke,
Sir George.
Royal William, 54, 65, 160, 220,
584-5.
Ruby, 175, 309......., letter from, 30, 31.
Runner, 566.
Rupert, 517.
Russell, 63, 181, 183, 212, 257.
Rye, 25 note.
St. Anne, 410.
St. Barb, 85, 96, 206.
St. George (H.M.S.), 65, 517....... (privateer), 627, 673,
676, 678, 683.


SHIPS, names of: St. George-cont....... (transport), 308.
St. Jacob (of Bruges), 50, 64....... (a Dane), 348.
St. James, 409.
St. John, 309.
St. John Baptist, 408, 409.
St. Joseph (of Bruges), 50, 64.
St. Joseph (of Marseilles), 257,
258, 409, 626.
St. Julian, 412.
Santa Maria, 411, 639.
St. Michael, 212.
St. Nicholas, 35.
St. Winifrid, 81, 417.
Scarborough, 175, 176, 613.
Seahorse, 175, 176, 726.
Serelion, 81, 407.
Severn, 613.
Shark, 138 note.
Sheerness, 186.
Shrewsbury, 194, 212, 319, 337,
517.
Solsdyke, 276.
Somerset, 161, 267, 319, 682.
Sorlings, 54, 103, 120, 125, 129,
640.
Southampton, 139.
Spanish Alliance, 182.
Speedwell, 308.
Spring, 411.
Stirling Castle, 93, 529.
Suffolk, 131, 161.
Summers, 150.
Sunderland, 236.
Susan and John. See John and
Susan.
Susanna (of Cherbourg), 75,
211, 266........ seized, 47.......  (transport),  533.
Swallow, 406.
Swan, 25 note, 323.
Swift, 348.
Swiftsure, 96, 98, 122, 163, 310.
Syam, 220.
Talamod, 412.
Tartar, 326.
Thomas and John, 309.
Thirston, 309
Three Friends, 250, 291, 646.
Three Pilgrims, 593.
Tiger, 517.
Tilbury, 261, 352, 518, 596.
Torbay, 682.
Trial, 176.
Trident, 274.
Triumph, 711.
Trompette, 71, 73, 611.
Two Shrieves, 309, 310.
Vesuvius, 212.
Vctory, 151, 160, 165, 220, 585.
Warspght, 676.
Weymouth, 439, 557, 562,
William, 410,




824


GENERAL INDEX.


SHIPS, names of-cont.
William and Mary, 289, 299,
678, 679......., letter from, 686.
Winchester, 261, 682.
Windsor, 175.
Wolf, 138 note.
Worcester, 261.
York, 720.
Shipton, D., 608.
Shirley, Washington, 366.
Shoe Lane (Middlesex), 638.
Shoreditch, R., 395.
Shore, G., 159.
Shoreham, 83, 84.
Short, P., 392.
Shorter, J., 526.
Shortland, S., 335.
Shotover, 505.
Shovell, Sir Cloudesly or Cloudesley
(705 note), Admiral of the
White, 253, 394......., instructions for,
121-2, 172, 173, 222.................. (re  Mediterranean), 528, 674, 692, 696,
705-6, 713-14, 714-16............... ships with, 162........   1. suggestions from,
163, 198........... presides at Munden's trial, 177.........., to join Rooke, 192,
193........     his views on his
instructions, 193, 194............., on French preparations, 193.............. on Prince's Council,
194.......,     on naval strategy,
200............ on ransoming ships,
212............. his position (Aug.,
1702), 217............may catch Spanish
fleet, 264............, left at Vigo, 290.,........ on Navy Board, 326.............. his squadron, 405-7........... ordnance for, 634............. letter from, 676............,   a Deputy Judge
Advocate for, 695..,..........,   C om m ission   to   re
Algiers, &c., 705.......,...... and Adriatic, 707.............. may  exchange
prisoners, 717......, imprest money for,
726.
Shower, Sir B., 316.
Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot, 1st
Duke of, 70, 390.


Shrimpton, M., 350........ Major, 380.
Shuedly. See Sudely.
Shudd, J., 526.
Shute, 350.
Shuttleworth, 369.
Sibourg, 231.
Sicily, Sir C. Shovell and, 705-6......., England and, 715.
Sick and Wounded and Exchange of
Prisoners, Commissioners for
(usually called the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded)
58, 88, 99, 114, 116.............. letters from, 531,
565, 612, 614, 628, 629............., names of the Commissioners, 117, 279........,their expenses, 212............, on   sick, &c. on
Rooke's return, 270, 306.....,.,...... on proposed cartel
and Exchange, 280, 640, 673........., on   removal of
prisoners, &c., 312............. angry with de Mornay, 673........, and see Prisoners of
War.
Signouniere, 229.
Silk Throsters, their petition, 443.
Silk trade, 427.
Silly, M., 342.
Silvermines, 157.
Simcock, Sincock, Capt., 63, 75, 181.
Simon, D. G., 270......., Capt. G., 712.
Simond, 232.
Simpson, 384.
Sinault, D., 363, 389.
Sinclair, Sinclaire, Sinklar, Sir R.,
of Stevenson, 572........ Lieut. G. (How's), 377....... Capt., 709........, and see Caithness.
Singleton, Ensign Andrew, 561........, Lieut.,  364......, Adjutant, ibid.
Sinklar. See Sinclair.
Sitwell, George, 522.
Skeatsbuss [Skeabost?], 477.
Skeen,   Skene,  Skeene,   Ensign
Thomas (W. Steuart's), 378........, Lieut.  (Teviots),  454.......Alexander, Secretary  at
Barbados, 484........ Mr. (same?), 44.
Skeffington, T., 523.
Skelton, Col., 82.
Skene. See Skeen.
Skiff, Skifft, 690.
Skinner, 2nd Lieut. (Fox's), 363........ Thomas, of Derby, 522.
Skipton, 378.
Skipwith, Sir F., 525.




GENERAL INDEX


825


Skyddys Castle, 226.
Skyes, 363.
Slane, Christopher Fleming, 17th
Baron, 665.
Slater, T., 395.
Sledwell. See Stedwell.
Sleigh, 378.
Slezer, Capt. J., 472.
Sligo, 157, 662.
Slippenbach, General, 693.
Sloan, W., 363.
Sloss, J., 471.
Slowley, R., 566.
Smalbone, J. (a soldier), 215.
Smallbone, Surgeon J. (Churchill's),
375........ Thomas, 439.............., affidavit as to, 310,
311.
Smallet, -, 468.
Smallwood, 386.
Smelting, 420.
Smith, Smyth (Barrister), 316........ Altem, 395......., Charles (Southampton), 538......., Cornelius (Dover), 690......., D. (Holcombe), 552....., Daniel, 85, 86........... letter from, 96....... Deb., 189....... Cornet Edmund     (Earl of
Arran's), 372......., Elizabeth (litigant), 277......., John (same), ibid........ Mary (same), ibid....... George (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Gloucestershire), 396........ Lieut. (dead), 709......., Ensign   George (Earl of
Romney's), 380.......,  Rev.   Henry   (Vicar of
Newark), 358....... Dr. Henry     (Christchurch,
Oxon), 358, 359........ Lieut. Henry (Earl of Romney's), 380........ J., of Hackney, 395........ James  (shipmaster),  150,
717........ James, of Whitehill, 479........ Ht.  on. J. (Deputy-Lieutenant fcr Hants), 393........ Lieut. John (Earl of Romney's), 380........ Mr. Justice, 331........ Lieut. M. (Lord    Charlemont's), 160, 562......., Mr. (related to Hedges), 728........ R., 239........ 2nd  Lieut. R. (Viscount
Shannon's), 362.:....., Sir Sebastian, 391........ Stephen, a suspect, 630........ Theodore (Marshal of the
Horse Guards), 368.


Smith-cont........ T h o m a s   ( J.P.,   S u f f o l k ),   1 3 4........ D r.   T h o m a s,   l a t e   B i s h o p   o f
Carlisle, 359........ Thomas,    Procurator  in
Maritime cases, &c., 503........  Sir   T.,  Quarter-MasterGeneral, 243, 366........ T h o m a s,   o f   M e l k s h a m,   1 4 2........ T h o m a s   (C h a m b e r   K e e p e r ),
173........  Dr.  W illiam   (Physician,
Portsmouth), 367........ William  (living in Tower
Dock), 595........ William, an informer, 595............... le t t e r   f r o m,   5 7 0........, Lieut.  W illiam  (Lloyd's),
376.
Smithson, H., 395.
Smollett, Sir J., 354........ Tobias, jun., 354.
Smuggling, 191.
Smyrna, 149, 715. -
Snaepes, J., 416.
Snary, Henry, 385.
Snow, W., 570.
Soame, 369.
Soames, Lt.-Col., 297........ Edward,  368........ Capt.  (R.N.),  63,  181............., letter from, 619.
Sodbury, 396.
Solers, Mr., 310.
Soley, H., 526.
Solicitor General, fees paid to by
Solicitor to Admiralty and
Navy, 316.
Solicitor to Admiralty, &c., criticism
of his accounts, 316.
Somerset, Justices of, 203......, Lord Lieutenant of, 390........ High Sheriff of, 224, 511........ Sheriffs of, 525........ Charles  Seymour,  6th   or
11th Duke of (1678-1748),
242, 282, 488, 489.
Somervell, Capt. G., 469.
Somerville, Ensign Robert (How's),
377.
Sooty, Sir G., 456.
Sophia, Electress of Hanover, 618;
and see Brunswick &c. and
Hanover.
Sorel, Sorelli, Monsieur or Count de,
169, 327, 328, 340, 585, 589,
599, 635, 693.............., letter from, 533.............. exchange of, 582............. to go to Oxford, 317.
Sorlingues. See Scilly.
Sorr6, J., 304.
Soundings, the, 193, 196.
Soustelle, D., 229.
South, J., 399, 404.




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GENERAL INDEX.


Southampton, 77, 91, 165, 243, 281,
304, 557, 594, 869.
Mayor of, on guarding prisoners,
265, 267.
prisoners ill-treated at, 288, 342.
letters from, 201, 530, 537, 576,
590.
French church at, 530.
complaints from  re prisoners,
535, 538.
Mayor, &c. of, 538, 567.
details as to Henley and, 538.
prisoners escape from, 565, 630.
new marshal at, letter from,
582.
prisoners removed from, 582.
French merchant in, 590, and see
Prisoners.
Southby, R., 521.
South Fleet (Kent), 504.
Southsea Castle, 128, 367, 372.
Southwark, 616........ Surrey, Assizes  at, 26, 489........ prisoners of war at, 266........, Lord Lieutenant and Deputy
Lieutenants for, 393.
Southwell, Edward   (Deputy-Lieutenant for Gloucestershire),
396....... Edward, 137, 144............, letters from, 612,
695............. to be Clerk of Privy
Council, 487......., Sir R., 137, 144........ Sir T., 332, 399, 404.
Spain:
fleet of, 3....... at Vera Cruz, 150.
postal service to, 34-5.
and West Indies, 49.
siezure of ships and goods of,
50.
prisoners of, in England, 67, 75,
675.
steps in war with, 126, 127.
English policy in her Colonies,
187.
action of, in Canaries, 187.
retorsion on, 188.
English prisoners in, 212.
Admiral of, in England, 337.
France and negro trade and,
416.
bad effect of English failure in,
302.
English merchants in, 325.
prisoners of, and Exchange,
347-8.
passes to, in war time, 408.
nsul of, arrested, 509........ deported, 510.
Admiral of, 529.
King of. See Charles, Archduke, &c.


I


Spaine,, 21.
Spalding (Lincs), 626.
Spanheim, M., the Prussian Envoy,
104, 269.
Spann, Capt., 120, 129.......... d. on pressing men in
Ireland, 54, 55.
Sparling, N., 415.
Sparr, Major-General, 254.
Spateman, J., 397.
Speccott, J., 391.
Speed's Martyrs, 242.
Spelman, Capt. R., 308.
Spencely, 376.
Spencer, R., 142......., William, 666........, and see Sunderland.
Spey, Salmon fishery in, 452.
Spezzia, Porto Spezie, 715.
Spicer, Capt. Lieut., 363, 365.
Spike Island, 665.
Spithead, 103, 162, 182, 221, 405,
406, 407, 529....... letters from, 56, 145, 193.
Spittle, J., 353.
Sporting licences, 503, 504, 505 (2).
Spottswood, 373.
Spraggs, Capt., 4.
Sprague, Wadham, 471.
Spratt, William, 509.
Spring, T., 133.
Spring Garden (Middlesex), 596........ letter from, 241.
Squibb, R., 510.
Squire, 316.
Stables, the Royal, 501.............., Commissioners for
care &c. of, 40.......-......, posts in, 40.
Staches, 54.
Stafford, J., 396........ Henry, Stafford - Howard,
10th or 1st Earl of (1688 -1719), 409.
Staffordshire, 70......., Sheriffs of, 525.
Stainforth, 376.
Stair, John Dalrymple, 2nd Viscount, 571, 573........ John Master of, 456, 462.
Stamford, Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of,
71, 409, 389, 487.
Stamp, N., 552.
Stamp Paper Office, Commissioner
of, 107.
Stanfield, E. (Vicar of Newark), 358.
Standfield, Sir James, 476, 477......., John, 476....... Philip, 477.
Stanhope, Alexander, Envoy at the
Hague, 36, 210, 218, 686.............his expenses, 493......., Col., 160, 297......., Charles, 396......., Thomas, 397,




GENERAL INDEX.


827


Stanhope-cont........ Sir W., 396.
Stanley, Peter (prisoner), letter from,
590....... Col. W., Brigadier of Foot,
362....... Lieut. Charles (Earl of Oxford's), 369........W illiam, 313........ and see Derby.
Stannerys, the, and Courts of, 504.
Stanton, Elizabeth, 335.
Stanton Drew, 525.
Stanyan, A., 48.
Stapleton, Stapylton, Lieut. A. (Earl
of Marlborough's), 374........ Lieut. Robert (Lumley's),
372........ Ensign  Bryan  (Earl of
Derby's), 378.
Starkie, R., 197.
Starrow, 666.
States General (of the United Provinces):.....,. their fleet and force in 1702,
17......., Envoy Extraordinary of to,
36, and see Stanhope........English  ships to  protect
ships of, 38........ Treaty of, with England,
62........ transport ships of, 343........ English   officers to  cooperate with officers of, 345........ Ambassador of, 346.
Statutes:
25 Car. II. c. 2: opinion of
Judges on, 283.
8 and 9 W. III. c. 22, 137 and
note.
of Navigation, 149.
12 Car. II. (Wool), 294.
9 W. III, c. 1, 73, 74, 434.
Stawell, 364.
Steadman, Ensign Edward (Bridges'),
160......., Ensign  Francis (Webb's),
374.
Stebbing, P., 392.
Stedman, Capt. (Tiffins'), 116, 160.
Stedwell or Sledwell, J., his case,
427.
Steel, Capt., 380.
Steeple-Aston, 526.
Steil or Steile, P., 479.
Steinston. See Stevenston.
Steinwer, Count, has plundered, 532.
Stennet, 362.
Stephan, James,
Stephen, Capt., 309.
Stephens, N., 396......., E., of Lygrove, ibid......, J., jun., of Lypiat, ibd........, T., sen., of Lypiat, ibd.


Stephens-cont....... T., of Sodbury, ibid.
Stephenson, H., 160.
Stepney, George, English Envoy at
Vienna, 107, 122, 262. 293,
488............. his expenses, 493,
494.
Sterron, 372.
Stevenage, 383.
Stevens, 371.
Stevenson, Steinston, 572, 573........ Alexander, 410.
Stevensone, 373.
STEWART,     STUART,    STEUART,
STEWARD:......  Baillie  of Elgin, 354....... Capt. (R.N.),  177.......  Lieut., 98....... of Tullicoutrie, 572.......  of  Castle  Stuart,  460.......  Lieut.  (Fox's),  363....... Alexander,  665-7....... Capt. Alexander, 12........ Lieut. Alexander, 470........ Sir A. of Burray, 467........ Lt.-Col. A., 159........ Capt.  (Teviots'),  454........ Daniel, 482........ Dugal, 353....... Elmes, 524........ Gilbert, 464....... Henry, 159........  C a p t. - L i e u t.   H e n r y   ( S t e u -
art's), 378......., James (Scotch Life Guards),
482......., EnsignJames (Steuart's),378........ Capt. J. (Ramsay's), 471.., Sir James (Lord Advocate),
466, 572, 573........ Sir James (Sheriff of Bute),
572, 573....... Captain John (Steuart's),378........ Lt.-Col. James, 469........ Adjutant J., 389........ Capt. J. (Ramsay's), 471........ Capt. John Boughan, 378...............  Galway, 378......., Capt. Henry (Ferguson's),
373....... Lieut. L. (St. John's), 159,
561......., Lieut. M., 469.......,R., 158........ R., of Tullicoutrie, 354......., Ensign Toby (Steuart's), 378........ Ensign Thomas (same), 378......., Major or Lieut.-General William, 144, 157, 322, 362, 626,
688.............,hisofficers, 378.......,W.,  159........ Lt.-Col. William, 378....... Capt. W illiam,  378.




828


GENERAL INDEX.


STEWART-cont........ Lieut. William, 378....... Sir William, of Castlemilk,
482......., Major-General, 665-667......., and see Blantyre, Galloway,
Mountjoy.
Stiles, H., 394......., S., 393........ and see Styles.
Stillington, T., 395.
Stirlin, J., 348.
Stirling, James, 471.
Stirling, Provost of, 353-354....... Castle, 353...... Governor, &c. of, 472.
Stirlingshire, 355.
Stock, Abram, letter from, 43.
Stock-carding (wool), 519.
Stocker, H., 141.
Stockholm, Commissary at, 623.
Stockton-on-Tees, 75.
Stone, Ensign J. (Lumley's), 372.......,  Carleton   (Deputy-Lieutenant of Oxon), 391........ John  (same), ibid....... R. (Master in Chancery, Ireland), 402......., Thomas (Holcombe parish),
552......., Surgeon William, 365........ W. (Deputy-Lieutenant for
Middlesex), 395....... W., J.P., London, 21........ W. (of St. Albans), 415.
Stonehouse, Sir J., 392.
Stonestown, 666.
Stopford, Francis, 425........ Cornet W., ibid.
Stoughton, Capt., 362.
Stow's Annals, 242.
Stowood, 505.
Strabane, 662.
Strachan, a bookseller in London,
284.
Strahan, Strathan, Mrs., 183...., W., 411.
Straiton, Capt. Alexander, 378........ Ensign (Earl of Orkney's),
377......., 2nd Lieut. Robert (Row's),
378.
Straloch, 353.
Strangford, 662, 664.
Strangways, T., 393.
Strathmore, John Lyon, 2nd Earl of,
353, 571.
Strathnaver, Master of, 462.......,..... to  command  a
regiment, 464......, and see Strathnewer.
Strathnewer,  Strathnaver,  John
Gordon Lord (afterwards Earl
of Sutherland), 572.
Stratnatt, 354.


Straton (Hants), letter from, 224.
Strencher, G., 552.
Strickland, Sir W., 395.
Stringer, J., 396........ Col., 94, 248, 249.
Strode, 316.
Strombilo, 175.
Stronghill, 364.
Stroud, Joseph, 35.
Strowde, W., 393.
Stuart. See Stewart.
Stukeley, John, scandal regarding,
237.
Styles, Stiles, N., 165, 180......., M., 182.
Suasso, 262.
Subpoena, office or writs of, 209,
425, 487.
Subsidy Treaties, memoir on, 647-8.
Subine, 379.
Succession, Act of, 3, 4.
Suckley, 416.
Suckling, 382...., R., 524.
Sudely, Shuedly. See Chandos.
Suffolk, Lord Lieutenant of, 209........ D e p u t y - L i e u t e n a n c y   o f,   2 0 9......, Sheriffs of, 525........ and  wool export, 295....... and Ipswich, Lord Lieuttenant  and   Deputy-Lieutenants for, 392, 393........ pressing  men  in,  132-4.
Sugar Loaf, the (tavern), 165.
Sully. See Scilly.
Sumner, 363........ T., 525.
Sumners, J., 717.
Sun (inn), 630.
Sunderland, Robert Spencer, 2nd or
3rd Earl of (1643-1702), 168.
Surat, 296.
Surrey, 70........, Assizes for, 24, 26, 27, 490........ L o r d   L i e u t e n a n t   a n d   D e p u t y
Lieutenants for, 389, 390,
393.......,Sheriffs of, 526.
Surveyor of Works, 313........ and  see  W ren,  Sir  Christopher.
Surville, 234.
Sussex, 191, 293......., Lord Lieutenant of, 390........ Sheriffs of, 526......., protection  of, 73.
Sutherland, 373......., David, 470.
Sutterton (Lincoln), 627.
Sutton, 2nd Lieut. (Villiers'), 364......., Cornet Henry (Lord Rivers'),
385........ Francis, 538........ 1 s t   L i e u t.   T h o m a s   ( V i l l i e r s ' )
388.




GENERAL INDEX.


829


Sutton-cont......., W illiam, 426........ a  jailor,  585.............. bribed, ibid............... imprisoned,  590,
602....... and see Lexinton.
Swallow, Mr., 326.
Swann, 383.
Swansden, Hoogan, 447,
Swanton, Capt., 177............., letter from, 60.
Swayne, R., 522.
Sweden, 497, 534, 563, 704.
and English trade, 8, 33, 116.
ship of, plundered by French
privateer, 43.
English traders to, 57-8.
ship of, embargoed, 71; or
seized, 563.
powder for, from England, 76,
125.
and France, 150.
release of pressed Swedes, 268-9,
273, 276, 279, 319.
goods from Holland to, 412.
and tar for English navy, 623-4.
and Russia, 693.
Envoy to, 8, 493.
Swettenham, Edward, 522.
Swift, 362....... Arthur, 510........  J.,  382......, Thomas, 41.
Swiss, Alexander, 441.
Switzerland, proposals for agreement with, elaborate document on, describing Swiss
Government, &c., 512 seq........ Envoys to, 497......., her duties to her Allies
neglected, 553.
Swymmer, W., 396.
Sydney, 380........, and see Romney.
Sydserfe, 477.
Symon, Abraham, 409.
Symonds, Lieut. Thomas (How's),
377.
Symons, R:, 523........ Nathaniel, 604........ Thomas, 491.
Sympson, Capt. R., 265........ James, 373.
Syol, 229.
T
Taaffe, Theo, 411........,3mily, 411.


Taddington, 449.
Taelton, Robert, 239.
Taft, 522.
Tailor. See Taylor.
Talar, J., 552.
Talbot, Elizabeth, 189........ and see Shrewsbury.
Talloon. See Toulon.
Talmach, General, 174......., 2nd Lieut. (Fuziliers), 384.
Tangier, 173.
Tankred, Capt. J. (How's), 377.
Tankrede, 394.
Tanner, James, 717.
Tanners of Bermondsey, incorporated, 608 seq.
Tapin, Daniel, 570.
Tarbat, George Mackenzie, 1st Viscount (afterwards  Earl of
Cromarty), 353, 571, 573........... to be Secretary of
State, 474............, pension, previous
grants and salary, confirmed
to, 478.
Tarbat, Master of, 355, 572, 573.
Tasker, J., 201.
Tate, David, 679.
Tatton, Lieut.-Col., 373.
Taunton, Assizes at, 28.
Tauranac, 231.
Taver, Charles, letter from, 604.
Taylor, Tailor, Taylour:....... —, a shipbuilder, 326........ Lieut. (Villiers'), 364........ Col. Edward, 435........ E l i z a b e t h,   p e t i t i o n   o f,   2 8........ George, 28....... James (a tanner), 90........ J o h n   (D e p u t y -L ie u t e n a n t   fo r
Kent), 394........ T h o m a s   (D ep u ty -L ie u te n a n t
for Kent), ibid........, C a p t.   R.,   o f   M a n s fi e l d   ( J. P.,
Scotland), 353.............. of Borrowfield, 353........ Capt. J.  (Bridges'),  372........, Lieut. Nathl., 374........ R., letter from, 322........, Thomas  (pewterer),  239..............   (D ep u ty -L ieu ten an t
for Middlesex), l95........ William, 160........ Lieut. W. (Stewart's),  378.
Teal, Isaac, 385.
Tearson, 373.
Tellier, M. De, 345.
Tempest, Sir G., 394.
Temple, Col., 249........, Sir  R., 390, 573-5.......,   E n s ig n   E d w i n   (H o w 's ),   3 7 7.
Templebreedy, 665.
Templeman, T., 239.




830


GENERAL INDEX.


Tempsford, Rectory, 358.
Tenby, 409.
Teneriffe, Thennereif, 545, 702........ Consul at, 187, 703........ English merchants at, 728.
Teresi, Signor, 636.
Terraden, 354.
Terrison, 231.
Terson, 232.
Tetbury, Tedbury, 519.
Tettefole, 379.
Teviot, Thomas Livingston, 1st or
2nd Viscount (1696-1711), 2,
94, 111............., his dragoons, 453,
454............. pension to, 464.
Thanet, Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of,
103.
Thatcher, Lady Elizabeth, 507.
Thedlethorpe, 171.
Thennereif. See Teneriffe.
Thenie, 233.
Theremin, 229.
Therod, 229.
Therot, 232.
Theyer, M., 411.
Thomas, H., 48........, Capt.  H enry,  635,  654........ G., 717........ S ir   J.,   5 2 4....... John (1), 711........ John   (2),  703,  728........ J o sh u a,   7 17........ P.,   2 7 0........ S., 232........ Ensign T. (Earl of Marlborough's), 374........ Thomas  (a  French  Protestant), 592.
Thompson, Thomson, Tomson, A.
(Deputy-Lieutenant for Cam.bridge), 395........ Capt. (Saunderson's), 364,
368........ Edward (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Yorks, W.R.), 394........ J., letter from, 276-277........ Lieut. (dead), 709........ P., of Dininno, 459........ S ergeant,  316........ Thomas, of Auchquittrie,
481........ T. (of  H olcom be),  552........ William (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Yorks, E.R.), 395......., Ensign W., 160.
Thorington. See Torrington.
Thornborough, A., 159, 324, 508.
Thornburgh, J. (Southampton), 538.
Thornbury, Quarter-Master T., 561.
Thornehull, James, 703.
Thornhagh, J. (Deputy-Lieuutenant
for Notts), 396......., St. Andrew (same), 396.


Thornycroft, Sir J., 524, 526.
Thornton, Lieut. (Holt's), 363.
Thornton, S., 324.
Thorntoun, 353.
Thorpe, 394.
Thorrold, Sir J., 392.
Three Falcons, Inn, 573, 595.
Threefield, 355.
Throckmorton, Charles, pass to, 410........ Mr. (same?), 532.
Thurbarne, J., 391.
Thurles, Governor of, 438.
Thurston, J. L., 409.
Thwaytes, -Edmund, 368.
Thynne, James, 396........ Mr., 728........ Mrs., ibid........ and  see W eymouth.
Tibbard, Capt. J., 308.
Tichborne, 374.
Tickner, George, 90.
Tidcomb, Col. or Brigadier, 160, 382.
Tiffin. See Tyffin.
Tilbury Fort, surgeon at, 375........ chaplain  at,  ibid........, Governor of, 596, 599........ Lieut.-Governor  of,  165.
Tillard, A., 349.
Tilley, W., 257, 258............. examined, 258.
Tillotson, Archbishop, and Switzers,
515.
Tilson, 203.
Tincurry, 667.
Tipperary, County, 437-8.
Tippett, Ensign, 363.
Tirrell, Charles, 525.
Tisdall, G., 415.
Titus, S., 392........ Col., 440.
Tobago, concession in, asked for,
432.
Tobin, J., 605.
Todlaw, 481.
Toggenburgians, 512.
Toilet, George, 311.
Tom, P., 96, 409, 509.
Tomick, 355.
Tomson. See Thompson.
Tonkin, Hugh, 277, 522.
Toogood, 363.
Tooke, 368.
Tookey, N., 525.
Topsham, 46.
Torbay, 192, 193, 200.
Torkington, 392, 393.
Torrington,  Thorington,  Arthur
Herbert, 3rd or 1st Earl of
(1689-1716), 173.
Touchet. See Castlehaven.
Toulon, 80, 186, 250, 563, 710,
715......., preparations at, 681........ port of, 726......, details as to harbour of, 627.




GENERAL


Toulouse, Louis A. de Bourbon,
Comte de, Admiral of France,
215, 217....   y......... commission by, 206.
Tour-Landry, M. de la, 340.
Tower (London), 500......., Lieutenant of, 485, 702........ Constable of, 242,   485,
488........ Deputy Governor of, 41........ prisoners for or at, 312, 686,
688, 692............. fees taken from, 693........, Major of, 374........ Keeper of small guns in,
ibid........ Porter in, ibid........ guns at, to be fired, 218, 250,
282, 713........ Deputy Lieutenant of, 371........ Physician at, 382........ Chaplain at, 386.
Tower, alehouse, 674.
Tower Hamlets, Lord Lieutenant
of and Deputy-Lieutenants
for, 390, 391-2, 397.
Tower Hill (London), prisoners at,
575.
Tower Street, 59.
Tower, Charles, 435.
Townley, Townly, Capt. A., 374......., Lieut. C., 374......., Charles, 434, 435, 504.
Townshend,    Townsend,   Charles
Townshend, 2nd Viscount,
71, 389, 392, 397........ Capt. Isaac, 63, 75, 178,
181.............. declaration of, 183........ Mr., 82........Hon. R., 392.
Tracy, Tracey, Sir R., Baron of the
Exchequer and Justice (C.P.),
24, 205, 331.
Tracey, Tracy, William Tracy, 4th
Viscount, 396.
Trade and Commerce:....... English  carry  French, to
United Provinces, 141........ Bowles' scheme   for  sea
defence of, 196-7........ and Tuscany, Leghorn, &c.,
244-6........ merchants to Turkey, United
Provinces, Spain, Italy, Hamburg and West Indies, 246........ at Port St. Mary's: difficulties of traders, 299-303........ effect of Northern war on,
693........ Treaties with African States
re, 714....... in silk, 427........protection of by vessels of
H.M. Navy (details), 406.


INDEX.                        831
Trade and Plantations:....... Councilor Commissionersfor,
8, 105, 119, 293, 645.............. their names, 48, 149,
488, 704.............. and Virginia, 19............... Secretary Hedges,
and, 48.............. on  Treaties with
United Provinces, 149........., on  Treaties with
Denmark, 529............ and Turkey Company, 644-5.............   on  Newfoundland,
676, 689, 704.
Trading with the enemy, measures
against, 323.
Traford, Sig., 395, 524.
Trahern, E., 239.
Transport, defects in, 140....... or Transportation: Commissioners for, 10, 12, 53, 105,
236, 588, 648, 689............... and transport question (horses), 13, 14, 94, 97,
105, 106, 113, 124, 131, 134,
135, 189..........., and transport of men
from Ireland, 26, 34,...........,  men on the
Expedition, 34, 35, 62, 66, 94,
96, 113..........     on extra shipping,
37, 146...............   o n   s e n d in g   tr a n s -
ports away from the Thames,
105.............. on   beds for   the
Expedition, 131,134,140, 194...............  a l l e g a t i o n s   a g a i n s t
the Commissioners, 289.
Trant, Charles, 3, 4.
Trapaud, 231.
Travillion, Lieut. W., 159, 561.
Treasury, Commissioners of, names,
of, 5 note........ warrants by, 5, 8, 10, 13, 18,
25, 27, 30............... for their own salaries,
19......, warrant to, 30........ and petitions, 39, 40.
Treaties, of England with United
Provinces, renewal of, 125........ with Portugal, formalities of
signing, 701....... and see Algiers, Tripoli, Tunis.
Tredenham, John, 397........ Sir Joseph, 391.
Trefusis, S., 391.
Tregagle, 375.
Trelawney, Capt. Henry (Seymour's),
375.




832


GENERAL INDEX.


Trelawny, Major-General, 184, 391.
Tremaine, A., jun., 522........ Serjeant, 316.
Trematon, Trymenton, Castle, 607,
620, 621.
Trerice, Trerise. See Arundell of
Trerice.
Treswell, Sir D., 666.
Trevanion of Carhais, 391......., N., 349........ Capt. R. (Granville's), 373....... Richard, 384.
Treves, Trier, Elector of, and English
subsidy, 62.
Trevett, 664.
Trevor, Lord Chief Justice, 28, 331.
Trewarme, 397.
Trier. See Treves.
Trim, 662, 664, 667......., Rectory, 664.
Trinity Church (New York), 622.
Trinity College, Dublin, 6........ Provost &c. of, 227.............. address of, 13.............,letters to, 360.
Tripoli, 528, 674, 705, 706-7, 713........ Envoy of, 534, 544........ Treaty of 1676 with, 714......., Treaty of 1694 with, ibid........ Treaty of 1699 with, ibid........ Envoy to Holland from, 610........ British Consul at, 497, 586,
707-8........ presents for, 598.
Tristernagh, 664.
Tristledelane, 664.
Trollop, J., 728.
Trotman, N., 48....... S., 396.
Trotter, Richard, 482.
Troup, W., 197.
Trowbridge, 526.
Troyt, Joseph, 40.
Trumbull, Sir William, 313.
Trye, W., 396.
Trymenton. See Trematon.
Tryon, C., 396......... S., ibid.
Tuam, Provostship of, 398.
Tucker, 375....... J., 173............ letters from, 165,
703....... John, Keeper of the Records,
485.
Tuckey, William, 277.
Tudor, 82.
Tudway, Charles, 435.
Tufton. See Thanet.
Tulley, John, 21.
Tullibardine, John Murray, Earl of
(afterwards 1st Duke of Atholl,
Keeper of Privy Seal (Scotland), 353, 479.
Tullibodie, 354.


Tullicoutrie, 354.
Tulloch, Thomas, of Fanachie, 354.
Tulloch, 355.
Tunis, 528, 610, 674, 713........ Treaty  with,  705,  706-7............. of 1686 with, 714........ British  Consul at, 707-8....... presents for, 598.
Turbervill, Turberville, T., 393, 522.
Turfut, S., 552.
Turgoviniaus (Turgau), 512.
Turkey, English merchant in, 408........ English trade to, 715.
Turkey Company, 696....... question of their regulation
of trade, 639....... require an oath of their
factors, 644-5.
Turnbull, 385.
Turner, Capt. Ralph   (Fuzilier's),
384........ R. (J.P. Scotland), 355........ Rev. Mr., 680........and       Greenwich
Vicarage, 598.
Turnerhall, 355.
Turvill, Capt., 177.
Turwhitt. See Tyrrwhitt.
Tuscany, 497, 528........ Grand Duke of, his tyrannious treatment of English
merchants, 85, 87, 243-5, 636 -8, 707.
Tutchin, J., letter from, 580.
Twells, J., 395.
Twiddall, 381.
Twisden, Sir T., 394........ Sir W., 425, 487........ T., 425.......,W., ibid.
Twissleton, F., 378.
Tyffin, Tiffany, Tiffin, Brigadier Z.,
152, 160, 365, 384, 385, 403,
500, 561, 562.
Tyly, 717.
Tyne, Tynne, port and river of, 431.
Tynemouth, Tinmouth, 371........, bar, letter from, 186.
Tynmouth, Tinmouth Castle, Invalides at, 381.
Tynte, 364.
Tyrconnell, Countess Dowager of,
411......,.  Richard Talbot, 3rd  Earl of,
441.
Tyrconnell, Father B., a suspect,
description of, 15, 508........,.. his movements, 19 -20.
Tyrrell, Sir P., 390........ Sir T., ibid.
Tyrrwhitt, Turwhitt, Sir J., 392......., R., 524.
Tyson, F., 392..9...., F. (perhaps same), 395.




GENERAL INDEX.


833


Tyson-cont....... William, 574........ Joseph, 574.
U
Udney, John, 355........ of Coabardie, 355.
Umfreville, 382.
Underwood, H., 395.
Uniack, J., 158.
Union of Scotland and England, 51,
58, 59, 137, 278......., Commissioners to be named
for, 208.............. their meetings and
consequences thereof, 240.............. to meet, 278, 506............. proceedings at meetings, 292. 352........ and see Scotland.
United Provinces of the Netherlands,
the Dutch, Holland:
men of landed in England, 82.
deserters from, 92.
protection of packet boats to,
104.
artillery for, 111.
horses for, ibid.
convoy for storeships for, ibid.
Treaties with to be renewed,
125, 134.
English ships take French goods
to, 141.
and pressing English sailors,
149.
Act of Navigation and, 149.
Beaumont and, 198, 199.
slackness of, in co-operation,
217, 222.
Treaties with, 246.
troops for, 247.
prizes from, in England, 249.
hopes of their ships staying at
Cadiz, 255.
privateer of, lands French
prisoners in England, 270.
brandy of subjects of, declared
good prize, 291.
reported disagreement between
English and Dutch, 302.
trade with, 406.
passes to (Holland), 408-12.
artillery for (details), 499.
Envoy to, 493.
Fleet of, at Portsmouth, 538.
cruisers of, seize neutrals, 563.
recruits for, 568.
W$. 3880.


United Provinces of the Netherlands,
the Dutch, Holland-cont.
Tripoli's Envoy to, 610.
and correspondence with France,
618-9.
and plunder, 626.
privateers of, take away French
escaped prisoners, 638.
enemies of England and, 715.
Universities; Appointments, dispensations, &c. in, 360........ a n d   se e   C a m b r id g e;   T r in ity
College; Oxford.
Upplecross, 355.
Upper Ossory, Dorothy Fitzpatrick,
Baroness Dowager of, 40.
Upton, Mr. Justice Anthony, 401,
402....... (a barrister), 316........ C a p t.   J o h n   ( S t e u a r t 's ),   3 7 8........ T., 717.
Urquhart, Lieut., 470........ Robert, 354........  D a m e   E liz a b e th,  L a d y   G ig h t,
455.
Urry, Capt., letter from, 186.
Usher, Ussher, John, LL.D., 402........, E n sig n   J o h n   (L u m le y 's ),  3 7 2.
Uxbridge, 123.
V
Vague, 234.
Valada, 231.
Valais. See Wallcsians.
Vall, Valle, The (Guernsey), 296,
311.
Valogne, 231.
Valsery, 229.
Van Brahel, A., 4.
Vanbrook, 364.
Vanbrugg, C., 201.
Vancattendyke,     Vancaltendyke,
Capt., 640 and note.
Vandergracht, 378.
Van der Dussen, Rear-Admiral, 199
and note.
Vanderesch, Mr., 210.
Vandermeer, M., 224.
Vanderpoole, 725.
Van der Raet, F., 709.
Vane, G., 205, 425........ L., 425, 487......., Sir W., 425.
Van Hachten, 381.
Van Homrigh, or Vanhomrigh, Bartholomew, 166, 399, 404.
Vanleut, 335.
Vansse, James, 40.
Van Vryberge. See Vryberge.
A 53




834


GENERAL INDEX.


Varier, H., 471.
Varney, Sir J., 390.
Vasselot, 234.
Vassenaer, Rear-Admiral, 236.
Vauclen, 364.
Vaudois, the, 436.
Vaugensin ner, 364.
Vaury, 232.
Vauvert, 363.
Vavasor, Vavasour, Sir W., 197 and
note......, Lady, 197....., W.,  394.
Venice, Envoy of, 3, 83, 408........ and French prisoners, 218........ and England, 707, 708........ France and England in Gulf
of, 215, 216........ Consul at, 235, 305, 311,
707........ poor English  sailors at, 235,
305, 311......., release  of subjects of, 639.
Vendieres, 229.
Venter, Capt., 14.
Ventriss, 378.
Vera Cruz, Vera Cruce, 30, 150, 187.
Verangle, 228.
Verdelles, 233.
Verderon, A., 443.
Verdier, P., 232.
Vernatty, 383.
Vernelt, 377.
Vernon, G., 393.
Vernon, Jas., Secretary of State, letters from, 3 et seq............., and Dutch, 17.........., on new transport, 19,
35.........., on Expedition, 25............., and suspects, 29............... on  victualling,  35..........    and despatches, 37....... James (son to foregoing),
Envoy to Denmark, 31, 37,
337, 493.......,..... his expenses, 495........, Mary, case of her outlawry,
52......., Sir  R ichard,  387.
Vernous, 231.
Verrio, Antonio, letter from, 713.
Vessey, 375.
Vestien, 230.
Vialas, 232........ 234.
Vice-Admiral of the Red, 709....... of the White, ibid.
Vickeridge, 378.
Victualling, Commissioners of, 19, 25,
506............... and the Expedition,
27, 32, 52.............., names of, 29, 32,
151, 220, 502.


Victualling, Commissioners of-oont.............. and victualling, 34,
35, 220............... agent of, 677........ Commissary  of  Victuals  on
the fleet, 104........ difficulty of sending victuals
to West Indies, 150.
Victualling Office, 220, and see Victualling, Commissioners of........ abuses at, 9........ documents dated from, 56.
Viele, A., 491.
Vienna, 122........ papers from, 262......., bond made at, 293........ English  Envoy  at, 107........ Swedish  Envoy  at, and  Mr.
Stepney, 262.
Vietch, John, sen., of Dawick, 478.............. jun.,  ibid.
Vignan, 230.
Vigneul, 231.
Vignolas, 233.
Vignoles, 229.
Vigo, Vego, 108, 192, 327, 450.
success at, 269, 282.
details as to plunder from, 306 -10, and see Plunder.
ships from, 332.
list of prisoners from, 356.
Villebone, 377.
Villemisson, 233.
Villeneuve, 231, 234.
Villiers, Villers, Martha, 426........ Sir  Edward   (the   late),
Governor   of   Tynemouth
Castle, &c., 371, 426........ Col. Henry, 159, 431, 561........ Henry  son  to  Sir  Edward,
371........, Col. George, 364, 365, 382............, commissions in his
regiment, 388........ Ensign  W illiam   (Steuart's),
378.
Vimar, 229.
Vincent, Capt., 700........ Sir Francis (Deputy-Lieutenant for Surrey), 393........ Henry, 29, 151, 502............... and see Victualling,
Commissioners of....... J., 159.
Vine, The (inn), 646.
Virazeil, Virazell, Baron, 78, 227,
231.
Virginia, 81, 113, 123, 252, 446........ trade  of,  convoy  for,  325,
346, 406, 546........ proper season  for  voyage  to
and from, &c., 446........ arms, &c., for, 20,  38.
Vissouse, 232.
Von Vrybergen. See Vryberge.




GENERAL INDEX.


835


Vryberge, Vrybergen, Van Vryberge,
Von Vryborgen, &c. M., l)utch
Envoy in London, 134, 249,
279, 641............. letter from, 343.
Vyall, Capt., 60.
Vyvyan, Sir R., 391.
W
Waddon (Surrey), 641.
Wadds, Lieut., 362.
Wade, Waide, Benj., 382......., Capt. Cooper, 531, 700............... to be shot, 537....... Capt. George (Granville's),
373.
Wadley or Waddy, Thomas, 638 and
note........ William, 638.
Waggoner, Capt., 63.
Waide. See Wade.
Wait, Waite, Mr. (Anglo-Spanish
merchant), 325........ Charles, 331, 427......., Jane, ibid......, Thomas, 428.
Wake, G., 717.
Wakelin, Wakelyn, Capt. (R.N.),
63, 75, 181........ Lieut. Charles (2nd Foot
Guards), 383, 387.
Walch, Quarter-Master, 377.
Walden, Henry, Lord, 379.
Walden, Charles Hay styled Viscount,
379, 643.
Waldrom, Mr., 158.
" Walef," regiment, subsidy for, 648.
Wales, local judge in, 170........ coal from, 161........ silver from, and the Mint,
507........ seal for certain  Counties
in, 505........ North, 13.
Walker, Cornet G. (Earl of Oxford's),
368........ Lieut. H. (Seymour's), 375........ Ester, 40......., Capt. Hovendon, 63, 75, 181,
547.......,...... instructions to, 543............. letters from, 259,
687, 718.............. takes Guadeloupe,
687........ Quarter-Mater R., 160........ William, 404.


Wallace, Alexander, Lieut. and
Quarter-Master, 378.
Wallenstein, Wallestyn, Count (Imperial Envoy in Portugal),
246, 632, 633, 658.
j Waller, James, 227.........  irs., 227........Step h en   (D ep u ty -L ieu ten an t
for Bucks), 391........ Edmund     (Deputy-Lieutenant for Bucks), ibid....., Cornet J. (Lloyd's), 376.
Wallesians, Valesians (Valais), The,
512, 513.
I Walley, J., 374.
Wallis, Capt. Robert (How's), 377........ Charles, 570...D... Dr., 136........,S., 396.
Wallworth (Durham), 438.
Walpole, Robert, 392........ J., 160.
Walter, Sir J., 391.
Walwood, R., 479.
Wamborough, Lieut., 369.
Wanden, J., 712.
Wandesford, Sir C., 144.
Wanless, Capt. W., 282, 668........ Elizabeth, 688.
Wansbrough, James, 539.
Wapping Dock, 594.
War, the, of 1702, imminent, 46........ declaration  of, 46, 61,
135............., effects of, 50,
266.............. sending to Colonies,
51........ prizes  in, 53, 56........ question as to neutral ships,
-   144........ p r o c la m a tio n   o f,   in   S c o tland, 457........ an d   see   P lu n d er,  E x p ed itio n,
France, Rooke.
Warcupp, Sir E., 391.
Ward, Chief Baron, 331........ Sir E. (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Norwich), 392.
Ward (barrister), 316........ Gabriel,  604........ Henry, deposition of, 178-9........ Cornet  Richard  (Wyndham's), 372.......T., 717......,.W. (Sheriff of Northampton),
624.
Wardrobe, Master of the, 16........ the (in Dublin), 78.
Wares, Bay of, 517.
Warieston, 476.
Warner, Lieut. Henry (Bridges'),
373........ Samuel (Sheriff of Suffolk),
525.




GENERAL INDEX.


Warrants, under the Sign Manual, 30,
542......., Table of Royal and Secretaries', 482 seq (and see the
other Tables at end of 1702,
pp. 357 seq.).
Warre, John, 388.......,  R ichard,  240,  493.............. information before,
638.............. letters from, 203,
204, 252, 605, 639, 677, 716,
725........., notes by, 595-6.
Warren, B., Sheriff of Notts, 524.......,1st Lieut. (Mordaunt's), 363........ Anne, 40.......,  M r.  (of  D eal),  310........ William, 618.............,pardon for, 638.
Warring, 371.
Warters, Lord Admiral's Solicitor,
218.
Warsly, Lt. W., 550.
Warwick Street (Middlesex), 596.
Warwickshire, 70....... Lord Lieutenant of, 390........ Sheriffs of, 526.
Wassail, W., 717.
Wastneys, Wastoneys, Wastenes,
Sir Hardolf, 395, 524......,D., 509.
Watercorn, J., 27, 490.
Waterford, 54, 417.......,   a n d   tra d e   w ith   e n e m y,   6 4 9....... district, 662, 667......., ship of, 697.
Waters, Capt., 28......., C. S., 394.
Waterson, W., 435.
Watkins, 1st Lieut. (Villiers' marines),
364....,. Capt. G. (Marlborough's),
374.
Watling Street, 170.
Wats, Marie, 260.
Watson, R., of Murrays, 479......, Thomas. See St. Davids.
Watterer, Walterer, T., 239.
Wattle, Elizabeth, 485.
Watts, 326.
Way, Benjamin, 409.
Wayte, Ensign Daniel, 366.
Wear, Lieut, James (Seymour's),
375.
Weare,    Quarter-Master   William
(Earl of Orkney's), 377.
Weaver, Anne, 189........ Brigadier, &c., 367.......,solicitor of New York, accounts of, 339............, complaints of, 276.
Weavers, French, in England, their
liberties, 723.
Webb, 316.


Webb-cont........ Ensign (Earl of Huntingdon's), 364........ Ensign  B. (W ebb's), 374........ Ensign  Edmund   (How's),
377......., Col. John, 387..........,,his regiment, 374........ Lieut. Joseph (Seymour's),
375......, T. (Deputy-Lieutenant for
Gloucestershire), 396........ N. (same), ibid........ Captain Sir J. (Viscount
Shannon's), 362.
Webberley, Major, 362.
Webster, E., 137....... T., 523.
Weddell, R,, 408.
Wedderburn, J., sen., 353............ jun.,  ibid.
Weedon, R., 521......., T., 349.
Weeks, Lieut. J. (Granville's), 373........R. (Sheriff of Northants),
524.
Weems, Surgeon, 373........ 2nd Lieut., 378.
Wegerstoff, M. (Danish Envoy), 63.
Weir, George, 460......, William, 471.
Wells, a ship-builder, 326......, Robert, 381.
Wells (Somerset), Assizes at, 224, 492.
Welsh, Thomas, 41.
Wenman, P., 391.
Wennive, Sir G., 393.
Wentworth, 376........ barony  of, 413......., Sir   Thomas   W entworth,
made 1st Baron of, 413........ Thomas Wentworth, 5th
Baron (ob. 1664), 413.., Lady H., 413......., Thomas  Wentworth, 4th
Baron and 1st Earl of Cleveland, 413......., Thomas, 394......., Sir  J.,  394........ W illiam,  394......, and see Raby.
Wentworth, Woodhouse      (Yorks),
394.
Wesham, 423.
Wessell, L., 393, 526.
West, Lieut. William, 380.
-....., Ensign J., ibid......, Brigadier and Lieut. (Albemarle's), 383.
Westbury, Gloucestershire, 85.
West Chester (N.Y.), 622.
West Cowes, 642.
Westerham, fair &e. at, 486.
Wester Kiininmond [Kinninmouth],
476.




GENERAL INDEX.


837


Wester Ravichies, 465.
Westfaling, 523.
West Indies and America:
news from, 30-31, 122, 147, 718,
and see Chateau-Regnaud;
Whetstone; Walker, Capt.
Hovenden.
negroes for, 80, 81.
Burchett on despatches to, 81,
116.
Nottingham on despatches to,
84.
correspondence with, 90, 114.
new Commissioners for Governors in, 105.
squadron for, 109.
Penn on affairs in, 130.
policy as to Spanish, 131.
provisions for, 149........ difficulty  of sending,
150.
pay for regiments in, 151, 152.
postal arrangements to, 146,
211, 252, 265.
Commissary for, 222.
prisoners of war to serve in,
265.
light muskets, need for in, 272.
Commissary General sentto, 272,
386, 506.
troops for, 352, 403, 407.
the Spanish, 416-7.
guns, &c., for, 500-1.
Peterborough and, 536-7.
plans for operations in (1703),
543.
French prisoners from, 546.
officers refuse to serve in, 561-2.
fleet for, 562.
privateering in, 673.
high mortality on ships in, 719.
French prisoners from, 721.
Westminster, Accession   Day   in,
613....... M.P.for,619......., Prebendary of, 358....... inhabitants of, petition of,
431......., prison of, 653, 656.............. letter from, 674......., request of prisoners in, 675.
Westmoreland, Lord Lieutenant of,
390....... Deputy  Lieutenants  for,
259......., Thomas Fane, 6th or 12th
Earl of (1699-1736), 210.
Weston, Lieut. George (Earl of Barrymore's), 374.
Weston, John (Deputy-Lieutenant for
Surrey), 393.
Weston (Yorks), 394.
Weston Lullingfield, 727.
West Tilbury, Governor of, 367.
Westwood, 363.


Wetherly, E., 335.
Wexford, 662, 667.
Weymes, tutor of, 353.
Weymouth, 65........ asks for stores, &c., 64........ letter from, 604........ Sir Thomas Thynne, 1stViscount, 225, 488.............  l e t t e r   f r o m,   7 2 8.
Whaddon, T., 391.
Whales, Capt. T., 308.
Whaley, 364.
Whalleys, 373.
Wharton, Col., 679........ Thomas Wharton, Baron,
afterwards 1st Earl of, Lord
Lieutenant of Buckingham
and Oxford, 70, 389, 488........ C a p t.   W i l l i a m   ( S e y m o u r 's ),
375........ Sir M., 395....., Ralph, 395.
Wheeler, Lieut. (Earl of Huitingdon's), 364.......     Capt. A.  (Romney's),
380.
Whetham, Whitham, Col., 240 and
note, 384, 718.
Whetstone, Capt. or Rear-Admiral,
175, 549............., letters from, 700,
721............, warrants by, 720.
Whichwood. See Wychwood.
Whitacre, Mr. (of Croydon), 641.
Whitaker, Whittaker, Solicitor to
the Admiralty and Navy, his
accounts, 315..-.......,    criticism  of, 316,
317........ C. (Deputy-Lieutenant for
Suffolk), 133, 393........ E. (Counsel), 316.
-.........,,   (Serjeant-at-Law),
316.
Whitby, 75........ defence of, 422........ repair of piers at, ibid.
Whitchcock, Sir P., 395.
Whitchurch, R., 521.
Whitcomb,   Whitcombe, Edward
(chaplain,  Earl  of  Albe.
marle's), 383........ Sir W., 391........ P., 523.
White, Ensign Alexander, 377......., G., 158......., T., 159......, John, a Popish priest, 646,
647, 659....., James (of Port St. Mary's),
300........ William (of same), 300....... Lieut. James   (Steuart's),
378.




GENERAL


838


White —cont........ Lt.-Col. Joseph  (Earl of
Orkney's), 376....... Lieut. T. (Earl of Oxford's),
368........ Thomas, Master in Chancery
(Ireland), 402.............  (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Notts.), 396.
Whitebread, W., 526.
Whitefoord, Sir A., 472........ J o h n,  4 7 3......, James, of Dinduff, 473.
Whitehall, letters from, passim........, Public Records kept at, 485.
Whitehall, Lieut. J., 374........ C a p t.,   3 0 9.
Whitehaugh, 354, 355.
Whitehaven, letter from, 89........ defence   of,  439........ trades to Dublin, 89, 439........ custom er  at,  516.
Whitehill, 479.
Whitehorn Priory, 468.
Whiteman, P., 397.
Whitfield, Walter, 484.
Whitford, J., 452....., B., 452.
Whitham. See Whetham.
Whitle, Mrs., 349.
Whitman, Richard, 594.
Whitney, Major T., 159....... Henry (Adjutant, Webb's),
374....... Capt. Thomas (How's), 377,
Whittingham, 476.
Whitton, J., 728........ William, 503.
Whitworth, Charles, Envoy at Ratisbon, 493.
Whitewrong, Sir W., 390.
Whorwood, Capt. T., 394.
Wibault, 384.
Wich, John    (Resident at Hanse
Towns), 410..............his executors, 492......., Mrs., 708,
Wicham, H., 391.
Wiche, J., 82.
Wicklow, 157, 662, 667.
Widman, Frederick Caetan de, Bavarian Envoy, 411.
Wido[wl's (?), Coffee house, 596.
Wight, Isle of, 46, 83, 163, 266........ Governor of, 370.
Wightman, 380.
Wilbraham, R., 522.
Wilcox, N., 508.
Wild, Rev. Jbmes, 358........ T.,   3 9 5.
Wildbore, 363.
Wildegoos, 381.
Wildman, J., 521....., W. 8585.
Wiles, Habk, 35.


INDEX.
Wilkes, 380.
Wilkins, J., 339.
Wilkinson, Francis, 393........ Thomas, 717......., W., 524.
Villaert, F., 264.
Willard, Thomas, 608.
Willet, Willett, Humphrey, 695........ S., 335.
William III, King, and flag officers,
21, 22............and African Governments, 598............... chaplain to, 680.
Williams, -, 324........ Capt. (Earl of Shannon's),
362........ Brigadier and Lieut. Charles,
385....... J., of Herringston, 393....... Mary, 679........ Robert    (Quarter-Master,
Earl of Oxford's), 368....... William, of Treworthy, 522......., Mr., and disloyalty, 118....... William (a prisoner), 40........ 2nd  Lieut. W. (Row's), 378........ W illiam  (Quarter-Master,
Earl of Oxford's), 368.
Williamson, Rev. David, 13........ Sir Joseph, 700.
Williamstown, 666.
Willis, Lieut. Thomas (Seymour's),
375........ Brigadier  (Deputy-Lieutenant for Bucks), 391........ Charles (Mountjoy's), 159........ Nicholas, 35, 309........ John   (Deputy  - Lieutenant
for Cambridge), 395.
Wilmott, Willymot, B., 397, 505.
Willoughby, Mrs. Elizabeth, 227........ Sir T., 392, 395........ Robert  Bertie, styled  Lord,
410........ Christopher, 526.
Wills, J., 158........ Col., 718.
Willymot. See Wilmott.
Wilson, Lieut. Archibald (Ferguson's)
373........ Lieut. J. (same), ibid........ Lieut.  (Earl  of  Huntingdon's), 364......., F., 350........ Lieut. (Holt's), 363........ Lieut.  G.  (Fuziliers),  384......,  J. (pardoned), 492........ John  (a  poor minister), 464......., James, a boy under sentence,
335, 347.............. Recorder of London
on, 349-50........., pardoned 351...., Francis (father to last), 347.




GENERAL INDEX.


839


Wilson-cont........ Lieut. John (Lord Cutt's),
383....... Ralph, 78........ Ensign Robert (Lumley's),
372........ Susanna, 202........., her son, 202, 204....... Thomas, Vicar of Bakewell,
359, 449.
Willson, Lieut. William  (Earl of
Essex's), 382.
Wiltshire, Lieut (Mordaunt's), 363........ County, 70......., Lord Lieutenant of, 389........ Sheriffs of, 526....... High Sheriff of, 202.
Winchelsea. See Winchilsea.
Winchester cathedral, 447......., Dean and Chapter of, 359.
Winchester City, 165........ and prisoners, 607, 669,
719.
Winchester College, Fellow of, 607........ Scholars of, and New College, Oxford, 48........ and see Gardiner.
Winchilsea,  Winchelsea,  Charles
Finch, 4th Earl of, Envoy at
Hanover, 219, 225, 411.............., and   Electress of
Hanover, 250-251............,to kiss her hand,
259-60.........going to Holland,
261.............,' is sick, 338.
Windcross, W., 387.
Winder, J., 521.
Windham. See Wyndham.
Windressse, 383.
Windsor, Andrew, 369....... (of Blackcastle), Thomas
Windsor, 1st Viscount, Brigadier General, 362, 399.
Windsor (Berks), letters from, passim......., post from, 203......., almsmen at, 434....... Castle,  Verrio  and   the
Queen's staircase at, 713............., Invalides at, 381............, poor knight of, 97.........., Paymaster of the
Works in, 18......., Constable of, 498.......,...... Governor of, 498........ chapel of, prebend    of,
358.
Wine, import of, 448.
Winford, Henry, 504........ Thomas, 504........, Sir Thomas, created, 129....... T. C. (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Worcester), 526.


Wingfield, Ensign Henry (How's),
377....... John (Deputy-Lieutenant for
Rutland), 396, 525........ T., 158.
Winnecott, Capt. J., 308.
Winnington, Edward, 397.
Winsley, 375.
Winstanley, James, 339, 523.
Winter, 364.
Wintoun, George Seton, 4th Earl of,
477.
Wise, Henry, 724.
Wiseman, 372........ Samuel, and mail duties,
137.
Wisenaell, D., 86.
Wishart, Capt., 683........ Lt.-Col. G., 463.
Wisse, T., 392.
Witham, 614, 630.
Wither, Major, 383.
Withers, Capt. George (Bridges'), 372........ Henry, Lt.-Col. and Brigadier of Foot, 362, 380......, Sir William, 245......., W., 525.
Wivell, Ensign D. (Ch., Churchill's),
375.
Wivill, Capt., 328.
Wolf, 2nd Lieut., 362...... Capt. E., 372.
Wolfenbuttell, 611........ affair of, 496....... Duke of, 142.
Wolseley, Woolesly, &c., Brigadier,
158, 422........ Capt. R., ibid....... William, 665-7.
Wolstenholme, Wostenholme, Nicholas, 59, 66, 395......., Sir J., 394.
Wood, Col. or Brigadier- General
Cornelius, 94, 288, 361, 433............. his officers, 373........ Capt. Henry (in Ireland), 12........ Henry (a soldier), 574........ Jabez, 510....... Robert, 239.
Woodbridge, 133.
Woodcock, 366........ Thomas, 41.
Woodgate, W., 523.
Woodhouse, 374......., Sir J., 392........ Edmund, ibid.
Woodland, -, 521.
Woodriffe, George, 393.
Woodside, 353.
Woodstock, William   Henry Bentinck styled Viscount, 665.
Woodstock Park, officers of, 503.
Woodward, Capt. J., 160, 562......, E.,  546....    Dr. R., 359.




840


GENERAL INDEX.


Wool, export or alleged export of,
206, 293, 519-521............... in wartime, 191............. proposals to stop,
294............ officers to deal with
in various counties, 295........ manufacture  of,  519-521........ staplers,  519........ suggested  registration  of,
518-519.
Woolaston, -, 392.
Woolesly. See Wolseley.
Woolett, 383.
Woollacombe, R., 522.
Woolligton, W., 349.
Woolwich, 326, 500.
Worcester, Cathedral, almsman's
place in, 423........ Bishop   of,  and   Lord   Almoner, 10, 313, 329....... Lord's  Address   re,   &c.,
304....... City, Lord  Lieutenant of,
390.
Worcestershire, 70....... wretched sailors from, 199 -200.......,  Sheriffs, 526........ Assizes at, 491......., Lord  Lieutenant, &c. of,
390.
Worseley, Sir R., 393.
Worth, 368.
Worthewell, Lt.-Col., 383.
Worthington, Eleanor, 184........Mr.,   1 8 4....... Lieut. and Quarter.Master
R., 378, 379.
Worthly, Capt. Henry, 380.
Wortley, S., 394.
Wraight, -     (a wool exporter),
521.
Wratislaw, Count (Imperial Ambassador at the Court of St.
James'), 118, 246, 247, 262,
408, 412, 611, 684.........., complaint of, about
English troops, 253-5, 321,
330........ praises Ormond, 255............, and Portugal, 632,
657.............,    desires  English
fleet may stay at Cadiz, 255.
Wreckham, Ensign J., 562.
Wreen, El., 585.
Wren, Sir Christopher, 275, 313.
Wrey, 380.
Wright, Charles (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Suffolk), 133, 393........ Henry or William, 29, 151,
220, 502..........., a...* d see Victualling,
Commissioners of.


Wright —cont...... H. (ship-master), 289........ J. (ship-master), 717........ John, merchant at Leghorn,
87........ Lawrence (Sheriff of Chester), 522........ Lawrence (Commissioner of
the Navy at Kinsale), 502........ Sir N., Lord  Keeper, 486............., his  salary,  503.
Wrightson, A., 158.
Writ of Error, 436.
Wroth, Capt. R. (Lumley's), 372....... Lieut. or Capt.-Lieut. (Earl
of Oxford's), 41, 386........ Capt. J. (perhaps same),
387.
Wyatt, Capt., 261.
Wybert, Mr., 267.
Wyborg, 693.
Wvbrantz, Capt. E., 159.
Wyche, Sir C., 144.
Wychwood, Whichwood, 141.
Wye, J., deposition of, 180.
Wyn, John, 113.
Wyndham, Windham, Col.,Brigadier
or Major-General Hugh, 76,
94, 288, 361, 365.............., his regiment, 372........ Ath., 392........,F., 396.
Wynn, Wynne, Capt., 310........ Sir R. (Deputy-Lieutenant
of Yorks, W.R.), 394......, Lieut. John (Earl of Romney's), 380........ Lt.-Col. O. (Rosse's), 376........ Mrs., a pensioner, 237........ -  (Deputy-Lieutenant of
Lincoln), 392......., and salvage, 445.
Wythe, Major, 82.
Wyvell, Lieut. John, 365.
y
Yard, R., 271............letter  from,  36.
Yarlet, Jairlet, 173.
Yarmouth, Great, and South Town,
heads of, new   charter incorporating  (with  details),
asked for and granted, 603,
604.... *....., fees  for, 660.




GENERAL
Yarmouth —cont........ Mayor of, 603........ prisoners at, 575, 590, 593,
596........ and South Town, 577............... and Admiralty jurisdiction, ibid.
Yate, R., 396.
Yates, Yeates, Mr., at Bristol, 149........ John, 595............... letter from, 573........ Henry (Deputy-Lieutenant
for Isle of Ely), 395.
Yeoman of the Field, 41.
Yeomen of the Guard, 722........ Capt. of, 40............... various officers of,
ibid.
Yester (Haddington), letter from,
169.
Yong, J., 64.
York, John Sharp, Archbishop of,
313.............. letters from, 103,
680.
York, City, Queen proclaimed at, 9........ Assizes at, 28........ Mayor of, 95........ Deanery of, 358........ Chapter of, 359.
York City and Ansty of; Lord
Lieutenant of, 390.......  Deputy   Lieutenants for,
394.
Yorkshire (County, at large), Sheriffs
for, 523........ and wool export, 295....... (N.R.), Lord Lieutenant of,
389.


INDEX.                        841
Yorkshire-cont....... (E.R.), Lord Lieutenant of,
390............  Lord   Lieutenant
and Deputy Lieutenants for,
395....... (W.R.), Lord Lieutenant of
(and of York City) and Deputy
Lieutenants for, 394.
Youghal, 54, 83, 662.
Young, Capt. Edward (Lord Raby's),
376........ Dr. Edward, 16, 359......., Capt., 454........ Joseph, 526........ Robert, 471........ Rose, 40.
Youthful Offenders, 349-50.
Yoward, T., 710.
z
Zante, Zant, 708.
Zealand, 631........ States of, 25.
Zell, George, Duke of, is ill, 251.
Zetland. See Shetland and Orkney
and Shetland.
Zoble, Col., 174.
Zouche, J., 393.
Zurich, 512, 513, 515.


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