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PREFACE. 
 
 THE present volume of the Calendar covers a_ very 
 short period, namely from July the Ist to December the 
 dist, 1695, but it includes, as. Addenda, a number of 
 documents dating from 1688-9 to 1695, which were 
 either accidentally omitted from past volumes of the 
 Calendar, or which have been found out of place in the 
 State Papers of other years. In the present preface the 
 Calendar and the Addenda will be dealt with separately. 
 
 As the autumn of 1695 approached, preparations were 
 made for the King’s return to England, and the Lords 
 Justices notified to William Blathwayte that a convoy of 
 Dutch ships must be provided, as Sir George Rooke 
 was taking away with him all the KEnglish vessels 
 available (p. 58). The King, however, ordered the 
 usual yacht and small frigates to go to the Brill, and 
 a convoy of such men-of-war as could be spared from 
 other services to go to ‘“‘the Goeree,’ under the 
 command of Sir Cloudesley Shovel (p. 63). He landed 
 at Margate on the morning of October the 10th (p. 79). 
 
 Shortly after his return to Kngland William appears to 
 have made a kind of Progress through many parts of 
 the country. He visited Newmarket, Althorpe and 
 Burleigh, and went, by way of Lincoln, to Welbeck. 
 ‘The King arrived here’’—wrote Secretary Vernon in 
 reference to the last named place—‘‘before it was dark. 
 The Duke of Newcastle met him seven miles off, at 
 Dunham Ferry, being the entrance to the county. The 
 King did not leave Lincoln till about eleven this 
 
Vill PREFACE. 
 
 morning, having first been at the Cathedral to hear 
 prayers; when I came away I saw the clergy going in 
 a body to wait on his Majesty. I know not how 
 many there were of them, for I could no more tell 
 them than a flight of crows.” 
 
 Speaking of Welbeck, Vernon says, ‘“‘ We are, by what 
 I can see, in a very pleasant place, and where -his 
 Majesty will be splendidly entertained and extraordinarily 
 well diverted.” The stag-huntnmg was better than was 
 allowed by report, and as for shooting “there can be 
 no place before it.” He describes the house as 
 encompassed with great woods, “though the forest be 
 bare enough.” A great number of persons of quality 
 had come to kiss his Majesty’s hand, “‘and many tables 
 were provided to treat them.’ The King’s programme 
 is then detailed: he was to ‘‘ hunt the hare” on the 
 following day and, on the day after, the stag ‘‘ towards 
 Lord Kingston’s.’ Vernon describes the illuminations at 
 the Jing’s entry into Lincoln, which he thought very 
 fine, ‘“‘and the more because they were so necessary in 
 climbing a hill that seemed otherwise impracticable. I 
 was very well pleased to see a peloton of his Majesty’s 
 subjects at every half a mile between Stamford and 
 Lincoln, so that all the inhabitants of the county appeared 
 to be drawn to the roadside” (pp. 91, 92). 
 
 From Welbeck the King proceeded by way of Burford, 
 Cornbury House, Woodstock, and Oxford to Windsor. A 
 letter to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford from Sir William 
 Trumbull, who a few days previously had been elected 
 one of the burgesses of the University, shews that 
 scrupulous care was taken to accord to William III. the 
 honour paid to former kings. ‘‘ We are agreed that all 
 the marks of duty and respect are to be showed his 
 Majesty that the shortness of his intended stay will 
 possibly allow; that he ought to be received in the same 
 manner his predecessors have been, that is with as great. 
 a number as may be of. doctors and masters in their 
 
PREFACE. 1x 
 
 formalities on horseback; and that there should be a 
 collation or banquet prepared for him in the schools, 
 since his haste will not admit of a more solemn enter- 
 tainment. How far you will proceed out of the town to 
 meet his Majesty depends upon what has been the cus- 
 tom and usage, which being towards Woodstock, as I 
 suppose, will be in the same manner and as far as 
 when Charles II. came that way into Oxford” (p. 92). 
 
 The last six months of the year 1695 did not witness 
 any very decisive naval engagement, but the papers here 
 calendared afford some _ interesting details of Lord 
 Berkeley’s attack on St. Malo, Granville and Dunkirk. 
 He reached Guernsey on the Ist of July and sent on shore 
 for pilots, hoping to sail the next day for St. Malo (p. 1). 
 A council of war was held and it was resolved that six 
 Dutch and three English bomb-vessels should ‘open a 
 battery’? upon the Quince Rock and the D’Ambour Fort, 
 while nine other bomb-vessels, supported by as many 
 boats as were available, should go in to bombard the town 
 (pp. 2, 3). 
 
 The attack began on the mornmg of July the 4th. 
 At noon a signal was made for the captains of the 
 bomb-vessels, and about 2 o'clock the _ frigates, bomb- 
 vessels and well-boats, under the command of Captain 
 Benbow, sailed ciose in, while five bomb-vessels played 
 upon the Quince Rock, continuing till about eight at 
 night. arly the next morning the ships. moved in 
 nearer the town and beat in the French galleys and 
 guard-boats with their shot. At eight o'clock the Charles 
 fireship was ordered to “run against” the Quince Rock, 
 and a Dutch fireship soon afterwards did the same; this 
 attack on the windward side of the Rock so annoyed 
 the enemy, by reason of the dense smoke which ensued, 
 that they were obliged to give up firmg. ‘Then a fire 
 broke out in the fort, lasting nearly two hours, and when 
 the French had extinguished it, the play of their guns 
 appeared much weakened, About nine o'clock the 
 
x PREFACE. 
 
 English anchored still further in, and the bombs thrown 
 into the town caused many conflagrations; a great fire 
 raged from four till seven in the evening, and was only 
 checked by the blowing up of houses. During _ this 
 time the French had maintained a steady fire from the 
 forts. 
 
 At seven a signal was made for the frigates and 
 bomb-vessels (whose ammunition was spent) to retire. 
 The Dreadful bomb-vessel was shattered and disabled, and 
 the captain seeing the enemy’s galleys approaching, fired 
 her, so that she should not fall into their hands. This, 
 with the loss of sixty men killed and wounded, five or 
 six boats sunk, and minor injuries suffered by the frigates 
 and bomb-vessels, was all the damage the English 
 sustained. ‘‘We fired 900 bombs and carcasses into the 
 town,’ Lord ‘Berkeley reported, ‘so that a great part of 
 it is certamly beaten down, and we believe there is little 
 part of it free from the general desolation.” At a 
 council of war held July the 6th the English resolved 
 to leave St. Malo for the present, thinking it better— 
 ‘‘having beaten down a great part of the town, by which 
 they find we can bombard them when we will—to keep 
 them in continual apprehension of us, than to endeavour 
 to beat down more houses, in the attempting of which 
 any misfortune by the enemy’s fire, or by. bad weather 
 coming on, would give occasion to the enemy to boast, 
 and prevent all the remaining part of the summer 
 service” (pp. 6, 8). 
 
 We gather from the Minutes of the Lords Justices, before 
 whom the Lords of the Admiralty were called on July the 
 llth, that ships as well as stores were then being sent 
 to Lord Berkeley to make up for the losses at St. Malo, 
 and that he was recommended to proceed to Dunkirk 
 without loss of time (p. 13), The same day Berkeley 
 reported that on the 9th instant the detachment under 
 Captain Benbow had returned, having destroyed Granville. 
 The town had been surprised by an attack on the north 
 
PREFACE. xi 
 
 side, at a point where the guns could not conveniently 
 be brought to bear upon the assailants. Great confusion 
 ensued among the French, some of the people running 
 away and some carrying what goods they could pack up, 
 while the town burnt furiously. Lord Berkeley complained 
 of the state of his guns—-‘‘ We have six or seven mortars 
 already quite unserviceable, which I attribute to the bad- 
 ness of the metal, it being the coarsest I ever saw. ‘The 
 Dutch have also four or five in the same condition. I 
 will send ours to London by the first opportunity” (p. 13). 
 
 At a council of war held on July the 10th it was first 
 resolved to sail to Portsmouth to refit the frigates and 
 bomb-vessels so as to be in readiness to attempt Dunkirk, 
 if it should be thought advisable, “ because what is to be 
 done there must be done this month or not at all; and 
 if we can, without loss of time, sail along the French coast 
 as far as Cape Barfleur, to alarm them along the shore ’ 
 (p. 14). 
 
 A few days later the Lords Justices sent to acquaint 
 Lord Berkeley that it was of great consequence to the 
 King’s affairs in Flanders that he should proceed without 
 loss of time to Dunkirk, and Mr. Meisters was directed 
 to join him (p. 17). In a letter to Vernon, dated July 
 the 15th, Berkeley remarks ‘“‘I wish the Admiralty were 
 as jealous as the Lords Justices, and would furnish me 
 with some fifty-gun ships they have not far from Dunkirk. 
 I am as mad in haste now to be gone, as anybody to 
 have me, for I am satisfied, though we should not succeed 
 in Dunkirk, our very appearing there now would be of 
 some service to the King’s affairs, to whom God send good 
 success. Therefore I am resolved to sail on Wednesday, 
 though I leave half our things behind me; they will 
 follow in two or three days. Now, Mr. Meisters, or 
 never!” (p. 18). In another letter, written the same day to 
 the Duke of Shrewsbury, he says: ‘“‘I shall use all possible 
 despatch to get ready ...... The Admiralty are very free 
 with their orders to me to man the machine-vessels, &c., 
 
Mii PREFACE. 
 
 but do not tell me where I shall find the men, we having 
 hardly enough to sail our own ships. ..... Their 
 orders to me for sailing to Dungeness makes me admire, 
 for if the wind is westerly it may be a month before 
 the machine-ships get thither, so that J hope, if I do not 
 see them there as I pass by, I may be excused if I proceed 
 to the Downs” (2did.). 
 
 Meisters, with a reinforcement of machine vessels, joined 
 the channel fleet in the Downs on the 19th of July, and 
 on the 28rd Lord Berkeley set sail for the coast of 
 Flanders to begin the attack upon Dunkirk. His jealousy 
 of Rooke is obvious from a letter addressed to Vernon. 
 “Since it has been thought fit to appoint Sir George 
 Rooke to command in the Straits, I suppose care will be 
 taken that we may not meet at sea without he will obey, 
 for I can own no superior at sea but Admiral Russell.’ 
 He adds: “Benbow is quitting his ship. I cannot 
 imagine the reason; he pretends sickness, but I think that 
 is only feigned” (p. 26). The Admiralty were unwilling 
 to lose Benbow’s services, but in another letter Lord 
 Berkeley writes ‘‘The Board is mistaken in thinking he 
 can be of any use at Dunkirk, after his having shown so 
 much unwillingness to go there” (p. 27); and again, ‘‘ As 
 to Captain Benbow, I know of no difference between him 
 and me, nor have we had any. He has no_ small 
 obligation to me, but being called in some of the foolish 
 printed papers ‘the famous Captain Benbow, I suppose has 
 put him a little out of himself” (p. 31). 
 
 Another message from the King urged that the attack 
 upon Dunkirk should be made with all expedition, for 
 Dixmude had fallen into the hands of the French and he 
 feared an attack upon Niewport (p. 26). Contrary winds 
 obliged Berkeley to separate from Meisters, but on the 
 25th the weather improved and he steered for the 
 rendezvous, which was to be at Gravelines Pits. Meisters, 
 however, would not run the risk of joining him, for had 
 the machine-vessels tried to anchor they would have been 
 
PREFACE. ae 
 
 destroyed, ‘“‘being old, and wanting anchors and _ sufficient 
 length of cables” (p. 29). The friction between the 
 English and Dutch commanders is apparent in their 
 despatches. Berkeley proceeded towards Dunkirk Harbour 
 to observe what provisions the enemy had made at the 
 Rhysbank and wooden forts, and to wait for Meisters, “who, 
 it is conceived, will be here to-morrow, or does not design to 
 come this season” (p. 30). After being forced back by fresh 
 winds Meisters at last succeeded in joining the fleet on the 
 29th instant, and, in a letter to Vernon, Berkeley writes 
 “T had written to the Duke of Shrewsbury before Mr. 
 Meisters’ arrival, and hope he will forgive my declaring 
 my resolution and jealousy” (p. 31). 
 
 The plan of attack was drawn up at a council of war 
 held off Dunkirk on the 30th of July. Four ships were 
 to sail into the harbour with two machine-vessels and two 
 fire-ships were to lie at the western port. The Discovery 
 brigantine and the Hzpress were to go in close after the 
 machine-vessels and take up their boats. Taking advantage 
 of the smoke that would ensue, four Dutch men-of-war 
 were to go in and anchor, and batter the wooden forts 
 until the second attack should begin At the same time 
 two ‘‘machines”’ and one fireship were to ‘‘go against” the 
 Rhysbank and were to be supported by the Shark brigantine 
 and four well-boats. The second attack was to be as the 
 first, the Zyme, Maidstone, and ‘two men-of-war ketches,” 
 leading with two machine and two fireships against the 
 western wooden forts, and two fireships and a machine 
 against the Rhysbank, supported by four well-boats to bring 
 off their boats. Two or three hours before these attacks 
 should begin, all the bomb-vessels were to bombard the 
 Rhysbank and wooden forts, supported by all the frigates 
 not otherwise employed (pp. 31, 32). 
 
 These designs were not entirely carried out. In a letter 
 dated from off Calais, on August the 4th, Meisters sent 
 to the Duke of Shrewsbury his version of the affair, 
 relating that on the Ist of August the order was given 
 
XIV PREFACE. 
 
 to attack the western fort of Dunkirk, and the Rhysbank 
 about noon. About 10 a.m. Meisters ordered four smoke 
 and three machine ships, upon the signal given, to 
 follow the four English frigates promised in the council 
 of war. . 
 
 Between twelve o’clock and one Captain William Carleton 
 was under sail, but when he was a mile distant from 
 the wooden forts he was forced to let fall his anchor, 
 because the four frigates were sailing so far to one side 
 and to the northward from the forts, that they could 
 scarcely reach them with their cannon, much less “carry 
 on the said ships.” As soon as the other three smoke 
 ships, followed by three great machine vessels, sailed towards 
 him, he cut his cable, and the smoke ships sailed to 
 and fro, expecting the promised frigates to come near 
 enough to secure them from the French galleys; but as 
 wind and tide were forcing them to go in, their captains 
 endeavoured to get to the western forts and the Rhysbank 
 unaided. The enemy, perceiving this, came with galleys 
 and well-armed boats, so that. the HKnglish were obliged 
 to fire the smoke-ships four or five cables length from 
 the place designed, and save the men in boats. ‘Then 
 Meisters, who was stationed between the smoke-ships and 
 the machine-vessels, stopped the latter, seeing that they 
 would be fired too soon, or captured by the enemy 
 (p. 39). ; 
 
 The minutes of a council of war held on the 4th of 
 August show that an open rupture had occurred between 
 the Dutch and English commanders :—‘‘Mr. Meisters having 
 stolen away last night with all the machine ships, it was 
 considered what was to be done,” and was resolved to 
 wait for the arrival of some machine and smoke ships 
 which had been sent for, and when they came, to send 
 all the boats, English and Dutch, to support them 
 (p. 35). The same day Lord Berkeley wrote to the 
 Commissioners of the Admiralty, showing that he had 
 directed Meisters to reconnoitre the wooden fort newly 
 
PREFACE. = 
 
 built at Calais. Meisters send word that he would bring 
 an answer himself, but when it was dark, he stole away 
 with all the machine ships. Berkeley sent the Elizabeth 
 to bring them back, and was keeping him a_ prisoner 
 till further orders. He enclosed the copy of a letter 
 which he had received from Meisters, dated August the 3rd, 
 m which the writer said: ‘‘ Notwithstanding the depth 
 of the water hereabouts, nor what force the enemy may 
 have, I can make no proper demand of frigates or boats 
 to attack this fort, and intend to meddle no more in 
 that affair, but to take the opportunity of going to 
 Holland with the men-of-war bound for that country, 
 which are now under sail” (p. 36). 
 
 The Lords Justices at once proceeded to consider the 
 affair. Captain Philips, who was called in, gave an 
 account of Meisters’ unpreparedness, ‘‘not minding what 
 was to be done, nor coming near any danger himself” 
 (p. 36). Meisters was summoned to attend the Council 
 the next day. He protested that a Dutch captain had 
 told him that the plan of attack made at the-~ council 
 of war had heen altered; that he stopped the machine 
 ships to save them from destruction, and -that when 
 Lord Berkeley proposed that he should go to Calais he 
 said that he did not know the sands on that coast and 
 had come only for the design upon Dunkirk (p. 37). 
 As various reports were afloat, the Lords Justices decided 
 to. ascertain the King’s pleasure as to whether or not 
 the matter should be formally examined (p. 44). At 
 the same time Lord Berkeley was sifting the evidence 
 of Meisters’ desertion. At a council of war held on the 
 2nd of August the commanders and pilots of the small 
 frigates were examined and acquitted. ‘A court-martial 
 is that. of all things which we desire,” writes Berkeley, 
 ‘therefore please send Mr. Meisters down to be present 
 at it; but I believe you will hardly persuade him to 
 it. There were also two Dutch frigates ordered upon 
 the attack; it seems reasonable that they also should be 
 
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 tried by their countrymen” (p. 39). On the 26th of 
 September, in answer to Berkeley’s demand for a _ court- 
 martial for trying the commanders of the smoke and 
 machine vessels which had left the fleet to follow 
 Meisters, the Lords Justices recorded their opinion that as 
 examination was depending at Council, it did not seem 
 proper to appoint any other trials while it lasted (p. 71). 
 
 Meanwhile the attack on Calais bad been deferred, 
 Berkeley deeming it better not to begin the bombard- 
 ment on account of the damage received by the bomb- 
 vessels and the scarcity of serviceable mortars (pp. 38, 39). 
 ‘““The wise among us,” writes Colonel Richards to the 
 Board of Ordnance, “‘are of opinion that it will be better 
 for the service to keep Calais in suspense of being 
 bombarded, than to put an end to their fears by doing 
 it by halves” (p. 41). The Lords of the Admiralty, 
 however, were for decisive action, for they intended to 
 use some of the ships, when “the Calais affair’’ should 
 be accomplished, to reinforce Sir George Rooke (pp. 42, 
 43, 45). On the 17th of August Berkeley reported that 
 Calais had been bombarded with as much success as they 
 expected (p. 47). The bombardment began that day at noon, 
 and continued for more than four hours—as long as the 
 mortars could be used. About 600 bombs were thrown, 
 most of which fell into the town, set it on fire in 
 several places and blew up one of the magazines, but 
 ‘“‘the houses not having any straw in them,” the fires 
 were soon extinguished. Then the French sent out 
 armed boats from Dunkirk, but the English frigates, 
 aided by the gale that was blowing, made them run in 
 again with loss and great disorder. Calais was fortified 
 chiefly on the west of the town, so that the English, 
 attacking on the east, suffered but little from the 
 enemys bombs and cannon (pp. 48, 146). 
 
 Lord Berkeley then returned to England, and being’ called 
 before the Lords Justices requested that the matter of 
 Dunkirk might be examined, so that the offender might 
 
PREFACE. xVll 
 
 be proved guilty and punished. The fleet was left in 
 command of Admiral Allemonde, who thought it more 
 advisable to cruise in the Channel than to lie at anchor 
 in the Downs (pp. 50, 51, 52). On the 23rd of August 
 Captain Benbow was summoned before the Lords Justices 
 and acquainted with their intention of employing him 
 upon some service to be done in alarming and annoying 
 the French coast. Benbow expressed his willingness to 
 undertake whatever they should command, but suggested 
 that an attack should be made upon Havre de Grace 
 rather than St. Valery, as the latter coast was unknown 
 to him (p. 51). 
 
 From this time we hear of no further decisive action 
 on the part of the Channel fleet. A rumour was current 
 in Dover, towards the end of October, that some French 
 prisoners there were expecting the arrival of sloops from 
 France with arms to enable them to escape. In _ case 
 there should be any truth im the report, Secretary Trumbull 
 notified to Shrewsbury that soldiers were needed to guard 
 the prison, asking him ‘to move the King that he 
 would be pleased to send orders to the Duke of Schom- 
 berg for two or three companies of foot to march thither 
 as soon as possible’ (p. 90). | 
 
 The town of Hastings, which lay exposed to the 
 frequent insults of French privateers, had, several times 
 during the war, been obliged to make use of the guns 
 in the two small forts there. Lord Romney, master- 
 general of the Ordnance, received a warrant dated October 
 the 14th to issue two barrels of ‘corn powder” for the 
 use of the town (p. 81), and another warrant was granted, 
 on November the 26th, to reimburse to Hastings the sum 
 of £63 laid out during the last five years in erecting 
 forts (p. 110). 
 
 During the summer months of 1695 the fleet commanded 
 by Russell remained in the Mediterranean, but the 
 Admiral’s letters to Shrewsbury and to the Lords Justices 
 
XVill PREFACE. 
 
 (pp. 22, 25) are written in the pessimistic strain to which his 
 dispatches previously calendared have made us accustomed. 
 The first letter, written privately to Shrewsbury and dated 
 from Barcelona Road on July the 21st, protests against the 
 order of the Lords Justices to send home the ships no 
 longer fit for service. Russell declared that except for 
 the ships mentioned in a list he had sent to the Lords 
 Justices, there were none in the fleet which ought not 
 to be on their way back to England, and if, pursuant 
 to the order, he should send back those ships no longer . 
 fit to continue abroad, the remaining part of the 
 fleet would be useless till joined by further vessels. 
 Moreover, since the ships must remain tiil the end of 
 September or the beginning of October, to perform ‘some 
 Flemish expedition,” the Admiral greatly feared the risk 
 of a winter voyage to England in their weakened 
 condition; at the same time, if they took the alternative 
 of wintering at Cadiz it might be almost impossible to 
 get them home again. Russell in this letter makes no 
 secret of his jealousy of the Dutch:—‘‘The King might 
 have been pleased to impose what hardships he had 
 thought fit upon me (as making a winter voyage to 
 England is a great one), I should have been very well 
 satisfied; but to expose the fleet to so apparent a danger 
 upon no other account (as I can forsee) than that of 
 saving the Dutch their money (of which I have had 
 many instances this voyage) I cannot but repine at it to 
 a degree that gives me all imaginable disquiet. It is 
 not hard to guess that this advice comes from Secretary 
 De Weeldy of the Admiralty of Amsterdam, and I cannot 
 bear the thought that a Dutch secretary should govern 
 the English fleet” (p. 28). 
 
 Again the Admiral complained that the Dutch had not 
 sent all the ships ordered to strengthen the Turkey squadron, 
 and that he had been obliged to lend money to the Dutch 
 ships with him, otherwise they must have remained at 
 anchor at Barcelona all the summer, ‘‘nor have I had 
 
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 any service from them in the winter; their constant want 
 of provisions and their thriftiness in not allowing their 
 ships to be cleaned has made them of no other use than 
 lying for a show in the Bay of Cadiz.” Russell then 
 begged to be informed whether any ships were coming out 
 from England, and what “flags” would be there to 
 govern the fleet after September. ‘At present I know 
 nothing but that, after that month, I am to be drowned 
 in coming home. I am not free from apprehension of an 
 order coming to stop me here all the winter; if such a 
 thing should happen I will rather run the hazard of his 
 Majesty’s displeasure than remain here, for I am already 
 ruined in my health, and whatever people may surmise to 
 the contrary, I am a very considerably worse man in 
 my own fortune than when I left England 
 
 1 am ordered to pay the Hnglish troops their basen 
 without haying any money . . ... . ... Af: present 
 I have so great a lam eness in my hand that it is with 
 some difficulty I can hold a pen to subscribe my name” 
 
 (pp. 23, 24). 
 
 Russell’s letter to the Lords Justices contains a similar 
 account of the condition of the Fleet. “The Dutch 
 that are with me,’ he writes, ‘“‘are in so great 
 want of provisions, stores and necessaries that it has 
 been with some difficulty that I have prevailed with them 
 to stir from one port to another; nor could I have 
 done that but with the assurance that, upon - extremities, 
 I would furnish them both with -provisions .and money, 
 one of which I have already performed’ (p, 24). 
 
 In July and August preparations were beimg carried on 
 to equip a third fleet, under the command of-Sir George 
 Rooke, to sail to the Straits. . Rooke requested : that he 
 might have Sir Cloudesley Shovel with him, ‘ thinking it 
 fit he might have some. on whom he could depend as 
 well: for their friendship to him as their zeal to the 
 service’ (pp. 20, 37). The King, however, did. not 
 agree to this suggestion, and: it :was proposed that 
 
xx PREFACE. 
 
 Mitchell should be made admiral of the Blue (p. 45), 
 The Lords of the Admiralty reported on the 16th instant 
 that large provisions had been made of stores for the 
 Straits, supposing that the greater part of Russell’s fleet 
 was to winter there. ‘These stores, with further reinforce- 
 ments from the Channel fleet, were to be taken by Sir George 
 Rooke, who proposed to sail from Spithead with the first 
 fair wind after August the 24th. Lord Berkeley was to 
 be acquainted that Rooke would be at Portsmouth, “he 
 desiring not to meet him” (p. 47).. 
 
 Sir George Rooke’s instructions were prepared by the 
 Admiralty and signed on September the 3rd. He was 
 also to be entrusted with a frigate bound for Genoa with 
 money to be put on board at Cadiz, sent by the Bank, 
 in accordance with the King’s order, for paying the 
 subsidies to the Duke of Savoy (p. 50). Care was 
 taken in drawing up the instructions that there should be 
 no cause for friction between Rooke and Russell, in case 
 the latter should not have left the Straits when the 
 outward-bound fleet arrived. The chief command was 
 reserved to Russell during his stay im the Mediterranean 
 and while they were together, and Rooke was charged to 
 obey such orders as he should at any time receive from 
 the King, or from the Lords Justices during the King’s 
 absence from England (p. 97). 
 
 There was some delay in Rooke’s departure and this 
 was caused by the difficulty of finding the full complement 
 of men for the vessels (p. 61). Hverything was at last 
 in readiness for his departure, when he was stopped by 
 a message from the King. Not only were some ships 
 needed for William’s return to England, but the question 
 of a sufficient convoy for the richly-laden vessels of the 
 East India Company had become pressing (pp. 63, 65). 
 On the 2nd of October the Lords Justices consulted with 
 the Lords of the Admiralty as to whether Sir George 
 Rooke might then sail for the Straits, since Admiral 
 Russell was coming home. Rooke had so often repre- 
 
PREFACE. xxl 
 
 sented the danger of sending away ships at that time of 
 the year that it was resolved to advise with experienced 
 seamen, both of the Navy Board and ‘Trinity House 
 (p. 74). The King had then ordered the despatch of 
 the fleet (p. 75) and the sea officers who had been 
 consulted gave their opinion that the three-deck ships 
 would bear the sea as well as the seventy or eighty-gun 
 ships, and if they had but sea-room, there was no danger 
 for them (p. 79). Sir George Rooke eventually received 
 his sailing orders, dated the 16th of December (p. 126) 
 
 The Marquis of Carmarthen was in command of a small 
 fleet in the Soundings consisting of from six to eleven 
 ships (p. 13). On the 23rd of July the Admiralty 
 reported that though Carmarthen had received no orders 
 but to go to the Soundings, it appeared that he was 
 coming back with the Cadiz fleet, as had been resolved 
 at a council of war, albeit the vessels had already a 
 convoy of six ships (p. 25). Not long after this 
 Carmarthen’s retreat into Milford Haven, on the false 
 alarm that the French fleet were descending upon him, 
 drew forth the censure of public opinion. On_ hearing 
 this, he wrote, on the 7th of August, from Milford, where 
 he had left ‘‘the clog of merchantmen”’ under bis care, 
 enclosing the minutes of his council of war, held on 
 July the 23rd. The minutes ran as follows :—‘ Upon 
 intelligence received from Mr. Jones, deputy vice-admiral 
 of the west part of Cornwall, that since ‘Thursday last 
 seventeen sail of great ships have been seen off Mount’s 
 Bay and the Lizard, with an affidavit, made at Cork by 
 a man taken out of a French privateer commanded by 
 one Welch, of a French squadron of at least twenty ships 
 ready to sail from Brest, and seeing eighteen sail to the 
 south west of us, we cannot but believe they are the 
 French squadron; resolved to make the best of our way 
 to Milford Haven, in consideration that the enemy is to 
 windward of us, and our ships very foul and _ heavy 
 sailers” (p. 38). 
 
Xx1l PREFACE. 
 
 The loss of the Barbadoes merchantmen for lack of 
 efficient convoy was reported to the Lords Justices, who 
 found that they had the usual number of cruizers in the 
 Soundings (p. 54); but on the 3rd of September the 
 Lords of the Admiralty informed the Lords Justices that 
 “the squadron appointed for the Soundings had been off 
 their station, and almost altogether at Kinsale, and _ that 
 
 they had sent to enquire about it” (p. 97). 
 
 Some miscellaneous references to naval affairs which occur 
 throughout the calendar are of interest; there is (as there 
 was in the last volume) a good deal concerning “striking ”’ 
 to the English flag, and a matter concerning signalling, 
 which came before the Lords Justices, shows how much 
 more careful were the French than ourselves in regard to 
 this highly important point in naval warfare. When the 
 English ship Falcon was taken by the enemy the cruising 
 instructions and signals fell into their hands. ‘The Lords 
 Justices left it to the Admiralty to. consider whether it 
 might not be necessary to change them. ‘The French, it 
 was observed, made an alteration in their signals every 
 day, and had a printing press employed for that purpose, 
 but the English had not changed their system since the 
 beginning of the war (p. 20). 
 
 Earlier in the year there had been considerable friction 
 between England and Denmark on the subject of “striking,” 
 and a difficulty had now arisen in regard to a ship of 
 Sweden which had refused to strike her colours in the 
 Downs. The Lords Justices and the Admiralty considered 
 the matter in August, as the King had directed that an 
 answer should be made to the Swedish Secretary’s protest. 
 Trumbull was to reply that when the Swedish ship first 
 refused to pay the respect due to the King of England’s 
 ships in those seas, the Admiralty, in vindication of the 
 right of the crown, sent orders to the Downs that if the 
 Swedish vessel came there she should be secured to answer 
 the affront. The vessel was carried on by the wind, and 
 the King, thinking that what had been done by the 
 
PREFACE. XXIll 
 
 Swedish captain was ‘‘of his own head” was content to 
 let the matter drop, hoping that the good feeling existing 
 between the two crowns would not be endangered. How- 
 ever, the Secretary of Sweden revived the matter by a 
 message in his master’s name, and the King of England 
 regretted that such ill-use had been made of his moderation 
 to the captain that it had given an occasion to call in 
 question a right that had always been claimed by the 
 Fnglish crown (p. 40). A skirmish occurred some days 
 later between a Swedish man-of-war and two English 
 frigates, ‘‘about the old business of striking,” in which 
 the captain and master of the Swede were killed (p. 43). 
 The ship was released, since the captain had “borne the 
 punishment of his insolence; and the lieutenant, as soon as 
 he succeeded in the command, paid his respect and struck ”’ 
 
 (p. 44), 
 
 The Emperor evidently considered that this friction 
 between England and Sweden, on the delicate subject of 
 “striking,” might seriously endanger the relations between 
 the two countries, and his Envoy had made the matter 
 the subject of a special visit to Sir William ‘Trumbull. 
 The Envoy spoke much of the good disposition of Sweden 
 to the affairs of the Allies (whereof he had received an 
 account from the Emperor’s envoy there), and, in order 
 to the better improving of it, he said the Emperor 
 desired his Majesty would be pleased to do two things: 
 The one to give directions to his minister in Sweden to 
 make some compliment to that King in general terms, 
 as his Majesty shall think most proper, about the late 
 encounter at sea, which he believes may ‘“‘ sweeten” them, 
 and be very kindly taken without prejudicing in the least 
 the matter of the right of the flag; the other was_ that 
 some expedient might be speedily thought of to prevent 
 such hostilities for the future, which may interrupt. the 
 course of the good inclinations of that court (p. 89). 
 
 Towards the close of the year we find that William 
 was still disputing with the King of Sweden as to the 
 
Xxl1v PREFACE. 
 
 respect due to the English flag, and he directed the 
 Lords of the Admiralty to search the books and_ records 
 of their office, and to enquire of the officers of the Navy 
 and ‘Trinity House and any persons of experience, so that 
 the ‘‘ancient right, custom and procedure” might be clearly 
 established to convince the Swedes, who denied that the 
 point had ever been “‘carried so high” and so far insisted 
 upon in former times (pp. 120, 131, 132). 
 
 , 
 
 The work of victualling the navy was rendered 
 peculiarly complicated by the pecuniary difficulties under 
 which the contractors were labouring. The Lords of the 
 Admiralty reported in September that the Victuallers “pretend 
 their victuals are all delivered out for this year,’ and that 
 still much remained to be done; they were out of stock, 
 and being £500,000 in arrear, had no means of supplying 
 what was wanted; besides which, the orders for the next 
 year ought then to be given, or the proper season for 
 making provisions would be passed (p. 61). The matter 
 was brought before the ‘Treasury, and a _ week later 
 Godolphin represented to the Lords Justices the case of 
 the Victuallers who had had all their money and paid 
 it away, and were still ‘“‘under a great debt.”” He proposed 
 to the Admiralty that some assistance might be given 
 them out of the money for wear and tear, but the 
 Lords replied that such an action would be to ruin a 
 part of the service that had credit to support another 
 that had none (pp. 64, 68). 
 
 The need of men for the navy during the last half 
 of the year 1695 was as great as in earlier years, and, as 
 a consequence, we find the authorities vigorous in the 
 matter of ‘pressing.’ A certain county justice who 
 discouraged the press-masters was promptly put out of 
 the commission of the peace (p. 28). By the then 
 existing rules the masters of ships were outside the 
 power of the press-gang, but in September, 1695, it was 
 suggested that this restriction should be removed, ‘‘so 
 great numbers being protected under that pretence ” 
 
PREFACE. xXV 
 
 (p. 58), A Dutch subject who happened to be _ pressed 
 by the English complained to his representative in 
 England, who promptly interfered on his countryman’s 
 behalf, and demanded that he should immediately be set 
 at liberty (p. 109). 
 
 The campaign on the continent during the late summer 
 and autumn of 1695 receives some, though not very 
 important, illustration in the present volume of the 
 calendar. Sir Wiliam Trumbull, writing from Whiteball 
 on July the 13th, relates the good news that the King, 
 in a night attack, had possessed himself of the most 
 considerable outworks of Namur, with the loss of few 
 men, notwithstanding the utmost resistance of the best 
 part of the garrison with Marshal de Boufflers and Count 
 de Guiscard at their head; that the English and 
 Scotch, under the command of Major-General Ramsay, 
 had done wonderfully well, and it was believed that 
 the King would be master of the citadel in about ten 
 days from that time (p. 17). 
 
 On the 15th of August Lord Berkeley, whose ship was 
 then lying off Dover, sent to Vernon tidings brought 
 by some homeward-bound ships :—‘‘ Several vessels, one a 
 man-of-war, come from [Ostend] three days ago, agree 
 that the French haye bombarded Brussels, thrown in 
 6,000 bombs and destroyed a quarter of the town, and 
 were marching towards Ghent to do the same; that at 
 the first of these places the LElectress of Bavaria came 
 out in her coach to desire Villeroy to desist, but he 
 excused himself, saying he had _ positive orders from his 
 King, upon which she miscarried of a _ son; __ that 
 Bouffleurs had offered to surrender Namur, provided he 
 might take the guns with him, and march out with the 
 garrison entire, which the King refused, declaring he 
 would grant no other condition than having the garrison 
 prisoners of war, and that he would keep Bouffleurs 
 till he had EHllemberg. There are two Irish papists, 
 deserters from the French army, last come from Middleburg, 
 who say the siege is raised” (pp. 45, 46). 
 
XXV1 PREFACE. 
 
 On the 29th of August the Lords Justices issued a’ 
 proclamation for general thanksgivings to be observed on 
 the 8th and 22nd of September, for the success of the 
 allies in taking Namur (p. 53), and requested Lord Capell 
 to appoint in Ireland a day of public thanksgiving for 
 the King’s preservation and the success of his arms in 
 Flanders (p. 65). The taking of Namur was celebrated 
 with rejoicmgs in Holland, and an entertainment with 
 illuminations was given by the King’s special direction 
 (ipanele a): 
 
 The situation in Italy is referred to in a letter written on 
 November the 9th by Lord Galway, in compliance with the 
 King’s request for his opinion regarding the operations of 
 the next campaign. Galway advocated the siege either of 
 Pignerol or of Nice; the latter appeared of greater 
 importance on account of the presence of Russell's fleet in 
 the Mediterranean, which might not be there at a later date. 
 On the other hand, if Pignerol fell the King would be 
 able to undertake any plan of the Allies, with nothing 
 further to fear from Piedmont. Galway states that, to 
 render either scheme successful, the co-operation of the 
 allied armies in Flanders was necessary, and particularly of 
 the forces on the Rhine, and he urged the King to draw 
 up a plan of campaign (p. 98). 
 
 In a letter from the Baron de Ronsele to Vernon, dated 
 from Dublin, December the 1th, the former enclosed a 
 sample of a new cypher not containing the letters k, q, w, 
 x, Z, or y, which would give it the appearance (if 
 intercepted) of an Italian, Spanish or Latin cypher (p. 132). 
 
 With regard to the Army itself the material in the 
 calendar is not particularly important; despite active 
 recruiting, most of the regiments lacked men, whilst 
 such men as they comprised lacked equipment. On the 
 6th of September the Duke of Schomberg was called 
 before the Lords Justices to answer Mr. Blathwayte’s 
 letter about the regiments that were not complete. 
 Schomberg replied that Colonel Colt was the most to 
 
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PREFACE. rae 
 
 blame, as his regiment was the worst, yet he had 
 received all the money necessary for complete equipment. 
 The Lords Justices desired the Duke to signify to him 
 that he must complete his regiment within six weeks as 
 to men, clothes, and arms, upon pain of cashiering, and 
 that other colonels must do the same, upon pain of the 
 King’s high displeasure (p. 61). | 
 
 As in the last volume of the calendar, the minutes of 
 the Lords Justices form really the most important 
 documents dealt with in the present volume. Without 
 attempting to follow these in detail, it may be noted 
 that the Lords, while using their power of proroguing 
 an existing Parliament, seemed to be in doubt whether 
 they could legally dissolve it and summon a new one. 
 The judges were asked whether writs issued by the Lords 
 Justices for calling a Parliament, would be nullified by 
 the King’s subsequent arrival (pp. 74, 75, 76). Chief 
 Justices Holt and Treby, considering the validity of a 
 Parliament called in the King’s absence, supposed that 
 “it might subsist,’ but advised that ‘it was not fit to 
 be put to a trial, unless in a case of great necessity,” 
 nor without the opinion of all the judges (p. 78). It 
 was eventually decided to prorogue Parliament until after 
 the King’s return, on which it was dissolved by royal 
 proclamation, and a new one summoned to meet on the 
 22nd of November (p. 80). On the 30th of that month 
 a decree was published for ‘‘a general fast and humiliation ” 
 throughout the kingdom, to implore the blessings of God 
 on this new Parliament. 
 
 We find, in the papers now calendared, but little as 
 to the elections for the new Parliament; there are, 
 however, some _ letters preserved from Sir William 
 Trumbull in which he declines the honour of representing 
 Hedon in Parliament but accepts from the mayor and 
 corporation the freedom of their town (pp. 81-82). 
 
 The increased activity of the Jacobites, which naturally 
 followed the death of Queen Mary, finds considerable 
 
Xxvlll PREFACE. 
 
 illustration. At the beginning of July George Porter 
 and several other persons were committed to Newgate 
 for having, on “‘the Pretender’s’”’ birthday (June 10th), 
 incited his Majesty’s subjects to rebellion by drinking 
 the health of King James and the Prince of Wales; 
 for publicly declaring for King James; and for assaulting 
 “King William’s loyal subjects” (pp. 1, 2). On the 9th 
 of July the Lord Privy Seal and the Duke of Devonshire 
 presented to the Lords Justices letters which each had 
 received from some unknown person ‘‘concerning a design 
 against the King and other treasonable matter managed 
 by Matthew Goodyear, a prisoner in the Fleet, and 
 John Tilly, a_ barrister, dwelling in Hatton Garden.” 
 It was ordered that one of the letters should be sent to 
 the King, and warrants given to Aaron Smith first to search 
 Goodyear’s lodgings, and then, if incriminating evidence were 
 found there, to secure Tilly’s person and papers (p. 9). A 
 Jacobite meeting was held during July in Lincoln’s Inn 
 Fields (p. 21). Complaint was made about that time to the 
 Lords Justices of the great resort of Roman Catholics to the 
 Portuguese Envoy’s chapel. Shrewsbury undertook to speak 
 to him about the danger involved, but the Envoy did not 
 promise to hinder attendance for the future (pp. 21, 25). 
 The Spanish Ambassador’s request for permission to open 
 a public chapel at his house in Spring Gardens was referred 
 to the King to ascertain his pleasure, as such permission 
 had been once refused (p. 9). 
 
 Early in August the Archbishop represented to the Lord 
 Justices that there was nightly considerable disorder in 
 St. James’s Park which occasioned great scandal, and might 
 lead to riots; the matter was commended to the attention 
 of the Board of Green Cloth (p. 40). About the same time 
 Sir William Trumbull was informed of a disaffected person 
 who used ‘‘an impertinent and insolent argument against 
 taking the oaths to the King, alleging they ought by law 
 to be taken to the King and Queen—which plainly shows 
 he not only has a mind not to take them at all, but, as 
 
PREFACE. XX1x 
 
 much as in him lies, to detract from his Majesty’s authority.” 
 Trumbull directed that the oath to the King should at once 
 be tendered to him and to all persons ill-affected towards 
 the Government; if any refused to take it, they were 
 to be summarily dealt with according to law (pp. 40, 
 41). 
 
 There is a reference, under the date 22 August, to a 
 trooper in the Earl of Oxford’s regiment, who rode 
 through the streets of London crying “The King is dead!” 
 He had been committed to Newgate, but, the Lords 
 Justices were informed, had been bailed out, made a 
 prisoner on guard for two days, and then “turned  out,”’ 
 without being examined (pp. 50, 51). 
 
 At the close of the year Henry Bish was sent to 
 Newgate for giving information to persons disaffected to 
 the Government, as to the force, condition and designs 
 of the King’s navy and ships of war, in the expedition 
 against St. Malo in the previous summer (p. 130). Many 
 other warrants were issued for the arrest of suspected 
 persons, and for searching houses where treasonable papers 
 were likely to be found, and from time to time arrests 
 were made of persons accused of writing, printing, 
 publishing or ‘‘dispensing,’ false and _ seditious news 
 (pp. 29, 30), ‘or treasonable libels against the King and 
 Government” (pp. 29, 30 and 117). 
 
 The examination of a publisher before Sir William Trum- 
 bull is recorded under the date 12th of August. The 
 publisher stated that the paragraph which displeased the 
 Government was taken from a letter from Plymouth, 
 directed to one of the clerks in the Post Office, and 
 published at Mason’s Coffee House, whence the copy in 
 his paper was taken, and inserted without his knowledge 
 or direction. He added that the clerk to whom the letter 
 was addressed was disaffected to the Government and that 
 complaints had been made against him, of which the 
 Commissioners of the Post Office were not ignorant 
 
 (p. 43). 
 
xxx PREFACE. 
 
 . Towards the end of September a search was made for the 
 author of a printed libel called the ‘‘ Loyal Man’s Psalter’”’ 
 (p. 73). On the Ist of October a warrant was delivered 
 to the Master and Wardens of the Stationers’ Company, 
 the messenger of the press, and the King’s messenger, 
 “to. search for and seize a book lately printed and 
 dispersed, entitled : ‘A Manual of Prayers and other Christian 
 devotions, permissu superiorum, containing several seditious 
 matters; together with the persons in whose custody it 
 shall. be found” (p. 74). A bill was then before 
 Parliament for regulating printing and printing presses, and 
 in a letter, dated November the 30th, Sir William Trumbull 
 tasked the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, to tell him how far 
 the University might be concerned in it, so that care may 
 be taken that none of the University privileges ‘‘be hurt” 
 (p. 114). 
 
 There are a good many entries in the present calendar 
 relating to the comage. The evils of clipping had long 
 called for redress. Mr. Lowndes read his treatise as to 
 “reform of the Coin” before the Lords Justices on° 
 September the 26th and 27th, and they, being ‘desirous 
 to know the opinions of some other persons versed in 
 those matters,’ resolved to consult ‘‘Mr. Locke, Mr. 
 D’Avenant, Mr. Christopher Wren, Doctor Wallis, Doctor 
 Newton, Mr. Heathcote, Mr. Josiah Child, and Mr. Asgill, 
 a lawyer” (p. 71). To these persons were added, a few 
 days later, Mr. Charles Chamberlain, Sir J. MHoublon, 
 and Mr. J. Herne (p. 74). There is no record of the 
 steps they advised in regard to the coimage, but a 
 Proclamation of the 16th of December prohibited the 
 passing of clipped money (p. 132). 
 
 The window-tax, by which Montagu proposed to supply 
 the large sum of money required for the reformation of 
 the coinage, is referred to in a letter from ‘Trumbull— 
 who was evidently mindful of the interests of the University 
 he represented in Parliament—to the Vice-Chancellor of 
 Oxford. He had received a letter from Doctor Wallis, 
 
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 telling him that ‘‘upon the late vote in the House of 
 Commons, concerning the taxing of widows, it is thought 
 proper that a proviso be inserted in the bill which shall 
 be brought into the House, that all colleges, halls and 
 public buildings in the University be exempted from 
 paying the tax.’ ‘Trumbull answered that the letter 
 proceeded from ‘‘a misunderstanding of the vote,” as if it 
 were thereby meant that all windows should be taxed ; 
 whereas, according to that vote, the highest tax ‘‘ reaches 
 but 10s. upon a house, though it have never so many 
 windows.’ However, he added, ‘if the University think 
 it worth the while to have it moved in the House that 
 the colleges, etc., may be excused from paying 10s. 
 
 apiece, we will endeavour to serve them in it” (p. 134). 
 
 Another matter which materially affected financial affairs 
 at this time was the uncertain price of guineas. <A 
 letter from Sir Leonard Robinson about the difficulty of 
 collecting the taxes on this account was read before the 
 Lords Justices on the 12th of July. Some days later 
 they took into ‘serious consideration”’ the great importa- 
 tion of gold, “which would unavoidably draw the silver 
 out of the kingdom, and alter the course of _ the 
 exchange.’ It was resolved that the Postmaster-General 
 should be directed not to suffer gold to be brought over in 
 the packet-boats, and that the Admiralty should prohibit 
 it ‘‘to the yachts and men-of-war.” The King was to 
 be acquainted with this resolution and moved that, by 
 his influence, care might be taken in Holland to forbjd 
 the bringing in of gold either by Dutch men-of-war or 
 their passengers (pp. 19, 20). 
 
 On the 2nd. of August Godolphin represented to the 
 Lords Justices that the directors of the Bank of England 
 had shown the Lords of the Treasury that their bills of 
 exchange were sinking every day so low that there would 
 be no finding returns for the army if the price of guineas 
 could not be reduced to 25s. Several merchants were 
 maintaining that the importation of gold was an advantage 
 
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XXXII PREFACE. 
 
 to the country, and made a quicker trade, for the price 
 of manufactures was rising; but it was answered, ‘the 
 high price of gold occasioned that, whereby the foreigner 
 bought our goods with great profit m order to stock the 
 markets abroad, but a stop upon trade must ensue.” To 
 meet this difficulty a special council was summoned, which 
 the directors of the Bank, the Commissioners of Customs 
 and ‘‘who ever else may think themselves concerned ” 
 were bidden to attend (p. 34). 
 
 Somewhat later the Commissioners for the ‘Taxes in 
 London informed the Lords Justices that the money lay 
 ready in the receivers’ hands, but could not be paid into 
 the Exchequer because they would not receive guineas at 
 30s. (p. 31). They were told that “this matter lay 
 before the council, and they should make their application 
 there if they had any new matter to offer” (ibid.). 
 
 The directors of the Bank of England appear to have 
 had a good deal of trouble in regard to frauds perpetrated 
 upon them. In August they appeared before the Lords 
 Justices and applied for a warrant pardoning any person 
 who could discover the forgers of ‘‘ bank tickets.” The 
 Lords did not think it necessary to sign a_ warrant, but 
 were willing to give an assurance to any friend of such 
 ‘ discoverer” that he should have a pardon if his discovery 
 proved to the satisfaction of the Bank (p. 48). Two days 
 later the certificate, desired by the directors, was read for 
 inserting in the next general pardon the person who offers 
 to discover the forger; ‘‘ bank tickets’’ are here referred 
 to as ‘marbled lettered notes” (p. 49). This pardon 
 was claimed by two prisoners shortly afterwards (p. 54), 
 and again in December by two men who had _ been 
 imprisoned for ‘‘ fraudulently deceiving the Governor and 
 Company of the Bank of England of divers sums of money, 
 by forged and counterfeited assignments and certificates 
 relating to the Orphans’ Fund.” ‘They confessed their 
 crime, discovered their accomplices, and restored the money 
 (p. 124). | 
 
PREFACE. XXxlil 
 
 In Scotland Parliament had concluded its sittings, and 
 on the Ist of August Shrewsbury wrote to the Marquis 
 of Tweeddale, cordially congratulating him on _ having 
 managed the session “so much to the advantage of his 
 Majesty's affairs,” telling him also that he attributed the 
 success chiefly to his skill (p. 338). In a later letter, 
 however, Shrewsbury wrote that there were ‘several 
 questions and difficulties that are like to arise among 
 us, on occasion of an Act passed in the Parliament of 
 Scotland for erecting a new East India Company” (p. 105), 
 and, he adds, ““I do not know but it may be very necessary 
 you should be here” to lay matters before the King. 
 
 Karly in December William sent an order to the Privy 
 Council of Scotland for recruiting the Scotch regiments 
 in Flanders by a draft of 1,332 men out of the foot 
 regiments in Scotland (p. 116). A warrant of December 16th 
 authorized Lord Tweeddale to summon the Lords of the 
 Treasury and Exchequer to dispense with the need of a 
 quorum, and to give orders for the payment of troops 
 and other business that would not admit of delay (p. 124). 
 
 - But perhaps the most interesting document among the 
 Scottish papers in the present calendar is that which 
 refers to an event in history belonging to an_ earlier 
 period of William’s reign, ‘“‘the murder of the Glencoe 
 men in February, 1692.” The document is the address 
 which the Scots Parliament presented to the King on 
 the report of the Commission ordered to investigate the 
 tragedy. After deciding that Colonel Hill ‘“‘ was clean 
 and free of the slaughter” the Parliament proceeded to 
 declare the names of those upon whom suspicion of 
 complicity fell, and of those whom they held to be proved 
 guilty of the massacre. The “original cause of this 
 unhappy business” was the Master of Stair, who directed 
 that the action against the Glencoe men was to be “ by 
 surprise,’ and in regard to him the Parliament trusted 
 that the King would give such orders for vindication of 
 the Government as should be thought fit. The address 
 
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 concludes with an earnest appeal that some reparation 
 should be made te those who escaped slaughter at Glencoe, 
 and who had since lived peacefully (pp. 9-11 ) 
 
 A few words must now be said as to the papers in 
 the present calendar relating wholly to Irish affairs. On 
 the 4th of July Sir Cyril Wyche and Mr. Duncombe 
 presented themselves before the Lords Justices in London 
 and reported that when they left Ireland all things were 
 ‘quiet and in plenty—except money,” and that “the 
 Papists ” 
 
 3 
 
 were all very quiet and submissive to the 
 Government (pp. 4, 5). The various bills mtended to 
 be laid before the Irish Parliament were submitted to 
 the Council in’ England; that for settling intestate 
 estates was approved ; another, for disarming Roman 
 Catholics, led to some discussion, as it seemed to infringe 
 the privileges granted by the Articles of Limerick (p. 2). 
 It was feared that protests would be raised against the 
 Excise Bill (p. 4), but later on the Lord Chancellor 
 wrote that ‘‘the gentlemen generally seem willing to pass 
 the money bills without questioning the King’s right to 
 send them” (p, 26). 
 
 On the 13th of July the bills were sent back to 
 Ireland with the commission for holding Parliament 
 (p. 17). A proclamation was issued summoning it to 
 meet in Dublin on the 27th. Within a few days of its 
 meeting it gave indication of entire compliance with the 
 policy of William and his ministers in England, and we 
 fiad Shrewsbury writing to Lord Capell in a similar strain 
 to that in which he had addressed Tweeddale in regard 
 to the proceedings of Parliament in Scotland. He writes :— 
 “The proceedings in the Irish Parliament are highly 
 satisfactory to all that wish well to the settlement of 
 that kingdom, and are desirous you should have the 
 honour of it” (p. 65). 
 
 A number of the Irish peers who received writs of 
 summons to this Parliament were resident in England, 
 and the Irish Chancellor in sending these writs to 
 
PREFACE nae 
 
 Vernon observed ‘in the box with the writs you will 
 find a paper of their [the peers’] names; because some 
 of them are not so well known in England by their 
 Irish titles” (p. 26). Amongst the writs of summons 
 was one to Lord Castlehaven, who desired Shrewsbury to 
 acquaint the Chancellor that he, being a Roman Catholic, 
 could not be admitted into the House, so that his 
 going to Ireland would be of no _ service to the public 
 
 Ciena}. 
 
 But though the conduct of the Irish Parliament may 
 have given satisfaction to the Home government, the 
 relations existing between the two houses forming that 
 parliament appear to have been decidedly strained. Capell’s 
 sympathies were apparently with the lower house, or at 
 all events against the Speaker of the upper. Referring 
 to Sir Charles Porter and the unsuccessful attempt made in 
 1693 to impeach him, he writes “If I did not stop this 
 prosecution of the Chancellor it was because the first 
 vote was passed, in which all the gentlemen were 
 concerned, before I knew of it, nor did it interfere with 
 the King’s affairs” (p. 93); and, a little later, he wrote 
 thus to Shrewsbury: “I think myself obliged to give you 
 an account of a passage that lately happened here between 
 the Chancellor and myself. Last Sunday morning, after 
 we came from church, [ acquainted him that I intended 
 to make Mr. William Neve... . his Majesty's second 
 sergeant-at-law.’ ‘The Chancellor replied that ‘“‘he could 
 not bear it ; that it was to prefer his enemy that 
 appeared against him this sessions, and that he would 
 write to the King about it.” Capell replied he might do 
 as he pleased, but that he would prefer those he thought 
 fit. The Chancellor’s reason, continues Capell, will not 
 hold, as he himself had said “he had forgiven those who 
 prosecuted him in former Parliaments.’’ He concludes his 
 letter :—‘‘ If the Chancellor is so haughty as to stop grants 
 or preferments to those gentlemen that appeared against 
 him, which they tell me they did believing him faulty in 
 
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 his place, I dare not undertake that His Majesty shall be 
 troubled with no further complaints against him in_ the 
 Parliament of England” (p. 129). 
 
 Whilst the friction between the two houses was at 
 its height an incident occurred which, though to 
 modern ears more ludicrous than serious, was it seems, 
 regarded by the Irish house of peers as a “designed 
 affront”’; the Chancellor, in his coach, endeavoured ‘in 
 a broade street’? to pass the coach in which rode the 
 Speaker of the Commons; the Speaker called out to the 
 Chancellor's coachman to stop, which he apparently did 
 not do. The Speaker then jumped from his own coach 
 and held the Chancellor’s horses, and told Porter he would 
 “be run down by no man.” In his explanation the 
 Speaker protested he did not know whose coach it was 
 that tried to pass him, and that, fearing he would be 
 overturned, he jumped out near the heads of the horses 
 which drew the other coach and ‘“‘apprehending he might 
 be run over, laid hold of them” (p. 98). 
 
 A memorial, sent on the Ist of September by Shrews- 
 bury to Capell, reminds us that though, as in England, 
 the Parliament of Ireland had _ dissolved the Irish 
 monasteries, the chantries—which in England were dissolved 
 very shortly after the monastic dissolution-—were in Ireland, 
 in 1695, still in the hands of the Church. The late 
 Queen and the Archbishop of Canterbury had had _ the 
 question of these Irish chantries before them, and had 
 consulted the Attorney General thereon, who found that 
 their possession had, ‘“‘through oversight or concealment,” 
 escaped being vested in the Crown by the Act which 
 dissolved the monasteries. A bill to deal with the matter 
 had been drafted, and would have been presented to the 
 English Parliament ‘‘last sessions,” had not the deaths of 
 the Queen and of the Archbishop “put a stop to it” 
 (p. 55). A few days later the Lords Justices. recom- 
 mended that a new bill be prepared vesting the Irish 
 chantries in the Crown (p. 61). / 
 
PREFACE. XXXVI1l 
 
 A document, dated September the 3rd, contains the 
 proposals made by the Mayor and Corporation of Limerick 
 to their representatives in the Irish Parliament for the 
 redress of grievances existing in their city. Some of the 
 suggestions for reform were obviously aimed at the Roman 
 Catholic party, especially those contained in the fourth 
 and fifth sections, which suggested that an exact scrutiny 
 should be made of the soldiers in the garrison, ‘‘whereby 
 Irish papists may not wear the King’s livery and be 
 trained in feats of arms,’ and that for the security of 
 the garrison, all the Roman Catholics ‘‘except labourers 
 
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 and cottiers’’ be commanded out of the city, and not 
 permitted to live within three miles of it, ‘there being, 
 every night, in the city about three Irish for one English 
 
 inhabitant” (p. 99). 
 
 There is a good deal in the Calendar in regard to the 
 tenure of land in Ireland. The question was complicated 
 by reason of numerous attainders, outlawries and forfeitures, 
 some of which had been withdrawn and some of which 
 had not. A warrant was granted on September the 
 7th, to reduce still further the quit rents on certain 
 lands in the county of Kerry. ‘These had been lowered 
 under the commission of Charles II. to the Karl of Essex 
 and others, but the lands, so says the warrant, “are so 
 very coarse and barren that they are in no way suflicient 
 to answer even the reduced rents, and the exacting thereof 
 may discourage the plantation and re-peopling of that 
 part of the country which lies very convenient for the 
 trade of other nations, and is at present very thinly 
 peopled, and much wasted and impoverished by the late 
 rebellion’ (p.. 62). 
 
 At the close of the year the commons of Ireland drew 
 up an address to Lord Capell, which the latter forwarded 
 to Shrewsbury, asking that relief might be granted to 
 Londonderry for the suffering, loss and expense which had 
 been sustained by the city during its memorable siege 
 
 (p. 138). 
 
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 Turing to ecclesiastical matters, these chiefly concern 
 England and Scotland. On the 26th of July the Arch- 
 bishop of Canterbury complained of a patent procured by 
 Dr. Payn for a royal visitation, which instead of reforming 
 abuses increased them; for, by virtue of it, he gave out 
 blank licences for marriages, “which was a wrong to the 
 King in defrauding him of the duties upon marriages, as 
 well as a lessening to the Bishop of London’s jurisdiction” 
 (p. 28). The Lords Justices decided to lay the matter 
 before the King, giving their opinion that the commission 
 ought to be recalled (p. 32). Doctor Payn petitioned to 
 be heard before his commission was revoked (p. 48). 
 His vindication was read and he offered to submit his 
 commission, only desirmg that it might be recalled without 
 any marks of displeasure (ibid.). In a letter to the 
 Archbishop Doctor Payn demanded an equivalent, which 
 he computed at £500; however the Lords Justices resolved 
 to enter into no agreement, but to pursue the King’s 
 directions for vacating the commission (p. 958). The 
 warrant for revocation was accordingly signed on the 24th 
 of September (p. 70). 
 
 & 
 
 The chief historical event in the ecclesiastical history 
 of Scotland during the six months covered by the 
 present Calendar was the holding of the General Assembly, 
 for which full instructions were sent to the High 
 Commissioner, Lord Carmichael (pp. 122, 123). The 
 King urged him to induce the Assembly to fill the two- 
 hundred vacant churches i Scotland, “instead of turning 
 out incumbents formerly of the episcopal way, and to fill 
 the vacancies with such ministers already turned out as 
 are come to have a true sense of their duty.’ He 
 desired also that if the spirit of the Assembly (and 
 consequently of such ministers as would probably be on 
 the commission for the North) was rather inclined for 
 more vacancies, Carmichael should dissolve the Assembly 
 before the commission was named (p. 123). 
 
PREFACE. XXXIx 
 
 There are not in the present Calendar so many 
 interesting entries of a miscellaneous character as there 
 have been in previous volumes; there is little in regard 
 to new inventions, and not much in regard to topography. 
 The Corporation of Norwich petitioned the Crown for a 
 grant of letters patent enabling it to hold in mortmain 
 lands for the support of an almshouse in the city, 
 which lands had been purchased under a_ bequest of 
 William Doughty, a citizen (p. 113); and in September 
 a commission was issued to Prince George of Denmark, 
 the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Mayor of London 
 and others to consider what part of the buildings then 
 standing on the ground at Greenwich, lately granted for 
 erecting a hospital, would be fit to be used as part of 
 the hospital and what part would be unfit. The 
 Commissioners were also to prepare the necessary rules 
 and orders for the good government of the hospital, to 
 administer the grant of 2,000/. a year towards perfecting 
 and endowing it, and to receive voluntary gifts and 
 subscriptions towards its maintenance. John Evelyn was 
 to be appointed Treasurer (p. 73). 
 
 The documents forming the Addenda (1689-1695) to 
 the present volume of the Calendar chiefly relate to Ireland 
 and to affairs on the continent. 
 
 Dealing first with the Irish papers we have a holograph 
 letter from Marlborough to the Earl of Nottingham, dated 
 25 September, 1690, which records the beginning of his 
 successful attack upon Cork. The English forces sailed 
 into the harbour on September 22nd and landed _ the 
 following day. The Irish “lined the hedges, but were 
 very easily beaten from them. We lost only three men,” 
 Marlborough continued, ‘‘and this day are masters of a 
 place called the Catte which commands the castle and 
 the town. I hope in God in a few days His Majesty 
 
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 will “be master “ofe tthe town os) uae : : 
 To-morrow I hope to make a breach in he Gale which, 
 if I do, I shall*istorm! at the next sday/>)>(p. 1o4)eain 
 another letter, written from the camp before Kinsale on 
 the 8th of October, 1690, he complains of the want of 
 cannon and of money. “I think,” he writes, ‘it would 
 be very much for His Majesty’s service if some money 
 was sent to Cork and Kinsale, so that the garrisons might 
 pay for what they take, by which the country would be 
 preserved and without it will be destroyed” (p. 159). 
 
 Lord Sydney writes to Lord Portland, on the 3rd of 
 October, that the people of Dublin were overjoyed at the 
 news of the taking of Cork and Kinsale. ‘Towards 
 night,” he adds, ‘‘we shall have bonfires in all the 
 streets. It will extend our frontiers to a great degree 
 and contribute much to the starving our enemies on the 
 other side of the Shannon.” They—King James’s troops 
 in the two captured towns and the inhabitants of those 
 towns—were, at the time of the capture, already in a 
 ‘‘miserable condition,” as Sydney was informed by deserters 
 who had come to Dublin. ‘The next passage in Sydney’s 
 letter is not very clear in its meaning. He says: ‘‘The 
 Papist women are very angry with us; they say we are 
 the cruelest, barborousest (s?¢c) men that ever came into 
 the government; and it is only because we send them to 
 their husbands. The truth of it is, it does vex them 
 most extremely, and the consequences to us, I believe, 
 will be very considerable” (p. 155). 
 
 Sydney then deals with the conduct of William’s forces 
 and he makes no secret of their behaviour in regard to 
 taking plunder from the Irish Catholics. ‘I hear complaints 
 of oursoldiers every hour) Sie li stind Bateson 
 the common soldiers who do the mischief, for they are 
 contented with a cow; but it is the officers, and the 
 general officers, who ruin the poor people. The other day 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Pope took away from a_ gentleman 
 400 fat oxen. lLieutenant-General Douglas’s men have 
 
PREFACE. xli 
 
 carried away all the cattle, goods, beds, and clothes from 
 the country where he has lately been, to provide for their 
 winter quarters.’ He points out that the confiscation of 
 land and horses leaves a serious prospect of famine, since it 
 prevents the Irish sowing their corn for the next year’s 
 harvest (7bid.). 
 
 A letter from the Lords Justices of Ireland to the Earl 
 of Nottingham, written on January the 8th, 1692, states 
 that under the Articles of Limerick various forfeited estates 
 were being restored to the claimants. ‘‘ Though we were 
 not very forward to do it as soon as they expected, yet 
 to prevent dissatisfaction growing amongst them by our 
 delay, and considermg how many of their party were 
 remaining in arms, we thought it necessary for removing 
 their jealousies to restore above sixty, whom we found to 
 have undoubted right. Yet if it shall appear that any of 
 these are not justly entitled to the benefit of the Articles, 
 we can soon remove them, they still continuing out-lawed 
 by treason, and having only a _ bare possession without a 
 title from the Crown” (pp. 174, 175). 
 
 About this time a proposition was made in the House 
 of Commons to give the King £1,500,000 from the 
 forfeitures in Ireland, while all restitutions according to the 
 several Articles of Galway and Limerick were to be made 
 good. The Irish Chancellor (Sir Charles Porter), writing to 
 Nottingham on the 9th of January, says “It is a great 
 sum of money, and in my opinion much more than can 
 ever be made of them ...... By the best enquiry 
 I can make, considermg what great incumbrances most of 
 the Irish lie under, and that many by ancient settlements 
 had only estates for life, and considering that lands will 
 not, one with another, yield more than ten years’ purchase, 
 I do not see that they can yield £400,000. I thought it 
 my duty to give you my opinion of this matter, so that 
 .. . you might know the vanity of the undertaking’ 
 (p. 175). All persons concerned in the Articles of Limerick 
 were required to put in their claims by a certain day, in 
 
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 order that this question might be settled. In April, 1692, 
 the Lords Justices and the Council of Ireland appealed to 
 the Queen for directions in dealing with the many claimants 
 who were demanding a hearing in the Court of [King’s 
 
 Bench (p. 184). 
 
 A letter from the Lords Justices of Ireland, dated 
 22 January, 1692, laid before Nottingham various points 
 on which the King’s orders were solicited before he should 
 leave England for Flanders. It referred also to a petition 
 from ‘‘the miserably ruined city of Limerick, which 
 besought his Majesty's bounty and charity towards rebuild- 
 ing their Church and some other public buildings 
 which they are not im a condition to do _ themselves,’’ 
 As the English Parliament had decided that the Trish 
 revenue should contribute towards the charge of the 
 army, besides the support of the civil list, the sum of 
 £165,000, the Lords Justices felt that it was absolutely 
 necessary for the King to declare the war in Ireland to 
 be at an end, that the quit-rents and hearth-money, sus- 
 pended during the war, might contribute towards the 
 raising of that sum, The King was also asked to increase 
 the concordatum money for the same purpose (p. 177). 
 
 The Calendar for 1692 furnished many interesting 
 particulars on the efforts which were being made _ to 
 prevent the disbanded Irish soldiers becoming a menace 
 to the country; in the present Addenda we learn more 
 as to these efforts on the part of the Government and of 
 the various devices employed to prevent the men “going out 
 upon their keeping’’ and becoming ‘“ Rapparees.” A 
 troop of 1,400 of these disbanded Irish had been raised 
 for service in Germany, but as the previous volumes of 
 the Calendar have shown, there was considerable delay 
 in getting them out of Ireland. ‘The Lords Justices write 
 ‘We have too great reasons to fear, if they are not 
 transported, when the hardness of the weather is over, 
 they will betake themselves to the mountains and render 
 the country very uneasy by their robberies. We must 
 
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 entreat you to send us the King’s order for subsisting 
 
 them” (p. 179). The five regiments were eventually 
 embarked in May, 1692. 
 
 The royal mandate for demolishing various Irish castles 
 and the formal proclamation that the war was at an 
 end were acknowledged by the Lords Justices on the 
 19th of March, 1692. 
 
 Lord Sydney returned to Dublin from England on the 
 25th of August, 1692. ‘I was received,’ he writes, ‘‘ with 
 all the marks of joy this town could express. I went 
 immediately to . the Council Chamber, where I took 
 the oaths after the usual manner. Sir Cyril Wyche and 
 Colonel Smyth were sworn of the Council...... The 
 writs for calling the Parliament were dated yesterday and 
 will be issued to-day, so that you may reckon upon our 
 having a Parliament here the 5th of October” (pp. 195; 
 196). 
 
 One of Sydney’s first acts was to enquire into the state 
 of Revenue, and, in his lettter of the 2nd of September, he 
 points out the great difficulty of raising money and the 
 necessity of paying the army regularly for the preservation 
 of discipline (pp. 196, 198). There is some correspond- 
 ence relating to the bill of attainder (pp. 205, 206) and 
 other bills (pp. 207, 208) submitted to the English 
 Parliament. 
 
 Sydney describes the opening of the Irish Parliament 
 on October the 5th (pp. 209, 210). ‘There is great 
 reason to hope,’ he writes, “that this Parliament will 
 answer the ends for which their Majesties have been 
 pleased to call it, and establish this country upon a firm 
 and lasting Knglish and Protestant interest, whereunto I 
 shall think myself happy if I can any ways contribute” 
 (pp. 210, 211). But a week later this optimistic tone 
 changed, and the Lord Lieutenant writes, on October the 12th, 
 “T can give you no certain account of the success we 
 shall have in Parliament, as they have yet sat but a few 
 
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 days; but it is apparent that some of them have a mind 
 to be angry, and will show it sufficiently if no bill come 
 over to entertain “them % 7.9 eae. loam toldmeries 
 are resolved to give some money. Without it, it will be 
 a very scurvy meeting, for I doubt they will do little 
 else which will be good for the King or country’’ (p. 212). 
 Again he writes “They have begun like a company of 
 madmen, for they don’t know themselves what they would 
 have. Whether they will come into better temper or no 
 I cannot tell” (p. 213). At the beginning of November 
 this Parliament was prorogued. Sydney gave his reasons 
 for the prorogation in a letter to Nottingham dated on 
 the 6th of November; he asserted that the resolutions of 
 the members were prejudicial to the interests of the 
 Crown of England (pp. 217, 218). 
 
 . Some documents in the Addenda for the year 1692 
 refer to the settlement of foreign Protestant refugees in 
 Ireland. It will be remembered that in Sydney’s instruc- 
 tions on taking up the government, William especially 
 directed him to give all ‘lawful encouragement” to these 
 people; and the Lord Lieutenant was evidently alive to 
 the value to Ireland of the presence of these always 
 industrious foreigners. 
 
 One proposal for planting a colony of Foreign Protestants 
 in Ireland emanated from Silesia. The refugees proposed 
 taking a grant of several thousand acres of land from, 
 amongst other land-owners, the Duke of Ormond (p. 211). 
 
 The Surgeon-General in Ireland writes from Cork, on 
 the 17th of November, 1690, that he had visited the 
 three hospitals, which he found in ‘a miserable and 
 scandalous condition’; he adds ‘‘and I doubt not that 
 many men have perished for want of necessaries.’ ‘The 
 soldiers were sickly and so were the citizens; for the 
 former, ‘‘crying out against the hospitals, choose rather 
 to die than to go thither,” and so continuing sick in 
 their quarters had infected the town, The writer had set 
 
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 about getting things into proper order, and by means of 
 necessaries provided by the civic authorities he hoped to 
 get the hospital into order ‘‘in a day or two” (p. 161). 
 
 An undated document, which however obviously belongs 
 to a period immediately after the famous defence of 
 Londonderry, describes in some detail the reparations 
 rendered necessary by the siege. The memorandum, which 
 is as follows, was prepared by the Duke of Schomberg :— 
 
 ‘‘Memorandum of what is necessary for the reparation 
 of Londonderry. The four gates to be built with locks; 
 the locks to be brought from London, none being now 
 to be had here; one dozen of the strongest padlocks can 
 be had for the bars and wickets. Four drawbridges, twenty 
 sentry boxes, and allowance for the main guard, the walls 
 being cracked and demolished by bombs. The four gates, 
 viz., Bishop’s gate, Butcher gate, Shipkey gate and Ferrykey 
 gate, to be repaired with gard [guard] beds, gratts [grates], 
 etc. The four petty-gards, answering the four curtines 
 [curtains], to be rebuilt, a gardebed with other conveniences 
 for Windmill Hill. Carriages for the guns, viz., twelve 
 for culverines, eight for demi-culverines, eight for sackers, 
 with ten more culverines and carriages thereunto. Also 
 part of the town being ruined, and beds wanting for 
 quartering of men, it is necessary we have the [s¢¢] hundred 
 quilts and allowance for making 330 _ bedsteads, with 
 blankets, bolsters, and other accoutrements. Also it is 
 necessary to build a caserne or a pile of building for 
 quartering of soldiers, and some allowance will be needed 
 for repairing the walls battered by the enemies’ ball” 
 (p. 165). 
 
 Besides the Irish documents already noticed, the 
 Addenda also contains the Articles of impeachment of 
 Sir Charles Porter, in December, 1693. These did not 
 appear in the papers already calendared for that year. 
 
 "There will also be found in the Addenda a number 
 of letters—the contents of which have been more or less 
 
xlvi PREFACE. 
 
 fully dealt with by Dalrymple—from William’s Dutch 
 favourite, Bentinck, to his master. All are written from 
 the Hague, the first on the 19th of February (English 
 style), 1690, some ten months after the writer’s creation as 
 Earl of Portland, and the last just a month later. The 
 majority of the news conveyed is as to affairs in Holland 
 —proceedings in the ‘States-General, and petty quarrels 
 amongst those who formed that assembly. In some 
 letters he presses William to come to Holland, but can 
 understand his reluctance to do so as there were so few 
 he could trust to serve him in England if he left that 
 country (p. 150); in others he complains that his 
 communications had been intercepted, and he suspects the 
 ‘gentlemen of Amsterdam” as having obtained possession 
 of them (7bid.). He was evidently anxious to come to 
 England. Apparently his friendly relations with William 
 did not make his position in Holland particularly enviable, 
 for at the Hague the King had many enemies; but 
 whether his anxiety to get to his newly acquired possessions 
 over here was due to his uncomfortable position in 
 Holland or to a desire to help his patron with his 
 presence and advice, is not actually clear. Probably both 
 these motives acted as incentives. 
 
 The Lords of the Committee of the affairs of the 
 Channel Islands considered, early mn the year 1691, a 
 complaint of the States of Guernsey against the garrison 
 there, and the report thereon by Lord Hatton, the 
 governor. It seems that the officers required to be 
 furnished with money for the subsistence of the soldiers 
 ‘at the rate of thirteen French sous for every English 
 shilling,” whilst they subsisted the soldiers at the rate of 
 only twelve sous to the shilling. The Lords ordered that 
 if in the future an officer should be forced to have 
 recourse to the magistrates of the island to furnish him 
 with ready money for payment of the soldiers subsisted, 
 the officer so applying should give a bill of exchange 
 upon the paymaster of his regiment ‘‘at the rate of one - 
 
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 English shilling for every twelve sous.” The general relations 
 between the military and civilians were also considered, 
 and the Lords directed that the punishment of soldiers 
 for civil offences be left wholly to the civil authorities ; 
 that, on the arrival of new forces in the island, the 
 States were to appoint the quarters of each soldier, 
 whilst the quarters of commissioned officers were to be 
 fixed by the Governor (p. 166). 
 
 Under the date of 27 April, 1691, will be found 
 “Propositions for the final reduction of the Highlanders” 
 (p. 170), and in the earlier year are some letters from 
 Lord Godolphin to the King which deal with financial 
 affairs. 
 
 A remarkable demonstration on a Sunday in June, 1689, 
 took place in the parish church of Chester-le-Street in 
 Durham. At the conclusion of the Nicene Creed, a wild 
 uproar was raised, apparently in view of an intended pro- 
 secution of some of the parishioners, and the ‘ minister ” 
 was hindered from ascending the pulpit till he had satisfied 
 the mob ‘‘why he did not pray” (p. 148). 
 
 The majority of the documents forming the Addenda are, 
 however, ordinary news-letters, which, though they deal with 
 an immense variety of current subjects, have not the 
 historical value of official documents. Yet the descriptions 
 they give of passing events which the writers had actually 
 witnessed are of some importance, and these observations 
 on the contents of the Addenda may be appropriately 
 brought to a close by some quotations from the news-letters 
 calendared which refer to the last illness and death of 
 Queen Mary II. 
 
 Just before her death we read that ‘the Court is all 
 in tears and the King drowned in sorrow” (p. 301); then, 
 after her death, the letters describe “the vast number of 
 people” who daily flocked to Whitehall in order to pass 
 through the chamber in which her body was laid; and 
 finally we have the following graphic description of the 
 
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 lying in State:—‘‘ After we ascend Whitehall, we pass 
 several rooms hung with mourning, lighted with wax lights 
 in silver sconces. In the antechamber, before we come to 
 the Queen’s corpse, sit her six Maids of Honour by a 
 throne, in a mournful dejected posture. In the next room 
 is the Queen’s corpse upon an elevated place or table. 
 The coffin is very large, covered to the floor with rich tissue 
 of gold and silver. At the foot of the table are placed 
 helmets and other ensigns of honour; at her head an 
 embroidered cushion, on which is placed the crown and 
 sceptre. At the four corners of the coffin stand four ladies 
 of the bed-chamber, veiled to the ground. The spectators 
 have only a view in passing, being hasted on by the 
 yeoman of the guard, and descend at another side of 
 Whitehall” (p. 314). 
 
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 Mr. John Clarke to Sir William Trumbull. Shows that he has 
 now been confined nearly five months upon suspicion of coming from 
 France and being an enemy to the Government. Mr. Maris, senior, 
 the bearer of this letter, has spoken to the Secretaries several times 
 on his behalf, but could obtain no satisfaction either from them or 
 from Mr. Aaron Smith. He isa tributary subject of the Emperor, 
 and desires that he may be set at liberty or brought to trial. 
 Endorsed on the back: ‘‘Mr. Secretary will not meddle with it.’ 
 [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 6, No. 81. | 
 
 Lord Berkeley to the Duke of Shrewsbury. We got here to-day. 
 I have sent on shore for pilots, and hope to sail to-morrow 
 towards St. Malo, where I hear we are expected. [S.P. Dom. 
 Naval 4. | 
 
 Passes for Ensign Thomas Kerr, of Colonel Gustavus Hamilton’s 
 regiment of foot, with his servant, John Stevenson, to go to Holland. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 346, p. 84.] 
 
 Warrant to Ralph Young to apprehend John Sharples, lately come 
 from France without leave [Ibid., p. 86]; the like warrant to 
 apprehend Robert Jefferson and Joseph Botts [bid]. 
 
 Warrant to the same to apprehend Susanna Brown for coming out 
 of France into England without the King’s leave. [Jbid., p. 88. | 
 
 Commissions for George Walker, gent., to be lieutenant of Major 
 John Corbet’s company in Colonel Edward Leigh’s regiment; and for 
 Henry Rodney to be cornet to Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Rodney 
 in the same regiment. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 167, p. 246. ] 
 
 Warrant to Henry Leggat for the apprehension of Thomas 
 Broomfield, charged with high treason in adhering to his Majesty’s 
 enemies. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 345, p. 245. | 
 
 Pass for James Moore and Nicholas Moore to go to Holland. 
 [ Ibid. 346, p. 85.] 
 
 Warrant to the Keeper of Newgate to receive into his custody 
 George Matthews, for having, on the 10th of June last past, excited 
 
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 his Majesty’s subjects to rebellion by drinking the late King James’s 
 and the pretended Prince of Wales’ healths, and publicly declaring 
 for the said late King, and assaulting several of his Majesty’s loyal 
 subjects for professing their duty to his Majesty [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 346, p. 86]; like warrants for taking Robert Rodes, John Villiers, 
 John Harding, and Thomas Williams into custody [Jbid]. 
 
 Warrant to Ralph Young to apprehend Sir Richard Moore for 
 coming out of France into England without leave. [Ibid., p. 87.] 
 
 Warrant to James Kitson to apprehend Patrick Smith for coming 
 out of France into this kingdom without leave [Jbid., p. 89] ; like 
 warrants for apprehending Edward Bing, William Wall, priest, John 
 Navan, Valentine Brown, James Tasburgh, Simon Kennedy, William 
 Wilkie, and Thomas Brown [Ibid]. 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to Lord Capell, informing him that he 
 has again proposed Dr. Walkington to the Lords Justices, and the 
 Archbishop of Canterbury insisting no longer upon the informations 
 he had received, they agreed unanimously to recommend the Doctor 
 to the King. [S.P. Ireland King’s Letter Book 2, p. 72. | 
 
 The same to the same. Since writing my other letter of this 
 date, the Council have met. Lord Antrim and two other gentlemen 
 petitioned, in the name of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, to peruse 
 the Bills, alleging they had been refused it in Ireland, and that they 
 were informed they contained things contrary to the Articles of 
 Limerick and Galway. But as they produced no power from any 
 number of persons concerned, it was thought not reasonable to give 
 such a delay; since it was what every particular person concerned 
 had the same right to expect if he asked. Therefore the Council 
 proceeded to consider the Bill for settling intestate estates, which 
 they agreed to without amendment. The Bill for discharging 
 sheriffs’ accounts they have also passed, altering the term of one 
 year, as you had sent it over, to four years, as it is in England. 
 That for disarming Papists was also read, but admitted more 
 debate, because the general clause disarming all Papists seemed to 
 take away the benefit of the Articles of Limerick, which promise that 
 such as are there described shall have the arms by those Articles 
 allowed them; whereupon Mr. Attorney is ordered to bring in a clause 
 to-morrow, when the Council will sit again, describing and excepting 
 the same persons mentioned there, but not naming the Articles of 
 Limerick or Galway. He is also directed to make an alteration in 
 that part ‘‘ that gives a liberty to examine persons for concealing of 
 arms upon oath to excuse themselves.”  [TJbid., p. 73. ] 
 
 Sir Wilham Trumbull to the Lords of the Admiralty, enclosing 
 papers received from the Dutch Ambassador relating to the pressing 
 of George Beares, a seaman belonging to a Dutch vessel. Enclosures 
 not entered. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 196.] 
 
 A duplicate of the above. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 204, p. 106. ] 
 Minutes of a Council of War held on H.M.S. Shrewsbury. Resolved 
 
 that the six Dutch bomb-vessels and three English, the Mary, 
 Anne Truelove and Greyhound, batter-the Quince Rock and the fort 
 
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 called Dambour, five to the Quince Rock and four to Dambour fort. 
 That the other nine bomb-vessels go in to bombard the town, and be 
 supported by the Charles galley, Maidstone, Wren pink, and two 
 man-of-war ketches, the two brigantines, spy boat, well boats, three 
 Dutch frigates and a snow; and that as many boats as can be spared 
 go in with.small anchors and hawsers to tow the bomb-ships and 
 frigates if there be occasion. That two Dutch frigates cruize to the 
 W.N.W. of us, or off Cape Ferell, and that all the rest of our frigates 
 lie as near in as conveniently may be. That Captain Benbow, who 
 is to command all the frigates, bomb-vessels, &c., wear a broad 
 ‘““peudant’’ on board the Charles galley. That none of the boats 
 offer to land on any island on pain of death. [S.P. Dom. Naval 4.] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to Colonel Norton. I have received your 
 letter of the 28th past, giving an account of the seizing of Mr. Hays, 
 which there seems to be good reason for. The Lords Justices have 
 directed Sir William Trumbull to send a messenger for him, that he 
 may be brought up in custody to justify what occasion he has for a 
 ship from the King’s builder. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 100, 
 p. 151.] 
 
 The same to the Mayor of Hull. I have received your letter of 
 the 28th past with the information against Mr. George Hays. No 
 further directions are necessary, as a messenger will be sent by Mr. 
 Secretary Trumbull. There not appearing the same cause of 
 suspicion against Lord Kinnoul, I do not see but he may be dismissed, 
 if it be not done already. — [ bid. ] 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Sir William 
 Trumbull called in. Presented Captain Baron’s paper proposing a 
 method to prevent people going out of the river without passes, and 
 the information from Hull of seizing George Hay [or Hays]. 
 Ordered that Sir William send a messenger to bring Hay up in 
 custody. 
 
 Colonel Farrington and Mr. Clark called in. Gave an account of 
 two soldiers, Swan and Davis, condemned by a court martial for 
 desertion. The former had deserted from several regiments before; 
 the other was a fitter object of mercy, and therefore it was extended 
 to him. Mention made of the encampment. The objection the 
 Treasury had to it was that the officers took that occasion to call for 
 their arrears, which disappointed the measures taken for the 
 subsistence of the army; they had written to the King about it. 
 
 Complaints of the recorder of Norwich for discharging one taken 
 up for a deserter; of the riot at Loughborough for rescuing two 
 deserters ; and against the Lord Mayor for freeing a deserter. 
 
 The Lord Deputy of Ireland’s letter of 27th of June in defence of 
 Dr. Walkington. The Archbishop declared he had received a letter 
 from Lord Capell and was now satisfied. Ordered that the extract 
 of the Lord Deputy’s letter of 28th of May, recommending Dr. 
 Walkington to the bishopric of Down and Connor, be sent to the 
 King, that his pleasure be known about the disposal of almsmen’s 
 places in cathedrals; and that a docket of a circuit pardon, signed 
 by Lord Chief Justice Holt, be sent to him, and also a list of 
 French protestants taken at sea and now prisoners in France, to 
 
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 know whether a proposal may be made for exchanging any of the 
 said refugees for some of the prisoners in the Savoy. The Archbishop 
 directed a warrant to be prepared for Dr. Craddock to be Dean of 
 Lincoln, the King having left orders for it. [H.O. Regencies 71, 
 p. 41.) 
 
 Warrant to Samuel Hill to apprehend George Cross, a mariner, 
 for high treason in corresponding with his Majesty’s enemies. [S.P. 
 Dom. Entry Book 346, p. 88. | 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Charles Ardesoif, denizen of 
 England. He prays a patent for fourteen years for a caulking com- 
 position for preserving ships from worms, so that they may be at sea 
 for the space of four or five years without receiving any damage by 
 the worms; the petitioner warrants his invention, he having made 
 several experiments with it. Referred, for report, to the Attorney- 
 General. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 288, p. 25. | 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Benjamin Woodbridge, clerk. 
 He desires a patent for a mathematical concave, or semi-circular screw, 
 or worm, proper to facilitate the working of hand, horse, or water 
 
 _ mills, and all sorts of water engines, and for towing of ships and 
 
 barges, and lifting or raising great weights by cranes or otherwise. 
 Referred, for report, to the Attorney-General. [Tbid., p. 26.] 
 
 Passes for Catherine Canel, with her child, she being a seaman’s 
 wife, and for John Scholt to embark at Harwich for Holland [S.P. 
 Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 883]; and for Abraham Israel Reyna and 
 Sarah, his wife, with Rebecca, their daughter, and Isaac, their son, 
 subjects of the Great Duke of Tuscany, to go to Italy |Jbid. 40, 
 np. 91). 
 
 Warrant to the Keeper of Newgate to take George Porter into his 
 custody, for having, on the 10th of June last past, excited his 
 Majesty’s subjects to rebellion. [Jbid., p. 90.] 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Sir Cyril Wyche 
 and Mr. Duncombe called in. Gave an account that they left all 
 things quiet and in plenty, money excepted. Discoursed of the Irish 
 Bills. That the Excise Bill was not a sufficient assertion of the 
 King’s right in sending over money bills, the value of it being small, 
 not exceeding 6,000 or 7,0001. per annum; that it was protested against 
 when it passed before, and some will interpret it that the protestation 
 still subsists and affects the Bill, though it be newly brought 
 in. That the Bill for reversing attainders made in King James’s 
 pretended parliament and taking them off the file was unnecessary, 
 that being already done by an English Parliament; as to making 
 void the attainders and taking away the records, Mr. Rochfort opposed 
 it in Parlhament, it being his opinion they ought to remain as 
 undeniable monuments of that Parliament’s cruelty and oppression. 
 That this Bill was only carried on by those who hoped to make use 
 of it to show an Act made in England is not binding, till it be con- 
 firmed by a Parliament in Ireland, and bv this and some other steps 
 to get themselves freed from dependence upon England, which they 
 
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 aim at. That the Bill for disarming Papists is likewise unnecessary, 
 that being already provided for by former laws which are still in 
 force whenever the Government pleases; besides there seems no 
 occasion for it at present, the Papists being all very quiet and 
 submissive to the Government. 
 
 The Lords of the Admiralty called in. Made some objection to the 
 letter sent for impresting to Mr. Meisters 1,8211. 5s. 2d., and moved to 
 have the Lords Justices’ order for it. Not thought necessary or 
 customary for money be paid by imprest. Gave an account that the 
 Neptune was still at the Nore wanting men; they supposed that she 
 might be partly manned by the Newark, which was coming from the 
 northward, and they hoped to get men at the return of the Straits’ 
 convoy, with which three men-of-war were expected; those merchant 
 ships might furnish some men and their convoy help to bring them 
 in. The pardon of Whip, a seaman, approved of. Presented a report 
 upon Soane’s petition, with two memorials for an increase of pay to 
 the clerks of the navy and the officers of the yards. [H.O. 
 Regencies 71, p. 42. ] 
 
 Order to Captain Bennet, commander of the hired ship Coronatton, 
 to salute the castle of Cronenberg, belonging to the King of Denmark, 
 with three guns only, upon the assurance that his salute will be returned 
 with the like number of guns. [S.P. Dom. Naval 4.] 
 
 Warrant for Sir John Hanmer, brigadier-general of the army, to 
 be sworn a privy councillor of Ireland. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office 18, 
 p. 250, and S.P. Ireland, King’s Letter Book 2, p. 78. | 
 
 The like warrant for Richard Aldworth, esquire. [Jbid. | 
 
 The like warrant for Charles, Earl of Montrath. [S.P. Dom. Signet 
 Office 18, p. 250, and S.P. Ireland, King’s Letter Book 2, p. 79. | 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Ordered that 
 the draft of a warrant for Dr. Craddock to be dean of Lichfield, be sent 
 to the King; and that he be informed in what forwardness the four 
 great ships are, and to know whether they may be sent before, and 
 whether the flag should go with them, and to give an account of the 
 third rates. 
 
 Earl Romney gave an account of Tunstall (being upon the guard) 
 for drawing his sword upon a sentry in the Park. Referred to the 
 Green Cloth. [H.O. Regencies 71, p. 44.] 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Lords of the Treasury. It having 
 been represented to the Lords Justices that a dangerous corres- 
 pondence has been, and still is, carried on with France by divers 
 disaffected persons, frequently going out of and coming into England 
 by the coasts of Kent and Sussex, which may in a great measure be 
 due to the negligence or disaffection of the officers of the Customs 
 employed on those coasts, and their Excellencies thinking it abso- 
 lutely necessary that some effectual course should forthwith be taken 
 for preventing the like practice for the future, they have directed 
 me to transmit to you the enclosed copy of some proposals made to 
 
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 them for that purpose, and to desire you will submit them to the 
 Commissioners of the Customs. nclosures not entered. [S.P. 
 Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 197.] 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Lords-of the Admiralty. A letter of 
 like tenor to the above.  [ Jbid. | 
 
 The same to the same. A duplicate of the last letter. [Jbid. 
 204, p. 106. | 
 
 The same to the Duke of Leeds. I had a letter from you on 
 the 2nd inst. enclosing two informations concerning George Hay, 
 transmitted to you from Hull by Lieutenant-Colonel Norton; and, 
 so far as | can hear, it must be the same Hay you mention in 
 your letter. I acquainted the Lords Justices with it on Tuesday, 
 and they directed me to send for him in custody, which I was about 
 to do, but in the meantime some of his friends appeared for him 
 and offered bail for his appearing here in town, which yesterday 
 I acquainted the Lords Justices with. They directed that, if 
 sufficient bail be accordingly given for his appearing here in town, 
 he be permitted to come without being sent for in custody. I 
 thank you for your invitation to Wimbledon, but cannot tell 
 when jini have leisure to wait upon you there. [Jbid. 99, 
 DewLvo. 
 
 Passes for Joseph Bengaces, Elias Meyato, Abraham Israel, Isaac 
 Polacke, Isaac Gracia and Jacob Gracia, poor Jews, to go to 
 Gravesend and Holland. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 384. | 
 
 Passes for Benedetto Bavastrello, an Italian, to go to Harwich and 
 Holland [Jbid., p. 383]; and for Thomas Gower, John Gaimes, and 
 Ellen Calvin and her daughter to go to Holland [JZbid. 346, p. 91]. 
 
 
 
 Thomas Rookwood _ to ———. It being the Duke of 
 Bavaria’s orders to the Intendant of the Province to return me to 
 France, I was commanded back; but, believing it not the intention of 
 the Government, I thought it most safe to come home and throw 
 myself under your protection after a year and a half’s stay in 
 Bruges, as will appear by the Governor’s attestation with me. At 
 my arrival here, being willing to make it known to the Government, 
 I presented myself to the Duke of Shrewsbury, who told me it was 
 to you ; was to address myself. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 6, 
 No. 82. 
 
 Lord Berkeley to the Duke of Shrewsbury. At St. Malo our 
 frigates and bomb-vessels lay in the midst of the enemy’s batteries, 
 being fired at from nine or ten, but with random shot, or we should 
 not have come off so cheap. ‘Their galleys and guard-boats made a 
 great show, and might have much annoyed us, but they took care 
 never to come within point blank shot. Our frigates were of special 
 service to us; without them we could have done nothing, and if at 
 last we must go to Dunkirk, we must have at least as many if not 
 more. [S.P. Dom. Naval 4.] Enclosing :— 
 
 (1) Minutes of a Council of War held on board the Shrewsbury off 
 St. Malo, 6 July, 1695. It was considered what was best to be done for the 
 
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 service with the bomb-vessels,—whether to go in again, or be contented with 
 what we have already done, having bombarded eleven hours. It was resolved 
 to sail from hence, and send eight bomb-vessels and eight frigates to 
 attempt Granville, tt being our opinion that if we went in again here (the 
 enemy stul working to make new batteries and the Quince Rock being at 
 liberty now) we should receive much more damage than we could do the 
 enemy ; and that it was more for the service (having beaten down and 
 burnt a great part of the town, by which they find we can bombard them 
 when we will) to keep them in continual apprehension of us than to 
 endeavour to beat down more houses, in the attempting of which any 
 misfortune by the enemy’s fire, or by bad weather coming on, would give 
 occasion to the enemy to boast, and prevent all the remaining part of the 
 summer service. Captain Benbow and Colonel Richards were also of 
 this opinion. It was resolved to send the frigates and bomb-vessels to 
 Granville as soon as possible, and to stay to the northward of this place 
 a day or two after they are gone, and then sail to Guernsey and stay 
 there till their return. [S.P. Dom. Naval 4.] 
 
 (2) An account of the bombarding of St. Malo, on the 4th, 5th and 6th 
 of July, 1695. July 4. About ten this morning we anchored in twenty 
 
 fathoms of water, the Quince Rock bearing S.E. by S. about five miles 
 
 distant, Cape Ferell [Frehel] W.S.W. three leagues and a half, 
 and Cancale Point HE. by S. three leagues. About twelve a signal 
 was made for the captains of the bomb-vessels, and about two the 
 frigates, bomb-vessels and well-boats under Captain Benbow sailed 
 close in, and five bomb-vessels played upon the rock, and continued 
 it tell about eight at night. They threw a bomb or two upon the rock, 
 which broke and did some damage, but the enemy made us no return, 
 except one bomb or two from the Quince. Moderate weather all the day. 
 
 July 5. About four this morning we weighed, the wind being H.N.E. 
 and went in nearer. Immediately after a signal was made for the 
 frigates and bomb-vessels to go in near the town. With their shot they 
 soon beat the galleys and guard-boats in. At eight the Charles fireship, 
 commanded by Captain Durley, was ordered to run against the Quince 
 Rock, and soon after a Dutch fireship did the like, which, being placed 
 to the windward of the rock, so much annoyed the enemy with their 
 smoke that they ceased firing upon us then, and immediately after the 
 blowing up of the fireships or the falling in of a bomb (we cannot tell 
 which) the fort took fire, which lasted nearly two how's. After they had 
 extinguished it, they did not play so briskly on us as before, by which we 
 conjecture some of ther guns were dismounted by it. About nine we 
 anchored nearer in, and the bomb-vessels got im nearer the town, and 
 played with such success that we saw several great smokes in the town, 
 and at four in the afternoon a great fire in the west of it, which raged 
 very furiously till about seven at night, and then (as we guess by several 
 thick clouds of smoke) was extinguished by blowing up of houses. All 
 the time we were inthe enemy fired at us from the Quince Rock, from 
 the greater and lesser B’s, and from Fort Royal and Point D’ Ambour, 
 very furiously. About seven a signal was made for the frigates and 
 bomb-vessels to come off, the ammunition that the bomb-vessels carried 
 in with them being spent. The Dreadful bomb-vessel was shattered and 
 disabled by bombs and shot from the enemy and made much water ; her 
 captain, seeing the enemy’s galleys approaching, fired her to prevent her 
 falling into their hands, which (together with the loss of svxty men hilled 
 
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 and wounded, five or six boats sunk, and the frigates and bomb-vessels’ 
 rigging and hulls shot in many places) was all the damage we sustained. 
 The frigates and well-boats appointed to attend on the bomb-vessels, 
 being placed by Captain Benbow, were very serviceable both m securing 
 them from the enemy and supplying them with ammunition. We fired 
 nine hundred bombs and carcasses into the town, so that a great part of 
 it is certainly beaten down, and we believe there is little part of tt free 
 from some share of the desolation. Several of the enemy’s shot were 
 taken up in our ships; some of them, by thew weight, were shot from 
 cannon of seven, the least from demy cannon. One of their bombs fell 
 into the carcass bomb-vessel, broke one of the beams short off, went 
 through the deck, part of which it tore up, but only wounded one man. 
 
 July 6. It was thought advisable not to bombard this place any more 
 till they had re-built it, but to send a detachment to bombard the town 
 of Granville. [S.P. Dom. Naval 4. | 
 
 (3) Statement by Captain Rowlands, commander of a Dutch 
 prwateer, 38 July, 1695. A week ago last Sunday he took a prize 
 belonging to Bruges, the master whereof reports that the day before 
 he was taken he came from Brest, and that there were three three- 
 decked ships and three of seventy odd guns each ready to sail, but he 
 knows not whither they are bound. [Ibid.] 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Lords of the Admiralty. I send you 
 enclosed a copy of a paper, which I received from the Danish agent 
 here, concerning two officers of that country who were lately taken 
 ina French privateer by Captain Stevens, and brought to Yarmouth. 
 They were, he alleges, very hardly used, and he desires redress. 
 Enclosure not entered. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 199. ] 
 
 A duplicate of the above. [Ibid. 204, p. 107. | 
 
 Passes for Mr. Edward Looker, a surgeon belonging to the 
 English hospital in Flanders, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for 
 Holland or Flanders; for Elizabeth Hermans, a Dutch woman, and 
 John Andriessen, a subject of the States General, to go to Harwich 
 and Holland [S8.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 384]; for John 
 Ummiger and Gaspar Helmund, German tailors by trade, to go to 
 Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [Jbid., p. 385]; and for Mr. John 
 Abraham Motte and Robert Plunierden, his wife and niece, to go to 
 Holland. [Ibid. 346, p. 91.] 
 
 Passes for Wiliam Duran, a subject of the king of Spain, to 
 embark at Harwich or Gravesend for Flanders; for Zachary 
 Lawrence, a subject of the States General, to go to Harwich and 
 Holland | (bid. 344, p. 385]; and for Hendry Wally and his wife to 
 go to Holland [Jbid. 346, p. 91]. 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to Colonel Norton, desiring him to suffer 
 George Hay to come to town on bail. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, 
 p. 200. | 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Marquis of Tweeddale. I have 
 received your letter of the 25th past, but later than I should have 
 done if I had not been out of town. I have written to Flanders as 
 
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 you desired, and, though I do not think anything I could say would 
 be of equal weight to what you have already represented to the King 
 in this matter, yet what you expect of me shall always be complied 
 with. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 100, p. 152. ] 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. The Duke of 
 Shrewsbury acquainted the Lords Justices with the Spanish Am- 
 bassador’s desire to open a public chapel at his house in Spring 
 Gardens. They were of opinion that, it being within the verge of the 
 Court, the King’s pleasure should be known, it being once refused. 
 
 Mr. Clark attended. Directed to prepare orders for a detachment 
 of two hundred men out of Bellasis’ regiment to march from their 
 quarters in Essex to Tilbury Fort, and be in readiness to embark 
 there for the service of the machine vessels. 
 
 Sir Robert Cotton called in. Directed to make enquiry both at 
 the Brill and Harwich what money was put on board the packet boat 
 that was taken, and by whose orders. 
 
 The Lord Deputy of Ireland’s letter of 26 June about Captain 
 Martin. Resolved that the Lord Deputy be acquainted, that it is 
 the Lords Justices’ opinion that if, upon the enquiry he has now 
 made, he be satisfied Mr. Martin is entitled to the King’s favour, he 
 may follow the directions of his Majesty’s letter procured by Mr. 
 Secretary Trenchard in his behalf. 
 
 Mr. Taylor’s petition about joining the government of New Hamp- 
 shire to that of Massachusetts Bay to be sent to the Council, if it be 
 not there already. 
 
 Sir William Trumbull called in. Gave an account of the great 
 numbers that came over without passes, and the difficulty there was 
 to prove they came from France, though it was to be suspected ; that 
 to bind them by recognizance to appear at sessions or assizes was 
 inconvenient, since many of them would get off without prosecution. 
 That Lord Chief Justice Holt scrupled whether it were justifiable to 
 take bonds of them to appear when required. Directed that he 
 advise with Mr. Attorney to consider of such a form of bond as may 
 be legal and effectual. 
 
 The Lord Privy Seal and the Duke of Devonshire produced letters 
 each of them had received from an unknown person concerning 
 a design against the King and other treasonable matter managed 
 by Matthew Goodyear, a prisoner in the Fleet, and John Tilly, a 
 barrister dwelling in Hatton Garden. Ordered that one of the 
 original letters be sent to the King, and that warrants be put into 
 Aaron Smith’s hands, first to search Goodyear’s lodgings, and then, 
 if anything material be found there, to secure Tilly’s person and 
 papers. 
 
 Recorder’s report of the Sessions held 8 July. He being gone 
 the circuit ordered that Mr. Tanner, clerk of the peace for London, 
 have notice to attend on Thursday. The petitions of the condemned 
 prisoners. Colonel Howard’s petition for the fines of Porter and 
 Bishop. The Lords of opinion that giving those fines would look 
 like suas them. Noe answer therefore made. [1H.O. Regencies 71, 
 p. 46 
 
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 enquire into the barbarous slaughter committed in Glencoe, but, 
 being informed that we were prevented by a commission under the 
 Great Seal for the same purpose, we acquiesced in your Majesty’s 
 pleasure, and only desired that the discoveries to be made should be 
 communicated to us, that in so national a concern the vindication 
 might be as clear as the scandal has been. 
 
 The Commissioner having communicated to us a copy of the report 
 sent by the commission to your Majesty, with your instructions, we 
 could not but unanimously declare that your Majesty’s instructions of 
 the 4th and 16th of January, 1692, touching the Highlanders who had 
 not accepted in due time the benefit of the indemnity, contained a 
 warrant for mercy to all without exception, who should offer to take 
 the oath of allegiance and come in upon mercy, though the 1st of 
 January, 1692, prefixed by the proclamation of idemnity, was past; 
 and that these instructions contain no warrant for the execution of 
 the Glencoe men. 
 
 We cannot but acknowledge your Majesty's clemency upon this 
 occasion, for had you, without new offers of mercy, given positive 
 orders for executing the law upon the Highlanders that had already 
 despised your repeated indemnities, they had but met with what 
 they justly deserved. But it being your Majesty’s mind still to 
 offer them mercy, and the killing of the Glencoe men being upon that 
 account unwarrantable, and the manner of doing it barbarous and 
 inhumane, we proceeded to vote it a murder, and to enquire who 
 had given occasion to it, and who were the actors in it. 
 
 We found, in the first place, that the Master of Stair’s letters had 
 exceeded your Majesty’s instructions towards the destruction of the 
 Glencoe men. In these letters the Glencoe men are, over and over 
 again, distinguished from the rest of the Highlanders, not as the fittest 
 subject of severity if they continued obstinate and made severity 
 necessary, according to the meaning of the instructions; but as 
 men absolutely and positively ordered to be destroyed without any 
 further consideration than that of their not having taken the indem- 
 nity in due time, and their not having taken it, is regarded as a 
 happy incident since it afforded an opportunity to destroy them, and 
 their destruction is urged with a great deal of zeal as a thing accep- 
 table and of public use. This zeal is extended even to the giving of 
 instructions about the manner of cutting them off. From all which 
 it is plain that, though the instructions were for mercy to all that 
 would submit, the letters exclude the Glencoe men from this mercy. 
 
 Next we examined the orders given by Sir Thomas Levingston in 
 this matter and were unanimously of opinion that he had reason to 
 give such orders for the cutting off of the Glencoe men, upon the 
 supposition that they had rejected the indemnity, and without 
 making them new offers of mercy, it being in itself lawful, and what 
 your Majesty might have ordered. Sir Thomas, being then ignorant 
 of the peculiar circumstances of the Glencoe men, might very well 
 understand your Majesty’s instructions in the restricted sense which 
 the Master of Stair’s letters had given them, or understand those 
 letters to be your Majesty’s additional pleasure ; as it is evident he did 
 by the orders which he gave, any addition in them to your instructions 
 being given not only in the Master of Stair’s sense but in his 
 words. 
 
1695. 
 
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 We proceeded to examine Colonel Hill’s part of the business and were 
 unanimous that he was clear and free of the slaughter; for although 
 your Majesty’s instructions and the Master of Stair’s letters were sent 
 straight from London to him, as well as to Sir Thomas Levingston, 
 he, knowing the peculiar circumstances of the Glencoe men, gave no 
 orders until he knew that his lieutenant-colonel had received orders 
 to take with him 400 men of his garrison and regiment for the 
 expedition against Glencoe, when to save his own honour and 
 authority he gave a general order to Hamilton, his heutenant-colonel, 
 to take the 400 men and execute the orders which others had given 
 him. 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Hamilton’s part came next to be considered. 
 He was required to be present and called, and as he did not appear 
 we ordered him to be seized; and having considered the orders 
 he received, and those which he said, before the Commission, he 
 gave, and his share in the execution, we agreed he was not clear 
 of the murder and that there was eround to prosecute him for it. 
 
 Major Dunecanson, who received or rders from Hamilton, being in 
 Flanders, as well as those to whom he gave orders, we could not see 
 those orders, and therefore only resolved to ask your Majesty either 
 to cause him to be examined there or to order him to be prosecuted 
 as you think fit. 
 
 In the last place the depositions of the witnesses being clear as to 
 the share which Captain Campbell of Glenlyon, Captain Drummond, 
 Lieutenant Lindsay, Ensign Lundie and Serjeant Barber had in the 
 execution of the Glencoe men, upon whom they were quartered, we 
 agreed that it appeared that the said persons were the actors in the 
 slaughter under trust, and that we should ask your Majesty to send 
 them home to be pr osecuted accor ding to law. 
 
 This being the state of that matter, and considering that the Master 
 of Stair’s excess in the letters against the Glencoe men has been the 
 original cause of this unhappy business, and has given occasion, in a 
 great measure, to so extraordinary an execution by the warm directions 
 he gives about doing it by surprise, and considering the high station 
 and trust he is in, and that he is absent, we beg that your Majesty will 
 give such orders about him for vindication of your government as you 
 shall think fit. And considering that the actors have barbarously 
 killed men under trust, we desire that your Majesty will send them 
 home, and give orders to your advocate to prosecute them according 
 to law, there remaining nothing else to be done for the full vindication 
 of your government of so foul ‘and scandalous an aspersion as it has 
 laid under upon this occasion. 
 
 The Glencoe men who have escaped the slaughter, being reduced to 
 great poverty by the depredation, and having ever since lived peaceably 
 under your Majesty’s protection, have now applied to us to intercede 
 with your Majesty that some reparation might be made to them for 
 their losses. We lay their cause before your Majesty, that such 
 orders may be given for supplying them in their necessities as you 
 shall think fit. Signed Annandale. [S.P. Dom. King William’s 
 Chest 15, No. 88. ] 
 
 Warrant for Edward Walkington, D.D., to be Bishop of Down and 
 Connor, in the place of Dr. Samuel Foley, deceased. [S.P. Ireland 
 
 xing’s Letter Book 2, p. 79, and S.P. Dom. Signet Office 18, p. 251. | 
 
12 
 
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 July 10. 
 Dublin Castle. 
 
 July 10. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 11. 
 The Camp et 
 Zell, 
 
 July 11. 
 [Dublin.] 
 
 July 11. 
 [ Whitehall. ] 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 Lord Capell to the Duke of Shrewsbury. I must acknowledge 
 yours of the 2nd of July concerning Dr. Walkington. Both myself and 
 all the protestant people here rejoice that the bills are not likely to be 
 delayed upon any application from the Irish. The amendments 
 ordered to be made by the Attorney-General in the Disarming Bill 
 are most reasonable, and will, I hope, answer all objections that can 
 be made by the Roman catholics; but as to the objection that they 
 were refused a sight of the bills, they never preferred any petition 
 either to myself or the Council in form. There is one thing more 
 that I heard from Mr. Vernon: it is intended that the licenses to 
 bear arms shall be granted either by the chief governor or the 
 Council, and it is indifferent to me which way they go. But finding 
 some endeavours to have these licenses granted by the Board, which 
 I take to be part of the regal power, I thought myself obliged in duty 
 to my commission to assert the right of the sword. In the time of 
 the Duke of Ormonde and my brother Essex’s government these 
 licenses were signed only by themselves; but since the King’s 
 accession they have been signed by the chief governor, and some- 
 times by the chief governor and Council. All warrants for passing 
 estates upon the decrees of the Court of Claims were by the chief 
 governor only. But upon the adjudication of persons comprehended 
 within the Articles of Limerick the orders for reversing the outlawries 
 are signed by the Council also, though in themselves royal acts and 
 to be done by the chief governor only. The argument used here 
 against these licenses being granted by the chief governor is that 
 they take away the books with them when they are recalled, and so 
 no entry thereof appears. Now if there were a Paper Office erected 
 here at a small salary, where all the books of entries of the chief 
 governor’s orders may be deposited, it would be of great advantage 
 to his Majesty, and make future chief governors more wary in their 
 proceedings, and I am content to begin with my own books and to 
 have them the first upon record. [S.P. Ireland 857, No. 45.] 
 
 Passes for Joachim Boon and Michael Siemen, subjects of Sweden, 
 to go to Holland. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 91.] 
 
 The Earl of Athlone to —-————., asking his good offices in the 
 matter of the King’s grant to him of the confiscated estates of Lord 
 Limerick. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 46. | 
 
 Rough memoranda of proceedings of the Council Board of Ireland 
 concerning the popish vote in elections. [JZbid., No. 47.] 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Ordered that 
 Mr. Clark have a copy of that part of Mr. Blathwayt’s letter of the 
 4th instant which concerns the review of the regiment of foot, and 
 that it be communicated to the Duke of Schomberg. 
 
 That Mrs. Vaughan’s petition be sent to her husband, with an 
 intimation that the Lords Justices think it reasonable to be granted, 
 unless he has any material objection to it. 
 
 Two bills signed for a general pardon in the northern circuits. 
 Bill signed for Mr. Hawles to be a solicitor. Petition of Carroll, 
 condemned at Hertford, for a reprieve. The report of the Sessions 
 at the Old Bailey reconsidered. Mr. Tanner gave an account of 
 
1695. 
 
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 Cape La 
 Hogue. 
 
 - WILLIAM IIt. 18 
 
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 Allen’s trial, that the evidence of poisoning was not so clear as that 
 of beating his wife. Ordered that the petitions of Allen and Richard 
 Butler be sent to the Recorder for fuller information, and in the 
 meantime that they be reprieved till Friday the 19th instant. 
 
 The Lords of the Admiralty called in. Presented the ordinary 
 lists of ships at sea and the extract of letters from the Ordnance, 
 Navy Board, aud Victuallers, giving an account they would be 
 ready with their stores for the Straits by the end of this month, 
 as was ordered. Acquainted with Lord Berkeley’s desires to have 
 more small vessels. Answered that the ship he wanted is now 
 come to him, and that the Yarmouth would bring him five well-boats 
 more, which would make up what were lost at St. Malo. Considered 
 where would be the best place to appoint the rendezvous for Mr. 
 Meisters to join Lord Berkeley ; Sir George Rooke thought Dungeness 
 much the most convenient. Mr. Priestman only objected the ill- 
 riding there for the small craft if the wind came up at east. 
 Recommended to the Admiralty that Lord Berkeley be immediately 
 supplied with what he may want, and that he be pressed to proceed 
 to Dunkirk without loss of time. 
 
 Discoursed about the Marquis of Carmarthen and the squadrons 
 in the Soundings. The Lords Justices were acquainted the Marquis 
 had now eleven ships with him, but they were not always with him, 
 some being ordered in to clean, but he will have always six clean 
 ships with him. Directions given that the thirteen Danish soldiers, 
 now prisoners at Dover, should be put on board the Mercury advice 
 boat and carried to Ostend to be delivered to Mr. Bauwen, a merchant 
 there. Report about remitting Captain Soane’s fine agreed to. The 
 two memorials about the augmentation of pay to the Clerks of the 
 Ste aie Officers of the Yards approved of. [H.O. Regencies 71, 
 p. 46. 
 
 _ Lord Berkeley to the Duke of Shrewsbury. On the 9th instant 
 the detachment under Captain Benbow returned to us, having (as 
 they all informed me) destroyed Granville without the loss of one 
 man of our side, only Captain Long of the Granada badly wounded by 
 the bursting of one of ourown mortars. ‘This place was also defended 
 by two mortars and some guns, but since we attacked it to the 
 northward of the town, they could not bring their guns conveniently 
 to bear on our vessels. At this place they were much surprised, not 
 expecting us, so that there was great confusion, some of the people 
 running away and some carrying what goods they could pack up, 
 whilst the town furiously burnt. We have six or seven mortars 
 already quite unserviceable, which I attribute to the badness of the 
 metal, it being the coarsest I ever saw. The Dutch have also four or 
 five in the same condition. I will send ours to London by the first 
 opportunity. | 
 
 This morning we met with the Weymouth, which last night took 
 a small French man-of-war of twelve guns, and sixty men. She 
 was under the orders of Mareschal de Choiseul, who sent her out 
 to observe us. I asked the captain (who was a gentleman-like 
 man and seemed to have understanding) what news from Brest; he 
 said that Monsieur de Nesmond was to fit out from thence, Port 
 Louis and Rochfort, twenty sail of three-decked ships. I told him 
 
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 Whitehall. 
 
 July 11. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 11. 
 Whitehall, 
 
 July 12. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 I was well satisfied that was impossible, for I knew they had but 
 thirteen three-decked ships fit for the sea in these parts; he replied 
 he did not know this of his own knowledge, but it was reported as 
 above. [S.P. Dom. Naval 4.] | Enclosing :— 
 
 Minutes of a Council of War held on board the Shrewsbury in 
 Guernsey Road, 10 July, 1695. It was resolved to sail straight to 
 Portsmouth to refit our frigates and bomb-vessels, to be in readiness to 
 attempt Dunkirk, if it should be thought advisable, because what is to 
 be done there must be done this month or not at all; and if we can, 
 without loss of time, to sail along the French coast as far as Cape 
 Barjfleur, to alarm them along the shore. {Ibid.] 
 
 Sir Wiliam Trumbull to Mr. Secretary Johnson. I have the 
 favour of yours of the 25th past still to thank you for. It gave me 
 much light into the affairs now in agitation in the Parliament of 
 Scotland, of which I should not otherwise have so well comprehended 
 the grounds and true reasons. We have been very busy in the 
 Council here in perusing and examining several bills sent over from 
 the Lord Deputy and Council of Ireland, which we have almost gone 
 through and shall now shortly return them in order to the calling a 
 Parliament in that kingdom. We have this day received the good 
 news of the burning of St. Malo. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 201.] 
 
 The same to the Attorney-General. I desire your opinion in the 
 following matters, some whereof have of late frequently occurred, and 
 do so daily :—Whether persons, who come from beyond sea without 
 passes, being taken upon suspicion of coming from France (though 
 they allege they come only from Flanders, as several now in 
 custody do, and there is no proof to the contrary) may be discharged 
 without bail, or whether it is necessary to take a recognizance for 
 their appearance. If they are to give bail, then I desire to know 
 whether a bond with sureties to appear before me when they shall 
 be required be good in law, or whether they must be bound over to 
 appear at some court of justice. I entreat your opinion also whether 
 the affidavits, copies whereof are here enclosed, be sufficient ground 
 for me to grant a warrant to seize Mr. de Graves and his books and 
 papers, he being a merchant of London. LHnclosure not entered. 
 [ Ibid., p. 202. ] 
 
 Passes for James L’Hspine, a subject of his Catholic Majesty, to 
 go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 844, p. 885]; for James Harel, a protestant, to go to Harwich 
 for Holland [JZbid., p. 886]; for John de Villars, a surgeon’s son, 
 ditto |Jbid., p. 888]; and for Pieter Storm of Amsterdam, Martin 
 Christian and Christian Erasmus to go to Holland [Jbid. 346, p. 92]. 
 
 Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses incurred by 
 Robert Wolseley, esq., envoy extraordinary to the Elector of Bavaria, 
 for two quarters ending the 38rd of December, 1694. [Zbid.345, p. 268. ] 
 
 Passes for George Newman and Henry Caster, journeymen tailors, 
 to go to Gravesend for Sweden; for Alexander le Magnan, a poor 
 French protestant, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland; for 
 Lieutenant-Colonel de Rabar with Benjamin Wallin, his servant, and 
 
1695. 
 
 July 12. 
 Whitehall, 
 
 July 12. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 12. 
 Whitehall, 
 
 July 12. 
 
 Whitehall, 
 
 July 12. 
 [ Whitehall. } 
 
 WILLIAM III. 15 
 
 Mr. Peyferie, a French protestant, to go to Gravesend or Yarmouth 
 for Denmark [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 886]; and for Mary 
 Jacobs and her two children to embark at Harwich or Gravesend 
 [Lbid., p. 887]. 
 
 Warrant for the payment of a bill of extraordinary expenses in- 
 curred by James Cressett, esq., his Majesty’s envoy extraordinary to 
 the Elector and Dukes of Brunswick and Lunenburg, 12 March, 1695, 
 to 12 June, 1695. [Ibid. 346, p. 94.] 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to Isaac Manley. I received a letter this 
 morning from Captain Thomas Hardy, commander of the Swallow 
 prize, now at Southampton, that he has brought for me thither two 
 hampers of red wine, which is about ten dozen bottles, and that the 
 customs of Southampton have taken it into their store-house. I 
 entreat you to procure an order from the Commissioners of the 
 Customs to have the two hampers sent up hither. [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 99, p. 198. | 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Earl of Athlone. I have received 
 your letter of the 1st inst. When your agent, Monsieur Van Homrigh, 
 was here in May last, I received his Majesty's pleasure (as he 
 desired) and signified it to Lord Capell, that a bill should be admitted 
 in the Privy Council of Ireland, and be transmitted hither in form, 
 for confirming the outlawries and attainders of the late Earl of 
 Limerick and Lord Slane, and for confirming the several grants 
 made to you. I do not doubt that Monsieur Van Homrigh will take 
 care that the bill be presented in its proper season, and when it 
 comes hither you may be assured I will give it all possible further- 
 ance. [Jbid. 100, p. 152. | 
 
 The same to Captain Benbow. I write this to acknowledge the 
 receipt of yours of the 6th inst., which I received yesterday morning 
 by Captain Philips. It was read to the Lords Justices, who are very 
 well satisfied with what has been done at St. Malo and the part you 
 have had in it. I do not doubt you have had all the success that 
 you could propose at Granville. [Jbid., p. 153.] 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. The Lord Privy 
 Seal communicated a letter he had received without a name to it, 
 which recommends it to be considered whether the Act for taking 
 away horses of above such a value from papists may not be prejudicial 
 to the breed of horses in Ireland, and whether care ought not to be 
 taken therein by a clause that breeding mares of any value may be 
 kept and their colts till they are four years old; also whether the 
 Chief Governor and Council, as they are empowered to grant a 
 licence for arms, may not likewise have a power to license the keep- 
 ing of coach horses or better horses to ride on. The Lords of opinion 
 that perhaps both might have been thought reasonable, if they had 
 been proposed in time, but now it was too late, the bills being passed, 
 unless some expedient can be found out in Ireland for bringing them 
 into another bill, which the Lord Deputy is to be made acquainted 
 with. 
 
 A letter of Sir Leonard Robinson’s about the difficulty in collecting 
 the taxes for want of ascertaining at what rate guineas shall be taken. 
 
16 
 
 1695. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 ————— 
 
 Report of the committee about Lord Bellomont’s salary as 
 governor of New England. Resolved that a copy be sent to 
 the King, and that it be represented by the Lords Justices how 
 much it is for his service that the governor of New England have a 
 salary appointed him by the King, and should not be left to depend 
 upon the colony for his support; that they cannot advise this charge 
 should be laid upon the revenue here, because of the ill consequence 
 of such a precedent, because the other plantations may endeavour to 
 follow and throw the burthen upon the King. But there having 
 been an expedient already put in practice of joining the government 
 of New England to that of New York (to which latter there is 
 a competent allowance established) it may be advisable to unite 
 those governments again, which will not be a hardship upon 
 the present governor of New York, since he has enjoyed it 
 about four years already, 
 
 Lord Galway’s letter to Lord Godolphin about settling the trade in 
 Piedmont for their silks; this was chiefly thought of to save the 
 returns of money thither for paying the subsidies; the Lutestring 
 Company, who are to manage that trade, demand for their encourage- 
 ment that the custom be remitted of the silk they shall import from 
 thence. This in effect is to give them so much money, those duties 
 being appropriated. In order that there may be no imposition upon 
 the King under that pretence by bringing in a greater quantity 
 than they use, and other than what they have in exchange for our 
 manufactures vended in Piedmont, the Treasury have proposed to the 
 company that they make their demand by a medium, so that it may 
 be ascertained what the King is to pay. The Lords Justices approved 
 of what is done. 
 
 Taken into consideration that the time drew near for the Parliament 
 to meet according to the last prorogation to the 80th. Ordered that 
 it be laid before the King to receive his pleasure to what time it shall 
 next be prorogued, and to acquaint him that the Lords Justices are 
 of opinion that either the 10th or 17th of September will be convenient 
 days for it. 
 
 Petition of Charles Deringe, Auditor-General of the Revenue in 
 Ireland, for a custodiam for two years of certain forfeited lands to the 
 value of 2471. per annum, in consideration of his services in improving 
 the revenue. Ordered to be sent to Mr. Blathwayt. 
 
 Rowland White’s petition for reversing his outlawry, he having no 
 estate to forfeit. 
 
 Petition of the borough of Newport, Isle of Wight, that Mr. John 
 Hook may succeed Sir Giles Eyre as their recorder ; to be laid before 
 the King. 
 
 Petition of Alderman Ballard for leave to repurchase his ship and 
 goods in France. 
 
 Petition of Peter Sorowsky, a Prussian, for money to redeem his 
 brother.; nothing done upon it. 
 
 Petition of the Lord of Upper Ossory for his estate of 251. per 
 annum; he must make application to the King, the report from Ireland 
 being against him. 
 
 Petition of Sir Anthony Malledy’s children to have their estate 
 restored, they being protestants. 
 
1695. 
 
 July 18. 
 [ Whitehall.] 
 
 July 13. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 18. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 18. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 18. 
 Whitehall, 
 
 WILLIAM III. 17 
 
 William Palmer’s petition for a grant of Devenish’s estate at 101. 
 above the improved rent, in consideration of the interest he has in 
 it already, and the discovery he can make of what is concealed. 
 Petitioner prays to have a recompense for the loss of his ship in 
 carrying soldiers from Ireland to France. 
 
 Mr. Bridgeman’s letter about Lord Carmarthen and the coming back 
 of eae Ri from the Soundings. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, 
 p. 48. 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. The Lords of 
 the Admiralty attended. Acquainted the Lords Justices with their 
 orders of the 12th which they sent express to Lord Berkeley. Mr. 
 Clark sent for to give orders for the two hundred soldiers to embark 
 forthwith at Tilbury. He gave an account that the men were now at 
 Romford, and would be at Tilbury to-morrow. The Admiralty gave 
 orders to provide tenders and vessels to carry them to the Nore. An 
 order signed for the Commissioners of Transportations to furnish them 
 with two hundred hammocks; if they did not do it the Admiralty 
 promised they would have them from the Navy Board. 
 
 Orders that a copy of Mr. Bawen’s letter from Ostend of 41 July be 
 sent to Lord Berkeley, and that he be acquainted of what consequence it 
 is to the King’s affairs in Flanders that he lose no time in pursuing the 
 orders the Admiralty sent him last night for proceeding to Dunkirk, 
 and that having such ships with him as he thinks necessary for the 
 expedition, he come forward with them and give Mr. Meisters 
 opportunity to join him. Mr. Meisters called in. Said he was ready, 
 all being complied with that he had to demand. [Jbid., p. 51.] 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to Captain Hardy, thanking him for two 
 hampers of wine. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 200. | 
 
 The same to Colonel Gibson. I thank you for the account of the 
 bombarding of St. Malo and Granville, and in return I send you the 
 good news which arrived this morning of his Majesty having attacked 
 at night, and possessed himself of the most considerable out-works 
 of, Namur, with the loss of few men, notwithstanding the utmost 
 resistance of the best part of the garrison with the Mareschal de 
 Boufflers and the Count de Guiscard at the head of them; but the 
 English and Scotch, under the command of Major-General Ramsey, 
 did wonderfully well, and it was not doubted that the consequence of 
 this would be that his Majesty would be master of the town in ten 
 days from that time. [Tbid., p. 208. | 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to Lord Capell, acquainting him that the 
 Lords Justices of England are of opinion that he may proceed to 
 give the necessary orders, pursuant to the King’s orders already sent, 
 for passing a pardon for Captain Richard Martin. [S.P. Ireland 
 King’s Letter Book 2, p. 74. | 
 
 The same to the same, acquainting him that the bills are put into 
 Mr. Stone’s hands to be carried back to Ireland with the commission 
 for holding the Parliament. [Jbid., p. 75.] 
 
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18 
 
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 July 13. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 15. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 15. 
 St. Helens. 
 
 July 15. 
 St. Helens. 
 
 July 15. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 15. 
 Dublin Castle. 
 
 July 16. 
 [Whitehall.] 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 Passes and post-warrants for Mr. Rudolph Barmester, Mr. 
 Cornelius Cleusen, Portugeese merchants, with Daniel Hogfleet, a 
 servant, to go to Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 886] ; for 
 John Wessell, a subject of the King of Sweden, to go to Harwich or 
 Gravesend for Sweden; for Mr. Stone to go to Chester or Holyhead 
 [Ibid., p. 887] ; for Mr. George Macy, with two able post horses, to 
 go through the Oxford cireuit ; and for Arent Schuyme, with his wife, 
 Mr. Jean Louis Buisson, Anthony Mallet, Gabriel Rilhet of Geneva, 
 Francis Bourgeois of Hamburg, with one servant, Arthur Johnston, 
 a soldier, and Adrian Collyn, a Dutchman, to go to Holland [Jbid. 346, 
 p. 98]. 
 
 Pass for Christopher Seaton, brother of the Earl of Wintoun, in 
 Scotland, to go to Holland.  [Zbid. ] 
 
 Lord Berkeley to Mr. Vernon. ‘‘I wish the Admiralty were as 
 zealous as the Lords Justices, and would furnish me with some fifty- 
 gun ships they have not far from Dunkirk. I am as mad in haste 
 now to be gone, as anybody to have me, for I am satisfied, though 
 we should not succeed at Dunkirk, our very appearing there now 
 would be of some service to the King’s affairs, whom God send good 
 success. Therefore I am resolved to sail on Wednesday, though I 
 leave half our things behind me; they will follow in two or three 
 days. Now, Mr. Meisters, or never!” [S.P. Dom. Naval, 4.] 
 
 The same to the Duke of Shrewsbury. I shall use all possible 
 dispatch to get ready, and hope to sail on Wednesday morning, 
 though I leave some of our frigates and bomb-vessels behind me; I 
 will leave orders for them to follow. One of our great ships called 
 the Chichester, having received some damage, I shall be forced to 
 leave behind, so that I shall have but five with me; and yet the 
 Admiralty are very free with their orders to me to man the machine- 
 vessels, &c., but do not tell me where I shall find the men, we having 
 hardly enough to sail our own ships. Methinks they should rather 
 order us some fifty-gun ships which are proper for the service we 
 are going upon. ‘Their orders to me for sailing to Dungeness makes 
 me admire, for if the wind is westerly, it may be a month before the 
 machine ships get thither, so that I hope, if I do not see them there 
 as I pass by, I may be excused if I proceed to the Downs.  [Jbid., 
 No. 37. | 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to Sir Charles Hedges. I send you here- 
 with a copy of a memorial I have received from the Danish agent, 
 complaining of a demand for fees made by the King’s advocates and 
 proctor, which he looks upon as a thing extraordinary and unusual, 
 and desire you will so order the matter that all just occasion of 
 dissatisfaction in this matter may be removed. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 99, p. 208. | 
 
 Lord Capell to the Duke of Shrewsbury, acknowledging the receipt 
 of his letter of the 6th instant, with an enclosed paper of the 
 amendments to the bills sent over. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 48. ] 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Sir William 
 Trumbull called in. Acquainted with Sir Leonard Robinson’s letter 
 to be proposed at Council about regulating the rates of guineas. 
 
1695. 
 
 July 16. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 16. 
 Whitehall, 
 
 July 16. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 17. 
 Dublin Castle, 
 
 July 18. 
 [Whitehall.] 
 
 WILLIAM III. 19 
 
 
 
 Offered a petition in behalf of Major Matthews for remitting his 
 fine. The Lords Justices did not think fit to take into consideration 
 the case of any of the rioters. 
 
 Mr. Bridgeman called in. Delivered in a paper relative to the 
 demand about the convoy for Mr. Meisters. Mr. Clark gave an account 
 of the two hundred soldiers embarked at Tilbury yesterday. Directed 
 to consider to what places it may be convenient to draw the companies 
 that are to be reviewed. 
 
 Mr. Kirby called in. Directed to lay an account before the Lords 
 Justices what Irish prisoners there are in the Savoy, not under 
 condemnation, that they may be exchanged for French protestants 
 now prisoners in France. Those of them to be first exchanged that 
 were taken at sea. | 
 
 A draft read of the Lords Justices’ opinion upon a report from the 
 Committee of Trade and Plantations. Approved of and ordered to 
 be sent to the King. 
 
 The reports about three seamen condemned :—the Recorder about 
 Allen and Butler, and Lord Chief Baron about Carroll. The Lords 
 Justices did not think fit to interpose, but the law should take its course. 
 Bill signed for the Western circuit. [.S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p.52.] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to Lord Capell. Acquaints him that 
 the King has signed the letter for Dr. Walkington. The bills are 
 past admitting any alteration, if this of granting licenses for arms 
 by the chief governor alone were necessary; but I see your moderation 
 in waiving it, and I believe the clause for suffering those to keep their 
 arms to whom the Articles have allowed it will leave little more of 
 that kind to be done. [S.P. Ireland King’s Letter Book 2, p. 76. ] 
 
 Passes for Mr. Charles Stanley with two servants to embark at 
 Harwich for Holland; for Jacob Lohman, a surgeon, and John Christian 
 Grundman, a tailor, to embark at Gravesend for Hamburg [S.P. 
 Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 887]; for Lue Goupil, Francis de Launé, and 
 Ode Pomier, French protestants, to go to Harwich for Holland [| Zbid., 
 p. 388]; and for John Harmenz, a poor Dutchman, and Elizabeth 
 Bear, a Scotchwoman, to go to Holland [JZbid. 346, p. 93]. 
 
 Warrant for letters patent for fourteen years to Charles Ardesoif, 
 a denizen of this kingdom, for a new composition which will preserve 
 ships from the worms, insomuch that any ship, by virtue of the 
 same, may continue at sea for the space of four or five years without 
 receiving any damage from these pests. [Jbid., p. 95.] 
 
 Proclamation for holding a Parliament at Dublin on the 27th of 
 August, 1695. Printed. [S.P. Ireland 357, No, 49.] 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. The Sheriff of 
 Essex called in about Parr, a highwayman condemned at Chelmsford. 
 Delivered a paper containing a discovery of several highwaymen. 
 Ordered that it be shown to the Keeper of Newgate. 
 
 The great importation of gold taken into consideration, which would 
 unavoidably draw the silver out of the kingdom, and alter the course of 
 the exchange. Resolved that the Postmaster-General be directed not to 
 suffer gold to be brought over in the packet-boats, and that the Admiralty 
 prohibit it to the yachts and men-of-war. That the King be acquainted 
 
20 
 1695. 
 
 July 18. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 18. 
 Whitehall, 
 
 July 18. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 with what has been ordered, and moved that, by his influence, care 
 may be taken in Holland to forbid the bringing in of gold, either by the 
 Dutch men-of-war or their passengers. 
 
 The Lord Steward proposes that leave be given to Mr. Frazer to 
 so to France to be at an auction of huanus’s [De Thou’s] library, 
 and that the Commissioners for the exchange of prisoners should 
 write to Monsieur de Lagny, the French Commissary, to procure him 
 a pass. Resolved that it be left to the King. 
 
 The Lords of the Admiralty called in. French advices read 
 wherein mention was made that, when the Falcon frigate was taken, 
 the French had the cruising instructions and signals. Left to the 
 Admiralty to consider whether it may not be necessary to change 
 them. The French make an alteration in their signals every day, 
 and have a printing press employed on purpose; we have not 
 changed ours since the beginning of the war. Mr. Blathwayt’s 
 letter of the 11th concerning sending four great ships and Sir 
 George Rooke to command in the Mediterranean. 
 
 Sir George represented the want of seamen in those ships which 
 fell short both in number and quality, and that there would need a 
 hundred men to supply them. He proposed that some smaller ships 
 might go with him, and a fireship or two; that so many of the 
 soldiers under Brigadier Stuart’s command might be left behind as 
 would supply the want of seamen in the Straits, otherwise those 
 ships would not be in a condition of service, and that care may be 
 taken that our force may at least be made equal to what the French 
 shall have in those seas; he had already been exposed to them with 
 an inferior number and should be loath to be so again; that he 
 should endeavour the nation receive as little damage asmay be. He 
 desired he might have Sir Cloudesley Shovell with him, thinking it 
 fit he might have some on whom he could depend as well for their 
 friendship to him as their zeal to the service; and also that he might 
 have the assistance of two captains. The Admiralty directed to stay 
 the Centurion for forty-eight hours to carry some money for the 
 Bank. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 58.] 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Lord Chief Baron, enclosing the 
 petition of James Tyrrell. If upon his trial he be found guilty of 
 manslaughter only, the Lords Justices desire you will forbear 
 putting in execution the burning in the hand, which will be passed 
 upon him, until his Majesty’s pleasure shall be further signified. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 205. ] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to Lord Capell, reeommending to him 
 Mrs. Umfrey, who will deliver to him an order of Council represent- 
 ing her case. [S.P. Ireland King’s Letter Book 2, p. 77.] 
 
 Passes for Mr. Garrett Coghlan to go to Harwich or the river for 
 Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 888]; for Mr. William 
 Gill, an officer in Colonel Langston’s regiment, and Thomas Smith, 
 a trooper in the said regiment, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for 
 Holland | Zbid., p. 889]; for Anthony Stout to go to Holland | TZbid. 846, 
 p. 93]; and for Thomas Freckleton, cornet of Brigadier Lumley’s 
 regiment of horse, ditto [Zbid., p. 96]. 
 
1695. 
 
 July 19. 
 Whitehall, 
 
 July 19. 
 [Whitehall.] 
 
 July 19. 
 
 The Downs. 
 
 July 19. 
 On board the 
 Cleveland, 
 at the Nore. 
 
 July 20. 
 Deale, 
 
 July 20. 
 
 WILLIAM III. 21 
 
 
 
 
 
 Passes and post-warrant for the Baron de Schuerin, minister of 
 state to the Elector of Brandenburg, with two gentlemen and five 
 servants, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [S.P. Dom. 
 Iintry Book 344, p. 389]; for Mr. Thomas Herber and his servant to 
 go to Shrewsbury ; and for Susannah Willoughby with her daughter 
 and a maid, and Hugh Jones, to go to Holland [Jbid. 846, p. 96]. 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. The Lord 
 Steward moved for Butler’s reprieve to be prolonged; ordered to be 
 drawn up for Monday the 29th inst., and that the sheriff be written 
 to in the meantime to forbear execution till the reprieve come, it 
 staying only for a stamp. 
 
 Mr. Frankland called in upon the complaint of the Admiralty that 
 the expresses sent to them from the West were carried first to the 
 post office in the city, and were delayed upon the road for the Post- 
 master’s letters. Ordered to be redressed. 
 
 Commissioners for the Exchange of Prisoners called in and directed 
 to write to the French Commissary to propose an exchange of so many 
 of the Savoy prisoners uncondemned as there are French protestants 
 imprisoned in France, having been taken at sea; to make the pro- 
 posal for all, since the Savoy prisoners exceed the number of the 
 French. 
 
 The Keeper of Newgate [questioned] about Parr: he could not see 
 what use there was of his confession. 
 
 Mr. Attorney called in. Presented the account of the Ivish bills. 
 Ordered that it be sent to the King. 
 
 Sir Charles Hedges’ report upon Mr. Aldworth’s query about 
 Frenchmen taken at sea serving under King James’s commission. 
 Resolved that it be sent to the King. Mr. Smith’s paper about the 
 great resort of Papists to the Portugal envoy’s chapel. The Duke of 
 Shrewsbury undertook to speak to the envoy about it. Mr. Smith to 
 attend on Tuesday about a Jacobite meeting in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. 
 
 Mr. Powell’s case stated by Mr. Williams read, about the grant for 
 incorporating the companies of tradesmen at Lancaster, now lying at 
 the Great Seal. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 55.] 
 
 Lord Berkeley to the Duke of Shrewsbury, acknowledging the 
 receipt of his letter of the 16th. He arrived in the Downs at three in 
 the afternoon, having left orders for some of the fleet to follow him. 
 [S.P. Dom. Naval 4.] 
 
 Mr. Meisters to Mr. Vernon, acquainting him that the wind being 
 contrary occasioned his going to Sheerness with all the machine 
 vessels, where three of the small smacks had to be repaired. He is 
 sailing towards the Downs this morning, with the Mermaid as 
 convoy. [Ibid.| 
 
 Alexander Eustace to Mr. Vernon. Mr. Meisters having gone on 
 board the Admiral’s ship to consult about affairs relating to the 
 machines, has directed him to write that all the machine vessels 
 joined the channel fleet last night in the Downs. — [Zbid.] 
 
 Captain George Mister to the Duke of Shrewsbury, giving an 
 
 On board the account of an accident to the Fortune pink. Last night a ship with 
 
 Coventry, 
 at Spithead. 
 
 Swedish colours came into St. Helen’s road, and this morning | 
 
22 
 1695. 
 
 July 20. 
 Dublin Castle, 
 
 July 20. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 20. 
 
 Namur, 
 
 July 21. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 21. 
 On board the 
 Britannia, 
 in Barcelona 
 Road. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 sent on board her and found she came from St. Martin’s in France, 
 laden with salt. The master is an Englishman, born at Ramsgate, 
 and is bound to the Hast Sea. He tells me he is naturalised in that 
 country. This ship was laden in France by Andrew Stockey, an 
 English merchant there, and consigned to William Kettlewell, an 
 English merchant; his bill of lading is also English. I have put a 
 lieutenant on board and brought her to England, not being satisfied 
 how an Englishman can be naturalised in another country, and trade 
 with the enemies of England without leave from England. By the 
 information of John Russell, master of the said ship, called the Castle 
 of Nerue and Peter Reniker, a passenger, | hear that last Thursday 
 two three-decked ships, four frigates of from fifty to sixty guns, and a 
 small snow, with two other ships, sailed from Brest. The master 
 says there are three Scotch ships now lading at Rochelle and St. 
 Martin’s, and that twenty-four sail have been laden this year. One 
 of the masters is called Bird. [S.P. Dom. Naval 4.] 
 
 Lord Capell to Mr. Vernon, desiring that he will see if Lord 
 Romney had any instructions sent him with his commission to hold 
 a Parliament. [S.P. Ireland 857, No. 50. | 
 
 Passes for Elizabeth Sadler, Mary Byerly, Barbary Beaumont 
 and Mary Brookes to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland or 
 Flanders ; for Mr John Heledey, a subject of the King of Sweden, 
 to go to Harwich and Holland [S8.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, 
 p. 889]; for Peter Melin, Peter Malrae, French protestants, and 
 Stephen la Sale, ditto [Zbid., p. 890] ; for John Richard and 
 Simon Cranet, seaman, both poor French protestants, to go to 
 Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [Jbid., p. 891]; and _ for 
 Lieutenant-Colonel James Hamilton, of Lord Lindsay’s regiment, 
 and Captain John Sinclair, of Colonel Gustavus Hamilton’s regiment, 
 with three servants, and Stephen Labonnell and Jean Arnolt, a native 
 of Hamburg, to go to Holland [Jbid. 346, p. 96]. 
 
 Commissions for —— Nicholls to be lieutenant to Lieutenant- 
 Colonel Billingsley in the Earl of Denbigh’s regiment; and for George 
 Jucks to be cornet in the same troop and regiment. [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 167, p. 247. |] 
 
 Passes for John de Clerg, a corporal in the Dutch Guards, and 
 Bartholomew Gasparts, a subject of the States General, to go to 
 Harwich for Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 390]; and for 
 Mrs. Mary Warren, Andrew Grey, her brother, and Mary Edwards, 
 their servant, ditto [Zbid., p. 391]. 
 
 Admiral Russell to the Duke of Shrewsbury. I have received the 
 Lords Justices’ order of the 11th of June, which, by the grace of 
 God, I will obey in the best manner I can. I am afraid my temper 
 has been too much represented to be forward and uneasy, which 
 inclines me to make no representations on the orders I receive; but 
 this last order, that comes by his Majesty’s directions to the Lords 
 Justices, will prove (as I apprehend) so very prejudicial, that I could 
 not avoid laying my thoughts before them. 
 
 I will depend so much upon your grace’s good nature to forgive 
 me that I will trouble you with this private letter, with what occurs 
 to me upon the whole matter. 
 
1695. 
 
 WILLIAM III. 23 
 
 
 
 Kixcept the ships represented to you in my letter from Cadiz 
 of $4 April, there are none but ought to be now upon their passage 
 for England; and should I, pursuant to the order, send such 
 ships home as are not fit to continue longer abroad, I should be 
 glad to be informed of what use the remaining part would be till 
 joined by a further strength. So that, since these ships must remain 
 till the latter end of September and beginning of October to perform 
 some Flemish expedition, I do affirm to you that it is impossible for 
 them to return home with any reasonable hopes of safety. 
 
 The King might have been pleased to impose what hardships he 
 had thought fit upon me (as making a winter voyage for England is 
 a great one), | should have been very well satisfied; but to expose the 
 fleet to so apparent a danger upon no other account (as 1 can foresee) 
 than saving the Dutch their money (of which I have had many 
 instances this voyage) I cannot but repine at it to a degree that gives 
 me all imaginable disquiet. 
 
 It is not hard to guess that this advice comes from Secretary De 
 Weeldy of the Admiralty of Amsterdam, and I cannot bear the thought 
 that a Dutch secretary should govern the English fleet. Had there 
 been any one reason given against the representation the Lords 
 Justices made to the King, for the defective ships returning, I could 
 in some measure have been satisfied; but, as matters are now ordered, 
 the consequence I fear will be that the three-deck ships must winter 
 at Cadiz, and from their own weakness and the worms’ eating, it will 
 be almost impossible ever to get them home again; or if, otherwise, 
 they proceed in October, it being the most tempestuous season in the 
 year, they will perish in the sea. 
 
 Had the Dutch complied with their quota of twenty-four ships (of 
 which ten considerable ships have been all this summer wanting), I 
 could then have sent with the Turkey convoy those of my fleet that 
 are in the very worst condition, which would have been some ease to 
 my mind; but when those ships will arrive, God knows; and, had I 
 not lent money to those that are here, they must have remained at 
 anchor at Barcelona all this summer; nor have I had any service 
 from them in the winter; their constant want of provisions and their 
 thriftiness in not allowing their ships to be cleaned has made them of 
 no other use than lying for a show in the Bay of Cadiz. 
 
 _I must beg to be informed whether any ships are coming out from 
 England, and what flags shall be here to govern the fleet after 
 September, for at present I know nothing but that, after that month, 
 I am to be drowned in coming home. I am not free from the 
 apprehension of an order coming to stop me here all this winter; if 
 such a thing should happen I will rather run the hazard of his 
 Majesty’s displeasure than remain here, for I am already ruined in 
 my health, and, whatever people may surmise to the contrary, I am 
 a very considerably worse man in my own fortune than when [ left 
 England. JI have no news from this place, but that I design 
 to-morrow for the coast of Provence, unless the Viceroy here can 
 propose an immediate service for the fleet. 
 
 I am ordered to pay the English troops their subsistence, without 
 having any money; nor is there, for their better government, any 
 power to place or displace officers. At present I have so great a 
 
24 
 1695. 
 
 July 21. 
 On board 
 H.M.S. 
 Britannia, 
 in Barcelona 
 
 | Road]. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 lameness in my hand that it is with some difficulty I can hold a pen 
 to subscribe my name. 
 
 I have at last got the Turkey fleet, and am sending them home 
 under convoy. [S.P. Dom. King William’s Chest 15, No. 89. ] 
 
 The same to the Lords Justices. On my arrival at Barcelona, the 
 18th instant, I received your order dated 11 June; but since the order 
 admits of some difficulties, I lay before you the inconveniences that 
 may accrue from the fleet’s so long continuance in these seas. 
 
 In my letter from Cadiz Bay to the Duke of Shrewsbury, dated 37 
 April last, I laid before him the ships that I thought probably would 
 be in a condition to remain abroad next winter. ‘The list of the 
 whole squadron being then before the Duke or the Admiralty, I took 
 it for granted that the other ships in the squadron would be con- 
 cluded not fit for sea after August ; and I did not make this observa- 
 tion upon slight grounds, but from a strict survey of the defects of 
 every individual ship, and to confirm my report thereon there 
 seldom passes a day without a fresh complaint of the defects in the 
 hulls of the ships, which makes the service you command so hard to 
 perform, that though probably the season of the year will not admit 
 of any alterations in the orders already sent, | cannot dispense with 
 my duty in laying before you, what not only occurs to me, but to the 
 rest of the flag officers, whom I called before me this day for a con- 
 sultation. 
 
 The English squadron ought to be forty-one, two of which are 
 now at Leghorn with the money by order of the Duke of Savoy, 
 the Hdgar at Cadiz, leaky and not fit for the sea, the Hssex at 
 Messina, to refit the two French prizes, the whole with me being 
 thirty-seven. ‘The Dutch, who should be twenty-four, have been 
 but fourteen all this summer, and those that are with me in so great 
 want of provisions, stores and necessaries, that it has been with 
 some difficulty that I have prevailed with them to stir from one port 
 to another; nor could I have done that but with the assurance, that, 
 upon extremities, I would furnish them both with provisions and 
 money, one of which I have already performed. 
 
 This is the state of the fleet as to numbers, which is in the whole 
 fifty-one. My orders from you are to send home such ships as are 
 not in a condition to make any longer stay in these seas. Though 
 many others are so complaining that in point of prudence they ought 
 to be at home, yet the ships Sovereign, St. Andrew, Duke, Sandwich, 
 St. Michael, Grafton, and Suffolk are in so bad a condition that were 
 they even now to depart for England I should be in some pain for 
 their security. 
 
 Supposing these ships were now sent away, I beg you will consider 
 what the fleet will then consist of, in order to performing an 
 imaginary service, and I am heartily afraid any proposition that 
 may have been made to his Majesty by men unskilful in sea affairs, 
 or not knowing the condition of the fleet, will not prove near so 
 advantageous to Eingland as the preservation of these ships, which 
 upon their returning home at so improper a season will be exposed 
 to the utmost hazard. 
 
 You will see that if I send the weakest ships home, the next step I 
 must take is to put myself in the securest port I can find in the 
 
1695. 
 
 July 22. 
 (Dublin. | 
 
 July 22. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 23. 
 [ Whitehall. ] 
 
 July 23. 
 
 The Downs, 
 
 WILLIAM III. 25 
 
 Mediterranean, to defend myself from the enemy, which I would as 
 willingly be shot through the head as comply with; and if not it is 
 impossible that this fleet can return from the seas in October; for 
 even the strongest ships of those of the three decks will run so great 
 a hazard by the weather, at that time of the year, that I believe few 
 seafaring men but would rather choose the hazard of a battle than 
 the inconveniences that may attend ships of that magnitude; and I 
 will affirm that this fleet might with more safety have returned last 
 year in December or January than it can now in September. 
 
 I very much fear the possibility of the three-deck ships coming 
 for Kingland this winter, and if not, besides many inconveniences 
 which may attend the nation by their absence, it will be hardly 
 possible to put them in a condition to swim home afterwards. If 
 the Dutch had complied with their quota, I could then have sent 
 home as many ships as would have reduced the fleet to fifty. Most 
 people will agree the fleet should not consist of less than that number, 
 especially when I am assured the enemy’s number at Toulon exceeds 
 that, besides thirty-seven galleys. Jam not able to judge whether 
 they ean fit out that number without the help of men from West 
 France, though many people in these parts pretend to affirm that, 
 by putting a number of soldiers on board more than usual, they 
 may be equipped for the sea in very little time. [S.2?. Dom. Naval 4. | 
 
 Memoranda of minutes of the Council Board of Ireland respecting 
 the Marl of Athlone’s Bill directing that parties pretending must 
 end the suit within a year, or lose the cause; and that any deed 
 produced against this title found to be forged shall be lacerated in 
 court. [S.P. Ireland 857, No. 61.| 
 
 Pass for Mr. de la Brie, “ belonging to the Duke of St. Albans,” 
 to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland or Flanders. [S.P. Dom. 
 Tintry Book 844, p. 891. | 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. The Lords 
 of the Admiralty attended. HKnquired of them if they had heard 
 of any misunderstanding or anything that occasioned Captain 
 Benbow’s uneasiness. Directed that he should have leave to come 
 on shore if his health required it; otherwise that care be taken not 
 to lose his service during this expedition. The Admiralty asked 
 about the Marquis of Carmarthen; he had no other orders but to go 
 to the Soundings, but he writes to them that he was coming back 
 with the Cadiz fleet, as had been resolved at a Council of War, though 
 the Cadiz fleet have a convoy of three English men-of-war besides 
 the Gloucester, two Ostenders and a Hamburger. This occasions 
 that there is scarcely a prospect of the whole squadron being together 
 again this summer in the Soundings. 
 
 °Mr. Crump’s letter about Wollers; Mr. Smith ordered to prosecute. 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury gave an account that he spoke to the 
 Portuguese envoy about the great resort to his chapel and the 
 danger of it, but he did not promise to’ take care to hinder it. 
 [S.P. Dom, léntry Book 274, p. 56. | 
 
 Lord Berkeley to Mr. Vernon. Captain Phillips has just come on 
 board with your letter asl am getting under sail. I hope to be over 
 on the coast of Flanders to-night and to begin the attack on 
 
26 
 1695. 
 
 July 23. 
 The Downs. 
 
 July 28. 
 
 Deal. 
 
 July 23. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 23. 
 
 July 23. 
 
 Dublin. 
 
 July 24. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 Thursday. Since it as been thought fit to appoint Sir George Rooke 
 to command in the Straits, | suppose care will be taken that we may 
 not meet at sea without he will obey, for I can own no superior at 
 sea but Admiral Russell. Benbow is quitting his ship. I cannot 
 imagine the reason; he pretends sickness, but I think that is only 
 feigned. [S.P. Naval 4. | : 
 
 Lord Berkeley to the Duke of Shrewsbury, acquainting him that 
 he does not see how Mr. Meisters can ruin the harbour, but will give 
 him all the assistance he can. Also that he has four hundred 
 soldiers on board and no orders from the Lords Justices or 
 Admiralty for receiving them. [Jbid.| Enclosing :— 
 
 Minutes of a Council of War held wm the Downs, 22 July, 1695, 
 determining the plan of attack on Dunkirk.  [Lbid.] 
 
 Mr. Meisters to Mr. Vernon, acquainting him that a Council of 
 War has been held, and that they are to sail about nine o’clock. 
 [ Lbid. | 
 
 Passes and post-warrant for Wenceslaus Halweil, a German, to go 
 to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland or Flanders; for Mrs. Mary 
 Hall, Mrs. Anne Browne, George and Anne Browne, her son and 
 daughter, Klzabeth Browne, her servant, and for Pierre Ruchon, 
 Jane, his wife, Martin and Toinette, their children, poor French 
 protestants, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 344, p. 892]; for Owen Reading, servant to Colonel 
 FitzPatrick, and Robert Keating, a distiller, to go to Flanders; for 
 Isaac Rascoe, with a guide, to go to Harwich| Jbid. 346, p. 96]; for Mr. 
 Kdward Aisley, Captain Everard and William Watson, groom to 
 John Hedley, captain in Major-General Churchill’s regiment, to 
 go to Flanders; and for John Moore and Nicholas Moore, to go to 
 Holland [Jbid., p. 97]. 
 
 Rough memoranda relating to the sorting of papers, ete., in the 
 Bermingham Tower | Dublin], all in confusion. [S.P. Ireland 857, 
 No. 52. | 
 
 The Lord Chancellor of Ireland to Mr. Vernon. The King having 
 appointed that a Parliament be held in this kingdom, and many of 
 the peers living in England, I send over their writs. It is necessary 
 that there should be particular notice taken of the times those writs 
 are delivered. In the box with the writs you will find a paper of 
 their|the peers’ ] names, because some of them are not so well known 
 in England by their Irish titles. The writsareall goneinto the country, 
 and they are already in this town and many other places upon their 
 elections. The gentlemen generally seem willing to pass the money 
 bill sent over without questioning the King’s right to send them. 
 [Ibid., No. 53. | 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to Lord Berkeley, acquainting him that 
 he has received an account from Mr. Blathwayt, dated on the 20th 
 instant, that Dixmude has surrendered to the French, and that it is 
 again feared that Niewport may be attacked. The King therefore 
 commands that all things for the attempt on Dunkirk be immediately 
 dispatched. [S.P. Naval 4.| 
 
1695. 
 
 July 24. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 25. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 25. 
 Off Calais 
 
 July 25. 
 Deal. 
 
 July 25. 
 Off Calais. 
 
 July 25. 
 [ Whitehall. ] 
 
 WILLIAM III. 27 
 
 Passes for Anne Jolliffe, John Grimbalson and Mr. Daniel 
 Papin, a French protestant, to go to Gravesend or Falmouth for 
 Spain; for Mr. John Gottlieb Arnst, Mr. George Gregory Francisci 
 and Mr. Christian Von Ottingen, three Germans, to go to Harwich 
 or Gravesend for Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 893]; and 
 for Mr. James Aires, with Patrick Leynham and Thomas Jones, his 
 servants, to go to Ostend [ Ibid. 346, p. 97]. 
 
 Passes for Catherine Jansen to go to Harwich or Gravesend for 
 Holland [Jbid. 844, p. 392]; for Anna Bermeren, a subject of the 
 King of Spain, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland or 
 Flanders; for Lawrence Meruci, an Italian, to go to Falmouth and 
 Spain [Jbid., p. 398] ; for Catherine Foster to go to Gravesend for 
 Holland or Flanders ; for Mrs. Mary Moreland, with Anne Bell, her 
 maid, to embark at Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [Zbid., p. 894]; 
 for Mr. Alexander Keynes and Mrs. Mary Webb, his cousin, and 
 William Hilton, his servant, to go to Gravesend or any other port for 
 Flanders; and for Melchior Gaillard, his wife and two children, and 
 Schiper Hans Roose of Hamburg, to go to Holland [ Ibid. 346, p. 97]. 
 
 Lord Berkeley to Mr. Bridgman. This day I received yours about 
 Captain Benbow ; the Board is mistaken in thinking he can be of any 
 use at Dunkirk after his having shewn so much unwillingness to go 
 there. I hear Mr. Meisters’ was the first vessel that left the fleet to go 
 back to the Downs, which forwardness might have been spared. 
 However, I will go on to the rendezvous, having sent two frigates for 
 him. I fear, when they come, they will do no great good. Copy. 
 [S.P. Naval 4.] 
 
 Mr. Meisters to Mr. Vernon, shewing that he was obliged by the 
 wind to separate the machine-vessels and store ships from Lord 
 Berkeley. The store ships made for Margate Road, from whence he 
 expects them. Upon sealing this letter they perceived the fleet 
 making for the Downs. [JZbid. | 
 
 Lord Berkeley to the Commissioners of the Admiralty, acquainting 
 them that, the weather being better, he is steering for the rendezvous, 
 Gravelines Pits, and has sent to the Downs for Mr. Meisters; and 
 eae them to send a captain for the Northumberland. Copy. 
 
 Lbid. | 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. 
 for to prepare the commissions for proroguing Parliament. 
 Lord Chief Baron to supply the place of Lord Keeper. 
 
 Mr. Clark called in. Directions given him about quartering some 
 troops at Newcastle and near it. Result of the Council of War of the 
 22nd read. Ordered that a letter be written to Mr. Meisters to know 
 why mention is made of attacking only one of the wooden forts. 
 Cornet Cecil’s petition read, condemned at Kingston. 
 
 R. Drury’s petition with an information about clippers. Mention 
 made of the merchants who would make it appear it was advan- 
 tageous to the nation to import gold. Resolved that they be spoken 
 to to apply to the Council. 
 
 The Lords of the Admiralty called in. Mention made of Sir 
 George Rooke and what flag he should carry. Proposed it be the 
 white at main topmast head, when he comes in sight of Mr. Russell, 
 
 Mr. Chute sent 
 The 
 
28 
 1695. 
 
 July 26. 
 [Whitehall,] 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 and at other times the union flag. Conceived not to be contrary to 
 the agreement with the Dutch who are to have the second post, this 
 being but a temporary expedient. 
 
 The Victuallers gave an account of their readiness with the 
 provisions. Three months’ victuals provided for the whole number 
 in the Straits, and the ships that go from hence to carry six 
 months’ provisions with them. Information against Justice Hivans 
 for discouraging press masters. Directed that he be put out of the 
 commission of the peace. Complained of the captain and lieutenant 
 of the alcon being detained in France. Ordered that the Admiral be 
 written to by the next post, to acquaint him with Sir George Rooke 
 being appointed to succeed, and that the King has given Admiral 
 Aylmer leave to come home. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 57.] 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. The Commis- 
 sioners of the Victualling attended. Gave an account what stores 
 they had at Portsmouth, and what they had provided to send thither. 
 Ordered the victualling ships designed for Portsmouth to stop in the 
 Downs till further orders, since it might be thought advisable for 
 the ships designed for the Straits to take in their provisions there. 
 
 The Lords of the Admiralty sent for. Ordered that care be taken 
 to supply Mr. Meisters with what he wants, and that he hasten to 
 follow Lord Berkeley. 
 
 An account that Vaughan was brought up; he denies ever to have 
 been in England. 
 
 Ordered that Mr. Blathwayt be asked whether the King will order 
 any particular service for the fleet when the attempt upon Dunkirk 
 is over. That he be acquainted with what Sir George Rooke says, 
 [and] that Admiral Russell in his letter of the 14th to their Board 
 writes he had not the assistance of any one Dutch ship all last winter, 
 they wanting provisions and being so very foul. 
 
 Sir William Ashurst called in. Gave an account of Butler’s 
 trial. Resolved thereupon that the Lords Justices would not prolong 
 the reprieve. 
 
 Commissioners for Exchange of Prisoners called in. Directed to 
 write into France that, till our officers were returned, none of theirs 
 should be sent back; and if our men were not better used, theirs 
 must expect the lke treatment. 
 
 Mr. Aldworth’s letter of the 18th read about the floating prisons. 
 Ordered to be given to the Clerk of the Council, that matter 
 being now under consideration. 
 
 Lord Godolphin informed the Lord Justices about the demands of 
 the Lutestring Company for their encouragment in managing a 
 trade in Piedmont, and that the Treasury thought fit to allow 2,400. 
 per annum to be abated upon the custom of such silk as they should 
 bring thence. Resolved that it be put into writing as the opinion of 
 that Board, and then the Lords Justices would concur with it. 
 
 The Archbishop’s complaint of a patent procured by Dr. Pain fora 
 royal visitation, which instead of reforming abuses increased them, 
 and by virtue whereof he gave out blank licences for marriages, 
 which was a wrong to the King in defrauding him of the duties upon 
 marriages, as well as a lessening to the Bishop of London’s jurisdic- 
 tion. Resolved that a statement thereof be put into writing to be 
 laid before the King. [Jbid., p. 58.] 
 

 

 
1695. 
 July 26. 
 Deal. 
 
 July 26. 
 On board the 
 Mercury, 
 off Dover. 
 
 July 26. 
 
 July 26. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 26. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 27. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 WILLIAM III. 29 
 
 
 
 Mr. Meisters to the Duke of Shrewsbury, showing that if the 
 machine-vessels should come to an anchor in Gravelines Pits and 
 meet with bad weather, they would be destroyed, being old and 
 wanting anchors and sufficient leneth of cables. He had hoped they 
 might have waited in the Downs till the weather was more settled. 
 [S.P. Naval 4.] Enclosing :— 
 
 (1) A copy of his letter to Lord Berkeley, dated at Deal, 26 July, 
 1695. About 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon Captain Poulton came to 
 him with directions to join Lord Berkeley with the machine-vessels. He 
 had advised with some masters of ships and seamen who knew the 
 French coast, and they told him he would run great risk to sail with 
 the said vessels, the wind blowing so fresh at N.W. (2) A copy of an 
 order sent by Lord Berkeley, dated in the Downs, 23 July, 1695, 
 appointing a rendezvous at Gravelines Pits [Ibid.]. (8) A list of ships 
 that are missing, with the masters’ names: Gabriel, James Muilleson ; 
 Expedition, Dirck Backer: Happy Return, Robert Isaac; Fortune 
 hoy, Claes Cleynman ; Endeavour the First, John Pace ; May Flower, 
 John Kendall; Hopewell, Thomas Dunsdell; Gratton, Collin Gunter ; 
 Owner’s Good Will, William Cammock ; Ephraim, Lewis Frost ; Mary 
 and Sarah, G. Baes; Lady Ann, Zegeba Detien. Also alist of ships 
 that are in the Downs under command of Mr. Meisters: Sea Horse, 
 Edward Barker ; May Flower, John Dixon ; William and Elizabeth, 
 William Carleton ; Endeavour the Second, George Dickison ; Blessing, 
 George Lister; John and Martha, Wiliam Saunders; John and 
 Matthew, John Prickett; True Love, John Quantrell; Thomas and 
 George, Thomas Liddle; Abram’s Offering, Jacob Johnson ; Young 
 Tobias, Ylke Peeters ; Prins Casimier, Lambert Annes [Ibid.] 
 
 Captain John Lapthorne to the Duke of Shrewsbury, acquainting 
 him with his arrival at Dover pier, with Mr. Stock’s orders to victual, 
 and that he has received the Duke’s letter with Mr. Robert Motlow’s 
 enclosed, and also orders from the Admiralty to carry to Ostend 
 thirteen Danish soldiers and the agents of the sick and wounded at 
 Dover. [Lbid.| 
 
 Captain Samuel Salisbury to Sir William Trumball, desiring bail 
 and declaring he had nothing to do with the riot, for which several 
 others had been committed. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 6, 
 No. 83. | 
 
 Passes for Theophilus Schuzzen and Tobias Watson, lacemakers, 
 and Paul Montelion, an Italian, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for 
 Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 894]; for Mrs. Margaret 
 Warren, with her maidservant, ditto [Ibid. 846, p. 97]; and for 
 Captain Daniel Wood and Phillip Fox, his servant, Lord Strathnaver, 
 Major-General Levingston, Major John Forbes and Lieutenant 
 soa Fergher, with their servant, to go to Flanders [Jbid., 
 po 98}. 
 
 Warrant to James Kitson to apprehend John Whitlock, John 
 Salisbury, and Robert Everingham for printing, publishing, or dis- 
 pensing false and seditious news.  [2bid. | 
 
 Passes for Francis Cary, gilder, Ann Lemoine and Mary Watson 
 to go to Flanders. [Jbid.] 
 
30 
 
 1695. 
 
 July 27. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 27. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 27. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 27. 
 Gravelines 
 Pits. 
 
 July 27. 
 Deal, 
 
 July 27. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 27. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 28. 
 Deal. 
 
 July 29. 
 (Deal. ] 
 
 July 29. 
 Gravelines 
 Pits. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 Warrant to John Gellybrand to apprehend —— Edwards for 
 printing, publishing or dispensing seditious and treasonable libels 
 against the Government. [S8.P. Dom. Entry Book 346, p. 99. ] 
 
 
 
 Warrant to Peter Tom to apprehend Herrington of 
 Kingston-upon-Hull, mariner, for corresponding with and serving his 
 Majesty’s enemies, and for coming out of France without licence. 
 [Lbid. | | 
 
 Warrant to Robert Stevens, William Sutton and James Kitson 
 to apprehend John Dyer for writing, publishing and dispersing false 
 and seditious news. {| Ibid. | 
 
 Minutes of a Council of War held on board the Shrewsbury 
 concerning the attempt on Dunkirk. It was thought advisable to 
 sail nearer in with the ships; to send eight frigates towards ‘the 
 Brake,” to observe what provisions the enemy had made at the 
 Rhysbank and wooden forts, and to expect Mr. Meisters, ‘‘ who it is 
 conceived will be here to-morrow or does not design, to come this 
 season.” [S.P. Naval 4.| 
 
 Mr. Meisters to Mr. Vernon. Yours of yesterday, with orders 
 from the Lords of the Admiralty, I received at 11 o’clock this 
 morning. The disposition is made to attack both forts at once with 
 four frigates, and Admiral Almonde has ordered another besides 
 those four to fire upon the east forts with red-hot bullets. I cannot 
 well apply a machine to the east fort before the west fort is ruined. 
 I do not at all question, if wind and weather will permit, that both 
 the wooden forts and part of the gallery will be ruined to low water 
 mark, and the Rhysbank be made incapable of hindering us from 
 bombarding the town.  [ Jbid. | 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Mayor of Dover. I have received 
 your letter of yesterday’s date concerning one Mr. Marshall, whom 
 you suspect to be an ill affected person, and a copy of his letter to 
 Mr. Clement Buck. As to Marshall, he being a stranger to me, it 
 will require some time to be informed of his character, which I am 
 endeavouring to be, and therefore desire that, for the present, you 
 will have a careful eye upon him. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, 
 p. 204. | 3 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Mayor of Bristol, acknowledging 
 the receipt of his letter of the 25th instant. [Jbid. 100, p. 154. ] 
 
 Mr. Meisters to the Duke of Shrewsbury, showing that he put to 
 sea with the machine-vessels under convoy of the Charles galley, but 
 was forced back again, the wind blowing too fresh from the 8.W. for 
 them to proceed on their voyage to the fleet. [S.P. Naval 4. | 
 
 The same to the same, acknowledging the receipt of his letter of 
 28th July; he is just going to start for the fleet, under convoy of the 
 Chichester and Charles galley. | Ibid.] 
 
 Lord Berkeley to Mr. Vernon. I just now received yours dated 
 yesterday by Mr. Meisters, who has arrived with the machines, ete. 
 The weather is fine, and I hope to begin the attack to-morrow or 
 Wednesday at the farthest. I had written to the Duke of Shrewsbury 
 
1695. 
 
 July 29 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 30. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 30 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 30. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 80 
 
 Whitehall, 
 
 July 30. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 30. 
 Off Dunkirk. 
 
 WILLIAM III. 31 
 
 
 
 before Mr. Meisters’ arrival, and hope he will forgive my declaring 
 my resolution and jealousy. As to Captain Benbow I know of no 
 difference between him and myself, nor have we had any. He has 
 no small obligation to me, but being called in some of the foolish 
 printed papers “‘ the famous Captain Benbow,” I suppose has put 
 him a little out of himself. Meisters says Namur is taken, and I 
 only want a confirmation of it to make a public rejoicing. [S.P. 
 Naval 4. | 
 
 Passes for James Hymail, a French protestant, Judith Hatte, and 
 Martha du Mouchel, a French protestant, to go to Gravesend and 
 Holland; for Don Francois de Repio, an [talian gentleman, to go to 
 Harwich and Holland Lo. P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 395]; and for 
 Magdalena and Mary Menard, Nicolas Mercier, Francis Sermenteau, 
 troopers in Viscount Galway’s regiment, Charles Goupee, John Tom, 
 and Catherin Lulie and her daughter to go to Holland [JZbid. 346, 
 p. 100]. 
 
 Passes for Pers Janse and her two children to go to Harwich or 
 Gravesend for Holland | /bid. 344, p. 396]; for Lewis Sale, Rachel, his 
 wife, and Charolette Bourdau, his niece, French protestants, to go to 
 Gravesend and Holland [Jbid., p. 897]; for Johanna du Bois and 
 John and Alida Colier, her children, ditto; for Elizabeth de Wilde to 
 eo to Harwich and Holland [ bid., p. 898]; for Martha Hardi, 
 Martha Busquet and Marianne Estournell, Mary d’Epinay, John 
 Gerard and Anna Jans to go to Holland (Ibid. 346, p. 100]; for 
 William Buckhack, a student, to go to Dantzig; and for Winefred 
 Burger, James Burger, her son, HKlicia Towerson and Elizabeth 
 Wolers, her servants, Gosivinus Smith and Francis Hearhouse to go 
 to Holland [Tord., p. 101}. 
 
 Warrant for a grant of letters patent, for fourteen years, to Ralph 
 Lane, merchant, for his invention for making and producing colours 
 in cloth and all other sorts of manufactures in woollen or silk, simple 
 and compound in figures, flowers, forestry and landscapes, and 
 dying on one side only. [Jbid., p. 102. | 
 
 Warrant to James Kitson and Richard Hopkins to repair to 
 Romney in Kent for the apprehension of Thomas Ladd, on a charge 
 of sending wool to France, and I INUE SS with his Majesty’s 
 enemies. “[ Ibid. 845, p. 246.] 
 
 Like warrant for the apprehension of Godfrey Cross.  [Jbid.] 
 
 Like warrant for the apprehension of William Godden. {| Jbid.] 
 Minutes of a Council of War concerning the attempt upon Dunkirk. 
 Resolved to send in the Soldadoes prize, Penzance, Mermaid, and 
 Hind pink; the Soldadoes to lead, the others to follow and 
 carry on two machines, and two fire-ships to lie at the western fort. 
 The Discovery brigantine and xpress to go in close after the machine- 
 vessels and to take up their boats. Four Dutch men-of-war to go 
 in and anchor during this smoke, and to batter the wooden forts, but 
 to leave off when the second attack begins. ‘l'wo machines and one 
 fire-ship to go at the same time against the Rhysbank, to be 
 
32 
 1695. 
 
 July 30. 
 Off Dunkirk, 
 
 July 30. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 30. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 31. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 supported by the Shark brigantine and four well-boats. The second 
 attack to be led on by the Lyme, Maidstone, and “ two men-of-war 
 ketches,”’ which attack is to be as the first, with two machines and 
 two fire-ships against the western wooden forts, and two fire-ships 
 and a machine against the Rhysbank, and to be supported by four 
 well-boats to bring off their boats. ‘wo or three hours before these 
 attacks begin, all the bomb-vessels are to bombard the Rhysbank and 
 wooden forts, to be supported by all the frigates that are not other- 
 wise disposed of ; the bomb-vessels to leave off as soon as the frigates 
 and machines go on. If it is fair weather to-morrow, the bomb- 
 vessels are to begin to bombard at seven in the morning, the first 
 attack to begin when an English ensign is hoisted on board the 
 Charles galley at the fore topmast head. [S.P. Naval 4.] 
 
 A duplicate of the foregoing minutes. [| Zbid. | 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. The Archbishop 
 delivered the representation against Dr. Pain’s commission for the 
 visitation of exempt churches and chapels, with the Bishop of 
 London’s letter desiring it may be revoked. Ordered that it be sent 
 to Mr. Blathwayt with the Lords Justices’ opinion that the 
 commission ought to be recalled, as rather authorising abuses than 
 reforming them, and being made use of to lessen the revenue, by not 
 accounting for duties upon marriages. 
 
 That notice be taken to Mr. Blathwayt of the letters from France 
 mentioning the preparations at Toulon to fit out fifty line of battle 
 ships. 
 
 Petitions read of Cornet Cecil, Drury, Smith and Brent. Order 
 eiven upon Sir T. Littleton’s desire for removing companies from 
 Woodstock. 
 
 The Lord Chief Baron gave an account of the trials of the con- 
 victs at Kingston and East Grinstead, William Cokerell, Sarah 
 Thomas and Mary White, all for clipping. Ordered to be reprieved 
 for transportation. Six men condemned at East Grinstead for 
 burglary. The Lord Chief Baron had reprieved them till further 
 orders. Arthur, a highwayman, reprieved by the judge till next 
 assizes. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 59. | 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Mayor of Dover. I have laid your 
 letter concerning Mr. Marshall, and the copy of his to Mr. Clement 
 Buck, before the Lords Justices, and they, commending your care 
 and good affection to his Majesty’s government, direct me to desire 
 you will continue the same on all occasions, and that you will tender 
 the oath to Mr. Marshall as well as to other suspicious persons, and 
 give an account of your proceedings. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, 
 p. 805. | 
 
 Passes for Michel Leckner, Matthias Henrick, Eithart Freimat, 
 John Meyer, Urban Hilmayer and John Seeventon, German grooms, 
 with forty horses for the use of the Emperor, to go to Harwich and 
 Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 896]; for Abraham le Cointe, 
 Mary Godeau, Joseph Lavernhe, ditto [Ibid., p. 397]; for Anthony 
 Flureton and Theophilus, his brother, John Stephen Hugnes, poor 
 French protestants, Zacharias and Nicholas Luders, brothers, and 
 
1695. 
 
 Augvel. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Vp 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Aug. 2. 
 (Whitehall. } 
 
 WILLIAM III. 33 
 
 
 
 Peter Krugelstein, German protestants, to go to Harwich or Gravesend 
 for Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry ‘Book 844, p.898]; for John Bardou, a 
 French protestant, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Flanders; for 
 Jacob Pardo, Judica Pardo, and Abraham Herrera, three poor Jews, 
 to go to Gravesend and Holland; for Pincha Verrall and Abraham 
 Suarez, poor Jews, to go to Harwich and Holland [TJbid., p. 399]; 
 for John Ledel, a subject of the States-General, Cornelius 
 Cloribus and John Van Woensel, and Susanna Crucifix, to go to 
 Harwich or Gravesend for Holland | Jbid., p. 400]; for Anne Jauroy, 
 Madeleine de la Croix, Jean Eppeset, Francois Dumart, Gabriel 
 Dupuy, and Margaret Poizet, with Simon Peter Morin, her son, to go 
 to Holland [Jbid. 346, p. 101]; and for Mary le Rouse and her 
 daughter, ditto [Ibid., p. 103]. 
 
 Passes for Elizabeth Ronck, her late Majesty’s coachman’s wife, to 
 go to Gravesend and Holland |Jbid. 344, p. 899]; for Mr. William 
 Champion to go to Falmouth and Spain [Jbid., p. 400]; for Martha 
 Faure, and Martha her grand daughter, French protestants, and John 
 Arnold, a German, to go to Gravesend and Holland [Jbid., p. 401]; for 
 Mrs. Agneta Koning and a small child, and Mrs. Christian George 
 Sprenger, pay-master of his Majesty’s Dutch horse guards, to go to 
 Harwich or Gravesend for Holland | Zbid., p. 402]; for Susan Castain 
 and Pierre Lalovel to go to Holland | bid. 846, p. 101]; and for George 
 Nunes Henriques, Rachel Henriques, his wife, Rachel Penso, 
 Jehudes Telles and two daughters, Clara Ferriera, Abraham Hen- 
 riques, Margaret Paget, Francois Colomber, Ventura Seraphina, Agar 
 Conhoe, Mary la Place, Judith Lea, Rachel, Mary, and Anthony 
 la Place, Anna van Hyck, Levina van Eyck, and Hillegonda de 
 Hoogh, ditto [Zbid., p. 108]. 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Marquis of Tweeddale. I have 
 received your letter of the 19th, and very heartily congratulate you 
 on having concluded the sessions of Parliament so much to the 
 advantage of his Majesty’s affairs, the success whereof is chiefly 
 owing ; your prudent management. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 100, 
 p. 154. 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices: Lord Godolphin 
 brought a warrant to be signed for renewing the Privy Seal for a 
 sum not exceeding 1,000,000/. to the Treasurer of the Navy. The 
 Lords Justices signed it, having consulted their instructions, which 
 allow them to do it in such cases where delay would be prejudicial 
 to the King’s services. 
 
 Report made from the Treasury upon the demand of the Lute- 
 string Company. The Lords Justices concurred with the Lords of 
 the Treasury in allowing 2,400I. to be abated upon the customs of 
 the silk they should import, subject to the King’s approbation. 
 
 Cornet Cecil’s petition read for a month or five weeks’ reprieve, 
 till the King’s pleasure be known. The Lord Chief Baron, on being 
 asked whether petitioner was an object of mercy, referred them to the 
 account he gave of the trial, which not being to the advantage of the 
 petitioner no further reprieve was granted. 
 
 Ordered that the Solicitor attend on Tuesday next to give an 
 account of a bill prepared by him upon a warrant signed by the Queen 
 
 2045 C 
 
34 
 
 1695. 
 
 —s 
 } 
 
 STATE PAPERS, 
 
 in October last for a licence for Mr. Boynton to break up the streets 
 in London and Westminster to lay water pipes. 
 
 Resolved that there be a show made of an embarkation of troops 
 to keep the enemy in alarm, and hinder them from sending their 
 troops into Flanders. Ordered that the Commissioners for 
 Transportation give an account in what time a sufficient number 
 of ships may be in readiness at Portsmouth for two thousand 
 foot and five hundred horse. Mr. Clark sent to, to know what troops 
 or companies may be sent. He brought the Duke of Schomberg, 
 who was rather for whole regiments than detachments. 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury acquainted the Lords Justices that the 
 King allowed a present to be sent to Tripoli, as Consul Lodington 
 proposed it, and also the usual present to Algiers. 
 
 Lord Godolphin represented that the directors of the Bank had 
 been with the Treasury to represent that our bills of exchange sunk 
 every day so low, there would be no finding returns for the army if 
 the price of guineas could not be reduced to 25s. It was said that 
 several merchants would maintain that the importation of gold now 
 practised was an advantage to the kingdom, and made a quicker trade 
 than formerly, as appeared by the price of our manufactures rising. 
 To which it was answered, the high price of gold occasioned that, 
 whereby the foreigner bought our goods with great profit in order to 
 stock the markets abroad, but a stop upon trade must ensue upon it. 
 Ordered that a Council be called extraordinarily to meet on Tuesday 
 next, that notice thereof be given to the directors of the Bank of 
 England, the Commissioners of Customs, or who ever else may think 
 themselves concerned, and that it be mentioned in the summons that 
 
 -the Council is to meet to consider the causes and consequences of 
 
 the more than usual quantities of gold imported into this kingdom. 
 
 The Lords of the Admiralty called in. Lord Carmarthen’s letter 
 from Milford of the 28th past read. Sir John Lowther said they had 
 thought of sending Rear-Admiral Hopson to take care of that com- 
 mand. The Lords Justices left them to do as they thought best. 
 The instructions prepared by the Admiralty for Sir George Rooke 
 read. The Lords Justices had thought best to give him a commission 
 of Admiral of the White with Lord Berkeley or Mr. Russell. For 
 further prevention of any dispute which may arise between him and 
 Lord Berkeley, the Admiralty were directed to send orders to Lord 
 Berkeley that, when the service was over against Dunkirk or Calais, 
 he come to the Downs to expect further orders. 
 
 Report of the Admiralty read against fitting up the new ships for 
 the cannon of seven. Proposed by the Admiralty to review the bill 
 brought last sessions into Parliament for the encouragement of seamen 
 and bringing them into the service. Sir George Rooke acquainted 
 the Lords Justices that he was going to-morrow to Portsmouth to 
 see how forward the preparations were. The Neptune and Newark 
 might now be manned. | 
 
 Petition read from the city of Worcester against the exportation of 
 wool. Resolved that the Admiralty be spoken to at their next 
 meeting to know what care they had taken in the matter, and 
 whether they had thought of arming out sloops as had been proposed 
 to them. Resolved that Admiral Russell’s instructions be looked 
 into, that Sir George Rooke may have the same as far as shall be 
 thought proper. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 61.] 
 
1695. 
 Aug. 2. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Aug. 3. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Aug. 38. 
 Whitehall, 
 
 Aug. 4. 
 
 Before Calais, 
 
 Aug. 4. 
 Off Cadiz. 
 
 Aug. 4. 
 
 WILLIAM III. 85 
 
 Passes for George Talbot, esq., to come from Flanders or Holland 
 into England [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 401]; for James 
 Couyer, a@ mariner and French protestant, and Henry Lucking, a 
 journeyman shoemaker, to go to Gravesend and Holland [TJbid., 
 p. 402]; for Francis Lagis, a watchmaker and French protestant, 
 Francis Prunier, a weaver and a protestant, and Mr. Leonard Knife, 
 a protestant, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland. [Jbid., 
 p. 408]; and for Peter Molinet, John Sanderszoon, Mr. Frederick 
 Matthias Marquard, Mrs. Johan Hennings and Anthony Fincks, 
 Mr. William Spencely, agent to Brigadier Leveson, James Addison, 
 Thomas Davison, Thomas Seaife, John Crook, Hans Stuve and 
 Thomas Reade, to go to Holland [Jbid. 346, p. 104]. 
 
 Warrant to the Keeper of Bedford gaol to deliver to Roger Taylor 
 Charles Rason, a post boy, who was committed to gaol for losing a 
 packet of letters and papers relating to his Majesty’s service. [Jbid. 
 p. 105. | | : 
 
 Post-warrant for Mr. Holyday with one horse to go to Chichester. 
 [Tbid. 344, p. 403. | 
 
 Mr. Meisters to the Duke of Shrewsbury. On the 1st instant it was 
 ordered to attack the western fort of Dunkirk, and the Rhysbank about 
 noon. About ten o’clock in the morning I ordered four smoke and 
 three machine-ships, upon the signal given, to follow the four English 
 frigates which were promised me in the Council of War. Between 
 twelve and one o’clock Captain William Carleton was under sail, and 
 when he was a mile distant from the wooden forts, was forced to let 
 fall his anchor, because the said four frigates were sailing so far to 
 one side and to the northward from the forts, that they could scarcely 
 reach them with their cannon, much less carry on the said ships. As 
 soon as the other three smoke ships, followed by three great machines, 
 sailed towards him, he cut his cable, and these smoke ships kept 
 sailing to and fro, expecting the promised frigates would have come 
 so near as to have secured them from the enemy’s galleys, but, the 
 wind and tide forcing them to go in, their captains did their utmost 
 to get to the western forts and Rhysbank without assistance. The 
 enemy, perceiving this, came with their galleys and other boats full of 
 men and well armed, so that they were all forced to set their ships 
 on fire, about three, four or five cable lengths from the place they 
 designed, and to save their lives in their boats. At which time I, 
 being in a pinnacce between the smoke ships and machine-vessels, 
 was obliged to stop the machines going further in, foreseeing they 
 would be set on fire too soon or be taken by the enemy. I intend to 
 come to London and give you a further account. [S.P. Naval 4.] 
 
 Minutes of a Council of War. Mr. Meisters having stolen away 
 last night with all the machine ships, it was considered what was 
 to be done. Resolved to wait for the arrival of some machine and 
 smoke ships which had been sent for; and when the machine ships, 
 etc., come, to send in all the boats, English and Dutch, to support 
 them. [Jbid. | 
 
 Duplicate of the above. | Jbid.] 
 
36 
 
 1695. 
 
 Aug. 4. 
 Off Calais. 
 
 Aug. 5. 
 [Whitehall. ] 
 
 Aug. 5. 
 [Dublin.] 
 
 Aug. 5. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 UC TED: 
 Dublin. 
 
 Aug. 6. 
 Morning and 
 Evening. 
 [Whitehall ] 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 Lord Berkeley to the Commissioners of the Admiralty, showing 
 that he sent to Mr. Meisters to know if he thought it reasonable to 
 try any of his smoke ships or machines against a wooden fort that is 
 newly built at Calais. He sent word that he would bring an answer 
 himself; but, when it was dark, he stole away with all the machine 
 ships. Lord Berkeley sent the Elizabeth to bring him back and will 
 keep him a prisoner till he receives further orders. Copy. [S.P. 
 Naval 4.| Enclosing :— 
 
 A copy of a letter from Mr. Meisters to Lord Berkeley, dated 
 3 Aug., 1695. Not understanding the depth of the water hereabouts 
 nor what force the enemy may have, I can make no proper demand 
 of frigates or boats to attack this fort, and intend to meddle no more 
 wm that affair, but to take the opportunity of going to Holland with the 
 men-of-war bound for that country, which are now under sail. | Ibid. ] 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Letters read 
 from Mr. Blathwayt of 8 August [new style], from Lord Berkeley and 
 from Mr. Meisters about the business at Dunkirk. Captain Philips 
 called in. Gave an account of Mr. Meisters’ unpreparedness, not 
 minding what was to be done or coming near any danger himself, 
 and that Lord Berkeley had sent an express to the King by way of 
 Niewport. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 68. | 
 
 Rough memoranda of the minutes of the Council Board of Ireland, 
 relating to the building of the Archbishop of Tuam’s house, and the 
 Duke of Ormonde’s bill, etc. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 54.] 
 
 Passes for John Kilag, a journeyman tailor, to go to Harwich or 
 Gravesend and Hoiland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 404]; for 
 Captain Peter Freese, Mr. Bondiet Jonas, and Jurgen Wahn, merch- 
 ants, to go to Hamburg |{ bid. 346, p. 104]; and for Mr. Daniel Keef 
 and Peter Dowdall, going over to serve in Colonel Trelawny’s regi- 
 ment, to go to Holland | Jbid., p. 105]. 
 
 The Lord Chancellor of Ireland to Mr. Vernon. I desire you will 
 give the enclosed to the Duke of Shrewsbury. It is a letter I have 
 written to him by the Lord Deputy’s permission touching the Articles 
 of Limerick. The question is whether the King will give any 
 directions in this, as he did in the last Parliament, for confirming 
 such as require an Act of Parliament to make them good, which I 
 think are only those which forbid any suits to be brought for any 
 trespass done during the war. I have hitherto stayed such suits by 
 injunction, but if there be no bill sent over for confirming that part, 
 I must then dissolve those already granted, and hinder none from 
 Wesel as they can at law for the future. [S.P. Ireland 3857, 
 No. 55. 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Proctor, a 
 barber in Wych Street, delivered an information of what he had 
 heard from Joseph Franks, an alehouse-keeper in the same street. 
 Ordered that both be summoned to attend on Thursday. 
 
 The Lord Chief Baron attended about Mary Starky, condemned at 
 Maidstone for murdering her child ; gave an account that the woman 
 had the repute of being distempered in mind. Left to his lordship 
 to reprieve her, 
 
1695. 
 
 WILLIAM ITI. 37 
 
 
 
 Mr. Attorney and Mr. Solicitor called in, the first about Repping- 
 ton’s bill ; he took it back and would draw it over again. The other 
 about Boynton’s bill. Ordered that enquiry be made whether that 
 matter had been before the Council and what was done upon it. 
 
 Mr. Meisters called in. Gave an account that a Dutch captain 
 had told him the disposition of the attack was altered from 
 what had been resolved at a Council of War, that the frigates 
 only kept plying to and again at a great distance, and there 
 were none of them to assist and support the smoke ships and 
 machines, nor brigantines to bring off their boats, and therefore they 
 were forced to set fire to them to secure their retreat, and though the 
 smoke did not appear much in that place, yet if they had been fixed 
 to the Rhysbank or fort they would not have been able to have seen 
 through it for three or four hours. When he saw what little care 
 was taken of them, he stopped the machines from going on, and 
 when Lord Berkley proposed to him to go to Calais, he said he could 
 do nothing without the smoke ships, and did not know the sands about 
 Calais, and that he only came for the design upon Dunkirk. He 
 had certificates from the captains to justify his behaviour, and 
 three of them were attending, Captain Carleton being one. The Lords 
 did not think necessary to call them in, but directed Mr. Meisters to 
 put what he had told them into writing. He said he must have a 
 little time to do it, and have recourse to his papers, and added that 
 if he had not come away when he did, he was told it was intended 
 to secure him. 
 
 The Lords of the Admiralty called in. They acquainted the 
 lords they intended the four great ships designed for the Straits to 
 be manned to the highest complement, as the rest of the ships were 
 that have been sent there, but it was necessary there should be an 
 order of Council for it. They intended to send with Sir George 
 Rooke, two third-rates, the Newark and Dorsetshire, and perhaps the 
 Chichester if she could be ready, and two fourth-rates, the Weymouth 
 or Rochester and the Lichfield. That the Captain and Kent were 
 “broke” to have their men turned over to the Neptune and Newark, 
 and all the marines and other men picked up to man those ships. 
 The whole force designed to go with Sir George Rooke, or to be sent 
 after him, are two first, two second, eight third and three fourth- 
 rates ; their names are Yarmouth, ean sbury, Berwick, Defiance, 
 Gloucester, and Cambridge. There willonly then, of the ships with Lord 
 Berkeley, be two third-rates, viz. the Mlizabeth and Northumberland. 
 
 Mr. Aldworth’s letter of 27 July read about the Kingfisher and 
 Anglesea being called off from the north of Ireland, and how much 
 that coast is exposed for want of ships to protect the trade. The 
 answer was that those ships were ordered into Kinsale to clean and 
 victual, and the first that could get ready was ordered to come to the 
 north to look after privateers, and would in part answer the Lord 
 Deputy’s demands. 
 
 he Admiralty proposed that new orders might be siven for a 
 new Admiralty commission of oyer and terminer, the last being 
 fallen for want of a sufficient number to adjourn the Court when 
 they last met. Resolved that the subject of the next letter to 
 the King be to represent the condition here upon so many ships 
 going away to the Straits, and to propose to him to consider how 
 
38 
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 The Downs, 
 
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 Milford 
 Haven. 
 
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 Office. 
 
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 many Dutch ships may be fit to be left here, and that care may 
 be taken to provide against the designs they may have of arming 
 out ships at Dunkirk, now they are no longer afraid of any 
 attempt upon them. The Admiralty propose to have six ships 
 dispersed over the Soundings, and to make up that number eight 
 must be assigned to that station, some or other always coming 
 in for cleaning or for some accident at sea. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book, 
 274, p. 63. | 
 
 Lord Berkeley to the Duke of Shrewsbury. It would be better not 
 to bombard Calais at present, owing to the damage received by the 
 bomb-vessels, etc., and the scarcity of mortars, but to keep them [the 
 inhabitants] in suspense, rather than let them buy their quiet with 
 the loss of a very few houses. [S.P. Naval 4.| 
 
 Lord Carmarthen to - ——. I hearI lie under the censure 
 of some people for putting into this place, upon seeing what we 
 supposed to be French, and proved to be our own ships; but having 
 just got under sail to cruize in the Soundings, leaving the clog of 
 merchantmen here which were under my care, I have only time to 
 send you a copy of a Council of War held at the time, which I hope 
 alone is sufficient to justify my proceedings. 
 
 I am informed of the death of Colonel Davis, who was lieutenant- 
 colonel in the first marine regiment under my command. Since his 
 Majesty has always allowed me to nominate my own officers, I desire 
 Captain Stopford, who is the oldest captain in the said regiment, 
 may gradually rise, and that Lieutenant William Bradbury, my 
 captain-lieutenant, may have the command of his company, that 
 Lieutenant John Foster, now first lieutenant in Captain Hoskins’ 
 company, may be my captain-lieutenant, and that Mr. Charles 
 Christian, who has been quarter-master and adjutant ever since 
 the regiment was raised, may have the addition of youngest lieutenant 
 in Captain Hoskins’ company. Hearing also that Captain Billop, 
 another captain in my regiment, is turned out of all employments, I 
 desire the command of his company may be given to whom Lord 
 Berkeley shall recommend. [Ibid.] Enclosing :— 
 
 Minutes of a Council of War held on board H.M.S. the Lenox, off the 
 Lizard, 23rd July, 1695. Upon intelligence received from Mr. Jones, 
 deputy vice-admiral of the west part of Cornwall, that since Thursday 
 last seventeen sail of great ships have been seen off Mounts’ Bay and 
 the Lazard, with an affidavit, made at Cork by aman taken out of a 
 French privateer commanded by one Welch, of a French squadron of 
 at least twenty ships ready to sail from Brest, and seeing eighteen sail to 
 the south west of us, we cannot but believe they are the French squadron. 
 Resolved to make the best of our way to Milford Haven, in consideration 
 that the enemy is to the windward of us, and our ships very foul and 
 heavy satlers. [Ibid.] 
 
 Mr. Bridgman to Mr. Vernon. [Jbid.] Enclosing :—(1) The 
 copy of a letter from Lord Berkeley to the Lords of the Admiralty, 
 dated the Downs, 6th August, 1695. At a Council of War held 
 on the 2nd instant, we examined the commanders and pilots of the 
 small frigates, aud find that they did their duty. A court martial is 
 that of all things which we desire ; therefore please send Mr. Meisters 
 
 
 
1695. 
 
 Ue. hs 
 Whitehall. 
 
 woe. 73 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Aug. 7. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 JU eay gp 
 
 Kensington, 
 
 Aug. 8. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Aug. 8. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Aug. 8. 
 
 Aug. 8. 
 [ Whitehall. ] 
 
 WILLIAM III. 39 
 
 down to be present at it; but I believe you will hardly persuade him to 
 it. There were also two Dutch frigates ordered upon the attack, tt 
 seems reasonable that they should also be tried by their countrymen 
 [Ibid.]; (2) Copy of a letter from the same to the same, dated 
 the Downs, 6th August, 1695, advising that the attempt on Calais 
 be deferred ; if it must be attempted now, they must have a number of 
 frigates to go on with the bomb-vessels, to guard them from the enemy’s 
 half galleys, and to beara share of their shot, of which and of armed 
 oats they have plenty wm this place. Mr. Meisters, when he deserted, 
 carried away forty-seven seamen Lord Berkeley had lent him, and 
 thirty-two the Dutch Admiral had lent him [Ibid.]; (8) A copy 
 of a letter from the same to the same, dated in the Downs, 6th 
 Aug., 1695, giwing an extract of his journal for 1 August, 1695, with 
 an account of the attempt on Dunkirk, and Mr. Meisters’ unreadiness 
 
 for the attack |Ibid.}. 
 
 Passes for Christopher Tiede and George Hyse, gentlemen 
 students, to go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, 
 p. 404]; and for Ann Goverts, with her two children, to go to 
 Holland [Jbid., 846, p. 105]. 
 
 Warrant to Charles Kenge to apprehend Richard Taylor, tapster 
 at the Four Swans at Waltham Cross, and Edward Cockrell, late 
 ostler there, who are suspected to have been concerned in the mis- 
 carriage or conveying away of a certain packet of letters and other 
 papers relating to his Majesty’s service. {Jbid., p. 106. | 
 
 Warrant to James Kitson for taking into his custody Charles 
 Reason, a post boy, for losing a packet of letters relating to the 
 King’s service; and duplicate of the same warrant. [Jbid., pp. 179 
 and 180. | 
 
 Commissions for William Tatton for be heutenant-colonel of and 
 captain of a company in the Marquis de Puizar’s regiment of foot ; 
 for Edmund Harris to be captain of Captain Decortey’s late company 
 in the same regiment [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 159]; for 
 Edward Bunce to be lieutenant of Captain Richard Stapes’s company 
 in the same regiment; and for John Douglas, gent., to be ensign of 
 Captain Oldfield’s company in the same regiment | Jbid., p. 160]. 
 
 Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses incurred by 
 Hugo Hues, gentleman, late his Majesty’s agent at Ratisbon, 
 amounting to two hundred and twenty pounds, in removing his 
 goods and family from Ratisbon to England pursuant to his 
 Majesty’s command. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 346, p. 106. | 
 
 Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses incurred by 
 Paul Rycaut, resident to his Majesty with the Hanse Towns of Lower 
 Saxony, 1 January to 1 July, 1695. [Jbid., p. 107. ] 
 
 A statement of the defects of the bomb-vessels now in the Downs. 
 [S.P. Dom. Naval 4.] 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Procter, the 
 barber, and Franks, the ale-house keeper, called in. The latter denied 
 saying the words the former charged him with, at least he did not 
 
40 
 1695. 
 
 Aug. 8. 
 Whitehall, 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 remember it, but he was positive there was nothing true in fact as to 
 Sir H. Bellasis ever being at mass, or taking any oaths of being true 
 to King James. 
 
 The Archbishop took notice of the great disorders in St. James's 
 Park in the evening, the great scandal given there and the riots it 
 may occasion. Ordered that the Green Cloth be acquainted with it, 
 and that they take care to remedy it. 
 
 The Admiralty not attending, Sir John Lowther was called 
 
 in alone. Sir William Trumbull called in, He brought copies 
 of what was done in the business of the Danish frigate refusing 
 to strike in the Downs, and also Captain Tollett’s letters to 
 the Admiralty giving an account of what passed between him 
 and a Swedish man-of-war, with a representation of the Swedish 
 Secretary thereupon, to which the King had directed the Lords 
 Justices should make an answer. ‘They directed Sir William 
 Trumbull to prepare an answer to this effect, that when the Swedish 
 ship first refused to pay the respect due to the King of England’s 
 ships in these seas, the Admiralty, in vindication of the right of the 
 crown, sent orders to the Downs to secure the Swede, if he came in 
 there, to answer this affront. But the ship having a wind to carry 
 her on, his Majesty, supposing what had been done by that Captain 
 was of his own head, was willing to pass it by without sending a 
 complaint after him, hoping that the like would never be attempted 
 again, and that the good correspondence between the two crowns 
 would not be endangered by the imprudence of particular men. 
 But the Secretary of Sweden having begun to revive this matter by a 
 message he has been ordered to deliver in his master’s name, his 
 Majesty is concerned that such ill use has been made of his moderation 
 in that particular, and that it has given a handle to call in question 
 a right that has been ever claimed by the crown of England. 
 _ Mr. Lutterell’s petition read, and Mr. Blathwayt’s letter recom- 
 mending it by his Majesty’s direction. Ordered that copies of each be 
 sent to Mr. Aldworth to be communicated to the Lord Deputy, in 
 order to inserting such a clause as is desired, or acquainting the Lords 
 Justices if there is any objection against it. 
 
 The petition of Thomas Hewetson, esq., read, to be reimbursed 
 5,000/. he had laid out for the King’s service in the West Indies, and 
 to be recommended to the Admiralty for an employment, such as 
 they think him qualified for, his demand about the money depending 
 before the Treasury. Ordered that his petition, relating to the 
 recommending him for an employment, be sent to the Admiralty. 
 
 Captain Brenan’s petition to be sent to the Treasury, to give such 
 directions for his relief as they think fit. [S. P. Dom. Entry Book 274, 
 p. 65. | 
 
 Sir Wiliam Trumbull to the Mayor of Dover. I have received 
 yours of yesterday’s date, and find that Mr. Marshall uses an 
 impertinent and insolent argument against his taking the oaths to 
 the King, alleging they ought by law to be taken to the King and 
 Queen, which plainly shows he not only has a mind not to take 
 them at all, but as much as in him hes to detract from his Majesty’s 
 authority ; and therefore I desire you without more to do to tender 
 him forthwith the oaths to his Majesty, and, in case he refuses to 
 take them, to deal with him according to law, and thereof to give me 
 
1695. 
 
 mug. 0. 
 The Downs. 
 
 Aug. 9. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Aug. 9. 
 [ Whitehall.] 
 
 Aug. 9. 
 Whitehall, 
 
 WILLIAM III. 4] 
 
 speedily an account. And I further desire you to proceed in the like 
 manner with all persons whom you shall suspect to be ill-affected to 
 his Majesty’s government. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 2085. | 
 
 Colonel James Richards to the Board of Ordnance. ‘This day ten 
 of our store ships under convoy of the Penzance go from hence. I 
 have sent Captains Fawcet and Wood with them. This last bad 
 weather has put our bomb-vessels more out of order than the actions 
 of the whole summer; but a few days will refit them if the weather 
 continues fine. ‘he wise amongst us are of opinion that it will be 
 better for the service to keep Calais in the suspense of being bom- 
 barded, than to put an end to their fears by doing it by halves, as 
 we must do by the condition our mortars are in; for though they are 
 serviceable, still they cannot perform what they would if we had not 
 bombarded Dunkirk piers and the Rhysbank, which was more out of 
 compliance to Mr. Meisters than any thoughts we could have of 
 injuring such works. Copy. [S.P. Dom. Naval 4.] 
 
 — to Sir George Rooke, recommending Mr. George 
 Bayley, a young volunteer, going to the Straits. [Zbid. ] 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Presentation 
 of a living void by stmony. Ordered to be sent to Mr. Blathwayt. 
 
 The Lords of the Admiralty called in. Sir George Rooke gave an 
 account of what men were wanting in the ships now at Spithead. 
 Since the Cadiz fleet had not come, the only way to find men was 
 from Lord Berkeley's fleet, especially from the bomb-ships and 
 machines, that might furnish two hundred and fifty. Resolved that 
 more ships go with Sir George Rooke than were at first intended, the 
 Berwick and Defiance and perhaps the Gloucester would be the only 
 ships left to follow. 
 
 Lord Berkeley’s survey of the mortars read, not agreeing with 
 Sir {Henry | Goodrick’s accounts from Richards. 
 
 Sir George Rooke proposed what was to be done upon the vacant 
 commands if the soldiers stay. Vide Stewart’s instructions. 
 
 Sir John Lowther and Sir George Rooke called in afterwards. 
 Directed that Lord Berkeley have orders sent him to make the attempt 
 upon Calais, grounding it upon Richards’ information that they had 
 sufficient number of serviceable mortars. Ordered that Mr. Blath- 
 wayt be acquainted with the directions given for bombarding Calais, 
 and when that service is over that Sir George Rooke will be despatched 
 away with all the ships intended for him that can be got ready. 
 Ordered that Lord Berkeley’s journal and Mr. Meisters’ narrative 
 of what passed at Dunkirk be sent to Mr. Blathwayt. [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 274, p. 68.] 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Commissioners for Exchange of 
 Prisoners. ‘The Sieurs Landsberg and Crantzberg, two Danish 
 officers, having been taken on board a French privateer by Captain 
 Stephens, commander of his Majesty’s ship the Sole Bay, and com- 
 mitted prisoners of war to Yarmouth gaol, the Lords Justices, at the 
 request of the Danish Commissary resident here, have been pleased 
 to direct that the said prisoners be forthwith set at liberty, in order 
 to their return to Denmark by the first AL eG [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 99, p. 206. | 
 
42 
 
 1695. 
 
 Aug. 9. 
 Whitehall, 
 
 Aug. 10. 
 Off Blackness, 
 
 Aug. 10. 
 
 oO 
 
 Aug. 10. 
 { Dublin. ] 
 
 Aug. 11. 
 The Downs, 
 
 Aug. 11. 
 The Downs. 
 
 Aug. 11. 
 
 Watergoos, 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 Passes for Mary Reynau, a subject of the States-General, Ann 
 Rouffau, a French protestant, and her child, to go to Harwich and 
 Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 404]; for Peter Alexander 
 to go to Gravesend and Holland | Jbid., p. 405]; for Bridget Tyrell, 
 with her two sons James and Thomas Tyrell, to go to Flanders ; 
 and for Gotlob Rechvald and Gotlob Dietrich, natives of Silesia, 
 returning to Germany, to go to Holland [Jbid. 346, p. 108]. 
 
 Captain Athey, commander of the Mermaid, to ——, giving an 
 account of his encounter with a Swedish man-of-war. Copy. 
 [S.P. Dom. Naval 4. | 
 
 Richard Culliford, commander of the Maidstone, to ——, giving a 
 like account. Copy. [Jbid.| 
 
 A paper endorsed ‘‘ Popery in Dublin,” giving a list of priests 
 as follows: John Donnell, provincial of the Francisans, and 
 Ignatius Kelly, guardian of that order, in Francis Street; Francis 
 Bermingham, provincial of the Augustinians, and Bryan Kelly, prior 
 of that order, in St. Owen’s Arch; Father Marshall, provincial of the 
 Dominicans, and Father Rooke, prior of that order, in Cook Street ; 
 Father MacMahon, superior of Capuchins, in Oxman Town. 
 Seculars: Father Murphy, vice-general; Fathers Burne, Russell, 
 Bray and Dalton, parish priests in Dublin. [S.P. Ireland 357, 
 No. 56. | 
 
 Lord Berkeley to Mr. Vernon. I send this by Thomas Surridge. 
 I believe Colonel Richards, presuming we might bombard no more 
 this year, was willing to make his mortars appear in better condition 
 than they are. The Dutch mortars invented by Mr. Meisters have 
 not fired half so many shot each as ours, but have gone home wholly 
 unserviceable, after having killed and wounded some of their own 
 men. [S.P. Dom. Naval 4.] 
 
 The same to the Commissioners of the Admiralty. I have 
 received two of your orders, but I hope you will give Sir Cloudesley 
 Shovell and me (we being on board the Shrewsbury and Cambridge) 
 leave to remove our things, and that you would not have them sail to 
 Spithead but with permission of wind and weather. You put me in 
 hopes we should have a trial about the affair of Dunkirk. The 
 captain and others on board the Lyme are prime witnesses in that 
 affair, so [ hope you will not take them from me if we are likely to 
 have a trial. ‘To-morrow I shall call a Council of War, to decide 
 whether to take any of the machines; the rest, I hope, will be 
 discharged, being a great trouble to us and a great charge to the 
 King. The beginning of this letter I may be blamed for, but I 
 cannot help answering so, when I receive an order that leaves two 
 flags with two rotten ships only, and has no manner of regard to our 
 conveniency, an order which I see is not signed by half the Board. 
 One of the Dover pilots, called Richard Colling, was brought to Deal 
 to go with the fleet, but afterwards ran away. I have put him in 
 irons, and desire to know what I shall do with him. Copy. 
 [ Tbid. | 
 
 Warrant for a commission to be passed constituting the Chancellor 
 of Ireland or Keeper of the Great Seal, the Chancellor of the 
 
1695. 
 
 Aug. 12. 
 London. 
 
 Aug. 12. 
 The Downs. 
 
 Aug. 12. 
 The Downs. 
 
 Aug. 12. 
 (Whitehall. ] 
 
 WILLIAM ITI. 43 
 
 
 
 Exchequer, the Chief Baron and the rest of the Barons of the 
 Exchequer, or any three of them, Commissioners for inspecting all 
 the accounts in Ireland. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office 18, p. 252. | 
 
 John Salisbury to Sir Wilham Trumbull. He shows that he was 
 taken into custody 26 July, being accused of printing, publishing 
 or dispersing false and seditious news, and that he expected Mr. 
 James Kitson, the messenger, would have brought him before Sir 
 William to answer the premises, instead of which he was held to 
 large bail. The paragraph which the government is displeased at 
 was taken from a letter from Plymouth, directed to one of the clerks 
 of the road in the Post Office, and published at Mason’s coffee-house, 
 whence the copy in his paper was taken and inserted without his 
 knowledge or direction. He also states that he has the original 
 letter ready to produce, and that the person to whom it is directed 
 is disaffected to the Government, and that. complaints have been 
 made against him of which the Commissioners of the Post Office are 
 
 ~notignorant. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 6, No. 84. | 
 
 Lord Berkeley to the Lords of the Admiralty, giving an 
 account of the encounter of the Mermaid and Maidstone, cruizing 
 off Calais, with the Swedish man-of-war, and of the Sandadoes 
 prize with the French owler. [S.P. Dom. Naval 4.] | Appended 
 are :— 
 
 Minutes of a Council of War held on the Shrewsbury in 
 the Downs, 12 August, 1695. Having orders to return again 
 to Calais and bombard it, resolved to sail with the first opportunity 
 of wind and weather, as soon as the bomb ships are ready. Resolved 
 to leave Mr. Meisters’ smcke ships and machines behind, and to 
 send in, at night, two well-boats, fitted with fireworks, to burn against 
 the wooden fort, and to be supported by our brigantines and spy boat 
 and twenty armed boats. The next morning the bomb-vessels to go in 
 and bombard the town, supported by all the frigates of both nations. 
 
 [ [bid. | 
 
 The same to the Duke of Shrewsbury. This morning two of our 
 frigates came in and brought a Swedish man-of-war, with whom they 
 had a short fight about the old business of striking. The captain 
 and master of the Swede are killed, and one of our leutenants 
 and several men. Iam sorry for this accident, one of our frigates 
 being for the present made unserviceable by it. The lieutenant of the 
 Swede says his captain had orders not to strike, but I believe they 
 mistook their orders. The ship with its convoys is here, and will 
 remain till further orders. Just now some frigates have come in and 
 brought a French owler with wool in her, which she took off the 
 English shore by way of traffic. The captain says he has been six 
 days from Calais, and that the armed boats that were at Dunkirk 
 have come by a river or canal to Calais, which I fear will hinder our 
 burning the wooden forts. We shall in all probability receive more 
 damage than we shall be able to do, having fresh complaints every 
 hour about our mortars and bomb-vessels. [Zbid. | 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Colonel 
 Collier’s letter of 2 August about a St. Malo boat that brought 
 
44 
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 Aug. 12. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Aug. 13. 
 | Whitehall.] 
 
 Aug. 18. 
 
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 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
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 over prisoners stopped at Jersey. Ordered to be considered at 
 Council. 
 
 Sir Lawrence Esmond’s petition read about his quit-rents in 
 Ireland. Ordered to be sent to the Treasury. 
 
 The Lords of the Admiralty called in. Resolved that it be left to 
 Lord Berkeley's choice, when the business of Calais is over, to come 
 either to Portsmouth or the Downs, and, at his arrival at either place, 
 to come ashore, unless he have orders to the contrary. 
 
 Proposed that orders be sent to the mayors of Canterbury and 
 Sandwich for setting watches to secure such seamen as come that 
 way from Dover or the Isle of Thanet. 
 
 Letter read from the Navy Board upon Commander Wiltshaw’s 
 demands for stores for the Straits. They doubted there would not 
 be sufficient left for the uses at home. 
 
 Ordered that Lord Bellomont’s salary as Governor of Massachusetts 
 Bay be 1,000/. per annum. 
 
 Sir William Trumbull brought his draft of an answer to Mons. 
 Leyoncrona’s representation, which was settled. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 274, p. 67.] 
 
 Passes for Elizabeth Jans, a subject of the States-General, to go 
 to Harwich and Holland [S.P?. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 406]; for 
 Grizill Buckove to go to Holland or Flanders; and for Nicholas 
 Carney and Lieutenant-Colonel James Butler, and William Butler, his 
 servant, to go to Holland [Jbid. 846, p. 108}. 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Letter read 
 from Lord Berkeley about a rencontre between a Swedish man-of- 
 war and the Mermaid. Sir William Trumbull’s intended draft 
 altered upon it. 
 
 The information read about Robart being in town. Resolved 
 that a proclamation shall be issued for apprehending him, with a 
 description of his person and a reward. 
 
 Dr. Payn’s petition read desiring to be heard before his commission 
 be revoked as visitor of exempt churches and chapels. | 
 
 The Lords of the Admiralty called in. Directed to release the 
 Swedish man-of-war and the ships under his convoy, there appearing 
 no reason to detain them since the captain has been killed, and 
 has borne the punishment of his insolence, and the heutenant as 
 soon as he succeeded in the command paid his respect and struck, as 
 the merchantmen had done before. 
 
 Resolved that Thurston be sent for about the soldiers coming on 
 shore. 
 
 Sir John Lowther taking notice of the various reports spread and 
 the censure passed upon the late attempt upon Dunkirk (insomuch 
 that it appeared necessary to them to put it into a way of examina- 
 tion), ordered that it be written to Mr. Blathwayt to know the King’s 
 pleasure what should be done therein, either to prevent or prepare 
 for any occasion that may bring this matter in question again. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 69. | 
 
 The Earl of Galway to Mr. Vernon, informing him that he had 
 left Mons. Bonhereau near Casal, to which place the Karl is shortly 
 returning; and sending a letter for the Duke of Shrewsbury. 
 [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 57. ] 
 
 
 
1695. 
 
 Aug. 14. 
 | Dublin. } 
 
 Aug. 14. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Aug. 15. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Aug. 15. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Aug. 15. 
 (Dublin. ] 
 
 Aug. 15. 
 
 Chapelizod. 
 
 Aug. 15. 
 
 (Whitehall. ] 
 
 Bip, 15. 
 Off Dover. 
 
 WILLIAM III. 45 
 
 Rough memoranda of proceedings of the Council Board relative to 
 reversal of outlawries, &c. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 58. | 
 
 Passes for Mr. Diest, a servant to the Queen Dowager, with two 
 servants, to go to Falmouth for Spain [S.P. Dom. Mntry Book 344, 
 p. 406]; and for Mr. Samuel Buschenfelt and Mr. Christopher Pole- 
 hammer, natives of Sweden, to go to Holland [Zbid. 346, p. 108]. 
 
 Passes for Jeremiah vander Kettle, trumpeter, and Tobias Stibel, 
 a subject of the Elector of Brandenburg, to go to Harwich or 
 Gravesend for Holland [Jbid. 844, p. 406]; and for Andrew Bravetti, 
 a German, ditto [Zbid., p. 407]. 
 
 Proclamation by the Lords Justices for apprehending John Robart, 
 for fraud in connection with charters for the East India Company. 
 Printed. [{S.P. Dom. Proclamations 4, No. 117. | 
 
 Rough memoranda of the Minutes of the Council Board of Ireland 
 respecting the complaints against pressing seamen, etc., and Lord 
 Romney’s bill, Chichester House, ete. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 59.] 
 
 Lord Capell to Mr. Vernon. I have, by the first opportunity since 
 my receipt of your letter, done as Sir James Forbes has desired. I 
 am under much trouble to find that our friend Mr. Russell is returning, 
 and that Sir [George] Rooke goes in his place. As I heard 
 nothing from you concerning it, | hoped it was only what the Tories 
 wished. I desire you will explain the meaning of all this matter by 
 your next, the rather that Mr. Wharton did assure me Mr. Russell 
 was convinced it was wrong in him to desire it. I pray you will send 
 me the secret of your cipher, for | apprehend it is the beginning of 
 breaking that chain of ministry that is now reasonably in the 
 possession of the Whigs. [| Zbid., No. 60. | 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lord Justices. Proclamation 
 about Robart signed. 
 
 The Lords of the Admiralty called in. Sir George Rooke declared 
 he wanted three hundred and fifty men. Directed to write to 
 Portsmouth and the Downs about securing that number of men, and 
 that the Devonshire and Mary have orders to stay at Spithead. One 
 hundred more men wanted for the Coventry, which goes with Sir 
 George Rooke. 
 
 The Admiralty acquainted that the King does not think fit that 
 Sir Cloudesley Shovell should go to the Straits. Proposed to them 
 to make Mr. Mitchell vice-admiral of the Blue. There was a long 
 discourse whether it was regular or not; the conclusion was it might 
 be done if the Lords Justices directed it. Ordered that Lord 
 Berkeley be written to and told how necessary it was to use dispatch 
 at Calais, his ships being wanted to go with Sir George Rooke. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 70.] 
 
 Lord Berkeley to Mr. Vernon. I cannot imagine the reason of 
 the Sapphire’s stay at Ostend. Several vessels, one a man-of-war, 
 come from thence three days ago, agree that the French have 
 bombarded Brussels, thrown in six thousand bombs and destroyed a 
 quarter of the town, and were marching towards Ghent to do the 
 same; that at the first of these places the Electress of Bavaria came 
 
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 out in her coach to desire Villeroy to desist, but he excused himself, 
 saying he had positive orders from his King, upon which she 
 miscarried of a son; that Bouffleurs had offered to surrender Namur, 
 provided he might take the guns with him and march out with the 
 garrison entire, which the King refused, declaring he would grant no 
 other condition than having the garrison prisoners of war, and that 
 he would keep Bouffleurs till he had Ellemberg. There are two 
 Irish papists, deserters from the French army, last come from 
 Middleburg, who say the siege is raised. 
 
 The owler you mention I ‘had sent to the prize officers at Dover 
 before I received yours. I never preferred any officer upon Lord 
 Carmarthen’s recommendation, but promised to make one Mr. 
 Vanbrook, a gentleman at sea with him last year, a captain in my 
 regiment, if there was a vacancy in his regiment, and any of my 
 captains willing to go to him; so now I will agree to take him, 
 provided Captain Rodney of my regiment be put into his. 
 
 I should be very glad to have Mr. Meisters’ narrative before I leave 
 the fleet; if you send it to Mr. Lloyd, my agent at my lodgings at 
 the Cockpit, he would copy it and send it to me. We have had a 
 quartering order for the marines lying some time before the Lords 
 Justices; if it were signed it would be of service to us. [S.P. 
 Dom. Naval 4. | 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to Colonel Collier. I have received your 
 letter of the 2nd inst. concerning the French boat stopped at Jersey 
 that brought prisoners from St. Malo, which has been considered at 
 Council and approved of. The Commissioners for Exchange of 
 Prisoners are ordered still to detain that boat, the Lords of the 
 Council being satisfied that it belongs only to them by the cartel to 
 provide vessels for the transportation of prisoners either to or from 
 France. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 100, p. 155. | 
 
 Mr. Vernon to Lord Berkeley, acquainting him that Sir George 
 Rooke intends to be at Portsmouth on Monday or Tuesday next. 
 [S.P. Dom. Naval 4.| Enclosing :— 
 
 (1) Justification of William Meisters touching the attack on 
 Dunkirk.  [asbid.| 
 
 (2) Minutes of a Council of War held on board the Shrewsbury, 
 22nd July, 1695, determining the plan of attack on Dunkirk. All the 
 great ships to le off Gravelines, for the pilots agree that ships drawing 
 above fifteen or sixteen feet of water could not go out of the eastern 
 passage with any safety. | Ibid. ] 
 
 (3) Minutes of a Council of War held on board the Charles galley, 
 80th July, 1695.  [Ibid. | 
 (4) phe of anchoring for the machine ships, 1st August, 1695. 
 Ibid. 
 
 (5) Copy of attacking orders given by Mr. Meisters to the captains 
 under his command [1st August, 1695]. | Lbid. | 
 
 (6) Reasons given by Captain John Carleton why he did not go in 
 close to the Rhysbank, undated. {| Ibid.] 
 
 (7) The like reasons by Captain William Carleton, dated 2 August 
 1695. [Lbid. | 
 (8) qe like reasons by Captain John Dixon, dated 2 August, 1695. 
 Ibid. 
 
1695. 
 
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 (9) The like reasons by Robert Isaac. [S.P. Dom. Naval 4. | 
 (10) A relation of what has been transacted between 80 July and 
 3 August, 1695, relating to the machines.  [1bid.] 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Letter to Mr. 
 Blathwayt read. Ordered that a draft of the ratification of the 
 renewal of the Grand Alliance be sent with it to have the King’s 
 approbation of it. 
 
 Sir George Rooke sent for. Resolved that the Lords Justices 
 would add an instruction what he should do in case the Brest fleet 
 go into the Straits. 
 
 The Lords of the Admiralty sent for. <A letter from the Navy 
 Board read giving an account of the large provision they had made 
 of stores for the Straits, supposing the greatest part of Mr. Russell’s 
 fleet was to winter there, particularly the great ships, and that they 
 feared there would not be stores left at home for those ships if they 
 returned. Resolved that two-thirds of the stores go with Sir George 
 Rooke, and that one-third be kept back, as if they were to go with 
 the next ships, and in the meantime it would be seen what Mr. 
 Russell intended. 
 
 The Admiralty spoken to about providing credit for Sir George 
 Rooke, and making allowance for a chaplain-general for the fleet, and 
 for a fourth-rate frigate to take Lord Bellomont to New England. 
 Ordered that a letter be written to Admiral Russell to acquaint him 
 that Sir George Rooke proposes to sail from Spithead with the first 
 fair wind after the 24th instant. 
 
 Lord Berkeley to be acquainted Sir George Rooke will be at 
 Portsmouth on Monday or Tuesday, he desiring not to meet him. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 70. | 
 
 Passes for Thomas Rous, a tailor, his wife and four children, and 
 Jane Sawney, a. maid servant, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for 
 Flanders; for Francis Thonnelet and Mary de Raven and her two ° 
 children, subjects of the States-General, to go to Harwich or Graves- 
 end for Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 407]; for Samuel 
 Harrington, merchant, and Sarah Granden, his sister, and Solomon 
 Cahais, to go to Holland; and for Bartold Nicholas de Landsberg and 
 Hinrich Herman de Cransberg, Danish officers, with Pieter Arversen, 
 their servant, ditto [ bid. 346, p. 109]. 
 
 Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses incurred by 
 Mr. Lambert Blackwell, in his Majesty’s service at Leghorn, from 
 April, 1698, to 14 March, 1695. [Tbid. 845, p. 248. ] 
 
 Lord Berkeley to —-—-—-—, acquainting him that he will send the 
 ships designed for the Straits to Portsmouth, and that they have 
 bombarded Calais with as much success as they expected ; and send- 
 ing Colonel Richards’ account of the bombardment. Not here 
 appended. |S.P. Dom. Naval 4.] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to John Collins, mayor of Northampton, 
 and Thomas Chadwick and Samuel Clifford, justices of the peace, 
 acknowledging the receipt of their letter of the 14th inst., with an 
 enclosure as to a ‘‘ villainous libel,” and directing them to continue 
 
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 their care for discovering the dispersers of it, that they may receive 
 the punishment they deserve. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 100, 
 Palpda| 
 
 Lord Berkeley to [the Duke of Shrewsbury]. Yesterday at noon 
 we began to bombard Calais, and continued so doing more than four 
 hours, which was as long as we could use our mortars. We threw 
 about six hundred bombs, most of which fell into the town, set it on ~ 
 fire in several places, and blew up one of their magazines; the houses 
 not having any straw in them, the fires were soon extinguished, but 
 there is no doubt a great part of the town is beaten down. Their 
 armed boats from Dunkirk came out in good order towards our 
 bomb-vessels; but, there being a gale to work our frigates, they made 
 them soon run in again with loss and very great disorder. The 
 chief of the enemy’s fortifications to the sea were to the west of the 
 town against the road, but we disappointed them by going to the 
 east, so that we suffered very little by their bombs and cannon. I 
 will give orders for the ships designed for the Straits to proceed 
 with the first opportunity to Spithead. Mutilated, [S.P. Dom. 
 Naval 4. | 
 
 Pass for Gerrit Hoffman, a subject of the States-General, to embark 
 at Harwich or Gravesend for Holland. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 346, 
 p. 408. | 
 
 Pass for John Jansen and Dirick Cornelisen, Dutch mariners, to 
 go to Harwich and Holland.  [Jbid.} 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. The Duke of 
 Shrewsbury’s letters read, that arrived the 18th and 19th by foreign 
 post. Ordered that an extract from them, as far as relates to sea 
 affairs, be sent to the Admiralty for their information, and for 
 communicating to Sir George Rooke what is fit for his knowledge. 
 
 Dr. Payne called in. The paper of his representation and 
 vindication read. He offered to submit his commission to the 
 Lords Justices, and only desired it might be recalled without any 
 marks of displeasure. 
 
 Mr. Attorney and Mr. Povey called in. The New England laws 
 considered and settled. An account given of Captain Vaughan’s 
 escape. Ordered that the Admiralty be required to inform the Lords 
 Justices what care was taken in keeping him, and how he got away. 
 
 The directors of the Bank applied for a warrant for pardoning a 
 person who could discover the forgers of bank tickets. The Lords 
 Justices did not think it necessary to sign a warrant, but were willing 
 to give assurance to any friend of such discoverer that he shall have 
 a pardon if his discovery be to the satisfaction of the Bank. 
 
 Sir Thomas Littleton’s being chosen recorder of Woodstock to be 
 laid before the King. 
 
 Sir Richard Reynell’ s petition for his salary for three terms, to 
 be referred to Ireland. 
 
 William Serle’s petition for an employment at sea, in consideration 
 of service against the French, to be sent to the Admiralty. 
 
 Mr. Nugent’s petition for reversing his outlawry, he having no 
 estate to forfeit, to be laid before the King. Mrs. Serjeant’s petition 
 for the King’s title to her husband’s forfeiture, to be sent to the 
 Treasury. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 71.] 
 
1695. 
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 Rough memoranda of the minutes of the Council Board of Ireland 
 respecting a patent granted to one Phillips and one Cooke as joint 
 patentees, their agent being Mordecai Abbot. Cooke’s share was 
 purchased by one Palmer, and afterwards by Edward. Giles, Palmer’s 
 brother. On the back are pencil notes, almost illegible. [S.P. 
 Ireland 357, No. 61.] 
 
 Passes for Peter Cruger, a subject of the Princes of Ltineberg, to 
 ceo to Harwich and Holland; for Abraham Henckell, a Dutchman, to 
 
 go to Falmouth and Spain [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 408]; for 
 
 Jan Jansen Pyne and Anetye, his wife, Daniel Baysselame and Peter 
 Boutiton, French protestants, to go to Harwich and Holland | Jbid., 
 p. 409]; and for Mr. Andrew Wibiornson and Thomas Crayer, servant 
 to Lord Villiers, to go to Holland [ Ibid. 346, p. 109}. 
 
 Warrant to Henry Allen for the apprehension of John Thompson, 
 Paramor Thompson, John Acust, Henry Smith and John Allam, with 
 their papers, for publishing and dispersing treasonable and seditious 
 libels, and for other treasonable practices. [Jbid. 845, p. 247. | 
 
 Passes for William Douglass and Martin Haselbach, a German, to 
 embark at Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [Jbid. 344, p. 409]; and 
 for Helena Somers, whose husband is in his Majesty’s service in 
 Flanders, to go to Holland [Jbid. 346, p. 109]. 
 
 Warrant to Richard Hayward for the apprehension of Dr. Crobrow 
 and Mr. Boor, with their papers, for treasonable and seditious 
 practices. [Jbid. 345, p. 251.] 
 
 Rough memoranda of the minutes of the Council Board of Ireland 
 relating to Mrs. Villar’s bill. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 62. | 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Mr. 
 letter of the 21st read. 
 
 The certificate read and approved, that the directors of the Bank 
 desired, for inserting in the next general pardon a person who offers 
 to discover by whom the marbled lettered notes were counterfeited, 
 with other frauds and forgeries. 
 
 A warrant signed for the discharge of MacMahon and Lysacht, 
 two persons convicted at Dorchester for coming out of France without 
 leave, Lord Chief Justice Holt interceding for them. 
 
 Lord Berkeley called in. Desired the miscarriage at Dunkirk 
 might be put into a way of examination, that 1t may appear where 
 the fault lay, and that such as have done amiss may be punished 
 for it. He acquainted the Lords he had heard that he was under 
 some censure for haying called off the ships from St. Malo sooner 
 than was necessary, and prevented thereby the doing greater mischief 
 to the town; but he declared he gave no orders and made no signal 
 for their coming off, but left it to Captain Benbow to stay as long as 
 he thought fit. He gave an account that five of the mortars were still 
 very good, and might do service if they were removed into other 
 of the bomb-vessels. That they might attempt Calais or other 
 towns to the westward of Dieppe. 
 
 Letter of Admiral Almonde to the Duke of Shrewsbury, in which 
 he desires to know what were the intentions of the Lords Justices, 
 
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 as to his attempting anything on the French coast. If nothing, he 
 He it better to cruise in the Channel than to lie at anchor in the 
 owns. 
 
 Mr. Clark called in. Presented an account of the troops as they 
 appeared at the late review taken by the Duke of Schomberg. 
 Delivered the memorial of Brigadier Stewart, with the King’s answer 
 to it. Directed to make enquiry about Bish, a trooper of the Earl of 
 
  Oxford’s regiment, who is a prisoner on the guard, the same that was 
 
 in Newgate, for riding through the streets crying, “the King is dead.” 
 
 The Lords of the Admiralty called in. Directed the London and 
 Duchess go up to Chatham to be refitted. Some damage done by 
 lightning to the Berwick in her main mast, and to the London in her 
 topmast. 
 
 Petition of Wilkins, who discovered the counterfeiting of seamen’s 
 tickets. Resolved that he be inserted in the next general pardon to 
 come out for the poor convicts of Newgate, as far as his discovery 
 goes, 4001. being received by such counterfeited tickets and offered 
 to be restored. The question was who could receive it? Mr. 
 Attorney of opinion they must take the Lords Justices’ directions. 
 The Lords Justices of opinion that this being appropriated money, ~ 
 and a payment made to a wrong person being null, the money must 
 be returned to the Treasurer of the Navy. 
 
 sir George Rooke’s instructions prepared by the Admiralty. An 
 amendment made that he take with him the ships which are ready. 
 An article to be added for sending a frigate to Genoa with money to 
 be put on board at Cadiz, being what the Bank sends, by his 
 Majesty’s orders, for paying the subsidies to the Duke of Savoy. 
 
 Directed that the mortars be moved into other vessels fitter for 
 service; that it be done at Dover, and that the rest of the bomb ships 
 be laid up. Enquiry made what small frigates they could spare to 
 go with the refitted bomb ships. Answered that, the herring fishing 
 now coming on, all the frigates would be necessary for their convoy, 
 viz.: three towards Yarmouth, two off Rye, and two at — = bus 
 the last would be near enough to give any assistance, as occasion 
 requires. 
 
 Captain Vaughan’s escape enquired into. Mr. Whitaker’s account 
 thereof read. The Lords Justices dissatisfied that the commitment 
 was only on suspicion of high treason, which they judge to be no 
 commitment, and also that the warrant was directed to Lowman, 
 and not the marshal of the Admiralty, it not being a legal com- 
 mitment by the Judge of the Admiralty as such, unless Lowman 
 were the marshal’s deputy, and so specified in the warrant, which 
 was not done. 
 
 The Lords acquainted that Sir Cloudesley Shovell desired leave to 
 come ashore. ‘They saw no reason for his continuing with the fleet, 
 there being only the Northumberland left, now the Elizabeth is come 
 to be refitted. 
 
 Mr. Taylor’s letter, desiring care may be taken his mast ship be 
 not stopped at St. Antonio, his correspondent writing him word there 
 was danger of it, as the King of Spain wants such stores. Ordered 
 that letters be sent to Consul Parker and Mr. Stanhope to take care 
 the ship and the lading be sent home. 
 
 
 
1695. 
 
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 A letter read, directed to Dr. Crobrow at Nottingham, mentioning 
 pamphlets being sent to Mr. Boor of the same town. Directed that 
 a messenger be sent down for apprehending them both, and 
 searching for their libels. That Aaron Smith be spoken to about 
 Sellers’ coventicle and Birkenhead’s indictment. Boyle’s petition 
 about 400/. seized at Swansea. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 72.| 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Captain Benbow 
 ealled in. Acquainted with the Lords Justices’ intentions to employ 
 him upon some service to be done in ‘alarming and annoying the 
 French coast. Declared he was ready to undertake whatever they 
 should command, that he did not know the coast about St. Valertes 
 [| Valery] and thought that too inconsiderable a place to be attempted ; 
 he had more mind to Havre de Grace, if there were but mortars enough 
 and small vessels to support them, and did not believe the hazard of it 
 was to be valued. He desired the same consideration might be had 
 of him as was of others, who, when they had commanded so many 
 ships together as he had, were allowed rear-admiral’s half-pay. The 
 Lords Justices promised not only to do him justice, but shew him 
 favour, and recommended him to consider what may be undertaken 
 with the force they have at present. 
 
 Considered what should be returned by the Duke of Shrewsbury in 
 answer to Admiral Almonde’s letter of the 21st: that the Lords 
 Justices had nothing to object against his cruizing in the Channel 
 as he proposed, but having written to the King concerning the 
 services to be performed, particularly with respect to the Dutch 
 ships,- they desired he would leave a frigate in the Downs or Spithead 
 by which they might acquaint him with the King’s pleasure, as soon 
 as they received it. 
 
 Mr. Smith called in about Sellers’ Jacobite conventicle. Gave an 
 account that Birkenhead would be indicted the next sessions. 
 
 Mr. Clark called in. Gave an account that Edward Bish, the soldier 
 in Lord Oxford’s regiment who had been committed to N ewgate for 
 riding through the city and crying out ‘‘the King is dead,” since being 
 bailed out, had been made a prisoner on the guard, and kept so two 
 days and then turned out, Lord Oxford suspecting he could not (sic) 
 well justify himself; but no examination of him had been taken. 
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 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Treasury, directing 
 that Mr. Gerard Spence be allowed for his care and pains in the 
 Foreign Letter Office the sum of 4001. per annum, to be paid out of » 
 secret service money, as was formerly allowed to Mr. Dorislaus, 
 his predecessor in the said employment. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 100, p. 156. | 
 
 Passes for John Williams of Sluys in Flanders, Frederick Melle, a 
 German, and Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, to go to Harwich or Gravesend 
 for Holland or Flanders [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 410]; for 
 Juan Baptista Vleys to go to Brussels [ Jbid. 846, p. 109}: and for Peter 
 Couyer and John Bosanquet to go to Holland [ Ibid., pillo}: 
 
 Passes for Mrs. Hatcher, two men servants, Peter Durof and John 
 Fort, Ann Blurton, her woman, and Ann Philips, a little girl, to embark 
 at Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [Ibid. 345, p. 410]: for Mrs. 
 
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 Quirina Calff and Jannetie Stevens, with her young daughter, ditto 
 [Ibid., p. 411]; and for Mr. James Eyston, cornet in Colonel 
 Wood’s regiment, and one servant, Mr. Anthony Fackenhoff, the 
 Duke of Ormonde’s gentleman of the horse, Daniel Keef and 
 Peter Dowdall, going to serve in Colonel Trelawney’s regiment, to 
 go to Holland [Jbid. 346, p. 110]. 
 
 Passes for John Moules, a French protestant, and Conrad Strak, 
 a subject of the States General, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for 
 Holland [Zbid. 344, p. 411]; for Bartholomew Bernard to embark at 
 Harwich for Holland [Jbid., p.412]; and for Antonio vander Dorent, 
 a native of Brussels, to go to Flanders [Jbid. 346, p. 110]. 
 
 W. Bridgman to Mr. Vernon, enclosing copy of a letter from A. D. 
 desiring a pardon. Enclosure not preserved. Endorsed : Enclosing 
 a letter about the discovery of counterfeited tickets. [S.P. Ireland 
 357, No. 63. | 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Sir Henry 
 Goodrick attended for Lord Romney, and brought a letter of Colonel 
 Richards, stating that there were five mortars still of service that 
 might be soon got ready. 
 
 Complaint of the lieutenant of the Tiger, about his bemg abused 
 at Bristol for impressing seamen, sent by the Admiralty to Sir 
 Wilham Trumbull. 
 
 Letter of Sir Richard Onslow to the Duke of Shrewsbury, setting 
 forth that some dragoons, belonging to Colonel Bullingsley’s troop 
 quartered at Guildford and Godliman [Godalming] had abused one 
 Steers, an alehouse keeper, and almost killed him, and when seized 
 by the constable knocked him down, being set on by the heutenant. 
 Mr. Thurston sent for in Mr. Clark’s absence. Directed to give the 
 lieutenant notice to attend the Council on Thursday to answer the 
 complaint, and in the meantime to take care the soldiers be put into 
 the custody from which he (sic) was rescued. 
 
 Admiral Almonde’s letter of the 26th to the Duke of Shrewsbury, 
 giving an account he was weighing anchor in order to cruize in the 
 Channel, and had sent a frigate to Spithead. The Duke of Shrewsbury 
 desired to acquaint him, that, while he was cruizing, the Lords Justices 
 intended the French should be annoyed as far as they could do it 
 with the few mortars they had left, and being informed that two 
 bomb-vessels were expected from Holland, the Lords Justices desired 
 they might join with ours, and that orders might be left for them in 
 the Downs for that purpose. 
 
 The Lords of the Admiralty sent for. They gave an account that 
 Sir George Rooke had not mentioned to them he wanted so many men, 
 but they had ordered him the men of the Kent and Mary, and those 
 which came out of the bomb ships which were to be laid up, which 
 would make more than his middle complement ; but they did not see 
 where to find him his full complement. 
 
 Acquainted with what had been written from Dunkirk about Du 
 Bart’s preparing to come out with bomb-vessels. They thought it 
 was much to be apprehended on our coast. They still believed 
 Nesmond’s design was upon the Spanish West Indies, and were in no 
 pain for the Turkey convoy, Admiral Russell having strengthened it 
 as much as they thought necessary. 
 
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 Ordered that Mr. Lowndes be asked to send the warrant for the 
 hospital commission, and that a draft for an instruction for Sir 
 George Rooke be prepared by Thursday. 
 
 Baron Donelan’s petition to be sent to the Treasury, and also Alice 
 Shipton’s and Lieutenant Richardson’s. The Admiralty to be spoken 
 to when they attend next upon Lyddal’s petition to have a dispensa- 
 tion for two years to make him a superannuated officer. 
 
 Upon the petition of Mr. Moor to have the sentence of man- 
 slaughter for the death of Hurst respited, in case he be found guilty, 
 order given for report upon the sentence. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 
 274, p. 76. | 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to Dr. Beeston, recommending Samuel 
 Adams, the ‘‘head”’ of Winchester School, to be elected to New College 
 at the next election. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 207. ] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to Sir John Fleet, sending a memorial 
 from the Portugal envoy relating to the pretensions of some Portugese 
 in the Island of Bombay, and desiring him and others entrusted 
 with the management of the affairs of the East India Company to, 
 consider it, and inform him what ground there is for the complaint ’ 
 and demand. [Jbid. 100, p. 156.] 
 
 The same to Sir Richard Onslow. In answer to yours of the 25th, 
 the affidavits have been laid before the Lords Justices, and they have 
 directed the lieutenant to put those soldiers who have offended into 
 the hands of the civil magistrate, and then immediately to come here 
 to give an account himself of his own proceedings in this matter; 
 you need not doubt that the town shall have justice done them 
 and that the officers and soldiers will be severely punished if they be 
 found to deserve it. [Jbid., p. 157.] 
 
 Passes for Lothar Anthony de Tondorf, Johan Wilhelm 
 Schelhas and Joseph Bridges to go to Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 346, p. 110]; and for Mr. William Harvey and Thomas Walker, 
 ditto [Zbid., p. 111]. 
 
 Warrant for Richard Hopkins to go to Kent and apprehend Hugh 
 Harrison, with his papers, for treasonable practices.  [Jbid. 345, 
 p. 250]. 
 
 Passes for William Verbecq, Michael Olivier, Péter Nicholas Baume 
 and John Cretien to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland | bid. 
 344, p. 411]; and for Margaret Hudlestone, William Hawley, lieutenant 
 in Sir Bevill Granville’s regiment, with his wife and one servant, 
 to go to Holland [Zbid. 346, p. 111]. 
 
 Passes for Elias Abels, Sir Francis Tempest, bart., Mr. Lewis 
 Gargan and William Lambert, his servants, and Herman Bruyn, to 
 go to Holland.  [Tbid.] 
 
 Proclamation by the Lords Justices for a general thanksgiving to be 
 observed on the 8th and 22nd of September, for the success of the allies 
 in taking Namur. Printed. [S.P. Dom. Proclamations 4, No. 118.] 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Mr. Priestman 
 and Sir John Houblon called in. Mention made of the Barbadoes 
 
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 ships lost. That they had as many cruizers in the Soundings as they 
 had at any time. Sir Cloudesley Shovell to have leave to come to 
 town. That the Northumberland only was fit to stay out; the 
 Elizabeth was ordered to the Nore as not fit for sea. The Berkeley 
 Castle, that was ordered in, might be continued out for afew days 
 longer ; for the small frigates that may be wanting to protect the 
 bomb- vessels, they are employed upon the fishing convoys, but where 
 there are two at a station one may be taken off for a few days. 
 
 A memorial delivered about Wilkins and Rawlinson, who lay hold 
 of the promise of a pardon upon discovering counterfeit tickets. 
 Ordered that it be signified to enter a cessat processus against’ 
 Rawlinson, his wife and daughter. 
 
 The Dutch Ambassador's memorial about a prize taken by the 
 Zealanders stopped at Rye. 
 
 Ordered that a draft of a letter be prepared for the Earl of Bradford 
 ee the justices of Shropshire. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, 
 Denise 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Mayor and Jurats of Rye, acknow- 
 ledging the receipt of their letter of the 17th inst., and enclosing the 
 copy of an examination of Remain Denbois, lieutenant of the ship 
 Fortune of Calais, taken before them, importing that this ship was 
 sent out to view the motion of the English fleet and to give 
 intelligence thereof. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 207. ] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Duke of Norfolk. J am sorry it 
 was not in my power to better obey your commands, for when 
 the cause of Wilson came this day to be examined before the 
 Council, there were the positive affidavits of three persons that he 
 had said ‘“ King William sent out cruisers upon the French, which 
 was as bad as robbing on the highway”; these words being sworn, 
 and some of the Lords of the Council giving on their own knowledge 
 avery bad account of this man’s affection to the government, it was 
 impossible to avoid ordering a prosecution, which was accordingly 
 omen nobody being able to say one word to oppose it. [Zbid. 100, 
 J OAS 6 
 
 The same to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, acquainting him that 
 his opinion that a Bill should be prepared for confirming the 
 Articles of Limerick had been laid before the King. [S.P. Ty reland 
 King’s Letter Book 2, p. 80.| 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Sir George 
 Rooke’s instructions signed. Ordered to be sent to him with an 
 intimation that he should use all diligence to get everything in 
 readiness for his proceeding to the Straits. 
 
 The Admiralty to be acquainted that the Barbadoes ships had 
 come, not only without a convoy to bring them into the Channel, 
 but that the Bristol had disabled them by taking away some of their 
 men, particularly from the Avazilla, Captain Robinson, commander. 
 
 Ordered that ‘it be signified to the Admiralty, if the bomb ships 
 cannot be fitted at the Downs or at Dover, that they come to Sheer- 
 ness, and at their arrival there Captain Benbow be directed to inspect 
 their being got ready; and since it is intended he shall command 
 this expedition, that a commission be given to him accordingly. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 78. ] 
 
1695. 
 Aug. 30. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Aug. 30. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Aug. 31. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Aug. 31. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Aug. 
 Aug. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Sept. 1. 
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 Sir William Trumbull to Sir Charles Hedges, requiring his 
 opinion on a memorial by the Dutch ambassador concerning a ship 
 called La Nostra Signiora de la Consolatione, a prize taken by two 
 Zealand privateers, which, being put into Rye to avoid a French 
 privateer, is there seized on and detained by one Arthur Kief, a 
 merchant of London. [S.P. Dom. Mntry Book 99, p. 208.] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to Mr. Foden. I have received vour 
 letter of the 27th inst.,and am sorry to hear such barbarities have 
 been committed by these new raised soldiers, who are admitted into 
 his Majesty’s service for the protection and security of his subjects, 
 and not to use cruelty towards them; and I am glad some of those 
 have been apprehended who have been guilty of it. I suppose care 
 will be taken that their commitment be made according to the 
 heinousness of the crime, and the further proofs there are of it, and 
 you may be assured that no solicitations in their behalf will fetch them 
 out of the hands of justice, or prevent the law proceeding against 
 them; for the discovery of those who committed the other 
 murder, directions are sent to Colonel Gibson at Portsmouth to 
 secure Lieutenant Harding, in order to his giving an account of the 
 behaviour of the soldiers he conducted and his producing those that 
 are the criminals. In the meantime you will take care to send up 
 affidavits of what the lieutenant is charged with. [Zbid. 100, p. 159. | 
 
 The same to Alderman Haines. I have received your letter of the 
 26th inst. with the papers of Sir James Hays, which it was very fit 
 should be taken from him, since they are made use of as pretences 
 to beg with, or impose upon people. I can assure you he is not 
 employed by me on any account, nor ever was to the purposes he 
 mentions, and it is a long time since I have resolved to have nothing 
 to do with a man of his character; as for his vagrant companion, 
 I never heard of him before. [Jbid., p. 158. | 
 
 Passes for Peter Turog, a Dutch soldier, and Hannah, his wife, to 
 go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 412]; for 
 John Kleb and Lawrence Paginer, Germans, Josué Raboteau, George 
 Perrin and Peter Mare Tolot, to go to Holland [ Jbid. 846, p. 111]; for 
 Mathew Mechelinge to go to Brandenburg ; and for Johan Andres 
 Greve, Herman Jurgensen, Steen Rudolfen, Bernhardus Jensen Busch 
 and Henryck Floytman to go to Denmark [TJbid., p. 112]. 
 
 Extracts from Lord Berkeley’s journal, 1 June to 4 August. [S.P. 
 Dom. Naval, 4.] 
 
 Pass for John Peterson Sluce of Sluys to go to Holland. [S.P. 
 Dom. Entry Book 846, p. 109. | 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to Lord Capell. [S.P. Ireland, King’s 
 Letter Book 2, p. 81.]  Appended is a memorial (undated) offered to 
 the Lords Justices of England, relating to chantries and other super- 
 stitious foundations in Ireland: Henry Vi., by his letters patent of 
 16 December, in the ninth year of his reign, granted to Richard, then 
 Archbishop of Dublin, and others, power to erect a chapel in the church 
 of St. Audoen in Dublin, and to ordain a guild to be called the Guild 
 of St. Anne within the church of St. Audoen, aforesaid, as trustees to 
 manage all such lands and other revenues as should be gwen to the said 
 
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 Sept. 3. 
 
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 corporation, for the support and maintenance of a chantry of six priests, 
 to celebrate mass at six altars in the said church every day for ever, for 
 the good state of the King, the founders, and the fraternity, as long as 
 they lived, and for the souls of them and all the faithful departed. That 
 other succeeding Kings created several other corporations in and about 
 the city of Dublin, and in many other places throughout the kingdom of 
 Ireland, for the like purposes, and wider the like circumstances, to which, 
 as well as that of St. Anne, were given from time to time by pious and 
 charitable persons, lands, houses and tenements to a very considerable 
 yearly value, which the trustees, being all or most of them to this day 
 Ttoman Catholics, have and do still convert to their own private uses, 
 contrary to the intention of the donors and to the King’s grant. That 
 this matter was laid before the late Queen and the late Archbishop of 
 Canterbury, who, after they had consulted the Attorney General, and 
 found that chantries in Ireland though of superstitious foundations, 
 were not at the dissolution of Abbeys, through oversight or concealment 
 vested wn the Crown, were pleased to agree upon certain heads for a bill, 
 which had been offered toa Parliament here the last session, had not their 
 deaths put a stop to it. A Parliament now sitting in Ireland, tt ws 
 humbly conceived as a fit subject for a bill to be transmitted hither. 
 [S.P. Ireland, King’s Letter Book 2, p. 81.] 
 
 The examination of Hugh Harrison,of Dymchurch, between Hythe 
 and Romney, co. Kent, sworn before Mr. Vernon. A year last 
 Kaster a person was brought to his house by a man called ‘‘ Captain,” 
 and the said person told him it was Captain Birkenhead, and to the 
 best of his remembrance James Hunt of the parish of St. Mary’s, in 
 Romney Marsh was with him. The said person was brought to his 
 house as one that was under no ill circumstances, but was going over 
 to or from his master about business, which he understood to be 
 making up accounts. The said person remained in the house about 
 a week, and then James Hunt fetched him away one evening. He 
 does not know the said person, but believes he went that night for 
 France. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 6, No. 35.] 
 
 Passes for Michael Garnault and his wife, Julius Berkenstein, 
 John Steckelman, Andrew Herstel and Henry Elbers, to go to Harwich 
 and Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 412); and for Captain 
 John Richards and one servant, James Malerme and John Tamino, 
 to go to Holland [Jbid. 346, p. 112}. 
 
 Passes for Joachin Steen, belonging to the Baron de Schuerin, 
 John Bourdon, John Houfnagel, and William Cornelisse, Dutch 
 mariners, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland; for Isaae 
 Belisario, a Jew, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Denmark; for 
 Mr. Theophilus Downs, a minister, to go to Harwich or Gravesend 
 for Holland [Zbid. 844, p. 418]; for Ditmar Treiner, a German tailor, 
 and Isaac van Bracht, a Dutch mariner, ditto [Zbid., p. 414]; and 
 for Olof Christensen and Mr. Anthony Vernatty and his servant, 
 ditto | Ibid. 846, p. 112]. 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Consideration 
 had of the next proroguing of Parhament. That Mr. Blathwayt be 
 written to, to know the King’s pleasure, and if the Lords Justices do 
 
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 not receive directions to the contrary, they intend the next proroga- 
 tion shall be of above three weeks. 
 
 Petition of the town of Wycombe that the King will approve of Mr. 
 Dormer for their recorder, upon the resignation of Mr. Waller. 
 Ordered that a copy be sent to the King to know his pleasure, as 
 was done in the case of Sir Thomas Littleton. 
 
 Sir George Rooke’s letter of the Ist desiring an explanation of an 
 article of his instructions from the Lords Justices, and supplying 
 what was omitted in the Admiralty’s instructions. Resolved that 
 his instructions be newly drawn up, and a clause inserted that in 
 case the French pass the Straits, he follow with, or send after them, 
 at least an equal number of ships, notwithstanding what ships Mr. 
 Russell may have sent home before. 
 
 The Lords of the Admiralty sent for. Directed to take care that 
 it be provided for in Sir George Rooke’s instructions that there be no 
 room for cavil or competition between him and Admiral Russell, in 
 case Mr. Russell should not have come away from the Straits when 
 Sir George Rooke arrives; but that the chief command be preserved 
 to Mr. Russell during his stay in the Mediterranean, and while they 
 shall be together. That it hkewise be added to Sir George Rooke’s 
 instructions that he obey such orders as he shall at any time receive 
 from the King, or from the Lords Justices during his Majesty’s stay 
 out of England. 
 
 They acquainted the Lords Justices it was not usual to give a 
 commission to one in Captain Benbow’s circumstances to command in 
 chief, but he should have an order for it, which would be as effectual. 
 Being recommended to them to be favourable to Captain Benbow’s 
 pretensions to rear admiral’s half pay, on account of commanding 
 such a number of ships, they answered the rule of the Navy was to 
 make that allowance to one who should command twelve ships in 
 foreign service, under the Lord High Admiral’s commission. This 
 would not be Benbow’s case, but while he was upon service he would 
 have the whole pay of a rear admiral, and having commanded a 
 third-rate would be entitled to that half-pay in time of peace. 
 
 Enquired of them what convoy they would provide for the King ; 
 they answered they had only the Northumberland left. 
 
 Notice taken they had left the Cambridge out of the list of Sir 
 George Rooke’s ships. They acquainted the Lords that all Sir 
 George Rooke wanted from them was some men, which the Mary 
 would bring him from the Downs as soon as wind and weather 
 permitted, and the paying off the turned over men, about which they 
 had employed another commissioner and more clerks, and they 
 questioned whether Sir George Rooke would stay till that were quite 
 done. 
 
 They informed the Lords Justices that they understood the 
 squadron appointed for the Soundings had been off their station and 
 almost altogether at Kinsale, and that they had sent to enquire about 
 it ; also that they had allowed 1001. per annum additional salary to a 
 chaplain general for the fleet. His instructions were read. 
 
 A question made by Mr. Priestman whether this matter was 
 within their commission, and that they ought to have a particular 
 order for it in writing. Sir John Lowther took notice of the 
 difficulties they were under in this and some other cases, that some 
 
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 Sept. 3. 
 
 Limburg. 
 
 Sept. 3. 
 Limburg. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 would sign orders and some not, he could not put the service as 
 forward as it would go. 
 
 Proposed that the widow of the captain of the Aldborough ketch, 
 killed before Calais, might have a settled allowance of 60/. per annum, 
 the like having been often granted. Nothing objected to it. 
 
 Mention made of the commander of a Guinea ship, who threatened 
 to arrest a lieutenant for pressing a black. Proposed that they might 
 have leave to press the master into the service. Advised that, as 
 they saw cause, they should move the Council for leave to press 
 masters of ships i in general, which had been sometimes ordered and 
 seems now not unfit to be done, so great numbers being protected 
 under that pretence; but no notice to be taken of the present case, as 
 if this order was desired out of revenge. 
 
 Sir George Rooke’s instructions signed. Grierea to be sent to 
 him this night, and that he be required to return the former instruc- 
 tions of 30 “August. 
 
 Mr. Blathwayt to be acquainted that, Sir George Rooke taking with 
 him all the considerable ships that can be got ready, there will be no 
 convoy here to bring the King over, and therefore if there be not a 
 sufficent number of Dutch ships on that side for the said service, the 
 Lords Justices propose that directions may be sent to Admiral 
 Almonde to attend his Majesty, when he shall return, with such 
 ships as shall be thought necessary. 
 
 The Archbishop of Canterbury acquainted the Lords with a letter 
 he had received from Dr. Payn, who had sent him his commission 
 for a royal visitation, declaring his willingness to resign it, provided 
 he may have an equivalant, which he computes at 5001. per annum. 
 The Lords of opinion that the Archbishop would do well to send 
 him his commission and enter into no treaty with him about the 
 surrender of it, if he did not do it willingly and without terms; 
 it was their part to pursue the King’s directions for vacating it. 
 
 The Archbishop acquainted the Lords Justices likewise that the 
 King’s instructions as to the disposal of the deanery of Lichfield 
 were that it -be offered to Dr. Craddock in the first place, 
 and in case he did not accept it, that it be given to Dr. Henry 
 Godolphin; that Dr. Craddock had excused himself from removing, 
 by reason of his ill state of health, and therefore the Arch- 
 bishop moved the Lords would order the warrant to be made over 
 again for Dr. Godolphin to have the deanery of Lichfield, and that it 
 might be sent to the Xing to be signed, which was done accordingly. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 79.] 
 
 Commissions for Charles Dumbeck to be captain lieutenant in 
 Colonel Robert Mackay’s regiment; for James Logan to be lieu- 
 tenant of Lord Kdward Murray’s company in the same regiment ; 
 for Samuel Livingstone to be captain of Captain Thomas Turn- 
 bull’s late company; for John Aitken to be lieutenant of Major Reid’s 
 company; and for William Baillie to be ensign of Captain Charles 
 Douglas’s company in Sir William Douglas’s regiment. ([S.P. 
 Scotland Warrant Book 16, p. 92.] 
 
 Warrant to the Duke of Queensberry for reponing Captain John 
 Lockhart and Captain William Drummond, who had sentence of 
 court martial pronounced against them, to their former ranks in 
 Lord Jedburgh’s regiment. [ Ibid. ] 
 
1695. 
 Sept. 3. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Sept. 3. 
 
 Limerick. 
 
 WILLIAM III. 59 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to Sir Francis Molyneux. I have 
 received your letter of the 81st past concerning Dr. Crowbrow’s 
 entering into a recognizance for his appearing when required. 
 Since you have given yourself this trouble, I desire you will add to 
 it the sending for the doctor, and asking him from whom he 
 received the enclosed letter, which the messenger found in his 
 lodging, and has marked, that he may attest it upon oath if need 
 be. Ifthe doctor be inclined to answer with ingenuity, it may save 
 him the charge of a journey. I will not conceal from you that it is 
 chiefly on account of holding such correspondences that the doctor 
 was sent for, many letters, stuffed with disaffection to the Govern- 
 ment, having been written to him by the same person, who likewise 
 furnished him with seditious pamphlets and libels; as therefore it 
 is to the service of the public to have this author known, you 
 will allow me to recommend it to you, that by this means he may 
 be discovered. Enclosure not entered. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 100, 
 p. 160. | 
 
 George Roche to Sir Joseph Williamson. Our Council met to-day, 
 and I send the enclosed to you and another of the same to our 
 recorder, that you may make use of any of them for the advantage 
 of the city. [S.P. Ireland 857, No. 64.] Enclosing :— 
 
 Proposals made by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of 
 LTimerick to be sent to Sir Joseph Williamson, knt., and Joseph 
 Coghlan, esq., their representatives in Parliament now sitting iv Dublin, 
 to be presented by them in Parliament. 1. That barracks be made 
 in or near the city for what number of soldiers and officers the King 
 shall think fit to quarter in the city, and that a fund be raised to 
 find them firing, to keep the barracks in repair, ete. 2. That regard 
 be had to the poverty of the citizens of Limerick in any Act made 
 for ratsing money, and that they being reduced by the last war and 
 two sieges may be considered and eased in taxation. 8. That the Irish 
 wmhabitants that have enriched themselves in the last war by spoil and 
 with the goods of the English in the city, may be compelled to quarter 
 the soldiers of the garrison until the barracks be prepared, and that 
 those of the Irish that have absented themselves to avoid quartering of 
 soldiers may be prohibited to return, and incapacitated to enjoy their 
 treedom there, when the garrison shall be provided for. 4. Thata more 
 exact scrutiny be made into the soldiers of the garrison at musters, etc., 
 whereby Irish papists may not wear the King’s livery and be trained in 
 feats of arms. 5. That all Roman Catholics, except labourers and 
 cottiers, be commanded out of the city and not permitted to live within 
 
 . three miles thereof, which will be the security of the garrison, there being 
 
 every night wm the city about three Irish for one English inhabitant. 
 6. That the tower lately blown wp on the quay of this city be rebuilt, or 
 at least part thereof, and the stones and rubbish removed which obstruct 
 the passage of ships. 7. That the poverty of the citizens and the ruin 
 of the city be laid before Parliament, with the petition that they would 
 allow them some additional revenue of quit-rent or otherwise to repair 
 their losses and rebuild their houses. The revenue of the Corporation 
 for want of trade, etc., is reduced from 1,0001. to 3001. per annum so 
 that they are not able to bear the King’s sword or maintain officers (sic) 
 with honour to the King. [Lbid., No. 641.] 
 
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 Sept. 3. 
 Dublin. 
 
 Sept. 4. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Sept. 5. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Sept. 5. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Sept. 5. 
 [ Whitehall. ] 
 
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 Lord Capell to Mr. Vernon, recommending a pardon, etc., to 
 Rowland White. [S.P. Ireland 857, No. 65.] Enclosing :— 
 
 (1) Robert Rochfort’s report to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, dated 
 28 August, 1695. In obedience to yours of the 19th instant, I have 
 perused the petition cf Rowland White to the Lords Justices of 
 England, praying for a reversal of the outlawrtes against him, and to 
 order him a pardon. I have also perused a certificate dated July last, 
 signed Daniel Butts, certifying that the said Butts, being appointed 
 comnussary to attend the transportation of the Irish troops into France, 
 and being forced to go from Brest to Paris on account of a seizure 
 made on some ships employed in that service, was credibly uformed 
 that in March, April and May, 1692, there was a general stop put by 
 the French king to all passes; that the said Butts could not then 
 obtain one, though he presented several memorials to that purpose, and 
 in attempting to make the best of his way jor England, he 
 was prevented at Calais by the governor of Calais; and that 
 about June, 1692, he met the petitioner at Paris, and there at the 
 desire of the said Butts, the petitioner understanding the language and 
 course of the offices, did assist in clearing the said ships. It is likewise 
 certified that he met the petitioner in April, 1693, at Brussels, on his 
 journey for England; and that in May following he came from 
 Helvoetsluys in Holland to Harwich in the same packet-boat as the said 
 Butts. I have also perused a certiticate dated at Dublin, 21st of this 
 instant, by the Earl of Westmeath and several others that were of the 
 Trish army at the surrender of Limerick, certifying that the petitioner, 
 beng indisposed in body at Limerick, did, long before the last siege 
 thereof, go into France, and that in his absence provision was made for 
 him by name in the Articles of Limerick. And I find provision was so 
 made. [Ibid., No. 651. ] 
 
 (2). The petition of Rowland White. Undated. [ Ibid., 
 No. 6511. | 
 
 Passes for William Castle, cordwainer, and John Houseman, of 
 Hamburg, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland |.S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 344, p. 415]; for John de la Tour, ditto [Zbid.]; and 
 for Lombard Quintin to go to Holland [Jbid. 346, p. 112]. 
 
 Pass for Mary le Quesne, with her daughters Jane, Rachel and 
 Mary, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland or Hamburg. 
 [Ibid. 844, p. 415.] 
 
 Warrant to William Sutton to repair to Beccles, co. Suffolk, to 
 take into his custody a person arrested at Bungay, suspected to be 
 John Robart, mentioned in a late proclamation. [Jbid. 845, p. 254. | 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Mr. Clark sent 
 for. Directed to prepare an order for Colonel Norcott’s regiment, now 
 at Portsmouth, to embark and go with Sir George Rooke to the 
 Straits. ‘The Commissioners for the Exchange of Prisoners to attend 
 upon Lord Galway’s letter about exchanging Irish prisoners in the 
 Savoy for French protestants in the galleys. The Board of Ordnance 
 to attend about providing sea beds for Colonel Norcott’s regiment. 
 The Lords of the Admiralty called in. Doubtful where Mons. Nesmond 
 is. Acquainted them that a regiment of foot is to embark at Spithead. 
 
1695. 
 
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 WILLIAM III. 61 
 
 
 
 A minute taken to furnish them with five hundred hammocks. 
 Moved that there might be an order of Council for sending the highest 
 complement to the Straits. They represented the Victuallers pretend 
 their victuals are all delivered out for this year, and still there are 
 other services remaining, and they are out of stock and in want of 
 money to comply with what is further to be done, they being 
 500,000/. in arrear ; besides the declaration should now be made for 
 the next year, or the proper season would be lost for making pro- 
 visions. This matter would be brought before the Treasury. 
 Ordered that Sir George Rooke be acquainted with the orders about 
 Colonel Norcott’s regiment, but if all things else be despatched, and 
 the wind be fair, he do not stay for them; and if they should be left 
 behind, the Lords would take some other opportunity of sending the 
 men. Mention made of the presents for Algiers and Tripoli. 
 Ordered that Consul Baker attend the Lords of the Treasury next 
 day upon the subject. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 82. | 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Sir William 
 Trumbull brought a letter from the Pensioner Heinsius about the 
 fleets continuing longer out, and protection for the Dutch fishery. 
 Ordered that he be acquainted, as to the former, that Captain Benbow 
 is going out with some bomb ships; as to the latter, the Admiralty 
 would doas had been usual. A long memorial of Mons. Leyoncrona’s 
 disputing the right of flag. No answer to be given, since he owns 
 he has not received any orders in that matter. A memorial about 
 the chantries in Ireland; ordered that it be recommended to the 
 Council there to prepare a Bill for vesting them in the Crown, they 
 having been formerly, omitted when the Bill passed for abbey lands. 
 Bill of six skins signed for Greenwich Hospital. The Duke of Schom- 
 berg called in. Mr. Blathwayt’s letter of the 8th read to him about 
 the regiments that were not complete. He said Colonel Colt was the 
 most faulty, he having received all his money, and his regiment 
 being the worst. Resolved that the Duke signify to Colonel Colt 
 that he complete his regiment within six weeks as to men, clothes 
 and arms, upon pain of cashiering; and that the other colonels be 
 required to do the like, upon pain of the King’s high displeasure. 
 The difficulties of getting men considered, especially in harvest time. 
 The Duke desiring it might be put into an order, Mr. Clark was 
 sent for to draw it up. Sir Henry Goodrick attended; it appearing 
 that sea beds for soldiers were furnished before by the Transport 
 Office, Mr. Hopkins called in, and required immediately to provide 
 them for such a number of men as Mr. Clark should inform him of, 
 and that an order should be given them for it. The petition of the 
 two Nagles and Purcell about Lord Bellomont’s grant, to be sent to 
 the Treasury. Praed’s petition read; ordered to be sent to Consul 
 Broughton to have the fact stated, or if they do not think him 
 impartial enough, they must stay till the King has a minister there. 
 [Discussion as to] Savery’s invention about polishing glass, if there 
 be no obstruction by the Act for laying a duty upon glass, and that 
 to be known at the Treasury. Memorandum that the Admiralty be 
 spoken to about the Bill for registerimg seamen, and also about the 
 marine regiments who desire a quartering order. | Lbid., p. 83. | 
 
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 Sept. 6. 
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 Sept. 6. 
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 Sept. 7. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Sept. 7. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Sept. 7. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Sept. 7. 
 
 Bonquer. 
 
 Sept. 9. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Sept. 9. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Sept. 10. 
 Whitehall. 
 
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 The Duke of Shrewsbury to Mr. Else, acknowledging the receipt 
 of his letter giving an account of a person who is secured and 
 suspected to be John Robart; and desiring him to deliver him to the 
 bearer, a messenger with a warrant to bring him up. The person 
 who first seized him shall have the promised reward. [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 100, p. 161. ] 
 
 Passes and post-warrant for Frederic William Schardius, a 
 German, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Hamburg or Holland ; 
 for Abraham Jerusalem, Raphael Jerman, David Israel and Isaac 
 Franco, poor Jews, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 415]; and for Mr. Joseph 
 
 Symonds, with one horse and a guide, to go to Bath [Jbid., p. 416}. 
 
 Pass for John Tombon to go to Hamburg. [Jbid. 346, p. 112. | 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Lords of the Admiralty, directing 
 the discharge of two Dutch seamen. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, 
 p. 208. | 
 
 A duplicate of the above. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 204, p. 107. ] 
 
 Warrant for reducing the quit-rents on certain lands in Ireland, viz. 
 the baronies of Glaneroughty {Glanaruddery ?| Iveragh and Dunker- 
 ron, co. Kerry, granted by Charles II. to Robert Marshall, gent., Sir 
 George Carteret, knight, since deceased, Sir William Petty, knight, 
 since deceased, Thomas Compton, Kdward and Elizabeth Nicholls, 
 Henry Pritty and Benjamin Barry. The rents have already been 
 mitigated under the commission of Charles II. to the Karl of Essex 
 and others, but the lands are so very coarse and barren, that they 
 are in no way sufficient to answer even the reduced rents, and the 
 exacting thereof may discourage the plantation and re-peopling of 
 that part of the country, which lies very convenient for the trade 
 of other nations, and is at present very thinly peopled, and much 
 wasted and impoverished by the late rebellion. ‘The reduction is 
 made at the request of Henry Petty, esquire, one of the sons of the 
 said Sir Wilham Petty. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office 18, p. 257. ] 
 
 Commissions for George Carey to be captain heutenant of Brigadier 
 General William Stewart's company in his regiment; for Martin 
 Smith to be lheutenant of Captain John Stewart of Lurgan’s 
 company in the same regiment; for Gervis Parker to be ensign of 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Hussey’s company in the same regiment 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 147]; for Tobias Stewart to be ensign 
 of Captain John Stewart of Portsmouth’s company in the same 
 regiment; and for Joseph Gregory to be ensign of Captain John 
 Stewart of Galloway’s company in the same regiment [Jbid., p. 149]. 
 
 Passes for Philip Seybold and Lothaire Lideman to go to Holland 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 846, p. 112]; and for Gasper Haanrood, 
 taken prisoner by the French at the battle of Fleurus, and having 
 since made his escape from them, ditto [ [bid., p. 113]. 
 
 Passes for William Laffert, George Landsoron, Frederick de la 
 Chambre, Daniel Eveling, and Peter Weiss, Germans, and Mrs. 
 Martha Chauvin, a French protestant,. to go to Harwich or 
 
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 Gravesend for Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 416]; and 
 for Bernardino Poggiati and Gio. Franco Cominotti, Florentines, 
 ditto [Ibid. 346, p. 113]. 
 
 Sept. 10. Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. The Bishop of 
 
 Whitehall. JTjondon spoke with the Lords. Ordered thereupon that the Lords 
 Justices be put in mind about superseding Dr. Payn’s commission. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 84.] 
 
 Sept. 11. Passes and post-warrant for John Peterson and William Seil- 
 
 Whitehall. maker, mariners, subjects of the States-General, to go to Harwich or 
 Gravesend for Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 416]; and 
 for Mr. Thomas Newlyne, with one horse and a guide, to go to 
 Plymouth [Jbid., p. 417]. . 
 
 Sept. 11. Approbation of Thomas Remington, gent., as town clerk of 
 Loo. Hedon in the place of William Baines, gent., who has lately 
 
 resigned. [Jbid. 346, p. 115. ] 
 
 Sept. 11. Similar approbation of Henry Pont, gent., as town clerk of 
 Loo. Wallingford in the place of Moses Slade, gent., who has lately 
 , resigned. [TJbid. p. 117.] 
 
 Sept. 11. A list of his Majesty’s ships bound to the Straits with Sir George 
 Admiralty Rooke, with an account of their highest complements of men, and 
 Office. what numbers of men they have on board. 
 
 Sir George Rooke, by a letter dated Sept. 12th, gives an account 
 that the men Captain Jennings pressed from the merchant men, the 
 turned-over men from the bomb-vessels, and a hundred of the 
 Mary’s men, with the soldiers, have put the ships under his command 
 in number near their highest complements. [S.P. Dom. King 
 William’s Chest 15, No. 90. | 
 
 Sept. 12. Passes for Mrs. Hatcher with two men servants, Peter Durof and 
 
 Whitehall. John Fort, Frances Blurton, her woman, and Ann Philips, a little 
 girl, Mr. John Hadley, and Mrs. Suzanna de Montils, a French 
 protestant, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [S.P. 
 Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 416]; for Daniel Phillips, who is going to 
 Flanders to serve his Majesty, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for 
 Holland or Flanders [Jbid., p. 418]; and for Mons. Stengens with 
 his lady, Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell, Mrs. Mary Giraud, Susan Tully, 
 Margaret Galland, Mr. James Brunetti, Carlo Francischi, Claude 
 Galland, John Sepolins, and Derick Clein, their servants, to go to 
 Holland [Jbid. 346, p. 113]. 
 
 Sept. 12. Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Bull signed for 
 [Whitehall.]  proroguing Parliament to the 8th October. Petition of the East India! 
 Company read. Acquainted with what Mr. Blathwayt had written 
 by the King’s order about stopping Sir George Rooke. The Lords of 
 the Admiralty attended. Acquainted [them] that the King had sent for 
 the yacht and small frigates as usual, that they go to the Brill, anda 
 convoy of such men-of-war as can be spared from cther services go 
 to the Goeree. Sir Cloudesley Shovell appointed to command them. 
 They delivered in an account of the number and rates of the ships 
 with Sir George Rooke, and how they were manned. Acquainted with 
 
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 the petition from the East India Company. They told the Lords they 
 had but the seven ships now in the Soundings; afterwards bethought 
 themselves of two or three more. They did not approve of their 
 going so far into the sea as the Company proposed; besides the 
 Soundings would be thereby left exposed and other fleets were 
 expected home, particularly one from New England. The great 
 question whether the ships in the Soundings should join. The Hast 
 India Company called in. Acquainted that the only thing they had 
 to consider was how to make the squadron in the Soundings of use 
 to them, for though there were ships at Spithead, yet they were 
 under the King’s orders. Some of them asked if those ships might 
 not stir, let the occasion be what it would. They were directed to 
 attend the Admiralty, and advise together what orders should be 
 sent to the squadron in the Soundings. Mr. Clark called in. 
 Directed to write to the lieutenant-governor of Portsmouth to quarter 
 Colonel Norcott’s regiment, if Sir George Rooke thought fit to land 
 them. Lord Godolphin laid open the case of the Victuallers, who 
 had had all their money, and paid it away, and were still under a 
 great debt. Proposed to the Admiralty that they might have some 
 assistance out of the money appointed for wear and tear. They 
 answered it would be to ruin a part of the service that had credit to 
 support another that had none. To be considered whether the 
 Victuallers may not be encouraged to go on upon the credit of next 
 year. Ordered that the bomb ships be stopped at the Nore. Mr. 
 Whitaker’s paper delivered concerning a justice of peace at 
 Chichester, who had discharged a man committed upon suspicion, 
 that he was Captain Vaughan. [8.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 84.| 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to Sir Francis Molyneux. I have 
 received your letter of the 6th inst., and believe the Doctor may have 
 dealt candidly with you in not concealing the name of his correspon- 
 dent, it agreeing with the suspicions that were upon Ely before, 
 though it is hardly to be believed but he has received more of his 
 letters than he will own. If it were not so great a trouble to you, I 
 should be glad the Doctor were asked what he knows of libels sent by 
 Hly either to himself or any other, for it is certain the carriers have 
 brought down several parcels of them under the notion of drugs and 
 seeds; and for his encouragement to answer without reserve you 
 may, according to the satisfaction he shall give you, deliver him up 
 the bond he entered into for his appearance. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book, 100, p. 161. ] 
 
 The same to Mr. Foden. I have received your letter of the 9th 
 inst. with a copy of the coroner’s inquisition concerning the death of 
 Stephen Bradbury, which I will send to Portsmouth in order to the 
 discovering the three soldiers (therein mentioned) by the means of 
 Lieutenant Harding, who has been secured there for that purpose ; 
 and, if the men are still in the regiment or can be found, care shall 
 be taken for their appearing at the next assizes to answer their 
 indictments. [Jbid., p. 162. ] 
 
 The same to Lord Capell. The Lords Justices were sitting 
 in Council this morning, when they received a letter of the 6th 
 
1695. 
 
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 Paris. 
 
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 Dublin. 
 
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 instant from you and the Council of Ireland. They immediately 
 ordered the Bills now sent over to be brought into Council, where 
 they were referred to the Attorney and Solicitor-General, with 
 directions to use all diligence to consider them ; when their report is 
 ready, a Council will be called extraordinarily to receive it. A 
 public day of thanksgiving having been appointed throughout this 
 kingdom, for the King’s preservation and the success of his arms 
 in Flanders, the Lords Justices think fit to signify to you that the 
 like be observed in Ireland. The proceedings in the Irish 
 Parliament are highly satisfactory to all that wish well to the 
 settlement of that kingdom, and are desirous you should have the 
 honour of it. [S.P. Ireland King’s Letter Book 2, p. 88.] 
 
 Monsieur de Lagni to the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded 
 Seamen and Exchange of Prisoners at War, referring to previous 
 letters about the exchange of the prisoners Cox and Makelligot 
 | MacHlliott|; the proposal for an exchange of French protestants for 
 French prisoners is under discussion ; the English prisoners in 
 Dunkirk and elsewhere, who have hitherto been extremely well 
 treated, will in future receive a less considerate treatment unless 
 some great alteration takes place in the English treatment of French 
 prisoners. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 6, No. 36.] 
 
 The Lord Chancellor of Ireland to ——. Thecommons goon 
 very well, though they seem to be of mind to look into all matters 
 relating to the revenue, from 1690 to this time, their purpose being 
 to find some of the money in the hands of the accountants to be 
 applied towards raising the supply they have voted for the King. 
 [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 66. | 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Admiralty, It is 
 some time ago that by Mr. Bridgeman I recommended Captain Daws 
 to you for some employment; but, finding there is yet nothing done 
 for him, I desire if you have any objection against him you will let 
 me know it, that I may be enabled to give him an answer, or else 
 that you will think of him, that he may be employed in his Majesty’s 
 service. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 100, p. 162.! 
 
 
 
 Minutes of proceedings of the Lords Justices. Mr. Recorder called 
 in. Gave an account of the last session. The petition of the East | 
 India Company considered again. The Lords of the Admiralty sent | 
 for. Proposed to them whether some of the third and fourth-rate 
 ships with Sir George Rooke might not be sent out for the security of 
 the East India ships. Sir Robert Rich said their Board was of opinion 
 it was very fit, if it were so ordered. The difficulty lay in sending 
 such heavy ships to cruise at that time of the year; some of them 
 in all probability would come in disabled, and there were no masts in 
 store if they should want any. Generally agreed that something 
 must be ventured in such an exigency. Resolved that the Dorsetshire, 
 Newark, Cambridge, Coventry, and Rochester, with a fire-ship, be sent 
 out. That Rear-Admiral Hopson command them. ‘That they cruise 
 off Ushant, and inform themselves whether Nesmond be in Brest; if 
 so, that they keep him in; if he have gone out, that they endeavour 
 to intercept him on his return. That they cruise upon that service 
 
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 till 5 October, and then make the best of their way to Spithead. 
 That they send advice from Brest. Petition of Lieutenant Richardson 
 read. That it be sent to Lord Ranelagh to report if he be within 
 the rule to be provided for in Chelsea Hospital. Sir William 
 Trumbull called in. Acquainted the Lords with Sir Charles Hedge’s 
 report upon the Dutch ambassador’s memorial, that the prize he 
 would have sent to Zeeland being claimed and arrested (sic) in 
 English merchants, the cause must be tried here; it being agreed by 
 the judges and civilians upon a reference (made to them by the 
 Council in 1690), that the King could not make it an article in a 
 treaty, to allow the captor to carry his prize to be judged by the 
 Admiralty of the prince or state to which he belongs; because an 
 English subject, if his ship were taken and brought. into ports of 
 England, would have a right to stop and bring his cause to a trial 
 here. Ordered that Mr. Blathwayt be acquainted with Sir George 
 Rooke’s being stopped upon his letter of the 58, instant, and that 
 he was then ready to sail. That a copy be sent him of the Hast 
 India Company’s petition, and the order of the Admiralty directed 
 thereupon. That the convoy is appointed, but, there being now no 
 ships left to protect the bomb-vessels, the Lords were obliged to lay 
 aside the thoughts of sending out Captain Benbow. [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 274, p. 86.] 
 
 Passes for Johanna Cornelis, Frances Guyon, William her son, a 
 maid servant, and John Vervort to go to Harwich or Gravesend for 
 Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 418]; and for Margaret 
 Buckstone, Isaac Levi and Sarah Bushnall to go to Holland | Jbid. 
 346, p. 118]. 
 
 Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses incurred by 
 Philibert d’Hervart, Baron d’Heuninguen, envoy extraordinary to 
 the Swiss Cantons from 25 September, 1694, to 25 March, 1695. 
 [ Ibid. 845, p. 252. ] 
 
 Passes for Margarett Constans, with her three children, Henry 
 Buchwald, Caspar Buchwald, one servant, and Paulin Galoi, to go to 
 Holland | Jbid. 346, p. 113]. 
 
 Passes for Mrs, Ann Arther to go to Gravesend and Holland 
 Ibid. 844, p. 419]; and for Mr. Samuel Lewis Crommelin and Mary 
 Magdalen de la Cherroy, his sister, to go to Holland [Jbid. 346, p. 114]. 
 
 Passes for Peter Fauconnier to go to Harwich and Gravesend for 
 Holland [Zbid. 344, p. 419]; for Mr. La Roch, Mons. Deoncieu, 
 Catherine de Martigny, John Wilson, Sarah Huze, Margaret Magni, 
 Philip Jacobs, a soldier, Mary Chaigneau, Jane Chaigneau, Peter 
 Testas, Peter Hugon, Isaac Brun and John Binch to go to Holland 
 [ Ibid. 846, p. 114]; for John de la Menardiére Malnos, ditto [Tbid., 
 p. 116]; and for Jean Pierre de Brisao, Olimpe Foulque, a French 
 protestant, Andries Schweyer and Elizabeth Cridet and Agatha 
 Hojing, ditto [Zbid., p. 117]. 
 
 Warrant to the Keeper of Newgate to receive into his custody 
 Nicholas de Roover, an alien enemy and a spy. [ Zdid. | 
 
 Passes for Frederick Matthias and Henry Kiddel, protestants, to 
 so to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [JZbid. 344, p. 419]; and for 
 
1695. 
 
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 Henry Harmes, Paul Maret, Joseph Musafia and Asar Vidal, poor 
 Jews, Peter van Ridd and Benjamin Lodrius, ditto [Zbid. 346, p. 117]. 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to Captain Baron, desiring him to send to 
 him Alexander Montgomery, a Scotch seaman on board a Dutch 
 man-ot-war called the Starenburgh, Captain Holland, commander, 
 come into the river as convoy to a fleet of merchant ships from 
 Holland, and which may by this time be at Gravesend. [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 99, p. 209. ] 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Reprieves 
 signed for Barnes and Pasmore, two coiners, for six weeks; Major 
 Bremen wrote on behalf of the first, and Dr. Williams certified; the 
 fact of Holloway’s being an ill man made for the latter. The Lords 
 of the Admiralty sent for. Mention made that Sir George Rooke 
 expected the offer to be made him of the command of the ships now 
 sent out to cruize at the desire of the Hast India Company. 
 Answered that it was not done out of any desire to lessen him, or 
 make him uneasy, but it was thought improper to send him out 
 with a detachment of his own squadron; besides they could not tell 
 how soon fresh orders might come from the King, and it was fit he 
 should be in the way to receive and execute them. The Admiralty 
 desired this might be signified to Sir George Rooke from the Lords 
 Justices, and they agreed with Sir George it would be very hazardous 
 for the great ships to be sent to the Straits in the depth of winter, 
 and could not conceive he was stopped for the reason he gives in 
 his letter of the 18th that of staying for the Dutch ships to join him. 
 They delivered in the account sent from Sir George of the condition 
 he was in as to men and victuals. Ordered that account be sent to Mr. 
 Blathwayt with the extracts of Sir George Rooke’s letter, and that he 
 be acquainted with the opinion of the Admiralty of the danger in 
 sending the ships out late. That the papers sent by the post of 
 30 August and 3 September, having miscarried, be now sent again, 
 viz., copies of Sir George Rooke’s instructions both from the Lords 
 Justices and the Admiralty, the warrant for Dr. Godolphin to be 
 dean of Lincoln, and the petition of the borough of Wycombe for 
 Mr. Dormer to be their recorder. Ordered that the bomb-vessels be 
 laid up, there being no intention of using them this year. One 
 Kdwards, a prisoner condemned for coining, acquainted the Lords, 
 by the clerk of Newgate, that he could discover several eminent men 
 who set him at work. Ordered that his petition be sent to the 
 Recorder with intimation that he enquire of what nature his 
 discoveries are, and if they be found of consequence, that they be 
 laid before the Lords on Thursday next, and in the meantime that 
 his execution be deferred if there be cause forit. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 274, p. 87. | 
 
 Colonel Roger McElligott to Sir William Trumbull, sending his 
 cousin Hussey, formerly his lieutenant-colonel to represent his 
 case, and desiring that Sir William will order equal justice to be 
 done him, as Mr. Cox had done him by the court of France. [S.P. 
 Dom. William and Mary 6, No. 87.] 
 
 Passes for Simon Isaacs, Jonas and Barent van Raven, 
 Dutchmen, Johanna Hathwell, wife of John Hathwell, corporal in 
 
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 Brigadier Mathews’s regiment of dragoons, and ————— her child, 
 to go to Holland. [8.P. Dom. Entry Book 846, p. 118.] 
 
 Passes for Francoise de France to go to Germany ; and for Anna 
 Brown, Philip Nicholls, Jane Price, wife of William Price in the 
 third troop of guards commanded by Earl Rivers, with her son 
 Mathew Price, to go to Holland or Flanders.  [Zbid., p. 108. | 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. The ratification 
 of the Grand Alliance being presented, the Lords were of opinion it 
 micht stay for the King’s arrival. Ordered that a warrant be prepared 
 for revoking Dr. Payn’scommission. That the Chancellor of Ireland’s 
 letter to the King of 18 August, and an extract of Mr. Blathwayt’s 
 letter to the Duke of Shrewsbury of 16 September, be sent to the 
 Lord Deputy of Ireland, to the end he may consider the matter 
 proposed with the consequences thereof, and accordingly proceed as 
 he shall perceive the King’s service will receive no prejudice by it. 
 Mr. Clark sent for. Directed to remove the soldiers from Lewes and 
 Canterbury, and to remember the orders formerly given to remove 
 the troops out of all places that send members to Parliament. Orders 
 signed for guards to be laid for the King in Kent and Essex. The 
 Lords of the Treasury and the Lords of the Admiralty called in. Lord 
 Godolphin opened the occasion of their meeting: that the Victuallers 
 have received all the money due to them for this year’s service, and 
 there are other services still to be performed, besides the declaration 
 for next year, which was now to be taken vare of, and their office 
 is 500,000/. in debt, and without money or credit; therefore they 
 are unable to go on any further unless they are assisted. The 
 Treasury had considered it, and knew but of two ways: either to go 
 on upon next year’s credit, which Parhament has shewn a dislike of, 
 or to make use of some of the money appointed for the wear and tear, 
 which does not seem so strictly appropriated as that of wages, for 
 which there is now 800,000/. in the Exchequer. The Lords of the 
 Admiralty represented that breaking in upon the credit of the wear 
 and tear, which now stood good, would be very prejudicial to the 
 service; the next year’s provisions depended upon it, which there 
 was great need of, the stores being disfurnished, and they were now 
 in a good way of building ships, which would be obstructed ; and the 
 wages were no more appropriated than the wear and tear, the strict 
 appropriation being out. The Victuallers called in. They repre- 
 sented their condition, that they should deceive if they did not lay 
 before the Lords Justices the impossibility they were under to go on 
 with the service, the matter being driven to extremity; their office 
 owes to individual men and pursers between 400,0001. and 500,000L.; 
 the last year’s declaration for 40,000 men is all issued, and they are 
 told of more provisions to be made for the Straits; that bills of 
 exchange are daily to be answered, and the season ought not to be 
 lost for making next year’s provisions; that three species must be 
 brought with ready money, viz. beef, pork and peas; that bills of 
 exchange upon letters of credit must be immediately answered; the 
 pursers require ready money; and upon the whole victualling that 
 which requires ready money is two thirds. In conclusion Lord 
 Godolphin said it was fit the matter should be understood, though all 
 that was to be done was for the Treasury to assist the Victuallers as 
 
1695. 
 
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 well as they could. The Treasury withdrew. The Admiralty 
 delivered in a draft of an Act of Parliament for registering 
 seamen. A journal of the commander of the Germoon read. Mr. 
 Recorder gave an account that Kdward’s confession was trifling. 
 [S.P. Doin. Entry Book 274, p. 89.] 
 
 Sir Wiliam Trumbull to Dr. Bathurst. Mr. Robert Sutton, a 
 deserving gentleman of your college, being chaplain to Lord 
 Lexington, his Majesty’s envoy extraordinary to the Emperor, I 
 desire that his absence on this occasion may be no prejudice to his 
 private affairs. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 209. | 
 
 The same to Captain Baron. I have received yours of last night 
 in answer to mine about Alexander Montgomery, who will come 
 time enough to me after the man-of-war he serves on board is come 
 into Margate. Mr. Reover [Roveroy] is apprehended, and I have 
 committed him to Newgate. Iam sorry you have so little assistance 
 to search the ships inward bound, which service is oftentimes of 
 ereat consequence. | Jbid., p. 210. | 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Bill for the 
 Admiralty commission signed. Letter to the Lord Deputy of 
 Ireland approved, about the bill for confirming the Articles of 
 Limerick. Sir George Rooke’s letter of the 18th read again. 
 Ordered that Mr. Blathwayt be put in mind of laying it before the 
 King, and that he be acquainted the Lords are impatient to receive 
 the King’s pleasure for taking off that stop. Admiral Russell’s 
 letter of 16 August, 1695, read, and a copy ordered to be sent to Mr. 
 Blathwayt. That an enquiry be made why the mails of 80 August 
 and 3 September were not sunk. [S8.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 90. | 
 
 Passes for Mrs. Ann Okley, to go to Harwich or Gravesend and 
 Holland [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 844, p. 418]; and for Mr. Michell 
 Vander Osten, belonging to the Karl of Macclesfield’s own troop, to go 
 to Holland or Flanders | Zbid. 846, p. 119]. 
 
 Passes for Peter Peters, his wife and daughter, Jan Sloots and 
 Gerrit Christiane to go to Holland.  [Jbid.| 
 
 Passes for Mr. Cecil Hamilton and one servant to go to Harwich 
 or Gravesend for Holland [ Jbid. 844, p. 420]; for Mr. Joseph Goncales 
 and Juao de Faro, his man, William Wytens and Mary Saumier, to go 
 to Holland [J£bid., p. 119]; and for Esther Garde, John and Marianne 
 Garde, her children, Rachel Desjardins, Daniel Peter and Mary 
 Desjardins, her children, French Protestants, Hendrikien Jansen, 
 a Dutch woman, Andrew Cornelis, William Emmery, Barent Gerrits, 
 Coro Willems, Frans de Corf, Gerrit Dirks, Jullis van Hauten and 
 Pieter Pieters, Dutch seamen, to go to Holland [JZbid., p. 120]. 
 
 Passes to Jean Vasselar with her child, Abraham Nathan and his 
 man Moses Marks, Hugen Adriaanz, a Dutch seaman, Charles 
 Dunstar, servant to Lord Kennedy, to go to Holland or Hamburgh, 
 [Zbid.]; and for John Signeur, soldier in the regiment of Dutch foot 
 guards, having leave from his commander, with his wife and child, 
 and Caspar Lobrich, with his wife and six children, to go to Holland 
 [Ibid., p. 121]. 
 
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 Warrant to apprehend ——— Harrison (together with his papers) 
 for carrying on a correspondence with his Majesty’s enemies, and for 
 coming out of France into this kingdom without his Majesty’s leave. 
 [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 844, p. 125. ] 
 
 Warrant to apprehend Maurice Trant (together with his papers) 
 for coming out of France to this kingdom without leave. [Jbid.] 
 
 List of battalions and their strength. [S.P. Dom. King William’s 
 Chest 15, No. 91. ] 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Letters read 
 from Dunkirk about the packet-boat and one of the mails being taken. 
 Warrant signed for revoking Dr. Payn’s commission. Colonels of 
 the marine regiments ordered to attend on Thursday, upon Mr. 
 Blathwayt’s letter of the 16th. The Lords of the Admiralty sent for. 
 Mr. Blathwayt’s letter about the marines read to them. ‘They said 
 they could give no account of them while they were on land, they 
 being put under the inspection of their colonels. ‘The Lords 
 acquainted about Harding, the builder at Deptford, a very able man, 
 but accused for shghting information of embezzlement; they desired 
 directions about him, whether they should keep him in. It was left 
 to the Admiralty. Proposed to the Lords Justices whether orders 
 should be sent to Hopson to stay out longer. No answer made to it, 
 the Lords expecting the King’s orders for sending away that squadron 
 to the Straits. That Mr. Blathwayt be acquainted the Lords are in 
 pain till it be done. Colonel Colt’s petition read, and the reason 
 why his regiment is in no better order. Ordered that it be sent to 
 Mr. Clark to communicate it to the Duke of Schomberg. [S.P. 
 Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 91.] 
 
 Passes for Hester Castilio and four children, poor Jews, to go to 
 Gravesend and Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 420]; for 
 Aaron Moyses to go to Holland; for Philip Janss, Adrian Dobbelaar, 
 Sweens Hrasemus, Loudreus Grootaard and Balads Jacobs; and for 
 George Pisa, Henry Corbesier, Leindert Lopart and Lubbert Caber, 
 Dutchmen, Rabby Nathman, Abraham Jerusalem, Isaac Frankco, 
 and Jacob Oseni, poor Jews, Caspar van Bremen and Nicholas 
 Nestelroy, ditto [Zbid. 346, p. 121]. 
 
 Warrant to James Kitson and Thomas Nowhn, for the apprehension 
 of Matthew Mainwaring, on a charge of high treason in adhering to 
 his Majesty’s enemies. [Jbid. p. 184. ] 
 
 Passes for Osias Couillret, a weaver, Marie Bonneau de la 
 Tremblade, Isaac Francia and Aser Vidall, poor Jews, to go to 
 Holland | Lbid., p. 121]; for Lambert Mercier, ‘‘ wooldriver,”’ with two 
 children, Charles le Huche, with his wife and six children, Simon 
 Young, Mademoiselle Ester le Duc, Mary Morol, Ester Campar and 
 Martha Morol and Don Diego de Sotto, a Spanish gentleman, 
 ditto; for Don Pedro de Hoyo, a Spanish gentleman, to go to 
 Spain; for James Fels, John Neering and his wife, Mary Cotilloy 
 and Jane, her sister, with three children, Mr. John Jarck and Mr. 
 Johan Heinrick to go to Holland [Jbid., p. 122]; and for Helena Van 
 Houten, a native of Middleburgh, and Mary Ech, born at the Hague, 
 
1695. 
 
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 Susanna Domon, with her children, Giles, Peter, and Mary, George 
 Baltes Maranus, a Dutchman, James Guilhot and Peter Pineau, two 
 French protestants, ditto [Zbid., p. 128]. 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Lord Berkeley 
 attended about the marines. He thought those captains who kept 
 ill companies deserved to be punished for it; that the clothing was 
 his part to look after; that he had sent to those in the Straits double 
 clothing ; that those regiments were upon an ill foot, rather worse 
 than they were before, and till that were reconsidered and mended he 
 did not see how they could be serviceable. Mr. Lowndes read half 
 his treatise about reforming the coin. The Lords of the Admiralty 
 attended. They brought a second memorial of the East India 
 Company, desiring that Mr. Hopson might have orders to stay out 
 fifteen days longer, viz., to 20 October, and that he might be directed 
 to go one hundred and fifty leagues to the west of Scilly, it being in 
 that latitude their ships were taken before. The Lords Justices 
 came to no resolution upon it then, doubting whether the ships could 
 be spared so long, the King’s orders being expected every post for 
 sending Sir George Rooke to the Straits. An extract of Sir George 
 Rooke’s letter of the 16th to the Admiralty read, concerning the 
 unadvisableness of sending away the great ships in this season. The 
 Admiralty desired to know what should be done as to paying off the 
 ships now returned from the Straits. Ordered that it be laid before 
 the Council, where these matters used to be considered. Acquainted 
 the Lords with Lord Berkeley’s demand of a court-martial for 
 trying the commanders of the smoke and machine vessels, who left 
 the fleet to follow Mr. Meisters. Answered that, as examination 
 was depending at Council, it did not seem proper to appoint any 
 other trials while it lasted. Mr. Meisters’ memorial presented, 
 relating to machine and ‘‘terras”’ ships that were either in Holland, 
 Ostend, or in the river, whether they should be paid off and whether 
 the pilots should be sent home. He was called in, and told that the 
 pilots who have attended the Council were not to be sent away till 
 that examination be over. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 92.] 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Mr. Lowndes 
 made an end of reading his treatise. The Lords Justices desirous to 
 know the opinions of some other persons versed in those matters. 
 Resolved to consult Mr. Locke, Mr. D’Avenant, Sir Christopher Wren, 
 Dr. Wallis, Dr. Newton, Mr. Heathcote, Sir Josiah Child, and Mr. 
 Asgill, a lawyer. The Commissioners for the taxes in London called 
 in: they represented that money lay ready in the receivers’ hands, 
 and could not be paid into the Exchequer, because they would not 
 receive guineas at 80s. They were told this matter lay before the 
 Council, and they should make their application there, if they had any 
 new matter to offer. Mr. Clark acquainted the Lords with Tobias 
 Burke’s escape from the Gatehouse on Thursday last, by breaking 
 open locks and through two walls. Ordered the Attorney-General 
 have notice to prosecute the Keeper to the utmost severity of the 
 law. The debate resumed upon the memorial of the Hast India 
 Company, and it being considered no orders had yet come for 
 sending away the Straits’ fleet, and that the Company might 
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 men-of-war lay here unemployed, and that it was doubtful whether 
 the representation of Sir George Rooke might not be of weight 
 to hinder the great ships being sent to the Straits (and if the 
 King’s orders should come for their going, there would not be 
 much time lost in recalling these ships, and in the meantime 
 they might happen to perform a great piece of service to the nation) 
 it was resolved to comply with the Company’s demands, whereupon 
 the Lords of the Admiralty were sent for. Sir John Lowther only 
 could be found, and attended with Mr. Bridgman. The directions 
 given were that Mr. Hopson stay out fifteen days longer for the 
 security of the ships returning from the Hast Indies ; but for appoint- 
 ing them a station, or how many leagues they should go, they left it 
 to the Admiralty. Sir John said what the Admiralty would do would 
 be to pursue the desires of the memorial. A letter read from Mr. 
 Hopson of the 24th instant, giving an account that the captain of the 
 Lodados (sic) had looked into Brest, and reported that fourteen great 
 men-of-war lay there in readiness, and some of them were three 
 deck ships. Not much credited, it disagreeing with the late advice 
 brought by the Germoon prize, and all the letters from Brest. Cotty’s 
 invention about rasping logwood to be referred to the Attorney- 
 General. ‘The letter signed for Sir George Rooke to recommend to 
 the government of Tunis the making of reparation for an English 
 ship seized in their port. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 98.] 
 
 Passes for Mr. Thomas Layton, Mr. Lodowick Hall and William 
 Newton, and Edward Browne, their servant, to go to Harwich or 
 Gravesend for Holland or Hamburg [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, 
 p. 420]; for Mrs. Katherine Sherburn, Tobias Rezer and Michael 
 Wushletish, Germans, and Melchior le Febure, to go to Holland; for 
 Patrick Curwen, John Wheller, Thomas Yoward and Francis Tydiman 
 to go with six hunting horses to the Prince de Vaudmont; for Lovis 
 Mackworth, going to her husband in the second regiment of foot 
 guards, commanded by Lord Cutts, to go to Holland [ 1bid. 346, p. 123]; 
 for Francis Olivier, a French refugee, James van Toll, of the Hague, 
 Henry de Buchwald and Casper de Buchwald, and one servant, all 
 Holsteiners, ditto; and for Mr. Thomas Ireland, with two women 
 servants and a man servant, to go to Flanders [ Jbid., p. 124]. 
 
 Passes for Jacob Mouchart, Jacob Jougenell, Arie Hofman, 
 Cornelius Hoffeling, carpenters, and Lambert Wessens, Mr. Hugo 
 Hughes and his wife, Mathew Lebroon, his servant, Susanna Dufour, 
 Susanna le Bland and three children, to go to Holland [Jdid.]; 
 and for John Gosne, servant to Colonel Windsor, ditto [JZbid., 
 mn. 125). 
 
 Sir Wiliam Trumbull to Mr. Roope, governor of Dartmouth. I 
 have two of yours of the 24th mst. The printed libel, the like of 
 which I have seen here, and the letter to you without a name, I 
 herewith send back to you as you desire. It will be necessary to 
 make strict enquiry who it was that was conveyed on board in so 
 suspicious a manner, but whether now immediately or whether it 
 may not be better to defer it till the ship comes back, I must leave 
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 will take to your assistance in the matter. The officer who accom- 
 panied him on board you may, I presume, have at any time, and the 
 master, 16 is likely, will come back again if no noise be made of the 
 thing, whereof he may have notice to frighten him away. If you 
 have proof that Mr. B. is the author of the printed libel called the 
 “Loyal Man’s Psalter,’’ and of the verses written at the end of it, or 
 either of them, it is fit he should be prosecuted for the same, and 
 the sooner the better; but in order to it an affidavit ought to be 
 made of it ; this I recommend to your care, and desire an account of 
 it forthwith. Spencely isin prison for words amounting to treason. 
 I desire you will give me the most particular account you can of the 
 matters abovesaid, whereby I may be the better enabled to proceed 
 therein. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 210.] 
 
 Passes for Mr. Giles Chichester, Mr. Thomas Smith and James 
 Waters, a servant, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 420]; for Lieutenant Harman 
 Q@uaet, a Dutch officer, and one servant, to go to Harwich and 
 Holland [Zbid., p. 421]; and for Peter de la Lande, a French pro- 
 testant, to go to Holland | Jbid. 346, p. 126]. 
 
 Warrant for the appointment of Prince George of Denmark, the 
 Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir John Somers, several peers, 
 knights, citizens and gentlemen, one of the Lords of the Privy 
 Council, of the Treasury and the Admiralty, and the Lord Mayor of 
 London, or one of the aldermen, as commissioners to consider what 
 part or how much of the structures and buildings, now standing 
 upon the parcel of ground at Greenwich, lately granted for erecting 
 a hospital for the relief of seamen, their widows and children, and 
 the encouragement of navigation, may be unfit and not serviceable 
 for the intended hospital, and what part fit to be altered for the 
 aforesaid end, and to prepare a charter of foundation of such 
 hospital, and such rules and orders as may be necessary for the good 
 government of the same. And also for granting 2,000/. to be paid 
 at Christmas yearly, towards the perfecting and endowing the said 
 hospital, during the continuance of the commission, with power to 
 the said commissioners to receive voluntary gifts and subscriptions ; 
 and for appointing John Evelyn, senior, to be treasurer and receiver 
 general of the money arisng as aforesaid, with the yearly salary of 
 200/.; and for empowering the said commissioners, after the King’s 
 approbation of such models as are laid before him, to put in hand 
 carry on and finish the said hospital. [S.P. Dom. Naval 4.| 
 
 Pass for Major William Therry and his servant to go to Holland. 
 
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 Passes for Adrian de Hoogh, a subject of the States General, to go to 
 Harwich or Gravesend and Holland [Jlid. 344, p. 421]; and for John 
 Limbeck, a German tailor, to go to Falmouth and Spain. | Lbid., 
 p. 422. | 
 
 Warrant to the Keeper of Newgate for receiving into his custody 
 William Bromfield on a charge of high treason in going to France 
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 Peyre alias Stone, and — Dietasta, with their papers, as alien 
 enemies and spies. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 845, p. 255. | 
 
 Warrant to the Master and Wardens of the Company of Stationers, 
 Robert Stephens, messenger of the press, and Charles Maris, the 
 King’s messenger, to search for and seize a book lately printed and 
 dispersed, entitled ‘A Manual of Prayer and other Christian 
 devotions Permissu superiorum,” containing several seditious matters ; 
 Real with the persons in whose custody it shall be found. 
 
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 Warrant to the Keeper of Newgate to take into his custody 
 Thomas Elrington for high treason in adhering to his Majesty’s 
 enemies and levying war against him. [Jbid. 846, p. 127. ] 
 
 Warrant to Simon Chapman to apprehend John King for certain 
 dangerous practices whereof he stands accused. [Jbid. | 
 
 List of battalions and their strength. [S.P. Dom. King William’s 
 Chest 15, No. 92. | 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Vompion’s bill 
 mended in presence of the Lords. Letters from Ireland sent to the 
 Lords Justices by the penny post of July, August, and September, 
 ordered to be sent to the Lord Deputy. Lord Chamberlain put in 
 mind of giving directions for a mace to be sent into Ireland; said 
 he would sign a warrant for it to the Jewel Office. More persons 
 named who were to be consulted about reforming the coin, viz., Sir 
 Josiah Child, Mr. Charles Chamberlain, Sir J. Houblon, and 
 Sir J. Herne. Ordered that they be written to in the Lords Justices’ 
 name. The Archbishop undertook to speak to Mr. Abraham Hill. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 94.] 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Ordered that 
 Mr. Attorney-General attend to-morrow with a draft of a proclama- 
 tion for dissolving the Parliament, and that he bring with him the 
 proclamation for dissolving the convention parliament. The advices 
 read from several ports of France. The Lords of the Admiralty sent 
 for. Acquainted with the King’s orders for sending away Sir George 
 Rooke, It was observed the orders came ‘‘very cross,” both as it was 
 late in the year and as the ships were divided. It was conceived 
 the first thing to be done was to send for Vice-Admiral Hopson, and 
 that he come to Spithead ; for it would be very uncertain to appoint 
 them a station anywhere else to meet in. Considered whether Sir 
 George Rooke might go with the ships that are now at Spithead. It 
 might be done if it were thought safe. Proposed to the Admiralty 
 to consider what stores it will be necessary to send to the Straits, 
 now they know Admiral Russell is coming back. Sir George Rooke 
 having so often represented how dangerous it may be to send away 
 the ships at this time of the year, resolved that it be considered with 
 the experienced seamen both of the Navy Board and Trinity House, 
 and that some of the captains be sent for from Sheerness, who 
 are lately returned from the Straits, and that a report be made of 
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 refusal of the Ordnance Board to send them a copy of the establish- 
 ment of ordnance stores for the navy, which they demanded upon 
 complaint of the captains that some sorts of stores, particularly shot 
 for tearing our enemies’ rigging, were wanting. Read the letter of 
 the Admiralty of — April to Lord Romney upon the matter. Lord 
 Romney’s answer in September read, with a letter it referred to from 
 the Ordnance Board. Ordered that Lord Romney be desired to be 
 with the Lords to-morrow, and that he direct such of the officers of 
 the Ordnance Board to attend as he think fit. An extract of advice 
 given to the Admiralty of ships coming out from Dunkirk, and of 
 five or six that may easily be destroyed at Palice near Rochfort. 
 Proposed to the Admiralty whether four or five ships might not be 
 got together for this service, either from the squadron in the Sound- 
 ings or elsewhere. They answered that all the ships they had were 
 employed, and that convoying the trade would take up more if they 
 had them; besides this would be a voyage of six weeks. [S.P. 
 Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 95. | 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Vice-Admiral 
 Hopson’s letter to Mr. Bridgman of 29 September read, giving an 
 account of his having come into the Channel upon the information 
 brought of a squadron of French ships seen in Brest Water, and the 
 report of prisoners of another squadron at Belle Isle, which was the 
 occasion of the Lords’ meeting. Directed that orders be now sent 
 him to come to Spithead, and that Sir George Rooke have notice of 
 the King’s orders for his being despatched away to the Straits, and 
 that he be directed to get all things in readiness as if he were to sail 
 immediately. [bid., p. 96. | 
 
 Passes for David L’Heureux, a French protestant, and Richard 
 Louitt to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland or Flanders 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 421]; and for John Bury, Joseph 
 Lota and Isaac Henricus, being two poor Jews, ditto | Zbid., p. 422]. 
 
 Passes for Mr. James Oxburgh, a merchant, and Samuel Host, his 
 servant, to go to Falmouth and Spain [Jdid., p. 424]; and for Philip 
 Jones to go to Holland [Jbid. 346, p. 128]. 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. The Harl of 
 Romney attended upon the representation of the Admiralty that they 
 could not get a copy of the establishment of ordnance stores for the 
 navy. He gave this reason for it, that it was only to preserve the 
 independency of the office, otherwise there was no scruple made of 
 showing the establishment or giving copies of it. Resolved that the 
 Karl of Romney send the Lords Justices a copy of their establishment, 
 and they dispose of it as they think fit, Mr. Attorney attended with 
 the proclamation for dissolving the Parliament. The case of the 
 deanery of Lincoln considered. Mr. Attorney ordered to enquire 
 whether there was any congé d’élire for deaneries. Dr. Payn’s petition 
 read, desiring to be recommended for something else, in lieu of his 
 commission of visitor. Resolved that no bargain be made with him 
 about the surrender of his commission. Ordered that Mr. Blathwayt’s 
 letter of the 8th be acknowledged, that he be acquainted the judges 
 are to give their opinion whether the writs issued by the Lords 
 Justices for calling a Parliament would be superseded by the King’s 
 
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 subsequent arrival; if a Parliament may be so called, yet it is 
 necessary to have his Majesty’s instructions for it, and those now 
 sent are only for dissolving Parliament, and the Lords would know 
 too what time the King would have them expect his coming over. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 96. | 
 
 An order of the sessions concerning Mary, wife of Robert Fletcher, 
 and Frances Fletcher, her daughter, committed by Ralph Marshall, 
 esq., on the oath of William Taylor, Keeper of Gatehouse, Westmin- 
 ster, upon suspicion of being privy and assisting Tobias Leroy 
 alais Bourke in making his escape out of his custody and concealing 
 him since. He was committed by a general court-martial for being 
 a spy from France, for which he stands condemned to be hanged. 
 Referred to William Bridgman, James Vernon and John Ellis, esqs., 
 J.P.’s, to continue or discharge them as they shall think meet, and 
 when delivered to pay their fees, 2s. apiece. [S.P. Dom. William 
 and Mary 6, No. 88. ] 
 
 Passes for Mary Jacobse, a subject of the States-General, to go to 
 Harwich or Gravesend for Holland or Flanders [.S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 844, p. 422]; for Aaltjen Tulmans, a subject of the States- 
 General, Mr. George Lopa, Francis Harrison, a young man, and 
 Mrs. Margaret Ketcher, ditto [Jbid., p.423]; and for Hans Sterrison, 
 a Danish seaman, to go to Denmark [Jbid. 846, p. 127]. 
 
 Warrant for Mr. Wiliam Taylor and Mr. Henry Leggat to speak 
 to William Bromfield, a prisoner in Newgate, for this one time only 
 in the presence of a keeper. [bid. 845, p. 251. | 
 
 Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses incurred by 
 Matthew Prior, esq., his Majesty’s secretary at the Hague, from 
 1 May to 1 August following, amounting to 2971. 11s. [Jbid. 346, 
 p. 182. ] 
 
 Passes for Mr. John Williams, Mrs. Elizabeth Gellot, her child, a 
 maid and a manservant, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Flanders 
 [Lbid. 844, p. 424}; and for David Buffard, trooper in Lord Galway’s 
 regiment of horse, Peter Telman, Nicholas Stokes, volunteer in 
 Colonel Langston’s regiment, and Alexander Forrester, a Scotch 
 gentleman, to go to Holland [JZbid. 346, p. 128]. 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. The 
 Earl of Castlehaven, having received a writ of summons to the 
 Parliament in [reland, has desired me to acquaint you that, being a 
 Roman Catholic, he cannot be admitted into the house, so that his 
 coming over would be of no service to the public, and would be very 
 prejudicial to his private concerns at this time. [S.P. Ireland 
 King’s Letter Book 2, p. 84.| 
 
 The same to the Earl of Castlehaven. I have received your 
 letter of the 2nd inst. I understand there have been twelve of 
 the peers lately written to by the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 
 whereof you were one; finding therefore that the Parliament of 
 Ireland expects at least that an excuse should be made for such 
 as are absent, I have written to the Lord Chancellor in your 
 
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 behalf, and I hope it may prevent your being called upon any more 
 during this session. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 100, p. 162. ] 
 
 Sir Wilham Trumbull to the Commissioners for Exchange of 
 Prisoners. It has been certified to me by Mr. Satur, one of the 
 ministers of the French church in the Savoy, that Pierre Charron, 
 Jean Laveau, and Samuel Viaud, French prisoners of war now at 
 Dover, were heretofore protestants, but that by the severity of the 
 persecution in France they were since forced to make profession of 
 the Roman Catholic religion, and that they are now desirous of 
 enjoying the liberty of their consciences in the exercise of their 
 religion. To the end that they may not be exchanged with the other 
 prisoners of war and sent back to France, I desire that the said three 
 persons may be set at liberty, they giving security not to go out of 
 England without leave, as has been usually done in the like cases. 
 [Ibid. 99, p. 211. ] 
 
 The same to Mr. Roope. I have received yours of the 1st inst. in 
 answer to mine of 28th past. If the ship comes back again, you 
 have authority to call the master before you and as many of the 
 seamen as you think convenient, and to examine them upon their 
 oaths concerning the person they received on board in so suspicious 
 a manner, and to commit the master and them to prison in case you 
 find occasion for it. If you think fit to take Mr. Christopher 
 Savery to your assistance, it will be better, as well in the examination 
 of them as of Mr. Bully, who seems principally concerned in this 
 matter. You have no need of any further warrant or order from me 
 till this examination is over; and when you give me an account 
 thereof, as I desire you will do, if then there be occasion for my 
 assistance, you may be sure of it. [Jbid., p. 212.] 
 
 Commissicn for Thomas Pierce to be lieutenant of Major John 
 Rose’s company in Colonel Thomas Brudenell’s regiment; and for 
 William Barton to be lieutenant of Captain Paul Ripein’s company 
 in the same regiment. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 151.| 
 
 Pass for Mr. Samuel Host, merchant, to go to Holland. [Zbid. 346, 
 p. 128. | 
 
 Passes for Mrs. Dorothy Webb, Mrs. Apolonia Withers, Mrs. 
 Dorothy Cope and her niece, Mrs. Jane Smith and Catherine Dames, 
 her servant, and Abraham Didier, a French protestant weaver, to go 
 to Harwich or Gravesend and Holland or Flanders [ bid. 344, p. 424]; 
 for Mr. Stanton Chauncy, a merchant, Giles Van Duijse, a subject of 
 the States-General, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland ; for 
 Isaack Wattrangh, a subject of the King of Sweden, to go to 
 Gravesend for Sweden; for Francis Benoit to go to Harwich or 
 Gravesend for Holland; for Edward Gibbon, paymaster to his 
 Majesty’s train of artillery, and his servant, to go to Harwich or 
 Gravesend for Flanders |[Jbid., p. 425]; for Mr. Gregory Keer, 
 merchant, Mrs. Johanna Simpson, wife of Captain Christopher 
 Simpson in Brigadier Fitzpatrick’s regiment, with Jacob Greek and 
 William Dewoolf, her servants, to go to Flanders [Zbid. 346, p. 128]; 
 for Henry Poorten, a German, to go to Germany; and for Mary 
 Farmer, wife of Thomas Farmer, one of the yeomen of the guard, 
 to go to Holland [/bid.. p. 129]. 
 
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 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Mayor of Sandwich. I have 
 received your letter of the 4th inst. with the enclosed examination of 
 seven persons lately come from France, six of them, viz., Roger and 
 Daniel Remy, Jacob Bunel, Abraham Bourdon, Daniel Careron and 
 Peter Pinet, being known to French protestants here, who have 
 answered for their coming directly hither for their being further 
 examined, I see no difficulty but you may direct their being set at 
 liberty, and the bearer hereof has undertaken to conduct them to 
 London. Nobody has, as yet, appeared for the seventh person 
 named Roveroy, but, if he be known to the other six and they and 
 this bearer will engage to bring him up, you may send him with the 
 rest. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 100, p. 164. ] 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings. of the Lords Justices. Lord Chief 
 Justice Holt attended. He and Lord Chief Justice Treby had 
 considered about the validity of a Parliament called in the King’s 
 absence; they supposed it might subsist, but it was not fit to be put 
 to a trial, unless in a case of great necessity, and that it was not fit to 
 be determined but by the opinion of all the judges. Ordered that 
 the Lords of the Admiralty be written to, to provide an advice boat 
 at Falmouth to follow Sir George Rooke, if there should be occasion. 
 Order directed for Reuben Cailleau to be midshipman extra where 
 Sir George Rooke should appoint. Ordered that a petition from 
 Ireland of Mr. Hudson, on behalf of his brother, a prisoner in the 
 floating prisons, be laid before the King in Council. A list drawn out 
 for the Commissioners for Greenwich Hospital to make a committee. 
 Ordered that Sir Stephen Evance and Mr. Travers be written to, to 
 draw out each a list. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 98.] 
 
 Passes for Mrs. Elizabeth Martin, an officer’s wife, and Mrs. Mary 
 Turner, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland or Flanders; for 
 Allan Horde to go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 344, p. 426]; and for James Warring, merchant, his mother, 
 Marget Westen, his wife, Marget Warring, three daughters, —— 
 Everet, one man servant and one maidservant, to go to Flanders 
 [ Ibid. 346, p. 180]. 
 
 Warrant to Henry Allen to search the coasts of Kent and Sussex 
 for any persons going to or coming from France; as by such persons, 
 dangerous and disaffected to his Majesty and the government, a 
 correspondence is held and maintained with his Majesty’s enemies. 
 [Ibid., p. 129. ] 
 
 Passes for Galousty Sanus and Colanstus Rustan Simon, two 
 Armenians, to go Harwich and Gravesend; for Francis Bird, a 
 carver, to go to Harwich and Holland [JZbid. 844, p. 426]; and for 
 Lure Usteegh and his wife to go to Holland [Jbid. 346, p. 180]. 
 
 Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses incurred by 
 George Stepney, his Majesty’s minister at the courts of the Elector 
 of Saxony and the Landgrave of Hesse Cassell, from 30 April to 
 30 July, 1695, amounting to 2981. 8s. [JZbid., p. 181.] 
 
 Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses incurred by 
 James Cressett, esq., envoy extraordinary to the Elector and Duke 
 of Brunswick Lunenburg, from 12 June to 12 September, amount- 
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 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Resolved that 
 Parliament be prorogued to 81 October. That the Lords of the 
 Council who are in the commission for proroguing Parliament be 
 desired to attend. Mr. Porter directed to petition the Lords Justices 
 in Council for taking off his suspension. The Lords of the Admiralty 
 sent for. They reported the opinion of the sea officers that the three- 
 deck ships would bear the sea as well as the seventy or eighty gun 
 ships, and, if they had but sea room, there was no danger for them. 
 They gave an account of the deserters from the French army that 
 were brought in the men-of-war from Cadiz, who came in upon the 
 Admiral’s proclamation promising they should be entertained. It 
 was not thought fit they should continue in the fleet, but if they 
 would go into the land service they should be provided for. Ordered 
 that Mr. Clark have notice of it, to acquaint such of the colonels as 
 want recruits. Mr. Hopson’s letter of 1 October, off Rame Head, read. 
 Considered if Hopson has sailed, in pursuance of his former orders, 
 150 leagues to the West of Scilly, it may be fit Sir George Rooke go 
 to the Straits with the ships now at Spithead, the King being every 
 day expected. That a state of the fleet be laid before him at his 
 arrival, to know what ships more shall be sent to the Straits. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 274, p. 97.] 
 
 Minutes of the proceedings of the Lords Justices. Ordered that, 
 the King being expected, the stop be taken off hackney coaches 
 coming into Hyde Park. That Mr. Mountague be spoken to about 
 the committee for Greenwich Hospital. Mr. Blathwayt’s letter 
 arrived giving an account of the King’s landing at Margate that 
 morning. That Sir George Rooke be acquainted with it. [Jbid., 
 
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 Sir William Trumbull to Lord Hatton. I have received your 
 letter of the 30th past, wherein you acquaint me with a report you 
 have heard from Guernsey of the death of Sir Edmund Andros, who 
 is bailiff of that island. I have enquired, as far as I can, into the 
 truth of it, but cannot find there is any ground for it. If it had 
 been so I should have used my interest with his Majesty, at his 
 return, to have procured that office for the person you recommend. 
 Since finishing my letter I have news of the King’s arrival at 
 Margate, and that he lies this night at Canterbury. [S.P. Dom. 
 Lintry Book 99, p. 212.] 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Edward Brent, esq., praying to 
 be allowed to bring a writ of error on a judgment obtained against 
 him in the King’s Bench by John Busby, which is granted. [S.P. 
 Dom. Entry Book 287, p. 189.] 
 
 Warrant to the Keeper of Newgate for receiving into his custody 
 Abraham Cartou alias Carter, an alien enemy, suspected to be a spy. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 845, p. 256. | 
 
 Warrant to the Keeper of Newgate for receiving into his custody 
 Jonathan Howard, Garret Barry, Thomas Collins, and John Latham, 
 charged with going from London to Margate in Kent, to embark 
 there in the Arabella hoy, whereof John Twyman is master, with 
 an intent to go to France, having paid part of their passage. 
 [Lbid., p. 257. ] 
 
80 
 
 1695, 
 
 Oct. 10. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct, 17 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 11. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Oct. 11. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Ocal: 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Oat= 142 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Oct. 12. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 12. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 12. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Octs1 12: 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 12. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Octo: 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Oct. 14. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 14. 
 
 Whitehall, 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 Pass for James Dobson, a merchant, to go to Holland. [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 346, p. 1380. | 
 
 Passes for John and Barbary Henny, and Elizabeth Panthover 
 poor Swiss protestant children, and Mary Grafe, their country- 
 woman, to go to Gravesend and Hamburg | Ibid. 344, p. 427]; and 
 for Thomas Rutter, painter, to go to Leghorn [Zbid. 846, p. 130]. 
 
 Warrant for Anthony Duncomb, esq., to be one of the commisioners 
 for transporting the forces, with a salary of 400/. per annum. 
 [Tbid., p. 188. ] 
 
 Commissions for ——— Vansisterfleet to be lieutenant of Captain 
 Nanfan’s company in Sir John Jacob’s regiment ; and for Thomas 
 Burk to be second lieutenant to Major Thomas Webberley in 
 Lord Berkeley's marine regiment. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 167, 
 p. 247. | 
 
 Warrant for Bowler to be elected to a scholarship at 
 Winchester College. [Jbid. 168, p. 71.] 
 
 Proclamation for the dissolution of Parliament, and the sum- 
 morning of a new one to sit on 22nd November next. Printed. 
 [S.P. Dom. Proclamations 4, No, 119.] 
 
 A second warrant to commit Jonathan Howard, Garret Barry, 
 Thomas Collins and John Latham to Newgate. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 345, p. 257. ] 
 
 Warrant to apprehend Mathew Page for high treason in adhering 
 to his Majesty’s enemies. [Jbid. 346, p. 126. | 
 
 Warrant to John Gillebrand, Peter Tom, and Francis Clarke, for 
 the apprehension of John Beare, senior, on a charge of treasonable 
 practices. [Ilid., p. 180. ] | 
 
 Passes for Roelof Schalle and Aga Gerretse, Dutch seamen, to go 
 to Holland; and for Joshua Burroughes, merchant, to go to Flanders. 
 [Ibid., p. 184. | 
 
 Commissions for John de la Bessede | Bastide?] to be captain in 
 Viscount Galway’s regiment [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 167, p. 257]; for 
 William Bunbury to be ensign of Captain Bernard Ward’s company 
 in Colonel Gustavus Hamilton’s regiment; and for William Phipps 
 to be ensign of Major Henry Fielding’s company in Sir John 
 Hanmer’s regiment | Jbid. 168, p. 153]. 
 
 
 
 Commission for Charles Edwards to be captain of Captain Lyne’s 
 late company in Colonel Thomas Brudenall’s-:regiment. [Jbid. 167, 
 p. 247. | 
 
 Warrant to Richard Hopkins for the apprehension of —— Rowe, 
 Hatton, Thomas Kendall, and Eivans, commonly 
 called Captain Evans, with their papers, on charges of treasonable 
 practices. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 845, p. 258. | 
 
 Warrant to James Kitson for the apprehension of Gaul Hart for 
 treasonable practices. [ bid. | 
 
1695. 
 Oct. 14. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 14. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 14. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 14. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 Oct. 14. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oot. 14. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 14. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Oct. 14. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Oct. 14. 
 Admiralty 
 Office. 
 
 Oct. 14. 
 
 Oct. 14. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 WILLIAM III. 81 
 Warrant to William Sutton for the apprehension of John Cornelius, 
 Edward Lewis, John Siggins, Roger Ocane, and Thomas Napert, on 
 
 charges of high treason in adhering to his Majesty’s enemies. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 345, p. 259.] 
 
 Warrant to Peter Newlyn for the apprehension of Catherina 
 Miller and Edward Salmor for treasonable practices. [ Ibid. | 
 
 Warrant for James Kitson to go to Sandwich, and take into 
 custody Pinet and —— Roveroy, who have been apprehended 
 there for coming out of France without leave.  [ Lbid., p. 260. ] 
 
 Warrant to the same for receiving into his custody Robert 
 Inwood on a charge of coming out of France without leave. | Ibid. | 
 
 Passes for Gustaf Soldan and Jasper Sleenorth, Swedes, to return 
 to their own country [Jbid. 346, p. 183]; and for John Peters and 
 Abraham Verbeck to go to Holland [Tbid., p. 184]. 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Hugh Bowas of the city of 
 Carlisle, glover. He sets forth his having served the Crown as a 
 soldier under General Monk, and his great poverty, and prays an 
 almsman’s place in Carlisle Cathedral. Granted. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 2388, p. 26.] 
 
 Commissions for John Philips to be captain of Lieutenant-Colonel 
 Henry Davies’ late company in the Marquis of Carmarthen’s first 
 marine regiment of foot; for — Mitchell to be heutenant-colonel and 
 captain of a company in the same regiment; for Joseph Stopford to 
 be major and captain of a company in the same regiment; for Adiell 
 Mill to be second heutenant of Captain William Prince’s company in 
 the same regiment [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 140]; for Avery 
 Garth to be ensign of the colonel’s company in Colonel Beaumont’s 
 regiment; and for — Morton to be ensign of Captain Anthony 
 Townley’s company in the same regiment [TIbid., p. 141]. 
 
 
 
 Warrant to the Earl of Romney, master-general of the Ordnance, 
 to issue two barrels of corn powder for the use of the town of 
 Hastings, which lies exposed to the frequent insults of French 
 privateers, and has several times during the present war been obliged 
 to make use of the guns in the two small forts there, occasioning a 
 considerable expense of powder. [Zbid., p. 1438. ] 
 
 A list of his Majesty’s ships, besides those of the Mediterranean 
 and West India squadrons, with the conditions of those in port, and 
 the present stations of such of them as are at sea. [S.P. Dom. 
 King William’s Chest 15, No. 98. | 
 
 Warrant for William Drummer to be elected a child of Winchester 
 College. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 71.] 
 
 Sir Wiliam Trumbull to the Mayor and Corporation of Hedon. 
 I heartily thank you for the kindness you design me of being your 
 representative in Parliament. I am sorry so much of my time is 
 taken up that I cannot personally acknowledge it, and take my 
 freedom of your Corporation at the same time amongst you, which it 
 is necessary I should have before your election.. I desire you will 
 
 2045 F 
 
82 
 1695. 
 
 Oct. 14. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 14. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 15. 
 Whitehall, 
 
 Octeip: 
 Whitehall. 
 
 SOcthEAib: 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 15. 
 
 Whitehall, 
 
 Oct. 15. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 excuse my coming down amongst you for the present, and send me 
 up my freedom under the seal of your Corporation, which I am 
 informed is sufficient. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 218. ] 
 
 The same to the Mayor of Hedon. As I am very particularly 
 obliged to you for the favour your corporation designs me of being 
 their representative in Parliament, so I heartily thank you for it. 
 I desire you will let the corporation know I have sent them a 
 glass of wine, which you will receive from the bearer. [Jbid., 
 p. 214. ] 
 
 The same to Mr. Daniel, high sheriff of Yorkshire, desiring him 
 to despatch his precept to the corporation of Hedon for choosing 
 burgesses to Parliament as soon as possible after the writ comes to 
 his hand.  [Zbid.| 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Mayor of Sandwich. I have 
 received your letter of the 11th inst. The five Frenchmen are come 
 up and discharged, as the other two might have been if they knew 
 anybody that would answer for them, without which I see no reason 
 why persons coming from an enemy’s country should expect to be 
 at liberty here. But, in order that your town may be eased of any 
 further trouble or charge on their account, I have directed a messenger 
 to bring them up, to whom therefore you will order them to be 
 delivered. [Jbid. 100, p. 165. | 
 
 The same to Colonel Collier. I have yesterday received your 
 letter of the 8rd inst., with the information against Perkins for 
 trading with France. I have thereupon sent to the Commissioners 
 for the Exchange of Prisoners, under whom he is employed, and I 
 find they have had letters from him in which he denies the fact ; 
 but it being a matter to be represented to his Majesty in Council, it 
 is there the directions will be given how it shall be prosecuted. 
 [Tbid., p. 166. ] 
 
 The same to the Lords of the Treasury. The enclosed petition of 
 Sir Richard Reynell, with my Lord Deputy of Ireland’s report upon 
 it, having been laid before the King, his Majesty is pleased that the 
 entire half-year’s salary of the Lord Chief Justice of the King’s 
 Bench in Ireland be allowed to the said Sir Richard Reynell, to be 
 accounted to midsummer last, notwithstanding the same has been 
 paid to the present Lord Chief Justice; and it is his Majesty’s 
 pleasure that you present to him the orders requisite to make the 
 said payments effectual. Petition not appended. |[Ibid., p. 167. | 
 
 The same to Lord Capell. Lord Bellew having reason to hope, 
 from the favourable report you gave in his case, that the King will 
 condescend to the reversal of his outlawry, is apprehensive lest he 
 may receive some prejudice in the meantime by a court of enquiry 
 appointed by the Commissioners for Forfeitures. If you think his 
 demand reasonable for delaying this enquiry as far as it relates to 
 him, no other motives will be needed to induce you to gratify him. 
 [S.P. Ireland King’s Letter Book 2, p. 85.] 
 
 Passes for Oven Oxen, a subject of the King of Denmark, to go to 
 Gravesend and Denmark; for Abraham Garsia and Richa his wife, 
 
1695. 
 
 Oct. 16. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 16. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Oct. 16. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Oct. 16. 
 
 Kensington, 
 
 Oct. 16. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Oct. 16. 
 
 Kensington, 
 
 Oct. 16. 
 
 Kensington, 
 
 WILLIAM III. 83 
 
 poor Jews, and Hans Linnenman, to go to Harwich and Holland 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 427]; for John Jacques Panckau, 
 a surgeon, to go to Gravesend and Denmark [TJbid., p. 428]; for 
 Mr. Leison Thomas, Mr. Michael Pope and Mr. Andrew Pope, 
 students, to go to Holland ; for Estienne Colomb to go to Denmark 
 [ Ibid. 846, p. 184]; and for Abraham Garsia and Richa his wife to 
 go to Holland. See before.  [Tbid., p. 185]. 
 
 Passes and post-warrant for Michael Jacobse and William Andriose 
 to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland; for Ralph Gray, esq., 
 with his two servants and three able horses and a guide, to go to 
 Berwick-upon-T weed [Jbid. 344, p. 429]; for Johan Hichbr, of Dant- 
 zig, and David Mathieu, a poor protestant refugee, to go to Holland; 
 for Mary Kelley, wife of John Kelley, bombardier in the English 
 train of artillery in Flanders, to go to Flanders; for Jacomo Bravetti, 
 an Italian, to go to Holland; and for Thomas Fox, Andrew Hacket, 
 John Llewellin, and Thomas Gee to go to Flanders [ Ibid. 346, p. 185. | 
 
 Warrant for Lord Godolphin, Sir Stephen Fox, knight, Charles 
 Montague, and John Smith, esquires, to be Treasurers of the 
 Hixchequer. [Jbid., p. 186.] 
 
 Warrant to the Recorder and Sheriffs of London for a reprieve of 
 the sentence of burning in the hand passed on Samuel Grant, esq., 
 who was tried at the Old Bailey, and found guilty of the manslaughter 
 of — Fowles. [Jbid., p. 187.] 
 
 Warrant granting letters patent for fourteen years to Abel Cottey, 
 of Crediton, co. Devon, clock maker, for his invention of a new 
 engine for cutting and rasping logwood, and other woods used by 
 dyers, which may easily be worked by hand or horse labour and by 
 water. [Jbid. 845, p. 261.] 
 
 Warrant for paying 1,215/. to the Commissioners for stating the 
 accounts of the army in Ireland, being half the sum due to them and 
 their clerks according to an account presented by them and 
 examined by Charles Dering, esquire, Auditor-General in Ireland, 
 viz. to William Robinson, Edward Corker, William Molyneux, 
 William Palmer; John Green, clerk; Hugh Corry, clerk ; Thomas 
 Brickford, doorkeeper and messenger; Isabel Harris, cleaner of the 
 rooms; Robert Thornton, and Thomas Burrows. [S.P. Dom. Signet 
 Office 18, p. 258. | | 
 
 Warrant for accepting quartering bills in part satisfaction of rent 
 due from Captain John Rawlins as tenant of the lordship of 
 tathangen, co. Kildare. Part of the Brandenburgh regiment was 
 quartered on the lordship, and the soldiers for their quartering owed 
 108/. o 6d. to the tenants, for which they gave their bills. [Jdid., 
 p. 254. 
 
 Warrant, signed by the King and countersigned by the Duke of 
 Shrewsbury, to the Fellows of Eton to elect Dr. Henry Godolphin 
 as Provost of Eton in the place of Dr. Zachary Cradock, deceased. 
 [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 6, No. 39; and S.P. Dom. Entry Book 
 150, p. 171.] 
 
84 
 
 1695. 
 Oct. 16. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Oey: 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 87s 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Octo? 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Ocheal72 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 OGiealite 
 Whitehall. 
 
 (Oct. 17 ?] 
 
 Oct. 18. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 Commissions for John Fleming to be lieutenant of Captain Charles 
 Willis’s company in Viscount Mountjoy’s regiment; for Alexander 
 Calhoune to be chaplain to the same regiment; for Peter Martin to be 
 ensign of Captain Joselin Meade’s company in the Karl of Donegal’s 
 regiment [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 141]; for Roger Neale to 
 be ensign of Captain Owen Norton’s company in Sir Richard Atkin’s 
 regiment; and for William Hamilton to be ensign of Captain Richard 
 Luther’s company in Sir George St. George’s regiment [Jbid., 142]. 
 
 Passes for Mr. Henry Vaughan and Mrs. Mary Tanner to go to 
 Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, 
 p. 429]; for Anne Taylor, wife of Charles Taylor, lying sick at 
 Flushing, and her son, to go to Zealand, on the recommendation of 
 the minister and churchwardens of Wapping, Stepney; for Hans 
 Sterrison, a Danish seaman, to go to Denmark [Jbid. 346, p. 135]; 
 for Nicholas Schoen, gunsmith, Edward Robinson, lieutenant to 
 Captain Francis Robinson, and Robert Davis and John Griffin, 
 troopers, to go to Flanders; and for James van Toll, a native of 
 the Hague, Mrs. Mary Brewerton and her servant, Ann Russell, to 
 eo to Holland [Zbid., p. 187]. 
 
 Warrant for the payment ofa bill of extraordinary expenses 
 incurred by John Robinson, his Majesty’s agent at the Court of 
 Sweden, from 3 May to 8 August, 1695. [Ibid. p. 189. | 
 
 Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses incurred by 
 John Robinson, his Majesty’s agent at the Court of Sweden, for a 
 public rejoicing for the taking of Namur, 12 and 13 September. 
 [Lbid., p. 140. ] 
 
 Commission for Francis Jeffreys to be captain of Major Joseph 
 Studd’s late company in the Marquis de Puizar’s regiment of foot. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 160. | 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Ann, Countess of Longford, 
 praying a grant of an estate called Whitefriars, in Dublin, formerly 
 belonging to Francis, Earl of Longford, her husband, and now seized 
 for his Majesty, as the estate of Sir Daniel Arthur, who stands 
 convicted of high treason. Referred for report to the Lords of the 
 Treasury. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 288, p. 28. ] 
 
 Pass for Gabriel Cooitre, soldier in the Dutch regiment of foot 
 guards, to go to Holland. [TJbid. 346, p. 185. ] 
 
 Passes and post-warrants for Elizabeth van der Meule and Ariantje 
 Peterse, Dutch women, John Rolantz, John Segeur, John Joris, 
 John Gremmopan, four Dutch seamen, and Stephen Ruault, a 
 French protestant, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland 
 [Lbid. 344, p. 428]; for Huijbert Arisse, a Dutch soldier, and his 
 young daughter, ditto [Ibid., p. 429]; for Mr. Balthasar Morck, of 
 the bedchamber to Prince Louis of Baden, with dogs and horses 
 and five men, being grooms and huntsmen, to go to Holland { Ibid. 
 346, p. 187]; for John Cornelisse with Peter Cornelisse, his cousin, 
 
1695. 
 
 Oct. 18. 
 
 Kensington, 
 
 Oct. 19. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 19. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 19-22. 
 
 Newmarket 
 and 
 Althorp. 
 
 Oct. 20. 
 Althorp. 
 
 Oct. 20. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oet., 21. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 22. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 WILLIAM III. 85 
 
 
 
 Dutch seamen, ditto; for the Earl of Arran and three servants to 
 go to Nottingham; and for Colonel Cholmondley to go to Westchester 
 with nine servants [Jbid., p. 188]. 
 
 Commissions for Patrick Meade to be major of, and captain of a 
 company in, the Marquis de Puizar’s regiment ; for James Ingoldsby 
 to be captain of Captain Decortey’s late company in the same 
 regiment [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 159]; for Digby Berkeley 
 to be heutenant of Captain John Leake’s company in the same 
 regiment; for Anthony Buckeridge to be ensign of the same 
 company [Jbid., p. 160] ; for John Wally to be lieutenant to Captain 
 Thomas Pollexfen’s company in the same regiment; for Thomas 
 Theaker to be ensign of the Marquis de Puizar’s company in the 
 same regiment ; for Thomas Welsh to be ensign of Captain Benjamin 
 Titchbourne’s company in the same regiment; for William Haire to 
 be lieutenant of Captain Patrick Meade’s company in the same 
 regiment; for Timothy Thomas to be ensign of Captain James 
 Ingoldsby’s company in the same regiment [ Jbid., p. 161]; for Francis 
 Maleray to be lieutenant to Captain Samuel Freeman’s company of 
 grenadiers in the same regiment; and for John Percival to be chaplain 
 of the same regiment [Jbid., p. 162]. 
 
 Passes for Conrad Barthold, a subject of the Elector of Saxony, 
 to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 844, p. 480]; for Margaret Ham to go to Flanders; and for Jonas 
 Palinquist, Didrick Wiby and John Stiernankar to go to Sweden 
 [Tbid. 846, p. 138]. 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to Mr. Wright, acknowledging the 
 receipt of his letters of the 15th and 17th inst., with informations 
 enclosed. Such scandalous and seditious words shall be dealt 
 with when the papers have been laid before the King in Council. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 100, p. 168. ] 
 
 Account of the King’s visit to Newmarket and Althorp. At the 
 former place the principal members of the University of Cambridge 
 waited upon him; he afterwards came to Althorp attended by 
 divers of the nobility and the principal persons of the ‘‘ country.” 
 [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 6, No. 40.] 
 
 Commissions for Paul Batchiller to be captain-lieutenant in Lord 
 Berkeley’s regiment of marines; and for Charles Burton to be second 
 lieutenant to Captain Sprag in the same regiment. [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 167, p. 249. ] 
 
 Post-warrant for William Sutton, one of his Majesty’s messengers, 
 with one able post horse and a guide, to go to Althorp, or any other 
 place where his Majesty shall be. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, 
 p. 480. | 
 
 Passes and post-warrant for Henry Beck, a German journeyman 
 tailor, and Sanson Gidlon, a poor Jew, to go to Harwich and Holland 
 [Ibid.]; and for Edward With, and a horse and a guide, to go to 
 Ipswich [Jbid., p. 431]. 
 
 Passes and post-warrant for Mr. Charles Maris, one of his 
 Majesty's messengers, to go to Althorp, co. Northampton, with one 
 
86 
 1695. 
 
 Oct. 22. 
 Easthamp- 
 stead. 
 
 Ocha e2ce 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Octim23 
 Whitehall 
 
 Oct. 24. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 horse and a guide; for Rachel de Fansaca, Jacob her son, and 
 Raphael Traves, being poor Jews, to go to Harwich and Holland 
 [Ibid.|; for Gaspar vander Meulen and Elizabeth his wife. 
 Ariaintje Pieterse, Mary Dirickse, and ten small children, ditto 
 [Ibid., p. 482]; for Marten Bisheuvel, having leave from the 
 governor of his Majesty’s hospital at Chelsea, to be absent for 
 four months, and Mr. Gabriel Groddeck, a student and a native of 
 Dantzig, to go to Holland; and for Mr. John Raté and Mr. John 
 Tistaert to go to Flanders [Jbid. 846, p, 141]. 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Duke of Shrewsbury. When [ left 
 London I hoped the election for the University of Oxford would have 
 been over before I should have come hither, and so have had nothing 
 to have hindered my return at this day; but by accident the precept 
 was delayed and the election could not be till yesterday, when the 
 Vice-Chancellor called a convocation, and they unanimously chose 
 me to be one of their burgesses, and Mr. Finch the other, which has 
 kept me a day longer than I expected. I was glad to find the 
 University so generally well affected and dutiful to his Majesty as 
 they expressed themselves to be. ‘They remember a letter his 
 Majesty formerly wrote to them (upon his not coming from 
 Abingdon hither) promising them the honour of his presence at the 
 University, and I heartily wish you could prevail with him to gratify 
 them when he comes so near Oxford. I have sent you this letter on 
 purpose that, if his Majesty grant this request, they may have notice 
 time enough (which will require eight or ten days) to prepare for his 
 reception. I entreat you would know his Majesty’s pleasure therein, 
 and send me word of it by the return of this messenger, whom I send 
 on purpose, so that I may have the opportunity of communicating it 
 to them. I saw Lord Abingdon at Oxford, where he expressed how 
 glad he would be if his Majesty would do him the honour to dine 
 
 with him at Rycaut [Rycote], and that he, being Lord Lieutenant. 
 
 of the county, was desirous to show his Majesty the county militia, if 
 it be thought fit. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 215. ] 
 
 R. Yard to Mr. Aldworth. The Duke of Shrewsbury, at his going 
 out of town to attend the King, commanded me that so soon as the 
 bills were passed for the better observation of the Lord’s day, for taking 
 special bail in the country, and for empowering the Duke of Ormonde 
 to sell lands, and were despatched under the Great Seal, I should 
 send them to you by a messenger, the Duke of Ormonde being very 
 desirous to have no time lost in getting that passed which relates to 
 him. The King intends to stay at Althorp till Monday next, and to 
 go from thence to Stamford and Lincoln. They are still polling in 
 London. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 67.] 
 
 Passes and post-warrant for Mr. John Thornburgh, one of his 
 Majesty’s messengers, to go to Ireland, with one horse and a guide; 
 for Philip Rogers, servant to Mr. Ireton, to go to Cirencester, with one 
 horse and a guide [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 481]; for Jane 
 Laidlow and her child to go to Breda; and for Heindrick Heindricksen 
 to go to Holland [JZbid. 346, p. 141]. 
 
 Warrant to the Keeper of Newgate to receive into custody Thomas 
 Kendall and Richard Rowe on a charge of high treason in being 
 
 i 
 
1695. 
 
 Oct. 24. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 24. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 24. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 24. 
 Whitehall, 
 
 Doi. 24. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 foGtee 24 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 24. 
 Whitehall, 
 
 WILLIAM III. 87 
 
 
 
 privy to and assisting the escape of Sir James Montgomery, who was 
 charged with high treason, out of the custody of William Sutton, one 
 of the messengers in ordinary. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 846, p. 141. | 
 
 Warrant to William Jones, messenger in ordinary, to go to South- 
 wark, to the house of — Leeson, and search for papers belonging to 
 the said Leeson. [Jbid., p. 142.] 
 
 Passes for Heindrick Juriaensen to go to Holland [JZbid.]; and for 
 Caspar Dirikse, Jan Jorise, Cornelius Goots and Pieter Hering, ditto 
 [Ibid., p. 143]. 
 
 Warrant to Thomas Newlyn, messenger in ordinary, for the 
 apprehension of John Williams and Thomas Meeck for endeavouring 
 to go to France to carry on a correspondence with his Majesty’s 
 enemies. | bid. | 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Sir John Sydenham, bart., pray- 
 ing leave to bring a writ of error on a judgment obtained against 
 him in the King’s Bench by Robert Pyborne, which is granted. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 288, p. 29.] 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to Colonel Dudley. I have this evening 
 received a letter from Lord Cutts, from Cambridge, wherein he 
 tells me he-has already sent you his desire that you set Sir 
 Robert Cotton to be chosen a burgess for Newport in the Isle of 
 Wight; but not knowing whether his request to you may have 
 reached your hands, he has, for the greater certainty, desired me to 
 repeat it to you. ([Jbid. 99, p. 216. | 
 
 [The same] to Mr. Roope. I have received your letters of the 
 15th, 18th and 19th together, having made a step to Oxford about my 
 election as one of the burgesses for the University. Since my 
 return, which was yesterday, I have not had time to peruse the 
 several depositions and other papers which accompanied them on 
 the subject of Pieterson’s ship, which has carried from England tin 
 and other merchandises to France, and brought some persons from 
 thence, for which ship and the master are liable to be detained. 
 I thank you for your care in this matter. As to the further power 
 you desire, and concerning the mayor who did not assist you in 
 seizing the ship, though desired to do so, you shall hear from me 
 further by next post. [JZbid., p. 217.] 
 
 The same to the Duke of Shrewsbury. I have received letters 
 from the King’s ministers in Sweden and Denmark, concerning the 
 respect due to hig Majesty’s flag, which is now in debate between his 
 Majesty and those two crowns, on occasion of some late encounters 
 on that subject between his Majesty’s ships and theirs. I think it 
 my duty to lay the same before his Majesty for his consideration, and 
 to that end give you the trouble of the enclosed copy of a letter from 
 Mr. Robinson from Stockholm of the 5th inst., and another from Mr. 
 Gregg from Copenhagen of the 12th inst., and likewise an extract of 
 a resolution of the States-General, concerning an Irishman who was 
 taken in Norway at the instance of Mr. Gregg, being vehemently 
 suspected to have had a hand in murdering on the seas the master of 
 a ship and his crew, and afterwards running away with the ship; 
 
88 
 
 1695. 
 
 Oct: 2b: 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 25. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 25. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 25. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 25. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 26. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 the States are ready to deliver him to his Majesty’s order, that he 
 may be judged in England and punished if found guilty of the said 
 crime. All the matters I pray you will please acquaint his Majesty 
 with, that he may give such orders therein that he shall think 
 fitting, and so much the rather in relation to Sweden, since I fear 
 some encounter at sea might hinder the effect of those good 
 dispositions which the King appears to be in towards the common 
 cause. I take this occasion to put you in mind of the good service of 
 Mr. Robinson in Sweden, and to desire you will please, if you think 
 fit, to recommend him to his Majesty for the deanery of Lincoln 
 now vacant. Enclosures not entered here. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 
 99, p. 218. ] 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Duke of Shrewsbury. About a month 
 since Mr. Roope, the governor of Dartmouth, acquainted me that a 
 vessel, pretended to belong to Sweden, one Pieterson master, had 
 taken in a person in a very suspicious manner, and that he was 
 informed he was bound for Morlaix in France. I desired him 
 to make further enquiry into the matter, and if the ship should 
 return again to Dartmouth to stop it and the master, which he 
 acquaints me by his letter of the 19th inst. he has done. This 
 day I am informed by Lord Berkeley and Sir Cloudesley Shovel that 
 Mr. Roope is under a mistake, and that something of this nature 
 having happened to this master before he was by your order released, 
 which advice has occasioned my giving you this trouble, for if the 
 master be known to you I will, on notice thereof from you, direct 
 him and his vessel to be forthwith set at liberty. Jam in hourly 
 expectation to hear from you his Majesty’s pleasure about his giving 
 a visit to the University of Oxford. Messrs. Heatchott, Ward, and 
 Raworth desired me to recommend the enclosed case to his Majesty, 
 wherein I entreat you to move the King for his favour to them, in 
 consideration of their great losses, which they hope by this means 
 in some measure to repair. Enclosure not entered here. [Ibid., 
 p. 219. ] 
 
 Passes for Frances Elliot, Jane Goreden and one child, going to 
 their husbands in Flanders, and Diricks Isaac, Cornelis Prince, 
 Jan Buekes, William Taylor, Jacob Rutter and Abraham Mager, 
 to goto Holland. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 346, p. 148.] 
 
 Two blank warrants for apprehension for treason. | Ibid., pp. 144 
 and 145.] 
 
 Warrant to the Keeper of Newgate to receive into his custody 
 Monsieur de Rouvery and Monsieur Pierre Pinet on a charge of 
 being alien enemies and spies. [Jbid., p. 144. ] 
 
 Warrant to Richard Hopkins for the apprehension of John de la 
 Hide and William Tucker on a charge of endeavouring to go to 
 
 France to correspond with, and assist, his Majesty’s enemies. 
 [ Zbid. | 
 
 Passes for Monsieur Morel Dufresné and Mr. Thomas Kyrke, 
 a merchant, to go to Harwich and Holland [Jbid. 344, p. 482]; and 
 for Jacob Dollewyn, a Dutch carpenter, David Cassaw, a native of 
 
1695. 
 
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 Whitehall. 
 
 Oct. 26, 
 
 Althorp. 
 
 Oct. 26. 
 
 Althorp. 
 
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 Bremen, Jacob Janse, a Dutch smith, Mr. Joseph Goncales and 
 Chriastian Cleeman, his wife and one child, to go to Holland [S.P. 
 Dom. Warrant Book 346, 40, p. 145]. 
 
 Warrant to William Jones for the apprehension of Thomas 
 Whitebread for treasonable and seditious practices. [Tbid., p. 146.] 
 
 Warrant to prolong the reprieve of Thomas Passmore, convicted 
 at the last sessions held at the Old Bailey for clipping and counter- 
 feiting the coin of the realm, until 80 October. [Ibid. 845, p. 262. | 
 
 Like warrant for a reprieve for Thomas Barnes. [Jbid. | 
 
 Post-warrant for Richard Hayward, one of the messengers in 
 ordinary, and John Turner, with two horses and a guide, to go to 
 Althorp or Stamford, or any other place where his Majesty shall be. 
 [Ibid. 844, p. 482. ] 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Duke of Shrewsbury. I have 
 received yours of yesterday’s date, and have given an account of his 
 Majesty’s pleasure both to the University and Lord Abingdon. The 
 Hmperor’s envoy was with me this morning and, amongst other 
 things, acquainted me that the Roman Catholics of Ireland had 
 complained of the breach of the capitulations made with them in 
 the late war, and that the Emperor prays his Majesty will please to 
 have a regard to them, which he will own as a particular obligation. 
 He said he meant only to such of the Irish as keep within the 
 bounds of their duty, and that those who transgress may be hable 
 to punishment. He spoke also much of the good disposition of 
 Sweden to the affairs of the allies (whereof he had received an 
 account from the Kmperor’s envoy there), and in order to the better 
 improving of it he said the Emperor desires his Majesty would be 
 pleased to do two things: The one was to give directions to his 
 minister in Sweden to make some compliment to that King in general 
 terms, as his Majesty shall think most proper, about the late 
 encounter at sea, which he believes may sweeten them, and be very 
 kindly taken without prejudicing in the least the matter of the right 
 of the flag; the other, which is in pursuance of what I so lately 
 troubled you about, was that some expedient may be speedily thought 
 of to prevent such hostilities for the future, which may interrupt the 
 course of the good inclinations of that court. This was the most 
 SOREL part of his discourse. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, 
 p. 220. 
 
 The same to the Harl of Abingdon. Having acquainted his Majesty 
 of your desire of having the honour to entertain him at your house 
 at Ricaut [Rycote], he is pleased to take your invitation kindly, 
 but the method of his going in one day from Burford to Windsor, and 
 calling at Oxford the 9th or 11th of next month, will not allow him 
 time to dine with you there; having also avoided being attended by 
 the militia of all the counties he has been in, and intending the 
 same in the others he is to pass through, he will not put the county 
 of Oxford to that trouble and expense. [Jvid., p. 221.] 
 
90 
 
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 Althorp. 
 
 Oct. 26. 
 Althorp. 
 
 Oct. 26. 
 Althorp. 
 
 Oct. 26. 
 Althorp. 
 
 Oct. 26. 
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 Whitehall. 
 
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 Warrant to the Privy Council of Scotland for a further adjourn- 
 ment of Parliament from 9 November to 20 March next. [S.P. 
 Scotland Warrant Book 16, p. 98.] 
 
 Warrant to the same for adjourning the general assembly of the 
 EEE of Scotland from 20 November to 17 December. [Jbid., 
 p. 9A. 
 
 Warrant to the Lords of the Treasury of Scotland ordering payment 
 of the arrears due to Lieutenant-Colonel John Buchan, who, in going 
 to Flanders, was taken prisoner by the French, and detained at 
 Dunkirk for three months, and is commanded to Scotland on 
 account of recruits to be raised there for Flanders.  [Zbid.| 
 
 Warrant to the Lords of the Treasury of Scotland for paying 500l. 
 to Mr. Robert Pringle, Under Secretary for Scotland, for attending 
 the King during his absence from Britain. [Tbid., p. 95.] 
 
 Warrant for nominating Mr. John Oliphant, minister of the 
 gospel, principal of the New College, St. Andrews. ([Ibid., p. 96.] 
 
 Sir Wiliam Trumbull to the Duke of Shrewsbury. Ihave received 
 your letter of yesterday. This afternoon the Council met here, and 
 some of the petitioners against Lord Athlone’s bill were heard, and 
 the rest of them are to be heard at the Council on Tuesday next. 
 The Commissioners for Exchange of Prisoners have acquainted the 
 Council with a letter which they have received from their agent at 
 Dover, giving an account that the French prisoners there had an 
 expectation of the arrival of sloops from France with arms, wherewith 
 they were to force their escape, and that the town wanted soldiers to 
 guard the prison. Iwas hereupon directed in Council to write to you, 
 to move the King that he would be pleased to send orders to the Duke 
 of Schomberg for two or three companies of foot to march thither as 
 soon as possible. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 222. | 
 
 Pass for John la Vie, valet de chambre to Lord Villiers, to go to 
 Holland. [bid. 346, p. 145.] 
 
 Warrant to the Keeeper of Newgate to permit Catherine Rowe to 
 have access to her husband, Richard Rowe, now in prison on a charge 
 of high treason, in the presence of a keeper. [Jbid., p. 146.] 
 
 Like warrant for Mary Magdalena de Roover [Rouvery] to have 
 access to her husband, Nicolas [Jbid., p. 146]; and passes for Charles 
 Emanuel, a native of Savoy, to go to Holland [Jbid.]; for Paul 
 Jacobse, Leendert Wouterse, Gerret Krynse, Machiel van Ommeren 
 and Peter Ommeren his son, Andries Meyer, Bartholomew Revilleau, 
 Dutch seamen, Charles Micklethwaite, a gentleman of the Temple, 
 and Peter Peshman, a native of Frankfort, ditto; for Ann Spires, 
 wife of James Spires, and Martha Lueas, wife of Francis Lucas, with 
 one child, to go to Holland or Flanders [Jbid., p. 147]; and for the 
 Duchess of Brachiano, with twenty servants and nine horses, to go 
 to Rome [Ibid., p. 150]. 
 
 Passes for Anthony Rocheteau, and Francis Pelletier, French 
 protestants, to go to Harwich and Holland | Jbid. 344, p, 483]; for 
 Mr. Abel de Vries, a stone cutter, to go to Holland; for Frances 
 
1695. 
 
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 Lowen, James Jarman and Mary Smith, her servants, to go to 
 Germany, on the recommendation of the vicar of St. Martin’s; and 
 for Thomas Thornesen to go to Holland [Jbid. 846, p. 147]. 
 
 Warrant to Richard Hopkins, for the apprehension of ——-——-— 
 for high treason in being privy to, and assisting in, the escape of 
 Sir James Montgomery, who was in custody of one of his Majesty’s 
 messengers for high treason in adhering to his Majesty’s enemies. 
 [Zbid., p. 148.] 
 
 Warrant to Richard Hopkins for the apprehension of 
 and her papers for treasonable practices. {| bid. ] 
 
 
 
 Warrant to James Kitson for, the apprehension of Abraham Carter 
 alias Clarke, Garrot Barrey, John Steward alias Peter Williams, 
 Thomas Colins and John Latham, for attempting to go to France 
 without leave. [Jbid. 845, p. 256. | 
 
 James Vernon to —————. The King has signified his pleasure 
 that the Irish bills be forthwith considered at Council. I suppose he 
 will be at Kensington before they can be dispatched. I would fain 
 be satisfied Cook’s reprieve, how it comes to be “ till further order.” 
 The King arrived here before it was dark. The Duke of Newcastle 
 met him seven miles off at Dunham Ferry, being the entrance to the 
 county. The King did not leave Lincoln till about eleven this 
 morning, having first been at the cathedral to hear prayers; when I 
 came away I saw the clergy going in a body to wait on his Majesty. 
 I know not how many there were of them, for I could no more tell 
 them than a flight of crows. We are by what I can see in a very 
 pleasant place, and where his Majesty will be splendidly entertained 
 and extraordinarily well diverted, for here is much better stag 
 hunting than was allowed by report, and for shooting there can be 
 no place before it. This house is encompassed with great woods, 
 though the forest be bare enough. There are a great number of 
 people of quality of the country come to kiss his Majesty’s hand, and 
 many tables were provided to treat them. I thought we should have 
 got letters of yesterday by this time, but it seems we are very remote 
 from any post house; the nearest is Tuxford, six miles off. I know 
 not how diligent he [the postmaster] will be, but I have scarce seen 
 any of them yet but they were drunk, and one has had some trouble 
 with them to get our packets dispatched. Mr. Ellis sent me the 
 enclosed letter for one Davies to be left with one Mr. Chancey; you 
 will therefore give it him. I send you back Mr. Secretary Johnston’s 
 letter, he having quitted us at Althorp. The enclosed for Admiral 
 Russell is recommended to you to be sent as soon as can be. The 
 King hunts the hare to-morrow, and on Friday the stag towards 
 Lord Kingston’s, and dines with him that day. I am told the 
 chanter at Lincoln made a speech when the clergy were introduced 
 to kiss the King’s hand. If I had not been so weary last night (having 
 ridden seventeen miles) I should have enlarged upon the ilumina- 
 tions at the King’s entry into Lincoln, which I thought very fine, 
 and the more because they were so necessary in climbing a hill that 
 seemed otherwise impracticable. I was very well pleased to see a 
 peloton of his Majesty’s subjects at every half mile between Stamford 
 and Lincoln, so that all the inhabitants of the country appeared to 
 
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 Whitehall, 
 
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 Whitehall. 
 
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 be drawn to the roadside. Lord Monmouth is left at Lincoln, not 
 being well enough to come on. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 6, 
 No. 41.] 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford. I have 
 received yours of the 28th inst., and as to what relates to your 
 reception of the King I have consulted the Duke of Ormonde, our 
 Chancellor, concerning it, and we agree in opinion that all the marks 
 of duty and respect are to be showed his Majesty that the shortness 
 of his intended stay will possibly allow; that he ought to be received 
 in the same manner his predecessors have been, that is with as great 
 a number as may be of doctors and masters in their formalities on 
 horseback, and that there should be a collation or banquet prepared 
 for him in the schools, since his haste will not admit of a more solemn 
 entertainment. How far you will proceed out of the town to meet 
 his Majesty depends upon what has been the custom and usage, which 
 being towards Woodstock, as I suppose, will be in the same manner 
 and as far as when Charles II. came that way into Oxford. I can tell 
 you no more yet of his Majesty’s intentions than I did in my last, and 
 if he holds his resolution of going from Burford to Windsor in a day, 
 taking Oxford in his way, his stay with you must not be long. 
 When I know anything further, I shall be sure to give you speedy 
 notice of it. In the meantime you will, I presume, receive such 
 directions from the Chancellor as may be proper on this subject, and 
 he designs to be present at the reception himself. I shall communicate 
 to Mr. Attorney-General, but I have not time to do it yet, the extract 
 out of the charter of Henry VIII., which you have sent me, relating 
 to the rights and privileges of the University in criminal causes, and 
 shall make the best use of it I can in the case in hand, wherein I 
 shall take care that the reputation of the University be saved all that 
 possibly may be, and as little noise made of the matter as the thing 
 will bear. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book, 99, p. 223. ] 
 
 The same to the Dukeof Shrewsbury. Several of the Lords named 
 in your letter of the 27th inst., as ordered by his Majesty to consider 
 what persons under condemnation at the assizes in London might be 
 fit objects of his mercy, met yesterday in the afternoon, and having 
 called the Recorder of the city before them, they did not upon his 
 report think fit to interpose for his Majesty’s mercy to any of them. 
 I laid down the case particularly of Morgan Bourne with his 
 certificates, being the person recommended by the Duke of Ormonde, 
 but the evidence against him was so strong that he was not excepted. 
 I am sorry, in view of Lord Villiers’ desire for dispatch, that I 
 cannot proceed to do anything in the ratification of the renewal of 
 the Grand Alhance for want of the original instrument, which Mr. 
 Yard cannot yet find amongst the papers in your office. When 
 the day is fixed for the King’s going from Burford to Oxford I 
 entreat you will let me know it. [ bid., p. 225. ] 
 
 Post-warrant for Mr. John Taylor, one of the King’s messengers, 
 to go to Welbeck with one horse and a guide. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 844, p. 485.! : 
 
1695. 
 
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 Whitehall. 
 
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 Welbeck. 
 
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 Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses, incurred by 
 Sir Paul Ricaut, knight, as resident of the King of Great Britain 
 in the Hanseatic towns of Lower Saxony, from the 1st of July to the 
 1st of October, 1695. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 846, p. 157.] 
 
 Warrant to William Sharp for the apprehension of Sir Patrick 
 Trant for lately coming into England from France without leave. 
 [Tbid., p. 149. } 
 
 Commission for Walter Philip Colyear to be colonel of,and captain 
 of a company in, Sir Charles Graham’s late regiment. [S.P. 
 Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 142.] 
 
 Incomplete entry of proceedings upon the petition of Sir Benjamin 
 Bathurst, setting forth that he is lord of the manor and borough of 
 Cirencester, and that it will very much conduce to the advancement 
 of the trade of the inhabitants thereof to have two fairs yearly in the 
 town of Cirencester for the sale of manufactured goods, and of horses 
 and cattle, the one to be held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 
 before Palm Sunday, and the other upon Tuesday, Wednesday and 
 Entry ends abruptly. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 288, p. 27.] 
 
 Extracts from the journals of the Irish parliament, on the question 
 whether or not peers giving evidence upon oath in the House of 
 Commons, may give precedents in detail from 1615; and with regard 
 to an alleged insult offered by the Speaker of the Commons to the 
 Lord Chancellor. The Commons had desired certain peers should 
 have leave to appear and give evidence on the articles exhibited 
 against Lord Chancellor Porter. The Lords refused to comply and 
 set out their reasons. The Commons then desired that the Lords 
 would give leave to the Lord Chief Justice and Lord Chief Baron to 
 so to the Speaker’s Chamber and administer the oath to witnesses 
 for and against the Chancellor at the bar of the House of Commons. 
 This the Lords again refused and set forth their reasons. The 
 Commons were not satisfied with the grounds of the Lords’ refusal 
 and insisted, inter alia, that “it is parliamentary for the House of 
 Commons to receive evidence of witnesses who have been sworn, of 
 which there are several precedents.” A conference was held between 
 the Lords and Commons. It was managed on the Commons’ side 
 by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Solicitor General, Sir 
 Joseph Williamson and others. They offered precedents from 1615. 
 To these the Lords replied and the managers for the Commons 
 reported that they were not satisfied with the answers. These were 
 delivered to the Lords on October the 26th. On the same day the 
 Lord Chancellor acquainted the Lords with an affront offered to him 
 by the Speaker of the Commons on the previous day. The Lord 
 Chancellor in his coach endeavoured, “‘in a broade street,” to pass 
 the Speaker’s coach. On this the Speaker called out to the 
 Chancellor’s coachman to stop and afterwards alighted and himself 
 held the Chaneellor’s horses and told the said Chancellor he would 
 be run down by no man. The Speaker replied that he did not know 
 whose coach it was that tried to pass and that fearing he would be 
 overturned he jumped out near the heads of the Chancellor’s horses, 
 and, apprehending he might be run over, laid hold of them. The 
 Commons conclude the Lords will regard the whole affair as 
 accidental, but the Lords refuse and regard it as a “designed 
 affront.” [S.P. Ireland 857, Nos. 68 and 69. 
 
Nov. 1. 
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 Whitehall. 
 
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 Passes and post-warrant for George Petty, John Yorke, and 
 William Browne, gent., with William Longueville and Joseph Harper, 
 their servants, to go to Falmouth and Spain; for Mr. John King, 
 one of his Majesty’s messengers, with one horse and a guide, to go to 
 Portsmouth; for John Morris, a messenger, to go to Welbeck, ete. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 483]; for Hans Sterrison, a Danish 
 seaman, to go to Denmark; for John Prieur, protestant refugee, 
 Isaac Van Sicke, and Martin Fischer, Dutch soldiers who made their 
 escape from the French in Catalonia, to go to Holland; for Dorothy 
 Christian, going to her husband, to go to Flanders; and for Abel 
 Anthonisse, and Cornelis Bas, Dutch seamen, to go to Holland 
 [Ibid. 846, p. 149]. 
 
 Warrant to George Collins for taking into his custody — Peterson, 
 a prisoner at Dartmouth, and bringing him before Sir William Trum- 
 bull, to be examined concerning his having carried on a trade and 
 correspondence between his Majesty’s subjects and his enemies. 
 [ Ibid. | 
 
 Commissions for Edward Coops to be cornet to Captain Thomas 
 Hartopp in the Earl of Denbigh’s regiment [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 167, p. 247]; for Mr. Fackenoff to be cornet of Captain Carter’s 
 troop of dragoons in Colonel Leigh’s regiment [Jbid., p. 252]; for 
 Emanuel Scroop Howe to be colonel of, and captain of a company 
 in, Sir James Leslie’s late regiment; for James Stanhope to be 
 captain of Colonel Emanuel Scroop Howe’s late company in the 
 Karl of Romney’s first regiment of foot guards, and to take his rank 
 as lieutenant-colonel of the foot from the date of this present 
 commission | bid. 168, p. 142]; for Major Arthur Dillon to lieutenant- 
 colonel of, and captain of a company in, Colonel Henry Conyngham’s 
 regiment of dragoons; for John Pepper to be major and captain of a 
 troop in the same regiment; for Thomas Knox to be captain of 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Caldwell’s company in the same 
 regiment; and for Tobias Mulloy to be captain-lieutenant in Colonel 
 Henry Conyngham’s troop and regiment | Tbid., p. 144]. 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to Captain Baron. Mr. Starkey, owner of 
 the ship Unity, is at liberty upon bail, and if his ship has paid the 
 King's duties, and been cleared at the Custom-house according to 
 law, I see no occasion for detaining her longer to the hazard of the 
 loss of her intended voyage. [S.P. Warrant Book 99, p. 225. ] 
 
 The same to the Duke of Shrewsbury. I have received your letter 
 of the 80th past, as also the bills transmitted hither from the Council 
 of Ireland, which his Majesty orders to be immediately considered 
 in Council here; his pleasure is in some degree anticipated, for 
 yesterday in the evening, after the Council had gone through the Earl 
 of Athlone’s bill, heard all the petitions against it, and made the 
 matter ready for a report to be laid before the King, they heard Mr. 
 Attorney-General read an abstract concerning all the heads of the 
 Poll Bill lately sent hither, which are to be further considered 
 in a Council that is to meet for that purpose on Tuesday next, in 
 order to the giving all possible dispatch to that and other bills. I 
 crave leave to trouble you with some particulars and requests 
 relating to his Majesty’s reception by the University of Oxford, 
 namely, that they design to meet his Majesty on horseback in their 
 
1695. 
 
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 formalities as far out of the town as they have ever gone on the way 
 to Woodstock, presuming his Majesty makes his entry that way. 
 The Vice-Chancellor will make his compliments there, and offers to 
 do it upon his knee as usual; but former Kings, I am informed, have 
 always commanded them to rise. It is humbly desired his Majesty 
 would first go directly to his own college at Christchurch, and thence 
 to the schools in the theatre, where they pray he will please to accept 
 of a small banquet, which they cannot be persuaded it is fit for them 
 to omit. I take the liberty to pray his Majesty will take in his way 
 my college, which is All Souls’ College, and I suppose the Bishop of 
 Oxford will desire the same honour to the college whereof he is 
 president, which, with what other colleges the time will permit him to 
 visit, I submit to his Majesty’s goodness. I have taken the best care 
 I can that the speeches, which will be made to his Majesty, will be 
 short o reason of his haste. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, 
 p. 226. 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to Mr. Roope. Since my last to you, which 
 was of the 24th past, I have received yours of the 25th and 29th past. 
 I could not before now give directions concerning Pieterson, the 
 master of the small ship you have seized for trading with goods 
 into France, but now I have sent a warrant and one of his Majesty’s 
 messengers to receive him into custody, and I desire you will order 
 him to be delivered to the bearer hereof, Mr. George Collins, in order 
 to his being brought hither to be examined and dealt with as he shall 
 be found to deserve. I have your papers containing articles concerning 
 Mr. Bully’s behaviour, which I shall consider of, and you shall hear 
 from me on that subject in good time, as likewise concerning the 
 mayor, who you allege refused his assistance to the seizing the 
 sloop, when you requested it. Application has been made to me in 
 his behalf that I should hear what he has to say for himself, which 
 to me seems a reasonable request. You need not apprehend the 
 threatenings of any persons for doing your duty. I believe Mr. 
 Savory to be a worthy gentleman from the character you have given 
 me of him, and shall be glad to do anything for his encouragement 
 in the King’s service. I acquainted the Lord Keeper sometime since 
 with ne character you have given me of Mr. Fortescue.  [Jbid., 
 A PAG 
 
 The same to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford. I have only time to 
 acquaint you that just now I received a letter from the Duke of 
 Shrewsbury, which says that his Majesty will be at Oxford upon 
 Saturday, the 9th of this month, and will be there early in the 
 morning to pass through and get to Windsor that night. I know you 
 will give notice of this to the University that all things be prepared. 
 [Ibid., p. 228. ] 
 
 The same to the Warden of All Souls’ College, Oxford. I thank 
 you for yours of the 27th past. This being All Souls’ Day, your 
 health and the health of your college was remembered by some of 
 your friends at dinner to-day. The King will be this day seven 
 night at Oxford, and I have made my request that he will visit All 
 Souls’ College. [Ibid., p. 229. | 
 
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 Sir William Trumbull to the Earl of Abingdon. I have yours of 
 the 27th past, in answer whereto I can now acquaint you that his 
 Majesty has resolved upon this day seven night for the day he will 
 make his visit to the University of Oxford. It is, I suppose, by 
 reason of the haste he makes to be at the end of his progress, now 
 the sitting of Parliament draws near, that he will rest himself as little 
 as possibly he may, and be received with as little ceremony where 
 he comes. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 229.] 
 
 Passes for Elizabeth Cornelisse, a subject of the States-General, 
 and Hieronymus Bernolli, a Swiss apothecary, to go to Harwich and 
 Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 484]; for Elizabeth 
 Bruce and her child, ditto [Ibid., p. 485]; for Jacob du Bose, his 
 wife and three children, French protestants, to go to Holland 
 [ Ibid. 846, p. 186]; for Philip Gerretse, a Dutchman, Josué Bourdaut, 
 a French refugee, and Jean Boniols, ditto; and for Christopher 
 Trautwein and Ralph Smid, natives of Leipzig and Saxony, to go to 
 Germany [Ibid., p. 151]. 
 
 Passes for Mrs. Diana Savage, with one maidservant, to go to 
 Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [Jbid. 344, p. 4385]; for Pieter 
 Samuelse, a Dutchman, Esther Rocheteau, a French protestant, and 
 Nicholas White, an English merchant, to go to Holland [TIbid. 346, 
 p. 151]; and for Rachel Bidau and Don Vespasiano Merabarba, ditto 
 | Lbidey p. 12 |: 
 
 Warrant to the Keeper of Newgate for receiving into his custody 
 John Bear, senior, on a charge of high treason in compassing and 
 imagining the death of the King. [Jbid. |] 
 
 Post-warrant and pass for Mr. John Bale, the messenger, to go to 
 Burford, co. Oxford [Ibid. 344, p. 484]; and passes for Martha 
 Marchant, a French refugee, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for 
 Holland [Jbid., p. 485]; and for Peter Mangoe to go to Holland 
 [Ibid. 846, p. 152]. 
 
 Commission for William Marsham to be quarter-master to Major 
 Henry Boad in the Earl of Oxford’s regiment. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 167, p. 247. ] 
 
 Sir Wiliam Trumbull to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford. This is 
 to acquaint you that the King holds his resolution of passing through 
 Oxford on his way to Windsor, and designs to go to the theatre, but 
 desires to be excused from calling at any of the colleges or schools, 
 he having formerly seen Oxford, and not making this visit out of 
 curiosity, but out of kindness to the University and to gratify their 
 desires of seeing him there. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 280. ] 
 
 Lord Capell to the Duke of Shrewsbury, recommending Dr. 
 Thomas Smyth, dean of Emly, as Bishop of Limerick, on the death of 
 Doctor Wilson on the 8rd inst. [S.P. Ireland 857, No. 70. ] 
 
 Rough minutes of a meeting of the Council Board as to the royal 
 mines, &e. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 6, No. 42.] 
 
 Passes and post-warrant for Thomas Viner and Samuel Newman, 
 his servant, to go to Falmouth and the Groyne; for Mrs. Elizabeth 
 
1695. 
 
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 la Forrest to go to Harwich or Gravesend and Holland [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 344, p. 434]; and for Charles Couchman, one of the King’s 
 messengers, to go to Deal with one horse and a guide [Jbid., p. 485]. 
 
 Warrant to Charles Kenge and Edward Gibbs for the apprehension 
 of John Bograd, on a charge of adhering to his Majesty’s enemies. 
 [ Ibid. 846, p. 158.] 
 
 Warrant to Captain William Ricard to search such houses and 
 ships as he shall think fit, and apprehend persons suspected of 
 dangerous and treasonable practices. [| Ibid., p. 161.] 
 
 Warrant to the commanders of the messenger advice boats, the 
 Shark brigantine, the Discovery brigantine, or the Hind pink, to 
 observe and follow such instructions as they shall receive from 
 Captain William Ricard.  [Lbid., p. 162.] 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Mr. Christopher Dighton, praying 
 to be allowed to bring a writ of error in a judgment obtained 
 against him by Bernard Greenville, esq., which is granted. [S.P. 
 Dom. Entry Book 238, p. 29. | 
 
 Passes and post-warrant for Mr. Stone and one servant to go to 
 Oxford, with two horses and a guide [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, 
 p. 436]; for Martha Oxenbridge to go to Flanders; for Isaac Janz, a 
 Dutchman, to go to Holland [Jbid. 846, p. 152]; and for Timothy 
 vance, late mate of the Zsaac brigantine, and Dirk van Naerden, 
 ditto [Lbid., p. 158]. 
 
 Warrant to the Keeper of the Marshalsea for taking into his 
 custody Edward Edwards, Thomas Ibbet, and Robert Leeson, on 
 charges of high treason in compassing and imagining the death of 
 the King. [Jbid.] 
 
 Warrant for Mr. Peter Courtney to have access to Mr. Peter 
 Bear, a prisoner in Newgate, charged with high treason. [Jbid., 
 p. 170. | 
 
 Warrant for Colonel Frederick Hamilton to raise sixty volunteers 
 in Ireland to serve as recruits for the regiment of foot under his 
 command in Flanders. [S.P. Ireland King’s Letter Book 2, p. 87.| 
 
 The like warrant for Colonel Zachary Tiffin to raise one hundred 
 and fifty volunteers for his regiment of foot in Flanders. — [Zbid.] 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Lord Keeper. As soon as I received 
 your letter I immediately gave the papers mentioned, relating to the 
 coin, to be copied, but some of them are so long that they cannot be 
 got ready till to-morrow, when I will not fail to send them to you. 
 I have just now an answer from the Duke of Shrewsbury about the 
 sheriff for the county of Pembroke, which says that the King has 
 named Gilbert Lloyd of Cwmgloyne, esq.; but, having never pricked 
 sheriffs, is doubtful whether the forms allow it to be done elsewhere ; 
 therefore I am directed that, before I publish this his Majesty’s 
 nomination, | should take your and the Attorney-General’s opinion 
 upon the seruple. Tentreat you to send for Mr. Attorney and resolve 
 the matter, which I conceive will not be difficult, so that it may be 
 
 2045 G 
 
98 
 1695. 
 
 Nov. 8. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 9. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 9. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Nov. 9. 
 
 Nov. 9. 
 
 Nov. 11. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
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 sent to-morrow night by the post, otherwise you will give the King 
 your opinion at Windsor on Sunday afternoon, when I am commanded 
 to give you notice to meet the other lords about the business of the 
 coin. 1 entreat you to give me leave to name some person of the 
 University to be put into the commission of the peace before you 
 proceed to do anything in the matter. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, 
 p. 284. | 
 
 Passes for Jan Reynders, Sequen Maet, Jores Erasmus, Albert 
 Gerbrants, Adrian Berents, Fellie Jores, John Handriese, Mathias 
 Hanson and Lucas Lawrence, Dutch seamen, to go to Holland. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 346, p. 153. ] 
 
 Passes for Dr. Edward Head, chaplain to the Earl of Essex’s 
 dragoons in Flanders, to go to Harwich and Holland [Jbid. 344, 
 p. 486]; and for Hester Living, with one child about eight years of 
 age, to go to Holland [Jbid. 346, p. 154]. 
 
 Commissions for William Berry to be lieutenant to Captain Richard 
 Frankes in Sir Henry Bellasis’s regiment [.8.P. Dom. Entry Book 167, 
 p. 252]; and for John Mud to be ensign to Captain Rookwood in 
 the same regiment | /bid., p. 253]. 
 
 Lord Galway to [the King],in compliance with orders to furnish 
 a written opinion upon the operations of the next campaign. There 
 are but two things to do—either the siege of Pignerol or that of Nice. 
 The latter appears of the greater importance, because of the presence 
 of the fleet in the Mediterranean, which might not be possible another 
 year. On the other hand the conquest of Pignerol is of great moment 
 as it would enable your Majesty to undertake any plan of the Allies, 
 having nothing further to fear for Piedmont. ‘To effect either the 
 one or the other, measures must be taken to secure the concert of 
 the allied armies, as success cannot be hoped for without the 
 co-operation of the troops now in Flanders, and particularly those on 
 the Rhine. For this reason I should advise your Majesty to draw 
 up a plan for the next campaign; to draw up a statement of the 
 artillery and troops you can collect, and a similar one for the 
 Marquis of Leganez, and at the same time the amount of provisions 
 and money that each can furnish; to see if the combined troops are 
 sufficient for so great a scheme ; if not to discuss the best means of 
 augmenting them, and to keep the ministers in Vienna and the 
 other courts of the Allies supplied with orders, and that without any 
 loss of time, as In my opinion this should have been done two 
 months ago. Copy. In French. [S.P. Dom. King William’s 
 
 Chest 15, No. 94. | 
 
 Account of the King’s visit to Oxford, via Burford and Woodstock, 
 ‘“‘having in his way seen Cornbury House.” A splendid entertain- 
 ment was provided in the theatre at Oxford. [S.P. Dom. William 
 and Mary 6, No. 48.] 
 
 Commission for Isaac Francis Petit to be captain of Lieutenant- 
 Colonel James Stanhope’s late company in Colonel John Gibson’s 
 regiment. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 144. ] 
 
1695. 
 
 Nov. 11. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 12. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 12. 
 
 Kensington 
 
 Nov. 12. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Nov. 12. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 18. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Nov. 18. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Nov. 18. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 WILLIAM III. 99 
 
 
 
 Passes for Francis Guillet and Peter Litouts, soldiers, Mr. John 
 Grill, Anders Olofson, Erik Rasmunson, three Swedes, and Augustine 
 Petit, a French protestant, to go to Holland. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 346, p. 154.] 
 
 Passes and post-warrant for Peter Renaud, a French protestant, 
 to go to Harwich or Gravesend and Holland; for Mr. Richard 
 Sampson, one of the King’s servants, to go to St. Neots in Cornwall, 
 with one horse and a guide [Jbid. 844, p. 486]; for Herman Reyth 
 and Roelof Gibben, Dutch seamen, Mr. Peter Henriques, Emanuel 
 and Isaac Henriques, his sons, and Francis Colombell, his servant, to 
 go to Holland [Jbid. 346, p. 154]; and for Mary Parker, ditto 
 [Ibid., p. 155]. 
 
 Warrant to James Morrison, gent., to be agent for the transporta- 
 tion of the forces in Holland and Flanders, during the present war 
 with France. |S.P. Dom. Entry Book 167, p. 250. ] 
 
 A like warrant to Mr. Daniel Sadler.  [Tbid. | 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Bailiffs and Jurats of Jersey, 
 thanking them for their congratulations on his appointment, and 
 hoping he may soon find some more important occasion of serving 
 them than the affair of D’Astell. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, 
 p. 281.) 
 
 Warrant to Bazil Wood to be principal surgeon in the hospital at 
 Greenwich for the relief and support of wounded and disabled 
 seamen. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 167, p. 248.] 
 
 Commissions for Robert Mackay to be colonel of, and captain of a 
 company in, Brigadier-General Fergus O’Farell’s late regiment; for 
 William Luck to be lieutenant of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Daliel’s 
 troop in Colonel Francis Langston’s regiment [ bid. 168, p. 145]; for 
 Robert Cooke to be ensign of Colonel Frederick Hamilton’s company 
 in his regiment | Jbid., p. 146]; for Charles Monger to be captain of 
 Captain Frederick Hamilton’s late company in Colonel Francis 
 Collingwood’s regiment ; for Peter Kempe to be captain-lieutenant in 
 Colonel Francis Collingwood’s company in the same regiment; for 
 John Thornton to be heutenant of Captain Thomas Musgrave’s 
 company in the same regiment | Jbid., p. 149]; for James Ruthven to 
 be quarter-master to the same regiment [Jbid., p. 150]; for James 
 Carr to be cornet to Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Dalziel’s troop in 
 Colonel Francis Langston’s regiment [Jbid., p. 156]; for Robert 
 Murray to be lieutenant-colonel of, and captain of a company in, 
 Major-General Ramsey’s regiment of Scots guards; for — 
 Mackartney to be major of, and captain of a company in, the same 
 regiment, and to take his rank as colonel of foot from the date of 
 this commission [Jbid. p. 158]; and for George Makgill to be colonel 
 of that regiment of foot in Scotland formerly commanded by Colonel 
 Robert Mackay, and to be captain of the company commanded by him 
 in the same regiment. [S.P. Scotland Warrant Book 16, p. 98. | 
 
 Passes for Roeland Jansens, Mr. Gabriel Groddeck, a native of 
 Dantzig, with Mr. John Sigismund Ferber and Peter Egidigus, a 
 servant; Mr. Thomas Browne, a ‘‘millener,’’ Peter Hanssen, a 
 
100 
 1695. 
 
 Nov. 13. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 14. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 14. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 14. 
 
 Kensington, 
 
 Nov. 14. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Nov. 15. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 15. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 15. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Noy. 15. 
 Whitehall. 
 
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 subject of the King of Denmark, and Mr. Adran van Brackell, one 
 of the King’s servants, to go to Holland. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 846, p. 155. | 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of John Lawson, esq., Robert Combe, 
 vent., and John Hancock, gent., manucaptors of Elizabeth Price, 
 praying leave to bring a writ of error in a judgment obtained 
 against the said Elizabeth Price in the King’s Bench, by George 
 Brown and Henry Margaretts alias Margetts; which is granted. 
 [S.P. Dom, Entry Book 238, p. 32. ] 
 
 Passes for John Heindrickse, a Dutch marmer, to go to Harwich 
 or Gravesend for Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 487]; for 
 Samuel Jones, esq., with two servants, to go to Holland or any port 
 in amity with the King; for John Willemsen, Mrs. Brimstone, wife 
 of Colonel Brimstone, and her servant Mary Egelton, with Sergeant 
 Matthews, to go to Holland [Jbid, 346, p. 155]; and for Christian 
 Borland, ditto [Zbid., p. 157]. 
 
 Warrant to Peter Newlyn for the apprehension of Henry Bish for 
 treasonable practices [Zbid. 845, p. 263]; and a lke warrant to 
 Thomas Newlyn for the apprehension of — Guill for treasonable 
 practices. [Zbid. ] 
 
 Warrant for the reprieve of David Hamilton, sentenced to death 
 at the last sessions held at Exeter for the murder of Gilbert 
 Reynolds. [Jbid. 846, p. 156. | 
 
 Warrant for Thomas Gosling, esq., to be Clerk of the Privy Seal 
 and Registrar of the Court of Requests upon the surrender of letters 
 patent granted 21 October, 19 Chas. I., to John Mathews, gent., for 
 the said offices. [Tbid., p. 160. | 
 
 Warrant to John Gellibrand for the apprehension of 
 high treason. [Jbid., p. 156. | 
 
 Pass for David Mathieu, a poor protestant refugee, to go to 
 
 — for 
 
 
 
 Holland. [Jbid., p. 158. ] 
 Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses incurred by 
 George Stepney, esq., his Majesty's minister to the Elector of 
 
 Saxony and Landgrave of Hesse Cassel, from 80 July to 80 October, 
 1695. [Ibid., p. 168. ] 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of the Kast India Company. Shows 
 that the petitioners have, within eighteen months past, lost several 
 ereat and rich ships to a very great value, and notwithstanding these 
 ereat losses, they have now fitted out four ships, and are further 
 preparing four more, all which will have very considerable cargoes. 
 But the petitioners, being most certainly informed that the Sieurs de 
 Genes and Servignig, with a squadron of French men-of-war, went 
 for India last March, and that likewise Count Nesmond with another 
 squadron of men-of-war has gone after them, judge it too hazardous 
 to send out the said ships without sufficient protection to secure 
 them, and therefore beg a convoy of eight ships. Referred for 
 fae to the Lords of the Admiralty. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 288, 
 p. 30. 
 
1695. 
 Nov. 15. 
 
 WILLIAM III. 101 
 
 
 
 Commissions for John Meres to be captain of Captain Henry 
 
 Kensington. Paget’s late company in Colonel Scroop Howe’s regiment; for 
 
 Nov, 15. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 15. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 15. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Nov. 15. 
 Dublin. 
 
 Humphrey Larcy to be first heutenant of Captain Ellis Cooper’s 
 company in the Marquis of Carmarthen’s first marine regiment of 
 foot [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 145]; and for Charles Hawley 
 to be ensign of Captain John Meres’ company in Colonel Seroop 
 Howe’s regiment | bid., p. 146]. 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to Sir Edward Seymour. The King having, 
 at the request of the Karl of Oxford, reprieved David Hamilton, now 
 a prisoner at Hxeter and under sentence of death for the murder of 
 Gilbert Reynolds, commands that you report how the fact appeared 
 to you at the trial, and send it to meas soon as you conveniently can. 
 'S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 236. | 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Admiralty, desiring 
 them to report their opinion how the officers and seamen of the first, 
 second and third-rate ships lately returned with Admiral Russell 
 from the Straits are to be disposed of. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 100, p. 168. ] 
 
 Warrant for the appointment of Dr. Thomas Smith, dean of 
 Emly, to the bishopric of Limerick, with the united bishopries of 
 Ardfert and Aghadoe, now at the King’s disposal by the death of 
 Dr. Nathaniel Wilson, and also to the rectory of Tradery in the 
 diocese of Killaloe. [S.P. Ireland King’s Letter Book 2, p. 86; ane 
 S.P. Dom. Signet Office 18, p. 263. | 
 
 The Council of Ireland to the Duke of Shrewsbury. ‘he 
 protestant creditors of Colonel John Browne having preferred a 
 petition to us the last council day, with a copy of a certificate under 
 the hand of General Ginkle thereunto annexed, we have inspected 
 the Council books and find the proceedings on that matter to be as 
 follows: Upon hearing their Majesties’ counsel and counsel for 
 persons claiming the Articles of Limerick at the Council Board, on 
 June the 8rd, 1692, an order was made that the persons claiming the 
 said Articles of Limerick should enter into a recognisance not only to 
 secure their chattels real to the King, but also to pay their proportion 
 of the said Colonel John Browne’s debt, due to his protestant 
 creditors, pursuant to the said Articles. That upon the petition of 
 Sir Thomas Hacket and many others, an order was made thereupon 
 on June the 8th, 1692, putting its requést into execution. We further 
 find that upon hearing their Majesties’ counsel, the counsel for the 
 creditors of Colonel John Brown, and counsel for the claimants of 
 the Galway Articles, on June the 17th, 1692, in relation to the said 
 Colonel John Browne’s clause, it was settled by consent of most of the 
 persons claiming under the Articles of Galway that they should give 
 the same security as the claimants of Limerick did to Sir John 
 Topham, for satisfaction of Colonel Browne’s debt, and in pursuance 
 thereof, as appears by several affidavits, the most considerable persons 
 claiming under the Articles of Galway signed an instrument to that 
 purpose, and in pursuance of these agreements those who have been 
 heard upon their claims and been adjudged within the Articles, and 
 
102 
 1695. 
 
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 taken out their adjudications, have given Sir John Topham security 
 to pay their quit-rent, accordingly; so that if those comprehended in 
 the Articles of Galway should be exempted from paying the value of 
 the year’s quit-rent, all that has been already settled and secured 
 must be set aside. This attempt on behalf of some of the Galway 
 men is grounded upon a certificate from the General which was 
 gained by surprise and is apparently mistaken, of both which we 
 believe those concerned were sensible, or else they would have 
 insisted upon it before this time, especially when the bill for 
 confirming that Article was in agitation and passed at the Council 
 here and in England in 1692, though it came not over under the seal 
 till the Parliament was prorogued. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 71.| 
 Linclosing :— 
 
 (1) Copy of the petition of the Protestant creditors of Colonel 
 John Browne [1695], to which is appended a certificate by Major- 
 General Ginkle, dated 10 Feb., 1691. [Zbid., No. 711.] 
 
 (2) The petition of Sir Thomas Hacket, knight, and Colonel Dudley 
 Colclough in behalf of themselves and Gregory Byrne, Francis Coghlan, 
 Garr |ett}| Moore, Walter Butler, Edmund Nugent, Robert Cusack, H. 
 Netterville, Maurice Bermingham, Patrick Bellas | Bellasis?|, John 
 
 ’ Coghlan, Christopher Pippard, and Thomas Warren, dated 14 Nov. 
 
 [1695], showing that, for ascertaining each man’s proportion of the money 
 certified by Major-General Sarsfield (commonly called Lord Lucan), to 
 the value of the effects taken from Colonel John Browne, in order to 
 satisfy his protestant creditors, pursuant to the Articles of Limerick, 
 all the claimants now before you, a very few excepted, have consented to 
 secure and pay to Sir John Topham in trust for the said creditors, the 
 value of one year’s quit-rent out of their respective estates to be paid by 
 half yearly payments in two years. [Ibid. No. 71u.] Anneaxed are (1) 
 Deposition of Arthur French, esquire, that he saw an instrument dated 
 about three years since subscribed by the Earl of Clanricard, Viscount 
 Dillon, Lord Athanry, Sir Walter Blake, bart., Colonel Dominick 
 Browne, Francis Blake, esquire, Robert French, Patrick French, 
 Richard Martin, and several others, all claiming the benefit of the 
 Articles of Galway, and entitled thereunto, except Viscount Dillon, 
 who was governor of Galway when the Articles were made, and 
 went after to Lamerick, the which instrument was directed to Mr. 
 Denis Daly, then agent to the Article men of Galway in England, 
 importing their desires to him to decline any opposition made 
 against the Articles in favowr of Colonel John Browne and his 
 protestant creditors mentioned in the Articles of Limerick, and 
 signifying their consent to be charged with their proportion thereof, 
 and directing him to withdraw any proceedings that might tend 
 to oppose the said Articles; and that this deponent subscribed 
 the said instrument, and never since employed any person to act 
 against the same; that he was Mayor of Galway when that town 
 was gwen up to General Ginkle, and that he knows that consider- 
 able quantities of the effects of John Browne were from time to time 
 sent to the garrison of Galway, and put into the stores for the use 
 and defence of Galway. [Ibid.] (2) and (8) Depositions by Martin 
 Blake, esquire, and Edmund Reynell, esquire, supporting the petition 
 as above. | Ibid.] 
 
1695. 
 
 Nov. 16. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 16. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 16. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 16. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 16. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 WILLIAM III. 103 
 
 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of John Tysack, glassmaker. He 
 prays a patent for fourteen years, for a method of making glass in 
 imitation of Rhenish window glass, and to a greater perfection than 
 in foreign countries, which will be of more general use than any other 
 for sashes and squares. JReferred for report to the Attorney or 
 Solicitor-General. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 288, p. 81.] 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of the French refugee ministers 
 praying some present relief for their subsistance. Referred for 
 report to the Lords of the Treasury. [Jbid., p. 41.] 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Mayor of Hedon. I return to you and 
 the gentlemen who have subscribed your letter to me of the 25th past 
 my very hearty thanks for the favour you and the corporation have 
 done me in choosing me one of your representatives in Parliament, 
 which I am very sensible of as a mark of your kindness to me and 
 confidence in me; but the university of Oxford having, as you may 
 have heard, chosen me as one of their representatives, and it being 
 the place where I have had my education, I shall make my election 
 to serve for that society. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 282. ] 
 
 The same to the Commissioners for Exchange of Prisoners. I send 
 you herewith a certificate of Mr. Satur, one of the French ministers 
 of the Savoy, in behalf of Peter Arnaudin and Peter Doussin, and a 
 petition of James Goubert and Mr. Moustier in behalf of James 
 Soyer, their nephew, all three taken prisoners upon French ships at 
 sea. They were bred in the protestant religion and induced by 
 the rigour of the persecution in France to change, at least in appear- 
 ance, their profession, but are now desirous to make use of an 
 opportunity of repairing their former fault, and living in the exercise 
 of the protestant religion here, to which end they pray they may not 
 be exchanged and so forced to return to France. If you find their 
 allegations true, and that they give sufficient security not to go out 
 of England without leave, I desire they may not be remitted to 
 France, but set at liberty to remain in England, upon the account 
 of their being protestants. [Jbid., p. 288. | 
 
 The same to the Duke of Shrewsbury. I received this morning 
 your commands to be to-morrow at your office, which I shall 
 not fail to do. I have by this post received the enclosed account 
 from France about the design of setting out the fleet at Toulon, and 
 also that of Monsieur Desembert’s coming into England, with which 
 I now trouble you, to be laid before his Majesty if you think fit. I 
 happened to be at Kensington when the Deputy Governor and others 
 of the African Company presented the enclosed petition to the King, 
 which he put into my hands; and because I judge it may be season- 
 able to offer the mentioning their case to the Parhament to his 
 Majesty’s consideration, now he is at Windsor, I entreat you to 
 move him in it. I crave leave to say only that the losses of this 
 company, as well as the Hast India Company, have been so great, and 
 the concern is so general in the city, that if the King please to y 
 mention this and any others that regard the encouragement of trade, 
 it will be of great service to his Majesty’s affairs in the House of 
 Commons. Lnclosures not entered. [Lbid., p. 286. | 
 
104 
 1695. 
 
 Nov. 16. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. L6. 
 
 Vhitehall. 
 
 Nov. 16. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 16. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 16. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 16. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 16. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 16. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Nov. 17. 
 
 Windsor. 
 
 Nov. 18. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Earl of Abingdon. I took the first 
 occasion of speaking to the King about the gentlemen you recom- 
 mend to be Deputy Lieutenants of Oxfordshire, and he approves of 
 them. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 287. | 
 
 The same to the Duke of Bolton. Having received your letter 
 of the 81st October iast, wherein you recommend Captain William 
 Carrell for the first command that shall fall in Ireland, I have 
 moved the King in that matter, and he says that all commands 
 there are disposed of for the present, but that he will gratify you in 
 what you desire on the first occasion. | Lbid. | 
 
 The same to the Lords of the Admiralty, acquainting them that the 
 King has granted the petition of the owners and proprietors of the 
 ship Henry and cargo. [| Lbid., p. 280. | 
 
 A duplicate of the above letter. [S.P. Dom. Naval 4.] 
 
 The same to Mr. Secretary Johnston. ‘The enclosed extract of a 
 letter from Whitehaven, concerning a trade that is carried on between 
 Ireland and Scotland with France, having been laid before the King, 
 he directs me to send it to you for your report. Lnelosure not 
 entered. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 231. ] 
 
 Warrant to Peter Newlyn for the apprehension of John Murphy 
 for coming out of France without leave. [S.P?. Dom. Entry Book 
 346, p. 156, ] 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Owen Carrell. He shows that he 
 has never been in any military employment under King James, 
 has taken protection from the protestants, has been assured of a 
 pardon by the declaration of the King and the then Lords Justices, 
 and has suffered several months’ imprisonment by the Irish for 
 his kindness to the protestants; yet he has been indicted and 
 outlawed for high treason. He prays a reversal of the outlawry. 
 Referred for report to the Lord Deputy of Ireland.  [Jbid., 
 p. 158.] 
 
 Commissions for Jeffrey Stevens to be heutenant of Captain John 
 Fowke’s company in Colonel Scroop Howe’s regiment [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 168, p. 145]; and for Samuel Selfe to be ensign of the 
 same company | Jbid., p. 146]. 
 
 
 
 James Vernon to — —. The King, they say, will shoot 
 to-morrow morning and dine here, but I suppose I may be marching 
 off as soon as his Majesty gets on horseback. [S8.P. Dom. William 
 and Mary 6, No. 44.] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to Mr. Blathwayt. The Lords of the 
 Committee of Council have received information that some journey- 
 men and apprentices belonging to the dyers’ trade have threatened to 
 pull down the house of a French protestant using that trade at 
 Wandsor [Wandsworth ?]._ They are of opinion that a company of 
 soldiers should be sent to the said town to be quartered there and in 
 the places adjacent, for the protection of the said house and preserva- 
 tion of the public peace. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 100, p. 169.] 
 
1695. 
 Nov. 18. 
 
 Whitehall, 
 
 Nov. 18. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 18. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 18. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 19. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 19. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 20. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 20. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 WILLIAM III. 105 
 
 
 
 Passes for Hetto Fenema, Nicholas Rawlins and William Bonner, 
 soldiers in Colonel Tiftin’s regiment, and Mary Bellin, a servant of the 
 said Colonel, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [S.P. Dom. 
 Iintry Book 344, p. 4837]; for Patrick Goff, Lord Portland’s groom, 
 to go to Holland [Jbid. 346, p. 158] ; and for Mr. William Wilkins 
 and Robert Lisle, his servant, to go to Flanders {TIbid., p. 159]. 
 
 Warrant to James Kitson for taking into custody Sir Patrick 
 Trant, now in the hands of Captain John Baron, his Majesty’s 
 searcher at Gravesend, for coming privately out of France without 
 leave. [Zbid.] 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Philip Jerman and Sarah, his 
 wife, praying leave to bring a writ of error for the reversal of a 
 judgment which they obtained against Mary Orchard, widow, in an 
 action of trespass in the King’s Bench, which is granted. [S.P. 
 Dom, Entry Book 238, p. 38. | 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Samuel Cock, of Wapping, block- 
 maker. He prays letters patents for fourteen years, for an engine for 
 drawing and lifting up water, moved by the rotation of a lanthorne 
 and teeth, which (shifting itself) is continually raised or depressed, 
 and is known by the name of the shifting motion, and far exceeds 
 any other water engine. Referred for report to the Attorney or 
 Solicitor-General. [Jbid., p. 35.] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Marquis of Tweeddale. Receiving 
 yours of the 24th past while I was attending his Majesty in his 
 progress, I could not well have answered it sooner. My opinion is 
 that you should rather see the King than write to him, if so long a 
 journey at this time of the year would not be very inconvenient to 
 you; for besides that your lordship would then judge best what 
 alteration may be fittest to propose to his Majesty, I do not know 
 but it may be very necessary you should be here to inform his 
 Majesty upon several questions and difficulties that are like to arise 
 among us, on occasion of an Act passed in the Parliament of 
 Scotland for erecting a new East India Company. [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 100, p. 170. ] 
 
 The same to the Lords of the Admiralty, desirmg them to send 
 an account what the charge amounts to for beverage and fresh 
 provisions furnished to his Majesty’s fleet since their being in the 
 Mediterranean. [Jbid. p. 171.] 
 
 Passes for Ann Andreas to go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. 
 Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 488]; for Mary Hutley and Elizabeth 
 Bradford, going to their husbands, to go to Holland [Jbid. 40, 
 
 p- 161]; and for Conrad van Braunjeon and Mr. Jacob Trent, Swedes, 
 ditto | Lbid., p. 162]. 
 
 Warrant for Albert le Blane, a French minister, to have access to 
 Pierre Pinet, a prisoner.in Newgate, on a charge of being an alien 
 enemy and a spy, in the presence of Mr. Daniel Bernard, one of the 
 clerks in the Duke of Shrewsbury’s office. [JZbid., p. 161. ] 
 
106 
 
 1695. 
 
 Nov. 20. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 20. 
 Whitehall, 
 
 Nov. 20. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 20. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 20. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 20. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 20. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 20. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 Warrant to James Kitson for taking into his custody John 
 Gorman, an Irishman, who has come out of France without leave. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 846, p. 162. ] 
 
 Certificate by Sir William Trumbull that Lord Villiers arrived at 
 the Hague on 28 June last past, and entered upon his employment 
 as the King’s plenipotentiary there. [Jbid., p. 181. | 
 
 Warrant to Richard Hayward for the apprehension of —— Fitz 
 Gerald, who, being taken at sea, made his escape from the custody 
 he was in at Plymouth. [Jbid. 845, p. 264. | 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Mary Stedman, widow of Captain 
 Francis Stedman, showing that she lost her father, husband, and 
 brother in his Majesty's service, and having five children, she has 
 been forced to contract debts for which she has been long imprisoned. 
 Prays for 1001. to send her children into Ireland to preserve them 
 from perishing. Referred for report to the Lords of the Treasury. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 287, p. 140. ] 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Mary Bedford, widow of Captain 
 Edward Bedford. She shows that her husband was captain of a troop 
 of dragoons under the command of the Earl of Essex, and served 
 in the army forty years till the battle of Anguin in Flanders, where 
 it was his fate to be killed, in the year 1692; he left the petitioner 
 in a mean condition, having one sickly child to provide for, and it has 
 pleased God through excess of grief to deprive her of the sight of one 
 of her eyes, so that she is rendered incapable of doing anything that 
 might contribute to a livelihood. She prays for a pension. Referred 
 for report to the Lords of the Treasury. [Jbid.] 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Lord Mountjoy, showing that he 
 formerly applied to his Majesty for some forfeited lands in Ireland, 
 and upon enquiry he finds that most of them are already disposed 
 of. He therefore prays for 1,000. per annum out of the lately 
 forfeited lands. Referred for report to the Lords of the Treasury. 
 [Ibid., p. 141. ] 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Alexander Stewart, Deputy 
 Lieutenant of the Ordnance. He shows that, being storekeeper of 
 Dublin and Paymaster of the train of Artillery in Ireland in 1688, 
 in order to escape from thence, he procured Exchequer acquittances 
 amounting to 1,100/., being money due to him by the late King 
 James. Soon after the arrival of the said King in Ireland he 
 delivered up all his employment, and attempting to escape into 
 England he was arrested and committed prisoner to the Castle of 
 Dublin. He was relieved after the victory of the Boyne, and applied 
 himself to the collector of Derry, of whom he received 312l. by an 
 order of the Court of Exchequer. He was told he should apply to the 
 King for the rest. He prays for some forfeited lands undisposed of. 
 Referred for report to the Lords of the Treasury. [| Jbid. | 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of John Draper, setting forth that, 
 with great trouble and expense, he found out the way for raising 
 money by laying a duty upon salt, which he communicated to Mr. 
 Thomas Neale upon promise of keeping it secret; notwithstanding 
 
1695. 
 
 Nov. 20. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 [Nov. 20.] 
 
 Nov. 21. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. -21. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 21. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nove 21! 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 22. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 22. 
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 which the said Mr. Neale did make use thereof, by which means he 
 deprived your petitioner of the benefit of the King’s reward for that 
 service. Referred for report to the Lords of the Treasury. [S.P. 
 Dom. Entry Book 288, p. 38.] 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Thomas Dawson of Castle 
 Dawson in Ireland. He shows that, in consideration of his losses, he 
 was made Master Extraordinary in Chancery in the Alienation Office ; 
 that he has appointed Thomas Redman, esq., his deputy for the said 
 office; but being unable to support himself and family, prays leave to 
 sell the said office to the said deputy. Referred for report to the 
 Lords of the Treasury. [Jbid., p. 35. | 
 
 Certificate by Sir William Trumbull that Lord Villiers envoy 
 extraordinary to the States General of the United Provinces, departed 
 from the King to enter upon that employment on Saturday, 4 May, 
 1695. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 846, p. 181. | 
 
 Passes for Mary Mackenzie, a soldier’s wife, to go to Harwich or 
 Gravesend for Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 487]; for 
 Henry Rogers to go to Holland or Flanders [ bid. 346, p. 162]; for 
 Cornelius Sorrensen, a Danish seaman, to go to Norway or Denmark ; 
 for Isaac Janz, Dutchman, to go to Holland [Jbid., p. 163]; and 
 for John True, a French minister, ditto [Zbid., p. 164]. 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of — Smith and George Swit, 
 showing that they have served the Crown for a great part of their 
 lives, but through age and other infirmities they are unable to do 
 any further service, and praying almsmen’s places in Norwich 
 Seal ik ; their prayer is granted. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 288, 
 p. 34. 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to Lord Capell, acknowledging the 
 receipt of his letters of the 8th and 11th instant, with the bills 
 therein mentioned, and also his letter in behalf of the French 
 protestants. [S.P. Ireland, King’s Letter Book 2, p. 87.| 
 
 The same to the Mayor of Sandwich. I have received your letter 
 of the 19th inst. with the enclosed depositions against Charles Beeson, 
 and do not see but you ought to commit him to the county gaol, and 
 bind over the witnesses to give evidence; which being done Mr. 
 Attorney-General will have orders to prosecute him, and care shall be 
 taken that the charges incident to the prosecution be defrayed. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 100, p. 171.] 
 
 The same to Sir John Fleet, sending another letter concerning the 
 Portugese proprietors in the island of Bombay, and asking him to give 
 satisfaction as to the particulars mentioned therein. [Jbid., p. 172.] 
 
 Passes for Henry Martins, Rombout van Gorb, John Conrad, 
 Gottfried Platz and Gottfried Mahn, Germans, to go to Harwich or 
 Gravesend and Holland [8.P. Dom. Entry Book 846, p. 488]; for 
 Peter Gant to go to Holland and return again ; and for John Martens 
 and Jane Laisné, a French protestant, to go to Holland [Jbid. 346, 
 p. 164]. 
 
 Warrant to Richard Hopkins for the apprehension of Captain 
 Waugh for treasonable practices in adhering to his Majesty’s 
 enemies. | bid. ] 
 
108 
 1695. 
 
 Nov. 22. 
 
 Nov. 22. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 22. 
 Whitehall, 
 
 Nov. 22. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 22. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 23. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 238. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 The present disposition of his Majesty’s land forces in IMngland 
 and Flanders. [S.P. Dom. King William’s Chest 15, No. 95.] 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Charles Dering. He shows that 
 he attended his Majesty into Ireland and remained in the camp 
 during the King’s stay there, by which means he lost a place of 5001. 
 per annum. which he enjoyed in England. That after the King 
 had left that kingdom, he continued in Ireland as Auditor-General 
 of the Revenue, which office fell to him by the death of Mr. James 
 Ware, and by his pains and industry he made a considerable addition 
 to the revenue from quit and crown rents; that there is due to him 
 the sum of 1382/. 10s. for half a year’s salary ending at Christmas, 
 1690. He prays for a grant of a lease of several lands, for the term 
 of two years. Referred for report to the Lord Deputy of Ireland. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 287, p. 142.] 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Nicholas Ronain. He shows that 
 during the late rebellion in Ireland he behaved himself ‘‘civilly and 
 inoffensively,’ and was never concerned in the Irish army ; that, not- 
 withstanding, he was indicted of treason and outlawed thereupon, 
 without his knowledge or haying notice thereof. He prays for a 
 reversal of the outlawry. Referred for report to the Lord Deputy 
 of Ireland. [Jbid., p. 148. ] 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of William Shee. He shows that 
 during the time of the late rebellion in Ireland he lived in his house 
 in the county of Catherlagh [Carlow], where he behaved himself 
 ‘eivilly and inoffensively,” and was never concerned in any employ- 
 ment, civil or military ; that after the victory at the Boyne he was 
 indicted and outlawed for treason, by mistake only; for he had taken 
 the oaths of fidelity to his Majesty. He prays a reversal of his out- 
 lawry. Referred for report to the Lord Deputy of Ireland. — [Jbid.| 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Richard Butler. He shows that 
 several sums of money are due to him, and that he has been very 
 serviceable to his Majesty and has never received any reward, and 
 has been besides a great sufferer in his Majesty’s customs. Referred 
 for report to the Lords of the Treasury. [Jbid., p. 144. | 
 
 Passes and post-warrant for Barent Williamse, a subject of the 
 States-General, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland; for 
 Richard Stone, esq., with one post-horse, etc., to go to Holyhead 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 488]; for Alexander de Ripet, a 
 French protestant, Mr. John Kouwenhoven, a subject of the States- 
 General, and his servant, and John Foreman, Dirck Meuleman, and 
 Menard van Loesbergen, three of the messengers of the States- 
 General, to go to Harwich or Gravesend and Holland [Jbid., p. 489]; 
 for Jacob du Bose, his wife and three children, poor protestant 
 refugees, to go to Holland | Jbid. 346, p. 164]; for Peter la Vie, a poor 
 protestant, ditto: for John Fowler, merchant, to go to Ostend; and 
 for Isabella Lievens, with one child, to go to Holland [Zbid., p. 165]. 
 
 Warrant for Richard Humphrey, apothecary, to have access to 
 John Bear, senior, a prisoner in Newgate; charged with high treason, 
 as often as occasion shall require and in the presence of a keeper. 
 [Ibid., p. 166. ] 
 
1695. 
 Nov. 238. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Noy. 28. 
 Kensington. 
 
 Noy. 238. 
 Admiralty 
 Office. 
 
 Nov. 28. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Nov: 23: 
 Dublin Castle. 
 
 Nov. 25. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 25. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 25. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 25. 
 Whitehall. 
 
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 Caveat that no grant or licence pass for the erecting of any new, 
 or repairing or enlarging of any old, pier or quay at or near Parton 
 or Moresby, co. Cumberland, or for the granting of any ground - 
 between the high and low water-marks of the sea near the said 
 places, till notice be first given to Sir John Lowther, of Whitehaven. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 74, p. 4.] 
 
 Commission for John Sweeten to be ensign of the colonel’s 
 company, in Colonel Thomas Brudenell’s regiment. [S8.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 168, p. 151. | 
 
 List of ships left in the Mediterranean by Admiral Russell, those 
 gone to the Straits with Sir George Rooke, and those-fitting for the 
 Straits. [S.P. Dom. King JWilliam’s Chest 15, No. 96.] 
 
 Warrant to the Clerk of the Signet to prepare a letter directing 
 the election of Samuel Fuller, D.D., to the deanery of Lincoln, 
 vacant by the death of Dr. Daniel Brevint. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 150, p. 172. ] 
 
 Lord Capell to Mr. Vernon. I think I am well known in England 
 to have taken a freedom in voting for about thirty years together, 
 and the same liberty I professed to give here; and besides this, in the 
 message I sent to the House of Commons in the midst of their heats, 
 I offered both my secretaries to be accused. If I did not stop this 
 prosecution of the Chancellor it was because the first vote was passed, 
 in which all the gentlemen were comprised, before I knew of it, nor 
 did it interfere with the King’s affairs, for there was not a day’s 
 delay in that matter, but what was given by Mr. Savage and some 
 leading men of his opinion. During this adjournment there has 
 been caballing on both sides. The Houses are impatient for the 
 bills, being desirous to return to their ‘‘countries.” [S.P. Ireland 
 857, No. 72.] 
 
 Sir Wiluam Trumbull to Mr. Lowndes, regarding the payment 
 of a bill, drawn by Mr. Robinson for £800. [S8.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 99, p. 288. | 
 
 The same to the Lords of the Treasury, enclosing information 
 upon oath of Thomas Carman and Thomas Harwood concerning 
 voods brought from France and landed at Bulverhith in Sussex, 
 
 relating in a great measure to some of the officers of the customs at 
 and about Hastings. — [ Ibid. | 
 
 The same to the Lords of the Admiralty. The Dutch ambas- 
 sador has complained that one Ruyter Pietersen, a Dutch seaman 
 belonging to a Dutch ship named the Conqueror, has been lately 
 pressed and forced on board an English vessel called the Adventure 
 
 smack; I desire you will give orders for his being set at liberty. 
 [Lbid., p. 289. ] 
 
 A duplicate of the above. [S.P. Dom. Naval 4.| 
 Passes for Mary Dassas and Anna Hamon, French protestants, to 
 
 go to Harwich or Gravesend and Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 844, p. 489]; for Mr. John Peter Geijsell, a subject of the States 
 
110 
 
 1695. 
 
 Nov. 25. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Nov. 25. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Nov. 25. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 26. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 26. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 26. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Nov. 26. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 General, Maximilian Eilofstein, Conrad Winterbeyer and Ludolf 
 Weisman, German students, ditto [Zbid., p. 440]; for Mrs. Catherine 
 Freckman to go to Gravesend and Holland [JZbid., p. 441] ; for Jean 
 Chevalier, a French protestant refugee, to go to Holland; for 
 Klizabeth Edwards and Barbara Jacobs, going to their husbands in 
 his Majesty’s train of artillery in Flanders; for Lubbert Alenor, a 
 poor Dutchman, Jacob Rosenzweig with Christian Graefe, his 
 servant, to go to Holland [Jbid. 846, p. 165]; for the Comte de Claris, 
 with his governor and valet de chambre, to go to Germany ; and 
 for Hugh Slade and Mr. Balthasar Morck, of the bedchamber to 
 Prince Louis of Baden, with dogs and horses, six grooms and 
 huntsmen, and one maid servant, to go to Holland [| Jbid., p. 166}. 
 
 Commissions for Edward Colston to be ensign of Lieutenant-Colonel 
 Pitcarne Wheeler’s company in the Earl of Romney’s first regiment 
 of foot guards [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 146]; and for John 
 Pope to be cornet of Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Pope’s troop in 
 Colonel John Coy’s regiment of horse [Jbid., p. 147]. 
 
 Warrant to the Earl of Dorset, Chamberlain of the Household, to 
 admit John Montague, D.D., to the place of Clerk of the Closet in the 
 room of Dr. Thomas Burnett. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 150, p. 1738. | 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Thomas Matthews and Thomas 
 Ferrers. They pray letters patent for a method of ‘‘damasking,” 
 striking and fixing colours into leather and all sorts of stuffs of 
 cloth, and velvet and hair on both sides, and also the making of 
 tapestry with grogram yarn, never before used in England. Referred 
 for report to the Attorney or Solicitor-General. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 237, p. 144. | 
 
 Caveat that nothing pass concerning any invention for raising of 
 water to be conveyed by pipes into London and Westminster till 
 notice be first given to the Lord Mayor of London, or the city 
 solicitor at the Guildhall. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 74, p. 4.] 
 
 Passes for Hubert Pitman, trooper in Count Steinbeck’s regiment 
 of horse, Francis de Veye, Jane, his wife, four children, and Jane 
 Saignol, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 844, p. 440}; for Luke Boucher, Lodewick Hoogen- 
 thuyn, Moses Sarucco, Hester, his wife, Rebecca Manchorra and three 
 children, and Joseph Falcon, poor Jews, and Nicholas de Mousrel, 
 a French refugee, to go to Harwich or Gravesend and Holland | TZbid., 
 
 p. 441]; and for John James Vareilles to go to Holland or Flanders 
 
 [Ibid. 846, p. 165]. 
 
 Warrant to the Earl of Romney, Master-General of the Ordnance, 
 to reimburse the town of Hastings 638/. laid out by them during the 
 last five years in erecting two small forts there at their own charge, 
 for their necessary defence against the insults of French privateers. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 148. ] 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford. The 
 House of Commons having passed a vote to-day full of duty and 
 affection to his Majesty, 1 would not let slip this opportunity of 
 imparting it to you, that you might have the satisfaction of it as 
 
1695. 
 
 Nov. 27. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 27. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Nov. 27. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Nov. 27. 
 
 Kensington 
 
 Nov. 27. 
 
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 Nov. 27. 
 
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 WILLIAM III. 11] 
 
 
 
 early as possible. The votes being ordered to be printed, I shall not 
 trouble you with anything of that kind unless there be occasion for 
 it. I have taken what care I can in the matters of the post and 
 justices of the peace for the university, having put the names of 
 several persons into the hands of the Lord Keeper,and recommended 
 the other business to the Postmaster-General. You have seen by the 
 Gazette what use was made of the account of his Majesty’s reception. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 289. ] 
 
 Passes for John George Popp, Frederick Kraft and Rokus Griifen, 
 Germans, Herman Kramer, a subject of the States-General, Mr. 
 Peter Becker, a subject of the Elector of Brandenburg, and Peter 
 Gleizes, a French protestant, to go to Gravesend and Holland 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 442]; for Jacob du Bose, Isabeau, 
 his wife, and three children, and Cornelis van Ricithoven, ditto 
 [Ibid., p. 443]; for Dirck Adriaansen, a Dutchman, to go to 
 Holland; for Henry Nichelsen to go to Flanders; and for Dorothée 
 Bartiers to go to Holland [ Ibid. 346, p. 166]. 
 
 License to Richard Bloome, of London, gent., ‘‘for the sole printing 
 and vending, for fourteen years, of a survey or description of 
 London and Westminster, with the liberties and parts adjacent, and 
 of the several American plantations ; which will be illustrated with a 
 great many ichnographical maps of the respective wards and 
 parishes, together with maps of the several plantations, and other 
 ornamental sculptures, the particulars of which work will be set 
 forth in his papers of proposals, to be published in that behalf.” 
 [Tbid- sp. L6e. | 
 
 Warrant for Ishack Aboab Furtado alias Ishae Aboab, 
 Benjamin Pereyer le Leao, alias de Lyon, Irmiahu Burgos, alias 
 Jeremiah Burges, and Isaac Henriques Metlado, to be free denizens 
 of England. [Jbid., p. 169. ] 
 
 Warrant to pay to George Stepney, esq., envoy extraordinary to 
 several princes of Germany on the Rhine, 250l. for his equipage, and 
 3l. per day for his ordinary entertainment; to commence from 
 22nd inst. and continue until his return; and also to pay his bills of 
 extraordinary expenses which are allowed by one of the principal 
 Secretaries of State, and all arrears due to him to the 22nd inst. on 
 the allowance of 4/. per day which was directed to be paid to him 
 on the 18th of December, 1694; no further payment thereon is to be 
 made. [Jbid., p. 171.] 
 
 Warrant to pay Matthew Prior, esq., who is remaining at the Hague 
 on the King’s particular service, 20s. per day for his ordinary enter- 
 tainment and allowances, to commence from the 1st of August last, and 
 continue until his return; and also to pay his bills of extraordinary 
 expenses which are signed by one of the chief Secretaries of State, and 
 all arrears due to the 1st of August last on the allowance of 20s. per 
 day directed to be paid to him on the 21st of July, 1694. [Jbid., p.173. ] 
 
 Warrant for appointing Prince George of Denmark, the Arch- 
 bishop of Canterbury, Sir John Somers, knt.; the Duke of Leeds, 
 the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, the Dukes of Norfolk, 
 Devonshire, Bolton, Schomberg, Shrewsbury, and Bedford, the 
 
112 
 1695. 
 
 Nov. 27. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Nov. 27. 
 Admiralty 
 Office. 
 
 Nov. 28. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 29. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 28. 
 
 Nov. 25. 
 
 Westminster, 
 
 Nov. 28. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 Marquises of Normanby and Winchester, the Larls of Lindsey, 
 Dorset and Middlesex, Oxford, Bridgewater, Stamford, Bath, 
 Nottingham, Rochester, Portland, Fauconberg, Monmouth, 
 Montague, Searborough, Bradford, Romney, ‘Tankerville, and 
 Ranelagh, Viscount Dursley, the Bishop of London, Lords 
 Lexinton, Cornwallis, Godolphin, Capell, and Coningsby, Sir 
 Robert Howard, knt.; Thomas Wharton, esq.; Peregrine Bertie, 
 esq-; Sir William Trumbull, knt. ; Charles Montague, esq.; Sir John 
 Holt, knt.; Sir Edward Seymour, bart.; Sir John Lowther of 
 Lowther, bart.; Sir Henry Goodrick, bart.; Sir John Trevor, knt. ; 
 Edward Russell, Richard Hampden, Hugh Boscawen and John 
 Smith, esquires, commissioners for hearing, receiving and deter- 
 mining appeals in cases of prizes during the present war, with such 
 powers, etc., as are contained ina commission to this effect in June 
 last past. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 346, p. 186. | 
 
 Commissions for — Nicholson to be heutenant to Captain John 
 Sinclair in Sir David Colyer’s regiment; and for — Nicholls to be 
 ensign to Captain St. Leger in the same regiment. [.S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 167, p. 250. | 
 
 A list of what ships of the third and fourth rates ‘‘may be got 
 together upon a necessity, and where they now are.” [S.P. Dom. 
 King William’s Chest 15, No. 97.] 
 
 Passes for Captain Conrad Ranck, a Dutch officer, and one servant 
 to go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 443}; 
 for Ann Alexander, and her four children, Samuel Jones, esq., with 
 two servants, and William Collyn, a Dutchman, to go to Holand 
 | Ibid. 8346, p. 169]; and for George Bohet,a French protestant, Andres 
 Olofson, Erik Rasmunson, two Swedes, Ole Hendrichsen, a Danish 
 seaman, and Peter Cazenove, ditto | [bid., p. 170]. 
 
 Warrant for Colonel Philip Howard to have access to Sir Patrick 
 Trant, a prisoner in Newgate, in the presence of a keeper. [Jbid., 
 p. 174. ] 
 
 Warrant confirming the previous warrant of 25th April, for the 
 payment of 1,500/. yearly for seven years to the Duke of Ormond, 
 being rent for the duties of prizage and butlerage on wines in 
 Ireland. [S.P. Dom., Signet Office 18, p. 264. ] 
 
 Warrant for Samuel Fuller, D.D., one of the King’s chaplains in 
 ordinary, and chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, to be Dean of Lincoln, 
 in the place of Dr. Daniel Brevint, deceased. [ Ibid., p. 265. 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Postmaster-General. Mr. Mackye, 
 the riding surveyor appointed to inspect passengers at Harwich, 
 having formerly received directions from Mr. Secretary Trenchard 
 to allow such persons to pass over to Holland as were of the neigh- 
 bourhood, and known to be traders or to have business in those 
 parts, I see no inconvenience in continuing the same, and therefore 
 desire you will write to your agent at Harwich, that he make no 
 difficulty of admitting such into the packet boats, though they have 
 no passports, unless he should have anything to except against 
 them that may concern the government; but that such may 
 
1695. 
 
 Nov. 29. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 29. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 29. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 29. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 29. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 30. 
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 pass upon Mr. Mackye’s certificate in their behalf when he is present, 
 and when he shall have occasion to be absent, your agent may give 
 the same permission to persons under the abov e- mentioned circum- 
 stances. [S.P. Dom. Hntry Book 100, p. 172. ] 
 
 Passes for Peter van Eyck, a subject of the States-General, with 
 his wife and two children, and John du Bois, a French protestant, 
 to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 344, p. 443]; for Alexander Broquet, a French protestant, 
 ditto [ Ibid., Dp: 444) ; ; and for Elizabeth Cashell, wife of Jeremy 
 Cashel], a dragoon in Colonel Charles Rosse’s regiment in Flanders, 
 to go to some place unspecified | Ibid. 846, p. 170]. 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of the mayor, sheriffs, citizens and 
 commonalty of the city of Norwich. They show that William Doughty, 
 late of the said city, gent., did by his will, bearing date on or about 
 5th of April, 1687, give the sum of 6,000/. to several trustees therein 
 named, to purchase land for the building an almshouse for the 
 habitation of thirty-two poor men and women, and other manors 
 and lands for the endowment thereof, and did also further appoint 
 the same trustees, at or before six years after his death, to convey 
 the said almshouse and property to the petitioners and their 
 successors, who, from and after such conveyance, were to have the 
 government of the said almshouse and the poor therein. The 
 trustees have laid out the greatest part of the said 6,000/. in pur- 
 chasing several manors, etc. in their own names, and have built an 
 almshouse, and put poor people therein, pursuant to the direction of 
 the said will. The term of six years is more than expired since the 
 death of the said William Doughty, and the petitioners pray for 
 the necessary letters patents of license to them to purchase, take, 
 and hold all lands, &c., as in lke cases has been usually oranted. 
 Referred for report to the Attorney or Solicitor-General. [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 237, p. 145.] 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of the proposers for the increase of 
 his Majesty’s revenues on tobacco. They pray that their proposal may 
 be heard before the Lords of the Treasury, and that they may have 
 liberty to print the said proposal and present the same to Parliament, 
 that, in case an act should be passed thereon, they may be allowed 
 some profits accruing thereby. Referred for report to the Lords of 
 the Treasury. [Jbid., p. 146. | 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Sir Peter Warburton, bart., lord 
 of the manor of Great Budworth in Cheshire, praying letters patent 
 for holding three fairs yearly in the said town of Great Budworth, 
 one to be held on February 2nd, another on March 25th and the 
 third upon St. Matthew’s day a week before Michaelmas. Referred 
 for report to the Attorney or Solicitor-General. [Jbid. 238, p. 36. | 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Joseph Raphson, gent., praying 
 leave to bring a writ of error in a judgment obtained against 
 him by Edward Rowley in the King’s Bench, which is granted. 
 [ Ibid., p. 87. | 
 
 Passes for John Pigné, a weaver, Philip le Rouze, a French 
 protestant, and Count de Kokorsover, with his governor, and two 
 
 2045 H 
 
114 
 1695. 
 
 Nov. 380. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Nov. 80. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Nov. 80. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Nov. 380. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Nov. 80. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 80. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 80. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 DeGaaas 
 Whitehall. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 servants, to go to Harwich or Gravesend and Holland [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 844, p. 444]; for Deengenhard Greuve, a subject of 
 the States-General, ditto |Jbid., p. 445]; for Mr. Du Chapeaurouge 
 and Mr. du Four, with a servant, to go to Holland [Ibid. 346, p. 170]; 
 for the Comte de Herberstein, with his governor and two servants, 
 to go to Germany; and for the Comte de Wurtemberg, his governor, 
 secretary, valet de chambre, and two servants, ditto [Jbid., p. 172]. 
 
 Approbation of John Hooke, of Gray’s Inn, esq., as recorder of 
 the borough of Newport in the Isle of Wight, in the place of Sir 
 Giles Eyre, knt., one of the justices of the King’s Bench, deceased. 
 [Ibid., p. 174. ] 
 
 Warrant for letters patent for fourteen years to Thomas Matthews 
 and Thomas Ferrers for their invention of a way of ‘‘ damasking, 
 striking and fixing colours into leather and all sorts of stuffs, cloth 
 and velvet, and hair on both sides; and for making tapestry with 
 grogram yarn.” [Ibid. 345, p. 265. | 
 
 Commission for Roger Neild to be ensign of Captain Owen Norton’s 
 company in Sir Richard Atkins’ regiment. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 
 168, p. 152. ] 
 
 Proclamations for a general fast and humiliation throughout the 
 kingdom, to implore the blessing of God on the consultations of 
 the present Parliament; to be observed on the 11th and 18th of 
 December. Printed. [S.P. Dom. Proclamations 4, No. 120.] 
 
 Sir Wiluam Trumbull to Lord Cutts. I received yesterday your 
 letter of the day before from Bagshot, and having asked of Mr. 
 Blathwayte the paper you mention about Mr. Hooke, recorder of 
 Newport, I have received from him only a copy of the recom- 
 mendation of the said corporation, but know not where the original 
 is. However, as you press for the despatch of this matter, I have 
 obtained his Majesty’s warrant for constituting Mr. Hooke recorder 
 according to their recommendation; but it being necessary that the 
 original instrument or an authentic exemplification of it should be 
 lodged in my office, I desire you will procure such a one under the 
 seal of the corporation of the same date with the former. I shall 
 this night move his Majesty in Wivell’s business. [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 99, p. 240. | 
 
 The same to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford. I have received yours 
 of the 28th inst. and in pursuance of my obligation and resolution to 
 serve the university upon all occasions, I desire you will let me 
 know how far they may be concerned in the bill now brought into the 
 House of Commons for regulating printing and printing presses, that 
 care may be taken that none of their privileges be hurt by it. [Jbid.] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to Dr. Aglionby. I have received your 
 letter of the 21st inst. with the copies of depositions against Arch- 
 deacon Nicholson, My opinion is that the prosecution having been 
 so long deferred it will not be fit to begin it now. [Jbid. 100, p. 175. | 
 
 Passes for Mary Hayes and Mary Pen, gunners’ wives, and two 
 small children, to go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 844, p. 446]; and for Salomon Scheller to go to Holland 
 [1bid. 846, p. 172]. 
 
1695. 
 Dec. 1. 
 
 Kensington 
 
 Dee. 1. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Dee. 2. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 2. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dee. 2. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Dec. 2. 
 
 Kensington 
 
 Dee. 2. 
 
 Brussels, 
 
 Dee. 2. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dee. 2. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 2. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 WILLIAM III. 115 
 Warrant to —— Marcourt, appointing him major and captain of a 
 company in the Swiss regiment commanded by ——-— de Saconay. 
 
 French. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 167. | 
 
 Commissions for John King to be chaplain to Brigadier William 
 Stewart’s regiment of foot [Jbid., p. 250]; for Gervis Parker to be 
 lieutenant to Captain Fiennes Twistleton in the same regiment ; for 
 Butler Mann to be ensign to Captain John Stewart in the same 
 regiment ; for James White to be lieutenant to Captain Robert 
 Galbraith in the same regiment ; for Thomas Hussey to be ensign to 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Hussey in the same regiment | Jbid., 
 p. 251]; and for —— Campbell to be captain in Lord Lorne’s regiment 
 [Ibid., p. 252]. 
 
 Passes for Dettlef Brasch, Catherine Voyer, a French refugee, 
 Jacob Finne, a subject of the States General, and Moise de 
 Pommares, a French protestant, to go to Harwich or Gravesend 
 and Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 445]; for Francis 
 Fabre, a French refugee, and Estienne Cabrier, a French protestant, 
 ditto [Ibid., p. 446]; for Abel Latanné to go to Holland [Jbid. 346, 
 p. 172]; and for Charles Farmer ditto [Zbid., p. 176]. 
 
 Warrant for the Comte de Wurtemberg, with a gentleman and 
 four servants, the Comte d’Herberstein, with a governor and two 
 servants, the Comte de Kokorsova, with a governor and valet de 
 chambre, the Comte de Claris, with a governor, a valet de chambre, 
 and the Baron de Godeck, with a valet de chambre, to embark on 
 such of the king’s yachts as shall be appointed for them, at any 
 port of this kingdom, for Holland.  [JZbid., p. 175.] 
 
 Warrant for appointment of Robert Harmsworth, gent., as clerk 
 of the markets of St. Michael, alias Bridgetown, Spykes Town, 
 and all other towns in Barbadoes, to have and hold the said place 
 during the king’s pleasure, and his residence in the said island, 
 together with all fees, ete., which John Stede or any other person 
 had or ought to have had. [Jbid. 845, p. 266. | 
 
 Commissions for Garet Cogland, esq., to be captain of the company 
 whereof Captain Seymour was late captain in Colonel James’s regi- 
 ment of foot; and for Francis Hurrey to be adjutant to Colonel Francis 
 Langston’s regiment of horse. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 156. | 
 
 Maximilian Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, to the King, thanking 
 him for his past protection and influence, and hoping for a continua- 
 tion of the same. [S.P. Dom. King William’s Chest 15, No. 98. ] 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Lords of the Admiralty, directing 
 them to appoint a yacht to transport the Comte de Wurtemberg, and 
 some other German gentlemen of quality, from hence to Holland, 
 with the convoy that is now going thither. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 99, p. 241. | 
 
 A duplicate of the above. [S.P. Dom. Naval 4.] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Admiralty. The 
 enclosed memorial of Mr. Meisters having been laid before the 
 
116 
 1695. 
 
 Dec. 2. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dee. 8. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
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 king, his Majesty commands me to send it to you to give orders for 
 stating the accounts of the six ships therein mentioned, as also for 
 the paying off and discharging the same accordingly ; and that the 
 ship Fortune, now lying at Dartmouth, be brought about into the 
 river and laid up here. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 100, p. 173.] 
 Appended :— 
 
 Mr. Meisters’ memorial to the Duke of Shrewsbury, undated. J, 
 W [illiam] Meisters, having received a verbal order from the Lords Justices 
 in June last to take up special ships to carry stores to put into machines, 
 and some for smoking jfireships, all to be made use of in the expedition 
 against Dunkirk. To six of them I paid one month’s pay in hand ; they 
 wanted the rest of their pay ; I desired the office of ordnance to pay for 
 the following five * and the ship called the Ephraim to be paid by the 
 navy, she being made a smoking fireship in the room of the Fortune, 
 which was ordered to another design, and is now at Dartmouth. They 
 refuse to pay them, only making difficulty that they must have an order 
 in writing from his Majesty or the Lords Justices. Wherefore I pray 
 you to assist me in procuring the aforesaid two orders for the payment 
 of the aforesaid ships, the masters and owners troubling me every day. 
 
 [ Tbid.] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Admiralty, directing 
 them to appoint a yacht to attend the Marquis d’Aurea, envoy from 
 the republic of Genoa, to carry him and his family to Rotterdam, 
 and that the said yacht be ordered to sail with the first convoy that 
 shall be going to Holland from the river. [Tbid., p. 175. | 
 
 The King to the Privy Council of Scotland. We require you to 
 give orders for making a draft of thirteen hundred and thirty-two 
 men out of the foot regiments in Scotland, for recruiting the Scotch 
 regiments in Flanders, that is, two hundred and ninety-two out of 
 Colonel Hill’s regiment, and two hundred and sixty out of each of 
 the other four regiments, which drafts are to be ready to embark 
 by 1st January, and to be made in the presence of Lord George 
 Hamilton or Colonel John Buchan, and divided and delivered by 
 their directions to the officers sent from Flanders, that is, one 
 thousand to be divided between one battalion of the guards, one of 
 the royal regiments and the regiments commanded by Colonels 
 Maitland, Lawder, MacKay and Buchan (which six regiments served 
 at Namur), and three hundred and thirty-two to be delivered to the 
 regiments lately belonging to D’Offarrell and-Sir Charles Graham, 
 now commanded by Colonel Robert Mackay and Colonel Walter 
 Collier. For these men our officers from Flanders shall pay our 
 officers in Scotland 20s. each for one thousand men, and 380s. for the 
 remaining three hundred and thirty-two. And you are to allow the 
 officers from Flanders to beat drums for raising what more men they 
 want. And as to the regiments at home, you are to give orders for 
 making the levy of one thousand men, granted to us by the late Act 
 of Parliament, which men are to be delivered to the officers in 
 Scotland a month after they shall have delivered the other thousand 
 to the officers from Flanders. The pay of this month is to be 
 
 
 
 * The Lady Anne, the Mary and Sarah, the Young Tobias, the Abram’s Offering, the 
 Prince Cazameer. 
 
1695. 
 
 Dac 8. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 WeCwo. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 3. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dee. 38. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 4. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 4. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Dee. 5. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dee. 5. 
 Whitehall. 
 
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 allowed to the officers in Scotland, for reimbursing them of the 
 13s. and a groat which they must give the country, with the 20s. 
 they got from the Flanders officers, to make up the 20l. Scots 
 allowed by parliament for each man. And as soon as the officers 
 from Flanders have got their recruits, you are to allow the officers 
 in Scotland to raise three hundred and thirty-two men or what more 
 they shall want, for doing which two months are allowed from the 
 time the last recruits from Flanders embarked. And we also require 
 you to give orders for making a draft of one hundred men from 
 the two regiments of dragoons, for recruiting the two Scotch 
 regiments of dragoons in Flanders, which men are to be delivered 
 to the officers from Flanders before Ist January. [S.P. Scotland 
 Warrant Book 16, p. 99.| 
 
 Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses incurred by 
 Robert Wolseley, esq., his Majesty’s envoy extraordinary to the 
 Klector of Bavaria, for three quarters of a year ending 3 September, 
 1695. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 845, p. 270.] 
 
 Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses incurred by 
 Viscount Galway, envoy extraordinary to the Duke of Savoy, from 
 1 January to 80 September, 1695. | Lbid., p. 271. ] 
 
 Passes for Jane Iarroone, wife of Esaias Farroone, a soldier 
 in Colonel Tichborne’s company, to go to Holland or Flanders ; and 
 for Mr. de Verdin, with two servants, to go to Holland. [Jbid. 846, 
 
 p. 176.] 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Thomas Chettle, esq. He prays 
 letters patent for fourteen years for a new way of making iron 
 stone into pig, or cast, or laden iron with pit coals or sea coals, 
 ‘“charked,” or with peat or turf and other ingredients, and a new 
 way of converting such iron into blooms and bars. Referred for 
 report to the Attorney or Solicitor General. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 237, p. 146. | 
 
 Passes for Henry Martins to go to Falmouth and Spain [S.P. Dom. 
 intry Book 844, p. 446]; for the Baron de Godeck, and two 
 servants, to go to Harwich or Gravesend and Holland | Zbid., p. 447]; 
 and for Michael Martin, Corsava and Schonfelder, Germans, to go to 
 Germany [Jbid. 846, p. 176]. 
 
 Commission for Robert Austin to be first heutenant to Captain 
 Gilbert Symonds in the Marquis of Carmarthen’s first marine 
 regiment of foot. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 167, p. 298. 
 
 Passes for Jean Bernard Streng and Martin Kyrn, Germans, to 
 go to Germany; and for Isabella Simon, a Dutch woman, with her 
 two children, and Jean Liege, a French protestant, to go to Holland. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 346, p. 176. | 
 
 Warrant to John Gellibrand for the apprehension of some person 
 unnamed on a charge of publishing and dispersing certain seditious 
 and treasonable libels against the King and gover nment. [Lbid., p. 
 17%] 
 
 Warrant for Sir Benjamin Bathurst, knt., 
 hold two fairs at Cirencester, co. Gloucester, 
 
 and hig successors, to 
 one upon ‘Tuesday, 
 
118 
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 Dec. 5. 
 
 Whitehall, 
 
 Dec. 5. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Dee. 5. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 6. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 6. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Decr se 
 Whitehall, 
 
 Dec. 7. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
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 Wednesday and Thursday before St. Bartholomew’s day, the other 
 upon Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday before Palm Sunday, 
 yearly, for buying and selling linen and woollen manufactures, 
 cattle, and all other goods and merchandises. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 846, p. 178. ] 
 
 Warrant for Isaque Couttinho and David Couttinho to be made 
 free denizens of England. [Jbid., p. 180.] 
 
 Warrant to the Earl of Romney, Master General of the Ordnance, 
 for the continuance of pay to the company of pioneers attached to 
 the train of artillery in Flanders. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, 
 p. 154. ] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Commissioners of the Customs. 
 I send you a copy of a letter from the English consul at Venice, 
 upon which I desire your opinion how far the proposals he makes, 
 in relation to his certificates for foreign ships, may be complied with. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 100, p. 176. | , 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of the Duke of Shrewsbury, praying 
 a grant to him and his heirs for ever of four fairs to be held yearly 
 at Little Budworth, co. Cheshire, on January 25th, April 23rd, 
 June 80th, and Nov. 11th, and of two fairs more to be held at 
 Dunham-on-the-Hill, in the said county, on April 10th and October 
 13th. Referred for report to the Attorney or Solicitor General. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 288, p. 37.] 
 
 Passes for Jacob Jacobse and John Willemse, Dutchmen, to go 
 to Holland [8.P. Dom. Entry Book 346, p. 177]; and for Cornelius 
 Sorrensen, a Danish seaman, to go to Norway |[JZbid., p. 179]. 
 
 Passes for Louis Boucher and Gedeon Bataillé, French 
 protestants, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [JZbid. 
 344, p. 447]; for Gerret Jansen, a Dutchman, to go to Holland 
 [Ibid. 846, p. 179]. 
 
 Warrant for a grant of letters patent for fourteen years to Thomas 
 Chettle, ‘‘ of our county of Worcester, esquire,’ for his invention of 
 a new way of making iron stone into pig, cast or laden iron, with pit 
 coals or sea coals ‘‘ charked,” or with peat or turf, and other ingredients 
 never yet used, and also a new way of melting, sinking and refining 
 of pig and other cast or laden iron into blooms and bars of iron, 
 with pit or sea coals, raw or “charked,” or with peat or turf. [Zbid. 
 345, p. 267. | 
 
 Warrant to allow the mayor, sheriffs, citizens and commonalty of 
 the city of Norwich, and their successors, to purchase, receive and 
 take any manors, lands, tenements and hereditaments whatsoever of 
 or from any person or persons, so as the same do not exceed the 
 yearly value of one thousand pounds, to enable them to perform the 
 charities and good works directed by the will of William Doughty, 
 gent., deceased. [Ibid., p. 272.] 
 
 Warrant for letters patent for fourteen years to Thomas Savery, 
 gent., for his invention of mill work to grind and polish looking 
 slass and coach glass plates and marble stones, and also for rowing 
 of ships with great ease and expedition. [TZbid., p. 275. ] 
 
1695. 
 Dee. 7. 
 
 Dec. 7. 
 Dublin Castle. 
 
 Dec. 8. 
 
 Dec. 9. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 9. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 WILLIAM III. 119 
 
 
 
 Bernard Howard “of Norfolk” to Sir William Trumbull, as to 
 Captain Byng’s request that certain persons may be allowed to speak 
 to him alone. [S.P. Dom., William and Mary 6, No. 45.] Enclosing 
 a list of persons whom Captain Edward Byng desires may speak with 
 him (undated) :—Messrs. Gleast, Ward, Hyde, Thursby, surgeon, 
 Tarrell and Gallaway, Mrs. Hyde, and Mrs. Fenn. Bing also desires 
 that tf he remembers other persons, their names may be inserted without 
 troubling the Secretary with a new order. | Ibid., No. 45 i.] 
 
 Lord Capell to Mr. Vernon. Sir Richard Levinge’s practices 
 against me surprise me not. ‘The interest he neglected to serve 
 here, and the hasty means he used to serve himself, made way 
 sufficient to remove him, and an honester man to be put in his 
 place. Men must know little of this kingdom or the footing upon 
 which his Majesty’s interest stands here to turn out Mr. Rochford 
 and Mr. Broderick. ‘The first is by far the greatest practiser in 
 this kingdom, and abounds in wealth, the other is the next great 
 practiser here, and both true to the king’s interests. Without them 
 I could not have succeeded in the business of the sole right, and in 
 time I hope to let the world see, and the remnant of Jacobites, that 
 traitors may be brought to trial and the King’s commissions drawn 
 without flaws in them for the subject to be tempted to supersede 
 them afterwards. My concerning myself in the attorney general’s 
 place between the old and the new is upon desire of Lady Gifford 
 and Sir John Temple, and a ‘“‘wholy”’ submission in Mr. Rochford 
 to my award of what formerly has been in treaty between them. I 
 am taking care of Mr. Foly. [S.P. Ireland 857, No. 78. | 
 
 Proposals for the regulation of the two marine regiments. [S.P. 
 Dom. King William’s Chest 15, No. 101. ] 
 
 Passes for Andries Tybert, Andries Andriese, Barent Janse and 
 Peter Adrianse, Dutch seamen, to go to Harwich or Gravesend and 
 Holland. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 451. | 
 
 Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses incurred by 
 Consul Nicholas Herne at Alicante since 24 May, 1694, including 
 the costs of diet, etc., for Edward Seshams in the hospital eighteen 
 days; of provision for one Hall that came redeemed from Algiers ; 
 of diet, lodging, etc., of William Welsham, Henry Moses, James 
 Knowling, and M. Hall, four seamen taken by the French in the 
 Sarah Elizabeth, Caleb Stocker, master; of diet and lodging of 
 Edward Turner and Philip Cales and victuals for Cadiz; of diet and 
 lodging for George Beauchamp, John Williams, and David Roge, 
 belonging to the Arcanve galley, lost in the Levant, twelve days, and 
 their victuals for Cadiz; of victuals, ete., for William Hammond 
 and James Butler for Cadiz; of provisions and passage of Philip 
 Gould, Jeremy Leucy, Morice Crimen, Irish, John Thompson, 
 Thomas Lindsey and Benjamin Hill, English, soldiers, to Cadiz, and 
 their provision here for thirteen days; of diet and lodging for James 
 and Zachary Taylor, for a sick man, James Anderson, for nineteen 
 days; for Mathew Hedges and John Simins for nine days; for Roger 
 Glassy, William Moseley, William Albi, John Williams, with pro- 
 visions to Cadiz; of keeping Jacob Anderson in prison thirty-six 
 
120 
 
 1695. 
 
 Dee. 9. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 9 
 
 Whitehall, 
 
 Dee. 9. 
 
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 Dec. 9. 
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 days, to secure him until occasion offered to ship him off; of diet 
 and lodging for eleven men taken in the Mercury, Captain Kdward 
 Mathews, commander ; of charges on board a Moorish ship which 
 came here with Consul Baker; of passage and diet for HKdmund 
 Prance, James Smith, David Jones, James Braine, Caleb Ellist, 
 Joseph Hayman, John Whitfield, Philip Hally, Edmund Prance, 
 junior, John Moyses, Richard Scorch, Thomas Gould, John Rou, 
 Benjamin Seafort, John Wadding, sent from Tracy [Thrace], being 
 there put ashore by a French privateer of the ‘‘Zants men,” and who 
 were put on board the Lark; of keeping Thomas Luke, belonging 
 to the said ship, in the hospital, having a spotted fever and his head 
 broken ; and of keeping fourteen Irish soldiers, deserters from the 
 French in Catolonia, who were put on board the Herne, Captain 
 Barrett. [S.P.Dom. Entry Book 845, p. 278. | 
 
 Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses, incurred by 
 Lord Paget, ambassador extraordinary to the Grand Seignior, from 
 2 October, 1693, to 2 May, 1695. [Ibid., p. 277. | 
 
 Warrant for Mr. Gleast, Mr. Ward, Mr. Hyde, Mrs. Hyde, Mr. 
 Thursby, a surgeon, Mrs. Fenn, Mr. Farrel and Mr. Gallaway to 
 have access to Mr. Edward Bing [Byng], a prisoner in Newgate, in 
 the keeper’s presence. [| zbid. 40, p. 179.] 
 
 Commissions for Stanley Russell to be heutenant to Captain John 
 Dally’s company of grenadiers in Colonel Thomas Farrington’s 
 regiment of foot [S.P.Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 151]; for Thomas 
 Farrington to be ensign of Captain Robert Cheyne’ Ss company in the 
 same regiment [Ibid., p. 152]; for Charles Christian to be heutenant 
 of Major Joseph Stopford’s company in the Marquis of Carmarthen’s 
 first marine regiment of foot|Jbid., p. 153]; and for Josias Champané 
 to be captain of Captain William Carey’s late company in Colonel 
 John Tidcombe’s regiment of foot [Lbid.]. 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Philippa Sutton, widow of 
 Captain John Sutton. Her husband served his Majesty as ensign 
 in Holland, and afterwards as lieutenant in Ireland, and was after- 
 wards made captain in Flanders; he was killed at Stemkirk and left 
 her in a very poor condition; she prays fora pension. Referred for 
 report , the Lords of the Treasury. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 287, 
 p. 147. 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Lords of the Admiralty. There 
 being a dispute between his Majesty and the Kings of Denmark and 
 Sweden concerning the respect due to his Majesty's men-of-war, he 
 commands you to search in the books and records of your office, and 
 enquire of the officers of the navy and Trinity House, and such other 
 persons of experience as may give you lght into what has been the 
 custom and practice, what has been demanded by his Majesty’s 
 ships, and what in particular instances has been yielded by the ships 
 of either of those crowns; whether the instructions now given to the 
 commanders of his Majesty's ships in relation to the flag are the 
 same as they have been since the restoration of Charles Il. ; what 
 they are now, and if altered, wherein, and on what occasions ; and 
 to give an account of what the practice has been in relation to 
 
1695. 
 
 Dec. 10. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 10. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dee. 10. 
 
 Whitehall 
 
 Dec. 10. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dee. 10. 
 
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 Dee. 11. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 12. 
 
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 Dec. 12. 
 Whitehall, 
 
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 Whitehall. 
 
 121 
 
 WILLIAM IfIl. 
 
 salutes between his Majesty’s ships and those of the Kings of 
 Sweden and Denmark, and their forts and castles in the Baltic. 
 [S.P. Dom. Naval, 4.] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to Mr. Curtis. I have acquainted the 
 King with the proposals you sent me in your letter of the 26th Nov., 
 and he directs you to come hither to give a fuller information in 
 that matter. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 100, p. 176.] 
 
 _ The same to Lord Capell with regard to the delay in the presenta- 
 tion of his report on Lord Bellew’s petition till the rising of 
 Parliament. [S.P. Ireland, King’s Letter Book 2, p. 88. | 
 
 Pass for John Goedart, a protestant subject of the States General, 
 to go to Harwich and Holland. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, 
 p. 458. | ) 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Ann Hancock, widow. She sets 
 forth that her husband, Lieutenant James Hancock, served his 
 Majesty at the siege of the Grave in Holland, and since in Flanders 
 in the royal regiment of fusiliers commanded by Brigadier Fitz- 
 patrick, and was at the battle of Landen in Flanders and other 
 places with the said regiment, but being upon a party near Bruges, 
 was barbarously murdered by the French and lost all he had. That 
 she had a son lost aboard the ship Henrietta, commanded by Admiral 
 Nevill, now almost six years since. That she is left with three children 
 destitute of all means whereby to subsist, and has never received any 
 recompense either from her late Majesty or any one else, as other 
 officers’ widows of the said regiment have, and praying some allow- 
 ance. Referred for report to the Lords of the Treasury. [S.P. 
 Dom. Léntry Book 238, p. 40. | 
 
 Commissions for Bardzey Fisher to be chaplain to Sir John 
 Jacob’s regiment [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 167, p. 251]; and for 
 Henry Seymour to be captain of Major Blood’s company in Colonel 
 Seymour’s regiment [Zbid., p. 252]. 
 
 Certificate that Thomas Baker, esq., the King’s consul at Algiers, 
 returned from that employment into England 15 August, 1695. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 345, p. 266. | 
 
 Pass for Mr. John Grill, a subject of the king of Sweden, to go to 
 Harwich and Holland. [zbid. 344, p. 447. ] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Admiralty, ordering 
 that men be entered on board for the Channel service in the coming 
 year. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 205, p. 182.] 
 
 Passes for Ensign George van Niewenheim, a Dutch officer, to go 
 to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 447]; for 
 Peter Janse, of Rotterdam, and John Hulmers, a subject of the 
 States General, to go to Harwich or Gravesend and Holland; for 
 Mr. Philip Tinsey, with his servant Giles Joase, to go to Falmouth 
 and Spain [Jbid,, p. 452); for Don Miguel Lopez to go to Spain ; 
 for Fsaac Jansen and Peter de Lee, and Ole Hendrichsen, a Danish 
 seaman, to go to Holland [/bid. 646, p. 181]. 
 
122 
 
 1695. 
 
 Dec. 18. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 138. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 18. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Dec. 13. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 13. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 18. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Dec. 138. 
 
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 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 Warrant for the payment of expenses incurred by Lord Villiers, 
 envoy extraordinary to the States General of the United Provinces, 
 and plenipotentiary at the congress, 8 July to 8 October, 1695, 
 including an entertainment given on 28 Sept. by his Majesty’s 
 particular order, for the taking of Namur, illuminating, and other 
 marks of public joy proper for the occasion, amounting to 1365l. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 846, p. 182.] 
 
 Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses incurred by 
 Hugh Greg, resident at Copenhagen from 1 April to 1 October, 
 1695. [Ibid., p. 188. ] 
 
 Commissions for — Norris to be captain of Major Edward Pope’s 
 company of grenadiers in Colonel John Tidcombe’s regiment of 
 foot; for Thomas Skackford to be ensign of Captain Quartus 
 Spencer’s company in the same regiment [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 
 168, p. 155]; for James Nicholson to be lieutenant colonel of, and 
 captain of a company in the same regiment; for Edward Pope to be 
 major of and captain of a company in the same regiment [JZbid., 
 p. 158}; and for Manley Calis to be first lieutenant of Captain Richard 
 Courtenay’s company in Lord Berkeley’s marine regiment of foot 
 [[bid., p. 159]. 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to Sir Charles Hedges. I received yester- 
 day your account of your proceedings at the late sessions of the 
 Admiralty, and having a petition put into my hand praying his 
 Majesty’s pardon to Henry Fog, one of the condemned persons, lL 
 desire you will furnish me with matter, if any there be, to make use 
 of in moving his Majesty in his favour. I desire likewise you will 
 let me know what proceedings have been had against the ship 
 Talmodigheit of Copenhagen, Peter Pietman, master. [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 99, p. 241. ] 
 
 The same to the Lords Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Affairs. 
 Having laid the enclosed petition of Mr. King before his Majesty he 
 was pleased, as well in regard to his having served several campaigns 
 in Flanders, as to the loss he has sustained by an Act of Parliament 
 passed the last sessions, which took away the advantages of his 
 living in the Minories, to express his disposition to have him 
 gratified with some other benefice, that should be in some measure 
 proportionate to the said loss. Enclosure not here entered. 
 [Lbid., p. 242. ] 
 
 Warrant appointing Lord Carmichael the King’s High Com- 
 missioner at the next general assembly of the Church of Scotland. 
 [S.P. Scotland Warrant Book 16, p. 101.] 
 
 Instructions to Lord Carmichael, High Commissioner to the 
 General Assembly. 1. You are to take particular care that 
 nothing be done in the Assembly to the prejudice of our authority, 
 or anything treated of that is not a fit subject for an ecclesiastical 
 meeting. 2. You are to give the Assembly all assurances of our 
 resolution to maintain Presbyterian government in the church of 
 Scotland. 38. You are to let them understand that we expect that, 
 at this time, they will chiefly make it their work to regulate matters 
 
1695. 
 
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 of order and discipline amongst themselves. 4 and 5. You are to 
 let them know that we regret the number of churches in Scotland in 
 which there are no ministers, and that it would be more acceptable 
 to us, and more becoming them, to apply themselves rather to 
 restoring the Gospel to such churches, than to depriving other 
 churches of it. 6. As to the non-jurors, you are to inform the 
 Assembly that we are very sensible of the bad consequence it may 
 entail, to trust the minds of any of our people to the influence of a 
 ministry that declines to own our lawful authority; but that being 
 a matter of state, we will give orders to the council about them. 
 7. You are to endeavour to convince the assembly how much it is 
 to their interest, as well as to our service, to assume into their body 
 the good and moderate men of those that were formerly of the 
 episcopal way. 8. You are to represent the opportunity that there 
 will be for this now, since those that have not taken the oaths now 
 being at mercy, and many of them as we are informed being desirous 
 to redeem the occasion, and the law allowing them still to take the 
 oaths if the church shall first assume them, it is not to be doubted 
 but a number of them will apply, if they can hope that they will be 
 received. 9. You may assure the leading men of the assembly 
 that, in order to oblige the non-jurors to apply, examples shall 
 be made of the most obstinate, and if, notwithstanding due 
 encouragement given them to apply, any of them shall 
 decline to do it, we shall consider such of them hereafter 
 as men irreclaimable. 10. In order to give the ministers an 
 opportunity to plant vacant churches in the north, and to assume 
 such as shall apply to them, you are to allow them to appoint a 
 commission to go north in the spring, and to take care that it consist 
 of wise and moderate men. 11. It is not convenient that the 
 assembly should sit long at this time, therefore you are to excite 
 them to dispatch all business, that must be now done, as soon as 
 they can, and to leave other matters to the commission and the 
 inferior judicatories. 12. You are not to allow the assembly to sit 
 longer than 10 January next, and to dissolve them even sooner if 
 business can be got done. 138. You are to communicate the sixth, 
 seventh and eighth articles of these instructions to such of the 
 ministers as you shall judge capable and willing to dispose their 
 brethren to comply with the design of them. [S.P. Scotland Warrant 
 Book 16, p. 108. | 
 
 The King to the Commissioner of the General Assembly of Scot- 
 land, desiring him to induce the Assembly to fill the two hundred 
 vacant churches in Scotland, instead of turning out incumbents 
 formerly of the episcopal way, and to fill the vacancies with such 
 ministers, already turned out, as are come to have a true sense of 
 their duty ; and if he finds that the spirit of the Assembly, and con- 
 sequently of such ministers as will probably be on the commission 
 for the north, is for more vacancies, to dissolve the Assembly before 
 they name the said commission. [Tbid., p. 105.] 
 
 Warrant to the Lords of the Treasury of Scotland for the pay- 
 ment of 4001. to Lord Carmichael, for defraying his expenses as 
 High Commissioner to the General Assembly. [Jbid., p. 106.] = 
 
124 
 
 1695. 
 Dec. 18. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Dec. 14. 
 
 London. 
 
 Dec. 14. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Dee. 14. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 14. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Dec. 15. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Dec. 15. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 15. 
 Admiralty 
 Office. 
 
 Dec. 16. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 Warrant to the Marquis of Tweeddale for dispensing with the want 
 of a quorum in the Treasury and Hxchequer, and for summoning 
 any Lords of the Treasury that are in Scotland to attend, and giving 
 orders for the payment of the troops and such other business as will 
 not admit of delay, and for calling the Exchequer, and proceeding 
 there 0 business in the same way. [S.P. Scotland Warrant Book 16, 
 p. 107. 
 
 Copy of a certificate on behalf of Daniel Du Bois, Raymond Arsus, 
 and Jean Perdigrat, three French Protestant prisoners at Dover, who 
 wish to stay in England. [S.P. Dom. Naval, 4.] 
 
 Warrant for sixty dragoons to be drawn out of the two regiments 
 in Ireland for recruiting the regiment commanded by Colonel Ross 
 in the Low Countries. [S.P. Ireland, King’s Letter Book 2, p. 89.] 
 
 Passes for John Christopher Fabricius, Simon vander Porten, and 
 Salomon Levi, Hamburgers, to go to Harwich or Gravesend for 
 Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 448]; and for Adriaen 
 Hendricksen, Dou Dovese, Dirk Dirksen, Folkert Piters, Claes Shot, 
 Cornelis Sivart, John Riemer, Andries Andriesen, Dirk Andriesen, 
 Dirk Hendricksen, Maurits Mouersen, Andreas Hander, Marten 
 Soolant, Israel Eerkcen, Arij Simonsen, Broeder Laures, Hans 
 Teven, Mats Bras, Martin Sander, Jonas Vrijegel, Kerik Andriesen, 
 Jacob Joensen, Andries ‘'omese, Peter Rufsteed, Daniel Vregman, 
 and Peter Tregel to go to Holland | Jbid. 346, p. 184]. 
 
 Warrant to insert the names of James Smith and Aubrey Price in 
 the next general pardon. ‘They were imprisoned for fraudulently 
 deceiving the governor and company of the Bank of England of 
 
 _ divers sums of money, by forged and counterfeited assignments and 
 ' certificates relating to the Orphans’ Fund, but have confessed the 
 
 same, discovered their accomplices and made satisfaction and 
 restitution to the said governor and company, of the money of which 
 they had defrauded them. [Jbid. 845, p. 276. ] 
 
 Warrant for the preparation of a bill to pass the great seal, 
 appointing the lord chancellor, the president of the privy council, the 
 first commissioners of the treasury and of the admiralty, and the 
 principal secretary of state for the time being, and the Earls of 
 Bridgwater and Stamford, Sir Philip Meadhouse, knight, William 
 Blathwayt, Samuel Clarke, John Pollexfen and John Locke, esquires, 
 to be commissioners for promoting the trade of the kingdom, and 
 for inspecting and improving the plantations in America and else- 
 where. [Jbid., p. 278. ] 
 
 Pass for Jan Lawrence Ketels and Arnaut Isvogel to go to Holland. 
 [ Ibid. 846, p. 184.] 
 
 List of the first, second, and third rates for the next summer 
 service. [S.P. Dom. King William’s Chest 15, No. 99.] 
 
 Passes for Andries Nebbens to go to Harwich or Gravesend for 
 Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 449]; for Chtristoffel de 
 Bringues, an officer, with his servant, to go to Holland [JZbid., p. 452]; 
 
1695. 
 
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 Whitehall. 
 
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 Whitehall. 
 
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 Whitehall, 
 
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 WILLIAM III. 125 
 
 for Giles Janse and George Plut, Dutchmen, ditto | Zbid. 346, p. 183]; 
 and for Peter Rystedl, Hans Tewes, Mans Brask, Martin Anderson 
 and Brode Larsson to go to Holland. | Jbid., p. 184]. 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of George Treadway, Timothy 
 Lanney, Thomas Vernon and Walter Hornby. Shows that the ship 
 Serpent of London, laden with galls, etc., belonging to them, was 
 seized in the port called Salinis, in the island of Cyprus, by a French 
 ship called the Madonna del Rosario, Francis David, commander, and 
 carried to Sidon, and there stopped by the Bassa as being taken in a 
 port belonging to the Grand Seignior. This being represented by the 
 King’s ambassador residing at Constantinople to the French King’s 
 ambassador there, it was agreed by the latter that the Serpent should 
 be immediately restored; notwithstanding which the said French 
 ambassador has since found several pretences to delay the same, 
 during which delay Captain John Knapp, commander of his Majesty’s 
 ship Bonaventure, took out of a ship called the San Giuseppe a 
 box of emeralds, etc., by way of reprizals, and has delivered part 
 of the said goods to his Majesty’s consul at Messina and _ has 
 brought part to England. The petitioners pray that the said goods 
 may be delivered to them until satisfaction be done them for their 
 said ship and goods. Referred for report to Sir Charles Hedges, knt. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 288, p. 38. ] 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Hannah McDonnel. Shows that 
 in consideration of a considerable portion brought by her to her 
 husband Randall MceDonnel, he did, before her marriage, by deed of 
 8 January, 1686-7, settle upon trustees for her use as a separate 
 maintenance the sum of 3001. yearly out of his estate. That most of 
 her said husband’s estate consisted of money, and the same was laid 
 out at interest in land security in Ireland, as likewise a great part of 
 her own portion before marriage, several parcels of which lands so 
 mortgaged are since seized into his Majesty’s hands, the proprietors 
 thereof being attainted, so that she is at present deprived of her 
 said maintenance. She prays the benefit of her settlements. 
 Referred for report to the Lords of the Treasury. [Jbid., p. 39.] 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Lord Archibald Hamilton, com- 
 mander of the Lichfield. He sets forth that he retook the Justice of 
 Amsterdam, and according to a treaty between his Majesty and the 
 States General, dated 22 October, 1689, it was mutually agreed that, 
 for what ships or goods should be retaken on each side, one eighth 
 part should be paid for salvage, to be disposed of as his Majesty or 
 the States should think tit; he prays a grant of the sum paid into 
 the Admiralty for the salvage of the said ship. Neferred for report 
 to Sir Charles Hedges, knt. [Tbid., p. 42. | 
 
 Commissions for John Man to be cornet to Captain Gore in Captain 
 Charles Rosse’s regiment of dragoons; for James Rosse to be lieu- 
 tenant to Captain Caldwell in the same regiment [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 167, p. 253]; for ——- Newcomen to be cornet to Captain 
 ——in the same regiment; for Griffith Lloyd to be cornet to 
 Lieutenant Colonel Owen Wynn in the same regiment [ Ibid., p. 254]; 
 for Samuel Piggot to be chaplain to the Duke of Bolton’s regiment 
 of foot; for William Wilkinson to be ensign of Major Cuthbert 
 
126 
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 Dec. 16. 
 Whitehall. 
 
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 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 16. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Dec. 16. 
 
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 Dec. 16. 
 
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 Dec. 16. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 16. 
 
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 Dec. 16. 
 
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 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 Wilkinson’s company in Colonel Frederick Hamilton’s regiment of 
 foot [Ibid. 168, p. 153]; and for Robert Parker to be ensign of 
 Lieutenant Colonel Robert Stearne’s company in the same regiment 
 [Ibid., p. 156]. 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Admiralty, com- 
 manding the men of war designed for Cadiz, provisioned and lying 
 at Spithead, to sail with those Dutch men of war, there arrived on 
 their way to the Straits. [8.P. Dom. Entry Book 205, p. 182.] 
 
 The same to Sir George Rooke, excusing the delay of Mr. Cailleau, 
 who lost his passage from Portsmouth, and recommending him as 
 midshipman extra. [Jbid.] 
 
 Warrant to the Bishop of London, authorizing a collection by the 
 churchwardens or overseers of the poor from well-disposed persons 
 at their respective dwellings on behalf of the poor of London; the 
 sums collected to be paid into the Chamber of London, and dis- 
 tributed at the discretion of the Lord Mayor. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 162, p. 65. | 
 
 Warrant to the Lord Mayor, recommending the above collection to 
 his support. [Jbid., p. 66. | 
 
 Warrant for Seth Eyres, a scholar of Winchester College, to be 
 elected to a scholarship at New College, Oxford. [Jbid. 163, p. 71.] 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Commissioners of the Customs. I 
 am informed that a vessel, coming, as was pretended, from Ostend, 
 landed lately at Margate about twenty persons, supposed to be 
 foreigners and some of them officers, and it being a thing which may 
 have very ill consequences if men coming from beyond seas are 
 permitted to land without passes without any notice taken of it, I 
 desire you will give orders to your officers at Margate and on that 
 coast to look more diligently about them, and not suffer passengers 
 to be put on shore without examining them, and taking a strict 
 account of them ; and if they are foreigners or his Majesty’s subjects 
 (unless officers in his Majesty's army), and have not passes, they 
 are to detain them and give immediately an account thereof to me, 
 together with their names and what they can discover of them, lest 
 dangerous and disaffected persons to his Majesty's government be 
 invited thither, when they find there is so easy an entrance into the 
 kingdom and that they may pass unobserved. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 99, p. 242. ] 
 
 Warrant to the Privy Council of Scotland, for ordering one hun- 
 dred and sixty-six men from the draft to be made out of Colonel 
 Maegill’s regiment to be given to Colonel Robert Mackay, for 
 recruiting his regiment in Flanders, formerly belonging to d’Offarrell, 
 the said Colonel Mackay paying for each man according to the orders 
 given in the king’s letter of the 8rd instant. [S.P. Scotland War- 
 rant Book 16, p. 108. | 
 
 Warrant for a remission of treason in favour of the Earl of 
 Breadalbane, ‘‘without prejudice of the indictment lately raised before 
 parliament against him for certain secret treasonable articles therein 
 
1695. 
 
 Dec. 16. 
 
 Kensington, 
 
 Dec. 16. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Dee. 16. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Dec. 16. 
 
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 Dec. 16. 
 
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 Dec. 16. 
 
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 Dec. 16. 
 
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 Dec. 16. 
 
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 Dec. 16. 
 
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 Dec. 16. 
 
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 libelled to have been agreed between him and Major General Buchan 
 and the chieftains of the Highland clans.” [S.P. Scotland Warrant 
 Book 16, p. 109. | 
 
 Warrant to the Earl of Leven, constable and governor of 
 Kdinburgh Castle, for setting the Earl of Breadalbane at liberty. 
 [Ibid., p. 112.] 
 
 Warrant to the Privy Council of Scotland for taking bail of 
 Master Levingstone of Kilsyth, who has been allowed to return to 
 Scotland, for his peaceable behaviour, and appearing before them 
 when required. [Jbid.] 
 
 Warrant to the same for adding the Earl of Strathmore to their 
 number. [Tbid., p. 1138.] 
 
 Warrant for nominating Mr. John Syme, student in divinity, 
 professor of Hebrew in the new college of St. Andrews, in the place 
 of Mr. John Gordon.  [Jbid.] 
 
 Docket of the warrant for Mr. George Hamilton, minister of 
 the Gospel, to be principal of St. Leonard’s College, St. Andrews. 
 [Ibid., p. 115. ] 
 
 Docket of the warrant for a ratification of the office: of Knight 
 Marshal in Scotland, to the Earl of Kintore and Charles Keith, his 
 third son, and of the fee of 4001. annexed thereto, whereby three 
 former gifts are ratified: the first granted by Charles II. to the said 
 Karl, therein designed John Keith, brother german to the Earl 
 Marshal, the second also by the said King to the said Karl, therein 
 designed Sir John Keith, and to John Keith, his second son, then an 
 infant, and the third by the present King.  [Jbid. | 
 
 Docket of the warrant for nominating Mr. John Vauss keeper of 
 the Council Chamber in Scotland, and furnisher of coal and candles 
 thereto, and furnisher of pens, ink, ete. to the treasury and 
 exchequer rooms. [Jbid., p. 117.] 
 
 Docket of the warrant for John Yeatts, late trumpeter to Lord 
 Yester, to be one of the King’s ordinary trumpeters of Scotland. 
 [ Ibid. | 
 
 Docket of the warrant for granting to Janet Home, Lady Eccles, 
 the feu and non-entry duties, &c., belonging to the lands of Kccles, 
 comprehending the lands of Gortshortrig, Southbank, and Bank- 
 head, extending to sixteen husband lands, and all the mains of 
 Kecles, comprehending the mains of Wormetlaw, extending to six- 
 teen husband lands, with the mill called Horsrig, to the sum of 
 421. 6s. 8d., for all years since the making of the last eque of the 
 said lands in exchequer, which was for years preceding 31 July, 
 1655, and extending from that date to 31 July, 1695, to the sum of 
 1,6931. 6s. 8d. Scots money. [Jbid., p. 118.] 
 
 Docket of the warrant for a gift of the office of sheriff principal 
 of the sheriffdom of Forfar to ———. [Jbid., p. 119. ] 
 
128 
 
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 Dee. 16. 
 
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 Dec. 17. 
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 Dublin Castle. 
 
 Dec. 17. 
 
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 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 Commissions for Major Robert Reid to be lieutenant colonel of 
 Lord Lindsay’s regiment of foot ; for Captain James Cuningham, of 
 Ailkel, to be major of, and Tohh Baillie to be lieutenants in, Sir 
 William Douglas’s regiment of foot; for Francis Farquhar to be 
 captain of Captain James Cuningham’s late company in Sir John 
 Hill’s regiment; for — Monereif, of Reedie, the younger, to be 
 captain of Captain Billingham’s late company, and Thomas Fife to 
 be ensign colonel in Lord Murray’s regiment; for Charles Mackinon 
 to be — heutenant to the company of grenadiers, Andrew Munro to 
 be ensign colonel, and Donald Mackleane to be ensign to Major 
 Dunean Mackenzie’s company in Colonel George Maceill’s regiment. 
 [S.P. Scotland Warrant Book 16, p. 120.] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to Sir James Oxenden. Being informed 
 that Charles Beeston, tailor of Sandwich (who was lately committed 
 to Maidstone gaol for criminal words), has made suit to be bailed, 
 and has proposed Thomas Barber, junior, of Sandwich, co. Kent, 
 gent., and Ralph Goodchild of the same, grocer, to be bound for his 
 appearance at the next assizes in Kent, [ have nothing to oppose 
 against it. Similar letter to John Cason, Tisg.5 a (ae. Dom. Entr Yy 
 Book 100, p. 177. | 
 
 Lord Capell to Duke of Shrewsbury. [S.P. Zreland BEE No. 74. | 
 Enclosing :— 
 
 Robert Rochfort’s report upon the petition of the curriers of Dublin, 
 dated 7 Nov., 1695. In obedience to your order of reference dated 
 30 September last, on the petition of Edward Geyton and others 
 on behalf of themselves and the protestant curriers of Dublin, I have 
 examined the several allegations and find that i 1681 the great charter 
 of this city and all other charters of the several inferior corporations 
 were, by the then barons of the exchequer, adjudged forfeited and seized 
 wnto the king’s hands, And I further find that at the instance of the 
 late Karl of Limerick and others of the popish nobility and gentry and 
 of the popish tanners and curriers of this city, the late King James did, 
 by his charter dated 27 September, 1688, incorporate the tanners and 
 curriers of this city mto one guild, notwithstanding the endeavours of 
 the protestant curriers to the contrary, and although they were never 
 before wmcorporated with the tanners, in which charter there ts pro- 
 vision for many superstitious uses. I am also informed that um London 
 the tanners, and curriers are distinct corporations and have separate 
 charters and that the currvers of this city increase daily and drive a very 
 considerable trade, but I do not find that they have been wmcorporated 
 other than as aforesaad. I further find that a statute made in Eingland 
 
 ‘in the first year of this reign instituted an.Act for the better security and 
 
 reliet of his Majesty’s protestant subjects in Ireland. It is thereby 
 enacted that all cities, bodies corporate, etc., in this kingdom should be 
 restored to the same state which they were in on 24 June, 1688. Upon 
 consideration of which I am of opinion that the said new charter in the 
 late King James's reign is void wn law, and it will be to the advantage 
 of the trade of this city to grant the petitioners a charter. | Ibid. 
 No. 74 I. | 
 
 The same to the same. I think myself obliged to give you 
 an account of a passage that lately happened here between 
 
1695. 
 
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 the chancellor and myself: Last Sunday morning, after we came 
 from church, I acquainted him that I intended to make Mr. William 
 Neave, a gentleman of the long robe, his Majesty’s second serjeant- 
 at-law. The chancellor after some small pause told me he could 
 not bear it, that it was to prefer his enemy that had appeared 
 against him this sessions, and that he would write to the King about 
 it. I replied he might write or do what he pleased, but that I was 
 judge of the persons I thought fit to employ in the King’s service, 
 and that I intended to make Mr. Ormsby and Mr. Wingfield of the 
 King’s counsel at law. This morning Mr. Neave waited on his lord- 
 ship with the fiant or bill for his warrant to pass it under the great 
 seal, but he said he would take time to consider it, and gives for 
 reason that he is not of ability to discharge that employment. His 
 first reason, that Mr. Neave was one of those who prosecuted 
 the articles against him will not hold, his lordship having since 
 called to mind the speech he made this session in the House of 
 Commons in his own defence, that he had forgiven those who 
 prosecuted him in former parliaments, and should now bear no 
 resentment against any that might vote against him in this; though 
 Mr. Reading, a barrister who had appeared against the chancellor 
 the last parliament, was for that reason at his instance hindered from 
 being approved of for the recordership of Drogheda. But since my 
 being alone in the government I have made him of the counsel to 
 the commissioners of the revenue, he having been of great use to me 
 in bringing his Majesty’s affairs to a good issue. Mr. Neave was 
 recommended to me by the Earl of Meath, Lord Lanesborough and 
 others, and I was assured by the Attorney and Solicitor-General of 
 his ability to discharge that office. However, I expected not this 
 return from the chancellor, having lately, at his instance, made Mr. 
 William Porter, his brother, one of the King’s counsel, Mr. William 
 Molyneux, at his recommendation, one of the Masters in Chancery, 
 and Sir Thomas Packenham, who always appeared and voted for him, 
 his Majesty’s prime serjeant. The influence and power of the 
 lawyers in this kingdom is indeed very great, especially in parla- 
 ment, and without their concurrence I could not have asserted his 
 Majesty’s right as to the beginning of money bills, and therefore I 
 reserved these places in my disposal until the end of the sessions. 
 But the true reason why I have thought fit to prefer these gentle- 
 men was in obedience to his Majesty's commands, signified to me in 
 yours of 23 November, that I should stop all manner of intended 
 prosecution against the chancellor in the parliament of England. 
 Finding, therefore, after the articles against the chancellor were 
 rejected, that several of the members had meetings in order to 
 accuse him in the parliament of England, and that some of these 
 gentlemen of the law were principally concerned, I prevailed with 
 them to desist; but if the chancellor is so haughty as to stop grants 
 or preferments to those gentlemen that appeared against him, which 
 they tell me they did believing him faulty in his place, I dare not 
 undertake that his Majesty shall be troubled with no further com- 
 plaints against him in the parliament of England. [S.P. Ireland 357, 
 No. 75. | 
 
 2045 I 
 
1380 
 
 1695. 
 
 Dec. 17. 
 Whitehall, 
 
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 Decay: 
 
 Whitehall, 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 Warrant to the keeper of Newgate for receiving into his custody 
 Henry Bish, charged with treasonable practices and giving informa- 
 tion, to persons disaffected to the government, of the force, condition 
 and designs of the King’s navy and ships of war, the last summer, 
 in the expedition against St. Malo. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 345, 
 p. 287. | 
 
 Pass for Mr. John van Vleicden, Cornelis du Belt and John 
 Peterson to go to Holland. [Jbid. 346, p. 1838. ] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to Sir George Rooke. I beg enquiries may 
 be made respecting Mr. Cole, Mr. Goodwyn, and Mr. Loddington, the 
 present consuls at Algier, Tunis, and Tripoli, accused of misde- 
 meanours in letters received by the King from the coast of Barbary; 
 meanwhile the presents being sent to the Deys of Algier and Tripoli 
 are to be delayed. I further send you a copy of what I write to Mr. 
 Stanhope concerning provisions to be furnished in Spain. [S.P. 
 Dom. Entry Book 205, p. 188.| Appending :— 
 
 The accusation against Mr. Goodwyn and Mr. Loddington. Mr. Cole, 
 the British consul at Algier, has lately sent a letter from the present 
 Dey of Algier giving an account of the peace being renewed with that 
 government, and in the close of the said letter he refers to another letter 
 of Shaban Dey, the late governor of Algier which is transmitted at the 
 same time, and in that letter the King’s consuls at Tripoli and Tunis are 
 accused of having procured and sent forged letters to the King, as appears 
 by a copy of the said letter herewith sent. The King ordered an 
 examination by the Lords of the Council, who were attended by Mr. 
 Baker, the late consul at Algier, and Mr. Daniel Skinner, lately come 
 from thence, whom Mr. Baker, when he renewed the peace at Tripoli, 
 left there as consul till the King should appoint another, he designing tt 
 for his brother Francis Baker — On the other side there appeared a 
 brother of Mr. Loddington, the consul at Tripoli, and Mr. Streete and 
 Mr. Rigby, merchants, friends and correspondents of Mr. Goodwyn, the 
 consul at Tunis, and his partner Mr. Chetwood, who is involved in the 
 same accusation of torgery. These personsjustified the consuls and affirmed 
 they were both incapable of so illa practice, and that a suspicion of that 
 nature ought more easily to stick upon Mr. Skinner, whom they repre- 
 sented as a loose indigent person, and one that came into Barbary from 
 serving on board the French fleet. They said there was no reason to 
 suspect Consul Goodwyn’s letter from Shaban Dey was forged, since tt 
 was only to acknowledge that he and Chetwood had advanced 8,000 dollars 
 for the redemption of English captives according to Consul Baker's 
 contract which Mr. Baker did not disown, and this letter was only to 
 recommend them to the King for their reimbursement. It was owned 
 they procured this letter in distrust of Mr. Baker, that he would not deal 
 farly with them, and they found it necessary to make a private applica- 
 tion by the French dragoman, believing Mr. Cole to be so much Mr. 
 Bakers friend that he would oppose them. 
 
 The letter supposed to be forged by Mr. Loddington was from the Dey 
 of Tripoli, dated Oct., 1694, upon which the King renewed Mr. 
 Loddington’s commission, which resulted in the displacement of Mr. 
 Skinner. In the same letter is a demand for powder, guns and other 
 furniture for their ships, as pretending the same was promised by Mr. 
 Baker, which he denies, though there is some mention of it in general 
 
1695. 
 
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 terms in the letter Mr. Baker brought from that government, and the 
 letter brought by Mr. Skinner from Tripoli does particularly mention a 
 present of powder and shot as promised by Consul Baker. 
 
 It was remarked that the letter of Sheban Dey bears date a very 
 few days before he was deposed, and Mr. Goodwyn and Mr. Loddington’s 
 Jriends inferred that, by the date and style, it carried more visible marks 
 of forgery than in the two letters it mentions. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 
 205, p. 183. ] 
 
 Appended is a note of enclosures not here entered, viz. :— 
 
 Extract of Consul Cole’s letter of 8th Sept., 1695. 
 
 Letter of Sheban Dey of Algier to his Majesty, 19th July, 1695. 
 
 Copy of the Duke of Shrewsbury’s letter to Mr. Stanhope, 17 Dec., 
 1695. 
 
 Einglish translation of Sheban Dey’s letter to the King of Great 
 Britain. 
 
 Dey of Tripoli’s letter 17 Oct., 1695. [Jbid., p. 185.] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Admiralty, ordering 
 the men-of-war appointed to outward bound ships of the East India 
 Company to be made ready. [bid. ] 
 
 A state of mortarpieces (for land service) in the king’s stores at 
 the Tower, Woolwich, and at Blackheath, together with an account 
 of bombs arrived at the said places and contracted for, and what 
 powder will be requisite for them and each mortarpiece in time of 
 service. Memorandum, that of the 10,000 bombs contracted for, for 
 land service, 4,000 will be ready to be shipped off at some ports of 
 Sussex about the last of April next, if the ways be passable and no 
 accident befalls the foundries. [S.P. Dom., King William’s Chest 15, 
 No. 100. |] 
 
 Passes for Abraham Poissans,a French protestant glover[S.P.Dom. 
 Eintry Book 844, p. 449]; for Francisco Honrra Muiio of Bisaya, to 
 go to Holland; and for Mr. Thomas Fairfax to go to Flanders 
 [Ibid. 346, p. 184]. 
 
 Warrant for the payment of extraordinary expenses, incurred by 
 James Cressett, his Majesty's envoy extraordinary to the Elector and 
 Dukes of Brunswick and Luneburg from 12 September to 12 December, 
 1695. [Ibid., p. 185. ] 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Commissioners for the Exchange of 
 Prisoners. I send you herewith a certificate of Monsr. du Bordieu, 
 Monsr. Satur, and Monsr. Larrivére, three French ministers of the 
 Savoy, on behalf of Daniel du Bois, Raymond Artus, and Jean 
 Pedigeat, three Frenchmen taken prisoners at sea, who, being 
 protestants, desire to stay in England, and not be forced to return to 
 France. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 248. ] 
 
 The same to the Lords of the Admiralty. I have received your 
 letter of yesterday’s date with a paper enclosed relating to the flag, 
 being a report of the Commissioners of the Navy in 1661, and if 
 you consider my letter of the 9th instant, you will find that this is 
 not a perfect answer to the particulars therein mentioned ; therefore 
 I must again refer to you for a more particular account of what has 
 been the practice since the time of the aforesaid report. It is not on 
 
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 this side that the doubt is made of the respect due to his Majesty’s 
 flag, as you intimate, but the Swedes make it, who deny that this 
 point has ever been carried so high and so far insisted upon as now. 
 What we therefore want is to be furnished by you with authentic 
 matter, and instances sufficient to answer their objections. [S.P. 
 Dom. Entry Book 204, p. 110. ] 
 
 Baron de Ronsele to Mr. Vernon. Some days since, at the request 
 of the archbishops of Dublin and Tuam, his Excellency [Lord 
 Capell| arranged for the examination of my certificates, in order 
 that an account thereof might be sent to the King. I beg you to lay 
 my case before the Duke of Shrewsbury. Appended is a sample of a 
 new cypher, not containing the letters k, q, w, x, z, or y, which 
 would give it the appearance (if intercepted) of an Italian, Spanish 
 or Latin cypher. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 76.] 
 
 Pass for the ship, Regina del Ceilo, belonging to Thomas 
 Gherardi, a subject of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, whereof Captain 
 Virgilio Pulino is master, to sail from Leghorn to Cadiz in Spain 
 and any port of England or Holland, and to return. [S.P. Dom. 
 Eniry Book 344, p. 448. | 
 
 Passes for Erick Engbrets, a subject of the King of Sweden, and 
 Mr. Berckell, one of the King’s messengers for Dutch affairs, to go to 
 Harwich or Gravesend and Holland [ Jbid., p. 449]; for Salomon Juda, 
 a subject of the States General, ditto [Tbid., p. 450]; for Jacob 
 Arenzell, a tailor, to go to Holland [Zbid. 846, p. 184]; and for Charles 
 Simonson ditto [Zbid., p. 185]; for Hans Rung, Cornelius Smith, 
 Cornelius Schwart, Folikert Petersen, Dierick Dirickson, Clas Schott, 
 Adrian Simonson, Dauwe Dousen, Adrian MHendricksen, Dirick 
 Hendrickson, Andres Andressen, Andreas Tomsen, Jonas Wijegel, 
 Jan Riemer, Martin Foland, Andres Schut, Israel Erickson, Dirick 
 Andersen, Jacob Joensen, Martin Martinsen, Daniel Wieyman, Erick 
 Andersen and Peter Trekel ditto [Jbid., p. 188]. 
 
 Proclamation prohibiting the passing of clipped coins. Printed. 
 [S.P. Dom. Proclamations 4, No. 121. | 
 
 License for William Milard, esquire, High Sheriff of Bedford, to 
 reside out of the county during his term of office. [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 162, p. 68. | 
 
 Passes for John Kahl and Samuel Caspar, German Protestants ; 
 Magdalen Couvrete and Judeth Pict, French protestants, to go to 
 Harwich or Gravesend and Holland. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, 
 p. 450. | 7 
 
 Warrant to grant the right of presentation to the church of St. 
 Peter’s and All Saints’ in Stamford (united in the fourth year of 
 Edward VI, in pursuance of an Act of Parliament for uniting poor 
 churches in the then decayed and depopulated town of Stamford, 
 made in the second year of his reign), after the death or resignation 
 of the present incumbent, to the Earl of Stamford for the next turn, 
 and afterwards to the King for one vacancy and the Earl of Stamford 
 for the two following vacancies alternately, as was settled when 
 the churches were united, and has been enjoyed since, until Charles II 
 
1695. 
 
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 presented twice together, viz.: to Dr. Swadling, who died in 1669, 
 and to the present incumbent, Dr. Cumberland, now bishop of 
 Peterborough. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 845, p. 288. ] 
 
 Warrant for a nolle prosequi to be entered upon the indictments of 
 John King for forging a seaman’s letter of attorney. [Jbid., p. 291.] 
 
 Warrant to dispense with any statute which may incapacitate 
 Richard Reader, D.D., one of the senior fellows of Trinity College, 
 Dublin, from holding the rectory of Killuean in the diocese of 
 Meath, together with his senior fellowship. [S.P. Ireland King’s 
 Letter Book 2, p. 91.] 
 
 Commission to Sir Charles Hara, knt., to be Brigadier General of 
 Foot. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 157. ] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Treasury. Mr 
 Secretary Trenchard having in December last signified to Mr. 
 Blackwell, the consul of Leghorn, that he should again employ an 
 advice boat (that had some months before been discharged) for 
 carrying advices to the fleet during their stay in the Mediterranean, 
 or where else his Majesty’s service should require it, and that he 
 should be reimbursed from time to time what he expended in the 
 same by the Postmaster General or those who execute that office, 
 and Mr. Blackwell having sent over a bill of the charge of the said 
 advice boat for eight months, from the first of March to the first of 
 November last, amounting to 5311. 5s. 8d., his Majesty commands 
 that the same be sent to you and that you give the necessary orders 
 to Mr. Robert Cotton and Mr. Frankland for their paying the above- 
 mentioned sums. | Jbid. 100, p. 180. |] 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to Mr. Roope, desiring him to discharge, on 
 bail, the master or skipper of the J’almodigheit of Copenhagen, he 
 being detained at Dartmouth and no accusation being brought against 
 him. [Jbid. 99, p. 244.] 
 
 Passes for Mr. Lewis Langerhans, to go to Harwich and Holland 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 451]; and for Mary Dassas to go to 
 Holland [Jbid. 346, p. 185}. 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Francis Woodward, gent. Shows 
 that he is seized of a large tract of waste ground, lying in the 
 parish of Stow, Salop, containing about two thousand acres, which 
 would prove far more beneficial to petitioner and the neighbouring 
 inhabitants, if about two hundred acres thereof were converted into 
 a free warren, and prays letters patent accordingly. Referred for 
 report to. the Attorney or Solicitor General. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 288, p. 41. | 
 
 Lord Capell to the Duke of Shrewsbury. This morning Mr. Neave 
 and Mr. Ormsby preferred their several petitions to me, which are 
 enclosed, setting forth that the Chancellor had declined giving the 
 necessary orders pursuant to my said warrants, and declared that 
 he lay under no obligation to give any reasons for what he did, but 
 that he would consider of it and speak to me about it. Since my 
 
 - first mentioning this to the Chancellor he has been often with me at 
 
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 Council, at a meeting of the governors of the hospital, and at the 
 
 castle, and yet he has not taken the least notice of it to me, whereby 
 it is evident he refuses to comply with my commands, and T did not 
 think it proper to take any further notice of it to him, lest, upon his 
 positive denial, I should have been forced to assert the authority of 
 the sword. This being his behaviour upon this occasion he has, I 
 presume, written to the King. One of the objections, as I hear, 
 he makes against admitting Mr. Ormsby as one of the counsel is that 
 it ought to be done by a letter under the King’s sign manual, and not 
 by immediate warrant from the chief governor, I find this latter to 
 have been the method practised since the King’s accession, and I 
 looked no further back. To make this plain to you I enclose one 
 precedent of it, viz. an original warrant from Sir Charles Porter and 
 Lord Coningsby, when Justices, for making Mr. Rochfort of the 
 counsel. I find the same was done by the late chief governors to 
 Mr. Doyne, now chief baron, and having also made Mr. William 
 Porter, the Chancellor’s brother, of the counsel, I am sure it is not 
 proper for Sir Charles Porter to start any objection of this nature. 
 Another of his lordship’s arguments against Mr. Neave is that he 
 voted for the sole right of the beginning of money bills to be in the 
 House of Commons. I must own that at the opening of Parliament 
 he came to me and very frankly told me it was his opinion, but that 
 he would not persist in it with obstinacy, and as soon as the debate 
 was over he came to me again and assured me he would entirely 
 serve me in Parliament affairs, and he has kept his word, in regard 
 whereof and of his relationship to the Harl of Meath and Lord 
 Lanesborough, and finding him well skilled in his profession, I 
 gave him the place. As for the other gentlemen who appeared at 
 the beginning of the session for the sole right, after that point was 
 overruled no men were more diligent or earnest in settling the money 
 bills than themselves, and they in a great measure helped to effect it 
 and to prevent a breach between the two houses, which was 
 principally designed by the Chancellor’s party. Enclosures not here 
 preserved. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 77. | 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford. I have 
 received a letter of the 22nd inst. from Dr. Wallis, giving me notice 
 that upon the late vote in the House of Commons, concerning the 
 taxing of windows, it is thought proper that a proviso should be 
 inserted in the bill which shall be brought into the House, that all 
 colleges, halls and public buildings in the university be exempted 
 from paying that tax, which letter 1 have communicated to Mr. Finch, 
 who joins with me in this opinion, that this notice proceeds ‘‘ from a 
 mistake of the vote,’ as if it were thereby meant that all windows 
 should be taxed ; whereas, according to that vote, the highest tax 
 reaches but to ten shillings upon a house, though it have never so 
 many windows. However if the university think it worth the while 
 to have it moved in the House that the colleges, ete., may be excused 
 from paying ten shillings apiece, we will endeavour ‘to serve them i in 
 it. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 244. | 
 
 The same to the Lords of the Admiralty, respecting a letter from 
 Captain Kerr, commander of H.M.S. Burlington, giving an account of - 
 
1695. 
 
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 a dispute between him and a Swedish man-of-war, the Liejland, 
 which the King commands that you immediately give orders for 
 discharging. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 204, p. 109. ] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Admiralty. Sir 
 Oliver St. George, vice-admiral of the province of Connaught, being 
 lately dead, the Lord Deputy of Ireland is very desirous that his 
 son, Sir George St. George, should succeed him in that employment, 
 whom he recommends as one very faithful in, and zealous for, his 
 Majesty’s service, upon which consideration I do not doubt but you 
 will gratify him with a commission accordingly. [Jbid. 100, p. 178. | 
 
 The same to the Lords of the Treasury, enclosing Mr. Meisters’ 
 memorial relating to six ships taken up by him in June last, and 
 directing them to give the necessary orders either to the Board of 
 Admiralty or the Office of Ordnance for the clearing with and 
 discharging the said ships. [| Lbid. | 
 
 The same to the Lord Deputy ofIreland. The King has signed the 
 dispensation for Dr. header, as desired. The letter in behalf of the 
 carriers [curriers?] of Dublin is now ready for his Majesty’s hand. 
 The commissions for vice-admirals being granted by the Lords of the 
 Admiralty, I have acquainted them with your concern for Sir George 
 St. George, and do not doubt but they will appoint him to succeed 
 his father. As to what you write in your letter of the 11th, which 
 Colonel Cunningham brought me, I shall forbear answering it till I 
 hear again from you in that matter, as you seem uncertain what 
 would be the issue of it. [S. P. Ireland, King’s Letter Book 2, p. 90. | 
 
 The same to Brigadier Wolseley, assuring him that there is no 
 intention of stopping his grant. |Jbid., p. 91.] 
 
 Warrant for Sir Mathew Bridges to raise eighty volunteers in 
 Ireland to serve as recruits for his regiments of foot in Flanders. 
 [Lbid. 2, p. 94. ] 
 
 Caveat that nothing pass concerning the pardon of Nicholas 
 Carew, esq., for the killing of Colonel Edmund Ashton, till notice be 
 first given to Richard Minshull, esq., of the Inner Temple. [S.P. 
 Dom. Entry Book 74, p. 4. | 
 
 Commissions for John Brook to be lheutenant of Captain Charles 
 Cratchrode’s company in Colonel Thomas Farrington’s regiment ; for 
 Abel Cooke to be ensign of Major Christopher Wray’s company in 
 the same regiment [8.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 155]; for John 
 Campbell to be captain of Captain Henry Smithwick’s late company 
 in Colonel Richard Coote’s regiment of foot [Jbid., p. 162]; for 
 Samuel Mortimer to be lieutenant of Major Arthur Noble’s company 
 in Colonel Thomas St. John’s regiment of foot ; for Ephraim Maynard 
 to be ensign of Captain William Stewart’s company in the same regi- 
 ment ; and for Samuel Jones to be ensign of Captain Downham Cope’s 
 company in Sir George St. George’s regiment of foot [Jbid., p. 171]. 
 
 Pass for Gabriel Catané, Anna, his wife, and a young child, poor 
 French protestants, to go to Harwich or Gravesend and Holland. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p. 454. ] 
 
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 Warrant to Richard Hayward for the apprehension of -- Warnicke, 
 charged with treasonable practices. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 345, 
 p. 290. | 
 
 Passes for John Loothans, a Dutch soldier, Samuel Mentzel, a 
 barber, Gerard Weymans and William Berents, Dutch soldiers, 
 Weynant vander Boom, Henry Gravenbergh, a Dutch soldier, and 
 Geertruijt Sterchmans, subjects of the States General, to go to 
 Harwich or Gravesend for Holland [Ibid., 844, p. 453]; for Mr. 
 Thomas Searle, a merchant, ditto [bid. p. 454]; for Ann Swallow 
 and her child to go to Flanders; and for Lucas van Beeck, a native 
 of Amsterdam, to go to Holland [Jbid. 346, p. 188]. 
 
 Warrant for a grant under the great seal to Deborah Dumaresq, 
 sole daughter and heir of Philip Dumaresq, late of Jersey, esq., 
 deceased (for the prevention of difficulties and disputes such as have 
 heretofore happened betwixt her ancestors and co-heirs for their 
 ‘‘partages’’) of a small fief called Faisants, being a parcel of the fief 
 of Samares in the parish of St. Clement (which she holds of the 
 crown, together with the fiefs of Homet and Crapdoet in the said 
 parish, and the fief of La Fosse in the parish of St. Helers) ; upon 
 which said fief called Faisants there is only a little house belonging 
 to one Philip Favel; to hold of the crown at a yearly rent, the whole 
 to remain entire and unpartable to whomsoever shall be eldest, or 
 represent the eldest in the inheritance. Also for licence to the said 
 Deborah to build a windmill within the lordship of Samares and to 
 erect a watermill upon the waste of the said lordship, and to have a 
 gallows upon the said fee in the parish of St. Clement, libera 
 esperkerea in the said parish of the fish taken by her tenants, 
 chattels of felons, and waif, strays and wrecks in the said parishes 
 of St. Clement and St. Heliers from the brook next towards the east 
 of Le Hac in St. Clement’s parish, and the brook of Hauteville in 
 St. Heliers parish; with further grant of the consolidation of thé 
 premises, together with all other lands of which the said Deborah 
 is proprietor, to remain entire and unpartable to her and her heirs 
 for ever. [Jbid., p. 189. ] 
 
 Warrant to William Sutton for the apprehension of Mr. Edward 
 Bing [Byng] for procuring an instrument or writing from the Pope 
 constituting him his provincial in this kingdom. [| Jbid., p. 194. ] 
 
 Warrant for Brigadier Wolseley to succeed Brigadier Stewart on 
 the establishment of Ireland, and to receive the pay of brigadier 
 accordingly from Ist January, 1694. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office 18, 
 p. 266. | 
 
 A duplicate of the above. 
 p. 94. | 
 
 Commission to John Webb to be colonel of Colonel John Beaumont’s 
 late regiment. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 167, p. 252.] 
 
 Proceedings on the petition of Sir Francis Brewster, knt. Shews 
 that in the reign of Charles II he purchased a large tract of land in 
 {reland, being the most part waste and uninhabited, so that it never 
 payed the rent due to the crown; that upon this estate he laid 
 
 [S.P. Ireland, King’s Letter Book 2, 
 
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 out above 30,000/. in erecting ironworks, setting up fisheries and 
 several manufactories, and so improved the country that it added 
 some 1,000/, a year to the crown, being at the beginning of the late 
 troubles the chief support of the country. But the petitioner and 
 all his protestant tenants being set upon by the Irish, and all they 
 had taken from them, and his estate seized to the value of 30,000/. 
 and the buildings and other improvements burnt, he prays his 
 Majesty to grant him some forfeited lands, ete. Referred for report 
 to en Lord Deputy of Ireland. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 2387, 
 p. 147. 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Joanna Ward, widow. Shows 
 that her husband John Ward, being in the service of his Majesty’s 
 ordnance on the expedition against St. Malo and Havre de Grace, 
 was blown up in the Granado bomb-vessel, leaving the petitioner 
 and several children in a very miserable condition; and that the 
 petitioner’s brother, Major Fox, was likewise killed at the fight of 
 Aughrim in Ireland, who was the only person she could have relied 
 on in case of necessity; she prays for an allowance. Referred for 
 report to the Earl of Romney, master-general of the Ordnance. 
 [ Ihid., p. 150. ] 
 
 Proclamation for encouraging volunteers for the sea service. 
 Printed. [S.P. Dom. Proclamations 4, No. 122. ] 
 
 Sir William Trumbull to the Lords of the Treasury. The enclosed 
 extract of a letter from Mr. Greg, his Majesty’s minister at the court 
 of Denmark, dated 23rd past, concerning the great diminution of his 
 allowance of twenty shillings a day by exchange and other ways, 
 having been laid before the King, his Majesty being sensible of the 
 truth of this matter, and disposed to do something for his relief, 
 commands me to transmit it to you for your opinion. LHWnelosure not 
 entered. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 99, p. 245.] 
 
 The same to Mr. Francklyn. The King has been informed by the 
 Judge of the Admiralty that Captain Knap, commander of his 
 Majesty’s ship the Bonaventure, did, within the port of Scanderoon, 
 seize a Venetian ship the San Gwuzeppe, one box of emeralds, etc., 
 which he conceived belonged to French owners, part of which goods 
 he delivered to his Majesty’s consul at Messina, and the rest he 
 brought ‘‘for” England. His Majesty’s pleasure is that you forthwith, 
 in his name, take out a warrant from the Court of Admiralty to arrest 
 all such goods as were so seized at Scanderoon, and brought into 
 England by the said Captain Knap, and detain and take care of 
 the same until his Majesty signify his further pleasure. [Jbid. ] 
 
 The Duke of Shrewsbury to the Lords of the Admiralty signifying 
 his Majesty’s pleasure that they give orders for a commission to be 
 prepared for Sir George St. George to be vice-admiral of Connaught. 
 [ Ibid. 100, p. 179. ] 
 
 Warrant to the Earl of Romney, master-general of the Ordnance, 
 to make an allowance of 20s. a day to Colonel Wolfgang William 
 Romer, an engineer employed under the office of Ordnance. [S.P. 
 Dom. Entry Book 238, p. 208. | 
 
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 Passes for Jaques Vasso, a Jew, to go to Holland [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 344, p. 454]; for Christian Hoffman, a native of Fries- 
 land, ditto [Jbid. 346, p. 188]; and for Mr. Richard Spurway, 
 merchant, ditto [Jbid., p. 198]. 
 
 Warrant for Jacob Vanderstein, merchant, to have access to 
 Nicholas de Roover | Rovery ?], a prisoner in Newgate for high treason, 
 in the presence of a keeper. [JIbid., p. 194.] 
 
 Pass for Peter Jans, a subject of the States General, and one 
 child, to go to Harwich or Gravesend and Holland. {[Jbid. 344, 
 p. 450. | 
 
 Passes for Marcus Russell, a subject of the States General, to go to 
 Holland [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 344, p, 454]; for Lord Kildare to 
 eo to Montpelier [Jbid., p. 455]; and for Peter Seire, gent., of the 
 troop of guards commanded by Lieutenant General d’ Auverquerque, 
 to go to Flanders | Jbid. 846, p. 194]. 
 
 Commissions for Morrice Thompson to be captain of Mr. Webb’s 
 late company of grenadiers in the Karl of Romney’s regiment of foot 
 cuards ; and for — Hall to be ensignto Captain Hastings in Sir John 
 Jacob’s regiment. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 167, p. 252.] 
 
 Warrant for the election of William Wroughton to be a child on 
 the foundation of the Charterhouse. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 162, 
 p. 69.] 
 
 Passes for John Evenden to go to Harwich or any other port for 
 Holland or Flanders [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 844, p. 457]; and 
 for Theodore de Mandelsloe, subject of the Elector of Brandenburg, 
 with his servant, to go to Holland [JZbid. 346, p. 195]. 
 
 Warrant for the appointment of James Hannay, esquire, as provost 
 marshal general of Barbadoes, and for revoking the letters patent 
 sranting the said office to George Hannay. [Jbid. 845, p. 292.] 
 
 Commissions for —-— Delphy to be ensign of Captain de Vignoles’s 
 company in General Isaac de la Meloniére’s regiment of foot; for 
 —— Brisac to be ensign of Colonel Josias de Vimare’s company in 
 the same regiment [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 168, p. 162]; for —— de 
 St. Auban to be heutenant-colonel of, and captain of a company in, the 
 same regiment, whereof Colonel Josias de Vimar was late lieutenant- 
 colonel and captain; for Peter Dupuy [or La Bastide] to be 
 captain of Lieutenant-Colonel de St. Auban’s late company in Colonel 
 Peter de Beleastel’s regiment of foot | [bid., p. 164]; and for Josias de 
 Vimare to be colonel of foot [Zbid., p. 166]. 
 
 Warrant for the election of Charles Franklyn, a scholar of 
 Winchester College, to a scholarship in New College, Oxford. {S.P. 
 Entry Book 150, p. 175. ] 
 
 Warrant for the regiments of foot commanded by Colonel 
 Mitchelburne and Sir Richard Atkins to pass from Ireland ir.co 
 England, [S.P. Ireland King’s Letter Book 2, p. 98.] 
 
 Lord Capell to the Duke of Shrewsbury, recommending to him the 
 address of the Commons of Ireland about the city of Londonderry, 
 
1695. 
 
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 which he sends by Mr. David Cairns, one of their representatives. 
 [S.P. Ireland, King’s Letter Book 2, p.108.] Appended is the said 
 address of the House of Commons, undated. The mayor, commonalty 
 and citizens of the city of Londonderry have by a petition lately pre- 
 ferred unto us set forth the great losses and sufferings sustained by 
 them in the late revolution, and the great debts contracted on the public 
 account by their early securing and fortifying the place for their 
 Majesties’ and the protestant interest, buying of arms and ammunition, 
 and subsisting with provisions, clothes and other necessaries those that 
 were in that garrison for its defence during the seige, and that a great 
 part of their city and suburbs were destroyed thereby ; and they pray us 
 to recommend them to you as fit objects of his Majesty’s favour. We 
 desire that you will lay the petitioners’ case before the King, and take 
 notice therein of David Cairns, esquire, a member of that city and one 
 of their now representatives in Parliament, in regard of his early 
 services wm the first securing of the said city against the Irish, and 
 several hazardous journeys made by him in order to the relief of the 
 same and his great losses by the siege. [S.P. Ireland, King’s Letter 
 Book 2, p. 106. | 
 
 Lord Capell to the Duke of Shrewsbury. Having sent over the 
 address of the House of Commons in favour of the town of Innis- 
 killen, I think myself obliged to inform you of one particular 
 relating thereunto. Captain James Corry, a gentleman of that part 
 of the country, is to have half of such sums of money as can from 
 this account be procured from his Majesty. Besides, he has this 
 sessions showed himself forward enough to delay the passing the 
 money bills, though he has lately had a grant from his Majesty of 
 some forfeited lands and also of a mortgage of considerable value. 
 This, with the ill character I have had of his morals, makes me think 
 him unworthy of any further grace from his Majesty. As for the 
 ‘“‘Tnniskilliners,”’ I am told they made good advantage by the war, the 
 other protestants of the kingdom, at the beginning of the rebellion, 
 for their security, flying to that fast part of the country, where they 
 were forced to pay dear for their accomodation, though they joined 
 in the army with those of Inniskillen, and may equally pretend to a 
 reward for services done in defence of his Majesty and the protestant 
 interest, I desire what I say against them and Mr. Corry may have 
 no relation to the other address in favour of Mr. Cairns and the 
 city of Londonderry, who have deserved very well of his Majesty, 
 though her late Majesty did, by her royal letters dated 9 June, 
 1693, give unto the reformed officers that served in that siege 
 2,400/., and also, as I am told, 1,500/. more towards repairing the 
 church and market place of that city, which has been paid out 
 of the revenue here, besides such other sums as have been given 
 them of the royal bounty in England. [S.P. Ireland 357, 
 No. 78. | 
 
 Rough partial index to the minutes of the proceedings of the 
 Lords Justices during May and June. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 273.] 
 
 Warrant for Zachary Cradock, D.D., to be dean of Lincoln in the 
 place of Dr. Daniel Brevint, deceased. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office 18, 
 7. 251.) 
 
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 The petition of Percival Brunskell, praying for relief and showing 
 that his case had been brought before Parliament 20 April last, but 
 as it was just at the end of the session nothing was done for him. 
 Printed. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 6, No. 46.| Appended :— 
 
 A brief vindication of Mr. Percival Brunskell’s case, with an account 
 of ‘‘twenty-one years most remarkable passages,” printed at London 
 1695. His parents in 1668 placed him with Mr. Coates, an attorney. 
 After five years’ clerkship he practised in Mr. Coates’ and other 
 attorneys’ names several years, until some attorneys took advantage 
 of the statute 3 James I. cap. 7, and forced him to take the oaths 
 by law established, to discover such things as to his knowledge 
 were done to the prejudice of the crown and people. He reported 
 several abuses and their remedies, here set forth, and quotes the 
 opinions of Sir Charles Harbord, Sir William Jones, Sir Robert 
 Sawyer, Thomas Raymond, Edmund Saunders, John Sympson, 
 Sir William Williams, Earl of Anglesey, Sir Harbottle Grimston, 
 Mr. John Coates and Sir Edward Ward thereupon. Great endeavours 
 were made to have Brunskell removed, and his salaries were 
 stopped. He appealed to Charles II., who said that his salary 
 should be paid, and he should be rewarded; but the King dyimg soon 
 after, nothing was done. Afterwards he appealed to the present 
 King, reciting the service he had done for the crown. And lastly he 
 prays that some good office may be given him asa reward. {ILbid., 
 No. 461.] 
 
 Titus Gershom to --——-—, commencing ‘“ Right honourable 
 herro.” <A copy of his journal since he left Holland, 28 April, 1695, 
 showing that on that date he left Rotterdam in a ship, belonging 
 to Middleburgh in Zealand, and bound for the West Indies 
 belonging to the Dutch. Off Ireland the ship was taken by the 
 French, but Gershom and some of the crew escaped and came to 
 Chester, where he remained four weeks practising his profession— 
 physic. Afterwards he went with his goods to Hull, Yarmouth and 
 lastly to Norwich. The Mayor of Norwich sent to search his goods, 
 and, finding that there were several fire-arms among them, ordered 
 him to be imprisoned. [Jbid., No. 47.] 
 
 Rough notes of House of Commons proceedings about committees, 
 false returns, bills after the second reading, etc. [Tbid., No. 48. | 
 
 Proceedings upon the petition of Jennico, Lord Viscount 
 Gormanston, and James, Lord Viscount Ikerrin, shewing that their 
 ancestors were indicted and outlawed upon pretence of the rebellion 
 in Ireland that began in 1641, and several of them without the least 
 crime, and without the least evidence against many of them. That 
 the petitioners submitted freely to the peace of 1648, and ever since 
 have-served the late King and the present King. That several of 
 them have been restored to some part of their estate by the Acts of 
 Settlement and Explanation, some in present possession and some 
 after reprisals, and several of them were mentioned there by their 
 names of peerage, by which it appeared that. it was the clear 
 
 ‘intention of his late Majesty and his Parliament that none of these 
 
 crimes should be imputed to them. Yet the said outlawries stand in 
 force against them, whereby several of them that are descended from 
 
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 peers are thereby precluded from sitting in Parliament, and several 
 others of them, cannot derive their pedigree from their ancestors nor 
 entitle themselves to estates real or personal by them acquired. 
 They pray that they may be allowed to bring writs of error or take 
 some other legal course for reversing the said outlawries, and that 
 they may have copies of the several indictments and outlawries. 
 [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 81. ] 
 
 Observations upon the Bill for encouraging privateers now 
 brought into the House of Commons, by comparing it with the Act 
 now in force, reciting the enacting clauses of both Bills and pointing 
 out that the Act now in force prevents any collusive trade with 
 France, and provides that all prizes shall be brought in entire and 
 delivered to the officers of Prizes and Customs and some employed 
 by the captor, to secure the prizes from embezzlements till 
 adjudication in the Court of Admiralty; while the other takes only 
 notice of goods taken as prize, which are prohibited by the two 
 prohibition Acts, whereas there are several merchandises which may 
 prove prize and are not of the growth or manufacture of France. It 
 takes no notice of vessels so taken, or of retaken ships belonging to 
 his Majesty’s government, and does not provide that they shall be 
 brought into port entire, or mention whose custody they shall be 
 delivered into to preserve them from embezzlements, till they shall 
 be adjudged in the Court of Admiralty. [Jbid., No. 82.] 
 
 The substance of an Act of Parliament made in Ireland for 
 raising a tax by way of poll. Every person is to pay ls. except 
 protestant refugees, widows discharged from paying hearth money, 
 officers of the army commanded out of the kingdom, reformed 
 officers of Londonderry or Inniskillin having no freehold estate, 
 widows of such officers and of every soldier not having any freehold 
 when the husband was killed or died in his Majesty’s service, every 
 person that receives alms, all private soldiers of Londonderry or 
 Inniskillin, their wives, widows and children, and soldiers and sailors 
 in his Majesty’s service. Such as are chargeable by this Act with not 
 more than 1s. shall not pay for more than two children under sixteen. 
 Every archbishop to pay 50l.; a bishop, 20l.; archdeacon, 51. ; 
 canon, 2/. 10s.; prebendary, 2/. 10s. ; doctor of divinity, law or physic, 
 5l.; every parson having one benefice with cure of souls with 100l. 
 per annum, 3l,; every parson having more benefices than one with 
 cure of souls with 50/. and under 100/., 20s.; every parson 
 having a sinecure of 100/. per annum, 10l.; every incumbent not 
 resident, pluralist or not, shall pay for every benefice of 100/. per’ 
 annum, Whereon he is not resident, 10/.; every parson having one or 
 more benefices under the yearly value of 50/,, 10s. Every duke, 
 50l.; every marquis of, or having any estate in, this kingdom, 401. ; 
 every earl, as before, 301.; every viscount, as before, 25l.; every 
 baron, as before, 20/.; the eldest son of every duke so charged, 301. ; 
 the younger sons of such duke, 25/.; the eldest son of such marquis, 
 25l.; the younger sons, 20/1. This abstract gives the ratability of 
 every grade, and contains a proviso relative to Quakers, and gives in 
 detail 1 arrangements made for collection, &c. Printed. [Ibid., 
 No. 838. 
 
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 [Dublin.] 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 A list of the names of the knights, citizens and burgesses returned 
 to sit in Parliament begun and held at Dublin on Tuesday, 27 August, 
 1695. Printed. [S.P. Ireland 857, No. 84.] 
 
 Rough memoranda of the minutes of the Council Board of Ireland 
 relating to the rights of the papists. [Tbid., No. 85. | 
 
 Proceedings upon an appeal by Sir Stephen Rice and other Irish 
 lawyers against being taxed double under a certain (recited) clause of 
 the Poll Tax Act, citing the opinion of Mr. Ormesby, lately made 
 King’s counsel ; which appeal is negatived. [Jbid., No. 86. ] 
 
 List of arrears of rents out of the forfeited estates in the county of 
 Dublin, due at or before 1st November, 1695, giving particulars of 
 the estates of the following proprietors ; the names of present tenants 
 appear in brackets: Sir Luke Dowdal (Earl of Meath); Lord 
 Merrion (James Sherriffe, Richard Collins, John Drury, Thomas Hall 
 and Francis Shaw); Dr. Archbold (Patrick Brereton alias Thomas 
 Connor); Lord Trimleston (Peter Lawlesse); Lord Merrion (John 
 Craige, John Paine, Richard Ward, Andrew Cave, Christopher Fitz 
 Patrick, Peter Warren for Joseph Hutchinson) ; Christopher Mapas 
 (Richard Collins, John Rawlins); Richard Fagan (Hugh Evans and 
 Henry Walsh); Dr. Archbold (Peter Warren) ; Lord Merrion (John 
 Pugh) ; Richard Fagan (Thomas Daly) ; Lord Merrion (Hugh Jones) ; 
 Captain Nicholas Cusack (Anthony Suxbury, Benjamin Chetwood for 
 Captain Ford) ; John Stanly (William Dover); Mark Baggot (John 
 Laughan) ; Patrick Allen (Thomas Handcock and William Shane) ; 
 Earl Tyrconnel (William Chabenor); John Carbury (James Sherriffe) ; 
 John Talbot (Lord Lisburne) ; John Carbury (Andrew Doderidg) ; Sir 
 Thomas Hacket (Joseph Dean, senior) ; Colonel Aylmer (Mary Webb) ; 
 Francis Seagrave and Peter Nottingham (William Hall and William 
 Hart); Richard Fagan (John Fletcher); John Forster and Simon 
 Luttrell (Mr. Sympson and Lewis Jones); Sir Patrick Bellew (Michael 
 Harborn) ; Colonel Thomas Aylmer (Thomas Wilson, William Hall); 
 Allen of St. Wolstan (Thomas Hudson); Lord Tyreonnel (William 
 Dover); Peter Nottingham and — Talbot (Joseph Hoyle, Joseph 
 Budden) ; Lord Merion (Colonel Dobson) ; James Talbot (Widow 
 Ormsby) ; Peter Nottingham (Peter Nottingham); Thomas Warren, 
 Lord Tyreonnel (Roger Nowland); Edward Sweetman (Edward 
 Sweetman, Major Delamare); Thomas Warren, Lord Tyrconnel 
 (Thomas Warren alias Richard Reddy, Sir Ans. Mullady); — 
 Seagrave (Thomas Mutys); Maurice Connell (William Bennet, 
 Thomas Keightly, esq.); — Arthur (Anthony Maud or Edward 
 Ford, John Wilson, James Keigoe, John Walton); Lord Kingsland 
 (Thomas Fitz Gerald); Lord Dunsany (Edward Hall); Martin 
 Dillon (Wiliam Conron, Andrew Kenon, Madam Helen Dering) ; 
 Peter Notingham (Richard Bury, John Percivall); James Hacket 
 (heirs of Fitz Reary) ; Lord Kingsland (Patrick White) ; Christopher 
 Nugent (Thomas Williamson) ; James Hadsor (Thomas Williamson) ; 
 Lord Tyreonnel (John Stepney); Richard Fagan (John Fletcher, 
 Charles Monk); William Plunket (John Fletcher); John Stanly 
 (John Carson) ; Lord Barnwell (John Gyles) ; — Séagrave (Francis 
 Coghran) ; Lord Barnwell (Richard Saunders, William Gun, George 
 Gun, Lord Howth, Thomas Stepny); Captain Sutton (Charles Horn, 
 
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 Thomas Williamson); Lord Barnwell (William Payn); Martin 
 Dillon (Isaac Davis); Sir Valentine Brown (Henry Langford) ; 
 —- Wade (George Wallis or James Andrews, John Gyles); Lord 
 Barnwell (John Mitchell, Lord Howth); Allen of St. Wolstans (Peter 
 Wyn, William Conolly); Richard Fagan (John Enos) ; Lord Barn- 
 well (Samuell Byers); Lord Gormanston (Colonel Richard Coot) ; 
 — Hussy and — Seagrave (Thomas Daly); Robert Arthur (John 
 Finglas, Isaac Davis, Henry Monk); Lord Tyrconnel ete. (Dixy 
 Codington) ; Thomas Hussey (Thomas Hussey); — Corbally ete. 
 (Benjamin Thomas); Robert Preston etc. (Thomas Graham) ; 
 Michael Chamberlain (Patrick Connell, Christopher Mapas); Lord 
 Tyrconnel (Thomas Cooper); James Talbot (Mary Lyons); Lord 
 Tyreonnel ete. (Jeremy Rascoe) ; Lord Tyrconnel (Jocelyne Mead) ; 
 Thomas Dowd ete. (William Payn, Daniel Forest) ; Peter Nottingham 
 (John Hoyle, Lady Kennedy); Richard Dalton (Alderman William 
 Wats); Michael Chamberlain (Andrew Harvey); Richard Fagan 
 (Nicholas Meyler); James Hacket (Leonard Boyton) ; Martin Dillon 
 (Benjamin Thomas); Simon Luttrel (Henry Luttrel); — Harold 
 (Edward Dean); — Sarsfeild (John Den); James Talbot (John 
 Den); John Brown (Thomas Pope); Christopher Nugent, Martin 
 Dillon, James Hadsor and Richard Hadsor (James Tisdal and Colonel 
 Forster); Maurice Connell (Duke of Ormond); and Lord Merrion 
 (Wiliam and John Brereton, Thomas Daley; John Rawlins, Richard 
 Barnwell, Arthur Bush and Joseph Hutchinson). [S.P. Ireland 357, 
 No. 87. | 
 
 A list of messengers’ bills allowed by the Duke of Shrewsbury 
 in 1695, viz. the bills of Peter Marrisco and Wilham Knight, Henry 
 Legat, Ralph Young, Charles Kenge, Charles Maris, James Kitson, 
 John Bale, William Sutton, Richard Hopkins, Francis Clarke and 
 Simon Chapman, Samuel Hill, Wiliam Sutton, William Sharpe, 
 Edward Gibbs, Peter Newlin and William Jones, Peter Tom, John 
 King, and — Beake. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 345, p. 242. | 
 
 A full state of the hospitals in Flanders during the campaign 1695. 
 Delivered in by Mr. Lambe, contractor for victualling the hospitals. 
 [S.P. Dom. King William’s Chest 15, No. 102. ] 
 
 List of soldiers, dead and wounded, of the Dutch regiments before 
 Namur, from the commencement of the siege to the end. French. 
 [Ibid., No. 108. ] 
 
 Duplicate of the above. [Jbid., No. 104. | 
 
 Quarters of his Majesty’s forces; the names of twenty-five 
 regiments and their quarters are given. {|Jbid., No. 105.| 
 
 List of squadrons and battalions. [Jbid., No. 106. 
 
 Memorial to the King, that two marine regiments be recruited, as 
 the numbers have been so diminished by detachments to the Straits, 
 West Indies and elsewhere. [Jbid., No. 107. | 
 
 Mr. Browne’s case upon a grant of Needwood Forest: King 
 Charles II. had promised him a grant of the premises in return for 
 7,000/. and a conveyance of the lands at Sheerness, whereon the 
 
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 fort was built, with a release of all demands, the old reserved rents, 
 and an addition of so much as would amount, by increase of rent and 
 deduction of fees, to 701. per annum, and keeping for the King’s service 
 1,000 deer for ever, clear of all charges; and he desired he might use 
 the name of Mr. Browne, and his servant Boheme in the said grant. 
 Mr. Browne, at Colonel Vernon’s request, advanced and paid the 
 7,000. and the land at Sheerness was conveyed to his Majesty. 
 
 21 Nov., 1683, the grant passed the Duchy seal. 
 
 On the 4th of February, 1683, Mr. Brown lent Colonel Vernon 
 3,300/. upon security of the said grant. 
 
 On the 7th of March following Colonel Vernon, Browne and Boheme 
 conveyed the whole premises to Mr. Serjeant Birch, as to a moiety 
 for the use of Mr. Browne, and his heirs, in consideration of the said 
 7,000/., and as to the other moiety in trust to repay Mr. Browne the 
 said 3,300/. with interest in the first place, and afterwards to pay 
 Colonel Vernon’s other debts and then in trust for the Colonel and 
 his heirs. 
 
 On the 26th of February, 1685, a decree was made by Lord 
 Chancellor Jeffreys, upon an English bill brought in Chancery, for 
 setting aside the said grant, but reserving the land at Sheerness to 
 the King. In the said decree no care was taken of Mr. Browne or 
 for repayment of the 7,000l. or 8,3001., although the said Lord 
 Chancellor then declared that care should be taken of Mr. Browne 
 and that he should be paid all his money. 
 
 In Trinity Term, 1686, Browne brought a bill in Chancery against 
 the Attorney General and the Receiver General for the 7,000l. 
 purchase money, and had a decree for it. 
 
 Mr. Browne, conceiving he was aggrieved by the said first decree, 
 for that he was an innocent purchaser for a valuable consideration 
 and not privy to any undue means used in obtaining the said grant 
 (if any were), was by the said decree to lose his 3,300l. really lent, 
 and the interest thereof and of the said 7,000/. and all his charges, 
 and never received one penny profit out of the premises. 
 
 Upon their Majesties’ accession to the Crown, Mr. Browne being 
 advised that the decree was a strange and unusual decree, and very 
 erroneous, brought a bill of review to reverse the said decree. 
 
 In the winter session, 1690, a bill was brought into the House of 
 Lords to set aside the said grant, and after their Majesties’ counsel 
 had been heard, and the matters of fact examined, their lordships 
 passed the bill with a provision to pay Mr. Browne 8,300/. and interest; 
 but the session ended before it passed the Commons. 
 
 Then follows a specification of sums due to Mr. Browne. [S.P. 
 Dom. King William’s Chest 15, No. 108. | 
 
 Parliamentary memoranda: What is said of the lawfulness of 
 Sir Thomas Levingston’s orders as to the men of Glencoe, upon the 
 supposition of the refusing the King’s indemnity, is marked in the 
 Parliament’s address to the King upon the subject. 
 
 In Mr. Johnston’s memorial to the King of the proceedings of 
 Parliament [of Scotland] from the 9th to the 17th of May, he says 
 that the difficulties of getting through this session were greater than 
 he thought they would have been when he was in London, and that 
 at best the session would prove backward and discreditable ; there is 
 a mark upon these words in the memorial above mentioned. But 
 
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 WILLIAM III. 145 
 
 
 
 Mr. Johnston in his memorial from the 25th to the 28th of May says 
 that many of the members of parliament were made tractable by the 
 hopes ‘‘that one that was gone to the King did give them of changes, 
 but that the gift granted to the Earl of Lithlithgow was taken for a 
 declaration disingenuously dealt with.” 
 
 Mr. Carstairs has reason to think that the King would never have 
 known that many of the members of parliament were made tractable, 
 and much less that anything that Mr. Carstairs had said had con- 
 tributed to the making them so, had there not been a design ‘to 
 load him with disingenuity,’’ it having been thought that he had 
 contributed to the procuring of the Earl of Linlithgow’s gift, for Mr. 
 Carstairs had said all he had to say, for preventing heats in parlia- 
 ment, to any members that were of his acquaintance, before Mr. 
 Johnston wrote his first memorial, wherein there is no mention of 
 any tractableness of the parliament; but upon the contrary all hopes 
 of it removed. But the Earl of Linlithgow’s gift was not then come, 
 and so no colour for loading Mr. Carstairs with disingenuity. This 
 seems to be hard usage, but Mr. Carstairs has his integrity in the 
 King’s concerns for his support. 
 
 Some things relating to Glencoe are in a short memorial from the 
 18th to 20th June, in which is also an account of the communicating 
 that business to the parliament. In the memorial from the 25th to 
 28th June there is something about Glencoe that deserves the King’s 
 consideration, and seems to make it expedient to ask who gave the 
 orders for quartering upon Glencoe. 
 
 Karl Breadalbane’s business in the memorials from the 6th to the 
 11th June and from the 8rd to the 6th July. There is no account 
 eiven to the King of the act about the East India Company, but 
 only about the time it passed. There is a word or two about an act 
 passed in favour of companies for foreign trade, as it is marked in 
 the memorial of the 21st to 25th June. [S.P. Dom. King William’s 
 Chest, No. 109. | 
 
 A list of the land forces which the King thinks necessary to be 
 maintained in England, Scotland and beyond the seas, for the 
 service of the year 1695. [JZbid., No. 110.] 
 
 Disposition of the 2,500,000/. voted for the land forces this session, 
 for the year 1695. The sum voted falls short of answering the above 
 particulars by 401,014/. 15s. 9d., and yet there is no provision made 
 in the foregoing particulars for the ordnance, transports, arrears of 
 forage and all other extraordinary contingencies. [Jbid., No. 111.] 
 
 An account of all the manors, messuages, lands, tenements and 
 hereditaments belonging to the crown which are in charge before 
 the Auditor of Wales and not alienated. ([Jbid., No. 112.] 
 
 An estimate of the extraordinary charge of the army remaining 
 unpaid and payable. Arrears for the year 1694, besides several sums 
 advanced by Monsr. Schuylenburg, and which are to be repaid. 
 Extraordinary charge for the first nine months of the year 1695, 
 including charge of the hospitals, 25,0007... [Zbid., No. 113. ] 
 
 Draft of the privy seal, authorizing Henry Thynne, esquire, a 
 minor, son and heir apparent of Thomas, Viscount Weymouth, to 
 suffer recoveries of the manors and lordships of Warmister, Woodisons 
 
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 and Heaths, Corsley, Hunthell alias Huntenhull, Whitbourne and 
 Bugley, Deverell Longbridge, Monkton Deverell, and Hussey Deverell, 
 the house called Longleat House, the manors of Somerford, Sutton, 
 Fifield, Gurston alias Gerardston, Bratton, Somerford Matravers alias 
 Broad Somerford, in co. Wilts; Frome alias Frome Westwoodlands 
 and Frome Eastwoodlands, Frome St. Andrew’s, Walton, Lullington, 
 Kasthorrington and Cheddar, in co. Somerset ; and Baggendon in 
 co. Gloucester, &c., the hereditaments of Sir James Thynne, lately 
 deceased, with a view to a settlement on the marriage of the said 
 Henry with Grace Strode, daughter of Sir George Strode, knt., 
 sergeant at law. [S.P. Dom. Law Papers 1, p. 61.] 
 
 A memorial on behalf of the city of Limerick. In July, 1698, the 
 Lords Justices of [reland thought it absolutely necessary for the 
 support of the garrison of Limerick that barracks should be built 
 there, sufficient to contain 1,400 men, and accordingly Francis 
 Burton, esq., entered into articles with the then Lords Justices to do 
 this, and they built barracks in the King’s Castle in Limerick sufficient 
 to lodge six entire companies. These barracks were finished in 1694, 
 for building which the said Burton craves an allowance from the 
 government of about the sum of 600/. But ever since these 
 barracks have been built they have lain waste for want of beds and 
 other materials necessary for the lodgment of soldiers, which is 
 ereatly to the prejudice of the inhabitants of Limerick, as they are 
 over-burdened by quartering of soldiers. This being taken into 
 consideration by the then Lords Justices, they directed Francis 
 Cuffe, esq., the Lieutenant of the Ordnance, to enquire and inspect 
 what spare beds and other necessaries there were belonging to the 
 King at the new hospital, near this city, and it was found there were 
 about 150 beds. But Mr. Cuffe soon after dying no order was made 
 for the delivery of the beds. [S.P. Ireland 855, No. 80.] 
 
 Petition of Captain Connor O’Brien to the King. Daniel O’Brien, 
 senior, first Viscount Clare, died in 1691 in actual rebellion; 
 likewise his son and heir, Daniel O’Brien, junior, served as a colonel 
 of a regiment of foot under the French king against William ITI. 
 until the day of his death ; and also Charles O’Brien, now commonly 
 called Lord Clare, second son of the said Daniel O’Brien, senior, is 
 in arms in the French service. The said Daniel, Lord Clare the 
 father, and his said two sons have been actually attainted and out- 
 lawed in Ireland for high treason and rebellion, and their lands and 
 estates in that kingdom seised and sequestered. By settlement duly 
 made upon valuable and good considerations long before the last 
 rebellion of Ireland, the petitioner was and is lawfully entitled in 
 remainder for want of heirs male of the body of the said first 
 Viscount Clare to all and singular the lands and real estates of the 
 said Lord, he and your petitioner being of the same house and 
 family, and originally descended from two brothers. And the said 
 Charles, commonly now called Lord Clare, being the only issue male 
 living of the said Daniel, first Lord Clare, and he not being married, 
 your petitioner after his death without issue male will be rightly 
 entitled to the said lands and estates, notwithstanding the attainders 
 and forfeitures of the said father and two sons. That your petitioner, 
 being bred a protestant, was in 1689 attainted of high treason by 
 the pretended Parliament then sitting in Ireland, for no other cause 
 
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 WILLIAM III. 147 
 
 
 
 but being in the service of William III., which attainder was pro- 
 cured by the said Daniel, then Lord Clare, with design not only to 
 exclude your petitioner from his right in remainder to the said 
 estate, but also from his own estate then and for many years before 
 unjustly and most injuriously detained from him and his father by 
 the said Lord Clare. By the King’s success in reducing Ireland the 
 petitioner became freed from the said attainder, and having for 
 several years served in the army he conceives he is a proper object 
 of the King’s justice and favour. The said estate of Lord Clare in 
 value is not considerable, and being highly encumbered to protestant 
 creditors is of very little benefit to the King; and the petitioner 
 after the death of the said Charles O’Brien without issue male being 
 justly and by law entitled to the said estate, he therefore prays a 
 grant thereof. [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 88. | 
 
 Petition of Captain Connor O’Brien to the knights, citizens and 
 burgesses assembled in Parliament. Daniel, late Lord Viscount 
 Clare, was seised of several manors and lands in the county of Clare 
 in trust for the petitioner’s father and his heirs. The said Lord 
 Clare in the late King James’s time procured the petitioner by 
 express name to be attainted of treason in the late Parliament of 
 Treland, to the intent to hold the said lands free from the petitioner’s 
 trust, the petitioner being at that time and ever since in their 
 Majesties’ service in Ireland. The freehold and estate of the said 
 Lord Clare (together with that whereof he stood seised in trust for 
 the petitioner) by his being in actual arms under the late King in 
 Ireland, and otherwise by his aiding and assisting him, will be 
 vested in their Majesties. If it is intended to vest generally in their 
 Majesties all the estates of such persons as were in the late Irish 
 rebellion, thereby the petitioner’s right to his estate will be 
 endangered, unless his right therein be particularly saved, as was 
 the case in the bill formerly intended to pass. [Jbid., No. 89.]| 
 
 Attached is the form of a saving clause recommended to be mserted in 
 the Bill. [Ibid., No. 891.] 
 
 Copy of an act of the Irish parliament (7 William III. cap. 3) for 
 declaring void all attainders made in the late pretended parliament. 
 [Ibid., No. 90. | 
 
 A list of officers desired by Brigadier Sir John Hanmer to be 
 recommended for commissions in his regiment upon the death of 
 Captain Richard Hill. Lieutenant James Heane to be captain in 
 the place of Captain Richard Hill, deceased. Hnsign William Snead 
 to be lieutenant to Captain Roger Foulke in place of Lieut. Heane. 
 Mr. James Carvile to be ensign to Lieut. Colonel William Carvile. 
 [S.P. Ireland 357, No. 79.] 
 
 An account of the bombarding of Calais showing that the loss of 
 the English was not very great, the only person of note killed being 
 Captain Osborne, commander of the Aldborough ketch.  [S.P. 
 Dom. Naval, 4. | 
 
 Pass for Elizabeth Fox, wife of Lieutenant Fox in the Earl of 
 Tissex’s regiment of dragoons, with five children and her maid- 
 servant Elizabeth Midleton. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 346, p. 118. | 
 
1688-9. 
 Feb. 14. 
 
 1689. 
 April 1. 
 
 [May 21.] 
 
 July 20. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Aug. 1. 
 
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 Commission for Richard Bolton to be captain in a regiment not 
 specified. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 167, p. 123. | 
 
 Commission for Roger Goff to be lieutenant-colonel and captain of 
 a company in a regiment not specified. [bid.] 
 
 Petition of Edward Bryers, Thomas Taylor, William Smith the 
 younger and elder, Thomas Wyatt and Sylvester Wyatt of Ryde in 
 the Isle of Wight, mariners. They have been employed almost time 
 out of mind in carrying charcoal by sea from the New Forest into 
 Cornwall for the use of the refiners of tin. The present mayor of 
 Southampton has lately stopped some of their vessels, and forced 
 them to pay what he would, before they could proceed; whereby the 
 petitioners are much hindered and discouraged, and the tinners, 
 consisting of many thousand souls, injured and almost undone. 
 [S.P. Dom. William and Mary, 14, No. 1.] 
 
 Commission for William Berry, esq., to be leutenant-colonel and 
 captain in Colonel William Wolsley’s regiment; for Richard Wolsley, 
 esq., to be captain of a company in the same regiment; for John 
 Auchmuty, esq., to be captain of a company in the same regiment ; 
 and for Francis Foliot, esq., to be captain of a company in the same 
 regiment. |S.P. Dom. Entry Book 167, p, 121.] 
 
 Commission for Nathaniel Gittings to be lieutenant to Capt. 
 John Meole’s company, in a regiment not named. _ [Jbid., 
 p. 128. | 
 
 Portion of a news-letter. Upon Sunday, 23 June 1689, in the 
 parish church of Chester-le-Street, immediately after the Nicene 
 Creed, several persons, according to previous agreement, rushed out 
 of their pews to hinder the minister from going into the pulpit; 
 and, instead of the psalm which should then have been sung, there 
 was nothing but outcries, according to different affections, some 
 roaring out: Hang him, we’ll hear none of him, we'll be revenged ; 
 others: God bless him; ete. The minister, who was then in the 
 vestry as usual, goes into the choir, where he put a stop to several 
 as they were going out at that door, and called to them to return to 
 their seats and duties. In endeavouring to gain the pulpit he found 
 the whole body of the conspirators drawn up in very formidable 
 order, not suffering him to pass, till they were satisfied why he did 
 not pray. Being unable to gain the pulpit door, though he had 
 made considerable advances, he at last told them that by the present 
 authority none were to be prosecuted till the 1st of August next, 
 which reason availed more than the others he had advanced, and 
 the minister at length gained the pulpit. When he was seen there, 
 shouts were raised of: Out; turn out; and the congregation rushed 
 out of church, some threatening the minister with their sticks and 
 fists. About three score of sober persons, mostly women, remained 
 
1689. 
 
 1689-90. 
 Jan. 5. 
 
 Feb. 18. 
 
 _ Feb. 19. 
 March 1. 
 The Hague. 
 
 Feb. 20. 
 
 March 2. 
 The Hague. 
 
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 in their seats, and the minister proceeded, when about a score of 
 persons returned with their hats on, and proceeded to ring the 
 bells. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary, 14, No. 2.] 
 
 _Pass to Daniel Madden, gentleman, to go from London to Chester, 
 Liverpool, or Highlake, to embark for Ireland. [S.P. Dom. Entry 
 Book 340, p. 30.] 
 
 Commission for Thomas Price, esq., to be major, &c., in Colonel 
 William Wolsley’s regiment. [Jbid., 167, p. 121.] 
 
 The Harl of Portland to the King. Is surprised to learn from a 
 letter sent him by the King that the last of his letters has never 
 been received by him; he cannot understand this, as he took the 
 usual precautions when sending it; addressed it to Mr. Wildman, 
 and heard from Vander Poel, of the Brille, that it was received in 
 time for the packet boat. Although he does not remember the 
 contents of the letter, he is vexed to think that it should have been 
 read either in England or Holland. 
 
 The Pensionary will inform the King of events in the Assembly, 
 sending the resolution which has been taken without a dissentient: 
 voice. Is delighted to hear that the King thinks of coming to 
 Holland. As affairs stand at pregent, nothing would be so advan- 
 tageous; he could settle everything satisfactorily. Delays sending 
 this letter, to see if the gentlemen of Amsterdam make any other 
 propositions of agreement in the Assembly. 
 
 Will do his best to get the artillery ready. The linen sacks and 
 most of the tents will be sent with General Ginckle to-morrow, when 
 he starts. Refers to money matters; the tents and arms have cost 
 about 90,000 franes. Asks for some money to be advanced, and then 
 he will pay 20,000 franes to the Prince of Waldeck, and there are 
 other expenses of which he ventures to remind the King. 
 
 He will make those men who are to go to England march to the 
 vessels, so that they can be brought to London, and they shall bring 
 what is necessary with them, in case the King wishes them to go to 
 Ireland. He is very sorry that the King has been so badly served in 
 all the preparations for Ireland and the transport of the troops there. 
 Finds it impossible to leave Holland. 
 
 Dwells upon Dutch news and on the feeling in Amsterdam. 
 Sends an extract from a letter from Mons. de Welbrune with a 
 list of the regiment of the Karl of Oxford. They are anxiously 
 expecting a plenipotentiary from the King to attend the Congress. 
 The Elector has gone to Russia. They expect to hear from Berlin 
 about the troops, also from Zell, and if they do not hear soon from 
 the latter place, they will not make provision for those of Wolfen- 
 buttel. 
 
 Has just returned from the Assembly, nothing of importance 
 has happened there; the subject of money was again raised, but 
 owing to so few deputies being present the question was postponed 
 till the next day. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary, 14, No. 38.] 
 
 The same to the same. The King will have seen by his last letter 
 how anxious he is that his Majesty should come to Holland. 
 Knows, however, there are many difficulties in the way, for he has 
 so many affairs of importance, and so few people in whom he can 
 
150 
 1690. 
 
 Feb. 238. 
 
 March 5. 
 
 The Hague. 
 
 Feb. 25. 
 
 
 
 March 7. 
 The Hague, 
 
 Feb. 28. 
 March 10. 
 
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 trust to carry them on if he left Kngland. Mentions again the ill 
 conduct of the gentlemen of Amsterdam. Mons. de Ginckle will 
 inform the King about letters received from Mons. de Louvois. There 
 is treason about, and one can easily guess who are the traitors. 
 Mons. de Hubert and Mons. de Vrybergen have been very anxious 
 for the affair not to come to light. Describes events in Holland ; 
 the behaviour of the magistrates of Amsterdam has lost them the 
 goodwill of the people, both in the country and in the towns they 
 represent; the merchants and citizens have offered their services 
 against them. Does not think some of the propositions made are 
 desirable. Hopes by what he has said to have shown the King how 
 much good would be done by his presence. However, they will do 
 their best in Holland for his service. Speaks of the bad treatment 
 he receives in that country. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 14, 
 No. 4. | 
 
 The same to the same. Finds that another letter of his has been 
 lost in its transit. Is naturally much vexed, especially as he had 
 enclosed letters from friends of his in Amsterdam. He has no 
 doubt that the gentlemen of Amsterdam have intercepted the 
 letters. He encloses a memorandum of what he can remember of 
 the contents of this letter. Hopes for the future his letters will be 
 safe. Those offending must be punished. Nothing of importance 
 has happened in Amsterdam since his last letter. From the King’s 
 letter, he is afraid that his Majesty considers it impossible to come 
 to Holland. Regrets this very much, as the present is the occasion 
 most favourable for asserting his authority. {[Jbid., No. 5.] 
 
 The same to the same. His letters having been twice intercepted, 
 he is now afraid that what he writes will not reach the King, and 
 therefore anxiously awaits its acknowledgment. Is convinced that 
 the gentlemen of Amsterdam intercepted his letters. Discusses how 
 this can be proved. The interceptors must be punished severely, 
 or no letters will be safe that are written to the King, and no one 
 will dare to write confidentially to him. If the King came here, 
 those most obstinate in the Council would receive their death-blow. 
 They have behaved in such a manner that the republic is in danger, 
 and the hearts of the people are being alienated from it. There are 
 divisions in the Maison de Ville, and the magistrates cannot be 
 changed unless the King is there. Has just heard that his last letter 
 has reached the King. Continues, however, to impress upon his 
 Majesty the necessity of taking every precaution to insure the safe 
 transit of letters. Discusses the affairs in hand. If the King came 
 only for a week everything could be put on a firm and lasting footing. 
 There may be a tumult in Amsterdam. He has done his best to 
 prevent this. Desires to leave the country, but there are many 
 difficulties in the way. Asks for more positive orders and directions 
 about hiring transport vessels to go to Ireland. Has hired three for 
 the artillery which can go to Ireland as soon as desired. Continental 
 news. [Jbid., No. 6.] 
 
 The same to the same. Mentions the good effects which would 
 accrue from the King visiting Holland. Repeats that the magistrates 
 of Amsterdam have lost the confidence of everybody. Refers to 
 letters’ being intercepted. [Jbid., No. 7.] 
 
1690. 
 March 1. 
 
 Mareh 11. 
 
 The Hague. 
 
 / ~ 4 
 March 5. 
 
 The Hague. 
 
 March 5%. 
 
 The Hague. 
 
 March +5. 
 
 The Hague. 
 
 March 44. 
 
 The Hague. 
 
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 The same to the same. Has had an interview with Mons. Witsen 
 at the Pensionary’s house, and he has assured him of the good 
 intentions and sincerity of the burgomasters and of his conviction 
 that both the King’s business and the writers will soon be settled. 
 Eneloses a declaration made in the Assembly. Refers to his own 
 business in the States. Has spoken to the burgomasters as to their 
 sentiments towards the King. Witsen greatly resents letters having 
 been intercepted, and even suggests the breaking off of his contract 
 to fay letters to England. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 14, 
 No. 8. 
 
 The same to the same. Sends the resolution taken in the 
 Assembly; it differs from one taken in January. In the last 
 resolution there is evident proof that though the King is in England, 
 they wish to maintain his rights and his prerogatives. In other 
 matters the States seem to have acted well, but the writer believes it 
 to be through ignorance and not through desire to do good. Suggests 
 that the King should write a letter of gentle remonstrance to the 
 States. Mentions his own affairs in Amsterdam and the subject of 
 his return to England. It is agreed to augment the sea force by six 
 large vessels, but this has not been agreed to by the Council of War. 
 Arrangements for watching Namur, Charleroi, and Mons. Hopes to 
 leave Holland in a week, and wonders if Count de Solms will have 
 ay then. Count de Schomberg will return with him.  [xbid., 
 Wares 
 
 The same to the same. Recommends Joris de Waert to be elected 
 sheriff, in preference to Jan Blaew, previously recommended by the 
 writer, upon Witsen’s representation, but now found to be an 
 unreliable man. [Jbid., No. 10. | 
 
 The same to the same. Explains that, owing to contrary winds, 
 they have not been able to send away letters. The meetings in 
 the Assembly have been very stormy. Tells the King what has 
 been done in providing vessels and equipping them in various 
 towns. Hopes before Easter to be able to leave Holland. Has 
 made his preparations for departure, although his friends try to 
 dissuade him from going. Congratulates the King on the success 
 of his troops in Ireland. Thinks matters in Amsterdam will be 
 brought right soon by firmness.  MRidicules Wildman’s idea that 
 his letters were neglected at Harwich. Has written to Berlin about 
 the troops. [Ibid., No. 11.] 
 
 The same to the same. Has been much distressed to see in a 
 letter from the King to the Prince of Waldeck, that he (the King) 
 considers affairs in such a condition that he is afraid he will not be 
 able to readjust them. Calls to the King’s mind how, up to the 
 present, God has blessed his undertakings, and that all Europe is 
 interested in his affairs. The difficulty in Holland has probably 
 prevented others from arising, and as it has caused a declaration to 
 be made by the King, stating his determination to uphold his 
 authority, it is not altogether a regretable matter. Begs the King 
 not to be despondent. ‘T'hose who have such a weight of responsi- 
 bility on them must be subject to doubts and griefs. Wishes that 
 
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 he could be near the King to comfort and help him. Affairs in 
 Amsterdam. Discusses the parties in the Assembly. Hopes soon to 
 be able to leave, and will then come straight to England without 
 going to Loo. The artillery will all be embarked directly, as also 
 the cannon. ‘The troops are being dispersed, some to the Prince of 
 Waldeck. Is-expeeting Count de Solms. [S.P. Dom. William and 
 Mary 14, No. 12.] 
 
 March $3. The same to the same. Arrived at Loo on Saturday, where he 
 
 The Hague. found everything in good order and the trees growing well. On Sun- 
 day after the sermon, left for Dusen; here the water had overflowed, 
 and done a great deal of damage; this was owing to the gardeners’ 
 carelessness. Set things in order there. His affairs are not yet — 
 settled in the Assembly. Mons. Dankelmann informs him that the 
 Elector will give troops to the King, the Prince of Waldeck to have 
 charge of them. Jealousies may arise between the various princes ; 
 if so, the King of Sweden will be mediator. It will be very necessary 
 to send money for the people in Piedmont. Refers to the transit of 
 letters. The artillery will leave with the writer, and Granmur with 
 the Spanish Horse. [Jbid., No. 13.] : 
 
 May 4. Memorandum of the return of Charles Scarborough, esq., late 
 envoy extraordinary to Portugal.. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 840, 
 p. 162. | 
 
 May 24. Commission for Robert Gee, esq., to be captain of the company 
 
 Kensington. of which Captain Atkins was late captain in the Duke of Bolton’s 
 regiment of foot commanded by Lieut.-Col. Henry Holt. [S.P. Dom. 
 Entry Book 166, p. 310. ] 
 
 May 30. Brevet for Sir James Jeffreys to command as colonel of foot. 
 [Lbid. 167, p. 122.] 
 [ June. | Statement that Thomas Walcott was indicted for high treason, in 
 
 385 Charles II., for compassing the King’s death, and sentenced to be 
 executed at T'yburn, but an error occurring in the record of judgment 
 thereof in the King’s Bench, John Walcott, son and heir of Thomas, 
 took out a writ of error to reverse the attainder. The court gave 
 judgment in his favour, to the prejudice of the Countess of 
 Roscommon, whose husband had a grant of Walcott’s estate, in 
 consideration of a just debt. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 8, 
 No. 28a. | 
 
 Aug. 2. News Letter. Letters from Falmouth of the 28th past, advise 
 London. that on the 27th the French Expedition, packet-boat, having a fair 
 gale of wind, went to sea, when she saw 5 men-of-war, and one galley 
 and a fire ship, which were made also from the hills. By the galley 
 they knew them to be French, and seeing them endeavouring to get 
 between them and the land, the captain tacked and came into port ; 
 upon this advice the country was very much alarmed, and all 
 unanimously marched to the sea side to defend the coast. On the 
 28th they made about 18 sail off from Mount’s Bay, but they stood to 
 the westward, and what they are is not yet known. Letters from 
 Weymouth of the 30th, advise that, on the 29th, there passed by that 
 port, to the westward, 15 sail, believed to be French, from Havre de 
 
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 Grace, 4 being great ships; they add that a man of Poole has made 
 oath that he saw, off that place, 100 sail of ships standing to the 
 westward, and it is believed that they were some part of them, which 
 were made, the day before, from Weymouth, though they could not 
 discover the whole. 
 
 From Lyme, of the 28th, they write that the French fleet shot 
 [into] Teignmouth balls of 30 lbs. weight, and burnt the town, after 
 they had plundered it, carrying away with them the Custom House 
 boats and three guns. On the 81st one of their galleys stood into 
 Lyme, so near the shore that several guns were fired at her from 
 their forts, but could not reach her, but from the cliff was fired a 
 gun that did reach her, on which she went off to the westward. 
 
 Our Scotch letters of the 26th say that since the “‘recruit”’ of money 
 the Highlanders received from Ireland, they have increased to about 
 4,000 foot, and 400 horse commanded by Colonels Ca . . . . and 
 Graham, and have fallen down into the Lowlands, near Stirling, 
 plundering the country. They have, it is said, taken some horses of 
 Lord Eglinton’s troop, which were grazing. The country people 
 
 round about have put themselves in a posture of defence, until 
 
 Major-General Mackay with the forces under his command can 
 come to their assistance, orders having been sent him to hasten down 
 to them. Colonel Lowther is come to Banbury, who says that Major- 
 General Mackay would be in the city of Perth the 26th past ; he adds 
 that Sir Thomas Levingstone was at Perth, indisposed by fatigue. 
 Some persons, who were prisoners in Edinburgh, are removed to the 
 Bass, the strongest prison in the kingdom. 
 
 This day we received three posts from Iveland of the 24th, 26th, 
 and 29th past, confirming the surrender of Waterford on the 25th 
 inst., at which time the enemy marched out with their arms, colours 
 furled, two carts of baggage, without drums beating; there were about 
 14,000 of them, who were to be conducted to Mallow in the county of 
 Cork. His Majesty entered the town that day, and viewed the 
 fortifications, and found 35 guns mounted; there were also 3,000 
 barrels of French wheat, and other provisions ; four ships, being laden 
 from France, were seized by two of our men-of-war, just as they were 
 going thence. Duncannon Fort has likewise capitulated and was 
 surrendered the day following ; they add that Lieut.-General Douglas 
 had drawn off the greatest part of his army from Athlone, leaving 
 behind 2,000 foot to maintain his batteries, they wanting ammuni- 
 tion, provisions, great guns and large bombs, those they had being 
 too small, and the horse not being able to subsist for want of forage, 
 the enemy having destroyed it; it is said he will march some other 
 way over the river to invest them on Connaught side. It is also said 
 his Majesty has thoughts of changing his resolution of coming for 
 England, intending to go back to his army; if this be so, the 
 regiment of foot that was to embark the 29th, will be countermanded. 
 The regiments that were of Hastings, Beaumont, and Trelawny, the 
 horse for his Majesty’s guard, were the Earl of Portland’s, Count 
 Schomberg’s, Col. Villiers’ and Hayford’s dragoons and three troops 
 of his Majesty’s guards. [This passage is so in the document, but the 
 sense is not clear.| An express this afternoon states that the french 
 fleet were sailing towards Topsham, near Exeter. [Greenwich 
 Hospital News Letters 8, No. 119a, and Greenwich Hospital News 
 Letter Entry Book 5, p. 17.] 
 
154 
 
 1690. 
 August. 
 
 Sept. 16. 
 Dublin. 
 
 Sept. 25. 
 From before 
 
 Cork. 
 
 Sept. 27. 
 Dublin. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 Plan of the armies encamped near Halle; the regiments of Spain, 
 Holland and Brandenburg are marked in different colours to dis- 
 tinguish them from each other. The names of the various eel 
 are given. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 14, No. 14.] 
 
 Thomas Coningsby to [the Earl of Nottingham]. The station 
 the King has been pleased to leave me in here will, I fear, oblige me 
 often to be troublesome to you. I doubt not I shall ‘have your 
 pardon when lam so. [S.P. Ireland 352, No. 27.] 
 
 The Earl of Marlborough to the same. We came into Cork 
 harbour on Monday the 22nd, and next morning I landed all the 
 men, and on Wednesday, the 24th, I came here, notwithstanding that 
 I heard nothing of the horses, being resolved not to lose this good 
 weather. At our arrival here they lined the hedges, but were very 
 easily beaten from them; we only lost three men, and this day we 
 are masters of a place called the ‘‘ Catte,’ which commands the 
 castle and the town. I hope in God, in a few days, his Majesty will 
 be master of the town. This day I believe we have lost about ten 
 men. ‘To-morrow I hope to make a breach in the castle, which, if 
 I do, I shall storm it the next day. They flatter themselves that 
 they will have relief to-morrow. I have as yet only 200 horse and 
 25 dragoons, but shall have 300 horse more to-morrow. Holograph. 
 [Ibid., No. 28. ] 
 
 Viscount Sydney and Thomas Coningsby to the same. We lately 
 gave you an account of four proclamations issued by us, in order to 
 their Majesties’ service. One was to encourage, during the approaching 
 winter, the importation of coals in this harbour of Dublin; this 
 proclamation prohibits the pressing of seamen belonging to colliers 
 trading hither, without our particular order for that purpose. Since 
 when, understanding that in contempt of our authority a seaman 
 was pressed from on board such a vessel called the T'rwe Love of 
 Whitehaven, by the leutenant and some of the crew belonging to 
 the Smyrna Merchant, a ship in their Majesties’ service, since sailed 
 for England, we have thought fit to send you the enclosed deposi- 
 tion, touching that matter, desiring that when that ship arrives in 
 Kingland, such course may be taken for punishing the offenders as 
 may for the future deter others from the like practice. 
 
 We now send you three other proclamations published this 
 day by us, the necessity for which we conceive so great, from the 
 certain information we have received of the constant correspondence 
 held between the enemy’s quarters and their friends and relations in 
 ours, that without them we hold it impossible to preserve our own. 
 We have received news of Lord Marlborough’s arrival within six miles 
 of Cork. 
 
 Major-General Scravenmoer marched on the 21st., with 1,200 
 horse and dragoons, to a place within six miles of the city, on 
 this side the water, and intended, when Tettau came up with his two 
 battalions of foot to guard that pass, to leave it himself and join 
 Lord Marlborough. The Duke of Wurtemberg goes in person with 
 2,400 Danes, and the detachments out of the Dutch and French foot 
 will make them 4,000. All our ammunition ships are to go round 
 from Waterford; 200 artillery horses are already dispatched, and 
 
1690. 
 
 Sept. 30. 
 Dublin Castle. 
 
 Oct. 8. 
 Dublin. 
 
 WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 155 
 
 Pereyra has gone to Youghall to provide bread. Mons. Ginckle in 
 the meantime will keep about Cashel, one of our frontiers, to cover 
 that part of the country, and has directed Lieut.-Gen. Douglas to 
 countermarch the enemy, so that, if possible, he may at least keep 
 them on the other side of the Shannon. He has also ordered him 
 to reinforce Mullingar, so as to secure the country hitherwards from 
 Athlone, and Wolseley will be sent to the North to encounter 
 Balldarock McDonnell. 
 
 T'wo persons, being sent from our quarters to Galway, confirm the 
 departure of the French this day fortnight, two days sooner than 
 was intended, they being frightened by a report that ten English 
 ships were coming there; they left many of their sick behind them 
 in the suburbs of the town, but promised to return shortly with a 
 vast supply ; Tyreonnel and Lauzun went off with them. Hncloswres 
 not here preserved. [S.P. Ireland 352, No. 29.] 
 
 Proclamation forbidding the indiscriminate purchase of goods, 
 cattle or horses, except in open market. Printed. [Ibid., No. 80.] 
 
 [Viscount Sydney] to the Earl of Portland. This town and people 
 are overjoyed with the news of the taking of Cork and Kinsale, and 
 towards night we shall have bonfires in all the streets. It will extend 
 our frontiers to a great degree, and contribute much to the starving 
 our enemies on the other side of the Shannon. They arealready in a 
 miserable condition, as we find by several who have lately left them. 
 ‘“‘The papist women are very angry with us; they say we are the 
 cruelest, barborousest men that ever came into the government ; 
 and it is only because we send them to their husbands. The truth 
 of it is, it does vex them most extremely, and the consequences to us, 
 I believe, will be very considerable.” 
 
 I had a letter last night from the governor of Drogheda to acquaint 
 me that he had found arms concealed in several ‘‘ popish houses,”’ 
 that he had secured the men, and desired to know what he should do 
 with them. I sent him the King’s proclamation, and bade him put 
 it strictly in execution, which was the best order I could give him. 
 
 I hear complaints of our soldiers every hour, and therefore you 
 must be contented to have something of it every post. I am sorry 
 to name those who are most faulty, because some of them are my 
 friends ; but everything must yield to the King’s service, and there- 
 fore I ask their pardon. I find itis not the common soldiers who do 
 the mischief, for they are contented with a cow, but it is the officers, 
 and the general officers, who ruin the poor people; the other day 
 Lieut.-Col. Pope took away from a gentleman four hundred fat oxen. 
 Lieut.-Gen. Douglas’s men have carried away all the cattle, goods, 
 beds, and clothes from the country where he has lately been, to 
 provide for their winter quarters. Sir John Lanier has possessed 
 himself of Lord Tyrconnel’s house, and has stocked it with his own 
 cattle to a vast number. 
 
 Kirke has taken Lislip [Leixlip], Mr. Russell, Lord Limerick’s 
 estate, which are all the King’s; if this be done all Ireland over, it will 
 be 200,000/. loss to him, whereas if the people were encouraged, and 
 suffered to plough their land, the King would have this time twelve- 
 month a considerable rent. In the county of Kildare they have taken 
 forty plough horses in two parishes, and the corn which was going to 
 
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 Oct. 5. 
 Dublin. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 be putin the ground. Things of this kind we hear from all parts, and 
 if it is not prevented there will certainly be a famine. Wolseley’s 
 men do a great deal of mischief, but they sometimes do service. ‘The 
 other northern men think of nothing but stealing for themselves. 
 Kirke and Lanier, as I have said, have taken their quarters in the 
 best houses of the King’s, seven miles off, and are not satisfied with 
 that, but are already sending for quarters for themselves and their 
 men in this town, which Col. Foulkes told me just now. 
 
 I send you a copy of the letter we wrote to the sheriffs about 
 quartering of soldiers, which I hear from some of the neighbouring 
 counties will be readily complied with, and to give them their due, 
 they are ready to do any thing that is reasonable. Adjutant-General 
 Russell having taken up his quarters at Lord Limerick’s house 
 at Castletown, had seized upon some of the King’s corn and 
 No a it to Dublin market to be sold. Copy. [S.P. Ireland 352, 
 No. 81. 
 
 Viscount Sydney and Thomas Coningsby to [the Earl of Notting- 
 ham]. A person well recommended to us, and fit for such a service, is 
 employed by us to go to Limerick, if possible, or otherwise as near 
 it as he can, to find out the condition of the place, and to try 
 whether the governor, or any others who may be properly made 
 use of in such an occasion, may be dealt with to deliver up the 
 place, from whom we expect to hear in a few days. 
 
 Last Tuesday we issued the enclosed proclamation, which we hope 
 will have good effect. The same day we received the enclosed address 
 from the gentry of the county of Meath, which we hear will be 
 followed from the rest of the counties in the kingdom, and that day 
 also the Lord Mayor of this city was sworn before us in the absence 
 of a Chief Baron, before whom that solemnity should otherwise have 
 been performed. 
 
 Considering how the matter has been hitherto managed between 
 the Commissioners of Enquiry into Forfeited Estates and the 
 Commissioners of the Revenue, we have thought it for their 
 Majesties’ service, and have accordingly directed, that the Com- 
 missioners of Enquiry shall, from time to time, certify to the 
 Commissioners of the Revenue what estates or goods of ‘“‘ forfeiting 
 persons”’ they have particularly informed themselves in, either as 
 to their values, or otherwise; and thereupon the Commissioners of 
 Revenue are forthwith to proceed to let the lands at the best rates 
 they can, and to sell the goods to such buyers as will give most for 
 them. But we hope to hear soon from his Majesty, that he has 
 taken better care in this matter, than it is possible for us to do at 
 present. 
 
 In order to the better accommodation of the soldiers in their 
 quarters this winter, we have thought it fit to write to the several 
 sheriffs for a provision of ‘salt and sour,” a term the soldiers give 
 it, which we have good reason to believe will be very satisfactory also 
 to the country. 
 
 Yesterday a very intelligent person gave us, upon oath, the 
 enclosed account of the enemy’s affairs and circumstances in 
 Connaught; and understanding that there are several officers now 
 in the enemy’s service, who would desert, if they may be received 
 
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 in protection as to their lives, we have thought fit to encourage it, 
 and to give allowance to some for so doing, which we hope will be a 
 means to divide their party and break their measures. 
 
 Considering the great want of arms for the militia throughout the 
 kingdom, whereof we have had frequent complaints from all parts, 
 we have thought it for their Majesties’ service to supply them with 
 what could conveniently be spared out of the stores, taking an engage- 
 ment from each county to restore the like quantity into the stores 
 by the 25th of March next, having in the meantime engaged them 
 to arm themselves, which they seem very willing to do. We have 
 also, by a letter sent last night to Lord Granard, encouraged his 
 treating with Colonel Grace for the delivering up of Athlone, having 
 promised life and estate to him and his son, on those terms which 
 Lord Granard sent us word he believed would be accepted. [,S.P. 
 Ireland 352, No. 82.] Enclosing :— 
 
 (1) The Lords Justices to the Sheriffs of the various counties. It being 
 necessary that the army, wm considerable numbers, should be garrisoned 
 in frontier towns and other places convenient, to annoy the rebels and 
 defend those parts under their Majesties’ obedience, rt thereby happens 
 that the inhabitants of such places are overburdened with the quartering 
 of soldiers, whilst those of other parts are free from such burdens ; we 
 therefore recommend you, at the public Sessions, to consider of methods 
 to regulate this inequality, computing the quartering of soldiers for firing, 
 candle-light, salt and vinegar at 5d.aweek. (Copy.) Clancarty House, 
 Dublin, 2 October, 1690. [Ibid., No. 821.] 
 
 (2) An account of the present posture of the Irish affairs as it has been 
 delivered to us upon oath by a person of credit who left the enemy’s 
 quarters on Thursday week. | 
 
 First the government, being about a month ago quitted by Lord 
 Tyrconnel, at present is managed by the Chief Justice Nugent, Judge 
 Martin, Judge Lynch, the Duke of Berwick, Sir Michael Creagh, John 
 Brown, a lawyer, and Colonel Sarsfield. 
 
 Secondly, the army is commanded in chief by the Duke of Berwick, 
 and next by Colonel Sarsfield. 
 
 Thirdly, provisions are extraordinarily scarce, of all sorts; they 
 have neither ale, beer nor brandy, only there is a little Madeira wine 
 among the officers, which they never drink but with water; but the 
 common soldiers have nothing but water, and sometimes milk mixed 
 with it; but that 1s no general provision nor at public charge. 
 
 Fourthly, all the inhabitants within their quarters have been highly 
 taxed, two parts out of every ten of all sorts of corn, and m Galway 
 every housekeeper paid 1s. 6d. per day for carrying on the work to fortify 
 and repawr the town. 
 
 Fifthly, there is but one magazine of corn in the whole quarters, and 
 that is in Galway, from whence are weekly supplied Limerick, Athlone, 
 Sligo, and Bannagher; but it is so very sparingly given out, that the 
 common soldiers are forced to live most on potatoes. 
 
 Sixthly, all sorts of commodities are extravagantly dear; salt is 161. 
 a barrel, sugar 80s. a pound, Irish soap 16s. a pound, men’s shoes 30s. 
 a pair, women’s 20s., and children’s shoes 10s. a pair, common Irish 
 friese 20s. a yard, and the portion of flour, usually called a halfpenny 
 roll, is not to be had under half-a-crown, all brass money ; silk or linen 
 are not to be had at any rate at all. 
 
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 1690. 
 
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 Seventhly, all the forage within their quarters was destroyed by the 
 ‘* Creats,” so that their horse is in a very weak condition, not having a 
 gram of oats, and all the provision they have, or could make for them 
 this winter, is that they saved some low ground in the county of Mayo, 
 towards Sligo. 
 
 Highthly, they have no won for either pick-axes or horse-shoes, or 
 any other use but what 1s made at an iron work near ‘ the Owls,” 
 towards Sligo, a place which les quite open; they have also ron from 
 Sir Henry Waddington, from Scariff, which hes on the Shannon below 
 Killaloe, and nine miles this side of Limerick ; but they are chiefly 
 supplied from the former tron works, as also with bomb shells ; there are 
 also musket barrels made of that vron. 
 
 Ninthly, the common soldiers are for the most part very sickly, 
 and disheartened with the want of provisions and clothes, those who 
 were at Limerick especially, seeing no sign of any provision making 
 for them of either, their very shoes and stockings being to be had no 
 nearer than from France, vf they may hope for them from thence, but 
 brogues or Irish pumps they had some. 
 
 Tenthly, all the French went off to sea from Galway to France, though 
 kept back till within this week with contrary winds, and forced, as was 
 also Lord Tyrconnel, of whom they hear nothing since his departure, to 
 hide themselves in a small creek under the county of Clare, called 
 Carricknaholt, for fear of Sir Cloudesly Shovel’s fleet, which was seen 
 that way. The French brought off with them all ther artillery and 
 ammunition, and parted so dissatisfied with the Irish as to curse them 
 and thevr country, nor would they so much as sell them anything they 
 had to part with, but chose rather to leave them gratis with Protestants ; 
 one left two waggons with a Protestant, kinsman to this informant. 
 
 Eleventhly, the Irish gentry, looking upon themselves as undone, seem 
 desperately resolved to hold out to the last, though sensible they cannot 
 abide it; but, however, they are mightily encouraged by their intelligence, 
 which is very good, thew spies giving them a constant account of all 
 things that are done here. 
 
 Twelfthly, most of the people who were in Limerick have now come 
 to Galway, and most of their valuable things, there being only, as the 
 informant is told, five regiments left there, seven nm Galway, five in 
 Athlone, and seven at the Shannon-side, towards Bannagher, which are 
 commanded by Sarsfield, namely his own regiment, Colonel Nugent's 
 formerly Lord Dungan’s regiment of dragoons, Lord Galmoye’s regiment 
 of horse, and Colonel Nugent and Colonel Oxbury’s regiments of foot ; 
 the names of the other two this informant did not hear, and these are all 
 who either do, or mdeed are ir any condition to march and “ scout 
 about’? from place to place, the rest of the army generally being very 
 sick. 
 
 Thirteenthly, the outworks of Galway are extended a mile from the 
 town, but not very defendible, and if taken overlook the town; nor 
 is this on only one side, for Fort Hill side, which is eastward, lies 
 exposed and unfortified, and towards the water a great part of the wall 
 fell, and killed several soldiers and a poor woman, which, with another 
 accident of the same nature, on the other side of the town, has 
 discouraged the inhabitants mightily ; for having raised a great earth- 
 work in dry weather, upon the fall of some rain it all, fell down again, 
 but is since repaired by a dry stone wall. But, however, this formant 
 
1690. 
 
 Oct. 8. 
 
 The camp 
 before 
 Kinsale. 
 
 Oct. 21. 
 Dublin. 
 
 WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 159 
 
 knows the town-folks will never abide a siege; if they can get any sort 
 of conditions. 
 
 There was a report, but uncertain, that a French ship with powder 
 had come in as this informant came away. All the Protestants 
 have their liberty, but many of them are reduced to beggary by the 
 soldiers who plunder them, without control, of all which is without 
 doors, and eat up all they have within. Most of the persons 
 of the best quality who went from hence are forced to live, by 
 Jamilies, in garrets and other single rooms, the windows mostly unglazed, 
 and their beds only ‘‘ pallets” on the ground ; this they doin Eyrecourt 
 House near Bannagher, and generally in Galway. They seem to have 
 no apprehensions of any attack on the Sligo side, and therefore lie very 
 open on that side, though, as said before, their won all comes from 
 those parts, and thew winter provision for their horse lies all that 
 way. [S.P. Ireland 352, No. 3211. ] 
 
 The Earl of Marlborough to [the same]. The reason you do not 
 hear oftener from me is that the passage between this and Dublin is 
 yet so difficult that I do not care to write often that way. If I had 
 not been very much disappointed as to the cannon, I should, by this 
 time, have been nearly master of this place, for which now we must 
 have patience eight days longer; the cannon will not be here till 
 to-morrow, and then there shall be no time lost, for there is no great 
 pleasure in lying in the field in such weather as thisis. The enemy’s 
 horse has advanced to a place called Macroom, twelve miles from 
 hence, where they expect Sarsfield with their foot. If they come we 
 shall be ready to receive them. I think it would be very much for 
 his Majesty’s service if some money was sent to Cork and Kinsale, so 
 that the garrisons might pay for what they take, by which the 
 country would be preserved ; and without, it will be destroyed; for 
 I need not tell you that we have little or no money. I have been 
 forced to borrow what money I could to encourage and pay, so that 
 the King’s service might go on. All the shift I could make is now 
 at an end; however, I do not doubt but in eight days more the King 
 will be master of this place, which is quite another thing than has 
 been represented. 
 
 Postscript.—I send you a letter I received last night from Mons. 
 Ginckle, which I desire you will show the King, so that his Majesty 
 may see they think it necessary to have some ships this winter in the 
 mouth of the Shannon. Hncloswre not here preserved.  |TIbid., 
 No. 838. | 
 
 Viscount Sydney to [the same]. This morning, with much ado, we 
 got Mr. Skinner on board, and the wind being fair I imagine he will 
 be at Chester to-morrow; but he is very weak, and it will be some 
 time before he is conveyed to London. I do not think I have given 
 you an account of a command given me by the King concerning 
 Mr. Thadey Fitzpatrick and Mr. Luke Hore, friends of Colonel 
 Fitzpatrick. I have enquired what sort of men they are, and find 
 they have the worst reputation of anybody in the whole country. 
 I beg the Colonel’s pardon for it, but I would not have the King 
 give either of them his pardon or protection for 10,000l.  [Zbid., 
 No. 34. | 
 
160 
 
 1690. 
 
 Oct. 28. 
 
 Clancarty 
 House, 
 Dublin. 
 
 [ Oct. | 
 
 Nov. 10. 
 
 Lisburne. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 Viscount Sydney and Thomas Coningsby to [the same]. Since 
 our last letter to you, we issued the enclosed proclamation for a day 
 of public thanksgiving throughout this kingdom, in observance of 
 what his Majesty has been pleased to do lately in England, and 
 we desire you to cause the prayers used on that occasion to be sent 
 us, that they may be dispersed here in convenient time. We have 
 lately inspected the charge of the hospital near this city, and propose 
 a considerable reduction of it, which, in a few days, we hope to give 
 you an account of. We formerly gave you an account that we 
 furnished the militia of several counties of the kingdom with arms 
 out of their Majesties’ stores, to be returned by the 25th of March 
 next, by which time they were to provide themselves with arms 
 necessary for that service. Since when, there having been some 
 
 _ proposal made for our encouragement to be given for bringing arms 
 
 into the kingdom for that use, we have written to the governors and 
 sheriffs of the several counties, acquainting them with it, in order 
 to them making it known to the several militia officers, so that it 
 may be ascertained what quantity of arms of each sort will be taken, 
 and at what rates, for arming the militia and protestants throughout 
 the kingdom. 
 
 On Saturday last we received a letter from Lieut.-Col. Pipar, who 
 commands the regiment of ‘‘ Monpieuliar”’ [Montpellier ?], as if he 
 expected a considerable body of the enemy immediately to fall upon 
 his quarters, but we are since well satisfied there were not above forty 
 of them, who boldly ventured through that part of the country, and 
 marched into a more mountainous and remote part, of whom we 
 have not yet heard anything further. The Commissioners of Oyer 
 and 'Terminer, who lately went into the county of Louth, have now 
 returned, and have given us an account of their proceedings on that 
 circuit, whereby we have good reason to hope that the late 
 ‘excursions ”’ of parties from the North, which occasioned much mis- 
 chief to other parts of the country, by their robbing the protected 
 inhabibants, protestants as well as papists, of their substance, will 
 for the future be in a great measure prevented. We shall observe 
 their Majesties’ commands in reference to the Commissioners of the 
 Great Seal here for their proceedings in Chancery causes preparatory 
 to hearings against the arrival of the Lord Chancellor. Enclosure 
 not here preserved. [S.P. Ireland 352, No. 35. | 
 
 The case of the Earl of Salisbury in relation to Mr. Robert Cecil’s 
 bill in parhament. Compare Lords’ Journals XIV. 528, é&c., and 
 Hist. MSS. Commission. House of Lords’ Papers. [S.P. Dom. 
 William and Mary 14, No. 15.] 
 
 Lieut.-Gen. James Douglas to [the Earl of Nottingham]. I send 
 you here enclosed a letter to the King with an account of my 
 proceedings with protestants and papists, since I came to Ireland, 
 by which I hope his Majesty will be convinced of the malice of my 
 enemies. What officers or soldiers under my command have done, 
 I know not, neither am I to be answerable, providing I have done 
 the part of a good officer by giving out proper orders. I never 
 injured protestant or papist. LHncloswre not here preserved. [S.P. 
 Ireland 352, No. 36. | 
 
1690. 
 Nov. 12. 
 Dublin. 
 
 [Nov. 15.] 
 
 Nov. 17. 
 Cork. 
 
 WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 161 
 
 Sir John Lanier to the same. I received yours with his Majesty’s 
 commands, and am very sorry he is not better imformed ; for I can 
 assure you I never meddled with any cattle belonging to protestants, 
 or protected papists, nor did J ever suffer anything of that kind to 
 be done by anybody under my command. But if any malicious 
 person, who will not be known, raises such false reports of me in 
 my absence, it is not to be prevented. ‘There are several in this 
 kingdom who can inform you of the truth. [S.P. Ireland 352, 
 No. 87. | 
 
 Petition of John and Thomas Temple, owners of the ship Bristol 
 of London, to the House of Commons. They shew that their said 
 ship was plundered and sunk by one Captain John Tyrrell of the 
 Phenix man-of-war, and her master and mariners most barbarously 
 treated and imprisoned by order of the Kast India Company. A. 
 petition of theirs, presented in the first session of the last parliament, 
 was referred by the House to a committee appointed to consider the 
 whole affairs of the Hast India Company. This committee resolved 
 that the seizure of the Bristol and her cargo was a violation of the 
 property of the subject, and the imprisonment of the men a violation 
 of the liberty of the subject, and that full satisfaction ought to be 
 made by the company and Captain Tyrrell. But before the com- 
 mittee could make their report, parliament was dissolved. 
 
 The petitioners presented another petition in the first session of 
 the present parliament, who referred it to the committee appointed 
 to prepare a bill for the confirmation of the charters of the Hast 
 India Company, until another company be established by act of 
 parliament; but, before they came to any resolution, the House was 
 prorogued. 
 
 By reason of this and many other losses, the petitioners have 
 become insolvent, and they pray relief. [S.P. Dom. William and 
 Mary 14, No. 15a. |] 
 
 Charles Thompson, surgeon-general in Ireland, to Mr. Davis, 
 Secretary to the Lords Justices. I arrived here on Saturday last, 
 and immediately visited the three hospitals, which I found in a 
 miserable and scandalous condition, and I doubt not that many men 
 have perished for want of necessaries. The soldiers are very sickly, 
 and the inhabitants also; for the soldiers, crying out against the 
 hospitals, choose rather to die than go thither; and being ill, 
 continuing at their quarters in the town, have infected it. I have 
 made my application to the’ mayor, aldermen, and sheriffs, for all 
 necessaries, such as beds, pots, cups, dishes, etc., fire and candles, all 
 which are being provided, and in a day or two will be in pretty good 
 order, and all this is no charge to the King. There are about 80 
 men in the hospitals and about 100 in the town, who will be brought 
 into this hospital; there are, it is said, nearly as many about Kinsale, 
 whom I must bring here, or treat there, and go thither to-morrow for 
 that purpose. 
 
 I was in hope by this post that the collector of the port here 
 would have had order for subsisting the sick, who are now as 
 great objects of charity as I ever saw, some perishing in the 
 hospitals and in their quarters also for want, and others begging in 
 the streets; and, though I have put the hospital in a method here, 
 
 2045 L 
 
162 
 1690. 
 
 Nov. 20. 
 Cork. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 which is almost done, yet if there is no subsistence for diet, it will 
 signify nothing. I therefore beg the Lords Justices will be pleased 
 to give order to the collector here for subsistence for the sick, not 
 exceeding 8d. a day, and that one person be appointed as overseer, 
 clerk, and purveyor, one cook maid, and such nurses as will be 
 necessary, allowing one nurse for sixteen men. 
 
 I humbly beg I may have orders to the collector by the next post, 
 and in the meantime will, on my own credit with the collector, 
 presume to subsist the sick, and will try one week what I can save in 
 their diet; and in order to it I am doing this: I am agreeing for 
 milk, I am buying flour and a little sugar, and some oatmeal; so 
 that those who have fluxes I feed one day with ‘‘panadoes”’ of bread, 
 spring water, and a little sugar, and another day with milk and flour; 
 flesh and broth only for the wounded, and water gruel for those in 
 fever, so that 1am sure I put the King to very little charge, and 
 doubt not but I will discharge my duty faithfully in obedience to the 
 commands I have received from the Lords Justices. Copy. [S.P. 
 Treland 352, No. 88. | 
 
 The same to the same. I already have the hospital in such good 
 order, that to-morrow I begin to diet the men, which I hope to do at 
 a very easy rate, and with very good diet. I have bought 500 
 pounds of rice at 3d. per pound; I have also got flour and have 
 agreed form . . . , which, to our sorrow, is scarce here, the Irish 
 destroying the country. I shall have very little occasion for flesh, 
 or, indeed, for bread, while my rice lasts; it is the best food for the 
 men, who all have fluxes. I have all things brought in, such as 
 clean straw, some beds, cups, bowls, pots, spoons, ete., fire and 
 candles, which is no charge to the King, so that the charge is only 
 rice at 80s. per cent. (sic), some flour and milk, sometimes a little 
 bread, a few nurses, and one clerk. 
 
 I hope in a few days to relieve many of the poor men, who already 
 pray for me. I have only about 100 in the hospital now, but the - 
 house being clean and in order, the officers have ordered the other 
 sick men to be brought in to-morrow, many of them in a miserable 
 condition, their quarters not being able to give them either bread or 
 bed, or indeed anything to relieve them ; so that there is a necessity 
 of having a hospital, else most of them who are ill will certainly 
 perish, as too many have done. 
 
 Having put the hospital in order here, and fearing many of 
 the soldiers are in an ill condition at Kinsale, I am now going there 
 to do what service | can, and shall stay about there and here for a 
 fortnight. I hope you have, by this time, sent orders to the collector 
 here for the subsistence of the sick. A little money will be necessary 
 for the few nurses who have attended. 
 
 The enemy, we are informed, are every day burning and destroying 
 one place or another. Yesterday they were destroying near the 
 Blackwater about Mallow, and to-day we hear they have burnt a place 
 called Ross, in the west, and design to do the like in these parts. 
 We hear that the best of the Irish privately say that the French 
 King has sent to them to do what they can this winter, and not to 
 accept any terms, because he intends to invade England in February 
 next with a great army, and is preparing a mighty fleet in the 
 
1690. 
 
 Dec. 4. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 7. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Dec. 18. 
 Dublin. 
 
 Dec. 25. 
 
 Dec. 29. 
 
 Kinsale. 
 
 WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 163 
 
 meantime to that intent, which makes them very cheerful and 
 impudent. Prisoners daily escape from hence. Copy. [S.P. 
 Ireland 352, No. 89.] 
 
 Warrant to the Lords Justices of Ireland to pass the necessary 
 writs, ete., as well for translating Simon, Bishop of Limerick, to the 
 bishopric of Elphin, as for granting the restitution of temporalities to 
 him. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office 12, p. 401.] 
 
 Warrant to the Lords Justices of Ireland to grant the bishopric of 
 Limerick to Nathaniel Wilson, D.D., dean of Rapho, immediately 
 the said bishopric shall be void by the translation of Simon, Bishop 
 of Limerick, to the bishopric of Elphin ; with instructions to include 
 in same grant the united bishoprics of Ardfert and Aghadoe, now 
 void by the translation of the same Simon, and the rectory of 
 Tradery in the diocese of Killaloe. [Zbid., p. 400.] 
 
 Thomas Coningsby to [the Earl of Nottingham]. Lord Sydney 
 being sent for by his Majesty, the government here is at present 
 at a full stop, it being impossible it should be otherwise, without 
 we pursued an act of parliament, which upon such occasions 
 orders the Council to elect; but then the King’s new commission 
 would, as the King’s counsel says, be inevitably destroyed; therefore 
 it was thought better to let it alone, in the hope Sir Charles Porter 
 will be here soon. 
 
 It is recommended from Cork that it would be extremely for his 
 Majesty’s service if a magazine of hay and oats were made, out of 
 England, for the subsistence of the horse there, it being impossible 
 that the forage will hold out longer than Candlemas, but I hope by 
 this movement of the forces we shall enlarge our quarters, and then 
 that apprehension will be at an end. 
 
 It is reported that the enemy make a rendezvous of their forces 
 about Limerick with intention to oppose the General’s design upon 
 Kerry; if so they who move northward will have a fair opportunity 
 to make some considerable attempt. 
 
 The King’s commands shall be punctually obeyed in the precedency 
 of the serjeants and counsel, and we have already sent down into all 
 the counties of this kingdom, under their Majesties’ obedience, com- 
 missions of oyer and terminer, and I believe it will prove of great 
 service to his Majesty if such standing commissions—to be executed 
 monthly as is proposed—were settled in the several counties; this 
 shall, as soon as Sir Charles Porter arrives, be proposed to him. 
 
 I have ventured to take care of Mons. Russell, minister, by giving 
 him a small sum of money out of the Treasury for his present 
 subsistence till there can be a settlement made, which shall be done 
 with all expedition, and sent for approval. The seals of the several 
 courts are all received, though none are delivered out, but those of 
 the Exchequer, by reason of the absence of the judges in their 
 circuits now at Cork. [S.P. Ireland 352, No. 40.] 
 
 An abstract of the produce of the revenue in the Christmas 
 quarter in several counties in Ireland. [Jbid., No. 41.] 
 
 The collector at Kinsale to the Commissioners of the Revenue. 
 I received your letter of the 20th instant, expressing, to my great 
 
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 1690. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 sorrow, your displeasure with me for not sending an exact account of 
 the wines and brandy left in the fort, which I assure you was not 
 through neglect of my duty; but the Governor would not suffer me 
 to take account of them, nor himself give me any, and it was not 
 possible to force any out of his possession, and he swore to me, in the 
 presence of the sovereign of this town, that if any officers of the 
 customs whatsoever should attempt to seize any of those wines or 
 brandies he would make a woeful example of them, because, as he 
 asserts, no part of them belong to the King, but are his own, as a 
 oift from Sir Edward Scott, who, by the articles, might dispose of 
 them as he pleased. 
 
 Lord Marlborough, who was then present, approved thereof, 
 and tells me he has answered the Lords Justices: to this effect. 
 So that all I could do to get an account was by enquiry. I was 
 informed there was left in the fort on its surrender 170 hogsheads of 
 wine, and 15 tuns of brandy; but I cannot be certain there was as 
 much. The greatest part he [the Governor] sold in: this town, 
 Cork, and other places, conveyed, at many times out of the port, by 
 land and water; the common price for the wines was 10 guineas per 
 hogshead; the brandy 6s. per gallon. He had the Lords Justices’ 
 order to let me take account of all, which he refused to do. As to 
 the salt, brought in the small vessel which came in here by mistake, 
 the Governor sold it for his own use; the quantity was 32 barrels at 
 20s. per barrel. [S.P. Ireland 352, No. 42. | 
 
 Memorandum presented to the Duke [of Schomberg], on the 
 author’s return from Londonderry. 
 
 1. Money must be had to repair the walls and body guards 
 according to the memorandum here enclosed. 
 
 2. There are there sixty gunners, who were there during the 
 whole siege, without receiving any pay since the month of August. 
 The King or the Duke have only to know this, and they will desire 
 payment to be made. 
 
 8. Round Newtown there are 8 bridges broken down; this hinders 
 all communication between Coleraine and Londonderry, as soon as the 
 rivers are high. As the country is not in a condition to support the 
 whole expense, I (sic) have promised to pay half, which will amount 
 to ‘‘20 pieces,” and I have left an order for that sum with the 
 governor of Londonderry. 
 
 4. The bridge of Coleraine is half burnt and, if itis not soon 
 repaired, the rest will fall, and that has obliged me to promise to the 
 town that the King will also pay half; atpresent it might berepaired 
 for about 700 pieces, but, if it be left, the repairs would cost three 
 times as much. 
 
 5. There is some wood which belongs to Lord Antrim, which 
 I have had seized and put in safety, for the repairing of the bridge 
 and other repairs. 
 
 6. I have also seized the iron belonging to the merchants, 
 which was in the magazine, on condition that the King will pay the 
 value, in order to use it for repairs. 
 
 7. Ihave given orders to repair the roads peviaes Newtown and 
 Coleraine, which were impassable. 
 
1690. 
 
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 8. Oats will be provided at Coleraine, Portrush, Clough and 
 Ballymoney to serve for the Danes, in order not to have the trouble 
 of sending everything from England. 
 
 9. The quarters are changed according to the lists here 
 enclosed. 
 
 10. Ihave forbidden, on the Duke’s behalf, taking any of his 
 oats ; what is needed for the magazine at Coleraine will be delivered 
 from the side of Newtown and round about. 
 
 11. Major Bellasis having complained that he had no ammunition 
 in his quarter, I have given some to him from the magazine of 
 Coleraine, which is still provided with 84 barrels of powder and 8 
 barrels of ball. 
 
 12. ‘There are few beasts, and hardly any sheep, in the country 
 between Antrim and Londonderry. 
 
 13. According to the Duke’s order, I have returned all the 
 merchandize which belonged to those of ‘‘the religion,’ which King 
 James took from them. 
 
 14. As there 1s a dispute about the salmon which was put in the 
 magazines by order of King James, and which belonged to Lord 
 Massereene, I have ordered it (lest it should spoil) to be given to the 
 merchants, who bought it; the money for it is to remain in the 
 hands of the mayor of the town and two others until the King or 
 his Council dispose of it. 
 
 15. There are several officers who were in Londonderry during 
 the whole siege, who are now reformed; they request a little sub- 
 sistence until (according to the King’s orders) they are replaced. 
 Truly they merit it more than the Irish who went to London, for 
 they are all in the garrisons in a condition to serve. 
 
 16. George Holmes, the mayor of Londonderry, asks to be 
 refunded the money advanced by him, during the siege, to the work- 
 men, he having served as engineer, or for permission to go to 
 England and present his case to the King. [S.P. Dom., William and 
 Mary 14, No. 16.] 
 
 ‘* Memorandum of what is necessary for the reparation of London- 
 derry. The four gates to be new built with locks, the locks to be 
 brought from London, none being now to be had here; one dozen of 
 the strongest padlocks can be had for the bars and wickets, four 
 drawbridges, twenty sentry boxes, an allowance for the mainguard, 
 the walls being cracked and demolished by bombs. ‘The four gates, 
 viz., Bishop’s gate, Butcher’s gate, Shipkey gate and Ferrykey gate, 
 to be repaired with gard (guard) beds, gratts (grates), etc. The four 
 Petty-gards answering the four curtines (curtains) to be rebuilt, a 
 gardebed (guard) with other conveniences for the Windmill Hill, 
 carriages. for the guns, viz., twelve for culverines, eight for demi- 
 culverines, eight for sackers, with ten more culverines and carriages 
 thereunto. Also part of the town being ruined, and beds wanting for 
 quartering of men, it is necessary we have the hundred quilts and 
 allowance for making 830 bedsteads, with blankets, bolsters, and 
 other accoutrements. Also it is necessary to build a caserne or a pile 
 of building for quartering of soldiers, and some allowance will be 
 needed for repairing the walls battered by the enemies’ ball.” 
 [Ibid., No. 17.] 
 
166 
 
 [1690.] 
 
 1690-1. 
 
 Feb. 19. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 News letter addressed to Sir Joseph Williamson at Cobham Hall, 
 near Gravesend. The Dutch post has come in, which reports that 
 the King has arrived at Loo, and will be going to the Hague in 8 or 
 10 days. The army decamped from Grammont on the 18th, to go 
 into winter quarters, but the Duke of Leinster continued with his 
 navy about Dixmuyde to secure the fortifications making there. 
 The Duke of Savoy’s forces are retiring towards Piedmont, having 
 quitted and burnt Gap and Ambrune upon the Upper Rhine. The 
 Landgrave of Hesse has invested Ebernberg in order to attack it, 
 it being a strong castle. Sir John Maclean, the chief of the 
 Highlanders in the Isle of Mull and the last of the rebels that stood 
 out against the government, has taken the oath of fidelity. Robert 
 Hamilton and some other ringleaders, who published the late 
 protestation against their Majesties, have been seized by order of the 
 Privy Council, and sent prisoners to Edinburgh. [S.P. Dom., 
 William and Mary 14, No. 18. | 
 
 The case of the separate traders to the Kast Indies, who are not 
 in the grand monopoly. Printed. [Ibid., No. 19.]| 
 
 Order in Council. The Lords of the committee for the affairs of 
 Jersey and Guernsey report upon the complaints made by the 
 deputies of the States of Guernsey against the officers and soldiers 
 in garrison there, upon their answers thereto, and Lord Hatton’s 
 reports thereupon, as follows, viz.: that the differences appear to 
 have been originally occasioned by the officers’ requiring to be 
 furnished with money for the subsistence of the soldiers at the rate 
 of thirteen I'rench sous for every English shilling, whilst they 
 subsisted the soldiers at the rate of twelve sous only to the shilling. 
 
 It is therefore ordered that, if at any time the officers shall be 
 forced to have recourse to the magistrates of the island to furnish 
 them with ready money for the payment of the soldiers’ subsistence, 
 the officers shall give bills of exchange upon the paymaster of their 
 regiment to the persons supplying the money, at the rate of one 
 English shilling for every twelve sous. 
 
 In all cases between a soldier and an inhabitant upon breach of 
 the peace, the trial shall be left to the civil magistrates, and the 
 soldier delivered up to the civil authority and punished according to 
 the laws of the place. 
 
 In all cases happening between soldier and soldier relating to 
 military discipline, trials to be had at a court-martial as formerly. 
 
 Upon the arrival of any forces in the island, or on any other 
 occasion of taking up quarters, application is to be made to the 
 States or to the civil magistrates, to regulate and appoint the quarters 
 for each soldier, and no military officer shall presume to appoint or 
 dispose of the same. 
 
 It is to be left to the governor to settle, from time to time, the 
 quarters for the commissioned officers, as shall be most for their 
 convenience and the ease of the inhabitants. 
 
 The governor is to be charged with the execution hereof, and the 
 settling of all differences between the inhabitants and the military, 
 returning to the King an account of his proceedings therein. 
 
 This order is to be registered in the Royal Court of the island, and 
 duly published. [Jvid., No. 19a. ] 
 
1691. 
 Feb.— 
 March. 
 
 March 8. 
 
 Vienna. 
 
 March 5%. 
 From the 
 Rhine, 
 
 March 10. 
 
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 Memoranda in the Earl of Portland’s handwriting relating to 
 military matters. [S.P. Dom., William and Mary 14, No. 20.] 
 
 — to ———-—. As to the Duke of Hanover’s sentiments 
 with regard to prolonging the war with France, it, has been 
 suggested that, as so many of the powers are at war with France, it 
 would be a good opportunity for his Imperial Majesty to leave them 
 to fight, and, abandoning his neutrality, to collect all his forces and 
 make war against the Turks; the empire, being free from war, could 
 assist the Emperor. It is a very bad proposition to have made, for 
 it is well known that there are many here who are inclined to make 
 peace with France. This project opens a way for them to carry it 
 out. States the views of the King of Sweden about prolonging the 
 war. [S.P. Dom., King William’s Chest, Vol. 8, No. 118.] 
 
 The Elector Frederick to the King. Regrets that news of the 
 siege of Mons did not reach him whilst he was at the Hague. He 
 will do his best to send orders for troops to remain on the Meuse, 
 and for others to move towards Munster and Dusseldorf. Holograph. 
 [Ibid., No. 114. ] 
 
 {Lord Godolphin] to the same. In answer to your letter of the 
 th instant, the 140,000/. which is yet unpaid to the States 
 General, and now to be sent to you, may be placed upon the security 
 of the act of parliament, which continues several impositions granted 
 in King James’s reign, which are the only funds of all that parlia- 
 ment gave which bear interest at 8 per cent. But this fund consisting 
 of impositions upon trade, which are in their own nature contingent, 
 and at this time of war more than usually uncertain, it is not 
 possible to make an estimate in what time the money will come in 
 to repay this 140,000/. To remedy that uncertainty, however, you 
 may assure the States that they shall be repaid at the year’s end with 
 interest after the rate of 8 per cent. and in case the funds, on which 
 it is placed, should not produce it within that time, that you would 
 supply it out of some other funds, or such branch of the revenue as 
 shall then be most convenient. 
 
 You will observe by the enclosed papers that there is now 40,0001. 
 in cash of this money, and if we could be at liberty to make use of 
 it, we should then very soon be masters of 100,000/. to send into 
 Ireland at one time, which is the least sum that we can hope will be 
 of any effect for the supply of the army there. But if the forcers (?) 
 of this loan cannot very soon be perfected, then I do not see that we 
 ean otherwise be able to send so great a sum at one time, sooner 
 than the first week in April, which is a great deal too late for the 
 wants of the army there. 
 
 We paid 5,000/. last week upon account of the 300/. a troop 
 demanded by the horse, and shall continue to do the same to-morrow 
 if the cash holds out; the whole demanded upon that account comes 
 to 20,0001. We have likewise paid constantly to the Ordnanee the 
 money demanded by them on account of the stores for Ireland. The 
 City has paid into the Hxchequer very nearly the whole of the 
 200,000/. promised, and I am writing to [express the] hope they will 
 continue to lend more than they promised upon that occasion. 
 
 The last letters from Ireland say that Mr. Coningsby is very ill 
 and in great danger. If you should have the misfortune to lose 
 
 
 
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 March 18. 
 
 March 18. 
 
 London, 
 
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 him, I do not see how his loss would be readily supplied. I hope 
 we shall soon see you here. [S.P. Dom., King Willhiam’s Chest, 
 Vol. 8, No. 115. | 
 
 Disposition of money. The payments include 2,000/. to the Karl 
 of Bellomont, for the Queen; and 800/. to the Marquis La Barr for 
 buying tents, arms, &c. for the Danes. [Jbid., No. 116.] 
 
 Lord Godolphin to the King. The 8,000/. mentioned in the four 
 last articles of the enclosed (enclosure not preserved) disposition arise 
 upon a remainder of the forces of last year, for which reason we have 
 chosen rather to apply that to such uses of the civil government as 
 are extremely necessary, than to take it out of the funds given in the 
 last session of parliament. The Queen has laid her commands upon 
 us at the Treasury in two particulars, to neither of which could I have 
 given my consent at this time, nor set my hand to them, were it not 
 for the consideration of my own particular circumstances, which do 
 not leave me at liberty to be stubborn in anything, though never so 
 reasonable, for fear you might think I would take a pretext, for any 
 occupation of that kind, to procure a freedom to myself which I am 
 much more desirous to owe to your grace and favour only. The two 
 particulars are: 1st, the Lord President’s pension for 21 years upon 
 the post office, which certainly, to say no more, is very unseasonable 
 at this time, and perhaps more unseasonable for him than for 
 anybody else; but for that, there is a French proverb, Chacun sait 
 ses affaires, ow les doit savoir. The other particular is the finding 
 16,0001. towards Lord Bath’s arrears, which perhaps might also 
 have been as well forborne till the reign of the commissioners of 
 accounts had expired. The powers of their commission are very - 
 large by the Act of Parliament, and I do not find but that they are 
 willing to carry them to the utmost extent. 
 
 The City has paid in the 200,000/. promised, and I believe they 
 will carry that loan further for the service of the fleet, and we are 
 promised, by the end of this month, a sum of 100,000/. more, to be 
 sent, at one time, into Ireland, which, with the help of debentures 
 upon the forfeited lands, is all that we can hope for, to apply towards 
 clearing the arrears due to the officers of the army there, which 
 will, in the meantime, be lessened by so much as we have paid here 
 weekly for clothing for the recruits and for accoutrements, ete. 
 
 We hope to have the happiness of seeing you here very shortly. 
 [Ibid., No. 117. ] 
 
 The Marquis of Carmarthen to the same. I have yours of the 
 3rd instant, and I assure you that whilst I have the happiness to 
 be employed in your service, I have resolved to let nothing rebuke 
 me from performing it in the best manner [am able. I doubt not 
 but that the fleet will be in a very good condition as to men, as well 
 as to all other things, and as early as is necessary ; but we want ships 
 of less size to provide for all the stations which would be convenient. 
 I fear we shall also be wanting such a number of small arms as is 
 necessary to supply both the army and militia of Ireland, and to 
 have any left here (sic); but I hope you will give orders to buy what 
 can be got on your side of the water. or all other things relating 
 to Ireland, we are not failing to do as much as the money will 
 
1691. 
 
 Mareh 17. 
 
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 permit. Peyrera having lately come hither, and insisting upon such 
 high terms about the bread waggons, we have thought best to defer 
 any conclusion with him for so short a time as we hope it will be 
 before we have the happiness of seeing you. One of your judges 
 called Ventris is said to be dying; if he dies, | recommend to you 
 one Mr. Ettrick to be a Baron of the Exchequer ; he is a very able 
 lawyer, and has long practised in that court; he is a parliament man 
 and has constantly well served you there. [S.P. Dom., King 
 William’s Chest, Vol. 8, No. 118. | | 
 
 Lord Godolphin to the King. There are a hundred reasons to make 
 one very sorry for the accident which has (at least for the present) 
 diverted your return to England, and I do not now know whether 
 one ought to hope to see you soon, or whether it is not better to 
 wish that the necessity of your staying where you are may have a 
 better effect than, perhaps, is reasonable to expect or hope. 
 According to the little jadgment I can have in things of that nature 
 I see but little prospect of a possibility to relieve Mons, and yet I 
 will allow that it may be very reasonable to act as if one did not 
 despair of it. I should put you in mind of sending the Queen your 
 pleasure about the change of the excise, and likewise of finishing 
 the necessary directions for the money payable to the States; the 
 former you may do in what place soever this letter finds you, as well 
 as if you were at the Hague. As to the latter, if 16 has not been 
 finished before you come from thence, I hope you will send effectual 
 orders about it as soon as may be; for there is 50,000l. of that 
 
 - money in cash which we cannot touch, though we are in the last 
 
 March 19. 
 
 March 20. 
 
 necessity for want of it in Ireland. Seal. [Jbid., No. 119.] 
 
 Disposition of money. The payments are of the usual kind, but 
 the items are more numerous; they include 89/. 10s. 64d. to the 
 inhabitants of Abingdon for ‘‘ quarters’? due to them for the Scots’ 
 horse; and a number of other payments in respect of military 
 services. [Ibid., No. 120.] 
 
 Lord Godolp| » to the King. I enclose some papers, and beg to 
 remind you of t| s particulars I mentioned in my last letter, wherein 
 your orders are greatly wanted, there being nearly 50,000/. in the 
 exchequer which we would fain send to Ireland. I acquainted you 
 that the Queen had laid her commands upon us at the Treasury in 
 one or two particulars, to which I could never have given my consent 
 at another time, and it was purely the consideration of my own 
 circumstances, for the reason I gave you, which made me acquiesce 
 in them now, and I question whether some of my brethren will yet 
 agree to countersign the warrant which the Queen has signed for the 
 Lord President’s grant. 
 
 Sir Robert Howard was very ill last week with gout in his 
 stomach. The reversion of his place is granted, by patent, to 
 the present Earl of Danby; the patent, I have often been told, is 
 not good in law; besides Sir Robert Howard has two offices in 
 the Exchequer, whereof one only is grantable by the King, and 
 the other is the gift of the Treasury. I take it for granted that you, 
 unless obliged by law, ‘‘ would never choose out the Harl of Danby 
 of all England to fill that officer’s place,’ through whose hands all 
 
170 
 1691. 
 
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 April 26. 
 
 April 27. 
 
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 your own revenue, all the public money of the kingdom, and all the 
 accounts of both the one and the other are to pass; and for these 
 reasons, if the case does happen, I shall thinkit my duty to refuse 
 him admittance till the right of the patent is determined, unless you 
 signify that you would give him the position, though there were no 
 patent in the case, ‘‘ which I confess I think you would no more do, 
 than make him a bishop.” ([S.P. Dom., King William’s Chest, 
 Vol. 8, No. 121.] 
 
 Memorandum of things done, or to do, on certain days between 
 these dates, touching the campaign in Ireland. These things 
 include :—An application for the post of clerk of the artillery for 
 Mr. Middleton; observations on the necessity of money for the 
 officers’ equipment, and the necessity for a treasurer going to 
 Ireland with exact instructions concerning the manner in which 
 payments are to be made, and as to what is to be done concerning 
 deductions; and an application to Mr. Robinson and Van Homrigh 
 to give the prices of bread, cheese, stockings and other articles, 
 which have been furnished for the troops, so as to regulate there- 
 upon the payments and the deductions. [Jbid., No. 122.] 
 
 ‘Propositions for the final reduction of such Highlanders as, 
 though they be put out of condition to trouble the government 
 without foreign succours, have not as yet submitted thereto.” 
 
 It is proposed that three small frigates with 5 months’ provisions 
 for their men be timely ordered for this service; that 1,000 or 2,000 
 ‘choice men” out of the regiments of foot-men in Scotland be 
 marched overland to Dunstaffnage, where “ hire-ships” and ‘“ black 
 boats’ with provisions and ammunition should be ordered to attend 
 them, and two pieces of ‘“‘ battery’’ to force such houses as might 
 make some resistance.”’ 
 
 That provisions, consisting mostly of meal, salt and aquavite (‘‘being 
 sure of fleshes in the enemy’s country’’) may be made upon credit 
 for a month or two and paid out of the subsistence. That the 
 expedition begin with the reduction of the Isle of Mull, and the 
 McDonald’s part of Skye, with the Captain of Clan Ronald, and other 
 islanders and inhabitants of that coast. 
 
 That Major Fergusson, having explored that coast last year, would 
 be the ‘‘properest’’ person to take command. In that case a 
 commission of lieutenant-colonel might be given him, or a colonel 
 might command in chief, and Fergusson be the second in command, 
 
 That the house of Island Donan belonging to the Earl of Seaforth, 
 ‘a great bridle upon the Isle of Skye,” be garrisoned at the same time, 
 and that the company levied for that post be joined to the party for 
 the reduction of the Isles of Mulland Skye, as well as of Clan Ronald’s 
 and other McDonald’s countries. 
 
 That instructions touching the conditions whereupon the King 
 would have the said rebels received into grace should be prepared, 
 that the commander may be able to regulate himself in case they 
 should make proposals of submission. 
 
 That if the King would buy off the Earl of Argyll’s pretensions, 
 and become the immediate superior himself of these Highlanders, 
 their interest would in time to come oblige them to adhere to his 
 service. 
 
1691. 
 
 May 1. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 May 6. 
 
 May #2. 
 Lichtenberg. 
 
 June 6. 
 
 June 22. 
 June. 
 June. 
 June. 
 June. 
 June. 
 
 June. 
 
 June. 
 
 June. 
 June. 
 
 June. 
 
 July 16. 
 
 July 17. 
 
 July 21. 
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 It is probable that the arrival of the above mentioned frigates upon 
 the coast will give these rebels thoughts of a speedy submission, who 
 would otherwise ‘‘ hover in hopes” of the help of which King James’ 
 officers give them continual assurances. 
 
 That 1,000/. will do much to defray any other expenses which 
 may be found requisite for the said expedition, except the hire of 
 transport ships and boats for which the Treasury may engage their 
 credit for some months until a fund of payment be found. [S.P. 
 Dom., William and Mary 14, No. 21.] 
 
 Commission for Henry Edgeworth, esq., to be captain-lieutenant 
 of the second regiment of foot guards, called ‘‘the Coldstreamers,”’ 
 commanded by Lieut.-Gen. Thomas Talmash. [H.O. Military 
 Entry Book 3, p. 111.] 
 
 Note of artillery and ammunition shipped. [S.P. Dom., William 
 and Mary 14, No. 22.] | 
 
 Maximilian Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, to the King. 
 According to rumours current in the Low Countries, the Spanish 
 court has other plans for the government of Flanders. In that case, 
 I rely entirely on your protection. [S.P. Dom., King William’s 
 Chest 9, No. 74. | , 
 
 List of ammunition laden on waggons. [S.P. Dom., William and 
 Mary 14, No. 28.] 
 
 Similar list. [bid., No. 24.] 
 
 List of officials under Pallaes. [Tbid., No. 25.] 
 
 Similar list of officials under Taurinus. [Ibid., No. 26.] 
 
 List of artillery. [Jbid., No. 27.] 
 
 Similar hist. [Tbid., No. 28.] 
 
 List of cannon, mortars, and howitzers at Maestricht. |[Jbid., 
 No. 29. | 
 
 Account of ammunition at Maestricht. [Zbid., No. 80.] 
 
 List of cannon and ammunition at Mechlin [Malines].  [Jbid., 
 No. 81.] 
 
 Account of ammunition at Mechlin. [Jbid., No. 32.] 
 
 List of officers of artillery ordered to Namur. [J/id., No. 338.] 
 
 Lists of officers of artillery, and accounts of artillery at Maestricht, 
 Namur, and in the field. [Zbid., Nos. 84 to 88. | 
 
 List of companies in the regiment of dragoons of the Prince of 
 Saxe-Gotha, reviewed by the Heer van Ouwerquere [Overkirk], with 
 the names of the officers and other particulars. [Jbid., No. 89.] 
 
 Similar list of companies in the cavalry regiment of the Prince of 
 Saxe-Gotha. [Ibid., No. 40.] 
 
 Warrant to make free the ship America, foreign built and 
 unfree, for bringing masts and stowage goods for our service from 
 New England, the Baltic and Norway. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 841, 
 p. 108. | 
 
172 
 1691. 
 
 July 21. 
 
 July 21. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 July 21. 
 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Aug. 5. 
 
 Aug. 
 
 Sept. 44. 
 
 Loo. 
 
 Sept. 19. 
 
 Oct. 23: 
 
 Oct. 30. 
 
 Nov. 9. 
 Boxford. 
 
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 A like warrant with regard to the ship Huropean, John Allen, 
 master. [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 841, p. 109. | 
 
 Warrant to Sir Charles Hedges, judge of the High Court of 
 Admiralty, to discharge and set at liberty the ship Hope, of Riga, to 
 Derick Boye, master, together with her lading, without paying any 
 fees. [Ibid., p. 110.] 
 
 A like warrant to cause the ships Sea Flower, Thomas Seeman, 
 master, and the Merchant Goodwill, Henry Haddock, master, with 
 their several ladings, to be restored to their owners without paying 
 any salvage, because they were taken from the French while going 
 from Hull to Rotterdam. [Jbid., p. 111.] 
 
 Note of the waggons necessary for the ammunition of the artillery 
 and infantry in the camp. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 14, No. 41.] 
 
 Indenture between Joseph Yates, of the Middle Temple, London, 
 gent., and Mary Dawson, of Hackney, co. Middlesex, widow, by which 
 the said Mary binds her son Henry Dawson to be clerk to Yates. 
 The agreement is written upon a similar one of 10 February, 1687, 
 binding Edward Chamberlayne, the younger, of the Inner Temple, 
 gent., one of the sons of Edward Chamberlayne, the elder, of Chelsea, 
 LUL.D., to be clerk as above. [Zbid., No. 42.] 
 
 Brevet for Wiliam Matthews, esq., to command as colonel of foot. 
 [S.P. Dom. Entry Book 167, p. 115. ] 
 
 List of losses in the allied forces at Leuse. 
 and Mary 14, No. 48. ] 
 
 Memorandum by King William as to fortifications at Sluys, 
 Bergen-op-Zoom, Nimeguen, Breda, Maestricht, &c. Holograph. 
 [Ibid., No. 44. | 
 
 List of Dutch ships appointed for the winter fleet, and now being 
 in England, with the names of the captains, &c. LHndorsed by the 
 King. [Tbid., No. 45.] 
 
 John Rootsy to the Commissioners of the Navy, in Crutched Friars, 
 relative to the supply of oars. [Jbid., No. 46.] 
 
 Table of fees in the Tally Court as taken by the two deputy- 
 chamberlains of the exchequer, in the time of Queen Hlizabeth. 
 Copy. [Ibid., No. 47.] 
 
 Account of ammunition distributed to various regiments. 
 No. 48. | 
 
 List of Dutch artillery officers, and the amounts of their field 
 wages. Names given. |[Tbid., No. 49.] 
 
 Proposal by Charles le Hardy, an inhabitant of Jersey, that, if he 
 were encouraged, he might be serviceable to their Majesties. The 
 said le Hardy is well assured that some of the inhabitants of Jersey 
 and Guernsey with the adjacent islands, do underhand trade with 
 the French, and supply them with necessaries, which is. very pre- 
 judicial to their Majesties. He prays he may have an order to seize 
 
 [S.P. Dom. William 
 
 [Ibid., 
 
1691. 
 
 (1691-2. 
 
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 Jan. 2. 
 Dublin Castle, 
 
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 all such goods as he can find going to France, or coming thence. 
 He believes there is a great deal of corn sent from the above places 
 to France. If he can obtain this order so that no notice may be 
 given of it, he does not doubt but he will be able to give a very good 
 account of his undertaking, and by this means their Majesties will 
 find some persons in the said islands more ready to serve the enemy 
 than their Majesties. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 14, No. 49a. | 
 
 Accounts of artillery and stores of war at Namur, Brussels, ete., 
 
 dated May, September and October, 1691, and February, 1692. [bid., 
 No. 50. | 
 
 The Lords Justices of Ireland to the Earl of Nottingham. On 
 Thursday last we received yours of the 26th ult., with his Majesty’s 
 orders therein for our direction, relating to the Irish who are desirous 
 to come into his service. We have been endeavouring to persuade 
 as many of them as we could prevail with to see to their own private 
 affairs. Many are gone, as you will see by the enclosed, but still a - 
 far greater number than 1,400 remain. 
 
 Having considered of such methods as we thought would most 
 conduce to the one his Majesty aims at, we have given directions to 
 some discreet officers to go down to the places where they are 
 quartered, and pick out those who are of the sort you mention, to 
 the number of 1,400, besides officers, and to send the rest away 
 to their homes, if they have any, giving each private foot soldier 
 so discharged two ‘‘cobbs,” each trooper money for his horse, 
 if serviceable, one third in hand and notes for the rest, and ten 
 shillings to such of them as have lost their horses, so as they 
 take the oath of fidelity to their Majesties, and promise to live 
 peaceably. Without some money it was the opinion of the general 
 officers it was impossible to effect this service with any success, 
 which forces us to put their Majesties to this expense, which we hope 
 will not be considerable. We have declined naming the field officers, 
 to keep their leaders in hopes, and likewise to expect his Majesty’s 
 further order. 
 
 We have directed the officers to assure them that he does not 
 dismiss them out of any dislike, but merely because he has 
 no present occasion to use them, and that when he has any 
 want of men to serve him, they shall find he will as readily 
 use and trust them as any other of his subjects. At the time 
 when they are discharged, which we have directed shall be on 
 the 12th inst., we have appointed the militia to be in arms in those 
 counties where they are quartered and in the next adjacent, and 
 have taken care to have all the passes on the Shannon carefully 
 guarded, and to take their arms from them. 
 
 We have likewise ordered that 700 of the 1,400 shall be taken out 
 of O’Donnell’s brigade, which it is said consists of more than 2,000, 
 all old Irish, consequently such as have not homes to go to, and 500 
 out of the 1,500 which we formerly mentioned to you as mustered and 
 viewed by Col. Foulkes, and the rest out of the several broken parties 
 in the counties of Cork, Limerick, and Tipperary and thereabouts. 
 
 It falls out, unluckily, that letters have come from some of the Irish 
 now in England, which give their correspondents here an account 
 that only some few are to be taken into service, and that those are to 
 
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 Jan. 8. 
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 be sent to the emperor. This we were told by one of their own party 
 this morning whom we trust among them, and he apprehends it 
 might make some disorder; we did not own any knowledge of it, 
 though the gentleman is one who has done the King very consider- 
 able service, and is really in his Majesty’s interest. 
 
 We shall not fail to give you an early account of our proceedings 
 in order to receive his Majesty’s further directions. We shall secure 
 the artillery at Limerick till we have the King’s further orders, which 
 we believe will not be till Mr. Meisters and Col. Goor go over, who, 
 being officers of the ordnance, will be able to give his Majesty an 
 account whether there be any necessity to have them sent sooner 
 than the spring, being part of the estimate they have sent over to 
 the officers of the ordnance in England of what may be spared from 
 hence, and perhaps they may reckon upon them as part of what they 
 are to provide. 
 
 We have this post sent to Mr. Clerk the list of the medicines and 
 utensils remaining, which may be of use the next summer in Flanders 
 for the hospital, and, we are told, sufficient for a campaign. There 
 is likewise an account of the stores of war which may be spared from 
 hence, both which, when we have his Majesty’s commands, we intend 
 to ship on board three Dutch ships which are here upon the King’s 
 charge, and are otherwise to return empty to Holland. 
 
 The regiment of Colonel Kirke comes here on Monday next, and 
 the remainder of Rixtall’s horse, so that now there remains in this 
 kingdom none but Lord George Hamilton’s regiment of foot of those 
 designed to be sent over, which have almost totally deserted, there not 
 remaining above 250 out of the 700 which came out of their quarters. 
 We have given directions for stopping the ships fit for foot in the 
 harbours of Cork and Kinsale, and hope, by the time we shall 
 receive his Majesty’s orders and a convoy, to have sufficient to send 
 these “ae Irish when he pleases to direct it. [S.P. Ireland 354, 
 No. 1. 
 
 The same to thesame. By your lordship’s letter of the 29th of last 
 month, we find his Majesty is pleased that the Council shall have 
 the examination of those persons who claim the benefit of the 
 articles of Limerick. We believe this will be in many respects the 
 best method which ean be taken to ascertain that matter, and 
 though we believe his Majesty intends those comprehended in the 
 articles of Galway, and other places, as also those who claim by any 
 declarations of his Majesty, shall-be under the same examination, 
 yet we must pray you to obtain the like direction for them also. 
 
 It being one part of the articles of Limerick that, upon application 
 to us, we should put the claimants into present possession of their 
 estates, we found ourselves very much pressed by several of them to 
 be restored accordingly. And though we were not very forward to 
 do it as soon as they expected, yet to prevent dissatisfaction growing 
 amongst them by our delay, and considering how many of their party 
 were remaining in arms, we thought it necessary for removing their 
 jealousies to restore not above sixty, whom we found to have undoubted 
 right. 
 
 Yet if it shall appear that any of those are not justly entitled to 
 the benefit of the articles, we can soon remove them, they still 
 
WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 175 
 
 
 
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 continuing outlawed for treason, and having only a bare possession 
 without a title from the Crown. [S.P. Ireland 854, No. 2.] 
 Enclosing : — 
 Proposed order of restitution of the estates of persons mentioned in the 
 foregoing. [Ibid., No. 2i.] 
 
 Jan. 9. The Earl of Nottingham to the Lords Justices of Ireland. I am 
 commanded by the King to acquaint you that you should not have 
 made it a secret that his Majesty designed the regiment of 1,400, 
 which he commanded you to form, for the service of the Emperor; 
 for, if they had any hopes of being employed in his service, they 
 will look upon themselves as in a manner deceived, and may very 
 probably, as soon as they get on the other side of the sea, desert and 
 go into the French service, as the last did which his Majesty sent 
 from the Isle of Wight to Hamburg, and therefore you must plainly 
 tell them his intentions in this matter, that they may know the 
 engagements into which they enter. Haxtract. [Ibid., No. 8.]; 
 
 Jan. 9. Sir Charles Porter to [the Earl of Nottingham]. By the votes and 
 
 Dublin. —_ proceedings of the House of Commons, which the packets of the 81st 
 of the last and 2nd of this month brought us yesterday, we find there 
 has been a proposition made to give the King 1,500,000/. for the 
 forfeitures in this kingdom, the undertakers to make good all resti- 
 tutions according to the several articles of Galway and Limerick. 
 It is a great sum of money, and in my opinion much more than can 
 ever be made of them, and I hope the expectation of raising money 
 by this project will not hinder parliament from making a timely 
 provision for money by some other fund. I am not certain who are 
 the projectors, though it is said it proceeds at least from the 
 encouragement which some of our countrymen have given of the 
 ereat value of the forfeitures. And indeed I have great reason to 
 persuade myself it is a notion taken from them, who are obstinately 
 resolved never to represent anything relating to their own country 
 with any truth or sincerity. 
 
 By the best enquiry I can make, considering what great incumbrances 
 most of the Irish lie under, and that many by ancient settlements 
 had only estates for life, and considering that lands will not, one 
 with another, yield above 10 years’ purchase, I do not see that they 
 can yield 400,000/. I thought it my duty to give you my opinion of 
 this matter, so that, if it should be made use of as a probable fund for 
 raising such a great sum, you might know the vanity of the under- 
 taking. 
 
 However, seeing the House of Commons has this matter under 
 consideration, the Council has thought fit to order a proclamation to 
 issue, to appoint all persons concerned in the articles of Limerick to 
 put in their claims by a certain day, at such distance as may gain us 
 time to see the issue of this project. This we judged to be reasonable 
 lest these gentlemen should go from their bargain on pretence that 
 the Council had acted to their prejudice, and it will give satisfaction 
 to the Ivish, to find that the articles are put in method of execution. 
 We want about 25,000/. more to be speedily sent, with which we 
 shall be able to discharge several debts and provide six months’ 
 provision for the several garrisons of Limerick, Athlone, Galway, 
 Cork and Kinsale, to discharge the pioneers and others, who 
 
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 continue upon the Kine’s charge, and, I believe, to give six months’ 
 subsistence to the army. If we are enabled to do this last, we shall 
 afterwards, I am confident, subsist them duly, and consequently make 
 them live orderly in their quarters, and pay for what they have, which 
 will be of extraordinary advantage to the country. I hope you will lay 
 this matter before his Majesty with a favourable representation. 
 
 The great difficulty now upon us is the dispersing (?) the rest of the 
 Irish after the 1,400 are drawn out; we have given the best orders 
 we could think of, and it is put in such a method that we have no 
 reason to apprehend any dangers, but from some of their turning 
 Rapparees or Tories, which may bring an inconveniency for some 
 time upon the country ; but we believe in a short time they will be 
 made weary of it, by the care which will be taken both by the army 
 and militia to suppress them. [S.P. Ireland 854, No. 4.]| 
 
 The Lords Justices of Ireland to the same. We received your 
 letter of the 9th, last Saturday, and immediately sent orders to Col. 
 Foulkes at Mullingar accordingly, but did not signify more to 
 him than that they were to serve the King abroad, and it was never 
 intimated to them or any of them otherwise. We hope these will 
 not prove like those which went from the Isle of Wight, because 
 these are extremely desirous to serve their Majesties, and the others 
 did not show good inclinations. We also sent to dismiss all the 
 transport ships that can be spared, but we are of opinion that it will 
 be for their Majesties’ service to send these 1,400 hence, with all 
 expedition ; for they will be extremely unacceptable to the country, 
 the housekeepers upon whom they must be inevitably quartered, 
 being generally English protestants. We conceive it will be 
 extremely necessary for us to have an exemplification of the King’s 
 ratification of the articles of Limerick under the great seal. —_[ Ibid., 
 No. 5.| | 
 
 The same to the same. There being several particulars relating 
 to his Majesty’s service, on which it will be absolutely necessary we 
 should receive his orders before he goes to Flanders, we desire you 
 to lay them before him. 
 
 First we must pray his Majesty to signify what places he will have 
 kept as garrisons, what number he will have in each garrison, who 
 shall be governors, what salary or pension they shall be allowed, 
 and that such allowances shall be put upon the establishment for the 
 military list. 
 
 Secondly, that he will give orders for what new fortifications he 
 pleases to have in any of the garrisons, and that a skilful engineer 
 may be sent to direct the works. 
 
 And because we already find that several officers recruit their 
 troops and companies with the Irish, which may prove of very evil 
 consequence, we suggest whether they shall not be positively ordered 
 hereafter to recruit in England. It will be necessary also that some 
 severe penalty should be laid upon those who do not keep their troops 
 and companies full. 
 
 Whoever his Majesty sends over to command his forces here, it 
 seems to us absolutely necessary, at least for some considerable time 
 [or] till the works are finished, that he have his quarters at 
 Limerick, where he will be almost equi-distant from Galway, 
 
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 Athlone, Kinsale, and Cork, to give the orders which shall from time 
 to time appear necessary for the safety of all those places; for it is 
 there we must expect injury, if any is designed from abroad. And 
 since there are to be drawn out of the Lrish 1 400 for the Emperor's 
 service, who will be ready to embark as soon as convoy and 
 transport ships come, we pray you, for avoiding the great incon- 
 veniences by keeping them here, that the ships for carrying them off 
 may be sent to Cork with all speed. 
 
 We doubt not but that the General has fully laid before his 
 Majesty how advantageous it will be that Kinsale should have all 
 sorts of stores and other necessaries and provisions for shipping, and 
 how greatly a small squadron in that station, and cruising upon and 
 near those coasts, may annoy the French and protect our own 
 merchants; and we therefore hope his Majesty will give the necessary 
 orders for that service. And if we had the liberty to grant letters of 
 marque against the French and to set up a prize office, we believe it 
 would contribute much to the damage of the French and advantage 
 of his Majesty, and we should take such care that, when his Majesty’s 
 service required, all the seamen concerned should come into it. 
 
 The General carried from hence a petition from the miserably 
 ruined city of Limerick, which besought his Majesty’s bounty and 
 charity towards rebuilding their church and some other pubhe 
 buildings, which they are not in a condition to do themselves ; we 
 must pray your assistance towards so good and necessary a work. 
 
 As the parliament of England has allotted that the revenue of 
 this kingdom shall contribute towards the charge of the army, 
 besides the support of the civil list, the sum of 165,000/., we think it 
 is now absolutely necessary for his Majesty to declare the war in this 
 kingdom at the end; because, until that is done, the quit-rents and 
 hearth money, Pad considerable branches of the revenue (by a 
 former act of parliament made in England) are suspended. There 
 is one thing more which we must pray you to lay before the King, 
 which is the increase of the corcordatum money; it was never, in 
 the quietest times, less than 4,500/., and sometimes 9,000/. per 
 annum has been allowed. Yet by the last establishment it was only 
 2,000/., whereas there was never greater cause for enlarging it than 
 now; the great business of the concordatum (after some constant 
 necessary payments which well nigh exhaust 2,000/.) being to help 
 those ‘‘miserable poor’’ people who by the misfortunes of the war are 
 made widows and orphans, of which we have now great numbers, 
 and of good quality, ready to perish for want, who might have some 
 competent relief if the concordatum were increased. 
 
 The last matter we have to trouble you with at this time is laying 
 before his Majesty the pressing necessity we are under for want of 
 money. We cannot carry on the King’s service with any expectation of 
 success unless a supply be sent us, whereby we may be able to carry on 
 the payments of subsistence as we have already begun, having out of 
 the last money paid all the forces intended to be left here subsistence 
 for the month of January and were we supplied from you with sufficient 
 for the two next months, the revenue here we hope would answer the 
 charge of the rest of the year. Unless this is done it will be 
 impossible to reclaim the army to an orderly way of living in 
 quarters, and if that is not effected, there will be no hope of the 
 
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 kingdom recovering in any time. As there is an additional fund 
 to come out of England for making up the charge of the Establish- 
 ment of this kingdom, we flatter ourselves the sending so small a 
 sum beforehand will not be denied when the service it will perform 
 will be so considerable. [S.P. Ireland 354, No. 6.] 
 
 Warrant for the preparation of a‘ bill to pass the great seal, con- 
 firming the Articles of Galway. Copy. [Ibid., No. 7.| | Enclos- 
 ing: Copy of the Articles of Galway granted 21 July, 1691. —_[ Zbid., 
 No. 71. | 
 
 Warrant for the preparation of a bill to pass the great seal con- 
 firming the Articles of Limerick. Copy. ([Jbid., No. 8.] Enclos- 
 ing: A copy of the said articles, dated 3 October, 1691.  [Jbid., 
 No. 81. | 
 
 The Lords Justices of Ireland to the Earl of Nottingham. On the 
 26th we received your letter of the 16th, whereby we find his Majesty 
 
 has commanded the Lords of the Treasury to consider of the trans- 
 
 porting of cattle from England over here, duty free, and that 
 their lordships are to return us an answer touching the 24,000l. 
 of which the affairs of this kingdom stand so much in need. 
 
 The 1,400 Ivish, designed for the Emperor’s service, are by this time 
 drawn out and the rest disbanded and sent home; that affair turned 
 out much better than we apprehended, but to make it more easy we 
 have been forced to forbear naming any captain or any other inferior 
 officer to command the 1,400 men, least those who should be out of 
 hopes of employment, should head any of the disbanded, and turn 
 Rapparees, which would have proved very prejudicial and trouble- 
 some to the country. A great many of those officers have been per- 
 suaded to go home; those who remain will, we believe, be well 
 contented with inferior employments. When they are abroad, it will 
 be easy to settle them in such posts as is agreeable to his Majesty’s 
 pleasure. We do not hear of any common soldiers having ‘“‘ gone 
 out upon their keeping,’ which we promise ourselves was wholly 
 owing to taking their officers from them. We found it absolutely 
 necessary to give some money to the officers and soldiers who were 
 
 ‘disbanded, and then we could go no further than a fortnight’s sub- 
 
 sistence to those who were continued, though they have been four 
 months in service and think it hard the subsistence is so short. 
 
 We have now in possession about 400 horses, fit for troopers and 
 dragoons, for which we paid but one third part in hand and gave a 
 note for the rest. The troop horses were rated according to value, 
 but not exceeding 101., and the dragoons the like, but not above 51. 
 We design to deliver them as recruits to the regiments of Schaack, 
 Oxford, Leveson, Cunningham, and Wynne, the commanding officers 
 being willing to take them as such; what remains we shall so dis- 
 pose of as shall be most to the King’s advantage. 
 
 There are another sort of people yet unprovided for, who do not 
 exceed sixty in number, and are those who left the enemy and came 
 over to us before the battle of Aughrim ; it is probable they would do 
 good service either joined with the 1,400 for the German service, or 
 elsewhere. 
 
 We shall observe his Majesty’s orders in examining who are the 
 persons in the articles of Galway, in the same manner as we are 
 
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 directed in the case of Limerick. We have already been considering 
 in Council the proper heads and materials of such matters as seem 
 necessary both, at this juncture, to be formed into laws for his 
 Majesty’s service, and may tend to the future welfare and quiet of 
 the country, and will transmit them speedily. The miserable state 
 of the quarters at Athlone and the inevitable necessity upon us of 
 keeping a considerable garrison there, makes us very earnestly 
 recommend the consideration of that place to the King, that there 
 may be some extraordinary encouragement to build, and some public 
 buildings for stores and magazines. [S.P. Ireland 854, No. 9.| 
 
 The Lords Justices of Ireland to the Earl of Nottingham. We 
 informed you heretofore that we had sent Col. Foulke from hence, 
 to draw out the 1,400 Irish designed for the German service; he has 
 now finished that work, and has returned, having ordered their 
 march into the county of Cork, and by his accounts gives us fresh 
 occasion to urge you that care may be taken to send transport ships 
 for the immediate carrying them off. We have too great reason to 
 fear if they are not transported, when the hardness of the weather 
 is over, they will betake themselves to the mountains, and render the 
 country very uneasy by their robberies. We must intreat you to 
 send us the King’s orders for subsisting them; what we have 
 hitherto done has been wholly without them, and only conforming 
 to the exigency of the affair. 
 
 Orders having come hither for breaking Lord George Hamilton’s 
 regiment of foot when the money comes for that purpose, we have 
 consulted Lieut.-Gen. Scravenmoer upon it, and it seems to us for 
 the King’s service to transport it, as entire as it can be carried, from 
 hence, and after marching it some few days from Chester, to adjust 
 all their accounts and to send, under discreet officers, such numbers 
 to join any other regiments that want what they can make up. We 
 will take care to manage matters so that none shall [go] over, but 
 those who seem resolute to serve the King abroad, and have no way 
 of living here; they are all well seasoned in this war, and by the 
 account we had of the battle of Aughrim none did better service or more 
 execution upon the enemy. We may further acquaint you in justice 
 to this regiment, that if his Majesty’s intention to break them pro- 
 ceeded from the weak condition they appeared in here upon the first 
 order for their embarkation, the diligence of the officers has been 
 such that all the men are generally returned to their colours, and 
 they are again a full body. [Jbid., No. 10.] 
 
 The Lords Justices of Ireland and Council to the same. In 
 36 Charles II., there was granted to us, under the title of ‘‘ Governors 
 of the Royal Hospital of King Charles II. for ancient and maimed 
 officers and soldiers of the army of Ireland,” a charter house and 
 a certain parcel of land to be held for ever by us, as a corporate 
 body, in frank-almoigne, without power of resigning to the King or 
 his successors, or of alienating to any other use whatsoever any- 
 thing therein granted, but to continue a hospital for the uses 
 aforesaid ; and that all the said officers and soldiers of the said army 
 should be maintained with such salaries and allowances as the 
 incorporated governors and their successors should appoint ; and that 
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 should be a deduction of 6d. in the pound out of the pay of the said 
 army and all other persons on the military list of the Establishment 
 of this kingdom for ever. 
 
 But the continuation of this house, notwithstanding this grant, has 
 been subverted, and the officers and soldiers turned out by the late 
 Lord Tyrconnel, and so continue. His Majesty has, since his coming 
 to Dublin, employed the house as an infirmary for the sick and 
 wounded soldiers during the war, most of whom are now recovered 
 and sent to the regiments to which they belonged, and there remain 
 only such as are utterly disabled. We therefore desire you will lay 
 before his Majesty the former state of the house before the subversion 
 of it by Tyrconnel, that it may be again restored to its old founda- 
 tion. [S.P. Ireland 354, No. 11.] 
 
 Lord Nottingham to the Lords Justices of Ireland. The Emperor 
 having desired 500 Irish besides the 1,400 already ‘‘ ordered,” his 
 Majesty i is pleased to condescend thereunto, if so many of the Irish 
 are willing to enter into that service ; and they are to be formed into 
 five companies each consisting of 100 men. Huis Majesty would have 
 Capt. Fitzgerald and Capt. Sheldon to be two of the captains, and I 
 believe, in a post or two, I may be able to send you the names of the 
 others. Copy. |Ibid., No. 12. ] 
 
 The same to the same. I sent you by the last post the names of 
 two of the captains whom his Majesty would have you appoint to 
 command two of the five additional companies desired by the 
 Emperor. The names of the other three are: John Cornay, Owen 
 Fernes and Jeremy Hullahan. Copy. [Jbid., No. 13.] 
 
 Report by the Customs Commissioners touching the exporting 
 sheep and other cattle to Ireland. In obedience to your lordships’ 
 commands signified to us by Mr. Guy, on the 20th ult. upon a letter 
 from the Lords of the Privy Council in Ireland desiring that leave 
 be given for some time to transport horses, mares, cows, hogs, and 
 sheep from England and Scotland into Ireland duty free, we 
 report to your lordships, that, as to the case of sheep, although by 
 the acts of 12 and 14 of King Charles II. prohibiting the exportation 
 of wool (by which amongst other things sheep are prohibited to be 
 exported to foreign parts) there seems to be a communication 
 intended between this kingdom and the kingdom of Ireland of the 
 commodities thereby prohibited to other parts, yet in regard the 
 case 1s hew and may seem doubtful, we conceive it may deserve the 
 consideration of their Majesties’ counsel learned in the laws. As to 
 great cattle and swine, though the duties are all small, yet, as the 
 law stands, they being made among others a fund of credit, we 
 doubt they cannot be remitted without Act of Parliament. Other- 
 wise we conceive what is desired might be reasonable for the 
 encouragement of the remaining inhabitants of Ireland, and for 
 increasing their stock in cattle, which we doubt not has been under 
 creat waste and destruction. | Jbid., No. 14.] Appended :— 
 
 The Lords Justices of Ireland to | Lord Nottingham ?]. The great 
 destruction which has lately been made of cattle of all sorts during the 
 late rebellion in this kingdom requires a speedy supply for the necessary 
 support of the remaining inhabitants. Having taken this into considera- 
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 Majesty that leave be given for some time to transport horses, mares, 
 cows, hogs, and sheep from England and Scotland duty free, which 
 though it be inconsiderable to his Majesty's revenue, will be a great 
 encouragement to many persons to bring them hither from those parts, 
 and by this means this country will the sooner recover the great want 
 of stock under which it at present suffers. The like liberty was granted 
 at the end of the late war. Dated at the Council Chamber, Dublin, 
 
 »* January, 1691-2. Copy. [S.P. Ireland 854, No. 14i.] 
 
 Feb. 22. 
 
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 to ———-—. The French privateers are become very 
 bold on this coast. Some Irish have gone off in boats to be their 
 pilots, and others on shore are ready to join them. Captain 
 Townshend took a boat of one of these privateers, which came ashore 
 with 16 men, one he killed, and took eleven and a lieutenant, and 
 was in pursuit of the rest. It is astonishing to us here that a French 
 regiment with so many papists in it should command these forts, and 
 our forts not to have a day’s provision in them, Jlvztract.  {Jbid., 
 No. 15. ] 
 
 Warrant to Viscount Sydney to pay to Sir Stephen Fox, knight, the 
 residue of the sum due under a grant by letters patent of 28 March, 
 36 Charles II., to Robert, Karl of Sunderland, who assigned the same 
 to Richard Kent., esq., in trust for the said Sir Stephen. [Signet 
 Office, Letter Book 12, p. 629. | 
 
 Notes for the Instructions to Viscount Sydney as Lord Lieutenant 
 of Ireland. [S.P. Ireland 354, No. 15a. | 
 
 (Jueries submitted by the Solicitor-General of Ireland, touching 
 indictments and other matters.  [bid., No. 16. | 
 
 The Earl of Nottingham to the Lords Justices of Ireland. Upon 
 the 13th and 16th of last month, I sent you his Majesty’s pleasure 
 for adding 500 Ivish private soldiers to the 1,400 formerly directed 
 to be sent to the Emperor. Capt. Wilson, who brought me yours of 
 the 27th, says there was nothing done herein when he came away, 
 which is the reason I mention this again. LHatract. — [Lbid., 
 No. 17.| 
 
 The same to the same. ‘The most proper place for embarking the 
 Irish regiments designed for the Emperor’s service is thought to be 
 Long Island in Cork Harbour. The ships for transporting them are 
 ready, and ordered to sail this night, whereof I give you notice, that 
 the Irish may be in readiness to embark upon the arrival of the 
 ships. [Jbid., No. 18.] 
 
 Alderman Robert Rogers to Sir Robert Southwell. I am not 
 without great sense of your wonderful kindness to the poor British 
 of Ireland. As many as are here give you their humble service, 
 as I doubt not the inhabitants of Cork, Kinsale, ete., as in gratitude 
 bound, will give you their acknowledgements. Here are many 
 vessels laden with malt, wheat, peas, and barley, and if the press 
 masters are not directed to forbear pressing out of such vessels the 
 consequence may be evil to the poor people of Ireland. I therefore 
 entreat your consideration of this matter whether it were not fit to 
 apply to the Lords of the Admiralty that directions might be given 
 
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 not to press seamen really belonging to such corn barks. There 
 must be a constant supply of corn till harvest, or the people must 
 perish. [S.P. Ireland 354, No.19.] | 
 
 The Earl of Galway to [the Earl of Nottingham ?] Has read 
 the letter sent to the Lords Justices concerning the embarkation of 
 the horses for the artillery ; they are in so bad a condition that they 
 cannot be embarked until the 15th of May, if they are to be in a con- 
 dition to serve. Neither must the troops march towards Kinsale 
 until shortly before the time of embarkation for fear of ruining the 
 country, which has already been wasted by the Irish who have gone 
 over to France and by the Danes and English who have gone to 
 England. The first, who are to be in the: service of the Emperor, 
 should be embarked from there, and the five regiments for the fleet 
 should take the provisions from the country. They will be ready by 
 April 15. [zbid., No. 20.] 
 
 The Lords Justices of Ireland to the same. We received your 
 letters of the 9th and 10th two days ago, and forthwith sent orders 
 to Capt. Pedder commanding the Swift at Waterford, that having 
 seen Leveson’s regiment safe in King’s road, he make the best of his 
 way into the Downs; but we since find that he sailed away with 
 Leveson’s dragoons on Wednesday morning, the 16th instant. Col. 
 Villiers’ whole regiment yet remains, but the wind is so favourable 
 now that we may forthwith expect the ships back, and all are ready 
 to embark. We presume that as you only directed us to hasten 
 Pedder away, that he may attend the performance of the whole 
 service, since it is now in that state, that doing it will not retard him 
 above a tide or two. 
 
 The French privateers are very insolent upon these coasts, so that 
 Cork, Limerick, and Galway suffer extremely by their intercourse 
 being stopped. We hope the Admiralty will consider our condition ; 
 we have written to Mr. Russell about it. Col. Foulke went, some time 
 since, to add 500 more Irish to the 1,400 already on foot for the 
 German service, and we promise ourselves all will be ready against 
 the time that the transport ships come. We had given the necessary 
 orders for replenishing the garrison at Kinsale before your directions 
 came, and there are now six weeks’ provision there. It is impossible 
 to find horses here for the service of the train beyond what we 
 mentioned in our last, nor can those we propose to be of use in June 
 be of any use in May. Mr. Van Homrigh has this post given the 
 Commissioners for Transportation, as likewise Mr. Clerk, secretary at 
 war, a full account of what provisions he has or wants for any 
 services designed this summer. 
 
 We have received their Majesties’ proclamation for declaring 
 the war in this kingdom at an end. We could have heartily 
 wished that the letter for demolishing the castles had come sooner, 
 so that the work might have been done before the publication 
 of the other, and either complaint or action from any injured 
 proprietor prevented; however, considering that it is declared 
 hereby that the quit rents etc. which shall thenceforth grow due 
 shall be payable, and that Lady-day (now approaching) is one of 
 the half year’s payments in the ordinary course, we have rather 
 chosen to run the hazard than to forbear publishing it till we had 
 
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 demolished the castles, because that could not be effected before 
 Lady-day, it being still in his Majesty’s power to declare whether 
 considering the general poverty of this kingdom he will, as we have 
 formerly proposed, ease the country from payment of any of those 
 dues till Michaelmas next. [S.P. Ireland 854, No. 21.] 
 
 March 22.- The Earl of Nottingham to the Lords Justices of Ireland. I 
 Whitehall. formerly wrote to you about 500 Irish desired by the Emperor over 
 and above the 1,400. I must now desire you will take all the care 
 you can to complete this number as soon as possible, so that both 
 numbers, with the officers, may in the whole make up 2,000 men, 
 to be in readiness to embark upon the arrival of the ships appointed 
 to transport them, so that those ships may not be delayed in 
 port longer than shall be necessary for receiving the men on board. 
 Copy. [Ibid., No. 22.] 
 
 March 28. The Lords Justices of Ireland to the Earl of Nottingham. Upon 
 
 Dublin Castle. the receipt of your last letter, we dispatched an express to respite 
 the order for blowing up Nenagh and Roscrea belonging to the Duke 
 of Ormond. Our instructions for demolishing had regard to the 
 preservation of the habitable parts, only to render them indefensible 
 in ill hands; without doubt, it is reasonable to leave them in such a 
 condition that they may depend upon the safety of their cattle | 
 from pilfering thieves in the night. It is now alleged by the 
 Commissioners for managing and setting the Duke of Ormond’s 
 fortune, that the strength and security of those two places were the 
 chief inducements to the protestants to give such considerable rents 
 for the lands upon the late letting of them in these neighbourhoods. 
 Kilbullane and Terrahan, are the property of protestants too. 
 [Ibid., No. 28. ] 
 
 March 29. The Earl of Nottingham to the Lords Justices of Ireland. The 
 Queen, considering that Lord Iveagh and the other officers appointed 
 to command the Irish that are to go into the Emperor’s service may 
 want some money before they can leave the kingdom, would have 
 you distribute among them according to their necessities, and as you 
 shall judge most expedient, any sum of money not exceeding two or 
 three hundred pounds ; and she would have you hasten them to the 
 place where they are to embark, in regard the ships will be there 
 speedily to meet them. Hatract. [Ibid., No. 24.} 
 
 March. A list of the Commissioners of the Revenue in Ireland. |[Jdid., 
 No. 25. | 
 
 April 2. The Earl of Nottingham to the Lords Justices of Ireland. 
 I acquainted you in my last that her Majesty would have you hasten 
 away the Irish designed for the Kmperor’s service. Kinsale is the 
 place where they are to embark, and the ships which are to carry 
 them will speedily be sent from Bristol thither. Hztract. (Jbid., 
 No. 26. | 
 
 April 22. The Bishop of Wurzburg to the Prince of Waldeck. It is much 
 Bamberg. to be desired that something could have been undertaken on the 
 upper Rhine against the enemy of the whole empire. I could 
 cheerfully bear the dangers, that threaten my seat more and more 
 
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 pressingly, if, as last year, they contributed to the safety of Saxony. 
 Copy. |S.P. Dom., King William’s Chest 12, No. 77. | 
 
 The Prince of Nassau to the Prince of Waldeck. With regard to 
 an exchange to be made among the troops commanded by Colonel 
 the Prince of Hesse Hamburg. | Ibid., No. 77a. | 
 
 The Earl of Galway to [the Earl of Nottingham?]. Giving 
 information as to the state of the horses of the ar tiller y. ‘Those that 
 are in Dublin will not be ready for active service until June; he is 
 waiting the embarkation of the artillery which is to take place from 
 Limerick on the 21st of that month. Forty-two horses are in good 
 condition there, and he hopes there will be as many towards Cork, 
 where he will be on the 19 0f May. The horses will be sent to Cork, 
 as there is not enough fodder for them all at Limerick. Speaks of 
 the difficulty of setting them (the artillery) all to embark from Cork 
 and Ixkinsale, as there is so little fodder, and no bread for the men. 
 He had hoped to have received provisions from England for the 
 voyage and for the time they were encamped near Kinsale. 
 IS.P. Ireland 354, No. 27. ] 
 
 The Earl of Nottingham to the Lords Justices of Ireland. I 
 cannot but again desire you, at the importunity of the Emperor's 
 secretary, that you will do all that is possible to complete the Irish 
 regiments designed for the Emperor’s service and dispatch them 
 away, if they are not already gone. LHztract.  {TIbid., No. 28.] 
 
 to the Marquis de Castelmoneayo. Will be glad to corre- 
 spond with him, and through him with the King of England, in many 
 particular matters that may arise, as concerning affairs at Constan- 
 tinople and the situation in Eastern Europe, which he discusses. 
 [S.P. Dom., King William’s Chest 12, No. 78.] 
 
 The Lords Justices and Couneil of Ireland to the Earl of 
 Nottingham. As the term is now coming on, the court of King’s 
 Bench will be very full of motions and applications of those persons 
 who are under protection, and, being indicted of high treason, have 
 appeared upon the capias and e2 iyent, and so prevented their being 
 outlawed. 
 
 Before the reduction of Limerick it was thought fit to use those 
 people with great tenderness ; and since that time, though applications 
 have been made, yet no directions have been given from England ; 
 the King’s counsel, for want of them, have not prosecuted, and the 
 people have grown pressing to be tried, the rather because most of 
 their estates were seized by the Commissioners of Seizures, and are 
 now in their Majesties’ hands. They have been put off from term to 
 term so long, that the clamours are no longer to be borne. They 
 must either be tried next term, or their Majesties part with the 
 possession of their estates, which are not inconsiderable ; ; and in this 
 case it will be necessary to have some directions as to what shall be 
 done with those who, having pressed for their trials, shall happen to 
 be found guilty. 
 
 Besides these persons these are several others who have been 
 concerned in the rebellion, and are not comprised in any articles; 
 living remote in Connaught, where the enemy’s quarters were, they 
 
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 have not yet been prosecuted. These persons cannot be dispossessed 
 of their estates till they are attainted, and some direction is wanting 
 
 what prosecution ought to be made in this case. 
 
 Many persons, who affirm themselves to be within the Articles of 
 Limerick and Galway, are very pressing to have their claims heard. 
 lf the Queen think fit to have them determined, as heretofore, at this 
 Board, a letter should be sent to pass letters patents under the great 
 seal to empower the Lord Lieutenant and Council to hear these 
 matters. [S.P. Ireland 854, No. 28a. |] 
 
 The Lords Justices of Ireland to the Karl of Nottingham. We have 
 so often represented the great want of provisions at Cork and Kinsale, 
 especially while so many of the forces appointed for foreign service 
 are shipping off at these places, that we very unwillingly. ceive you 
 the trouble of repeating our desires on that account ; but such is the 
 necessity of a very speedy supply that we may not omit to let you 
 know it, and that their Majesties’ service and the country will suffer 
 too much if if be not done with the greatest expedition. 
 
 By letter from Mr. Blathwayt, we were assured that about 3,000 
 barrels of wheat and rye should have been sent by Mr. Henley from 
 the Severn in January last, whereof hitherto we have not had above 
 900, and there has been a more than ordinary occasion to provide for 
 the subsistence of the forces designed for the Emperor’s service, by 
 which means our stores are so exhausted that there cannot be less 
 sent for our present provision than 8,000 barrels, there not being now 
 left in the stores a month’s provision. Therefore we entreat you to 
 lay it before her Majesty that the necessary supply be sent with all 
 the speed imaginable, and under a safe convoy, the French privateers 
 being busy upon our coasts and very numerous. [| Jbid., No. 29.] 
 
 ~ Memorial from the Duke of Leinster. Her Majesty having thought 
 it necessary for her service that an army should be ready upon any 
 occasion that may happen, I think myself obliged to represent. to 
 her that it will be absolutely necessary for her service that the said 
 army be quartered as near one another as possible, unless she thinks 
 fit to leave them encamped, which I judge most convenient, the 
 necessary orders being thereby the more easily distributed, and the 
 army in a greater readiness to march upon any occasion. It will be 
 likewise very necessary that a train of artillery be appointed, and in 
 readiness to encamp, if the army does so, or sent to some convenient 
 quarter in the centre of the army, and that a sufficient quantity of 
 powder, ball, chevaux de frise, spades, pickaxes, shovels, wheel- 
 barrows, and other necessaries and utensils ef war be procured 
 in readiness to be sent with the army. Of this it is very requisite 
 Sir Henry Goodrick should have immediate notice. I think it lke- 
 wise of great importance that there be a considerable garrison in 
 Berwick with able and experienced officers to command there, that 
 post being very considerable to hinder the communication in Scotland 
 (In case the enemy should make any attempt upon that kingdom) 
 with any abettors they might have in England. It will likewise be 
 very necessary that an able engineer should be forthwith sent thither 
 to examine the fortifications and the posts most advantageous to be 
 retrenched, and to put the same into good position of defence. There 
 must be likewise orders immediately dispatched from her Majesty to 
 
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 the several colonels of horse, foot, and dragoons to keep their 
 regiments in readiness to march at a day’s warning wheresoever they 
 are commanded. [S.P. Ireland 854, No. 30. ] 
 
 Request by Lord Lucas, governor of the Tower of London, that 
 the Victuallers of the Navy may be ordered to lay in six weeks’ 
 provision for 800 men. [S.P. Dom., William and Mary 14, No. 50a. | 
 
 The Duke of Leinster to the Karl of Nottingham. This is to 
 enclose the establishment of such officers who I think absolutely 
 necessary should attend me in this expedition, which I desire you 
 will lay before her Majesty in order to procure a warrant thereupon. 
 [S.P. Ireland 354, No. 81.] Enclosing: Statement of the establishment 
 
 jor the Duke of Leinster and such officers as are obliged to attend his 
 
 grace the ensuing campaign, to commence from 1st March, 1692[-3]. 
 [Ibid., No. 81 i.] 
 
 The Lords Justices of Ireland to the same. Just now by letters 
 from Cork and Waterford we have advice that the transport ships, as 
 well those for the five English and French battalions, as for the 
 Emperor’s service, have safely arrived in those ports. All dispatch 
 possible will now be given to their embarking, and nothing can 
 hinder their going off but contrary winds, [Jbid., No. 32.] 
 
 The Earl of Galway to the same. I came here three days ago. 
 To-morrow the provisions will be in the vessels and the five regiments 
 are in or near Waterford, as well as the horses. I should like to 
 embark the troops so that they could set sail directly the wind proves 
 favourable, and I fear the provisions may be consumed whilst the 
 wind holds contrary. I have already informed you of the four 
 vessels, with the chief part of the artillery, which are still at 
 Limerick; I presume that it is the Queen’s intention that I should 
 go with the other vessels which are here. It would be a great 
 hindrance and loss of time if it were necessary that the convoy 
 ships, which J suppose will be sent from England, had to go first to 
 those at Limerick and then to those at this place. It would be 
 easier to conduct those here from Bristol to Portsmouth. Requests 
 orders to land at Bristol. [JZbid., No. 33.] 
 
 The Lords Justices of Ireland to the same. Having, by our 
 enclosed proclamation, limited a time for the Irish to bring in their 
 arms, which by the return made us we find has had little effect, and 
 it having been observed that generally throughout the kingdom they 
 have of late carried it as if they had some more than ordinary 
 expectation, we suppose from the designed descent upon England or 
 other foreign encouragement, we did not know how to answer it 
 to their Majesties and the protestants of the kingdom, should we 
 not immediately put the country into the best condition of security 
 in. our power. We therefore thought it necessary to send our 
 letters to the governors of the several counties, whereof the enclosed 
 isacopy. It was not without some difficulty that we set about this 
 work, being apprehensive that by colour of our authority the country 
 might be plundered by the militia. But you may observe, by the 
 letter, that we have given all the caution imaginable to prevent it. 
 [Ibid., No. 84.] Enclosing :-— 
 
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 Printed copy of a proclamation by the Lords Justices and Council of 
 Ireland, directing the delivery of arms and ammunition by rebels —The 
 Council Chamber in Dublin, 4 February, 1691-2. [S.P. Ireland 354, 
 No. 341. | 
 
 We—having found little effect from the proclamation formerly issued, 
 commanding and encouraging the Irish to bring in thew arms, and 
 well knowing that there must necessarily still remain considerable 
 quantities wm their custody, which we cannot think they would so 
 obstinately keep and conceal, without designing to take all opportunities 
 of disturbing the public peace—have therefore thought it highly 
 necessary to direct some effectual course for the speedy disarming of 
 those who, contrary to our said proclamation, still keep and conceal 
 them. 
 
 We therefore desire and require you to cause all the militia of the 
 county of ————— to meet on the 20th of this instant May in their 
 arms, not altogether in one place, but in particular troops and 
 companies, i such convenient places directed by you as may be most 
 proper for them to be in, for searching for and taking away the arms 
 and ammunition from the Irish and other Roman catholics. These 
 orders are to be issued by you, that they may not be known to the 
 persons employed until the day whereon they are to execute them as 
 aforesaid, and that then they cause diligent search to be made in all 
 places wherein you or they believe or suspect any to be concealed, and 
 that they take them away and bring them to their Majesties’ next 
 stores, or keep them in your hands till our further order, giving unto 
 us an immediate account in writing of the number and sorts you shall 
 find, and of the persons’ names from whom they were taken. 
 
 In the execution of this our order we recommend that such persons 
 be employed as may be trusted not to commit any insolency or violence 
 to any of those persons, nor make use of this service as a colour for 
 plundering ov otherwise injuring any of them, that tt may not be a 
 reproach to us that under a specious pretence we break our faith and 
 violate the King’s word and honour. You are likewise to take care that 
 no use be made of this order to take any of the arms which we have 
 licensed any person to have or use, but to suffer them still to keep such 
 as by our licence shall appear to you to be allowed them.— Dublin Castle, 
 14 May, 1692. Copy. [Ibid., No. 841i. | 
 
 The Lords Justices of Ireland to the Earl of Nottingham. We 
 received to-day the order of the Commissioners of the Admiralty 
 directing Capt. Price, commander of the Smyrna Merchant, to 
 continue at Cork with the ships under his command and convoy, 
 which are employed to transport the Irish to Hamburg, until further 
 orders. We dispatched it to him immediately, and hope .he will not 
 have gone before the order comes to his hands, but all has been 
 ready for the embarkation of the troops for some time. ‘The five 
 regiments to be shipped from Waterford have been ready there 
 several days, and nothing but the want of wind has hindered their 
 transportation. Seal of arms. [Ibid., No. 35.] 
 
 The Earl of Galway to [the same]. I have just received the 
 orders which Mr. Clark has sent to the five regiments ; they will have 
 all disembarked to-morrow, and the day after will commence their 
 
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 march. As they all march in the same direction one after the other, 
 [ will stay here till all have commenced their march, and I hope by 
 then to have received the Queen’s orders to go to the Duke of 
 Leinster. Asks for orders concerning the artillery which has come 
 from Ireland, the 100 horses, and ite hospital. The news which I 
 have received here makes me hope for the entire destruction of the 
 French fleet. [S.P. Ireland 354, No. 36.] 
 
 The Lords Justices of Ireland to the same. Understanding upon 
 the arrival of the transport ships for carrying the Irish Lattalions to 
 Hamburg, that they were not sufficient for the number appointed 
 and raised for that service, and that ships could not be hired thither 
 but at an extreme rate, and being informed that the two men-of-war, 
 their convoy, under the command of Captain Price and Captain 
 Pedder, might conveniently enough take 60 men into each of them, 
 we signified our desire to them for that purpose, who, though at first 
 seeming willing, yet when they were ready to embark refused it, and 
 so the collector was necessitated to press a ship for 140 of them, and 
 to agree with him for 24s. for each man, besides provision for the 
 voyage. 
 
 We think it fit. to give you this account, that the Commissioners 
 for executing the office of Lord High Admiral may be made 
 acquainted with the carriage of these captains in this affair, and 
 more particularly we do it in reference to Captain Pedder, who on 
 several occasions has carried it so disrespectfully towards us and so 
 detrimentally towards their Majesties’ subjects in several ports of 
 this kingdom, that he deserves to be severely reprimanded for it. 
 
 We desire some men-of-war to be forthwith sent to lreland, to clear 
 the coast of the privateers who trouble it and do much damage to the 
 merchants. The transport ships for Hamburg sailed from Cork on 
 the 27th instant. [Ibid., No. 87. | 
 
 The same to the same. This day by aletter from Captain Pedder, 
 which came express from Kinsale, we find that those ships are by 
 contrary winds driven in thither, and we have by a letter to Pedder 
 let him know our resentment of their neglect of their Majesties’ 
 service and that they must expect to hear further of it in England, 
 and on this occasion we likewise think it necessary to inform you, 
 to the end the Lords of the Admiralty may be acquainted with it or 
 what else you shall think fit to do in the case, that Captain Pedder 
 has too busily employed himself of late in taking ships belonging to 
 their Majesties’ subjects, either coming into or in port, in this 
 kingdom, under pretence of their having prohibited goods aboard 
 them, without acquainting us. 
 
 Lord Ive ach has so misbehaved himself in the trust reposed in him 
 touching the Irish battalions that we have little reason to expect 
 any advantageous management from him in future, having turned 
 off and left behind him “about twenty of Col. O’Donnell’s officers, 
 who had been instrumental all along in keeping their men together, 
 merely to prefer some of his own creatures, which we hope you will 
 take care he be called to account for. However since the return of 
 the ships to Kinsale, we have sent positive order for the shipping of 
 them, and desire that you will take care with the Emperor’s agent 
 that they are placed in their due posts, notwithstanding Lord 
 
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 Iveagh’s turning them out, which we believe will be for the Kmperor’s 
 service as well as justice to the men. 
 
 At the same time as we received the letter aforesaid from Captain 
 Pedder, we also received a letter from Captain Deane, commander of 
 their Majesty’s ship York, then riding off Cape Clear, acquainting 
 us that he, with a Dutch man-of-war called the Shafterhoofe, was 
 sent by the Admiral from the fleet as a convoy for the ammunition 
 ships lying in the Shannon, and that he was making the best of his 
 way thither, where he would expect our orders. We thereupon 
 immediately dispatched an express to meet him in the Shannon, 
 with order that, in case he had no other orders to the contrary, he 
 should forthwith sail with those ships under his convoy and make 
 the best of his way to the Downs, and immediately upon his arrival 
 there send an express to the Lords of the Admiralty of what we had 
 so directed, unless in the meantime he should receive other orders to 
 
 sail with the ships to any particular port in England or elsewhere 
 out of this kingdom. And we at the same time gave orders for une 
 ships in the Shannon to fall down as low as safely they might, 
 order to their meeting with the convoy. 
 
 Captain Charles Oliver, a captain of Col. Foulke’s regiment, being 
 high sheriff of the county of Limerick and one of the deputy 
 eovernors of if, is aman extremely useful on all occasions to that 
 county, and his service at this time so necessary to their Majesties’ 
 affairs that we have thought it fit for their ] Majesties’ interest to 
 dispense with his attendance on his command, until we shall receive 
 orders from you concerning him. [S.P. Ir eland 854, No. 38. | 
 
 The Lords Justices of Ireland to the Earl of Nottingham. Upon 
 receipt of a letter from Admiral Russell by Capt. Deane, commander 
 of their Majesties’ ship York, directing him to sail into the Shannon, 
 as a convoy for the ammunition ships there, we directed those ships 
 to fall down as low as with safety they could, in order to meet the 
 convoy. Since when, having received an account from him of his 
 being off Cape Clear and making the best of his way into the 
 Shannon, we sent an express thither to direct them to fall down as 
 low as they could for their more speedy dispatch. But by a letter 
 this day received from Capt. Deane of the 2nd instant, we find that 
 by contrary winds he is driven into Kinsale. [Jbid., No. 39. | 
 
 The same to the same. We received yours of the 5th instant, 
 wherein we find it was expected some bills, wherein the Attorney 
 and Solicitor General and the Lord Chief Justice Reynell had par- 
 ticular direction, should have been prepared, and have been sent over 
 before this time. We did not know until now, by your letter, what 
 order they had concerning any bills. As to those whereof you sent 
 us the heads, we immediately gave orders to the judges and King’s 
 counsel to have them prepared only. As to that of attainder, we 
 thought necessary it should be respited till the Lord Lieutenant 
 came over, because we believed he would have some particular 
 instructions which we had not. Those relating to the revenue, 
 upon consulting the Commissioners, we were informed that they are 
 already as beneficial for their Majesties as they can be. Some of 
 the other bills we have sent over, and the bill for the militia was 
 undertaken by Mr. Justice Cox, who went into Munster upon the 
 
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 King’s service before he had finished the draft, which gave a delay 
 to that bill; but we have been several days upon it, and hope very 
 soon to send it over, and to make it effectual for the safety and 
 preservation of their Majesties’ government and the peace of this 
 kingdom. ‘The bill for the encouragement of the linen manufac- 
 turers is also prepared and has been several times under considera- 
 tion, but is not yet finished; next week, this bill and that for 
 residence of the clergy, will be sent over. [S.P. Ireland 354, No. 40. | 
 
 The Lords Justices and Council of Ireland to the same. The 
 enclosed petition of the lawyers and physicians comprehended in the 
 Articles of Galway having been presented to us, and being a singular 
 case, which we conceive deserves their Majesties’ particular regard, 
 we submit the same to the Queen’s pleasure, whether provision 
 shall be made for the petitioners by act of parliament to be passed 
 in England, as was done in the case of the Articles of Limerick, or 
 by bill to be passed when the parliament shall sit in this kingdom. 
 [Ibid., No. 41.] Enclosing :— 
 
 Petition of the lawyers and physicians comprehended in the Articles 
 of Galway to the Lords Justices and Council of Ireland. 
 
 By the said articles all persons comprehended therein are to have 
 their real and personal estate, and lawyers and physicians were to be 
 allowed to exercise their professions, taking only the ancient oath of 
 allegiance. Article XII. expressly provided that all Roman catholic 
 lawyers of the town of Galway should have free liberty of practice. 
 
 At the time of the passing of the English act for abrogating the 
 oath of supremacy wn Ireland, the Articles of Galway were mislaid in 
 the Secretary’s office, but have since been ratified under the great seal of 
 England, It was not the intention of either the Act or the confirmation 
 to exclude any persons from the benefit of the Articles ; but the wording 
 of the Act deprives the petitioners from the exercise of their professions, 
 to the utter rum of themselves and thew families. They pray relief. 
 [ Ibid., No. 411.] 
 
 The same to [the Lords of the Council]. Upon receipt of your 
 letter of the 9th day of this month and the three bills therewith sent 
 us to be transmitted from hence in form, we acquainted the Council 
 therewith and we have caused the said bills to be engrossed and sent 
 over in the usual form under the great seal of this kingdom, but 
 with some alterations made in two of them for the following reasons : 
 
 In the bill sent out for confirming the Act of Settlement and 
 Explanation there is a clause for confirming an act of council for 
 the resolution of doubts made by the commissioners for executing 
 the said acts. And we, finding that at several times doubts were 
 made by the Commissioners to the Lord Lieutenant and Council, and 
 several resolutions made thereupon, one whereof was of more general 
 concernment than the rest, have inserted in the said bill the 
 dates thereof, which may distinguish the same from the other in case 
 it is intended that the confirmation shall extend to that only. But 
 if it be intended that all other resolutions of doubts made by the 
 Lord Lieutenant and Council in pursuance of the said acts should be 
 also confirmed, then the bill may be so altered as to extend thereunto, 
 that which was sent over to us mentioning, in the enacting part of it, 
 only one act of council in the singular number, 
 
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 In the said bill sent over to us there was a clause whereby all acts 
 made against the Act of Settlement and Explanation are repealed, 
 which are omitted in the bill now transmitted by us, in regard we do 
 not know of any acts made against the Act of Settlement and 
 Kixplanation, but the act made by the late pretended parliament in 
 this kingdom; and to make use of the word repeale as to that act 
 might imply as if it had been made by a legal authority and 
 once in force, and that the declaratory act made against it by 
 the parliament of England has not been sufficient. We therefore 
 omitted that clause in the bill transmitted by us, and have inserted a 
 clause in the other bill concerning the pretended Act of Attainder 
 whereby all the acts of that pretended parliament are declared, from 
 the first making thereof, to have been null and void, which will make 
 the repealing any one of them wholly unnecessary. 
 
 There is a proviso in the said bill sent over to us that the said 
 act should not extend to discharge any forfeitures, escheats, or 
 penalties for treason or felony, for which clause we do not see any 
 necessity, in regard the confirming the said acts cannot discharge 
 any forfeitures or penalties accrued to their Majesties, and we doubt 
 lest the said proviso, being general and not relating to any certain 
 time, it may raise apprehensions in people’s minds as if the 
 forfeitures by outlawries for the rebellion in 1641 were intended to be 
 set up, and to make a title thereby to their Majesties against such 
 outlawed persons as have titles to such outlawed persons’ estates 
 under the Act of Settlement and Explanation. We have therefore 
 omitted that clause in the bill transmitted by us. 
 
 In the bill sent over to us there was a proviso that the said act 
 should not extend to confirm any decrees, sentences, or judgments 
 upon the said acts, but the same should be of such and no other force 
 than the same would have been if this act should not be made. Now 
 the whole settlement of this kingdom depending upon the decrees 
 and judgements made and given by the Commissioners for execution 
 of the said acts, which are all confirmed by the Acts of Explanation, 
 we apprehend that the exception thereof from confirmation by this 
 bill may encourage suits for avoiding these judgements and decrees, 
 which may be of ill consequence in the present condition of this 
 kingdom, and we submit it to her Majesty’s consideration how proper 
 it may be by this bill to confirm the Act of Explanation which 
 confirms those judgements, and yet by the same bill to except those 
 judgements from being confirmed. And therefore in regard those 
 judgements are, as we conceive, fit to be confirmed, and the confirma- 
 tion thereof will tend to the settlement of this kingdom, and the same 
 will be confirmed by a general confirmation of the said Acts, we have 
 omitted the said exception in the bill transmitted by us. 
 
 There is another exception in the bill sent over to us, that the 
 same shall not impeach any conveyances or settlements made since 
 the said acts, of which exception we do not see any use or necessity, 
 since the confirmation of the said acts cannot extend to impeach or 
 avoid any conveyances or settlements made since these acts. And 
 such settlements or conveyances as were by the said acts avoided, 
 ought still so to continue avoided; therefore we have also omitted 
 that clause in the bill, 
 
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 As to the other bill sent over to us for declaring all attainders 
 made in the late pretended parliament to be void, we have made 
 some alterations in the clause contained therein whereby all the 
 acts of the late pretended parliament are to be brought before the 
 Lord Lieutenant at ————© and there cancelled and destroyed, 
 which clause we have extended, in the bill transmitted by us, to all 
 writs issued in order to calling the said parhament, returned into 
 and remaining into any office in this kingdom, and to all journals 
 and other books and writings in any wise relating thereunto against 
 such distinction. 
 
 The clause at the end of that bill sent over to us, whereby the Act 
 of Attainder only is declared to be null and void, seems to make some 
 difference between that act and the other acts of that pretended 
 parliament, and therefore in the bill transmitted by us we have 
 enlarged that clause so as to extend to all the other acts of that 
 parliament, as well as to the Act of Attainder, and so as not only to 
 declare them now null and void, but to have been so also from the 
 first making thereof. We have wholly omitted in our transmission 
 the last words in the bill sent over to us, that the persons attainted 
 by that pretended parliament should be restored in blood, least it 
 should be implied thereby that their blood was by that act once 
 corrupted, and declaring the act to have been yoid from the first 
 making of it seems to make that last clause unnecessary. 
 
 We have made these several alterations in our transmission of the 
 bills sent over to us by you, though we had no directions from you 
 to alter anything therein, because we are sure there can be no incon- 
 venience thereby to their Majesties’ affairs, for if her Majesty shall 
 not be satisfied with the reasons given by us for our altering the said 
 bills they may be altered again in England, and made to agree im all 
 things with those bills sent over to us before they are sent back to 
 us under the creat seal of England; for though no change can be 
 made here in any bill sent over hiner under any said seal, yet the 
 Lords of the Council in England may make any such alterations as 
 they shall think fit in any “bill sent over from here under the said 
 seal of this kingdom. 
 
 If it shall be thought fit that a parliament be held here, with- 
 out the transmission of any other bills than these three now sent, 
 before the sitting of the parliament, then it will be necessary 
 that when these bills shall be sent back a commission be sent with 
 them under the great seal of England to hold the parliament. But 
 if any of those bills which we lately sent over, or the Militia Bill, a 
 draft of which we now send to the Lord Lieutenant, shall be thought 
 fit to be brought before the parliament at their first sitting, then the 
 transmission of these three bills may be laid aside, and her Majesty 
 may order another transmission of these three bills to be made by 
 us under the great seal of this kingdom, with such other bills as 
 shall be thought fit to be joined therewith, for we do not find that 
 it has ever been used to have more than one transmission of bills 
 before the sitting of the parliament, and we conceive the Militia 
 Bill to be of the oreatest concern to their Majesties and their protes- 
 tant subjects of this kingdom. [S.P. Ireland 854, No. 42.] 
 
 (1) Blank in original. 
 
1692. 
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 Proposal to the Harl of Galway about the French churches in 
 Ireland. Concerning the French, it will be permitted them to have 
 churches where divine service will be exercised in their tongue 
 according to the liturgy established in the Church of England, 
 and those who rather wish to follow the orders of the reformed 
 churches of France may do it, provided they take letters patent of 
 the King, or of the government, for each place where they will settle 
 themselves, which will be granted without payment to those who 
 demand them ; provided also that they govern themselves precisely, 
 according to the discipline of the said reformed churches of France, 
 to which those that will have taken the liturgy of the Church of 
 England will be also submitted and conform themselves to the 
 manners of said churches, yet notwithstanding under the authority 
 of the Bishops. Lndorsed, ‘‘Offered and read to Council; rejected.” 
 [S.P. Ireland 854, No. 48.] 
 
 The Lords Justices of Ireland to the Earl of Nottingham. The 
 French privateers, having had such good success, without any inter- 
 ruption, in the more southern ports of this kingdom, and knowing we 
 had not in this channel any better provision against them, are now 
 visiting us, and, if speedy care be not taken to prevent it, will 
 infallibly ruin the trade of this place also, from whence we have 
 had our chief supplies to support the army. About 3 o’clock on 
 Saturday morning two of them came into the bay, one called the 
 St. Patrick of 18 guns, the other the Aaron of 16 guns, with 
 English colours, and anchored near Bullock on the south side. 
 They first seized the custom-house boat, which went on board, as 
 usual, to prevent the stealing [sic] of custom, and the wind being 
 eastwardly and several ships coming in, and amongst the rest the 
 packet-boat, they were all taken, to the number of fifteen. It was 12 
 at noon before we knew what they were or had done, but then the 
 custom-house boat, and some masters of the ships they had taken, 
 were permitted to come on shore to raise money to redeem their ships 
 and goods, and they gave us the first account of it. They told us the 
 seamen were generally Irish and Scotch, and their commission is 
 from King James. 
 
 We thereupon caused all the ships to draw as near the town as 
 they possibly could, and sent out several long boats with soldiers to 
 prevent their firing any, and made all the necessary provision we 
 could to prevent further mischief, and to give notice of the danger to 
 other ships which might come in; because, the wind being easterly, 
 we had reason to fear they would otherwise fall into their hands. So 
 we placed some great guns upon the hills of Howth and Bullock to be 
 continually firing to give warning as well to those coming from 
 England, as from the southward, to stand off, which we hope has had 
 the desired effect. : 
 
 We also hired open boats, one for Hoylake, the other for Holy- 
 head; in the first we ordered the captain of the Dolphin immediately 
 to sail hither, and by the other we wrote you an account of this 
 matter, and sent to the postmaster of Holyhead to give immediate 
 notice to the adjacent ports to prevent ships stirring. The one to 
 Hoylake we hope is by this time arrived, but the other has come 
 back, not being able to make her way, and the packet-boat with the 
 letters of the 19th has come in. 
 
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 Yesterday the privateers, about 10 o’clock, stood off to the north- 
 east, and we have reason to believe they still wait to intercept other 
 ships, because by our letters this day from the commander of the 
 Centurion at Kinsale, and from some examinations taken, we find 
 that five privateers in company came from St. Malo, with design 
 or this Channel, principally to intercept the Lord Lieutenant ; 
 that one of them of 28 guns and 10 “‘petraries”’ after three hours’ 
 fight was taken and brought into Kinsale. These two came here, 
 and the other two, one of 12, the other of 8 guns, have gone to cruise 
 about Milford and the coast of Wales. The captain of the Centurion 
 writes us that the Portsmouth galley is with him; we have therefore 
 sent an express to order him to make the best of his way here, and 
 hope they and the Dolphin, or one of them, may have the good 
 fortune to meet with them. 
 
 We have ventured to give these orders upon the exigency of this 
 affair, and knowing since, as Capt. Winell of the Centurion writes, he 
 had order to stay upon these coasts three weeks, he cannot anywhere 
 do their Majesties better service at this time than in this Channel. 
 If the Lord Lieutenant does not come soon, we desire orders may 
 be sent to the Dolphin to cruise hereabout till some other ships be 
 ordered here. 
 
 Yesterday afternoon another packet came in with your letters of 
 the 19th, wherein was enclosed an extract of Sir Paul Ricaut’s letter, 
 relating to Lord Iveagh, and his disposing of shoes provided for his 
 regiment. We are not much surprised at what he has done in that 
 matter, because he serves his officers in the same manner, touching 
 the money you directed for him and them, which he kept all to 
 himself. As for the shoes, upon the earnest application of the 
 officers and the account we had that those Irish extremely wanted 
 them, we ordered shoes to be delivered out of the stores, which was 
 accordingly done, and we believed the officers had given them out to 
 their men and never heard a word to the contrary. Nor do we 
 believe the soldiers sold any that were delivered them, but it seems 
 to us that if there be any such paper from the officers of the regiment 
 as Sir Paul Ricaut mentions, assigning 1,000 pairs to him, it is a 
 great abuse, and his pretence to have then satisfied the expense he 
 was at utterly untrue, the King having, as you know, given him 1501., 
 which he kept to himself. 
 
 We received the answers to the abstract of the business of the 
 ordnance, but we are still without direction touching the officers, 
 not knowing whom to employ or subsist, and the season of the year 
 wasting when the service is to be performed, we must pray you, in 
 case Lord Mountjoy has gone, as we hear he has, for Flanders, that we 
 may have orders whom to employ; or at least, till such orders can come, 
 liberty, by advice of the commissioners of the ordnance, to employ 
 those inferior officers of whose ability they have had experience. 
 
 It troubles us extremely to find it is imputed to our negligence 
 that the bills were not sooner sent over. We assure you that, as soon 
 as we received orders, we gave immediate directions to the judges 
 and King’s counsel to prepare them, and constantly pressed them to 
 give all despatch. And though they were not finished so soon as we 
 desired or expected, yet we hope what was written from the Council 
 Board will satisfy you that no time is lost, and that those bills we 
 
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 sent over may come back to us, and be returned in form to England, 
 before a parliament can meet here, though order for the summons 
 should immediately issue. This may be done, since you had those 
 three bills in form, and yet those drafts we have sent may be here 
 and returned from hence under the great seal, and come here again 
 before the parliament can meet. But we must inform you that we 
 are advised if the parliament is to be called before the Lord 
 Lieutenant [arrives ?], as we believe it is, it will be requisite for 
 his Excellency to be here and sworn Lord Lieutenant before the 
 teste of the writ; otherwise if the parliament should be summoned 
 to be held before the justices, which it must be till our commission 
 is superseded, and the Lord Lieutenant comes over afterwards, it 
 will be a dissolution of the parliament. Whatever orders you sent 
 by the packet and which were lost, you may be pleased to repeat by 
 your next.. [S.P. Ireland 354, No. 44. ] 
 
 The Lords Justices of Ireland to the Earl of Nottingham, stating 
 their reasons for deferring to send over certain bills. Seal of arms. 
 [Ibid., No. 45. ] 
 
 Certified copies of the following acts of the Irish Parliament :— 
 
 1. An act for the prevention of frauds and perjuries. 
 
 2. An act for encouragment of protestant strangers to settle in 
 the kingdom of Ireland. 
 
 3. An act for the better settling of intestates’ estates. 
 
 4. An act for exempting their Majesties’ protestant subjects 
 dissenting from the Church of Ireland from the penalties of certain 
 laws. 
 
 5. An act enabling persons comprehended in the Articles of 
 Galway to use certain professions and callings, and for the better 
 securing the protestant creditors of Colonel John Brown. 
 
 6. An act for punishing officers and soldiers who shall mutiny or 
 desert their Majesties’ service. [JIbid., No. 46. ] 
 
 List of the English and Dutch cavalry and ‘horses killed and 
 wounded in the action at Enghien. [S.P. Dom. King William’s 
 Chest 12, No. 117.] 
 
 Commission to Viscount Sydney, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to 
 hold a parliament in that kingdom. Appended is a note by Sir John 
 Somers as to the powers conferred by the commission. [S.P. 
 Treland 854, No. 47.] 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. I have been received 
 here with a great deal of respect and kindness, as I have been in 
 most of the towns upon the road. I want nothing now but a fair 
 wind, everything being ready for my embarkation. I desire you will 
 please to send me the Queen’s letter for the commission of inquiry, 
 and to remember that the leave may be given for the transportation 
 of sheep. [Jbid., No. 48. | 
 
 The same to the same. I arrived here yesterday sooner than I 
 expected. I was received with all the marks of joy this town could 
 express. I went immediately to the council chamber, where I took 
 the oaths, after the usual manner ; Sir Cyril Wych and Colonel Smyth 
 
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 were sworn of the Council, which is all that was done. I was 
 surprised not to see the Bishop of Meath at the Board, and upon 
 examination I find there has been no letter from the King or Queen 
 to take off the suspension, which I thought had been done long ago, 
 for the King consented to it before he went into Flanders; therefore 
 I desire you will please to send it by the first post; he is now much 
 disappointed, thinking that I should have brought it with me. The 
 writs for calling the parliament were dated yesterday, and will be 
 issued to-day, so that you may reckon upon our having a parliament 
 here the 5th of October. [S.P. Ireland 354, No. 49. | 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. ‘The writs for the 
 calling of parliament cannot go out till the three bills have come 
 back, which were sent from hence under the great seal. Having 
 been read in Council, and passed the great seal of England, I expected 
 them here long before this time. 
 
 The people here are in general very desirous of having an act for 
 the settling of the militia; the faults found in the bill that was sent 
 over were not so great but that they may be easily mended, and I 
 think it will not be necessary to alter it at all, for it is drawn much 
 like those that have been sent before. 
 
 I desire you will let the Queen know that the Speaker of this House 
 of Commons must have an allowance, or else nobody will undertake 
 the office. The fittest man, certainly, is the solicitor, but, if nothing 
 be given him, it will undo him. He deserves very well every way, 
 and is very likely to please in that employment. I trust you will 
 give Mr. Bridgman an audience when he comes from me to speak 
 about the Cinque Ports, which I hope will give you little trouble. 
 [Ibid., No. 49 a. | 
 
 The same to the same. You will reasonably wonder that I should 
 desire you to send the three bills that were agreed to in Council and 
 passed the great seal of Eingland, knowing it was annexed to my 
 patent, which I never saw till yesterday, as it was in my cabinet. 
 That came about an hour after the letters went away, but all is now 
 well; for the writs have gone out and parliament will meet on the 
 5th of October. I received yours of the 25th this morning, and 
 shall give you an answer to it as soon as the Council has met, 
 which will be on Thursday. You mentioned some kind of cypher 
 
 before my coming, which I desire you will not forget. |Jbid., 
 No. 49b. | | 
 
 Instructions given by the Lord Lieutenant to Abraham Garner, 
 esq., muster-master general of Ireland, and his deputies. All troops 
 are to be mustered every three months, upon oath that it shall be 
 done without notice. [Jbid., No. 50. ] 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. Immediately upon my 
 arrival here, as the foundation of all, I endeavoured to inform myself 
 of the true state of the revenue, and what may reasonably be 
 expected from it towards the discharging of the civil and military 
 lists for the ensuing year. I find our income will fall extremely 
 short of our expense ; and at the same time I am assured from all 
 hands that, unless the army is paid, it will be impossik!e to keep 
 them under the discipline that ought to be observed and the 
 
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 consequences of their disorders will not only discourage the re-plant- 
 ing of the kingdom, but dispeople it of those few that have already 
 returned ; whereas, if this mischief can be prevented at home, and 
 the Admiralty will secure us abroad, I doubt not, by the short 
 prospect I have already had of affairs here, I may venture to assure 
 their Majesties of a satisfactory account from this country. 
 
 The state of the charge and the revenue to be depended on to 
 answer it stands at present thus :— 
 
 The Military List as now established, with what is to be added for 
 my entertainment in lieu of the wool licenses, amounts to 266,894. ; 
 the Civil List, with the Lord Chaneellor’s additional salary of 
 1000/., and the 2,000/. to be added to the concordatum, comes to 
 18,947l.; so the total of both establishments is 285,841/. Towards 
 the discharge thereof all that can be depended upon out of the 
 revenue, upon the best calculation I can make, will not amount to 
 more than 170,000/., which is 115,841/. short of the charge, a sum 
 much too great to be raised in this country in its present circum- 
 stances. I am led to hope that, when this state of things is laid 
 before parliament, they will give as much as they can; and it is 
 believed they may be brought to raise 50,000/. in one year of the sum 
 wanting. If 1 should have the good fortune to obtain this, which is 
 yet very uncertain, there will still remain short of the charge 
 65,8411., a much greater sum than can be left unprovided, if I 
 am expected to manage their Majesties’ affairs with any tolerable 
 SuCcCeSS. 
 
 I have thought of all the ways, and consulted most people how to 
 get over this difficulty, and the only means proposed are these: 
 either to lessen the number of soldiers maintained in this kingdom, 
 by keeping the five regiments which were sent from hence in some 
 other service, and paying them out of some other fund, for their pay 
 and the reformed ofticers of the three French regiments comes to 
 61,745/.; or not to pay the army any clearings for two years, but 
 only to continue to subsist them, which will keep us within the 
 bounds of the revenue; or else for one year more to get 62,000/., as 
 was given in England last sessions. 
 
 The first I dare not advise, considering that the kingdom has been 
 so lately reduced, and the number and inclination of the inhabitants, 
 the importance of the garrisons, and how weak they now are, with 
 the fact that I have still one spare regiment of foot to relieve; 
 though it was ever my opinion that an army not paid, and con- 
 sequently without discipline, was rather a mischief than a security, 
 and that five thousand men, well paid and strictly kept in order, 
 were more useful than double the number that were not so; but for 
 the same reasons I dare not solicit for this reducement, but must 
 submit it to their Majesties. 
 
 The not clearing, but only subsisting, the army for the year past 
 and that to come, seemed at first the most reasonable expedient ; 
 but, when it came to be argued, I found it was the general opinion 
 that it would by no means answer the ends intended, for these 
 reasons : 
 
 The scarcity of all provisions makes the full pay of the common 
 soldier rather too little to discharge his quarters. 
 
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 The subsistence of the officers, being but half-pay, upon which it 
 is impossible they can live, makes them deduct from, and cheat, the 
 soldier even of his subsistence, and this is never to be prevented 
 without clearing them twice a year, for an officer will not want, if 
 any of the soldiers’ money comes through his hands, as the sub- 
 sistence must. The not clearing of both gives the officer an excuse 
 to deduct from the soldier, pretending the arrears to be in the King’s 
 hands, and the soldier a pretence to take free quarter on the country ; 
 and both will think it hard, and perhaps not willingly submit, to be 
 severely punished for any disorders committed (as they will be sure 
 to say) for want of money, when the King owes them so considerable 
 an arrear and runs further into their debt. 
 
 I am sensible it may be observed that, since his Majesty cannot 
 clear the rest of his army, it might prove of ill consequence to do it 
 to that part which is here; but, when it is considered that all the 
 other forces are either in England, where all provisions for the 
 common soldier are plentiful, and where the innkeepers are able to 
 trust the officers, or in Flanders, where they are in actual war, and 
 have everything provided for them, the differences will be found 
 vastly great between those forces and these here, where there is so 
 creat a scarcity, where the inhabitants are so poor, and where there 
 is not a public-house in the kingdom able to give an officer credit for 
 a week, and where, if they are allowed to live upon free quarter, the 
 country must be ruined. 
 
 But, if the King resolve upon this expedient, the subsistence must 
 be enlarged. I very well know how much his Majesty will in all 
 probability be pressed for money to answer his occasions in other 
 places the next year, and therefore do with all the unwillingness 
 imaginable press for any for this kingdom, though in my opinion it 
 is absolutely necessary for its security and welfare. 
 
 ‘Taking all the circumstances into consideration, I hope the King 
 will consent to an English grant being again proposed; and if it is 
 agreed to there, or is by any other way allowed me, I dare again 
 venture to say I will answer for the security of this kingdom, which, 
 without it, I cannot promise todo. [S.P. Ireland 354, No. 50. | 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. With your letter of 
 the 25th past I have received a preamble to the bill for punishing 
 mutineers or deserters, and the drafts of two other bills, the one con- 
 cerning the militia, and the other about an act of indemnity. The 
 preamble, according to her Majesty’s directions, has been read and 
 approved in Council here, and is ordered to be engrossed with the said 
 first-mentioned bill instead of that preamble which was to it before. 
 
 The draft of the militia bill has likewise been laid before the 
 Council, and the amendments made to it, which for the most part 
 were matters of form, are agreed to. As to the queries and observa- 
 tions in the margins, some of them needed an explanation ; 
 however, upon guessing at the meaning of them they have all been 
 considered and received the resolution of the Board. The first 
 query was upon making the act to have continuance but for three 
 years, to which it was said and agreed that to make it perpetual, as the 
 militia acts in England are, might be to hazard the loss of the bill, 
 nor was it likely to be passed for a longer term than three years. 
 
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 However, it was at last resolved it should be doubly ingrossed, ‘the 
 one bill for three years, and the other for five, which was accordingly 
 ordered to be done, that, in case it will not go for the longer term, it 
 may be ready to be passed with the other. 
 
 The clause which I find came added in the margin, for a 
 reimbursement to be made by their Majesties, as it is in the English 
 militia acts, was, it seems, debated at the Council Board here before 
 the draft of the bill was sent over to England, and it was then 
 agreed to have it left out, because it might render the act ineffectual 
 for want of such a reimbursement, which their Majesties might not 
 be in a condition to make, and it was believed the bill would pass 
 without it. The Board still continuing to be of the opinion, that 
 clause is ordered to be left out. 
 
 In that part of the bill which relates to the disarming of papists 
 and reputed papists there was a stroke drawn under the word 
 reputed, and a query seemed to be made upon it, in answer to 
 which it was said and agreed that the word reputed was as necessary 
 in this as it is in the bill lately made in England for that purpose, 
 in regard that there are few convicted papists even in this kingdom, 
 so that unless it shall extend as well as to the disarming of reputed 
 papists, as papists, it will be of little or no effect, nor can it have 
 the like ill consequence here, as perhaps it has had in England, by 
 subjecting any person who does not come under either of these 
 denominations to the malice or revenge of a troublesome neighbour 
 or informer, since in this kingdom it is well known by the neigh- 
 bourhood who are papists, and who are not, though few or none of 
 them are legally convicted as such. 
 
 But as to the reimbursements to be made by the King upon the 
 militia act, 1 must not omit to acquaint you that those of the 
 Council who best know the temper of the gentlemen who are like to 
 compose this parliament, are confidently of opinion that the country 
 would never expect the repayment thereof, but be contented any 
 year, when such necessity shall require it, to be at that expense 
 themselves. 
 
 As to the bill of indemnity, which was transmitted from hence, 
 and to which her Majesty would have such clauses added as you 
 mention, I cannot possibly by this post return an answer to that 
 matter, but hope I may be able to do it the next; in the meantime I 
 may venture to tell you that whenever a bill of indemnity comes to 
 be offered to the parliament here, if it extends too much to the favour 
 of the popish party, it will never pass, or at least with very 
 oreat difficulty and hazard to the loss of the bill. 
 
 There is a bill relating to the lawyers and physicians who are 
 within the benefit of the Articles of Galway, now lying before the 
 Lords of the Committee in England, in which bill there is a clause 
 on behalf of Mr. Brown’s creditors, who are all protestants, and very 
 pressing that the said bill and clause may pass, wherefore I desire 
 you will move her Majesty upon it. [S.P. Ireland 354, No. 51.] 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. Iam desired by Sir 
 John Temple to let you know that, not having had his health very well 
 since his coming hither, and having some business in England, he 
 returns with my consent according to a promise madein London. His 
 
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 brother, Sir William Temple, desires to surrender his place of Master 
 of the Rolls here, in case the Queen would grant it to Sir John Topham, 
 who is very fit for the office, having been a Master of Chancery many 
 years, and the Chancellor being very well satisfied with him. I beg 
 you to put the Queen in mind of Mr. Ash, whom she once resolved 
 to make Provost of the College, in case Dr. Huntingdon had been 
 a bishop. I hear he is now married, which makes him incapable of 
 holding that preferment. [S.P. Ireland 354, No. 51 a.| 
 
 James Waller to Viscount Sydney. I congratulate you on your safe 
 arrival with the Lord Lieutenant. On Saturday, the Kempthorne came 
 into this harbour from the Kast Indies, and in her company the George, 
 with a small pink, both from Barbados. They were dogged by four 
 privateers for three or four hours before they came in, and two of the 
 privateers were liked to have snapped the pink this side of the Old 
 Head, and within sight of this place, which they had certainly done 
 had not the Kempthorne borne down upon them, and the privateers, 
 as it 1s supposed, taking her for a man-of-war, thereupon steerde 
 another course. 
 
 I have intelligence this morning that two Irish boatmen 
 yesterday went aboard the said privateer from the Old Head, I 
 suppose to inform them what the ships that came in here 
 were. I have sent down to their habitations to know the certainty, 
 and in case they can be found to have them brought here to be 
 examined; but, if they are absent, I have given directions to have 
 their boat and stock, if they have any, secured until such time as I 
 know the Lord Lieutenant’s pleasure concerning them. The captain 
 of the Kempthorne desires that the Lord Lieutenant would be pleased 
 to order the Dolphin, which we expect daily here from Dublin with 
 stores for this place, to convoy him and the other ships as far as 
 Plymouth, it being very unsafe for him to stir without a convoy. 
 
 For my part I very much doubt whether it will be safe venturing 
 her with the Dolphin only, for 1 am afraid one of these French 
 privateers may be gone to Brest to give intelligence what a prize this 
 ship is, and therefore four or five men-of-war may be ordered to 
 waylay her. She is a very rich ship, has been four years upon her 
 voyage, and her cargo is valued at 150,000/.; one Pye now commands 
 her, Capt. Kempthorne, who went out commander of her, having 
 died on the voyage. [Jbid., No 52. ] 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. On Wednesday last I 
 laid the bill of indemnity, with such additional clauses as her 
 Majesty expects, and such others as should be thought fitting and 
 necessary to be added to it by the Council here, before the Board, 
 together with your letter relating thereunto, when after some debate, 
 by which I saw with what difficulties it is like to meet, it was at 
 last ordered and referred to such of the judges as are of the Board 
 and in town, taking to their assistance their Majesties’ serjeant or 
 the solicitor-general, to prepare with all possible dispatch a draft 
 of an act of indemnity, pursuant to that you sent from England, 
 I was in hopes they would have been ready with the drafts, 
 so that it might have been read and approved in Council this day, 
 in order to its being put under the great seal and sent over to you 
 in form; but considering the great opposition and difficulties that a 
 
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 bill of this nature is likely to meet with, not only in the Council but 
 in this parliament—so great a resentment does the protestant party 
 here still retain of the injuries and oppression they suffered from 
 the papists during the late rebellion—the persons who are to draw it 
 up find it to be a “matter that will require some time, and therefore 
 have desired time till Monday next, on which day the Council will 
 meet again, and by the post following I expect to have it under the 
 great seal and send it to you in form. 
 
 When first I laid this matter of the indemnity before the Council, 
 they desired the bill of attainder, whereof it seems there had been a 
 rough draft prepared by order of the Board, might go hand in 
 hand with that of the indemnity, and therefore it was agreed and 
 ordered that this bill now drawing should extend to both; that is, 
 be partly a bill of attainder, or rather of forfeitures, and partly a 
 bill of indemnity. 
 
 I am now heartily concerned to recommend Dean Synge to your 
 favour, and to desire that you will forward the recommendation to 
 her Majesty, that, in case the Bishop of Killaloe, who, | am informed, 
 lies very ill, should die, Dean Synge may succeed him in that 
 diocese. I have, since my arrival here, enquired into his character, 
 and by what is generally said of him here find he has been eminently 
 serviceable to their Majesties and the protestant interest during the 
 late rebellion in this kingdom, and that he is a person very deserv- 
 ing of their Majesties’ favour, and well qualified for the preferment 
 for which he now stands recommended. As a further and fresh 
 instance of his zeal to the present government I am now to acquaint 
 you that, having with the privity and by the directions of the late 
 Lords Justices, een sometime engaged in managing a discovery of 
 some traitorous practises which were being ca urried on against this 
 government, and continuing since my arrival here to manage the 
 same discovery, by and with my privity and directions, he was 
 about a week since betrayed, as he believes by the party who acted 
 with him in the discovery, and was set upon at some distance from 
 his house by three or four persons, who wounded him in several 
 places, and, but for the servant he had with him, he would in all 
 probability have been murdered by them. 
 
 The enclosed copy of a letter from Kinsale | calendared under date, 
 5 September] will sufficiently justify what you know I have always 
 said of the great necessity there is to have a squadron of light 
 frigates to cruise constantly upon this coast for the security of 
 trade, without which it will be impossible to secure it, and there- 
 fore I desire you will lay this matter before the Queen, that such 
 order may be given as she shall judge necessary. [S.P. Ireland 354, 
 No. 58. | 
 
 Warrant by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to Thomas Burrows, 
 gent., clerk of the cheque, and all other officers of their Majesties’ 
 navy at Kinsale. Notice has been received from Kngland that the 
 ofticers of the navy at Kinsale, having made preparations and got all 
 things in readiness according to their instructions from the Navy 
 Board for weighing the Swallow in that port, could not procure 
 any vessel but on such extravagant terms as they could not comply 
 with, and that the Breda’s anchors and cables in Cork Haven are in 
 
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 danger of being lost for want of a vessel to assist the clerk of the 
 cheque in the recovory of them; we therefore authorise you 
 forthwith to impress and take into their Majesties’ service not more 
 than eight ships now in, or that shall come into, the harbours of Cork 
 and Kinsale, as shall be thought fit and necessary for weighing the 
 Swallow frigate, in the harbour of Kinsale, and to pay such con- 
 siderations for the service of the said ships so to be employed as by 
 order and instructions from the commissioners of the navy is 
 directed. As for the anchors and cables of the Breda, or any other 
 belonging to their Majesties, we hereby authorise and empower you, 
 with advice of the Custom House officers, to impress as aforesaid one 
 small ship and necessary lighters for recovery of the same, paying 
 the like considerations for the service of such ships and lighters as 
 is above-mentioned, and in the doing thereof to call to your assist- 
 ance Richard Clays and Samuel Manning, boatmen at the Cove, or 
 any others you shall think fit. [S.P. Ireland 354, No. 54. | 
 
 Sept. 18. Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. I cannot send you a 
 
 Dublin Castle. bill of indemnity, pursuant to her Majesty’s directions, till Saturday 
 next, or till this day week; for this morning all the heads of a bill 
 to be prepared for that purpose were debated and agreed upon in 
 Council, and on Friday next, which will be the next Council day, 
 a draft of a bill upon those heads will be brought in and laid 
 before the Council. When this has been read, for that is all that will 
 then be done upon it, I will have it passed under the great seal of 
 this kingdom, and send it over to you in form. [Jbid., No. 55.] 
 
 Sept. 18. |The same to the same. If the officers of the navy at Kinsale, who . 
 
 Dublin Castle. are employed by the commissioners of the Admiralty, had made 
 their application to the government here, as they ought to have done, 
 it might have saved some trouble on your side of the water, and 
 perhaps have done the service sooner; but, without acquainting either 
 the Lords Justices or myself with the difficulties they pretend to 
 meet with, and without any desire of assistance, they have, it 
 seems, addressed themselves to the Navy Board, and the first word 
 the government ever heard of this matter was by your letter of the 
 30th of August. 
 
 Upon the intimation I found in that letter of her Majesty’s 
 pleasure, I immediately dispatched the necessary orders for that 
 service, and herewith send you (calendared under date, Sept. 10) a 
 copy of them, so that if by reason of the approach of winter, 
 as these officers seem to fear, they shall not be able to effect their 
 work this season, it must be either their going unnecessarily 
 round about for redress of difficulties, or their not having got 
 all things in readiness according to their instructions. I am 
 rather inclined to think there may be some such thing as this 
 in the case, since the year is already so far spent, that in all 
 probability the ul weather may come on too fast for this work, 
 because upon enquiring about the third difficulty they complain of, 
 that of providing transportation for timber, I do not hear of any 
 proposals made for freighting ships made for such service, but am 
 informed that the timber cut in the counties of Cork and Wexford 
 was not lately brought near the sea for transportation, and that 
 Mr. Greene and Mr. Sheldon who about 12 months since built a ship 
 
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 at Wexford for this purpose, have not finished it. When the timber 
 is ready to be transported, I question not but shipping may be had 
 to Bideford or Bristol, but if it is expected they must go round the 
 Land’s End convoys must be appointed to attend them, and it was 
 worth considering whether, all things being duly weighed, it will not 
 be better for the service, easier and as cheap, to hire ships from 
 Kngland to fetch the timber, as to hire here to carry it thither. 
 [S.P. Ireland 354, No. 56.] 
 
 An abstract of powder, ball, and match remaining in the several 
 stores in Ireland. [Jbid., No. 57.| 
 
 Memorandum of the stores wanting for their Majesties’ stores of 
 war in Ireland to be brought to Dublin and Kinsale, and from 
 thence distributed to other garrisons. [Jbid., No. 58. | 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. Ihope I shall not be 
 blamed for endeavouring to get some money for their Majesties of 
 the parliament here, though I do it without their order. I have 
 good reason to believe I shall succeed in it, having proposed it to 
 several members of the House of Commons, and on I'riday to the 
 Council, where it was received as well as I could wish. The particulars 
 you shall have by an express to-morrow or on Tuesday, with several 
 bills which will be ready by that time. | 
 
 I sent you a fortnight ago the state of the revenue and the 
 charge, by which you see that it will be impossible to subsist 
 without some supply, and where to have it but from this parliament 
 I cannot imagine, which has made me venture upon what I have 
 done. Ihave sent you an account of what ammunition there is in 
 this country and what we want. I have not yet settled or men- 
 tioned the commission of inquiry, because several of the House of 
 Commons are concerned, and I shall do nothing this fortnight that 
 will put any one of them out of humour, but as soon as the parlia- 
 ment is up, I think it will be a proper time for it. I am resolved 
 to propose the solicitor to be Speaker, for he is certainly the fittest 
 person for it, and he is so honest a man that he will well deserve 
 a good allowance for his table and something for his equipage. 
 
 I moved the Queen several times at the Cabinet Council for an 
 increase of the concordatum to what it was formerly, which was 
 4,0001. per annum, and Lam desired by the Lords of the Council to 
 repeat it. They are unwilling to set their hands to any small sum, 
 though it be necessary for the King’s service, for fear they should be 
 obliged to pay it themselves, having already far exceeded the sum of 
 2,000/. which was allowed them last year. 
 
 I also desire you to speak to the Queen to forbid the paymasters 
 taking poundage of the governors and officers upon the civil list ; 
 it was never done before, and, for so inconsiderable a sum, to vex so 
 many gentlemen as you will see in the paper I now send you 
 who are likely to contribute towards the giving their Majesties above 
 100,000/., I think will not be prudent. Unless it be in matter of 
 this kind [I shall be very backward in advising the Queen to part 
 with her money. 
 
 Mr. Ford, formerly one of the commissioners of the revenue, has 
 agreed with Mr. Jephson for the place of collector of the customs of 
 
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 Dublin ; the place is in my disposal, but I would not consent to the 
 change without receiving her Majesty’s pleasure in it. Mr. Ford is 
 no stranger, for she has often heard of him from Mr. Hampden, and 
 everybody gives him a good character. Pray, my lord, tell the Queen 
 that Dean Synge has to-day showed his part in preaching an excellent 
 sermon in Christ Church. 
 
 Postscript.—I received by the last packet a letter from the Lords 
 of the Admiralty, sending me word that they had ordered the cap- 
 tains of the Dolphin, the James galley, and the Monmouth yacht to 
 observe my orders; and in the same packet they sent orders to the 
 James galley and the Navy yacht to go to England, and _ the 
 Richmond to Dublin. At this 1 am surprised, for everybody knows 
 that the Richmond is so rotten that she never will be able to keep the 
 seas unless she is quite rebuilt, so that we have now no guard for 
 this coast but only the Monmouth yacht, for the Dolphin was obliged 
 to go to clean at Kinsale. If the Lords of the Admiralty knew how 
 everybody cries out against them, they would take a little more care 
 in the preservation of the trade of this country. It is said every 
 day, and will be by the parliament, that the King has lost as much 
 in his customs this year by the French privateers as would have 
 built and set out a sufficient number of ships for this kingdom. 
 [S.P. Ireland 354, No. 59. | 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. With regard to my 
 proposal for asking a supply towards the charge of this government 
 mentioned in my last letter, it being thought advisable to have a busi- 
 ness of this nature well weighed and considered before it is brought into 
 parhament, that it may not meet with any rubs or disappointments 
 there, since the proceedings which were had thereupon, when I last 
 wrote by the committee of Council appointed to consider of the best 
 ways and means of raising such a supply, a copy of whose report is 
 enclosed, there has been a second meeting of the committee of the 
 whole Board, who yesterday went through and agreed upon a bill 
 for raising the greatest part of the said supply upon all sorts of 
 grain, potatoes and rents of houses, with only this material variation 
 from the said report; that whereas it was therein proposed to have 
 the sum of 40,0001. per annwm upon corn and houses given to their 
 Majesties for two years, it 1s now resolved to have the bill for a tax 
 of 1s. 8d. upon all sorts of grains, and 2s. 6d. upon potatoes and 9d. 
 in the pound upon all rents of houses, etc., in the cities, towns 
 corporate and market towns for one year only, without mentioning 
 the sum thereby intended to be given. 
 
 The Council are of opinion that this way will be much more 
 acceptable to the parliament than the proposing it to them for two 
 years, which may beget a jealousy in them, as though, after the 
 ensuing session ended, they were not to meet again till after the 
 expiration of the two years; and the sum to be raised not being 
 mentioned in the bill, the duty as now laid, will, it is believed, 
 raise upwards of 50,000/., and I doubt not but when that duty 
 determines, the parliament will take into their consideration their 
 Majesties’ farther necessities, and grant them a further supply, 
 especially when by that time this kingdom will in all probability be 
 in a much better condition to bear it. 
 
1692. 
 
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 Dublin Castle. 
 
 Sept. 28. 
 Dublin. 
 
 Sept. 28. 
 Council 
 Chamber, 
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 The other bill for an additional duty upon the excise of beer and 
 ale, by which it is proposed to raise a further sum of 20,0001. 
 per annum for two years, will be ready to be read in Council on 
 Monday next, at which time likewise will be read the other money 
 bill, and soon after I hope to transmit them to you in form together 
 with these following two militia acts: a bill for punishing mutineers 
 and deserters, a bill of indemnity, a bill for encouraging protestant 
 strangers, a bill to prevent vexatious suits to be brought against 
 such as acted for their Majesties’ service, and a bill for the taking 
 of affidavits. All which seven bills are ready to be put under the 
 great seal of this kingdom, and will then wait only the one general 
 transmission to attend the money bill into England.  [/S.P. 
 Ireland 354, No. 60. | 
 
 Enclosing a copy of the report referred to. [Ibid., No. 601. ] 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. I recommend the 
 bearer, Colonel Henry Lutterell, whose dealings with this present 
 government are known to Lord Nottingham. His deportment, as I 
 have observed it since my being here, has been such as may suffi- 
 ciently deserve this recommendation. [Tbid., No. 62.] 
 
 The same to the same. I have little to add to the letters you will 
 receive by this express, but to desire you to send back the bills with 
 all speed, especially those for the supply; the others will come soon 
 enough afterwards, and it will be better than having them come all 
 at once. I have pretty good hopes given me of having success this 
 parliament. What I fear the most is the violence that will be against 
 the papists, for they do hate and despise them to the greatest degree 
 imaginable. In yours of the 8rd you let me know that it was the 
 Queen’s pleasure I should give my opinion what allowance would 
 be fit for the Speaker of the House of Commons; I cannot find what 
 they have had formerly, but I think he cannot have less than 3l. a 
 day, and 8001. for his equipage, which is little more than half of what 
 the Speaker has in England. The Lord Chancellor also desires some 
 allowance, and will deserve it, for he must be at some extraordinary 
 expense ; the Primate had one year 3,000/. for being Speaker of the 
 House of Lords, but that was in a plentiful time. I think now it will 
 be best to give. him so much a day, and as this is likely to be but a 
 short session, it will be a small charge. [Jbid., No. 63. | 
 
 The Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland to [the same]. We 
 herewith transmit to you a bill of indemnity under the great seal 
 of this kingdom, which has taken a considerable time, it being 
 attended with those difficulties that naturally occur where contrary 
 interests are so deeply concerned; but now at last we have gone 
 through it, and, as we conceive, made it conformable to her Majesty’s 
 pleasure signified by your letter of the 25th past to the Lord 
 Lieutenant, and by him communicated to this Board; for in this bill 
 are contained such clauses and provisoes as are thought necessary 
 for the pardoning of all such persons as are comprised within any of 
 the articles granted to the several garrisons which surrendered to 
 their Majesties upon capitulation, and of all such as have submitted 
 pursuant to his Majesty’s proclamations and declarations, or any 
 others issued by his Majesty’s directions, or have taken protections 
 
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 and have lived peaceably and with all due obedience to their 
 Majesties ever since the time of their said submission. All which 
 persons are by this Act pardoned, according to the purport and true 
 meaning of such proclamations, declarations, and protections and not 
 otherwise. 
 
 As to all such as are abroad in any of the French king’s 
 dominions without their Majesties’ leave, and not under any actual 
 restraint, finding there would be a _ necessity of attainting 
 those who were killed or died in actual rebellion, and believing 
 it would not only be for their Majesties’ service, but what would 
 be insisted on by the parliament here that the aforesaid 
 absentees should likewise be attainted, we have gone beyond her 
 Majesty’s directions in that point, which were only to exclude them 
 from the benefit of an indemnity, and have chosen rather to bring 
 them within the attainting part of this Bill, consisting of an attainder 
 and indemnity. Considering the contending interests and different 
 tempers of the parties concerned therein, we conceive this method 
 could not be avoided, nor her Majesty’s intentions answered, better 
 than by thus joining in one what might otherwise have been proper 
 for two bills, there being just reason to apprehend that if the 
 attainder and indemnity should be in two distinct bills, though the 
 former may pass this parliament without the least difficulty, yet the 
 latter will meet with very great opposition, if not be most inevitably lost. 
 
 You will observe upon perusal of the bill that we have made 
 the indemnity as to private suits to be from the beginning 
 of the war (as by the Articles of Limerick and Galway is agreed) 
 without taking upon us to name the day when the war shall be said 
 to have begun, which declaration we judge absolutely necessary to 
 be made and most fittingly to be done by their Majesties. The 
 protestants generally urge that the war did not begin till the 14th day 
 of August, 1689, when the Duke ofSchomberg landed, and the Irish are 
 as earnest to date it from the first commotion, alleging that it began 
 as soon as arms were assumed, and that some of the Irish armies 
 marched against Bandon and Londonderry, and that many acts of 
 hostility on both sides had been committed in several other parts of 
 this kingdom a considerable time before the 10th day of April; and 
 that it will be as fatal to them to answer what they did before the 
 said 10th day as if they were accountable for the whole war, since they 
 are unable to make reparation, and consequently might be ruined 
 either way unless they are totally indemnified; but others have 
 thought of a middling day, being the said 10th day of April, the day on 
 which their Majesties’ declaration of pardon to the Irish determined, 
 and till that time no forces arrived out of England, nor did any 
 authority oppose them, and though Londonderry, Bandon, and 
 Inniskillen stood out, yet that is no more than has happened 
 frequently in this kingdom upon small commotions which never 
 obtained the denomination of a war, and accordingly the English 
 were used as rebels, that is, tried by the common law, and not martial 
 law, as often as they fell into the enemies’ hands, which would not 
 have been done in time of war. 
 
 This is the prevailing opinion even at the Council Board, and 
 which the Irish seemed one while to acquiesce in, and though 
 they have since disputed it, yet may it be doubted that the parlia- 
 ment, which is composed of protestant members, will not easily be 
 
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 brought to depart from the said 10th day of April; notwithstanding, 
 there is reason to think they will for the peace and quiet of the 
 kingdom, and their Majesties’ service, be inclined to forgive the 
 many losses and injuries they suffered after that day. 
 
 We further take leave to remind you of a bill sometime since 
 transmitted from hence to England for encouraging the opening 
 and working of mines in this kingdom, and to lay before you 
 the reasons which induced this Board to pass that bill. First then, 
 it is generally believed there are mines of copper, tin, and 
 lead to be found in this kingdom, so that several persons 
 would search for and work such mines, did not the pretensions 
 of Mr. Hamilton thereunto (who has a grant from the Crown of all 
 royal mines within this kingdom for 60 years at the rent of 101. per 
 annum) discourage all persons from endeavouring to find any. 
 Secondly, though their Majesties’ prerogative is made use of to 
 obstruct this bill, yet in truth the notion of a royal mine is all 
 that is in it, except that Mr. Hamilton had the fortune to get the 
 mines of Nenah from the right owner under that pretence, and yet 
 has ever since written them as lead mines, without extracting one 
 dram of silver, in which case the prerogative was made use of to take 
 away the inheritance of one subject to give it to another. Thirdly, 
 this bill gives their Majesties’ for ever the twentieth part of all the 
 mines in the kingdom, which we conceive cannot but be of consider- 
 able advantage to their Majesties. Lastly, it seems to us that the 
 ministers of the crown, when Mr. Hamilton’s grant passed, had no 
 great opinion of any advantage to be made to the crown upon account 
 of royal mines in this kingdom, otherwise it is to be presumed they 
 would have opposed Mr. Hamilton’s grant, which was for the term of 
 60 years, and under the rent of 10/. per annum. Wherefore since 
 their Majesties have no real advantage by that part of the prerogative 
 as it now stands, and that not only the crown, but the whole kingdom, 
 may find very considerable advantage if the opening and working of 
 mines were thus encouraged, it does not occur to us what objection 
 can be made to passing the bill sent over for that purpose, especially 
 if any regard be had to the inclinations of the people here, who seem 
 so desirous of this bill. [\S.P. Ireland 854, No. 64. | 
 
 Sept. 29. Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. At last I have, by this 
 Dublin Castle. express, sent you under the great seal of this kingdom these several 
 bills following, viz.:—A bill for settling the militia of this kingdom 
 for three years; a like bill for five years; a bill for encouraging 
 protestant strangers; a bill to prevent vexatious suits to be brought 
 against such as acted for their Majesties’ service; a bill for 
 punishing mutineers and deserters; a bill for taking affidavits in the 
 country to be made use of in the courts of King’s Bench, Common 
 Pleas, and Exchequer; a bill of indemnity; a bill for an additional 
 duty of excise upon beer, ale, and other liquors for one year; a bill 
 for an additional duty of excise upon beer, ale, and other liquors, and 
 for repealing part of an act made in the 14th year of King Charles II., 
 entitled an act for the improvement of his Majesties’ revenues upon 
 the granting of licenses for the selling of beer and ale; a bill for 
 granting to their Majesties certain duties for one year; and lastly, a 
 bill for securing the protestant creditors of Colonel John Browne. 
 
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 As to the six first, I have nothing further to observe to you upon 
 any of them than what I have already done in some of my former 
 letters upon this occasion. As to the bill of indemnity, though I 
 have likewise formerly written to you about it, and it now goes 
 attended with a letter from the Council Board, yet it may be 
 necessary to remind you of having a clause inserted therein for 
 preserving the debt due from the army to this country upon the 
 account of quarters, which will be of great consequence to their 
 Majesties upon the clearing of those forces, whereas without such a 
 clause (which was forgotten here till after the said bill was engrossed) 
 it may perhaps be pretended that the said debt is dicharged by the 
 eeneral indemnity. 
 
 Of the 8th, 9th, and 10th bills, I gave you an account in 
 my last, wherein went enclosed a copy of the report of the 
 committee appointed to prepare the said bills; but I must now take 
 notice to you that they are passed with these variations from what I 
 then told you, viz. :—that in the bill for granting to their Majesties 
 certain duties, the duty upon potatoes is left out, the Council upon 
 more mature consideration being of opinion that the same would fall 
 too heavy upon those poor people who have nothing but their potato 
 grounds to subsist upon, and after all would raise but a very ins 
 considerable sum to their Majesties. 
 
 In the excise bill, wherein is the clause for repeal of the ale 
 license duty, there is now in leu thereof given to their Majesties ° 
 an additional hereditary duty of 7d. a barrel, whereas at first, 
 as I told you in my last, it was only proposed to be 6d. per 
 barrel. That you may not be surprised to find in this trans- 
 mission a particular bill for securing the protestant creditors 
 of John Browne (seeing there is a clause for that purpose in 
 some other bills formerly sent into England) I must acquaint you 
 that a considerable number of the protestants of this kingdom, who 
 are concerned therein, apprehending lest none of those bills should 
 pass, have been very earnest with the Council that this bill might be 
 transmitted, and therefore it is hoped her Majesty will consent to 
 the passing thereof. 
 
 Now I must recommend it to you to lay before the Queen 
 the necessity there is that these several bills now transmitted 
 should receive all possible dispatch mn England, and be as soon 
 as conveniently may be returned hither, if her Majesty expects 
 they should pass the first session of this ensuing parliament, which 
 you know cannot be of any long continuance. [S.P. Ireland 354, 
 No. 65. | 
 
 Portion of a news-letter referring to events in Ireland. [| Zbid., 
 No. 66.] 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. I am much surprised 
 at what you tell me in yours of the 24th of the Queen’s altering her 
 resolutions concerning Dean Synge. I was not very forward in 
 recommending him, because I thought the Queen might imagine I 
 did it upon the desire of the Lords Justices, who had recommended 
 him before. 
 
 I have since made the strictest enquiry I could of his whole 
 life, and I cannot hear of anything which can be alleged against 
 
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 him, but that when he was a young man he loved horses, and 
 made two or three horse matches. I cannot hear that he is 
 accused by anybody here of any one vice; he is a good scholar, he 
 preaches extremely well, and has done more service to the crown 
 this war than all the clergy put together; and if this will not 
 recommend him, I must give over my recommendation, for I cannot 
 find a better. He is now going over to clear himself, though he is 
 in danger of losing his arm by a wound which he received a while 
 ago from some Irish, that would have murdered him; if he cannot 
 do it, pray send him back, and we will hang him, for that is much 
 easier to be done in this country than getting a man a good word. 
 There is another bishopric vacant by the death of Dean Burke, who 
 died yesterday. I desire the Queen will signify her pleasure as soon 
 as can be, for we shall want them in parliament. I have had such 
 ill success in the beginning of my government that I do not know 
 now whom to recommend. This1 think of small importance; but the 
 dispatching of the bills is most necessary. Our gentlemen here, if 
 they have nothing to do, will fall into all the extravagances 
 imaginable, and we have but three bills to entertain them ; therefore 
 I beg you to send us two or three, or more as you shall think fit, 
 only to take up our time till the money bill, the indemnity and the 
 militia bills come, for the others are not worth a farthing. [S.P. 
 Ireland 354, No. 67. | 
 
 Oct. 4. List of the members of both houses of the Irish parliament. 
 Dublin. Printed. [Ibid, No. 68.] 
 
 Oct. 6. Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. I did not think of 
 
 Dublin. writing to you by this packet with my own hand, having been ill 
 these two days, and therefore I have ordered Mr. Poultney to give 
 you an account of what passed yesterday in parliament; but I have 
 just now received an information that is fit you should know. 
 
 There is one Sir Francis Brewster, who has newly come over, he 
 said, purposely to see me; but I find it is to do mischief, for, being 
 now made a parliament man by the Archbishop of Tuam, which he 
 could not be with his own credit, though he pretended in England 
 that he would govern half the house, he is now setting up cabals. 
 Last night he was in one where he proposed a committee for 
 redressing grievances, without which this kingdom would not be 
 settled, and said it ought to be done quickly, for_he knew this parlia- 
 ment would not sit long, for no one of the Council in England was 
 for its sitting at all but Lord Carmarthen, and that Lord Nottingham 
 was violently against it. This is matter of fact; I will leave you to 
 make your reflections upon it. 
 
 I have nothing to say in answer to ycurs of the 27th September, 
 but what you mention concerning the powder and arms which were 
 desired from England; and that is, in short, if they cannot be had 
 without paying for them, they will not be desired at all, for they can 
 be provided here much cheaper and better. I hope you have sent 
 us back some bills, for the want of them may be of ill consequence. 
 [Ibid., No. 69. | 
 
 Oct. 6. The same to the same. Yesterday being the day appointed for the 
 Dublin Castle. meeting of the parliament, in the morning I was attended in the 
 
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 castle by the Lord Chancellor, the archbishops and bishops in their 
 white habits, the members of the Privy Council, the judges in their 
 robes, the officers in chancery, most of the peers, and several of the 
 members of the House of Commons. 
 
 About ten in the morning I set out from the castle to the Parlia- 
 ment House, thus attended. When I came to it, [ went into the 
 robing room, after which the House of Lords proceeded according 
 to the usual manner. ‘The Bishop of Kildare, being the youngest 
 bishop, read prayers. The Lord Chancellor and the rest of the lords 
 who were in by descent, or who had sat before, the archbishops and 
 bishops, took the oaths and subscribed the declaration, pursuant to the 
 late act for abrogating the oath of supremacy in Ireland and appoint- 
 ing other oaths; and after them the inferior officers of the House. 
 
 The Lord Chancellor being made acquainted that there were 
 several lords who desired to be introduced, he appointed two of the 
 eldest peers to bring them into the House. The lords were Lords 
 Longford, Blessington, Shelburne, and Coningsby, before whom went 
 the king at arms and the usher of the black rod. Hach as he came 
 in delivered his patent and writ of summons, on his knees, to the 
 Speaker, which he caused to be read by one of the clerks, and, being 
 allowed of, each took his seat. : 
 
 That part of the ceremony being over, I came into the House 
 after the usual manner, and being seated on the throne, the Lord 
 Chancellor, standing on my right hand, ordered the Black Rod to 
 go to the House of Commons, and acquaint them that they should 
 attend me at the bar of the House of Lords. After they had come up, 
 and I had finished my speech to them, the Lord Chancellor directed 
 them to return and choose their Speaker, and then adjourned the 
 House till to-morrow, at 10 o’clock, at which time the Commons are 
 to present their Speaker to me, 
 
 The House of Commons having returned, one of the Privy 
 Council moved the House to proceed to the choice of a Speaker, 
 and proposed Sir Richard Levinge, their Majesties’ Solicitor-General, 
 as a fit person to fill the chair, and the question being put it was 
 resolved that Sir Richard Levinge should be Speaker of that House, 
 and accordingly he was led to the chair by two of the members after 
 the usual manner. After he was in the chair he stood up and gave 
 the House thanks for the honour they had done him, excusing his 
 inability for so great an undertaking, and promising nevertheless his 
 ulmost endeavours to serve their Majesties and this country, and 
 hoping the House would assist and support him therein. The 
 House, I am informed, seemed extremely well pleased with his 
 behaviour after he came into the chair, and with the choice they had 
 made of him. After the Speaker had done, the House proceeded to 
 take the oaths and repeat the declaration according to the above- 
 mentioned act, and so adjourned till to-morrow morning at 8 o’clock. 
 
 I have been more particular in this relation, the meeting 
 of a parliament in this kingdom being, in a manner, a new thing, 
 and I have nothing further to observe to you upon this occasion, 
 but that, since there appears upon the choice of a Speaker so good a 
 temper in the House of Commons, there is great reason to hope that 
 this parliament will answer the ends for which their Majesties have 
 been pleased to call it, and establish this country upon a firm and 
 
1692. 
 
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 Dublin Castle. 
 
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 lasting English and protestant interest, whereunto I shall think 
 myself os if I can any ways contribute. [S.P. Ireland 354, 
 No. 70. 
 
 Viscount Sydney to ————. Being required by his Majesty in 
 my instructions to give all lawful encouragement to all protestant 
 strangers resorting into this kingdom, I have made some advance 
 towards it, as you will see by the enclosed order, which I have made 
 and sent to the commissioners of the revenue. His Majesty 
 having likewise declared that, if a considerable number of them shall 
 be willing to establish themselves in any great cities or towns, or in 
 any other fit places for trade and manufacture, upon representation 
 of the same, he will give order that they shall enjoy such privileges 
 as may consist with the laws and peace of this kingdom, I herewith 
 send you a petition I have received from Wolff Henry, Baron of 
 Luttichau, of the province of Silesia in Germany. He asks such 
 things from the government here as I conceive myself not 
 
 ‘empowered to grant. The service, if it be done as proposed, will be 
 
 a great advantage to this kingdom. Appended is a copy of a 
 warrant to commissioners of the revenue in Ireland for admitting 
 the goods of foreign protestant settlers duty free. |Ibid., No. 71.| 
 Enclosing :— | 
 
 The petition of ‘‘the Honourable Wolff Henry, Baron de Liittichau.”’ 
 He, and many others of his family and country people in the province 
 of Silesia in Germany, suffered much by the power and influence which 
 the Roman clergy there have over the protestants, who root out and 
 suppress most of them, by taking away or shutting up ther churches, 
 usurping and educating their children in the Romish religion. The 
 petitioner has likewise observed the distressed condition of divers other 
 protestants who have fled out of Germany and France into Lngland, 
 Holland, and other parts of the world, in which cruel usage many 
 hundreds of good protestant families have been ruined and destroyed. 
 
 The consideration thereof has moved their Majesties to issue their 
 royal proclamation dated the 5th day of April, 1689, inviting and 
 encouraging all such distressed protestants to come and reside under 
 their royal protection, which has induced the petitioner and his poor 
 people (being some hundreds of families) to accept the same, and to 
 acknowledge and embrace their Majesties’ gracious invitation, and to 
 resolve to use all possible means to transport themselves and their sub- 
 stance into this kingdom of Ireland, in order to settle down and plant 
 therein, improve the same by their industry, and set up several manu- 
 factories. 
 
 To that purpose he has proposed the taking of several thousand 
 acres of land from the Duke of Ormond and others who are willing 
 to let them lands at a moderate rent; but forasmuch as the great 
 distance of the place from whence he and his people must travel before 
 they arrive to any seaport to embark is very considerable, and cannot be 
 done but with the loss of time and great expense, it will of necessity 
 require their Majesties’ and Lord Sydney's encouragement and assist- 
 ance, without which it is much to be feared he and his people’s hopes 
 and intentions may be obstructed or frustrated. 
 
 He therefore prays, for the better carrying on of so good a work, that 
 assistance be given him to procure from their Majestiessthe loan or use 
 of two small ships, victualled and equipped, of about 100 tons each, for 
 
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 which he will endeavour to procure from some neutral prince the 
 necessary passes and seamen, both for the more secure transport of his 
 people and goods, and because their Majesties’ convoy and seamen may 
 not be spared so well this present war time. 
 
 He also prays for the encouragement of his said family and poor 
 people, to supply the great charge they must unavoidably expend in so 
 long a voyage by sea and land, that their Majesties may be pleased to 
 free them, during the first seven years after their arrival im Ireland, from 
 all country taxes and duties, customs and excise of such goods, com- 
 modities and effects as they shall bring in or send out of the said kingdom, 
 these being their stock, which they must live on, and exchange for other 
 commodities and necessaries to forward their establishment and to carry 
 on their respective callings and wmprovements, whereby they may be 
 rendered able to advance their Majesties’ revenue and the public protestant 
 interest, and to pay hereafter all taxes, customs, excise and duties equal 
 with other of their Majesties’ subjects. [S.P. Ireland 854, No. 711.] 
 
 
 
 John Temple to Lord I shall endeavour to observe 
 your commands in attending at Whitehall on Monday afternoon 
 next. The bills which have been transmitted under one great seal 
 from Ireland may be returned under several great seals from hence, 
 so that those which shall be first approved of need not stay till the 
 rest shall be agreed on. [Jbid., No. 72.] 
 
 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. I can give you no 
 certain account of the success we shall have in parliament, as they 
 have yet sat but a few days; but it is apparent that some of them 
 have a mind to be angry, and will show it sufficiently if no bills 
 come over to entertain them; their anger has as yet fallen upon no 
 one but Mr. Crofts, whom the Queen pardoned some while ago. 
 There were several ill things proved against him, and they have 
 turned him out of the House. 
 
 Yesterday at the Committee of Grievances Hes fell upon Mr. 
 Culliford, and he is likely to be worse used here than he was in 
 England. I am told they are resolved to give some money. Without 
 it, it will be a very scurvy meeting, for I doubt they will do little 
 else which will be good for the King or country. 
 
 { am informed from all parts of the kingdom that there are great 
 expectations of forces from France; the Irish talk of it most impu- 
 dently every day. This has made me send for some of the chief of 
 them up to town, for all the nobility and gentry being now here it 
 will be very easy for them to make some disturbance in the country, 
 which I will prevent if I can. 
 
 This morning I had an address from the Lords, wherein they 
 desired that the King would be pleased to send his letter for 
 reversing the outlawry of the Earl of Tyrone’s father, he himself 
 having done what he ought to do, and deserving a mark of the King’s 
 favour. I desire you will send the letter as soon as may be. 
 
 I now send you an abstract of some letters, which have come from 
 several ports, about the privateers. I will say no more to the Lords 
 of the Admiralty, because it is to no purpose; but really it isa 
 shame to be used as they are used here ; everybody says they are a 
 great deal worse than they were the year we were beaten at sea. 
 
1692. 
 
 Oct. 13. 
 Dublin Castle. 
 
 Oct. 18. 
 Oct. 14. 
 
 Oct. 17. 
 Dublin. 
 
 WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 213 
 
 
 
 I have nothing more to trouble you with at this time, but to 
 recommend Mr. Savage to the King to be Chancellor of the Exchequer ; 
 he has, it seems, agreed with Sir Charles Meredith for it, and | am 
 sure is much fitter for it than the other, and behaves himself very 
 well in the House, which I can say of very few others. The Bill of 
 Recognition passed the House of Lords this morning, and was sent to 
 the Commons. I heard just now that they read it three times in 
 half-an-hour, and passed it. [S.P. Ireland 854, No. 78. | 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Karl of Nottingham. Mr. Francis Cuff, 
 chief commissioner of the ordnance in this kingdom, having desired 
 my recommendation to you in his favour, and being a person whose 
 ability and integrity has been so manifest in discharge of that 
 employment ever since the establishment of this government, I could 
 not in justice to his merit refuse him so reasonable a request; and 
 therefore must desire that you would move his Majesty in his behalf 
 to appoint him lieutenant of the ordnance in this kingdom. Iam 
 satisfied it will be much to the advantage of their Majesties’ affairs to 
 have a person of his character placed in it, as also in some measure 
 a gratification for his past service. [Jbid, No. 74.]| 
 
 Proceedings of the Irish House of Commons. Printed. [Ibid., 
 ON ee 
 
 Proceedings of the Irish House of Commons. Printed. [Ibid., 
 No. 76. | 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. I informed you inmy 
 last that I would not then make any judgment of the success of this 
 parliament ; now I think I may, for it is too apparent that it will 
 not be as one would wish it. They have begun like a company of 
 madmen, for they don’t know themselves what they would have. 
 Whether they will come into better temper or no, I cannot tell, but 
 at present they talk of freeing themselves from the yoke of England, 
 of taking away Poynings’ law, of making an address to have a 
 Habeas Corpus bill, and twenty other extravagant discourses have 
 been amongst them. 
 
 One thing they have already done, which in my opinion is not to 
 be endured unless they retract it, and that is, they have passed a 
 vote that it is the undoubted right of the Commons to have their 
 letters frank, and all this comes from four or five lawyers, most of 
 them of the King’s counsel, they being the only talkers. They do 
 what they please, and are certainly the greatest enemies the King 
 has in the kingdom. 
 
 By this you may imagine what a kind of sessions we are likely to 
 have; those bills that I brought over, which the Irish lords were so 
 fond of, be now upon their table, and they will scarce give them a 
 reading. They have voted a supply of 70,000I. for this year, which 
 they think a great matter. We want the bills most extremely; if 
 we had them we should quickly see what was to be expected from 
 these gentlemen. They begin to be afraid of being prorogued and 
 of the designs of the Irish; it may be that may bring them into some 
 order. ° 
 
 Several of the persons whom I mentioned in my last are in custody 
 and coming up to Dublin. Lord Dillon is not to be found, which 
 
214 
 1692. 
 
 Oct. 18. 
 
 Dublin Castle. 
 
 Oct. 20. 
 
 Oet, 23: 
 Dublin, 
 
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 makes me suspect him the more. ‘There is a new declaration among 
 them lately come from King James; I have not yet received it, but I 
 am promised it in a few days. [S.P. Ireland 354, No.77.| 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. In return to yours of 
 the 8th instant, I herewith send you by express, under the great seal 
 of this kingdom, these four bills following, viz.—1. A bill to settle 
 intestate estates; 2. To exempt protestant dissenters from the penalty 
 of certain laws; 3. To prevent frauds and perjuries; 4. ‘To encourage 
 the opening and working of mines. As to that bill of toleration, or for 
 exempting protestant dissenters (for I shall not need to say anything 
 of the other three) | must observe to you that, when 1t came now to 
 be read in the Council here, I perceived it to be the sense of the board 
 that this bill would meet with some difficulties when it came into 
 parliament (especially in the House of Lords, of which the bishops 
 are at present the major part) in regard that the Church of Ireland 
 has not the same security for its preservation as that of England has, 
 for want of a sacramental test, which it seems was omitted in the 
 late act of parliament made in England for appointing oaths to be 
 taken in this kingdom, whereby those dissenting from the church 
 may be excluded from holding public offices; nor is it without cause 
 that they seem to be thus apprehensive lest this bill should be a 
 weakening to the church, since the dissenting party of this kingdom 
 (in which there are so many Scots) 1s so very considerable; and there- 
 fore it is of the greatest consequence to the good of this country 
 that a bill of this nature should not be rejected, when once it comes 
 into the parliament. So, for prevention thereof, I must acquaint 
 you that it will be necessary to make the like provision for the 
 security of the Church of Ireland, as that of England has, which I 
 conceive cannot be done better than by their Majesties’ adding a 
 clause to this bill to make the acts of 25 and 80 Charles II to be in 
 force in this kingdom, whereby this church and that of England will, 
 as to toleration, stand upon the same footing. [Jbid., No. 78. | 
 
 Iixtracts from the journals of the Irish Parliament :— 
 
 (1) Address of the Lords to Lord Sydney, asking him to recom- 
 mend that a competent number of men-of-war be stationed on the 
 Irish coasts to secure traders against the numbers of French 
 privateers infesting Irish waters. 
 
 (2) Vote of thanks of the Commons to Lord Sydney for his action 
 in apprehending suspected persons, and sending troops to suppress 
 the enemies of the public peace. 
 
 (3) Resolution of the Commons, in consequence of a report from 
 the Committee of Grievances, to wait upon Lord Sydney to desire 
 him to take care for the seizing of the arms and horses of papists 
 and reputed papists, and the recalling of such licenses to bear arms 
 as he shall think fit. [Jbid., No. 79.]| 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. The seven bills arrived 
 yesterday morning; three of them Isent to the House of Commons, 
 with a message to let them know they were not to sit long, and that 
 therefore they ought to make all the dispatch that was possible, On 
 Monday they will consider them; what the success will be nobody 
 yet can tell, for they are the strangest creatures that ever yet met 
 together ; but they seem in a better temper than they have been. 
 
1692. 
 
 Oct. 28. 
 Dublin. 
 
 WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 15 
 
 One thing that makes them so is they have found out that 
 several persons are sent out of England purposely to obstruct every- 
 thing in this parliament; these are Sir Francis Brewster, Mr. 
 Sloan, and one Mr. Hambleton, brother-in-law to Lord Monmouth. 
 They have done a great deal of mischief. I hope they will not do 
 so much now they are found out. J am angry with nobody so much 
 as with Serjeant Osborne, who behaves himself every day most 
 treacherously and ungratefully; he must certainly be turned out of 
 his place, and Sir John Mead ought to be in it, for he has done 
 extremely well, and is a man of excellent parts; all the exception 
 that can be made against him is that his wife is a papist. 
 
 I find we are not likely to have the bill of indemnity, and it is no 
 creat matter; for, if you send it back at all more favourable to the 
 papists than it was, | am sure it will not pass, and to offer a bill that 
 one has no hopes of I think will not be for the King’s service. They 
 have thrown out the act of confirming the acts of settlement and 
 explanation. I have ordered the Speaker of the House of Commons 
 200/., for he could not have lived without it; but it is not nearly 
 enough for him, for-he is at a great expense, and so is the Lord 
 Chancellor. I desire to know Ins Majesty’s pleasure what they shall 
 both have. [S.P. Ireland 854, No. 80. | 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. I have received yours 
 of the 11th, by which I find her Majesty desires an impartial character 
 of Dean Synge. I thought I could not have it more exact than in 
 asking the opinion of the six bishops you mentioned to me; and 
 indeed I find it so much to his prejudice that I am sorry I ever recom- 
 mended him, for they say that he is a person of such ill fame and 
 repute, that he is not qualified for the dignity of a bishop, unless he 
 can purge and clear himself of the said ill fame. I have not yet heard 
 of any particulars which are alleged against him, and he thinks him- 
 self very hardly used to be accused of great crimes, and not to be 
 told what they are, for he does not know how to justify himself. He 
 seems to be very confident of his own mnocency, and would be very 
 glad to be examined by both houses of parliament. I wish you would 
 send us both lawyers and divines, for there are none to be had in 
 this country who are worth anything. 
 
 Yesterday I was attended by eight lords and sixteen commoners 
 with an address which they desired me to transmit to his Majesty. 
 To-day the bill for the additional excise passed both Lords and 
 Commons. Yesterday the Commons threw out the corn bill, because 
 it did not first arise from them; but they went immediately into a 
 committee of the whole House to consider ways of raising the same 
 sum, and voted a poll which is valued at 20,000/.; the rest they will 
 do on Monday. They are inclined to give any money which may be 
 asked, but very insolent in asserting their privileges, which must be 
 taken notice of before we part; they do not like the militia bill, and I 
 believe it will not pass; the others I suppose will on Monday or 
 Tuesday. I hope you have constantly the proceedings of parlia- 
 ment, for I gave order to Mr. Poultney to send them every post to 
 Mr. Warre. [Jbid., No. 81.] 
 
216 
 1692 
 
 Nov. 3. 
 Dublin. 
 
 Nov. 6. 
 Dublin. 
 
 Nov. 3. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 The speeches of the Lord Lieutenant and Lord Chancellor at the 
 prorogation of the Irish parliament. Printed. [S.P. Ireland 354, 
 No. 82. | 
 
 A duplicate of the above. [Jbid., No. 83. ] 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. In another letter | 
 have given you an account of our proceedings in parliament, which 
 are not all that was to be expected. I hepe you will approve of 
 what I have done. I think it was my duty to the King and to the 
 crown of England to maintain his prerogative, and therefore I hope 
 I shall not be blamed whatever happens. I have also sent you a 
 copy of my speech, my protest and the votes. I have nothing more 
 to add but what concerns Dean Synge. I thought I should have 
 troubled you no more about that matter, but he having liberty to 
 purge and clear himself as much as he could, you will see what he 
 has done by the enclosed paper, which I was desired to transmit to 
 their Majesties, by order of the House of Lords.  [Jbid., No. 84.] 
 Enclosing :— 
 
 Proceedings w the Irish House of Lords upon the petition of Dr. 
 Samuel Synge, Dean of Kildare and Chanter of St. Patrick's, Dublin. 
 The petitioner complain’ that, being recommended to the Queen by the 
 Lord Ineutenant as a fit person to be Bishop of Kildare, some person 
 unknown had by writing insinuated to her Majesty that he was 
 altogether unworthy of such a promotion; and that his Eacellency 
 received commands from her Majesty to know the opinion of certain 
 bishops of Ireland of his qualifications, and they had certified that 
 since the petitioner lay wnder an evil fame they concewed him unfit to 
 be made a bishop until he had purged himself, and that in order to 
 give him opportunity to purge himself his Hacellency referred it to the 
 Archbishop of Dublin, his diocesan, and the Dean and Chapter of 
 St. Patrick’s, where he is a member, to make inquisition into his life 
 and behaviour, and wf anything should be objected against him to 
 giwe him opportunity to defend himself, and to certify their opinion 
 to his Hixcellency. The petitioner attended his Grace thereupon, who 
 declined the reference, declaring he knew not any person that would 
 accuse him. There being no one particular thing objected against him, 
 he has no other way left to vindicate himself from that unjust calumny 
 but by this public application to this House, and therefore prays thewr 
 lordships to consider his case and afford him such ways and means as 
 in ther judgments shall be thought fit and reasonable. 
 
 Resolved upon the question, that this House will retain the petition 
 and in case any person shall make any charge or accusation against 
 the petitioner they will hear the petitioner in his vindication at the 
 bar of this house; that in regard Dr. Samuel Synge has been a 
 considerable time personally known to all their lordships, and in 
 their observation has never been reputed a person of evil fame 
 (but on the contrary several of their lordships gave particular 
 instances of his good behaviour in their Majesties’ service, both 
 in his profession as a divine and also as deputy governor of 
 Ixuldare) the Speaker of this House attend the Lord Lieutenant and 
 acquaint him that rt is the desire of this House that he will represent 
 to their Majesties that neither the said private insinuation nor the said 
 report may have any influence wpon them in prejudice of the petitioner 
 
1692. — 
 
 Nov. 6. 
 Dublin. 
 
 WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 217 
 
 until some particular be objected to him, and he may hare opportunity 
 to vindicate himself. [S.P. Ireland 354, No. 841. | 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. I beg to lay before 
 you an account of the reasons of the prorogation of the parhament 
 here. It is not unknown to you that this parliament was not called 
 with an expectation of having any money this session; but after my 
 arrival, finding the revenue too strait, and discoursing of it, I was 
 advised by their Majesties’ prime sergeant here, and other popular 
 men, to demand money, and was assured that it would very readily be 
 eranted. Of this I gave you notice, and had directions in it ; and the 
 methods of raising the money were devised by those who first moved 
 the demanding of it. Two bills were prepared to go to England, one 
 for an additional excise, the other for certain duties for one year. 
 At the time these bills were preparing at the Council Board, there 
 was not the least doubt made but that they ought to be there 
 prepared, according to Poynings’ law. When Parliament met I had 
 all the expectation of good success, believing it impossible that people 
 who lay under the greatest obligations to his Majesty should have 
 any other thoughts than of gratitude and obedience. 
 
 I had some taste of their disposition in the business of their post 
 letters ; when I had ordered them to be passed free, they neverthe- 
 less passed a vote declaring it to be their undoubted privilege, 
 although they could have no title to it but by concession of the 
 government. I took no notice of it, because, on second thoughts, 
 they ordered the vote not to be printed. 
 
 When the bills came from England they were oftered to the House 
 of Commons, but not read, and in the meantime they agreed to give 
 a sum not exceeding 70,000/., which sum was about as much as these 
 bills were computed to amount to. This step being made, it was 
 proposed, to satisfy the Commons, that they should go on in voting 
 the very same charge that was contained in the bills; for, if that 
 were done, the money might be given this session, but if the bills 
 were rejected it could not. I sent them a message that their session 
 could not well last above fourteen days, and recommended all 
 dispatch, with the assurance that they should meet again in the 
 spring. They instantly proceeded to vote the contents of the Excise 
 bill, and though there were many members, as I have been informed, 
 who laboured to obstruct it, yet it did succeed. 
 
 Then the other bill, by which a greater sum was expected to be 
 raised, was pressed to be read, and refused; and it was argued by 
 the prime serjeant and almost all the rest of their Majesties’ counsel 
 in the House that no money bill ought to be transmitted from 
 England until the heads of it were first settled in the House of 
 Commons here. 
 
 This doctrine, according to the best information I have been able 
 to get, is entirely new, and of very great consequence to the crown of 
 England; for, as the law has been hitherto taken, the crown has in 
 the two privy councils both the proposing of laws and also a negative 
 upon these proposals. But, if this sueceed, the proposing of money 
 bills will be lost altogether, which perhaps is not of so great import- 
 ance in itself as in the effects it will have by lessening the dependency 
 of this kingdom upon the crown of England, which I believe will be 
 very prejudicial, and give very great distaste to England. 
 
218 
 1692. 
 
 Nov. 9. 
 Dublin. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 After a long debate they came to these resolutions :— 
 
 1. That it was and is the undoubted right of the Commons of. 
 Ireland in parliament assembled to resolve the ways and means of 
 raising money. 
 
 2. Also their right to prepare heads of bills for raising money. 
 
 3. That notwithstanding these rights, in consideration of the 
 present exigency they do order the Excise bill to be read, but the 
 receiving and reading that bill shall not be drawn into a precedent. 
 
 When the other money bill was offered to be read the other day 
 they absolutely rejected it, and ordered their reason to be entered in 
 their journal, viz., that the bill had not its rise in their house. 
 
 I had notice of these votes and proceedings, by which they made 
 it impossible for them to give the residue of the money this session 
 which they had voted ; but I took no public notice of them till they 
 came to be printed. In the meantime they rejected the Militia bill 
 for the same reason, but did not think fit to enter that in their 
 journal. The rejection of this bill made me think it of absolute 
 necessity to press on the bill for the punishment of officers and 
 soldiers who shall mutiny or desert, and I sent a message to the 
 House to acquaint them with the necessity. It was to take effect 
 from the 2nd November, and might have passed before that time, 
 but they delayed the reading of it, and by committing and 
 recommitting it gave it such delay that the 2nd of November was 
 over; and then they argued that it was unjust to pass it, because a 
 man might be punished “for an offence committed before the act was 
 made, and upon that point, upon a division of the House, the bill 
 was lost. 
 
 When I saw this, and that the votes were printed by which they 
 asserted these pretended rights, I thought I could do not less than 
 shew that these assertions in prejudice of the crown of England were 
 not allowed by me, and therefore I sent for the House of Commons, 
 and having told them of their error I caused my protest to be 
 entered in the journal of the Lords, and then prorogued parliament 
 till the 6th of April. 
 
 I have thought also that the English parliament would think it 
 hard to be excluded from the power of preparing money bills for this 
 kingdom by a vote of the Commons here, and that the letting 
 it pass might give them ground of discontent; and I think it 
 absolutely necessary to give a check to such assertions, especially 
 when it is so contrary to all expectation. I cannot but acquaint you 
 that there are some members of this House of Commons who were 
 sent purposely out of England to begin and foment disorders. 
 I have not yet an exact account of their instructions, but am not 
 without hope of arriving to such a degree of knowledge thereof as to 
 lay it ere long before you. [S.P. Ireland 354, No. 84a. | 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Karl of Nottingham. I gave you an account 
 in my last of the prorogation of the parliament, which I thought abso- 
 lutely necessary for the King’s service. The gentlemen who intended 
 to do mischief are very angry at it, and have had several seditious 
 meetings to consider what they were to do. At last they brought me 
 the enclosed petition, which I carried immediately to the Council ; 
 what was done upon it you will have at large from Lord Coningsby. 
 
1692. 
 
 « 
 
 Nov. 9. 
 Dublin Castle 
 
 WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 219 
 
 
 
 On Monday I sent to Serjeant Osborne and Serjeant Broderick for 
 their patents for being the King’s serjeants, which they delivered. I 
 desire the King will please to consider whom we are to have in their 
 places ; it cannot be anybody in this kingdom, unless it be Sir John 
 Mead, and there are some exceptions against him which I have 
 
 already acquainted you with. [Jbid., No. 85.| Enclosing :— 
 
 The petition (undated) of Arthur Rawdon, Frank Annesley, Arthur 
 Langford, and Robert King, subscribing members of parliament, on 
 behalf of themselves and divers other members of the protestants whom 
 they represent, to Viscount Sydney, showing that they are of opinion that 
 it is necessary for them to employ some persons to be their agents to 
 attend their Majesties in England to solicit their affairs there. May it 
 please you to give the petitioners and the said other members leave to 
 appoint such persons as they shall think fit for that service. Appended 
 are the following notes : — 
 
 Arthur Rawdon, who delivered the petition, said, these words 
 following, viz. that his Eacellency would be pleased to give the 
 petitioners leave to send over certain persons to England as agents to 
 solicit for the protestants and English interest of this kingdom, or 
 words to that effect, 
 
 Viscount Sydney's answer: I think the protestants of Ireland cannot 
 
 ‘have a better agent than the King himself, for he has been agent for all 
 
 the protestants of Hurope these twenty years ; therefore you need not go 
 upon that account ; but if any of you will send somebody into England 
 to ask the King’s pardon for the factious and riotous assemblies which 
 have been made in this town since the prorogation, you will do very well. 
 
 [S.P. Ireland 354, No. 85 i.| 
 
 The Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland to the Karl of Notting- 
 ham. His Excellency being pleased on Monday last to lay before this 
 Board a petition (whereof the enclosed is a copy) which he had that 
 day received from the persons whose names are subscribed thereunto, 
 and the same having been read and considered at the Board, we are 
 of opinion that, although it is the undoubted right of the subject 
 to petition, yet forasmuch as the petitioners name themselves 
 members of parliament, and petition on behalf of themselves and 
 divers other members of parliament, and the protestants whom 
 they represent have thereby assumed to themselves a power and 
 right of representation as members of parliament in time of a 
 prorogation, for which they can have no authority, and which, if 
 allowed, we conceive may be of dangerous consequence to this 
 government; and forasmuch as the said petition contains an 
 insinuation that due care is not taken by the government here or in 
 England of the protestants, and the petitioners on the delivery of 
 the said petition (as appears by the testimony of some persons then 
 present) acquainted his Excellency that the intent and meaning 
 thereof was that he would give them leave to send over certain persons 
 into England as agents to solicit for the protestant and English 
 interest of this kingdom; upon consideration therefore of the whole 
 matter, we are further of opinion that the same is a high misde- 
 meanor, for which the petitioners (to vindicate the just authority and 
 dignity of the government) ought to be prosecuted by law. This 
 appearing to us a matter of great weight, before any step is made in 
 
220) STATE PAPERS. 
 
 1692. 
 
 this prosecution, we thought it necessary to acquaint you with what 
 we have hitherto done in this whole matter, which we desire you to 
 lay before the King for his directions therein, and that you will be 
 pleased to receive the same and transmit them to us as soon as 
 conveniently may be, so that, in case his Majesty shall think fit to 
 direct the prosecution to go on, something may be done in it this 
 term. [S.P. lreland 354, No. 86.] Enclosing :— 
 
 A duplicate copy of the petition of Arthur Rawdon and others. 
 [ Ibid., No. 861.] 
 
 Nov. 18. Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. I have had no occasion 
 Dublin. of giving you any trouble since my last by Lord Coningsby. The 
 petitioning members, who were at that time very troublesome, are 
 now as quiet, and I hear no more of them, but that they are sorry for 
 what they have done, and confess themselves in the wrong. The 
 commission of inquiry has now passed fhe great seal; the persons 
 in it are Mr. Weaver, Mr. Molyneux, and Mr. Nelmes; the two first 
 you have often heard of, the other is an Englishman fit for business, 
 and may be relied upon. I ever thought this commission would be 
 for the King’s service, and I am more of that opinion than I was; but 
 it may be much improved if two more are added to the commission, 
 and there be fuller powers given them than in the first letter. 
 Therefore I have sent you a draft of another with instructions annexed 
 to it; if the King approves of it and pleases to sign it, I do not 
 doubt but it will be extremely to his advantage; and if you would 
 send the other two commissioners out of England I should be very 
 elad, for I would rather have men from thence than employ anybody 
 of this country; but if you cannot find persons who will be willing 
 to come over, I must get the best that are to be had here. The 
 Secretary I have put in is Mr. Darling, and I think a better cannot 
 be found in the three kingdoms. It will certainly be much for the 
 King’s interest to give this commision power of setting the forfeited 
 estates ; for the commissioners of the revenue say they cannot do it 
 as they ought to do, and would be very glad if it were off their hands, 
 for they have business enough without it. There are several French 
 prisoners at Cork, Kinsale and other places, and some maimed 
 seamen. There is no fund for maintaining them, which I desire 
 may be ordered. [Jbid., No. 87.] 
 
 Nov. 18. Proclamation by Viscount Sydney as to the commission appointed 
 Dublin. to enquire concerning all forfeitures to the crown in Ireland since the 
 accession of King William and Queen Mary. ‘The cOmmissioners are 
 John Weaver, senior, William Molyneux and John Nelmes. Printed. 
 
 [Ibid., No. 88. | 
 
 Nov. 21. Reasons offered to the Lord Lieutenant by Col. William Wolseley, 
 Oe master-general of the Ordnance in Ireland, for continuing the Water- 
 Dublin, ford, Sligo and Carrickfergus garrisons, and adding them to the estab- 
 lishment, with an ‘‘indenting” gunner at Charlemont at 18s, per day, 
 instead of the gunner allowed on the present establishment at 12s. per 
 day, which is not sufficient encouragement for such a person as is 
 fit to be trusted with the charge of the artillery and stores in that 
 
 garrison. 
 
1692. 
 
 Nov. 24. 
 Dublin Castle. 
 
 Nov. 26. 
 
 Dec. 2. 
 Dublin. 
 
 WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 221 
 
 1. Waterford being a walled town and a place of strength, it is 
 conceived very improper to leave it without a garrison, unless it is 
 dismantled ; and if it is dismantled it will deprive the poor protestants 
 of the town and of the adjacent countries of a place of refuge to fly 
 to upon all cases of sudden danger and insurrection. 
 
 2. Sligo is the only pass out of the north of Ireland into Connaught, 
 and is a place of such importance that the want of keeping it when it 
 was in their Majesties’ hands was the occasion of prolonging the war ; 
 and how many men’s lives it cost and what treasure was spent to 
 force a way into Connaught the last campaign is well known, which 
 would have all been saved had Sligo been kept in their Majesties’ 
 power ; and it is to be considered as a seaport town, and, as such, 
 capable of supporting either our friends or enemies by sea. 
 
 8. Carrickfergus is conceived to be a commodious place for a grand 
 magazine for the province of Ulster, and a small charge will make it 
 fit for such a ptirpose. Charlemont is too small to receive the 
 necessary stores, while to enlarge the storehouses there and strengthen 
 the fortifications (which is absolutely necessary if the stores of that 
 whole province are lodged there) will be a very considerable charge 
 to the King. Londonderry lies so in a corner of that province 
 that the remotest part of it cannot be furnished early enough from 
 thence upon any sudden occasion, either with arms or ammunition. 
 The continuing these three garrisons by taking off some officers 
 from other places where they may be spared, and who are now upon 
 the present establishment, will add only in the inferior officers, etc. 
 44]. 11s, 8d, per annum to their Majesties’ present charge. [S.P. 
 Ireland 354, No. 89.] IHnclosing: 
 
 E'stablishment proposed for the ordnance and garrisons of Ireland. 
 [Ibid., No. 89i.] 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. I send you (see previous 
 document) @ paper containing reasons for the additional charge on 
 the establishment proposed for the ordnance and garrisons of this 
 kingdom, a demand of artillery and stores for Ireland, an estimate 
 made by Mr. Skinner of repairs at Limerick, and an establishment 
 proposed for the ordnance and garrisons of Ireland. All which | 
 desire you will lay before the King to receive his pleasure there- 
 upon. As for the demand which is made for powder, I must 
 recommend it to you to get the same answered as soon as you can. 
 [[bid., No. 90. ] 
 
 The Earl of Nottingham to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. 
 There has been a proposal made to the King for raising 1,500 
 or 2,000 Irish for the Venetiah service. His Majesty inclines to 
 permit it, by reason the late officers cannot be provided for here, and 
 may be tempted to act upon any occasion against their Majesties 
 here or in Ireland; but he will not finally resolve upon it till he 
 knows your opinion. Extract. [Ibid., No. 91.] 
 
 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. What I have to acquaint 
 you with is not worth giving you this trouble, nothing having passed 
 of any importance since my last, but a cruel storm which has been 
 the cause of the loss of several ships. I must again put you in mind 
 of sending me the king’s second letter for the commission of inquiry, 
 
222, 
 1692. 
 
 Dec. 18. 
 
 Dublin. 
 
 Decaei: 
 
 Dublin. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 for by what I see already I am sure it will be extremely for the King’s 
 service if two more are added to the commission, and more power 
 given them. I will answer for it that it will turn to a good account. 
 We want three packets, which we are expecting with great impatience. 
 [S.P. Ireland 854, No. 92. | 
 
 Viscount Sydney to the Earl of Nottingham. Yesterday I received 
 yours of the 26th, in which I find it is his Majesty’s pleasure the 
 petitioners should not be prosecuted, which shall be obeyed. They 
 are now all out of town or in England, and I do not think it is 
 worth while sending for them, especially as one of them told the 
 Lord Chancellor they had nothing to complain of, but that they 
 desired to have some friends in England, the popish party having a 
 ereat many. 
 
 Sir John Mead would certainly have been a fit person for the . 
 King’s prime serjeant, but, having so, much business, he cannot 
 attend, and therefore desires to be excused. I believe you will find 
 it difficult to persuade a man who is good for anything to come 
 hither for that employment, which is only worth 80/1. a year, besides 
 his practice. Therefore I think Mr. Donnelan and Mr. Pakenham 
 (both King’s counsel) will be the fittest who can be picked upon for 
 the King’s service. 
 
 Thave given the papers which concern Alderman Bell to the Solicitor, 
 who will do what he can towards his prosecution, but nothing can be 
 effectual without the originals, which he desires may be sent him. 
 
 The proposal made to the King for employing 1,500 or 2,000 Irish 
 in the Venetian service will be very pleasing to the protestants, but 
 how it will be liked by the papists I cannot tell until I have spoken 
 with some of them, which I will do in a few days. 
 
 I should be very glad if some care is taken about the French 
 prisoners, for we shall not know what to do with them. I heard 
 this morning that there are 479 now at Kinsale, but I will remove 
 them from there as soon as possible; 131 belonged to a privateer of 
 St. Malo of 40 guns, which was driven ashore in Bantry Bay. I 
 shall be very sorry if the French make any attempt upon Cork or 
 Kinsale, for we should make but a very scurvy defence, though all 
 has been done at Kinsale that the season would permit; they have 
 ammunition enough, and good store of provisions. I have ordered 
 two regiments of foot and one of dragoons to march thither, and the 
 other troops which are not in garrison to draw towards Munster. I 
 have also ordered the militia to be raised, but whether or no they will 
 obey I cannot tell; this is all I can do, and it will be impossible for 
 me to have any information from Brest, for if I would give 10,000l. 
 for a ship for that purpose I could not get one. 
 
 There are a great many officers in England who ought to be here, 
 and some they tell me have been there this year and a half; I desire 
 they may be ordered to their posts. The Lord Chancellor and the 
 Solicitor General desire that I should put you in mind of them; 
 they do indeed deserve to be considered for their expenses during 
 the sessions of parhament. |[TZbid., No. 98. | 
 
 The same to the same. Since my last I have enquired of some of 
 the Roman Catholics whether 1,500 or 2,000 men might be raised 
 here for the Venetians, and they assured me it may ‘be done in a 
 
1692. 
 
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 month, provided that there be good conditions made for them. I 
 could tell them nothing of that matter, and therefore I desire 
 you will please to instruct me. 
 
 It was moved the other day in Council that a_bill should be offered 
 to the parliament next sessions to abjure King James; there was 
 little opposition to it, and most were of opinion that it would be for 
 King Wilham’s service. I know [not] what has been done in England 
 in that matter, and therefore I would let it proceed no farther here 
 till I knew the King’ s pleasure in it. 
 
 It is so much believed that the French have a design upon some 
 part of this kingdom, that it was thought fit to secure some who are 
 most disaffected to the government, which is done both in the city 
 and country. I cannot tell particularly what has been done in the 
 country, but the Lord Mayor brought an account of what he had 
 done in the town, and in the list there were 166, of which thirty-four 
 were priests, the rest officers who have served in the Irish army. 
 There is a committee of the Council appointed to examine them ; 
 then it is probable we may know their design of being in and about 
 this town. Iam sorry you have had trouble given you this sessions, 
 and I am also sorry that Iam at such a distance as not to be able to do 
 you any service. I should have been extremely glad to have done you 
 some, but from hence you can have nothing but my good wishes. 
 [S.P. Ireland 354, No. 94. | 
 
 The Civil Articles of Limerick, printed at Dublin from the letters 
 patent, ‘‘ wherein they are ratified and exemplified by their Majesties 
 under the great seal of England.” [Jbid., No. 95. | 
 
 Journal of the House of Commons in Ireland. Copy. [Jbid., 
 No. 96. | 
 
 Account of the sessions of parliament in Ireland, 1692. Printed. 
 [Ibid., No. 97. | 
 
 A duplicate of the same. [Jbid., No. 98. | 
 
 Address from the Irish parliament to the King and Queen. 
 Whereas the Irish nation, having formerly by frequent rebellions 
 attempted to throw off the dependence of this kingdom of Ireland 
 on the crown of England, to which it has been long happily and 
 legally united, the present generation treading in the steps of their 
 forefathers have sufficiently showed themselves heirs of the same 
 inveterate and implacable hatred of the English name and govern- 
 ment. We acknowledge the deliverance of the protestants of this 
 kingdom from the oppressions of the papists, and the restoration of 
 
 ‘order, and beg the King and Queen to accept our tribute of grateful 
 
 thanks. [Ibid., No. 99.] . 
 
 A copy of the estimate given to the Ordnance Office by Mr. 
 Martin Skinner, third engineer, of such repairs as are necessary in 
 the fortifications, platforms and guardhouses in Limerick. | Jbid., 
 No. 100. | 
 
 A proportion of the artillery and stores of war transported from 
 Ireland for the last summer expedition on board the fleet, the 
 present return whereof is absolutely necessary for their Majesties’ 
 
224 
 1692. 
 
 1693. 
 Feb. 21. 
 
 March 4. 
 
 March 21 
 to May 9. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 service and the security of this kingdom. Anda further proportion of 
 other stores that are now wanting, offered to the Lord Lieutenant 
 by Col. William Wolseley, master general of their Majesties’ 
 Ordnance in Ireland. [S.P, Ireland 854, No. 101.] 
 
 Names of the persons who-are sent for to Dublin:—Lord Dillon, 
 Lord Athenree, Lord Clanricard, Col. John Burke, commonly called 
 Lord Boffin, Sir James Cotter, Col. Nicholas Purcell, Col. Rice and 
 Col. Colelough. [Jbid., No. 102. | 
 
 Rough genealogical memoranda of the O’Brien and other Irish 
 families. [Jbid., No. 108.] 
 
 Copy of an act of recognition of their Majesties’ undoubted title 
 to the crown of Ireland, 4 William and Mary, cap. I. [Zbid., 
 No. 104. | | 
 
 An act confirming the act of settlement and explanation, and the 
 resolution of doubts by the Lord Lieutenant and Council upon the 
 said acts. Draft. {[Ibid., No. 105. | 
 
 Extract from a letter. Mons. de Ruvigny has not replied 
 to the overtures for peace. which your Highness told me to 
 make to the King, the reasons being not only because of the 
 success of T'urenne over the Confederates, but also the answer he 
 knew his King was going to make as to the place of congress, and 
 the other conditions which are more fully specified in the paper 
 given to Mons. Sparr. His Majesty will thus leave it to your 
 Highness to make other conditions, the best possible. The King 
 has not yet had time to read the project of the treaty for the line of 
 defence, but I will soon send you his views. In cipher, deciphered by 
 the Earl of Portland. [S.P.Dom., William and Mary 14, No. 51. | 
 
 Agreement between John Lewkenor, of West Dean, co. Sussex, 
 esquire, and John Ford, of Chichester, touching the divorce of the 
 said Lewkenor from his wife Jane. Lewkenor promises to pay LOOI. 
 to Ford within six months after an Act of Parliament has been 
 obtained for making void the said marriage, and a further sum of 
 1002. within six months of the date at which Lewkenor shall receive 
 the money lately recovered in the Common Pleas against William 
 Montagu, serjeant-at-law. [Tbid., No. 52. | 
 
 Address from the English House of Commons upon the state of 
 the kingdom of Ireland, the abuses and mismanagements of the 
 affairs in that kingdom. Printed in the Commons’ Journal. — {Ibid., 
 No. 58.] 
 
 Copies of papers relating to supplies for the island of Guernsey. 
 
 (1) Lord Nottingham to [the Ordnance Board], dated 21st March, 
 1693, submitting for their opinion a list of supphes required for the 
 island of Guernsey. 
 
 (2) Report by [the Ordnance Board], undated, approving the said 
 list of supplies, and a project of Captain Phillips and Monsieur Carles 
 for the repairs and works of several forts and castles in the island. 
 
1698. 
 
 Mareh 28. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 March 23. 
 Adiniralty 
 Office. 
 
 March 81. 
 Admiralty 
 Office. 
 April 8. 
 Dublin. 
 
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 The estimate of expense amounts to 14,4791. 14s. 9d., great regard 
 being had to the calculation the engineers have made, and the cheap 
 working of the inhabitants and soldiers. 
 
 (3) An estimate of the working materials necessary for carrying 
 on the above-prepared works [21 March, 1693]. 
 
 (4) An estimate of the ordnance stores required for the island of 
 Guernsey [21 March, 1698]. 
 
 (5) An account of what new works and repairs are proposed to be 
 done in the island of Guernsey, by Captain Phillips and Monsieur 
 Carles, engineers [21 March, 1698]. 
 
 (6) [The Ordnance Board] to the Lords of the Committee of the 
 Council, 9 May, 1698, being a revision of their previous report as to 
 the necessary works and repairs in Guernsey. [S.P. Dom. William 
 and Mary 14, No. 54.] 
 
 Warrant to the commander-in-chief of the Dutch ships at 
 Portsmouth, to sail to the rendezvous of the fleet, with the Dutch 
 ships under his command, at the same time as the English men-of- 
 war sail thither from Portsmouth. Dutch with translation. [S.P. 
 Dom. Naval 2.] 
 
 A list of the ships in the Channel, besides those appointed for the 
 main fleet, with an account of the service for which they are intended. 
 [Lbid. 121. ] 
 
 A list of all their Majesties’ ships and vessels in sea pay. | Ibid. ] 
 
 The Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland to the Earl of 
 Nottingham. Having read the enclosed proposals, and expecting 
 many more of the same nature, we thought ourselves obliged to 
 transmit these to you, that you may see what progress we have made 
 in this affair, and where the difficulty lies, which is only in point of 
 advancing 1,200l., viz. 100/. for every 50 families to make provision 
 of such things beforehand as they will want at their first coming. 
 This advance will be a security to the proposers that these families 
 will come, without which the proposers will not run the risk of 
 building and making other necessary preparations, which may 
 possibly be left upon their hands. 
 
 The proposers likewise desire that the charge of the transportation 
 of these families may be managed with the best husbandry that can 
 be, so that the several families may bring to their respective places 
 of settlement the greater portion of their Majesties’ bounty, and 
 thereby be the better enabled to provide a stock to maintain them- 
 selves. This being done, we have no doubt of good success in this 
 affair, for the gentlemen here express great kindness and compassion 
 for those afflicted protestant refugees, and we doubt not but that 
 they will give even greater encouragement than they propose in 
 writing, to such as they shall find industrious and willing to take 
 pains for their living. It would bea great encouragement to the 
 strangers if his Majesty would remit the hearth money to them for 
 the first seven years. 
 
 Until we can assure the proposers that 100/. will be advanced to 
 each person that shall take fifty families, we cannot make an agree- 
 ment with any of them. We find we shall have proposals from every 
 
 2045 = 
 
226 
 
 1698. 
 
 April 18. 
 
 Admiralty 
 Office. 
 
 April 19. 
 
 Admiralty 
 Office. 
 
 April 26. 
 
 Admiralty 
 Office. 
 
 May 1. 
 Admiralty 
 Office. 
 
 May 1. 
 
 May 2. 
 
 May 4. 
 Admiralty 
 Office. 
 May 5. 
 May 6. 
 May 8. 
 
 May 15. 
 { Dublin. ] 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 part of the kingdom, everyone of which is to ascertain the place, the 
 nature of the land, the most convenient part for landing and the 
 encouragement they can give; and out of these we shall chose such 
 as we shall find best for these people. 
 
 All those who are willing to receive any of these strangers agree 
 to get the houses ready by the end of August, so that the families 
 may land about that time, and have firing and other necessaries 
 ready for them. We shall take care that the 1,200I. shall be disposed 
 of for the purposes above mentioned into the hands of good substantial 
 persons. 
 
 If there be any amongst them that are skilled or can work in the 
 linen manufacture, their Majesties’ corporation here will be ready to 
 receive and immediately employ them upon their landing in Dublin. 
 And the same eare will be taken immediately to employ those who 
 are skilled in fishery, there being great plenty of fish on these coasts, 
 Enclosure not here preserved. |S.P. Ireland 855, No. 80a. | 
 
 A list of their Majesties’ first, second, third and fourth-rate ships 
 now in pay, designed for the main fleet, with an account of their 
 complements. [S.P. Dom. Naval 121. ] 
 
 A similar list. | Ibid. ] 
 A similar list. [JZbid. | 
 
 An account of the disposition of the ships of the main fleet. 
 [ Ibid. ] 
 
 List of places in the Lord Chamberlain’s disposal, not to pass the 
 signet or privy seal offices, Copy. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary, 
 14, No. 54a. | 
 
 Indenture between Joseph Yate of the Middle Temple, and 
 Humphrey Brooke, M.D., binding Benjamin Brooke, son of the said 
 Humphrey to be clerk to the said Joseph. Seal of arms.  [Ibid., 
 No. 55.] | 
 
 An account of the thirty ships appointed to be built by act of 
 parliament. [S.P. Dom. Naval 121.] 
 
 List of Dutch ships at Spithead. | Zbid. | 
 List of the Dutch ships off St. Helens. [ Zbid.] 
 
 List of the Dutch ships designed for the line of battle, that have 
 arrived in the fleet. [Zbad. | 
 
 The Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland to the Earl of 
 Nottingham. We cannot at present proceed upon the Queen’s 
 instructions of the 6th instant, to hear the claims to the Articles of 
 Limerick and Galway, because there is no fund mentioned whereby 
 to supply the necessary charges. There are four managers 
 appointed for the King, one for each province, whose business is to 
 find out evidence against the claimants, either of their not being 
 
1693. 
 
 Aug. 81. 
 
 Sept. 12. 
 
 Admiralty 
 Office. 
 
 Sept. 18. 
 
 Admiralty 
 Office, 
 
 Sept. 18. 
 Sept. 19. 
 
 Sept. 22. 
 
 Admiralty 
 Oftice. 
 
 Sept. 
 
 Nov. 2. 
 
 Guernsey. 
 
 227 
 
 
 
 WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 
 
 duly comprehended in the said articles, or else of their having taken 
 protection. Besides their great trouble in daily preparing briefs for 
 the counsel, who must also be feed, the managers upon the late 
 hearing of the claims, were promised satisfaction, but never received 
 any. ‘There must be also considered the charge of feeing counsel and 
 bringing witnesses to town. Five hundred pounds will be the least 
 that can be ordered. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary, 14, No. 56.] 
 
 Lists of ships demanded by the merchants for convoys, &c., and 
 which the Board thinks proper to be allowed them, and of ships 
 employed as cruisers, &e. [S.P. Dom. Naval 121.] 
 
 _ A list of such ships of the second, third and fourth rates as are 
 judged most proper to be employed on a particular service designed 
 for them by his Majesty. [JZbid.] 
 
 The lords of the Admiralty to Sir John Trenchard. 
 Einclosing :— 
 
 A list of all ther Majesties’ ships in sea pay, with an account of where 
 they are and what repairs are wanted, &e. | Ibid. ] 
 
 [ Ibid. | 
 
 A list of ships proposed to cruise across the Channel for a particular 
 service. [Jbid.] 
 
 Account of the arrivals of their Majesties’ ships in port. [Zbid.] 
 
 [ Ibid. | 
 
 A list of ships to be supplied with seamen. 
 
 Number and rates of the ships of the summer fleet which his 
 Majesty conceived may form a squadron, with a proportion of 
 Dutch ships, for the intended voyage. | bid. | 
 
 Bernard Ellis to . I received your letter of the 18th of 
 September on the 25th ult. by the Weymouth. The next day Captain 
 Phillips arrived with the fleet, which has been ever since detained in 
 the road by extremity of weather, though it has suffered little 
 damage. In obedience to your commands, I have supplied them 
 with the best pilots of this place and such hght vessels as they 
 had occasion for. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 14, No. 56a.} 
 Enclosing :-— : 
 
 Account by Nicholas le Pelley of news gleaned at St. Malo from 28rd 
 October, 1698 ; dated at Guernsey 2nd November, 1698. This day, 
 having received my orders from the liewtenant-governor of this island, 
 I sailed for St. Malo with forty-four French prisoners, and arrived 
 there the next morning, and was kept there by foul weather till this day. 
 T arrived here with only two prisoners belonging to these islands, the 
 English exchange having carried away all those that were both at Dinan 
 and St. Malo, except some masters and officers that they still keep there, 
 I do not know upon what account. On Sunday, the 29th of October, 
 they made bonfires for the taking of Charleroi; and on the Wednesday 
 
 following they did the same for the victory they had won over the Duke 
 
 of Savoy, having, as they report, routed his whole army, and killed ten 
 or twelve thousand men, losing but few on their side. The French have 
 raised their money, viz., their crowns, which are the same as formerly, 
 to 8 livres, 12 sous, and their Louis dor to 14 livres apiece. There is 
 
228 
 1693. 
 
 Nov. 8. 
 
 Jersey. 
 
 Dee. 3. 
 
 Dec. 16. 
 Admiralty 
 Office. 
 
 (1693. . 
 
 16 Dee. | 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 but one company of soldiers in St. Malo, kept in the castle. The forts 
 without the walls are served by those of the town. The Diamond frigate 
 has lately been sold there for 5,000 livres; they wmtend to make a 
 privateer of her. Her late captain, with Colonel Holt and the captain 
 of the fire-ship, are kept in the castle. This is all the news I could 
 gather during the time I was there. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 14, © 
 No. 56at. | 
 
 E. Harrys to the Earl of Nottingham, begging that 20/. may be 
 paid to his wife, Mrs. Rebecca Harrys, the bearer, for moneys 
 disbursed in Jersey for their Majesties’ service. [Jbid., No. 56b. | 
 
 An estimate of the yearly charge of half-pay in time of peace to the 
 flag officers, captains, first lieutenants and masters of their Majesties’ . 
 navy. [S.P. Dom. Naval 121.] 
 
 A list of ships for the main fleet the next year. [Jbid.] 
 
 Articles of impeachment of high treason and other high crimes 
 and misdemeanours against Sir Charles Porter, knight, and Lord 
 Coningsby, late Lords Justices of Ireland. The said Lords 
 Justices have traitorously abused the power and authority of their 
 government, and exercised the same tyrannically in discouraging and 
 terrifying the militia, by framing and imposing on them a new, 
 arbitrary and illegal oath, notwithstanding that his Majesty left 
 instructions when he came from Ireland for arraying the militia, 
 which instructions among other things directed that the oaths 
 established by act of parliament in England should be administered 
 to them; but the said Lords in the oath they imposed left out that 
 part which requires them to renounce the jurisdiction of the Pope 
 and all other foreign powers, pttrposely to leave room for papists 
 to come into the militia, and further in their instructions ordered all 
 governors of counties to subject the militia to martial law, contrary 
 to the known laws of the kingdom and his Majesty’s said 
 instructions. ‘There has been no militia established in that king- 
 dom by law, it has hitherto been a voluntary service. 
 
 The said Lords Justices, intending to bring their Majesties’ good 
 protestant subjects of Ireland into a dislike of their Majesties’ 
 svovernment traitorously, arbitrarily and against the known laws of 
 the said realm, exacted and forced free quarters for the army, and 
 levied money also by force of arms on the protestant subjects, 
 rejecting the several proposals made to them by the most consider- 
 able gentry of some counties, for the more regular subsisting a 
 greater number of soldiers who were freely quartered upon them ; 
 which discouraged other counties from making the same offers, so 
 that the country thereby hecame entirely ruined. 
 
 They, for their own private gain and advantage, traitorously caused 
 great scarcity of provisions in the army before Limerick, by obliging 
 the sutlers to take license from them at excessive rates, and by laying 
 taxes on all such beer and other provisions as went to the camp, 
 whereby all or most of the sutlers were forced to forsake the service 
 of the camp, and provisions of all sorts became very scarce and dear, 
 so that a great many soldiers perished for want. 
 
1698. 
 
 [ 1693. 
 Dec. 16. ] 
 
 WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 229 
 
 They assumed to themselves an arbitrary and tyrannical power 
 over the lives as well as the properties of their Majesties’ subjects of 
 Ireland ; in council and by word of mouth they ordered one Gatney 
 to be hanged without trial, the courts of justice being then open ; 
 Gatney was at that time an evidence against one Sweetman for the 
 barbarous murder of some of Colonel Foulkes’ soldiers: They gave 
 all Gatney’s real estate, to the value of about 2001. per annum, to Mr. 
 Culliford, besides the sum of 500l. to Mr. Fielding, the Lord Justices’ 
 secretary, for being his bail. Sweetman was never prosecuted for the 
 said murder, and Gatney was immediately executed according to the 
 said verbal order. 
 
 The said Lords Justices during their government of Ireland 
 traitorously settled and maintained a correspondence either by them- 
 selves or their agents, and carried on a trade with the subjects of 
 the French king, and their Majesties’ declared enemies. 
 
 They betrayed and abused the great trust reposed in them, and 
 the better to enrich themselves and to enable them to go through 
 with thei traitorous designs, embezzled vast quantities of their 
 Majesties’ stores and forfeited estates, both real and _ personal, 
 whereby the reduction of that kingdom became more difficult, 
 and the war more burdensome upon Hngland, and the army 
 sreatly discouraged for want of their pay, which by due application 
 of the said embezzled stores and estates might have been remedied. 
 
 The said Lords Justices further abused their said great trust and 
 betrayed their Majesties’ honour and interest. During their whole 
 government they openly favoured and supported the papists in their 
 robberies and other outrages committed upon the protestants, 
 refusing to allow them liberty of taking their legal remedies against 
 the papists. The said Sir Charles Porter and Lord Coningsby 
 were the Lords Justices of lreland during the time that all the 
 crimes and offences before set forth were done and committed. 
 [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 14, No. 57.] 
 
 Articles alleged against Lord Chancellor Sir Charles Porter. 
 
 1. That he has exacted new and excessive fees, contrary to law. 
 
 2, That in his office of Lord Chancellor he has exercised a power 
 above and against law. 
 
 3. In 1694 he imprisoned Mr. Lum, and refused to enlarge him 
 till he enlarged one Parker, whom he had imprisoned for a debt of 
 1,2001., which debt was lost by Parker’s enlargement. 
 
 4, That in March 1690[-1] he disseised Mr. Tilson of the oftice of 
 usher in chancery, in which he had a freehold. 
 
 5. That, being a great favourer of the late King James's adherents 
 and the Irish papists, be put several in the commission of the 
 peace who had been active against his Majesty, 
 
 6. He notoriously favoured the Irish papists against the 
 protestants in causes depending before him, e.g. in Carthy v. Burt, 
 Gore v. Dillon, Twigg v. Ball, and Shelley v. Grolier. 
 
 7. He illegally released George Philips, esq., when in execution at 
 the suit of Captain Berkeley. 
 
 Porter’s answer is appended to each article. | Lbid., No. 58.] 
 
230 
 
 1693. 
 Dec. 19. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Dec. 28. 
 Admiralty 
 Office. 
 
 Dec. 238. 
 
 Admiralty 
 Office. 
 
 Dec. 31. 
 
 Admiralty 
 Oftice. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 [ 1698. | 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 Warrant for the payment of money to Mrs. Elizabeth Caldwell, who 
 bought several barrels of gunpowder from James Kennedy at Dublin 
 in December, 1688, and sent it to Inniskillen, where it was used in 
 King William’s service. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office 13, p. 85.] 
 
 _ A list of ships fitting out as cruisers and for guard of the Channel. 
 [S.P. Naval 121. | 
 
 A list of ships proposed to lie as a guard at Spithead a duplicate. 
 [ Zbid. | 
 
 Account of the progress of the work of their Majesties’ ships of the 
 first, second and third rates under repair for the main fleet for the 
 next year in duplicate. [Ibid] 
 
 A table of the present pay of the officers of their Majesties’ fleet, 
 and of the increase proposed to be made thereunto. — [Jbid.] 
 
 A list of their Majesties’ ships that are cruising on several 
 stations, with the time they are to cruise. { did. | 
 
 Lists of the ships detached by their lordships’ orders from those 
 appointed for the main fleet of the Dutch ships ready to sail, and of 
 ships remaining for the main fleet. [| Ibid. | 
 
 Return of the line of battle of the English and Dutch ships. 
 [ Ibid. | 
 
 A list of the Dutch men of war for the winter squadron commanded 
 by Vice-Admiral Callenbergh. [Jbid.] A duplicate, adding the 
 position of the ships. — [Zbid. ] 
 
 Abstract of the merchants’ proposals for this year’s trade, with 
 regard to the sailing of their ships, and protection of the men from 
 pressing. [| Zbid.] 
 
 A paper shewing the abovesaid proposals in tabular form, with the 
 report of the Admiralty thereupon. | Ibid. | 
 
 A list of the confederate fleet in the Mediterranean under the com- 
 mand of Sir George Rooke, and of the French fleet under Count 
 Tolouse.  [2bid.] 
 
 A list of the Duteh men of war that are ordered to the Mediter- 
 ranean. [Ibid.] 
 
 Relation of events as they are taking place in the Island of Jersey, 
 reported by their Majesties’ faithful subjects. Last year, when 
 Lord Jermyn was in Jersey, he publicly had some of the French 
 prisoners into the camp, and entertained them in his tent, offered 
 them money, and gave them liberty to go about in the island. Two 
 French prisoners with an English soldier took his barge and 
 went to St. Malo, and the officials sent it back to him with many 
 thanks. His secretary, who comes from the army in Flanders, and 
 has three times spoken with Lord Dover under pretext of the 
 exchange of prisoners, often goes into France; this gives rise to 
 considerable anxiety and suspicion among the inhabitants. 
 
1693. 
 
 WILLIAM AND MARY-—-ADDENDA. 231 
 
 
 
 In the time of Charles LI. two different governors were sent to 
 replace Lord Jermyn, whilst we were at war with France, viz., 
 Sir Thomas Morgan and Sir John Lanier. 
 
 Captain Harrys, who is at present lieutenant-governor, is almost 
 always in bed, and therefore incapable of serving the King and the 
 public; he keeps up open communications with France; boats are 
 constantly going backwards and forwards, which always arrive at 
 night. About five or six weeks ago such a boat returned at midnight 
 and put into a creek, where it was discovered, by some cavalry w vho 
 were on guard ; finding she was discovered she put to sea again, 
 leaving the master and pilot on land; they had landed to warn those 
 with whom they have an under standing that the boat had arrived. 
 One can only suppose she was laden with French goods, or people 
 coming to seize the forts. No enquiry has been made, the lieutenant- 
 governor has taken no cognizance of the matter, and the royal court 
 has found out nothing about it, having done nothing but question 
 the merchants and ship- -owners. ‘There were several Jersey prisoners 
 on board, returning from St. Malo; these they have not produced, 
 because they would have discovered the truth. 
 
 So much intelligence is carried to France of what goes on in our 
 islands that one day it was said at St. Malo there were twelve or 
 fourteen capers at Guernsey, so that a fleet of forty merchantmen, 
 which had put out, put back at once. 
 
 The greatest cause for anxiety in connection with the lieutenant- 
 governor is his extreme poverty ; it is well known the French king 
 would give anything to get possession of this island, and it is there- 
 fore feared he may allow himself to be bribed. Some little time ago 
 he said in the presence of two hundred people that, if the French 
 were to attack us, he would abandon us and retire into the castle. 
 
 The licenses given to be distributed to the public he has issued to 
 a few people of his way of thinking, who rule the market; some 
 persons have an immense quantity of wool, whilst other mer chants 
 have none, though they have applied. The “ Hamptonne’”’ [ South- 
 ampton| merchants, to whom they have remitted, sell them for 
 money. 
 
 They have demolished Montorgueil [Mount Orgueil] Castle, which 
 was a considerable security for the country; the guns have been 
 broken by throwing them down from the top, causing one of the 
 heaviest losses possible to their Majesties. 
 
 The capable and experienced officers who commanded the militia 
 have been removed to make way for young men, the majority of whom 
 have no knowledge of war; this is because a good deal of money is 
 derived from the commissions; it would seem there is the same 
 design of giving the island up to France that there was some years 
 ago. 
 
 When King William first came over, one Macartey, who was for 
 King James, came from England to Jersey, and there collected a 
 party, who promised to deliver the castle to him, if he brought a 
 commission from King James, whom he went to see in Paris. When 
 he returned to Jersey, he failed, because the train-bands of the island 
 had got possession of the castle. However, those who treated with 
 him are still alive, and doubtless still of the same mind. 
 
232 
 1693. 
 
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 Jan. 16. 
 
 London. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 There is one Hely, at present in Guernsey, probably one of the 
 sreatest traitors in the kingdom; he has sent lead to France since 
 the war began, as has been certified by several people, and has 
 defrauded the King in his dues, as can easily be proved. 
 
 There are a small number of people in Jersey who tyrannize over 
 the rest; there is very little justice, and those who seem well-disposed 
 towards government are oppressed, so that they will be obliged to 
 retire unless some remedy is provided. 
 
 Some members of the court have arrogated to themselves rights 
 that do not belong to them; others employ deputies contrary to the 
 King’s commands ; one Messervy acts as King’s advocate for another 
 man. Last year their Majesties appointed commissioners to put the 
 affairs of the island in order ; but [by the endeavours of] the 
 opposite party, this was set aside. We beg the lords to give us two 
 persons ‘‘of this country’ to act with two Jersey men, to provide a 
 remedy for all these evils, or we are undone. 
 
 The French prisoners wander at will over the island, whilst our 
 people at St. Malo are kept close in prison, with no lberty at all. 
 We have no doubt that they know in France what takes place in our 
 islands, because the leutenant-governor appoints all sorts of people 
 indifferently to exchange the prisoners, who are not faithful. But 
 we have here in London a man named Thomas Guillaume, one of 
 their Majesties’ most faithful subjects, who was pilot last year on 
 board Admiral Russell’s ship, and who is well known to Sir Patient 
 Ward; if he were appointed to exchange the prisoners from Jersey 
 and Guernsey, he might be relied on, and it would be a great 
 advantage to the country. 
 
 Their Majesties’ good subjects desire nothing more strongly than 
 to have Colonel Johnson appointed their lieutenant-governor, for he 
 is extremely capable and very faithful. 
 
 The captain of the Isabella yacht left Guernsey on the 3rd of April, 
 1693, with two vessels belonging to him, one laden with brandy, the 
 other with white wine; he brought them into Portsmouth without 
 paying the dues; and this was done with the consent of Mr. Hely, 
 customs-officer at Guernsey, who will do anything that is asked of 
 him for money. 
 
 There is nothing in these articles which cannot be verified if 
 necessary. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 14, No. 59.] 
 
 News letter addressed to Thomas Errington at Dilston, to be 
 left with the postmaster of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Letters from 
 Warsaw of the 23rd of December say that the grand diet of 
 that kingdom met on that day in the great church of that city, 
 and that the crown chancellor gave them an account of the King’s 
 indisposition, which his Majesty had also done before by an 
 instrument in writing, against which the members of Lithuania 
 protested as an innovation, and the assembly thereupon broke up. 
 The main reason was, that the King having the first range in the 
 republic, all that should have been transacted in his Majesty’s 
 absence would have been invalid. This is said to be the second 
 precedent of that’ nature that has been known in that kingdom, 
 but his Majesty is now said to be on recovery, when the diet may 
 reassemble with better success. 
 
1694. 
 
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 From Vienna of the 6th we hear that councils of war are held 
 daily, in which the ministers of Spain and Savoy daily assist. The 
 state of the war for ltaly, which the Emperor and the other allies 
 are resolved to push with the utmost vigour, for which end a 
 considerable number of troops will be sent thither. Count Bruno has 
 gone there with a new commission and a great amount of money. 
 The Turks pretend to act the next year with two armies, and to be 
 early in the field. ‘The Grand Vizier has for that purpose quartered 
 his army in Servia, Bulgaria and along the Danube, and most part of 
 the horse in Macedonia and on this side Adr ianople. The Cham of 
 Tartary has promised to join the Ottoman army early with his 
 hordes. Count Guido of Staremberg has gone post to Peterwardin 
 upon advice that the Turks are drawing together upon the Save, with 
 the design to make an invasion into Slavonia this frost. General 
 Schoning is daily expected to be brought thither, the condition of 
 his discharge being adjusted with the Elector of Saxony. 
 
 Letters from Rome bring news that the hopes the Pope had 
 conceived of inducing Roman eatholic princes to set a treaty of peace 
 on foot have quite vanished upon the nuncio in Madrid giving him 
 an account of how the court of Spain absolutely refused to hearken 
 to the propositions made by France. Upon this the Pope had made 
 complaint to Cardinal Goez, but his Eminence has answered him that 
 the French king blew hot and cold in a breath, for, at the same time 
 that he pretended sincerely to desire a peace, he had formed other 
 projects, upon which his holiness, very melancholy, replied that he 
 had used his endeavours in vain and therefore would now leave the 
 issue to God. Letters from Turin of the 80th ult. remark that the 
 French with great industry had scattered in Italy copies of the letter 
 the King had written to M. de Cattinat, in which he pretends an 
 ardent desire of peace with the Duke of Savoy, and that he had 
 ordered Cattinat to make known the same to the Duke, and at the 
 same time withdraw his army out of Italy and not to burn Fossano, 
 Salassa and Asti, as he might have done, &c., but his Royal Highness 
 knows the French king too well to be allured by his fair pretences, 
 and has absolutely declared that he will admit of no separate 
 negociation. 
 
 From Brussels we hear that they are apprehensive that the 
 French will make use of the opportunity of the present frost to 
 attempt something upon them, and they begin already to assemble 
 about Ypres, which threatens Nieuport and the other places in 
 Flanders, as do those that are drawing together about Namur, Liege 
 Tongres and Leeuw; but the forces under the Duke of Holstein 
 Ploen about Maestricht do as pretty well support the spirits of the 
 latter as the great snows secure the apprehensions of those in 
 Flanders, so that it is believed the most the French will be able to 
 do is to raise some contributions in the villages on the side of 
 Pendreis (sic), to which end they have sent 2,000 horse. 
 
 By letters received yesterday from Sir Paul Ricaut, their Majesties’ 
 consul at Hamburg, of the 5th inst. we have an account that a fleet 
 of 50 ships bound for France laden with corn were caught in a violent 
 tempest in the Baltic. They endeavoured to put into Copenhagen, 
 
 but were driven out to sea and prevented from getting into that port 
 
 by the great shoals of ice and contrary winds. It 1s believed that 
 
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 many or most of them have perished; but by a letter from the 
 secretary of their Majesties’ resident at Copenhagen we have an 
 account that twelve perished in the storm, and that Du Bart with 
 twelve men-of-war and a great fleet continued in the port of Fleckeroe. 
 
 From Edinburgh they write on the 9th that yesterday the lords of 
 the justiciary sat, and had under debate the process against three 
 gentlemen that were sometime since taken as they came out of the 
 Bass. Mr.Caddle, an Episcopalian minister, who was sometime since 
 indicted for an association that was found in his closet written in his 
 own hand, and was found guilty by the judges, and sentenced to 
 receive an arbitrary punishment, is this day set at liberty by order 
 of a letter from his Majesty. The Lady Lorkart {Lockhart ?], after 
 several examinations and her papers scrutinized, is also set at liberty. 
 This day was appointed for the commissioners of the supply and 
 others concerned in ordering the new levies to meet, which they did 
 and ordered the getting ready and the perfecting of the said levy. 
 Several ships lie ready at Leith to sail for England with wheat and 
 other grain, which is here in extreme plenty. 
 
 From Plymo|uth] of the 12th we hear that on the 10th a Dutch 
 privateer brought in here three French prizes, one laden with wine 
 and two with salt; and the same day sailed hence for St. Malo two 
 transport ships with one hundred and fifty French prisoners. This 
 day two Dutch privateers brought in a large I’rench prize laden with 
 salt, and their Majesties’ ships Cornwall, Boyne, Humber, Crown and 
 Mary galley, with several other ships, came from Spithead. What was 
 mentioned of the Mary galley taking a French privateer proves a 
 mistake, but Iam assured that we and the Dutch have lately taken 
 in all forty-four Swedes, Danes, &c., laden and in ballast, but how 
 they will be disposed of is yet uncertain. 
 
 On Sunday last Prince Louis of Baden desired a list to be given 
 him of such of their Majesties’ servants as attend him in order to 
 make them a present at his departure, which is believed will be in 
 ten days. Last night the committee of elections decided that of 
 Maldon in Kssex in favour of Eliab Harvey, the sitting member, 
 against Colonel Hutchenson. John Lemotte Honywood, esquire, one 
 of the knights of the shire for Essex, having been for some time 
 afflicted with a deep melancholy, this morning put an end to his days 
 by strangling himself with his garter. We hear the Irish Lord Arran 
 will have the regiment of horse commanded by Brigadier Villiers, 
 deceased. It was this gentleman that the other day kissed the King’s 
 hand upon his nomination to that honour, and not the Scottish Lord 
 Arran as was said. 
 
 Yesterday the King sent a message to the House of Lords that he 
 would permit the lords of the cabinet council to acquaint them 
 with what they knew about the French fleet being at sea last 
 summer, of the miscarriages, &c., and thereupon Lord Notting- 
 ham produced the letter he had received from France the 30th of 
 May last, bearing date Ist of June 1698, N.S., which he com- 
 municated to the cabinet council, and this day the House of Lords 
 desired a conference with the House of Commons upon the same 
 and communicated the said letter to them, desirmg the House to 
 examine such of their numbers as were of the cabinet, which they 
 appointed to do to-morrow, after which they went upon the report 
 
1694. 
 
 Jan. 25. 
 
 London, 
 
 WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 235 
 
 of the money bill, and carried it by one vote, upon a division that 
 the assessment should be taken upon oath. [Greenwich Hospital 
 News Letters 4, No. 80, and ditto, Entry Book 5, p. 87.| 
 
 Newsletter addressed to Thomas Errington at Dilston. Letters 
 from Vienna say that the imperial court was wholly taken up for the 
 campaign, but that the creat difficulty was in settling sufficient funds 
 for the same; that the ministers named to go to divers courts of the 
 empire were deferred till the return of Prince Louis of Baden, who is 
 
 said to have three things in charge: 1, to consult with his Britannic 
 Majesty about a method - ter minating 9, in a friendly way, the affair 
 of the ninth electorate; 2, the conditions on which a peace mnight be 
 hearkened to; and 8, to adjust the preparations for the ensuing cam- 
 paign, and concert matters of acting between both armies. Prince 
 Kugene of Savoy has arrived in Vienna, and is said to demand 
 greater supplies of troops and money than the Emperor has hitherto 
 given to the Duke of Savoy, without which it will be difficult for 
 him to continue the war with any good success. 
 
 From Hungary they write that the malcontents had formed a 
 design to seize Lugosh in the absence of a good part of the garrison, 
 but were prevented, and many cut off. The Turks are still making 
 levies in Bosnia, and all the talk from Ottoman territories is of the 
 great preparations they are making by sea and land for the next 
 summer's expeditions. Count Tekeli is excused from going to 
 Adrianople on account of his indisposition. The imperialists 
 continue to work hard on the fortifications of Peterwardein, Esseck, 
 and Buda, before the opening of the campaign. 
 
 We hear from Copenhagen that the Dutch ships seized in the 
 Sound continue under arrest ; that the King had sent his officers on 
 board to take an account of the effects, but that nothing would be 
 disposed of till he had received the final answer of the States-General 
 to the instances of his minister about the satisfaction to be made to 
 the subjects of Denmark for the vessels taken by Dutch privateers. 
 It is said the King has absolutely refused the recruiting of his troops 
 in the service of his Britannic Majesty in Flanders. 
 
 At Hamburg the feud between the Lutherans and Calvinists, 
 continues very hot. The Elector of Brandenburg presses hard for a 
 considerable sum which the Emperor assigned him some time since 
 upon that city, in consideration of troops hired from him; but the 
 magistrates at present excuse themselves from payment under 
 pretence of disability 
 
 The States-General of the United Provinces have sent a deputation 
 to those of Friesland, with instructions to content Prince Casimir, 
 the governor and stadtholder, and to induce them to furnish their 
 contingent for the war. They have had audience of the prince, and 
 it is not doubted but that the Estates will agree to the propositions 
 
 made on the part of their high mightinesses. The Elector of 
 Cologne is elected coadjutor of Heidelsheim. Monsieur Cattinat has 
 arrived at court and given the King an account of the state of the 
 
 army on that side, and will speedily return again. Twelve French 
 men-of-war have sailed from Brest round Scotland to meet Dubart. 
 The King of Sweden has offered to mediate between the King of 
 Denmark and the States-General. The last letters from Copenhagen 
 
236 
 1694. 
 
 Feb. 6. 
 
 London. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 make no mention of the loss of any French ships in the Sound, nor 
 of the encounter of a Dutch squadron with Dubart. 
 
 In Edinburgh, on the 18th inst., Dr. Klliot, Mr. Nicolson and Mr. 
 Pringle were tried for poisoning. The first confessed his crime, and 
 it was proved against the others, so that in a few days they receive 
 sentence of death. One Mr. Paton, who received sentence of 
 banishment for crimes against the government, has petitioned the 
 Council to alter his sentence, and he will make confession of a 
 correspondence held with France against the present government. 
 He was accordingly examined, but the confession has been kept 
 private. ‘The new levies advance apace, and will soon be complete. 
 
 Letters from Kinsale on the 12th relate that the Mlizabeth and 
 Ann of Bristol, from Barbados, and the Dove, from the Canaries, 
 being in the river of Kenmare, were attacked by French privateers. 
 After they had made what defence they could, they made for the shore, 
 and the men escaped in the boats, but the privateers carried off the 
 ships. At the mouth of the river the privateers met the Sheerness 
 valley, 832 guns, which they engaged, and some anxiety 1s felt as to 
 her fate; also with regard to the Coaster frigate from Guinea, a rich 
 Genoa ship; but it is hoped that the Sapphire and Virgin Grace, their 
 Majesties’ frigates, which were very near in, came to their assistance. 
 
 At Yarmouth, on the 22nd, a Dutch man-of-war brought in a 
 French prize of 10 guns, 80 men, and released two laden colliers she 
 had taken. 
 
 On Tuesday, the first day of term, Mr. Freek and Mr. Collins 
 appeared on their recognizances in the King’s Bench, the first for 
 writing, and the latter for printing and publishing, the late blasphe- 
 mous book burnt by order of both Houses. The court told the first 
 he was a young counsellor to treat of divinity. 
 
 Sir William Dolben, one of the justices of the King’s Bench, being 
 this morning dressed and ready to take coach for Westminster, died 
 suddenly in his chair. He was greatly esteemed for his learning, 
 integrity and justice. Lord Sydney has been made lord lieutenant 
 of Kent, which was before in commission. Orders are being sent to 
 all the lords Leutenants to seize lurking seamen, and return them on 
 board the fleet. The Lords have read the money bills three days 
 successively, and to-day the King went to the House and gave the 
 royal assent to those and to the bills for importing brandy and for 
 thrown silk, and for the better execution of justice in Wales, but 
 rejected the bill for impartial proceedings in parliament. ‘The 
 House seemed much concerned at its return, and some hot debate 
 arose, and it was resolved to address the King to know who advised 
 him to the same. ‘The Prince of Baden saw the ceremony of 
 passing the bills, and the House of Commons, and then accompanied 
 the King to dine with the Duke of Ormonde. [Greenwich Hospital 
 News Letters 4, No. 81, and ditto, Entry Book 5, p. 41.| 
 
 Newsletter addressed to Thomas Errington at Dilston, to be left 
 with the postmaster of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. | 
 
 Letters from Warsaw of the 5th of January say that the King was 
 somewhat recovered from his indisposition. The affairs of the court 
 were perplexed upon the diet separating so abruptly, upon which it 
 was discovered that the King would call a great council of the senate 
 
1694. 
 
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 to advise with him about prosecuting the war. Of this sentiment is 
 the Duchy of Lithuania and some other Palatines, though most of the 
 deputies of Poland and other provinces had instructions to have 
 pressed a peace with the Porte upon the advantageous conditions 
 offered by the Cham of Tartary. Amid these various strugglings for 
 peace and war, it is feared little will be done towards putting the 
 army in a position to take the field next summer. 
 
 Colonel Brand, with a detachment from the Trinity fort, which 
 blocks up the fort of Kaminietz, has made an incursion under the 
 walls of that garrison, burnt the suburbs, killed and taken some 
 Tartars, and brought home a good booty. On the other hand Colonel 
 Paley, a chieftain among the Cossacks that are under the protection 
 of Poland, has, with his men, revolted to the enemy. 
 
 From Denmark we learn that the Dutch vessels still continue 
 under arrest. The Danish merchants have given in to the King an 
 estimate of the losses and damages by the Dutch privateers, which 
 amounted to about five hundred thousand ‘‘ rich-dales”’ [rix-dollars]. 
 The two parties formed at Hamburg between the Lutherans and 
 Calvinists continue still to disturb the peace of the city. Dr. Mayer, 
 chief of the first party, could not be content at his opponent being 
 banished the city, but continued inveighing in his sermons against 
 the liberty granted his wife and children, and so at last caused the 
 magistrate to turn them out also. 
 
 Letters from Rome say that the Pope showed his dislike to 
 Cardinal Fourbin. The French, by quitting Montferrat, had 
 given the Germans occasion to treat with great severity the Mont- 
 ferrians who live at discretion on them. The towns of Valentz 
 and Alexandria have likewise made complaints of the oppression they 
 suffered from a regiment of imperial cuirassiers that is quartered 
 upon them. ‘They can find no relief, but are referred to an answer 
 from the court of Spain. The catholic cantons refuse to recruit 
 their troops in the service of Milan until they have received satisfaction 
 upon several points. The protestant cantons have granted recruits 
 to the regiments of religionaries in the service of Savoy. The 
 Venetians have no fresh advice from the Morea or Turkey, but are 
 sending a fresh convoy to the Doge. 
 
 The letter from Paris dated on the 1st says that news from 
 Mantua of the 9th shows great complaints against the regiments of 
 Palfy, Comercie, Eugene, and Taffe, which are to the number of 
 3,500 men, and quartered in that duchy; they commit great 
 spoils. The Duke lately sent his ministers to Turin to obtain of 
 Count Caprara an abatement of the 48,000 pistols demanded of 
 him, but they were able to effect nothing. On the contrary, they 
 were ordered to pay it speedily in, and likewise to furnish his troops 
 with bread, oats and hay at a cheaper rate than they can afford, 
 which makes those poor people very desirous of peace, and redouble 
 their prayers in this day of jubilee. 
 
 Apartments are preparing at Versailles to receive the court at 
 St. Germains during carnival. Likewise preparations are making 
 for great divertisements which the King is resolved to give the ladies 
 and court. 
 
 From the Hague of the 6th we learn that the affair of Prince 
 Casimir of Nassau and the Estates of Friesland is not yet adjusted, 
 
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 they not complying with the nomination of the Duke of Holstein 
 Ploen to be lieutenant-general of the army. The nomination of the 
 sheriffs of Amsterdam, which has caused so great a bustle and 
 dispute, is at last sent to the King of England to make the election. 
 The King’s palace is ordered to be got ready against his return to 
 Holland. 
 
 The letter of the 1st from Falmouth says that it is advised from 
 St. Ives that a small vessel going out of that port was snapped by 
 two French privateers that lay off. Yesterday there put back the 
 Spanish Expedition packet-boat that went for the Groyne seven days 
 before, and had been about eighty leagues to the westward. A 
 Portuguese ship laden with wine and oil for London is stranded 
 near Penzance, and a Dutch ship of seventy tons with wine and 
 oil from Tual is driven on shore near the Mount, and torn in pieces 
 by the country people. This morning a Flushing privateer has put 
 in, having taken two French ships, one of which he has sent to 
 Holland; the other he discharged for 1,000/., and kept the master 
 for security till the money be paid. Five days since the said 
 privateer came up with four French men-of-war, of fifty guns each, 
 a fly-boat of thirty, and two other ships which he believed were 
 returning from the West Indies. We hear the Cloudesley galley has 
 had a brisk engagement with a French privateer (formerly the Zante 
 frigate) in the western seas, and after she had spent most of her 
 powder and shot they were parted by a storm. 
 
 From Plymouth on the 2nd, we learn that on the 31st ult. the 
 Monk came in from cruising and reported taking three vessels, viz: a 
 small Dane, a pink from London to Barbados, as also the Elizabeth 
 and Anne of Bristol, with sugar and indigo from Barbados, of sixteen 
 euns and two hundred tons. The Dane proved unfit for sail and so 
 foundered and sunk; the pink in bad weather lost company of the 
 Monk, whilst giving chase to a French privateer that had just before 
 taken a Dutch Guinea ship, very rich with teeth [tusks] and about two 
 tons of gold on board her. ‘They proved too nimble and got off, but 
 he put a heutenant and twenty-five of his men on board the Elizabeth 
 and Anne and supposed they had carried her into Scilly or Milford. 
 At the beginning of this week a French ship laden with salt, by stress 
 of weather, ran on shore in Bigberry Bay and staved in pieces. but 
 the men, being twenty in number, were saved and brought hither 
 prisoners. 
 
 The letter from Weymouth of the 5th shows that the four men 
 lately carried off by a French privateer had returned from St. Malo. 
 They say that all the prisoners of that place have come in, and the men 
 are sent on board the fleet at Brest. 
 
 We hear Sir William Phipps, governor of New England, is 
 suspended from his government upon the complaint of Captains 
 Shorter and Fairfax, commanders of the two frigates that carried 
 him to that government, and some other complaints exhibited against 
 him, and has been sent for to England to answer the same. 
 
 The Earl of Monmouth has been removed from all his places; he 
 was one of the lords of the Council and of the Bedchamber, and 
 colonel of a regiment of foot. Captain Hill, who killed Mr. Mount- 
 ford, has come from St. Germains and surrendered himself. It is 
 given out that Sir James Montgomery has landed in France. 
 
1694. 
 
 March 1. 
 
 London, 
 
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 Yesterday the Prince of Baden took leave of their Majesties prior 
 to his return; the King presented him with twelve fine horses and 
 a sword set with diamonds; and the Queen sent his princess several 
 utensils of gold. 
 
 Transport ships have been ordered to bring five regiments of foot 
 and two of dragoons from Llreland to be sent to Flanders, and the 
 regiments of Colonels Cutts, Collier, Hastings and Brewer are 
 ordered away, from which it is evident that the King has no appre- 
 hensions of the whimsy that is now blown about of a descent from 
 France. Great expedition is being used to get our fleet out early to 
 sea. The King has named three colonels of foot, viz.: Sir Richard 
 Atkins, Mr. Noreat | Noreott| and Mr. Smyth. Parliament this day 
 agreed to raise a million by a lottery project of Mr. Neale’s, and the 
 committee went through the treason bill, ete. [Greenwich ITospital 
 News Letters 4, No. 82, and ditto, Entry Book 5, p. 47. | 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater at Newcastle- 
 on-T'yne. Letters from Rome of the 6th of February report that the 
 Pope has sent to his nuncios at the courts of the princes leagued 
 against France copies of the last project of peace, which was delivered 
 to him on the 17th of January by the Cardinal of Fourbin, with 
 orders to them to communicate the same propositions, and to press 
 their acceptance with all industry. A great mortality reigns in 
 Rome and in the adjacent countries, and a terrible murrain amongst 
 cattle throughout the kingdom of Naples. 
 
 We hear from Turin by letters of the 13th of February that the 
 Vaudois have lately had several encounters with the enemy, whom 
 they attacked, coming off for the most part with honour and booty. 
 The Duke designs next week to divert himself with the operas, 
 having first resolved and given orders for the better fortifying of 
 Coni and the Fort de Mont. He had received advice by express that 
 the parliament of England has granted him a supply of money, 
 which was grateful news to him. 
 
 They write from Strasburg on the 24th of February that the French 
 officers in those parts have all received their pay and levy money, 
 and are ordered to have their foot complete by the 15th of March, 
 under penalty of being cashiered. They have laid up magazines 
 of hay and oats at Landau sufficient to serve their cavalry for three 
 months, and their other preparations are so great that it is not in 
 the least doubted but that they design to bring a mighty force next 
 campaign into the field. The confederates are also hastening with 
 their preparations in Germany, proportionable to those of the enemy, 
 and hope not only to baffle all their designs, but to enterprize great 
 ones themselves. Some of the Brandenburg horse and foot have 
 begun their march for Piedmont, and will be followed by others. It 
 is said the Elector of Saxony designs to send a detachment of his 
 troops to the assistance of the Duke of Savoy. 
 
 The English secretary at Copenhagen has by a memorial desired 
 the release of the Dutch ships that have been arrested in the Sound. 
 The Grand Master of the Teutonic Order has arrived at Liege, and 
 uses his influence as a candidate, and endeavours with the other 
 ministers and great men to dispose the canons to exclude the French 
 faction. Cardinal Bouillon, finding that he could not obtain passports 
 
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 to ‘assist’ at the election of a new bishop and prince, has returned 
 to Namur, having first sent letters to each of the capitularies with a 
 protestation against their proceeding in his absence; but they have 
 trumped up a precedent upon him about the election of an abbot of 
 St. Amand, where the French intendant denied passports to Martin 
 Morel, one of the religious of the same abbey, who had retired by 
 reason of the war. 
 
 A Swedish convoy from Fleckeroe has arrived with eleven ships 
 laden with corn, &e., at St. Martin’s, and thirty more at Nantes and 
 Bordeaux. The troops in Flanders are all ordered to be in readiness 
 to march, by reason of the motion of the French towards Liege. 
 
 From Paris on the 1st of March (N.s.) we learn that the King’s 
 journey for Compiegne continues uncertain; and it is said the 
 review of the troops of the household and carbineers is put off to 
 the 24th inst. The recruits for the cavalry of the army in Germany 
 and Piedmont are complete, as will be those for Flanders in a little 
 time, though horses are scarce. ‘The magazines for the two first are 
 also filled, as will be those for the latter in a short space. Our 
 troops are in motion on the Sambre and Meuse, to disquiet 
 them, it is believed, in their election at Liege. The cardinals at 
 Rome, impressing a small supply for King James, have suffered a 
 repulse, the Pope complaining much of poverty. 
 
 From the Hague on the 6th instant (N.s.) reports come that the 
 ministers of Sweden labour all they can to accommodate matters 
 between that state and Denmark. They expect the King there by the 
 latter end of this month. 
 
 Letters from Fowey of the 24th of February say that a vessel of 
 New England of about 70 tons was driven in there that day by 
 stress of weather, laden with fish from Newfoundland. About a 
 month since she had been taken by a French man-of-war about ten 
 leagues off Cadiz, and on Tuesday last was retaken about twenty 
 leagues off Land’s End by the Pembroke frigate after a brisk engage- 
 ment of four hours, in which the Pembroke had her masts brought 
 by the board; but the French, pursuing the prize till night, parted 
 them, and she can give no account how the Pembroke got off. 
 
 Cowes reports on the 26th of February that there came into the 
 road the preceding day a privateer of Middelburg, and in her one 
 John Bennett of North Yarm, late master of the Charity of Yarm. 
 On his voyage from Milford home he had been taken, on the 20th of 
 February, by a French caper with one gun and thirty-five men. On 
 the 22nd the caper, in which Bennett was prisoner, was taken by an 
 Ostend privateer off La Hogue. 
 
 Letters from Portsmouth of the 27th of February say that that day 
 the remainder of Sir David Collier’s regiment of foot had marched 
 out of that garrison to embark for Flanders. Advices from Harwich 
 state that the rest of the regiment had embarked on board the 
 packet-boat for Holland the same day. 
 
 We hear from Chester on the 26th of February that on the previous 
 Saturday there had arrived the Monmouth yacht, Captain Wright, 
 commander, from Dublin, with Lord Donegal, Captain Montague, 
 and several other officers and gentlemen as passengers. The King 
 has commanded all the Flanders officers here to repair speedily to 
 their respective posts, and at the same time has ordered his servants 
 
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 March 22. 
 
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 that are appointed to attend him in the field next summer to get 
 their equipage ready in twenty days; though, at the same time, it is 
 believed his Majesty cannot be going so soon by reason of the back- 
 wardness of parhamentary proceedings. 
 
 The preparations of the fleet are in good forwardness, but the 
 want of seamen is pretty great. However, by the arrival of merchant 
 ships, and the industry that is used in pressing, it is not doubted 
 but they will soon be supplied. 
 
 On Monday last died ...... Scarborough, one of the King’s 
 physicians, being upwards of eighty years old. He is lamented, not 
 only as a learned physician, but asa good bottle companion. The 
 same day Sir Thomas Samuel died of the smallpox ; he was burgess 
 of a corporation in Northamptonshire. The Scotch gentleman 
 mentioned in my last to be taken into custody proves to be Sir 
 Kneas McPherson, whose crime, it is said, is not coming from 
 France with letters, but being concerned with Mr. Nevill Paine, of 
 whose journey to Scotland it is supposed he is able to give a 
 satisfactory account. 
 
 The Hon. Francis Russell is ordered to his government of 
 Barbadoes, as is Colonel Nicholson to his government of Maryland. 
 Yesterday a court-martial was held at Whitehall, where several 
 officers were tried for false musters, and the fact proved fairly 
 against some of them, This day were seized at the Custom House 
 about two hundred and fifty barrels of pitch, in each of which was a 
 twenty gallon rundlet of brandy or Rhenish wine, and the day 
 before several packets of silk were seized. ‘The House of Commons 
 this day passed the bankrupts’ bill. A pamphlet was read in the 
 { House] which was lately scattered about in the streets, called, but 
 falsely, or at least with great ad .... ‘“‘Sir John Knight’s 
 speech against the bill of a general naturalization,’ which they 
 ordered to be [burned] on Saturday next by the common hangman. 
 [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 88, and ditto, Entry Book 
 pen. DL. | 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater at Newcastle- 
 on-T'yne. Lettersfrom Rome of the 27th of March (new style) say 
 that the imperial ambassador has had also an audience of the Pope 
 upon the subject of the death of the governor of Liege, in which he 
 exhorted him not to favour the French party in the election of a new 
 governor and bishop for that diocese, or to do anything in that affair 
 that might be to the prejudice of the Emperor. ‘To this his holiness 
 gave very little answer, but immediately upon it called a congregation 
 of cardinals ; the result is not yet known, though it is impossible it 
 should be anything favourable to the house of Austria, the Pope 
 having already declared Cardinal Furstemburg, a German fugitive 
 and a creature of France, capable to be elected. This Pope, though 
 born a subject of Spain, upon all occasions shows himself to be in the 
 French interests. 
 
 Letters from Vienna speak of great alterations that are like to be 
 made among the people in places at court, for which several 
 principal persons offer (after the new French mode) by way of 
 purchase to furnish the Emperor with great sums, such as are at 
 present greatly wanted to carry on the war. However the roemites(?) 
 and new levies are continued with good success, and all things 
 
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 are preparing for an early campaign. Itis hoped, after the “swelling” 
 reports from Turkey, that the Turks will not be able to come so 
 powerful into the field as they pretend, for the troubles in Asia 
 continue so great, and the Arabians are grown to such strength that 
 they will be able to draw no troops from thence. The Emperor, 
 however, depends not on this, but is resolved to have a good army 
 early in the field, and is also putting all the frontier garrisons in a 
 posture to sustain a siege, especially Esseck and Peterwardein. 
 These places are believed to be in danger of the first attack, to open 
 a way for the enemy into Lower Hungary. The Prince of Baden 
 designs to be forming his army on the Rhine by the beginning of 
 May. 
 
 Great struggles are going on at Liége between the several parties 
 about managing the election there. The Emperor’s envoy labours 
 ‘‘tooth and nail” to promote the interest of the Grand Master of the 
 ‘Teutonic Order; the Empress’s brother, the Elector Palatine, does 
 the like. The Elector of Bavaria presses the interest of his brother, 
 the Elector of Cologne, is also present with a magnificent train. 
 It is said the King of England and States of Holland are not much 
 for the latter, because, with the Elector of Bavaria in Flanders, it 
 would shut up the Rhine and the Meuse. On the other hand the 
 French faction are no less busy in promoting the election of Cardinal 
 Furstembourg or Bovillon, so that at present itis difficult to give a 
 judgment which way the election will fall, though most believe on 
 that side which is most munificent. 
 
 Our last letters from Paris of the 19th say that on the 14th the 
 Kast India Company received advice that three of their ships, richly 
 laden from Senet, had safely arrived at Port Louis under the convoy 
 of a man-of-war. <A privateer of Bordeaux of thirty-six guns on the 
 8th brought into Brest two English prizes, one of thirty-two guns, 
 the other laden with wine from Portugal, of about 100 tons. 
 
 On the 14th the Prince of Holstein Gottey [Gottorp] had audience 
 of congé with the King, being introduced with the usual ceremonies. 
 Many believe that his Majesty, after the review at Compiégne, will 
 proceed for Flanders, and see the execution of some great design. 
 
 Letters from Falmouth of the 17th inst. announce the arrival of 
 both the packet-boats in five days from Corunna, each with a mail. 
 One of them, the Alliance, in her voyage thither, took a Dutch 
 dogger of 70 tons, laden with molasses, wine and brandy from 
 Nantes, bound for Rotterdam, and also a French ship of sixteen guns, 
 laden with wine and provisions for the West Indies ; both of these 
 she carried into Corunna, where they now lie. The captain of the 
 French ship reports that about forty sail of French vessels, under 
 convoy of four men-of-war of forty guns each, sailed out of Brest 
 for the West Indies twelve hours before he left that place. On the 
 night of the 18th the Alliance passed eight great ships bending their 
 course for Brest, which she was informed was the French squadron 
 
 lately cruizing off Cape St. Vincent. 
 
 From Weymouth on the 19th they write they have several small 
 ketches there to impressseamen for their Majesties’ fleet. On Saturday 
 last great shooting was heard off Portland, but no accounts have been 
 received of what it was. 
 
1694, 
 
 March 81. 
 
 London, 
 
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 From Deal on the 20th we hear that on the 19th an Ostend capper 
 came in there from cruizing on the French coast, and in her passage 
 saw thirteen large French ships standing eastwards, but could not 
 come up with them. 
 
 Letters from Yarmouth of the 19th say that the previous morning 
 great shooting of cannon was heard to the southward for three hours 
 together without intermission; they are as yet ignorant of the 
 occasion, but were sure it was some engagement. 
 
 Letters of the same date from Chester report that on the morning 
 of the 18th Brigadier Stewart’s regiment of foot (he being still in 
 Holland) landed at Neston, and was marched into the city in the 
 evening with Lieut.-Colonel Hussey at their head. Ten men now 
 being added to each company, who are as yet unclothed, and their 
 having been four nights on board, made them look but indifferently. 
 They are about eight hundred in number, and will march hence in a 
 day or two, to make room for the other regiments that are expected 
 over. 
 
 The Princess of Denmark has been for several days indisposed of 
 an ague; her Majesty, notwithstanding the present unhappy mis- 
 understanding, out of her great affection and kindness sent to 
 enquire how her Royal Highness did. About 100,000/. is brought in 
 upon the loan in the City, much of which is advanced by foreigners, 
 as French, Dutch, Italians, ete. 
 
 Mr. Yard, who for several years past has written the London 
 Gazette, is preferred to be one of the chief secretaries, Mr. Vernon 
 being the other [under] the Earl of Shrewsbury, and will still 
 hold his former place. On Tuesday se’nnight Lord Carmichael 
 went down post for Scotland, being again constituted by his Majesty 
 to be president of the General Assembly, which is appointed to 
 meet on the 29th inst. The last Groyne mails brought an account 
 that Sir Francis Wheeler, with twenty-three men-of-war and the 
 Levant fleet under his command, sailed from Calais on the 43% 
 February last in prosecution of his voyage. 
 
 There is a report that the Sheerness galley has had a brush upon 
 the Irish coast with a French man-of-war of forty guns belonging 
 to a squadron that is now abroad, and that after the exchange of 
 some broadsides she got clear with little damage. On Tuesday 
 next the Lords of the Treasury are to make their report about the 
 affair of the copper farthings; it is believed, after all the contentions 
 by divers persons for patents, that they will be coined upon the 
 King’s account in the Tower. Yesterday the Lords passed the 
 Orphans Bill without amendments. The House of Commons the 
 same day went into a general committee upon ways and means, and 
 resolved that 12. per tun be laid upon all wine imported for four 
 years and a half, to commence from Ladyday next, the same to be 
 paid by the retailers. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4. No. 34, 
 and ditto, Entry Book 6, p. 55.| 
 
 Newsletter [the address wanting, half the sheet being torn away]. 
 Letters from Edinburgh of the 24th inst. bring an account from 
 Borrowstones of a vessel there which took in about one hundred and 
 fifty new-raised men for recruits; they mutinied and seized the 
 mariners, cut the cables and went to sea; but the wind proved 
 stormy, and they were soon driven back again; the ship ran ashore, 
 
 
 
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 and all the mutineers were seized again except three or four, who 
 made their escape. The quotas of men to be raised by this city are 
 appointed to receive them, and this day a great many recruits 
 arrived from the west and south, and were embarked at Leith. The 
 recruits for Colonel Ferguson’s (late Lord Angus’s) regiment do so 
 abound, that one of the officers very religiously refused to embark 
 three of his men until they had procured certificates from the 
 ministers of the parishes from which they came of their towardly 
 and Christian behaviour, so that we shall be sure to send them out 
 pious men; however, their principles may be corrupted abroad. 
 
 The French privateer which came up to the Bass, and was chased 
 by Captain Bard, made its escape with the captain’s mast coming by 
 the board by bearing too much sail; since then the captain has 
 been sent to the Bass by Major General Levingston with a letter 
 to Captain Middleton, the governor, exhorting him to surrender and 
 proffering him honourable conditions. The captain was civilly 
 treated, and returned with an answer that the governor would take 
 the same into consideration and return his answer in twenty-four 
 hours. This day, by order of the Council, Captain Middleton, 
 brother to the governor of the Bass, and one of them that is under 
 sentence of death for being of that garrison and taken abroad, was 
 sent under a guard to the Bass, where, upon the exchange of hostage, 
 he is to treat with his brother about the surrender of that garrison. 
 If they surrender, the condemned will have their lives, otherwise 
 they will be executed in sight of the garrison, so that by my next 
 you may expect an account of this grand affair. 
 
 Letters of the 26th from Falmouth state that on Saturday last 
 there arrived a ship from New York called the John of London, but 
 last from Virginia, and that morning came in the Bridget galley, 
 bound for Ireland. The captain reports that yesterday he saw a 
 large ship from the Canaries of sixteen guns, but could not come up 
 with her to enquire after the fleet from those parts. 
 
 Plymouth, the 27th. Yesterday arrived in this port the Hmploy- 
 ment of London from the Canaries, with wine from Youghal in 
 Ireland. The Bridget galley sailed hence for Ireland. The same 
 day Mr. William Smith, a stranger in these parts, and a sort 
 of wandering watchmaker, was seized here and committed to prison 
 for drinking the late King James’s health, and for uttering words 
 that were interpreted to the prejudice of the government, for which 
 it is not doubted but that he will be taught better manners. 
 
 From Weymouth letters of the 28th report that last night there 
 passed by to the westward a fleet of merchant ships under convoy of 
 the Soldado and Pearl. Several ketches to impress men for their 
 Majesties’ fleet have sailed from hence. 
 
 From Cowes on the same day they report that their Majesties’ 
 ship Crown had that morning sailed out of the road to the west- 
 ward, and under her convoy about twenty sail of merchant ships 
 bound for Virginia, Jamaica and the Straits. What I mentioned in 
 my last about the Toulon squadron being expected at Brest proves to 
 be a mistake, for the master of the French prize which came from 
 thence on Friday last says the small men-of-war, which are fitted out 
 at Brest and were ready to sail, were bound for Toulon to join the 
 Count d’Estrée | Here a page is wanting]. 
 
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 1694. 
 
 A great deal of money is already brought in upon the lottery 
 bill. Sir Francis Child having the command of one of the regiments, 
 the men-of-war as fast as they are payed off fall into the Downs, and 
 those from Portsmouth are ordered to the rendezvous (sic). We have 
 this morning received eight Flanders mails, but they bring little 
 news. The Holland packet boat, commanded by Captain Stephens, 
 has been taken, and three mails on board her lost. 
 
 This day the House of Commons went further upon ways and 
 means, and resolved to advance the King money by licensing eight 
 hundred hackney coaches for twenty-one years, each to pay a fine 
 for their licence, and 41. per annwm besides, and all stage coaches 
 that travel the roads 8/. per annum. This is ordered to be reported 
 on Monday, at which time the House is to go upon consideration of 
 sealed paper and parchment to be used in contracts, etc. With those 
 bills they hope to complete the session, believing they will amount. 
 to the sums demanded by the King. The affair of the Irish 
 transport ships recommended to the House in his Majesty’s last 
 speech is likely to be referred till next sessions. [Greenwich 
 Hospital News Letters 4, No. 85, and ditto, Entry Book 6, p. 55.] 
 
 April 3. Newsletter addressed to the Earl. of Derwentwater, as before. 
 
 London. Letters from Constantinople of the 6th of January say that the 
 contagion that has for some time raged there begins to decrease. 
 The Grand Seignior and Vizier carry on their warlike preparations 
 both by sea and land with extreme diligence. By way of Transsyl- 
 vania we have an account that the Ran of Tartary left Adrianople on 
 the 21st of February, having first given the Porte assurance not only 
 to join the Ottoman army in Hungary early, but also to divert the 
 Poles with a good body next campaign. Count Tekeliis at Passaro- 
 witz with one thousand men, and has received orders from the Porte 
 to put some supplies of provisions into Guila. 
 
 Letters from Vienna bring nothing further material, save that 
 their warlike preparations, both against the Grand Seignior and 
 France, are carried on with the greatest application possible. It is 
 now believed Prince Louis of Baden will not come to court before 
 the opening of the campaign, his presence being found to be so 
 extremely necessary in quickening the preparations upon the 
 Rhine. 
 
 They write from Strassburg that the twenty battalions which the 
 French had detached for Piedmont are countermanded for the 
 present, and are first to be employed in some considerable enter- 
 prize in Germany. But the Germans look upon this as a French 
 rhodomontade, and rather believe they have altered the first scheme 
 of their campaign. 
 
 The envoy of Denmark has assured the diet at Ratisbon of the good 
 intention of his master, and of his sincere desire to see the tranquility 
 of Europe, especially that of the Empire, settled. His Danish 
 Majesty offered to oblige the French King to make conditions more 
 agreeable than he has yet done. The Swedish minister at the same 
 place, discoursing with the imperial commissioners, acquainted them 
 that when the French ambassador proposed to the King, his master, 
 to become mediator of a general peace, he was answered that the 
 confederates, especially the Emperor, would by no means hearken to 
 
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 the conditions they now offered. The ambassador replied he had no 
 further instructions, only his master would condescend that the 
 English should be admitted in a treaty as from a crowned head. 
 
 Letters from Liége on the 8rd report that, notwithstanding the 
 Pope, at the French King’s solicitation, has sent his letter to the 
 chapter granting them leave to put off the election of the bishop till 
 the war be ended, and to keep the government of the principality in 
 their own hands, yet it is not doubted but that they will proceed to 
 their choice on the 20th inst. In the mean time Cardinal Bovillon 
 frets he cannot be admitted, and threatens to make a formal 
 protestation against the election. The French, by their continued 
 preparations at Huy, Namur, etc. give reason to apprehend they 
 have some design upon Liége, to prevent which the garrison is in 
 a good posture, and four thousand men are daily employed upon the 
 new works; the confederate troops are so disposed as upon the first 
 motion of the enemy to come to our assistance. 
 
 From Brussels on the 4th they write that the French are about 
 quitting Courtrai and demolishing their lines, so as to draw their 
 troops now guarding the same into the army; they are making vast 
 preparations in all the conquered places for a siege which it is 
 believed they are just upon undertaking. 
 
 Letters of the 6th from the Hague report that all the generai 
 officers are repairing to the frontiers, and they begin to be in some 
 apprehension for Maestricht, being satisfied that the French are 
 going to undertake some siege. 
 
 From Paris on the 8rd they write that the King arrived the 
 preceding night at Versailles. It is certain his Majesty designs to 
 make this campaign, but on what side is uncertain, though the 
 common vogue 1s Flanders; and he designs to set out on the 18th 
 of May. His equipage starts on the 10th, and his guards on the 
 20th of this month. Some pretend his Majesty will go to Leyons 
 [Laons?] as a place convenient for sending orders to both his 
 armies in Germany, where it is said the French will have 100,000 
 men, as also to Piedmont. 
 
 Letters from Edinburgh of the 27th instant report that on 
 Saturday Captain Middleton was sent under a guard to the Bass, 
 which he entered on Sunday morning at 9 o’clock. The boat that 
 carried him thither took back his youngest brother and another 
 person as hostages, He remained there till four in the afternoon, 
 when the Bass gave a signal by firing again, and the boat again 
 received him and gave up the hostages. Last night about six he 
 was brought back again to the city, and reports all the answer he 
 could obtain from his brother was that he was entrusted with 
 keeping that fortress by King James, and therefore, if his aged 
 father and mother, his wife and children, brothers and sisters, were 
 all to be executed in his sight, he could not possibly betray his 
 trust to his King and master by delivering up the place without 
 his consent. He wrote a letter to the chancellor and council to 
 the same effect, desiring them to respite the execution of the persons 
 condemned until he had sent to King James; and if he refused the 
 same, then they might dispose of his friends as they thought fit, 
 adding that if he had been entrusted in the same post by King - 
 William he would use the same faithfulness. Yesterday the gallows 
 
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 April 7. 
 
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 were sent to be set up at Castletown, on which are to be hanged 
 those sentenced about the Bass, and to-morrow Mr. John Trotter is 
 to be executed thereon. 
 
 On the 80th past arrived from Ireland and landed in the 
 port of Chester Colonel Cootes’ and Rowe’s regiments of foot, 
 with three troops of Colonel Wynne’s dragoons, convoyed by the 
 Virgin Grace, which immediately stood back again for Dublin, 
 as likewise the Monmouth yacht with the officers of the said 
 regiments. On the 27th past the Spy brigantine sailed from 
 Falmouth for Calais or Gibraltar with fresh instructions, to the Levant 
 fleet. On the 28th arrived in Plymouth Harbour the Assistance 
 frigate from Lisbon, and under her convoy the homeward-bound 
 fleet consisting of eight English, twelve Dutch, and one Portuguese. 
 Five others that came out in company with them put into Ireland, 
 and a Portuguese into France; and they report that the St. John 
 Baptist bound for Barbadoes had in her passage met and engaged a 
 French privateer of forty guns for twelve hours, but forced him to 
 quit her after she had received 170 shot in her hulk, for which she 
 is put into Lisbon to refit. The Barbarellow packet boat, commanded 
 by Captain Stephens, was taken on Monday fortnight on the English 
 coast by three French privateers, the one carrying twenty-six and 
 the other two twelve guns each, after the captain had maintained a 
 brisk fight for five hours. She had on board, besides other things 
 of value, 8,000/. worth of raw silk. 
 
 Yesterday was held a court of verge at Westminster, where three 
 bills of indictment were found, the one against the Earl of Bath’s 
 page for killing Lord Lansdowne’s page last summer, the second 
 against Sir Henry Dutton Colt, and the third against Mr. Lake for 
 fighting and drawing blood within the verges of the court; and 
 their trials are appointed to be on the 21st of May next upon the 
 statute of losing their right hands. Yesterday was launched at 
 Deptford a new third rate man-of-war named the Newport. This 
 day the committee reported the poll bill which the House with some 
 amendments agreed to. P.S.—By a flying packet from Scotland we 
 have an account that Trotter is executed and that the General 
 Assembly have met, etc. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, 
 No. 86; and ditto, Entry Book 6, p. 61.] 
 
 Newsletter addressed to Mr. Thomas Erington at Dilston, New- 
 castle-on-Tyne. Letters from Smyrna, of the 2nd of March, say that 
 the preparations are carried on with greater application than has been 
 known in all the parts of the Ottoman empire. The Grand Vizier 
 is expected at Constantinople before the opening of the campaign to 
 settle the civil affairs of that city. The Dutch ambassador will be 
 admitted to return to Vienna, as he has long solicited, not being 
 able to effect anything relating to his embassy, all things being 
 carried on in that court according to the humour and direction of the 
 French ambassador. The government of Algiers has now twenty- 
 four men-of-war at sea. In Germany the preparations, on both 
 sides, are carried on with equal diligence for the campaign. The 
 French proceed with military execution to bring in their contribu- . 
 tions. A French lieutenant has deserted them and has gone to 
 Holland to seek service, declaring that he has not received a penny 
 
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 pay these six months past. The Swiss protestant cantons are 
 resolved to permit the French protestant refugees, that are amongst 
 them, to go to Ireland, notwithstanding the endeavours of Monsieur 
 A. Mulal to the contrar y- 
 
 The difference between the Emperor and the court of Saxony 
 touching General Schoning increases, the Elector demanding him to 
 command his troops in ‘the empire, and at the same time the 
 Hmperor refusing to enlarge him if the Elector will not engage not 
 to employ him in the command of his troops. The Venetians, 
 however, demand him to command their forces in the Morea, which 
 we hope will be a means to accommodate the matter and satisfy both 
 parties. The troops the Elector of Brandenburg will employ against 
 France and in Hungary next summer amount to 35,524 men. 
 
 The French have mounted a great many cannon at Lille, and have 
 made a vast magazine at Dornick, whither they have summoned 
 800 waggons from the jurisdiction of Courtray. They are also 
 sending cannon and all sorts of warlike stores to Namur, and have a 
 train of 50 pieces ready at Mons. Their designs by all these 
 preparations cannot be penetrated, but it puts the confederates 
 upon their guard everywhere. The French design to form their 
 principal army about the Meuse, where their troops already begin 
 to increase. 
 
 From Paris of the 5th we learn from Genoa that the Emperor’s 
 envoy has given out that the English and Dutch will have a great 
 fleet in the Mediterranean, with forces on board, and that they will 
 come before that city and oblige them to take other measures, and 
 embrace the interests of the confederates. On the other hand the 
 French ambassador has assured the senate that they are not to 
 have any apprehensions, for that his King would have forces much 
 more formidable to protect them. The French preparations at Toulon 
 are carried on with that diligence that the whole fleet will be at the 
 Isles of Hyeres by the 27th of next month. 
 
 The twenty frigates at Brest are ready to sail for the Mediterranean. 
 They are to act in concert with the French army in Catalonia. 
 
 Our letters from the Hague further say that Don Francisco 
 Bernardo de Quiros, the Spanish minister, has represented to the 
 States, by memorial, that the French send great numbers of troops 
 towards Italy and the other frontiers of the King, his master, and 
 therefore demands some succour of the States to be able to oppose 
 the designs of the enemy. The Swedish envoy has made fresh 
 instances by a memorial to qualify the differences with Denmark 
 and to procure the release of the vessels arrested on both sides. 
 
 Letters from Edinburgh, of the 31st, say they are going to equip 
 another small squadron there which is to consist of three frigates, 
 viz. one of thirty guns, to be commanded by Captain Boswell as 
 admiral, the second, of 24 guns, to be commanded by Captain Burd, the 
 
 -third, of eight guns, to be commanded by Captain Tenant. They are 
 
 to secure our coasts from the French privateers and to prevent relief 
 being carried to the Bass. We wish them better success than our 
 former royal navy had in St. George’s channel, which two French 
 frigates swept all away at once. 
 
 From Dublin of the 80th we learn that Colonel Coote’s and Colonel 
 Rowe’s regiments of foot and three troops of Cuningham’s dragoons 
 
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 are embarked and sail for England, and that Bellasis’ and Mitchel- 
 burne’s regiments of foot and the remaining four troops of Cuning- 
 ham’s have arrived in that city and are preparing also to embark. 
 Those five regiments are all the forces that are to be sent out of 
 Ireland for Flanders. 
 
 On the 3rd the Mlzabeth transport ship arrived at Weymouth 
 with 237 exchange prisoners from St. Malo. They left that place 
 on Friday last, and report that before they came away Captain Holt, 
 Captain Wickam of the Diamond, and the captain of the Pembroke, 
 were set at liberty, and had gone to Jersey, and that the Diamond 
 had taken one of our outward-bound ships and carried her into 
 Brest, and also that a privateer of St. Malo had taken the Virginia 
 Merchant. It was reported that twenty frigates were ready to sail 
 from Brest for the Mediterranean. 
 
 On the 4th the St. Andrew, St. Michael, and another first-rate 
 sailed out of Portsmouth harbour for Spithead, as did the Resolution, 
 a third rate. Twenty English and three Dutch men-of-war are now 
 riding in the Downs with their fore top-sails loose, being ready to 
 sail for Spithead, where, upon second consideration, the general 
 rendezvous of the fleet is appointed to be, and accordingly the first and 
 second rates in the river have orders to take their men on board. 
 
 We have advice from York that, on the 2nd instant, a most terrible 
 fire broke out in a flax shop on the pavements, in the heart of the 
 city, which burnt till Wednesday the 4th. In this time were laid 
 in ashes 25 principal houses besides many more that were blown up 
 and spoiled, and several thousand pounds’ worth of wares consumed. 
 The like conflagration was not known there. 
 
 Last week a new third-rate of eighty guns was launched out 
 at Southampton. The ship is called the Lancaster. The second 
 troop of guards, as also Lord Portland’s regiment of blue guards, 
 have orders to embark for Flanders on the 18th inst. Thirty of the 
 King’s grooms with his ‘‘lead horses” are to set forward for Holland on 
 Wednesday next. They are now shipping off a new train at the 
 Tower, and munitions for Flanders, as also warlike stores for Jersey 
 and Guernsey. ‘Two officers of the new levies of horse and dragoons 
 are obliged to have their troops complete as to men and horse by the 
 20th inst. under penalty of being cashiered, and they are to be armed 
 and accoutred by the 10th of next month. We hear Sir Eneas 
 McPhearson is ordered to be sent down to Scotland, upon whose 
 arrival it is believed Mr. Nevill Baine | Paine?], who is prisoner of a 
 long time in the kingdom, is to come. upon his trial. Mr. Bromfield the 
 quaker, and one Hoskins, made their escape from the messenger 
 that had them in custody. The Berkeley Castle from the Kast Indies, 
 valued at about 150,000/., is, in a manner, given over for lost. An 
 account is that she had an engagement with a man-of-war of fifty 
 suns and was so much disabled that they could not carry her to 
 St. Malo, and the enemy had only time to take out part of her goods 
 before she sank. It is believed Barcelona is actually besieged. 
 
 Mr. Smart, woollen draper, is chosen alderman in place of Sir 
 Benjamin Thorowgood, lately deceased. There is already paid into 
 the Exchequer upon the million lottery bill 225,000/., besides what is 
 in the goldsmiths’ hands. This day the Commons passed the poll, 
 
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 April 10. 
 
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 adding a clause to notify a mistake in the lottery bill, &e. [Green- 
 wich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 87; and ditto, Entry Book 6, 
 p. 67. | 
 
 Newsletter addressed to Mr. Thomas Erington at Dulston, New- 
 castle-on-Tyne. They write from Rome that a tradesman of that 
 city, having with an arquebus shot and killed Barrigall, the lieu- 
 tenant of the Sbirri, or bailiff, he immediately fled for sanctuary 
 to the church of the Philipines, whither the Sbirrt pursued him 
 to take him out by force, but the good fathers so briskly laid 
 about them that they repulsed the assailants and maintained their 
 church. The Pope, being advertised of this intestine scuffle, sent 
 Cardinal Vicard to take the criminal from the horns of the 
 altar and deliver him into the hands of justice, which accordingly 
 he performed; but afterwards insinuating to the Pope that these 
 proceedings of his holiness would be of evil example for other princes 
 to act contrary to the rights of the church upon the like occasions, 
 the Pope acquiesced, and the next day in sight of all the people 
 ordered the murderer to be taken out of the hands of justice 
 and replaced in the church whence he was taken. The vice- 
 gerent as a penance caused all the Sbirrz to kiss the ground, and, 
 after he had given them absolution, sent them to prison as a further 
 penance for the insults they had committed upon the church; so 
 that here we have & piece of Roman justice exceeding that of White- 
 friars or the Mint, who content themselves with ‘“‘ pumping or at most 
 coaching ’”’ the bailiffs, and that, too, when they enter their sanctwm 
 sanctorum by no means allow of killing them. 
 
 They write from Spain that 2,000 men are employed upon the 
 fortifications of Barcelona upon an apprehension they have that the 
 I’'rench design to besiege that place by land and sea. The nobles 
 that are to accompany the King to Arragon are ordered to provide 
 themselves with horses and arms. At Toledo they are preparing 
 lodgement for 3,000 horse, and ten regiments of foot are on their 
 march for Catalonia. The King of Spain has prohibited at Valentz 
 and Alicant all sorts of commerce with France. 
 
 From Paris they write that they are equipping at Rochfort several 
 vessels for Canada, which are nearly ready to sail, and that 
 Monsieur Chateau Renaud is ready to sail with a squadron from 
 Brest. The officers of the cantons of Zurich that are in the service 
 of the States General have returned to Holland, without being 
 permitted to make their recruits till such time as they have taken a 
 new oath not to act offensively against France, but only defensively. 
 
 From the Hague of the 9th we learn that the envoy of the 
 Klector of Hanover demands to treat with the States for the loan 
 of 200,000 crowns upon the security of Dickholtz, the revenue 
 of which is valued at 18,000 crowns per annum, and the contri- 
 butions at 12,000, which money he designs for the entertainment 
 of his troops in the service of the empire. The Elector of Saxony 
 also solicits the States for the loan of 500,000 florins upon 
 the ‘“‘cabells”’ of Russia, Coningsburg, ete. The States have repre- 
 sented to the King of Sweden that they have ordered several of 
 the vessels of his subjects that were retaken from the French 
 privateers by those of Holland, to be restored to-their owners, 
 
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 at the same time desiring his Majesty to take effectual care that 
 the ships belonging to his subjects may not for the future be 
 molested in their commerce by the privateers of France, or at least 
 that his Majesty demand reparation of damages of France, and not 
 from the States or their privateers, for that it was too disadvan- 
 tageous for their subjects to hazard their vessels and lives in 
 retaking them from the JI'rench, and at the same time to have no 
 profit by it. 
 
 Letters of the 8rd from Edinburgh state that at the Privy Council 
 that day several petitions were presented to their lordships from 
 the persons now under sentence of death about the affair of the 
 Bass, praying a further reprieve and respite from their execution, 
 which accordingly was granted them until the 4th of May next. 
 A schoolmaster of Glasgow was also before the Council, being 
 accused of enticing soldiers to desert, and afterwards furnishing 
 them with forged passes, which he contrived, and the same being 
 proved clear against him, the Council ordered that he should be 
 whipped through the city by the common hangman, afterwards 
 stood upon the pillory, and lastly, be banished to the Plantations. 
 On Sunday the General Assembly met again and unanimously agreed 
 to the letter of thanks drawn up by the committee to be sent to his 
 Majesty, which was accordingly despatched to court by an express. 
 And this day they met again, but did no other business than heard 
 an appeal. ‘The recruits from the North are all shipped except those 
 from Orkney and Shetland, which are expected here this week. 
 
 From Piymouth of the 6th we hear that yesterday came into that 
 port their Majesties’ ship the Southampton from Kinsale, and brought 
 an account that on Monday last their Majesties’ ship the Adventure 
 put into that port from cruising, having in her way met with the 
 Diamond frigate (now a French privateer), with whom she maintained 
 a hot engagement for several hours, in which she received much 
 damage, both in her hull, rigging, and mast. The Diamond carried 
 more and better guns, and had three times the number of men, and 
 so galled ours with their small shot, grenades and “ pattiraroes ’’ from 
 the round top, that had not the Adventure been clean and a good sailor, 
 it might have been worse with her. However, she got into that port 
 with the loss only of six men and a few wounded. Yesterday the 
 homeward-bound Calais fleet, English and Dutch, being about a 
 hundred sail under the convoy of five English and four Dutch men- 
 of-war, with two fire-ships, passed by this port eastward. On 
 Tuesday were launched two small advice-boats, and about eleven 
 days hence will be launched here a fourth rate of 56 guns. 
 
 On the 6th a Dutch captain brought into Weymouth a French 
 prize, which she took from a French privateer after a warm dispute 
 of several hours. On the 7th was launched at Portsmouth a fifth 
 rate of 80 guns. The Earl of Denbigh is at Spithead with his 
 squadron. On the 8th Vice-Admiral Hopson in the Russell and the 
 Cadiz fleet arrived safe in the Downs, being extreme rich, having 
 much bullion on board. On the 6th the Greyhound frigate brought 
 in as prize into Cowes a Danish fly-boat of 300 tons, laden with 
 deal boards and forty-three casks of wheat bound for Nantes besides 
 another small prize from St. Malo. We have an account that 
 520 bales of cloth are saved out of the Alexander and Great George. 
 
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 1694. 
 
 May 5. 
 
 London. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 This day the King reviewed Lord Portland’s regiment of horse, 
 which consists of six troops of sixty men in a troop, which, together 
 with the two troops of guards and other horses to the number of 
 about 2,000, are to embark on Thursday and Friday for Flanders. 
 Yesterday morning one Mr. Wilson, the “ mirrour”’ of the town, 
 having lived for five years past at the rate of 4,000 or 5,000/. per 
 annum, Without either estate or visible way of getting a penny or 
 running in any man’s debt, was killed in Southampton Square by 
 one Mr. Laws, a Scotchman, upon a slight quarrel. The murderer 
 was presently seized and committed to prison. On Friday last 
 Lord Newburgh departed this life. The Lords have read a second 
 time, and committed, the poll bill, and all the Lords are summoned 
 to be present to-morrow, when a great debate would be held touching 
 these being assessed 10/. per quarter. | The Lords of the Admiralty 
 this day delivered in a list of the cruisers, of which the merchants 
 are to have copies, and make their objections on Thursday. 
 [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 88; and ditto, Entry 
 Book 6, p. 78. | 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Harl of Derwentwater at Newcastle- 
 on-Tyne. Yesterday we received two Holland mails, which bring 
 advice from Rome that Cardinal Fourbin has acquainted the Pope 
 that the King had given the confederates time to the end of May to 
 accept the propositions of peace, after which he would proceed on the 
 execution of his design. From Turin is news that the Duke of Savoy 
 is marching his forces towards Coni on advice from France that the 
 enemy designed to be strong on that side, and to besiege the afore- 
 said place, and that their troops began to pass the mountains. And 
 it is advised from Lyons that twenty companies of carabineers and 
 twelve thousand horse have passed that place towards Piedmont, but 
 that the misery is extremely great in those parts for want of trade, 
 money and provisions, and that the famine and unusual feeding had 
 brought a great mortality among the people. 
 
 Our last news from Turkey of the removal of the Grand Vizier is 
 confirmed with this addition, that the Cham of Tartary is deposed, 
 that Count Tekeli is in disgrace, and that the French ambassador 
 ‘lay under some frowns” and came not to court, the Grand Seignior 
 being mightily incensed his master should offer the Christians terms 
 of peace without his knowledge. In fine, all the Ottoman affairs are 
 in great disorder, and they cannot bring above 50,000 men in the 
 field, and that not before the end of July or beginning of August; 
 they begin to show a propensity to a peace. 
 
 Upon the Upper Rhine both parties continue to dispose all things 
 for the opening of the campaign. Marshal de Lorge is come to 
 Strassburg, and the French still give out that they will open the 
 campaign with the siege of Mayence. The imperial army will 
 rendezvous on the 14th of May near Switzheim. Four thousand 
 Brandenbergers are marked for Piedmont. On the 10th eight 
 thousand Munsterians are to begin their march for the Rhine. 
 
 On the 4th died at Liege the grand master of the teutonic order 
 after five or six days’ sickness. He was coadjutor of the archbishops 
 of Mayence, and a person of rare quality and great zeal for the 
 common cause. A strange mortality reigns in that city, of which 
 
1694. 
 
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 great numbers die suddenly. The Elector of Cologne has departed 
 for Brussels. 
 
 Letters from Brussels on the 9th say the Elector of Cologne arrived 
 there on Thursday morning, and has been entertained with the 
 rarities (?), of this place. It is said his Highness will pass the greatest 
 part of the summer here, and make the campaign with the Elector 
 his brother. The French troops are all new clothed against the 
 review by the Dauphin, who is expected the latter end of this month. 
 
 The French officers are all ordered to their posts, in order to march, 
 
 upon the first command, to the camps they have marked out. ‘The 
 army under the Dauphin will be composed of eighty-six battalions ; 
 230 squadrons under Boufflers will be so posted as to join him or 
 de Lorge on occasion. 
 
 From Paris, by letters of the 7th, we hear that the King has declared 
 his resolution not to make his campaign this summer, which some 
 attribute to his late indisposition, others that the president of the 
 parliament has persuaded him to stay at home to keep the people 
 quiet, who mutiny for want of bread, by which means great disorders 
 are committed in most parts of the kingdom, and particularly at 
 St. Germain-en-Laye. The people clamour at King James, and say 
 that he is the cause of the war and their starving. The Duke of 
 Orleans will not go into the field as was designed, but the Marshal 
 Choiseul will command upon the coasts. The Dauphin will start on 
 the 23rd, for Flanders to command the army which will assemble on 
 the 18th, and under him the Marshals Luxembourg, Villeroy and 
 Joyeuse. The Prince of Condé will command the infantry, the Duke 
 of Bourbon the right wing of the cavalry, and the Duke of Maine the 
 left, and the army will be very numerous. Marshal Tourville 
 has sailed from Toulouse with twenty eight men-of-war for Barcelona, 
 and it is believed the men-of-war from Brest, Rochfort and Port Louis 
 have also sailed to join the said admiral, which will compose a fleet 
 of seventy sail in the Mediteranean. 
 
 Letters of the 11th from the Hague say we are going to form our 
 encampment to open the campaign on the King’s arrival, who is now 
 expected with some impatience. 
 
 From Edinburgh, [by letters] of the 28th, we hear the convoy for 
 Holland continues at Leith Road, but the officers are this night ordered 
 on board in hopes the wind will ‘‘present fair.” Yesterday was pub- 
 lished by beat of drum a proclamation commanding the inhabitants 
 that have windows to the high streets, under a severe penalty, to put 
 forth illuminations on the Queen’s birthday at night, against which 
 are great preparations of fireworks, etc. On Thursday last [died ?] 
 Dr. Bruce, one of the eminent physicians to both the late Kings. 
 The Earl Marshal took post this night for London to kiss the King’s 
 hand before his departure. 
 
 From Kinsale, of the 22nd, we learn that the Lark and three other 
 frigates, with four merchant ships under their convoy, have arrived 
 from Lisbon, and the Dover prize is fitting out here for the King’s 
 service. 
 
 From Falmouth, of the 80th, we have advice from Mount’s Bay and 
 St. Ives that the French privateers have, since the 20th inst., taken, 
 burnt or sunk twenty vessels on those coasts, and that they threaten 
 to come into those piers and take our shipping thence. 
 
254 STATE PAPERS. 
 1694. 
 
 
 
 A letter of the Ist from Plymouth states that yesterday sailed 
 hence their Majesties’ ships Coronation and Ningfisher with about 
 thirty sail of merchantmen for Virginia, New England and Barbadoes, 
 as also three of their Majesties’ frigates, with eight or ten sail of 
 merchantmen under their convoy for Lisbon. 
 
 On Thursday a Dutch man-of-war landed Admiral Allemonde near 
 Harwich, who immediately took coach for London. The same 
 morning Admiral Russell sailed from Spithead with thirty-six men-of- 
 war, mostly third rates. 
 
 The commissioners appointed by his Majesty’s commission to 
 manage the affair of the hackney coaches are Captain Villars, 
 governor of Tynmouth, Henry Killigrew, esq., Mr. Gee, Mr. 
 Ashurst and Mr. Stanley, and Mr. Meeks is the registrar; the 
 office is to be kept in Whitehall. His Majesty has signed a warrant 
 for the passing a patent to create Viscount Newport Earl of 
 Bradford. The Marquis of Normanby has caused his patent to be 
 stopped at the Privy Seal, the reason not known, unless, as some 
 will have it, to be created a duke. On Thursday night their 
 Majesties lay at Gravesend, and last night at Canterbury, whither 
 poultry and other provisions were yesterday sent them, and it is 
 believed his Majesty embarked this day, if the wind proved any- 
 thing favourable, at Margate. The Queen to-morrow designs to go to 
 church in state to the cathedral at Canterbury. 
 
 From St. Helens, June 8rd, we learn that yesterday the royal 
 and Dutch fleet sailed from Spithead and anchored here, and it is 
 believed will put to sea the next flood tide. On Tuesday Captain 
 Bellwood was tried by a court-martial on board the Britannia for 
 losing the Pembroke of thirty-two guns, and was cleared with reputa- 
 tion, having fought her till she sank; Captain Maynard of the 
 Mordant, with his lieutenant and pilot, were at the same time tried for 
 losing that ship on the Isle of Cuba, and were cleared, having done 
 their duty. Our troops will embark at Portsmouth about Wednesday 
 next. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 89; and ditto, 
 Entry Book, 6, p. 79.] 
 
 May 8. News letter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater, at Newcastle- 
 
 London ~— on-Tyne. Letters from Warsaw of the 7th of April bring news that 
 the Polish envoy from Joss writes that he was well received at 
 Adrianople, where he passed three weeks, but that he could not be 
 permitted to see or consult with the English and Dutch ambassadors, 
 who had guards set upon their doors to prevent the same; that the 
 Cham of 'Tartary had again proposed a separate peace to the crown of 
 Poland, with the restitution of the Ukraine, Podolia and Cammeck, 
 but upon the envoy showing that the king could not with honour quit 
 his allies he found a disposition in the porte to a general peace. 
 
 Letters from Germany bring news that nineteen battalions en- 
 camped near Heilbron under the command of three general officers, 
 who had received orders from the prince of Baden to put themselves 
 into that place and the counterscarp, if the enemy should advance 
 towards them. The French continue to assemble about Landau, 
 Neustad and Kaiserslautern, and pretend to have a puissant army 
 together by the 10th inst. The differences between the courts of 
 Vienna and Saxony are not yet adjusted. However, it is said the 
 Klector of Saxony will send four regiments more to serve on the 
 Rhine than he had last year. 
 
1694, 
 
 WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 255 
 
 The French in the Palatinate are “ grievous vexations ” to the 
 inhabitants, treating both papists and protestants alike, exacting 
 greater sums of them than they are able to pay. Six hundred 
 hussars from the garrison of Metz going out in a party surprised 
 the city of Kerns, which they plundered, the French garrison flying 
 to the castle. A fever rages with violence at Liege, so that many 
 die, and some of the principal inhabitants begin to quit the 
 city. ‘T'wo thousand Hessians have marched for Flanders, being 
 taken into the service of the States General. The garrison of Liége 
 is preparing to encamp in the lines. The French about the Maes 
 are very quiet. The great misery and want of bread in France is 
 confirmed by letters from Geneva, Strasburg, Metz, Treves, and in 
 fine from all parts and confines of the kingdom to that degree that 
 it is next to a famine, they having not corn in some parts to supply 
 them above three weeks with the greatest parsimony. 
 
 They write from Paris that they have advice from Nice of the 
 20th past that Monsieur Mongon with a frigate of sixty guns, with 
 two others of thirty-five each, in their way to Civita Vecchia had met 
 and taken a Genoese ship of sixty guns without opposition, on board 
 which they found among other goods fourteen great chests full of 
 piastres, which they believed belonged to King William, and that he 
 was sending them to the duke of Savoy and it is not doubted but the 
 ship, which is valued at above three millions, will prove ‘good prize. 
 They depend mightily upon the expedition of Tourville, and hope that 
 he together with the army, acting in concert, will not only take 
 Barcelona, but also all Catalonia, believing the Spaniards to be in 
 no condition to make any considerable defence. 
 
 In Flanders they seem to be little apprehensive of the enemy this 
 campaign, by reason they want magazines to undertake any consider- 
 able actions. The French officers are also afraid that a great part of 
 their men will desert on account of their want of pay, and the great 
 misery they suffer. Letters of the 11th from the Hague say that the 
 French have abandoned Dixmude, and, as they were busied in 
 rasing its works, Brigadier Belcastle and an English and three 
 French reciments of refugees appearing before that place, the French 
 retired in great haste, but were not so nimble but Belcastle pursued 
 them, killed thirty, took some prisoners, and possessed himself of 
 that place. 
 
 We learn from Edinburgh on the 7th May that yesterday, being 
 her Majesty’s birthday, it was observed here after the most solemn 
 manner capable. The burghers appeared very fine in their arms. The 
 high cross was richly adorned, whither the chancellor and such 
 nobility as were in town repaired, making a handsome cavaleade. 
 Their Majesties’ health was drunk. At the same time the castle gave 
 a royal salvo, and the cross ran with wine, and the night concluded 
 with bonfires and illuminations. Our convoy for Holland sailed on 
 Sunday last. 
 
 From Plymouth of the 4th we hear that this day came in the Lark 
 from cruising, who yesterday night at the Land’s Kind took a small 
 French privateer of six guns and two ‘“ patereroes,’ being the new 
 snow belonging to St. Malo; she has sent her into Falmouth, but 
 brought some of the prisoners hither. 
 
256 
 1694. 
 
 May 24. 
 
 London. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 Letters from Portsmouth of the 6th say that yesterday Admiral 
 Russell in the Britannia with four seventy-gun ships and two sixty- 
 gun ships in his division, Lord Berkeley, admiral of the blue, in 
 the Queen of 100 guns, with an eighty-gun ship and four seventy- 
 guns in his division, and Vice-Admiral Aylmer in the Royal Sovereign, 
 with an eighty-gun ship and four seventy-guns in his division, 
 together with thirteen Dutch men-of-war, three of them ninety-two 
 guns each, one of eighty-four, five of seventy-two, and four of sixty- 
 four guns, in all nineteen English men-of-war, and thirteen Dutch, 
 with nine fire-ships and small frigates, sailed from St. Helens west- 
 ward, as it is conjectured to keep the Brest Squadron in and prevent 
 their going to the Mediteranean to join Turville. Sir Cloudesly 
 Shovell, vice-admiral of the red, continues at Spithead with thirty 
 sail of English and Dutch men-of-war. Yesterday three regiments 
 more came and encamped without this town, so that now six regi- 
 ments are there, and the other five are expected in three or four days. 
 
 From Deal on the 6th May we learn that yesterday seven Dutch 
 men-of-war that were in the Downs, sailed hence for Margate Road 
 to convoy the King to Holland, and this morning came into the 
 Downs the four men-of-war that convoyed the transport ships with 
 the forces from Scotland to Ostend, which they safely landed there, 
 being five regiments of foot and 2,500 recruits, making together 
 
 . about 6,000 men. The two Scotch regiments of dragoons which 
 
 yesterday began to embark at the Red House will again be dis- 
 embarked, the wind having again got into the east by north. By a 
 vessel arrrived at Bristol from Norway we have an account that a 
 great many vessels are loading there with corn, as it is believed for 
 France. On Sunday morning, at eleven, the King embarked at 
 Margate, and last night her Majesty returned to Whitehall, where 
 she designs to reside during the King’s absence. All public business 
 at court is ata stand till her Majesty hears of the King’s landing. 
 The accusation against the Commissioners of the Sick and Wounded 
 was last night and this morning re-heard before the lords of 
 the committee, and the main accusation seems to stick, viz. :—that 
 under pretext of exchanging prisoners, they had employed four 
 vessels when two would have served, and had traded with France and 
 brought over wine, currants, etc., and had sent to Nantes and other 
 ports, that were in their cartel; but Dr. Wellwood, one of the 
 commissioners, purged himself of the accusation. The lord chan- 
 cellor and the lord chief justice of Ireland, that have been here during 
 the session of Parliament, are now repairing to that kingdom, but 
 we are assured no parliament will be chosen there during the 
 King’s absence. Upwards of 700,000/. is brought in upon the million 
 lottery bill, and it is not doubted but the sum will be complete 
 in three weeks, and about 90,0001. upon the lives. The regiments at 
 Portsmouth will be embarked on board the squadron at Spithead 
 at the latter end of the week. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 
 4, No. 40; and ditto, Entry Book, 6, p. 85. | 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater, at Newcastle- 
 on-Tyne. The friends of Cardinal Fourbin give out at Rome that a 
 general peace will suddenly be brought about, so soon as the news of 
 the election of Cologne to the bishopric and principality of Liége 
 
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 WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 257 
 
 
 
 arrive. The Pope gave his bull of approbation without any delay in 
 consideration of the services the Bavarians formerly rendered the 
 papal chair. 
 
 Letters from Turin of the 14th make no mention of the arrival of 
 any French troops at Suso. The Vaudois and chiefly the Irish in the 
 valley of St. Martin, whose party have surprised and killed several 
 women and children. [Sentence incomplete. | 
 
 The Marlocks have made an incursion into the Ottoman territories, 
 and returned with a vast booty of cattle, the heads of a great many 
 Turks, and about eight hundred families who took this opportunity 
 to quit the Turkish yoke. The republic of Venice have prohibited 
 commerce with the people of Lyons, by reason of a great mortality 
 which rages in that city, occasioned by their want and misery. 
 
 The regiments in lower Hungary have marched for Esseck. Another 
 party of Hungarian ‘‘cantons” have come over to the Emperor. Count 
 Tekeli, according to the advice from Transylvania has been seized 
 and sent into custody to Adrianople, notwithstanding he proffered to 
 justify his conduct. It is afresh discoursed of at the imperial court 
 that Count Caparara will command in Slavonia, and Prince Eugene 
 the imperial troops at Piedmont. 
 
 They write from Heilbron on the 22nd that the general rendezvous 
 of the confederate troops was to be by the latter end of the month; 
 and that Prince Louis had raised a regiment of guards consisting of 
 four hundred riders. The French pretend to have two armies in the 
 field, one to observe Prince Louis, and the other to force its way 
 into Germany, but as yet they have only 24 battalions between 
 Landau and Philipsburg, and as many thousand encamped near 
 Neustadt. A great many of the troops daily return from the 
 Dauphine and Savoy. | 
 
 Letters from Brussels of the 26th say the enemy are on all sides 
 drawing to their encampments, but their great movement is between 
 the Sambre and the Meuse, where they design to have their chief force. 
 The officers and soldiers continue to complain much for want of pay. 
 Their horses are fat and in a good condition. The King of England 
 is expected in a few days upon the frontiers of Brabant, where the 
 Elector of Bavaria and general officers design to meet and consult 
 with his Majesty about the opening of the campaign, for which all 
 things are ready. 
 
 From Loo, in letters of the 47th, itis stated that the last advice from 
 Flanders announces that the French are getting together between 
 Mons and Charleroi, though it is believed the camp will not be opened 
 on that side of Brabant. he King receives expresses daily from those 
 places, but, there being nothing that requires his presence at the 
 army so very soon, it is believed his Majesty will not set out hence 
 to Breda before Monday next. The King when last hunting came 
 to the ground by the fall of his horse, but received no hurt. The 
 Marquis Mount Poniliou at the same time by a fall from his horse 
 was so much bruised, that it is believed it will end his days. 
 
 The letter of the 24th from Paris says that on Saturday the 
 Dauphin’s baggage passed for Flanders, as did yesterday his led 
 horses; he himself will follow on the 30th or 31st. The King 
 has insinuated to him that he must expect to fight the enemy. The 
 fleet of men-of-war and galleys in the Mediteranean have put to sea 
 
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 1694. 
 
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 in execution of their designs upon Catalonia. Monsieur Vauban is 
 ordered for Brest, as are six battalions for the security of that place. 
 Mention of the calamities of this city and kingdom is no news; 
 but at the same time, all are comforted by the hopes of a sudden 
 peace, and our archbishop has appointed public processions and 
 prayers for obtaining the same success on the King’s arms and 
 blessing on the fruit of the earth. 
 
 From the Britannia in Torbay of the 18th we hear: This day we 
 arrived safe here, having been, ever since the 5th, when we sailed 
 from St. Helens, cruizing between the Lizard and Ushant, where we 
 had advice by a Swede that the French fleet designed for the 
 Mediterranean sailed out of Brest about ten days before we put to 
 sea. The expedition of the Monmouth ete. in ‘‘Blecke Bay” they have 
 already had an account of, where we burnt seven or eight merchant 
 men belonging to a fleet of fifty or sixty sail bound for Dunkirk laden 
 with stores, bombs, salt, etc., and had destroyed many more had they 
 not ran ashore and been covered by the batteries. ‘The prisoners in 
 the two small vessels Captain Pickard brought off report that 
 seventeen of the greatest men-of-war are now lying in Brest water. 
 On the 15th, Vice-Admiral Allemonde with six Dutch men-of- 
 war more joined us. We are now preparing for St. Helens. On 
 the 20th two small privateers came into Weymouth Road, and 
 took out from thence a ship of about sixty tons, laden with 
 Portland stone, but two small privateers being in harbour imme- 
 diately went after them and retook the ship and the privateers ; since 
 which another of the same gang in chase of one of our fisher boats 
 killed a boy and wounded a man. 
 
 On the 19th an Ostend privateer brought two French prizes into 
 Cowes, one laden with salt and brandy, the other with bread. 
 
 We hear the ten regiments at Portsmouth, and the two troops of 
 Colonel Wynn’s dragoons that are to be employed in this expedition, 
 began to embark on board the fleet on Sunday last, and that most of 
 the bomb-vessels have arrived at Spithead. 
 
 The regiments of horse commanded by the Earls of Macclesfield 
 and Arran and Colonel Windsor, and Colonel Leigh’s dragoons are 
 going to encamp on Hounslow Heath. To-morrow, six additional 
 troops of dragoons for the regiments of Essex, Fairfax and Cunningham 
 embark for Flanders, and on the 6th of June the remaining six 
 troops of Wynn’s dragoons embark for the same, which will be the last 
 of the troops that will be sent thither for the service of this campaign. 
 
 All the patents for the new creations of honour have passed the 
 ereat seal. Yesterday, being the day set apart for the solemn fast to 
 implore a blessing on their Majesties’ and the confederate arms, it was 
 observed as usual. Dr. Gorge of St. Martin’s preached before her 
 Majesty at the Chapel Royal at Whitehall. This day was published 
 a false and incorrect list of their Majesties’ navy royal in which the 
 Sussex, Diamond, Lumley Castle, Cambridge, St. Albans and divers 
 others were inserted, that were long since lost or cast, others that 
 never were, some false named, and most wrong both in guns and 
 men. This night the report of the affair of the Commissioners of the 
 Sick and Wounded was made in Council, and the charter for the new 
 corporation of the Royal Bank was read and agreed to. The Turkey 
 merchants, being in great pain for their fleet at Cadiz, are about 
 
1694. 
 
 June 5. 
 London. 
 
 WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 259 
 
 
 
 petitioning their Majesties that a further squadron may be sent 
 thither for their security. On the 22nd, at ten in the morning, the 
 fleet under Admiral Russell returned to St. Helens, where the vice 
 and rear admirals of the red and the rear admiral of the blue had 
 already arrived. ‘The fleet now consists of ships of tbe line of battle, 
 fifty-two English, forty-one Dutch, and thirty-five other fine ships. 
 The Monmouth and some other frigates have brought into St. Helens 
 about a hundred sail of Swedes and Danes from Nantes and other 
 parts of France, laden and bound for Dunkirk. [Greenwich Hospital 
 News Letters 4, No. 41; and ditto Entry Book 6, p. 98.] 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater, at Newcastle on 
 Tyne. There is advice from Moscow by the way of Poland that the 
 Czar’s design was to have a numerous army in the field this 
 campaign, which gave some umbrage to the Poles; upon which the 
 King dispatched a courier to his minister at that court to fathom 
 their design, and it is not now doubted but it is to invade the Crimea. 
 If this be so, it will give a powerful diversion to the Tartars, and 
 oblige the Khan to keep his troops at home. 
 
 A vessel, which arrived at Amsterdam in eleven days from Algiers, 
 brings an account that all their ships of war, excepting two of fifteen 
 or sixteen guns each, were now in port for want of masts, and it was 
 believed would not put to sea this summer, by reason of their being 
 engaged in a war with the government of Tunis. They are both 
 preparing to attack each other with grand armies. 
 
 Letters of the 81st from Paris say that they write from Turin that the 
 Duke of Savoy has lately had some hard words with Colonel Caprara 
 upon the account of his invading Mantua, and it might have proceeded 
 higher had not the Marquis of Leganez interposed and qualified the 
 heat, on which account it 1s believed the said colonel is recalled to 
 serve In Hungary next campaign. Our letters from Pignerol of the 
 23rd assure us that the Duke of Savoy will not be able to bring above 
 25,000 men into the field this summer; that the Spaniards quartered 
 in Milan begin to assemble at Naver and Alexandria in order to 
 march for Piedmont. But the Germans are still in their winter 
 quarters, saving a detachment of eight hundred infantry and two 
 hundred horse that are at Montecallier. His Royal Highness has 
 provided Coni with all necessaries for a long defence, in case it 
 should be attacked, and has made the same provision at Turin upon 
 the like consideration. Money is so extremely scarce here, that 
 there is great difficulty among the notaries and other public 
 employees, who are taxed great sums to the King, to pay the same. 
 
 The last letters from the Hague say that they discourse there 
 about making some alteration in their East India Company which is 
 much desired. It is also projected in the Assembly of Holland, for 
 the increasing of their navigation, that no vessels shall go out or 
 return thither from any foreign parts without their convoys, and 
 that their merchants shall not load any goods on the vessels of neutrals 
 without being first assured that the said neutral princes, to whose 
 subjects the vessels belong, have agreed with France that the 
 merchandize that shall be found on board their vessels shall be free. 
 They have also had under their consideration a reward to be given to 
 such as shall take a French privateer. 
 
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 From Edinburgh on the 29th ult. we hear the Bass men, in 
 accordance with the articles of capitulation, yesterday embarked (all 
 saving two, who have a mind to stay behind) to the number of forty- 
 two, the French seamen included, and will sail for France as soon as 
 the wind serves. Yesterday a court-martial was held there, where 
 some of the officers of Colonel Mackey’s regiment were tried and 
 broken for crimes. Also two sentinels were tried for deserting, one 
 of whom was sentenced to be shot, the other to run the gauntlet. 
 Another convoy was ready to sail for Holland, with some further 
 drafts that have been made out of the regiments there for those in 
 Flanders. 
 
 Letters from Falmouth of the 31st say that the 29th, being the 
 anniversary of the restoration of King Charles, and of the royal 
 family with him, was very solemnly observed there, the great guns 
 from the castle and ships in port being discharged, but the chief 
 gunner of the Pendennis had the misfortune to lose his Jife in the 
 solemnity, occasioned, as it is believed, by the neglect of sponging a 
 eun, which fired as he was loading the same and carried him from 
 the rampart into the graft. Yester day Sir Bouchier Wray and James 
 Pread, esq., both members of parliament, happening to quarrel as 
 they were riding in a calash, had an encounter, in which the first was 
 run through the body (though it is hoped not mortally wounded) and 
 the latter received a slight wound in the face. 
 
 From Plymouth, on the 1st of June, we learn that the previous 
 night the eleven Irish that were sometime since taken in the late 
 King’s (or French) privateers, and were there 1n custody, broke prison 
 and made their escape, but two or three have been since taken and 
 laid in irons, and are for the future to pass their time but ill. 
 
 Letters of the same date from Dartmouth say the royal navy has 
 arrived on this side Portland, but we have advice by a gentleman that 
 they design not to put into Torbay, unless forced by stress of weather, 
 but will tide up to the westward. 
 
 We hear from Weymouth on June 2nd that on Thursday in 
 the afternoon our grand fleet was seen in the bay, but the wind being 
 contrary they lay to the south of Portland till the Ist about noon, 
 and then came under sail, and on the morning of the 2nd were out 
 of sight. 
 
 On the same date we hear from Cowes that on the 31st past in the 
 evening, and the previous morning, there sailed out of that road their 
 Majesties’ ships the Bristol, Hampshire, and Hxaperiment galley, with 
 a fleet of merchant ships under their convoy for the West Indies, but 
 the wind being not favourable ‘‘they design to turn it down the 
 Channel after the erand fleet,” 
 
 Letters from Deal, on June 8rd, inform us that on Thursday the 
 Earl of Romney, lord warden of the Cinque Ports, arrived here, 
 accompanied with several persons of quality and gentry of the 
 country, by whom he was met and received by our militia in arms. 
 He viewed the castles of Sandown, Deal and Walmer, and was received 
 at his going and coming by discharge of their guns, and after a short 
 stay returned to Dover. His lordship designs to make what altera- 
 tions he shall judge for their Majesties’ service in the Cinque Ports. 
 
 It is now certain that the design of detaching Sir Cloudesley 
 Shovell to the Straits with thirty-five men-of-war is altered, and that 
 
1694. 
 
 June 23. 
 
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 Admiral Russell will go himself with fifty-six, which, with the 
 twenty-four already at Cadiz, will make a fleet sufficient to insult the 
 French and to “ride admiral” in the Mediterranean. With him go 
 Admirals Mitchell and Aylmer as vice and rear admirals. Lord 
 Berkeley, admiral of the blue, with Sir Cloudesley Shovell and the 
 Marquis of Carmarthen, will command thirty-seven men of war, 
 the remainder of the fleet in the Channel. There is an account 
 from St. Germain-en-Laye that Lord Melfort has quitted his place 
 of first minister to the late King James by the advice of the 
 Roman catholic party, and is succeeded by Lord Middleton. We have 
 had an account in town ever since Saturday, brought by a person that 
 came from France by the way of Calais, of some action that has been 
 fought in Catalonia between the French and Spanish armies, in which 
 the latter received some detriments. This afternoon we have received 
 a foreign mail with letters from Paris of the 4th, which bring 
 advice that Marshal de Noailles, having passed the river Ton, which 
 leads to Gironne, in view of the enemy’s army, attacked it, killed 
 above four thousand on the place, made three thousand prisoners, 
 amongst the rest the Marquis of Couflans, M. de Camp, general of the 
 Spanish cavalry, and took all their baggage. Count Chateau Renault 
 attacked in the harbour of Malaga eight English and Dutch vessels, 
 four of which he took and burnt the other four. [Greenwich Hospital 
 News Letters 4, No. 42; and ditto Entry Book 6, p. 99. | 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater, at Newcastle on 
 Tyne. Letters from Edinburgh of the 16th bring word that, the day 
 before that date, Viscount Kilsyth and Lord Ballantine (sic), in 
 accordance with their sentence of banishment, being at hberty from 
 their imprisonment upon their paroles of honour, rendered them- 
 selves on board a convoy at Leith that was bound for Holland, from 
 whence they will pass to Hamburg, where they are appointed to reside. 
 Captain Bell and Lieutenant Lothian (?) (two of the late King’s 
 officers) being under the like sentence, were conducted from the 
 Tolbooth gaol of that city on board the said fleet, and this day they set 
 sail, having also on board several officers with recruits for Flanders. 
 
 Yesterday the proclamation for putting off the Parliament, and 
 ordering the members to give their attendance when their Majesties’ 
 pleasure should be known, was published at the market cross at 
 Edinburgh, and this day an express arrived there from court, 
 adjourning the parliament till September next. The same after- 
 noon marched through that city two companies of Lord Murray’s 
 regiment, being highlanders in their proper habits, all lusty young 
 men and completely armed, which made a pretty show, being 
 unusual. 
 
 Letters from Plymouth on the 19th state that last evening 
 arrived in the offing their Majesties’ ships Norwich and Delavall, and 
 under their convoy a fleet from Oporto and Vigo, consisting of 
 about thirty sail of merchantmen laden with wines; this evening 
 they all sailed to the eastward, as did their Majesties’ ship the Crown, 
 with the Lisbon fleet under her convoy, and their Majesties’ ship 
 England, and under her convoy to the eastward two bomb ketches 
 and six well-boats. Yesterday were sent hence by land for London 
 about one hundred English and Irish seamen that have been taken 
 
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 in French privateers, in order to have their trials at the Marshalsea. 
 The corpse of Lieutenant-General Talmash will to-morrow morning 
 be carried hence by land for London to be interred there. 
 
 Letters received on June 20th from Cowes say that the forces 
 returned from the late expedition against Brest (of which Lord Cutts 
 is now general) have been landed on the isle for refreshment, and 
 are encamped on St. George’s Down about a mile from Newport. It 
 is said they will embark again in a week or ten days on board the same 
 ships, which lie at St. Helens. 
 
 From Portsmouth on the 21st we hear that yesterday their 
 Majesties’ ships the Greenwich and Suffolk, the Charles fire ship, 
 some machine ships, and two Dutch men-of-war, sailed hence for the 
 Downs to join Admiral Hopson. Lord Berkeley and Sir Cloudesley 
 Shovell are still at St. Helens, but the Marquis of Carmarthen has 
 gone for London. 
 
 Letters from Deal, of the same date, say that there are now riding 
 in the Downs two ships bound for the East Indies. Admiral Hopson 
 continues at the Gunfleet, attending the coming up of some other 
 frigates that are appointed to join him, and then will put to sea 
 in quest of Du Bart, who arrogantly styles himself the admiral of the 
 Northern Seas. 
 
 On Wednesday was a trial at bar between the university of Oxford 
 and Magdalen College about the right of presenting a principal to 
 Magdalen Hall, vacant by the death of Dr. Levet. The college has 
 presented Dr. Hammond, but the vice-chancellor and university 
 came in perforce, and put another into possession, and after a long 
 hearing and debate it went in favour of the university. The case of 
 Lady Robarts, about the estate of the late Sir John Robarts, was 
 to have been heard the same day in the court of Common Pleas, but’ 
 by consent it was accommodated. Yesterday the affair of St. John’s 
 College in Cambridge in relation to the mandamus for turning out 
 the non-jurors was argued in the court of King’s Bench, and a further 
 argument is to be next term. After which Mr. Law was brought into 
 court, and the exceptions made in the demurrer were argued for him 
 by Sir Creswell Levins and Mr. Carthew, and for Mr. Wilson, the 
 appellant, by Sir Bartholomew Shower. The judges said there was 
 little in it, but deferred giving their judgment till Tuesday next, and, 
 the term ending on Wednesday, he cannot be tried upon the appeal 
 till October next. 
 
 We hear upwards of 500,000. is already subscribed to the Bank, 
 and it is not doubted but the whole sum of 1,200,000/. will be subscribed 
 long before the time limited by act of parliament; and for the 
 encouragement of a speedy subscription before the 1st of July it is 
 said 50s. per cent. will be allowed on the first fourth part to be paid 
 in this week, and 40s. per cent. on Monday next, and so falling 5s. 
 per cent. every day in the week; and that the commissioners have 
 resolved, for the more easy dispatch, to accept of the receipts of Mr. 
 John Knight, treasurer of the Customs, and of Mr. Bartholomew 
 Burton in Mr. Howard’s office in the Exchequer, for what money 
 shall be paid to either of them. 
 
 We have an account from Northampton of the 18th of several 
 great riots committed by the mob in and near that place, by seizing 
 several loads of corn and abusing the owners, and particularly, on the 
 
1694. 
 
 June 28. 
 
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 WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 263 
 
 
 
 day of the date, they broke into an inn in Northampton and seized 
 two loads of corn, and notwithstanding the mayor, his brethren, 
 and chief of the townspeople opposed them not only with authority 
 but force, yet they overpowered and knocked down the magistrates 
 and carried off the corn. ‘The scuffle lasted several hours, and in 
 it two are said to be killed, and about sixty or seventy received 
 broken pates or bruises. The like disorders have lately happened 
 at Stamford and some other places. They do this under a pretence 
 that corn is made dear by buying up great quantities and sending 
 it beyond sea, when in truth it is rather to satisfy an idle and thievish 
 humour the mob is at present possessed withal, out of which they 
 must be well whipped. 
 
 We hear on the 2nd that the Lords of the Treasury and most of 
 the principal persons at court have subscribed to the new bank. 
 
 P.S.—By a Holland mail just received, we are advised that the 
 Prince of Baden is advancing towards the Neckar upon Marshal de 
 Lorge marching down to Wiesloch, having sent a detachment 
 to attack Heidelburg. The Paris letters of the 25th give an account 
 of the late action at Brest, where they say we landed 1,200 men, who 
 were immediately put in great confusion and disorder, in which they 
 say about 500 were killed, wounded or drowned, and 548 taken 
 prisoners, of which 50 are officers, and that General Talmash was 
 wounded, and a Dutch man-of-war of thirty-four guns left on ground, 
 on board which they found forty dead men, with the captain, and took 
 sixty soldiers, and had only on their side a captain and a lieutenant 
 wounded, and about fifty common soldiers killed and wounded. 
 
 From the camp at Rosbach, the 48th, we hear that the two 
 armies continue in the same posts. That day we began to entrench 
 our camp, the horse which were encamped here being marched into 
 the villages. About six hundred Swiss have deserted the French 
 army and are gone to Maestricht, besides more to Liege and other 
 garrisons. ‘This day also several more hussars came over and are 
 formed into a troop. A party of ours this afternoon brought in forty 
 prisoners. This morning the King reviewed the Spanish and Bavarian 
 troops, which are encamped near Lovaine, and afterwards dined 
 with the Elector of Bavaria, and returned hither this evening. 
 [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No.48; and ditto Entry Book 6, 
 DaLO't,| 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater, at Neweastle on 
 Tyne. Letters from Turin of the 14th bring that Prince Eugene 
 of Savoy and Prince Comercey had arrived there from Vienna, and 
 that the Duke of Savoy, accompanied by Lord Galway and several 
 other officers, had gone to review his cavalry between Pontcallier and 
 Villa Franea ; they afterwards design to go to Coni and Fort de Mont 
 and view the new fortifications that are making at both these places, 
 and will return to Turin in six or seven days. ‘The imperial troops 
 are in full march for Piedmont, after whose arrival the infantry of 
 his Royal Highness will also draw into the field and form the army. 
 The French are at present pretty still upon the frontiers. Marshal 
 Catinat has possessed himself of the post of Fenestrille, where he 
 was encamped last year, and his troops defile insensibly thither. 
 
 Letters from Madrid of the 12th say that the King, upon receiving 
 the ill news of the defeat of his army in Catalonia, immediately 
 
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 assembled a grand council and acquainted them with the same, who 
 presently granted him a don gratuit to re-establish the army. His 
 Majesty has named the Marquis of Castanaga, late governor of the 
 Netherlands, to command the forces in Fontarabia, Priva and those 
 frontiers; and Don Francis Pignatilly, who served a long time in 
 Flanders, is made general of the artillery in Catalonia, and Don 
 Francis Castello, late governor of Charleroi, is made ‘‘master de 
 camp general’’ in that province. An order has been published 
 requiring all persons that receive any pensions to present themselves 
 to the commissary-general, and receive and obey his orders, under 
 pain of four years’ imprisonment in some garrison in Africa; a 
 second, requiring all the knights of the four military orders, from the 
 age of eighteen to sixty, to march immediately to Catalonia, under 
 the forfeiture each of two hundred ducats. The King also sent 
 his orders to the twelve grandees of Spain to render themselves 
 presently upon their estates and raise men for the service of 
 Catalonia, his Majesty being extremely intent to put that army in a 
 condition to make head against the enemy. 
 
 From the Hague of the 29th they advise that the Estates had sent 
 full power to their ambassador, Heemskirk, in Turkey to assist in the 
 negotiation of peace at Stry, and the same power to their ambassador 
 Collyer, who is resident at the Porte, in case any indisposition should 
 happen to the first. A camp is forming about Maeseyck to cover the 
 magazine of Baldock, which the Duke of Luxembourg threatens to 
 visit with ten or twelve thousand men. It is advised from Catalonia 
 that the French army parted from Pallamas the 18th in order to go 
 and besiege Barcelona, where they arrived on the 19th. 
 
 From Edinburgh on the 21st we hear that their Majesties’ council 
 met this day, and a libel was preferred by their Majesties’ advocate 
 against the provost of Kirkwall, Lieutenant Lamb, and several others 
 for drinking the late King James’ health, and causing all people in 
 the streets of Kirkwall to do the same, telling them that King William 
 and his army were beaten in Flanders, and himself drowned on his 
 return to England, and that King James would be there before the 
 end of the month, and more such Jacobite lies, the probation of 
 which is appointed to be on the 3rd of July next. Lord Strathmore 
 moved the council that the Lord Aboyne (?) and his brother now in 
 France might have leave to return home, but the same was denied, 
 and he was advised to apply himself to his Majesty in Flanders. 
 Yesterday a Dutch caper put into Leith from ecruizing, coming last 
 from near Dunkirk, where he landed twelve men who brought off two 
 Frenchmen, who gave him an account that John Du Bart had arrived 
 in that port with about one hundred sail of ships laden with corn 
 and stores from Flekkeren and the Baltic Seas. 
 
 From on board the Queen at St. Helens one writes under date of the 
 25th :—yesterday at 3 p.m. we loosed our foretopsails in the top, and 
 this day we shall embark our soldiers again on board the ships, and in 
 two or three days’ time I believe we shall sail, but whither or on 
 what design I hope is kept more secret than was our late enterprise 
 upon Brest. The London, Dreadnought, Hope, Lion, and Greenwich 
 have sailed to the eastward, the first for the river Thames, the latter 
 to join Rear-Admiral Hopson in order to cruize on the Broad 
 Fourteens to intercept Du Bart in his return from Norway. 
 
WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 265 
 
 
 
 1694. 
 
 Letters from Cowes on the 20th say we have just now notice that 
 their Majesties’ forces encamped on this island, and are decamping 
 in order to embark on board their respective ships to go upon some 
 fresh expedition. 
 
 The Weymouth frigate of fifty guns, commanded by Captain 
 Juniper, has taken on the Irish coast and carried into Kinsale, a 
 privateer of fifty-six guns of St. Malo, and 850 men, after a very 
 obstinate fight which lasted from three in the morning till six in the 
 afternoon, and had not the Dunkirk appeared, on sight of which the 
 Frenchman immediately struck, the success of the fight might have 
 been very doubtful, the privateer carrying a hundred men more than 
 the frigate. We had one man killed and fifteen or sixteen wounded, 
 and the French had fifty killed and forty-five wounded. 
 
 We hear nothing further of the return of Du Bart to Dunkirk, and 
 of his discomforting the Dutch squadron that attended his return on 
 the Broad Fourteens, or any other authority for it than the credit of 
 the captain of the Henry prize, who pretends he saw part of the 
 action, and brought the relation to Admiral Hopson, who lies with 
 his squadron in the Gun Fleet. 
 
 The report of Captain Keggins’ being suspended and called to 
 account for disputing the right of command with the Dutch flags is 
 false and groundless. It is only for mistaking his orders, quitting 
 his station, and returning into the Downs before he ought to have 
 done, which, however, he pretends to justify himself upon. Monday 
 last Mr. Law was brought into the court of the King’s Bench in 
 order to receive the judgment of the court in relation to the demurrer, 
 but the court said that, though a murderer condemned by law ought 
 to have no favour, they might not deliver their judgment without 
 due consideration; they therefore took time to consider of it to the 
 first day of next term, when the counsel for the prisoner might offer 
 anything further they could think of. The same day one Mr. Cumins, 
 a merchant, who has been ten months in custody upon an accusation 
 of remitting money to France, was by the court admitted to bail; 
 and yesterday Colonel Parker and Mr. Crosby, according to their 
 prayers the first day of term, expected the same favour, having their 
 habeas corpus ready to be brought up; but we apprehend that the 
 jury at Westminster the last day but one of the term had found 
 indictments of high treason against them for being in rebellion in 
 Ireland. Sir Eneas McPherson was, however, admitted to bail. 
 
 P.S.—We have this day an account from Deal by a Swedish man- 
 of-war that has come into the Downs, and a confirmation, that John 
 Du Bart with ten men-of-war and a great fleet of corn ships has got 
 into Dunkirk, and carried in with him three Dutch men-of-war, and 
 that the other three, the squadron being six in number, got off much 
 shattered, and that they have seventy sail of corn ships gone to the 
 western ports. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 44; and 
 ditto Entry Book 6, p. 118.] 
 
 July 7. Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater, at Newcastle on 
 London. = Tyne. From Plymouth on the 8rd we hear that the Dutch man- 
 of-war, mentioned in my last to have come in from cruizing, proves 
 to be a merchant ship named the Hope, of and from Amsterdam, 
 of about two hundred tons and sixteen guns. She, with a small 
 
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 ketch of Weymouth, came from Barbadoes with the fleet that passed 
 by us to the eastward on the 30th ulto.; but, being both leaky, they 
 could not keep company with the said fleet, and lagged behind them. 
 On Sunday evening last, just at the mouth of this harbour, they were 
 attacked by two French privateers. The Dutchman made a long and 
 stout defence, and by that means got clear, but the ketch, being 
 the weakest, went to the wall and became their prize. Yesterday 
 the Weymouth and Dunkirk frigates came in from Kinsale with several 
 merchantmen under their convoy, but left the Grand privateer, their 
 prize, behind them in that port. The same day the regiment here in 
 garrison received new clothes and swords, and two of the grenadiers, 
 to try the goodness of the blades, went out with their seconds into the 
 field, and after kissing and embracing each other fell to it, and after 
 afew passes, one was run through the body and died instantly on 
 the spot. The other combatant received three such wounds as it 
 is believed will cause him also to make his exit. 
 
 From Cowes on the 4th we hear that yesterday came into that 
 harbour to stop a leak the Restoration, of and for London, in eight 
 weeks from Barbadoes. The master said he came thence in company of 
 thirty-two sail of merchantmen (without any convoy) bound for 
 England, and ten sail bound for New England. The latter soon left 
 them after they came to sea. The rest he kept company with about 
 three weeks, and then was separated and came home alone. He 
 says the island is moderately healthful, but what sickness is, does as 
 much afflict the natives as strangers, but this does not agree with 
 better accounts, which said it lay among new comers that are 
 unseasoned. 
 
 Letters from Portsmouth on the 5th say there are now at Bt. 
 Helens four of their Majesties’ men-of-war, a fireship, and two 
 Dutch men-of-war. Three of the former came in this day from 
 cruizing, but brought in no prize. 
 
 The Swedes and Danes continue in the Downs as in my last. On 
 the 4th a French, privateer chased into Harwich two ships from the 
 Ness, and had the boldness to venture within shot of the fort, which 
 fired some guns at him, and he went off to the northward. 
 
 Letters from Chester on the 4th say they have an account from 
 Carrickfergus Lough in Ireland that a French privateer of forty 
 guns and ten “ pattereroes” took an ‘‘ Antegoman”’ of eighteen guns off 
 that place after a sharp dispute, but quickly after the Dolphin, 
 commanded by Captain Kercher, of twenty-four guns, came up and 
 re-took the prize, and warmed the Frenchman, so that he left her, but 
 in a shattered condition. The privateer took and carried off as much 
 gold out of the ‘“‘Antegoman” as one man could lift into the long-boat. 
 
 On the 5th, Lord Berkeley, with the fleet under his command, was 
 in Rye Bay, and we hear orders are sent down for his lordship to 
 sail. ‘The fleet received little damage in the late storm without it 
 was in tackle, and a bomb vessel lost her anchor and eable. It is 
 believed that the coast of Normandy is so alarmed upon our fleets 
 appearing that we shall be capable to attempt little there now. 
 
 This day the Lord Keeper and the judges, according to order, 
 attended the cabinet council to consider about adjusting the 
 difficulties that have arisen in the bill for sealing of parchments and 
 paper, the judges having not as yet been able to terminate the many 
 
1694. 
 
 July 10. 
 Ordnance 
 
 Office. 
 
 
 
 WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 267 
 
 queries, niceties and scruples that are raised by practitioners, the 
 penalties in the act being severe upon them in case of any default. 
 
 The patentees for the new copper halfpence and farthings are 
 preparing to get them out with all diligence. They will be like those 
 coined in King Charles’ reign. Their Majesties’ effigies will be on 
 one side and Britannia on a rock on the reverse, the new models 
 having been all rejected. 
 
 After a long expectation, and the town for seven days had been 
 pestered with hes of battles and victories which the Grub Street 
 prince and the newsletters related as particular, and with as much 
 certainty as though they had been in the action, we have this after- 
 noon received the four Holland mails that were due, which make 
 no mention of any such action or anything material but the par- 
 ticulars ensuing, viz. :— 
 
 That the body of an army of the Turks assembling at Szlan- 
 kamen were already 25,000 or 80,000 strong, and that they give 
 out to besiege Peterwardein, but say that the Grand Vizier will not 
 be in the field till the middle of August. General Schoning is set 
 at liberty by the Emperor's order. 
 
 On the 25th ulto. the French army under Marshal de Lorge 
 began to re-pass the Rhine at Philipsburg, and the Prince of Baden 
 decamped from Wiesloch and marched and encamped at Gentzburgh 
 near Mannheim, where he had a free communication with the troops 
 of Hesse, 60,000 Saxons having joined him. Before the French 
 re-passed the Rhine a smart action happened between a party of 
 French and the lke of Germans, in which the first were repulsed 
 with a loss of three hundred. Some other small actions have 
 happened to their disadvantage. They have not attacked Heidelberg. 
 The Dauphin has marked out a camp at Fren [Fexhe?], two miles 
 from Liege and one from Tongres, and has commanded a great 
 number of wagons with six horses each out of the county of Luxem- 
 burg, and continues to make great warlike preparations at Huy. 
 
 From the King’s camp at Rosbach, the ;4,th of July, they write :— 
 On the 30th in the morning we took four spies in the camp, [three] of 
 them were priests and the other an Irish boy. ‘T'wo of them are 
 condemned to be executed. On the 7th we brought in seventy of the 
 enemy’s foot and ten horse, and on the 8th another of our parties 
 brought in 114 foot and 48 troopers with their accoutrements. Near 
 three thousand of them have deserted since the opening of the 
 campaign. On the ;th the French army decamped and marched to 
 Tongres, and are now encamped between Liege and Maestricht, upon 
 one of which places it is thought they have a design. 
 
 From Paris on the 6th we hear that on the 19th ulto. part of the 
 army under Marshal de Nevilles invested Gerona (?). On the 26th 
 the trenches were opened. In the place is a garrison of three 
 thousand foot and five hundred horse, commanded by a brave 
 governor. The fleet under Marshal de Tourville is before Barcelona, 
 but has attempted nothing. We have no advice of Admiral Russell. 
 [Greenwich Hospital News Letters, Bundle 4, No. 45; and ditto Entry 
 Book 6, p. 121.] 
 
 The Ordnance Board to Sir John Trenchard. You will see from 
 the enclosures the difficulty, we lie under as to sending a further 
 supply of ordnance stores to Admiral Russell. 
 
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 1694. 
 
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 London. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 At his first sailing, besides their full allowance, including the 
 additional rounds of powder and shot lately established, he took 
 seven store-ships with him, whereof, on parting from Lord Berkeley, 
 he took three with him to the Straits. Inasmuch as he might then 
 have taken what more stores he pleased, we must suppose he is 
 sufficiently supplied. Not yet knowing how long he may be con- 
 tinued abroad, please inform us of the Queen’s pleasure, whether a 
 further supply must be sént after him; for we are unwilling, unless 
 commanded, to put their Majesties to what’ we think an unnecessary 
 charge. [S.P. Dom., William and Mary 14, No. 60.] Enclosing :— 
 (1) Lhe Lords of the Admiralty to Lord Romney, dated 8 July, 1694, 
 desiring him to provide ordnance stores for Admiral Russell's fleet, a 
 list of which is appended. Copy. [Ibid. No. 601.] (2) The Ordnance 
 Board to the Admiralty, dated 5 July, 1694, transmitting a lst of 
 gunner’s stores on board the three store-ships which Admiral Russell took 
 with him to the Straits, which they hope will be sufficient to prevent the 
 charge of sending more after him. Copy. [Ibid. No. 6011.] (8) The 
 Admiralty to the Ordnance Board, dated 7 July, 1694. Unless the 
 Ordnance Board is assured that Admiral Russell now has a fitting 
 proportion of gunner’s stores for his fleet, you are to send a further 
 supply to the ships now under dispatch. The convoy going to Cadiz 
 will be ready to sail in a week or ten days from Spithead. [Ibid. No. 
 60 111. | 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater, at Newcastle on 
 Tyne. The Venetians began on the 15th of June to attack Cielut in 
 Dalmatia, and the place surrendered to them on the 17th upon 
 honourable terms. In it were found eight pieces of cannon. It isa 
 passage into Bosnia, Albania and Herzogovina, and has considerable 
 dependencies. The Duke of Savoy has deferred the march of the 
 confederate army for some days, till the harvest be got in. The 
 Republic of Genoa has sent to demand succour from the French, in 
 case they should be attacked by the confederates for not consenting 
 to pay the contribution so often demanded. 
 
 Letters from Vienna of the 7th tell us that the departure of 
 Marshal Caprara for Hungary was still deferred for some days 
 longer, by reason that the Imperial Chamber had not been able to 
 pay the necessary money for the campaign; that the Turks made 
 no movements; and that General Schoning was dangerously sick 
 and daily visited by the ministers of the court. 
 
 The ‘‘freshest” letters from the army of the Prince of Baden are of the 
 10th and 11th of this month, when he was encamped at Hochenheim, 
 between Philipsburg and Heidelberg, where he designed to continue 
 till the forage was consumed, all things not being ready or adjusted 
 about his passing the Rhine. Deserters and prisoners inform that 
 the Marshal de Lorge has ordered [orders?} to detach 10,000 men 
 for Piedmont, but that they were not as yet on their march. 
 Marshal de Lorge continues with the French army between Worms 
 and Spires; they are busied in casting up redoubts and making 
 ‘‘retrenchments” upon the banks of the Rhine at such places as they 
 think proper for the Germans to lay their bridges at, being resolved 
 to dispute the passage at the river. On the 12th the Bishop of 
 Breslau was elected, at Berguinthell, great master of the Teutonic 
 Order, and, at I’rankfort, Bishop of Worms. 
 
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 From the camp at Rosbach on the ?;th we learn that since the last 
 post there have been no motions of the armies, nor has anything 
 happened in those parts beyond the continual desertion from the 
 enemy and the bringing in of prisoners. It was believed, when the 
 French army moved on Sunday, they intended to have gone further, 
 but since their march was so short, we are likely to remain here until 
 they decamp again. They have entrenched their camp where it lies 
 most open to us. His Majesty has been pleased to extend his mercy 
 to the two priests who are condemned as spies. 
 
 On the , th we hear that on Tuesday last arrived at Diest 2,500 
 Brandenburg horse under the command of Lieutenant-General 
 Dellwitz, and are cantoned in the adjacent villages expecting 
 his Majesty’s further order. This morning Baron de Stein, 
 brigadier of the Dutch forces, was sent express from the King to 
 Prince Louis of Baden. Yesterday two of our parties beat two of 
 the enemy’s, and brought in several prisoners. The two armies 
 continue still in the same disposition. 
 
 We learn from Brussels on the 14th that, upon the last march of 
 the enemy, it was resolved in a great council of war that the body 
 under the Elector of Bavaria and the Brandenburg horse do join the 
 King, and that the army should advance after the enemy to oppose 
 their designs upon Liége or Maestricht; but, whilst all things were 
 disposed for a march, the King was informed that the Dauphin had 
 not advanced so far as he was informed, but continued on this side 
 the river Terre, upon which he deferred the march of the army of 
 the allies. The French have countermanded their pioneers that 
 were summoned to their army, and the appearance of undertaking 
 a siege or bombardment has vanished into smoke. It is believed 
 their true design was to draw the allies into the plain to give them 
 battle. However, it is thought, whenever it shall happen, they will 
 set little by it, for the army under the King, when joined with the 
 body under the Elector of Bavaria and the Brandenburghers, 
 makes 65,000 foot and upwards of 60,000 horse. 
 
 Letters from Paris on the 16th state that an envoy extraordinary 
 is expected from Portugal with the offer of a mediation of that 
 prince for a general peace. Marshal Tourville on the 4th returned 
 to ‘Toulon with the fleet under his command, and the galleys came 
 next day to Marseilles. Lord Mounteashell, who commanded the Irish 
 troops, after some indisposition died. We have advice from the 
 coasts that Admiral Russell, with the fleet under his command, has 
 passed up the Straits. 
 
 On Sunday evening an express arrived from Lord Berkeley bearing 
 date the 13th of July from Dieppe Bay, giving an account that 
 the day and night before the date of the express they had 
 cast into Dieppe from the bomb ketches 1,131 bombs and 
 18 carcasses, with such execution that they had laid two-thirds 
 of the town in ashes, and that the next morning they designed 
 to complete its ruin; that not above eighteen of our bombs had 
 broken in the air; that at the same time the castle and four new 
 batteries from the town played incessantly upon us, and, as it was 
 computed, sent above 1,500 cannon shot and bombs at us, but with 
 so little execution that we had only five or six men killed and 
 wounded. They have a great many men drawn down upon the coast, 
 
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 and some of them by their clothing seem to be regular troops, which 
 however, do no other harm than to look on and be witnesses of the 
 calamities we bring upon them. ‘This town is large, and it is believed 
 contains 80,000 souls. Lord Berkeley designs to sail along their 
 coast and visit the rest of the maritime towns .......- spent a 
 machine ship commanded by Captain Dunbar before Dieppe with 
 sreat success. The Marquis of Carmarthen was brought from the 
 fleet in the Shoreham, which brought the express, and landed on 
 Sunday at Portsmouth. His Lordship’s indisposition is not a fever 
 but a pain in the stomach. The Duchess [of Leeds], his mother, went 
 to Dover on Saturday, where the Mary yacht attended to carry her to 
 the fleet on the French coast, where she expected to have found her 
 son. The Lords of the Admiralty have given orders for the fitting 
 up of several machine ships and shallops to be sent to Lord 
 Berkeley. One Mr. Walmesley has been taken into custody of a 
 messenger for practices against the Government. We have nothing 
 material from the ports. 
 
 P.S.—From Paris on the 19th we have advice that Admiral 
 Russell on the 7th inst. appeared before Barcelona, and that 
 Marshal de Tourville with the French fleet has retired to Toulon, 
 and has placed the galleys to defend the entrance to that port 
 
 and has . . . . a great many batteries of cannon and mortars. 
 From Rosbach on the }2 we hear that on Monday night last a 
 
 party of the garrison of Liége took three hundred horse from the 
 enemy with several prisoners, and yesterday a party of the army 
 brought in a colonel, three captains, with an engineer and about sixty 
 prisoners. On Tuesday night the Prince of Vaudemont came to wait 
 upon his Majesty, having just arrived from Italy. Orders are given for 
 our march to-morrow, which, bringing us near the enemy, may give the 
 oceasion of a battle, for which all things are in ~readiness with 
 us. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 46; and dttto Entry 
 Book 6, p. 127.] 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater, at Newcastle on 
 Tyne. Letters from Cracow of the 17th past say that the Polish 
 army continues to assemble on the frontiers of that kingdom, but to 
 what end is not known, for they believe few of the Tartars will be 
 upon the borders this summer, by reason the Khan was preparing to 
 march with his troops for Slavonia to join the Ottoman army under 
 the Grand Vizier. General Veterani is drawing his forces together to 
 cover Transylvania from the inroads of the Tartars upon the advice 
 he has received of their advancing towards Hungary. It is believed 
 the Imperialists, if the Turks do not appear very powerful in the field, 
 will attempt something upon Temesvar. The Russians have all orders 
 to advance near the Save and oppose the Turks, in case they should 
 attempt the passage of that river. The Turks show no disposition 
 to set on foot a treaty of peace till the end of the campaign, but in 
 all probability will take their measures according to the success 
 thereof. 
 
 They write from Strasburg that the French gendarmes were to 
 march for Piedmont, but the discourse of sending a detachment to 
 Flanders had quite vanished. De Lorge continues to make more 
 forts along the banks of the Rhine to oppose the confederates’ 
 
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 passage, who seem at present to have little inclination to the same, 
 whether from a discrepancy amongst the different interests and 
 parties that compose that body, which the Prince of Baden cannot 
 direct or command as he would otherwise do, or froma ..... 
 that the army enjoys more Lae Tike LE Gan se ewe es oe of Spires, 
 where they are at present, . . . . Rhine, where the French 
 nie destroyed all the ...... "the subsistance of man and 
 east. 
 
 In Flanders the greatest trial of skill at present seems to be which 
 of the two armies can outlive each other in their present encampment, 
 but both being pinched for forage, it is believed they will soon be 
 necessitated to remove, and the French show a good inclination to 
 pass the Meuse, but as it is believed are afraid of our armies being 
 in their*trousses, as the French phrase it, or in plain English, giving 
 them a kick in the breach, all our dragoons remaining posted behind 
 the right wing for that purpose. Major Jaques Pasteur, who has the 
 guard of the forest of Soigne, on the 6th inst. with 120 of his 
 fusiliers attacked a party of French, and after a little resistance took 
 the commander and ninety soldiers prisoners, and brought them into 
 Brussels. 
 
 Letters from the Hague of the 10th say that we have released there 
 all the French seamen that were prisoners, in order to send them 
 home, the enemy having promised to treat ours after the same 
 manner. ‘There are letters from Lord Paget, which make no mention 
 of any footsteps toward a peace with the Turks, but only that the 
 Grand Vizier designed to take the field about the latter end of July. 
 The armies in Piedmont afford us no news as yet. It is believed 
 the Duke of Savoy deferred the taking of his measures till the arrival 
 of Admiral Russell with the English and Dutch fleet upon the coast 
 of Provence. 
 
 From Paris on the 6th we hear that they write from Pignerol on 
 the 23rd past, that the Duke of Savoy has caused several pieces of 
 cannon sent to his convoy, to be sent to his camp, and other 
 instruments for breaking the ground, and that he expected his 
 cavalry from about Casale. As soon as they had joined his army, 
 he designed to march for Provence. The price of bread corn is 
 considered fallen in this kingdom, to the great solace of the people. 
 
 On the 81st we hear from Edinburgh that the French privateers 
 continue very numerous and insolent upon our coast. On Thursday 
 last they came within the mouth of the Firth, and took two vessels 
 laden with timber from Norway, and afterwards put them to ransom 
 by the owners, continuing upon the coast till Saturday following, at 
 which time the money stipulated was sent to them. The Council 
 met this day; the most considerable thing they did was the ordering 
 a proclamation for the country to bring in “the accounts of what is due 
 to them from their Majesties’ forces, who are paid out of the first 
 money paid in upon the poll, and they are ordered to bring in their 
 accounts by October next to the clerks of the Council, and the 
 proclamation to be issued forth to-morrow. 
 
 We hear from Plymouth on the 8rd that, on the first inst., there 
 passed by to the westward a fleet of merchant ships, consisting of 
 about thirty sail, bound some for New England, Virginia and other 
 parts of the West Indies, and three for the East Indies, under convoy 
 
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 of three men-of-war. This evening their Majesties’ ship Weymouth, 
 Captain Juniper, commander, brought in a French privateer of twenty- 
 four guns and 180 men, which he took the 81st past off Scilly, after a 
 chase of three days, being the best ‘‘sailer’’ belonging to St. Malo. 
 Letters from Weymouth of the 4th state that on Thursday came 
 into Portland Road the Berkeley Castle with the Goodwin prize, and 
 the Discovery brigantine, from cruising before St. Malo, and brought 
 in with them four French pilots, which they took before that place. 
 By making a waft, they came off to them through a mistake, as 
 
 believing them ships that wanted . . . .. them into that 
 port, but with inform[ation] ..... got from them I cannot 
 learn. : . . will they trust so. 
 
 On the 4th we hear from Chester that the common scribblers in 
 their letters have falsely divulged several gentlemen to be brought 
 hither in custody, that are now in peace at their own habitations ; tL 
 therefore think fit to give you the names of all such gentlemen as 
 are now prisoners in the castle of this city, and they are Sir Rowland 
 Stanley, Sir William Gerrard, Sir Thomas Clifton, Mr. Leigh of Lyme, 
 and Mr. Langton, and last night was brought hither under the guard 
 of Dutch troopers, one Jackson, an innholder of Preston, one Woodson 
 an upholsterer of Wigan, and one Wilson, all three ordinary persons. 
 Several more have been searched after in Lancashire, but they have 
 thought fit for the present to withdraw themselves. 
 
 Lord Berkeley, having yesterday taken his congé of the Queen, 
 parted this morning for Deal to meet the fleet in the Downs which is 
 COMminS a eee St. Helens. This morning all the new machine 
 ships fell down the river in order to join the fleet in the Downs. This 
 coming about of the fleet makes most believe their design to be upon 
 some other place than 8t........ , but a little time will discover 
 their design. The encampment designed at Hounslow is put off 
 LOKist <. Meee In my last I mentioned some removes would be 
 made among the commissioners of the Customs and Excise...... 
 
 . thus declared, viz.: out of the first commission will be removed 
 the Hon. Mr. Booth, first commissioner, Sir John ........ 
 Sir Richard Temple, and will be succeeded by Sir Walter Young, 
 bart., Mr. Chadwick and Mr. Clark, at present warehouse keeper at 
 the Custom House. Out of the Excise will be removed Mr. Wilson, 
 Mr. Hornby and Mr. Aram, and will be succeeded by Mr. Dancers, 
 Mr. Foote Ansloe and Mr. Clark, burgess for Taunton. This 
 morning Sir Thomas Stanley was seized by a warrant for high 
 treason. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 47; and ditto 
 Entry Book 6, p. 188.] 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater, at Newcastle 
 on Tyne. From Turin of the 6th letters bring news that the army 
 decamped the day before from Buriasco for want of forage, and 
 marched and encamped between Cavour and Garziliame(?); but the 
 troops of Spain continue in their camp between Airasca and San 
 Secondo. The French have put three battalions into Pignerol, and 
 Cattinat has come with fourteen battalions more and encamped 
 under the walls of that town. The Vaudois have lately had a ruffle 
 with the enemy’s foragers in the vale of St. Germans, where they 
 killed several of them and pressed them over a river in great dis- 
 order. The Duchess of Savoy was seized on Tuesday before the 
 
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 date of these letters with a continued fever. According to the letters 
 from Lyons, a malignant and contagious fever has for some time 
 reigned there, which has made great ravage, as it does now in divers 
 other parts of France. 
 
 Letters from Paris of the 16th speak of the great perplexity and 
 distraction the council at present seems to be in about the affair of the 
 fleet, not knowing what to conclude, till they have some further sight 
 into the designs of Admiral Russell, and what he will enterprize in the 
 Mediterranean. In one day’s council they seem to conclude that 
 Tourville shall take his opportunity to pass for Brest, in the next they 
 fall upon new thoughts, and hope that he, with Marshal Noailles, 
 may still have an opportunity to attack Barcelona, to which end 
 Noailles has possessed himself of all the posts along the sea coasts 
 within four miles of the said place, which has so terrified the 
 inhabitants that many of them have already fled the place. The 
 court now begins to have thoughts about raising fresh funds for 
 prosecuting the war for the ensuing year, and one method that seems 
 to be pitched upon is by the erecting of three new parliaments 
 or grand courts of judicature, viz., at Lyons, Poitiers, and Tours, the 
 disposal of which places will bring fifteen millions into the King’s 
 treasury. ‘The King has ordered Monsieur Vauban to give in the plan 
 of a city to be built at Are in heu of Dieppe, and, in commiseration of 
 the great loss of his subjects of that town sustained by the bombard- 
 ment, his Majesty has promised to contribute timber and other ‘‘gross 
 materials’ towards the building of this new city. The price of corn 
 has fallen to a degree which makes it reasonable, yet the want of 
 money to purchase it is so great that ordinary people suffer famine in 
 the midst of plenty, and they have as much need now for a long 
 prayer to supply them with this want, as before with a plentiful crop ; 
 yet one thing seems to add to their comfort which would be esteemed 
 a judgment to another nation, that as they have little victuals so they 
 have bad stomachs, the whole kingdom (if our accounts be true) being 
 at present in a sickly and languishing condition. 
 
 Letters from Brussels, dated on the 18th, say that on Saturday last, 
 about ten in the morning, Count de Guiscard, governor of Namur, 
 with twenty-two squadrons and four battalions appeared near the 
 Mehaigne, towards the side of Arlon, at the same time that our 
 right wing was foraging that way within a mile of Namur. His 
 hussars, with several squadrons and some few infantry, advanced 
 upon our foragers, and had put them into confusion and flight ; 
 but afterwards, attempting to force a pass that was secured by a 
 detachment of our infantry, were repulsed, and several of them 
 killed upon the spot. At the noise of this action the Elector of 
 Bavaria posted away at the head of seventeen squadrons, and the 
 Brandenburg general at the head of several others, in hopes to have 
 flanked the enemy, but they hastily retired under the cannon of 
 Namur. Most of the horse that were at first missing have since 
 returned, having made their escape in the disorder. The King, 
 upon advice that the enemy designed to march towards Charleroi, 
 decamped this morning and marched towards Gemblours and 
 Fleurus in order to obviate the design. 
 
 Letters from Falmouth on the 11th state that just then came into 
 that port three Dutch capers with two prizes, the one a banker of 
 
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 sixteen guns from Newfoundland, the other a settee with alum from 
 Civita Vecchia, both bound home for Nantes, near which place they 
 were taken. 
 
 We learn from Plymouth on the 12th that this day came in from 
 cruising their Majesties’ ship Weymouth, Captain Juniper, commander, 
 and brought with him a French privateer of eight guns which he 
 took yesterday off Scilly from two others of twenty guns each, to 
 whom he also gave chase ; but whilst he was securing this the other 
 two got off. 
 
 There is now at St. Helens their Majesties’ ship Captain and another 
 frigate, and at Spithead two English and four Dutch men-of-war. 
 
 Lord Berkeley on board the Queen, with the squadron under his 
 command, is detained in the Downs by the “ blustrinesse ’’ of the 
 weather and the contrary winds. The Danish man-of-war mentioned 
 in my last as is in our possession, will so continue till the 
 King’s pleasure be known, and whether the King of Denmark 
 will justify the action and chastise the commander of his frigate. 
 However, I hear in the meanwhile the Danish resident disclaims 
 the action, and says Captain Barefoot did it without order, though 
 there is little regard to what a minister affirms or denies in such a 
 case, it being a common thing with them to do either as they shall 
 think it most conducive to the service of their master. But the 
 government is so far from being cajoled that they have ordered the 
 stopping of the Danish ships that were so lately discharged, and 
 likewise of all of that nation that shall be found in any of the 
 English ports, until satisfaction be made for the high affront, and 
 at the same time orders are sent to Admiral Hopson, who is now 
 before Dunkirk, to haste away to Denmark to convoy home what 
 English ships we have there. 
 
 Their Majesties have been pleased to grant an annuity of 2,000/. 
 per annum to Charles, Duke of St. Albans, for the better support of 
 his dignity. Yesterday was issued their Majesties’ proclamation for 
 the apprehension of Colonel Parker, with the promise of 4001. to 
 anyone that shall apprehend him so as he may be delivered into the 
 hands of justice. Captain Billop, who at present has the command 
 of the guard-ship whose station is about Sheerness, some few days 
 since seized eight persons, that were making their escape for France 
 in a small vessel, having no passes, it was believed, to depart the 
 kingdom. Yesterday they were brought to town and examined by 
 the secretary, and are continued in custody. Against some of them 
 warrants were already out for their apprehension for high treason. 
 One Mr. John Ferguson has obtained a grant of water bailiff for 
 the river Thames, from Staines Bridge to the head to be that river, 
 with all the fees and advantages that belong to the said office. 
 [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 48; and ditto Entry 
 Book 6, p. 141.] 
 
 Newsletter addressed to Mr. Thomas Errington, at Dilstone, New- 
 castle-on-T'yne. Our letters from Edinburgh of the 14th bring news 
 that Major McDonald, who was with the Viscount of Dundee in his 
 rebellion, and has been ever since in France, returning lately home, 
 was on Saturday last seized at a tavern in this city and committed 
 prisoner to the Tolbooth. It is said several papers were seized about 
 
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 him of dangerous consequence. Mr. Carsan, the skipper that 
 transported the garrison of the Bass to France, returning home last 
 week, was taken into custody, being accused of landing them at 
 Dunkirk, contrary to his orders, which were to another place. He was 
 afterwards liberated upon finding bail of 200/. sterling, to answer 
 the same before the Council when called. The committee of 
 Council appointed have not yet fully agreed to the disposing of their 
 forces along the coast, only at present two regiments of dragoons 
 are sent for to Edinburgh, and will be sent to the north, and there 
 cantoned upon the coast. They had for several days most 
 excessive rains, accompanied with thunder and lightning, which has 
 done great damage, especially to their harvest. The whole kingdom 
 is in perfect peace, and they have no other disturbance than what 
 the French privateers give to their commerce, which makes their 
 merchants uneasy. 
 
 Letters on the 16th from Falmouth state that, sice my last, they 
 have had very stormy weather with a south-west wind, so that 
 the ships there bound southward continue wind-bound. There 
 are very few “pilchers”’ or other fish as yet taken, but they have a 
 very plentiful harvest of corn and fruit. The Newfoundland masters 
 seem unwilling this year to proceed on their voyage, as well by 
 reason the year is far spent, as that they have advice that the French 
 have sent some frigates thither to destroy our fishery. 
 
 Letters from Plymouth of the 17th inform us that yesterday 
 arrived there from Bideford thirty French prisoners, who were taken 
 on board a sloop by one of our privateers, so that we have now three 
 hundred French prisoners there. This evening the Weymouth and the 
 Germoon sailed thence cruising, and we have still in port four frigates. 
 
 We have received letters from Cowes, dated the 18th, which state 
 that yesterday came into that road from the eastward the Cloudesley 
 galley, Captain Matthews, commander, bound for Newfoundland, 
 as also a Swede from Dunkirk bound for Rochelle. 
 
 From Portsmouth of the 19th we have also received letters, 
 stating that the Dutch outward-bound fleet for Bilbao continues 
 wind-bound in Stokes Bay. The English and Dutch men-of-war 
 mentioned in my last lie at Spithead, and have since been joined by 
 the Soldadoes prize. 
 
 We learn by letters from Deal of the 19th that their Majesties’ 
 ship Hampton Court came into the Downs from the river on the 
 18th. Lord Berkeley with the fleet is under sail for the coast of 
 France. Yesterday the Swiftswre and the Danish man-of-war that 
 fought the Stirling Castle sailed for the river. The great ships 
 will be left in the Downs and sent up the river, the admiral having 
 gone on board the Kent, a third-rate. In the late stormy weather 
 several boats have been upset and four or five men drowned. We 
 have here seventeen machine ships, being the invention and con- 
 trivance of Mr. Meisters, a Dutchman of the Board of Ordnance, 
 upon which the success of the present design very much depends. 
 We have also fifteen bomb vessels, on board which are sixteen 
 mortars, the fine Drake bomb-ketch carrying two. 
 
 We are informed by letters of the 18th from Chester that on 
 Monday last a French privateer took, between Holyhead and Dublin, 
 a ship of this place called the Star, and carried the master away, 
 
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 but returned the ship. From a master and some passengers yesterday 
 arrived from Dublin, we have an account that the report was there 
 that the Assistance frigate had retaken the Scarborough frigate, 
 lately taken in St. George’s Channel, with the privateer that took 
 her and two other prizes; but this we know to be a mistake, for on 
 the 2nd inst. she was carried into Havre-de-Grace. 
 
 The Danish Resident has lately sent us up two memorials from 
 Dover in relation to the affair of Captain Barefoot. In the first he 
 insinuates that we were too hasty with the captain in not giving 
 him time to consider it before we attacked him, and could have 
 wished we had pressed it more to have seen his orders than we did, 
 ete. In the second he seems to justify the action, declaring that the 
 captain had acted according to his orders, which were not to strike 
 to any prince’s flag whatever, and withal declares his master did not 
 think the said ceremony of striking would have been exacted of him, 
 by reason the ships of England were not obliged in any Danish port 
 to pay the like ceremony to the ships of war of Denmark, etc. To 
 both which memorials an answer has been sent down to the envoy. 
 
 Yesterday a sad accident happened in the house of one Mr. 
 Heywood in Salisbury Court, which was thus: one Captain Aldrid 
 (a person well-known to His Majesty and one who has made several 
 experiments of a new invented shell of his) was in his own chamber 
 with one Mr. Paul, fixing his shells for another experiment, when the 
 King returned; by some accident two shells rubbing together 
 took fire, by which Aldred was very much wounded and the 
 Paul killed ; but there is no manner of plot in this affair as 
 is given out, and some ‘‘ discerning noddles”’ would have it. I hear 
 a match is agreed upon, and will be speedily consummated, between 
 the young Earl of Warrington and Madame Thomas, a great heiress 
 of Wales, who has 8,000l1. or 4,000/. per annwmn, and has been courted 
 by, and has rejected, some of the ereatest men of the kingdom. 
 Some time last week the Duke of gerenns (sic) was lke to. have 
 been stolen by a young gentlewoman of Kent, but, the matter being 
 “smoked,” he was happily rescued, and is now under maternal care. 
 
 We learn by letters of the 20th from Deal that yesterday afternoon 
 the English and Dutch fleet, under the command of Lord Berkeley, 
 sailed out of the Downs for the coast of France. But a little 
 beyond the South Foreland, the wind rising high at W.S.W., was 
 obliged to return into the Downs, where the fleet rides now at anchor ; 
 but the Royal Katherine, receiving some damage to her fore top-mast 
 sail, could not weather the point of the Goodwin, so she was obliged 
 to come to an anchor three leagues off, where it is hoped she will 
 ride safe. The great ships were to have remained in the Downs, and 
 the admiral to have gone on board the Kent, and Sir Cloudesley 
 Shovell on board the Captain; but that resolution was altered, and 
 the fleet sailed yesterday together. 
 
 Apartments are preparing in the Tower for the gentlemen now in 
 Chester Castle, who are expected up from thence in a few days. 
 To-morrow our little camp of four regiments of newly raised horse 
 and dragoons breaks up at “Hounslow, and the men march to their 
 assay [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 49; and ditto 
 Do, Entry Book, 6, p. 147.] | 
 
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 Newsletter addressed to Mr. Thomas Errington, at Dilstone, New- 
 castle-on-Tyne. Letters from Rome of the 14th ult. state the 
 affair of Liege had been again considered, but after five hours’ 
 debate nothing further was resolved in it than that the statutes of 
 that church should be sent to Rome by the 20th of the next month, 
 by reason the agents of the Elector of Cologne and Cardinal 
 Bovillon had produced very different copies of those statutes, both 
 pretending them to be the true. The Emperor pretends that his 
 troops in Italy shall take their winter quarters in Romagna, 
 Bologna and Ferrara, which the Pope uses his utmost endeavours 
 to prevent, and to that end he is raising forces, and seems resolved 
 that, if arguments will not do, he will oppose force with force. 
 The Emperor alleges that Innocent XI besides this granted 
 him subsidies to carry on his war. The Grand Duke of Tuscany 
 has notified to the Pope that Admiral Russell demands the freedom 
 of the port of Leghorn for his fleet. 
 
 There is little appearance that the Duke of Savoy will undertake 
 any considerable enterprise this campaign. He is now marching 
 the confederate army towards the Valley of Susa, and it is said 
 designs to block up Cassall so closely that nothing shall go in or 
 out, and in order thereunto will cut off the communication between 
 that garrison and the fort of St. George. 
 
 On the 8th ult. Admiral Russell arrived before Barcelona. On the 
 9th he was joined by twenty-four Spanish galleys, and our last 
 advices from Spain left him there on the 20th, and say that, by some 
 frigates he had sent out, and ten Spanish galleys, he had taken 
 several French vessels bound from Marseilles with provisions and 
 ammunition for their army in Catalonia. The Spanish court is 
 preparing a present of jewels worth 24,000 piastres for Admiral 
 Russell, and one of half the value for Admiral Calenberg. 
 
 They write from Vienna that Count Caprara was on the eve of his 
 departure for Hungary to take upon him the command of the army 
 there and that Admiral Assembourg had gone to Slavonia, to draw 
 together the armament on the Danube; that the Grand Vizier arrived 
 on the 6th, or as other letters say the 16th, at Belgrade, but without 
 his army, which followed him, and that the Cham of Tartary 
 was expected at Weiden with his troops. 
 
 The armies upon the Rhine continue much in the same posture. 
 The Prince of Baden has sent back to Neckarsulm (?) the vessels that 
 were bringing him some materials, that carried with them the 
 prospect of an enterprise, and it is said also that the pioneers, which 
 he had summoned in from Swabia and Franconia, are countermanded. 
 
 The discourse of the Hague is of a design to take in Furnes, and 
 that the Duke of Wurtemberg will be sent before for that purpose. 
 We are assured that the army is much stronger than that of the 
 French, and that the army will be divided, and the King will observe 
 the Dauphin, whilst the Elector of Bavaria acts with the other part. 
 
 Letters from the King’s camp at Wanneghem of September the 3rd 
 say that the heavy baggage goes to Ghent to-morrow, and some 
 thousands of pioneers have been at work there three days to make 
 the roads passable. The French army is now at Rousselaere near 
 Courtrai, and is increased by the neighbouring garrisons to the 
 number of 120 battalions. The troops that marched from the 
 
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 garrisons of Liége and Maestricht have been encamped for some 
 days without the gates of Ghent, but are ordered to march again 
 to-morrow. 
 
 By letters of the 6th from the King’s camp at Wonterghem 
 we hear that our army marched from Wanneghem, and came to 
 that place the day before, on this side the river Lys. The French are 
 between Courtrai and Mooreseele, and have sent a detachment 
 towards Furnes to cover that part of the country. We have had 
 several advantages within these few days over some of the enemy’s 
 parties. 
 
 Letters from Paris of the 8rd inform us that letters from Italy 
 say that Admiral Russell had sent to demand of the Grand Duke of 
 Tuscany the liberty of the port of Leghorn, and provisions for 
 his fleet, but that prince had proferred 200,000 crowns to be 
 exempted, and the report is that the same admiral will also oblige the 
 republic of Genoa to contribute. © 
 
 We have received letters from Edinburgh, dated the 28th of August, 
 saying they have an account from Galloway that a large privateer 
 of thirty-six guns has for some days cruised before that place 
 and thereabouts, which has not only interrupted their herring 
 fishing, but obstructs their trade with Ireland, and that they had 
 landed some men and surrounded the house of one,Campbell, an 
 innkeeper, in which was a drover named Kennedy, who came from 
 England, from whom they took a considerable sum of money; after 
 which they carried away the landlord of the house and some of Sir 
 Thomas Kennedy’s tenants, whom they kept on board till they paid 
 their ransom. They committed some other depredations in other 
 places and carried away cattle on board, ete., which put the country 
 into that consternation that they are almost afraid ‘‘to keep their 
 houses.” But several troops are ordered to those parts to prevent 
 further insults. 
 
 We hear from Falmouth on the 380th that on the 28th in the 
 evening there sailed thence their Majesties’ ships the Archangel, 
 Virgin prize, Berkeley Castle and Joseph, and under their convoy 
 thirteen ships for Newfoundland, three for the East Indies, four for 
 Virginia, and others for Guinea, Barbadoes and the Straits, amount- 
 ing in all to the number of thirty-three sail. 
 
 Letters from Plymouth of the 31st state that on the 29th sailed 
 thence their Majesties’ advice boat Germoon, with a packet for 
 Jamaica. | 
 
 Letters from Cowes, dated September the Ist, say that on the 
 29th past there sailed thence westward about twenty sail of ships, 
 Swedes, Danes and Portuguese, bound for France, Portugal, etc., 
 and yesterday passed by that road the Straits and Portugal fleet, 
 consisting of about two hundred sail -of English, Dutch, ete., under 
 convoy of seven English and Dutch men-of-war. 
 
 From the Downs on the Ist we learn that yesterday sailed thence 
 up the river to the Tower all the store ships which have attended 
 the fleet this summer. This morning returned into that road the 
 transport ships which carried the three regiments of foot to Ostend, 
 and this morning sailed thence an advice boat and a man-of-war 
 with an express to Admiral Hopson. The Charles galley has brought 
 into the Downs a Swedish ship which she took coming out of 
 
 ~ Dunkirk bound for Nantes with contraband goods. 
 
1694. 
 
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 We hear from Deal on the 8rd that the fleet under Sir 
 Cloudesley Shovell is now riding with their topsails loose in a sailing 
 posture. The gentlemen, taken into custody in Cheshire and 
 Lancashire upon the account of the conspiracy, are expected in town 
 to-morrow. Some few days since one Mr. McKay, a Scotch gentle- 
 man, who has lately had a station upon the coast about Harwich, 
 to inspect such persons as come into or go out of the kingdom 
 without passes, etc., was met and assaulted near the Royal Exchange 
 by one Mr. Le Rue, first by a torrent of bad words, and then w ith 
 his sword, and was by him disarmed upon the account of an injury 
 (which he pretends he had received) from an affidavit by Mr. McKay 
 some time ago, by which means he had some time been detained in 
 custody ofa messenger. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No.50; 
 and ditto Entry Book 6, p. 155. | 
 
 Newsletter addressed to Mr. Thomas Errington, at Dilstone, New- 
 castle-on-Tyne. The letters from Genoa of the 14th of the last 
 month tell us that, on advice of the arrival of Admiral Russell before 
 Barcelona, that government was extremely alarmed, being appre- 
 hensive that he would come before that place and oblige them 
 to declare and pay the contributions the Emperor has so often 
 demanded of them for ‘‘*tifes,”’ and some of the principal inhabitants 
 are so struck with ‘‘a panic fear” (having the former bombardment 
 still fresh in their memory) that they have removed their best 
 effects up into the country. But at the same time the senate is 
 vigilant for their defence and security, and to that end has posted 
 twelve thousand troops along their coast, and has likewise dispatched 
 an express to the court of France to demand succour in case of 
 necessity. The Grand Duke of Tuscany has also sent an express 
 to France on the same subject, being under the like apprehension 
 from the confederate fleet, and has increased the garrison of the 
 port of Leghorn to eight thousand men, and that of Ferrara 
 proportionately. 
 
 They write from Turin on the 28rd that, some days before, the 
 Duke of Vendome left the valley of Barcelonetta, and went post for 
 
 Marseilles, to secure that place, and to give orders upon the coast of 
 
 Provence, where they are extremely alarmed on the approach of 
 Admiral Russell, and all the infantry that were posted in that valley 
 have been since ordered to march to Marseilles. The French fleet 
 continues in the port of Toulon, but not a seaman is permitted to 
 put foot on shore. 
 
 Letters from Paris of the 8rd of September say that, oe advice 
 that the Duke of Savoy was approaching towards Beenisehell, . 
 and Marshal de Catinat immediately marched his tr oops ‘that 
 way. The Marquis de Lery parted the 25th past in the morning 
 for Susa, and on the same day Marshal de Noailles, with the 
 army under his command, decamped and passed the river Tet (?) with 
 a design, as it was believed, to besiege Casa Follit (2), which place the 
 Spaniards have lately supplied with a fresh garrison and all things 
 necessary. ‘The army, which consists of about 5,000 or 6,000 men, 
 continues near Barcelona, before which the confederate fleet les 
 drawn up in three lines. We are extremely thoughtful how to bring 
 our fleet about into the ocean. The generals of the Spanish galleys 
 
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 pretended to the command of the English fleet, but the court of 
 Spain determined that we should command the debarkment. The 
 King, to recompense the services of Captain von Bart, has ennobled 
 him and made him a gentleman, and has given him a coat of arms 
 and for supporters two anchors. The envoy of Genoa, in his 
 late audience of the King, assured him that the republic would 
 do nothing to the King’s displeasure, upon which he promised 
 to assist them with his forces upon occasion. By a Holland 
 post arrived since the writing ut supra, we are advised from Rome 
 that the Pope has granted the Emperor 50,000 crowns to assist 
 him in his war against the Turk; that the Holy Office had 
 published a decree against that published by the Duke of Savoy 
 in favour of his protestant subjects; that the envoy of Spain and 
 the consuls of England and Holland at Geneva had given the 
 Doge and senators assurance that they need not apprehend any 
 disturbance from the confederate fleet. The Grand Vizier has 
 taken the field with 60,000, and threatens Peterwardein and 
 Tibull with a siege. Admiral Russell, with the fleet, left Barcelona 
 on the 26th past, taking the course east south-east. | 
 
 From the King’s camp at Rousselaere, the 9th N.S., we hear that 
 yesterday the King marched with a considerable part of his army 
 from the camp at Wanneghem thus far into the enemy’s country, 
 being within less than three leagues from Courtrai, and four from 
 Ypres and Dixmude. Part of the left wing, mostly English horse, 
 with the troops commanded by Count de Flegan, remain in the 
 former camp. The Duke of Holstein Ploen has gone towards Liege 
 to command at the siege of Huy, which is to be carried on by the 
 garrisons of Liege and Maestricht, with the Brandenburg horse, and, 
 as they thought, may be invested by this time. ‘The French army 
 continues between Courtrai and Moorseele, where they are strongly 
 entrenched, having sent a detachment towards Ypres to cover that 
 place, besides that gone towards Furnes. On Wednesday morning 
 last Lieutenant-Colonel Forbes, of Lord George Hamilton’s regiment, 
 and Lieutenant-Colonel Browne, of the English train of artillery, 
 went out to fight with sword and pistol upon some words that passed 
 between them the night before, and the former was killed. 
 
 From Edinburgh, by a letter of the 80th past, we are informed 
 that a libel is raised before the Council against Sir George 
 Lockhart’s tutor for not qualifying himself by taking the oaths 
 according to the late act of parliament. He is the first that has 
 been prosecuted upon the same that is barely in quality of a private 
 chaplain or tutor. The Harl of Arran is upon his departure for 
 London, and to-morrow Major-General Levingston goes towards 
 Berwick, to view the several ports the troops are quartered in for the 
 security of the coast. 
 
 From Dublin of the 29th we hear that the governor of Galway 
 has seized a French privateer that came on shore near that place. 
 She was called the Fortune of St. Malo, and carried 10 guns, 
 6 ‘‘pattereroes” and60 men. Colonel Calthrop’s regiment has landed 
 there safely from England. 
 
 From Chester, the 3rd September, we hear that on that day a 
 soldier of Sir Richard Atkins’ regiment was shot to death for 
 deserting. He cast dice with three more condemned for the same 
 crime, but it was his fate to be the victim to justice. 
 
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 Yesterday Lord Molyneux and the other gentlemen from Cheshire 
 and Lancashire (whose names I lately gave you) were brought 
 to town under a guard, and are at present continued in custody 
 of messengers and not committed, the sessions in the Old Bailey being 
 adjourned - to Monday next. Several persons will then be brought 
 upon their trials upon indictments of high treason. Some letters 
 mentioned that four regiments of ‘‘footmen” were ordered for Flan- 
 ders; the same is false, and Sir Henry Bellasis was ordered, which is 
 since countermanded. On Sunday morning last Mr. Le Rue was taken 
 in custody of a messenger by a warrant from the Duke of Shrewsbury 
 for the assault committed upon Mr. McKay, and will be tried for 
 a high misdemeanour. We hear by a letter from Deal of the 5th 
 that the English and Dutch fleet weighed yesterday in the afternoon, 
 but in a little time re-anchored again about the South Foreland, 
 where they yet remain; but it is expected they will sail again next 
 tide if the wind and weather serves. P.S.—From Paris of the 6th we 
 are informed that on the 24th past the ........ =. was 
 advanced with our army within two miles of Barcelona, but the 
 viceroy had received into that place a reinforcement of 3,000 men 
 from the fleet. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No.51; and ditto 
 
 dntry Book 6, p. 161.] 
 
 Newsletter addressed to Mr. Thomas Errington, at Dilstone, New- 
 castle-on-Tyne. The Elector of Brandenburg has recommended 
 to the Emperor to terminate the affair of the ninth electorate 
 with all convenient speed, the Electors who have hitherto dissented 
 having at last remitted the affair to the decision of his Imperial 
 Majesty. Our last letters from Brussels of the 8th bring news 
 that the army of the allies, having begun to pass the Lys upon 
 the bridges they had laid over at ‘Deynse on the 4th, completed 
 the same on the 5th. The Elector of Bavaria, who was in the 
 advance guard, took his quarter at Comegsen, and the ling of 
 England is at the village of Oesselghem. On the 6th the horse 
 were again saddled to canes fhe. march, but, a contrary order 
 coming, they were sent that day and night to forage, but on the 
 7th in the morning they marched towards Xousselaere, where are the 
 quarters of the Elector, and those of the King at Thielt. 
 
 The French army, at the approach of that of -the allies, retired a 
 little backward towards Ypres, to be nearer at hand to cover the 
 places upon the lines. Marshal Bouffleurs separated with the 
 body of his army from that of the Dauphin to return towards 
 the Meuse, the enemy apprehending the siege of Huy. General 
 Deubits quitted the army of the allies with the Brandenburg cavalry 
 in his return to the country of Liege, arrived on the 6th at Soignies, 
 and on the 7th at Arquennes, near Neuville. Prince Albert of Branden- 
 burg, who left the said body at Soignies, arrived at Brussels on 
 on the 6th at noon under the guard of 800 horse, and missed very 
 narrowly falling into the hands of a detachment of 400 of the enemy’s 
 horse and 200 foot, who missed the design upon the “‘ barque”’ of 
 Antwerp, coming a little too late upon the channel. The prince, 
 with his guard, passed in view of the enemy, who, believing they 
 were troops coming to attack them, posted themselves advantageously 
 in seven small squadrons and two platoons (?) of infantry, and stood in 
 
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 this posture expecting to be attacked, by which means the prince 
 gained Brussels without suffering the least insult. But the enemy, 
 finding themselves deceived, plundered the neighbouring villages, 
 carried away a great many horse, and came within musket-shot of a 
 counterscarp of Brussels, near the gate of Anderlecht. 
 
 The same day Count de Guiscard, governor of Namur, having 
 advanced with 600 or 700 horse to Wavre, commanded out from 
 thence a party of the forest of Soignes, who had the luck to find 
 the sentinel of the guard of fusiliers asleep, by which means he 
 surprised the guard and put them to flight, after which he took 
 60 horse out of the waggons that came thither to load wood. When 
 Major Pafleur (who had the guard of the said forest, and was with 
 another party of his fusiliers at the passage of Waterloo) had advice 
 of this, he speeded thither with such diligence that he met and 
 attacked them in the road by which they were returning, with so 
 much vigour that he rescued the horses and beat the enemy out 
 of the forest, taking several of them prisoriers. 
 
 Captain Dumoulin, having also got intelligence that the French 
 were in the forest, went out with a party of 80 dragoons towards 
 Wavre, and cut off the retreat of the enemy; but, alighting to refresh 
 his horse, he was on a sudden encompassed by the cavalry of Count 
 de Guiscard. He defended himself valiantly, but having too many 
 enemies upon his hands to deal with, was forced to get off as well 
 as he could, leaving 15 or 16 men behind him, either killed or taken 
 prisoners. 
 
 From Edinburgh of the 6th we hear that yesterday the King’s 
 Council met, and ordered the provost and some of the baillies of 
 Stirling to be sent for in custody, being accused of drinking the 
 health of the late King James and Prince of Wales, and some other 
 Jacobite “pranks.” A party was dispatched thither for them, and 
 they are this day brought in here, and committed to the Tolbooth 
 gaol. The Earl of Aboyne, notwithstanding the allowance of his 
 freedom till this day, was yesterday ordered prisoner to Stirling 
 Castle, where he is to enter himself in a few days; his governor 
 and two servants (proving all three to be priests) are continued in 
 custody, but kept apart. This day one Mr. Smith, who agitated for 
 his lordship, was seized and committed to prison, being likewise 
 discovered to be a priest, and his papers were seized, which it is said 
 contain matters of consequence in relation to the government. The 
 committee appointed to consider the complaint made by the 
 commissioners of the General Assembly, that lately returned from 
 the north, having made their report; the Council have thereupon 
 ordered that the keys of the respective churches that are already 
 declared vacant shall be delivered to the presbyter, and that such of 
 the episcopal ministers as continue to preach, without being legally 
 qualified, shall be presented before the Council. The Council has also 
 recommended to the Lord Advocate to raise a process, and cause to 
 be cited all the Romish priests and considerable papists in the king- 
 dom. ‘The six Irish prisoners taken at Stranraer (?) (mentioned in my 
 last) are ordered to be brought hither under the guard of a troop of 
 dragoons. A proclamation is preparing to be issued for the forbid- 
 ding any skipper, under a severe penalty, to bring any person hither 
 from Holland, without a pass signed by the conservator in Holland. 
 
1694. 
 
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 Post Office. 
 
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 On the 10th at night arrived at Bristol the Parham sloop 
 from Antigua, the master of which reports that before he came away 
 Colonel Russell, the new governor of Barbadoes, had arrived safe 
 at that island, and that the late governor, Colonel Kendal, had gone 
 with the frigate that arrived with the convoy, and some others 
 that were there before, and what force they could make, to the assist- 
 ance of Colonel Beeston, governor of Jamaica, against the French that 
 had made a descent upon the island. 
 
 There are letters this day from Vice-Admiral Hopson, bearing date 
 the 10th, from Dunkirk, which said he expected John du Bart out with 
 his squadron in two or three days, in order, as he declared, 
 to engage him. Upon which he had prepared all things for the 
 encounter, but the arrival of Sir Cloudesley Shovell upon that coast 
 with a stronger squadron will no doubt prevent the dispute. 
 
 The twelve bomb vessels, &e., as mentioned in my last, still continue 
 in the Downs. On the 12th in the afternoon the Post Boy advice 
 boat was sent out of the Downs after Sir Cloudesley Shovell with 
 an express. ‘This day was launched at Deptford a new sixth-rate 
 frigate named the Swan, and five more of the same rate are also ready 
 to put off the stocks. Last night Lord Molyneux and Sir William 
 Gerrard were committed to the Tower for high treason, and this day 
 Sir Rowland Stanley, Sir Thomas Clifton and Mr. Leigh were also 
 committed to the Tower, and two others to Newgate. 
 
 Orders are sent down to Chester and Lancashire to disarm all 
 persons that decline to take the oaths, and to give security for 
 their good behaviour. The Spanish ambassador solicits the exchange 
 of the Karl of Clancarty, Major-General Dorrington and Colonel 
 Mackilligott, now prisoners of war in the Tower, for some of their 
 officers taken in Catalonia. 
 
 This day was a smart struggle at Guildhall about the choice of two 
 sheriffs, but the decision is left to a poll. [Greenwich Hospital News 
 Letters 4, No. 52; and ditto Entry Book 6, p. 167. | 
 
 Sir Robert Cotton and Thomas Frankland to [the Duke of Shrews- 
 bury]. By his order of the 8th February last, the King signified 
 that he thought it for his service that small boats, of no force and 
 good sailers, should be employed between Harwich and Holland as 
 packet boats, instead of boats of some force, which were then made 
 use of. Such vessels were accordingly provided. Being of no 
 defence, it was fit they should be extraordinary sailers to escape the 
 privateers. ‘lo make them so, according to the opinion of the naval 
 officers whom we consulted, it was necessary they should be low- 
 built.: But experience shows that in ‘‘ blowing weather” they take in 
 so much water, that the men are constantly wet during the whole 
 voyage, and can no ways go below deck to shift themselves, being 
 obliged to keep the hatches shut to prevent the vessel from sinking. 
 This is such a discouragement to the seamen, that it will be the 
 oreatest difficulty to get any to endure those hardships in the winter. 
 
 These boats are likewise able to make no defence in case they 
 should be attacked. Upon sight of any vessel at sea to windward of 
 them, they dare not venture to pursue their voyage for fear of being 
 taken, but return again into port. This has very often this summer 
 obstructed the regular course of the mails. Besides, they dare not 
 
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 readily put to sea with an indifferent wind, because in such case they 
 must be so long making their passage, that they are in eminent 
 danger of being a prey to the enemy. 
 
 We are sensible of how great importance the regular dispatch of 
 the mails may be, and therefore thought it our duty to make this 
 representation. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 14, No. 61.] 
 
 Copy of an agreement between James Corry, Henry Caldwell, 
 and Captain R obert Clerke. Whereas I, James Corry, am appointed 
 and authorised by the inhabitants of Inniskillen, who have suffered 
 by the late fire, to petition their Majesties, and to solicit and procure 
 such sums of money as can be obtained, for which I am, in considera- 
 tion of my expense and pains to have one half, know therefore that I, 
 the said James Corry, do promise that Mr. Henry Caldwell and Captain 
 Robert Clerke, who are to assist me in the said affair, shall have for 
 their own proper allowance one moiety of my half as a consideration 
 of their pains; always provided they shall be at one half of the 
 expense, and shall likewise give their personal attendance on the 
 said business when it is transacted in England. Signed, James 
 Corry. [bid. No. 62.] 
 
 Address of the House of Commons of Ireland to Lord Capell, not 
 dated, asking help for the inhabitants of the borough of Inniskillen, 
 who, by their defence of that place, by maintaining many thousand 
 protestants who fled there for shelter, and through the fire that 
 consumed the greatest part of the town, with the market house, are 
 
 reduced to great want and poverty. | Jbid. No. 638.] 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater, at Newcastle- 
 upon-Tyne. Letters from Rome of the 15th bring that the French 
 had proposed and recommended the Duke de Gaudagne for general 
 of the ecclesiastie state, instead of the Duke Ersi 2), who has taken 
 upon him that charge. 
 
 The congregation of the Holy Office, being disturbed at the 
 reiterated complaints of the resident of Savoy, and their decree 
 against the Vaudois, are so far from revoking of it, that they 
 pretend still to take further resolutions in relation to that affair. 
 
 The Venetian fleet arrived on the 7th of September before Scio, in 
 the Archipelago, it being an island of about 124 mileslong. On the 
 8th, in the evening, General Steuan began to debark his men, which 
 he did without opposition, and took the town of the haven whilst 
 his cannon and mortars were unshipping. The inhabitants of the 
 haven surrendered, after the death of the commander, to the 
 number of 200, upon condition that they should be transported into 
 Asia. ‘The Venetians began to bombard Scio on the 12th, when the 
 seneschal dispatched away an express for Otranto with this news. 
 In the castle are four thousand Turks and inhabitants, yet they 
 hope in a little time to reduce it, by reason there are few troops in 
 the island to succour it, and the greatest part of the inhabitants are 
 Greek Christians. The Ottoman fleet has repassed the Dardanelles 
 after having debarked two hundred men at Tenedos. 
 
 From Venice on the 23rd comes the report runs that General 
 Molini has taken the castle of ‘‘Trasconch,” not far from Lepanto. 
 
1694. 
 
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 » Letters from Milan of the 20th say that the Spanish army 
 advanced towards ‘‘Chivasey” to be separated. The Republic of 
 Genoa agreed to pay the Germans 1,250,000 scudi in lieu of 
 winter quarters. 
 
 From Vienna of the 28rd we hear that there is nothing from 
 Hungary. The discourse at court is of a marriage between the King 
 of the Romans and the Princess of Sweden, and of the departure of 
 the court for Prague to crown the Empress and the King of the 
 Romans. The French make new proposals of peace. 
 
 Our letters from the Rhine bring ‘‘nothing of news,” but the 
 repartition of winter quarters. 
 
 Those from Liege of the 2nd inst. say that the new Prince is busy 
 in settling his government, having changed all the late ministers of 
 state but two. They have pointed out to the allies the necessity 
 of their permitting commerce with France whilst the Spanish 
 Netherlands do the same, but would rather it could be prevented in 
 the latter. 
 
 Paris letters of the Ist inst. [o.s.] state that the Dukes of Luxem- 
 burg and Villeroy have returned from the army. Count d’Estrée is 
 also hourly expected, and the generals in Germany are also upon 
 the road, so that the troops on all sides are in their winter quarters, 
 excepting those in Piedmont, which are also preparing. We have 
 the confirmation that the fleet has debarked six thousand men 
 at Palamos, which were ordered to be landed at Blanes, whither 
 de Noailles was to march his army and receive them, but that 
 resolution was altered upon fresh reasons. On the 23rd Tourville 
 returned to Toulon with the whole fleet excepting a man-of-war, 
 which had troops on board, and a flute with bombs, which were 
 separated from the fleet in a violent tempest. All thoughts of 
 
 ~attacking Barcelona are laid by for this campaign. All our letters 
 
 from Vienna, Ratisbon, Innsbruck, Frankfort and Basle speak of 
 nothing but a negociation of peace that is on foot. They say 
 there that Abbé Morrell, who has been some time absent, Count de 
 Crecey, Monsieur de Heerley, counsellors of state, and Monsieur de 
 Callieres, have gone to different courts to dispose and temper them to a 
 peace, and by particular letters from Strasburg we are assured that 
 several conferences have been held in a town upon Lake Constance 
 between the envoys of his majesty the Emperor, the Duke of Savoy, 
 and other princes. My author concludes his letter with this post- 
 cript: ‘‘ May God grant their negociations may have a good success 
 for the repose of Europe,” from whence we may conclude the low 
 estate that France is reduced to. 
 
 We hear from the Hague on the 5th that the King continues 
 detained from embarking by contrary winds. The King of Spain 
 has demanded that orders may be sent to Admiral Russell and 
 Vice-Admiral Callenburgh to act with discretion in the Mediterranean. 
 
 A letter from Edinburgh, of the 25th October, states, as in my 
 last I mentioned, the murder committed by Major Menzies upon 
 Mr. Robert Patrick, advocate and town clerk of Glasgow, and the 
 pursuit that was made after him by the citizens from the several 
 roads that lead from that city. I have now to add that a party of 
 them overtook him at Renfrew, about four mules distant, and 
 demanded of him to surrender himself prisoner; he drew his sword 
 
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 and stood upon his defence, upon which one of the pursuers with a 
 
 carbine shot him dead, who is thereupon taken into custody and 
 must take his trial for murder for the same, according to the civil 
 law in that case. Major McDonald, some time since mentioned to 
 be committed close prisoner to the Tolbooth for being in France with 
 King James, is at liberty upon his consenting to be * exterminated ” 
 out of their Majesties’ dominions. This day the proclamation (we 
 lately mentioned) was published intimating that the parliament 
 should be when the King’s pleasure should be further known 
 concerning the same. 
 
 Our letters from the ports afford nothing worth mentioning. 
 
 The Duke of Tuscany has sent a letter to the King acknowledging 
 him with all his titles. It is said the republic of Venice are sending 
 an envoy to do the like, so that this still may be attributed to the 
 eood effect of the confederates’ fleets in riding admiral in the 
 Mediterranean. Three months’ provisions more are preparing to be 
 sent to the fleet to Cadiz, the last convoy being only a supply to the 
 latter end of February. The present which the King of Spain made 
 Admiral Russell cost six thousand doubloons. On Saturday last 
 Captain Thomas, of Colonel Brewer’s regiment, was married to 
 the widow of the late Major-General Sudlow, by which means the 
 dispute has ceased that was like to arise betwixt them about the estate 
 of that ‘‘ creat fortune,” Madam Anne, — , lately deceased, and 
 though there be some disparity in their years (the lady being 
 much the elder) yet all mankind must approve of her generosity 
 in this action on the one side or of the great prudence on the other. 
 Dr. Gouge, minister of St. Martin’s, departed this life after six days’ 
 indisposition of a fever, and it is said will be succeeded by Dr. 
 Lancaster. Yesterday the judges, upon their coming to town, attended 
 the Lord Keeper to give him an account of their proceedings upon the 
 special commission in Lancashire and Cheshire. The wind being 
 easterly these two days we hourly expect to hear the King has landed. 
 oe ich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 58; and ditto Entry Book 6, 
 p. 115 
 
 Lord Montagu to Mr. Vernon, with regard to a pardon for some 
 person condemned. If the shewing of the report from the Admiralty 
 to the Queen be postponed, Lord Montagu can furnish arguments, 
 which will incline the Queen to merey. [S.P. Dom. William and 
 Mary 14, No. 64.] 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater, at Newcastle- 
 upon-Tyne. By a Holland mail since my last, we have letters from 
 Turin of the 8th inst. which bring little news, further than that His 
 Royal Highness was putting the valleys in a posture of security 
 against any attempts from the enemy during winter. The Republic of 
 Genoa had sent orders to their consul at ‘Barcelona to compliment 
 Admiral Russell in the name of the senate upon his arrival in the 
 Mediterranean, and have agreed to admit none but merchant ships 
 into their harbour, and not to suffer any of the enemy’s ships of 
 war to retreat thither upon any occasion. 
 
 Letters from Transylvania of the 21st ult. say that the Turkish 
 convoy arrived on the 17th at Temesvar, and from thence they 
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 body consisted of about eight thousand men, and was commanded by 
 a Turkish bassa and Sultan Galga. The rest of the Turkish army have 
 broken up from Belgrade, and they are entirely separated. The 
 Grand Vizier has returned from Adrianople, and the Cham of Tartary, 
 who has continued with him ever since their retreat from 
 Peterwardein, has returned home, much afflicted at the news of 
 the defeat of his troops by the Poles. There is advice that the 
 Tartars who escaped at the battle afterwards fell into Moldavia, where 
 they plundered and burnt all before them, and carried away a 
 great number of miserable people into slavery, notwithstanding they 
 were their allies. 
 
 They write from Vienna on the 10th that the Vizier found in a 
 review of his army at Belgrade that they were diminished twelve 
 thousand foot and seven thousand horse. There is advice from 
 the frontier of great commotions that have happened at Constantinople 
 upon the Venetians taking the island of Scio, but their report seems a 
 little premature, and we must expect the certainty by letters from 
 Adrianople. 
 
 The German news is at present very barren. Lord Lexington has 
 parted from Cologne, and takes his journey for Vienna by Mayence 
 and Treves. The Estates of Cologne, now separated, have consented 
 to the raising of a hundred thousand crowns, and given out 
 commissions for the levying four new regiments. Prince Louis of 
 Baden is still at Guntsbourg, and expects the final resolutions of the 
 Kistates of the Empire for the regulation of the winter quarters. 
 
 From Brussels on the 20th, we learn that all things are quiet upon 
 the frontiers and the troops are so disposed that a good army may in 
 a few hours be drawn together. Marshal de Bouffleurs was 
 expected at Lisle on Thursday last. The Duke of Holstein Ploen, 
 who has gone to Liége on his return, is expected with great impatience 
 at Malines to ‘‘assopiate”’ the troubles there, where the commandant 
 of the four English battalions continues to demand justice for the 
 two English officers (vizt. a lieutenant and ensign) that were killed 
 here. The occasion was upon some abuse they offered to a woman. 
 This affair causes such dishonour in that town that the shopkeepers 
 are forced every day to shut in their shops by daylight, the burghers 
 not daring to stir out of their houses at night. 
 
 Letters from the Hague of the 23rd say that Admiral Allemond has 
 parted from Amsterdam to hasten the equipment of the fleet. The 
 States of Holland meet again to-morrow upon the subject of the 
 state of the war. The two French emissaries we lately mentioned are 
 still at Maestricht. Sir Cloudesley Shovell has arrived at Gothenburg, 
 and designs to pass into the Sound. 
 
 From Paris on the 19th we hear they have certain advice from 
 the several courts of Germany that the Emperor persists in refusing 
 the propositions of peace made him by this court. Messieurs 
 Pompaine and Bachivalers have advised the King to have recourse 
 to the Hollanders, and to make them sensible that it is not their 
 interest to suffer one monarchy to be crushed by another, and to 
 assure them of a treaty so advantageous that it shall not be in 
 their power to refuse it ; and with them to comprehend the affairs of 
 England, rather than to make application and overtures to a prince 
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 the whole measures of France. A few days will discover whether 
 the King will follow the advice of these two ministers or no, from 
 whence we may observe that the French monarch’s haughty phrase 
 of giving peace to Europe is now changed to that of begging it. 
 
 Letters from Falmouth of the 12th say that on that morning arrived 
 the Spanish Expedition packet boat in seven days from Corunna 
 with the mail; she brings advice that Admiral Russell on the 18th 
 past was in Cadiz with the whole English and Dutch navy. The 
 soldiers designed from Corunna to Flanders were countermanded 
 for St. Sebastian and from thence to Catalonia. 
 
 Letters from Weymouth of the 14th say that yesterday the 
 Guernsey galley, privateer, brought in here three prizes, one a French 
 ship of 150 tons and 8 guns bound for Havre de Grace, which he 
 took under the cannon of a French castle, after three hours’ fight, 
 the castle firing all that while upon him, and the other two laden 
 with wine from Brest, which he took out of a fleet of thirty sail, and 
 had taken them all had he but had one privateer more in his 
 company. ‘The prisoners say there are forty men-of-war now get- 
 ting ready at Brest, but that they in a great want of seamen. 
 
 On Wednesday last Captain Wiltshire, one of the commissioners of 
 the navy, and Captain Kyles, one of the commissioners for victual- 
 ling the navy, set forward from town in order to embark for Cadiz. 
 Yesterday morning about nine commenced the great trial at the 
 Kktine’s Bench bar between the Earl of Bath, plaintiff, and the Earl 
 of Montague and Mr. Moore, defendants, about part of the late Duke 
 of Albemarle’s estate. The trial lasted all day and night, the judges 
 continuing all the while upon the Bench till nine this morning, 
 when the jury brought in their verdict for the plaintiff. The letters 
 from Cadiz say that Admiral Russell is not yet recovered from his 
 dysentery. 
 
 This morning a sad accident happened in St. Giles’, which was 
 thus: one Mr. William Russell, a surgeon, late of Salisbury, was set 
 upon in order to be arrested by five bailiffs; but he, snatching a 
 sword from one of the bailiffs sides, opposed them for some time 
 till he received a wound and dropped down dead; some gentlemen 
 that stepped in towards the end of the fray killed two of the bailiffs. 
 In conclusion one of the gentlemen and two of the bailiffs were seized 
 by the civil magistrates and the rest made their escapes. 
 
 This being the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s birthday, it 
 was observed with all the demonstrations usual to commemorate 
 so great and good a princess, whose name to the end of the world will 
 be held in veneration amongst protestants. [Greenwich Hospital 
 News Letters 4, No. 54; and ditto Entry Book 6, p. 181.| 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater, at Neweastle- 
 upon-Tyne. According to letters from Rome of the 20th the Duke of 
 Eirsi has already disbanded at Ferrara the greatest part of the new 
 raised forces, retaining in service only the banditti and some other 
 ‘refractory from justice” of Bologna, which he designs to keep in 
 garrison at Ferrara. This conduct of the duke has already by one 
 party drawn some clamour and censure upon him. ‘The Pope’s 
 galleys on the 19th returned to Civita Vecchia from the Levant. 
 
 Letters from Turin of the 28rd say that the body under Marshal 
 Catinat had at last separated and put into Pignerol, Susa, and 
 
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 other frontier places; that a great many Savoyards and protestants, 
 that had been compelled by the French to take arms, daily deserted, 
 and took service with the troops of Savoy. Several Frenchmen had 
 been seized who endeavoured to slip into Cassall with money for the 
 garrison. 
 
 From Hungary, we hear that General Veterani had decamped 
 from Aard with a design to have marched and attacked the Tartars 
 that lay near Temesvar, but, upon the way, received advice that 
 they had retired in great haste towards Belgrade to avoid him, upon 
 which the said General, at Lippova, separated his troops and put 
 them into winter quarters. 
 
 From Germany news comes that the States assembled at Frankfort 
 have sent deputies to General Thungen, governor of Mayencee, to treat 
 with him about the removal of the hussars that are in that garrison. 
 The complaints of their insolences daily increase, they treating 
 friends and foes alike without distinction. The Saxons are increasing 
 the magazine at Frankfort and Miltenburg, from whence it is 
 concluded they design to return upon the Rhine next campaign, or at 
 least some part of that prince’s forces. 
 
 The advice from Flanders is that Marshal de Bouffleurs had 
 formed a design upon Dixmude, but had been defeated in it by 
 the diligence of the Duke of Holstein Ploen, who had put all things in 
 such a state that he could have drawn together a good army upon 
 the least motion of the enemy. In the meantime the openness of the 
 weather caused their troops to_be quiet on both sides, though things 
 are disposed for action in Flanders as soon as a frost happens and 
 time will permit for its execution. 
 
 Letters from the Hague of the 11th say they there expect with 
 ereat impatience the answer of the King of Spain touching 
 the renewing of the prohibition of commerce with France in 
 the Netherlands, which, if the King of Spain do not comply with, 
 the country of Liege threatens also to open a free trade, notwith- 
 standing that it has been represented France gains more by 
 it than by the success of a battle. The crime of the person, 
 lately mentioned to be seized in Zealand for corresponding with 
 France, is now publicly discoursed, and is in substance that, being 
 a person maimed in his fortune, he endeavoured to retrieve the 
 same by his chimeras or projects. To that end he had proffered 
 his service to the States to enterprize something for them in the 
 East Indies, but, they not agreeing with his demands, he applied 
 to the Elector of Brandenburg, offering to secure and put the footing 
 the Brandenburgers have in the East Indies in a better state ; that 
 prince also rejecting his propositions, at last he engaged with France, 
 and proposed to go in the spring with John du Bart with twelve men 
 of war to attack Surinam, belonging to the Dutch. He is daily 
 under examination, and two other persons who are thought to be his 
 accomplices are also seized. 
 
 From Paris, on the 7th, we hear that Abbé Morrell is recalled to 
 court, and the treaty he endeavoured to engage the Switzers in has 
 no manner of effect, which was to lend part of the troops to the 
 King to oblige the Duke of Savoy to an accommodation, and 
 in fine to oppose their prowess and use their endeavours to 
 procure repose to all Europe. The protestant cantons opposed 
 
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 the catholics, but in the main both unanimously agreed to 
 preserve the neutrality which they had kept from the beginning, 
 and not to intermeddle with other folks’ matters. The affair of the 
 Ottoman Porte gives no small occupation to the court, Monsieur 
 Chattaneoff having in his last despatches put out of hopes to retrieve 
 their credit with the Grand Seignior and his ministers without 
 putting forth a fleet next summer in the Mediterranean sufficient to 
 oppose that of the confederates. 
 
 Letters from Edinburgh, dated the 29th, say that on that day the 
 council met, and the Lord Chancellor acquainted the board that he 
 had received a letter from court calling him thither, upon which 
 they made choice of the Earl of Annandale to officiate as president 
 in his absence. On the 18th thirty-six whores were sent from the 
 house of correction in this city to Glasgow, to be with others that 
 are there on board transported to the plantations. 
 
 On the 2nd sailed from Plymouth their Majesties’ ships Assistance, 
 Norwich and Loyalty, and under their convoy the Charles the Second 
 and Samson, with about six or eight other vessels for London, and 
 on Tuesday night they arrived safe in the Downs. 
 
 Yesterday the Kast India Company received the happy news of 
 the arrival of the Samuel (not the Modena) on the 21st ult., at Cork 
 in Ireland. The captain can give no account of the Modena nor the 
 Barbadoes’ ships that were in his company, since they were separated 
 in the storm formerly mentioned, but adds that he was since 
 attacked by a privateer of twelve guns, who after the exchange of 
 some broadsides quitted him. 
 
 We hear from Cowes, that on the 8rd, there put in a vessel of 
 Flushing from Guinea commanded by Captain Fr. Johnson, who 
 confirms the loss of Fort Secundo, and adds that twenty of the 
 company’s ships sailed from St. Thomas with one thousand slaves 
 each for Barbadoes. One of the ships was the Hannibal, whose 
 captain was dead and half her company. ‘The Moors had taken a 
 ship of Flushing, killed all the men and torn the ship to pieces. 
 
 Yesterday the House of Peers had the affair of Lord Banbury 
 again under consideration, but came to no resolution; they 
 adjourned the debate to that day week, and the House to Friday. 
 
 A draft is to be made this week of ten men out of a company 
 of each regiment in England to go for Jamaica, and a convoy will 
 be ready to sail in a few days. ‘lhe convoy for Cadiz will be ready 
 by the 16th of January, Captain Benbow having within these few 
 days taken up several merchant ships in the river to carry stores 
 upon the King’s account. 
 
 The King has not yet declared a new primate, but it is concluded 
 that the Bishop of Lincoln will fill the vacant chair. This night 
 the King designs to prick the sheriffs. Yesterday and to-day the 
 House of Commons spent in examining the Lancashire witnesses 
 on both sides, and after a great many warm speeches and debates 
 ordered their further attendance on Friday week, so that it is 
 difficult yet to know what will be the issue of that affair. [Greenwich 
 Hospital News Letters 4, No. 55; and ditto Entry Book 6, p. 189. ] 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater, at Neweastle- 
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 letters from Vienna of the Ist inst., which give an account that the 
 Bassa of Belgrade had given notice to the Governor of Peterwardein 
 that he had received orders from the Por te to permit Heer Hemskerke, 
 the Dutch ambassador, to return home, and to convoy him as far as 
 Salankemen, desiring that a guard might be sent thither to receive 
 him. This was done on the 18th past. Thus, notwithstanding the 
 bad success of the last campaign, the Turks refuse to set on foot a 
 treaty of peace. The Estates of Lower Austria are consulting about 
 increasing the number of their troops, and it is hoped the Emperor 
 will be in a condition to act on the offensive on the side of Hungary 
 next campaign. In Germany the Prince of Baden has given orders 
 for all things for the opening of the campaign in May next, and 
 instead of the Saxons (who, it is said, will not return on the Rhine 
 unless under the command of General Schoning’ 2) the Emperor will 
 take eighteen thousand other troops into his pay. The Prince of 
 Baden’s palace at Guntsbourg has been lately robbed by thieves, who 
 took away divers moveables of ereat value. 
 
 On the 5th the Klectress of Bavaria arrived, on her journey from 
 Poland, at Berlin, where she was received by the Elector of Branden- 
 burg after the most magnificent manner that court was capable of, 
 but the manner of her cavalcade into Berlin and reception being 
 too long to insert here, we must refer it as a task to the gazettes. 
 On the 8th she designed to proceed again for Spandau and so for 
 Flanders. 
 
 From Brussels of the 12th we learn that Count Doring, grand- 
 master to the Electress of Bavaria, who has been at Vienna, to 
 notify to the Emperor the marriage ‘of the HKlector, returned hither 
 some few days since, and is again parting with Count Preytinge, 
 ereat chamberlain, to meet the said princess on this side the 
 Guelder. ‘The Elector has also named eight gentlemen of his 
 chamber to accompany them, which are the Princes of Chimay and 
 Stenhausen, &c. The Marchioness D’Lode, great mistress to the 
 Klectress, parts at the same time with the maids of. honour. 
 This will be about Friday or Saturday next, and a few days after the 
 Elector will follow in person. 
 
 Letters from the Hague of the 14th say that the Duke of Holstein 
 Ploen has at last sent the two French emissaries at Maestricht to 
 Liege under a good guard, from whence they will proceed to Namur. 
 They have not, as we are assured, discoursed in the least of the 
 restitution of Luxemburg, but will part with only Ypres, Furnes, the 
 fort of Chokier and Dinant as equivalent, which is not in the least 
 hearkened to. The Duke of Holstein Ploen is suddenly expected 
 here from visiting the frontier garrisons, which he has left in a 
 condition not to fear the attempts of the enemy 
 
 We learn from Paris on the 10th that Count d’Hstrée arrived at 
 court on Wednesday last, and informed the King of the campaign in 
 the Mediterranean. Marshal Tourville is on the road; after he has 
 conferred with the King, he will visit the ports on the ocean, and give 
 orders for the equipment of the fleet for the next campaign, 
 which, it is said, will be much more formidable than any of the pre- 
 ceding years. Great endeavours are used to induce the Emperor 
 of Morocco to declare against Spain, and to invade that kingdom 
 with fifteen or twenty thousand men, and to resist his siege on Ceuta 
 
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 and the Spanish garrisons in Barbary, by which means the King of 
 Spain will be put out of a condition to assist Catalonia, and 
 consequently induced to accept of an accommodation, which will 
 soon be followed by a general peace. It is expected that prince 
 will suddenly declare his intentions to the Porte on that point. 
 Marshal Luxemburg has demanded permission of his Majesty to 
 quit the command of the army in Flanders next campaign and retire, 
 but the King has not as yet complied with his request. 
 
 From Plymouth on the 4th they write that yesterday returned 
 into port the Bonaventure frigate from cruising to the westward, 
 and brought in with her the London Merchant, of and for London 
 from Barbadoes, of twenty-five tons, laden with sugar, &c., which she 
 retook from the French. She came out Barbadoes with the fleet 
 and four East Indiamen, and was parted from them in the storm we 
 so often mentioned, which was so long and violent that they are 
 doubtful of the rest missing. ‘This ship is very leaky and much 
 damaged in her cargo, and her provisions were all spent, but one 
 piece of pork, when the Bonarenture came up with her. 
 
 On the 4th a privateer of Flushing brought into Cowes a French 
 banker of about one hundred and forty tons, laden with fish, which 
 he took off Ushant, and before that had taken two more of the same 
 kind, which he carried into Galicia and sold there. 
 
 On Thursday night last, before the Council rose, his Majesty was 
 pleased to nominate Dr. Tennison, Bishop of Lincoln, to the Arch- 
 bishopric of Canterbury, to the general satisfaction of all, he being 
 esteemed a person of great learning, piety, charity and wonderful 
 moderation, and one who in the last reign was a ‘‘common mark” to 
 the Romish priests and Jesuits. It is not yet said who shall succeed 
 him in the see of Lincoln. 
 
 Colonel Fountain who was, some time since, committed to 
 Newgate for high treason, and the last sessions admitted to bail, 
 appeared yesterday on his recognizance at the Old Bailey and was 
 discharged, as were this day Captain Wotton, Mr. Pepper and Mr. 
 Powell of Dover, who were committed upon the affidavit of Mr. Lunt 
 for having, as he pretended, a design to have shot the King as he was 
 hunting in Epping Forest. Yesterday the House of Lords heard 
 counsel in the case between the Bishop of Exeter and Dr. Berry of 
 Exeter College, and this day debated the same again, and referred its 
 further consideration to Monday next. 
 
 Yesterday the House of Commons were upon ways and means, and 
 had under consideration Mr. Foley’s project of raising five millions 
 by a silver tally, each of which should be made to pass for five 
 pounds current, and that there should be a fund of one shilling 
 per pound for some years upon land to answer the same, as also 
 Mr. Neile’s project of a new lottery, a fund upon soap, tobacco, 
 &e. This day the House were in grand committee on the bill for 
 the better trial of treason, and went through the same, and 
 agreed to the several heads, viz. first, it should commence on Lady 
 Day next ; that the prisoner shall have a copy of the indictment and 
 notice of his trial two days before, and the panel of his jury two 
 days before, and shall be allowed two counsel ; and the witnesses, 
 as well for the prisoners as the King, shall be upon their oaths, &e. 
 
 The Bishop of Lincoln has kissed ‘the King’s hand on promotion 
 
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 to the see of Canterbury, and it is said will be succeeded in that 
 of Lincoln by Dr. Hanley. Our cruisers in the Straits have taken 
 seventeen French bankers. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, 
 No. 56; and ditio Entry Book 6, p. 197.] 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Karl of Derwentwater, at Neweastle- 
 upon-T'yne. Our last letters from Turin confirm that the French have 
 retired into their winter quarters, Monsieur Catinat having left as 
 many troops as he thought could subsist behind him in the valleys of 
 ‘* Pragelato and Susa,” in case it should be either attacked or assaulted 
 by the Confederates, before he returns out of Dauphine in the spring 
 with the rest of the army. The garrison of the aforesaid place, at 
 present consists of fourteen battalions, and is to be reinforced with 
 seventeen companies of grenadiers. On the 21st and 22nd of the 
 past month eighty more Irish deserted from the garrison of Pignerol 
 and came to Turin. 
 
 In Germany the French are very busy in making their recruits by 
 forcing young men into their service. ‘he Germans are no less busy 
 upon the same account. The hussars of Mayence have, in an inroad 
 upon the French quarters, taken four hundred head of large fat 
 cattle from them, with which they returned safe to Frankfort. 
 
 Letters from Berlin of the 7th say that on the 5th, in the evening, 
 the Electress of Bavaria arrived in this city from Poland, making 
 her entry, which was very stately, through the gate of St. George. 
 The regiment of guards marched first under the command of the 
 great chamberlain, and was followed by the Polish princess’ 
 halberdiers of horse, forty coaches drawn with six horses each, thirty 
 of the Elector’s halberdiers richly clothed and laid with gold and silver 
 lace, twenty-four of the Hlector’s trumpets, two kettle drums, thirty 
 pages and forty knights, the Mareraves Philip William, and Albert 
 Frederick, the Elector’s brothers ; next the Elector’s body coach, with 
 the royal princess on the right hand of the Electress of Brandenburg, 
 and over against them the electoral princes and the Elector ; twenty 
 four halberdiers on foot and twenty four lackeys; the Bishop 
 of Plocko in a black coach; the ecastellan Vanderweld with his 
 lady; and last followed the train of the royal princess. All the 
 burghers stood ranged in arms from the gate to the palace. The 
 HKlector’s galleys and the pleasure yacht of the Margrave Philip 
 William lay at the long bridge magnificently adorned. During 
 this cavaleade the cannon and musketry thundered incessantly. 
 Yesterday was ‘“‘a curious firework” for her further diversion, and 
 to-morrow she sets forward to meet her future spouse, the Elector of 
 Bavar{ia], ‘‘to crown the toil of her long journey with a sweet fruition.”’ 
 
 From Paris on the 10th we hear that on Wednesday next the court 
 goes to Morlaix to deliberate about the marine affairs, though the 
 King continues extremely afflicted with the gout. ‘They write from 
 Flanders that several horses, which the merchants of Brussels were 
 passing to Mons, were seized by order of the Elector of Bavaria 
 near Cambrai, which is looked upon as a new rupture of the 
 commerce with the Spanish Netherlands, and upon it orders were 
 sent to Monsieur Voisea, intendant of Poitiers, to prevent in like 
 manner the carrying of any sort of merchandize out of the kingdom 
 without passports. We expect with great impatience a hard frost to 
 
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 execute some enterprizes upon the channel of Bruges and upon 
 Niewport. The number of sick amongst the officers and soldiers 
 increase to such a degree that the hospital of the Invalides 1s so filled, 
 that great numbers are forced to go a-begging. It is discoursed to 
 assign them, in lieu of their habitations in the aforesaid hospital, 
 eighty livres per annum during life, to be paid them by the richest 
 monasteries, according as it was practised before the establishment 
 of the Jnralides, which will be a means to induce persons the more 
 readily to come to his Majesty’s service. In the audience the 
 ambassador of Venice had of the King, he mentioned nothing else 
 but the earnest desire the Senate had for the accommodating of 
 matters between the Christian princes, so that they might jointly 
 turn their arms against the common enemy of Christianity, at which 
 the court seemed little affected. 
 
 Letters from Edinburgh of the 4th state that on that morning 
 there left for London the Earl of Tweeddale, Lord High Chan- 
 cellor of this Kingdom, being attended some miles out of town by 
 most of the nobility and gentry, the Lord Provost and magistrates 
 of this city, and about three hundred citizens on horseback. ‘This 
 afternoon the Council met and ordered the confinement of Sir Auneas 
 McPherson to be enlarged and made more easy to him, and gave 
 liberty to the Karl of Home to come to this city and attend his law 
 affairs, and to return again to his confinement in March next. They 
 read a letter from his Majesty about the adjournment of the 
 parhament of this kingdom to the 15th of February next, which 
 accordingly is to be adjourned. 
 
 Letters from Falmouth of the 6th state that on Friday last a 
 French banker ran on shore to the eastward of the Deadman, and 
 most of her men were lost. 
 
 On the 6th arrived at Dartmouth two ships belonging to that 
 place, making their voyage in three weeks from Newfoundland, in 
 company with the rest of that fleet, but they had been separated from 
 them by bad weather. We hear of only four of them that have yet 
 arrived. 
 
 On the 7th arrived at Cowes a vessel from New England. She 
 reports that Sir William Phipps, the governor of that colony, in 
 obedience to their Majesties’ letter, was preparing to embark for 
 England to answer to some articles exhibited to the Council against 
 him. 
 
 On Saturday, the 8th, was launched at Southampton a new ship 
 of eighty guns named the Dorsetshire; on the 28rd another new 
 ship of sixty guns named the Gloucester is to be launched at Bristol ; 
 and, the first spring tide in January, a third of seventy guns, named 
 the Yarmouth, will be launched at Harwich. Besides these several 
 other frigates will be ready to put off the stocks in the spring. The 
 Karl of Strafford, who lately married the Count de Roye’s daughter, 
 died some few days since at his seat in Yorkshire. Some few days 
 past Sir Dennis Hampton, near Maidenhead, in Berkshire, was 
 shot dead by his black upon account of some severe correction he 
 had given him. Yesterday the House of Lords, after a long debate 
 on the cause between the Bishop of Exeter and Dr. Berry, gave in 
 favour of the first without dividing. Yesterday the House of 
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 parliaments to be engrossed, but it first occasioned a long debate and 
 a division of the house, as to whether this present parliament should 
 he dissolved at or before the 5th of November, 1695, or continue to 
 that day 96, and it was carried for the former by three voices. 
 This day the congé d’clire for the electing of the new Archbishop of 
 Canterbury passed the seals. The House of Commons this day read 
 the bill the first time for the rebuilding of Warwick, and were after- 
 wards upon ways and means,.and had under consideration Mr. 
 Foley’s project, and 4s. in the pound upon land, the last of which is 
 like to stick, but the first to fall. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 
 4, No. 57; and ditto Entry Book 6, p. 208 and 7, p. 1.] 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater at Neweastle- 
 upon-Tyne. They advise from Smyrna that the Turks are there 
 drawing a great many troops together, as they give out to make an 
 attempt for the retaking of Scio before the Venetians have well 
 secured themselves there ; but letters from Scio say that the captain- 
 general retained the greatest part of his fleet there for the security 
 of the island against an invasion, as well as to annoy the enemy in 
 their commerce and obstruct their trade in the Dardenelles; at the 
 same time he was repairing the fortifications and putting all things 
 in a posture of defence. Since the taking of this island by the 
 Venetians, the prices of corn and all other provisions have risen 
 extremely at Constantinople, at which the people are much exas- 
 perated against the government. 
 
 They write from Vienna that the Turks and Tartars that 
 revictualled Temesvar have returned to Belgrade. One part of them 
 were added to that garrison, and the rest were disposed into winter 
 quarters. The imperial court was wholly occupied about recruiting 
 and augmenting the imperial army against spring, but the main 
 difficulty they met with was to find out ways and means to raise 
 sufficient funds for that purpose. 
 
 From Brussels on the 15th they write that those which come from 
 Tournai inform them that the French are going to establish an 
 impost upon the water which the brewers draw to make their beer 
 of, as also upon the fountains and other sorts of waters. Passengers 
 from Mons add that they discourse there of comprehending them in 
 the poll tax; that every horse shall be taxed at four florins and 
 a sheep at twenty [?]; that a gentleman shall pay a pistol, a 
 peasant a crown, a ‘‘valet”’ half a crown, without comprehending 
 the women, children and other domestics, who are to be taxed apart ; 
 at the prospect of which the poor ‘‘ Flanderskins” throughout the 
 conquests are extremely mortified, finding a great deal of difference in 
 the change of their masters. 
 
 Letters from Paris of the 18th say the Chevalier du Bart endeavours 
 in the north to draw what seamen he possibly can into the service of 
 his Majesty, and it is discoursed that a free pardon will be published 
 to recall all such as have retired since the war under pain of death 
 to the disobedient, and that the like grace will be extended to all 
 deserters from the army, and it will be prohibited throughout the 
 kingdom for any to wear swords that are not qualified so to do, to 
 distinguish persons the better one from the other, and to prevent the 
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 who encouraged this custom, to the end that all by wearing arms 
 might be accustomed to the use of them and consequently to the art 
 military, has not found since any of the council of his sentiments. 
 Monsieur Fougére de Cures, marshal-general of the quarter-masters 
 of the king’s army, who served in Flanders in the year 1690, and was 
 lost at the battle of Fleurus, and whose wife upon a certificate of 
 his death was married again a year after to Monsieur Menilet, 
 appeared at court three days ago to the great surprise of all, and to 
 the astonishment of his family, and had the honour to kiss his 
 Majesty’s hand. The account he gives is that, after the disorder of 
 the battle, he was found in one of the enemy’s towns, and seized as a 
 spy, and sent by the Hollanders to the Indies, where he has continued 
 these four years past. It is not yet known which of these two 
 husbands the lady will prefer, but his Majesty has given him his 
 choice to take his wife again, paying part of the maintenance of the 
 children of the second marriage and Monsieur Menilet the other part. 
 Yesterday we received a packet from the Groyne and by it letters 
 from Cadiz, of the 21st past, but they bring little more than that 
 Admiral Russell and the fleet was in good health, and that they were 
 busy in careening the ships. The weather for several days before 
 had been so stormy that it had forced in all their cruisers, but they 
 make no mention of the seventeen French bankers being taken, of 
 which we had an account some few days since by a Dutch caper. 
 Our letters from the ports bring nothing material. Those from 
 Deal of the 13th say that there were riding in the Downs about one 
 hundred and fifty sail of ships, of which sixteen are men-of-war, 
 thirty for Virginia, twenty-two for the Canaries, and the rest for 
 Cadiz, Lisbon, Barbadoes, &e. We have no account yet of the 
 Modena nor the Tiger frigate, on board of which was Colonel 
 Kendal, the late governor of Barbadoes; but a Jamaica ship, one of two 
 from Barbadoes, that were separated in the same storm, has put into 
 Treland. 
 His Majesty has been pleased to appoint Mr. Stepney to go to the 
 courts of Saxony and Hesse Cassel in quality of his minister. Dr. 
 Nicholas Barbon, has obtained a grant from their Majesties for the 
 sole use and exercise of a new mill or engine invented by him for 
 raising the water out of the Thames or any other river within the flux 
 or reflux of the sea, without the use of horses or any other beasts. 
 On Thursday evening the King was a considerable time in Council, 
 and, after having made some alterations in the sherifis as they were 
 pricked, a proclamation was agreed upon for the encouraging of 
 mariners and landmen to enter themselves on board their Majesties’ 
 ships of war, which was this day published, and contains a promise 
 of a free gift to seamen of three months’ pay, and to landmen of one 
 month’s, to all who shall enter themselves and remain on board any of 
 their Majesties’ ships of war between the 20th of this December 
 and the 20th of January next, to be paid them at or before the 
 20th of March next; and likewise that during the space of enlisting all 
 press warrants shall be suspended. Yesterday the House of Lords 
 read the first time the triennial bill, and ordered it to be read a 
 second time on Monday next. Yesterday the House of Commons 
 put further off the Lancashire affairs to Thursday next, and then 
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 poundage, and granted the same as a subsidy to their Majesties for 
 five years longer, to commence on the 26th day of this inst. 
 December. This day the Lords read a bill against wilful perjury, 
 to punish it as felony with death, and adjourned its further debate 
 till Tuesday next; but the fate of this bill is much feared, the judges 
 (as it is said) having given some reasons against it. Besides, it 
 meets with some exceptions among the Lords. The Commons this 
 day reported the bill for the better trials of treason, and agreed to 
 the amendments, and ordered it to be engrossed, after which the 
 House went into grand committee and rectified their yesterday's 
 vote, by which they gave their Majesties four shillings in the pound, 
 but omitted the words upon land, and have settled it upon land and 
 money, and not stocks. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, 
 No. 58; and ditto Entry Book 7, p. 2.| 
 
 Newsletter addressed to Mr. Thomas Errington at Dilstone, 
 Neweastle-upon-Tyne. By the last mail from Holland we have 
 letters from Vienna of the 15th, which bring word that Herr 
 Hemskerke arrived there the 11th, aM had his eae audience of the 
 iimperor on the day of the date of these letters, in which he gave his 
 hnperial Majesty an account of what had passed during his 
 sojourning at the Porte, and the small hope there was of a peace, the 
 Grand Vizier wholly declining the same. Lord Lexington has also 
 had his first audience of the Emperor. The only news from the 
 frontier of Hungarv is that the Grand Seignior has cited all the great 
 officers of his army to appear at court, to assist In a great council 
 of war that is to be held at Constantinople. Poor Count Tekeli, 
 who used to be summoned, is now left out, for, his supply of money 
 failing him from France, his credit 1s quite lost with the Porte. 
 
 Lord Galway, having had success in his negociation in Switzer- 
 land in countermining and supplanting the French emissaries that 
 were there in all their intrigues and designs and beating their 
 
 cabals, has returned again to ‘Turin. 
 
 From Brussels of the 26th letters state that the Elector of 
 Bavaria, having received advice that the Electress did not part 
 from Winden till the 23rd, and that she would not be so soon at 
 Guelder as was expected, has deferred his departure till the 28th. 
 
 Letters from the Hague of the 28th say that several persons of 
 quality are preparing to go to Brussels to see the entry of the new 
 Kilectress of Bavaria, which is like to be very pompous and 
 magnificent, and among the rest the Earl of Athlone and the 
 Sieur Dickfelt, the brigadier ; other officers that came hither a few 
 days past, having taken the oaths of fidelity in the Council of State, 
 and dispatched their particular affairs, are ordered with all speed to 
 return to their respective garrisons. Our bomb vessels that are 
 building here according to the model that was sent from England 
 by Six Martin Beckman, will be ready by March, being twelve in 
 number. The ministers at the congress are of opinion (to take off all 
 cause of suspicion from the allies) that no more separate conferences 
 should be held in any part with the emissaries and deputies of France. 
 
 Letters from Paris of the 24th state that what some have mentioned, 
 viz. that three hundred of the main guards with divers of their 
 officers would be reformed, proves a mistake ; but this we are assured, 
 
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 that there will be no promotion of officers in that body this spring 
 as there used to be. A great many officers pass from Toulon to 
 Brest, and it is not known on what design. All the chambers of the 
 parliament were yesterday assembled for the reception of the Count 
 de Toulouse into his charge of Admiral of France, and he took the 
 oaths with the usual ceremonies and returned last night to Versailles. 
 As he at present assists at ali the councils that relate to sea affairs, it 
 is not doubted but he will command the fleet that is to put to sea next 
 summer, which will be composed of ninety-six vessels of war to be 
 armed in the ocean and Mediterranean, viz.:—T wenty-two first-rates, 
 thirty-four second-rates, forty third-rates, besides thirty fire ships and 
 thirty-six frigates. We are also assured that the conjunction of this 
 fleet will not be easy in the Mediterranean, to succour the design of 
 the King of Morocco and Tripoli, who is upon the point of declaring 
 against the King of Spain to assist the Turk and gratify the king. 
 It is believed we shall content ourselves to act separately in the two 
 seas, and that the Count de Toulouse will senna fifty men-of-war 
 in the ocean, and under him the Count de Chateau-Renaud and 
 Monsieur Phillipaux, son to Monsieur Pouchartine. We are assured 
 that there is not an officer that will endeavour to signalize himself 
 this campaign. 
 
 From Edinburgh, letters of the 18th state that the Earl of Argyll, 
 having received his commission as extraordinary Lord of Session 
 has taken the oaths and his place accordingly. On Sunday last 
 flying packet came from his Majesty to the Council. Yesterday they 
 met, and his Majesty's letter was read, which was about recruits, and 
 ordered a draft: to be made of one hundred and thirteen men out of 
 each foot regiment, and one hundred and fifty out of Colonel Hill's, 
 to be delivered to Colonel Ferguson to recruit his regiment now in 
 Flanders; and then appointed a draft of a proclamation to be got 
 ready, which was this day read in Council and approved of and 
 ordered to be published. It contains :— 
 
 1st. That all commanders of the army and other ministers of the 
 law shall secure their seaports, and seize all that are not furnished 
 with passes that are going beyond the seas. 
 
 2nd. That the officers shall press none but such as belong to their 
 own regiments. 
 
 3rd. That such as voluntarily enlist themselves shall not get leave to 
 be discharged, but such as voluntarily offer their services in Flanders 
 shall, after their making three campaigns there, have their free pass 
 to return; and that the proclamation in December, 1692, be observed. 
 
 By the packet above came also a letter from his Majesty to the 
 Lords of the Treasury appointing the Earl of Cassillis to preside in the 
 Treasury and Exchequer during the absence of the Lord Chancellor 
 in England. 
 
 Letters from Chester of the 22nd say that on Wednesday last 
 arrived in the Monmouth yacht from Dublin the Lords Kingston, 
 Blayney (?), Mountjoy and Sir Henry Vane. The great fleet of mer- 
 chantmen, being one hundred sail, bound for Virginia, the Canaries, 
 &e., that lately sailed out of the Downs, have put into Plymouth. We 
 have advice that the Swecess of London, bound for Barbadoes, 
 springing a leak, was sunk at Beachy, but the men saved. After two 
 or three days’ indisposition, the small-pox appeared upon the Queen 
 
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 on Sunday last, but by the great care and skill of Sir Thomas 
 Millington and Dr. Radcliffe, her Majesty’s physicians, in preparing 
 her body by bleeding and vomiting, the height of her distemper is 
 much abated, and they are now like to be very favourable to her 
 Majesty, who has all the possible good symptoms of doing well. 
 The House of Commons have, by an order on Saturday last, for- 
 bidden the writing of any of the debates or proceedings of their 
 House. For this reason I hope those persons and others of quality 
 I have the honour to write to will no longer exact that task at my 
 hand, since I am resolved never wittingly to fall under the dis- 
 pleasure of that honourable house. [Greenwich Hospital News 
 Letters 4, No. 59; and ditto Entry Book 7, p. 5.] 
 
 Newsletter addressed to Mr. Thomas Errington at Dilstone, near 
 Neweastle-upon-Tyne. Letters from Hamburg of the 18th make no 
 mention of the Chevalier du Bart, nor of where he i is with his squadron, 
 nor do the letters from Norway. The troops from Saxony continuing 
 upon the frontiers of that country, it is believed they must next 
 summer descend upon the Rhine. The Emperor designs to raise as 
 many troops in his hereditary countries as he shall have occasion for 
 next year, and the Brandenburg troops that served in Hungary last 
 campaign will return it is said and be employed the next against the 
 French in Flanders, The reason that puts the Emperor upon this 
 new method is that the auxiliary troops had so long a march from 
 Germany to Hungary that the{y]| waste{d]| considerably by the way, 
 besides the great charge of so long a march; while, on the contrary, 
 troops raised i in his own territories, being contiguous to Hungary, will 
 prevent both the one and the other, and may also be kept in 
 stricter discipline than strangers. ‘The troops of Hanover that 
 lately returned from Hungary are recruited, and good part of them 
 will be sent to serve in Brabant. 
 
 They write from the Hague on the 28th as though the town of 
 Leyden had, in imitation of the Spanish Netherlands, a mind to 
 renew its trade with France, upon certain conditions, but great 
 endeavours are used to dissuade them from such counsels, as aleG to 
 break off that between Brussels and the enemy. They are making 
 ereat provision there for their fleet in the Mediterranean, and of the 
 five hundred thousand pieces which the King of Spain has promised 
 to pay that state towards the charge of their fleet wintering at 
 Cadiz, 50,000/. is already paid, but the English bear the charge of 
 their own fleet. 
 
 From Paris on the 24th they write that the letters from Poland 
 sive as little hopes of the success of the approaching Diet as of the 
 preceding, which separated without success; but these letters add that 
 in the meanwhile the frontiers are making a new venture for a 
 separate peace with the crown, proposing to abandon Caminieck, 
 Valenchia, and several other considerable places. On W ednesday 
 last was condemned another of the persons concerned in the late 
 libels that were published against the King and government, and, 
 as he was upon the wheel, he was confronted by the Sieur de Roque, 
 who some time since was in England as a refugee, and returned 
 again, and was made a convert by the Bishop of Meaux, and is now 
 under sentence of death for being concerned in those libels. Making 
 
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 some confession, he was taken from the wheel and reconducted to 
 prison, till the verity of what he had said was discovered. The 
 court is wholly taken up about the affairs of war, but that which 
 puzzles them most is the marine affairs. After all, it is believed that 
 this fleet will not be near so strong as it is given out; it is supposed 
 the court does this on purpose to satisfy the inhabitants of the 
 marine places. 
 
 Letters from Edinburgh of the 20th say that yesterday was 
 published the proclamation relating to deserters mentioned in my 
 last ; and Colonel Ferguson, who is appointed to receive the drafts 
 that are to be made out of several regiments for recruits for the 
 Scotch regiments in Flanders, arrived. here the same night from 
 court with divers other Flanders’ officers. The proclamation above 
 advises that no officer of the standing regiments in this kingdom 
 shall begin the recruiting of their regiments until the officers for 
 Flanders have shipped off theirs. 
 
 This morning the Council met, but had nothing worth considera- 
 tion of public affairs before them, only the General of Orkney 
 delivered in a _ petition against the steward of Orkney (who 
 lately seized some herds brought by a ship), complaining that 
 he had, about twelve months ago, written up to London, to 
 a certain Scotch newsmonger there, a reflecting and scandalous 
 account of the gentlemen of that island in relation to their fidelity to 
 the government, and ordered him to publish the same, which he has 
 done, to their disadvantage; but the Council left it to a legal process. 
 
 From Falmouth, letters of the 22nd state that yesterday put into 
 this port the Weymouth frigate, and under her convoy the Samuel, from 
 the Kast Indies, but last from Cork in Ireland. On the 16th put 
 into Scilly from Kinsale six sail from the West Indies and one from 
 Virginia, and a Dutch ship from Surinam. Captain Juniper, com- 
 mander of the Weymouth, reports that he had an account from Cadiz 
 that their Majesties’ ships Mary, Canterbury, Dragon, and a fourth, 
 were cruizing between Cape Finisterre and the rock of Lisbon to 
 secure our navigation against the French Benen: who infest those 
 coasts. 
 
 Letters from Cowes of the 24th state that that morning came into 
 the road a vessel from Rotterdam, bound with provisions for the 
 Dutch fleet at Cadiz. Jacob Waldens, her master, reports that 
 he, together with five more, was foreed away on the 20th from 
 Rotterdam by the frost, which has so disabled his ship that he has 
 brought her into that harbour to unlade her to find her leaks. He 
 adds that there are a great many ships now frozen up in Holland. 
 
 The great convoy that is designed for Cadiz, together with the 
 bombships, will be ready to sail by the middle of next month. 
 They are to be convoyed by the Romney and Colchester, and the 
 Dreadnought is to go with them one hundred leagues and then 
 return. Such great expedition is used for the equipment of the 
 fleet that is designed for the next summer’s expedition in the 
 channel that several of them have already fallen down from Chatham 
 river to the Black Stakes, and have taken in their provisions. The 
 four new second-rate men-of-war now given by parliament are 
 ordered to be built in the King’s docks, not in the merchants’ yards 
 by contracts, as some of the last great ships have been, against 
 
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 whose deserts the admiral has complained. The eight new bomb- 
 vessels are now also upon the stocks, and will be ready to launch by 
 the latter end of March. 
 
 This day the House of Lords met according to their adjournment 
 on Saturday last, and without doing any business adjourned again 
 till to-morrow. In my letter of the 22nd I gave you an account of the 
 Queen’s indisposition, in that of the 25th of the smallpox appearing 
 upon her. It was, however, at that time disputed amongst her 
 physicians whether her complaint was smallpox or measles, ‘‘ by 
 reason they came out so ill, and her Majesty had a rash with them.” 
 On Tuesday at night she was ‘‘ extreme ill,’ upon which divers of the 
 most eminent of the College of Physicians were sent for next morn- 
 ing, who discovered that, besides the smallpox, her Majesty had the 
 St. Anthony’s fire, and ‘‘a species of ill fever which had spots, upon 
 which they ordered her to be blooded in the temples and arm to the 
 quantity of ten or eleven ounces.”’ Last night she had some sleep, 
 but this day till seven at night continued so ill (yet sensible) that the 
 court 1s all in tears, and the King drowned in sorrow; ‘‘ yet there is 
 still hopes as long as life, which God grant.” [Greenwich Hospital 
 News Letters 4, No. 60; and ditto Entry Book 7, p. 8.| 
 
 Considerations as to notice to be given of the death of a sovereign 
 40 other sovereigns then at war with the deceased. [S.P. Dom., 
 William and Mary 14, No. 65.] 
 
 Proposals offered to the Privy Council by John Butts, their 
 Majesties’ Consul at Elsinore, for the security of our trade, and 
 preventing the French trading into the Sound or any part of 
 Norway. 
 
 { propose that the English and the Dutch should have a small 
 squadron of ships, consisting of two fourth-rate and six fifth-rate 
 frigates, to be continually cruizing between the Skaw and the Naze 
 of Norway; one of these ships should attend constantly at Gottenburg, 
 and there from time to time receive orders and advices from me, and 
 carry the same to the commodore of the squadron. Upon such 
 advices and descriptions as I should give, of the French ships and 
 others with contraband goods, going out of the Sound, few or none 
 could escape coming under their examination. This would prove an 
 effectual means of hindering the French trade in those parts, as well 
 as in some measure securing our own. 
 
 For the better support of the plan, if consistent with their 
 Majesties’ service, 1t would be necessary for us to have a convoy in 
 continual motion to and from the Sound, from March to November, 
 consisting of one fourth-rate and three fifth-rate frigates. One or 
 more of these, on coming and going, might call into Yarmouth Roads 
 and the Humber, to convoy merchant-ships to and from the Sound, 
 there being a considerable trade driven from these parts by the 
 present circumstances. 
 
 If these measures are taken, it will not only obstruct the French 
 trade, but prevent the Swedes and Danes from engrossing ours, as 
 they have hitherto done. If we suffer them to continue so doing, it 
 will encourage them to build more merchant-ships; they have 
 already considerably increased their numbers since the present war. 
 This would totally spoil our trade in the future to those parts in 
 times of peace. 
 
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 If such a convoy were appointed and settled, it would Be requisite 
 to have it published in the Gazette, so that all merchants, as well as 
 masters of ships, might be thereby advertized to take advantage 
 of it. 
 
 That the Dutch will most readily concur in this undertaking is not 
 to be doubted, for their interest is much more concerned there ein, by 
 reason their number of ships far exceeds ours; they have five to our 
 one trading to those parts. Therefore I presume they will allow a 
 greater proportion of ships for the purpose than we need furnish. 
 
 It very frequently happens that either our own, or our enemy ’S, 
 advantage or disadvantage is such, that it cannot be foreseen by the 
 Lords of the Admir: alty, and they cannot have timely notice from such 
 parts, so as to give necessary orders. Such contingencies sometimes 
 happen so suddenly, after the Admiralty have given instructions to 
 the commanders of their Majesties’ ships, that “if such instructions 
 are punctually observed at all times, they may be very prejudicial to 
 the service. To prevent such a contingency, T humbly conceive it to 
 be necessary that, when I may receive advice of a stronger force of 
 French ships, | may have power to detain such of our ships as may 
 then be in those parts, until I can give advice thereof to the principal 
 secretary of state. Such a reinforcement could then be sent as 
 might be able to oppose the enemy. ‘To shew that this may be 
 necessary, I will only instance that, about twelve months since, 
 I received certain advice that du Bart was actually cruizing off the 
 Skaw, with intent to surprize four ships laden with naval stores for 
 their Majesties’ service. Having only two small ships in the Sound, 
 that were to have been their convoy, | did (notwithstanding that they 
 had orders to sail with the first fair wind) prevail with them to stay 
 for a reinforcement. By this means all these ships were probably 
 preserved from falling into the enemy’s hands. [S.P. Dom., William 
 and Mary 14, No. 66.] 
 
 Newsletter addressed ‘“‘ for Mr. Thomas Errington at Dilstone, in 
 Newcastle-upon-Tyne.” They write from Florence on the 11th ult. 
 of the great endeavours that are used by the princes in league to 
 induce the Grand Duke of Tuscany to embrace their part; but 
 whether he may be prevailed with is dubious. Yet itis hoped at least 
 he will furnish the crown of Spain with a considerable sum at small 
 interest. | 
 
 From Venice they write that Captain General Zen, who commands 
 in the Levant, has sent sixteen of his men-of-war to pass the 
 Dardanelles, and oppose the Turks in their attempts for the recovery 
 of Scio, upon which at present they seem very intent, nothing having 
 so sensibly afflicted the Turks, especially the inhabitants of 
 Constantinople, since the taking of Buda, as the loss of this island. 
 
 They write from Rome on the 11th ult. that Cardinal de Fourbin, 
 who lately so solemnly declared that the King, his master, had in no 
 sort endeavoured to arrange a peace, as the confederates had 
 given out, did, the Sunday before, press the Pope to employ his good 
 offices to obtain a peace upon the conditions he formerly advanced. 
 But the Pope, who begins to disengage himself from the interest of 
 France, declared openly that he was astonished to find such 
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 and Spain pretended to have other sort of conditions than as yet the 
 French King had spoken of, and he took it ill of his Majesty to 
 insinuate to “him anything to the prejudice of the House of Austria, 
 who desired to hye. in the most perfect es with the Holy See. 
 
 From ———* we hear that ——-—* have defeated ——---— COL 
 four hundred fee aa to make an incursion into Slavonia, fifty of 
 whom they killed, and took twenty prisoners, with a great many 
 fine horses and other booty. ‘The prisoners report that the Pasha 
 was called to Adrianople to assist in the great council of war that 
 was to be held. The levies to be made in Bosnia advance very 
 slowly for want of money. The Grand Vizier was in great esteem 
 among the soldiery, notwithstanding what the Ottoman army 
 suffered last year in Hungary. There are no hopes of procuring a 
 peace with the Porte, so long as the regency is in the hands of the 
 present Vizier. 
 
 In Flanders they are in some consternation for fear the French 
 will take advantage of the frost, and repass the Rhine and commit 
 some ravage, though all possible care is taken to prevent their so 
 crossing. In Flanders, according to letters from Brussels of the 
 2nd inst., they are making preparations on the frontiers on both 
 sides, but the French are in no condition any longer to make an 
 excursion. Marshal de Bouffleurs has drawn together several 
 battalions in the neighbourhood of Furnes for the security of that 
 place, and has reinforced other posts, the troops that guard the 
 levies being under apprehension that the allies will enterprize some- 
 thing on that side. The Elector of Bavaria left Brussels on the 
 29th ult. to meet his new bride, and has left the Prince of Vaude- 
 mont to command in his absence. 
 
 From the Hague on the 24th ult. we are assured that the allies 
 will not for the future lend an ear to any propositions of peace made 
 by the French king till they offer the restitution of Strasburg and 
 Luxemburg. 
 
 From Paris on the 81st ult. they write that the Duke of Savoy 
 has rejected the propositions of peace sent him in writing by his 
 father-in-law, the Duke of Orleans, by the King’s order, so that now 
 there are no more hopes of a peace on that side than on the other. 
 
 From Edinburgh on the 25th ult. we hear that the Council met, 
 and read a letter from his Majesty, shewing that two Scotch 
 regiments of dragoons now in Flanders stood in need of some 
 recruits, and ordering that one hundred men be drawn out of the two 
 Scotch regiments in this kingdom (those of Lord Jedburgh and Lord 
 Carmichael), and be shipped with the other drafts to go with Colonel 
 Ferguson for Flanders. 
 
 On the 27th and 28th ult. Colonel Lillingston’s regiment of foot 
 marched into Plymouth to be embarked for Jamaica. On the 26th 
 Lord Hatton, governor of Guernsey, arrived in the road of CLowes? | 
 from that island, and went the next morning to Southampton. About 
 one hundred sail of Dutch merchantmen bound for the Straits, ete., 
 arrived at Spithead and St. Helen’s, and wait for a fair wind, and 
 some English men-of-war to join the convoy. 
 
 Yesterday both Houses of Parliament went to Kensington, and 
 presented his Majesty an address of condolence on the Queen’s s death. 
 
 
 
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 The ising was pleased to answer: I heartily thank you for your kind- 
 ness to me, but much more for your sense of our great loss, which is 
 above what we can express. An address was also presented from 
 the Mayor and Common Council of London. The Queen’s corpse is 
 now at Whitehall, and will be some time in state. 
 
 On Sunday the Archbishop of Canterbury waited upon the 
 Princess from the King, and brought back (‘tis said) a letter to his 
 Majesty in answer to one written to her some days_ before, 
 and it is hoped the late misunderstandings will now be wiped away. 
 [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 61; and ditto Entry Book 6, 
 De 15> 
 
 Newsletter addressed: ‘‘ For the Right Honourable the Earl of 
 Derwentwater, Newcastle- upon: -Tyne.”’ They write that the King of 
 Poland has great hopes that the approaching General Diet may have 
 a happy issue, there being a necessity that his troops should be paid 
 and his army augmented, upon advice that the Turks have resolved 
 to employ part of their for ces next summer against Poland, by reason 
 that the mediation of the Cham for a separate peace has not been 
 accepted. 
 
 The letters from Vienna bring word that the ambassador of France 
 at the Porte has given assurances to the Grand Seignior and Divan 
 that his master will, next summer, make a mighty diversion in Ger- 
 many. However, in the councils of war that have been as yet held 
 at Adrianople little has been concluded on, but daily remonstrances 
 at what they suffer by Scio remaining in the hands of the enemy, 
 and how the same may be recovered. The Spaniards have inter- 
 cepted a letter from the garrison of Casall to the governor of 
 Pignerol, in which they declare that they shall be obliged to sur- 
 render if they are not speedily succoured. ‘This is impossible on 
 account of the strict blockade. 
 
 ‘““They write from Paris on the 14th that the King has had some 
 warm discourse with the Pope’s Nuncio upon the procedure of the 
 republic of Venice; and he has also written to Cardinal Janson to 
 make his complaints to his Holiness, upon advice he has that 
 King William is upon the point of being acknowledged by all the 
 Catholic princes and states of Kurope, as also to league himself 
 against the enemies of Christianity in order to conciliate himself with 
 that court as he had already done on all sides and to that end he 
 will furnish the Venetians with fifteen men-of-war in the Levant. 
 At the same time the French Ambassador of Venice, with letters 
 from the Emperor, to congratulate the Senate upon the taking the 
 island of Scio, came a letter from King William upon the same 
 subject. The Emperor in his letter assures the Senate that the 
 said prince is one of the greatest men in Europe, the arbitrator of 
 peace and war, whose word and interest they might rely upon to 
 support the Christian religion, witha great many other fine eulogies, 
 from whence it is concluded at the French court that the league 
 between those two princes | is so inviolable and strait that it is no 
 purpose to speak of peace.” 
 
 The chapel at St. James’ is now hanging with mourning, and the 
 closet with purple cloth, his Majesty designing to hear the Lent 
 
 
 
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 sermons there. The Queen’s corpse will not be exposed in public 
 state till to-morrow week, and it is said will be interred about three 
 weeks after. The Committee of Council sits almost de die in diem 
 to regulate all matters in relation to the public procession, which is 
 like to be so short, being at present designed only from Whitehall to 
 Westminster, that very few, in comparison of the thousands that 
 desire it, will be able to gratify their curiosity. Yesterday the 
 House of Lords regulated some further points in relation to the 
 processions at the interment, and resolved that they go next the 
 corpse. 
 
 We hear Dr. Gardner, sub-dean of Lincoln, is appointed by his 
 Majesty to succeed Dr. Tennison, now Archbishop of Canterbury, in 
 the bishopric of Lincoln, being esteemed a person of great learning 
 and moderation, and accordingly his congé d’élire is ordered to pass 
 the seals. 
 
 On Thursday last, one James Dover, a printer, who has absconded 
 these three years past, was discovered and seized in Petticoat Lane in 
 Spitalfields by Mr. Robert Stephens, messenger of the press. His 
 press was in a cellar where were found six pairs of letter cases and 
 eight several libels, one being a ballad to the tune of Chevy Chase. 
 He is now in Newgate, where he is like to pass his time but ill. 
 
 This week four eminent drovers were seized by warrants in Smith- 
 field, being discovered to have supplied clippers with large money, for 
 which it is said they received 251. per cent. Some goldsmiths also, 
 of eminence in their profession, are brought in for cakes and ale, and 
 have been obliged this week to give bail to answer the indictment 
 brought against them. It is said some public receivers in the 
 country are found to be drawn into this snare. 
 
 On Thursday last eight notorious criminals made their escape out 
 of Newgate. One of them pretended to have something of moment 
 to offer to the turnkey, who thereupon leaned his head to the grating 
 or door. Another of them took hold of his neckcloth and pulled 
 him with such violence as to nearly strangle him, whilst another 
 wrung the key out of his hand and so let themselves out, ‘Two of 
 them, being closely pursued, were taken. The rest escaped, but are 
 only reserved as a breakfast for the gallows another time. 
 
 Yesterday an indictment was preferred and found at the sessions 
 at Hicks Hall against Giles Hancock, the news writer, for a most 
 scandalous lie published by him in his letter of the 5th inst., con- 
 firmed in his letter of the 8th, and illustrated in that of the 10th, in 
 opposition to others who the same day, after great care and enquiry, 
 fully exploded and damned the said report ; nor can it be thought, if 
 we reflect on some of his late passages both in his writing and 
 conversation, but that the infamous report for which he stands 
 indicted was originally raised by him, his faculty that way being so 
 notoriously known; yet this is a matter of amazement, that these, 
 being the worst of letters and vilest of lbels, should constantly 
 receive a sort of sanction from the royal palace of Whitehall. 
 
 We have little from the ports this post except from Plymouth, of 
 the 15th, that, the day before, Lord Cutts made a draft of 1,200 men 
 out of four regiments of foot that were there for Jamaica, and imme- 
 diately embarked them on the transport ships; but Colonel Lilling- 
 ston’s regiment, upon a fresh order, was embarked entire except 
 
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 the officers, who, all but the colonel, who goes commander, and two 
 or three captains, two lieutenants and one ensign, were excused by 
 his Majesty’s order, and will be provided for in other regiments. 
 The same day the Germoon advice boat arrived in eight weeks from 
 Jamaica, whither she was sent some time since with an express. She 
 brings an account that the French, since the late invasion there, 
 have visited them again with some single vessels, and plundered the 
 back part of that island, and carried off many negroes; also that the 
 island is not free from its tremblings or sickness, but that the latter 
 chiefly affects the newcomers. 
 
 This day the Lords threw out the bill to make wilful perjury 
 felony. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 62 ; and ditto 
 Entry Book 6, p. 21.| 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater at Newcastle-on- 
 Tyne. Letters from Venice of the 21st inst. report that the senate 
 had received letters from Scio by way of Otranto, but do not mention 
 the beating of the Ottoman fleet or the taking of the island of Miti- 
 lene, but only that General Zen had left Scio with the fleet and some 
 land troops on board to meet and fight the Ottoman fleet, which had 
 gone to Smyrna to take in several thousand men designed for the 
 attack on Scio. 
 
 From Turin we hear that Casall continues to be blocked up, and 
 rumour says the campaign will begin with the siege of that place, 
 for great preparations are being made for a siege at Valence on the 
 Po. A party of thirty, consisting of Vaudois and some troops from 
 the garrison of Lucerne, have met and defeated a convoy going to 
 Pignerol, and taken sixty horses laden with provisions. The Swiss 
 cantons have at last granted the French king a levy of six thousand 
 men. 
 
 They write from Messina on the 80th ult. that they had news there 
 by an English ship that left Smyrna on the 15th of the same month, 
 that the English and Dutch convoys thought of sailing homewards by 
 the beginning of February. The Turks push on their warlike pre- 
 parations with the utmost application ; part of their fleet is in that 
 harbour and the rest at . . . . to embark men for the retaking of 
 Scio. The captain bassa is beheaded, and the Grand Vizier is expected 
 there to command in that expedition. 
 
 By the letter, from Rome, of the 15th inst. we hear that the Pope 
 had at last agreed to the solicitation of the I'rench king in granting 
 him power to nominate the Archbishop of Cambrai during his life ; 
 that the Venetian ambassador had received an express by way of 
 Otranto with advice that the Turkish fleet, consisting of 120 sail, had 
 appeared within 40 miles of Scio, and that the captain-general had 
 sent 20 ships to take an account of them. 
 
 The letter, dated the 22nd, from Vienna, shews that the Emperor 
 solicits the King of Denmark for 6,000 of his troops to supply the 
 place of the like number that he is to send to the assistance of the 
 King of Spain in Catalonia. Count Veterani had arrived from 
 Transylvania accompanied by Prince Abufti[?], prince of that country. 
 The EKmperor’s troops had at last taken possession of the fortress 
 that the Turks had in the palanque of Giula, but the enemy would 
 keep the place until such time as the waggons were ready, which were 
 necessary for the transport of the garrison, and which were promised 
 
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 by the capitulation ; these the Germans have not yet been able to 
 furnish. ‘I'he expenses for the next campaign in Germany, Hungary, 
 and Piedmont is regulated at 20 millions. 
 
 On the 12th the Polish Diet met at Warsaw, and a dispute arose 
 between the Polish and Lithuanian deputies about the election of 
 the Marshal of the Diet or Speaker ; they fell to hewing and hacking 
 with their seimitars, and if timely care had not been taken, much blood 
 had been spilled. The same heats continued on the 18th and 14th, 
 little being done, and the king was indisposed. There is little fruit 
 expected from this assembly. 
 
 Letters from Marseilles to the Hague of the 5th February say 
 that at Toulon work is carried on incessantly, as well Sundays as 
 holidays, for the equipment of the fleet, and that all the corn in 
 Provence had been bought up, for the use of the same. The estates 
 of Holland have regulated the fund for the next campaign as they 
 were last year. 
 
 From Brussels on the 2nd we learn that a detachment is there 
 being made, which is to be sent by sea to Catalonia by the English 
 and Dutch convoy that will speedily sail for Cadiz. 
 
 The Paris letter of the 3lst shews that it is not yet resolved 
 (though several times considered in council) who shall succeed the 
 Duke of Luxemburg in the command of the army in Flanders. The 
 
 ’ candidates are the Marshals de Choiseul, Cattinat and Bouffleurs, but 
 
 it 1s believed the choice will fall upon the first, under a prince of the 
 blood. Great application is used for the fitting out our ships of war 
 in all ports in this kingdom. 
 
 From Falmouth of the 24th we learn that on the 22nd, in the 
 evening, sailed hence his Majesty’s ships, Dunkirk, Winchester, Ruby 
 and Swan, and jomed next morning off this harbour his Majesty’s 
 ship Reserve, with the Firebrand and Terrible fireships, with the 
 transport ships for Jamaica, &c., and the whole convoy making about 
 20 sail. John Stiredale [ Archdale ?], governor of Carolina, embarked 
 on the Winchester, and proceeded on his voyage thither. On the 
 21st there arrived in this port the Ann of London, laden with wine 
 and fruit from Cadiz, but last from Ireland. This ship was supposed 
 to be lost, and the owners had insured upon her at 40 per cent. 
 
 From Cowes of the 26th we learn that the homeward-bound Dutch 
 Setubal and Cadiz fleets, we formerly mentioned, remain within 
 this island, their convoy being frozen up, so that they cannot get 
 home. Sir Cloudesley Shovell, one of the commissioners of the 
 navy, has gone to the Nore to pay off several ightships, but Lord 
 Berkeley, who is to command the fleet next summer in the Channel, 
 has not yet gone down, as he has for some days purposed, being 
 at present detained by a slight indisposition. 
 
 On Saturday evening last the King returned to Kensington from 
 Richmond, being so well pleased with the situation of the house in 
 the park where he lay, that his Majesty gave orders for some 
 additional apartments and enlarging of the gardeus. On Sunday the 
 King was at Kensington chapel, and afterwards appeared publicly. 
 In the evening he had a great court. 
 
 A habeas corpus is made for admitting to bail Mr. Dover, the 
 printer, lately seized by the messenger of the press in Spitalfields, 
 and who is now close prisoner in irons in Newgate. 
 
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 The circuits are thus appointed, viz.:—Southern, Lord Chief 
 Justice Holt and Mr. Justice Powell; Home, Lord Chief Justice 
 Treby and Mr. Justice 8 .... ; Norfolk, Mr. Justice Nevill and Mr. 
 Justice Rooksby; Oxford, Mr. Justice Gregory and Mr. Justice Gyles 
 Kyre; Midland, Mr, Baron Lechmore and Mr. Baron Bowell; North, 
 Mr. Baron Tarton. , 
 
 The Council have appointed the Archbishop of Canterbury to 
 preach the queen’s funeral sermon, and her Majesty will begin to lie 
 in state about the beginning of next week, and be buried about the 
 end of the month. 
 
 The king has assigned 10,0001. per annwm to his royal highness the 
 Duke of Gloucester, who will keep a separate household and retinue. 
 
 Yesterday and to-day the House of Lords were upon the 
 Laneashire and Cheshire proceedings, examining all upon oaths. 
 
 Several persons have made a great discovery of clippers and 
 coiners, which is by many considered an effect of the excellent sermon 
 preached by Mr. Fleetwood upon that subject before the Lord Mayor. 
 It is sold by Mr. Whittlock next Stationers’ Hall. [Greenwich 
 Hospital News Letters 4, No. 68; and ditto Entry Book 6, p. 27. | 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Karl of Derwentwater at Newcastle-on- 
 Tyne. Letters from Turin say that great preparations are being 
 made there and at Milan for the approaching campaign. The troops 
 of his royal highness were very near recruited, and would make 
 15,000 men; these, together with the auxiliaries, will compose an 
 army in the field next summer of 35,000 strong. Lord Galway, 
 who was to make a review of the King of England’s troops, is 
 hindered by an indisposition. The Duke of Savoy has published an 
 armistice to his subjects of Monferrat; who took service under the 
 French; but few of them have returned, so their estates are confis- 
 cated to the duke’s use, and will be employed towards the prosecution 
 of the war. 
 
 Two regiments of Brandenburghers that were quartered upon the 
 estate of Cisterna, a feodary of the Church, are recalled under 
 pretence of reinforcing the garrison of Coni, but, in reality, rather to 
 prevent giving the Pope cause of fresh complaints. 
 
 The snows have been greater in those parts than for some years 
 past, in so much that they were forced in Turin to use sledges 
 instead of coaches in the streets, and a great many passengers in 
 several parts have been buried in the same, particularly five officers 
 and a lady, coming from Carignano in a coach, who were all lost. 
 
 It is confirmed from Constantinople and Smyrna, by way of 
 Venice, that the Grand Vizier had declared to the French 
 ambassador that, unless the king his master gave the emperor a 
 more powerful diversion upon the Rhine next summer than the 
 years past, and by that means obliged him to draw part of his troops 
 out of Hungary, the Grand Seignior would be induced, notwith- 
 standing all arguments to the contrary, to conclude a peace upon the 
 best terms he could with the Roman Emperor. This the French 
 pen gave assurances that the king his master was resolved 
 to do. 
 
 Several small shocks of earthquake have been felt in the kingdom 
 of Naples, but there was little damage any further than to terrify 
 
 the inhabitants. 
 
 
 
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 The last letters from Paris say that they advise from Lyons that 
 snow has fallen in great abundance upon the mountains of Pragelato 
 and Perosa, and that it was never known to be so deep within the 
 memory of man. It entirely interrupted the commerce of that 
 country and the transport of munitions and provision to the 
 King’s magazine, which would retard the opening of the campaign. 
 The garrison of Casall has suffered extremely, and was much 
 diminished since the beginning of the winter. It was said the 
 Archduke Joseph would be there, and form the siege of it in the 
 spring, be acknowledged as sovereign in Italy, and afterwards return 
 and lead the army upon the Rhine under Prince Louis of Baden. 
 
 Monsieur Boufee, who went to England as a refugee for religion, 
 and had a benefit ticket in the million lottery that was lately drawn 
 there, had returned, and had been restored to his estate by the King, 
 and made one of the Masters of Requests as an encouragement to 
 others to return. 
 
 Hrom Kdinburgh the letter of 26th January shews that the 
 Council met on Thursday last, and the committee that was 
 appointed to consider the Earl of Seaforth’s petition, made their 
 report. It was wholly remitted to his Majesty’s advocate to draw a 
 letter, and lay the whole state of that affair before his Majesty with- 
 out any further advice of the council. Our officers are like to meet 
 with great difficulties in making their recruits. 
 
 From Falmouth a letter dated on the 3ist says:—This night the 
 packetboat from the Groyne, Captain Hutchins, commander, arrived 
 here with one mail. She was ten days making her passage, having 
 met with extreme bad weather. Outward bound, he had a sight of the 
 French ship that fought and took the mast ship and the Nonsuch 
 frigate, which was extremely shattered both in her hull and rigging. 
 It is said the Nonsuch made a brave defence. Captain Taylor, who 
 commanded her, and one-third of his men were killed before he 
 yielded, and she was so much disabled that it is believed she 
 foundered, and that the French could not carry her off. The 
 Frenchmen that were put on board the great mast ship afterwards 
 delivered her to the English that were left on board, who again 
 hoisted up English colours, but three Dutch capers, coming up with 
 her, took her and carried her into San Antonio. The captain of the 
 Mast ship received a wound in the arm in the engagement with the 
 French man-of-war. We hear from Cadiz, on the 2nd, that there 
 has been very fair weather for three weeks past, in which time all 
 dispatch possible has been made in fitting out cruisers. The Plymouth, 
 Carlisle, Falmouth, Southampton and Mary galley are all careened and 
 ready to go to sea. It is said they are designed for the Levant. The 
 Adventure came in the other day with her foremast sprung, but a 
 new one is fitting for her, and she is getting ready to careen. On 
 the 80th past some coasters brought an account of their seeing the 
 Mary, Canterbury, Dragon and Newcastle, and that they had taken 
 two French privateers of 80 and 25 guns. ‘The fleet of store ships 
 and victuallers from England has arrived here in safety, having 
 Captain Wiltshire, one of the commissioners of the navy, on board, 
 a commissioner of the victualling office, and all other officers and 
 things necessary for the careening and fitting out the fleet. 
 
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 From Plymouth on the 1st we hear that :—This day came in here 
 his Majesty’s ship Foresight, and brought in with her the Ann, of 
 London, of 400 tons, from Virginia, which she retook from the 
 French on Monday last to the eastward of Scilly. This day also 
 sailed hence a Dutch man-of-war with eight or ten merchant ships 
 for Cadiz. 
 
 From Cowes news comes of the 2nd, that yesterday Colonel 
 Dudley, lieutenant-governor of the island, came hither from South- 
 ampton where he left Lord Cutts, our governor, who is expected here 
 this day, and the town company are now under arms to receive him. 
 Last week a ship arrived from Holland, with purple velvet, which 
 before was wanting for hanging the room where the Queen’s corpse 
 lies, and by Thursday all will be complete. The Queen will lie in 
 public state, and be interred about the end of the month. 
 
 Yesterday the House of Lords received from the lords of the 
 admiralty the orders given last year to the cruisers, &c., and then 
 ealled in the commissioners of the transport ships, and afterwards 
 heard counsel between the city of London and the company of 
 apothecaries, the first solemnly opposing their being exempted from 
 parish offices, but in conclusion the bill was read a second time and 
 “committed.” The House of Lords having reversed the judgment 
 given in the court of King’s Bench in favour of Dr. Berry against 
 the Bishop of Exeter, but having given no further judgment than 
 barely to reverse it, the said Dr. Berry moved the court to have 
 judgment entered in his favour. The court yesterday gave their 
 opinion unanimously that it could not be done, so that the whole suit 
 stands to begin de novo. 
 
 The case of the bankers was this day further argued. in the 
 Hxchequer Chamber. 
 
 Both the Lords and Commons are this day upon Lancashire 
 proceedings. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 64; and 
 ditto Entry Book 6.  p. 88. | 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater at Newcastle-on- 
 Tyne. Since our advice of the final resolutions taken by the Turks 
 to prosecute the war, they are making great preparations throughout 
 the Ottoman empire, and orders have been sent to the pashas 
 in several districts to raise their quotas of men, as also to the Cham 
 of Tartary to bring as many troops as he possibly can into Hun- 
 gary next summer, and to the pasha of Belgrade to repair with all 
 diligence such vessels of their fleet as received damage last year by 
 the imperial cannon. They are also hard at work adding new 
 fortifications to Belgrade, which will render that place very strong. 
 ‘This comes confirmed from all parts of Turkey, that the Grand Vizier 
 will make his campaign in Hungary. 
 
 On the other side they write from Vienna that the imperial court 
 is preparing for an early campaign; their army, both horse and foot, 
 is nearly recruited. Finding the great usefulness of having a strong 
 fleet on the Danube, the Emperor has contracted for the building 
 of several vessels of war at Buda, two of which are to carry forty-four 
 pieces of cannon each. ‘The Emperor has also fully concluded with 
 the King of Denmark for six thousand of his veteran troops to serve 
 upon the Rhine, and with the Elector of Brandenburg for three 
 
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 thousand of his troops to serve in Hungary; but the court of Saxony 
 continues to shew chagrin (?), and it is believed that the Elector will 
 send no more troops to the Rhine this summer than the bare quota 
 to which he is obliged by the constitutions of the Empire, 
 viz. 3,000 men. 
 
 They write from Ratisbon that the affair of the ninth Elector 
 continues in the state it was; that the Swedish ambassador had 
 communicatad a letter to the Diet from his master, saying he had 
 previously declared his sentiments on the matter, and was in hopes 
 they would have made some reflections on it. The report is circulated 
 that an expedient has been found, and will be proposed, for the 
 preservation of the interests of the Roman eatholic religion, which 
 they apprehended would be weakened in Germany by the addition of 
 the new protestant Elector; and this expedient is so fair, that the 
 electors and princes, who have hitherto opposed, will be well satisfied. 
 
 Our last letter from Paris announces that a man-of-war was 
 ordered to carry bombs to the Kine of Morocco, and another fitted 
 to go with an agent to the government of Tunis, and the other 
 governments upon the coast of Africa, to persuade them to assist the 
 Grand Seignior to the utmost next summer, to which end the govern- 
 ment of Algiers have already promised to join the Ottoman fleet with 
 fifteen men-of-war. ‘The Venetian ambassador has made a great 
 complaint to Monsieur Posherbine (?), that two French vessels under 
 Hnglish colours had carried all sorts of ammunition of war to 
 Constantinople and Smyrna, to be used in the retaking of Scio, and 
 the Senate has made a like representation to the French minister at 
 Venice; yet it is resolved to send a fresh supply of three thousand 
 bombs, bullets, cannon, and all sorts of warlike necessaries, with 
 three men-of-war to the rendezvous of the Ottoman troops. The 
 French court are fully resolved to adhere to the interest of the Grand 
 Seignior in prejudice to the Venetian republic, being extremely 
 incensed against them for acknowledging King William. The last 
 letters from ‘‘ Towne ”’ [? Toulon] bring that the ships-of-war in that 
 port will be equipped by the 15th; and from Marseilles, that the 
 thirty galleys were in great forwardness. | 
 
 Edinburgh letters of the 14th instant state that an express had 
 arrived the preceding Monday with the King’s letters for an adjourn- 
 ment of parliament; the next day the council met and proclaimed 
 an adjournment till the 21st of March. At the same time came a 
 second letter to the Earl of Arundel, president of the council pro 
 tem., ordering the drafts that were before appointed to be made for 
 Flanders out of the regiments here to be doubled, so that they are 
 now to be 1,440 men in all. The drafts out of Hill’s, Murray’s, and 
 Lindsay’s regiments are to be ready on the road “of” Blackness to 
 be put on board on the 25th inst. Those out of Douglas’ and 
 Mackay’s regiments are to embark on the 26th and 27th at Leith. 
 On the 14th inst. the Duke of Queensberry came to town, having 
 been sent for to attend the council. A committee has been 
 appointed to enquire into the late riot, when the rabble rescued 
 some impressed men; several tradesmen have been imprisoned on 
 that account. 
 
 Letters from Plymouth of the 17th inst. report that on the 
 morning of the 16th the grenadiers of Colonel Earle’s regiment 
 
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 marched into the town from the eastward, and in the evening two 
 of them were seized and committed for clipping, there being a 
 parcel of clippings and instruments for that purpose found about 
 them. 
 
 The King by special commission has appointed twenty field 
 officers, under the presidency of the Duke of Shrewsbury, to meet on 
 Wednesdays and Saturdays every week in the Horseguards’ room at 
 Whitehall, to hear and determine all complaints amongst any officers 
 and soldiers of the land forces, and to redress the same, and to 
 inspect the nonpayment of quarters, ete. Yesterday they met for 
 the first time. This afternoon her Majesty began to be exposed 
 in public state in Whitehall, and will so continue till the 5th of 
 March, when a public interment is appointed, and (by order of 
 council) the great bell is to be tolled in every cathedral and church 
 in England and Wales from nine till ten, two till three, and five till 
 Six. 
 Sir William Phipps, governor of New England, who lately arrived 
 thence to answer some complaints made against him, died on 
 Monday last, and was yesterday interred. It is not known yet who 
 will succeed him, though it is said that Colonel Dudley, Governor of 
 the Isle of ‘‘Whaile” stands fairest. His Majesty is going to 
 Holland about the middle of April, if his parliamentary affairs 
 be dispatched. Yesterday the engrossed bill touching free and 
 impartial proceedings in parliament was rejected by the House of 
 
 Commons, at the third reading, by a great majority. This day 
 
 Mrs. Symball and her two sisters took their trials at the Old Bailey 
 for the murder of her husband, and were acquitted. The Lords 
 were this day upon the affair of the lords of the admiralty, and put 
 some questions which they are appointed to answer on Saturday 
 next. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 65.] 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater at Newcastle-on- 
 Tyne. Letters from Constantinople of the 22nd December say that 
 six officers had been strangled there for being concerned in the late 
 tumult at Adrianople, where three hundred and fifteen had suffered 
 death upon the same account. Also that they begin to despair of 
 the recovery of Scio, the Venetians having put it in a good posture, 
 and having a formidable fleet to defend it by sea. However, an 
 attempt will be made to satisfy the people, but not by the Grand 
 Vizier, who is loth to hazard his honour and life in that affair; he 
 therefore designs to put upon it an old hardy pasha, who was 
 formerly captain-general. 
 
 Letters from Cadiz of the 24th ult. say that, two days before, three 
 Zealand capers brought in there a Dunkirk privateer of twenty guns ; 
 that Admiral Russell had ordered twelve men-of-war up the Straits 
 to convoy homeward the English and Dutch Turkey fleets from 
 Smyrna, &c. Several ships had arrived from Cadiz to transport 
 eight or ten men to Barcelona. The Moors have lately made three 
 several storms upon Ceuta, but without gaining a foot of ground. A 
 Zealand caper has brought into San Antonio a French ship of thirty 
 guns, or rather, it is believed, the Falkland mast ship. 
 
 From Vienna of the 12th instant they write that the imperial 
 generals had formed a design to open the campaign with the siege 
 
 
 
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 of Temesvar, a great and strong city upon the frontiers of Transyl- 
 vania, fifty-four miles N.Id. of Belgrade, and the only place that the 
 Turks have left on this side of the Danube. 
 
 The letters from Germany bring nothing in particular, but report 
 in general their great preparations for the campaign, and that the 
 Chapter at Regensburg (Ratisbon) on the 17th inst. chose the Elector 
 of Cologne to be bishop of that place. The Prince of Baden parted 
 on the 12th from Guntsbourg, taking his way to Vienna through 
 Bohemia. 
 
 From Paris on the 21st they write that the king continues 
 afflicted with the gout. Colonel Stupa, general of the Switzers, has 
 represented to the Due de Maine what strong impressions the 
 raising of the poll tax from the Swiss soldiers would make upon the 
 Cantons, so that they are like to be exempted, though the officers 
 of the King’s household and the Duke of Orleans have already paid 
 it. Ten or twelve frigates of from thirty to forty guns are fitting 
 out at Rochefort for some secret and separate design, but their 
 commodore is not yet named. We are still in hopes to profit in the 
 prosecution of our affairs by the death of the Queen of England, 
 and to that end it has been resolved in a particular council, in which 
 King James assisted, to print declarations in his name to be spread 
 in all parts where King William has domination; their contents 
 may be safer conceived than written. In prosecution of this design 
 it is resolved to increase the armament for Canada to twelve men- 
 of-war, and to make some attempt upon Boston; two others are 
 designed for the coast of Africa, and four for the Isles, and the rest 
 for Guinea, so that this new paper project has in a manner buried 
 the thoughts of having any considerable force in the Channel, and 
 has put the court upon fresh resolutions of furnishing the magazines 
 in Brittany and Normandy with munitions and provisions necessary 
 for the subsistance of the troops that are to guard the coasts next 
 summer. 
 
 Letters from Brussels of the 23rd instant state that a party of 
 160 foot of the garrison of Ath marched towards St. Ghislain ; three 
 of the soldiers passed the river over the ice, and the palisadoes, and 
 set fire to, and burnt, a magazine of one thousand load of forage. 
 
 From Edinburgh on the 16th we hear that parliament was 
 adjourned to the 21st of next month. The council is about to publish 
 an indemnity to all deserters, provided they enlist themselves in the 
 standing forces by a prefixed time; and the magistrates of the royal 
 boroughs, and all other towns and parishes, have orders to seize and 
 deliver up to the officers for recruits all idle persons that are able to 
 bear arms, and to assist the said officers in making their recruits in 
 all respects. 
 
 Letters from Falmouth say that some small French privateers 
 about the Land’s End, much disturb the coasting trade. From 
 Bristol comes news that two vessels of that port, one bound for Cadiz 
 with tobacco and beer, the other of 200 tons from the Leeward 
 Islands, were taken and carried into France; and two more vessels of 
 that port, one from Barbadoes and the other from Virginia, have 
 foundered at sea, but the men were saved. 
 
 Yesterday the House of Lords had under further consideration the 
 manner of their procession at the Queen’s interment, and afterwards 
 
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 debated the Lancashire and Cheshire proceedings, and adjourned its 
 further debate sine die. 
 
 ‘The minister of Lymington has seized a person there, supposed to 
 be Major-General Dorrington, who lately made his escape out of the 
 Tower, and is described in the Gazette with the promise of 3001. for 
 his apprehension. Lord Lucas has sent a person down to see if it be 
 his prisoner, and to bring him up. The Lords of the Treasury have 
 conferred the place of solicitor of the Wine License Office, vacant by 
 the death of one Mr. Blackley, on Mr. Braden; it is worth 1001. per 
 annum. Vast numbers of people resort to Whitehall to see the Queen 
 hie in state, but those who love not a crowd, or live remote, may 
 satisfy their curiosity with this short description :—After we ascend 
 Whitehall, we pass several rooms hung with mourning, lighted with 
 wax lights in silver sconces. In the antechamber, before we come 
 to the Queen’s corpse, sit her six Maids of Honour by a throne, in a 
 mourntul dejected posture. In the next room is the Queen’s corpse 
 upon an elevated place or table. The coffin is very large, covered 
 to the floor with rich tissue of gold and silver. At the foot of the 
 table are placed helmets and other ensigns of honour; at her head an 
 embroidered cushion, on which is placed the crown and sceptre. At 
 the four corners of the coffin stand four great ladies of the bed- 
 chamber, veiled to the ground. The spectators have only a view in 
 passing, being hasted on by the yeomen of the guard, and descend at 
 another side of Whitehall. 
 
 Last night seven persons brought from Jersey were examined by a 
 committee of council; they pretend to discover that the island was to 
 have been betrayed to the French, and are to be examined next 
 council day. ‘The escape of Major-General Dorrington was again 
 examined this day; the House of Lords had also considered the affair 
 of the fleet, and adjourned the debate to Wednesday next. [Greenwich 
 Hospital News Letters 4, No. 66; and ditto Entry Book 6, p. 89.| 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater at Newcastle- 
 on-T'yne. We have advice that on the 10th of December last the 
 Venetian fleet continued in the harbour of Spalmadora; it consisted 
 of twenty men-of-war and as many galleys, besides other vessels, 
 the men in good health. The enemy remained with their fleet under 
 the captain pasha in the harbour of Smyrna, and seem to continue 
 their resolutions of making an attempt upon Scio, but that fortress 
 and island have been put into so good a posture of defence as not to 
 value what the enemy can do against them. 
 
 They write from Turin on the 28th ult. that Prince Eugene 
 arrived there that morning from Vienna, and was to be followed the 
 next day by the Marquis de Leganez, Governor of Milan, to hold a 
 council of war with the prince; upon this will depend the final 
 resolution about undertaking or rejecting the siege of Casall, in 
 which place they are in great want of wine, salt, spice and wood, 
 which obliges the inhabitants to burn their moveables and the doors 
 of their houses. The garrison consists of about 800 men; this is 
 not enough to defend the town, castle and citadels, which gives great 
 hopes that the enterprize will have good success, and all the more 
 because the enemy cannot as yet pass the mountains to succour the 
 place, by reason of the snows and the want of forage in the plains. 
 
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 However, they threaten to attempt something at the same time by 
 way of diversions. Casall, by reason of its citadel, is exceeding 
 strong, and the covered way and the rest of the outworks are under- 
 mined. ‘lwo German regiments are marching to the sea-coast to be 
 transported into Catalonia. 
 
 From Vienna on the 5th inst. we hear that [a] party from 
 Belgrade has made a course [under the] cannon of Peterwardein, 
 and attacked [torn away] lreg, putting most of the inhabitants 
 to the sword; they were pursued in their retreat by the hussars. 
 The grand conferences about the operations of the campaign are 
 ready to commence. A great number of the Germans that are sent 
 from Piedmont to Catalonia desert. 
 
 From Germany we have nothing material. The Count de 
 Soissons, who lately quitted the service of France and retired into 
 Piedmont, has passed by Cologne towards England. ‘Twelve 
 hundred Bavarian soldiers are marching for the Netherlands. 
 
 Letters from Brussels of the 16th inst. say that Mons. Bezous, 
 inspector-general of the troops of France, in the second review he 
 made at le Mans, Condé, Valenciennes and other places, reformed five 
 men in each company of foot, and discharged such as he thought 
 did not deserve the king’s pay. The French give out in all places 
 that they design only to be defensive this campaign in Flanders, and 
 that they expect the allies will besiege Ypres. 
 
 From the Hague on the 19th we learn that on the Tuesday before 
 that date they had funeral orations made in all their churches upon 
 the death of the queen of England. The envoy of Spain has not 
 yet fully agreed for the vessels that are to transport the troops from 
 Flanders to Catalonia. The affair of the captains accused of not 
 doing their duty last year in the engagement with Jean Du Bart, 
 when Vice-Admiral Hyde was killed, is still under examination, and 
 it is likely to go hard with them. 
 
 From Paris on the 14th they write: We are endeavouring on every 
 side to renew the negotiations of peace, and continue to solicit the 
 Hlectors of Bavaria and Cologne to interest themselves in that affair. 
 The court is at Marly, and will return to Versailles on Saturday 
 next. Marshal de Bouffleurs, who is to come to court to render an 
 account of the affairs of Flanders, will return on Monday next, 
 passing along the coast and visiting Dunkirk, in order to give the 
 king an account of what posture he finds things in. It is expected 
 that his Majesty, while he is at Marly, will declare the generals who 
 are to command his several armies this campaign. 
 
 Edinburgh letters of the 5th say that the several drafts made for 
 recruits are all shipped, excepting the hundred men that are to be 
 made out of the second regiment of dragoons with some new-raised 
 men. ‘T'o-morrow Major-General Livingstone, commander-in-chief 
 of the forces of this kingdom, is expected here from court. This day 
 the bells of the city tolled upon account of the Queen’s funeral, and 
 the mourning flag was hung out from the castle, and several rounds 
 fired, which were answered by the ships in the [road? ]. The shops 
 were all close shut, and all the inferior courts adjourned. 
 
 Our letters from the ports afford us nothing remarkable. Sir 
 Cloudesley Shovell, who was appointed to put to sea with all the 
 third and fourth rates that are ready, has fallen dangerously sick at 
 
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 Chatham. Captain Benbow is ordered immediately down to 
 Portsmouth, to go, it is said, upon some secret service. Captain 
 Bridges, late commander of the Montague, was yesterday committed 
 to Newgate, and will be brought up on his trial on Tuesday in 
 Easter week. Brigadier Stewart has gone to Portsmouth to 
 embark the regiments that go with the convoy to Cadiz, and 
 Brigadier Hastings’ regiment has marched into the same place, 
 where it is believed they will be broken and added to the other 
 regiments. 
 
 Lieutenant Colonel Collier of the Marquis de Rada’s regiment has 
 been appointed Governor of Jersey and Guernsey, and the major of 
 the said regiment is advanced to the lieutenant-colonelecy. Sir 
 Francis Mansin’s son is made major. The commissioners for 
 stating the public accounts have summoned all the agents and 
 clothiers of the regiments to appear before them, and give an 
 account upon oath of what rates have been paid by the respective 
 colonels for clothing the regiments. This is upon information that 
 the soldiers have been infinitely abused in this matter. On 
 Saturday last Colonels Roe and Venners were tried by a court 
 martial upon some complaints made against them by their officers, 
 and were suspended. This day the King has given the command of 
 the first to Colonel Brudenall, and of the latter to Colonel Pesar. On 
 Saturday last died Dr. Scott, rector of St. Giles in the Fields, and 
 yesterday Dr. Dove, of St. Bridget’s, both learned and eminent 
 divines. The House of Lords spent some time this day about 
 settling the peers, as to their right of taking place in the House. 
 The House of Commons today heard the report from the grand 
 committee about ways and.means, and agreed to several heads, viz., 
 coal, glass, burials, etc., and ordered bills to be brought in upon the 
 same, so that it is believed this sessions will soon grow to an end. 
 
 Advertisement: There is published a small tract entitled “‘ The 
 Whole Duty of Mourning,” written by the author of ‘‘ The Whole 
 Duty of Man,” sold by Mr. Whitlock, near Stationers’ Hall. 
 [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 67; and ditto Entry Book 
 6, p. 45.] 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Karl of Derwentwater at Neweastle-on- 
 Tyne. By letters of the 15th of January from Constantinople we 
 apprehend that the famous Mozzomorto, who commanded the 
 Ottoman fleet, was strangled for having neglected the security of 
 Scio, and Hassan Pasha was advanced to his command. ‘The Sultan 
 had given orders for getting ready a great number of frigates, and 
 had dispatched agas to the pashas of all provinces in Asia and Egypt 
 to raise men and money. ‘The troops had received orders to be early 
 at the rendezvous on the frontiers of Hungary. The ambassadors of 
 England and Holland had obtained leave to go to the court at 
 Adrianople, and two agas had been sent to conduct them thither. 
 The ambassador of France had inhibited the French merchants in 
 Turkey from writing any news to those of the same nation that 
 reside at Venice, under pain of being sent to the galleys. 
 
 By letters of the 4th ult. from Venice, we are assured that the 
 senate is making great preparations for the campaign. At the same 
 time they received letters of the 20th of January from Smyrna, 
 
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 which advise that the ''urks could not possibly be in a condition to 
 put into execution their enterprize against Scio before April, and that 
 the troops they had drawn together at Smyrna for that purpose were 
 raw, inexperienced men, fitter to eat than fight. 
 
 In Germany affairs are thus: the Elector of Saxony seems 
 resolved to bring his troops next summer upon the Rhine, and, in 
 conjunction with some other of the allies, form ‘‘the body of an 
 army,’ and command them in person apart. The Landgrave of 
 Hesse Cassel designs the same with his troops, those of Munster and 
 some others. Seeing that these divisions are likely very much to 
 weaken the grand army under the prince of Baden, the endeavours 
 of the imperial court are at present to induce the Elector to send 
 his troops to the Rhine, to be solely commanded by the prince of 
 Baden ; but what effect they will have, a little time will show. 
 
 From Paris on the 11th inst. they write: We continue along the 
 coasts to put things in a state to hinder the projects of the enemy. 
 Apprehending that St. Malo is more threatened than other places, 
 they are making floating batteries there, on which they design to 
 place cannon,—eighteen and twenty-four pounders,—and to advance 
 those batteries to the head of the works that are raised at the 
 extremity of the [le Sezambre. All useless persons are permitted 
 to leave the town; they expect a reinforcement of six hundred 
 militia, upon advice that the English design to be before the place 
 on the 20th or 24th inst. The baggage of Marshal de Choiseul has 
 started for La Hague, and that of the other commanders for Bretagne 
 and the country of Annix |[Aniche?], where the militia are on the 
 march on all sides. The Dukes of Chamilly and Gramont, and 
 the Marquis de Surdis, have received orders from the King to set 
 out, the first for Bretagne, the second for Bayonne, and the 
 third for Guienne. The council is so intent upon securing the coasts 
 against incendiaries and invasion, that all other business is in a 
 manner laid aside. Later letters of the 14th inst. report that the 
 Count de Mally has gone to join his regiment, which has marched to 
 St. Malo. Two regiments have marched for Fécamp and Calais, 
 whither the Duke d’Aumont has started. Part of the regiments of 
 French and Swiss guards are also ordered to the coast of Bretagne 
 and Normandy. It is whispered that the governors of the principal 
 places along the coast have secret orders to blow up the citadels and 
 fortifications if they cannot maintain them, to prevent the enemy 
 possessing them, and making a place of arms to ruin the country. 
 
 Letters from Plymouth of the 10th inst, annouxce that on the 
 preceding day his Majesty’s ship Africa arrived from Spithead, bound 
 for New England, with two ships under her convoy, to fetch masts. 
 The same day a Dutch caper sent into that port a French prize 
 of 100 tons, laden with flax, hemp, &c., from Norway, being a vessel 
 formerly belonging to Plymouth, taken at the beginning of the war. 
 From Cowes on the 11th they write that a vessel from London, bound 
 for Plymouth, with the King’s stores, &e., J. Park, master, waiting 
 there for a convoy, was surprized in the night by four men the 
 master had hired in London to help him carry the ship about. He 
 and his two boys were bound. The names of the hired men are J. 
 Clark (who, it is said, shewed a commission from King James), 
 Thomas Jones, Andrew Carryll and J. Taylor. They put the vessel 
 
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 under sail with a design to have carried her to France; but it was 
 very dark, and they not well acquainted with the coast, so that they 
 ran her ashore in a ereek in the island, and, having plundered 
 the master’s cabin, made their escape westward in the long boat. 
 People have been dispatched in pursuit of them. 
 
 The bomb-vessels and storeships bound for Cadiz, which sailed out 
 of the Downs on Friday, arrived safe at Spithead, and have been 
 followed since by ten more victuallers. Sir Cloudesley Shovell, who 
 was seized with a fever some days since, is ‘upon the mending 
 hand,” the violence of his distemper being much abated. Lord Cutts 
 is going to Portsmouth, to see the four regiments embarked that are 
 designed for the Straits. 
 
 On Saturday next, Lord Romney, Master of the Ordnance, has 
 appointed to be at Woolwich to see an experiment made by Colonel 
 Richards of his new invented mortars and shells, which will shoot 
 point blank, and fire a ship or anything that is combustible. 
 Yesterday a declaration was published by the King for the strict 
 discipline of the army, and the due payment of quarters; as it is 
 severe upon the soldiery, so no doubt it will be grateful to the country. 
 A considerable quantity of guineas are now coining in the Tower. 
 The Dean and Chapter of Westminster have given the rectory 
 of St. Bride’s to Dr. Birch, one of the prebendaries of Westminster. 
 
 The House of Commons, having begun, upon the complaint of the 
 town of Royston, to reform the abuses of the army, have been since 
 led to several others, as that of the East India Company’s disposing of 
 burgesses last sessions of parliament for carrying their point; also as 
 regards a considerable sum of money expended by the Chamber 
 of London, or those concerned for the orphans, for expediting the bill 
 that then passed in their favour, 1,000 guineas of which appears 
 to have been given to Sir John Trevor as a gratuity after the bill was. 
 passed. The House on Tuesday voted him guilty of a high crime 
 and misdemeanour. Yesterday Sir John went not to the House, but 
 sent a letter to excuse himself on account of indisposition, and 
 another to his Majesty. Today he sent another excuse to the House, 
 and the Mace and Mr. Comptroller Wharton acquainted them with 
 the King’s pleasure that they should proceed to the choice of a new 
 Speaker. The candidates were Sir Thomas Lyttelton and Paul 
 Foley, esquire; the latter carried it by thirty-three. To-morrow 
 the King comes to the House of Lords, and the new Speaker will 
 be presented, ete. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4. No. 68; 
 and ditto Entry Book 6, p. 49.] 
 
 April 2. Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater at Newcastle- 
 London. on-Tyne. The last letters from Turkey said that the hopes of peace 
 which they had conceived upon the exaltation of Sultan Mustapha 
 to the throne had quite vanished; that, on the contrary, he had 
 confirmed the Vizier Mufti and all other great officers and ministers 
 of state that served in the late reign, as though he designed to head 
 his army in Hungary next summer in person, if the new Sophy of 
 Persia did not give him diversion on that side, which, it is said, he 
 threatens, for he is a warlike prince, and one who has a great 
 ambition to try his fortune for the recovery of those places and 
 provinces which the Ottomans wrested from them during the supine 
 
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 reign of the last Sophy, his father, who was wholly swallowed up in 
 pleasure and luxury, and not addicted to feats of arms. 
 
 The Tartars in their late inroad into Poland laid in ashes twenty 
 towns and villages in the palatinate of Cracow, besides carrying 
 away a vast number of poor Christians into slavery. All these 
 calamities may be attributed to the unhappy dispute occasioned by 
 a proud prelate’s excommunicating the General of Lithuania for 
 quartering some of his troops on church land. This drew the 
 country into faction and party, and occasioned the Diet to break 
 up without taking care for the public security of the kingdom by 
 paying and augmenting the forces of the crown. 
 
 The emperor is treating with the Elector of Saxony for 9,000 of 
 his troops to serve him in Hungary next campaign. At the same 
 time that prince is erecting magazines for horses and men at 
 Frankfort and Mecklenburg, as though he designed to send part of 
 his forces to the Rhine. It is said 4,000 Munsterians will serve this 
 summer under the prince of Baden, and the like number are to 
 march to the Netherlands to enter into the service of the King of 
 England and the States General. It is agreed that the affair of the 
 ninth Elector shall remain in suspense, in the state it now is, till the 
 end of the war. The Spaniards pretend to have an army of 30,000 
 men in Catalonia this summer. 
 
 They write from Paris that the Pope’s nuncio has demanded that 
 the abbeys, that for the future shall become vacant, may fall directly 
 under the nomination of the Holy See, and that the King shall not 
 dispose of them without obtaining an indulgence from the Pope. 
 The said prelate has also dispatched a courier to Rome to be 
 instructed in the points that are to be treated of at the approaching 
 assembly of the clergy. Great endeavours are being used to 
 procure a ‘‘cap”’ for the Archbishop of Paris, there being now 
 thirteen vacancies in the Sacred College; but it is believed the 
 prelate will miss his aim, the see of Rome not forgetting his former 
 fierceness in the affair of the regalia. 
 
 From Edinburch letters of the 23rd of March bring news that the 
 Duke of Queensberry has been given over by his physicians, and has 
 settled his worldly affairs; besides an abundance of legacies, he has 
 given his library to the college of the city, and six hundred marks 
 per annum to the poor of his own parish of Sanquhar. This morning 
 six horses laden with money came to town from his Grace’s residence 
 in the country, to be applied towards the funeral charge. His eldest 
 son, the Harl of Drumlanrig, has also arrived from court to be 
 present with his father in his extremity, and upon his decease to 
 take possession of a plentiful estate. Yesterday the committee of 
 council had before them several merchants of this city in relation to 
 the money that was sent by the last convoy to Holland. Their 
 lordships afterwards dispatched a letter to the King by a flying 
 packet, to know his pleasure with regard to the current coin of this 
 kingdom, and what methods shall be taken with the clipped money, 
 and about raising the value of the other current coins. 
 
 Yesterday we received two mails from Ireland, but they bring 
 little news. A dispute had taken place in the College of Dublin 
 between the provost, fellows and scholars, but was at last composed. 
 A French privateer of twelve guns had taken upon that coast a 
 
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 vessel belonging to Wexford, laden with tobacco. Having taken all 
 the seamen out of her but two, they put four Frenchmen on board 
 to carry her to France; but the two Englishmen watched their 
 opportunity, shut the Frenchmen under the hatches, and brought 
 her safe into Kinsale. The rapparrees are at present pretty 
 quiet in that kingdom. 
 
 From Falmouth on the 28th ult. we learn that the Swallow of 
 Amsterdam, taking tobacco to Hamburg, viz., about 150 rolls of 
 Martinique tobacco, overset and was filled with water. 
 
 Since my last the Karl of Monmouth, who has been for some time 
 a stranger at court, had the honour to kiss his Majesty’s hand, and 
 has been received into his former grace. Three regiments of horse 
 and dragoons, making together seventeen squadrons, of whom the 
 King took a review in Hyde Park on Thursday last, were ordered to 
 return to their proper quarters, and there are no orders for any of 
 them to go to Flanders. The King, at the second review, 
 complimented the Earl of Macclesfield, and told him his regiment 
 was too good, being extremely finely mounted, accoutred and 
 officered. Colonel Rochteren, commander of a regiment of Dutch 
 horse, who was lately suspended by a court-martial upon the 
 complaint of Mr. Gribes, a German adjutant to the said regiment, 
 was yesterday arrested at his lodgings at the Pall Mall upon an 
 action brought by the said adjutant for 580/., and was carried 
 directly to Newgate, the plaintiff riding in triumph all the way 
 before his prisoner. But on his return he was met and attacked in 
 the street by Major Podswills of the same regiment (whom he hath 
 also articled against), but defended himself so bravely with his pole 
 axe that he got off safely. 
 
 By a person of good understanding lately arrived from Toulon, we 
 are assured that the French fleet of fifty-five men-of-war, now in 
 port, are all unfit and unrigged, and lie in as bad condition as ever 
 was seen the royal navy of England in the most secure time of 
 peace. Mr. Sothern, late secretary to the admiralty, has been made 
 commissioner to the navy. ‘To-morrow Lord Berkeley goes down to 
 the fleet. Yesterday some heats happening in a general court held 
 by the Kast India Company, Sir Basil Firebrace and one Mr. 
 Faulkner passed from words to blows. It is said the act now 
 carrying on against Sir Thomas Cook incapacitates him from ever 
 serving in Parliament or other place of trust, sentences him to 
 refund the fund charged in the said bill to the company, and to pay 
 a fine of 20,000/. to the King. This day Captain William Bridges, 
 late commander of the Montague, was tried by a special commission 
 in the King’s Bench upon an indictment grounded on two statutes 
 for “‘furneing”’ a French frigate named the T'eméraire, which he 
 took and might have brought into port. But he proved the contrar 
 and was acquitted. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters,4. No. 69. 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Karl of Derwentwater at Neweastle-on 
 Tyne. The Turks are making great preparations to attack Ciclut in 
 Dalmatia, the loss of that place having been as great an eyesore to 
 them as was that of Scio. The direction of the siege is left to the 
 pashas of Bosnia and Albania, with orders to repossess it at any 
 rate. The new Grand Seignior makes great preparations to continue 
 the war against Hungary, Poland and Venice. 
 
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 They write from Vienna that the Counts Heidersheim and 
 Staremberg were to undertake the siege of ‘emesvar, whilst 
 General Veterani observed the motions of the Turks between 
 that place and the Danube. The treaty that has been for some time 
 in agitation with the Elector of Saxony, for six thousand of his 
 troops to serve in Hungary next campaign, has been quite broken 
 off, the prince standing upon too high terms to allow the Emperor 
 to comply with the same; so that now it is not doubted but that 
 Count Caprara will command the imperial army against the Turks 
 as he did last year. It is said there will be forty thousand effective 
 men besides the national troops. The late Pasha of Giula has 
 justified himself so well at the Ottoman Court, that he has not only 
 been cleared from the charge of not doing his duty in delivering that 
 place to the imperialists [?], but has been rewarded for his conduct 
 and prudence. 
 
 The commissioners of Saxony, that were lately sent to the Rhine, 
 have received orders to surcease the sale of the magazines of Milten- 
 berg and Frankfort, so that in all likelihood that prince will send 
 part of his troops to serve upon the Rhine. The conferences that 
 have been held about the affair of the ninth electorate have terminated 
 without any resolution being arrived at, except to allow it to continue 
 in the state it now is till the end of the war... 
 
 From Paris on the 22nd they write: We have prohibited all 
 commerce in the Levant, to prevent our merchant ships falling into 
 the hands of the enemy. Mons. Vauban has been at Brest to view 
 the fortifications, and is making a tour along the coast for the same 
 purpose. Tourville uses the same industry for the preservation of 
 the ports and coasts of Provence, and one hundred and fifty companies 
 of mariners, of one hundred men each, under the command of the 
 most ancient of the sea officers, are posted along the coasts from 
 Perpignan to Marseilles, and from Rochfort to Dunkirk. Yet, 
 notwithstanding all these precautions, the principal inhabitants 
 cannot be persuaded not to retire with their best effects. One 
 hundred and fifty Swedes and Danes have left Rochelle, laden with 
 salt and brandy, under convoy of several men-of-war of those two 
 nations. Our new line in Flanders is in a state to resist an army of 
 one hundred thousand men. Our apprehensions for Casall have 
 entirely vanished. In Piedmont and Catalonia we shall do little 
 this summer, but make the greatest lead in Flanders and upon the 
 Rhine. 
 
 Letters from Plymouth on the 19th inst. report that his Majesty’s 
 ships Weymouth and Montague arrived there that day from convoying 
 the late fleet to Cadiz, having left them within a day’s sail of that port. 
 With them returned the Anglesey and Hope men-of-war, but they 
 lost company of the two latter on Sunday last in a fog. On Tuesday 
 the two first were chased for six hours off Scilly by five French men- 
 of-war under EKnelish officers, three of them carrying seventy guns 
 each. They no sooner got up within gun-shot than they hoisted up 
 their ensigns, and began to bestow their shot plentifully. Ours 
 stayed not to give them equal return, but trusted to their heels, 
 making all sail they could, and the best of their way till they lost 
 them in the night. But the next morning and most of the day they 
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 and Hope had had the misfortune (sic) to fall in with the enemy. 
 The event thereof is expected with impatience. 
 
 We have now riding at Spithead twenty sail of English and Dutch 
 men-of-war. The king’s yachts and convoy are ordered to be ready 
 by Tuesday next. Two new bomb-vessels were appointed to be 
 launched this day, built by Sir Henry Johnson. 
 
 His Majesty’s frigate the Seahorse, a sixth rate of twenty-two guns 
 commanded by Captain Tollett, being upon her cruize in her station 
 on Thursday last on the coast of Sussex, between Hastings and 
 Dungeness, happened to fall in with the great fleet of Swedes and 
 Danes from France. She demanded from the first the usual salute, 
 which was refused, with the answer that there was one behind that 
 would give them a reason for it, which happened to be a Swedish 
 man-of-war. When the captain sent his boat on board to 
 know the reason why. he refused to strike his flag, the 
 Swedish captain sent his heutenant on board Captain Tollett to 
 tell him he had orders to strike to no ship in the world, more 
 especially such a diminutive one. Upon which Captain Tollett sent 
 back the leutenant, and bid him tell his captain that, unless he 
 saluted him upon his return on board, he would pour in a broadside. 
 The Swede neglecting to salute, the captain was as good as his word, 
 and a brisk dispute ensued, which lasted over four hours. But, 
 according to the proverb, the weakest to the wall, the captain 
 having one of his gunner’s legs shot off, and several others wounded, 
 and his ship very much shattered, returned into the Downs, and 
 left the Swedes and Danes to pursue their voyage. 
 
 Our fleet, at the coming away of the last letter, had been all 
 careened, and were ready to put to sea. People of all nations came to 
 see the Britannia careened, believing it impossible to turn the keel of 
 so vast a ship above water. 
 
 His Majesty, being prevailed upon yesterday to come to the House 
 of Peers, gave the royal assent to three money bills, eight public 
 bills, one of which was to indemnify Sir Thomas Cook from all 
 actions, etc., and about twenty-seven private acts. He pressed the 
 House to a dispatch of such business as was before them, for the far 
 advance of the season would require him to put an end to the 
 sessions in a few days. After this both Houses went to a ballot 
 for the choice of twelve lords and twenty-four commoners to meet 
 that day in the Exchequer Chamber, to take the examination of Sir 
 Thomas Cook. The lords were the Dukes of Queensberry and 
 Shrewsbury, the Karls of Pembroke, Bridgwater, Rochester, Thanet, 
 Manchester, Marlborough, Monmouth and Torrington, Viscount 
 Weymouth, and Lords Godolphin and Cornwallis. The Commoners 
 were Sir John Thompson and Sir Richard Onslow, and it is believed 
 it will be midnight before the examination is over. It is reported 
 the sessions will close about Friday, after which the king will name 
 the commissioners who are to manage the government in his absence. 
 Admiral Hopson is appointed to convoy the King to Holland. We 
 have received a Holland mail since writing the above, which says 
 the arms on both sides in Flanders are cantoned, [Greenwich 
 Hospital News Letters 4, No. 70.] 
 
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 April 25. 
 
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 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater at Newcastle-on- 
 Tyne. The Duke of Mantua, being too much a creature of Louis XIV. 
 to observe the pleasure of the Emperor by recalling his subjects, the 
 Monferians, out of the service of France, as he was desired, the 
 Governor of Milan has sent home his resident, and recalled that of 
 Spain from his court. Now that things begin to appear with an angry 
 and hostile face, the Duke, as his last asylum, has fled to the Pope, to 
 cover him from the storm by making intercession with the Emperor 
 and confederates, that he may continue his neutrality, and not be con- 
 strained to take part against France. This is like to avail him little. 
 
 The Pope has absolutely refused to grant any subsidy to the 
 Emperor or republic of Venice, to enable them to carry on the war 
 against the Turks, but at the same time hath promised, at the 
 pressing instance of the ambassador of Venice, to send his galleys to 
 the Levant. Cardinal de Fourbin has demanded of the Pope a 
 “cap” in the next promotion for a frenchified Italian, but his 
 holiness has refused the same, and it is now believed the promotion 
 will not be as soon as was imagined. 
 
 The senate of Venice have elected Signor Alessandro Moleno 
 in place of Signor Zen as general of debarkment. Molena was sent 
 with the last convoy as general of the Moren, in which appointment 
 he is succeeded by Signor Sagredo. 
 
 The Duke of Savoy has returned to Turin from before Cazelle; the 
 other generals are expected in a few days to hold a council of war 
 with him. It is discoursed that the fortress will be continued under 
 a blockade, in the hope of reducing it without effusion of blood, the 
 idea of a siege being for the time laid by. 
 
 The Elector of Saxony has at last agreed to furnish the Kmperor 
 with six thousand men for the service of Hungary, in lieu of eight 
 thousand which were solicited. It is held for certain that Temesvar 
 will be attacked. The Grand Seignior has ordered fourteen millions 
 for the charge of the first campaign, being resolved to make it 
 in person. 
 
 They write from Paris on the 25th, that the gens d’armes that 
 wintered in Savoy have received orders to march for Germany. The 
 French have lost four hundred men in a fresh encounter in Catalonia. 
 On Thursday the King will start for Compiegne. The Duke de 
 Vendome has been appointed to command a separate body on the side 
 of Nizza. The Duke of Savoy has suspended the siege of Cazelle for 
 this campaign, partly by reason of the great snows that have iallen, 
 and partly from the misunderstanding between his Royal Highness 
 and the Emperor about the demolishing of that fortress if reduced. 
 
 Letters from Brussels dated the 27th say: the Elector with the 
 generals of the army, returned hither from the army last night, the 
 enemy having put their army in all the neighbouring places for the 
 security of the lines. Our infantry are cantoned, and the cavalry 
 have returned to their garrisons. 
 
 From the Hague on the 29th they write: Lieutenant-Admiral 
 Allemonde has started for the Texel, to put to sea with several men- 
 
 of-war. Those from the Maes and Zeeland are also sailing for 
 
 England, together with the English, to convoy his Majesty hither. 
 On Monday next sentence will be pronounced against the four 
 imprisoned captains, 
 
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 Our Edinburgh correspondent writes on the 18th.: Since my last 
 the Council has received a letter from the King in answer to one 
 sent to him about the passing or refusing English clipped money, 
 and regulating the rates and value of their own and other foreign 
 coin. Being unable after much pains, and consulting goldsmiths 
 and merchants in the same, to come to any resolution, they 
 have referred it to the consideration of parliament. This body has 
 been adjourned by a letter from his Majesty yesterday to the 9th of 
 May. 
 
 Letters of the 29th from Plymouth announce that his Majesty’s 
 ship Anglesey, with sixty guns, arrived there the previous day, with 
 which was the Hope, a seventy-gun ship. On Tuesday last, about 
 forty leagues S.W. of Scilly, they fell in with five French men-of- 
 war (mentioned in my last), and about four in the afternoon, two of 
 them, one of fifty and the other of sixty guns, engaged the Anglesey. 
 At the same time the other three fell on the Hope. The Anglesey 
 fought the two four hours broadside to broadside; the French 
 sixty-gun ship had her mainmast shot down, and both of them, 
 finding they had had enough of it, sheered off, and gave the Anglesey 
 an opportunity to get away; she was not in a condition to renew an 
 engagement with the others, being much shattered in her masts, 
 rigging and hull, and having had three men killed and ten wounded. 
 She left the Hope hotly engaged, but cannot tell the result. The 
 Roebuck fireship, commanded by Captain Owen, was in company 
 with two men-of-war, but left them and made her escape as soon as 
 the fight began, if not before. 
 
 Captain Benbow has again sailed from Spithead for the French 
 coast. ‘lhe Canary fleet, about thirty sail, under convoy of three 
 men-of-war and a fireship, have arrived safely in tho Downs. On 
 the 20th a new fifth-rate named the Lyme, of thirty-six or forty 
 euns, was launched at Plymouth. 
 
 Admiral Rooke is appointed to attend the King during the campaign 
 in Flanders, for his advice in maritime affairs; and it is said that at 
 the end of the summer he will go to Cadiz to relieve Admiral Russell, 
 who will return home, and be here during the session of parliament. 
 Sixteen men of war are appointed for the King’s convoy. 
 
 Yesterday there was a long trial between Thomas Pride, csquire, 
 plaintiff, and the Earls of Bath and Montague, defendants, upon an 
 ejectment brought by Mr. Pride for the estate of Newhall in Essex, 
 which he claims as heir at law to George, Duke of Albemarle. The 
 stress of the whole lay in this: whether or not Thomas Radford, 
 husband of Ann Radford, afterwards Duchess of Albemarle, was living 
 after her second marriage to General Monk ; this was positively sworn 
 to by four witnesses, with many corroborating circumstances. The 
 Lord Chief Justice, upon summing up the evidence, seemed to have 
 left if upon an equilibrium, but the jury, being all gentlemen of the 
 county last night brought in a private verdict, and this morning one 
 in court, for the defendants. Lord Montague made no defence at all, 
 and tomorrow commences another great trial at bar between the 
 two earls, upon the validity of Duke Christopher’s will, or his deed. 
 
 The King has declared his purpose to set forward for Holland on 
 Thursday next. In his examination before the committee of the 
 Lords and Commons on Tuesday last Sir Thomas Cook named divers 
 
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 persons to whom he distributed the money he is charged with, but 
 after so “‘ vapering ” a manner that it was little to the satisfaction of 
 either House. However, Sir Basil Firebrace and the others men- 
 tioned by him were last night and this before the said committee ; 
 the issue of the whole is expected with impatience. The Commons 
 have this day passed the bill to prevent clipping. [Greenwich 
 Hospital News Letters 4, No. 71.] 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater at Newcastle-on- 
 Tyne. Our last letters from Turin said that the confederates had 
 resolved to block up Casall after a more exact manner than before 
 they had done, and to that end would build several new forts, and 
 would take particular care that no provision should be put into the 
 place by the way of the river, which before had been frequently alone. 
 Whilst the confederate army was before that place, the Marquis de 
 Mossa craved safe-conduct out of Casall, which was granted him. 
 He came into the camp of the confederate generals, where he was 
 interrogated concerning the true state of the place. He answered 
 them with such a French air and rhodomontade, that the garrison 
 was ina good condition, and that they abounded in all things good 
 for life, ete., that the generals were so offended they would neither 
 hearken to his excuses, nor give ear to his praises, but sent him 
 back again to the city, with this retort, that he should return and 
 participate in that plenty and delicacy which the garrison enjoyed, 
 for they could not assure him of such good quarters with them. 
 
 The French write from Pignero] that the Marquis de Crenan, 
 governor of Casall, had prepared all things in expectation of a siege ; 
 that he had cleared all the ground about the place, for above 
 five hundred paces by cutting down the trees and bushes, and 
 levelling the ditches, so that the enemy in all quarters would have 
 been exposed to his great and small shot. Notwithstanding the 
 length of the blockade, the garrison was in a very good state, and 
 was considerably reinforced by deserters from the enemy. The 
 soldiers had sufficient quantity of bread and beer distributed to them 
 daily. Both the great snows and other insupportable difficulties 
 obliged the enemy to quit their designed enterprize, after they had 
 for several days taken their posts about the town, and begun to raise 
 their sconces and to work upon their line. 
 
 The last letters from Brussels said that Count de Kaunitz, the 
 Imperial envoy, had left that court, having not been able to succeed 
 in his negotiation about erecting a tenth [?] electorate for the 
 kingdom of Bohemia, in favour of the house of Austria, being a 
 contrivance to balance the new protestant Elector of Hanover. 
 
 They write from the Hague that the Bishop of Plocko, who 
 attended the Electress of Bavaria to Brussels, and since made a step 
 to Holland under pretence of viewing that country, has demanded the 
 restoration of several things of great value that were seized by the 
 Dutch at Fort St. Maine, pretending that they belonged to the 
 (Jueen of Poland. He was likely to find but little redress, the things 
 haying got into hands that seldom part with anything they get. 
 
 Our letters this post from the ports scarce afford us anything 
 worth, mentioning... At Falmouth, a vessel from the Canaries has 
 struck upon the Lizard; the men were saved, but all the wine lost 
 except five or six vessels (sic.). The French capers continue to infest 
 
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 the Channel very much, but they have not lately met with any great 
 ‘‘ purchase,” through the vigilance of the convoys. <A privateer oi 
 Ostend brought into Cowes a vessel from Nantes, laden with wine 
 and brandy, and another vessel in ballast. There are now at 
 Spithead sixteen men-of-war, English and Dutch. On the 27th 
 Captain Galloway, commander of the St. Martin ketch, which the day 
 before had an engagement with two French privateers, died of his 
 wounds in Portsmouth. 
 
 We have letters from Cadiz bearing date the 21st [?] inst., which 
 left Admiral Russell and the whole fleet, both English and Dutch, in 
 good health, but bring no further news than that they were 
 preparing to sail. 
 
 On Saturday night last Sir John Trenchard, principal secretary of 
 state, died at his lodging in Kensington after a lingering illness, in 
 his forty-sixth year. It is said his nativity was calculated whilst he 
 was a refugee in Holland in King James’s reign, when he was told that 
 in about his forty-fourth year he should be advanced to mighty dignity 
 in the state, but in his forty-fifth year should be seized with a dis- 
 temper which should go near to end his days. The seals of his 
 office were next day re-delivered to his Majesty, but his successor 1s 
 not yet named. The most conclude it will be Sir William Trumbull, 
 late ambassador in Turkey, but at present one of the lords of the 
 treasury, a person of great learning and worth, who is extremely 
 knowing in the civil affairs of Europe. Nor isit yet known who will 
 succeed Sir John in the place of chief justice of the county 
 palatine of Chester, though there be several candidates. 
 
 Yesterday the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the 
 Bishops of Lichfield, Salisbury, Worcester and Ely took the usual 
 oaths in the high court of chancery in Westminster, to qualify them 
 to act as commissioners in the new Kcclesiastical Commission. 
 
 Pilots are now ordered on board the squadron that is to convoy his 
 Majesty to Holland, and Sir George Rooke’s equipage is ordered on 
 board. 
 
 Since writing the above we have received three Irish mails, which 
 give an account that the Hope man-of-war, commanded by Captain 
 Robinson, had put into Castlehaven, having discharged herself from 
 the five French men-of-war, with whom she was left engaged about a 
 fortnight ago, but we have no particulars of the fight. On Saturday 
 the Duke of Leeds, upon the debate of the House of Commons 
 against him, came down from the Lords, and desired to be heard in 
 that House, and accordingly he was admitted. After protesting 
 against the charge, he desired, if that bill could not be withdrawn, 
 that his trial might be speedy, adding that he did not question but 
 to discover the design against him, and spun that thread out very 
 fine. However the impeachment was lodged that same night, and 
 yesterday tbe Commons sent up their charges against him, which 
 consisted of three articles. This day his grace has given in his 
 answer to the same, denying the charges. The Lords sent down the 
 answer to the Commons, who have referred it to the committee who 
 drew up the charges, to make a replication. 
 
 This morning a general pardon was agreed upon, which excepts 
 all those who are, or shall be, questioned this session for bribery or 
 perjury. 
 
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1695. 
 
 May 2. 
 
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 May 4. 
 
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 _ The Commons were upon Sir ‘homas Cook’s bill, and have ordered 
 Sir Basil Firebrace, Mr. Bates and Mr. Craggs to be admitted to 
 bail. They design to read the money bill a second time tomorrow. 
 [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 72.| 
 
 Warrant for an additional allowance of 1s. 6d. per day, making a 
 total allowance of 3s. 6d., being the pension of a reformed captain 
 of foot, to Lieutenant Peter de Lom. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office 
 Letter Book 18, p. 271.] 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Karl of Derwentwater at Neweastle-on- 
 T'yne. Letters from Falmouth of the 29th ult. report that on the 
 evening of the 28th the Spanish Alliance sailed with a mail for 
 Corunna ; also two Portuguese vessels, the one for Lisbon, the other 
 for Oporto. The Spanish [xpedition had arrived that day from 
 Corunna in four days, Lut brought nothing of moment. From 
 Mount’s Bay they write that on the 26th there appeared off Land’s 
 Kind five French privateers of good force, who gave chace to the 
 Germoon and Portsmouth prize, but it is believed they escaped them, 
 and recovered Scilly. The next day six French privateers of from 
 twenty to thirty guns gave chase to two ships from the Straits of 
 twenty and fourteen guns; they were both good sailers, and escaped 
 them, but a press ketch had the misfortune to fall into their hands. 
 They very much pester the mouth of the Channel, and also the 
 North Channel. 
 
 We have letters from Plymouth of the 29th ult. On the 28th 
 His Majesty's ship Portland arrived from Corunna, and brought in 
 with her a vessel of Bideford bound for Newfoundland, which the 
 said frigate retook from a French prize on Friday last ten leagues 
 off Scilly. About the same time a Flushing privateer sent in a small 
 re-taken prize, laden with pipe-staves and herrings. The same day a 
 plot was discovered among the French prisoners, who were to have 
 surprized and disarmed their guards, and with their arms to have 
 freed themselves, and then to have plundered and done what mischief 
 they could in the town, seized some vessels and made their escape. 
 This plot was happily discovered by one of their own men, who 
 refused to join them in their contrivances. The ringleaders were 
 laid in irons, and the guards doubled. 
 
 From Harwich on the 2nd inst. they write: All our packet-boats 
 are on the other side. Five English and three Dutch men-of-war 
 are now lying at the Gunfieet, being part of the squadron that is to 
 convoy the King to Holland. Six other men-of-war are also riding 
 in the Downs, besides the Seahorse, which is going a-cruizing to the 
 south, having repaired the damage she lately received in the dispute 
 with the Swedish man-of-war, who refused to strike to her. 
 
 Advice has been sent over that the French commissaries of the 
 marine had received orders from the King to release all the English 
 prisoners detained in France, saving Mr. Cox, his Majesty’s late envoy 
 to the ‘‘evangelical’’ Cantons, and one Mr. Nelson. Orders have 
 thereupon been sent to Plymouth and other ports, where there are 
 any French prisoners, to return them immediately to France, except 
 du Bart, brother to the Chevalier du Bart, and the Chevalier de 
 Pomerade, who are to be kept in hostage for the two abovesaid. 
 
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 We have at last received an unwelcome account from France of the 
 Hope being brought into one of their ports, having, after a long 
 engagement, been forced to submit to the French men-of-war, with 
 whom she fell in on the 16th past. She made a vigorous fight, and 
 had her captain wounded and eighty of her men killed, and her masts 
 shot by the board, before she yielded; and no doubt she did great 
 damage to the enemy. ‘This is the biggest ship the enemy has taken 
 from us during the war, being of the line of battle. 
 
 By the mail from Corunna, which arrived yesterday, we have 
 letters from Cadiz of the 25th of March, which left Admiral Russell and 
 the whole fleet in a good condition, and in readiness to put to sea as 
 soon as occasion required. In the meantime Rear-Admiral Neville 
 was preparing to sail to the Straits with seventeen men-of-war to join 
 Captain Pickard, who was always there with seven, but of late had met 
 with no ‘‘ purchase.” There are also letters of a fresher date, which 
 say that Admiral Neville did sail, but had to put back again owing to 
 contrary winds, and that one of his ships proved leaky and must be 
 left to refit. 
 
 Letters from Madrid give account that some Spanish troops, 
 together with miquelots, had notice that a party of five hundred 
 French horse and two thousand foot were marching with a great 
 conyoy of provisions and munitions to the supply of Casa Follit. 
 They laid themselves in ambuscade, and upon the advance of the 
 enemy attacked them with such fury that the French horse, after 
 about fourteen of their number were killed, fled and left the foot asa 
 sacrifice. About twelve hundred of them were killed and taken 
 prisoners. They also captured the whole convoy, consisting of one 
 hundred mules. For this great service the Marquis of Castanaga 
 has ordered to be distributed among the troops and miquelots 
 concerned in the action 18,000 doubloons. 
 
 Yesterday morning the Lords and Commons had a conference-in 
 relation to the impeachment of the Duke of Leeds, the substance of 
 which was that the Commons could not proceed to make good their 
 impeachment because Mons. Robart had withdrawn himself and 
 could not be found. Afterwards the Lords had a long debate about 
 throwing out the impeachment, and precedents were searched, but none 
 ‘coming pat’? in the matter, it was offered by the Duke of S{hrews- 
 bury] that, in the common courts of justice upon the like accounts, 
 it was the common practice to suspend a trial. The House took up 
 the notion, and it was passed with common consent that his grace 
 should stand impeached till the next meeting of Parliament. After 
 this the Lords dispatched the last money bill, which had been read but 
 once before. About one o’clock the King came to the House, and the 
 Commons were sent for. ‘They were then preparing an impeachment 
 against the late Speaker, who, in a short but eloquent speech, spoke 
 to this effect : that never had Majesty more face of divinity, than now, 
 when it was mixed with judgment and mercy, &c. They tendered the 
 money bill, the general pardon, and that against Sir Thomas Cook, 
 Sir Bazil Firebrace, and two or three more. ‘The King, having given 
 his assent, was pleased to make a most gracious speech, containing 
 in substance his thanks for the supplies they had given him ; that 
 the season of the year made it necessary for him to have been abroad 
 sooner, if the business at home would have allowed of it; that he 
 
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 would take care to leave the administration during his absence in 
 persons he could depend on, and hoped that every one of thei would 
 be assisting to them in their stations, and required them to be more 
 than ordinarily vigilant in preserving the public peace. ‘The lords 
 with whom the King will depose the government are the archbishop 
 of Canterbury, the Lord Keeper, the Lord Privy Seal, the dukes of 
 Shrewsbury and Devonshire, and Lord Godolphin; but by what title 
 they are to be distinguished I cannot tell. Sir William Trumbull 
 was last night declared one of the Secretaries of State, and accordingly 
 has taken possession of the lower office. The ‘‘Senior”’ Zulestein is to 
 be created Karl of Rochford, and his place of Master of the King’s 
 Wardrobe given to ‘‘ Mynheer” Capell. The Lord Keeper is to be 
 created a baron. The King sets forward for Holland to-morrow 
 evening. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 73. | 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater, Newcastle-on- 
 Tyne. After a sterility of foreign news, we have this morning 
 received four mails from Holland, which afford us the ‘ensuing 
 variety of novels.” 
 
 From Vienna of the 27th ult.: That the Prince of Baden has 
 started for the Rhine by the way of Bohemia; that Generals 
 Veterani and Heidersheim were also upon their departure, the 
 former for Transylvania, the latter for Hungary. All the troops 
 are ordered to stand out of their winter quarters, and march to the 
 several posts assigned for their rendezvous. The discourse of the 
 siege of ''emesvar seems to abate, and it 1s believed that work will be 
 referred to another time, in order to spare the troops to be better 
 able to make head against the enemy, who pretend to be very 
 formidable upon the frontiers. In the meantime the Turks make 
 creat preparations at Belgrade for the reception of the new Grand 
 Seignior. The Muscovites seem resolved to invade the Crimea, and the 
 Czar has dispatched General Gourdon to draw the army together 
 in order to invest Azov, situated on the Black Sea, where the Czar 
 Peter designs to be in person. 
 
 The confederate troops upon the Rhine have all received orders to 
 quit their quarters on the 14th inst., and to draw towards the place 
 assigned them for the general rendezvous. The French troops on 
 the other side of the Rhine continue very quiet in their winter 
 quarters. Hight thousand Saxons have begun their march for 
 Hungary. From the happiness of the season the earth in all parts 
 is like to abound in production of fruits and herbs for the supply of 
 man and beast. 
 
 In Flanders the armies on both sides have returned to their 
 respective quarters, excepting some thousands the French have left 
 to guard their new line. Marshal de Villeroy has gone to meet the 
 King at Compiégne. The French are making a new line on the 
 side of the ‘bussiére,” which commences at Harnu, a league on 
 this side of Mons, and will extend by Binche to the Sambre. They talk 
 also of palisading all the fordable places upon the Sambre and 
 Meuse to prevent the confederates from making their courses upon 
 the other side. 
 
 From Paris we receive letters of the 9th inst. On the 28th ult. 
 the King began his journey for Compiegne, to take view of the 
 
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 troops of his household; he designed to return to Versailles on the 
 18th. Marshal de Noailles has at last set out for Catalonia, and the 
 Count de Montalt for Flanders, to form a body of fifteen or sixteen 
 thousand men about Dunkirk, to cover that place. The gens d’armes 
 that served last year in Savoy are to begin their march from there 
 for the Rhine on the 24th inst. The thought of the Dauphin’s 
 making his campaign there begins to draw into suspense. Mons. 
 Nesmond has sailed with his small squadron from Brest. The 
 opening of the General Assembly of the clergy continues fixed for 
 the 25th. 
 
 Letters of the 18th from the Hague report that the Elector of 
 Saxony was preparing for Hungary, to take upon him the command 
 of the army against the Turks, who, according to advice from 
 Constantinople, are making great preparations to take the field. 
 The English and Dutch merchant-fleet from Smyrna and 
 Scanderoon, consisting of fourteen merchantmen and six men-of- 
 war, their convoy, had arrived on their return at Messina. 
 
 From Edinburgh they write on the 30th ult.: The last of our 
 recruits are now shipped for Flanders, and the officers are all 
 ordered to be on board this night. Fairfield the priest, so often 
 mentioned, was this day carried from the Tolbooth, in order to be 
 put on board the convoy for Holland, according to the order of 
 council for his ‘‘ extermination.” Our mob here have been a little 
 ‘“‘heady”’ under pretence of reforming houses of ill-fame, but upon the 
 approach of the guards the giddy rabble soon dispersed and returned 
 to their abodes. The officers of the militia and the burghers are 
 preparing in a solemn cavalcade to meet and introduce into this 
 city our High Commissioner from England, who is expected on 
 Thursday next. 
 
 On Wednesday the Ist inst. the Weymouth frigate brought into 
 Plymouth a small French privateer of four guns and forty-eight 
 men, which she took the day before near the Land’s End. The 
 same day there returned from their eruizing the Germoon and 
 Portsmouth prize who report they were daily chased by French 
 privateers, the western coasts being full of them. 
 
 On Friday last a fine new train of field-pieces was shipped off the 
 Tower for Flanders. The next day Lord Cutts came to the Tower, 
 and made a draft of eight men out of each company of the second 
 regiment of foot-guards for Flanders. 
 
 The same day the Lord Mayor, sheriffs and aldermen went to 
 Kensington to wait upon the King, and take their leave of him and 
 his last instructions. The King designed to have set forward on 
 Sunday, and to have embarked on board his yacht at Gravesend, but 
 the wind continuing stiff at east prevented the same; so he now 
 waits only the winds presenting fair to be gone. 
 
 The seven noblemen in the new commission for the administration 
 of the government during his Majesty’s absence are styled Lords 
 Justices of England. Their names in my last were rightly inserted, 
 only the transcriber by oversight omitted the Earl of Dorset, who 
 made the seventh. They are to meet at court upon appointed days 
 every week, and on Sundays and holidays are to go together in great 
 pomp to the Chapel Royal, with the maces, &c. carried before them. 
 The Duke of Leeds is still to preside in all committees of council. 
 
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1695. 
 
 May 21. 
 
 London, 
 
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 A commission is preparing to constitute Lord Capell Lord Deputy 
 and Governor General of Lreland. ‘‘Heer’’ Zulestein has been created 
 a peer of the realm, with the titles of Baron of Enfield, Viscount 
 Tunbridge and Earl of Rochford, being the name of a town and 
 hundred in Essex. Lord Grey of Wark is to be created Karl of 
 Tankerville, being a town in Normandy, at the siege of which place 
 one of his ancestors performed a wonderful piece of martial gallantry 
 by placing the King’s standard on the wall. 
 
 Mr. Ellis of the Transport Office and Mr. Tucker have been made 
 chief secretaries to Mr. Secretary Trumbull; Mr. Hopkins, who was 
 chief secretary to Sir John Trenchard, is to sueceed Mr. Ellis in the 
 Transport Office. Mr. Coombe succeeds Sir John Trenchard as chief 
 justice of Chester. Yesterday, being the last day of term, Lunt, 
 Womball and Wilson, the three famous Lancashire vitnesses, 
 appeared in the King’s Bench, and pleaded to two informations of 
 perjury exhibited against them, the one by the King, the other by 
 the gentlemen who were tried and acquitted at Manchester. <A 
 Nolle prosequi has been granted in relation to a third brought against 
 them upon account of what they swore concerning estates given to 
 superstitious uses. | Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 74. | 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Karl of Derwentwater, Neweastle-on- 
 Tyne. Since my last we have received by a Holland mail the 
 following particulars :— 
 
 From Messina on the 19th of April they write that the squadron 
 off Malta, consisting of eight galleys, had met near Cape Passaro 
 three Tripoline men-of-war of good force, which were going to the 
 Levant to join the Ottoman fleet. They engaged them, and main- 
 tained an obstinate fight for near ten hours. In conclusion the 
 Maltese became masters of the admiral’s ship and another, and also 
 of a prize barque laden with corn; the third ship got off. In this 
 action the Maltese lost one hundred men, but the others many more, 
 besides five hundred barbarians they fale prisoners, 
 
 Letters from Rome of the 7th inst. report that the English 
 consul who lately arrived there from Leghorn, the place of his 
 residence, in an audience of two hours which he had with the Pope, 
 had not only obtained leave for the confederate fleet to put into 
 Civita Vecchia, and be supplied with necessaries for their money, but 
 was also ‘‘regaled” by his Holiness with a curious medal of gold, 
 and treated with all the civilities imaginable. This not a little 
 surprized Cardinal Fourbin, who expected otherwise from the 
 cunning answers he had received from time to time from the old 
 oracle, and had given the King, his master, assurances accordingly, 
 and had recommended the Grand Duke of Tuscany to follow the 
 Pope’s example in this matter. But upon Fourbin’s beginning to 
 make his complaint, the Pope soon stopped his mouth by telling him 
 that the admiral would act nothing against the ecclesiastical state, 
 but pay for such refreshment as he should have occasion for, and 
 that he could not but repay one civility with another. He further 
 remarked that, since the King his master, had laid up his fleet and 
 fortified his forts for fear of Russell, and put himself out of a 
 condition to provide for the security of the Holy See, it could not be 
 expected that the princes of Italy should — how refuse him anything 
 he should demand. 
 
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 The Venetians are forming, near the Isthmus, an encampment of 
 eighty thousand foot and two thousand five hundred horse, besides 
 some thousand of Greeks, which the lerasquier|?] of the Morea 
 pretends soon to dislodge by an army of thirty thousand which he is 
 drawing together against them. They are also preparing to put the 
 fleet again ‘to sea, to make head against the captain pasha. 
 
 Letters from Vienna have nothing remarkable, but that a party 
 of sixty Turks had made a course under the walls of Peterwardein, 
 and carried off a hussar ensign, two soldiers and some pioneers. 
 The troops that are to compose the ar my arrive daily in Pest. 
 
 The French in Germany, on the other side of the Rhine, are all in 
 motion, and the troops of Alsace are advancing towards Landau, 
 where their encampment will be complete by the end of this month. 
 Since they give out that their design is to pass the Rhine and destroy 
 the forage on this side, all care is taken to prevent the same 1f 
 possible, by the posting of troops. The confederates advance with 
 what diligence they can towards the encampment near Heilbronn. 
 
 From Brussels on the 25th they’ remark that on the 23rd the 
 Elector of Bavaria went to the camp at Selbach[?], which was about 
 thirty thousand strong. There he held a council of war which 
 determined that on the 28th the army should move towards Ninove. 
 The French continue very quiet on the frontiers, and have no other 
 encampment but some troops behind the lines. Meanwhile their 
 troops are drawing towards the frontiers from all parts. 
 
 Letters of the 23rd from Paris say: The Marquis de Villeroy that 
 day set out for Flanders. It is said his last instructions were to 
 hold himself on the defensive during the campaign. Marshal de 
 Lorge was also to start that week for Germany. 
 
 From the Hague on the 27th we hear that the King arrived at court 
 there on Tuesday night. The next day he gave some few audiences, 
 and afterwards appeared in the assembly of the States General and 
 the council of state, recommending to the former above all things to 
 be diligent in furnishing what was requisite towards the prosecution 
 of the war. 
 
 Letters of the 14th inst. from Edinburgh say that on Sunday the 
 High Commissioner, attended by a great many of the nobility, went 
 to church and heard a public sermon, forenoon and afternoon. 
 Yesterday Mr. Secretary Johnson arrived in this city from court, 
 making his entrance privately, but he was afterwards attended and 
 complimented at his lodgings by the provost and magistrates, 
 Yesterday afternoon a great council was held at the Abbey about 
 the affair of the English clipped money, at which it was resolved 
 that none should pass except what was due weight; a committee was 
 appointed accordingly to state its weight and to report the same on 
 Thursday next. In the meantime all English money but milled is 
 refused. Parliament met to-day according to the last adjournment. 
 The first thing they did was to pass an Act for a general fast to be 
 observed throughout the kingdom every second Thursday in each 
 month during the campaign, for the preservation of the King, and 
 for success on his arms by sea and land, the first to be observed on 
 the second Thursday in June. After this they settled four 
 committees ; the first to consider of the security of the nation, the 
 second for trade, the third to draw an answer to the King’s letter and 
 
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 an address of condolence upon the Queen’s death, and the fourth to 
 adjust the controverted elections. They then adjourned to Thursday 
 morning at ten o’clock. ‘The same day the High Commissioner 
 knighted the provost of this city. 
 
 From Falmouth, on the 16th, we hear that on the night of the 
 13th the packet-boat arrived in seven days from the Groyne. The 
 captain says that on the 10th a Portuguese that he met told him 
 that two French privateers of twenty-six guns each had taken an 
 English ship of twenty-eight guns from Guinea, and that the 
 privateers told him they had now above eighty of that sort at sea. 
 On the other hand the Delaval has taken a French brigantine of six 
 guns and seventy men, and sent her into Lisbon. Our frigates have 
 also taken a French privateer of twenty-four guns and another 
 French ship of eighteen guns. 
 
 On Saturday last one Tobias le Roy alias Bourke was tried by 
 court martial as a spy, and sentenced to be hanged on Tower Hill, 
 but his execution will be respited till the King’s pleasure be known. 
 The same day at Woolwich, Colonel Richards made a proof of some 
 of the new mortars fixed on the bomb-vessels before the Lords of the 
 Admiralty ; they cast shells out of the Thames over Shooter’s Hill, 
 being two miles and a half, and afterwards set fire to a carcass on 
 the shore, which burnt after a violent manner sixteen minutes. 
 
 On Saturday the Duke of Devonshire returned from Newmarket, 
 as did the Lord Keeper from his country house, so that now six of 
 the Lords Justices are in town, but they did not go in public on 
 Sunday to the Chapel Royal as was expected. It is said for certain 
 that the King’s attempt in Flanders will be to force the lines. We 
 hear a peace is under consideration, to be set on foot at the end of 
 the campaign. The Lords Justices met this day at the Duke of 
 Shrewsbury’s office, and sat till three. It is said that amongst 
 other things they had under consideration to alter the “ test’ in 
 writs. On Thursday they will appear the first time in public 
 council. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 75. | 
 
 [May] 25. Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater, Newcastle-on- 
 London. ‘Tyne. ‘The last letters from Vienna say that the body under General 
 Veterani would suddenly advance towards Debre [Deba?], and the 
 grand army towards Slavonia, to which end workmen were sent 
 before to get ready the bridges. The recruits had all marched to 
 Pest, and were incorporated with their proper regiments. Most of 
 the regiment of Merselli were lost, pressing down the Danube. ‘The 
 cavalry have not yet left their winter quarters, for want of forage. 
 The ‘Turks are beginning to make great movements on the frontiers, 
 and by their countenance have a design upon Titel. Count Tekeli 
 labours hard to increase his troops, to make a handsome appearance 
 before the new Grand Seignior, who seems to have some favour for 
 him. 
 
 The rendezvous of the allies upon the Rhine continues fixed for 
 the 25th and 26th inst. in the neighbourhood of Heilbronn, and the 
 
 I'rench at the same time at Winzenheim. 
 Our Brussels letters of the 20th inst. bring news that they have 
 advice from Valenciennes that great numbers of French daily arrive in - 
 the city from divers parts, as also cannon and mortars. ‘They are to 
 
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 proceed thence towards Namur, where they are to form an encamp- 
 ment. They have so far no other army in the field than that which 
 is commanded by Mons. Roze in the lines. On the 28rd a party of 
 the French advanced near the confederate army and carried off 
 thirteen Dutch horses. The campaign commonly furnishes them 
 with enough to remount their own cavalry. A great many pioneers 
 had been summoned to repair the roads for the march of the army 
 under the Elector of Bavaria toward ‘‘ Eugins” [Engis?]. Those 
 that come from Eugins report that the Sieur Delaubone, governor of 
 Montz [Mortzen?], had called before him the Sieur Prinantau, 
 vovernor of Engis|?], to require him from time to time to write him 
 the news that happened in those quarters; but he dishking the 
 employment, told him he had hitherto had the reputation of an honest 
 man, and therefore now was unwilling to purchase himself the name 
 of a spy; at which answer the governor of Montz | Mortzen] seemed 
 to be highly displeased, 
 
 The number of the confederate army this campaign under the 
 King of Great Britain and the Elector of Bavaria, and the troops 
 that compose the same, are as follows: English battalions of foot, 
 59; squadrons of horse and dragoons, 71; Dutch foot, 85; horse, 
 110; Brandenburgh foot, 18; horse, 40; Bavarian foot, 4; horse, 
 16; Spaniards foot, none; horse, 14; Liege foot,6; horse, 11; 
 Munster foot, 4; horse, 6; total foot, 176; horse, 268. This, 
 reckoning four hundred in a battalion, makes 105,600; and each 
 squadron of horse and dragoons, 120, makes the total horse, 32,160 ; 
 together, 137,760 men, all well disciplined and mounted. 
 
 The Grand Marshal of Lithuania has written to the King of 
 Poland that he had received advice by two different ways that the 
 Czar of Muscovy, with a numerous army, is in full march for the 
 Crimea, so that we believe it 1s true without a doubt. 
 
 They write from Falmouth on the 20th inst.: Yesterday morning 
 put in here two privateers of Zealand, which have been out seven 
 weeks, and taken only a small vessel bound with iron and provisions 
 from Ireland to France, and retaken an English vessel with sugar 
 from the West Indies. At the same time there came in a Flushinger 
 from Guinea, who reports that the Charles, whose commander, 
 Captain Avory, some time since, ran away with her from the 
 Groyne, has ranged the coast of Guinea, and taken two Danish ships 
 belonging to the company; Avory then persuaded all the men but 
 four, who have come over as passengers, to join with them in the 
 wicked trade of piracy; so, with the additional strength of the two 
 Danish ships, they have gone to the Red Sea. 
 
 Letters of the 21st. from Plymouth announce that: Yesterday 
 came in here his Majesty’s transport ship the Mary, from St. Malo, 
 with four hundred and fifty English exchanged prisoners belonging 
 to the Dartmouth and Hope men-of-war, lately taken. Captain 
 Robinson, late commander of the Hope, has come over with them. 
 Both he and his crew report the great civilities the French shewed 
 them, but reflect bitterly on the commander of the Anglesey and 
 Roebuck fireship, that parted from them, and left them a prey to the 
 enemy. He confirms the account we had that about one hundred 
 of his men were killed, and his ship utterly disabled, before she 
 
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 yielded ; and adds that the French said they had about four hundred 
 of their men killed, and their ships much shattered. 
 
 On the 14th inst. there put into Dartmouth a Flushing privateer of 
 fourteen guns to refit, having taken four French prizes, three of 
 which were laden with wine and br andy, the other a small privateer. 
 She was afterwards met by two privateers of greater force, which not 
 only attacked her and took from her her prizes, but also killed seven 
 of her men. 
 
 Our fleet is still at the Nore, most of the ships not yet having their 
 complements of seamen, which are hard to get. It is said none of 
 the first and second rates will be employed under Lord Berkeley this 
 summer, but, being new sheathed, will be sent in July with Admiral 
 Rooke to the Straits. 
 
 Before the King went to Holland he restored Baron Recteren to his 
 command, at the intercession of the Duke of Schomberg, and also 
 restored his major, who had been suspended, like the colonel, by the 
 council of war. On Thursday Hutton Byerley, esquire, died of the 
 wound he had received some days before from a oa in the 
 Middle Temple Lane upon asudden quarrel . . a iktorn 
 away|. It seems this gentleman was the person ‘who with creat 
 violence prosecuted Sir John Johnson some time since for assisting 
 in stealing Madam Wharton for his friend Mr. Campbell, for 
 which he was convicted and executed. Hence some tender-hearted 
 ladies, who much regretted the occasion of that gentleman’s death, 
 will needs conclude this unhappy accident was a prosecution of divine 
 justice against him. 
 
 This day Admiral Rooke arrived at court from Holland. Being 
 the first day of the term, nothing material happened; but the last 
 Saturday in the term Sir Edward Ward, attorney general, will be 
 called to the dignity of a serjeant-at-law, and the same day sit as 
 Lord Chief Baron; Sir Thomas Trevor, the present solicitor general, 
 will succeed him as attorney, and Mr. Hollis of Lincoln’s Inn will be 
 made Solicitor. The Duke of Gloucester has been very ill for two or 
 three days past of a fever, and it was feared it would have turned to 
 smallpox, but this danger seems to be banished, and there is a great 
 appearance of his recovery. 
 
 Yesterday five malefactors were executed, one for clipping and 
 colming. Since the sessions more of that wicked gang have been 
 seized and committed, the reward in the last act of parliament is 
 beginning to make people diligent in ferreting them out. 
 
 We hear from the Hague that on the; 28 inst. , the King left for Loo, 
 designing to lie at “ Zalestin ” that night, and the next day at Loo, on 
 Saturday at Breda, andon Sunday at Ghent, reaching the army that 
 lies encamped near that place the following day. [Greenwich Hospital 
 News Letters 4, No. 76. | 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Karl of Derwentwater, Newcastle-on- 
 Tyne. At Toulon (as we learn by our last letters from Paris) 
 Marshal Tourville continues in a posture to expect the enemy, having 
 done what he can for the security of the place, both within and 
 without. He is also, according to an order received from the court, 
 getting ready as many of the ships of war as he possibly can by the 
 latter end of August, to attempt the passage of the Straits, whilst 
 
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 the confederate fleet is upon the coast of Italy, making those princes 
 declare. This is certain, that nothing is so much desired and 
 endeavoured by the French court as the uniting of their fleet at 
 Brest. 
 
 At Marseilles they have unpaved their streets, placed tuns filled 
 with water to be ready to extinguish fire at all convenient places, 
 raised forts and batteries to defend the harbour, filled the “‘ place ” 
 with armed men, and posted twenty thousand along the coast. 
 At Rochelle Marshal d’lHstre is taking the same care. Yet, not- 
 withstanding all these precautions, and what they insinuate to 
 the inhabitants, they are more afraid than they are like to be hurt, 
 and are so terrified at the fresh fate of Dieppe that they continue to 
 remove their best effects up mto the country. On the coast of 
 Normandy and Brittany Marshal de Choiseul and Mons. Vauban 
 have been no less industrious, in providing for the security of all 
 the maritime places against the attempts of the fleet that is to 
 act in the channel under Lord Berkeley, than the others have been 
 on the coast of Provence against the fleet under Admiral Russell. 
 But what all this will avail them a little time will now discover. 
 This is certain, it puts them to a vast charge and trouble to be 
 annually thus alarmed and infested upon their coasts. 
 
 The Genoese have given the French King fresh assurances that 
 they will continue firm to their neutrality, notwithstanding their 
 apprehensions of the confederate fleet. The Algerines have sent a 
 squadron of eight men-of-war to join the Ottoman fleet in the 
 Levant. 
 
 By the precautions the French are taking on the Rhine...... 
 [torn away| by retrenchments and redoubts, which are guarded by 
 seventeen thousand men of the militia, it might have been 
 reasonably concluded that they design only to be on the defensive, 
 but at the same time letters from Strassburg assure us to the 
 contrary, and say that Germany (sic) never had a more numerous 
 army, nor composed of better troops, than they have this year, that 
 they design to divide them, and act in two parts, and, in fine, that 
 their enemies would be astonished at their attempts; but this must 
 pass only for a French rhodomontade. 
 
 In Flanders they have finished their new lines from Ypres to 
 Comines upon the River Lys, in like manner as they have those at 
 Courtrai to the Scheldt, and are now making retrenchments along 
 the canal from Ypres to Fort Knock, and others from Mons to the 
 Sambre; so that in Flanders, as also in Catalonia and Piedmont, 
 they design only to act upon defensive, and this is the best account 
 we have at present of the French affairs. 
 
 They write from the Hague on the 4th that all the officers of the 
 fleet had gone on board in order to repair to the rendezvous on the 
 coast of England. The good understanding between the King and 
 the Stadholder of Friesland was entirely re-established, but that 
 his Highness designed not to make him campaign for other reasons. 
 
 Letters of the 23rd from Edinburgh report that yesterday they 
 received advice from Perth that one Graham had basely murdered 
 the Master of Rolo by stabbing him in the back. Parlhament this 
 day passed an Act about appeals and citations for the lords of the 
 sessions; then the King’s commission was read, appointing the 
 
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 members of parliament to enquire into the matter of the laird of 
 Glencoe and his family, and was approved of. Afterwards the Lord 
 Commissioner was ordered to write a letter of thanks to his Majesty, 
 and they adjourned till the morning. 
 
 On the 24th the Barbadoes fleet came into Falmouth, the convoy 
 not reaching port till the following morning, for want of wind. On 
 the 25th, Jonn Methuen, esquire, his Majesty’s envoy to Portugal, 
 arrived there from court, and is to embark on the Spanish Alliance 
 for the Groyne, taking his journey thence through Spain. His 
 Majesty’s ships the Kent, Sterling Castle and Dreadnought, third- 
 rates, have sailed on a cruize westward. ‘T'welve Dutch and three 
 English men-of-war have arrived at Spithead, the place of the 
 rendezvous for the fleet. 
 
 We hear that Mr. Baker, his Majesty's consul at Algiers, has 
 pressed to be relieved, if he had not actually come away; he has 
 suffered several grievous insults from those barbarians, and was in 
 great danger of his life. 
 
 The Marquis of Carmarthen is preparing to sail westward with five 
 men-of-war and a fireship, to cruize about the Sirloins, and attend 
 the motions of the Marquis de Nesm[ond?] . . . [torn away], 
 who is abroad with a little squadron. A convoy, consisting of five 
 transport ships and a frigate, which had remained [for] Colonel 
 Richard’s regiment, being about four hundred, is ordered with all 
 speed to the Leeward Islands, the [other ?] part of the said regiment 
 being there already. Wehearthat1,000or1,200 ....... 
 will be put on board the fleet in the Channel, to be employed for 
 covering the bombs and on board the well boats on occasions. Mr. 
 Meesters made an experiment on board one of the new Dutch bomb- 
 vessels, by firing its mortar, and its repercussions so shattered 
 the vessel that they had much ado to bring her to port. However, it 
 is hoped the rest will prove better. 
 
 Yesterday the books were opened in Lincoln’s Inn for subscrip- 
 tions of 100,000/. for the Land Bank Gabe tied [torn away | 
 perused and passed by several lawyers, who have subscribed there- 
 unto, and propose to lend money on land security at 3/. 10s. per 
 cent., and give out bank bills at 2 per cent. There is a buzz about 
 the town of the dissolution of the present parliament in October, 
 and the calling of another presently after; but of this I have no 
 other ground than that it is vox popult, and so may be either true or 
 false ; yet some are so apprehensive that the report is prodromus of 
 the fact, that they begin already to make and secure interest. 
 This morning Mr. Brownlow, a late warder of the Tower, who had 
 been a long time in custody for the escape of Major General 
 Dorrington, was brought by habeas corpus into the King’s Bench, 
 and admitted to bail. The five gentlemen mentioned in my last as 
 concerned in the riot in the Haymarket are not yet committed, but 
 continue in the [custody] of messengers; but it is expected that it 
 will be considered at this night’s Council whether to imprison or 
 admit them to bail. Their crime appears not to be of a heinous 
 nature; it is believed it proceeded in good part from an excess of 
 wine. Since my last, divers notorious clippers and coiners have been 
 discovered, seized and committed, some to Newgate and others to the 
 Marshalsea. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 77.] 
 
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 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater, Newcastle-on- 
 Tyne. As we have exhausted all that is worth renoting in our last 
 foreign letters, I shall now represent here the manner of the 
 inthronation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, which was performed 
 in Canterbury Cathedral on the 16th past, the like having not been 
 before in that church since the reformation. 
 
 On Wednesday, the 15th, the Archbishop, attended by his 
 officers, set out from London, and lay that night at Sittingbourne, 
 from whence he proceeded next morning to ‘Canterbury. He was 
 met about a mile from the city by divers of the principal gentry of 
 the country, and was by them ushered into town guarded by a troop 
 of dragoons. At his entrance he was received by the mayor and 
 aldermen in their formalities, and at his alighting out of his coach 
 complimented in a handsome speech by the recorder. The dean 
 and prebendaries, in their habits, received his Grace at his entrance 
 into the precincts of the church, and conducted him by the west door 
 of the church into the consistory court, where he put on his habits, 
 the whole foundation standing in the meantime in order in the body 
 of the church. Thence he was conducted by two of the senior 
 prebendaries through the choir to the throne, the dean, archdeacon, 
 and the rest of the church going in order before him singing an 
 anthem used on the occasion. ‘The mandate for his inthronation 
 was presented by the vicar-general to the archdeacon, and by his 
 order read by a public notary, and then the archdeacon proceeded 
 to the inthronation, placing his Grace in the throne, which had been 
 adorned by the Queen with new velvet a little before her death, and 
 reading the usual form of words in Latin, after which the service 
 and sermon began, which was preached by Dr. Thorpe. 
 
 The same being ended, his Grace was inducted in hke manner to 
 the marble chair, which tradition saith was St. Augustine’s chair 
 
 [torn away], and from thence to the 
 dean’s - choir, where it was performed a third time. Then followed 
 the suffrages read by the archdeacon, and collect for the archbishop. 
 
 After this his Grace was conducted to the chapter-house, all the 
 church proceeding before him, and was there placed in the dean’s 
 seat by the archdeacon, using a short form of words in Latin. Then 
 the archdeacon administered the usual oath to the archbishop, after 
 which the dean and canons, and the rest of the church, swore 
 canonical obedience. 
 
 The whole being now. ended, his Grace treated the church, the 
 gentry and his retinue to a noble dinner at the dean’s house; and 
 on I*riday, according to custom, was treated by the chapter. The 
 rest of the week and the next his Grace spent in confirming at 
 Canterbury, Ashford and Sittingbourne, and this day se’nnight 
 returned to court. 
 
 Letters from Edinburgh of the 25th say :—Parliament passed an 
 
 -act for regulations, and afterwards voted a supply of 2,160,000 
 
 marks Scotch to be given his Majesty for maintaining the land 
 forces, and equipping some men-of-war, viz., 1,710,000 for the land 
 forces, and 450,000 for the ships. The commissioners for searching 
 into the murder of the Laird of Glencoe have already examined 
 several witnesses, and sent for Colonel Hill, governor of Fort 
 William, and several of his officers, to examine them also. The 
 
 
 
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 Master of Rollo I mentioned in my last as having been killed by the 
 Laird of Inch Bratto (?); it was upon a dispute which arose at a 
 gentleman’s house about drinking King James’s health. 
 
 They write from Falmouth on the 27th ult.:—Yesterday the Spanish 
 Alliance sailed for Corunna with one mail ............ 
 [totmaway | te ect. s . morning arrived another packet-boat in 
 seven days from Corunna with a mail, bringing letters from Madrid 
 of the 18th N.S., which say that Admiral Russell and the whole con- 
 federate fleet sailed out of Cadiz harbour on the 8th in the evening, 
 and had not been since heard of. 
 
 Letters of the 19th from Oporto relate that on that day thirteen 
 sail of English, Dutch and Hamburghers sailed out of that port on 
 their return home. All but two were from Newfoundland. 
 
 Yesterday morning the Karl of Rivers, as also the gentlemen that 
 are going to Antwerp to erect a mint there, departed hence on their 
 voyage to Holland. 
 
 On Monday next our twelve bomb-ketches will be complete and 
 fixed, and will fall down to the fleet. There are nine new ones, each 
 carrying two large thirteen-inch mortars, and three old ones each 
 carrying a ten-inch mortar. The large mortars will cast shot of 
 230/b. weight, and will bomb with pleasure two miles and a half; 
 but the Dutch mortars, if the bomb vessels can be made to hold, will 
 not bomb so far by a mile, though they should give them a double 
 portion of powder. 
 
 On Wednesday next Colonel Richards is to make an experiment of 
 his newly-invented engine—to prevent ships from bemg boarded, or, 
 if boarded, to clear the decks at once—on board the Coventry, a new 
 fourth-rate in Longreach. This frigate and some others are now 
 fitted with his engine. The LHarl of Romney, master of the 
 ordnance, is to be present at the experiment. 
 
 On Thursday the inhabitants of Liverpool had a long hearing 
 Het Oromubont ae tad. YPPNale SI [torn away| been imposed on 
 them in the late reign, which empowered only liverymen to elect 
 civil magistrates, whereas by the old charter all freemen had votes in 
 such elections. After great arguments for and against by council, 
 their excellencies declared in favour of the commonalty, that their 
 corporation should stand on its ancient footing. 
 
 The following alterations are made in Ireland, upon Lord Capell’s 
 being made Lord Deputy, viz. Sir John Temple the Attorney General, 
 and Sir Richard Levinge, Solicitor General, are removed; the first is 
 succeeded by Robert Rochfort, esquire, the latter by Mr. Brodrick. 
 Sir John Heley is to be Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 
 place of Sir Richard Pyne, who is to be Lord Chief Justice of the 
 King’s Bench in room of Sir Richard Reynolds. Sir Christopher 
 Wandsford, Sir William Roydon, Sir Robert King, Mr. Doyne, and 
 Mr. Brodrick are to be of the privy council. Sir Richard Cox and 
 Sergeant Jefferson are to be removed from the council, and 
 Mr. Donnelan to succeed Sir John Heley as one of the Barons of 
 the Exchequer. 
 
 On Thursday the attainder against Walcot, executed for being 
 concerned in the Rye House plot, was upon a writ of [error ?| 
 reversed in the King’s Bench, and his son was restored to his estate. 
 Mr. Justice Sir Giles Eyre lies dangerously ill. Mr. Bethell, the 
 
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 vintner, who is in Newgate upon a fine of 1,000/. for supplying 
 clippers with large money, was this day brought into the King’s 
 Bench by habeas corpus, praying, upon some error in his commit- 
 ment, to be turned over to the King’s Bench; but the King’s 
 counsel opposed the same, and he was again remanded, the court 
 taking time to consider of it till Tuesday. [Greenwich Hospital 
 ews Letters 4, No. 78. | 
 
 Newsletter addressed to Mr. Thomas Errington at Dilstone near 
 Newcastle on Tyne. Letters from Rome on the 21st. ult. bring that 
 the galleys of the Pope with the auxiliary troops on board for 
 the service of the Venetians, would be ready to sail for the Levant by 
 the ist inst. That the Pope designed a promotion in September 
 next to the vacant ‘‘caps.” In the meantime the King of Poland 
 and Cardinal Fourbin laboured to obtain one for the Marquis of 
 Bethune, father to the Queen of Poland, who is eighty-eight, that he 
 might honour his family with the dignity of the purple for the little 
 time he had to live. An extraordinary congregation has been held to 
 consider of the means of putting a stop to the spreading of a sect 
 which has sprung up, not unlike that of the Quietists, whose sanctity 
 and simplicity of life draw many proselytes, though they are persons 
 of no great literature. 
 
 Two rovers of Tripoli landed some of their men near Ostia, and 
 went to the castle of Prince Rossalio, where they surprized him with 
 
 the princess, four children and twelve servants. All these, with ~ 
 
 twenty other persons, they carried on board their ships. 
 
 We hear from Turin on the 27th ult. that the troops of Spain had 
 come to Villa Nuova, and the cavalry and dragoons in the service of 
 his Royal Highness to Orbassan, three hours’ march from Turin, 
 where they had begun to encamp; all the infantry had orders to hold 
 themselves in readiness to march, except such as were employed 
 in perfecting the lines. A party has been sent to consume the forage 
 about Pinerolo, and another to Demant[St. Damiano] in the vale of 
 Flure, to prevent all enterprizes of the enemy, for they have on that 
 
 side twelve battalions in the vale of Barcelonette, and seven at Susa. . 
 
 His Royal Highness has sent a colonel to the vale of Lucerne to 
 command a body of Vaudois, to discover the enemy’s convoys to 
 Pinerolo, and their army when they are assembled. 
 
 From Paris on the 6th they write that the French king and the 
 late King James had had a long conference at St. Germains-en-Laye, 
 upon the subject of an express which the latter had received from 
 Hingland, the substance of which was supposed to be weighty, but kept 
 very private. The lines from Ypres to Cymines upon the Lys were 
 perfected in the same manner as those from Courtrai to the Scheldet ; 
 they are at present busy making retrenchments along the canal from 
 Ypres to Fort Knoch, where Count de Motte commands in the room of 
 the late Marquis de Valette. They are also making lines from Mons 
 to the Sambre. 
 
 Letters dated from the Hague on the 11th, say that the envoys of 
 Liege were on the 6th conducted in the second coach of the States 
 General by the Sieurs d’Essen and Shattar to the assembly of 
 the States, where they set forth that the Prince, their master, 
 had thought fit to recall them, and they therefore demanded their 
 
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 audience of congé, assuring the States of their master’s sincere 
 intentions. The Sieur Dickwell answered that the States would 
 persist in the same good sentiments towards the Elector, and that 
 their persons were very agreeable as his envoys. ‘The nature of their 
 negotiation is kept private. 
 
 They write from Falmouth on the 8rd that a small French 
 privateer, without guns, which lay under the Deadman, has taken a 
 vessel laden with coal, and kept the master for a ransom. ‘Three 
 French privateers continue to lie off Weymouth, and frequently take 
 prizes in sight of Portland. On the 5th the Barbados, Lisbon, and 
 Oporto fleets, making together a hundred and fifty sail of English, 
 Dutch and Hamburghers, sailed from Spithead for the Downs. 
 
 There is advice by way of Jersey that the French are making 
 great preparations at Brest for the embarkation of land men on 
 transports, under the convoy of a squadron of men-of-war, which are 
 also making ready at that place, with a view, the islanders fear, of 
 some attack on Jersey or Guernsey. But this account, as it is 
 utterly false, so 1s it wholly impossible, for the enemy could make 
 no such attempts while our fleet is at sea, which is now ready to 
 visit their coasts. 
 
 We are assured that the Lords Justices highly resent the late 
 affront of a Danish captain, commander of the Dragon, of fifty-two 
 guns, which engaged the Charles galley off Rye; they have signified 
 so much to the Danish Resident, and it is believed some extra- 
 ordinary means will be taken for satisfaction, as soon as the King’s 
 pleasure is known. 
 
 Yesterday morning the wife of one Batson, a haberdasher of hats 
 in the Strand, was seized in her bed by a constable upon a warrant 
 from Mr. Justice Negus; her husband made his escape; in a cup- 
 board near her bed’s head were found all the utensils belonging to 
 the ‘‘ license”’ of clipping, and 120 ounces of clippings molten down 
 into ingots. Since last sessions one justice, it is said, has com- 
 mitted seventeen to Newgate on that account; all these discoveries 
 are attributed to the happy effect of the late act of parliament, it 
 being now apparent that more have a respect for the reward of 40l. 
 than they formerly had to their duty of service to their country. 
 
 This morning Sir Edward Ward, attorney-general, was called in 
 the usual form to the dignity of a serjeant-at-law, being ushered to 
 the bar of the court of Common Pleas by Serjeants Woogen and 
 Gould. In the evening at eight he took the oath of Lord Chief 
 Baron before the Lord Keeper at his house, and on Monday will 
 take his place as such in the court of Exchequer. 
 
 The five gentlemen I lately mentioned as taken into custody for 
 the riot in the Haymarket are admitted to bail to answer at the 
 approaching sessions at the Old Bailey. Captain John Scott, who 
 is said to have come some time since from France, upon advice that 
 a warrant was out for his apprehension, has surrendered himself to 
 a secretary of state. 
 
 Lord Chief Justice Treby, in his argument on Tuesday last in the 
 Exchequer Chamber, gave his opinion for reversing the decree of 
 that court in favour of the bankers against the King, contrary to 
 the opinion of the other judges, who argued before him, and on 
 Monday next his lordship designs to give his further reasons. 
 
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 The two daughters and coheirs of Thomas Pride, esquire, have 
 
 brought their bill into the Exchequer against the Earls of Bath and 
 Mountague to perpetuate the testimony of their witnesses in case of 
 death, they being very ancient persons, as appears by their proving 
 the marriage of Thomas Radford with Ann his wife in [16]32, and 
 the birth of Christopher, Duke of Albemarle, in August [16]58, at 
 the same time, as they pretend, that the Duchess of Albemarle’s 
 first husband, Thomas Radford, was living. Yesterday, after great 
 opposition on the part of the defendants, the court gave leave 
 according to the tenor of the bill, that they should examine their 
 witnesses de bene esse in perpetuam ret menoriam. 
 
 The fleet from Lisbon, ete., arrived yesterday morning in the 
 Downs. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 79.] 
 
 [ June. | W. Massey to the Duke of Shrewsbury. I have been unwilling to 
 trouble you with complaints, but my usage has been unspeakably 
 severe these six weeks last past, officers (or so pretended), soldiers 
 and seamen lying continually in my park or warren, destroying 
 both, daily molesting the houses, besides incredible rudeness in 
 searching (under pretence) for arms. ‘l'wo of my protestant servants 
 were extremely hurt and abused without the least provocation. 
 Last Friday and Saturday parties out of the blue regiment, Lord 
 Drohadel’s [Drogheda’s|, came under colour of seizing me; I was 
 from home, and they carried away all manner of goods, even to my 
 poor servants’ clothes, and the greatest part of the beds; also private 
 papers, which [ was not so cautious in removing, because I relied 
 on my protection. I sent a servant on Monday to the said lord 
 commander at Chester, who gave him up to his men for ill-treatment; 
 the horse he rode is still in their hands. Further outrages were 
 committed on Tuesday. I cannot impute these partial severities to 
 any reasonable cause, except some letters, which (the public coffee- 
 house papers advise) were directed to me out of Ireland, seized by 
 the mayor of Chester and sent to the King, which perhaps may have 
 exasperated the neighbourhood. But to this moment I know not 
 from what hand they came, nor a syllable of the contents. I have 
 just heard that near twenty soldiers are sent to quarter at Soddington, 
 and have carried off my best horses. [S.P. Dom. William and 
 
 Mary 14, No. 67. | 
 1695. 
 
 Aug. 17, Newsletter addressed to the Karl of Derwentwater at Newcastle-on- 
 
 London. ‘Tyne. Letters from Turin dated on the 5th say it is feared that the 
 discovery which has arisen among the general officers of the | 
 confederate army about the demolishing of Casall, which the 
 Emperor opposes, especially as regards the castle, will hinder their 
 further proceedings this campaign. It is also believed the season is 
 too far advanced to enterprize anything against Pignerol, which 
 place the French have lately supplied with all necessaries, and have 
 added several new works to the fort of St. Bridget. Meanwhile the 
 Duke of Savoy has returned to Turin, and the confederate army, 
 except four or five thousand men left to perfect the demolition of 
 Casall, is defiling off towards Nice. Catinat, that he may not be 
 quite forgotten, continues with great ‘“‘impressment”’ to fortify the 
 posts at Fenestrelle. 
 
 
 
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 We have news from Vienna on the 6th that they are now expecting 
 to hear that the Elector of Saxony has arrived at the head of 
 the Imperial army, which without flattery (to use their own 
 expression) is very numerous. It is not doubted but that he will 
 enterprize something very considerable upon either Belgrade or 
 Temesvar, provided the enemy prove to be in that indifferent 
 condition they have for some time been reported to be in. Admiral 
 Assemberg has not arrived from Holland, but the greatest part of the 
 seamen he has raised are advancing before him for the Danube, to 
 go on board the fleet. 
 
 The army in Germany make no movement. ‘The apprehension of 
 an enterprize by the allies on the Rhine has vanished, the Prince of 
 Baden having sent back his heavy cannon to Heilbronn. The 
 reason is said to be that the people of Swabia and Franconia have 
 prayed his Highness not to pass the Rhine, and so expose them to 
 the incursion of the enemy, but to continue where he is, and so 
 cover the country; though others say that his army is too much 
 enfeebled by the detachment for Flanders to undertake the siege of 
 Landau or Philippsburg as was projected. 
 
 The detachment from the French army in Germany, which it is 
 said consisted of seven thousand foot and sixteen hundred horse, took 
 their route to Verdun, where the foot were embarked and transported 
 to Dinant, but the horse continued their march by land. 
 
 On the 12th the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel arrived in person 
 at Maestricht, from whence he sent express immediately to the King 
 to know where he should march his troops, which the next day arrived 
 at Aix la Chapelle, either to the siege of Namur or Waterloo. By 
 the arrival of this detachment the confederates conclude themselves 
 to be ina state to make head against the enemy, and so prevent their 
 designs, and at the same time to push on the siege to the last 
 extremity. 
 
 From the camp before Namur we have only to add to our last that 
 the batteries from the tower play incessantly upon the castle. The 
 bombardiers have made a breach so large on the water tower between 
 the Sambre and the Meuse, that they are ready for a storm. A work 
 before the castle is also much damaged, as also another before 
 the Cohorne fort. Twelve batteries were on the 18th playing against 
 them, and more. preparing. Mons. Cohorne gives assurances to 
 reduce the castle etc. with less loss than we had before the town. On 
 the 14th Bouffleurs designed to have beat his way out with all his 
 horse, but was prevented by the good guard that was kept at all the 
 fordable places in the Sambre and Meuse. | 
 
 Our letters from Brussels say that it was the best part of that city 
 and the fairest houses that were consumed, and that they have only 
 this to comfort themselves, that the whole was not laid in ashes. 
 
 Those from the Hague of the 19th remark that in the attempt on 
 Dunkirk we did not do the enemy above two hundred livres damage; 
 that their bomb-vessels had all returned; that the minister of the 
 Landgrave of Hesse Cassel had notified the States that his master’s 
 troops should continue in the Netherlands as long as there was 
 occasion for them; that the princes of Italy had resolved not only 
 to send ministers to his Britannic Majesty, but also to negotiate to 
 be admitted into the Grand Alliance, which has lately been renewed 
 and signed by the several ministers concerned. 
 
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 From Edinburgh on the 10th they write: Yesterday morning the 
 Lords of the Treasury met, and let to farm the five pence upon each 
 pint of ale sold in this kingdom for one year commencing in 
 September next, and it was taken by Lord Belhaven at 83,5001. 
 After this they put to farm the bishops’ lands, excepting three, viz. : 
 Argyll, Orkney and Caithness, and they were taken by Mr. Hugh 
 Cunningham, a writer to his Majesty’s signet, at 5,000/. per annum. 
 This day the Council issued forth a proclamation for regulating the 
 
 . , a list of the poll and the several payments thereof. Also, by 
 a warrant from the King’s Advocate, Mr. John Dalrymple, one of 
 the Keepers of the Signet was seized by three messengers with all 
 his papers, and made a close prisoner in the Tolbooth. Warrants 
 are out against two persons, who have chosen as the prudentest part 
 to withdraw, but their papers have been seized; the particular 
 reasons are not known. Colonel Gibson, deputy governor of Ports- 
 mouth, has, by assistance of Mr. Secretary Johnson, obtained seventy 
 men here for recruiting his regiment; they are to be transported 
 hence to Tilbury. 
 
 On the 18th, the Marquis of Carmarthen arrived at Plymouth in 
 the Lennox. At the same time there passed forward for the Downs 
 the Devonshire, the Berkeley Castle, the Prince of Orange with three 
 Dutch men-of-war, and about sixty sail of merchant-ships under their 
 convoy for the Straits. The small French galleons continue to play 
 their freaks about Portland. On the 13th Colonel Mordaunt, Major 
 Newton, and several other officers arrived at Weymouth from their 
 commands at Guernsey, which island they left on Monday last; they 
 say that on the Saturday before Captain Slowly, with fourteen men 
 in a fishing sloop of no guns, took three small French vessels from the 
 eastwards in ballast. : 
 
 On Thursday morning Lord Berkeley, with the fleet under his 
 command in the Downs, weighed anchor in order to stand over 
 for Calais, but afterwards came to anchor again off the South Sand 
 Head, waiting the next tide to get clear. Mr. Meisters’ machines and 
 smoke ships, with which he thought to have blinded the French 
 at Dunkirk, are all ordered into the river to be discharged. Sir 
 George Rooke returns to Portsmouth on Tuesday next in order to sail 
 for Cadiz, and convoy will be got ready to follow him soon after. 
 
 Yesterday was published a proclamation by the Lords Justices for 
 the apprehension of John Robart, late gentleman to the Duke of 
 Leeds, offering a reward of 2001. It appears upon oath he has been 
 lately seen in and about this city. Yesterday morning “the lord” 
 [sic] with the fleet, the well-boats having joined him, was seen on the 
 back of the Goodwin, standing for the French coast. [{Admiralty, 
 Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 80. | 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater at Newcastle-on- 
 Tyne. By letters from Paris of the 22nd we have advice from 
 Catalonia of the 10th inst., saying that Admiral Russell arrived on 
 the 28th ult. before Barcelona, and there disembarked 8,500 men, 
 which he had taken on board at Final. He afterwards held a council 
 of war with Marquis de Castanaga, viceroy of Catalonia. The 
 Spanish army was encamped, the right towards Hostabrich and the 
 
 _ left towards Fengest. The French, encamped two leagues from 
 
 Gerona, were disposing to enter into quarters of refreshment. 
 
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 Letters from Provence say that great diligence has been used to get 
 the fleet ready to put to sea, and that the Grand Prior was to embark 
 with part of the troops that are on the coasts of Provence, and 
 transport them to Catalonia, to serve there under the Duke de 
 Vendome his brother. They write from the army under Mons. 
 Catinat on the 10th, near Diblon, that, in accordance with the advice 
 they had received from Turin of the preparations of the Duke of 
 Savoy, they have sent all sorts of provisions and necessaries to 
 Pinerolo to enable the governor of it to make a vigorous defence, in 
 case it should be attacked, as they apprehend it will. 
 
 From Turin on the 13th we have the following particulars: They 
 are continuing to carry thither the artillery and munitions of war that 
 were at Casall; on the 5th, twenty-two pieces of cannon had arrived 
 there thence. Marshal de Catinat had sent to court to demand the 
 troops that have lain this summer on the coasts of Provence. The 
 enemy were moving on all sides and reinforcing the garrisons of 
 Susa and Pienerol, and fortifying the passages of the hill which are 
 most exposed. The Spaniards have drawn off what garrisons they 
 had in the neighbourhood of Casall. The king of Spain had resigned 
 all his pretensions to the nineteen villages in the Duke of Savoy’s 
 territory for a certain time, which is to be regulated by commissioners. 
 Hig Cathohe Majestychbad iy 2. 2 S50. a0. 4). . very obliging 
 terms on that subject, assuring . . . . a pleasure as well in this as in 
 any other affair which might be in his power. By this means 
 his Royal Highness, with what other villages he bought from the 
 Imperial Chamber, will be able to prevent for the future all frauds in 
 his revenues. 
 
 They write from Brussels on the 24th that they have begun to 
 work upon demolishing the lines, retrenchments and batteries which 
 the enemy made for its bombardment. The citizens of Ghent were 
 under so great apprehension of bombardment, that they had removed 
 all their best effects to Antwerp, and drawn a line from T'ronchiennes 
 to the channel of Bruges for its security, on which not only the 
 burghers, but the clergy, wrought. But Villeroy’s march towards 
 Neuville has banished their apprehensions. 
 
 We have advice from Mons that the French have laden six thousand 
 waggons with bullets and bombs, ete., and that on the 22nd the bombs 
 were again unladed. The French give out that these munitions are 
 to be employed in the battle which Villeroy is ordered to give the 
 confederates for the relief of the castle of Namur. 
 
 From the Hague we hear that the officers who have returned from 
 the bombardment of Dunkirk, and were there in command of the 
 bomb-vessels, were under examination, and made their report in 
 relation to the miscarriage of that attempt. 
 
 Edinburgh letters of the 19th inst. say: One Mr. Murray, a 
 merchant of this city, who received a newsletter from London 
 containing much to the disadvantage of the confederate army, was 
 committed to prison for holding such a correspondence. Yesterday 
 a dragoman was brought hither from Glasgow, where he received 
 sentence first to be whipped and then to be banished for ravishing an 
 old woman. 
 
 Yesterday by a packet from the Groyne we received letters from 
 Cadiz of the 81st ult. They report that on the 26th five Dutch men 
 
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 of war sailed thence for the Straits to meet and strengthen the 
 ‘Turkish convoy. On the 27th a vessel arrived in fifteen days from 
 the Canaries, where she left four English outward bound East India 
 ships. They have advice from Tangier that a ‘‘Sally”’ man-of-war was 
 cast away on that bar. Ethat Conta [s?c| continued to make a vigorous 
 defence, and the King of Morocco sent four thousand of his guards to 
 assist in the siege, but they made small progress. He daily expected 
 a diversion from the Algerines, by virtue of an alliance betwixt that 
 government and Spain; but, to prevent the same if possible, gave 
 liberty of all his ports, to buy what provisions etc. they want. Just 
 at the coming away of these letters the forces that lately arrived from 
 the Netherlands with the Dutch convoy sailed from Cadiz in 
 prosecution of their voyage to Catalonia. 
 
 From Falmouth on the 19th, they write that Captain Cole has gone 
 to eruize with a squadron to the Chops of the Channel. A mail has 
 arrived by packet-boat from Corunna bringing confirmation that 
 Admiral Russell, with the confederate fleet, arrived on the 81st ult. 
 before Barcelona, to which place he convoyed the Turkey fleet, and 
 afterwards returned to the coasts of Provence, with a design, as 1t was 
 siven out, to make some attempt on Marseilles. The whole fleet, as 
 to men and ships, were in good condition. 
 
 We hear nothing of moment from any of the ports. Sir 
 Cloudesley Shovell, with the English and Dutch squadrons, continues 
 in the Downs. On Thursday night Lord Berkeley attended the Lords 
 Justices, and gave them an account of this summer’s expedition at 
 sea, little to the advantage, it is said, of Mr. Meisters. Yesterday 
 his lordship went to Windsor to wait on their Royal Highnesses, and 
 from thence designed to go and see his lady at Moor Park. The 
 Duke of Leeds has taken the house in St. James’s park in which 
 Lord Chancellor Jeffryes lived, and was lately the Admiralty Office. 
 One Mr. Edward Wharton, goldsmith, was constituted receiver 
 general for the King of all the fines, etc., that shall arise on the act 
 of parhament for the licensing of hackney coaches, with an allow- 
 ance of 601. per annum for himself and clerk. 
 
 Yesterday the commissioners of the excise attended the Lords of 
 the Treasury (as it is said) upon a complaint of some of the 
 principal officers, several of them having lately resigned, and others 
 being removed by the commissioners. Yesterday the Lord Keeper, 
 the Karl of Romney, master of the ordnance, Henry Goodrich, Mr. 
 Montague, chancellor of the Exchequer, and several other persons 
 of quality, went to Woolwich to see an experiment of cannon and 
 mortars, and also an experiment of Mr. Meisters, but the last was 
 not proved. An Ostend privateer has taken a rich French ship 
 coming north. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 81.] 
 
 Docket for the appointment of Prince George of Denmark, the 
 Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir John Somers, Lord Keeper of the 
 great seal, and others to be commissioners to consider all questions 
 relating to the building, charter of foundation, etc. of Greenwich 
 Hospital, to which the King grants 2,000/. a year during the continu- 
 ance of this commission. John Evelyn, senior, is appointed treasurer 
 at a Poa of 2001. per annum. [S.P. Dom. William and Mary 14, 
 No. 68. 
 
 
 
1695. 
 Oct. 24. 
 
 London, 
 
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 Newsletter addressed to the Karl of Derwentwater at Newcastle-on- 
 ‘Tyne. Letters from Warsaw of the 8th of October advise that the 
 Polish army was on the 28th ult. within seven leagues of Caminieck, 
 under the cannon of which place were posted eight thousand Tartars. 
 Azov was not taken by the Muscovites, as has been so often reported; 
 but the garrison continues to make a vigorous defence, and in a sally 
 they lately made repulsed the besiegers, overturned their batteries, 
 nailed up their cannon, and filled up part of their trenches. How- 
 ever, the Czar Peter was resolved to continue the siege. 
 
 Letters from Hungary and Transylvania say the Turks have not 
 only quitted Karansebes, but have finished their campaign and were 
 returning home by way of Orsova; these accounts seem to require 
 further confirmation. 
 
 The Turks threaten (and all advices from Ottoman territories 
 confirm it) that the Grand Seignior designs considerably to augment 
 his forces against next campaign, both by sea and land; and to that 
 end has sent out sharp orders to all his pashas to raise what men and 
 money they can. These preparations of the enemy will necessitate 
 the increase of the Christian fleets and armies in due proportion, 
 that they may at least act with success and security on the defensive. 
 The Venetians are already endeavouring to secure the assistance of 
 shipping from neighbouring princes and states, which, it is believed, 
 will be difficult for them to obtain in this conjuncture, when most 
 have occasion to make use of their own. 
 
 The Emperor, to strengthen his army in Hungary, has resolved to 
 eall out of Piedmont his two regiments of dragoons, and some letters 
 also say three regiments of horse, and the troops from the Rhine, 
 and that he will supply the first with two regiments of foot, and the 
 latter with troops from the princes of the empire. However it be, it 
 is not like to be very agreeable to the Prince of Savoy, for the troops 
 that are promised to supply those which the Emperor withdraws may 
 come too late to his assistance. 
 
 They write from Vienna on the 15th that the Elector of Saxony 
 was expected there in a week, having [left] the command of the 
 troops in Transsylvania to Count Caprara, between whom and the 
 Elector (as the Paris gazettes would insinuate) there has been no 
 very good harmony this campaign. Upon his arrival a great 
 conference is to be held at the imperial court, at which also Prince 
 Louis of Baden will be present. 
 
 The army of the allies in Germany separated entirely on the 18th, 
 and the troops marched to their winter quarters. ‘The enemy are 
 also separating, but their troops continue cantoned in the towns and 
 villages. 
 
 In Flanders the French have but fifteen thousand men left about 
 Harlebeke, the rest lying about Furnes under Villeroy, Bouffleurs and 
 Montalt, to which side the Duke of Wurtemberg has also marched 
 with twelve thousand men and several pieces of cannon, so that 
 Niewport begins to be freed from its apprehension of bombardment. 
 The French are going to add several new works to strengthen the 
 fortifications of Dinant, Mons and Charleroi, but have laid by their 
 design of making a new line. 
 
 The States of Holland have separated till the 15th proximo. It is 
 said they design to lay a tax upon marriages and interments, and 
 
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 another upon all merchant vessels. Three of the provinces have 
 already approved of the state of the war for the ensuing year, the 
 rest are expected daily soto do. They continue to say that not only 
 that state, but the other confederates, will regulate themselves 
 according to the resolutions of the parliament of Kngland. 
 
 According to letters from Paris of the 29th, the Marquis de Crenan, 
 late governor of Casall, had arrived at court, and the Duke de 
 Vendome was “suddenly” expected. Marshal de Lorge had been 
 seized with a hemiplegia, one side of him being dead. The news 
 from Toulon continues still to vary about the armament there, so 
 that we know not what to conclude. 
 
 They write from Edinburgh on the 17th: On Sunday morning 
 last Sir John Hall, late provost of this city, departed this life, leaving 
 a plentiful estate. Heis much regretted. The Viscount of Stairs, 
 Lord President of the Session, has been much indisposed for several 
 days past, to that degree that it is hourly feared his age and 
 infirmities will put an end to his days. - Monday last, being the late 
 King James’s birthday, was observed by the Jacobites here with 
 more circumspection than formerly; no other notice was taken 
 thereof than by the throwing of some squibs in the streets; and 
 some persons who appeared to have more wine in their crowns than 
 brains got up the cross at midnight, and drank his health. On 
 Tuesday, upon the news of his Majesty’s safe arrival from Holland, 
 this city was filled with acclamations of joy. This day the 
 Centurion frigate arrived in Leith Road from Ostend, having on 
 board two hundred and forty officers of this nation come to make 
 their recruits for Flanders. The parliament house is being put in 
 order against the Ist of October, to which time parliament is 
 adjourned. 
 
 Our port “novels” are that on the 17th [?] at night Sir George 
 Rooke was seen at the height of the Lizard, passing westward with 
 a fresh gale at N.E.; but a French privateer has taken a store-ship 
 out of his fleet, which had a great many sail suits on board, and 
 carried her to France. 
 
 Three persons have this week been taken into the custody of 
 Hopkins the ‘‘d taker,’ being concerned in the escape of Sir 
 James Montgomery about two years since. Itis said that the sentinels 
 who went away with him have returned and discovered the same. 
 
 Yesterday, being the first of the term, Mr. Rippington, who was, 
 about a twelvemouth since, convicted for killing Mr. Dod, appeared at 
 the court of King’s Bench and pleaded his Majesty’s pardon. Several 
 others appeared upon their recognizances, and were continued. Mr. 
 Justice Rokeby is to be advanced to the court of King’s Bench in place 
 of Mr. Justice Eyres, deceased, and will be succeeded in the Common 
 Pleas by Mr. Baron Powell; and Mr. Sergeant Powis, now a puisne 
 judge of Chester, will be made a Baron in room of Baron Powell; Mr. 
 Recorder of London is to be puisne judge of Chester. Jor this blank 
 warrants have been sent down to the King, but have not yet returned. 
 The poll for the members of London will terminate to-morrow. The 
 election for Westminster commenced this day; the Hon. Mr. 
 Montague and Sir Stephen Fox were elected, and Sir Walter Clarges 
 left out. [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 82.] 
 
 
 
 
 
1695. 
 Nov. 2. 
 
 London. 
 
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 Newsletter addressed to the Karl of Derwentwater at Newcastle-on- 
 Tyne. The last foreign mail gives us the following news from the 
 continent : 
 
 The Pope, to his great solace, has received fresh assurance from the 
 Emperor that his troops shall not this winter in the least trouble the 
 patrimony of St. Peter upon account of quarters. | 
 
 On the 21st ult. a ship arrived at Venice in seven days from Zante, 
 bringing a fresh report of an engagement for two days between the 
 fleets of the republic and the Ottomans, which terminated to the 
 advantage of the former; but the report merits little credit, by 
 reason that the senate has received no express of it from the 
 captain-general. -By the same way we have advice from Turkey 
 that, since the arrival of the confederate fleet in the Mediterranean, 
 and the retiring of the French into Toulon, the English and the 
 Dutch have the management of the whole trade in the Levant, and 
 by that means those nations are in greater respect at the Porte than 
 they were before. 
 
 All advices from Turkish territory agree in this, that the Grand 
 Seignior designs next summer to make a fresh progress against 
 Transsylvania, in which some of that country who have retired with 
 him give him great encouragement, upon account that their subsidies 
 are far greater than. they were when they were under the protection 
 of the Porte, besides which they are forced to give the Germans free 
 quarters, and, whatis worst of all, are molested in the free exercise of 
 their religion. Inorder to carry out these his designs, the Sultan 
 has resolved to leave the Grand Vizier to winter at Sophia, and his 
 present army upon the frontiers, and at the same time to assemble 
 and bring down another army next summer. 
 
 Our letters from Vienna of the 22nd ult. say that upon the above 
 advice the Emperor, on the other hand, has resolved to hazard all for 
 the preservation of Transsylvania, and to that end it is discoursed he 
 designs to augment his present army on that side with 20,000 or 
 25,000 men against spring, partly by new levies, and partly by troops 
 hired from the princes of the empire; but this will be a great expense 
 to a prince whose treasure is already pretty well drained, and his 
 territories dispeopled and impoverished by a burdensome war. The 
 Klector of Saxony returned from Hungary to Vienna on the 22nd ult. 
 
 Letters from Brussels of the 2nd inst. bring little in them worth 
 remark, saving that levies are making in Brabant for the service of 
 the King in England. The affair of General Ellemberg and the 
 other officers concerned in delivering up Dixmude and Deynze would 
 still take some days to terminate. 
 
 It is confirmed from Liege and Maestricht that the enemy con- 
 tinues to make great preparations of bombs and munitions of war in 
 their places on the Meuse, which makes the allies the more vigilant 
 for the security of Namur, to prevent its surprize, or, at least, 
 bombardment. To that end the Duke of Holstein Ploen will 
 continue this winter in Brabant, to have the better eye upon the 
 enemy, and the greatest part of the generals will be near at hand to 
 their troops. Besides, the garrisons of Maestricht, Liege, Huy and 
 Namur will be so numerous as to be able to draw from them into the 
 field over 830,000 men upon the first occasion. Marshal de Villeroi 
 has left for court. 
 
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 By another mail since writing the above, we have an account from 
 two troopers escaped from Temesvar, that General Veterani is living 
 and in the way of recovery. The same is confirmed by way of 
 Wallachia, with this addition, that the Grand Seignior with his whole 
 army has entered that province with the design of attempting an 
 
 ‘entrance into Transsylvania by the passage of the Vulcan Pass, where 
 
 General Henster was defeated and taken prisoner some time past ; 
 and that he had seized the prince of that country under pretence of 
 his having held a correspondence with General Veterani. Upon the 
 semblance of truth in those reports, the imperial troops are all on 
 their march to oppose the enemy. 
 
 Letters of the last credit from the French assure us that the king 
 is entirely resolved to exert his utmost force another campaign, to 
 see if he can force the allies to accept of peace upon his own terms. 
 They write from Toulon that the officers of the fleet have received 
 their ‘‘ congés”’ till the 25th of February, from which it is evident 
 that their present equipment is suspended till spring. 
 
 Advices from the Hague of the 18th say that the States General 
 were indignant at the news of the disgrace put upon Mons. Bally, 
 their secretary at Madrid, by thrashing him; he was thrust out of 
 the city by the King’s order. They had taken a very vigorous 
 resolution, which they had not only sent to Madrid, but had 
 communicated it to the Spanish minister at the Hague. 
 
 The ministers of Sweden, Denmark and Portugal have received 
 new instructions for proposing a general peace, and appointing 
 a place for negotiating the same, but ib was believed nothing would be 
 done in the affair till it was seen how the parliament of England 
 proceeded. 
 
 Our port letters contain nothing worthy of consideration further 
 than that Admiral Russell with the squadron of men-of-war and 
 merchantmen under his command came to anchor in the offing at 
 Plymouth on the 29th in the evening. 
 
 The elections of members of parliament go on apace in all 
 parts of the kingdom; such persons are generally chosen as are 
 known to be for the interest of his Majesty and support of his 
 government, and near eighty are already left out that were in 
 the former parliament, who went under a disadvantageous character. 
 The freeholders of Cumberland, after they had elected Sir George 
 Fletcher and Sir John Lowther, presented their requests by way of 
 address in these terms, viz., that you will heartily give your assis- 
 tance for raising such supplies as are necessary for the support of 
 his Majesty’s government for maintaining the sea and land forces, 
 and for carrying on the war with vigour till a safe and honourable 
 peace can be obtained, the supplies to be raised by such ways and 
 means as shall be most easy to the subject, most effectual and 
 expeditious. 
 
 We hear that three persons have been seized in Essex for dispers- 
 ing letters written in Latin reflecting on the present elections and 
 his Majesty’s progress; and for pretending to tell of innovations 
 that will be made in the ensuing sessions. On Thursday last Mr. 
 Row and Mr. Kendall, who were lately committed to Newgate for 
 high treason upon account of the escape of Sir James Montgomery, 
 were brought up by habeas corpus into the King’s Bench to be 
 
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 bailed, which was opposed by the King’s counsel; but Sir Cresswell 
 Levens and Sir Bartholomew Showers, who were counsel for the 
 prisoners, made learned arguments that Sir James Montgomery’s 
 breaking out of the messenger’s house was no escape in law, it 
 being not a lawful dur: ance, but a erievance complained of in the 
 late reigns, and consequently these persons could be guilty of no 
 crime. ‘They were ordered to be brought up again on Wednesday 
 next, when they will be admitted to bail. A new commission of the 
 Treasury is passing in which Sir William Trumbull is left out. 
 [Greenwich Hospital News Letters 4, No. 88.] 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Karl of Derwentwater at Neweastle-on- 
 Tyne. by way of Ragusa, on the 12th of October, we have advice 
 that the Turks are raising great numbers of men in Asia, which they 
 will send towards the frontiers of Hurope, to remain there during the 
 winter to be in readiness to join the Grand Army in the spring ; and 
 that the Transylvanians, who retired with the Grand Vizier, make 
 great complaint of the hardships they receive under the Germans, 
 and therefore pray the protection of the Porte; but they are looked 
 upon to be persons whose crimes made them to fly their country, 
 and not the ‘‘sense of their principality.” 
 
 Letters from Vienna of the 29th ult. bring news that Count Caprara 
 arrived from Hungary on that date. The Prince of Baden and 
 Prince Eugene of Savoy were expected immediately at the imperial 
 court. The report of Count Veteranye’s being still alive at Temesvar 
 proved only an ‘amusement,’ it being confirmed from all hands that 
 he is dead. Colonel Anthony, with his bands, had had a sharp 
 conflict with the Turks, in which himself and many of his men were 
 cut off. The Ottoman army had separated, and they were in no 
 further apprehension of an attempt to be made by them on Transyl- 
 vania by the way of Vonlion (?). The Elector of Saxony was on his 
 return to Dresden in order to expedite his new levies, and to prepare 
 things against his return to Vienna in the spring. The Emperor 
 was resolved to use his utmost efforts to have a sufficient force in the 
 field next summer to oppose the enemy and to preserve Transylvania 
 and Slavonia, for both of which they are in some pain. 
 
 In Germany the main dispute at present is about the affair of the 
 line which is made on the frontier, the ‘‘ circles”? continuing to 
 refuse the wintering of any troops, besides their own, which the 
 common good requires them to agree to. Prince Louis of Baden, 
 who at present is much embarassed about this affair, has ordered the 
 general of the troops of the Elector Palatine to continue in his present 
 post for some days, being still in hopes to induce the “circles” 
 to entertain at least part of the said troops, in order to have them 
 posted in the Bergstrat along the Neckar, for it is very much feared 
 that the enemy, who hold great garrisons in Phillipsburg, Fort Lewis, 
 and the adjoining places, design to make ravages this winter. 
 
 The French are at work in strengthening their lines in Flanders, 
 and keep still some troops together about Furnes. Letters from 
 Brussels of the 8th say they threaten the open country between 
 Ninove and that city with military execution, on account of the arrears 
 of some old contributions. 
 
352 
 1695. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 It is advised from Mons that Marshal de Bouffleurs, the 
 Marquis d’ Kxinimes, lieutenant general and governor of Maubeuge, 
 the Sieur de Vauban, chief engineer of France, and the Sieur de 
 Meégrigny, governor of the citadel of Tournai and chief miner of 
 France, are expected in the said city of Mons to survey it, and to trace 
 
 a plan for building a citadel, in order to which four hundred houses . 
 
 are to be pulled down. | 
 
 From the Hague of the 11th [n.s.] they write that Lord Villiers, 
 the English envoy, has made extraordinary preparation to celebrate 
 his Majesty’s birthday with feasting and fireworks; that their High 
 Mightinesses have reiterated their orders to the admiralty to hasten 
 the equipment of the frigates that are designed to cruize on the 
 coasts; and that they continue to raise money for recruiting the 
 regiments of the State, but there is nothing yet said with any 
 certainty about the augmentation of the forces. All but the provinces 
 of Friesland and Groeningen have sent their approbations of the 
 state of the war for the year ensuing. 
 
 We are advised from Paris on the 7th inst. [N.s.] that Count de 
 Moutall had arrived at court, and was in prospect of being made a 
 marshal of France. Marshal de Villeroi was daily expected, and 
 would be well received at court, the French king being fully persuaded 
 it was the fault of the Duke of Maine that he did not attack the 
 Prince of Vaudemont. 
 
 Letters from Toulon of the 26th ult. confirm that the armament of 
 the fleet has ceased there, and the sea officers have returned home. 
 
 Our port letters afford little material. This post from Falmouth 
 we have advice that a Guernsey privateer, arriving there, reports he 
 saw the Berwick carry off a privateer into Scilly, and in his last 
 
 cruise he himself took six French prizes, three of which were in 
 
 ballast, and the others laden with salt and wine. From Portsmouth 
 on the 5th they write: Yesterday his Majesty’s ships Norfolk, 
 Expedition, Monk, Restoration and Eagle came into Spithead, and 
 say that Admiral Russell, with the rest of the ships that came with 
 him, passed by that morning for the Downs. 
 
 Letters from Welbeck of the 1st say: Last night Lieut.-General 
 Bellasys waited on the King with the sentence of the court martial 
 against Major-General Ellenburg and Brigadier O’Farrell, viz., that 
 the said major-general shall lose his head and his goods be confis- 
 cated, and the said brigadier be cashiered and have his sword 
 broken over his head by the common hangman. The like 
 is to be inflicted on Colonel Oare, a Dutch officer, and Sir 
 James Leslie and Colonel Graham are to be broken, and Colonel 
 Brewer suspended for three months, and imprisoned during the said 
 time, all which we hear the King has approved of, and signed a 
 warrant to put the same in execution, and sent it to Flanders. It is 
 said that Sir James Leslie’s regiment is given to Mr. Mansell How 
 of the bedchamber, and Colonel Graham’s to Colonel Walsh of the 
 foot guards. 
 
 Yesterday Mr. Kendal and Mr. Row, lately committed for being 
 concerned in the escape of Sir James Montgomery, were admitted to 
 bail, themselves being bound in 2001. each, and their four securities 
 100/. a man. On Monday last one Mr. Ware of Kingsbridge was 
 committed to Newgate for high treason; he was lately a justice of 
 
 
 
1695. 
 
 Nov. 9. 
 
 London. 
 
 WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 353 
 
 the Peace in the late reign. The winter guard is now appointed ; 
 it is to consist of thirty-five frigates, thirteen to cruise on the 
 coast of Ireland, five in the Channel, and six in the Bay of Biscay, to 
 have their station always about Land’s End, and eleven between 
 England and Holland. 
 
 By an express from Deal we hear that Admiral Russell has 
 arrived in the Downs. Two persons were brought out of Kent 
 lately, who come from France, having papers of dangerous 
 consequence about them. 
 
 The Duke of Schomberg has come to town, and orders the court 
 martial to be kept at the Horse Guards as formerly. The King will 
 be on Saturday at Windsor, and on Sunday next at Kensington. 
 [Greenwich Hospital Newsletters, 4. No. 84.] 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater, Newcastle-on- 
 Tyne. We have advice by letter of the 22nd past from Rome that 
 Cardinal Fourbin has renewed his solicitations with the Pope to 
 emplov his good offices as the common father of the church for the 
 procuring a peace in Europe. At the same time the French king 
 presses the neutral princes to use their endeavours also for the 
 bringing that happy work about. But there is little appearance at 
 present that the same will be suddenly effected, by reason the 
 Confederates seem resolved to have a full restitution of all the places 
 that France has wrested from them, which the other as stiffly refuses 
 to comply with, so both sides are making vigorous preparations for 
 another campaign. 
 
 The letter from Venice of the 29th brings that they begin very 
 much to doubt of the success of the battle, which they mentioned in 
 the other ordinary, between the fleet of that state and the Ottomans, 
 advice of which they had from several parts: The same advice came 
 also by the way of the Morea, saying that the Venetians suffered not 
 much, but were nevertheless obliged to retire. These accounts seem 
 all very uncertain, which makes the senate impatient to receive their 
 letters from General Stenau, who has returned to Corfu with the 
 Pope’s and Malta galleys. 
 
 Letters from Paris of the 7th inst. bring that they have advice from 
 Piedmont that the troops commanded by Catinat were to separate 
 on the 31st ult. and to march to their winter quarters; that the 
 Count de Tesse had gone to see his new regiment in Provence, and 
 that Marshal de Catinat was ready also to leave the army, to repair 
 to court. They have no advice yet of the separation of the army in 
 Catalonia, but believe the same is effected. Marshal de Villeroi 
 had visited the places on the Meuse, and above all Dinant, where they 
 are at work with the utmost application to complete the fortifications, 
 which he pretends will render it one of the strongest places in the 
 Netherlands. They write from Ghent, that the troops that were 
 under the Duke of Wurtemberg have gone into their winter quarters ; 
 that the French in their conquests in Flanders pressed payment on 
 Fontaine, which causes great complaints. The King of France 
 requires the town of Lisle to furnish him with a regiment of infantry, 
 that of Valenciennes, 400 foot and 100 horse, T’ournai, 1,000 horse and 
 foot, and all his other conquests proportionately. 
 
 2045 Z 
 
354 
 
 1695. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 On the 4th inst. Sir Martin Beckman, with 21 bombships only, and 
 without coming to anchor, threw bombs into the town and citadel 
 at Palomas, and then went back again. On the 12th inst. Sir 
 Martin went in again, being towed in by the Sicilian, Neapolitan and 
 Barcelonian salleys, with ten bombships, about six in the morning. 
 He came to an anchor at a convenient distance, and discharged 
 the galleys, attacking the citadel with four of the bombships w hich 
 he warped off without reach of the enemy’s cannon, and so left the 
 place on fire in three places. In this action we threw into the town 
 and citadel 1,423 bombs. News was brought that night out of the 
 town that, where it was not burnt, it was very much shattered and 
 ruined. The barracks were beaten down, and the bombs killed 
 [18 ? men] with three captains and some subalterns. 
 
 On the 18th our English forces left the Spanish army, and the 
 same day were brought again on board our fleet. The same night 
 the Spaniards raised a battery on the east side of the town, from 
 whence they fired on the town on the 14th, but on the 15th, early in 
 the morning, the Spanish army, which was esteemed to consist of 
 10,000 foot and 7,000 horse, marched back and left the place to 
 continue in the hands of the French. The reason of this sudden 
 and surprising retreat I know not. On the 16th the galleys sailed back 
 again for Barcelona, as did on the 17th the whole fleet towards the 
 coasts of Provence. 
 
 This post affords little material from the ports besides that universal 
 transports have been seen everywhere in solemnizing his Majesty’s 
 birthday and his entrance into the . . . . year of his age; more par- 
 ticularly in the Isle of Wight, where Lord Cutts, their governor, 
 ordered a triple discharge of their cannon in the castles of the 
 island, and gave a splendid entertainment to all the gentry of 
 Carisbrook Castle, and afterwards a ball, and likewise a ereat 
 quantity of wine and other liquors for the mob to drink the king’s 
 health at Cowes and Newport. 
 
 There are now at St. Helen’s a Dutch vice and rear admiral, and 
 six men-of-war more of that nation, waiting to sail for the Downs; at 
 Spithead twelve English and Dutch men-of-war more. On the 7th in 
 the morning arrived in the Downs the C squadron of men-of-war from 
 Jadiz. But Admiral Russell and Vice Admiral Aylmer went ashore 
 the night before at Dover, in order to proceed to London, and I hear 
 they came to town last night. This morning Admiral Russell was 
 waited upon and complimented on his return by divers persons of 
 quality, and by the commissioners of the navy, and it is said that he 
 will be suddenly constituted Lord High Admiral of England and 
 
 ' created Duke of . 
 
 Yesterday four persons, “who were lately taken into custody, were 
 committed upon warrants of ed treason. Yesterday the Duke of 
 OF . . . to receive his Majesty 
 there, being Chancellor of that U niver orsity, where his Majesty designed 
 only to take a collation and come this night to Windsor and to-morrow 
 to Kensington. 
 
 P.S.—By a Holland mail of the 15th the engagement between the 
 Venetian and Ottoman fleets in the Levant is confirmed, which 
 happened on the 15th of September, and lasted ten hours, and was 
 renewed on the 18th for three hours, but concluded without either side 
 
1695. 
 
 Nov. 26. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 80. 
 Whitehall. 
 
 Nov. 80. 
 
 London. 
 
 WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. B55 
 
 boasting of victory. Letters from Turkey and Vienna bring an 
 account of the great preparations for the next campaign. Flanders 
 is quiet. Letters from Paris of 11th say that Marshals de Boufflers, 
 Villeroi, d’Estree and Tourville have arrived at Court. [Greenwich 
 Hospital Newsletters, 4. No. 85.] 
 
 Caveat that nothing pass concerning any invention for raising of 
 water to be conveyed by pipes into London and Westminster, till 
 notice be given to the Lord Mayor of London or the city solicitor at 
 the Guildhall. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 74, p. 4.] 
 
 Pass for Peter Louis Béranger, a French protestant refugee, to go 
 to Holland. [S.P. Dom., Entry Book 844, p. 220.] 
 
 Newsletter addressed to the Earl of Derwentwater, Newcastle-on- 
 Tyne. They write from Vienna on the 28rd that, the troops in 
 Hungary being in their winter quarters, the ofticers daily arrive there, 
 and are sent to the Emperor’s hereditary countries, to make their 
 recruits. ‘They have now received certain advice from Transylvania 
 that General Veterani was not killed in the field of battle, but that 
 the Turks, by reason of his great and many wounds, were not able to 
 carry him forward, and cut him in pieces by the way. The Prince of 
 Valacia had been summoned before the Grand Seignior at Nicopolis 
 upon an accusation that he corresponded with the Germans; upon 
 his first appearing, he was very ill-treated, but afterwards he, as well 
 as the Prince of Moldavia, both having paid their tribute, were honour- 
 ably dismissed, and confirmed in their principalities. 
 
 They have advice in Transylvania that Azof has been taken by the 
 Muscovites, and that they have taken three places more on the 
 other side the Dniester, but this still wants confirmation. The 
 Grand Seignior has resolved to be ready with his army by Easter 
 near Adrianople, and from there to march for Hungary; he has 
 ordered the Khan of Tartary this winter to invade Transylvania. 
 
 The ‘ Cireles” of Swabia have remonstrated that of ninety 
 of their members only twenty-nine or thirty are in a condition to 
 continue the war against France. But at the same time they 
 request that not the least proposition of peace may be hearkened to 
 on the part of France, until they promise to restore Strassburg in 
 the state it was when they at first possessed themselves of it. 
 
 Letters from Brussels of the 4th of December |[o0.s.] say that, 
 according to advice they have from the frontiers, the French work 
 indefatigably upon their new fortifications to put their places in a 
 better posture of defence. They are very apprehensive of the designs 
 of the Confederates at the opening of the campaign, as well from the 
 sreat magazines they are making on the frontiers, especially at Liege, 
 and Namur (at the first of which places they are making 30,000 
 bombs upon the account of the King of England), as from the 
 orders that have been given that the troops of the Allies be recruited 
 by the end of February. The French seem to be in some pain upon 
 the Sambre and Meuse for Dinant and Charleroi, and in Flanders for 
 their lives. 
 
 They write from the French conquests that the King has promised 
 an exemption from all taxes for ten years to such as will serve in 
 his army. Marshal de Boufflers has visited the fort of “ Kenock ” and 
 
356 
 
 1695. 
 
 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 another named the “ Fintelie,” situated upon the canal of Roesinghe. 
 On the 5th was opened the Assembly of the States of Flanders at Lisle. 
 Those of the country of Artois have already granted the King 2,050,000 
 livres. 
 
 From Paris on the 2nd we are assured that the augmentation of the 
 new regiments of infantry will be to the number of fifty. The King 
 has made promotions in the navy, viz. 20 captains of men-of-war, two 
 captains of the artillery, 11 of ight frigates, 50 heutenants, 70 ensigns, 
 one under-lieutenant, six leutenants of frigates, two captains of 
 feluccas and two aides of artillery. It is looked upon as certain that 
 Marshal de Villeroi will command again next campaign in Flanders ; 
 Marshal de Lorge, by reason of his indisposition, will not return into 
 Germany, but Marshal de Choiseul will command in his place, under 
 him Marshal de Joyeuse. The King ‘‘wonderfully caresses the 
 Portugal Ambassador.” 
 
 From the Hague on the 6th they write it is positive that the two 
 northern crowns design to make propositions of peace in England 
 during the sitting of the Parhament, and afterwards one of the 
 Allies will make instances for the setting on foot of a general peace; 
 however, it is believed both the one and the other will have very 
 little effect; at present the Confederates seem resolved to try the 
 success of another campaign. 
 
 Our letters from the ports remark only that on the 24th put into 
 Falmouth two Dutch privateers from cruising on the coast; they 
 report that in Camaret Bay about 200 sail of French ships le at 
 anchor, bound for St. Malo, Calais, Dunkirk, &c.; their sailing is 
 attended by several English frigates and Dutch privateers. ‘The 
 Hamburg fleet has arrived safely with their convoy in the river. 
 Captain Turner, commander of the Sophia yacht, has arrived at 
 Dover with 126 exchanged English prisoners from Dunkirk and 
 Boulogne. 
 
 My last told you that the House of Commons had that afternoon 
 presented their address to his Majesty at Kensington, which for want 
 of room I then omitted, but for the sake of those in the country, who 
 have not the convenience of the print, for whom this is chiefly 
 calculated, I shall acquaint them that it congratulates the success of 
 his Majesty’s arms abroad, the preservation of his sacred person from 
 the many hazards he had exposed himself to, and the blessing | 
 of his being returned to us in safety. It represents a grateful 
 sense of his Majesty’s favour by his giving such testimonies to the 
 world and them of the entire confidence that he reposes in the 
 affections of his people, for which, by the way of return, they give 
 his Majesty assurance that they are resolved to defend and support 
 his Majesty and government against all his enemies, both at home 
 and abroad, and effectually assist him in the prosecution of the 
 present war in which his Majesty engaged for the safety of England 
 and liberty of Kurope. His Majesty was pleased to express himself 
 in reply to this effect: Gentlemen, I heartily thank you for the 
 marks you give me of your affection; our interests are inseparable, 
 and there is nothing I wish so much as the happiness of this 
 country, where God has placed me. 
 
 is Yesterday a bill was presented to the House, and received, for the 
 
 regulating of printing and printing presses (they having taken 
 
1695. 
 
 Dee. 18. 
 
 Kensington. 
 
 Dec. 27, 
 1695. 
 Jan. 6, 
 1695-6. 
 
 Niewport. 
 
 
 
 1695. 
 
 1694. 
 Aug. 6. 
 
 WILLIAM AND MARY—ADDENDA. 357 
 
 
 
 an exorbitant liberty since the expiration of the late act for licencing), 
 
 and this day the same was read the first time, and a second reading 
 ordered. |The House, being in a grand committee, unanimously 
 voted tis Majesty a supply. This being Saint Andrew’s Day, 
 Mr. Secretary Johnston, with several of the Scotch nobility, waited 
 upon his Majesty at Kensington, and presented him with a congratu- 
 latory address. His Majesty graciously received and honoured their 
 country so far as to wear St. Andrew’s eross in his hat, as is usual on 
 that day. 
 
 This is the substance of the paper delivered by Major General 
 Ellenberg on the scaffold: viz. that being on the place where he 
 expected death, and was sure to appear before the face of God, 
 he declared by this writing that he never had any ill intention 
 to the prejudice of his Britannic Majesty, or that he was correspond- 
 ent with the enemy, or took any money of them for the rendition of 
 Dixmude ; as to both these, he declared upon his salvation, he was 
 as innocent as the child unborn; as for other accidents he freely 
 submitted himself to death, praying a blessing on the arms of his 
 Majesty and the allies, and entire victory over the enemy by sea and 
 land. | Greenwich Hospital Newsletters, 4. No.86. Ditto Entry Book 7, 
 page 11.] 7 
 
 Warrant for a pension of 8s. 6d. a day to Lacoste de Saintour, 
 during pleasure, upon the establishment of the forces in Ireland. 
 [S.P. Dom., Signet Office 18, p. 370. | 
 
 J. S. Belasyse[?] to the King. The Elector has commanded me 
 to send the enclosed to your Majesty. 
 
 Last night and to-day we have heard great shouting at Furn|[es]. 
 This evening two boors have come from the enemy’s camp, who say 
 the discourse there was that, if they were not masters of that place 
 by Friday next, they must be forced to retire. 
 
 Betwixt this town and the sea we find that, at low water, five or 
 six squadrons can pass in front, though the governor assured the 
 Klector that not one man could pass there. This obliges us to encamp 
 both horse and foot among the sandhills, to prevent the enemy’s 
 passing, if they should so design. 
 
 Notwithstanding that his Highness gives all necessary orders for 
 our having wood, straw, ete., yet his orders are so ill executed that I 
 am afraid your horses will suffer by it, especially if we stay here 
 long. We expect every moment to be bombarded here. [S.P. Dom., 
 William and Mary 14, No. 69. | 
 
 Plan by Rodolphe Corneille of Fort Charles in the bay of Kinsale. 
 [Ibid., No. 70. | 3 
 
 Warrant by William Farrington and Robert Mawdesley to the 
 high constables of the hundred of Leyland, co. Lancaster, to search 
 every day till the 10th of August to find arms and ammunition in the 
 houses or possession of any papist or reputed papist ; also to search 
 for, and seize to his Majesty’s use, all horses, except such as have 
 been already viewed, valued and certified, in the possession of papists, 
 bringing such horses to the house of Thomas Parker, in Kecleston, 
 on the said 10th inst. by nine o’clock a.m. ; likewise to summon all 
 
358 STATE PAPERS. 
 
 
 
 1694. 
 
 papists or persons, whose horses have lately been taken, to give 
 information touching the same. [S.P. Dom., William and Mary 14, 
 No. 60a. | 
 
 Undated. Historical notes out of the first volume of Mercurio Senior[?]. [Lbid., 
 No. 71.] 
 
 Undated. — Observations on the evils and disadvantages which will arise by the 
 passing of a bill to amend the law of debtor and creditor, and as to 
 judgments in the Common Pleas. [TJbid., No. 72.] 
 
 Undated. 
 
 Account of ordnance and stores required for the island of Guernsey. 
 [Lbid., No. 73.] 
 
( 359 ) 
 
 
 
 GHNERAL INDEX. 
 
 
 

 
( 361 ) 
 
 GHNERAL INDEX. 
 
 Adriaanz (Adrianse), Hugen, 69. 
 ase eree , Peter, 119. 
 Adrianople, 233, 235, 245, 254, 257, 287, 303 
 304, 312, 316, 355. 
 Africa, 264, 
 Pere , coast of, 311, 313. 
 K African Company, the, 103, 
 | Aghadoe, bishopric of, 163. 
 Aglionby, Dr., letters to, 114. 
 
 Aard, 289. 
 | Ailkel, 128 
 d Fi a 9 | i 
 Abbot, Mordecai, 49, Airasea, 272. 
 
 Abels, Elias, 53. Aires, James, 27. 
 
 Abingdon, 86, 169. ; 
 Te | Aisley, Edward, 26. 
 Abingdon, Lord, 86, 89. Reiner one bes 
 
 costae , sescereeey Lotters to, 89, 96, 104. ‘Aix-la-Chapelle, 349, 
 Aboab, Ishae, 111. 
 
 Aboyne, Lord, 264, 282 | Albania, 268. 
 
 : Aa! Wah RAD ein (Crore one. Pasha of, 320 
 
 Abufti, Prince, 306. Pe tre teens Dake artery 
 hn. 49. emarie, | ristopher, uke oO ** Duke 
 eee 58. | | Utrietoplisr ) 5222. 
 Addison, TCeOURIEMP EN al kee Duchess of, 324, 342. 
 Admiral, the Lord High, Commissioners for | “""” aaa OD See 
 executing the office of, 188.9 steer ewes . George, Duke of, 324. 
 Dadmiral of the White 34... Albert Freder ick, the Margrave, 293. 
 Albi, William, 119. 
 Caen the, 18, 17 (), 18 (2), 19, 20, 21, | : ; 
 24, 25, 26, 29, 3414), 87, 38, 40(8), 45, | Aldrid, Captain, 276. 
 47, 48 (2), 50, 52, 53, 54 (2), 57,61, | Aldworth, Richard, 5, 21, 28, 37, 40, 86. 
 64 (2), 66 (2), 67, 69 (2), 70, 71 (2), 72, | Alenor, Lubbert, 110. 
 73, 74,75 (2), 122, 125, 182, 197, 230, | Alexander, Ann, 112. 
 268 (2), 286, 302. | Peter, 42. 
 
 eee: , Board of, 135. | seawec gees : 
 Commissioners of the, 27, 187, 202, Alexandria, 237, 259. 
 
 aed a everr , letters to, 36, 42. | Algerines, the, 336, 346. 
 heen Court of, 137, 141. Algiers, 34, 61, 119, 247, 259, 311. 
 reeeeenees Judge of the, 50, 187, vescseeesy Consul at, 121, 180 (2), 337. 
 BV ieauens , Lords of the, 5, 18, 17, 20, 25, 27, veseeseesy Dey of, 180 (2). 
 
 28, 30, 34, 37, 38, 41, 44 (7), 45, 47, | ......... , Governor of, 180. 
 
 a on 4d See raien 67, 68 (2), 70, | Alicante, 119, 250. 
 1, 72, 74, » 49, 100. 104, 105, 109, Alienation Office, the, 107. 
 185, 137, 181, 188, 189, 204 (2), 212, | inn Rae 
 
 252, 268, 270, 302, 310, $12, ; | 
 i lig Allemonde (Almonde), Admiral, 30, 51, 52, 
 
 
 
 Dev beans E us eeete. paebter from: 227. | : 
 Asi nesieestt , letters to, 2, 6 (2), 8, 48, 62, 58, 254, 258, 287, 823. 
 65, 101, 115), 116, 120, 121, 126, Pre rerre , letter from, 49. 
 
 181, 134, 135, Allen, —, 18, 19. 
 aki ,Marshalofthe,50. $= $= =| ewnaeenee , Henry, 49, 78. 
 ee Office, the, 346. Der, esac POLIS Lf os 
 Met atihe to vaos tact , letters dated at, 38, 52, 63, | «+++ Patrick, 142. 
 
 81, 109, ‘112, 124, 225, 226, 227, 228, | Allies, the, 98, 356. 
 
 230. i ereisa de , troops of the, 355. 
 
 Adriaansen, Direk, 111. | Alsace, 332 
 
362 GENERAL 
 
 Althorp, 85 (2), 86, 89, 91. 
 
 de S22 , letters dated at, 85, 89, 90, 
 
 Ambrune (Upper Rhine), 166. 
 
 American Plantations, the. 
 the 
 
 Ammunition, list of, 171. 
 
 Amsterdam, 14, 125, 136, 149, 150, 151, 152, 
 238, 259, 265, 287, 320. 
 
 seis eee , Admiralty of, 25. 
 
 Council in, 150. 
 
 Srey Pee , Magistrates of, 150. 
 
 Anderlecht, 282. 
 
 Anderson (Andersen), Dirick, 132. 
 
 Lip eny eriek= Loe. 
 
 eee , Jacob, 119. 
 
 Pr ae , James, 119. 
 
 Martin, 125. 
 
 Andreas, Ann, 105. 
 
 Andrews, James, 143. 
 
 Andriese, Andries, 119. 
 
 | 
 | 
 An@riesen (Andressen, Andriessen), Andres, | 
 | 
 
 See Plantations, 
 
 
 
 Cr 
 
 ace 
 
 Kosa sae mexies, (lot, 
 
 Silane . Dirk, 124. 
 
 prt , Herik, 124. 
 
 Fe ae a John, 8. 
 
 Andriose, William, 83. | 
 Andros, Sir Edmund, 79. | 
 Anglesey, Karl of, 140. | 
 Anguin, battle of, 106. | 
 Annandale, Earl of, 11, 290. 
 
 Anne, the Princess; 304. 
 
 Annes, Lambert, 29. 
 
 Annesley, Frank, 219. 
 
 Annix (Aniche), 317. 
 
 Ansloe, Frank, 272. 
 
 “ Antegoman,’”’ an, 266 (?). 
 
 Anthonisse, Abel, 94. | 
 Anthony, Colonel, 351. | 
 Antigua, 283. | 
 Antrim, 165. 
 
 Antrim, Lord, 2, 164. 
 
 Antwerp, 282, 339, 345. 
 
 Apothecaries Company, the, 310. 
 
 Arabians, the, 242. 
 
 Aram, Mr. 272. 
 
 Arc, 273. 
 
 Archbold, Dr., 142. 
 
 Archdale, John, 807. 
 
 Archduke Joseph, the, 309. 
 
 Archipelago, the, 284. 
 
 Ardesoif, Charles, 4, 19. 
 
 Ardfert and Aghadoe, Bishoprics of, 101, 163. 
 Arenzell, Jacob, 182. 
 
 Argyll, Bishop of, 344. 
 
 etieereee , Earl of, 170, 298. 
 
 Arisse, Huijbert, 84. 
 
 Armesby, Mr., 142. 
 
 Aris, grant of, by the French King, 280. 
 
 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 | Army, 28, 108, 145. 
 
 spaneaeas , regiments in :— 
 Angus’, Lord, 244. 
 Atkin’s, Sir Richard, 84, 114, 280. 
 Bavarian Horse and Foot, 334. 
 Brandenburgh Horse and Foot, 334. 
 Beaumont’s, Colonel John, 136, 153. 
 Bellasis’. Sir Henry, 9, 98. 
 Berkeley’s, Lord, 80, 85, 122. 
 Bolton’s, Duke of, 125, 152. 
 Brewer's, Colonel, 239, 286. 
 Brudenell’s, Colonel, 77, 80. 
 Calthrop’s, Colonel, 280. 
 Carmarthen’s, Marquis of, 81, 101, 
 
 117, 120. 
 Churchill’s, Major-General, 26. 
 Coldstreamers’, 171. 
 Collier’s, Colonel, 289. 
 Collingwood’s, Colonel Francis, 99. 
 Colyer’s, Sir David, 112, 240. 
 Conyngham’s, Colonel Henry, 94 (?). 
 Coote’s, Colonel Richard, 185, 247, 
 248. 
 
 Coy’s, Colonel John, 110. 
 Cunningham’s, 178, 248, 249, 258. 
 Cutt’s, Colonel, 239. 
 de Beleastel’s, Colonel Peter, 138. 
 de la Meloniere’s, General Isaac, 138. 
 Denbigh’s, Earl] of, 22, 94. 
 de Puizar’s, Marquis, 39. 
 de Rada’s, Marquis, 316, 
 Donegal’s, Earl of, 84. 
 Douglas’s, Sir William, 58, 128, 311. 
 Dutch Cayalry, 195. 
 
 Horse and Foot, 384. 
 
 Earle’s, Colonel, 311. 
 
 English battalions of Foot, list of, 
 334, 
 
 eereecere 
 
 Cavalry, 195. 
 
 Essex’s, Earl of, 98, 106, 258. 
 
 Fairfax’s, 258. 
 
 Farrington’s, Colonel Thomas, 120, 
 135. 
 
 Fitzpatrick’s, Brigadier, 77. 
 
 Galway’s, Viscount, 31,76, 80. 
 
 Gibson’s, Colonel John, 98, 
 
 Graham’s, Colonel, 352. 
 
 Granville’s, Sir Bevill, 53. 
 
 Hamilton’s, Colonel Fred., 126. 
 
 easen tris , Lord George, 174, 
 280. 
 
 ies , Colonel Gustavus, 1, 80. 
 
 Hanmer’s, Sir John, 80. 
 
 Hastings’, Colonel, 158, 239, 316. 
 
 Hayford’s, 153. 
 
 Hill’s, Sir John, 128, 311. 
 
 Horse and Dragoons, squadrons of, 
 384. 
 
 Horse Guards, Dutch, 33. 
 
 Howe’s, Colonel Scroop, 104. 
 
 Jacob's, Sir John, 80, 138. 
 
 179, 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Army, regiments in—cont. 
 James’, Colonel, 115. 
 Langston’s, Colonel, 20, 76, 99 (2). 
 Leigh’s, Colonel Edw., 1, 94, 258. 
 Leslie’s, Sir James, 352. 
 Leveson’s, 178, 182. 
 Liége Horse and Foot, 384. 
 Lillington’s, Colonel, 305, 
 Lindsay’s, Lord, 22, 128, 311. 
 Lorne’s, Lord, 115. 
 Lumley’s, Brigadier, 20, 
 Maegill’s, Colonel, 126, 128. 
 Mackay’s, Colonel Robert, 58, 311. 
 Marines, the, 143. 
 Mountjoy’s, Viscount, 84. 
 Munster Horse and Foot, 384. 
 Murray’s, Lord, 128, 311. 
 Norcott’s, Colonel, 60, 61, 64. 
 Oxford’s, Earl of, 50, 51, 96, 178. 
 Portland’s, Earl of, 158, 252, 
 Ramsey’s, Major-General, 99. 
 Rixtall’s Horse, 174. 
 Romney’s, Earl of, 110, 138. 
 Rosse’s, Colonel Charles, 113, 125. 
 Rowe’s, Colonel, 247, 248. 
 St. George’s, Sir George, 84, 135. 
 St. John’s, Colonel Thomas, 135. 
 Schaack’s, 178. 
 Schomberg’s, Count, 153. 
 Scotch Regiments, the, 256, 300, 
 803. 
 Scots’ Guards, 99. 
 Scots’ Horse, the, 169. 
 Seymour’s, Colonel, 121. 
 Spanish Horse and Foot, 384. 
 Stewart’s, Brigadier William, 115, 
 243. 
 Swiss Regiment, the, 115, 
 Tidcombe, Colonel John, 120. 
 Tiffin’s, Colonel, 105. 
 Trelawny’s, Colonel, 36, 52, 153. 
 Villier’s, Colonel, 158. 
 Wood’s, Colonel, 52. 
 Wynne’s, Colonel, 178, 247, 258 (?). 
 Arnaudin, Peter, 103. 
 Arnold, John, 33. 
 Arnolt, Jean, 22, 
 Arnst, John Gottlieb, 27. 
 Arquennes, 281. 
 Arragon, 250, 
 Arran, Ear! of, 85, 284, 258, 280. 
 aL pr ae , Lord, 284. 
 Arsus, Raymond, 124. 
 Arther, Mrs. Ann, 66. 
 - Arthur, —, 82. 
 opel , Sir Daniel, 84. 
 Ae , Robert, 148, 
 Artillery, list of, 171. 
 
 , paymaster of a train of, in Ireland, 106, 
 
 
 
 
 
 363 
 
 Artois, 356. 
 
 Artus, Raymond, 131. 
 
 Arundel, Earl of, 311. 
 
 Asgill, Mr., 71. 
 
 Ash, Mr., 200. 
 
 Ashford, 338. 
 
 Ashton, Colonel Edmund, 135. 
 
 Ashurst} Mr., 254. 
 
 seeeeeeee, SIL William, 28. 
 
 Asia, 284, 316. 
 
 pee eee , troubles in, 242. 
 
 Assembly, the, 149 (?), 151 (°), 152. 
 
 Meats. of the States, the, 356. 
 
 Assembourg (Assemberg), Admiral, 277, 345. 
 
 Asti. 2338. 
 
 Ath, 318. 
 
 Athanry (Athenree), Lord, 102, 224. 
 
 Athey, Captain, 42. 
 
 Athlone, Earl of, 25, 90, 94, 297. 
 
 eet , letter from, 12. 
 
 Le , letter to, 15. 
 
 Athlone, 158, 155, 157 (2), 158, 177, 178 
 
 Addn, , garrison at, 175, 
 
 Atkins (Atkin), Captain, 152, 
 
 ..sereee, Sir Richard, 84, 114, 138, 239, 280. 
 
 Attorney General, the, 2, 4, 12, 21, 48, 50, 
 56, 65, 71. 72, 74, '75, 94, 97, 105, 107, 
 110, 113 (), 117, 118, 129, 183, 144, 
 189. 
 
 ee , letter to, 14. 
 
 Auchmuty, John, 148. 
 
 Aughrim, 137, 179. 
 
 et CSS, battle of, 178. 
 
 Augustinians, the, 42. 
 
 Austin, Robert, 117. 
 
 Austria, 325. 
 
 Save , estates of Lower, 291. 
 
 ne. , House of, 241, 303. 
 
 Avory, Captain, 334. 
 
 Aylmer, Admiral, 28, 256, 261, 354. 
 
 eee ds , Colonel, 142 (?), 
 
 | Azlon, 278. 
 
 Azov (Azof), 329, 347, 355. 
 
 B 
 
 Bachivalers, Monsieur, 287. 
 
 Backer, Dirck, 29. 
 
 Baden, Prince Louis of, 84, 110, 234, 235, 236, 
 239, 242, 245, 254, 263, 267, 268, 269, 
 271, 277, 287, 291 (2), 309, 313, 317(?), 
 319, 329, 348, 347, 351 (?). 
 
 Baes, G., 29. 
 
 Baggendon, 146. 
 
 Baggot, Mark, 142. 
 
 Bagshot, 114. 
 
364 
 
 Baillie, John, 128. 
 
 S cheracea pe VaR, DS: 
 
 Baine (Paine), Nevill, 249. 
 
 Baines, William, 63. 
 
 Baker, Consul, 61, 120, 130, 131. 
 
 SAAT , Francis, 130. 
 
 ee , Mr., 130, 337. 
 
 BAPE 5 , Thomas, 121. 
 
 Baldock, 264. 
 
 Bale, John, 96, 143. 
 
 Ball, —, 229. 
 
 Ballantine, Lord, 261. 
 
 Ballard, Alderman, 16. 
 
 Bally, Mons., 350. 
 
 Ballymoney, 165. 
 
 Baltic, the, 171, 288, 264. 
 
 Be eae , castles and forts on the, 121. 
 
 Bamberg, letters dated at. 183. 
 
 Banbury, 158. 
 
 Banbury, Lord, 290. 
 
 Bandon, 206 (2). 
 
 Bank of England, the, 50, 124, 262. 
 
 Beer: , directors of, 48 (2). 
 
 Pe 30a , forgery on, 48, 49, 124. 
 
 notes, 48, 49. 
 
 a, tickets, 48. 
 
 Bankhead, lands of, 127. 
 
 Bankrupts’ Bill, the 241, 
 
 Bannagher, 157, 158, 159. 
 
 Bantry Bay, 222. 
 
 Barbadoes, 115, 200, 236, 2388(2), 241, 247, 
 254, 266 (2), 278, 290, 292, 296 (7), 298, 
 3138. 
 
 ENO , fleet, the, 337, 341. 
 
 Pee auek , Governor of, 283, 296. 
 
 Pons tees , Provost Marshal-General of, 138, 
 
 Seah cee , ships of, 53, 54, 290. 
 
 ee , Spanish garrisons in, 292. 
 
 Barbary, 130. 
 
 bf es , coast of, 130. 
 
 Barber, Sergeant, 11. 
 
 EE eee ye , Thomas, 128. 
 
 Barbon, Dr. Nicholas, 296. 
 
 Barcelona, 23, 24, 249, 250, 253, 255, 264, 
 267, 270, 278, 277, 279 (2), 280, 281, 
 285, 286, 312, 544, 346, 354. 
 
 sesseseeey Viceroy at, 23. 
 
 Barcelona Road, letters dated at, 22, 24. 
 
 Barcelonetta (Barcelonette), valley of, 279, 340, 
 
 Barcelonian galleys, 354. 
 
 Bard, Captain, 244. 
 
 Bardou, John, 33. 
 
 Barefoot, Captain, 274, 276. 
 
 Barker, Edward, 29. 
 
 Barmester, Rudolph, 18. 
 
 Barnes, —. 67. 
 
 Cusuueeees Thomas, 89. 
 
 Barnwell, Lord, 142, 143 (2). 
 
 OEE Res , Richard, 143. 
 
 een ewesee 
 
 | Bayaria, Duke of, 6. 
 
 
 
 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Baron, Captain, 3, 67, 105. 
 Scere , letter to, 69, 94. 
 Barrett, Captain, 120. 
 
 | Barrigall, —, 250. 
 _ Barry (Barrey), Benjamin, 62. 
 
 Garret, 79, 80, 91. 
 
 ee or 
 
 | Barthold, Conrad, 85. 
 
 Bartiers, Dorothée, 111. 
 
 Barton, William, 77. 
 
 Bas, Cornelis, 94. 
 
 Basle, 285. 
 
 Bass Rock, the, 158, 284, 244 (*), 246, 247, 
 248, 251, 260, 275. 
 
 fe as , governor of, 244. 
 
 Bassi, the, 125. 
 
 Bastide. See De la Bastide. 
 
 Bataille, Gedeon, 118. 
 
 Batchiller, Paul, 85. 
 
 Bates, Mr., 327. 
 
 Bath, 62. 
 
 Bath, Earl of, 112, 168, 247, 288, 324, 342 
 
 Bathurst, Dr., letter to, 69. 
 
 sneer. Sir Benjamin, 93, 117. 
 
 | Batson, —, 341. 
 
 Battalions. list of, 143. 
 Baume, Peter Nicholas, 53. 
 Bauwen, Mr., 138. 
 
 RAST COPE Elector of, 14, 115, 117, 242 (2), 257, 
 263, 269 (7), 273, 277. 281, 298 (2), 297, 
 303, 315, 332, 334 (2). 
 
 Be eae ) stesnceasy 2ettCeDr from, 171, 
 
 Aa ee , Electress of, 45, 291 (2), 298, 297 (2), 
 325. 
 
 Bavarian troops, 263, 315. 
 
 Bavarians, the, 257. 
 
 Bavastrello, Benedetto, 6. 
 
 Bawen, Mr., 17. 
 
 Bayley, George, 41. 
 
 Bayonne, 317. 
 
 Baysselame, Daniel, 49, 
 
 Beachy Head, 298. 
 
 Beake, —, 148. 
 
 Bear (Beare), Elizabeth, 19. 
 
 John, 80, 96, 108. 
 
 Bret , Peter, 97. 
 
 Beares, George, 2. 
 
 Beauchamp, George, 119. 
 
 Beaumont, Barbary, 22. 
 
 feetenen , Colonel, 81, 136. 
 
 Beccles, 60. 
 
 Beck, Henry, 85. 
 
 Becker, Peter, 111. 
 
 Beckman, Sir Martin, 297, 354. 
 
 Bedchamber, Lords of the, 238. 
 
 Bedford, Duke of, 111. 
 
 eerrer , Captain Edward, 106. 
 
 SPO , Mary, 106. 
 
 Bedford Gaol, keeper of, 35. 
 
 eee erreces 
 
 
 
 Bedfordshire, High Sheriff of, 182. 
 
GENERAL 
 
 Beenisehell, 279. 
 
 Beeson, Charles, 107, 128. 
 
 Beeston, Colonel, 283. 
 
 RE de , Dr., letter to, 53. 
 
 Belasye, J. 8., 357. 
 
 Beleastle. See De Beleastle. 
 
 Belgrade, 277, 287 (2), 289, 295, 
 315, 329, 343. 
 
 eas Sere , Bassa of, 291. 
 
 een , Pasha of, 810. 
 
 Belhayen, Lord, 344. 
 
 Belisario, Isaac, 56. 
 
 Bell, Alderman, 222. 
 
 5 Aye te , Anne, 27. 
 
 A eaeaa , Captain, 261. 
 
 Bellasis (Bellas, Bellasys), Sir Henry, 40, 98, 
 281. 
 
 310, 313, 
 
 SRS Lieut.-General, 352. 
 
 Hee ke , Major, 165. 
 
 eae: , Patrick, 102. 
 
 Belle Isle, 75, 
 
 Bellew, Lord, 82, 121. 
 
 Pa eee , Sir Patrick, 142. 
 
 Bellin, Mary, 105. 
 
 Bellomont, Lord, 16, 44, 47, 61, 168. 
 
 Bellwood, Captain, 254, 
 
 Benbow, Captain, 3, 7, 8, 18, 25,26, 27.31 (*), 
 49, 51, 54, 57, 61, 66, 290, 316, 324. 
 
 Batches: , Jetter to, 15. 
 
 Bennet (Bennett), —, 240. 
 
 2 eee , Captain, 5. 
 
 M eécces , John, 240. 
 
 Mees sca: , William, 142. 
 
 Benoit, Francis, 77. 
 
 Bentinek. See Portland, William, Earl of. 
 
 Beranger, Peter Louis, 355. 
 
 Berckell, Mr., 132. 
 
 Berents, Adrian, 98. 
 
 Be Ses tas , William, 136. 
 
 Bergen-op-Zum, 172. 
 
 Bergstrat, 351. 
 
 Berguinthell, 268. 
 
 Berkeley, Captain, 229. 
 
 eee , Digby, 85. 
 
 “herd. 7154"), 17 (2), 27, 28, 29 (°), 
 
 34 (3), 36 (2), 87 2), 38), 89. 41 (>), 
 
 44 (2), 45. 47, 49, 55, 71 (2), 80, 85, 
 
 88, 122. 256, 261, 262, 266, 268, 269, 
 
 970, 272, 274, 275, 276, 307, 320, 335, 
 
 336, 344, 346. 
 
 PR Oe ee , letters from, 1,6, 13, 18 (?), 
 21, 25, 26. 27 (2), 80, 36 (2), 38, 42 (2), 
 43 \2), 45, 47, 48. 
 
 , letters to, 26, 3@, 46. 
 
 Berkenstein, Julius, 56. 
 
 Berlin, 149, 151, 291 (?). 
 
 Pee a abe: . letter from, 293. 
 
 Bahia » , St. George’s Gate at, 293. 
 
 Bermeren, Anna, 27. 
 
 Bermingham, Francis, 42. 
 
 reat , Maurice, 102. 
 
 er 
 
 
 
 {INDEX. BC 
 
 5 
 
 Bernard, Bartholomew, 52. 
 He tee aie. LOD: 
 
 Bernolli, Hieronymus, 96. 
 Berry, Dr., 292, 294, 310. 
 Pravsertan , William, 98, 148. 
 Bertie, Peregrine, 112. 
 Berwick, 83, 185, 280. 
 Berwick, Duke of, 157. 
 Bethell, Mr., 339. 
 
 Bethune, Marquis of, 340. 
 Beugaces, Joseph, 6. 
 
 Bezous, Mons., 315. 
 
 Bidau, Rachel, 96. 
 
 Bideford, 208, 275, 327. 
 Bigkerry Bay, 238. 
 
 Bilbao, 275. 
 
 Billingham, Captain, 128, 
 Billingsley, Lieut.-Colonel, 22, 52. 
 Billop, Captain, 38, 274. 
 Binch (Binche), John, 66, 329. 
 
 Se , Captain, 119. 
 Bing (Byng), Edward, 2, 120, 136. 
 SG , Captain Edward, 119. 
 Birch, Dr., 318. 
 od ee , Serjeant, 144. 
 Bird, —, 22. 
 St eae , Francis, 78. 
 | Birkenhead, —, 51 (2). 
 napa, ote , Captain, 56(?). 
 Biseay, Bay of, 353. 
 Bish, —. 50. 
 preter , Edward, 51. 
 ee a , Henry, 100, 130. 
 
 Bisheuvel, Marten, 86. 
 Bishop, —, 9. 
 
 Blackheath, 131. 
 Blackley, Mr., 314. 
 Blackness, 311. 
 
 pie teey, , letter dated at, 42. 
 Black Sea, the, 329. 
 
 Black Stakes, the, 300. 
 
 Blackwell, Lambert, 47. 
 
 selene? Mr., 1383. 
 
 Blaew, Ian, 151. 
 
 Blake, Francis, 102. 
 
 seek , Martin, 102. 
 
 Pedtasais , Sir Walter, 102. 
 
 Blanes, 285. 
 
 Blathwayt, William, 12, 16, 20, 26, 28, 32(?). 
 36, 40, 41 (2), 44. 47, 56, 58, 61, 63, 
 66, 67, 68, 69 (2), 70 (2), 75, 79, 114, 
 124, 185. 
 
 ma pr s , letters to, 104. 
 
 Blayney, Lord, 298. 
 
 ‘*Blecke Bay,” 258. 
 
 Blessington, Lord, 210. 
 
 Blood, Major, 121. 
 
 Bloome, Richard, 111. 
 
 Blue, Admiral of the. 45. 
 
366 
 
 Blurton, Ann, 51. 
 Sie, esr Frances, 68. 
 Boad, Major Henry, 96. 
 Boftin, Lord, 224. 
 Bograd, John, 97. 
 Boheme, 144. 
 Bohemia, 313, 3825, 829. 
 Bohet, George, 112. 
 Bologna, 277, 288. 
 Bolton, Duke of, 104, 111, 125, 152. 
 See , Richard, 148. 
 Bombay, Island of, 53, 107. 
 Bonhereau, Monsieur, 44. 
 Boniols, Jean, 96. 
 Bonner, William, 105. 
 Bonquer, letter dated at, 62. 
 Boon, Joachim, 12. 
 Books, &e., titles of :— 
 ‘*A manuel of prayer and other 
 Christian devotions,” 74. 
 ‘“The loyal man’s psalter,”’ 73. 
 ‘*The whole duty of man,’’ 316. 
 ‘* The whole duty of mourning,” 316 
 Blome’s survey of London and West-~ 
 minster and the Plantations, 111. 
 Roa Sede , sale of, at Paris, 20. 
 Boor, Mr., 49, 51. 
 Booth, Hon. Mr., 272. 
 Bordeaux, 240, 242, 
 Borland, Christian, 100. 
 Borrowstones, 248. 
 Bosanquet, John, 51. 
 Boscawen, Hugh, 112. 
 Bosnia, 235, 268, 303. 
 ie at , Pasha of, 320. 
 Boston (America), 318. 
 Boswell, Captain, 248. 
 Botts, Joseph, 1. 
 Boucher, Louis, 118. 
 ee ee , Luke, 110. 
 Boufee, Mons., 309, 
 Bouftleurs (Boufflers), Mareschal de, 17, 46 (2), 
 258, 281, 287, 239, 303, 807, 315, 343, 
 347, 352, 355. 
 aii oer tn en Cardinal, 239, 242, 246, 
 277 
 
 Boulogne, 356. 
 
 Bourbon, Duke of, 2538. 
 Bourdau, Charolette, 31. 
 Bourdaut, Josué, 96. 
 Bourdon, Abraham, 78. 
 
 Bourgeois, Francis, 18. 
 Bourke. See Burke. 
 Bourne, Morgan 92. 
 Boutiton, Peter, 49. 
 
 Bowas, Hugh, 81. 
 
 Bowell, Baron, 308. 
 
 Bowler, —, 80. 
 
 Boxford, letter dated at, 172. 
 Boyle, —, 51. 
 
 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Boye, Derick, 172. 
 
 Boyne, the, battle of, 106, 108. 
 
 Boynton, Mr., 34, 37. 
 
 Boyton, Leonard, 143. 
 
 Brabant, 257 (?), 299, 349 (2). 
 
 Brachiano, Duchess of, 90, 
 
 Bradbury, Stephen, 64. 
 
 sates tees , Lieutenant William, 38. 
 
 Braden, Mr., 314. 
 
 Bradford, Earl of, 54, 112, 254. 
 
 ey , Elizabeth, 105. 
 
 Braganza, Catherine of, 45. 
 
 Braine, James, 120. 
 
 ‘* Brake,” the, 380. 
 
 Brand, Colonel, 237. 
 
 Brandenburg, 55, 280. 
 
 , Elector of, 21, 45, 111, 188, 235, 
 
 248, 281, 289, 291, 310. 
 
 aE , Electress of, 293. 
 
 , regiments of, 83, 154, 239, 269, 281, 
 
 299, 308. 
 
 general, the, 273. 
 
 gies Bat horse, the, 269, 
 
 ec S09 , Prinee Albert of, 281. 
 
 Brandenbergers, the, 252, 269, 289. 
 
 Brandy, bill for importing, 236. 
 
 Bras, Mats, 124. 
 
 Brasch, Dettlef, 115. 
 
 Brask, Mans, 125. 
 
 Bratton, 146. 
 
 Brayetti, Andrew, 45. 
 
 Pepe , Jacomo, 83. 
 
 Bray, Father, 42. 
 
 Breadalbane, Earl of, 126, 127, 145. 
 
 Breda, 86, 172, 257, 335. 
 
 Bremen, 89. 
 
 Bremen, Major, 67. 
 
 Brenan, Captain, 40. 
 
 Brent, —, 32. 
 
 Ser sceees , Edward, 79. 
 
 Brereton, John, 143. 
 
 eae 5 , Patrick, 142. 
 
 eee , William, 148. 
 
 Breslau, Bishop of, 268. 
 
 Brest, 8, 18, 22, 38, 60, 65, 66, 72 (2), 200, 
 222, 235, 238, 242 (7), 244 (2), 248, 
 249 (2), 250, 258, 258 (7), 262, 263, 
 264, 273, 288, 298, 321, 330, 336, 341. 
 
 {Der is fleet, the, 47, 256. 
 
 fh Geeks water, 75. 
 
 Bretagne. See Brittany. 
 
 Brevint, Dr. Daniel, 109, 112, 139. 
 
 Brewer, Colonel, 239, 286, 352. 
 
 Brewerton, Mrs. Mary, 84 
 
 Brewster, Sir Francis, 186, 209, 215. 
 
 Brickford, Thomas, 838. 
 
 Bridgeman, Mr., 17, 19, 65, 72, 75, 196. 
 
 Revevnens ; weatdeoe es LOLters from; 55, -02. 
 
 Brees ck T ieeerss puetLOr GOS Te 
 
 fe eats , William, 76. 
 
 eee etree 
 
 feeceoeve 
 
 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Bridges, Captain, 316, 320. 
 
 een , Joseph, 53. 
 
 Pe atias , Sir Matthew, 135. 
 
 Bridgetown, 115. 
 
 Bridgewater, Earl of, 112, 124, 322. 
 
 Brill, the, 9, 63, 149. 
 
 Brimstone, Colonel, 100. 
 
 Pee heirs... LO0: 
 
 Brisac, —, 138. 
 
 Bristol, 52, 188, 186, 203, 286, 238, 256, 282 
 294, 313. 
 
 Lem _ letters dated at, 181, 187. 
 
 Mises Bei , Mayor of, letter to, 30. 
 
 Brittany (Bretagne), 313, 317, 336. 
 
 Broad, Somerford, 146. 
 
 Broad Fourteens, the, 264, 265. 
 
 Broderick, Mr., 119, 339 (?). 
 
 Saexttas>: , Serjeant, 219. 
 
 Brook, John, 135. 
 
 Brooke, Benjamin, 226. 
 
 Sat debans , Humphrey, 226. 
 
 Brookes, Mary, 22. 
 
 Broomfield (Bromfield), Mr. , 249. 
 
 Seen e Thomas, 1. 
 
 ee , William, 73, 76. 
 
 Broquet, Alexander, 113. 
 
 Broughton, Consul, 61. 
 
 Browne (Brown), Anne, 26 (2). 
 
 ees , Anni, 68. 
 
 geet: , Colonel Dominick, 102. 
 
 a eee , Edward, 72. 
 
 — Te eee , Elizabeth, 26. 
 
 Sa , George, 26, 100. 
 
 Seeere John, 148, 157. 
 
 That asks , Colonel John, 101 (2), 102 (3), 195, 
 207, 208. 
 
 Pein Pi Mr., 148, 144, 199. 
 
 Poser tas , Susanna, 1. 
 
 et ses , Thomas, 2, 99. 
 
 eaeerics , Sir Valentine, 2, 148. 
 
 eee , William, 94. 
 
 eee , Lieut.-Colonel, 280. 
 
 Brownlow. Mr., 337. 
 
 Bruce, Dr., 253. 
 
 Ta , Elizabeth, 96. 
 
 Brudenell (Brudenall), Colonel Thomas, 77, 
 80, 109, 316. 
 
 Bruges, 6, 8, 121, 294, 345. 
 
 Brun, Isaac, 66. 
 
 Brunetti, James, 63. 
 
 Bruno, Count, 233, 
 
 Brunskell, Percival, 140. 
 
 JS ide and Lunenburg, Duke of, 15, 78, 
 131. 
 
 PhS ies , Elector of, 15, 78, 131. 
 
 Brussels, 45, 51, 60, 173, 283, 258, 271, 281, 
 
 282, 291, 292, 297 (7), 299, 303 (?), 825, 
 
 Bb1, 
 
 letters dated at, 115, 216, 2538, 257, 
 
 969, 273, 281, 287, 295, 307, 318, 315, 
 
 323, 325, 332, 3338, 343, 345, 349, 355. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 367 
 
 Bruyn, Herman, 53. 
 
 Bryers, Edward, 148. 
 Buchan, Lieut.-Colonel John, 90, 116. 
 ee eke , Major-General, 127, 
 Buchwald, Caspar, 66. 
 
 Be et Henry, 66. 
 
 Buck, Clement, 30, 32 
 Buckeridge, Anthony, 85. 
 Buckhack, William, 31. 
 Buckove, Grizill, 44. 
 Buckstone, Margaret, 66. 
 Buda, 802, 310. 
 
 Santee: , fortifications at, 235. 
 Budden, Joseph, 142. 
 Buekes, Jan, 88. 
 
 Buffard, David, 76. 
 
 Bugley, 146. 
 
 Buisson, Jean Louis, 18. 
 Bulgaria, 233. 
 
 | Bullock (Ireland), 193, 
 | Bully, Mr., 77, 95. 
 
 Bulverhith, 109. 
 
 Bunbury, William, 80. 
 
 Bunce, Edward, 39. 
 
 Bunel, Jacob, 78. 
 
 Bungay, 60. 
 
 Burd, Captain, 248. 
 
 Burford, 89, 92 (2), 96, 98. 
 
 hy eee letters dated at, 96, 97. 
 Burger, James, 31. 
 
 Be ee , Winefred, 31. 
 
 Burges (Burgos), Jeremiah or Irmiahu, 111. 
 Buriaseo, 272. 
 
 Burke (Bourke), Dean, 209. 
 Pras Paes , John, Colonel, 224. 
 
 ye vteaeast Thomas, 80. 
 
 eee , Tobias, 71, 76, 333. 
 Burne, Father, 42. 
 
 Burnett, Dr. Thomas, 110. 
 Burroughes (Burrows), Joshu., 80. 
 PAPE nee , Thomas, 83, 201. 
 
 Burt, —, 229. 
 
 Burton, Bartholomew, 262. 
 
 een en Charles, 85. 
 
 ay CPE . Francis, 146. 
 Bury, John, 75. 
 aad Paes , Richard, 142. 
 Busby, John, 79. 
 Busch, Bernhardus Jensen, 55. 
 Buschenfelt, Samuel, 45. 
 Bush, Arthur, 143, 
 Bushnall, Sarah, 66. 
 Busquet, Martha, 31. 
 Butler, —, 19, 21, 28. 
 Lieut.-Colonel James, 44, 119. 
 veeceeeee, Richard, 13, 108. 
 ute e , Walter, 102. 
 
 William, 44. 
 
 eee weeeey 
 
 eee eeeeee : 
 
368 
 
 Butts, Daniel, 60. 
 
 an ee , John, 301. 
 
 Byerly ( Byerley), Hutton, 335. 
 sedate Mary, 22. 
 
 Byers, Samuel, 1438. 
 
 Byng. See Bing. 
 
 Byrne, Gregory, 102. 
 
 C 
 
 Caber, Lubbert, 70. 
 Cabrier, Estienne, 115. 
 Caddle, Mr., 234. 
 
 Cadiz, 23 (7), 24, 50. 79, 119 passim, 126, 182, 
 
 240, 258, 261. 268, 286, 288 (*), 290, 
 296 (*), 299, 300 (°), 307 ), 809. 310, 
 312, 313, 316, 318, 321, 324, 339, 344, 
 345, 346, 354. 
 
 , bay of, 23, 24. 
 
 ates fleet, the, 25 (2), 41, 251, 307. 
 
 letters dated at, 35, 312, 326, 328. 
 Cahais, Solomon, 47. 
 
 Cailleau, Mr., 126. 
 
 5 CP Reuben, 78. 
 
 Cairns, woke 189. 
 
 ee , 1389. 
 
 pe tae ‘Bishop of, 344. 
 
 Calais, 34, 37 (2), 88, 39, 41 (*), 43 (°), 44, 45, 
 
 47, 48, 49, 54, 58, 60, 243, 247, 261, 
 317, 344, 356. 
 
 bombarding of, 147, 
 
 fleet, the, 251. 
 
 , fort at, 36. 
 
 iabnte sie , governor of, 60. 
 
 , letters dated at, 27 (2), 85, 36, 47. 
 Calais Read letter dated at, 48. 
 Caldwell, Captain, 125, 
 Lieut.-Colonel Charles, 94. 
 Mrs. Elizabeth, 203. 
 Ny, Henry, 284. 
 
 Cales, Philip. 119. 
 
 Calff, Mrs. Quirina, 51. 
 
 Calhoune, Alexander, 84. 
 
 Calis, Manley, 122. 
 
 Callembergh, Vice-Admiral, 230, 277, 285. 
 Calthrop, Colonel, 280. 
 
 Calvin, Ellen, 6. 
 
 Calvinists, the, 235, 237. 
 
 Camaret Bay, 356. 
 
 Cambrai, 293. 
 
 ty Archbishop of, 306. 
 Cambridge, 87. 
 
 , St. John’s College, 262. 
 beg eeneed University of, 85. 
 Canlinicek: 299, 347. 
 
 Cammeck, 254. 
 
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 eeseereee 
 
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 eee eeeres 
 
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 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Cammock, William, 29. 
 
 Campar, Ester, 70. 
 
 Campbell, —, 115, 278. 
 
 Elizabeth, 68. 
 
 Captain (of Glenlyen), 11. 
 
 John, 185, 
 
 eacet etsy Mr., 335. 
 
 Canada, 250, 3138. 
 
 Canaries, the, 236, 244 (2), 296, 298, 325, 346. 
 Canary fleet, the, 824 
 
 eeresesens 
 
 eeeeeeerey 
 
 ee eet reeey 
 
 | Canel, Catherine, 4. 
 
 Canterbury, 68, 79, 254. 338. 
 
 rae Archbishop of, 2, 3, 4, 28, 32, 40, 56, 
 58 (2), 73, 74, 111, 292, 295, 304, 305, 
 308, 326, 329, 338, 346. 
 
 pea , cathedral, 254, 338. 
 
 Breeton , Mayor of, 44. 
 
 yr one St. Augustine's Chair at, 338. 
 
 Sey , see of, 298, 
 
 Cantons, the Evangelical 827. 
 
 Cape Clear, 189. 
 
 Cape Barfleur, 14. 
 
 Cape Finisterre, 300. 
 
 Cape Frehel, 3, 7. 
 
 Cape La Hogue, letter dated at, 13. 
 
 Cape St. Vincent, 242. 
 
 Capell, Lord, 3, 15, 112, 182, 284, 331, 339. 
 
 Wie Shy $e teeenes letters from, 12, 18, 22, 45, 
 60, 96, 109, 119, 128 (2). 138, 1389. 
 
 PEE rete , letters to, 2 (2), 17 (2); 19; 
 20, 55, 64, 82, 107, 121, 133. 
 
 Peas ‘‘Mynheer,” 329. 
 
 Caprara (Caparara), Count, 2387, 257, 277. 321. 
 347, 351. 
 
 Bae aA. , Colonel, 259. 
 
 eee Marshal, 268. 
 
 Capuchins, the, 42. 
 
 Carbury, John, 142. 
 
 Careron, Daniel, 78. 
 
 Carew, Nicholas, 135. 
 
 Carey, George, 62. 
 
 jaecnreaee Captain William, 120. 
 
 Carignano, 308. 
 
 Carisbrook Castle, 354. 
 
 Carles, Monsieur, 224, 225. 
 
 Carleton, Captain, 37, 46. 
 
 A iceares , John, 46 (2). 
 
 spate tas William, 29, 35. 
 
 Carlisle, 81. 
 
 Rpiry cas" cathedral, 81. 
 
 Carlow, county of, 108. 
 
 Carman, Thomas, 109. 
 
 Carmarthen, Marquis of, 13, 17, 25, 34, 46, 
 81, 101, 117, 120, 209, 261, 262, 270, 
 337, 344, 
 
 ee py letters from, 38, 168. 
 
 Carmichael, Lord, 122, 128, 248, 303. 
 
 Carney, Nicholas, 44. 
 
 ' Carolina, Governor of, 307. 
 
 Carr, James, 99. 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Carrickfergus, 220, 221, 
 
 lees , Lough, 266. 
 
 Carricknaholt, 158. 
 
 Carroll (Carrell, Carryll), —, 12, 19. 
 
 Andrew, 317. 
 
 Chimie . Owen, 104. 
 
 in eae , Captain William, 104. 
 
 Carson (Carsan), John, 142, 
 
 aveaweatey air. 275. 
 
 Carstairs. Mr., 145. 
 
 Carter, Abraham, 79, 91. 
 
 jas 5.5, Captain, 94: 
 
 Carteret, Sir George, 62. 
 
 Carthew, Mr., 262. 
 
 Carthy, —, 229. 
 
 Cartou, alias Carter, Abraham, 79. 
 
 Caryile, James, 147. . 
 
 iSecnct , Lieut.-Colonel William, 147, 
 
 Cary, Francis, 29. 
 
 Casa Follit (?), 279, 328. 
 
 Casale. See Cassel. 
 
 Casall. See Cassel. 
 
 Cashel, 155. 
 
 Cashell, Elizabeth, 1138. 
 
 A aan , Jeremy, 113, 
 
 Casimir, Prince of Nassau, 235, 237. 
 
 Cassillis, Earl of, 298. 
 
 Cason, John, 128. 
 
 Caspar, Samuel, 132. 
 
 Cassall. Sce Cassel. 
 
 Cassaw, David, 88. 
 
 Cassel (Casale, Casall, Cassall, Cazelle), 44, 
 271, 277, 289, 304, 306, 309, 314, 315 
 321, 323, 325 (2), 342 (2), 845 (2), 348. 
 , governor of, 325. 
 
 Peeeeaes & , siege of, 323, 325. 
 
 Castain, Susan, 38. 
 
 Castanaga, Marquis of, 264, 328, 344. 
 
 Castello, Don Francis, 264. 
 
 Castelmoneayo, Marquis of, letter to, 184 
 
 Caster, Henry, 14. } 
 
 Castilio, Hester, 70. 
 
 Castle, William, 60. 
 
 Castlehaven, 326. 
 
 Seete;y Harlior, 70, 
 
 canto ee , letter to, 76. 
 
 Castletown, 156, 247. 
 
 Catalonia, 94, 120, 248, 250, 255, 261, 
 264 (3), 277, 283, 288, 292, 306, 
 315 (2), 819, 321, 323, 380, 336, 
 345, 346, 353. 
 
 wssseeeees Viceroy of, 344. 
 
 Catané, Anna, 135. 
 
 2 hee , Gabriel, 135. 
 
 Catherine of Braganza. 
 the. 
 
 Catberlagh. See Carlow. 
 
 Catte, the, 154. 
 
 Cattinat (Catinat), Marshal, 233, 285, 268, 
 272, 279, 288, 292, 307, 342, 345, 353. 
 
 2045 
 
 ee 2 ey 
 
 ee ee 
 
 263, 
 307. 
 344, 
 
 See Queen-Dowager, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 369 
 
 Cave, Andrew, 142. 
 
 ' Cayour, 272. 
 
 Cazelle, See Cassel. 
 
 | Cazenove, Peter, 112. 
 
 Cecil, Cornet, 27, 32, 33. 
 cence’ , Robert, 160. 
 Ceuta, 312. 
 
 ere ees , siege of, 291. 
 Chabenor, William, 142. 
 Chadwick, Mr., 272. 
 eee , Thomas, 47. 
 Chaigneau, Jane, 66. 
 cae , Mary, 66. 
 Cham, the, 304. 
 Chamberlain (Chamberlayne), Charles, 74. 
 SE ter , Edward, 172. 
 cee , Michael, 148. 
 
 | Champané, Josias, 120. 
 
 Champion, William, 383. 
 
 Chancery, masters in, 129. 
 
 ee ee , master-extraordinary in, 107. 
 er , proceedings in, 144. 
 
 | Chancey, Mr., 91. 
 | Channel, the, 51, 52, 54, 75, 121, 194, 225, 
 
 227, 280, 260, 261, 807, 318, 826, 327, 
 387, 353. 
 
 Bie , ‘‘chops”’ of the, 346. 
 
 Chantries in Ireland, 55, 56. 
 
 Chapel Royal, the, 333. 
 
 Chapelizod, letter dated at, 45. 
 
 Chapman, Simon, 74, 143. 
 
 Charlemont, 220, 221. 
 
 Charleroi, 151, 227, 257, 273, 355. 
 
 Ret ois: , fortifications at, 347. 
 
 See Tacs , governor of, 264. 
 
 _ Charles 11, 62 (2), 92, 120, 127, 136, 140, 148, 
 
 152, 179, 180, 181, 267. 
 
 Mier eens , anniversary of restoration of, 260. 
 
 Pa ee , widow of, 45. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Charron, Pierre, 77. 
 
 Charterhouse, the, 138. 
 
 Chateau-Renaud, Count or Mons,, 250, 261, 
 29 
 
 8. 
 
 Chatham, 50, 316. 
 Chatham River, the, 300. 
 Chattancoff, Monsieur, 290. 
 Chauncy, Stanton, 77. 
 Chauvin, Mrs. Martha, 62. 
 Cheddar, 146. 
 Chelmsford, 19. 
 Chelsea, 86, 172. 
 Chelsea Hospital, 66. 
 Cheshire, 113, 118, 279, 281, 286, 308, 314. 
 Chester, 18, 140, 149, 159, 179, 240, 272, 
 283, 326, 342, 348 (7). 
 
 Castle, 276. 
 , Chief Justice of, 331. 
 , letters dated at, 195, 248, 266, 275, 
 
 280, 298. 
 a pete , mayor of, 342. 
 
 ae , port of, 247. 
 
 2A 
 
370 
 
 Chester-le-Street, church of, riots in, 148. 
 Chettle, Thomas, 117, 118, 
 Chetwood, —, 180. 
 
 Cheyalier, Jean, 110. 
 ‘* Chevy Chase,” tune of, 305. 
 Cheyne, Captain Robert, 120. 
 Chichester, 35, 64, 224. 
 Chichester, Giles, 73. 
 Chichester House, 45. 
 Child, Sir Francis, 245, 
 ME Nein , Sir Josiah, 71, 74. 
 Chimay, Prince of, 291. 
 * Chivasey,’’ 285, 
 Choiseur, Marshal, 258. 
 Chokier, Fort of, 291. 
 Cholmondley, Colonel, 85. 
 Christian (Christiane), Charles, 88, 120. 
 Ay ees , Dorothy, 94. 
 Peery , Gerrit, 69. 
 ye , Martin, 14. 
 Christensen, Olof, 56. 
 Churches and Chapels exempt, 44. 
 Churchill, Major General, 26. 
 Chute, Mr., 27. 
 Cielut (Cielut), 268, 320, 
 Cinque Ports, the, 196, 260. 
 aE , Lord Warden of, 260. 
 Cirencester, 86, 93. 
 
 fairs at, 117. 
 cece , lord of the manor and borough of, 98. 
 Cisterna, 308. 
 Civita Vecchia, 255, 274, 288, 331. 
 Clancarty, Karl of, 283. 
 Clanricard, Earl of, 102, 224. 
 Clan Ronald, Captain of, 170. 
 Clare, county of, 147, 158. 
 Clare, Daniel, Viscount, 146, 147. 
 Clarges, Sir Walter, 348. 
 Clark (Clarke, Clerk), Abraham, 79, 91. 
 
 ey 
 
 SR NAC , Francis, 80, 148. 
 
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 Si ccewaee howe seop lebter 1 romsies 
 
 hones Mr., 3,9,-12, 1719, 27, 84-50) 61; 
 
 52. 60, 61, 64, 68, 70, 71, 79, 174, 
 182, 187, 272 (2). 
 Captain Robert, 284 (2). 
 
 Ereme} irie Samuel, 124. 
 
 Clays, Richard, 202. 
 
 Cleeman, Chriastian, 89. 
 
 Clein, Derick, 68. 
 
 Clerk of the Signet, the, 109. 
 
 Cleusen, Cornelius, 18, 
 
 Cleynman, Claes, 29. 
 
 Clifford, Samuel, 47. 
 
 Clifton, Sir Thomas, 272, 283. 
 
 Clipping the coinage, 82, 89, 132, 808, 31", 
 332, 335, 3387, 340, 341. 
 
 Bill to prevent, 325, 
 
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 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Cloribus, Cornelius, 33. 
 
 — Closet, Clerk of the, 110. 
 Clough, 165. 
 Coates, John, 140. 
 
 = ., Mr., 140. 
 Cobham Hall, 166. 
 Cock, Samuel, 105. 
 Cockpit, the, 46. 
 
 _ Cockrell, Edward, 39. 
 | Codington, Dixy, 1438. 
 _ Coghlan, Francis, 102. 
 
 ee oe , Garrett, 20. 
 Sree ee , John, 102. 
 
 | Coghran, Francis, 142. 
 
 Cogland, Garet, 115. 
 
 - Cohorne Fort, 342. 
 
 . Monsieur, 343. 
 Coin, clipping of, 32, 89, 182, 308, 319. 
 reform of the, 74. 
 See also Clipping the coinage, 
 
 eeeeeeeees 
 
 eeeeceesee 
 
 _ Cokerell, William, 32. 
 
 Colclough, Colonel Dudley, 102, 224.: 
 Cole, Captain, 346. 
 Mr., 180, 181. 
 
 Ceesecenecy 
 
 - Coleraine, 164, 165. 
 geet tee , Bridge of, 164. 
 
 hon ences , magazine of, 165. 
 Collier (Colier, Collyer), —, 264. 
 Alida, 31. 
 
 Colonel, 43, 239. 
 
 laksa ses aoe eee , letters to, 46, 82. 
 
 Ee eee , Sir David, 112, 240. 
 
 Peet ons 0 COON ok 
 
 Lieut.-Colonel, 316. 
 
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 Le. ascedy GOLOnEL- Walter.) BG: 
 
 sed , Walter Philip, 93. 
 
 | Colling, Richard, 42. 
 
 Collingwood, Colonel Francis, 99. 
 
 _ Collins (Colins), George, 94, 95. 
 
 | 
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 | www weeene 
 
 
 
 ceeeeesse : 
 
 Richard, 142. 
 
 Snare . Thomas, 79, 80, 91. 
 
 eae ote , Mr., 236. 
 
 | Collyn, Adrien, 18. 
 
 ence , William, 112. 
 
 Cologne, 256, 287, 315. 
 
 , Elector of, 285, 242, 253, 277, 3138. 
 315. 
 
 Ohi: , Estates of, 287. 
 Colomb, Estienne, 83. 
 Colombell, Francis, 99. 
 Colomber, Frangois, 33. 
 Colston, Edward, 110. 
 
 Colt, Colonel, 61 (2), 70. 
 
 See also Dutton-Colt. 
 Combe, Robert, 100. 
 Comegson, 281. 
 
 see reaeee 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Comercey (Comercie), Prince, 268. 
 
 eee te , regiments of, 237. 
 
 Comines, 336. 
 
 Cominotti, Gio. Franco, 63. 
 
 Committee of Council, the, 225, 275, 305. 
 Common Pleas, Court of, 262, 341, 348, 358. 
 
 Commons, House of, 134, 161, 175, 824, 325, 
 $26, 327, 328, 356. 
 
 . speaker of the, 93. 
 
 1 Poe , Irish House of, 213 (2), 
 Compiégne, 240, 242, 328, 329 (2). 
 
 Compton, Thomas, 62. 
 
 Condé, Prince of, 258, 315. 
 
 Confederates, the, 292, 853. 
 
 Congress at the Hague, 149. 
 
 Conhoe, Agar, 33, 
 
 Coni, the, 239, 252, 259, 263. 
 
 Scaics te , garrison of, 808. 
 
 Coningsburg, 250. 
 
 Coningsby, Lord, 112, 184, 210, 218, 220, 
 
 228, 229. 
 
 Perea, veMe LOTS 
 
 oo ree Thomas, letters from, 154 (2), 156, 
 160, 1638. 
 
 Connaught, 185, 158, 156, 184, 221. 
 
 4 ae Vice-Admiral of, 187. 
 
 Connell, Maurice, 142, 143. 
 
 ee Patrick, 148, 
 
 Connor, bishopric of, See Down and 
 Connor. 
 
 Connor, Thomas, 142. 
 Conolly, William, 148. 
 Conrad. John, 107. 
 Conron, William, 142. 
 
 Constantinople, 125, 184, 245, 247. 287, 295, 
 297, 302, 308, 311, 312, 316 (2), 380. 
 
 Constans, Margarett, 66. 
 
 Continent, Campaign on, 45, 46, 98, 235, 273, 
 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 284, 285, 287, 
 289, 291, 295, 297, 299, 302, 303, 304, | 
 306, 307, 308, 310, 311, 313, 314, 315, | 
 316, 317, 818, 319, 320, 321, 328, 825, 
 326, 328-330, 332-336. 340, 342, 343, 
 345, 347, 449-351, 353-355. 
 
 Convoys, demand of merchants for, 227. 
 
 Conyngham. See Cunnigham., 
 
 Cooitre, Gabriel, 84. 
 
 Cooke (Cook), —, 49, 81. 
 
 a re Abel, 135. 
 
 wae eee , Robert, 99. 
 
 , Sir Thomas, 320, 322,824, 327, 328. 
 
 1S are examination of, 322. 
 
 Coombe, Mr., 331. 
 
 Cooper, Captain Ellis, 101. 
 
 Gata iuots , Thomas, 148. 
 
 Coops, Edward, 94. 
 
 Coot (Coote), Colonel Richard, 135, 148, 248. 
 
 Cootes, Colonel, 247. 
 
 Cope, Mrs. Dorothy, 77. 
 
 
 
 , Capt. Downham, 1385. 
 
 371 
 
 Copenhagen, 87, 122 (2), 288, 234, 235 (2). 
 RF ee , English Secretary at, 239, 
 Copper Farthings, 267. 
 Copper Halfpence, 267. 
 Corbally, —, 143. 
 Corbesier, Henry, 70. 
 Corbet, Major John, 1. 
 Corfu, 3538. 
 Cork, 88, 154, 159, 178, 174, 177 (2), 181, 
 182, 184 (2), 186, 187, 188, 202, 222, 
 290, 800. 
 forage for, 163. 
 Tiger , French prisoners in, 220. 
 Petey , garrison at, 175. 
 he Bek . governor of, 164. 
 harbour of, 154, 181, 202. 
 haven of, 201. 
 5 Ts OS. letters dated at, 154, 161, 162. 
 veeeeeeses provisions at, dearthof, 185. 
 pba eee , State of hospital at, 161, 162. 
 ae eeats , surrender of, 155. 
 Cork, county of, 153, 179. 
 Corker, Edward, 83. 
 Cornay, John, 180. 
 Cornbury House, 98. 
 Corneille, Rodolphe, 357, 
 Cornelis (Cornelisse), Andrew, 69. 
 Elizabeth, 96. 
 AER ne Johanna, 66. 
 hes oO ODN Bs: 
 Peter, 84. 
 ey , William, 56. 
 Cornelisen, Dirick, 48. 
 Cornelius, John, 81. 
 Cornwall, 38, 148. 
 , tin in, refined with charcoa] from the 
 New Forest, 148. 
 Cornwallis, Lord, 112, 322. 
 Corry, Hugh, 83. 
 eee , Captain James, 139, 284, 
 Se Mr., 189. 
 Corsava, —, 117. 
 
 ee ey 
 
 eeereesee 
 
 ee ee 
 
 ee eeeneees 
 
 eoeeeeenrne 
 
 Corsley, manor of, 146. 
 Corunna, 242 (2), 288 (2), 327 (2), 828, 339 (2), 
 346. 
 
 Cossacks, the, 237. 
 
 Cotilley, Jane, 70. 
 
 eats , Mary, 70. 
 
 Cottey, Abel, 83. 
 
 Cotton, Sir James, 224. 
 
 eee , Sir Robert, 9, 87, 133. 
 ce OEE , letter from, 283. 
 Cotty, —, 72. 
 
 Couchman, Charles, 97. 
 
 Couflans, Marquis of, 261. 
 Couillret, Osias, 70. 
 
 Council, the, 37, 54, 58, 61, 808, 309. 
 
 Clerks of the, 28, 271. 
 Lords of the, 79, 104, 180, 238. 
 See also Privy Council. 
 
 ree ee) 
 
 een eeneees 
 
 weer s eee 
 
3872 
 
 Council Board, the, 45, 199. 
 
 Counoils of War, 2,6, 25. 26 (2), 27, 30, 31, 
 35 (2), 37, 38 (2), 42, 43, 46 (7), 151. 
 
 Courtenay (Courtney), Peter, 97, 
 
 Captain Richard, 122 
 
 Courtrai (Courtray), 246, 248, 277, 278, 
 280 (7), 386, 340. 
 
 Couttinho, David, 118. 
 
 ane e , Isaque, 118. 
 
 Couvrete, Magdalen, 182. 
 
 Couyer, James, 35. 
 
 Piatt oe , Peter, 51, 
 
 Cove, the (Cork or Kinsale?), 202. 
 
 Cowes, 251, 258, 292. 8303, 826, 354. 
 
 2 Veco letters from, 244, 260, 262, 265, 266, 
 275, 278, 290, 294, 300, 307, 310, 317. 
 
 Cox, —, 65. 
 
 Mr, 67, 327. 
 
 nee , Mr. Justice, 189. 
 
 a A , Sir Richard, 339. 
 
 Coy, Colonel John, 110. 
 
 Cracow, 270, 319. 
 
 Craddock (Cradock), Dr., 4, 5, 58 (2), 88. 
 
 Ses eae , Zachary, 189. 
 
 Crages, Mr., 827. 
 
 Craige, John, 142. 
 
 Cranet, Simon, 22. 
 
 Crantzberg, the Sieur, 41. 
 
 Crapdoet (Jersey), 136. 
 
 Cratchrode, Capt. Charles, 135. 
 
 Crayer, Thomas, 49. 
 
 Creagh, Sir Michael, 157. 
 
 Crediton, 88. 
 
 Cressett, James, 15, 78, 131. 
 
 Cretien, John, 538. 
 
 Cridet, Elizabeth, 66. 
 
 Crimea. the, 259, 829, 334. 
 
 Crimen, Morice, 119. 
 
 Crowbrow (Crobrow), Dr., 49, 51, 59. 
 
 Crofts, Mr., 212. 
 
 Crommelin, Samuel Lewis, 66. 
 
 Cronenberg, Castle of, 5. 
 
 Crook, John, 35. 
 
 Crosby, Mr., 265. 
 
 Cross, George, 4. 
 
 Prat ee , Godfrey, 31. 
 
 Crucifix, Susanna, 33. 
 
 Cruger, Peter, 49. 
 
 Crump, Mr., 25. 
 
 Cruteched Friars, 172. 
 
 Cuba, Isle of, 254. 
 
 Cuffe (Cuff), Francis, 146 (2), 213. 
 
 Culliford, Mr., 212, 229. 
 
 Wee ts. , Richard, 42, 
 
 Cumberland, 109, 850. 
 
 Cumberland. Dr., 183. 
 
 Cumins, Mr., 265. 
 
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 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Cunningham (Cuningham, Conyngham), Cap- 
 tain James, 128. 
 
 | .. see.) Colonel, 185, 248. 
 
 , Colonel Henry, 94 (%). 
 .. a. ., Hugh, 344. 
 
 tee eerenesy 
 
 | Curtis, Mr., letters to, 121. 
 
 Curwen, Patrick, 72. 
 Cusack, Captain Nicholas, 142. 
 PCRS , Robert, 102. 
 
 | Custom House, the, 94, 241, 272. 
 | tia , letter dated at, 180. 
 _ Customs, Commissioners of the, 15, 31, 180, 
 
 272. 
 
 OREN b heey, Jetlertondise. ou. 
 ee een officers of the, 5, 6. 
 ees , treasurer of, 262. 
 
 Cutts, Lord, 72, 87, 262, 305, 310, 318, 380, 
 
 354, 
 ws eise nae overages, LOLLETHTUO MEL Lea 
 Pier 2 , Colonel, 239. 
 
 | Cwmgloyne, 97. 
 | Cymines, 340. 
 | Cypher, a new, 1382. 
 
 Cyprus, island of, 125. 
 Czar, the. See Russia, Czar of 
 
 D 
 
 Dally (Daly, Daley), Denis, 102. 
 .. ..... , Captain John, 120. 
 
 o aree, , Thomas, 142, 148 (2). 
 Dalmatia, 268, 320. 
 
 Dalton, Father, 42. 
 
 , Richard, 148. 
 
 weer oe 
 
 _ Dalrymple, John, 844. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dalziel (Daliel), Lieut.-Colonel Thomas, 
 99 (2). 
 
 Dambour Fort. See under St. Malo. 
 
 Dames, Catherine, 77. 
 
 Danby, Earl of, 169 (?). 
 
 Dancers, Mr., 272. 
 
 Danes, the, 165, 168, 182, 234, 266, 301, 
 321. 
 
 bret oe See also under Danish and Denmark. 
 Daniel, Mr., 82. 
 Danish agent, the, 8, 18. 
 commissary, the, 41. 
 King, the, 245. 
 man of war, 275. 
 ht merchants, 237. 
 . Officers, 41. 
 regiments, 154. 
 resident, the, 276. 
 ships, 259, 274, 278,322. 
 soldiers, 29. 
 Rb Cee See also under Danes and Denmark. 
 Dankelmann. Monsieur, 152. 
 
 eee cee eee 
 
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 set wee eee 
 
 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Dantzig, 31, 83, 86, 99, 
 one the, 233, 277, 310, 318, 321, 333 
 343, 
 
 Dardanelles, the, 284, 295, 302. 
 
 Darling, Mr., 220. 
 
 Dartmouth, 72, 88, 94. 116 (2), 133, 294, 335. 
 
 ie ae , governor of, 88. 
 
 oe , letter from, 260. 
 
 Dassas, Mary, 109, 133. 
 
 D’Astell, 99. 
 
 D’Aumont, Duke, 317. 
 
 Dauphin, the, 253,257, 267, 269, 277. 28 
 
 Dauphiné, 257, 292. 
 
 D’ Aurea, Marquis, 116. 
 
 D’Auverquerque (van Omyerquere), Lieut.- 
 General, 138, 171. 
 
 D’Avenant, Mr.. 71. 
 
 Dayid; Francis, 125. 
 
 Davis (Davies), Mr., 3, 91. 
 
 Parc iazs letters to, 161, 162. 
 
 Or Ae): , Colonel, 38. 
 
 408 ae Lieut.-Colonel, Henry, 81. 
 
 eee , Isaac, 143 (). 
 
 ah nere Robert, 84. 
 
 Davison, Thomas, 35. 
 
 Daws, Captain, 65. 
 
 Dawson, Henry, 172. 
 
 yeeaye , Mary, 172. 
 
 a ae , Thomas, 107. 
 
 Deadman, the, 294, 341. 
 
 Deal, 42, 97. 272, 275, 353. 
 
 , letters dated at, 21, 26, 27, 29 (2), 
 
 30 (3), 243, 256, 260, 262. 265, 276, 
 
 279, 281, 296. 
 
 Deal Castle, 260. 
 
 Dean (Deane). Captain, 189 (2). 
 
 EN wk 5 , Edward, 148. 
 
 -ssaeees-y POSeph, 142. 
 
 De Beleast+l], Colonel Peter, 1388. 
 
 ot Ree , Brigadier, 255 (2). 
 
 De Bouffleurs Marshal. See Boufileurs. 
 
 Debre (Deba), 333. 
 
 De Brinques, Christoffel, 124. 
 
 De Brisao, Jean Pierre, 66. 
 
 Debtor and Creditor, law of, 358. 
 
 De Buchwald, Caspar, 72. 
 
 prieere yy Lenry, 4a. 
 
 De Calliéres, Monsieur, 285. 
 
 De Camp, Monsieur, 261. 
 
 De Castanaga. See Castanaga, 
 
 De Cattinat. See Cattinat. 
 
 De Chamilly, Duke, 317. 
 
 De Chateau-Renaud. See Chateau-Renaud. 
 
 De Choiseul, Mareschal, 13, 807, 317, 336, 
 356. 
 
 , 330. 
 
 eee ene eee 
 
 De Claris, Comte, 110, 115. 
 
 De Clerg, John, 22. 
 
 De Corf, Francis, 69. 
 
 De Cortey, Captain, 39, 85. 
 
 De Cransberg, Hinrich Herman, 47. 
 
 
 
 
 
 878 
 
 De Crecey, Count, 285. 
 
 De Crenan, Marquis, 825, 348. 
 De Cures, Monsieur Fougére, 296 
 De Fansaca, Jacob. 86. 
 
 Sui ies , Rachel, 86. 
 
 De Faro, Juao, 69. 
 
 De Flegan, Count, 280. 
 
 De Fourbin, Cardinal. 
 de. 
 De France, Francoise, 68. 
 
 See Fourbin, Cardinal 
 
 | De Gaudagne, Duke, 284. 
 
 De Genes, Sieur, 100. 
 
 De Ginckle. See Ginekle. 
 
 De Godeck, Baron, 115, 117, 
 
 De Graves, Mr., 14. 
 
 De Guiscard, Count, 17, 273, 282 (2). 
 
 De Heerley, Monsieur, 285. 
 
 De Beas (d Herbersteins), Comte, 114. 
 
 De Hoogh, Adrian, 73. 
 
 seewse vs, tilleponda, 33. 
 
 De Hoyo, Don Pedro, 70. 
 
 De Hubert, Monsieur. 150. 
 
 De Joyeuse, Marshal, 356. 
 
 De Kaunitz, Count, 325. 
 
 De Seek (de Kokorsova), Count, 113, 
 
 15 
 
 De la Bastide (Bessede), John, 80. 
 
 er ceen a: . Peter, 188. 
 
 De la Brie, Mr., 25. 
 
 De la Croix, Madeleine, 33. 
 
 De la Chambre, Frederick, 62. 
 
 De la Cherroy, Mary Magdalen, 66. 
 
 De Ligny (Lagni), Monsieur, 20. 
 
 Pec eee , letter from, 65. 
 
 De la Hide, John, 88. 
 
 De la Lande, Peter. 73. 
 
 Delamare, Major, 142. 
 
 De la Meloniere, General, Isaac, 138. 
 
 De la Menardiére, Malnos John, 66. 
 
 De la Tour, John, 60. 
 
 De la Tremblade, Mary Bonneau, 70. 
 
 Delaubone Sieur. 334. 
 
 De Laudsberg, Bartold Nicholas, 47. 
 
 De Laune, Francies, 19. 
 
 De Lee, Peter, 121. 
 
 De Leganez, Marquis, 314. 
 
 De Lery, Marquis, 279, 295. 
 
 Dellwitz, Lieut.-General, 269. 
 
 De Lom, Lieutenant Peter, 327. 
 
 De Lorge, Marshal, 252, 253, 263. 
 268 ( ), 270, 332, 848, 356. 
 
 De Louvois. Monsieur, 150. 
 
 267, 
 
 | Delphy, —, 188. 
 
 De Lyon, Benjamin Pereyer, I11. 
 De Maine, Due, 3158. 
 
 De Mally, Count, 317. 
 
 De Mandelsloe, Theodore, 138. 
 Demant (St. Damiano), 340. 
 
 De Martigny, Catherine, 66. 
 
374 
 
 De Megrigny, Sieur, 352. 
 De Montalt, Count, 330. 
 De Montils, Mrs. Susanna, 63. 
 De Motte Court, 340. 
 De Mousrel, Nicholas, 110. 
 De Moutall. Count, 352. 
 Den, John, 148. 
 Denbigh, Earl of, 22, 94, 251. 
 Denbois, Remain, 54. 
 De Nesmond, Monsieur, 13, 337. 
 De Nevilles. See De Noailles. 
 Denmark, 15, 41, 76, 82, 84, 87, 107, 235, 
 237, 240, 248, 274, 810, 350. 
 
 rete court of, 137. 
 
 meee envoy of, 245. 
 wees... George, Prince of, 738, 111, 346. 
 ecient , King of, 5, 82, 100, 120, 235, 274, 306. 
 wesseseesy Princess of, 2438. 
 
 See also under Danes and Danish. 
 
 De Noailles, Marshal, 267, 279, 285, 380. 
 Deoncieu, Monsieur, 66. 
 D’Epinay, Mary, 31. 
 De Pomerade, Chevalier, 327. 
 De Pommares, Moise, 115. 
 Deptford, 70, 247, 283. 
 De Puizar, Marquis, 39, 84, 85. 
 De Quiros, Don Francisco Bernado, 248. 
 De Rabar, Lieut.-Colonel, 14. 
 De Rada, Marquis, 316. 
 De Rayen, Mary, 47. 
 De Repio, Don Frangois, 31. 
 Deringe (Dering), Charles, 16, 83, 108. 
 a eae , Madam Helen, 142. 
 De Ripet, Alexander, 108. 
 De Ronsele, Baron, letter from. 132. 
 De Roque, Sieur, 299. 
 
 De Rouvery (Roover, Rovery), Mary Magda- 
 lena, 90. 
 
 Oe an Nicholas, 66, 90, 138. 
 jin ope HLONSIOUT, Oo; 
 De Roye, Count, 294. 
 
 See Londonderry. 
 
 Derry. 
 
 De Ruvigny, Monsieur, 224, 
 
 Derwentwater, Earl of, 261, 306. 
 
 news letters addressed to, 289, 
 241, 245, 254, 256, 259, 268, 265, 
 268, 270, 272, 284, 286, 288, 290, 293, 
 295, 804, 308, 310, 312, 314, 316, 318, 
 320, 323, 325, 327, 829, 331, 333, 335, 
 338, 342, 344, 347, 349, 851, 358, 355. 
 
 De Saconay, —, 115. 
 
 De St. Auban, Lieut.-Colonel, 188. 
 
 De Saintoin, Lacoste, 357. 
 
 De Schomberg. See Schomberg. 
 
 De Schuerin, Baron, 21, 56. 
 
 Desembert, Monsieur, 108. 
 
 De Servignig, Sieur, 100. 
 
 Desjardins, Mary, 69, 
 
 seaeuses’ , Rachel, 69. 
 
 De Soissons, Count, 815. 
 
 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 De Solms, Count, 151, 152. 
 
 De Sotto, Don Diego, 70. 
 
 D’ Essen, Sieur, 340. 
 
 De Stein, Baron, 269. 
 
 D’ Estrée, Count, 244, 285, 291, 336, 355. 
 
 De Surdis, Marquis, 317. 
 
 De Tesse, Count, 358. 
 
 D2 Thou’s (‘Thuanus) Library, sale of, 20. 
 
 Detien, Zegeba, 29. 
 
 De Tondorf, Lothar Anthony, 53. 
 
 De Toulouse, Count, 298 (?). 
 
 De Tourville, Marshal, 267, 270. 
 
 Deubits, General, 281. 
 
 De Valette, Marquis, 340. 
 
 De Vauban, Sieur, 352. 
 
 De Vaudmont, Prince, 72. 
 
 De Vendome, Duke, 348. 
 
 Devenish Estate, the, 17. 
 
 Deverell Longbridge, 146. 
 
 De Veye, Francis, 110. 
 
 echt , dane, 110. 
 
 De Verdin, Mr., 117. 
 
 De Vignoles, Captain, 188. 
 
 De Viilars, John, 14. 
 
 De Villeroy, Marsha], 329, 832, 849, 352, 353. 
 356. 
 
 De Vimare, Colonel Josias, 188 (?). 
 
 Devon, county of, 83. 
 
 Devonshire, Duke of, 9, 111, 829, 338. 
 
 De Vries, Abel, 90. 
 
 De Vrybergen, Monsieur, 150. 
 
 De Waert, Joris, 151. 
 
 De Weeldy, Secretary, 23 (2), 
 
 De Welbrune, Monsieur, 149. 
 
 De Wilde, Elizabeth, 31. 
 
 Dewoolf, William, 77. 
 
 De Wurtemberg, Count. See Wurtemberg. 
 
 D’Exinimes, Marquis, 352. 
 
 Deynse, 281, 349. 
 
 D’Hervart, Philibert, Baron d’Heuninguen. 
 66. 
 
 Diblon, 845. 
 
 Dickfelt, Sieur, 297. 
 
 Dickholtz, 250. 
 
 Dickison, George, 29. 
 
 Dickwell, Sieur, 341. 
 
 Didier, Abraham, 77. 
 
 Dieppe, 49, 269, 270, 273, 336. 
 
 era , Bay, 269. 
 
 Diest, Mr., 45, 269. 
 
 Diet, the, 311, 319. 
 
 | Dietasta, —, 74. 
 
 Dietrich, Gotlob, 42. 
 
 Dighton, Christopher, 97. 
 
 Dillon, Major Arthur, 94. 
 
 , Martin, 142, 148 (?). 
 
 , Viscount, 102 (2), 218, 224, 229. 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Dilston (Northumberland), 
 addressed to, 282, 235, 286, 247, 250, 
 274, 277, 279, 281, 297, 299, 302, 340. 
 
 Dinan, 227. 
 
 Dinant, 291, 348, 347, 358, 355. 
 
 Dirickse (Dirikse), Caspar, 87. 
 
 2 eee , Mary, 86. 
 
 Dirickson, Dierick, 1382. 
 
 Dirks, Gerrit, 69. 
 
 Dirksen, Dirk, 124. 
 
 Divan, the, 304. 
 
 Dixmude (Dixmuyde), 26, 166, 255, 280, 289, | 
 
 349, 357. 
 Dixon, Captain John, 29, 46. 
 D’Lode, the Marchioness, 291. 
 Dniester, the, 355. 
 Dobbelaar, Adrian, 70. 
 Dobson, Colonel, 142. 
 See cep James, 80. 
 
 Dockyards, officers of the, 13. 
 Dod, Mr., 348. 
 
 Doderidge, Andrew, 142. 
 D’Offarrell, —, 116, 126. 
 
 Doge, the. See Venice, Doge of. 
 Dolben, Sir William, 236. 
 Dollewyn, Jacob, 88. 
 Dominicans, the, 42. 
 
 Domon, Giles, 71. 
 
 boas _..., Susanna, 71. 
 
 Donegal, Earl of, 84, 240. 
 
 Donelan, Baron, 53. 
 
 Donnelan (Donnelau), Mr., 222, 339. 
 
 Donnell, John, 42. 
 
 Dorchester, 49. 
 
 Doring, Count, 291. 
 
 Dorislaus, Mr., 51. 
 
 Dormer, Mr., 57, 67. 
 
 Dornick, 248. 
 
 Dorrington, Major General, 283, 314, 337, 
 
 Dorset, Earl of, 110, 113, 380. 
 
 Doughty, —, 118. 
 
 weeeeeees, William, 118 (2). 
 
 Douglas (Douglass), Captain Charles, 58. 
 
 John, 39, 
 
 ........., Liieut.-General, 153, 155, 160. 
 
 i .... William, 49. 
 
 Dousen, Dauwe, 182. 
 
 Doussin, Peter, 103. 
 
 Dove, Doctor, 316. 
 
 Dover, 13, 29, 44, 46, 50. 54. 77. 90, 124. 
 260, 270, 276, 292, 354, 356. 
 
 see 6a letters dated at, 29, 45. 
 
 Oy aera mayor of, 40. 
 
 fone nper er haere , letters to, 30, 32. 
 
 Le ae ee pier, 29. , 
 
 ein ieves DIOS. 4a: 
 
 news-letters | 
 
 
 
 
 
 375 
 
 Dover, Lord, 280, 
 afd ene ee James, 305. 
 
 any fllve 5 , Mr., 307. 
 Preece , William, 142, 
 
 Dovese, Don, 124. 
 
 Dowd, Thomas, 143. 
 
 Dowdall (Dowdal), Sir Luke, 142. 
 
 sancend et , Peter, 36, 52. 
 
 Down and Connor, Bishop of, 11. 
 
 ..see8..., bishopric of, 38. 
 
 Downs, the, 18, 21 (°), 26, 27 (*), 28, 29 (2), 
 34, 38, 39, 40 (2), 48, 44, 45, 50, 51, 
 52, 54, 57, 182, 189, 245, 249, 251, 
 256 (2), 262 (2), 265 (2), 266, 272 (2), 
 274, 275 (2), 276 (2), 278 (2), 288 (2), 
 290, 296, 298, 818, 322, 324, 327, 341, 
 342, 344 (2), 346, 352, 358, 354 (2). 
 
 Papeete Wi letters dated at, 21, 25, 26, 38, 39 (2) 
 Ata (ey 
 
 Downs, Theophilus, 56, 
 
 Doyne, Mr., 134, 339. 
 
 Draper, John, 106. 
 
 Dresden, 351. 
 
 Drogheda, governor of, 155. 
 
 ie ad oh recorder of, 129. 
 
 Drogheda (Drohadel), Lord, 342. 
 
 Drumlanrig, Earl of, 319. 
 
 Drummer, William, 81. 
 
 Drummond, Captain William, 11, 58. 
 
 Drury, —. 82. 
 
 oh ae ae , John, 142. 
 
 Du Bart, Chevalier, 52, 234, 235, 236, 262, 
 264, 265, 295, 299, 302, 327. 
 We Fett , Jean, 315. 
 John, 264, 265, 283, 289. 
 rene See von Bart. 
 Du Belt, Cornelis, 180, 
 Dublin, 156. 159, 180, 184. 200, 203, 204, 223 
 226, 230, 240, 247, 275, 276, 298. 
 , Richard, archbishop of, 55, 132, 216. 
 kone , Bermingham Tower, 26. 
 ..., chanter of St. Patrick’s, 216. 
 , Christ Church, 204. 
 , Clancarty House, 157, 160. 
 eae ere eoa, lebtersdated. at, -1 GU: 
 RPh st es College. See Trinity College. 
 Cher os Cook Street, 42. 
 corporation of, 56. 
 tO, See ts council chamber at, I81, 187. 190, 
 205. 
 eae , county of, 142 
 , curriers of, 128, 135. 
 WER ye , Francis Street, 42. 
 a3 ee seh harbour, 154. 
 , letters dated at, 25, 26, 36 (2). 42, 45 
 49 (2), 60, 65, 101, 182, 142, 154. 155. 
 156, 159, 161, 168, 175, 182. 184, 189, 
 195, 196, 199, 208, 205, 208. 209, 212, 
 218, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 220, 221, 
 222. 
 ae Ay: , Lord Mayor of, 156, 223. 
 
 eee eer eens 
 
 Feet erere 
 
 er 
 
376 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Dublin—cont. 
 
 ete , Ordnance Office, letter dated at, 220, 
 agate , Oxman Town, 42. 
 
 Bee oat oe , Parliament held in, 19, 59, 142. 
 
 ees eae , popery in, 42. 
 
 oaedas , priests in, 42. 
 
 eis Wee protestant curriers in, charter of, 128. | 
 
 wn talouee , St. Anne, guild of, 55. 
 
 ace , St. Audoen, church of, 55. 
 
 aurea , St. Owen’s Arch, 42. 
 
 1. see 96. Patrick’s, dean and chapter of, 
 216. 
 
 ee , storekeeper of, 106. 
 
 pee oe , Trinity College, 133, 319. 
 
 eter ee , provost of, 200. 
 
 Ro) Ske , Whitefriars, 84, 
 
 Dublin Castle, 106. 
 
 ee , letters dated at, 12, 18, 19, 22, 96, 
 101, 199, 128, 1383, 1388. 189, 155, 173, 
 174, 176 (2), 178, 179 (2), 182, 188, 185, | 
 186, 187, 188, 189, 193, 195, 198, 200, 
 201, 202, 204, 205, 207, 209, 211, 213, 
 214, 219, 221, 225, 226, 248, 280. 
 
 ier ate , Proclamation from, 187. 
 
 Du Bois, Daniel, 124, 131, 
 
 eh teeee , Johanna, 81, 
 
 Bey res , John, 113. 
 
 Du Bordieu, Monsieur, 131. 
 
 Du Bose, Isabeau, 111. 
 
 eee , Jacob, 96, 108, 111. 
 
 Du Chapeaurouge, Mr., 114. 
 
 Dudley, Colonel, 87, 310, 312. 
 
 Dufour, Mr., 114. 
 
 ee eee , Susanna, 72. 
 
 Dufresné, Monsieur Morel, 88. 
 
 Dumaresq, Deborah, 136. 
 
 eee , Philip, 136. 
 
 Dumart, Francois, 33. 
 
 Dumbeck, Charles, 58. 
 
 Du Mouchel, Martha, 31. 
 
 Dumoulin, Captain, 282. 
 
 Dunbar, Captain, 270. 
 
 Duncannon Fort, 153. 
 
 Duncanson, Major, 11. 
 
 Duneombe, Mr., 4. 
 
 neekaees , Anthony, 80. 
 
 Dundee, Viscount of, 274. 
 
 Dungan, Lord, 158. 
 
 Dungeness, 13, 18, 322. 
 
 Dunham Ferry, 91. 
 
 Dunham-on-the-Hill, 118. 
 
 
 
 Dunkerron, Barony of, 62. 
 
 Dunkirk, 6, 18, 14, 17, 18, 26 (°), 27, 28, 80, 
 81, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 
 44, 46 (2), 48, 49, 52, 70, 75, 90, 116, 
 258, 259, 264, 265, 274, 275, 278, 283, 
 312, 815, 821, 330, 348, 344, 345, 356, 
 
 veacenees , English prisoners in, 65. 
 
 PP a: , letters dated at, 31, 32. 
 
 Dunsany, Lord, 142. 
 
 Dunsdell, Thomas, 29. 
 
 Dunstaffnage, 170. 
 Dunstar, Charles, 69. 
 Dupuy, Gabriel, 33. 
 Bee , Peter, 188. 
 Duran, William, 8. 
 
 | Durley, Captain, 7. 
 
 Durof, Peter, 51, 68. 
 
 | Dursley, Viscount, 112. 
 
 Dusen, 152. 
 
 Diisseldorf, 167. 
 
 Dutch, the, 18, 24, 25, 28, 140, 234, 289, 325. 
 Bro Serie? admiral, the, 39. 
 
 eae ee Ae fleet, the, 271, 275, 276, 281, 300. 
 een a fishery, protection for, 61. 
 ye eet foot guards, the, 69, 84. 
 
 eee eee forces, 269. 
 
 sia EK guards, 22. 
 
 Ae eret horses, 334. 
 
 Nae men-of-war, 20, 126, 280, 236, 249. 
 254, 275, 278, 322. 
 
 aoe eee mortars, the, 42, 339. 
 
 ae ee navy, 288. 
 
 Ast TES Se officers, 172. 
 
 eee privateers, 284 (2), 235, 237. 
 
 este regiments, 154. 
 
 ik ioe . list of dead and wounded in, 
 143, ; 
 
 eens ships, 51. 58, 67, 172, 225, 226, 227, 
 230, 235, 237, 238, 247, 273. 
 
 renee squadron, the, 286, 265, 346. 
 
 Bearer sae troopers, 272. 
 
 riers Turkey fleet, 312. 
 
 Sok aiees See also Holland and States General, 
 the. 
 
 Dutton-Colt, Sir Henry, 247. See also Colt. 
 
 Dyer, John, 80. 
 
 Dymchurch, 56. 
 
 i 
 
 _ Earl Marshal, the, 253. 
 
 | Eastern Europe, affairs in, 184. 
 
 | East Grinstead, 32 (?). 
 Easthampstead, letter dated at, 86. 
 
 _ Easthorrington, 146. 
 
 East India Company, the, 45, 58, 63, 64, 65, 
 
 66, 67, 71 (2), 72, 100, 108, 105, 131, . 
 
 145, 161 (°), 242, 259, 290, 318, 320. 
 East India ships, 65, 292, 346. 
 East Indies, the, 166, 200, 249, 262, 271, 278, 
 289 (2), 300. 
 East Sea, the, 22. 
 Ebernberg, 166. 
 
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GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Eecles, lands of, 127. 
 Eccles, Lady, 127, 
 
 Ecclesiastical Affairs, Lords Commissioners 
 
 for, 826. 
 ot ee letters to, 122. 
 
 Keeleston, 357. 
 
 Ech, Mary, 70. 
 
 Edgeworth, Henry, 171. 
 
 Edinburgh, 153, 166, 234, 236, 271, 274, 275. 
 
 Bede , letters dated at, 9, 248, 246, 248, 251, 
 2538, 260. 261, 264, 278, 280, 282, 235, 
 290, 294, 298, 300, 808, 309, 311. 313, 
 
 315, 319, 324. 330, 332, 386. 338. 344, | 
 
 345, 348, 
 abbey, 332. 
 fg ... castle, 127. 
 eens Gein general fast in, 332. 
 Lae Aer , King’s council at, 282. 
 Pe toe market cross at, 261. 
 ..-» Queen’s birthday observed in, 255. 
 
 ee ...., Tolbooth gaol, the, 261, 274, 282, | 
 
 286, 330, 344. 
 Edward, —, 69. 
 Edwards, —, 30, 67. 
 ears , Charles, 80. 
 makes , Edward, 97. 
 cn epee , Elizabeth, 110. 
 ts Mary, 22. 
 Kerkeen, Israel, 124. 
 Egelton, Mary, 100. 
 Egidigus, Peter, 99, 
 Kelinton, Lord, 153. 
 Egypt, 316, 
 Eichbr, Johan, 83. F 
 Eilofstein, Maximilian, 110. 
 Elbers, Henry, 56. 
 Elector, the, 149, 152, 248 (2), 291, 811, 323, 
 341, 357 
 Elector Frederick, the, Jetter from, 167. 
 Elector Palatine, the, 242, 351. 
 Elizabeth, Queen, 172. 
 Ellemberg, 46. 
 Ellemberg, General, 349, 352, 357. 
 Elliot, Dr., 236. 
 pen ecs , Frances, 88, 
 Ellis, Bernard, letter from, 227. 
 eerie , John, 76. 
 Soe , Mr., 91, 381 (2). 
 Ellist, Caleb, 120. 
 Elphin, bishopric of, 1638. 
 Elrington, Thomas, 74. 
 Else, Mr., 62. 
 Elsinore, consul at, 301. 
 Ely, bishop of, 326. 
 Ely, —, 64. 
 Emanuel, Charles, 90. 
 Emly, dean of, 96, 101. 
 Emmery, William, 69. 
 
 i ope Parliament of. 
 
 
 
 377 
 
 Emperor, the, 1, 32, 69, 89, 167, 175, 177, 
 180, 181, 188, 184, 188, 189, 285, 
 241 (2), 242 (2), 245, 248, 257, 277 (2), 
 279, 280, 281, 285, 287, 291, (2) 297 (2), 
 299 (2), 302, 304, 306, 310 (2), 321. 
 323 (2), 842, 347 (2), 349, 851, 355. 
 Seale , envoy of, 242, 248. 
 
 | Empire, estates of the, 287. 
 
 Empress, the, 285. 
 
 | Enfield, Baron of, 331. 
 | Engbrets, Erick, 182. 
 
 Enghien, battle of, 195. 
 
 Engis, governor of, 334. 
 
 England, Bank of. See Bank of England. 
 Be A Pe coast of, 336. 
 
 Phases est Lord High Admiral of, 354. 
 sieves a Lords Justices of, 3 (2), 5, 6 (2), 9, 
 
 55, 60, 330 
 
 | Sohces eM Ree , minutes of proceeding of, 3, 
 
 4, 5, 9, 12, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 27, 
 28, 32. 
 
 .......+-, Lords of the Council of, 192. 
 See under House of 
 Commons, House of Lords. and Parlia- 
 ment. 
 
 | English captives, redemption of, 130. 
 
 conyoy, the, 307. 
 
 fleet, the. See wnder Fleet, the. 
 
 prisoners in France, 327. 
 
 Enos, John, 148. 
 
 Eppeset, Jean, 38. * 
 
 Epping Forest, 292, 
 
 Erasmus (Erasemus), Christian, 14. 
 
 Tee Jores, 98. 
 
 Eudeen ne Sweens, 70. 
 
 Erickson, Israel, 132. 
 
 Errington, Thomas, 232, 285, 236. 
 
 ee *..., letters to, 247, 250, 252, 274, 277, 
 279, 281, 297, 299, 302, 340. 
 
 Ersi, Duke, 284, 288. 
 
 Esmond, Sir Lawrence, 44. 
 
 Esseck, 242, 257. 
 
 A Se , fortifications at, 235. 
 
 Essex, 9, 68, 234, 350. 
 
 oF ia te , sheriff of, 19. 
 
 Essex, Earl of, 12, 62, 98, 106, 147. 
 
 Estournelle, Marianne, 31. 
 
 Ethat Conta (sic), 346. 
 
 Eton, provost and fellows of, 88. 
 
 See rer eee 
 
 ee ewe ewes 
 
 eee estore 
 
 | Ettrick, Mr., 169. 
 
 Eugene, Prince, 257, 314. 
 
 Pipe ee , regiments of, 237. 
 
 Eugins (Engis), 334 (8). 
 
 Eustace, Admiral, letter from, 21. 
 Eyance, Sir Stephen, 78. 
 
 = epee , Timothy, 97. 
 
 Eyans, Captain, 80. 
 
 Ae ee , Hugh, 142. 
 
 erat a , Justice, 28. 
 
 | Eveling, Daniel, 62. 
 
 Evelyn, John, 78, 346. 
 
378 
 
 Eyenden, John, 138. 
 
 Everard, Captain, 26. 
 
 Everet, ———, 78. 
 
 Everingham, Robert, 29, 
 
 rau of prisoners. See Prisoners, exchange 
 of. 
 
 Exchequer, the, 68, 71, 106, 163, 167, 169, 
 
 172, 249, 262. 
 
 , Barons of the, 48, 169. 
 
 .... « , Chancellor of the, 43, 218, 346. 
 
 tyeaee te , Chief Baron of the, 48. 
 
 teva: Se OUT GOL LUG, oc ee 
 
 <. o , Treasurers of the, 83. 
 
 Exchequer Chamber, the, 310, 322, 341 
 
 Excise Bill, the, 4, 272. 
 
 Exeter, 100, 101, 153. 
 
 ARNT , Bishop of, 292, 294, 310. 
 
 Explanation, Act of, 191. 
 
 Eyles, Captain, 288. 
 
 Eymail, James, 31. 
 
 Eyre, Sir Giles, 16, 114, 308, 389. 
 
 Eyrecourt House, near Bannagher, 
 
 Eyres, Seth, 126. 
 
 ee , Mr. Justice, 348. 
 
 Eyston, James, 52. 
 
 + were 
 
 159. 
 
 i 
 
 Fabre, Francis, 115. 
 
 Fabricius, John Christopher, 124. 
 
 Fackenhoff (Fackenoff), Anthony, 52. 
 
 BA eke me , Mr., 94. 
 
 Fagan, Richard, 142, 148. 
 
 Fairfax, Captain, 238. 
 
 ee ne , Thomas, 181. 
 
 Fairfield, 330. 
 
 Faisants, in Jersey, 136. 
 
 Falcon, Joseph, 110. 
 
 Falkland, 312. 
 
 Falmouth, 27 (2), 88, 45, 49, 78, 75, 78, 94, 
 96, 117, 121, 152, 238, 247, 258, 255, 
 325, 327, 338, 334, 337, 339, 341, 346, 
 352, 356. 
 
 weseeeesy letters from, 242, 244, 260, 278, 275, 
 278, 288, 294, 300, 307, 309, 313, 320, 
 
 Farmer, Charles, 115. 
 
 Mary, 77. 
 
 rr ne , Thomas, 77. 
 
 Farquhar, Francis, 128. 
 
 Farrel, Mr., 120. 
 
 Farrington, Colonel Thomas, 3, 120, 185. 
 
 een , William, 357. 
 
 Farroone, Esaias, 117. 
 
 eR Jane, 117. 
 
 Farthings, coinage of, 2438. 
 
 
 
 | Flag, saluting the. 
 
 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Fast and humiliation, days of, observance of, 
 
 258. 
 vssseseee, proclamation of, 114. 
 Fauconberg, Earl of, 112. 
 Fauconier, Peter, 66. 
 Faulkner, Mr., 320. 
 Faure, Martha, 33. 
 Favel, Philip, 136. 
 Faweet, Captain, 41. 
 Fecamp, 317. 
 Fels, James, 70. 
 Fenema, Hetto, 105. 
 
 _ Fenestrille (Fenestrelle), 263, 342. 
 
 Fengest, 344. 
 
 | Fenn, Mrs., 119, 120. 
 
 Ferber, John Sigismund, 99. 
 
 Fergher, Lieutenant Francis, 29. 
 
 Fergusson (Ferguson), Colonel, 244, 298, 800, 
 503. 
 
 , John, 274. 
 , Major, 170 (2). 
 Fernes, Owen, 180. 
 Ferrara, 277, 279, 288. 
 
 | Ferrers, Thomas, 110, 114. 
 
 Ferriera, Clara, 38. 
 
 Fielding. Major Henry, 80. 
 
 Prentice Mr. , 229. 
 
 Fife, Thomas, 128. 
 
 Fifield, manor of, 146. 
 
 Final, 344. 
 
 Finance, state of, 84, 157, 158, 169. 
 Finch, Mr.. 86, 134. 
 
 Fincks, Anthony, 35. 
 
 Finglas, John, 143. 
 
 Finne, Jacob, 115. 
 
 “Fintelie,’’ 356. 
 
 Firebrace, Sir Basil, 320, 3825, 827, 328. 
 Fire ships, 35, 37, 39, 41. 
 
 ‘¢ Birework,” reference to a curious one, 293. 
 Firth, the, 271. 
 
 Fischer (Fisher), Bardzey, 121. 
 ene A , Martin, 94. 
 
 Fitz Gerald, Fitzgerald, 106. 
 tones , Captain, 180. 
 
 ond er , Thomas, 142. 
 
 Fitzpatrick, Brigadier, 77, 121. 
 
 , Christopher, 142. 
 
 LS Apa oe , Colonel, 26, 159. 
 
 beatae , Thadey, 159. 
 
 Fitz Reary, —, 142. 
 
 eee rerere 
 
 See Saluting. 
 
 Flanders, 8 (2), 11, 34, 42, 68, 65,76, 83, 90, 
 106, 118, 116 (2), 120, 122, 126, 174, 
 176, 194, 196, 230. 238 (2), 235, 239, 
 240 (passim), 242, 245, 249 (2), 264, 
 270, 288, 807, 821, 322, 329. 
 
 ene ee , artillery in, 118. 
 
 Gare. , campaign in, 315, 324, 356. 
 
 Tatew oad , coast of, 25. 
 
 Ps ees , forces in, 108. 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Flanders—cont. 
 a government, of, 171. | 
 Ce , hospitals in, 143, 
 King’s affairs in, 17. 
 ee , Officers in, 117. 
 recruits for, 261. 
 TREE , regiments in 135. | 
 --. ++, Scotch regiments in, 116, 300, 303. | 
 
 weer ee oe ees 
 
 ‘** Rlanderskins,’’ a name for the inhabitants _ 
 
 of Flanders, 295. 
 Fleckeroe, 240. 
 Ptntee, : , port of, 234, 
 Fleet, the, references to, 22, 23, 24-25, 54, 
 57, 130, 131, 225, 271, 275, 276, 278, 
 281, 288, 322, 346. 
 a een list of ships of, and their stations, 
 225-227. 
 Fleet Prison, the, 9. 
 Fleet, Sir John, 53, 107, 
 Fleetwood, Mr., 808. 
 Flekkeren, 264. 
 Fleming, John, 84. 
 Flemish Expedition, the, 28. 
 Fletcher, Frances, 76. 
 meee i , Sir George, 350. 
 John, 142 (2). 
 Signet sae Marve s 6, 
 sete ts, Obert, 76; 
 Fleurus, 273, 296. 
 BRS chs , battle of, 62. 
 Floating prisons, 28. 
 Florence, 302. 
 Fiorentines, the, 63. 
 Floytman, Henryck, 55. 
 Flure, Vale of, 340. 
 Flureton, Anthony, 32. 
 Rod. , Theophilus, 32. 
 Flushing, 84, 290. 
 Bet ft: , privateers belonging to, 238, 827, 335. 
 Flushinger, 334. 
 Foden, Mr., 64. 
 5 ae , letter to, 55. 
 Fog, Henry, 122. 
 Foland, Martin, 132, 
 Foley, Foly, Mr., 119, 292, 295. 
 Merete , Paul, 318. 
 iin. , Dr. Samuel, 11. 
 Foliot, Francis, 148. 
 Fontaine, 353. 
 Fontarabia, 264. 
 Forbes, Sir James, 45. 
 ame , Lieut.-Colonel, 280. 
 eM ont , Major John, 29. 
 Ford, Captain, 142. 
 Sa ee , Edward, 142. 
 
 Foreign Letter Office, the, 51. 
 Foreland, the. See South Foreland. 
 Fereman, John, 108. 
 
 
 
 
 
 379 
 
 Forest, Daniel, 143. 
 Forfar, sheriffdom of, 127. 
 
 | Forfeitures, Commissioners of, 82, 156. 
 
 Forrester, Alexander, 76. 
 Forster, Colonel, 143, 
 
 oe , John, 142, 
 
 Fort, John, 51, 63. 
 
 Mort Charles, in the Bay of Kinsale, 200, 357. 
 Hort de Mont, the, 239, 368. 
 Fort Knock, 886, 340. 
 
 Kort Lewis, garrison at, 351. 
 Fort St. Maine, 325. 
 
 Fort Secundo, 290, 
 
 Fort William, governor of, 338. 
 Forth, Firth of, See Firth, the. 
 
 _ Fossano, 233, 
 Koster, Catherine, 27. 
 
 eons , Lieutenant John, 388. 
 
 _ Fortescue, Mr., 95. 
 
 Foulke, Captain Roger, 147. 
 
 | Ps ie , Colonel, 179, 182, 189. 
 
 _ Foulkes, Colonel, 156, 173, 176, 229. 
 
 | Koulque, Olimpe, 66. 
 
 _ Fountain, Colonel, 292 
 
 | Fourbin, Cardinal de, 237, 239, 252, 
 
 256, 
 302, 823, 331, 340, 353. 
 
 _ Fowey, 240. 
 
 _ Fowke, Captain John, 104. 
 | Fowler, John, 108. 
 
 | Fowles, —, 88. 
 
 | Fox, Elizabeth, 147, 
 
 | Wh ht , Lieutenant, 147. 
 Wears , Major, 137. 
 fae , Phillip, 29. 
 
 Sir Stephen, 83, 181, 348. 
 
 i ie aes , Thomas, 83. 
 | France, 9, 280, 248, 278, 341. 
 
 Sch eeeas , admiral of, 298. 
 
 , chief engineer of, 352. 
 
 , chief miner of, 352. 
 
 , clandestine correspondence with, 5. 
 
 see eee eee 
 
 sensor oes 
 
 ee a ey 
 
 fine coast Of, 270. 
 
 Re Ae , coming from, without a pass 9. 
 ert en , court of, 67, 
 
 ees. , exportation of prisoners from, 46, 
 lease rreretesciers , Protestants in, 21, 
 
 a eae , King of. See French King, the. 
 
 [eee , ports of, 74. 
 gear , prisoners in, 3. 
 
 , protestants in, condition of, 211. 
 , religious persecution of, 77. 
 ‘ese: . soldiers carried to, from Ireland, 17. 
 , suspected persons from | (2), 12(2), 14. 
 , trade with, 141, 172. 
 , transportation of Irish troops to, 60. 
 , war with, 99, 167. 
 weet See also French. 
 Francia, Isaac, 70. 
 Francisoanz, the, 42. 
 
 eerste r ees 
 
 ee 
 
 sone eneees 
 
 eeerereees 
 
380 
 
 Franoischi (Francisci), Carlo, 63. 
 
 LA , George Gregory, 27. 
 
 Franco (Frankco), Isaac, 62, 70. 
 
 Franconia, 277, 343. 
 
 Frankfort, 268, 285, 289 (2), 298, 319. 
 
 vias: .., Inagazine of, 321. 
 
 Frankland, Mr., 21, 138. 
 
 ape , Thomas, letter from, 283. 
 
 Franklyn, Charles, 138. 
 
 pcg eMre lots 
 
 Franks (Frankes), —, 39. 
 
 Joseph, 36. 
 
 era a Captain Richard, 98. 
 
 Frazer, Mr., 20. 
 
 Freckleton, Thomas, 20. 
 
 Freckman, Mrs. Catherine, 110. 
 
 Freek, Mr., 236. 
 
 Freeman, Captain Samuel, 85. 
 
 Freesa, Captain Peter, 36. 
 
 Freimat, Eithart, 32. 
 
 Fren (Fexhe ?), camp at, 267. 
 
 French, the. 140, 155, 177, 246, 248, 299, 
 293, 323, 333, 336, 347, 349. 
 
 Ambassador, the, 245, 247, 248. 304, 
 
 ate 5 a Fis inle.s's 
 
 
 
 
 
 Pi ar 
 
 308, 316. 
 Rae totes army, the, 248, 261, 264, 268, 277. 
 281. 
 
 eee capers, the, 325. 
 . coast, the, 324, 344. 
 
 Commissary, the, 20, 21. 
 
 Dauphin, the. See under Dauphin. 
 
 Dragoman, the, 130. 
 
 fleet, the, 180, 153, 188, 230, 234, 
 258, 270, 279, 320. 
 
 Guards, regiments of, 317. 
 
 invasion of England, 162. 
 
 King, the, 162, 245, 323, 336, 340,353. 
 
 men of war, 238. 
 
 errant nee 
 eoetes eee 
 
 Sea 
 ees eecere 
 es eee eee 
 eeerrsecee 
 eer eee eee 
 
 eee eseee seer erere 
 
 in England, plot amongst, 
 
 privateers, 55, 81, 110, 181, 185, 234, 
 
 236, 248, 250 251, 271. 
 prizes, 24, 234, 236. 
 protestants, 3, 19, 60, 65, 107. 
 protestant refugees, 248. 
 protestants in Ireland, 198. 
 regiments, 154. 
 refugee ministers, 103. 
 
 Suteeecee See also France. 
 
 French, Arthur, 102. 
 
 eee , Patrick, 102. 
 
 Peete , Robert, 102. 
 
 Friesland, 1388, 285, 352. 
 
 A , estates of, 237. 
 
 otgentae , Stadholder of, 336. 
 
 Frome, 146. 
 
 Frome Eastwoodlands, 146. 
 
 Frome, St. Andrew’s, 146, 
 
 Frome Westwoodlands, 146, 
 
 
 
 eee eee eee 
 
 ee 
 
 prisoners, 65, 227, 230, 232, 234, 275, | 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Frost, Lewis, 29. 
 
 Fuller, Samuel, 109, 112. 
 
 Furness ,277, 278, 280, 291,303, 847, 351, 357. 
 Furstemburg, Cardinal, 241, 242. 
 
 Furtado, Ishack Aboab, 111. 
 
 G 
 
 Gaillard, Melchior, 27. 
 
 Gaimes, John, 6. 
 
 Galbraith, Captain Robert, 115. 
 
 Galicia, 292. 
 
 Galga, Sultan, 287. 
 
 Galland, Claude, 63. 
 
 pained ot , Margaret, 63. 
 
 Galloway, 278. 
 
 Galloway (Gallaway), —, 119. 
 
 en , Captain, 326. 
 
 Phdeccsae » Mr,,-119),120, 
 
 Galmoye, Lord, 158. 
 
 Galoi, Paulin, 66. 
 
 Galway, 155, 157 (2), 158, 159, 176, 182, 185. 
 
 ERE See , articles of, 2, 101, 102 (2), 174, 175, 
 se (passim), 190 (8), 195, 199, 206, 
 
 Pie ee , defence of, 102. 
 
 eed , Fort Hill, 158. 
 
 pete , garrison of, 102, 175. 
 
 iooneen , governor of, 102, 280. 
 
 , aerewas , mayor of, 102. 
 
 Sey tiy ys , men of, 102. 
 
 ibaa tte , outworks of, 158. 
 
 SEO be: , Roman Catholies in, 190. 
 
 Galway, Lord, 16, 31, 60, 76, 80, 117, 193, 
 268, 297, 308. 
 
 ae nc letters from, 44, 98, 182, 184, 186, 
 187. 
 
 Pets , letter to, 182. 
 
 Gant, Peter, 107. 
 
 Gap (Upper Rhine), 166. 
 
 Garde, Esther, 69. 
 
 ep for pear felrh us oct 
 
 Fe ee aS , Marianne, 69. 
 
 Gardner, Dr., 305. 
 
 Gargan, Lewis, 53. 
 
 Garnault, Michael, 56. 
 
 Garner, Abraham, 196. 
 
 Garsia, Abraham, 82, 88. 
 
 eeeeene , Richa, 82, 838. 
 
 Garth, Avery, 81. 
 
 Garziliame, 272. 
 
 Gasparts, Bartholomew, 22. 
 
 Gatehouse, the. See under Westminster. 
 
 Gatney, —, 229 (°). 
 
 Gee, Mr., 254. 
 
 ferenens , Robert, 152. 
 
 ae eae , Thomas, 83. 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Geijsell, John Peter, 109. / 
 
 Gellibrand (Gellybrand), John, 30, 100, 117. 
 
 Gellot, Elizabeth, 76. | 
 
 Gemblours, 278. 
 
 General Assembly, the, 330. 
 
 General Diet, the 304. 
 
 Geneya, 18, 255. 
 
 Ps AN ve , English consul at, 280. 
 
 Genoa, 50, 116, 248, 278, 279. 
 
 eae enyoy of, 280. 
 
 ...., republic of, 268, 285, 286. 
 
 WP es Bid , ship of, 236. 
 
 Genoese, the, 336. 
 
 Gentzburgh, 267. 
 
 Gerard, John, 31. 
 
 Gerardston. See Gurston. 
 
 Gerbrants, Albert, 98. 
 
 German service, 178, 179. 
 
 Germans, the, 237, 245, 259, 268, 285, 293, 
 507, 351. 
 
 Germany, 42, 68, 77, 91, 96, 110, 114, 240. 
 245, 291, 328. 
 
 ne ete affairs in, 317. 
 
 + a , army of the allies in, 347. 
 
 veseesees, Campaign in, 807. 
 
 ... . », French in, 832. 
 
 nape te . letters from, 254, 313, 315. 
 
 , Princes of, 111. 
 
 srortncet , protestants in, condition of, 211. 
 
 Gerona, 267, 344. 
 
 Gerrard, Sir William, 272, 283. 
 
 Gerretse, Aga, 80. 
 
 ee , Philip, 96. 
 
 Gerrits, Barent, 69. 
 
 Gershom, Titus 140 (2). 
 
 Geyton, Edward, 128. 
 
 Ghent, 45, 277, 278, 335, 345, 353. 
 
 Gherardi, Thomas, 132. 
 
 Gibbon (Gibben), Edward, 77. 
 
 eal AME , Roelof, 99. 
 
 Gibbs, Edward, 97, 143. 
 
 Gibraltar, 247. 
 
 Gibson, Colonel, 17, 55, 344 
 
 2 , Colonel John, 98. 
 
 Gidlon, Sanson, 85. 
 
 Gifford, Lady, 119. 
 
 Giles, Edward, 49 
 
 Gill, —, 100. 
 
 Beige dens , William, 20. 
 
 Gillebrand, John, 80. 
 
 Ginckle (Ginkle), General, 101, 102, 149, 150, 
 155, 159; 
 
 Giraud, Mary, 68. 
 
 Gironne, 261. 
 
 Gittings, Nathaniel, 148. 
 
 Glanaruddery (Glaneroughty), barony of, 62. 
 
 Glasgow, 251, 285, 290, 345. 
 
 Glass, duty on, 61. 
 
 Glassy, Roger, 119. 
 
 Gleast, Mr., 119, 120. 
 
 eee eer we 
 
 
 
 381 
 
 Gleizes, Peter, 111. 
 
 Glencoe, 145. 
 
 suatests Lusird Of, dos, ooo. 
 erste , massacre of, 9-11, 337. 
 ieee , the men of, 144. 
 Gloucester, 117, 146. 
 
 | Gloucester, Duke of, 308, 335 
 
 Godalming (Godilman), 52. 
 
 _ Godden, William, 31, 
 
 Godeau, Mary, 32. 
 
 Godliman. See Godalming. 
 
 Godolphin, Lord, 16, 28, 33, 34, 64. 68 (2), 
 83, 112, 322, 329. 
 
 Lee ee Peuecnsceeg lotters from, (167, 168: 
 
 Pees t ..., Dr. Henry, 58 (2), 67, 83. 
 
 Goedart, John, 121. 
 
 Goeree, the, 68. 
 
 Goez, Cardinal, 2338. 
 
 Goff, Patrick, 105. 
 
 We Shane , Roger, 148. 
 
 Gold, importation of, 19, 34. 
 
 Goncales, Joseph, 69, 89. 
 
 Goodchild, Ralph, 128. 
 
 Goodrick, Sir Henry, 41, 52, 61, 112, 185, 
 346 
 
 Goodwins, the. 276, 344. 
 Goodwyn, Consul, 130, 131. 
 ee ae , Mr., 130. 
 
 Goodyear, Matthew, 9 (?). 
 Goor, Colonel, 174. 
 
 Goots, Cornelius, 87. 
 Gordon, John, 127. 
 
 Gore, Captain, 125, 229. 
 Goredon, Jane, 88. 
 
 Gorge (Gouge), Dr., 258, 286. 
 Gorman, John, 106. 
 Gormanston, Jennico, Viscount, 140, 143. 
 Gortshortrig, lands of, 127. 
 Gosling, Thomas, 100. 
 Gosne, John, 72. 
 Gothenburg (Gottenburg), 287, 301. 
 Goubert, James, 108. 
 
 Gould, Philip, 119. 
 
 sehen Serjeant, 341. 
 
 one , Thomas, 120. 
 Goupee, Charles, 31. 
 
 Goupil, Lue, 19. 
 
 Gourdon, General, 329. 
 Goverts, Ann, 39. 
 
 Gower, Thomas, 6. 
 
 Grace, Colonel, 157. 
 
 | Gracia, Isaac, 6. 
 
 EL eee Jacob, 6. 
 Grafe (Graefe), Christian, 110. 
 
 ATA ote Mary, 80. 
 
 Grifen, Rokus, 111. 
 Graham, —, 336. 
 
 Sir Charles, 93, 116. 
 Colonel, 153, 352. 
 
 ee | 
 
 ee ey 
 
382 
 
 Grammont, 166, 
 
 Gramont, Duke, 317. 
 
 Granard, Lord, 157. 
 
 Grand Alliance, the, 47, 68, 92, 343, 
 Grand army, the, 351. 
 
 Granden, Sarah, 47. 
 
 Grand Prior, the, 345. 
 
 Grand Seignior, the, 120, 125, 252, 290, 304, 
 308, 311 (2), 320, 328, 329, 333, 347. 
 
 349, 350 (2), 355 (2). 
 
 Grand Vizier, the, 233, 247, 252, 267, 270. 
 303 (2), 
 
 271, 277, 280, 287, 297 (%), 
 306, 808, 310, 312, 349, 351. 
 Granmur, —, 152, 
 Grant, Samuel, 83, 
 Granville, 7 (2), 8, 15, 
 Gapacuaee , siege of, 13, 17, 
 Granville, Sir Bevill, 53. 
 Grave, the (Holland), 121. 
 Gravelines, 46. 
 Grayelines Pits, 27, 29. 
 BE letter dated at, 30. 
 Gravenbergh, Henry, 136. 
 Gravesend, 6, 27, 67, 82, 166, 254, 380. 
 Gray, Ralph, 83. See Grey. 
 Great Budworth, fairs in, 113. 
 Great Seal, the, 21, 86. 
 Sern , commissioners of, 160. 
 Lord Keeper of the, 42, 346. 
 Greek, Jacob, 77. 
 Greek Christians, 284. 
 Greeks, the, 332. 
 Green (Greene), John, 83. 
 Sere Mr., 202. 
 Green Cloth, the, 5. 
 Bee See , court of, 40. 
 Greenville, Bernard, 97. 
 Greenwich, 73. 
 Greenwich Hospital, 61, 99, 158, 346. 
 ye a Commissioners for, 78, 79. 
 Gregg (Greg), Hugh, 122. 
 ey Mr., 87, 187. 
 Gregory, Joseph, 62. 
 Peep rey Justice, 308. 
 Gremmopan, John, 84. 
 Greuve, Deengenhard, 114. 
 Greve, Johan Andres, 55. 
 Grey, Andrew, 22. See Gray. 
 Grey of Wark, Lord, 331. 
 Gribes, Mr. , 320. 
 Griffen, John, 84. 
 Grill, John, 99, 121. 
 Grimbalson, John, 27. 
 Grimston, Sir Harbottle, 140. 
 Groddeck, Gabriel, 86, 99. 
 Groeningen, 352. 
 Grolier, —, 229. 
 Grootaard, Loudrens, 70. 
 Groyne, the, 96, 238, 243, 296, 309, 333, 334, 
 37, 345, 
 
 seascernny 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Grundman, John Christian, 19. 
 Guelder, the, 291, 297. 
 
 | Guernsey, 7, 79, 166, 224, 225, 227, 
 232 (2), 844. 
 
 Customs officer at, 232. 
 Governor of, 303, 316. 
 inhabitants of, 172. 
 
 Lecce letters dated at, 2, 227. 
 
 hp y: , Lords of the committee for, 166. 
 Pete , privateer of, 352. 
 
 roe repair of forts and castles in, 224, 225. 
 Wee etrecs , states of, 166. 
 
 pene ale ae stores for, 249, 358. 
 
 errnees , supposed attack on, 341. 
 Guernsey Road, 14. 
 
 eA letter dated at, 1. 
 
 Guido, Count, 2838. 
 
 Guienne, 317. 
 
 | Guila (Gyula), 245, 286, 306. 
 
 rts Pasha of, 321. 
 
 Guildford, 52. 
 
 | Guildhall, the. See under London. 
 
 | Guilhot, James, 71. 
 
 | Guillaume, Thomas, 282. 
 
 - Guillet, Francis, 99. 
 
 | Guinea, 236 (2), 278, 290, 313, 333, 334. 
 Ber oe coast of, 334. 
 
 eee: , ship of, 58. 
 
 Guineas, coining of, 318. 
 
 | Gun, George, 142. 
 
 ak eer ee William, 142. 
 
 | Gunfleet, the, 262, 265, 327, 
 
 | Gunter, Collin, 29. 
 
 Guntsbourg, 287, 291, 313. 
 
 | Gurston alias Gerardston, manor of, 146. 
 | Guy, Mr., 180. 
 
 | Guyon, Frances, 66. 
 
 fig eae William, 66. 
 
 Gyles, John, 142, 148, 
 
 231, 
 
 rr | 
 sete ee ey 
 
 ste eee ewes 
 
 
 
 H 
 
 Haanrood, Gaspar, 62. 
 Hacket, Andrew, 88. 
 James, 148. 
 vars e Sir Thomas, 101 102, 142. 
 Hackney, 172. 
 Hackney Coaches, commissioners for, 254. 
 a rieae eke licensing of, 245. 
 Haddock, Henry, 172. 
 Hadley, John, 63. 
 ree James, 142, 148. 
 , Richard, 143, 
 
 errr e eng 
 
 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Hague, the, 70, 72, 76, 84, 106, 111, 166, 
 167, 169, 237, 240, 248, 250, 255, 259, 
 264, 271, 277, 285, 289, 307, 315. 
 
 , letters dated at, 149, 150, 151, 152, 
 246, 253, 287, 291, 297, 299, 303, 323, 
 325, 330, 382, 336. 336, 340, 343, 345, 
 350, 352, 356. 
 
 , congress at, 149. 
 
 ., Council of State at, 297. 
 
 . Maison de Ville, at, 150. 
 
 , Spanish minister at, 350. 
 
 Haines. Alderman, letter to, 55. 
 
 Haire, William, 85. 
 
 Hall, —, 119, 188. 
 
 Bhedtse rd 142, 
 
 , Lodowick, 72. 
 
 Sir John, 348. 
 
 Dt 119: 
 
 . Mrs. Mary, 26. 
 
 , Thomas, 142. 
 
 ee William, 142. 
 
 Halle, 154. 
 
 Halweil, Wenceslaus, 26. 
 
 Ham, Margaret, 85. 
 
 Hambleton, 215. 
 
 Hamburg, 18, 19, 22, 86, 60, 80, 175, 187. 
 
 188, 233, 235, 287, 261, 320. 
 fleet, the, 356. 
 
 Det chads letter from, 299, 
 
 Hamilton, Lord Archibald, 125. 
 
 , Cecil, 69. 
 
 David. 100, 101. 
 
 Colonel Frederick, 97, 99, 126. 
 
 Lord George, 116, 127, 174, 179,280 
 
 Colonel Gustavus, 1, 22, 80. 
 
 Lieut.-Colonel James, 11, 22. 
 
 Mr., 207. 
 
 Robert, 166. 
 
 en William, 84. 
 
 Hammond, Dr., 262. 
 
 Oe, ah William, 119. 
 
 Hamon, Anna, 109. 
 
 Hampden, Mr., 204. 
 
 eee rags Richard, 112. 
 
 Hampton, Sir Dennis, 294. 
 
 Hancock, Ann, 121. 
 
 Giles, 305. 
 
 , Lieutenant James, 121. 
 
 Bee ire: John, 100, 
 
 Handcock, Thomas, 142. 
 
 Hander, Andreas, 124, 
 
 Handriese, John, 98. 
 
 Hanley, Dr., 293. 
 
 Hanmer, Sir John, 5, 80, 147, 
 
 Hannay, George, 188. 
 
 ae , James, 138. 
 
 Hanover, Duke of, 167. 
 
 tks , Elector of, 325, 
 
 4 PR oe , envoy to, 250. 
 
 , troops of, 299. 
 
 a ee 
 
 +e eeeee 
 
 ee 
 
 eee eee ens 
 
 Pee ete neny 
 
 seer ereees 
 
 Hee wwe ens 
 
 eee ee eee 
 
 ee 
 
 tee re nenny 
 
 ar 
 
 tee eee neny 
 
 seer tt ewes 
 
 i! 
 
 ey 
 
 see eee ees 
 
 er re | 
 
 etter eee 
 
 _ Hay. 
 
 
 
 383 
 
 Hanson, Mathias, 98. 
 Hanssen, Peter, 99. 
 Hara, Sir Charles, 133, 
 
 | Harbord, Sir Charles, 140. 
 
 Harborn, Michael, 142. 
 Hardi, Martha, 31. 
 Harding, John, 2. 
 
 Ba a Ste Lieutenant, 55, 64, 70. 
 Hardy, Captain Pirie: 15. 
 savepadis letter to, 17. 
 
 Harel, James, 14. 
 Harlebeke, 347. 
 
 Harmenz, John, 19, 
 Harmes, Henry, 67. 
 Harmsworth, Robert, 115. 
 Harnu, 329. 
 
 Harold, —, 148. 
 
 Harper, Joseph, 94. 
 Harrington, Samuel, 47. 
 Harris (Harrys), Captain, 231. 
 , E., letter from, 228. 
 harend 39. 
 
 , Isabel, 83. 
 
 Pree Mrs. Rebecca. 228, 
 Harriagn, Francis, 76. 
 
 ee ass Hugh, 53, 56, 70 
 Hart, Gaul, 80. 
 
 rence t William, 142. 
 Hartopp, Captain Thomas, 94, 
 Harvey, Andrew, 143, 
 Elizabeth, 234. 
 William, 53. 
 
 eee ee cas 
 tee eww eee, 
 
 er 
 
 sees ereeny 
 
 ae eeeseeny 
 
 | Harwich, passes to and from, passim. 
 
 Harwood, Thomas, 109. 
 
  Haselbach, Martin, 49. 
 | Hassan, Pascha, 316. 
 
 Hastings, 81, 109, 110, 322. 
 Hee ee sory defence of, 81. 
 Hastings, Brigadier, 316. 
 Captain, 138. 
 
 Foe ey Colonel, 239. 
 Hatcher, Mrs., 51, 65. 
 Hathwell, Johanna, 67. 
 
 Re eee John, 67. 
 
 Hatte, Judith, 31. 
 
 | 
 
 | Hatton, Lord, 79, 80, 166, 303. 
 
 Hautyille, brook of, in Jersey, 136. 
 Havre de Grace, 51, 137, 158, 276, 288. 
 Hawles, Mr., 12. 
 
 Hawley, Charles, 101. 
 
 ee eoret William, 53. 
 
 See Huy. 
 
 Hay (Hays), George, 3, 6, 8. 
 ee Sir James, 55. 
 
 Hayes, Mary, 114. 
 
 Hayward, Richard, 49, 89, 106, 136, 
 Head, Dr. Edward, 98. 
 
 Heane, Lieutenant James, 147 (?), 
 Hearhowse, Francis, 31. 
 
384 
 
 Heatchott, 88. 
 
 Heathcote, Mr., 71. 
 
 Heaths. manors of, 146. 
 
 Hedges, Sir Charles, 18, 21, 66, 125, 172. 
 
 Be here hn oy eer , letter to, 55, 122. 
 
 , Matthew, 119. 
 
 Hedley, John, 26. 
 
 Hedon, 68, 
 
 , Corporation of, 81, 82. 
 
 Mayor of, 81. 
 
 SEES ve ee , letter to, 82, 108. 
 
 Heemskirk (Hemskerke), 264, 291. 297. 
 
 Heidelburg, 263, 267, 268. 
 
 Heidelsheim, 285. 
 
 Heidersheim, Count, 321. 
 
 See EE ee , General, 329. 
 
 Heilbron, 254, 257, 382, 333, 343. 
 
 Heindrickse, John, 100. 
 
 Heindricksen (Heindrichsen, 
 Adriaen, 124, 132, 
 
 Aes Dirick, 182. 
 
 tie , Dirk, 124. 
 
 ........., Heindrick, 86. 
 
 PE fl , Ole, 112, 121. 
 
 Heinrick, Johan, 70. 
 
 Heinsuis, Pensioner, 61. 
 
 Heledey, John, 22. 
 
 Helmund, Gaspar, 8. 
 
 Helvoetsluys, 60. 
 
 Hely (Heley), Sir John, 339, 
 
 Re cae , Mr., 282 (2). 
 
 Henckell, Abraham, 49. 
 
 Henley, Mr., 185. 
 
 Henny, Barbary, 80. 
 
 Rt: , John, 80, 
 
 Hennings, Mrs. Johan, 35. 
 
 Henrick, Matthias, 32. 
 
 Henricus, Isaac, 75. 
 
 Henriques, Abraham, 33. 
 
 ised th , Emanuel, 99. 
 
 ....10., George Nines, 33. 
 
 those , Isaac, 99. 
 
 Hendricksen). 
 
 Saux nauen , Rachel, 33. 
 Henry VI, 55. 
 
 Henry VIII, 92. 
 
 Henster, General, 350. 
 Herber, Thomas, 21. 
 Hering, Pieter, 87. 
 Hermans, Elizabeth, 8. 
 Herne, Sir J., 74. 
 
 cexscreee , Consul Nicholas, 119. 
 Herrera, Abraham, 338. 
 Herrington, —, 30. 
 Herstel, Andrew, 56. 
 Hertford, 12. 
 Herzogoyvina, 268, 
 
 Hesse, Landgrave of, 166. 
 a cncevlen § , troops of, 267, 
 
 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Hesse Cassell, Landgrave of, 78, 100, 317, 343. 
 yolaeas , court of, 296. 
 Hesse Hamburg, Prince of, 184. 
 
 | Hessians, the, 255, 
 
 Hewetson, Thomas, 40. 
 
 Heywood, Mr., 276. 
 
 Hicks Hall, 305. 
 
 Highlake. See Hoylake. 
 Highland Clans, the, 127. 
 Highlanders, the, 10, 153, 166, 170) (2). 
 High treason, charges of, 1, 2, 97. 
 Hill, Abraham, 74. 
 
 pe ices , Benjamin, 119, 
 
 knee , Captain, 238. 
 
 ee , Colonel, 11, 116, 298, 338. 
 enaas , Sir John, 128. 
 
 ay Captain Richard, 147 (?). 
 eae , Samuel, 4, 145. 
 
 Hilmayer, Urban, 32. 
 
 Hilton, William, 27. 
 
 Hochenheim, 268. 
 
 Hoffeling, Cornelius, 72. 
 
 Hoffman (Hofman), Arie, 72. 
 pa , Christian, 138. 
 
 hermes , Gerrit, 48. 
 
 
 
 Hogfleet, Daniel, 18. 
 
 Hojing, Agatha, 66. 
 
 Holland, 120, 149, 174, 288, 247, 310. 
 er cp , ambassadors of, 316. 
 
 | oye eee , assembly of, 259. 
 
 Speen . consul of, 280. 
 eee , difficulties in, 151. 
 , estates of, 307. 
 mail, the, 263. 
 , passes to or from, passim. 
 , regiments of, 154. 
 See Dutch and States 
 
 eerconet** 
 eer eee ree 
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 Pilates DS bALOS 1104 
 General, the. 
 
 Holland, Captain, 67. 
 Hollanders, the, 287, 296. 
 Hollis, Mr., 385. 
 Holloway, —, 67. 
 Holmes, George, 165. 
 
 | Holstein Gottorp (Gottey), Prince of, 242. 
 
 Holstein Ploen, Duke of. 233, 238, 280, 287, 
 289, 291, 349. 
 
 _ Holsteiners, the, 72. 
 | Holt, Captain, 228, 249. 
 
 . , Lieut.-Colonel Henry, 152. 
 , Lord Chief Justice (Sir John), 3, 9, 
 49, 78, 112, 308. 
 
 eewewe 
 
 see eeeres 
 
 | Holyday, Mr., 35. 
 
 | Holyhead, 18, 108, 198, 275. 
 - Home, Janet, 127. 
 
 - Home Circuit, the, 308. 
 
 - Home, Earl of, 294. 
 
 Homet, in Jersey, 186. 
 Honywood, John Lemotte, 234. 
 Hoogenthuyn, Lodewick, 110. 
 Hook (Hooke), John, 16, 114 (?). 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Hopkins, Mr., 331, 348. 
 
 Poretoscs , Richard, 31, 58, 61. 80, 88, 91 (2), 
 107, 148. 
 
 Hopson, Rear-Admiral, 34, 65, 70, 71, 72. 74, 
 75, 79, 251, 262 (2), 264, 265, 274, 
 275, 2838, 322. 
 
 Horde, Allan, 78. 
 
 Hore, Luke, 159. 
 
 Horn, Charles, 142. 
 
 Hornby, Mr., 272. 
 
 eaaeeera , Walter, 125. 
 
 Horse breeding in Ireland, 15. 
 
 Horsrig Mill, 127. 
 
 Hoskins, —, 249. 
 
 heer , Captain, 38 (2). 
 
 Hostabrich, 344. 
 
 Host, Samuel, 75, 77. 
 
 Houblon, Sir John, 53, 74. 
 
 Houfnagel, John, 56. 
 
 Hounslow Heath, 258, 276. 
 
 Roe aaliae , encampment at, 272. 
 
 House of Commons, the, 108, 109, 110. 114, 
 140, 141, 144, 224, 234, 236, 241, 243, 
 245 292, 294, 295, 296, 299, 312, 316, 
 318. 
 
 noe See Parliament. 
 
 House of Lords, the, 144. 234 2), 290, 292, 
 294, 296, 301, 305, 308, 310 (2), 313, 
 314, 316, 318, 322, 324, 326, 328. 
 
 ele See Parliament, 
 Houseman, John, 60, 
 Howard, Bernard, 119. 
 
 pemeeeees , Captain Philip, 112. 
 eaeowar , Sir Robert, 112, 169. 
 
 How, Mansell, 352. 
 
 Howe, Colonel Scroop, 101, 104. 
 eee , Emanuel Seroop, 94 (2), 101. 
 Howth, Lord. 142, 143. 
 
 Howth, 193. 
 
 Hoylake (Highlake), 149, 193. 
 Hoyle, John, 148. 
 
 Lop} ete , Joseph, 142, 
 Hudlestone, Margaret, 53. 
 Hudson, Thomas, 142, 
 
 Hughes (Hues), Hugo, 39, 72. 
 Hugnes, John Stephen, 82. 
 Hugon, Peter, 66. 
 
 Hull, 3, 6, 140, 172. 
 
 eatery , Mayor of, 3. 
 
 Hullahan, Jeremy, 180. 
 Hulmers, John, 121. 
 
 Humber, the, 301. 
 
 Humphrey, Richard, 108. 
 Hungarian, ‘‘ Cantons,” the, 257. 
 
 2045 
 
 385 
 
 Hungary, 235, 245, 248, 259, 268, 270, 277, 
 285, 289, 291, 297, 299 (2), 308, 308, 
 310 (2), 311, 316, 318, 320, 321. 3238, 
 329 (2), 330, 347 (2), 849, 351, 355 (2), 
 
 | «le careers , campaign in, 807. 
 
 Lower, 242, 257. 
 
 Peer ee eeny 
 
 _ Hunt, James, 56 (2). 
 
 Hunthell (Huntenhull), 146. 
 
 Huntingdon, Dr., 200. 
 
 Hurrey, Francis, 115. 
 
 Hurst, —, 58. 
 
 Hussey, —, 67, 148. 
 
 Seuchiuee , Deverell, 146. 5 
 
 one , Lieut.-Colonel Thomas, 62, 115 (%), 
 143, 243. 
 
 Hutchins, Captain, 309. 
 
 Hutchinson (Hutchenson), Colonel, 234. 
 
 omer , Joseph, 142, 143. 
 
 Hutley, Mary, 105. 
 
 ‘Huy (Hay), 246, 267, 280. 
 
 Somer ae , garrison of, 349. 
 
 Bae ver , siege of, 281. 
 
 Huze, Sarah, 66. 
 
 Hyde, Mr., 119, 120. 
 
 ese ree LEO. 120: 
 
 eda veetes , Vice-Admiral, 315. 
 Hyde Park. See wnder London. 
 Hyéres, Isles of, 248. 
 
 Hyse, George, 39. 
 
 Hythe, 56. 
 
 
 
 Tbbet, Thomas, 97. 
 _ Ikerrin, James, Viscount, 140. 
 - | Jle Sazambre, 317. 
 _ Imperial Army, the, 343. 
 
 | Imperialists, the, 270. 
 | Inch Bratto, Laird of, 339. 
 
 India, 100. 
 Indies, the, 296. 
 
 _ Ingoldsby, Captain James, 85 (?). 
 
 
 
 Inniskillen, 189, 206, 280, 284 (2). 
 ee Soret , officers in, 141. 
 Puteteees , town of, 159. 
 
 eats sah , soldiers in, 141, 
 
 ‘¢ Inniskilliners,” the, 139. 
 
 Innocent XII, Pope, 136, 283 (7), 237, 241, 
 252, 277, 280, 302, 306, 308, 319, 3828, 
 331, 340, 349. 
 
 , his dealings with the Emperor in 
 regard to the Turks, 280, 323. 
 
 , his endeavours to obtain peace, 233, 
 252, 302. 
 
 , his dislike to Cardinal Fourbin, 237, 
 331. 
 
 2B 
 
386 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Innocent XII, Pope—cont. 
 
 pe nunecars his civility to the English Consul from 
 
 Leghorn, 331, 
 
 , sides with France, 241. 
 
 Pabeo ae desires to nominate to French abbeys, 
 319. 
 
 GME , nuncio of, 804. 
 
 Innsbruck, 285. 
 
 Inventions for caulking ships, 4. 
 
 Pe hehe eoloured cloth and silk, 31. 
 
 RE Ie , concave screws, 4. 
 
 ul eas damasking, &e., 110, 114. 
 
 aries , glass polishing, and stone, and 
 rowing ships, 118. 
 
 . lifting water by machine, 105 
 
 ec ues making iron stone, 117. 
 ., preserving ships from worms, 19. 
 . raising water from the Thames, 296. 
 
 Porte? raising water for London and West- 
 minster, 3595. 
 
 seats tees 
 
 MR ee: rasping logwood, 72, 83. 
 anata stained glass, 103. 
 
 sent ene smelting with sea coal, 118. 
 Inwood, Robert, 81. 
 
 Ipres, 2338. 
 
 Ipswich, 85. 
 
 Treg, 315. 
 Ireland, 86, 156, 140, 149, 167, 169, 244, 249, 
 307, 342, 353. 
 
 eres , abbeys in, dissolution of, 56. 
 
 ..., accounts in, 48. 
 Aer affairs in, 147, 154, 155, 156, 157, 
 158, 159, 160, 225. 
 , anger of Papist women in, 155. 
 ,eriny 4n, 960; (157.0206, 100,107; 
 
 198. 
 Lisssseesy eeeeeeeesy aFFangements for discharging, 
 
 178. 
 testing artillery of, 106. 
 , attainder, act of, 191, 192. 
 Attorney-General of, 339. 
 cere Auditor-General of the Revenue in, 
 16, 88. 
 , Bills in Parliament, 214. 
 . Blackwater, the, 162. 
 British in, 181. 
 campaign in, 170. 
 Castle Danson in, 107. 
 Castles in, demolition of, 182. 
 aieeeene Chancellor of. See under Lord 
 Chancellor of. 
 , Chancery Office in, 229. 
 chantries in, 55 (7), 56 (2), 61. 
 Chief Governor of, 15. 
 Commissioners of the Revenue in, 
 
 e+ wee eee 
 
 Se sesevce 
 
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 we eee eee 
 ry 
 ee eer eeere 
 
 Pee Ne | 
 Pe 
 
 re a | 
 
 eee eeere 
 ee | 
 Coerearerg 
 
 ee) 
 
 , corn in, 157. 
 
 , council of, 14, 65, 94, 185, 187, 190, 
 225, 226. 
 
 Recent Council Board of, 12, 25, 36, 45, 
 49 (2), 101, 142, 194, 206. 
 
 i oa 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ireland —cont. 
 
 , Council, Lords of the, 208. 
 
 , letter to, 190. 
 Gites of Olaime: 12. 
 
 , Custom House, officers in, 202. 
 disarming of Papists in, 12, 199. 
 ., embarkation of horses from. 182. 
 ‘events in, 208. 
 
 th) eee Exchequer, Barons of the, 339. 
 Gk aos Excise Bill in, 218. 
 
 i 
 
 ..., exportation of cattle from England and 
 Scotland to. 180, 181. 
 ema fisheries in, 226. 
 Levee , forage in, 158. 
 se cehae forces in, 357. 
 forfeitures to the Crown in, 220, 
 French forces expected in, 212. 
 BEE id French privateers on the coast of, 194, 
 204. 
 en ee . French protestants in, 248. 
 .... French protestant churches in, pro- 
 posals concerning their liturgy, 198. 
 
 eer e weeny 
 
 ser wwe wwns 
 
 veoeeesy Garrison in, 221. 
 , government of, 157. 
 , Grievances, Committee of, 212, 214. 
 Daal , Habeas Corpus Bill, 213. 
 ...-s.-, hearth money in, 225. 
 Bee , high treason in, 228. 
 ees , horse breeding in, 15. 
 ., horses, &e., purchase of in, 155. 
 House of Commons in, 98, 138, 139, 
 196, 210, 216, 228, 284. 
 ., Speaker of, 98, 203, 205, 
 
 # ¢) Kole eie'e,¢ 
 
 Ci ae as 
 
 215. 
 eee House of Lords in, 210, 218, 216. 
 Rese cay res , Speaker of, 205. 
 
 Indemnity, Bill of, 199. 
 
 iron in, 158. 
 
 King’s Council in, 142. 
 
 lands in, 62, 106. 
 
 letters from, 74, 319. 
 
 licence for bearing arms in, 12, 15. 
 licence for coach horses in, 15. 
 
 linen manufacture in, 190, 226. 
 
 Lord Chancellor of (Sir Charles 
 Porter), 42. 54, 65, 68, 76 (2), 93, 109, 
 129, 188, 184, 163, 200, 205, 210, 215, 
 216, 222, 228, 229. 
 
 , letters from, 26, 36, 175. 
 ee ne. ey ter , his curious dispute with the 
 
 Speaker of the Irish Commons, 938. 
 ee Lord Chief Baron, the, 93. 
 
 , Lord Chief Justice, the, 93, 256. 
 of the Common Pleas, 339. 
 
 eoesri ere 
 er a 
 i a | 
 Pe ee 
 eee ences 
 
 oe 
 seer weeny 
 ses eeers 
 
 ee oe a 
 
 , Lord Deputy of, 3 (2), 9 (2), 14, 15, 
 36, 87, 40, 60, 68, 69, 74, 89, 104, 108, 
 185, 137, 331, 389. 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Treland—cont, 
 
 , Lords Justices of, 2, 4, 5 (2), 15, 
 146, 162, 163, 164, 182, 187, 190, 208, 
 228, 229. 
 
 COs etree y coveesesce 
 
 letters from, 157. 173, 174. 
 
 176 (2), 178, 179 (2), 180,182 188, 184. 
 
 oe 186 (?), 187, 188. 189, 190 (2), 198, 
 95. 
 
 Si Pim SVR A EISNS 5 5X6. 0.418. 0.5, 08 
 
 , letters to. 175, 180, 181, 183. 
 
 . , Secretary to, letters to. 161, 
 162, 229. 
 
 Lords Commissioners of, 190. 
 , Lord Lieutenant of, 181, 185. 190, 
 191, 192, 194. 195, 196, 200. 201, 205, 
 216, 221, 224. 
 oe ee Council of, 219. 
 , letters from, 225, 226. 
 , Master General of the Ordnance in, 
 220. 
 Master of the Rolls in, 200. 
 militia in, 168. 
 ee eee erin 01,’ 160), 
 Militia Bill in, 218. 
 mines in, 207. 
 Picetebes muster-master general of, 196. 
 , North of, 37, 155. 
 oath of supremacy in, 190. 
 , ordnance in, 224, 
 , oyer and terminer, commissions of, | 
 
 Mer (e beg el.y 
 
 tere 
 
 See wer eeey Sere eneesn 
 
 er 
 
 emcee esensy 
 
 Wwe i ein ole ah 
 
 oOo. | 
 
 
 
 , papists in, 2, 5, 12, 56, 59, 89, 222, — 
 229, | 
 , Parliament in 4, 14, 17, 26, 36, 65, | 
 76 (2), 142, 146, 147, 195 209, 210, 214, | 
 217, 223. | 
 
 were eetre 
 
 ees eeccne 5 
 
 iN ts. privateers in, 212. 
 , Privy Council of, 5, 15, 210. 
 NA rae ae ea Lords of the, 180. 
 
 .., Poll tax in, 141, 142. 
 Poynings law, 213. 
 Mgeren proceedings in King James's Parlia- 
 ment, 4. 
 , proposed settlement of Protestants 
 from Silesia in, 211, 212. 
 ste , protestant refugees in, 225, 226. 
 
 .., protestants in, 128, 158, 211. 
 hae , arming of, 160. 
 , provisions for troops in, 157, 
 Mesias , public thanksgiving day in, 160. 
 SA eae , quartering of soldiers in, 157. 
 , quit rents in, 44. 
 rebellion in, 108. 140, 146, 265. 
 Recognition, bill of, 213. 
 regiments sent from, 239. 
 reports on state of, 196, 198, 224. 
 , requirements in, 158. 
 , Residence of Clergy, Bill for, 190. 
 et ier: _ reyenue in, 168, 211. 
 _ Roman Catholies in, 187. 
 eee Royal Hospital of King Charles II. in, 
 
 179. 
 
 Ce i ay 
 
 re iy 
 
 ser eeeees 
 
 Cr ey 
 
 Pe re 
 
 ee 
 
 aes es , Bills in, 205, 207, 208. | 
 
 Island Donan, House of, 170. 
 _ Isle of Whaile, governor of, 312. 
 _ Isle of Wight, 
 
 
 
 
 
 387 
 
 Ireland —cont. 
 security of the church in, 214. 
 sheriffs, letter to, 157. 
 Nese oaciees shoes for the army in, 194. 
 .., soldiers carried to France from, 17. 
 ..., Solicitor General of, 181, 222, 339. 
 ....., State Paper Office in, 12. 
 stores in, 167, 221, 223. 
 , suggested taxation of, 204, 205. 
 suspected persons in, 214. 
 taxing in, 157. 
 to ee Oe trade with, 278. 
 .., transport vessels for, 150. 
 ..., troops in, 151, 
 
 ey 
 
 ry 
 
 he leiple®, | ely 
 
 ry 
 
 Pre Lh , troops for Venetian seryice from, 221, 
 292. 
 
 Seer volunteers in, 97,135. 
 
 RP et 2h See Irish. 
 
 Treland, Thomas, 72. 
 
 Treton, Mr., 86. 
 | Irish, the, 12, 89, 104, 137, 158, 165, 178, 
 175, 176, 177, 180, 181, 182, 188, 184, 
 
 186, 187, 260. 
 Pet Bare army, deserter from, 298, 
 bills, the, 4, 21. 
 coast, protection of, 214, 265. 
 gentry, 158. 
 lawyers, 142. 
 Parliament, the, 93. 
 prisoners, 60. 
 recruits, 176. 
 transport ships, 245. 
 troops, the, 269. 
 teat See Ireland. 
 Tsaac, Diricks. 88. 
 PN , Robert, 29, 47. 
 Isaacs, Simon, 67, 
 
 +4 pee eee 
 ee 
 a 
 oreo ee ae 
 (e+ eeesce 
 sere erce 
 eeecereed 
 
 see e ese ee 
 
 See Wight, Isle of. 
 Israel, Abraham, 6. 
 
 Or obi David, 62. 
 
 Isthmus, the, 382. 
 
 | Isvogel, Arnaut, 124. 
 | Italy, 4 (?), 283 (2), 248, 270, 277, 309, 
 
 coast of, 336. 
 
 Ae aes letter from, 278. 
 
 sae otek , Princes of, 343. 
 
 Iveagh, Lord, 188, 188, 189, 194. 
 
 ee 6 > we ) 
 
 _ Iveragh, barony of, 62. 
 
388 
 
 Jackson, —, 272. 
 
 Jacob, Sir John, 80, 121, 138. 
 Jacobite Conventical (Sellers’), 51, 
 Jacobites, the, 119, 348. 
 
 Sea seseee , meeting of, 21. 
 
 Jacobs, Balads, 70. 
 
 ree , Barbara, 110. 
 
 red , Philip, 66. 
 Jacobse, Jacob, 118. 
 dinieseiee LLY 540, 
 eon Pepi , Michael, 83. 
 
 Jamaica, 244, 278, 290, 308, 305, 306, 307. 
 
 rere , Governor of, 283. 
 
 James IT, 21, 40, 104, 106, 128 (2), 147, 165, 
 167, 171, 198, 214, 222, 229. 231, 240, 
 244, 246 (2), 253, 260, 261, 264, 286, 
 313, 317, 326, 340, 348. 
 . drinking the health of, 2, 264, 282, 
 339. 
 
 James, Colonel, 115. 
 
 Jans, Anna, 31. 
 
 EER EARLY , Elizabeth, 44. 
 
 pes eeaRe , Peter, 138. 
 
 Janse, Barent, 119, 
 
 SR Nae , Giles, 125. 
 
 ees , Jacob, 89. 
 
 Jansen, Janson, Cardinal, 304. 
 bre Pee , Catherine, 27. 
 
 Soto , Gerret, 118. 
 
 aie Ne , Hendrikien, 69. 
 Ber , Isaac, 121. 
 
 Jansens, Roeland, 99. 
 
 Janss, Philip, 70. 
 
 Janz, Isaac, 97, 107. 
 
 Jarck, John, 70. 
 
 Jarman, James, 91. 
 
 Jauroy, Anne, 33. 
 
 Jedburgh, Lord, 58, 303. 
 Jefferson, Robert, 1. 
 
 eee, , Sergeant, 339; 
 Jeffreys (Jeffryes), Francis, 84, 
 ae eae , Lord Chancellor, 144, 346, 
 satin , Sir James, 152. 
 Jennings, Captain, 63. 
 Jephson, Mr., 203. 
 
 Jerman, Philip, 105. 
 
 Siaspeets , Raphael, 62. 
 
 soiters ys , Sarah, 105. 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Jermyn, Lord, 230, 2381. 
 
 Jersey, 44, 46. 186, 172, 228, 231, 232 (2), 
 249, 314, 341. 
 
 ae Pra , affairs in, 280, 282. 
 
 koe ate , bailiffs of, 99, , 
 
 Re BAe , communications with, from France, 
 231. 
 
 a iar A le: , French prisoners in, 280. 
 
 ae , governor of, 316. 
 
 oraes , inhabitants of, 172. 
 
 eestiet , jurats of, 99. 
 
 Freie , letters dated at, 6, 228. 
 
 srucheace , Lords of the Committee for, 166, 
 
 ARTY , Mount Orgueil Castle, 231. 
 
 eset seeas , places in, 136. 
 
 meeeeh eet , Royal Court in, 166. 
 
 5 ass vat , stores for, 249. 
 
 Sec cer , supposed attack on, 341. 
 
 Jerusalem, Abraham, 62, 70. 
 
 Jesuits, the, 292, 
 
 Jewel Office, the, 74. 
 
 Joase, Giles, 121. 
 
 Joensen, Jacob, 124, 1382. 
 
 Johnson (Johnston), Arthur, 18. 
 
 ceeeeneee , Captain, 290. 
 
 seraeutne , Colonel, 232. 
 
 SSPE , Sir Henry, 322. 
 
 Rekeeves , Jacob, 29. 
 
 Se ieee , Sir John, 335. 
 neeheeea , Mr. Secretary, 91, 
 332, 344, 357. 
 
 Piieata top socrsecse: IODDOPR MO, 14, 
 Joliffe, Anne, 27. 
 
 Jonas, Bondiet. 36. 
 
 Jones, David, 120. 
 
 Pert; , Hugh, 21, 142. 
 Seen , Lewis, 142. 
 
 Pik eepeoh , Mr., 38. 
 
 ry , Philip, 75. 
 
 rarer , Samuel, 100, 112, 135. 
 Sera , Thomas, 27, 317. 
 
 Bien eee , William, 87, 89, 148. 
 hae Sir William, 140. 
 
 Jores (Joris, Jorise), Fellie, 98, 
 Pichon , Jan, 87. 
 
 eee ce , John, 84. 
 
 Joss, 254. 
 
 Jougenell, Jacob, 72. 
 
 Joyeuse, Marshal, 253. 
 
 Jucks, George, 22. 
 
 Juda, Salomon, 132. . 
 Juniper, Captain, 265, 272, 274, 300. 
 Jurgensen, Herman, 55. 
 Juriaensen, Heindrick, 87. 
 
 104, 144, 145, 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 K 
 
 Kahl, John, 132. 
 Kaiserslautern, 254. 
 Kaminietz, fort of, 237. 
 Karansebes, 347. 
 
 Keating, Robert, 26, 
 Keef, Daniel, 36, 52. 
 Keer, Gregory, 77. 
 Keggins, Captain, 265. 
 Keightly, Thomas, 142. 
 Keigoe, James, 142. 
 Keith, Charles, 127. 
 deetuk a? , John, 127 (2). 
 Seen , Sir John, 127. 
 Kelly (Kelley), Bryan, 42. 
 eee , Ignatius, 42, 
 tee J OLE GO: 
 
 ba et ae , Mary, 83. 
 Kempe, Peter, 99. 
 Kempthorne, Captain, 200. 
 Kendall (Kendal), Colonel, 288, 296. 
 John, 29. 
 
 Kenge, Charles, 39, 97, 143. 
 
 Kenmare, 236. 
 
 Kennedy, —, 278. 
 
 On , James, 230. 
 
 Wee ie at , Lady, 143. 
 
 Bae caiee ss eaord, 69, 
 
 ae oes , Simon, 2. 
 
 ere , Sir Thomas, 278. 
 
 Kenock. 355. 
 
 Kenon, Andrew, 142. 
 
 Kensington, 91, 108, 303, 307, 330, 353, 354, 
 356. 
 
 Seapine , chapel at, 307. 
 
 Papi re , documents dated at, 81, 83, 84, 85, 
 94, 98, 99, 100, 101, 104, 109, 110, 
 Bi de 1150163) 1175. 118, 
 120, 121, 122. 128, 124, 125, 126, 127, 
 128, 182, 183, 185, 186, 137, 188, 152, 
 171, 225, 230, 327, 357. 
 
 Kent, 5, 58, 56, 68, 79, 353. 
 
 ASOT , assizes in, 128. 
 
 Oye cose , coast of, 78. 
 
 sep Re , Lord-lieutenant of, 236. 
 
 Kent, Richard, 181. 
 
 Kercher, Captain, 266. 
 
 Kerns, city of, 255. 
 
 Kerr, Captain, 134. 
 
 Wtxexe: , Ensign Thomas, 1. 
 
 Kerry, 62, 163. 
 
 Ketcher, Mrs, Margaret, 76. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ketels, Ian Lawrence, 124. 
 Kettlewell, William, 22. 
 
 Keynes, Alexander, 27. 
 
 Khan of Tartary, the, 259, 270, 355. 
 Kiddel, Henry, 66. 
 
 Kief, Arthur, 55, 
 
 Kilag, John, 36. 
 
 Kilbullane, 183. 
 
 Kildare, 83. 
 
 este DIBNGp Of; 2L0. 210. 
 .. county of, 155. 
 arene: , Dean of, 216. 
 prea , Deputy Governor of, 216. 
 Kildare, Lord, 138. 
 
 Killaloe, 158. 
 
 Peeeractos Bishop of, 201. 
 
 pate roe h diocese of, 101, 163. 
 
 Killigrew, Henry, 254. 
 
 Killuean, 133. 
 
 Kilsyth, Viscount, 261. 
 
 King, John, 74, 94, 115, 133, 143. 
 
 Recents See a Be. 
 
 tay , Robert, 219. 
 
 re kee , Sir Robert, 339. 
 
 King’s Advocate, the, 18. 
 
 King’s Bench, the, 87, 100, 105, 113, 114, 
 152, 184, 236 (2), 262, 265, 288, 310, 
 380, 331, 337, 339, 340, 348, 350. 
 
 King’s Docks, the, 300. 
 
 King’s grooms, 249, 
 
 King’s Proctor, the, 18. 
 
 King’s Road, the (Waterford), 182. 
 
 Kingsbridge, 352. 
 
 Kingsland, Lord, 142. 
 
 Kingston, 27, 32. 
 
 Kingston, Lord, 91, 298, 
 
 Kingston-upon-Hull, 30. 
 
 Kinnoul, Lord, 3. 
 
 Kinsale, 37, 57, 159, 161, 162, 174, 177, 181, 
 
 182, 183, 184, 188, 189, 194, 201, 203. 
 204, 222,251, 265, 266, 300, 320. 
 
 weeees 
 
 MS cavens , letters dated at, 163, 181, 236, 253. 
 Perea , bay of , 357. 
 
 Paty Se , camp at, letters dated at, 159. 
 Dee eee? , Charles Fort, 200, 357. 
 reece collector at, letter from, 163. 
 Tomes take , dearth of provisions at, 185. 
 Ar ater , French prisoners in, 220, 222. 
 pativere PATTISON Oty 70, Loe. 
 
 Apes, , harbour, 202. 
 
 yea , Old Head of, 200. 
 
 .seseeees, SUTrender of, 155. 
 
 Kintore, Earl of, 127. 
 Kirby, Mr., 19. 
 
 Kirke (Kyrke), -—, 155, 156. 
 Sete Sac . Colonel, 174. 
 Rae , Thomas, 88. 
 Kirkwall, 264. 
 
 Sere , provost of, 264. 
 
390 
 
 Kitson, James, 2, 29, 30, 31, 39, 48, 70, 80, 
 81,91, 105, 106, 143. 
 
 Kleb, John, 55. 
 
 Knapp (Knap), Captain John, 125, 137. 
 
 Knife, Leonard, 35. 
 
 Knight, John, 262. 
 
 renee: , Sir John, 241. 
 
 Knowling, James, 119. 
 
 Knox, Thomas, 94. 
 
 Koning, Mrs, Agneta, 38. 
 
 Kouwenhoven, John, 108. 
 
 Kraft, Frederick, 111. 
 
 Kramer, Herman, 111. 
 
 Krugelstein, Peter, 33. 
 
 Krynse, Gerret, 90. 
 
 Kyrke. See Kirke. 
 
 Kyrn, Martin, 117. 
 
 L 
 
 La Barr, Marquis, 168, 
 
 La Bastide. See De la Bastide. 
 
 Labonnell, Stephen, 22. 
 
 Ladd, Thomas, 81. 
 
 Laffert, William, 62. 
 
 La Forrest, Mrs. Elizabeth, 97. 
 
 La Fosse, in Jersey, 186. 
 
 Lagis, Francis, 35. 
 
 La Hague, 317. 
 
 La Hogue, 240. 
 
 Laidlow, Jane, 86. 
 
 Laisne, Jane, 107. 
 
 Lake. Mr., 247. 
 
 Lake Constance, 285. 
 
 Lalovel, Pierre, 33. 
 
 Lambe (Lamb), Lieutenant, 264. 
 
 Jit. taoe, Uo: 
 
 Lambert, William, 53, 
 
 Lancashire, 272, 279, 281, 283, 286, 296, 
 308, 310, 314. 
 
 Lancashire Plot, the, 331. 
 
 Laneaster, 21. 
 
 Lancaster, Dr., 286. 
 
 Landau, 289, 254, 257, 332. 
 
 RT itr siege of, 343. 
 
 Land Bank, the, 337. 
 
 Land forces, the, sums voted for, 145. 
 
 Landen, battle of, 121. 
 
 Landsberg, the sieur, 41. 
 
 Land’s End, the, 203, 240, 255, 313. 327, 
 330, 353. 
 
 Landsoron, George, 62, 
 
 Lane, Ralph, 31. 
 
 Lanesborough, Lord, 129, 134. 
 
 Langerhaus, Lewis, 133. 
 
 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Langford, Arthur, 219. 
 
 gh ees Henry, 145. 
 Langston, Colonel, Francis, 20, 76, 99, 115. 
 Langton, Mr., 272. 
 
 Lanier, Sir John, 155, 156, 231. 
 ae, hed letter from, 161. 
 Lannoy, Timothy, 125. 
 Lansdowne, Lord, 247. 
 
 La Place, Anthony, 33. 
 
 nt se , Mary, 33. 
 
 Settee , Rachel, 33. 
 Lapthorne, Captain John, letter from, 29. 
 Larcy, Humphrey, 101. 
 
 La Roch, Mr., 66. 
 Larriyére, Mons., 131. 
 Larsson, Brode, 125. 
 
 La Sale, Stephen, 22. 
 Latanné, Abel, 115. 
 Latham, John, 79, 80, 91. 
 Laughan, John, 142. 
 Laures, Broeder, 124. 
 Lauzun, 155. 
 
 Layeau, Jean, 77. 
 Lavernhe, Joseph, 32. 
 
 La Vie, John, 90. 
 
 Ege ines , Peter, 108. 
 
 Law. Mr., 262, 265. 
 Lawder, Colonel, 116. 
 Lawlesse, Peter, 142, 
 Lawrence, Lucas, 98. 
 egiiaes , Zachary, 8. 
 
 Laws, Mr.. 252. 
 
 Lawson, John, 100. 
 Layton, Thomas, 72. 
 
 Lea, Judith, 38. 
 
 Leake, Capt. John, 85. 
 
 Le Blane, Albert, 105. 
 
 Le Bland, Susanna, 72. 
 Lebroon, Matthew, 72, 
 Lechmore, Mr. Baron, 308. 
 Leckner, Michel, 32. 
 
 Le Cointe, Abraham, 82. 
 Ledel, John, 338. 
 
 Le Duce, Ester, 70. 
 
 Leeds, Duchess of, 270. 
 aes , Duke of, 111, 326, 328, 380, 344, 
 
 . letter to, 6. 
 
 Leeson, —, 87 (?). 
 Tanase Robert, 97. 
 
 Leeuw, 2388. 
 
 Leeward Islands, 818, 337, 
 
 Le Febure, Melchior, 72. 
 
 Leganez. Marquis of, 98, 259. 
 
 Leggatt (Leggat) (Legat). Henry, 1, 76, 148. 
 Leghorn, 24, 47, 80, 182, 381. 
 
 Ne tates Consul of, 138. 
 
 ys, Rantaeak , Port of, 277, 278, 279. 
 
 Le Hardy, Charles, 172 (2). 
 
GENERAL INDEX. B91 
 
 Le Hocq (Le Hac), in Jersey, 136. 
 
 Le Huche, Charles, 70. 
 
 Leigh, Colonel Edward, 1, 94, 258. 
 
 ea Mr., 288. 
 
 oe an , of Lyme, Mr., 272. 
 
 Leinster, Duke of, 166, 185, 186, 188. 
 
 peenp-eery wetter frome 186. 
 
 Leipzig, 96. 
 
 Leith. 234 (2), 244, 261, 264, 311. 
 
 Leith Road, 253, 348. 
 
 Leixlip (Lislip), 155. 
 
 Le Leas, Benjamin Pereyer, 111, 
 
 Le Magnan, Alexander, 14. 
 
 Le Mans, 315. 
 
 Lemoine, Ann, 29. 
 
 Lepanto, 284, 
 
 Le Pelley, Nicholas, 227, 
 
 Le Peyre (alias Stone), Francis, 74. 
 
 Le Quesne, Jane, 60. 
 
 ere , Mary, 60. 
 
 See ney: Rachel, 60. 
 
 Le Rouse (Le Rouze), Mary, 38. 
 
 Se eepac , Philip, 113, 
 
 Leroy (alias Bourke), Tobias, 76, 333. 
 
 Le Rue, Mr., 279, 281. 
 
 Leslie, Sir James, 94, 352 (2), 
 
 L’Espine, James, 14. 
 
 Leucy, Jeremy, 119. 
 
 Leuse, 172. 
 
 Leyant, the, 119, 2438, 288, 302, 304, 309, 
 $21, 328, 331, 336, 340, 349, 354. 
 
 cases , fleet, the, 247. 
 
 Leven. Earl of, 127. 
 
 Leyens (Levins). Sce Levinge. 
 
 Leveson, Brigadier, 35. 
 
 Levet, Dr., 262. 
 
 Levi, Isaac, 66. 
 
 Lene , Salomon, 124. 
 
 Levinge, Sir Cresswell, 262, 351. 
 
 Odi aces , Sir Richard, 119, 210, 339. 
 
 Levingstone (Livingston), Major General, 29. 
 244, 280, 315. 
 
 Pusey ier , of Kilsyth, Master, 127. 
 
 Set ania: , Samuel, 58. 
 
 Panece:: Sir Thomas, 10, 11, 144, 1538. 
 
 Lewarden, letter dated at, 184. 
 
 Lewes, 68. 
 
 Lewis, Edward, 81. 
 
 Lewkenor, Jane, 224. 
 
 Read es John, 224. 
 
 Lexington, Lord, 69, 112, 287, 297. 
 
 Leyden, 299. 
 
 Leyland, Hundred of, 357. 
 
 Leynham, Patrick, 27. 
 
 Leyons (Laons), 246. 
 
 Leyoncrona, Monsieur, 44, 61. 
 
 L’ Heureux, David, 75. 
 
 Library, sale of, in Paris, 20, 
 
 
 
 Lichfield, Bishop of, 326. 
 ro et Dean of, 5. 
 Beenie 9 , deanery of, 58 (?). 
 
 | Lichtenberg, letter dated at, 171. 
 
 Liddle, Thomas, 29. 
 Lideman, Lothaire, 62. 
 
 Liége, 2338, 239, 240, 242, 246, 252, 255, 
 256, 263, 267 (2), 269, 270, 277, 278, 
 280, 281, 285, 287, 289, 291, 340, 349, 
 355, 
 
 Mod fe garrison of, 255, 349, 
 
 oA Ric great. mortality in, 252. 
 
 Ae , governor of, 241. 
 
 .....-. , letter from, 246. 
 
 Liége, Jean, 117. 
 
 Lievens, Isabella, 108. 
 
 Lille, 248, 
 
 Lillingston, Colonel, 803, 305. 
 
 Limbeck, John, 73. 
 
 Limburg, letters dated at, 58 (2). 
 
 Limerick, 101, 102, 156, 157, 158 (2), 163, 173, 
 176, 177, 179, 182, 184 (2), 186, 221. 
 
 ec os , ariny in, 228. 
 
 ls ee oe , articles of, 2(?), 12, 386, 54, 60, 69. 
 101, 102, 174, 175, 176, 185, 190, 206, 
 223, 226. 
 
 i.-.+-3 artillery at, 174. 
 
 La. , barracks in, 59, 146. 
 
 PERT ee , Bishop of, 96. 
 
 Pane , bishopric of, 101, 163. 
 
 ere yare OLEVI OTL O: 
 
 cess vesy COMMON council of, 59. 
 
 eh ete , county of, 189. 
 
 Sake Pe fortifications in, 2238, 
 
 Rica . garrison of, 146, 175. 
 ete , King’s Castle in, 146. 
 
 Ah tae letters dated at, 57, 184. 
 Ae , mayor, 59. 
 
 hare , poverty in, 59. 
 
 ee quartering of soldiers in, 59 
 a Der aan repair of quay, 59. 
 
 Sere , Roman Catholies in, 59. 
 ae , Simon, bishop of, 1638 (?). 
 Peete ch , surrender of, 60. 
 
 Limerick, Lord, 12, 15, 128, 155, 156. 
 Lincoln, 86, 91, 92. 
 
 Rin Aces , Bishop of, 290, 292 (?). 
 
 cee ene , Bishopric of, 305. 
 
 Cetacte , cathedral, chancellor of, 112. 
 ae kee , dean Qf. 4, 67, 112, 189. 
 rae ee , deanery of, 75, 88, 109. 
 
 Se Waey s , see of, 292, 298. 
 
 7G oor , sub-dean of, 305. 
 
 Lincoln’s Inn. See wnder London. 
 Lindsay, Lieutenant, 11. 
 
 Spee Lord, 22, 112, 128. 
 
 eee broutass LLO, 
 
 Linlithgow, Earl of, 145. 
 Linnerman, Hans, 85, 
 Lippova, 289. 
 
392 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Lisbon, 247 (2), 258, 254, 296, 327, 383, 342 
 Fe fleet, the, 261, 341. 
 
 uh , rock of, 800. 
 
 Lisburne, letter dated from, 160. 
 
 Lisburne, Lord, 142, 
 
 Lisle, 287, 358, 356. 
 
 Lisle, Robert, 105. 
 
 Lislip, See Leixlip. 
 
 Lister, George, 29. 
 
 Lithuania, deputies, the, 307. 
 
 oe gee ae , duchy of, 237. 
 
 mater , general of, 319. | 
 By oa , grand marshal of, 334. 
 veseeeses, Members of, 232. 
 Litouts, Peter, 99. 
 
 Little Budworth, fairs in, 118. 
 Littleton, Sir Thomas. See Lyttelton. 
 Liverpool, 149, 339. 
 
 etree , ancient charter to, revived, 339. 
 Living, Hester, 98. 
 Livingstone, See Levingstone. 
 Lizard, the, 38 (2), 258, 325, 348. | 
 Llewellin, John, 83. | 
 Lloyd, Gilbert, 97. | 
 De neces , Mr., 46. | 
 caeieeee , Griffith, 125, 
 Lobrich, Caspar, 69. 
 
 Locke, Mr., 71. 
 
 DRAPES John, 124. 
 
 Lockhart (Lorkart), Sir George, 280. 
 ao rs , Captain John, 58. | 
 het ct nee , the Lady, 234. 
 Lodington (Loddington), Consul, 34. | 
 Sere , Mr., 180 (2). 
 Lodrius, Benjamin, 67. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Logan, James, 58. 
 
 Lohman, Jacob, 19. 
 
 London, 13, 86, 266. 
 
 pacts , assizes in, 92. 
 
 iocswe ae Bank, the, 50, 262. 
 
 Ber eet Bishop of, 28, 32, 68, 112, 126. | 
 
 Seni} , Chamber of, 126, 318. 
 
 Pearse , Chapel Royal, the. See St. James’s | 
 Chapel. 
 
 Sy Seah, , Charterhouse, the, 138. 
 
 (ites , City of, 310. 
 
 ase aa cae , clerk of the peace for, 9. 
 
 ee pee: , commissioners for taxes in, 71. 
 
 sehapeeen , Common Council of, 304. 
 
 nee Custom House, the. See under Custom 
 House. 
 
 veces eter , Fleet Prison, the, 9. 
 
 opaenaeae Gazette, the, 243. 
 
 Pececesees General Post Office, the, 288. 
 
 eiaies ae , Grays Inn, 114. 
 
 A Re , Guildhall, the, 110, 283, 355. 
 
 Sse eeeney , Hatton Garden, 9. 
 
 beosteneed Haymarket, the, 337. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lanta west SS yeheiate eELOUs IT Oek 
 
 London—cont. 
 
 ee erveeeey 
 
 re | 
 
 ecses coe 
 
 te we eeee 
 
 ee 
 
 ee ee ad 
 
 re rs 
 
 fee eereee 
 
 ae | 
 
 Cee eeseeny 
 
 ae | 
 
 ee 
 
 seer eree 
 
 Ce i as 
 
 eeeese res 
 
 eee e cece 
 
 Co 
 
 eee eres 
 
 eee | 
 
 eee eernee 
 
 eeneereees 
 
 seeeereee 
 
 see ewes 
 
 eos ereeee 
 
 Hick’s Hall, 305. 
 
 , Hyde Park, 79. 
 
 ape vigb D , review in, 820. 
 
 Inner Temple, the, 135, 172 
 
 letters dated at, 48,124, 140, 152, 168, 
 
 230, 232, 235, 236, 239, 241, 243, 245. 
 
 247, 250, 252, 254, 256, 259, 261, 268, 
 
 265. 268. 270, 272, 274, 277, 279, 281, 
 
 234, 286, 288, 290, 293, 295. 297, 299, 
 
 304, 806, 308, 310, 312, 314, 316, 318, 
 
 320, 328, 325, 827, 829, 331. 333, 335, 
 
 338, 340, 342. 344, 347, 349, 351, 353, 
 
 355. 
 
 , Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 21, 835, 337. 
 Lord Mayor of, 8, 73. 110, 126, 
 
 304, 308, 330, 355. 
 
 , Marshalsea, the, 262, 337. 
 
 jess satire? , keeper of the: 97. 
 
 , Mason’ s Coffee House, 48. 
 
 , Middle Temple, the. 172, 226. 
 
 Middle Temple Lane, 335. 
 
 Minories, the, 122. 
 
 Newgate, 50, 51, 69, 76, 80. 97, 105, 
 
 112. 120, 138, 288, 292, 305, 307, 316, 
 
 320, 337, 340. 341, 350, 352. 
 
 Dare ANS es be , Clerk of, 67. 
 Bas ay , convicts in, 50. 
 
 si , keeper of, 1, 4, 19, 21, 66, 73, 
 74, 79 2), 86, 88, 90, 96. 130. 
 ee , prisoners in, 108. 
 
 Old rae the, 12, 82, 89, 281, 292, 
 312, 341. 
 , Pall Mall, 320. 
 , Petticoat Lane, 305. 
 , polling in, 86. 
 , poor of, 126. 
 , Recorder of, 18, 19, 83, 92, 348. 
 , St. Bride’s church, 318. 
 St. Giles in the Fields, 316. 
 , St James’s Chapel, 304, 330. 
 
 hy eee? Park, 40, 346. 
 sng ate Square, letter dated at, 186. 
 St. Martin's, 91, 258. 
 ear iited , Salisbury Court, 276. 
 Savoy, the, 60. 
 pened by: , French church in, 77. 
 BP GS the , French Protestant ministers 
 of, fire 103, 1381. 
 a haere nares , French prisoners at, 21. 
 Brey eee , Irish prisoners at, 19. 
 See ao , prison at, 4. 
 
 eee ww wene 
 
 ee eeeeeees 
 
 er ee | 
 
 eee eereny 
 
 eeeren sets 
 
 er ee! 
 
 ter eweeeey 
 
 se reoecery 
 
 sheriffs of, 83. 
 
 Smithfield, 305. 
 
 Southampton Square, 252. 
 Spitalfields, 805, 307. 
 
 , Spring Gardens, suggested Roman 
 Catholic chapel in, 9. 
 
 Stationers Hall, 308, 316. 
 
 Strand, the, 341. 
 
 streets in, 34. 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 London—cont. 
 
 repuowavs , Temple, the, 90. 
 Inner Temple and Middle Temple. 
 
 of NEP , Tower, the, 131, 249, 276, 278, 283 (2), 
 314, 318, 330, 337. 
 
 ome Ae , seseeeeeey farthings coined in, 243. 
 
 reer re ere , governor of, 186. 
 
 oF eee Estiswes Hill, 333. 
 
 Pe rwase , Trinity House, the, 74, 120 
 
 Te Aa Tyburn, 152. 
 
 Beceem: , water-pipes in, 34. 
 
 see seeeer , Wych Street, 36. 
 
 AUS ae , Westminster, the late Queen’s funeral 
 procession to, 305. 
 
 Perec , Whitehall, 305, 314. 
 
 Ey ) eee.-.---, Chapel Royal at, 258. 
 
 Redeitend sat cbinc , court martial at, 241. 
 
 Be aeeeeee , sereeeee-» Horseguards room at, 312. 
 
 Pee ¥atuney a0diot 2 , the late Queen’s lying 
 
 atate at, 312. 
 
 Ser eee tere seeeesene 
 
 London and Westminster, water supply of, 110. 
 
 A ate: , survey of, 111. 
 
 Londonderry (Derry), 138, 139, 164, 165, 206, 
 221. 
 
 Been ecs , Bishop’s Gate, 165. 
 
 Sipe , Buteher’s Gate, 165. 
 
 Pret cese , citizens of, 139. 
 
 A , collector of, 106. 
 
 _ Aen , commonalty of, 139. 
 
 eee , Ferry Key Gate, 165. 
 
 eee ae . governor of, 164. 
 
 ree cen? , mayor of, 139, 165. 
 
 Beers , Officers in, 141. 
 
 ee erat , repairs at, 165. 
 
 ieee: , Ship Key Gate, 165. 
 
 Peas , soldiers in, 141. 
 
 mes , Windmill Hill, 165. 
 
 Long, Captain, 13._ 
 
 Longford, Ann, Countess of, 84. 
 
 Seer , Francis, Earl of, 84, 210. 
 
 Longleat House, 146. 
 
 Longreach, 339. 
 
 Longueville, William, 94. 
 
 Loo, 152, 166, 335. 
 
 Sraeetane , letters dated at, 68, 172, 257. 
 
 Looker, Edward, 8. 
 
 Loothans, John, 136, 
 
 Lopa, George, 76. 
 
 Lopart, Leindert, 70. 
 
 Lopez, Don Miguel, 121. 
 
 Lord Chamberlain, the, 74, 226. 
 
 Lord Chancellor, the, 160, 256. 
 
 Lord Chief Baron, the, 1 
 335, 341. 
 
 A eae , letter to, 20. 
 
 Lord Chief Justice, the, 324. 
 
 Lord deat the, 
 of. 
 
 Lords, House of, See House of Lords. 
 
 See above, under 
 
 
 
 , her funeral procession from, 
 
 
 
 9, 27, $2 (2), 33, 36, 
 
 See Ireland, Lord Deputy 
 
 Lords of the Council, the, 46, 54. 
 Lords Justices, the, 12 ( 
 (2), 18 ( 
 
 26, 27, 28 (8), 32 (2), 83 (2), 34, 36, 
 
 3938 
 
 ay 185.103 16 (7), 17 
 (2), 19 (2), 20, 21, 22 (2), 23, 25, 
 
 39, 
 
 40, Al, 48, 44, 45 (9), 46. 47, 48, 49. 
 50 (2 2) 51 (3), 52 (2), 58 (2), 54, 56 (2), 57, 
 
 38 (2), 60, 
 
 69, 70, 71 8), 74, '75 (2), 78, 79 (2), 
 
 116, 139, 203, 333, 341, 344, 346. 
 
 Betas tie , letters to, 24. 
 
 Lord Keeper, the, 27, 95. 111, 266, 
 329 (2), 8383, 341, 346. 
 
 Chae ieee , letter to, 97. 
 
 Lord President, the, 168, 169. 
 
 Lord Privy Seal, the, 9, 15, 329. 
 
 Lord’s Day, the, observance of, 86. 
 
 Lord Steward, the, 20, 21. 
 
 Lorkart. See Lockhart. 
 
 Lorne, Lord, 115. 
 
 Lota, Joseph, 75. 
 
 Lothian, Lieutenant, 261. 
 
 Lottery, the Million, 309. 
 
 Loughborough, 3. 
 
 Louis XIV, 3238. 
 
 Louis, Prince, 257 (?). 
 
 Louitt, Richard, 75 
 
 Louth, county of, 160. 
 
 Lovaine, 263. 
 
 Low Countries, the, 124, 171. 
 
 Lowen, Francis, 90. 
 
 Lower Hungary. See Hungary. 
 
 Lower Saxony. See Saxony. 
 
 Lowlands, the, 153. 
 
 Lowman, —, 50 (?). 
 
 Lowndes, Mr., 53, 71 (2), 109. 
 
 renwea of , Sir John, 109. 
 
 Lowther, Colonel, 153, 
 
 61, 63, 64, 65 (2), 67, 68 (2) 
 
 104, 
 
 286 
 
 eehereaes , Sir John, 34, 40, 41, 44, 57, 72, 74, 
 
 112, 350. 
 Luean, Lord, 102. 
 
 Lucas, Francis, 90. 
 
 OEE . Lord, 186, 314. 
 pee ka , Martha, 90. 
 Lucerne, 306. 
 
 eeaceeed: , vale of, 340. 
 
 Luck, William, 99. 
 
 Lucking, Henry, 35. 
 
 Luders, Nicholas, 32. 
 
 et ee , Zacharias, 32, 
 Ludlow, Major-General, 286. 
 Lugosh, 235. 
 
 Lulie, Catherin, 31. 
 
 Luke, Thomas, 120. 
 Lullington, 146. 
 
 Lum, Mr., 229. 
 
 ‘Lumley, Brigadier. 20. 
 
 Lundie, Ensign, 11, 
 Liineberg, Duke of, 131. 
 Seodest te , elector of, 131. 
 eineeniny , Princes of, 49, 
 
394 
 
 Lunt. —, 331. 
 
 Sie pepe regs 
 
 Lurgan, 62, 
 
 Lutestring Company, the, 16, 28, 33. 
 
 Luther, Captain Richard, 84. 
 
 Lutherans. the, 235, 287. 
 
 Lutterell (Luttrel), Mr., 40. 
 
 Colonel Henry, 148, 205, 
 
 .. .ses., Simon, 142, 148. 
 
 Liittichau, Baron of, 211. 
 
 Luxemburg, 267, 291, 308. 
 
 wsesse-s-, Duke of, 264, 285, 807. 
 
 Sesser ee Marshal, 2538, 292. 
 
 Lyddal, —, 53. 
 
 Lyme, 153 (?), 
 
 Lymington, minister of, 314. 
 
 Lynch, Judge, 157. 
 
 Lyne, Captain, 80. 
 
 Lyons, 252. 257. 278, 309. 
 
 letter from, 273. 
 
 Lyons, Mary, 143. 
 
 Lys, river, 278, 281, 336, 340. 
 
 Lysacht, —, 49. 
 
 bnioes peti Al Sir Thomas, 82, 48, 57, 
 18. 
 
 ee a) 
 
 sree ee rees 
 
 M 
 
 Macartey, —, 231. 
 
 Macclesfield, Earl of, 69, 258, 320. 
 
 Macedonia, 283, 
 
 Macgill, Colonel George, 126, 128. 
 
 Machine ships, 35, 37,89 (see also Fire ships). 
 
 Mackartney, —. 99. 
 
 Mackay (Mackye, Mackey), Colonel Robert. 
 58, 99, 116, 126 (2), 260. 
 
 Mr. 112, 148. 
 
 Major General, 158. 
 
 Mackenzie, Major Duncan, 128. 
 
 Shen , Mary, 107. 
 
 Mackilligott (Makelligot, McElligot), Colonel 
 Roger, 65, 283. 
 
 letter from, 67. 
 
 Mackinon, Charles, 128. 
 
 Mackleane, Donald, 128. 
 
 Mackworth, Lovis, 72. 
 
 Maclean, Sir John, 166. 
 
 MaeMahon, —, 49. 
 
 Father, 42. 
 
 Macroom, 159, 
 
 Macy, George, 18. 
 
 Madden, Daniel, 149. 
 
 Madrid, 339, 350 (2). 
 
 BP et a , letters from, 268, 828. 
 
 eee , Nuncio in, 288. 
 
 ee es 
 
 oy 
 
 | Maine, Duke of, 253, 352. 
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 | Makelligot. 
 
 
 
 | 
 
 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Maes, the, 255, 328. 
 
 Maeseyek, 264. 
 
 Maestricht, 172, 233, 246, 263, 267, 269, 278. 
 
 280, 287, 291, 348, 349. 
 
 ..... ammunition at. 171. 
 
 . cannons, &e., at, 171 
 ...+. .. garrison of, 349. 
 ROEer , officers at, 171. 
 Maet Sequen, 98, 
 Mager, Abraham, 88. 
 Magni, Margaret, 66. 
 Mahn, Gottfried. 107. 
 
 _ Maidenhead, 294. 
 
 Maidstone, 36. 
 ergeaeens gaol at, 128. 
 Mainwaring, Matthew, 70 
 Maitland, Colonel, 116: 
 
 See Mackilligott 
 Makgill, George, 99. 
 
 Malaga, harbour of, 261. 
 
 Malden, 284. 
 
 Maleray, Francis, 85. 
 
 Malerme, James, 56 
 
 Malines, 171, 287. 
 
 Malledy, Sir Anthony, 16. 
 
 Mallet, Anthony, 18. 
 
 Mallow (Ireland), 153, 162. 
 Malrae, Peter, 22. 
 
 Malta, 331, 358. 
 
 Manchester, 381. 
 
 Manchester, Earl of, 322. 
 Manchorra. Rebecca, 110. 
 
 Mangoe, Peter, 96. 
 
 Manley, Isaac, letter to, 15. 
 
 Mann (Man), Butler, 115. 
 
 ere , John, 125. 
 
 Mannheim, 267. 
 Manning, Samuel, 202. 
 
 Mansin, Sir Francis, a son of, 316. 
 Mantua, 287, 259. 
 Net Ukeat pees. 
 Mapas, Christopher, 142. 148. 
 Maranus, George Baltes, 71. 
 Marble letter notes (Bank notes), 49. 
 Marchant, Martha, 96. 
 Marcourt, —. 115. 
 
 Maret, Paul, 67. 
 
 Margaretts (Margetts), Henry, 100. 
 Margate, 69,79 (2), 126, 254, 256. 
 Loree Road, 27, 256. 
 
 Marine regiments, recruiting of, 143. 
 Maris, Charles, 74, 85, 143. 
 
 Sea eeN Mies 
 
 Markes, Moses, 69. 
 
 Marlborough, Earl of, 154, 164, 322. 
 letters from, 154, 159. 
 Marlocks, the, 257. 
 
 
 
 se seerenes 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Marly, 293. 
 
 4. aoe French court at, 315. 
 
 Marquard, Fred : Matthias, 35. 
 
 Marriage licences, abuse of, 28. 
 
 Marrisco, Peter, 143. 
 
 Marseilles, 269, 277, 279 (2), 311, 321, 336, 
 346. 
 
 gh San SiON letter from, 307. 
 
 Marshall, Father, 42. 
 
 eee, Mr., 30 (?), 32 (2), 40. 
 
 ee Ralph, 76. 
 
 | eee , Robert, 62, 
 
 Marsham, William, 96. 
 
 Martin, Captain, 9. 
 
 etek ss . Mrs. Elizabeth, 78. 
 
 ee at , Judge, 157. 
 
 ee aoe Michael, 117. 
 
 rere. Peter, 84 
 
 Peron Captain Richard, 17. 
 
 Ree Richard, 102. 
 
 Martinique tobacco, 320, 
 
 Martins (Martens) Henry, 107, 117. 
 
 itso, WON. LOT, 
 
 Martinsen, Martin, 132. 
 
 Mary II., references to, 33. 56, 168 (2), 169, 
 183, 185, 209, 220, 272, 286 (2). 
 
 site os , birthday of, 253. 
 
 Meas, aenth OLN ola: 
 
 et oh description of her lying in state, 314, 
 
 Bn Sap , funeral of, 315. 
 
 Pen. lines Of) SOI. 
 
 eee Ss , interment of, 313. 
 
 ihe , mourning for, 304. 
 
 Maryland, 241. 
 
 Massachusetts Bay, 9. 
 
 Be. ...., governor of, 44. 
 
 Massereene, Lord, 165. 
 
 Massey, W., letter from, 342. 
 
 Matthews (Mathews, Mathieu), Brigadier, 68. 
 
 Deena eaae David, 838, 100. 
 
 ee ae Captain Edward, 120, 275. 
 
 ee , George, |. 
 
 Bes , John, 100. 
 
 Beebe ress Major, 19. 
 
 eee , Serjeant, 100. 
 
 Ee, fee Thomas, 110, 114. 
 
 William, 172. 
 
 Matthias, Frederick, 66. 
 
 Maubeuge, 352. 
 
 Maud, Anthony, [42. 
 
 Mawdesley, Robert, 357. 
 
 Mayence, 287. 
 
 pee ate , Archbishop of, 252. 
 
 | Sk Oe Re Governor of, 289. 
 
 eee , hussars of, 2938. 
 
 Mayer, Dr., 237. 
 
 Maynard, Captain, 254. 
 
 Haag NE , Ephraim, 135. 
 
 Mayo, 158. 
 
 | McEHliigott. 
 
 
 
 
 
 395 
 
 | McDonald, —, 170. 
 
 rae Major, 274, 286. 
 
 LANA ee tein LT Ue 
 
 McDonnel (McDonnell), Balldarock, 155. 
 hen ae Hannah, 125. 
 
 fone , Randall, 125. 
 
 See Mackilligott. 
 
 McKay, Mr., 279, 281. 
 
 McPherson, Sir Eneas, 241, 249, 265, 294. 
 Meade (Mead), Sir John, 215, 219; 229. 
 Aes eee , Captain Joselin, 84, 148. 
 
 Dee ore , Captain Patrick, 85 (2). 
 
 Meadhouse, Sir Philip, 124. 
 
 Meath, Bishop of, 196. 
 
 , county of, 156. 
 
 rene , diocese of, 133. 
 
 Meath, Earl of, 129, 134, 142. 
 
 Meaux, Bishop of, 299. 
 
 Mechelinge, Mathew, 55. 
 
 Mechlin. See Malines. 
 
 Mecklenburg, 319. 
 
 Mediterranean, the, 20, 25, 57, 183, 230, 
 248, 249, 258, 256, 258, 261, 273, 285, 
 286 (2), 290, 291, 298, 299, 349. 
 
 deci: fleet, the, 81, 98, 105. 109, 230. 
 
 We eee , men of war in, 257. 
 
 | Medway, the (Chatham River), 300. 
 
 Meeck, Thomas, 87 
 
 Meeks, Mr., 254. 
 
 Mehaigne, 273. 
 
 Meisters (Meestere), Mr., 18, 17 (2), 18, 19, 
 21, 26, 27 (2), 28, 29, 30, 31, 35. 36 (2), 
 37 (2), 38, 39, 41 (2), 42, 48, 46, 71, 
 115, 116, 185, 174, 275, 3387, 844, 
 346 (2). 
 
 , letter from, 21, 26, 27, 29, 30 (°), 35, 
 36 (2). 
 
 ESA , William, 5, 13, 46 (2). 
 
 Melfort, Lord, 261. 
 
 Melin, Peter, 22. 
 
 Melle, Frederick, 51. 
 
 Meloniere. See De la Meloniere. 
 
 Menard, Magdalena, 31. 
 
 Spree , Mary, 31. 
 
 Menillet, Monsieur, 296. 
 
 Mentzel, Samuel, 186. 
 
 Menzies, Major, 285. 
 
 Meole, Captain John, 148. 
 
 Merabarba, Don Vespasiane, 96. 
 
 Mercier, Lambert, 70, 
 
 err Nicolas, 31. 
 
 Meredith, Sir Charles, 213. 
 
 Meres, Captain John, 101 (?). 
 
 Merrion, Lord, 142. 143. 
 
 Merselli, regiments of, 383. 
 
 Meruci, Lawrence, 27. 
 
 Messervy, —, 232. 
 
 Messina, 24, 125, 330. 
 
 Consul at, 137. 
 
 sone cree 
 
 
 
 eoettreres 
 
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396 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Methuen, John, 837. 
 
 Metlado, Isaac Henriques, 111. 
 
 Metz, 255. 
 
 Meuleman, Dirck, 108. 
 
 Meuse, the, 167, 240, 242, 248, 257, 271, 281, 
 329, 343 (2), 349, 353, 355. 
 
 Meyato, Elias, 6. 
 
 Meyer, Andries, 90. 
 
 ee i , John, 82. 
 
 Meyler, Nicholas, 148. 
 
 Micklethwaite, Charles, 90. 
 
 Middlesex, Earl of, 112. 
 
 Middleburg (Middleburgh, Middelburg), 46, 
 70, 140, 240. 
 
 Middleton (Midelton), Captain, 244 (2), 246. 
 
 Siete eae Elizabeth, 147. 
 
 isco ik tous WULF 
 Midland Circuit, the, 308 
 Milan, 237, 259, 308. 
 
 Se eee , Governor of, 314, 323. 
 Ry a. , letter from, 285. 
 
 Milard, William, 182. 
 
 Milford, 34, 194, 238, 240. 
 Milford Haven, 38. 
 
 med fost , letter dated at, 38. 
 Militia, the, 186. 
 
 Militia Bill, the, 192, 198, 199. 
 Mill, Adiell, 81. 
 
 Miller, Catherina, 81. 
 
 Milleson, James, 29. 
 
 Millington, Sir Thomas, 299. 
 Miltenburg, 289. 
 
 ics are , magazine of, 321. 
 Minories, the. See under London. 
 Minshull, Richard, 135. 
 
 Mint, the, 250. 
 ‘Mister, Captain George, letter from, 21. 
 Mitchelburne, Colonel, 188, 249. 
 Mitchell, —, 81. 
 
 aie: , Admiral, 261. 
 
 ae , John, 1438. 
 
 Hiateom , Mr., 45. 
 
 Mitilene, island of, 306. 
 Moldavia, 287. 
 
 cee eoeae , Prince of, 355. 
 
 Moleno, Signor Alessandro, 323. 
 Molinet, Peter, 35. 
 
 Moline, General, 284. 
 Molyneux, Sir Francis, 59. 
 
 AEE Ty: ie ubesoresy OLCOTT b0.-O4- 
 es! , Lord, 281, 283. 
 
 Sere ss , William, 83, 129. 
 Moncrief, —, 128. 
 Money Bills, 129, 327. 
 Monferians, the, 323. 
 Monger, Charles, 99, 
 Mongon, Monsieur, 255. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Monk, Charles, 142. 
 
 oe ents , General, 81, 324. 
 istcaveun , Henry, 148. 
 Monkton Deverall, 146. 
 
 | Monmouth, Lord, 92, 112, 215, 238, 320, 322. 
 
 Mons, 151, 169, 248, 257, 293, 295, 329, 336, 
 340, 345, 352. 
 wee on cee fortifications at, 347. 
 
 itis , siege of, 167. 
 
 | Monstier, Mr., 103. 
 
 Montagu (Montague), Earl of, 112, 286, 288, 
 324, 342. 
 
 paeees , eseceeeeey Letter from, 286, 
 
 © SS , Captain, 240. 
 
 Pesca , Charles, 83, 112. 
 
 Metres , John, 110 
 
 pone aes , Mr., 346, 348. 
 
 Watt ee William, 224. 
 
 | Montalt, 847. 
 | Montceallier, 259. 
 | Montelion, Paul, 29. 
 
 Montferrat, 237. 
 Montferrians, the, 237. 
 Montgomery, Alexander, 67, 69. 
 
 jerbpents , Sir James, 87, 91, 238, 348, 350, 
 351, 352. 
 
 Montpelier, 138. 
 
 bier eae regiment of, 160. 
 Montrath, Charles, Earl] of, 5. 
 Montz (Mortzen), Governor of, 334. 
 Moor (Moore), Elizabeth, 51. 
 ae , Mr., 58, 288. 
 
 ede oe . Nicholas, 1, 26. 
 
 Me ae , Sir Richard, 2. 
 
 Mooreseele, 278, 280. 
 
 Moor Park, near Farnham, letters dated at, 
 212, 346. 
 
 Moors, the, 290, 312. 
 
 Morck, Balthasar, 84, 110. 
 
 Mordaunt, Colonel, 344, 
 
 Morea, the, 237, 248, 382, 353. 
 
 Moreland, Mrs. Mary, 27. 
 
 Moren, the, 328. 
 
 Moresby, 109. 
 
 Morgan, Sir Thomas, 231. 
 
 Morin, Simon Peter, 33. 
 
 Morlaix, 88. 
 
 Morocco, Emperor of, 291, 298, 311, 346. 
 
 Morrell (Morol, Morel), Abbé, 285, 289. 
 
 baer , Martha, 70. 
 
 Nae cave , Martin, 240. 
 
 ricenphae , Mary, 70. 
 
 Morris, John, 94. 
 
 Morrison, James, 99. 
 
 Mortimer, Samuel, 1385. 
 
 Morton, —, 8l. 
 
 Moscow, letter from, 259. 
 
 a ae 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Moseley, William, 119. 
 
 Moses (Moyses), Henry, 119. 
 
 peaencick , John, 120. 
 
 Mossa, Marquis de, 325. 
 
 Motlow, Robert, 29. 
 
 Motte, John Abraham, 8. 
 
 Mouchart, Jacob, 72. 
 
 Mouersen, Maurits, 124. 
 
 Moules, John, 52. 
 
 Mount, the, 238. 
 
 Mountague, Mr., 79. 
 
 Mountcashell, Lord, .269. 
 Mountford, Mr., 288. 
 
 Mountjoy, Viscount, 84, 106, 194, 298. 
 Mount Orgueil Castle (Jersey), 136. 
 Mount Ponilion, Marquis, 257. 
 Mount’s Bay, 38, 152, 253, 327. 
 Moyses, Aaron, 70. 
 
 Mozzomorto, 816. 
 
 Mud, John, 98. 
 
 Mulal, Monsieur A., 248. 
 
 Mull, Isle of, 166. 170. 
 
 Mullady, Sir Ans., 142. 
 
 Mullingar, 155, 176. 
 
 Mulloy, Tobias, 94. 
 
 Muno, Francisco Honrra, of Bisaya, 131. 
 Munro. Andrew, 128. 
 
 Miinster, 167, 189, 222, 317. 
 Munsterians, the, 252, 319. 
 Murphy. Father, 42. 
 
 Bo tra , John, 104, 
 
 Murray, Lord Edward, 58, 128, 261. 
 ee , Mr., 845, 
 
 eee, , Robert, 99. 
 
 Musafia, Joseph, 67. 
 
 Muscovites, the. See Russians, the, 
 Muscovy, Czar of, 834. See Russia. 
 Musgraye, Captain Thomas, 99. 
 Mustapha, Sultan, 318. 
 
 Mutys, Thomas, 142. 
 
 N 
 
 Nagles, the two, petition of, 61. 
 
 Namur, 31, 46, 84, 116, 122, 151, 233, 240, 
 246, 248, 273, 291, 334, 349. 355. 
 
 sosseseeey COMP at, 343, 
 
 hte ae , capture of, 17, 53. 
 
 Rr eins , eastle of, 345. 
 
 Ao ee , garrison of, 349. 
 
 Ween thes , governor of, 273, 282. 
 
 Cee eeee , letters dated at, 1, 10, 22. 
 
 oh ee , officers at, 171. 
 
 Beles... , siege of, 143, 343. 
 
 ae , stores at, 173, 
 
 397 
 
 | Nanfan, Captain, 80. 
 
 Nantes, 240, 242, 251, 256, 259, 274, 278, 
 326. 
 
 Napert, Thomas, 81. 
 
 Naples, 239, 308. 
 
 Nassau, Prince of, letter from, 184, 
 Nathan, Abraham, 69. 
 
 Nathman, Rabby, 70. 
 
 Navan, John, 2. 
 
 Naver, 259. 
 
 Navy, the (see under Fleet, the). 
 Navy, Commissioners of the, 151, 172. 
 
 
 
 eee eee , Treasurer of the, 33, 50. 
 ree eek . Vietuallers of. See Victuallers and 
 Victualling. 
 Navy Board, the, 13, 17, 44, 47, 74, 201, 202. 
 Peer te , Clerks of the, 13. 
 
 Naze, the, 301. 
 Neale, Mr., 239. 
 
 ereseereo 
 
 Neapolitan galleys, 354. 
 
 | Neave, Mr., 138, 134. 
 
 wan ey William, 129. 
 Nebbens, Andries, 124. 
 Neckar, the, 263, 351. 
 Neckarsulm, 277. 
 
 Needwood Forest, 148, 
 
 | Neering, John, 70. 
 
 Negus, Mr., 341. 
 
 Neild, Roger, 114. 
 
 Neile, Mr., 292. 
 
 Nelmes, Mr., 220. 
 
 Nelson, Mr., 327. 
 
 Nenagh (Nenah), 183, 
 
 eee , mines of, 207. 
 Nesmond, Count, 52, 65, 100. 
 Se. , Monsieur, 60, 330. 
 Ness, the, 266. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Nestelroy, Nicholas, 70. 
 
 Neston, 243. 
 
 Netherlands, the, 264, 289, 315, 319, 343, 346, 
 353. 
 
 | Netterville, H., 102. 
 
 327, 329, 331, 338, 335, 338, 340, 
 
 | eeeeee sens 
 
 | Neustad, 254, 257. 
 | Neuville, 281, 345. 
 
 Nevill, Admiral, 121, 328 (2). 
 
 seein tts , Justice, 308. 
 
 Newburgh, Lord, 252. 
 
 Neweastle upon Tyne, news-letters addressed 
 to, 286, 239, 241. 247, 250, 252, 254, 
 256, 259, 261, 268, 265, 268, 270. 272, 
 274, 277, 279, 281, 284, 286, 288. 290, 
 292, 295, 297, 299, 302, 304, 306, 308, 
 310, 312, 314, 316, 318, 320, 823 325, 
 
 342, 
 
 344, 347, 349, 351, 353, 355. 
 
 quartering soldiers at, 27. 
 
 
 
 yn ee , postmaster of, 232. 
 Neweastle, Duke of, 91. 
 Newcomen, —, 125. 
 
398 GENERAL 
 
 New erat 47, 64, 171, 254, 266, 271, 294. 
 
 -, Governor of, 16 (2), 238, 312. 
 .. laws concerning, 48. 
 eres vessel belonging to, 240. 
 New Forest, the, charcoal from, used for 
 refining tin in Cornwall, 148. 
 bile a 240, 274, 275, 278, 294, $27, 
 
 pathos , fishery at, French frigates sent to 
 destroy, 275, 
 
 See cak ship-masters, the, 275 
 
 Newhall (Essex), 324. 
 
 New Hampshire. government of, 9. 
 
 Newlyn (Nowlin, Newlyne), Peter. 81, 100, 
 
 104, 143. 
 ext maets , Thomas, 63, 70, 87, 100. 
 Neword George, 14. 
 Orr en Samuel. 96. 
 Newmarket, 85, 333. 
 MAE, letter dated at. 85. 
 Newport (I.W.), 16. 87, 114, 262, 354. 
 esis borough of, 114. 
 3 eae , recorder of, 114. 
 Newport, Viscount, 254. 
 Newton, Dr., 71. 
 ae ee , Major, 344. 
 re , William, 72. 
 Newtown, 164, 165. 
 New York, 16 (*), 244, 
 Nice, 255, 342. 
 Mie tate siege of, 98. 
 Nicholls, —, 22, 112. 
 rah oe Edward, 62. 
 eee , Elizabeth, 62. 
 psAcaree , Philip, 68. 
 Nicholson (Nicolson), —, 112. 
 ee Archdeacon, 114. 
 
 _, Colonel, 241. 
 
 ., Henry, 111. 
 bo eee IOB, ae: 
 rey. , Mr., 236. 
 Nicopolis, 855. 
 Niewport, 26, 36, 233, 294, 347. 
 ane ..., letter dated at, 357. 
 Nimeguen, 172. 
 Ninove, 382, 351. 
 Nizza, 323. 
 Noailles, Marshal de, 261, 278. 
 Noble, Major Arthur, 135. 
 Norcott (Noreat), Colonel. 60, 61, 64. 
 Pay , Mr., 239. 
 Nore, the, 5, 17, 54, 64, 307, 335. 
 eT ee letter dated from, 21. 
 Norfolk, Duke of, 111. 
 ere, , letter to, 54. 
 Norfolk Cireuit, the, 808. 
 Normanby, Marquis of, 112, 254. 
 Normandy, 266, 318, 331, 336. 
 tn , coast of, 317, 
 
 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Norris, —, 122. 
 Northampton, 85. 
 aig teee: corn riots in, 262, 268. 
 
 i Aeon letter from, 262. 
 
 fates nse mayor of, 47. 
 
 | Northamptonshire, 241. 
 | North Channel, the, 327. 
 
 Northern Circuit, the, 308. 
 
 Northern Seas, Admiral of the, 262. 
 
 North Yarm, 240. 
 
 Norton, Lieut.-Colonel, 6. 
 
 Ag core , Colonel, letter to, 3, 8. 
 
 Rel , Captain Owen, 84, 114. 
 
 Norway, 87, 107, 118, 171, 256, 264, 271, 
 299, 301 (7), 317. 
 
 Norwich, 140. 
 
 epee , cathedral, 107. 
 
 ee city of , almshouses in, 113. 
 . mayor, &e., of, 118, 140. 
 
 aa . recorder of, 3. 
 
 Nottingham, 51, 85. 
 
 Nottingham, Earl of, 112. 205, 209. 234. 
 
 Res Pee letters from, 175, 180(°), 
 181 (2), 1832 Pea kee Sd eet? 
 
 Be ina ees Seeds , letters to, 1548), 156, 169, 
 160, 168, 178, 174, 175, VIG 178; 
 179 (2), 180, 182, 183, "isd (2), 185, 
 186 (2), 187 (2), 188 (2), 189 (2), 190, 
 198, 195(°), 196(%), 198, 199, 200, 
 202 ?), 208, 204, 205 (8), 207, 208, 
 209 (2), 212, 213 (2), 214 (2), 215, 216, 
 217, 218, 219, 220, 221 (?), 292, 225, 
 226, 208. 
 
 Nottingham, Peter, 142, 148. 
 
 Nowland, Roger, 142. 
 
 Nugent, Chief Justice, 157. 
 
 Pe SoG} , Edmund, 102. 
 
 rte br , Mr., 48. 
 
 be phoee nChrintooner 142, 143. 
 
 ...-., Colonel. 158: 
 
 O 
 
 Oare, Colonel, 352. 
 
 Oaths, taking of, 40-41. 
 
 O’Brien, Charles, 146, 147. 
 
 Ate ty , Captain Connor, 146, 147. 
 vee , Daniel, 146 ( passim). 
 SALE , family of, 224. 
 
 _ Ocane, Roger, 81. 
 _ O’Donnell, Colonel, 188. 
 
 Blac , brigade of, 173. 
 Oesselghem, 281. 
 
 _ O’Farell, Brigadier-General Fergus, 99, 352, 
 _ Okley, Mrs. Ann, 69. 
 
 | Oldfield, Captain, 39. 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 399 
 
 Oliphant, John, 90. 
 Oliver, Captain Charles, 189. 
 Olivier, Francis, 72. 
 Ate Michael, 58. 
 Olofson, Andres, 99, 112. 
 Ommereu, Peter, 90. 
 Onslow, Sir Richard, 322. 
 ees letter from, 52. 
 ee ee , letter to, 538. 
 Oporto, 261, 327, 339. 
 
 ae ee fleet, the, 341. 
 Orbassan, 340. 
 
 Orchard, Mary, 105, 
 
 Ordnance, Board of, 13, 41, 60, 75 (°), 167. 
 
 225, 268 (2), 275. 
 alte) letter from, 267. 
 ce ae letter to, 224. 
 ss .-» report by, 224. 
 ..... «+, Deputy Lieutenant of the, 106. 
 ee .., Lieutenant of the, 146. 
 
 pene ta , Master General of the, 110, 118, 1387. 
 318, 346. 
 .. «+, Office of, 135, 187, 
 Bee ti , letters dated at, 131, 267. 
 
 Rt. . officers of, 174. 
 Orkney, Bishop of, 344, 
 
 ee , general of, 300. 
 
 Oe Sone recruits from, 251. 
 seas , steward of, 300. 
 Orleans, Duke of, 258, 308, 313, 
 
 Ormond (Ormonde), Duke of, 12, 36, 52, 86, 
 
 92,112, 143, 183, 211, 286. 
 Ormsby, Mr., 129, 133, 134. 
 Beek , Widow, 142, 
 Orphan’s Bill, the, 243. 
 Orsova, 347. 
 Osborne, Captain, 147. 
 erst , Serjeant, 215, 219. 
 Oseni, Jacob, 70. 
 
 Ostend. 18, 17, 27, 29, 45, 71, 108, 126, 240, 
 
 256, 278, 326, 348. 
 wsssseee, ‘fcapper,” belonging to, 243. 
 TEE privateer, 346. 
 Ostia, 340. 
 Ottoman affairs, the, 252. 
 ah ree army, 233, 245, 270. 3038, 351. 
 Pon aoe court, 321. 
 Ss Empire, the, 247, 310. 
 SE aa fleet, the, 284, 306, 311, 316, 331, 
 336, 354. 
 ee Porte, the, 290. 
 ene, territories, 235, 257, 347. 
 Panta. tFOOpA, SLL. 
 
 eae See also under Turkey and Turks, the. 
 
 Ottomans, the, 318, 349, 3538. 
 Otranto, 284, 306 (2). 
 
 Overkirk. See D’Auverquerque. 
 Owen, Captain, 324. 
 
 Oxburgh, James, 75, 
 
 Oxbury, Colonel, 158. 
 
 
 
 Oxen, Oven, a Dane so-called, 82. 
 
 Oxenbridge, Martha, 97, 
 
 Oxenden, Sir James, letter to, 128. 
 
 Oxford, 86 (2), 87. 89, 92 (2), 95 (8), 96 (?), 
 97, 98. 
 
 Pw Ta fed All Souls’ College, 95 (8). 
 
 ......+., Christ Church College, 95. 
 
 See ery , Exeter College, 292. 
 
 bras giatty de King’s visit to, 98. 
 
 Ee , Magdalen College, 262. 
 
 Seg: Magdalen Hall, 262. 
 
 ee , New College, 58, 126. 138. 
 
 ee Vice-Chancellor of, 92, 95, 96, 110, 
 114, 1384. 
 
 ay ae University of, 86, 88, 89 (2), 94, 95, 
 96, 98, 1038, 262. 
 
 Oxford, Ear! of, 50, 51, 96, 101, 112, 149. 
 
 Neen , Bishop of, 95. 
 
 | Oxford Cireuit, the, 18, 308. 
 ' Oxfordshire, 89. 
 
 Seta Deputy Lieutenants of, 104. 
 LN ER , Lord-Lieutenant of, 86. 
 
 Pace, John, 29. 
 Packenham, Sir Thomas, 129. 
 Pafleur, Major, 282. 
 
 | Page, Matthew, 80. 
 
 
 
 Paget, Captain Henry, 101. 
 hs ta , Lord, 120, 271. 
 BEN Ree Margaret, 38. 
 
 Paginer, Lawrence, 55. 
 Pain (Payn, Payne, Paine), Dr., 28, 32, 44, 48, 
 58, 63, 68, 70, 75. 
 ae , John, 142, 
 toes Nevill, 241. 249. 
 eek ee , William, 143. 
 Pakenham, Mr., 222. 
 Palatinate, the, 255. 
 Paley, Colonel, 287. 
 Palfy, regiments of, 237. 
 Palice, 75. 
 Palinquist, Jonas, 85. 
 
 | Pallaes, list of, officials under, 171. 
 | Pallamas (Palamos, Palomas), 264, 285. 354. 
 
 Palmer, —, 49. 
 BEY , William, 17, 88. 
 Panckau, John Jacques, 83. 
 
 | Panthover, Elizabeth, 80, 
 
 _ Papin, Daniel, 27. 
 _ Pardo, Jacob, 33. 
 
 Re bee , Judica, 33. 
 
400 
 
 Paris, 60 (2), 231, 240, 246, 248, 335, 347. 
 
 Pa , Archbishop of, 319. 
 
 hs Aen , letters from, 65, 237, 242, 250, 2538, 
 255, 259, 261, 267, 269, 270, 271, 273, 
 278, 279, 281, 285, 287. 289, 291, 298, 
 295, 297, 299, 303, 304, 307, 309, 311, 
 3138, 315, 317, 319, 321, 323, 329, 332, 
 340, 344, 348, 352, 355, 356. 
 
 shane sane , Sale of De Thou’s library at, 20, 
 
 Park, J., 317. 
 
 Parker, —, 229. 
 
 peor ae , Colonel, 265, 274. 
 
 ee a , Consul, 50, 
 
 bt bee cae , Gervis, 62, 115. 
 
 eee , Mary, 99. 
 
 ASF. es , Robert, 126. 
 
 eee , Thomas, 357. 
 
 Parliament, the. 177. 
 
 pres , dissolution of, 387. 
 
 eR A . Houses of, 308. 
 
 Re , proceedings in, 129 (2), 239, 322, 326, 
 
 356, 357. 
 
 See also House of Commons and 
 
 House of Lords. 
 
 Parr, —, 19, 21. 
 
 Parton, 109. 
 
 Pasha, the, 308. 
 
 Passaro, Cape, 831. 
 
 Passarowitz, 245. 
 
 Passes, reference to, 9, 126, 
 
 Passmore (Pasmore), —, 67. 
 
 capereere , Thomas, 89. 
 
 Pasteur, Major Jaques, 271. 
 
 Paton, Mr., 236. 
 
 Patrick, Robert, 285, 
 
 Paul, Mr., 276. 
 
 Peace, proposals for, 356. 
 
 Pedder, Captain, 182, 188, 181. 
 
 Pedigeat, Jean, 131. 
 
 Peers, House of. Sce House of Lords. 
 
 Peeters, Ylke, 29. 
 
 Pelletier, Francis, 90. 
 
 Pembroke, 97. 
 
 EM and Montgomery, Earl of, 111, 
 
 Pen, Mary, 114. 
 
 Pendries. 283. 
 
 Penny Post, the, 74. 
 
 Pensionary, the, 149, 151. 
 
 Penso, Rachel, 33. 
 
 Penzance, 238. 
 
 Pepper, John, 94. 
 
 Te Mr., 292. 
 
 Percival (Perciyall), John, 85, 142. 
 
 Perdigrat, Jean, 124. 
 
 Pereyra, Mons., 155. 
 
 Perjury, Bill to punish, 297. 
 
 Perkins, —, 82. 
 
 Perosa, 309. 
 
 Perpignan, 321. 
 
 Perrin, George, 55. 
 
 
 
 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Persia, the ‘‘ Sophy ”’ of, 318. 
 Perth, 153 (?), 336. 
 
 Pesar, Colonel, 316. 
 
 Pest, 532, 333. 
 
 Peshman, Peter, 90. 
 
 Peter, Daniel, 69. 
 
 Peterborough, Bishop of, 133. 
 Peters (Pieters), John, 81. 
 
 Settee set . Peter, 69 (2). 
 
 Peterse (Pieterse), Ariantje, 84, 86. 
 Peterson (Pieterson, Petersen), —, 88, 94. 
 Shei , Folikert, 132. 
 
 a ee , John, 63, 180. 
 
 Peterwardein, 233, 242, 267, 280, 287, 315. 
 332. 
 
 tinea , fortifications at, 235. 
 
 saan ae , Governor of, 291. 
 
 Petit, Augustine, 99. 
 
 ere: . Isaac, Francis, 98. 
 
 Petty, George, 94. 
 
 paseeea ve , Henry, 62. 
 
 peries , Sir William, 62 (?). 
 
 Peyferie, Mr., 15. 
 
 Peyrera, —, 169. 
 
 Philip William, the Margrave, 293 (°). 
 
 Philipines, church of, 250. 
 
 Phillipaux, Monsieur, 298. 
 
 Philips (Phillips), —, 49. 
 
 eo ta at , Ann, 51, 63. 
 
 eerie , Captain, 15, 25, 36, 224, 225, 227. 
 
 Fiecevee , Daniel, 63. 
 
 Wiatees , George, 229. 
 
 aban sie , John, 81. 
 
 Philipsburg, 257, 267, 268, 343. 
 
 peianiyes , garrison at, 351. 
 
 Phipps, Sir William, 80, 238, 294, 312. 
 
 Pickard, Captain, 258, 328. 
 
 Pict, Judeth, 182. 
 
 Piedmont, 28, 98, 152, 166, 239, 240, 245, 
 246, 252 (2), 257, 259, 268. 268, 270, 
 271, 285, 315, 321, 886, 347, 353. 
 
 veceseeee, caIMpaign in, 807. 
 
 gon Beans , silk trade in, 16. 
 
 Pierce, Thomas. 77. 
 
 Pieterson (Pietersen), —, 95. 
 
 ete ae, , Ruyter, 109. 
 
 Pietman, Peter, 122. 
 
 Piggot, Samuel, 125. 
 
 Pignatilly, Don Francis, 264. 
 
 | Pigné, John, 113. 
 
 Pignerol, 98, 259, 271, 272, 288, 292, 304, 
 306, 325, 342. 
 
 arena te , garrison of, 345. 
 
 ssseoreee, Siege Of, 98. 
 
 Pineau. Peter, 71. 
 
 Pinerolo, 340 (2), 345. 
 
 Pinet, —, 81. 
 
 Pepe , Peter (Pierre), 78, 88, 105. 
 
 Pipar, Lieut.-Colonel, 160. 
 
 Pippard, Christopher, 102. 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 401 
 
 
 
 
 
 Pisa, George, 70. | Porter, —, 9. 
 Piters, Folkert, 124. Direc kes , Sir Charles. See under Treland, Lord 
 Pitman, Hubert, 110. | Chancellor of. 
 Plantations, the, 111, 124, 251. | seeveeeee , George, 4. 
 com ons See also Trade and Plantations. sevccreeey Mr, 79, 
 Platz, Gottfried, 107. j= j= j= —= | «eseesee. , William, 129, 184. 
 Plocko, Bishop of, 293 325. Portland, 260 (?), 341, 344. 
 Plumeérden, Robert,8. = j§« = «| | essere , stone from; a ship laden with, 258. 
 Plunket, William, 142. Portland, William, Earl of, 105, 112, 153, 
 Plut, George, 125. 167, 224, 242, 249, 252. 
 Plymouth, 43, 63. 106, 200, 234, 988. 244, ee rcecces Fi letters from, 149, 150, 151. 152, 
 254, 265, 271, 290, 298. 308, 305, | s+ » letter to, 155. 
 317 (2), 324, 327, 380, 344, 350. Portland Road, ships in, 272. 
 Peers harbour, 247. Portrush, 165. 
 Re ae letters from, 251. 255, 260, 261, 274, | Portsmouth, 14, 28, 34 (*). 44, 45, 46, 47 (°), 
 275, 278, 292, 310, 311, 317 321, 324, 55, 60, 62, 64, 94, 126, 186, 225, 232. 
 827, 334. 240, 245, 249, 251, 254, 256, 258, 270. 
 Po, 306. 316 (2), 818, 326, 344, 352. 
 Mtictwevodeee oe MM iow el gulae [ites , Deputy or Lieut.-Governor of, 64, 
 Podswills, Major, 820. ee wen 99 
 Poggiati, Bernardino. 68. semi ; Deepa a eee: 
 emi elanciole:. Ll wed oie dt ee: , letters from, 256, 262, 266, 275. 
 oe Portugal, 242, 269, 278, 350. 
 Poitiers, 273, 293. 
 Poizet Marearee. Oe tat tt betagltl b weet |) os: , Ambassador from, 356. See Portu- 
 Palanee: Isaac, 6. | spear theta 
 Poland, 287 (2). 254, 259, 261, 298, 299, 304, 7 cae eerat 
 TIGRSOU Rein teat | , the, phias ; | 
 Een King of, 296, 804, SBA, 940, gh Portugal shee ise tennis re 
 teceere , Queen of, 32 : ‘ 
 Bend tes See Polish Army, &e. Heth» pct a 
 Polehammer, Christopher, 45. fave ships 238, 247 278. 
 Poles, the, 245, 259, 287. oes thes 107 
 gous aoe ara ay oats | Posherbine, Monsieur, 311. 
 Bk af ree 307. Post Office, the, commissioners of, 43 (2). 
 BS i eek , Marshal of, 307. Pouchartine, Monsieur, 298. 
 Be iia. Enyoy, the, 254. Postmaster General, the, 19, 21, 111, 138. 
 ee See Poland. Pune peLver Lon LL 2: 
 Poll Tax Bill, the, 94, 252. ' Poultney, Mr., 209, 215. 
 Pollexfen, John, 124. Poulton, Captain, 29. 
 ee , Captain Thomas, 85. Povey, Mr., 48. 
 Pomier, Ode, 19. Powell, Justice, 308. 
 Pempaines Monsien 2872. he eeege) oe ih ce ea eee Ee yA os 
 Pont, Henry, 63. rk eee ee ee . Mr. Baron, 348. 
 Ponteallier, 2638. Powis, Mr. Sergeant, 348. 
 Poole, 153. Praed (Pread), —, 61. 
 PELOU I TLONE YC ht ale oe eed GAT CED, Ii jes cece , James, 260. 
 Pope, the. See Innocent XIT. Pragelato, and Susa, valleys of, 292. 
 Pope, Andrew, 83. Prague, 285, 
 pre , Major Edward, 122 (2). Prance, Edmund, 120, 
 Se , John, 110. Preston, Robert, 143. 
 yee Michael, 83. Preston, 272. 
 Pe ccc io , Lieut.-Colonel Roger, 110, 155. Preytinge, Count, 291. 
 nae , Thomas, 1438. Price, Aubrey, 124. 
 Popp, John George, 111. 4 ss, eret ees ; Captain, 187, 188. 
 Pore Louis, 18,242,058 me ” SPR SeaE fete? cia ba, 
 Porte, the, 237, 245 (2), 264,291,292, 297, | 7777" hoes 
 308, 304, 349 (2), 351. See also under | ‘**°"°"*”? Matthew, 68. 
 Ottoman Empire, the, Ottomans, and | .«---++:: » Thomas, 149, 
 Turkey. Detar William, 68. 
 
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 2045 
 
402 
 
 Prickett, John, 29. 
 
 Pride, Thomas, 824, 342. 
 
 Priestman, Mr., 13, 58, 57. 
 
 Prieur, John, 94. 
 
 Prinantau, Sieur, 334. 
 
 Prince, Cornelis, 88. 
 
 wane spate? Captain William, 81. 
 
 Pringle, Mr. Robert, 90, 236. 
 
 Printing and Printing Presses, regulations as 
 to, 114, 356. 
 
 Prior, Matthew, 76, 111. 
 
 Prisoners, exchange of. See under English 
 prisoners, French prisoners, and Irish 
 prisoners. 
 
 ieee ey Commissioners for Exchange of, 20. 
 21, 28, 41, 46, 60, 65, 77, 82, 90, 
 103, 131, 334, 356. 
 
 Pritty, Henry, 62. 
 
 Priva, 264. 
 Privy Council, the, 78, 166, 301. 
 eee See also under Council. 
 
 Privy Seal, the, reference to, 33, 254. 
 eee , clerk of the, 100. ; 
 Privy Seal Office, the, 226. 
 
 Prizes and Customs, officers of, 141. 
 Proctor, —, 36, 39. 
 
 Prohibition Acts, the, 141, 
 
 Protestants, foreign, invited by William IIL. 
 into Ireland, 211. 
 
 Provence, 271 (2), 279, 807, 836, 345, 353. 
 354. 
 
 ee: , coast of, 23, 821, 345, 346. 
 Dae , letters from, 345. 
 Prunier, Francis, 35. 
 
 Pugh, John, 142. 
 
 Pulino, Captain Virgilio, 187, 
 Purcell, —, 61. 
 
 peat: , Colonel Nicholas, 224. 
 Pyborne, Robert, 87. 
 
 Pye, —, 200. 
 
 Pyne, Anetye, 49. 
 
 Sa anes Jan Jansen, 49. 
 
 rest ieoee , Sir Richard, 339. 
 
 Q 
 
 Quaet, Lieutenant Harman, 78. 
 
 Quakers, taxation of, in Ireland, 141. 
 Quantrell, John, 29. 
 
 Queen, the. See Mary II. 
 Queen-Dowager, the, 45. 
 
 Queen Elizabeth, 288. 
 
 Queensberry, Duke of, 58, 311, 319,322. 
 Queen’s birthday, illuminations for, 253. 
 Quince Rock, the (St. Malo), 2, 3, 7. 
 Quintin, Lombard, 60. 
 
 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 R 
 
 Raboteau, Josué, 55, 
 Radcliffe, Dr., 299. 
 Radford, Ann, 324, 342. 
 
 Se , Thomas, 324, 342 (2). 
 Ragusa, 351. 
 
 Rame Head, the, 79. 
 Ramsey, Major General, 17, 99 
 Ramsgate, 22. 
 
 Ranck, Captain Conrad, 112. 
 Ranelagh, Lord, 66, 112. 
 Rapho, Dean of, 1638. 
 Raphson, Joseph, 113. 
 Rapparees, the, 176, 178. 
 Rascoe, Isaac, 26. 
 
 Pea seess , Jeremy, 148. 
 
 Rason, Charles, 35. 
 Rasmunson, Erik, 99, 112. 
 Rate, John, 86. 
 
 Rathangen, lordship of, 83. 
 Ratisbon, 39 (2), 285. 
 erate Chapter at, 313. 
 
 te aycdee DOU. Bb hoe: 
 abe ee , letter from, 311. 
 Rawdon, Arthur, 219, 220. 
 Rawlins, John, 142, 143. 
 veeeeeeee, Captain John, 83. 
 Ps ee , Nicholas, 105. 
 Rawlinson, —, 54 (?). 
 Raworth, —, 88. 
 Raymond, Thomas, 140. 
 Reade, Thomas, 35. 
 Reader, Dr., 135. 
 
 Paces ere , Richard, 1388. 
 Reading, Mr., 129. 
 
 Reason, Charles, 39 
 Rechvald, Gotlob, 42. 
 Recteren. Baron, 335. 
 
 Red House, the, 256. 
 
 Red Sea, the, pirates in, 334. 
 Reddy, Richard, 142. 
 Redman, Thomas, 107. 
 Reedie, 128. 
 
 Regensburg, chapter at, 318. 
 Regiments. See under Army. 
 Reid, Major, 58. 
 
 okenbeees , Major Robert, 128. 
 Remington, Thomas. 63. 
 Remy, Daniel, 78. 
 
 ak a eet. , Roger, 78. 
 
 Renaud, Peter, 99. 
 Renfrew, 285. 
 
 Reniker, Peter, 22. 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Renish window glass, 103. 
 
 Reoyer (Roveroy), Mr., 69. 
 
 Reppington’s Bill, 37. 
 
 Requests, masters of, 309. 
 
 ates teas , Registrar of the Court of, 100. 
 
 Revenue, Auditor-General of the, 108. 
 
 Pe ep Commissioners of the, 156. 
 
 Peetasss ratte ges LOLLer. CO. L Ou. 
 
 Reyilleau, Bartholomew, 90. 
 
 Reyna, Abraham Israel, 4. 
 
 were tess , Isaac, 4. 
 
 sesesseee, Bebecea, 4. 
 
 Pen nite oy Sarah, 4. 
 
 Reynau, Mary, 42. 
 
 Reynders, Ian, 98. 
 
 Reynell, Edmund, 102. 
 
 Teeticmes « , Sir Richard, 48, 82 (2). 
 
 il tes , Lord Chief Justice, 189. 
 
 Reynolds, Gilbert, 100, 101. 
 
 Bere ts oe , Sir Richard, 839. 
 
 Reyth, Herman, 99. 
 
 Rezer, Tobias, 72. 
 
 Rhenish wine, seizure of, 241. 
 
 Rhine. the. 98, 111, 242. 245, 252, 254, 267, 
 268, 270, 271, 277, 285, 289, 291, 299, 
 308, 308, 309, 310. 311, 317, 319, 321 
 (3), 829 (2), 830, 332, 333, 386, 3438 (2), 
 347, 
 
 Fitnee letter dated from, 167. 
 
 Pees See also Upper Rhine. 
 
 Rhysbank, a 30 (2), 31. 82 (2), 85 (2), 37, 
 
 Ricard, Captain William, 97 (2). 
 
 Ricaut (Rycaut, Rycote), Sir Paul, 39, 93, 233. 
 
 paren , Sir Peter, 194. 
 Rice, Colonel, 224. 
 
 eee ioes , Sir Stephen, 142. 
 Rich, Sir Robert, 65. 
 Richard, Colonel, 337. 
 
 Richards, —, 41 (2). 
 
 vesseeees, Colonel, 7, 42, 47, 52, 318, 333, 339. 
 Bee oat , Colonel James, letter from, 41, 
 ee eee , Captain John, 56. 
 
 Richardson, Lieutenant, 53, 66. 
 Richmond, 307. 
 
 Riemer, Jan, 132. 
 
 Peers , John, 124, 
 
 Riga, 172. 
 
 Rigby, Mr., 130. 
 
 Rilliet, Gabriel, 18. 
 
 Ripein, Captain Paul, 77. 
 
 Rippington, Mr., 348. 
 
 Rivers, Earl, 68, 339. 
 
 Rixtall’s Horse. See under Army. 
 Robart. —, 44, 45. 
 
 Picea _ John, 45, 60, 62, 344. 
 
 aa peels , Mons, 828. 
 
 Robarts, Sir John, 262. 
 
 ds casie , Lady, 262, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 403 
 
 Robinson, Captain, 54, 326, 334. 
 strates Edward, 84. 
 
 Saye eet , Sir Leonard, 15, 18. 
 
 Pigsats dss Captain Francis, 84. 
 
 Meer era , John, 84 (?). 
 
 rere , Mr., 87, 88, 109, 170. 
 Preece a , William, 83. 
 
 Roche, George, letter from, 59. 
 Rochelle, 22, 275, 321, 336. 
 Rochester, Earl of, 112, 322, 
 Rocheteau, Anthony, 90. 
 
 eae ee , Esther, 96. 
 
 Rochford, Earl of, 329, 331. 
 Rochfort, 18, '75, 250, 252, 313, 321. 
 Rochfort, Mr., 4. 119, 184. 
 
 Reet , Robert, 60, 128, 339. 
 Rochteren, Colonel, 320. 
 
 Rodes, Robert, 2. 
 
 Rodney, Captain, 46. 
 
 Meera , Lieut.-Colonel Anthony, lL, 
 
 Roe, Colonel, 316. 
 
 Roesinghe, 356. 
 
 Roge, David, 119. 
 
 Rogers, Henry, 107. 
 
 teres , Philip, 86. 
 
 wseseseee, Alderman Robert, letter from, 181. 
 Rokeby (Rooksby), Mr. Justice, 308, 348. 
 Rolantz, John, 84. 
 
 Rollo (Rolo), Master of, 336, 339. 
 Romagna, 277. 
 
 Roman Emperor, the, 308. 
 
 Romans, King of the, 285. 
 
 Rome, 90, 239, 252, 256, 277, 319, 353. 
 
 , English Consul at, 331. 
 
 letters from, 233, 2387, 239, 241, 250, 
 
 seer eeaee 
 
 eeeeeenees 
 
 Romer, Colonel Wolfgang William, 137, 
 
 Romford, 17. 
 
 Romney, Earl, 5, 22, 45, o2, 75 (8), 81, 94, 
 110, 112, 118, 187, 188, 260, 268, 318, 
 339, 346. 
 
 Romney, 31, 56. 
 
 _ Romney Marsh, St. Mary’s in, 56. 
 
 Ronain, Nicholas, 108. 
 
 Ronok, Elizabeth, 35. 
 
 Rooke, Father, 42. 
 
 , Sir George, 13, 26 (2), 27, 28 (?), 
 34 (3), 87, 41 (2), 45 (2), 46, 47 (*), 48, 
 50, 52, 58, 54, 57, 58, 60. 61, 63 (2). 
 64, 65, 66, 67: (2), 69,71. (7), 72.@), 
 74 (3), 75. 78, 79 (2), 109, 230, 324, 
 326, 335, 3844, 348. 
 
 pees Reet letters £0, 41; 126, 130. 
 Rookwood, Captain, $8. 
 
 .. 1s, Thomas, letter from, 6. 
 
 Roope, Mr., 87, 88. 
 
 a PP letters to, 72, 77, 95, 133. 
 
 Roose, Schiper Hans, 27. 
 
 Rootsy, John, letter from, 172. 
 
 Sid st or 
 
404 
 
 Rosbach, 270. 
 
 eee ree , camp at, 263, 267, 269. 
 
 Roscommon, Countess of, 152. 
 
 Roscrea, 188. 
 
 Rose. Major John. 77. 
 
 Rosenweig, Jacob, 110. 
 
 Ross (Ireland), 162. 
 
 Ross (Rosse), Colonel, 124. 
 
 Satetptats Captain Charles, 125. 
 
 Sed ates , Colonel Charles, 113. 
 
 bs eens , James, 125. 
 
 Rossalio, Prince, 340. 
 
 Rotterdam, 116, 121, 140, 172, 242, 300. 
 
 Rou, John, 120. 
 
 Rouffau, Ann, 42. 
 
 Rous, Thomas, 47. 
 
 Rousselaere, 277, 281. 
 
 reper , Camp at, 280. 
 
 Rovyeroy (Reover), 78, 81. 
 
 Rowe (Row), —, 80. 
 
 , Catherine, 90. 
 
 , Colonel, 247, 248. 
 
 Mr., 350, 852. 
 
 ht as eer GHard eo0ec0l). 
 
 Rowlands, Captain, 8. 
 
 Rowley, Edward, 113. 
 
 Royal Bank, the. 258. 
 
 Royal Hospital of King Charles II. in Ireland, 
 governors of, 179. 
 
 Royal Mines, the, Council Board of, 96. 
 
 Roydon, Sir William, 539, 
 
 Royston, 318. 
 
 Roze, Monsieur, 334. 
 
 Ruault, Stephen, 84. 
 
 Ruchon, Jane, 26. 
 
 , Martin, 26. 
 
 Pierre, 26 
 
 Mee negroes Toinette, 26. 
 
 Rudolfen, Steen, 55. 
 
 Rufsteed, Peter, 124. 
 
 Rung, Hans, 1382. 
 
 Russell, Adjutant-General, 156. | 
 
 ee a Admiral 26, 27, 28, 34, 45, 47 (°), 
 49, 52, 57, 69, 74, 91,101, 109, 189, 
 232, 254, 256. 259, 261, 267, 268, 269, | 
 210,271, 273, 277) 4), 278> 279 (7), | 
 280, 285, 286 (2), 288 (*), 296, 812, | 
 324, 326, 328, 831, 336, 339, 344, 346, | 
 350, 352, 358. 854. 
 
 fleet of, 268. 
 
 letters from, 22. 25. 
 
 ee eter eeny 
 
 ee 
 
 < 8s eee C1664 lelele eg € eK § 
 
 Ode eones § Cer ver cease 
 
 Ann, 84. 
 
 Colonel, 288. 
 
 gna , Edward, 112. 
 
 eet, Father, 42. 
 
 oeakeaen the Hon. Francis, 241. 
 Spee John, 22. 
 
 Mareus, 138. 
 
 Mr., 155, 182. 
 Monsieur, 163. 
 Stanley, 120, 
 
 eee ew tees 
 
 tenner wens 
 
 Toe eee wes 
 
 ey 
 
 _ Ruvigny. 
 _ Rycote (Rycaut), 86, 89. 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Russia, 149, 250. 
 
 aimed , Czar of, 259, 829 (2), 334, 347. 
 
 Russians (Muscovites), the, 270. 329, 347, 
 355. 
 
 Ruthven, James, 99. 
 
 Rutter, Jacob, 88. 
 
 Thomas, 80. 
 See De Ruvigny. 
 
 ee ey 
 
 Ryde, 148. 
 Rye, 50, 54, 55, 341. 
 cates Lae , bay of, 266. 
 , mayor and jurats of, letter to, 54. 
 
 see eennes 
 
 _ Rye House plot, the, 339. 
 
 
 
 Rystedl, Peter, 125. 
 
 S 
 
 Sacred College, the, 319. 
 
 | Sadler, Daniel, 99. 
 
 eras $3 , Elizabeth, 22. 
 
 Sagredo, Signor, $23. 
 
 St. Albans, Duke of, 25, 274. 
 
 St. Amand, Abbot of, 240. 
 
 St. Andrews, New College at, 90, 127. 
 LES , St. Leonard’s College at, 127. 
 
 . Andrew’s Cross, worn by William III. on 
 St. Andrew’s Day, 357. 
 
 . Antonio, 50. 
 
 . Bridget, fort of, 342. 
 
 . Clement, parish of, in Jersey, 136. 
 . George, Sir George, 84, 135 (°), 137. 
 Canes es , Sir Oliver, 135. 
 
 . George’s Channel, 248, 276. 
 
 . George’s Down, 262. 
 
 . George’s Fort, 277. 
 
 . George’s Gate (Berlin), 295. 
 
 . Germains, 237, 238. 
 
 Pear , vale of, 272. 
 
 . Germains-en-Laye, 253, 261, 340. 
 . Ghislain, 3138. 
 
 . Helens, 256, 258 (2), 259 (2), 262 (2), 264. 
 266, 272, 274, 3038, 354. 
 
 ayant Dutch ships at, 226. 
 
 re sneer , letters dated at, 18 (2), 254. 
 . Helens Road, 21. 
 
 . Heliers (Jersey), parish of, 136, 
 . Ives (Cornwall), 238, 253. 
 
 . John, Colonel Thomas, 135. 
 
 . Leger, Captain, 112. 
 
 . Leonard’s College. See St, Andrews, 
 
 TR 
 ce 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 St. Malo, 1, 6 (2), 18, 48, 46, 49, 180, 137, 
 194, 227, 228, 20) 23 | (3), 282, 234, 
 238, 249 (2), 251, § 255, 265, 272 (2), 280, 
 317 (2), 884, 856. 
 , bombardment of, 6 
 , burning of, 14, 
 , Cancale Point, 7. 
 , Fort Royal, 7. 
 » Point D’Ambour or Dambour Fort, 
 3 (2), ie 
 Quince Rock, the, 2, 3, 7, 
 eae , Siege of, 15. 
 . Martin's, 22, 240, 286. 
 Trish at, 257. 
 . Michael (Barbadoes), market of, 115. 
 St. Neots (Cornwall), 99. 
 St. Sebastian, 288. 
 St. Thomas, 290. 
 St. Valertes (Valery), 51. 
 St. Wolstan’s, 142, 143. 
 Salankemen, 391. 
 Salassa, 233. 
 Sale, Lewis, 31. 
 “ee ees Rachel, 31. 
 Salinis, port of, 125, 
 Salisbury, Earl of, 160. 
 John, 29. 
 ea ch eset agen letter from, 48. 
 Wea is, Captain Samuel, letter from, 29. 
 Salisbury, 288. 
 ees , Bishop of, 326. 
 Salisbury Court. See wrder London. 
 Salmor, Edward, 81. 
 Salop. See Shropshire, 
 ‘*Salt and Sour,’ a term used by soldiers in 
 Ireland for provisions, 156. 
 Saluting, matters relating to, 40, 43, 44, 87, 
 88, 120, 121, 1381, 276, 327. 
 Sambre, the, 240, 257, 329 (2), 336, 340, 
 348 (2), 355. 
 Samerez, in Jersey, 136. 
 Sampson, Richard, 99. 
 Samuel, Sir Thomas, 241. 
 Samuelse, Pieter, 96. 
 San Antonio, 309, 312. 
 Sander, Martin, 124. 
 Sanderzoon, John, 35 
 Sandown Castle, 260. 
 Sandwich, 81, 128. 
 Ss oe , mayor of, 44, 78. 
 letters to, 82, 107. 
 
 giseaeiaee ‘ean ee 
 
 See eer eee 
 
 tee eweeee 
 
 See eee eeey 
 
 tee sereney 
 
 ey 
 
 Sanguhar, 319. 
 San Secondo, 272. 
 
 Sanus, Galousty, 78. 
 Sarsfield, —, 148, 158, 159. 
 bGcianeli 157. 
 eis Major-General, 102. 
 Sarucco, Hester, 110. 
 
 pet es , Moses, 110. 
 
 Satur, Mr., 77, 103, 131. 
 
 | Savoy, ‘90, 237, 257, 289, 
 
 
 
 
 
 Saumier, Mary, 69. 
 Saunders, Edmund, 140, 
 William, 29 
 
 Bi Fos ty Richard, 142. 
 Savage, Mrs. Diana, 96. 
 Mr., 109, 218, 
 Save, the, 233, 270. 
 Savery (Savory) —, 61. 
 , Christopher, 77. 
 , Mr., 95. 
 icine 118. 
 
 seater enny 
 Tee eweeens 
 
 323, 330. 
 
 inhabitants of, 289. 
 
 A le ae , Minister of, at Vienna, 233, 
 
 Lode eer , resident from, at Rome, 284. 
 
 sytney troops of, 289, 
 
 Savoy, Duchess of, 272. 
 
 Lae ay Duke of, 24, 50, 117, 166, =p rie 
 235 (2), 289, 252, 255, 259 (2), 2 
 268, 271 (2), 277, 279, 280, 36m, og 
 303, 308, 328 (2), 342, 845 (2), 347, 351. 
 
 Savoy, the. See under London. 
 
 Sawney, Jane, 47. * 
 
 Sawyer, Sir Robert, 140. 
 
 Saxbury, Anthony, 142. 
 
 Saxe-Gotha, Prince of, 171. 
 
 Saxons, the, 267, 289, 291, 329. 
 
 Saxony, 96, 184, 299, 
 
 , Commissioners of, 321. 
 
 , Court of, 248, 254, 296, 311. 
 
 , Elector of, 78, 85, 100, 233, 239, 250, 
 254, 311, 317, 319, 321, 82 23, 830, 3438, 
 347, 349, 351. 
 
 Lower, Hanse Towns of, 39, 93. 
 
 peseet ea Sane yi oe , English resident in, 93, 
 
 Sbirri, hai iedtentat of, 250 (2). 
 
 Scaife, Thomas, 35. 
 
 Scanderoon, port of, 137, 330. 
 
 Scarborough, Earl of, 112. 
 
 Ue Charles, 152. 
 
 Scarborough, 241. 
 
 Scariff, 158. 
 
 Schalle, Roelof, 80. 
 
 Schardius, Frederick William, 62. 
 
 Scheldt, the, 336, 340. 
 
 Schelhas, Johan Wilhelm, 53. 
 
 Scheller, Salomon, 114. 
 
 Schoen, Nicholas, 84. 
 
 Scholt, John, 4. 
 
 Schomberg, Count de, 151. 
 
 Rey Duke of, 12, 34, 50, 61 (2), 70, 90, 
 111, 158, 164, 206, 885, 358. 
 
 Schonfelder, —, 117. 
 
 Schoning, General, 233, 248, 267, 268, 291. 
 
 sere we eees 
 
 Creer rery 
 
 re a ee i ary 
 
 eee en wee 
 
 i i i) 
 
 | Schott, Clas, 182. 
 Schut, Andres, 132. 
 _ Schuylenburg, Monsieur, 145. 
 
 | Schuyme, Arent, 18. 
 
 Schuzzen, Theophilus, 29. 
 Schwart, Cornelius, 132. 
 
406 
 
 Schweyer, Andries, 66. 
 
 Scilly Islands, the, 71, 79, 288, 272, 274, 300, 
 810, 321, 324, 327, 352. 
 
 Scio, Island of, 284 (2), 287, 295, 802, 304 (2), 
 ee (passim), 311, 812, 314, 316, 317, 
 
 Scorch, Richard, 120. 
 Scotch Regiments, 256. 
 
 Seer se , recruits for, 800, 308. 
 
 feeteaces See also under Army, regiments in. 
 
 Scotland, 18, 90, 185, 243, 256. 
 
 .eeceeees Church of, instructions for the Lord 
 High Commissioner of, 122, 123, 330, 
 332, 337. 
 
 s++ses0e4, Clipped money in, 324. 
 
 veces , Commissioner of the General Assembly 
 
 of, letters to, 128. 
 Abe ag hex , Council Chamber in, 127. 
 Pr ae: , Council of, 324. 
 1m, SU , Earl Marshal of , 127. 
 Exchequer of, 124, 298. 
 
 errr e teeny 
 
 RSNA eneral assembly of the church of, 
 90, 247, 251, 282. 
 PTET 3S ye Pe , president of, 248. 
 
 , Knight Marshal of, 127. 
 
 , land forces in, 145. 
 
 io , Lord Advocate of, 282. 
 
 oe er Lord Chancellor of, 290, 294, 298. 
 , Lord Provost of, 294. 
 
 , Lords of Session in, 298. 
 
 Aen , Officers in, 116, 117. 
 
 AO ES Parliament of, 14, 38, 105, 144, 324, 
 332, 336, 348. 
 
 ae nade eo Tees « , address of to the King, as to 
 the massacre of Glencoe, 9-11. 
 
 Privy Council of, 90. 
 
 We ener any et , letters to, 116, 126, 127. 
 
 Sere , regiments in, 116, 170. 
 
 La wean , Treasury of, 124, 298. 
 
 i rutinceteccaet poe , Lords of the, 90, 128, 124. 
 
 trumpeters in, 127. 
 
 Under Secretary of, 90. 
 
 Scots Horse, the, 169. 
 
 Scott, Dr., 316. 
 
 ee , Sir Edward, 164. 
 
 See , Captain John, 341. 
 
 Seravenmoer, Major-General, 154. 179. 
 
 Seafort, Benjamin, 126. 
 
 Seaforth, Earl of, 170, 309, 
 
 Seagrave, —, 143. 
 
 noun , Francis, 142. 
 
 Seamen, dearth of, 241. 
 
 veeeeceee, Fegistoring of, 61. 
 
 Searle, Thomas, 186. 
 
 Sea Service, volunteers for, 187. 
 
 Seaton, Christopher, 18. 
 
 Secretaries of State, the 111 (2), 829. 
 
 Seditious papers and books, 29, 30 (2), 49, 53, 
 74, 117. 
 
 Seeman, Thomas, 172. 
 
 Seeventon, John, 32. 
 
 eee weee 
 
 Cen eeswnny 
 
 
 
 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Segeur, John, 84. 
 
 Seignior, the Grard, See Grand Seignior, the. 
 
 Seilmaker, William, 63. 
 
 Seire, Peter, 138. 
 
 Seizures, Commissioners of, 184. 
 
 Selbach, camp at, 332. 
 
 Selfe, Samuel, 104. 
 
 Seller’s Jacobite conyenticle, 51. 
 
 Senet, 242. 
 
 Sepolins, John, 63. 
 
 Seraphina, Ventura, 38. 
 
 Serjeant, Mrs., 48. 
 
 Serle, William, 48. 
 
 Sermenteau, Francis, 31. 
 
 Servia, 283. 
 
 Seshams, Edward, 119. 
 
 Se ope and Explanation, Act of, 140, 190. 
 91. 
 
 Setubal fleet, the, 307. 
 Severn, the, 185. 
 Seybold, Philip, 62. 
 Seymour, Captain, 115. 
 ae Speed , Colonel, 121. 
 anya se Sir Edward, 101, 112. 
 Shaban Dey, 130, 181. 
 Shane, William, 142. 
 Shannon, the, 155, 158, 159, 178, 189 (2). 
 Sharp (Sharpe), William, 98, 143. 
 Sharples, John, 1. 
 Shattar, Sieur, 340. 
 Shaw, Francis, 142. 
 Shee, William, 108. 
 Sheerness, 21, 54, 74, 145, 144, 274. 
 Shelburne, Lord, 210. 
 Sheldon, Captain, 180. 
 sg Miah toh , Mr., 202. 
 Shelley, —, 229. 
 Sherburn, Mrs. Katherine, 72 
 Sherriffe, James, 142. 
 Shetland, recruits from, 251. 
 Ships, names of :— 
 Aaron, the, 198. 
 Abram’s Offering, the, 29, 116 foot- 
 note. 
 Adventure, the, 109, 251 (2), 309. 
 Africa, the, 317. 
 Aldborough, the, 58, 147, 
 Alexander, the, 251. 
 Alliance, the, 242 (?). 
 America, the, 171. 
 Anglesea, the, 87, 321 (2), 824 (2), 
 334, 
 Ann, the, 807, 310. 
 Anne Truelove, the, 2. 
 Arabella, the, 79. 
 Areanie, the, 119. 
 Archangel, the, 278. 
 Assistance, the, 247, 276, 290. 
 Avyazilla, the, 54. 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 4O7 
 
 Ships, names of—cont. 
 
 Barbarellow, the, 247. 
 
 Berkeley Castle, the, 54, 249, 272, 
 278, 344. 
 
 Berwick, the, 37, 41, 50, 352. 
 
 Blessing, the, 29. 
 
 Bonaventure, the, 125, 187, 292. 
 
 Boyne, the, 284. 
 
 Breda, the, 201, 202. 
 
 Bridget, the, 244. 
 
 Bristol, the, 54, 161, 260. 
 
 Britannia, the, 254, 256, 258, 322. 
 
 deere , letters dated from on board, 
 
 Burlington, the, 134. 
 
 Cambridge, the, 37, 42, 57, 65, 258. 
 
 Canterbury, the, 300, 309. 
 
 Captain, the, 37, 274, 276. 
 
 Carlisle, the, 309. 
 
 Castle of Nerue, 22. 
 
 Centurion, the, 20, 194, 348. 
 
 Charity, the, 240. 
 
 Charles, the, 8, 7, 80, 82, 46, 262, 
 278, 334, 341. . 
 
 Charles the Second, the, 290. 
 
 Chichester, the, 18, 30, 37. 
 
 Cleveland, the, letter dated from 
 on board, 21. 
 
 Clondesley, the, 288, 275. 
 
 Coaster, the, 236. 
 
 Colchester, the, 300. 
 
 Conqueror, the, 109. 
 
 Cornwall, the, 234. 
 
 Coronation, the, 5, 251. 
 
 Coventry, the, 45, 65, 339. 
 
 Ban oan ire letters dated from on board, 
 
 Crown, the, 284, 244, 261. 
 
 Dartmouth, the, 334. 
 
 Defiance, the, 37, 41. 
 
 Delavall, 261, 333. 
 
 Devonshire, the, 45, 344. 
 
 Diamond, the, 228, 249 (2), 251 (?), 
 258. 
 
 Discovery, the, 31, 597, 272. 
 
 Dolphin, the, 198, 194, 200, 204, 266. 
 
 Dorer, the, 253. 
 
 Dorsetshire, the, 37, 65, 294. 
 
 Dove, the, 236. 
 
 Dragon, the, 300, 809, 341. 
 
 Drake, the, 275. 
 
 Dreadful, the, 7. 
 
 Dreadnought, the, 264, 300, 337. 
 
 Duchess, the, 50. 
 
 Duke, the, 24. 
 
 Dunkirk, the, 265, 266, 307. 
 
 Eagle, the, 352. 
 
 Edgar, the, 24. 
 
 Elizabeth, the, 36, 37, 50, 54, 249. 
 
 Elizabeth and Ann, the, 236, 238 (2). 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ships, names of—cont. 
 
 Endeavour the First, the, 29. 
 
 Endeavour the Second, the, 29. 
 
 England, the, 261. 
 
 Ephraim, the, 29, 116. 
 
 Essex, the, 24. 
 
 European, the, 172. 
 
 Expedition, the, 29, 352. 
 
 Experiment, the, 260. 
 
 Express, the, 31. 
 
 Falcon, the, 20, 28. 
 
 Falmouth, the, 309. 
 
 Firebrand, the, 307. 
 
 Foresight, the, 310. 
 
 Fortune, the, 21, 29, 54, 116 (2), 280. 
 
 French Expedition, the, 152. 
 
 Gabriel, the, 29. 
 
 George, the, 200. 
 
 Germoon, the, 69, 72, 275, 278, 306, 
 827, 330. 
 
 Gloucester, the, 25, 37, 41, 294. 
 
 Goodwin, the, 272. 
 
 Grafton. the, 24, 29. 
 
 Granada, the, 13, 137. 
 
 Grand, the, 266. 
 
 Great Georga, the, 251. 
 
 Greenwich, the, 262, 264. 
 
 Greyhound, the, 2, 251. 
 
 Guernsey, the, 288. 
 
 Hampshire, the, 260. 
 
 Hampton Court, the, 275. 
 
 Hannibal, the, 290. 
 
 Happy Return, the, 29. 
 
 Henrietta, the, 121. 
 
 Henry, the, 104, 265, 
 
 Herne, the, 120. 
 
 Hind, the, 31, 97. 
 
 Hope, the, 172, 262, 265, 321, 322, 
 324, 326, 328, 384 (2). 
 
 Hopewell, the, 29. 
 
 Humber, the, 234, 
 
 Isaac, the, 97. 
 
 Isabella, the, 282. 
 
 James, the, 204. 
 
 John, the, 244. 
 
 John and Martha, the, 29. 
 
 John and Matthew, the, 29. 
 
 Joseph, the, 278. 
 
 Justice, the, 125. 
 
 Kempthorne, the, 200. 
 
 Kent, the, 37, 52, 275, 276, 3387. 
 
 Kingfisher, the, 387, 254. 
 
 Lady Ann, the, 29, 116 footnote. 
 
 Lancaster, the, 249. 
 
 La Nostra Signiora de la Consolation, 
 
 Lark, the, 120, 252, 255. 
 Lenox, the, 38, 344. 
 Lichfield, the, 37, 125. 
 
Ships, names of—cont. 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Liefland, the, 135. | 
 
 Lion, the, 264. 
 
 Lodados, the, 72. 
 
 London, the, 50, 264. 
 
 London Merchant, the, 292. 
 
 Loyalty, the, 290. 
 
 Lumley Castle, the, 258. 
 
 Lyme, the, 32, 42, 324. 
 
 Madonna de Rosario, 125. 
 
 Maidstone, the, 8, 32, 42, 45. 
 
 Mary, the, 2, 45, 52, 57, 63, 234, 270, 
 300, 309 (2), 334. 
 
 Mary and Sarah, the, 29, 116 footnote. 
 
 May Flower, the, 29 (?). 
 
 Merchant Goodwill, the, 172. 
 Mercury, the, 13, 120. 
 
 SHAR , letter dated from on board, 
 
 Mermaid, the, 21, 31, 42, 48, 44. 
 
 Modena, the, 290 (2), 296. 
 
 Monk, the, 288 (2), 352. 
 
 Monmouth, the, 204, 240, 247, 258, 
 259, 298. 
 
 Montague, the, 316, 320, 321. 
 
 Mordaunt, the, 254. 
 
 Neptune, the, 5, 34, 37. 
 
 Newark, the. 5, 84, 37 (2), 65. 
 
 Newcastle, the, 809. 
 
 
 
 Newport, the, 247. 
 
 Nonsuch, the, 809 (2). 
 
 Norfolk, the, 352. 
 
 Northumberland, the, 27, 37, 50, 54, 
 57. 
 
 Norwich, the, 261, 290. 
 
 Owner’s Good Will, the, 29. 
 
 Parham, the, 288. 
 
 Pearl, the, 244, 
 
 Pembroke, the, 240 (3), 249, 254. 
 
 Pendennis, the, 260. 
 
 Penzance, the, 31, 41. 
 
 Pheenix, the, 161. 
 
 Plymouth, the, 309. 
 
 Portland, the, 327. 
 
 Portsmouth, the, 194, 327, 330. 
 
 Post Boy, the, 283. 
 
 Prins Casimier (Prince Cazameer), 
 the, 29, 116 footnote. 
 
 Prince of Orange, the, 344. 
 
 Queen, the, 256. 264, 274. 
 
 Regina del’ Ceilo, the, 132. 
 
 Reserve, the, 307. 
 
 Resolution, the, 249. 
 
 Restoration, the, 266, 352. 
 
 Richmond, the, 204. 
 
 Rochester, the, 87. 65. 
 
 Roebuck, the, 324, 334. 
 
 Romney, the, 300. 
 
 Royal Katherine, the, 276. 
 
 Royal Sovereign, the, 256. 
 
 Ruby, the, 307. 
 
 
 
 | Ships, names of—cont. 
 
 Russell, the, 351. 
 
 St. Alban’s, the, 258. 
 
 St. Andrew, the, 24, 249. 
 
 St. John Baptist, the, 247. 
 
 St. Martin, the, 326. 
 
 St. Michael, the, 24, 249. 
 
 St. Patrick, the, 193. 
 
 Samson, the, 290. 
 
 Sawuel, the, 290, 300. 
 
 Sandadoes, the, 48. 
 
 Sandwich. the, 24. 
 
 San Guiseppe, the, 125, 187. 
 
 Sapphire, the, 236. 
 
 Sappine, the, 45. 
 
 Sarah Elizabeth, the, 119. 
 
 Scarborough, the, 276. 
 
 Sea Flower, the, 172. 
 
 Sea Horse, the, 29, 322, 327. 
 
 Serpent, the, 125. 
 
 Shafterhoofe, the. 189. 
 
 Shark, the, 32, 97. 
 
 Sheerness, the, 236, 243. 
 
 Shoreham, the, 270. 
 
 Shrewsbury, the, 2, 6, 14, 30, 87, 42, 
 43, 46. 
 
 Smyrna Merchant, the, 154, 187. 
 
 Soldadoes (Soldado), the, 31, 244, 
 PY like | 
 
 Sole Bay, the, 41. 
 
 Sophia, the, 356. 
 
 Southampton, the, 251, 809. 
 
 Sovereign, the, 24. 
 
 Spanish Alliance, the, 327, 837, 339. 
 
 Spanish Expedition, the, 238, 288. 
 
 Spy, the, 247. 
 
 Star, the, 275. 
 
 Starenburgh, the, 67. 
 
 Stirling Castle, the, 275, 837. 
 
 Success, the, 298. 
 
 Suffolk, the, 24, 262. 
 
 Sussex, the, 258. 
 
 Swallow, the, 15, 201, 202, 820. 
 
 Swan, the, 283, 807. 
 
 Swift, the, 182. 
 
 Swiftsure, the, 275. 
 
 Talmodigheit, the, 122, 158. 
 
 Teméraire, the, $20. 
 
 Terrible, the, 3807. 
 
 Thomas and George, 29. 
 
 Tiger, the, 52, 296. 
 
 True Love, the, 29, 154. 
 
 Virgin, the, 278. 
 
 Virgin Grace, the, 236, 247. 
 
 Virginia Merchant, the, 249. 
 
 Weymouth, the, 18, 37, 227, 265, 
 266, 272, 274, 275, 300 (2), 821, 
 330. 
 
 William and Elizabeth, the, 29. 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Ships, names of—cont. 
 Winchester, the, 307. 
 Wren, the, 3, 
 Unity, the, 94. 
 Yarmouth, the, 18,37, 294. 
 York, the, 189. 
 Young Tobias, the, 29, 116 footnote. 
 Zante, the, 238. 
 Shipton, Alice, 53. 
 Shooter’s Hill, 333. 
 Shorter, Captain, 238. 
 Shovell (Shovel), Sir Cloudesley, 20, 42, 45, 
 50, 54, 63, 88, 158, 256, 260, 261, 262, 
 276, 279, 283 (2), 287, 307, 315, 318, 
 346. 
 Shower (Showers), Sir Bartholomew, 262, 351. 
 Shrewsbury, 21. 
 Shrewsbury, Duke of, 6, 9, 21, 24 (2), 30, 34, 
 36, 44, 48, 51, 52, 68, 83, 86, 95, 97, 
 foe 111, 116, 182, 148, 243, 281, 312, 
 322, 328, 329, 333. 
 
 letters from, 2 (2), 3 (2), 8, 15 
 (2), 17, 19, 20, 25, 26, 30, 83, 46, 47. 
 51, 58 (2), 54 (2), 55 (3), 59, 62, 64 (Gar 
 
 82 (*),85 101, 104, 105 (2), 107 (8), 
 
 112. 114, 115, 116, 118, 121 (3), 126 (2), 
 
 128, 130, 131, 133. 135, 137. 
 
 , letters to, 1,6, 12, 13, 18, 21, 
 22, 26, 29, 30. 35, 88, 43, 48, 49, 52, 
 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 94, 96, 101, 108, 
 128 (2), 183, 138, 189, 288, 342. 
 
 Shot, Claes, 124. 
 
 Shropshire, 133. 
 
 , Justices in, 54. 
 
 Sicilian galleys, 354. 
 
 ee ee ee ey 
 
 | Skaw, the, 
 
 
 
 Sick and Wounded Seamen, Commissioners 
 
 for, 65, 256, 258. 
 
 Sidon, 125. 
 
 Siggins, John, 81. 
 
 Signalling, Naval, frequent change in code 
 advocated, 20. 
 
 Signet, keeper of the, 344. 
 
 Signet Office, the, 226. 
 
 Signeur, John, 69. 
 
 Siemen, Michael, 12. 
 
 Silesia, 42, 211. 
 
 Protestant emigration from, to Ire- 
 land, 211, 212. 
 
 Silk, trade in, with Piedmont, 16, 28. 
 
 duty on, 16, 28, 33. 
 
 , seizure of, 241, 
 
 See Lutestring Company, the,. and 
 Thrown silk. 
 
 Simins, John, 119. 
 
 Simon, Colanstus Rustan, 78. 
 Vee Isabella, 117. 
 
 Simonsen (Simonson), Adrian, 132. 
 Arij, 124. 
 
 Charles, 182. 
 
 Simpson, Captain Christopher, 77. 
 Mrs. Johanna, 77. 
 Sinclair, Captain John, 22, 112. 
 
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 seer ereeny 
 
 
 
 | Smyrna, 295, 306 (2), 
 
 409 
 
 | Sirloins, the, 837. 
 
 Sittingbourne, 338 (?). 
 Sivart, Cornelis, 124. 
 Skackford, Thomas, 122, 
 301, 302. 
 Skinner, Daniel, 180, 131, 159. 
 Mr., 221. 
 
 eee oss Martin, 223. 
 Skye, Isle of, 170. 
 Slade, Hugh, 110. 
 
 Lae Vataee Moses, 68. 
 Slane, Lord, 15. 
 Slavonia, 283, 257, 270, 277, 308, 338, 351. 
 Sleeworth, Jaspar, 81. 
 Sligo, 157, 158, 159, 220, 221. 
 Sloan, Mr., 215. 
 
 Sloots, Jan, 69. 
 Slowly, Captain, 344. 
 Sluce, John Peterson, 55. 
 Sluys, 51, 55, 172. 
 Smart, Mr., 249. 
 Smid, Ralph, 96. 
 
 Smith, —, 32, 107. 
 
 Aaron, 1, 9, 51. 
 Cornelius, 182. 
 Gosivinus, 31. 
 
 Henry, 49. 
 
 James, 120, 124. 
 Mrs. Jane, 77. 
 John, 83, 112. 
 Martin, 62. 
 
 , Mary, 91. 
 . Mr., 21, 25. 51, 282. 
 Patrick, 2. 
 Thomas, 20, 78. 
 
 Pees tre William, 148, 244. 
 Smithwick, Captain Henry, 185. 
 Smyth, Colonel, 195. 
 
 Mr., 239. 
 Dr. Thomas, 96, 101. 
 308, 311, 312, 314, 3816, 
 
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 letter from, 247. 
 
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 | Snead, Ensign William, 147. 
 
 
 
 Soane, Captain, 13, 
 pistes eis Mr., 5. 
 Soddington, 342. 
 Soigne, forest of, 271, 
 Soignies, 281 (*). 
 
 282. 
 
 | Soldan, Gustaf, 81. 
 | Soldiers, atrocities committed by, 55. 
 
 Solicitor General, the, 33, 65, 93, 105, 105, 
 140, 1132 117, 118, 129, 1835189: 
 
 Somerford, manor of, 146. 
 
 Somerford Maltrayers, 146. 
 
 Somers, Helena, 49. 
 
 Sir John, 73, 111, 195, 346. 
 
 seer ee eeny 
 
 | Somerset, 146. 
 
 Soolant, Marten, 124. 
 
410 
 
 Sophia, 349. 
 
 Sorowsky, Peter, 16. 
 
 Sorrensen, Cornelius. 107, 118. 
 
 Sothern, Mr., 320. 
 
 Sound, the, 235, 286, 239, 287, 301 (2), 302 (2). 
 
 Soundings, the, 13, 17, 25 (2), 88 (2), 54, 57, 
 64 passim, 75. 
 
 Southampton, 15, 249, 294, 803, 310. 
 
 Set , mayor of, 148. 
 
 ean , merchants of, 231 
 
 Southbank, lands of, 127. 
 
 Southern Circuit, the, 308. 
 
 South Foreland, the, 276. 281. 
 
 South Sand Head, the, 344. 
 
 Southwark. 87. 
 
 Southwell, Sir Robert, letter to, 181. 
 
 Soyer, James, 103. 
 
 Spain, 27 (?), 38, 45, 49, 70, 73, 75, 94, 117, 
 121, 180, 182, 241, 264, 277, 291, 302, 
 308, 323, 337, 346. 
 
 ee , Court of, 171, 238, 287, 277, 280. 
 
 ee , Envoy of, 280, 315. 
 
 Ue , King of, 8, 27, 50, 250, 285, 286, 289, 
 292, 298, 299, 306, 345. 
 
 acy. a , letter from, 250. 
 
 er os Ministers of, 238, 248. 
 
 eRe , regiments of, 154, 263, 272,828, 340, 
 
 See Spaniards and Spanish. 
 
 Spalmadora, 314. 
 
 Spandau, 291. 
 
 Disa ee 255, 259, 279, 304, 319, 345, 
 
 eer eee oe 
 
 Spanish Ambassador, the, 9, 283. 
 
 Baste army, the, 261, 285, 344, 354. 
 
 OReP AMEE galleys, generals of the, 279. 
 
 Bees 8 horse, the, 152. 
 
 caer Netherlands, the, 285, 293, 299. 
 
 veseeeeee West Indies, the, 52. 
 
 See Spain and Spaniards, 
 
 Sparr, Monsieur, 224. 
 
 Spence, Gerard, 61. 
 
 Spencely, —, 73. 
 
 Solr dese , William, 35. 
 
 Spencer, Captain Quartus, 122 
 
 Spires, 268, 271. 
 
 Spires, Ann, 90. 
 
 iors thes , James, 90. 
 
 Spithead, 41, 42, 45, 47, 48, 51, 52, 60, 64, 
 66, 74, 75, 79, 123, 230, 284, 249 (2), 
 251, 254, 256, 258, 268, 274, 275, 303, 
 317, 318, 322, 324, 326, 837, 341, 352, 
 354, 
 
 Bae re , Dutch ships at, 226. 
 
 vases , letter dated at, 21. 
 
 Sprag, Captain, 85, 
 
 Sprenger, Mrs. Christian George, 33. 
 
 Spurway, Richard, 1388. 
 
 Spykes Town, 115. 
 
 Squadrons, list of, 143. 
 
 ses eereee 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Stage coaches, licensing of, 245. 
 Staines Bridge, 274. 
 
 Stair, Master of, 10-11, passim, 348. 
 Stamford, 86, 89, 91. 
 
 serie , churches of St. Peter and All Saints, 
 union of, 132. 
 
 bot Se corn riots in, 263. 
 
 Stamford, Earl of, 112, 124, 182. 
 
 Stanhope, Lieut.-Colonel James, 94, 98. 
 
 aecire es , Mr., 50, 130, 181. 
 
 Stanley (Stanly), Charles, 19. 
 
 eae, Jou alae, 
 
 arenes Mr., 254. 
 
 Aya Sir Rowland, 272, 288. 
 
 A dy , Sir Thomas, 272. 
 Stapes, Captain Richard, 39. 
 Staremberg, Count, 233, 321. 
 
 Starky (Starkey), Mary, 36. 
 
 States, or States General, the, 8 (2), 22, 38, 
 42, 44, 47,48, 52, 68, 73, 76 (2), 77, 
 87, 96, 108 (2), 110, 111, 118, 114, 
 115, 121 (2), 122, 125, 182, 136. 188, 
 151, 167, 169, 235 (°), 242, 248, 250 
 (2), 251, 255, 287, 289, 319, 332, 340, 
 347, 350. 
 
 Stationers Company, the, 74. 
 Stationers Hall, See wnder London. 
 Stearne, Lieut.-Colonel Robert, 126. 
 Steckelman, John, 56. 
 
 Stede. John, 115. 
 
 Stedman, Captain Francis, 106. 
 nae Fy oe Mary, 106. 
 
 Steen, Joachin, 56. 
 
 Steers, —, 52. 
 
 Steinbeck, Count, 110. 
 Steinkirk, 120. 
 
 Stenau, General, 353. 
 
 Stengens, Monsieur, 638. 
 Stenhausen, Prince of, 291. 
 Stephens, Captain, 41, 245, 247. 
 Eanes , Robert, 74, 305. 
 
 Baek aas See Stevens. 
 
 Stepney, 84. 
 
 Stepney (Stepny), George, 78, 100, 111. 
 eee , John, 142. 
 
 Sarat te , Mr., 296. 
 
 Ralecver , Thomas, 142. 
 
 Sterchmans, Geertruijt, 136. 
 Sterrison, Hans, 76, 84, 94. 
 Steuan, General, 284. 
 
 Stevens, Captain, 8. 
 
 eee , Jannetie, 52. 
 
 es , Jeffrey, 104. 
 
 Sethi te WO DETE, U2 
 
 eek eas See Stephens. 
 
 Stevenson, John, 1. 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Stewart (Stuart), —, 41, 
 ee , Alexander, 106. 
 seseee-s, Brigadier, 20, 50, 186, 2438, 316. 
 
 athe hte Captain John, 62 (3), 115. 
 
 eae , Tobias, 62. 
 
 ae , Captain William, 135. 
 
  aeeae , Brigadier-General William, 62, 115. 
 
 Stibel, Tobias, 45. 
 
 Stiernanker, John, 85, 
 
 Stiredale, John, 307. 
 
 Stirling, 158. 
 
 ae , baillies of, 282. 
 
 ftir ns , castle, 282. 
 
 Stock, Mr., 29. 
 
 Stocker, Caleb, 119. 
 
 Stockey, Andrew, 22. 
 
 Stockholm, 87. 
 
 Stokes, Nicholas, 76. 
 
 Stokes Bay, 275, 
 
 Stone, Mr., 17, 18, 97. 
 
 Fe Saas , Richard, 108. 
 
 Stopford, Colonel, 38. 
 
 By ek Die Major Joseph, 81, 120. 
 
 Storm, Pieter, 14. 
 
 Stout, Anthony, 20. 
 
 Stow, parish of, 138. 
 
 Strafford, Earl of, 294. 
 
 Straits, the, 5, 18, 20, 26, 28 (2), 37, 41, 44, 45, 
 47 (2), 48, 54, 57 (8), 60, 61, 63, 67, 68, 
 70, 71 (?), 72, 74, 75, 79 (2), 101, 109 (2), 
 126, 143, 244, 260, 268, 269, 278, 293, 
 393, 312, 318, 3827, 328, 335, 344, 346. 
 
 Straits’ Fleet, the, 278. 
 
 Strak, Conrad, 52. 
 
 Stranraer, 282. 
 
 Strassburg (Strasburg), 289, 245, 252, 255, 270, 
 285, 303, 836, 355. 
 
 Strathmore, Earl of, 127, 264. 
 
 Strathnayver, Lord, 29. 
 
 Streete, Mr., 130. 
 
 Streng, Jean Bernard, 117. 
 
 ‘*Striking.”’ See Saluting. 
 
 Strode, Grace, 146. 
 
 te sivced te , Sir George, 146. 
 
 Stry, 264. 
 
 Stuart. See Stewart. 
 
 Studd, Major Joseph, 84. 
 
 Stupa, Colonel, 313. 
 
 Stuve, Hans, 35. 
 
 Suarez, Abraham, 338. 
 
 Suffolk, 60. 
 
 Sultan, the. See under Turkey, 
 
 Sunday. Sce Lord’s Day, the. 
 
 Sunderland, Robert, Earl of, 181. 
 
 Surinam, 289, 300. 
 
 Surridge, Thomas, 42. 
 
 Susa (Suso), valley of, 257, 277, 279, 288, 
 340. 
 
 onaerr , garrison of, 345. 
 
 
 
 
 
 411 
 
 Sussex, 5, 109, 
 
 aoe , coast of, 78, 322. 
 
 etter 3 , ports of, 131. 
 
 Sutton, Captain John, 120, 142. 
 
 Sidutened , Philippa, 120. 
 
 Orbe ne , Robert, 69. 
 
 re , William, 30, 60, 81. 85, 87, 186, 143. 
 
 Sutton, manor of, 146. 
 
 Swabia, 277, 843, 355. 
 
 Swadling, Dr., 183. 
 
 Swallow, Ann, 136. 
 
 Swan, Mr., 3, 
 
 Swansea, 51. 
 
 Sweden, 12, 14, 18, 45, 77, 85, 87, 88 (2), 89, 
 350. 
 
 tye , court of, 84 (7). 
 
 See King of, 18, 22, 77, 120, 121 (2), 182, 
 152, 167, 235, 250. 
 
 ier stee , ministers of, 240, 245. 
 
 AG nig OE Princess of, 285. 
 
 Swedes, the, 40, 48, 81, 132, 234, 266 301. 
 321. 
 
 Swedish Ambassador, the, 311. 
 
 rns cae conyoy, the, 240. 
 
 woe envoy, the, 248. 
 
 ee eree fleet. the, 322. 
 
 men of war, 40, 42. 48, 44. 135, 265. 
 
 Secretary, the, 40. 
 
 LOY ships, reference to, 40, 259, 278. 
 
 Sweetman, —, 229, 
 
 ay Se , Edward, 142. 
 
 Sweeten, John, 109. 
 
 Swift, George, 107. 
 
 Swiss Cantons, the, 66, 306, 315. 
 
 Swiss Guards, regiment of, in the French 
 Army, the, 317. 
 
 Swiss protestant cantons, the, 248. 
 
 Switzerland, Lord Galway’s negotiations in, 
 297. 
 
 Switzers, the, French negotiations with, 289. 
 
 ate ae , general of the, 313. 
 
 Switzheim, 252. 
 
 Sydenham, Sir John, 87. 
 
 Sydney, Viscount, 163, 181, 195, 211, 214, 
 219, 220, 2386. 
 
 ve oes , letters from, 154, 155, 156, 159, 160, 
 195 (2), 196 (7), 198, 199, 200, 202 (2), 
 203, 204, 205 (2), 207, 208, 209 (?), 211, 
 212, 218 (2), 214 (2), 215, 216, 217, 218, 
 220, 221 (2), 222 (2). 
 
 Ne , letter to, 200. 
 
 Symball, Mrs., 312. 
 
 Syme, John, 127. 
 
 Symonds, Captain Gilbert, 117. 
 
 eee. . Joseph, 62. 
 
 Sympson, John, 140. 
 
 Cee , Mr., 142. 
 
 Synge, Dean, 201, 204, 208, 215, 216. 
 
 Pak eis , Dr. Samuel, 216. 
 
 Szlan, Kamen, 267. 
 
 ee 
 
412 
 
 T 
 
 Taffe, regiments of , 237. 
 
 Talbot, —, 142. 
 
 Rete ace , George, 35. 
 
 ey ere , James, 142, 143 (2). 
 
 ie tee Pas John, 142. 
 
 Tally Court, the, 172. 
 
 Talmash (Talmarsh), Lieut.-General Thomas, 
 171, 262, 263. 
 
 Tamino, John, 56. 
 
 Tangier, 346. 
 
 Tankervill, Earl of, 112, 331. 
 
 Tanner, Mr., 9, 12. 
 
 ER het Mary, 84. 
 
 Tarrell, Mr., 119. 
 
 Tartars, the, 287, 259, 270 (2), 287. 289, 295, 
 319, 347. 
 
 Tartary, Cham, or Khan, of, 288, 287, 252, 
 254, 259, 270, 277, 287, 310, 355. 
 
 Ppt: Ran of, 245. 
 
 Tarton, Mr. Baron, 308. 
 
 Tasburgh, James, 2. 
 
 Tatton, William, 39. 
 
 Taunton, 272. 
 
 Taurinus, officials under, 171. 
 
 Taylor, Anne, 84. 
 
 ee a Captain, 309. 
 
 Fern ee , Charles, 84. 
 
 Pieridae ae James, 119, 317. 
 
 Mrs 0 DU: 
 
 tere , Richard, 89. 
 
 ere eee Roger, 35. 
 
 BE aes , Thomas, 148. 
 
 foetnen , William, 76 (2), 88. 
 
 se eee , Zachary, 119. 
 
 ‘Teignmouth, 153. 
 
 a ceweee , Custom House at, 153, 
 
 Tekeli, Count, 285, 245, 252. 257, 297, 3338. 
 
 Telles, Jehudes, 33. 
 
 Telman, Peter, 76. 
 
 Temesvar, 270, 286, 289, 295, 318, 323, 348, 
 350, 351. 
 
 ose , siege of, 321, 329. 
 
 ‘Tempest, Sir Francis, 53. 
 
 Temple, John, 161, 212. 
 
 aes 5 , Sir John, 119, 161, 199, 339. 
 
 nee Sir Richard, 272. 
 
 soe chee , Thomas, |6l. 
 
 is dee , Sir William, 200. 
 
 Tenant, Captain, 248. 
 
 Tenedos, 284. 
 
 Tennison, Dr., 292, 805. 
 
 Terrahan, 188. 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Terre, the river, 269. 
 
 Testas, Peter, 66. 
 
 Tet (river ?), 279. 
 
 Tettau, 154. 
 
 Teutonic Order, the, Grand Master of, 239 
 242, 268. 
 
 Teven, Hans, 124. 
 
 Tewes, Hans, 125. 
 
 Texel, the, 323. 
 
 Thames, the, 264. 274, 296, 333. 
 
 Thanet, Isle of, 44. 
 
 Thanet, Earl of, 322. 
 
 Thanksgiving, day of, 65. 
 
 service for taking Namur, 53. 
 
 Theaker, Thomas, 85. 
 
 Therry, Major William, 73. 
 
 Thielt, 281. 
 
 Thomas, Benjamin, 145. 
 
 Captain, 286. 
 
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 | BOR Ares , Leison, 83. 
 peaene tne , Madam, 276. 
 
 Sarah, 32. 
 
 oes weeeesy 
 
 | ates , Timothy. 85. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Thompson, Charles, letters from, 161, 162 
 vantage , John, 49, 119. 
 
 aA Pres! , Sir John, 322. 
 
 Poe , Morrice, 188 
 
 ade eee , Paramor. 49. 
 
 | Thonnelet, Francis, 47. 
 
 Thornburgh, John, 86. 
 Thornesen, Thomas, 91. 
 Thornton, John, 99. 
 Robert, 88. 
 
 Cr oe ey 
 
 | Thorowgood, Sir Benjamin, 249. 
 
 Thorpe, Dr., 338. 
 
 Thrace (Tracy), 120. 
 
 Thrown silk, bill for importing, 236. 
 
 erences See also under Silk, 
 
 Thungen, General, 289. 
 
 Thursby, Mr., 119, 120. 
 
 Thurston, —, 44. 
 
 Set cians oy Mr., 52. 
 
 Thynne, Henry, 145, 146. 
 
 eantacest , Sir James, 146. 
 
 Tibull, 280. 
 
 Tichborne. See Titchbourne. 
 
 Tidcombe, Colonel John, 120, 122. 
 
 Tiede, Christopher, 39. 
 
 ‘«Tifes’’ demand for, made on the people o£ 
 Barcelona, 279. 
 
 Tiffin, Colonel Zachary, 97, 105. 
 
 Tilbury, 17, 19, 344. 
 
 Tilbury Fort, 9. 
 
 Tilly, John, 9 (?). 
 
 Tilson, Mr., 229. 
 
 Tin, refiners of, 148. 
 
 Tinsey, Philip, 121 (?). 
 
 Tipperary, 1738, 
 
 Tisdal, James, 143. 
 
 Tistaert, John, 86, 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Titchbourne, Captain Benjamin, 85. 
 
 Colonel, 117. 
 
 Titel, 333. 
 
 Tobacco, proposed increase of the revenue 
 upon, 118, 
 
 Toledo, 250. 
 
 Tollett, Captain, 40, 322 
 
 Tolot, Peter Mare, 55. 
 
 Tolouse, Count, 230. 
 
 Tom, John, 31. 
 
 Peter, 30, 80, 143. 
 
 Tombon, J ain 62. 
 
 Tomese, aca 124. 
 
 Tomsen, Andreas, 132. 
 
 Ton, river, 261, 
 
 Tonbridge. See Tunbridge. 
 
 Tongres, 233, 267 (2). 
 
 Tonnage and Poundage, 296. 
 
 Topham, Sir John, 101, 102 (2), 200 
 
 Topsham, 153. 
 
 Torbay, 258, 260. 
 
 Tories, the, 45, 176. < 
 
 Torrington, Earl of, 322, 
 
 Toulon, 25, 32, 244, 248, 269, 270, 285, 298, 
 307, 311, 320, 3835, 348 349, 350. 
 
 ee ee 10eb a6, 103s 
 
 letter from, 352. 
 
 ink SORE port of, 279. 
 
 SI OIeTe squadron, the, 244 (), 
 
 Toulouse, 253. 
 
 Tournai, 295, 353. 
 
 sae Governor of, 352. 
 
 Tours, 273. 
 
 Tourville, 255, 256, 278, 285, 321. 
 
 Tourville, Marshal, 253, 269, 291, 335, 855. 
 
 Towerson, Elicia, 31. 
 
 See reresey 
 
 Townley, Captain Anthony, 81. 
 
 Townshend, Captain, 181. 
 
 Trade and Plantations, committee of, 19. 
 
 ee ae See also Plantations, the. 
 
 Tradery, rectory of, 101, 163. 
 
 Transport Office, the, 61, 331 (2). 
 
 Transportations, Commissioners of, 
 182. 
 
 Transylvania, 245, 257, 270, 286, 306, 318, 
 329, 347 (2), 849 (2), 350, 351 ( (2), 355 (2). 
 
 Transylvanians, the, 351. 
 
 Trant, Maurice, 70. 
 
 ats Sir Patrick, 93, 105, 112. 
 
 Traseconch. Castle of, 284, 
 
 Trautwein, Christopher, 96. 
 
 Travers, Mr., 78. 
 
 Traves, Raphael, 86. 
 
 Treadway, George, 125. 
 
 Treason, Bill concerning, 292, 297. 
 
 Treasonable papers and practises 
 tious papers and books, 
 
 17, 34, 
 
 See Sedi- 
 
 | 
 | 
 
 
 
 | Trinity House, the, 
 
 | Trumbull, Re William, 3,9 
 
 413 
 
 | Treasury the, 3, 16, 28, 33, 34, 40, 44, 48, 
 
 53, 61 (2), 68 (2), 69, 73, 163, 168, 169 
 
 (2), 171, $51. 
 
 eect Lords of the, 33, 51, 61, 68, 82, 84, 
 103, 106 (2), 107, 108. 109, 113, 120. 
 121, 125, 185, 187, 178, 248, 263, 298 
 314, 344, 346. 
 
 Remabae eres couke aes , letters to, 5, 188. 
 
 Treby, Pict Chief Justice, 78, 308, 341. 
 Tregel, Peter, 124. 
 
 _ Treiner, Ditmar, 56. 
 
 Trekel, Peter, 132. 
 
 Trelawney, Colonel, 36, 52. 
 
 Trenchard, Sir John (Secretary of State) 
 112; 183, 331. 
 
 PEO ae death of, 326. 
 
 Site letters to, 227, 267. 
 
 Trent, Jacob, 105. 
 
 Treves, 255, 287. 
 
 Trevor, Sir John, 112, 318. 
 
 Saree Sir Thomas, 335. 
 
 Trimleston, Lord, 142. 
 
 Trinity Fort at Kaminiétz, 237. 
 
 a; 
 
 See under London. 
 Tripoli, 34, 61, 130. 
 
 , consul at, 130 (2), 
 
 Dey of, 180 (?), 131. 
 
 Qa King of, 298. 
 
 Tronchiennes, 345. 
 
 Trotter, John, 247 (2). 
 
 True, John, 107, 
 
 seer ert ng 
 
 18, 29, 40 (2), 
 44 (2), 52. 61, 66, 94, 106, LU ic 
 326, 599, 381, ‘Shr 
 
 ROA haa letters from, 2, 5, 6, 8, 14, 15, 17, 20, 
 30, 32, 40, 41, 53, 54, 55, 62, 67. 
 69. (2), 72, 77 (ee 79, 81, 82 (2), 86, 
 87. (),2188,1.89"@), 90; 92 (2), 94 (2), 
 95 (8), 96 (2), 97, 99, 101, 108 (3), 
 104 (4), 109 (3), 110, 114 (2), 115, 120. 
 122, 126, 181 (?), 133, 134, 137. 
 
 rere , letters to, 1, 48. 67, 119. 
 
 Tual, 238. 
 
 - Tuam, Archbishop of, 132, 209. 
 
 
 
 ea house of. 36. 
 Tucker, Mr., 381. 
 evliam 88. 
 
 Tully, ‘yer 63. 
 Tulmans, Aaltjen, 76. 
 Tunbridge, Viscount, 331. 
 Tunis, 72, 311. 
 
 .,, Consul at, 180 (*). 
 government of, 259, 
 
 eee eee rene 
 
 | Tunstall, Mr., 5 
 
 Turenne, 224. 
 
 Turin, 237, 289, 252, 259 (2), 268, 272. 279, 
 986, 288. 292, 2.97, 306, 308, 38238, 325, 
 340, 342. 
 
 MPP Pe 8 letters dated at, 
 308, 314, 845. 
 
 44, 233, 257, 268. 
 
414 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Turkey, 237, 242, 264, 310, 318, 326, 349. 
 
 stbaaeseh , army of, 287. 
 
 Noe teas convoy, the, 23, 52, 286, 346. 
 
 ste ees fleet, the, 24, 306, 312, 346. 
 
 Ka ees , French merchants in, 316. 
 
 eaeaaeee , Grand Seignior of, 245 (2). 
 
 esos , letters from, 252, 355. . 
 
 ent merchants, the, 258. 
 
 stan ete Sultan of, 816, 349. 
 
 oe aa Vizier of, 245. 
 
 ore oes See also Ottoman Empire, &c. 
 
 Turkish bassa, a, 287. 
 
 Turks, 233, 285, 242, 257, 267, 268, 270, 271, 
 280, 284, 291, 295, 298, 302, 304, 306, 
 310, 318, 317, 320, 321, 323, 829, 330, 
 332, 333, 347, 351, 355. 
 
 ban Pepe , war with the, 167. 
 
 one cate See also under Ottoman and 
 Ottomans. 
 
 Turnbull, Captain Thomas, 58. 
 
 Turner, Captain, 356. 
 
 So ener , Edward, 119. 
 
 ene , John, 89. 
 
 ce , Mrs. Mary, 78. 
 
 Turog, Hannah, 55. 
 
 ener . Peter, 55. 
 
 Tuscany, Grand Duke of. 4, 132, 277, 278, 
 279, 286, 302, 331. 
 
 Tuxford, 91. 
 
 Tweeddale, Marquis of, 105, 124, 294. 
 
 eevee: , letters to, 8, 33. 
 
 Twigg, —, 229. 
 
 Twistleton, Captain Fiennes, 115, 
 
 Twyman, John, 79, 
 
 Tybert, Andries, 119. 
 
 Tyburn, 152. 
 
 Tydiman, Francis, 72. 
 
 Tynmouth, governor of, 254. 
 
 Tyreonnel, Lord, 142, 155 (2), 157, 158, 
 180 (2). 
 
 Tyrell (Tyrrell), Bridget, 42. 
 
 Fin Ate op , James, 20, 42. 
 
 sbaceeme Captain John, 161. 
 
 Ba ins , Thomas, 42. 
 
 Tyrone, Earl of, 212. 
 
 Tysack, John, 103. 
 
 U 
 
 Ukraine, the, 254. 
 
 Ulster, 221. 
 
 Umfrey, Mrs., 20. 
 
 Ummiger, John, 8. 
 
 Upper Ossory, Lord of, 16. 
 Upper Rhine, the, 166, 188, 252. 
 bit See also Rhine, the, 
 Ushant, 65, 258, 292. 
 
 Usleegh, Lure, 78. 
 
 
 
 Vv 
 
 Valacia, Prince of, 355. 
 
 Valenchia, 299. 
 
 Valenciennes, 315, 333, 353. 
 
 Valence, siege of , 306, 
 
 Valentz, 237, 250. 
 
 Van Beeck, Lucas, 136. 
 
 Van Bracht, Isaac, 56. 
 
 Van Brackell, Adran, 100. 
 
 Van Braunjeon, Conrad, 105. 
 
 Van Bremen, Caspar, 70. 
 
 Vanbrook, Mr., 46. 
 
 Vander Boom, Weynant, 136. 
 
 Vander Dorent, Antonio, 52. 
 
 Vander Kettle, Jeremiah, 45. 
 
 Van der Meule, Elizabeth, 84. 
 
 Van der Meulen, Elizabeth, 86. 
 ies , Gaspar, 86. 
 
 Van der Osten, Michell, 69. 
 
 Van der Poel, 149. 
 
 Vander Porten, Simon, 124. 
 
 Vander Stein, Jacob, 188. 
 Vanderweld, the Castallan, 293. 
 
 Van Duijse, Giles, 77. 
 
 Vane, Sir Henry, 298. 
 
 Van Eyck, Anna, 33. 
 
 Beers , Levina, 33. 
 
 ieee. , Peter, 118. 
 
 Van Gorb, Rombout, 107. 
 
 Van Hauten, Jullis, 69. 
 
 Van Homrigh, Monsieur, 15 (?), 170, 182. 
 Van Houten, Helena, 70. 
 
 Van Loesbergen, Menard, 108. 
 
 Van Niewenheim, Ensign George, 121. 
 Van Ommeren, Machiel, 90. 
 
 Van Omverguerc. See D’Auverquerque. 
 Van Rayen, Barent, 67. 
 
 certs ., Jonas, 67. 
 
 Van Ricithoven, Cornelis, 11. 
 
 Van Ridd, Peter, 67, 
 
 Van Sicke, Isaac, 94. 
 
 Vansisterfleet, —, 80. 
 
 Van Toll, James, 72, 84. 
 
 Van Vieicden, John, 130. 
 
 Van Woensel, John, 38. 
 
 Vareilles, John James, 110. 
 
 Vasselar, Jean, 69. 
 
 Vasso, Jaques, 138. 
 
 Vauban, Monsieur, 258, 273, 321, 336, 
 Vaudemont, Prince of, 270, 303, 352. 
 Vaudois, the, 239, 257, 272, 284, 306, 340. 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 415 
 
 Vaughan, —, 28. 
 
 eee os , Captain, 48, 50, 64. 
 Mens 8 Mrs., 12. 
 
 pares , Henry, 84. 
 
 Vauss, John, 127. 
 
 Venddéme, Duke of, 279, 3238, 345. 
 
 Venetian Ambassador, the, 294, 304, 306, 311, 
 
 323. 
 Beano sna Fleet, tho, 284, 314. 
 
 Sree vx Service, the, Irish troops for, 221, 222. 
 Venetians, the, 237, 248, 268, 284, 287, 295, 
 
 304. 312, 332, 340. 347, 353. 
 Venice. 284, 286, 308, 311, 316, 320, 349. 
 fo consul at, 118, 
 eal , Doge of, 237, 280. 
 
 Sachpgae! , letters from, 802, 306, 353. 
 Wee ae , Republic of, 257, 304, 311, 323. 
 yore? , Senate of, 328. 
 
 Venner, Colonel, 316. 
 
 Ventris, —, 169. 
 
 Verbeck, Abraham, 81. 
 
 Verbecq, William, 53. 
 
 Verdun, 343. 
 
 Vernatty, Anthony, 56. 
 
 Vernon, Mr., 12, 18, 25, 45, 56, 248. 
 oer, eT Es , letters from, 46, 91. 
 
 eee tN Os letters to, 21. 22, 26, 27, 30. 
 36, 38, 42, 44, 45, 52. 60, 109, 119. 
 
 132, 286. 
 ae , Colonel, 144 (2). 
 a Leere , James, 76, 104. 
 Sete fo tas gis oo cess , letter from, 91, 
 ee erhaneat 125. 
 
 Verrall, Pincha, 33. 
 Versailles, 237, 246, 298, 315, 330. 
 Vervort, John, 66. 
 
 Veterani (Veteranye), General, 270, 289, 306, 
 
 321, 329, 333, 350, 351, 355. 
 Viand, Samuel, 77. 
 Vicard, Cardinal, 250. 
 Victuallers, the, 18, 28, 61, 64, 68, 86. 
 Victualling, Commissioners of the, 28. 
 Vidal (Vidall), Asar, 67, 70. 
 
 Vienna, 98, 233, 235, 247, 268, 285, 287, 291, 
 295, 310, 312, 313, 314, 315, 333, 349, 
 
 851, 355. 
 eee , Court of, 254, 
 
 met SP , letters dated at, 167, 241, 245, 268, 
 277, 291, 297, 304, 306, 321, 329, 332, 
 
 343, 347, 349, 851, 355. 
 Vigo, 261. 
 Villa Franca, 268. 
 Villa Nuova, 340. 
 Villar, Mrs., 49. 
 Villars, Captain, 254, 
 Villeroy, 46, 345 (?), 347. 
 EBs eons , Duke, 285. 
 Be as , Marshal, 258, 355, 
 
 
 
 
 
 Villiers, Brigadier, 234. 
 
 HBR ca , Colonel, 153, 182. 
 
 Ganatchins John, 2, 
 
 ee a , Lord, 49, 90, 92 106, 107, 122, 352. 
 
 Viner, Thomas, 96. 
 
 Virginia, 244 (2), 254, 271, 278, 296, 298. 300, 
 0, 318. 
 
 Vizier, The, 287. 
 
 ne cea g Mufti the, 318. 
 
 Vleys, Juan Baptista, 51. 
 
 Voisea, Monsieur, 293. 
 
 Vompion, —, 74. 
 
 Von Bart, Captain, 280. 
 
 See Du Bart. 
 
 Yonlion, 351. 
 
 Von Ottingeu, Christian, 27. 
 
 Voyer, Catherine, 115. 
 
 Vregman, Daniel, 124. 
 
 Vrijegel, Jonas, 124. 
 
 Vulean Pass, the, 350. 
 
 W 
 
 Wadding, John, 120. 
 
 Waddington, Sir Henry. 158. 
 
 Wade, —. 148. 
 
 Wahn, Jurgen, 36. 
 
 Walcot, 339. 
 
 Walcott, John, 152. 
 
 Br ccsves , Thomas, 152. 
 
 Waldeck, Prince of, 149, 151, 152 (?). 
 Hea ae , letters to, 183, 184. 
 
 Waldens, Jacob, 300. 
 
 Wales, Auditor of, 145. 
 
 Lae , coast of, 194, 
 
 erate sais , crown manors, &c. in, accounts of, 
 
 145. 
 Pel Eee justice in, 236. 
 Wales, Prinee of, drinking the health of, 2 
 Walker, George, |. 
 ee , Thomas, 53. 
 Walkington, Dr., 2, 3, 11, 12. 
 Wall, William, 2. 
 Wallachia, 350. 
 Waller, James, letter from, 200. 
 See sMr., 57; 
 Wallin, Benjamin, 14. 
 Wallingford, 63. 
 Wallis, Dr., 71, 134. 
 ake tans , George, 143. 
 Wally, Hendry, 8. 
 Grekiees + John, 85, 
 Walmer Castle, 260. 
 Walmesley, Mr., 270. 
 
416 
 
 Walsh, Colonel, 352. 
 
 pia oeeee Henry, 142. 
 
 Waltham Cross, the ‘‘ Four Swans”’ at, 39. 
 
 Walton, 146. 
 
 Walton, John, 142. 
 
 Wandsford, Sir Christopher, 339. 
 
 Wandsworth (Wandsor), threatened  dis- 
 turbance at the house of a French 
 Protestant in, 104. 
 
 Wanneghem, camp at, 277, 278, 280. 
 
 Wapping, 84. 105. 
 
 War, Councils of, proceedings at, 2, 6, 25, 
 26 (?), 27, 30, 31, 35 (?), 37, 38 (2), 42, 
 43, 46 (2), 151. 
 
 Warburton, Sir Peter, 118. 
 
 Ward, —, 88. 
 
 Fae , Captain Bernard, 80. 
 
 array , Sir Edward, 140, 335, 341. 
 
 A sResaee , Mr., 119, 120. 
 
 at. eee , Sir Patient, 232. 
 
 eee , Richard, 142. 
 
 Wardrobe, keeper of the King’s, 329. 
 Ware, James, 108. 
 
 Wark, Lord Grey of, 331. 
 Warminster, manor of, 145. 
 Warnicke, —, 186. 
 
 Warre, Mr., 215. 
 
 Warren, Mrs Margaret, 29. 
 Scere Mrs. Mary, 22. 
 ere , Peter, 142, 
 
 Pt: , Thomas, 102, 142, 
 Warring, James, 78. 
 
 sores , Marget, 78. 
 Warrington, Earl of, 276. 
 Warsaw, 282, 236, 254, 307, 347. 
 Warwick, rebuilding of, 295. 
 
 Water, engine for raising water from the | 
 
 Thames, patent for, 296. 
 Waterford, 154, 182, 186 (2), 187, 220, 221. 
 Deere , King’s Road, the, 182. 
 baer: , letters dated at, 186. 
 sesso, SUrrender of, 153. 
 Watergoos, letters dated at, 42. 
 Waterloo, 282. 
 sie , siege of, 343. 
 
 Waters, James, 73. 
 
 Wats, Alderman William, 143. 
 Watson, Mary, 29. 
 
 ace , Tobias, 29. 
 
 eee , William, 26. 
 Wattrangh, Isaack, 77. 
 Waugh, Captain, 107. 
 Wavre. 282 (2). 
 
 Weaver, Mr., 220. 
 
 Webb, Mrs. Dorothy, 77. 
 
 Pe ae , John, 136. 
 
 re Mrs. Mary, 27, 142. 
 ee , Mr., 188. 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Webberley, Major Thomas, 80. 
 Weiden, 277. 
 
 - Weisman, Ludolf, 110. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Weiss, Peter, 62 
 
 Welbeck, passes granted to, 92, 94. 
 ty documents dated at, 91, 93, 
 et eee , letter from, 352. 
 
 Welch (Welsh), —, 38. 
 
 etek , Thomas, 85. 
 
 Wellwood, Dr., 256. 
 
 Welsham, William, 119. 
 
 Wessell, John, 18. 
 
 Wessens, Lambert, 72. 
 Westchester, 85. 
 
 | West Dean, 224. 
 
 Westen, Marget, 78. 
 
 Western Circuit, the, 19. 
 
 West France, 25. 
 
 West India squadron, the, 81. 
 
 West [ndies. the, 40, 140, 143, 238, 242 260. 
 271, 800, 334. 
 
 Westmeath, Earl of, 60. 
 
 Westminster, court of, the verge held at, 247. 
 
 ae aes ai Court of Chancery in, 326. 
 
 eee ...., Dean and Chapter of, 318. 
 
 A Ae , election at, 348. 
 
 eee gatehouse at, 71. 76. 
 
 ae ptt eee , keeper of, 76. 
 
 ..s.ee-e-, letters dated at, 112, 189. 
 
 ates , prebendaries of, 318. 
 
 oe erees , streets in, 34. 
 
 Wexford, 202, 2038, 320. 
 
 Weymans, Gerard. 136. 
 
 Weymouth, 152, 158, 238, 249, 251, 266. 272. 
 841, 344. 
 
 eee , letters from, 242, 444. 260, 288. 
 
 Weymouth, Thomas, Viscount, 145, 322. 
 
 Weymouth Road, 258. 
 
 Wharton, Edward, 346. 
 
 eee ian . Madam, 335. 
 
 Ae , Mr., 45, 318. 
 
 TERN 24. , Thomas, 112. 
 
 Wheeler, Sir Francis, 243. 
 
 emer ce , Lieut.-Colonel Pitearne, 110. 
 
 Wheller, John, 72. 
 
 Whigs, the, 45. 
 
 Whip, Mr., 5. 
 
 Whitaker, Mr., 50, 64. 
 
 Whitbourne, 146. 
 
 White, James, 115. 
 
 eee cata , Mary, 32. 
 
 ae Oe , Nicholas, 96. 
 
 fae peu AGriOk 4142; 
 
 pr pet , Rowland, 16, 60 (°).’ 
 
 Whitebread, Thomas, 89. 
 
 Whitefriars, the, 250. 
 
 Whitehall, 304. 
 
 Whitehaven, 104. 
 
 Whitelock, John, 29, 
 
 Whitlock (Whittlock), Mr., 308, 316. 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Wibiornson, Andrew, 49. 
 Wiby, Didrick, 85. 
 
 Wickam, Captain, 249, 
 Wiesloch, 268, 267. 
 Wieyman, Daniel, 132. 
 Wigan, 272. 
 
 Wight, Isle of, 16, 114, 148, 175, 176, 354. 
 Wijegel, Jonas, 132. 
 Wildman, Mr., 149, 151. 
 Wilkie, William, 2. 
 
 Wilkins, —, 50. 
 
 eesoresce , William, 105. 
 Wilkinson, —, 54. 
 
 Aine , Major Cuthbert, 125. 
 eee ates , William, 125. 
 Willems (Willemse), Coro, 69. 
 
 Willemsen, John, 100. 
 
 William ITI., references to, 2,9, 11, 16, 19, 
 54, 57, 87, 189, 146, 149, 166, 169, 
 172, 211, 220, 222, 230, 281. 288, 242, 
 246, 250, 252, 255, 256, 257, 263, 264, 
 269, 280, 285, 291, 298, 304, 311, 318, 
 319, 334. 
 
 ae , acknowledgement of, by Papists, 304, 
 
 seseeeees, Leaves Loo, 335. 
 
 Ee letters from, 116, 123. 
 
 2 epee letters to, 131 (#), 149, 150, 151, 152, 
 167, 168, 169, 171. 
 
 5 es , return of, from the Continent, 328. 
 
 ‘Ae , rumoured death of, 50, 51. 
 
 Bes «ics , Speech of, 356. 
 
 soy oee , Visits the House of Peers, 322. 
 
 SR visits Newmarket and Althorp, 85. 
 
 Geeiiess , visits Oxford and Cambridge, &c., 
 85, 86, 89, 91, 95, 96. 
 Williams (Williamse), Barent, 108, 
 
 prea ot ce Le OL: 
 
 PERERA , John, 51, 76, 87, 119. 
 peered , Mr., 21. 
 
 Sabie deus , Thomas, 2. 
 
 readien oe , Peter, 91. 
 
 fomee ce , Sir William, 140. 
 Williamson, Sir Joseph, 59 (2), 93 
 ix et Le Sree Chery 2 cia Ge 
 
 ee prere , Thomas, 142, 1438. 
 Willis, Captain Charles, 84. 
 Willoughby, Susannah, 21, 
 Wilson, —, 54, 331. 
 
 ievateere , Captain, 181. 
 
 ee ee, , Dr. Nathaniel, 96, 101, 163. 
 ate , John, 66, 142. 
 
 adtask , Mr., 252, 262, 272 (2). 
 eee ce wits , Thomas, 142. 
 
 Wilts, county of, 146. 
 
 Wiltshaw (Wiltshire), Captain, 288, 309. 
 a ee , Commander, 44. 
 Wimbledon, 6. 
 
 Winchester, Marquis of, 112. 
 
 2045 
 
 
 
 417 
 
 Winchester School or College, 58, 80, 81, 
 126, 138. 
 
 Winden, 297. 
 
 Window tax, the, 134. 
 
 ety 92, 95, 96, 98, 103, 346, 358, 
 
 F Bple , letter dated at, 104. 
 
 Windsor, Colonel, 72, 258. 
 
 Wine, import tax on, 248, 
 
 Wine Licence Office, the, 314. 
 
 Winell, Capt., 194. 
 
 Wingfield, Mr., 129. 
 
 Winterbeyer, Conrad, 110. 
 
 Wintoun, Earl of, 18. 
 
 Winzenheim, 3338, 
 
 With, Edward, 85. 
 
 Withers, Mrs. Apolonia, 77. 
 
 Witsen, Mons., 151 (?). 
 
 Wivell, —, 114, 
 
 Wolers, Elizabeth, 31. 
 
 Wolfenbiittel, 149. 
 
 Wolff, Henry, Baron of Liittichau, 211. 
 
 Wollers, —, 25. 
 
 Wolseley (Wolsley), —, 155, 166. 
 
 ees , Brigadier, 1385, 136. 
 
 AE RE , Richard, 148. 
 
 eee , Robert, 14, 117. 
 
 Pet tel , Colonel William, 148, 149, 220, 224, 
 
 Womball, —, 331. 
 
 Wonterghem, camp at, 278. 
 
 Wood, Basil, 99. 
 
 oy ssasssay Captain, 41. 
 
 Lae , Captain Daniel, 29, 
 
 EN ote . Colonel, 52. 
 
 Woodbridge, Benjamin, 4. 
 
 Woodisons, manors of, 145. 
 
 Woodson, —, 272. 
 
 Woodstock, 32, 92, 95, 98. 
 
 nf a , recorder of, 48. 
 
 Woodward, Francis, 133. 
 
 Woogen, Serjeant, 341. 
 
 Wool, exportation of, 34, 
 
 Woolwich, 131, 318, 333, 346. 
 
 Worcester, Bishop of, 326. 
 
 EE RREN , city of, 34, 118, 
 
 Wormetlaw, mains of, 127. 
 
 Worms, 268. 
 
 eee , Bishop of, 268. 
 
 Wotton, Captain, 292. 
 
 Wouterse, Leendert, 90. 
 
 Wray, Sir Bouchier, 260. 
 
 bape “here? , Major Christopher, 135. 
 
 Wren, Sir Christopher, 71. 
 
 Wright, Captain, 240. 
 
 Geers , Mr., letter to, 85. 
 
 Wroughton, William, 138. 
 
 Wurtemburg, Count de, 114, 115 (2). 
 
 ieee , Duke of, 154, 277, 347, 358. 
 
 Wurzburg, Bishop of, letter from, 183. 
 
 Wushletish, Michael, 72. 
 
 2D 
 
418 
 
 Wyatt, Sylvester, 148. 
 
 Behe , Thomas, 148. 
 
 Wyche (Wych), Sir Cyril, 4, 195. 
 
 Wycombe, 57, 67. 
 
 Wynne (Wyn, Wynn), Lieut.-Colone] Owen, 
 125, 247, 258. . 
 
 aS an , Peter, 148. 
 
 Wytens, William, 69. 
 
 Yard, Mr., 92, 243. 
 
 Pee ite: , B., 86. 
 
 Yards, the. See Dockyards. 
 Yarm, 240. 
 
 Yarmouth, 8, 15, 50, 140, 226. 
 
 aif Roads, $01. 
 
 Yates (Yate), Joseph, 172 (2), 226. 
 Yeatts, John, 127. 
 
 Yester, Lord, 127. 
 
 York, 249. 
 
 PRE ceed: , Archbishop of, 326. 
 Yorke, John, 94. 
 
 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Yorkshire, 294. 
 
 er reaare , high sheriff of, 82. 
 
 Youghall, 155, 244. 
 
 Young, Ralph, 1, 2, 143. 
 
 cen thees , Simon, 70. 
 
 ane , Sir Walter, 272. 
 
 Yoward, Thomas, 72. 
 
 Ypres 280 (2), 281, 291, 315, 336, 340 (2). 
 
 Zalestin, 335, 
 
 Zante, 349. 
 
 es pees , men of, 120. 
 
 Zealand (Zeeland), 66, 84, 140, 289, 323, 384. 
 Pease , capers, 312. 
 
 Pt Ay , privateers, 55. 
 
 Zealanders, the, 54. 
 
 Zeeland. See Zealand. 
 
 Zell, 149. 
 
 ie Ree , the camp at, letter dated at, 11. 
 Zen, Captain General, 302, 306, 323. 
 Zulestein, ‘‘ Senior,” 329, 331. 
 
 Zurich, cantons of, 250. 
 
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 Vol. I.— 1307-1313. Vol. IV.— 1321-1324. 
 Vol. II.— 1313-1317. | Vol. V.— 1324-1327. 
 
 Vol. IITI.—1317-1321. 
 Epwaprgp ITI. 
 
 
 
 Vol. I.— 1327-1330. Vol. VI.— 1343-1345. 
 Vol. IT.— 1330-1334. Vo]. VII.— 1345-1348. 
 Vol. ITT.—1334-1338. Vol. VIITI.—1348-1350. 
 Vol. IV.— 1338-1340. Vol. IX.— 1350-1354. 
 
 Vol. V.— 1340-1343. 
 Ricuarp II. 
 
 Vol. I.— 1377-1381. Vol. IV.— 1388-1392. 
 - Vol. II.—- 1381-1385. Vol. V.— ~==—«i1391-1396. 
 Vol. III.—1385-1389. 
 
 Henry IV. 
 Vol. I— 1399-1401. | Vol. III.— 1405-1408. 
 Vol. II.— 1401-1405. 
 
 Henry VI. 
 
 Vol. I. —1422-1429. | Vol. Ill.— 1436-1441. 
 
 Vol. II.— 1429-1436. | Vol. IV.— 1441-1446. 
 Epwarp IV.— 1461-1467. 
 Epwarp IV., Henry VI.—1467-1477. 
 Epwarp IV., Epwarp V., RicHarp III., 1476-1485. 
 
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 EDWARD I. 
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 Vol. IITI.—1288—1296. 
 Epwarp II. 
 Vol. I.— 1307-1313. Vol. ITI.— 1318-1323. 
 Vol. II.— 1313-1318. Voli EV —.. 1323-1327; 
 Epwarp III. 
 Vol. I.— 1327-1330. Vol. VI.— 1341-1343. 
 Vol. II.— 1330-1333. Vol. VII.—- 1343-1346. 
 Vol. ITI.—1333-1337. Vol. VIII.—1346-1349. 
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 Vol. II.—1257-1300. |! 
 
 CALENDAR OF INQUISITIONS POST MORTEM and other analogous docu- 
 ments, prepared under the superintendence of the Deputy Keeper 
 of the Fe onenaat 1898-1908. 
 
 Vol. I.—Henry III. 
 Vol. II.—Epwarp I. 
 Vol. V.—Epwarp II. 
 SEconD SERIES— 
 Henry VII.—Vol. I. 
 
 INQUISITIONS AND ASSESSMENTS relating to FrEuDAL Arps, etc., pre- 
 pared under the superintendence of the Deputy Keeper of the 
 Records. 1284-1431. Vol. I. Bedford to Devon. 1899. Vol. 
 II. Dorset to Huntingdon. 1900. Vol. III. Kent to Norfolk. 
 1904. Vol. IV. Northampton to Somerset. 1906. 
 
 CALENDAR OF LETTERS AND PAPERS, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC, OF THE 
 REIGN OF HENRY VIII., preserved in the Public Record Office, 
 the British Museum, and elsewhere in England. Edited by J. S. 
 Brewer, M.A. (Vols. I.-IV.); by JAMES GaAIRDNER (Vols. 
 V.-XIII.); and by JaMES GAIRDNER, C.B., and R, H. Bropier 
 (Vols. XIV.-XIX.). 1862-1907. 
 
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 1518. (Part I. out of print.) Vol. XIV., Part 1.—1539, Jan. 
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 1523. Vol. XIV., Part 2.—1539, Aug. 
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 Vol. IV., Part 2.—1526-1528. Vol. XVI.—1540, Sept. to 
 Vol. IV., Part 3.—1529-1530. 1541, Dec. 
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 Vol. [IX.—1535, Aug. to Dec. Aug. to Dec. 
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 Vol. XII., Part I.—1537, Jan. Vol. XIX., Part IJ.—1544, 
 to May. Aug. to Dec. 
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 to Dec. to July. 
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 to July. Aug. to Dec. 
 
 
 
 CALENDAR OF STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC SERIES, OF THE REIGNS OF 
 Epwarp VI., Mary, EvizaABeTH, and JAMES I. LEdtted by Roperr 
 Lemon, F.S.A. (Vols. I. and II.) and by Mary ANNE EVERETT 
 GREEN (Vols. III.—XII.). 1856-1872. 
 
 
 
 Vol. I.— 1547-1580. Vol. VII.—Addenda, 1566-1579 
 Vol. II.— 1581-1590. Vol. VIIT.—1603-1610. 
 Vol. TIT.—1591-1594. (Out of Vol. IX.— 1611-1618. 
 
 print.) Vol. X.— 1619-1623. 
 Vol. IV.—1595-1597. Vol. XI.— 1623-1625, with 
 Vol. V.— 1598-1601. Addenda, 1603-16265. 
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 Addenda, 1547-1565. 1625. 
 
 CALENDAR OF STATE Paprers, Domestic SERIES, OF THE REIGN OF 
 CHARLES I., Edited by Joun Bruce, F.S.A. (Vols. I.—XII.) ; by 
 Joun Bruce, F.S.A., and Wit~t1AM DoveLas Hamiuton, F.S.A. 
 (Vol. XIII.); by Wirt1am Dovucrias Hamirton, F.S8.A. (Vols. 
 XIV.-XXII.); by Witr1am Dovatas Hamirtron, F.S8.A., and 
 Sopuiz C. Lomas (Vol. XXIII.). 1858-1897. 
 
 Vol. I.—- 1625-1626. Vol. XITI.— 1638-1639. 
 Vol. I1.— 1627-1628. Vol. XIV.— 1639. 
 
 Vol. ITI.— 1628-1629. Vol. XV.— 1639-1640. 
 Vol. IV.— 1629-1631. Vol. XVI.— 1640. 
 
 Vol. V.— 1631-1633. Vol. XVII.— 1640-1641. 
 Vol. VI.— 1633-1634. Vol. XVITI.—1641-1643. 
 Vol. VII.— 1634-1635. Vol. XIX.— 1644. 
 
 Vol. VIII.—1635. Vol. XX.— 1644-1645. 
 Vol. IX.— 1635-1636. Vol. XXI.— 1645-1647. 
 Vol. X.— 1636-1637. Vol. XXII.— 1648-1649. 
 Vol. XI.— 1637. Vol. XXIIT.—Addenda. 1625- 
 
 Vol. XII.— 1637-1638. 1649. 
 
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 CALENDAR OF STATE Papers, Domestic SERIES, DURING THE COMMON 
 WEALTH. Edited by MARY ANNE EVERETT GREEN. 1875-1885. 
 
 Vol. I.— 1649-1650. Vol. VIII.— 1655. 
 
 Vol. II.— 1650. Vol. IX.— 1655-1656. 
 Vol. III.— 1661. Vol. X.— 1656-1657. 
 Vol. IV.— 1651-1652. Vol. XI.— 1657-1658. 
 Vol. V.— 1652-1653. Vol. XII.— 1658-1659. 
 Vol. VI.— 1653-1654. Vol. XITI.— 1659-1660. 
 
 Vol. VII.— 1654. 
 
 CALENDAR OF STATE PAPERS :—COMMITTEE FOR THE ADVANCE OF 
 Money. 1642-1656. Edited by Mary ANNE EVERETT GREEN. 
 Parts I.-III., 1888. 
 
 CALENDAR OF STATE PAPERS :—COMMITTEE FOR COMPOUNDING, &C., 
 1643-1660. Edited by Mary ANNE EVERETT GREEN. Parts 
 I.-V., 1889-1892. 
 
 CALENDAR OF STATE PapEeRsS, DOMESTIC SERIES, OF THE REIGN OF 
 CHARLES II. Edited by Mary ANNE EVERETT GREEN (Vol. I.-X.) ; 
 and by F. H. BuackBURNE DANIELL, M.A. (Vols. XI.—XVI.) 
 
 1860-1907. 
 Vol. I.— 1660-1661. Vol. X.— 1670, and Ad- 
 Vol. II.— 1661-1662. denda, 1660-1670. 
 Vol. IIT.— 1663-1664. Vol. XI.— 1671. 
 Vol. IV.— 1664-1665. Vol. XII.— 1671-1672. 
 Vol. V.i— 1665-1666. Vol: XITL.— 1672. 
 Vol. VI.— 1666-1667. Vol. XIV.— 1672-1673. 
 Vol. VII.— 1667. Vol. XV.— £1673. 
 Vol. VIII.—1667-1668. Vol. XVI.— 1673-1675. 
 Vol. IX.— 1668-1669. Vol. XVII.— 1675-1676. 
 
 CALENDAR OF STATE PAPERS, DOMESTIC SERIES, OF THE REIGN OF 
 WitiiaMmM III. Hdited by Witt1am JouHn Harpy, F.S.A. 1895- 
 
 1906. 
 Vol. I.— 1689-1690. Vol. IV.— 1693. 
 Vol. II.— 1690-1691. Vol. V.— 1694-1695. 
 Vol. III.— 1691-1692. 
 
 
 
 CALENDAR OF HoME OFFICE PAPERS *OF THE REIGN OF GEORGE III. 
 Vols. I. and II. Hdited by JosEPH REDINGTON. 1878-1879. 
 Vols. III. and IV. Edited by Ricuarp ARTHUR ROBERTS, Bar- 
 rister-at-Law. 1881, 1899. 
 
 Vol. I.—1760 (25 Oct.)-1765. Vol. III.— 1770-1772. 
 Vol. IIl.— 1766-1769. Vol. IV.— 1773-1775. 
 CALENDAR oF TREASURY Booxs. Edited by W. A. SHaw, M.A. 
 1904-1908. 
 
 Vol. I.— 1660-1667. Vol. ITI.—1669-1672. Part I. 
 Vol. II.— 1667-1668. Vol. IIT.—1669-1672. Part IT. 
 
 CALENDAR OF TREASURY PapErRS. LHdited by JosSEPH REDINGTON. 
 
 1868-1889. 
 Vol. I— 1557-1696. Vol. IV.— 1708-1714. 
 Vol. I1.— 1697-1702. Vol. V.— 1714-1719. 
 Vol. TII.— 1702-1707. Vol. VI.— 1720-1728. 
 
 CALENDAR OF TREASURY Books AND Papers. LHdited by W. A. 
 SHaw, M.A. 1897-1903. 
 
 Vol. l— 1729-1730. Vol. IV.— 1739-1741. 
 Vol. II.— 1731-1734. Vol. V.— 1742-1745. 
 Vol. TII.— 1735-1738. 
 
 
 
 CALENDAR OF SrTatTe Papers relating to Scornanp. LHdited by 
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 Office, London. Edited by Henry SavaGE SweEetTMAN, B.A., 
 Barrister: at-Law (Ireland) (Vols. I.-IV) ; and by H. 8. SweETMAN 
 and Gustavus FREDERICK Hanpcoock (Vol. V.). 1875-1886. 
 
 Vol. I.— 1171-1251. Vol. IV.— 1293-1301. 
 Vol. II.— 1252-1284. Vol. V.— 1302-1307. 
 Vol. III.— 1285-1292. 
 
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 Vole 1509-1573. Vol. VI.— 1596-1597. 
 Vol. II.—-* 1574-1585. Vol. VII.— 1598-1599. 
 Vol. Ui 1586-1588. Vol. VITI.— 1599-1600. 
 Vol. IV.—%, 1588-1592. Vol. [X.— 1600. 
 
 Vol. V.— 1592-1596. Vol. X.— 1600-1601. 
 
 CALENDAR OF STATE PAPERS relating to IRELAND, JAmeEsS I., pre- 
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 the Rev. C. W. Russetut, D.D., and JoHN P. PRENDERGAST, 
 Barrister-at-Law. 1872-1880. 
 
 Vol. I.— 1603-1606. Vol. IV.— 1611-1614. 
 Vol. II.— 1606-1608. Vol. V.— 1615-1625. 
 Vol. III.— 1608-1610. | 
 
 CALENDAR OF STATE Papers relating to IRELAND, CHARLES I. and 
 
 COMMONWEALTH. JHdited by R. P. Manarry, B.A. 1901-1903. 
 Vol. I.— 1625-1632. Vol. 1V.—Adventurers for 
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 Vol. IIJ.—1647-1660, with 
 
 Addenda, 1625-1660. 
 
 CALENDAR OF: STATE Papers relating to IRELAND, CHARLEs II. 
 Edited by R. P. Manarry, B.A., 1905-1908. 
 
 Vol. I.—1660—-1662. | Vo}. ITI.—1666-1669. 
 Vol. IJ.—1663-1665. 
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 Edited by J. 8. BREwer, M.A., and Witt1AM BULLEN. 1867-1873. 
 Vol. I.— 1515-1574. (Out Vol. [V.—1601- 1603. 
 of print.) Vol. V.—Book of Howth. 
 Vol. Il.— 1575-1588. | Miscellaneous. 
 Vol. IIJ.—1589-1600. | Vol. VI.—1603-1624. 
 
 CALENDAR OF STATE PAPERS, COLONIAL SERIES. Ldited by W. NoEu 
 SarnsBuRyY (Vols. I-IX), by W. NoEt SAInsBury and the Hon. 
 J. W. Fortescue (Vol. X.), and by the Hon. J. W. Fortescue 
 (Vols. XI.-XVI.), 1860-1905. 
 
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 Vol. IV.— zp a 1622-1624. 
 
 Vol. V.—America and West Indies, 1661-1668. 
 
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 1574-1674. 
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 Vol. XI.— ish oe 1681-1685. 
 Vol. XII.— ei i 1685-1688. 
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 Vol. XIV.— "es a 1693-1696. 
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 Vol. XVI.— op “A 1697-1698. 
 
 CALENDAR OF STATE PAPERS, FOREIGN SERIES, preserved in the 
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 Epwarp VI., 1547-1553. | Mary, 1553-1558. 
 
 CALENDAR OF STATE PAPERS, FOREIGN SERIES, OF THE REIGN OF 
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 Vol. 1.— 1558-1559. Vol. IX.— 1569-1571. 
 Vol. Il.— 1559-1560. Vol. X.— 1572-1574. 
 Vol. ITI.— 1560-156). Vol. XI.— 1575-1577. 
 Vol. IV.— 1561-1562. Vol. XT — 71877-1578: 
 Vol. V.— 1562. Vol. XITI.— 1578-1579. 
 Vol. VI.— 1563. Vol. XIV.— 1579-1580. 
 Vol. VII.— 1564-1565. Vol. XV. — 1581-1582. 
 
 Vol. VITI.—1566-1568. 
 CALENDAR OF DOCUMENTS IN FRANCE, illustrative of the History of 
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 “®VII.). 1862-1904. 
 
 
 
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 Vol. III. Part 2.—1527-1529. Vol. VI. Part 2.—1542-1543. 
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 CALENDAR OF STATE PapeRS AND MANvuscripts, relating to ENGLISH 
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 1. THE CHRONICLE OF ENGLAND, by JOHN CAPGRAVE. Edited by the 
 Rev. F. C. Hineseston, M.A. 1858. 
 
 Capgrave’s Chronicle extends from the Creation of the World to the year 1417. Being 
 written in English, it is of value as a record of the language spoken in Norfolk. 
 
 2. CHRONICON MONASTERII DE ABINGDON. Vols. I. and Il. KHdtted 
 by the Rev. JosePH STEPHENSON, M.A., Vicar of Leighton 
 Buzzard. 1858. 
 
 This Chronicle traces the history of the monastery from its foundation by King Ina of 
 Wessex, to the reign of Richard I. The author incorporates into his history varios charters 
 of the Saxon kings, as illustrating not only the history of the locality but that of the kingdom. 
 
 3. LivEs oF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR. I1.—La Estoire de Seint 
 Aedward le Rei. Il.—Vita Beati Edvardi Regis et Confessoris. 
 IIT.—Vita Aiduuardi Regis qui apud Westmonasterium requiescit. 
 Edited by Henry RicHarps Luarp, M.A., Fellow and Assistant 
 Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge. 1858. 
 
 The first is a poem in French, probably written in 1245. ‘The second is an anonymous 
 poem, written between 1440 and 1450, which is mainly valuable as a specimen of the Latin poetry 
 of the time. The third, also by an anonymous author, was apparently written between 1066 
 and 1074. 
 
 4. MONUMENTA F'RANCISCANA. 
 
 Vol. I.—Thomas de Eccleston de Adventu Fratrum Minorum in 
 Angliam. Adz de Marisco Epistole. Registrum Fratrum 
 Minorum Londonixe. EHdited by J. 8. BREwER, M.A., Professor 
 of English Literature, King’s College, London. 
 
 Vol. Il.—De Adventu Minorum; re-edited with additions. 
 Chronicle of the Grey Friars. The ancient English version of 
 the Rule of St. Francis. Abbreviatio Statutorum, 1451, &c. 
 Hdited by RicHARD How.etTt, Barrister-at-Law. 1858, 1882. 
 
 5. FASCICULI ZIZANIORUM MAGISTRI JOHANNIS WyYCLIF CuM TRITICO. 
 Ascribed to THomAs NETTER, of WALDEN, Provincial of the 
 Carmelite Order in England, and Confessor to King Henry the 
 Fifth. Hdited by the Rev. W. W. Suirtey, M.A., Tutor and late 
 Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. 1858. 
 
 This work gives the only contempotaneous account of the rise of the Lollards. 
 
 6. THE Burk OF THE CRONICLIS OF SCOTLAND ; or, a Metrical Version 
 of the History of Hector Boece; by Witiiam STEWART. Vols. 
 L.-III, Hdited by W. B. TuRNBULL, Barrister-at-Law. 1858. 
 
 Thisis a metrical translation of a Latin Prose Chronicle, written in the first half of the 16th 
 century. The narrative begins with the earliest legends and ends with the death of James I. 
 of Scotland, and the “‘ evil ending of the traitors that slew him.” The peculiarities of the 
 Scottish dialect are well illustrated in this version. 
 
 7. JOHANNIS CAPGRAVE LIBER DE [LLUSTRIBUS HENRIOIS. Edtted by 
 the Rev. F. C. Hinereston, M.A. 1858. 
 
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 The first part relates only to the history of the Empire from the election of Henry I. the 
 Fowler, to the end of the reign of the Emperor Henry VI. The second part is devoted to 
 English history, from the accession of Henry I. in 1100, to 1446, which was the twenty-fourth 
 year of the reign of Henry VI. ‘The third part contains the lives of illustrious men who have 
 borne the name of Henry in various parts of the world. 
 
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 8. Historta Monasterit 8. AUGUSTINI CANTUARIENSIS, by THOMAS 
 
 or Ex_muHam, formerly Monk and Treasurer of that Foundation. 
 Edited by CHARLES Harpwick, M.A., Fellow of St. Catherine’s 
 Hall, and Christian Advocate in the University of Cambridge. 
 1858. 
 
 This history extends from the arrival of St. Augustine in Kent until 1191. 
 
 9. EuLoarum (HIsTORIARIUM SIVE TEMPORIS): Chronicon ab Orbe 
 
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 condito usque ad Annum Domini 1366; a monacho’ quodam 
 Malmesbiriensi exaratum. Vols. I.-IlI. Hdited by F.S. Haynon, 
 B.A. 1858-1863. 
 
 This is a Latin Chronicle extending from the Creation to the latter part of the reign of 
 Edward III., with a continuation to the year 1413. 
 
 MEMORIALS OF HENRY THE SEVENTH ; Bernardi Andrez Tholosatis 
 Vita Regis Henrici Septimi; necnon alia quedam ad eundem 
 Regem Spectantia. Hdited by JAMES GAIRDNER. 1858. 
 
 The contents of this volume are—(1) a life of Henry VII., by his poet Laureate and his- 
 toriographer, Bernard André, of Toulouse, with some compositions in verse, of which he is 
 supposed to have been the author ; (2) the journals of Roger Machado during certain jembassies 
 to Spain and Brittany, the first of which had reference to the marriage of the King’s son, Arthur, 
 with Catharine of Arragon ; (3) two curious reports by envoys sent to Spain in 1505 touching 
 the succession to the Crown of Castile, and a project of marriage between Henry VII. and the 
 Queen of Naples ; and (4) an account of Philip of Castile’s reception in England in 1506. Other 
 documents of interest are given in an appendix. 
 
 MEMORIALS OF HENRY THE FirTH. I.—Vita Henrici Quinti, 
 Roberto Redmanno auctore. II.—Versus Rhythmici in laudem 
 Regis Henrici Quinti. J1I.—Elmhami Liber Metricus de Henrico 
 V. Edited by CHartes A. Cote. 1858. 
 
 MUNIMENTA GILDHALL2Z LONDONIENSIS; Liber Albus, Liber 
 Custumarum, et Liber Horn, in archivis Gildhalle asservati. 
 
 Vol. I., Liber Albus. 
 Vol. II. (in Two Parts), Liber Custumarum. 
 
 Vol. Ill., Translation of the Anglo-Norman Passages in Liber 
 Albus, Glossaries, Appendices, and Index. 
 
 Edited by Henry Tuomas Ritey, M.A., Barrister-at-Law. 1859- 
 
 1862. 
 
 The Liber Albus, compiled by John Carpenter, Common Clerk of the City of London in 
 the year 1419, gives an account of the laws, regulations, and institutions of that City in the. 
 12th, 13th, 14th, and early part of the 15th centuries. The Liber Custumarum was compiled 
 in the early part of the 14th century during the reign of Edward II. It also gives an account 
 
 of the laws, regulations, and institutions of the City of London in the 12th, 13th, and early part 
 of the 14th centuries. 
 
 CHRONICA JOHANNIS DE OXENEDES. Ldited by Str Henry ELLs, 
 K.H. 1859. . 
 Although this Chronicle telis of the arrival of Hengist and Horsa, it substantially begins 
 
 with the reign of King Alfred, and comes down to 1292. It is particularly valuable for notices 
 of events in the eastern portions of the kingdom. 
 
 A COLLECTION OF POLITICAL POEMS AND SONGS RELATING TO 
 ENGuLIsH HISTORY, FROM THE ACCESSION OF EHpwWaArpD III. To THE 
 REIGN OF Henry VIII. Vols. I. and Il. Edited by THomas 
 Wricut, M.A. 1859-1861. 
 
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 The ‘‘ Opus Trrtium,” “Opus Minus,” &c. of Roger Bacon. 
 Edited by J. S. Brewer, M.A., Professor of English Literature, 
 King’s College, London. 1859. 
 
 BARTHOLOMAI DE COTTON, MONACHI NORWICENSIS, HISTORIA 
 ANGLICANA, 449-1298 ; necnon ejusdem Liber de Archiepiscopis 
 et Episcopis Anglie. IHdited by Henry Ricuarps Luarp, M.A., 
 Fellow and Assistant Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge. 1859. 
 
 Brut y Tywysoaion ; or, The Chronicle of the Princes of Wales. 
 Edited by the Rev. JoHN Wituiams 4B ITHEL, M.A. 1860. 
 This work, written in the ancient Welsh language, begins with the adbication and death 
 
 of Caedwaia at Rome, in the year 681, and continues the history down to the subjugation of 
 Wales by Edward L, about the year 1282, 
 
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 8. A COLLECTION OF ROYAL AND HISTORICAL LETTERS DURING THE 
 Reien oF Henry IV. 13899-1404. Hdited by the Rev. F. C. 
 Hinaeston, M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford. 1860. 
 
 19. THE REPRESSOR OF OVER MUCH BLAMING OF THE CLERGY. By 
 REGINALD PECOCK, sometime Bishop of Chichester. Vols. I. and 
 II. Edited by the Rev. Cuourcuit1 Basineton, B.D., Fellow of 
 St. John’s College, Cambridge. 1860. 
 The author was born about the end of the fourteenth century, consecrated Bishop of St. 
 
 Asaph in the year 1444, and translated to the see of Chichester in 1450. His work gives a full 
 account of the views of the Lollards, and has great value for the philologist. 
 
 20. ANNALES CAMBRIZ. LHdited by the Rev. JoHN WILLIAMS AB I THEI 
 M.A. 1860. 
 These annals, which are in Latin, commence in 447 and come down to 1288. The earlier 
 
 portion appears to be taken from an Irish Chronicle used by Tigernach, and by the compiler 
 of the Annals of Ulster. 
 
 21. THt Works OF GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS. Vols. J.-IV. LHditcd by 
 the Rev. J. S. Brewer, M.A., Professor of English Literature, 
 King’s College, London. Vols. V.-VII. Hdited by the Rev. 
 JAMES F. Dimock, M.A., Rector of Barnburgh, Yorkshire. Vol. 
 VIII. Hdited by GrorGcE F. WARNER, M.A., of the Department 
 of MSS., British Museum. 1861-1891. 
 
 These volumes contain the historical works of Gerald du Barry, who lived in the reigns 
 of Henry II., Richard I., and John. 
 
 The Jopographia Hibernica (in Vol. V.) is the result of Giraldus’ two visits to Ireland, the 
 first in 1183, the second in 1185-6, when he accompanied Prince John into that country. The 
 Expugnatio Hibernica was written about 1188. Vol, VI. contains the Jtinerartum Kambria 
 et Descriptio Kambrie ; and Vol. VII., the lives of 8. Remigius and 8. Hugh. Vol. VIII. con- 
 tains the Treatise De Principum Instructione, and an index to Vols. L.-IV. and VIII. 
 
 22. LETTERS AND PAPERS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE WARS OF THE ENGLISH 
 IN FRANCE DURING THE REIGN OF HENRY THE SiIxTH, KING OF 
 ENGLAND. Vol. I., and Vol. II. (in Two Parts). Hdited by the Rev. 
 JosEPH STEVENSON, M.A., Vicar of Leighton Buzzard. 1861- 
 1864. 
 
 23. THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, ACCORDING TO THE SEVERAL 
 OriainaL AutHoRiItTIES. Vol. I., Original Texts. Vol. II., Trans- 
 lation. Hdited and translated by BENJAMIN THORPR, Member of 
 the Royal Academy of Sciences at Munich, and of the Society of 
 Netherlandish Literature at Leyden. 1861. 
 
 There are at present six independent manuscripts of the Saxon Chronicle, ending in different 
 years, and written in different parts of the country. In this edition, the text of each manu- 
 script is printed in columns on the same page, so that the student may see at a glance the various 
 changes which occur in orthography. 
 
 24. LETTERS AND PAPERS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE REIGNS OF RICHARD 
 III. anp Henry VII. Vols. I. and II. SHdited by James 
 GARDINER, 1861-1863. 
 
 The principal contents of the volumes are some diplomatic Papers of Richard III., corres- 
 pondence between Henry VII. and Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain; documents relating to 
 
 Edmund de la Pole, Harl of Suffolk ; and a portion of the correspondence of James IV. of 
 Scotland. 
 
 25. LETTERS OF BISHOP GROSSETESTE. LEHdited by the Rev. HENRY 
 RicHarps LuarpD, M.A., Fellow and Assistant Tutor of Trinity 
 College, Cambridge. 1861. 
 
 The letters of Robert Grosseteste range in date from about 1210 to 1253. They refer 
 especially to the diocese of Lincoln, of which Grosseteste was bishop. 
 
 26. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS RELATING TO THE 
 History OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Vol. I. (in Two Parts), 
 Anterior to the Norman Invasion. (Out of Print); Vol. IL., 
 1066-1200; Vol. III., 1200-1327. By Sir THomas Dvurrus 
 Harpy, D.C.L., Deputy Keeper of the Records. 1862-1871. 
 
 27. ROYAL AND OTHER HISTORICAL LETTERS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE 
 REIGN OF Henry III. Vol. I. 1216-1235. Vol. II. 1236-1272. 
 Selected and edited by the Rev. W. W. Surrury, D.D., Regius 
 Professor of Ecclesiastical History, and Canon of Christ Church, 
 Oxford. 1862-1866. 
 
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 28. CHRoNICA MONASTERII S. ALBANI :— 
 
 1. THoma& WALsINGHAM HisTrorta ANGLICANA. Vol I., 1272- 
 1381; Vol. II., 1881-1422. 
 
 2. WILLELMI RISHANGER CHRONICA ET ANNALES, 1259-~-1307. 
 
 3. JOHANNIS DE TROKELOWE ET HENRICI DE BLANEFORDE 
 CHRONICA ET ANNALES 1259-1296; 1307-13824: 1392-1406. 
 
 4. Gesta ABBATUM MoNnasTERII 8S. ALBANI, A THOMA WALSING- 
 HAM, REGNANTE RICARDO SECUNDO, EJUSDEM EccLEest® PRz- 
 
 CENTORE, COMPILATA. Vol. I., 793-1290: Vol. II., 1290--1349 : 
 Vol. III., 1349-1411. 
 
 5. JOHANNIS AMUNDESHAM, MONACHI MONASTERII 8S. ALBANI, UT 
 VIDETUR, ANNALES; Vols. I. and II. 
 
 6. REGISTRA QUORUNDAM ABBATUM MonasTERII S. ALBANI, QUI 
 SzcuLoO xv™0 FrorugeRe. Vol. I., Reaistrum ABBATLE 
 JOHANNIS WHETHAMSTEDE, ABBATIS MONASTERIIT SANCTI 
 ALBANI, ITERUM SUSCEPT ; ROBERTO BLAKENEY, CAPELLANO, 
 QUONDAM ADSCRIPTUM: Vol. II., REGISTRA JOHANNIS 
 WHETHAMSTEDE, WILLELMI ALBON, ET WILLELMI WALING- 
 FORDE, ABBATUM MONASTERIT Sancti ALBANI, CUM APPEN- 
 DICE CONTINENTE QUASDAM EPISTOLAS A JOHANNE WHETHAM- 
 STEDE CONSCRIPTAS. 
 
 7. YPODIGMA NEuUSTRIZ A THOMA WALSINGHAM, QUONDAM 
 MONACHO MonastTERII 8S. ALBANI, CONSCRIPTUM. 
 
 Edited by Henry THomas Ritey, M.A., Barrister-at-Law. 
 1863-1876. 
 
 In the first two volumes is a History of England, from the death of Henry III. to the death 
 of Henry V., by Thomas Walsingham, Precentor of St. Albans. 
 
 In the 3rd volume is a Chronicle of English History, attributed to William Rishanger, 
 who lived in the reign of Edward I.: an account of transactions attending the award of the 
 kingdom of Scotland to John Balliol, 1291-1292, also attributed to William Rishanger, but on 
 no sufficient ground : a short Chronicle of English History, 1292 to 1300, by an unknown hand 
 a short Chronicle, W illelmi Rishanger Gesta Edwardi Primi, Regis Anglis, probably by the 
 same hand: and fragments of three Chronicles of English History, 1285 to 1307. 
 
 In the 4th volume is a Chronicle of English History, 1259 to 1296 : Annals of Edward II., 
 1307 to 1323, by John de Trokelowe, a monk of St. Albans, and a continuation of Trokelowe’s 
 Annals, 1323, 1324, by Henry de Blaneforde: a full Chronicle of English History, 1392 to 1406, 
 and an account of the benefactors of St. Albans, written in the early part of the 15th century. 
 
 The 5th, 6th, and 7th volumes contain a history of the Abbots of St. Albans, 793 to 1411, 
 mainly compiled by Thomas Walsingham, with a Continuation. 
 
 The 8th and 9th volumes, in continuation of the Annals, contain a Chronicle probably of 
 John Amundesham, a monk of St. Albans. 
 
 The 10th and 11th volumes relate especially to the acts and proceedings of Abbots Wetham- 
 stede, Albon, and Wallingford. 
 
 The 12th volume contains a compendious History of England to the reign of Henry V. 
 and of Normandy in early times also by Thomas Walsingham, and dedicated to Henry VY. 
 
 29. CHRONICON ABBATIAZ: EVESHAMENSIS, AUCTORIBUS DOMINICO 
 PRIORE EVESHAMI& ET THOMA DE MARLEBERGE ABBATE, A FUN: 
 DATIONE AD ANNUM 1213, UNA CUM CONTINUATIONE AD ANNUM 
 1418. Edited by the Rev. W. D. Macray, Bodleian Library, 
 Oxford. 1863. 
 
 The Chronicle of Evesham illustrates the history of that important monastery from 690 
 
 to 1418. Its chief feature is an autobiography, which makes us acquainted with the inner daily 
 life of a great abbey. Interspersed are many notices of general, personal, and local history. 
 
 30. RIcARDI DE CIRENCESTRIA SPECULUM HISTORIALE DE GESTIS 
 Rereum Anais. Vol. I., 447-871. Vol. Il., 872-1066. Edited 
 by JoHn EH. B. Mayor, M.A., Fellow of St. John’s College, 
 Cambridge. 1863-1869. 
 
 Richard of Cirencester’s history is in four books, and gives many charters in favour of 
 Westminster Abbey, and a very full account of the lives and miracles of the saints, especially 
 
 of Edward the Confessor, whose reign occupies the fourth book. A treatise on the Coronation, 
 by William of Sudbury, a monk of Westminster, fills book ii. c. 3. 
 
 31. YEAR BooKS OF THE REIGNS OF EDWARD THE FIRST AND EDWARD 
 THE THIRD. Years 21-21, 21-22, 30-31, 32-33, and 33-35 Edw. 
 I; and 11-12 Edw. III. Edited and translated by ALFRED JOHN 
 Horwoop, Barrister-at-Law. Years 12-13, 13-14, 14, 14-15, 
 15, 16, 17, 17-18, 18-19, 19, and 20 (First Part), Edward III. 
 Edited and translated by LuKE OwrEn Pixs, M.A., Barrister-at- 
 Law. 1863-1908. 
 
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 32. NARRATIVES OF THE EXPULSION OF THE ENGLISH FROM NORMANDY, 
 1449-1450.—Robertus Blondelli de Reductione Normanniz: Le 
 Recouvrement de Normendie, par Berry, Hérault du Roy: Con- 
 ferences between the ‘Ambassadors of France and England. 
 Edited by the Rev. JosEPH STEVENSON, M.A. 1863. 
 
 33. HistorRTA ET CARTULARIUM MoNASTERII 8. PETRI GLOUCESTRIZE 
 Vols. J.-III. Edited by W. H. Hart, F.S.A., Membre Correspon- 
 dant de la Société des Antiquaires de Normandie. 1863-1867. 
 
 34. ALEXANDRI NECKAM DE NatTuRIS RERUM LIBRI DUO; with 
 Neckam's Poem, Dre Laupisus DIvIN2& SaPIEnTI@. LHdited by 
 THomas Wriacut, M.A. 1863. 
 
 35. LEECHDOMS, WORTCUNNING, AND STARCRAFT OF HARLY ENGLAND ; 
 being a Collection of Documents illustrating the History of Science 
 in this Country before the Norman Conquest. Vols. I[.-III. 
 Collected and edited by the Rev. T. Oswatp Cockayne, M.A. 
 1864-1866. 
 
 36. ANNALES MONASTICI. 
 
 Vol. 1.:—Annales de Margan, 1066-1232; Annales de Theokes- 
 beria, 1066-1263 ; Annales de Burton, 1004-1263. 
 
 Vol. II. :—Annales Monasterii de Wintonia, 519-1277; Annales 
 Monasterii de Waverleia, 1—1291. 
 
 Vol. III. -—Annales Prioratus de Dunstaplia, 1-1297. Annales 
 Monasterii de Bermundeseia, 1042-1432. 
 
 Vol. IV. :—Annales Monasterii de Oseneia, 1016-1347 ; Chronicon 
 vulgo dictum Chronicon Thomze Wykes, 1066-1289; Annales. 
 Prioratus de Wigornia, 1-1377. 
 
 Vol. V. :—Index and Glossary. 
 
 Hdited by HENRY RicHaRDS Luarps, M.A., Fellow and Assistant 
 Tutor of Trinity College, and Registrary of the University, 
 Cambridge. 1864-1869. 
 
 37. Magna Vita S. Huconis Eptscorpr LINCOLNIENSIS. Edited by the 
 Rev. JAMES F. Dimock, M.A., Rector of Barnburgh, Yorkshire 
 1864. 
 
 38. CHRONICLES AND MEMORIALS OF THE REIGN OF RICHARD THE FIRST. 
 Vol. I. :—ITINERARIUM PEREGRINORUM ET GESTA REGIS RICARDI. 
 
 Vol. Il. :—EpristoLa CANTUARIENSES; the Letters of the Prior 
 and Convent of Christ Church, Canterbury ; 1187 to 1199. 
 
 Edited by the Rev. Witt1am Stusss, M.A., Vicar of Navestock, 
 Essex, and Lambeth Librarian. 1864-1865. 
 
 The authorship of the Chronicle in Vol. I., hitherto ascribed to Geoffrey Vinesauf, is now 
 more correctly ascribed to Richard, Canon of the Holy Trinity of London. 
 The letters in Vol. IJ., written between 1187 and 1199, had their origin in a dispute which arose 
 1 from the attempts of Baldwin and Hubert, archbishops of Canterbury, to found a college of 
 secular canons, a project which gave great umbrage to the monks of Canterbury. 
 
 39. RECUEIL DES CRONIQUES ET ANCHIENNES ISTORIES DE LA GRANT 
 BRETAIGNE A PRESENT NOMME ENGLETERRE, par JEHAN DE 
 Waunrin. Vol. I., Albina to 688. Vol. II., 1399-1422. Vol. 
 ITI., 1422-1431. Hdited by Witt1AM Harpy, F.S.A. 1864-1879. 
 Vol. IV., 1431-1447. Vol. V., 1447-1471. Hdited by Sir WiLt1AM 
 Harpy, F.8.A., and Epwarp L. C. P. Harpy, F.S.A. 1884-1891. 
 
 40. A COLLECTION OF THE CHRONICLES AND ANCIENT HISTORIES OF 
 GREAT BRITAIN, NOW CALLED ENGLAND, by JOHN DE WAURIN. 
 Vol. I., Albina to 688. Vol. II., 1399-1422. Vol. III., 1422- 
 1431. (Translations, of the preceding Vols. I., II., and II1. 
 Edited and translated by Sir WiL11AM Harpy, F.S.A., and EDwaRrpD 
 L. C. P. Harpy, F.S.A. 1864-1891. 
 
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 41. PotycHronicon RANULPHI HiGpDEN, with Trevisa’s Translaticn. 
 Vols. I. and II. Hdited by CHurcHILL Basinatron, B.D., Senior 
 Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge. Vols. III.-IX. Edited 
 by the Rev. Jos—EPH Rawson LumBy, D.D., Norrisian Professor of 
 Divinity, Vicar of St. Edward’s, Fellow of St. Catharine’s College, 
 and late Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. 1865-1886. 
 
 This chronicle begins with the Creation, and is brought down to the reign of Edward ITI. 
 
 The two English translations, which are printed with the original Latin, afford interesting 
 illustrations of the gradual change of our language, for one was made in the fourteenth century, 
 the other in the fifteenth. 
 
 42. Le LIVERE DE REIS DE BRITTANIE E LE LIVERE DE REIS DE 
 ENGLETERE. Edited by the Rev. JoHN GLOvER, M.A., Vicar of 
 Brading, Isle of Wight, formerly Librarian of Trinity College, 
 Cambridge. 1865. 
 
 These two treatises are valuable as careful abstracts of previous histories. 
 
 43. CHRONICA MONASTERII DE MELSA AB ANNO 1150 USQUE AD ANNUM 
 1406, Vols. I-III. Hdited by Epwarp Avcustus Bonn, Assis- 
 tant Keeper of Manuscripts, and Egerton Librarian, British 
 Museum. 1866-1868. 
 
 44. Marry ar PARISIENSIS HiIsToRIA ANGLORUM, SIVE UT VULGO 
 piciruR Historia Minor. Vols. I.-III. 1067-1253. LHdited by 
 Sir FREDERICK MADDEN, K.H., Keeper of the Manuscript ye aes 
 ment of the British Museum. 1866-1869. 
 
 45. LIBER MONASTERII DE HyDA: A CHRONICLE AND CHARTULARY OF 
 Hypr ABBEY, WINCHESTER, 455-1023. Edited by Epwarp 
 EDWARDS. 1866. 
 
 The “‘ Book of Hyde ” is a compilation from much earlier sources, which are usually indi- 
 cated with considerable care and precision. In many cases, however, the Hyde Chronicler 
 appears to correct, to qualify, or to amplify the statements which, in substance, he adopts. 
 
 There is to be found, in the “‘ Book of Hyde,’’ much information relating to the reign of King 
 Alfred which is not known to exist elsewhere. ‘The volume contains some curious specimens 
 of Anglo-Saxon and medisval English. 
 
 46, CHRONICON ScotoRUM. A CHRONICLE OF IRISH AFFAIRS, from the 
 earliest times to 1185; and SUPPLEMENT, containing the events 
 from 1141 to 1150. Edited, with Translation, by W1~tL1AM MAun- 
 SELL HENNESSY, M.R.I.A. 1866. 
 
 47. THE CHRONICLE OF PIERRE DE LANGTOFT IN FRENCH VERSE, FROM 
 THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE DEATH OF EpwarpD I. Vols. I. and 
 II. Edited by THomas Wriaut, M.A. 1866-1868. 
 
 It is probable that Pierre de Langtoft was a canon of Bridlington, in Yorkshire and lived 
 in the reign of Edward I., and during a portion of the reign of Edward II. This chronicle is 
 divided into three parts ; in the first, is an abridgement of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s “ Historia 
 Britonum ” ; in the second, a history of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman kings, to the death of 
 Henry III.; in the third, a "history of the reign of Edward I. The language is a specimen: of 
 the French’ of Yorkshire. 
 
 48. THE WAR OF THE GAEDHIL WITH THE GAILL, or THE INVASIONS OF 
 IRELAND BY THE DANES AND OTHER NORSEMEN. Jdited, with a 
 Translation, by the Rev. JAMES HENTHORN Topp, D.D., Senior 
 Fellow of Trinity College, and Regius Professor of Hebrew in the 
 University of Dublin. 1867. 
 
 49. Gesta Reais Henrict SEcUNDI BENEDICTI ABBATIS. CHRONICLE 
 OF THE REIGNS OF HENRY II. and RicHarp I., 1169-1192, known 
 under the name of BENEDICT OF PETERBOROUGH. Vols. I. and II. 
 Edited by the Rev. W1LL1AM Stusss, M.A., Regius Professor of 
 Modern History, Oxford, and Lambeth Librarian. 1867. 
 
 50. MUNIMENTA ACADEMICA, OR DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF ACADE- 
 MICAL LIFE AND STUDIES AT OxFORD (in Two Parts). Edited by 
 the Rev. Henry Anstey, M.A., Vicar of St. Wendron, Cornwall, 
 and late Vice-Principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. 1868. 
 
51. 
 
 52. 
 
 53. 
 
 f4. 
 
 56. 
 
 57. 
 
 58. 
 
 59. 
 
 60. 
 
 61. 
 
 62. 
 
 63. 
 
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 CHRONICA MaGisTRI ROGERI DE HOUVEDENE. Vols. I.-IV. Edited 
 by the Rev. Wiiu1am Stusss, M.A., Regius Professor of Modern 
 History and Fellow of Oriel College. Oxford. 1868-1871. 
 
 The earlier portion, extending from 732 to 1148, appears to be a copy of a compilation 
 made in Northumbria about 1161, to which Hoveden added little. From 1148 to 1169—a very 
 valuable portion of this work—the matter is derived from another source, to which Hoveden 
 appears to have supplied little. From 1170 to 1192 is the portion which corresponds to some 
 extent with the Chronicle known under the name of Benedict of Peterborough (see No. 49), 
 From 1192 to 1201 may be said to be wholly Hoveden’s work. 
 
 WILLELMI MALMESBIRIENSIS MoNACHI DE Grstis PontTIFICUM 
 ANGLORUM LisRI QuinquE. Edited by N. E. S. A. HAMILTON, 
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 Historic AND MounicripaL DocuMENTS OF IRELAND, FROM THE 
 ARCHIVES OF THE City oF DusBuin, &c. 1172-1320. Edited by 
 JoHuNn T. GILBERT, F.S.A., Secretary of the Public Record Office 
 of Ireland. 1870. 
 
 THE ANNALS OF LocH Cf. A CHRONICLE oF IRISH AFFAIRS, FROM 
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 Wittiams, B.D., Vicar of Ringwood, late Fellow of King’s College, 
 Cambridge. Vols. I. and IT. 1872. 
 
 MatTTH2!I PARISIENSIS, MONACHI SANCTI ALBANI, CHRONICA MAJORA 
 Vol. I. The Creation to A.D. 1066. Vol. II. 1067 to 1216. Vol. 
 TIT. 1216 to 1239. Vol. IV. 1240 to 1247. Vol. V. 1248 to 1259. 
 Vol. VI. Additamenta. Vol. VII. Index. Edited by the Rev. 
 Henry Ricuarps Luarp, D.D., Fellow of Trinity College, Regis- 
 trary of the University, and Vicar of Great St. Mary’s, Cambridge. 
 1872-1884. 
 
 MEMORIALE FRATRIS WALTERI DE COVENTRIA.—IHE HISTORICAL 
 COLLECTIONS OF WALTER OF COVENTRY. Vols. I. and II. EHdited 
 by the Rev. Witt1AM Stusss, M.A., Regius Professor of Modern 
 History, and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. 1872-1873. 
 
 THe ANGLO-LATIN SATIRICAL POETS AND EPIGRAMMATISTS OF THE 
 TWELFTH CENTURY. Vols. I. and II. Collected and edited by 
 THomas Wriacut, M.A., Corresponding Member of the National 
 institute of France (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres). 
 
 1872. 
 
 MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF THE REIGN oF HENRY VII., FROM 
 ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS PRESERVED IN THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE. 
 Vols. I. and II. EHdited by the Rev. Wi~itam CAMPBELL, M.A., 
 one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Schools. 1873-1877. 
 
 HIsToRICAL PAPERS AND LETTERS FROM THE NORTHERN REGIs- 
 TERS. Hdited by the Rev. JAMES Rarnez, M.A., Canon of York, 
 and Secretary of the Surtees Society. 1873. 
 
 REGISTRUM PALATINUM DUNELMENSE. THE REGISTER OF RICHARD 
 DE KELLAWE, LoRD PALATINE AND BISHOP oF DuRHAM; 131]1- 
 1316. Vols.I.-IV. Edited by Sir THomas Durrus Harpy, D.C.L., 
 Deputy Keeper of the Records. 1873-1878. 
 
 MEMORIALS OF St. DUNSTAN, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. 
 Edtted by the Rev. Witriam Stusss, M.A., Regius Professor of 
 Modern History and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. 1874. 
 
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 64. CHRONICON ANGLI®, AB ANNO DOMINI 1328 USQUE AD ANNUM 1388, 
 
 65. 
 
 66. 
 
 67. 
 
 68. 
 
 69. 
 
 70. 
 
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 (pF 
 
 73. 
 
 74. 
 
 76. 
 
 AvucToRE MonacHo QuopAM SAnott ALBANI. Edited by E>warD 
 MAUNDE THOMPSON, Barrister-at-Law, Assistant Keeper of the 
 Manuscripts in the British Museum. 1874. 
 
 THoMAS SaGa Erxkisyskurs. A Lire or ARCHBISHOP THOMAS 
 BECKET, IN IcELANDIC. Vols. I. and II. Edited, with English 
 Translation, Notes, and Glossary, by M. Errtkr Maanusson, M.A., 
 Sub-Librarian of the University Library, Cambridge. 1875- 
 1884. 
 
 RADULPHI DE COGGESHALI, CHRONICON ANGLICANUM. Edited by 
 the Rev. JosrepH Stevenson, M.A. 1875. 
 
 MATERIALS FOR THE HisToRY oF THOMAS BECKET, ARCHBISHOP OF 
 CANTERBURY. Vols. I.-VI. Edited by the Rev. JAMES CRAIGIE 
 Rosertson, M.A., Canon of Canterbury. 1875-1883. Vol. VII. 
 Edited by JosrPH BricstocKE SHEPPARD, LL.D. 1885. 
 
 The first volume contains the life of the archbishop, and the miracles after his death, by 
 William, a monk of Canterbury. The second, the life by Benedict of Peterborough, John 
 of Salisbury, Alan of Tewkesbury, and Edward Grim. The third, the life by William Fitz- 
 stephen and Herbert of Bosham. The fourth, anonymous lives, Quadrilogus, &c. The fifth, 
 sixth, and seventh, the Epistles, and known letturs. 
 
 RADULFI DE DicretTo, DECANI LUNDONIENSIS, OPERA HISTORICA. 
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 oF Lonpon. Vols. I. and II. Edited by the Rev. Witiiam 
 Stusss, M.A., Regius Professor of Modern History, and Fellow 
 of Oriel College, Oxford. 1876. 
 
 The Abbreviationes Chronicorum extend to 1147 and the Ymagines Historiarum to 1201. 
 
 ROLL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE KING@’s COUNCIL IN IRELAND, 
 FOR A PORTION OF THE 16TH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF RICHARD II. 
 1392-93. Hdited by the Rev. JAmres Graves, B.A. 1877. 
 
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 LIBRI QUINQUE IN VARIOS TRACTATUS DISTINCTI. Vols. I.—VI. 
 Edited by Str Travers Twiss, Q.C., D.C.L. 1878-1883. 
 
 THE HISTORIANS OF THE CHURCH OF YORK AND ITS ARCHBISHOPS. 
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 York, and Secretary of the Surtees Society. 1879-1894. 
 
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 and Rector of Toppesfield ; and Cuartes TRIicE Martin, B.A. 
 1879-1880. 
 
 HISTORICAL WORKS OF GERVASE OF CANTERBURY. Vols. I. and II. 
 Edited by the Rev. W1t1i1aAM StuBBs, D.D., Canon Residentiary of 
 St. Paul’s, London; Regius Professor of Modern History and 
 Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, &c. 1879-1880. 
 
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 Edited by THomas ARNOLD, M.A. 1882-1885. 
 
 CHRONICLE OF THE REIGNS OF EDWARD J. AND Epwarp II. Vols. 
 I. and II. Edited by the Rev. Witi1aAm Strusss, D.D., Canon 
 Residentiary of St. Paul’s, London; Regius Professor of Modern 
 History, and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, &c. 1882-18838. 
 
 The first volume of these Chronicles contains the Annales Londonienses, and the Annales 
 Paulini: the second, I.—Commendatio Lamentabilis in Transitu magni Regis Edwardt, U.— 
 Gesta Edwardi de Carnarvan Auctore Canonico Bridlingtoniensi. III.--Monasht cujusdam 
 Malmesbderiensis Vita Edwardt U1. IV.—Vita et Mors Edwardi II., conscripta a Thoma de la 
 
 Moore. B 
 
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 77. REGIstRUM EPISTOLARUM FRATRIS JOHANNIS PECKHAM, ARCHI- 
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 Martin, B.A., F.S.A. 1882-1886. 
 
 78. ReagistER oF S. OsmunD. Vols. I. and II. Edited by the Rev. 
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 Bradford-on-Avon. 1883-1884. 
 
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 79. CHARTULARY OF THE ABBEY OF RaAmsEyY. Vols. I.-IJI. Hdited 
 by Witt1AmM Henry Hart, F.S.A., and the Rev. PONSONBY 
 ANNESLEY Lyons. 1884-1893. 
 
 80. CHARTULARIES OF St. MaRry’s ABBEY, DUBLIN, WITH THE REGISTER 
 OF ITS HOUSE AT DUNBRODY, COUNTY OF WEXFORD, AND ANNALS 
 OF IRELAND, 1162-1370. Vols. I. and Il. Edited by JOHN 
 THomas GILBERT, F.S.A., M.R.I.A. 1884-1885. 
 
 81. EADMERI Histor1A Novorum IN ANGLIA ET OPUSCULA DUO DE 
 vITA SANCII ANSELMI ET QUIBUSDAM MIRACULIS EJuS. Hdited by 
 the Rev. Martin Rue, M.A. 1884. 
 
 82. CHRONICLES OF THE REIGNS OF STEPHEN, HENRY II., AND RICHARD 
 I. Vols. I.-IV. Edited by RicHarp How ett, Barrister-at-Law 
 1884-1889. 
 
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 Draco Normannicus of Etienne de Rouen. 
 
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 83. CHRONICLE OF THE ABBEY OF RAMSEY. I[dited by the Rev. 
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 Records of the Land Revenue. 1886-1889. 
 
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 an original authority. 
 
 85. THE LETTER Books OF THE MONASTERY OF CHRIST CHURCH, 
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 SHEPPARD, LL.D. 1887-1889. 
 
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 86. THE METRICAL CHRONICLE OF ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER. Edited by 
 Witi1amM Apis Wricut, M.A., Senior Fellow of Trinity College, 
 Cambridge. Parts I. and II. 1887. 
 
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 appears to hav? been an eye witness of many events which he describes. The language in 
 which it is written was the dialect of Gloucestershire at that time. 
 
 87 CHRONICLE OF ROBERT OF BRUNNE. Edited by FREDERICK JAMES 
 FURNIVALL, M.A., Barrister-at-Law. Parts I. and II. 1887. 
 
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 tribution not to English history, but to the history of English. 
 
 88. ICELANDIC SAGAS AND OTHER HisToritcaL DocuMENTs relating to 
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 Isles. Vol. I. Orkneyinga Saga, and Magnus Saga. Vol. II. 
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 FuSSON, M.A. 1887. Vols. III. and IV. Translations of the 
 above by Sir GEORGE WEBBE DasEnt, D.C.L. 1894. 
 
 89. THe TRIPARTITE LIFE oF Patrick, with other documents 
 relating to that Saint. Hdited by WnuiTLEY SToxss, LL.D., D.C.L., 
 Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford; and Corresponding 
 Member of the Institute of France. Parts I. and II. 1887. 
 
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 LESTORIE DES ENGLES SOLUM GEFFREI GAIMAR. LEdited by the 
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 1874 6 Notices of Records transferred from Chan- 0.963 Out of 
 cery, Queen’s Bench, and Common Pleas print. 
 Offices.— Report respecting ‘‘ Facsimiles 
 of National MSS. of IJreland.’’—List of 
 Chancery Pleadings (1662-1690) and 
 Calerdar to Chancery Rolls (1662-1713) of 
 Palatinate of Tipperary. 
 
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 Admiralty Offices.—Calendar and Index print. 
 to Fiants of Henry VIII. 
 
 1876 8 Calendar and Index to Fiants of Edward VI. 0.1469 Out of 
 
 print. 
 1877 9 Index to the Liber Munerum Publicorum C.1702 Out of 
 Hibernise.—Calendar and Index to Fiants print. 
 
 of Philip and Mary. 
 1878 10 Index to Deputy Keeper’s 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, C.20384 Out of 
 
 and 10th Reports. print. 
 1879 1] Calendar to Fiants of Elizabeth (1558-1570). 0.2311 Out of 
 print. 
 1880 12 Calendar to Fiants of Elizabeth, continued 0.2583 | Out of 
 (1570-1576). print. 
 1881 13 Calendar to Fiants of Elizabeth, continued C.2929 1 6 
 (1576-1583). 
 1882 14 Report of ‘Keeper of State Papers containing C.3215 0 64 
 
 Catalogue of Commonwealth Books trans- 
 ferred from Bermingham Tower. 
 1883 15 Calendar to Fiants of Elizabeth, continued C.3676 1 
 (1583-1586).—Index to Deputy Keeper’s 
 lith, 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th Reports. 
 
 1884 16 Calendar to Fiants of Elizabeth, continued C.4062 Lees 
 . (1586-1595). 
 1885 17 Report on Iron Chest of Attainders following | C.4487 120 
 
 after 1641 and 1688.—Queen’s Bench 
 Calendar to Fiants of Elizabeth continued 
 fe (1596-1601). 
 1886 18 Calendar to Fiants of Elizabeth, continued C.4755 es, 
 (1601-1603).—-_Memorandum on _  State- 
 ments (1702) and Declarons (1713-14) of 
 Huguenot Pensioners. 
 

 
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 Chief Contents. 
 
 Notice of Records of Incumbered and Lan- 
 ded Estates Courts.—Report of Keeper 
 of State Papers, containing Table of Ab- 
 stracts of Decrees of Innocence (1663), 
 with Index. 
 
 Calendar to Christ Church Deeds in Novum 
 Registrum, 1174-1684. Index to 16th, 
 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th Reports. 
 
 Index to Calendars of Fiants of the reign of 
 Queen Elizabeth. Letters A—C. 
 
 Catalogue of Proclamations, 1618-1660 
 
 Index to Fiants of Elizabeth. D—Z id 
 
 Catalogue of Proclamations, 1661-1767.— 
 Calendar to Christ Church Deeds, 1177- 
 1462. 
 
 Catalogue of . Proclamations, 1767-1875. 
 Contents of the Red Book of the Ex- 
 chequer. Calendar to Christ Church 
 Deeds, 1462-1602. 
 
 Regulations respecting State Papers. In- 
 structions for Parochial Custodians. Index 
 to 21st to 25th Reports. 
 
 Abstract of Antrim Inquisition, 3 James I., 
 Bankruptcy Records, 1857-1872; Harly 
 Plea Rolls to 51 Edward III. 
 
 Index to the Act or Grant Books, and to 
 Original Wills, of the Diocese of Dublin 
 to the year 1800. 
 
 Records from Courts and Offices transferred 
 to, and deposited at, the Public Record 
 Office in Ireland. 
 
 Index to Calendars of Christ Church Deeds 
 1174-1684, contained in Appendices to 
 20th, 23rd, and 24th Reports. 
 
 (1.) Report on the Early Plea Rolls, con- 
 tinued from 51 Edward III. 
 
 (2.) Table showing present Custodies ‘of Par- 
 ochial Records. 
 
 Copy and Translation of Five Instruments of 
 Record in the Public Record Office of 
 Ireland, written in the Irish Character and 
 Tongue, 1584-1606. 
 
 Report on MSS. of Sir T. Phillipps’ 
 Library ; Index to Deputy Keeper’s 
 26th to 30th Reports. 
 
 Report of Proceedings, and Appendix .. 
 
 (1) Corrections to the Addenda to the Dublin 
 Grants Index in Appendix to the 26th 
 Report ; 
 
 ; (2.) Notes on the Departmental Letters and 
 
 Official Papers, 1760-89. 
 
 Index to the Act or Grant Book and Original 
 Wills of the Diocese of Dublin from 1800- 
 1858. 
 
 Report of Proceedings and Appendix.— 
 Report on the Records of the Clerks of the 
 Crown and Peace transferred prior to 1900. 
 
 Report of Proceedings and Appendix 
 
 (1) Notes on Manuscript Volumes connected 
 with the Irish Revenue, the Court of Trus- 
 tees of Forfeited Estates, &c., in the 
 possession of Earl’ Annesley ; 
 
 (2) Report on the Books of the Treasury 
 and Accounting Departments in Ireland. 
 
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