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SOMERS, JOHN.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
ORIGINAL LETTERS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF ENGLISH
HISTORY; INCLUDING NUMEROUS ROYAL LETTERS.
THIRD SERIES, VOL. IV.
ED. H. ELLIS.
LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, 1846. 
PP. 326.17 - 329.27 (525) (SOMERS)

SPENCER, ROBERT.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
Idem.
PP. 311.4 - 316.25 (518-523) (SPENCER)

TEXT:  A LETTER BY THE PRIVY COUNCIL.
ORIGINAL LETTERS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF ENGLISH
HISTORY; INCLUDING NUMEROUS ROYAL LETTERS.
SECOND EDITION, VOL. III.
ED. H. ELLIS.
LONDON: HARDING, TRIPHOOK, AND LEPARD, 1825. 
PP. 348.1 - 350.18 (386) (COUNC)

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CAPEL, ARTHUR.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
SELECTIONS FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE OF
ARTHUR CAPEL EARL OF ESSEX 1675-1677.
CAMDEN THIRD SERIES, XXIV.
ED. C. E. PIKE.
LONDON, 1913. 
P. 88.8  - 88.29  (72)  (CAPEL)
P. 126.7 - 126.30 (107)

CHARLES II.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
ESSEX PAPERS, VOL. I (1672-1679).
CAMDEN SOCIETY, N.S. XLVII.
ED. O. AIRY.
WESTMINSTER, 1890. 
PP. 24.11  - 25.14  (14) (CHARLES)
PP. 112.21 - 113.14 (78)
PP. 197.21 - 198.29 (130)

OSBORNE, THOMAS.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
SELECTIONS FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE OF
ARTHUR CAPEL EARL OF ESSEX 1675-1677.
CAMDEN THIRD SERIES, XXIV.
ED. C. E. PIKE.
LONDON, 1913. 
PP. 21.28 - 22.33 (19) (OSBORNE)
PP. 45.10 - 47.6  (37)

AUNGIER, FRANCIS.
TEXT:  LETTER(S).
Idem.
PP. 24.4 - 27.5 (22) (AUNGIER)

TEXT:  A LETTER BY THE COMMISSIONERS
OF CUSTOMS.
ESSEX PAPERS, VOL. I (1672-1679).
CAMDEN SOCIETY, N.S. XLVII.
ED. O. AIRY.
WESTMINSTER, 1890. 
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<P IV,326>
[} [\LETTER DXXV.\] }]
<P IV,327>
Tuesd. 27th Apr. 97

Sir

   I have taken the first opportunity of sending to
your Majesty M=r=. Attorney Generals state of the
circumstances of the several persons who stand
charg'd as concern'd in the conspiracies against your
person or government. I take it to be defective in
what seems most material, for he has not given any
opinion whether any of them may be prosecuted.
And the only method which I can propose now for
supplying this, is, that when your Majesty does think
fit to send this paper to the Lords Justices, they
should be directed to require M=r=. Attorney and M=r=.
Solicitors opinion, as to the several persons who are
in custody, what may be done with them.
   I would beg leave to make a few observations upon
some parts of the paper.
   As to my Lord Aylesbury; since the escapes of
Goodman, Birkinhead, and Hunt, there is no other
witnesse against him, at present, but Porter. It is
true Cook may be made a witnesse by your Majesties
pardon, but when he is pardoned, it will in a great
measure depend upon his own ingenuity and sincerity,
whether he will speak the truth without reserve;
and he is such an odd fellow, that one may
have reason to fear both his folly and knavery. As
to M=r=. Porter there is no legal objection to any part
of his evidence, nor in my opinion, any reasonable
<P IV,328>
ground to call in question the truth of any one circumstance
he has sworn: but there was great care
taken to find out some colour of exception to what
he said at the barr of the House of Lords, and those
who protested against the vote in Sir John Fenwick's
case did industriously set down, as one of their reasons,
that Porters was a doubtfull evidence.
   As to Cook himself, if your Ma=ty= is pleas'd to use
him as an evidence, there is nothing to be done but
to passe his Pardon, and see to make him as honest
as he can be; but, if that be not thought advisable,
it may then deserve consideration whether it will not
be thought hard to execute him after so many reprieves,
or imprudent to pardon him, so as to suffer
him to live in England.
   As to my Lord Mongomery, I have nothing now
to offer to your Majesty. But in relation to the behaviour
of the Sherifs upon his account, I would beg
leave to say, that if your Majesty be displeas'd with
it, and does judge it fit to have them prosecuted, it
will be necessary that some positive order should be
given in that matter.
   As to the persons mention'd to be outlaw'd for
treason, I do humbly propose two things. That the
Justices be ordered to direct M=r=. Attorney, 1, to
look that there be no errors in the outlawries. 2, to
proceed to enquire immediately after their estates.
   I will not presume to trouble your Majesty further
<P IV,329>
at this time upon M=r=. Attorney's paper: but there is
another thing which will trouble you till it be disposed
of, I mean the place of Chief Justice of Chester,
for which I think every body does believe himself
qualified. If there were not a necessity that it
shou'd be disposed of before the next great Sessions,
which must be about July or August, nothing should
have made mee say one word to your Ma=ty= about it
till your return. But since the case is so, I will beg
your leave to lay before you, in as few words as possibly
I can, the names and pretences of the several
persons who have been hitherto proposed to mee as
proper to be recommended to your Ma=ty= for that
employment.
   I cannot neglect this opportunity of letting fall
one word of you Ma=ties= goodness and generosity to
mee, altho' I know how much more you love to be
exercising those royal qualities then to be told of it.
The manner of doing it, so unsought for and unexpected,
must take, with any good mind, more then
the thing itself, and I am sure the sense must always
last with mee. But at the same time I must own
that I cannot be with more zeal and duty than I was
before, S=r=.
   You M=ties= most dutyfull, most humble, and most
obedient subject and servant,

J. Somers.

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<P IV,311>
[} [\LETTER DXVIII.\] }]
<P IV,312>
Windsor, Septem. 25th, 1687.

S=r=.

   The King commands me to send you the enclosed
Letter to the Pope, for making Father Petre a Cardinall,
which he would have you deliver as soon as
you can, and accompany it with such expressions in
his Majesty's name as shall be proper on this occasion.
His Majesty depends very much on your care,
prudence, and experience in that Court to bring this
matter to a good issue, and would therefore have you
with all the addresse and diligence you can, endeavor
by such meanes as may be most effectuall to obtaine
the satisfaction his Majesty expects in this request,
which is so reasonable and of so great advantage to
his service, that it can hardly be imagined it should
admit of any difficulty.
   His Majesty has also writ a Letter to the Cardinall
of Norfolk on this subject, which I have sent to you
by another conveyance, and am

S=r=, you affectionate friend and servant,
Sunderland P.

   The King has writ two Letters to the Pope for
greater security, one is sent by the way of France,
the other by Flanders, they are both on the same
<P IV,313>
subject, as you will see by the copies which go inclosed,
and therefore you are to deliver but one of them.

[} [\LETTER DXIX.\] }]

Whitehall, Novem. 4th, 1687.

S=r=,
   
   The King having resolved to put his owne and his
subjects affaires at Rome into the hands of the Cardinal
d'Este as Protector of his Dominions, commands
me to let you know it; and has writ to the Cardinal
of Norfolk himselfe to acquaint him with this resolution.
The Letter goes enclosed which you will take
care to deliver. You are not to speake of this matter
to any person till you heare further from me.

I am, S=r=, your most humble servant,

Sunderland P.


[} [\LETTER DXX.\] }]

Whitehall, Novem. 25th, 1687.

S=r=.

   The King having, by the enclosed to the Pope, recommended
<P IV,314>
Father Phillip Ellis, D=r=. Gifford, and
D=r=. Smith, to be Bishops (\in partibus\) , his Maj=ty= would
have you deliver the same to his Holinesse, and
sollicit the expedition of their Bulls and other Dispatches 
requisite in this behalfe.

I am, S=r=, your most humble servant,

Sunderland P.


[} [\LETTER DXXI.\] }]

Whitehall, December 22d, 1687.

S=r=,

   The King having received an account as well by
your letters as otherwise, that Father Petre has been
misrepresented to his Holinesse as a person very ambitious
and continually pressing his Majesty to obtain
a Cap for him, his Majesty has thought if fit for his
owne honor and the vindication of Father Petre, to
write the enclosed to his Holinesse and to the Generall
of the Jesuits, to let them know that his Majesty
has been induced from his owne motion alone to
repeate his instances for Father Petre's promotion,
as having had long experience of his merit, and the
many services he has done to the Catholique Church,
for which he has also suffered much; and that therefore
his Majesty is perswaded his Holinesse will
<P IV,315>
agree to his desires herein. His Majesty would have
you deliver these Letters as soon as you can, and
hopes the Pope will not any longer delay gratifying
him in so reasonable a request, and which his Majesty
desires so earnestly from his Holinesse.
   I am, S=r=, your affectionate friend and humble 
servant,

Sunderland P.


[} [\LETTER DXXII.\] }]

Whitehall, February 20th, 1687-8.

S=r=,

   The King having thought fit to make the Cardinal
d'Este Protector of his dominions at Rome, and intending
you should give your attendance upon him,
as the King's Secretary, and be with him in his
pallace, his Majesty commands me to let you know,
that accordingly, as soon as the Cardinal comes to
Rome, you must apply yourself to him, and tell him
you have received orders to attend his Highness for
his commands upon all occasions. His Majesty will
continue you in the station of his Agent, but you
must upon noe occasion make use of that character
<P IV,316>
for transacting any business, but only such as the 
Cardinal shall direct, unlesse you shall at any time
receive an expresse command from hence. I have
writ to the Cardinal to this effect, so that you must
govern yourself accordingly.

S=r=, your affectionate friend and servant,

Sunderland P.


[} [\LETTER DXXIII.\] }]

Whitehall, June 4, 1688.

S=r=,

   I have received several letters from you, but have
nothing to say in answer to any of them except that
of the 22th of May, which I have laid before the
King, who commands me to tell you that my Lord
Thomas Howard, who will goe hence in a few days
with the character of Envoy Extraordinary to the
Pope, and will be speedily at Rome, has directions
to satisfy his Holinesse concerning the Oath of which
you write, taken by the Catholick Privy Counsellors.
   I am, S=r=, your most affectionate friend and servant,

Sunderland P.

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<P III,348>
[} [\LETTER CCCLXXXVI.\] }]
<P III,349>
   After our very hearty Commendations to your
Lordship: it having pleased Almighty God about ten
of the Clock this morning to blesse His Majesty and
his royall Consort the Queene with the birth of a hopefull
Son, and his Majesty's Kingdomes and Dominions
with a Prince, Wee doe by His Majesty's command
hereby signify the same unto your Lordship, desiring
that it be likewise forthwith communicated by You to
<P III,350>
your Deputy Lieutenants, the Justices of Peace, and
the severall Corporations within your Lieutenancy, to
the end they may all joyne, at such time as his Majesty
shall please to appoint by his royall Proclamation
for that purpose, as well in solemne Thanksgiving to
Almighty God, for so inestimable a blessing, as in such
other expressions of publique rejoyceing, as are suitable
and accustomed on so great an occasion. And so wee
bid your Lordship very heartely farewell. From the
Council Chamber in Whitehall this 10=th= of June 1688.

Yo=r= Lo=ps= very loving friends

Jeffreys. C.

Sunderland P. Bathe. Powis.

Middleton. Crauen. Castlemaine.

Douer. Dartmouth. J. Ernle.

John Nicholas.

   To our very good Lord Laurence Earle of Rochester
Lord Lieutenant of the County of Hartford.
  

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<P 88>
[} [\LXXII. THE EARL OF ESSEX TO THE KING.\] }]

May it please yr Ma=ty=

   Having sent over Sir Cyrill Wyche to attend yr Majesties
service in Parlm=t= who being sufficiently instructed to give   #
yr
Mat=y= a full account of all ye affairs in this Kingdom T'will  #
be
unnecessary by this Letter to trouble yr Mat=y= with ye         #
particulars.
Two things have principally employd my time here since my
last kissing yr Mat=y's= hands; The ascertaining ye Quit rents  #
by
reducing those wch are upon barren lands, and the settling ye
province of Conaght, both wch will I doubt not turne to acct    #
for
your Mat=y's= service: For ye first of them will render that    #
Revenue
for ever after solvent, And ye latter as it is a work of great  #
Justice
and Charity, and will relieve many poor familys, who have for
divers years bin kept out of their estate, so will it also in   #
some
proportion improve yr Mat=ey's= Revenue by bringing many Quitt
Rents into charge, wch could not be done till ye lands were     #
passt
in patent: In both these as also in all other matters Sir       #
Cyrill Wyche,
when yr Mat=y= shall please to allow him ye opportunity will    #
give yr
Mat=y= a relacon of ye methods of my proceedings, and ye        #
measures
I take in all, wherein I hope yr Mat=y= will receive that       #
satisfaction
as may bee a further confirmation of ye truth and reallity,     #
wherein
I desire to appear in all humility  Yr Mat=ys=, etc., etc.

<P 126>
[} [\CVII. THE EARL OF ESSEX TO THE KING.\] }]

May it please yr Mat=y=.
  
   I doe with all humility acknowledge ye favour yr Mat=y= was
pleased to doe mee in signifying by a letter written with yr    #
owne
hand yr intention of my returning home, and that yr Mat=ey= has
also therein given mee such an undeniable testimony of yr       #
satisfaction
in my management of those affairs wch yr Mat=ey= hath for
almost five years committed to my care wth ye assurance yt you
will be pleased to retain in yr princely memory ye endeavors I
have used justly and honestly to discharge my Trust wch truly I
can justify to all ye world I have performed with an upright    #
conscience
and if any cavills have arisen agnst my proceedings here
it may bee they have bin founded upon my insisting strictly on
yr Mat=y's= Right and not admitting some persons to take that   #
as
due wch if allowed they ought to accept as Grace from yr        #
Majestie:
And as it hath ever bin my practice in these Employments        #
wherewith
yr Mat=y= hath thought fitt to honour mee strenuously to assert
and maintaine ye prerogative to wch you were borne so I hope yr
Mat=y= will be pleased to believe yt in all capacitys yr        #
Mat=y= shall at
any time place mee I will continue steady and firme to ye same
cause as being with all devotion, etc., etc.

To Ye King
Dublin Castle
April 28, 1677.

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<P I,24>
[} [\XIV. CHARLES R. TO THE EARL OF ESSEX.\] }]

Charles R.

   Right Trusty and Right Wellbeloved Cousin & Councellour,
Wee Greet you Well. Whereas Wee are given to understand that
the Earle of Orrery hath applyed to you for your Lycence &
permission to plant certaine greate Guns in his Castle or       #
House of
Ballymartin within that Our Kingdome, and that hee doth further
pretend to Power under the Greate Seale of that Our Kingdome to
fortify one other of his Houses called Charle Ville in Our said
Kingdome with Forts and Bullwarkes, and to Mount and use Greate
Guns on the said Fortifications, Wee cannot but take notice to  #
you
how unfitt Wee thinke it That any such Lycences should be       #
granted,
<P I,25>
And therefore Wee doe not onely well approve yo=r= refusall of  #
the
desire he made as to Ballymartin, But further Wee will, and
accordingly Wee doe hereby sufficiently authorise and require   #
you
to give order for the recalling and revokeing in such way and   #
forme
as shall bee found necessary the said Power and Lycence soe
pretended  to be granted to him to fortify his House of Charle  #
Ville
as aforesaid, in case upon enquiry you doe finde that any such
Lycence or Authority has been granted to him, which Wee cannot
but Looke upon as a surprise of a dangerous nature upon us, if
indeed Wee have att any time heretofore made him such a Grant.
For which these Our Letters shall bee your Warrant. And soe
Wee bid you heartily farewell. Given att Our Court att          #
Whitehall
the 7th day of September in the 24th yeare of Our Reigne
1672.

<P I,112>
[} [\LXXVIII CHARLES R. TO THE EARL OF ESSEX.\] }]

Charles R.

   Right Trusty and Right Welbeloved Cousin & Counsellor, Wee
greet you well, Whereas Wee were pleased to referre the         #
examination
of the late difference arisen in the Corporae~on of Our City
<P I,113>
of Dublin in that Our Kingdome, about the Election of Com~on
Councell men out of the severall Companies, to the Com~ittee of
Our Privy Councill for the affaires of Ireland, and they having
reported their opinion thereupon to us, and Wee considered &
approved of the same, Wee have thought fit in pursuance thereof
to signify to you Our Pleasure that the last choice made by the
Lord Mayor of that Our Citty of the compleate number of Com~on
Counsell men all at once, leaving out the ten or eleven Roman
Catholiques that were chosen at the first choice, shall stand   #
and be
confirmed, and Wee doe hereby require and direct you to doe all
things, and give all necessary Orders for the speedy settling   #
of this
affaire accordingly. And for soe doing this shall be your       #
Warrant.
Given at Our Court at Whitehall, the day of August, 1673,
in the Five and Twentieth yeare of Our Reigne.

<P I,197>
[} [\CXXX. CHARLES R. TO THE EARL OF ESSEX.\] }]

Charles R.

   Right Trusty and Right Welbeloved Cousin and Councellour,
Wee greet you well. Whereas Wee have been informed of certaine
disorders fomenting in Our Citty of Dublin to create            #
disturbances
upon y=e= account of y=e= late Rules for regulating that and    #
the other
<P I,198>
Corporations of Our Kingdome of Ireland. And Whereas the        #
procuring
of hands to a Petition against a Law is in it self an Act of
Sedition, especially when prepared to be addressed to such a    #
Power
as cannot change the Law, though never soe greivous. Wee having
taken the same into Our consideration, and that the said        #
Rules, as
farre as wee can take notice of them, are extreamely usefull to
Government in many respects, and that if Wee should think fit   #
to
give way against any complaints, though they may seem very
specious, might yet in the consequence disturbe Our whole       #
Government
there. And that the said Rules are of equall credit and
Authority with the Act of Settlement, the attempt of breaking   #
any
part whereof Wee look upon as very dangerous and prejudiciall   #
to
Our Service. Wee have, therefore, thought fit to direct and     #
require
you, as Wee doe by these Presents, to use such means as you     #
shall
think fit for the effectuall suppressing all Preparations to    #
such a
Disorder in the same manner as you would doe any other          #
Sedition,
and that you give Order to Our Atturney or Sollicitor Generall
there to proceed by information against the Principall movers   #
in this
businesse, if you should think it for Our Service.              #
Neverthelesse,
Our pleasure is, that you enquire and certify unto Us, with     #
what
convenient speed you may, what Numbers there are of persons
living in any of the Corporations of that Our Kingdome within   #
the
benefit of the words [{and others{] in the second Rule, that    #
may give
occasion of offence, to the End that Wee may be informed        #
whether
there may be any seeming grounds for these complaints. And for
soe doing this shall be your Warrant. And soe Wee bid you
heartily farewell.
   Given at Our Court at Whitehall the 31=st= day of March,     #
1674, in
the Six & Twentieth yeare of Our Reigne.

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<P 21>
[} [\XIX. THE EARL OF DANBY TO THE EARL OF ESSEX.\] }]

London 1st June 1675

My Lord.

   I acknowledge ye great honour and favour of yr Excellency's
letter by Mr Godolphin, and concurre with you yt itt would be   #
of
<P 22>
great use to have yr Excellency here to conferr with his        #
Ma=tie= upon
those important matters mentioned therein. I have nothing to
object agt itt, if yr Excellency have not; but on ye contrary   #
as
I believe his Ma=tie= will receive advantage by itt, so I       #
should take itt
for an happy occasion to give yr Excellency a confirmation of   #
my
readinesse to pay you all manner of service and respect. Yr
Excellency is so well knowing to ye present Constitution of our
Court, that no body can give you better measures of itt than yr
Excellency is able to give yr selfe, and though itt bee very    #
difficult
to steere amongst so many rocks of faction, without striking    #
upon
some; I doubt not but yr Excellency by yr great prudence may
bee soe happy as to do itt.
   The news of yr Excellencie's intentions to come for England
arrived here two or three days before Mr Godolphin, and I have
heard that some who hope in time to bee yr successors were glad
of itt, but I conceave yr Excellency is so well assured of all  #
our
services to you, how little so ever wee afford of good ones to  #
one
another, that you can bee in no danger of that kind, although   #
in a
matter so nice as this yr Excellency must needs bee ye best     #
Judge.
I believe ye Parliament is like to sitt longer than was         #
expected for
ye differences between ye houses are so widened, and yett itt   #
is
so necessary they should come to some composure before they
part that itt looks as if their sitting would yett bee of a     #
month's
continuance at least.
   The King has directed me to attend him tomorrow about the
matters of yr Excellencie's last letter and I shall not bee     #
wanting
to acquainte you with his Ma=ties= pleasure so soon as I know   #
itt,
and in ye meane time I desire yr Excellency will continue to    #
mee
ye happinesse of being esteemed

My Lord
Your Excellencie's most faithfull and most
humble servant

Danby.

<P 45>
[} [\XXXVII. THE EARL OF DANBY TO THE EARL OF ESSEX.\] }]

Wallingford House March ye 25=th= 1676.

My Lord

   Perhaps your Excellency may think it unnecessary to trouble
you with an answer to yours of ye 14=th= instant because I      #
have since
(viz ye 19=th=) communicated it to his Ma=tie= in ye presence   #
of his
Royall Hignesse, Yourself and my Lord Ranelagh, and your
excellency did then receive his Ma=ties= Pleasure as to all ye  #
matters
contained in itt, saving that part wch relates to ye            #
90000=lbs=, for
which my Lord Ranelagh desires his discharge; and I hope your
Excellency will receive your orders in that also before your    #
departure,
it being by no means proper for mee to determine till your
Excellency have received satisfaction of ye equity of his       #
Demand
in that particular.
   But because your excellency will remember I then told you I
differd in somethings your letter charged my memory withall it
may bee convenient for avoiding future mistakes to acquaint     #
your
excellency that I remember no greater summe out of ye           #
advance-money
for arms than 10,000=lbs= and I very well remember yt ye
20000=lbs= for ye Repairs of Windsor was never intended out of  #
ye
advance-money, but out of ye 20000 yearly reserved during ye
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whole Farme to his Ma=ties= private dispose and for yt reason   #
it was yt
neither my Lord Ossory's not my Lord Duras's Grants were to     #
take
place upon itt ye first Year.
   I told your Excellency then also yt I rememberd nothing of
your desire to have ye first 30000=lbs= remitted in specie      #
into Ireland
till a good while after ye old Farmers' Privy Seale was pass'd  #
for itt,
but  that (as it was long before agreed they should have their
20000=lbs= Defalcations, and 10000=lbs= for ye Kings use payd   #
out of
ye first of ye Advance-money) Your Excellency agreed ye same,
and it was my motion y=t= for ye quickening their payments to   #
ye
Army in Ireland, ye money might remain deposited in ye hands
of ye Treasurer of ye Navy though it could bee apply'd to no    #
other
use then Privy Seale directs; so that although both ye old
Farmers and my Lord Ranelagh insisted upon having ye Kings
Engagement made good of being payd yt summ out of ye first
of the advance, yet there was nothing done in itt, but with     #
your
Excellency's consent and approbation.
   For ye September and Christmas Pay of ye Army, I know what
posture Your Excellency hath said it to bee in and your         #
Excellency
has shewd mee Letters to ye same effect out of Ireland, and     #
finding
15,000=lbs= of ye Michas Pay unpaid about a month or six weeks  #
ago,
I remember Your Excellency would then fain have remitted
that sum into Ireland out of ye deposited money here, and I
would have been as glad of it if it could have been done; but
as that was not practicable so your Excellency and my Lord
Ranelagh has always differd in ye quantum of what was in arrear
for ye Michas Pay, as well as for ye severall Pays due to ye    #
Army
before that time and my Ld Ranelagh did then undertake before
his Ma=tie= to give him a particular account in a short time    #
of what
hee agreed to be a true state of ye Present Debt to each troop  #
and
Company.
   As your Excellency has been very prudent in laying before    #
his 
Ma=tie= ye condition and state of Ireland and (since you were   #
pleased
<P 47>
to do it through my hands) I hope you will pardon my endeavour
to rectify any mistake which might remaine concerning myself in
that Representation, who am

Your Excellency's most faithfull
humble servant
Danby.

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[} [\XXII. FRANCIS LORD AUNGIER TO THE EARL OF ESSEX.\] }]

Lond June 5 1675

My Lord,

   The scene being much altered in ye difference between both
Houses since my last, I presume to give yr Ex=cy= this short    #
narrative
of it. On Tuesday last the House of Commons ordered their
Sergeant to take into Custodye Sir Jo: Churchill, Mr Serg=t=    #
Pemberton,
Mr Serg=t= Pecke and Mr Charles Porter, as persons who had
infringed the Previledges of ye House by appearing at the       #
Lords'
Barre in a case wherein Mr. Dalmahoy (a member of ye House)
was concerned. And to the intent that they might be ye easier   #
had,
Mr Speaker invited them to dinner and after they had made good
cheere gave them very good advice to obviate and prevent any
further disputes between both Houses, wch they then seemed to
complye withe, But our Serg=t= letting them have their liberty  #
upon
parroll they were the next day sent for by ye Lords and att     #
their
barre interrogated in all particulars concerning their          #
committment,
and had thereafter given them the protection of ye House. The
same day ye Lords sent a message to us bye my Lord
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and my Lo: Chiefe Baron
for a present Conference upon matters of high importance        #
wherein
his Ma=ties= honour and ye safety of ye Kingdom was concerned,  #
and
the Houses agreeing to ye present Conference the inclosed paper
was read with a very audible voice by my Lord Privy Seale. On
Thursday the House sent their Sergeant to ye tower for neglect
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of his duty in suffering his prisoners to escape and ordered Mr
Secretary in their name to beseech his Ma=tie= that wee might   #
have
another Sergeant appointed to attend them, and accordingly my
Lord Chamberlaine appoynted one Topham a very stout fellow
to attend ye House.
   Yesterday morning as Mr Speaker was coming through           #
Westminster
Hall to ye House he mett Mr Serg=t= Pemberton whom he
commanded his officers then attending to apprehend and secure
in ye Speaker's Chamber, of wch he gave ye House an acc=t= as   #
soone
as they sate, and receaved the thanks of ye House for his zeale
and care in thus asserting their previledges, and the House     #
being
then alsoe informed that Sir John Churchill Mr Serg=t= Peeke    #
and
Mr. Charley Porter were belowe in ye Hall, they commanded       #
instantly
their Serg=t= to carry his men with him downe into ye Hall and  #
to
apprehend ye sayd persons though they were pleading at ye       #
Barres
of any of ye Courtes, and to goe well attended that he might    #
not
receave an affront from ye Black-Rodde whom [\sic\] they        #
understood
was in ye Court of Requests armed with an order from ye House
of Lords to rescue the Prisoners. This order of the House of
Commons was very briskly executed the said persons being taken
from ye severall Barrs of ye Chancery, King's bench and Common
Pleas, and brought safe into ye Speakers Chamber without        #
opposition.
But ye House of Lords being informed of these proceedings
they immediately order their Black Rodde to fetch out ye sayd
prisoners wherever they should find them committed; they        #
likewise
order their black Rod to apprehend ye Sergeant of ye House
of Commons, and addresse to his Ma=tie= by word of ye           #
white-staves
that another Sergeant might be appoynted to attend ye House of  #
Com=ns=.
   The House of Com=ns= after a long debate vote the said       #
persons
to be sent to ye Tower and Sir John Robinson Ser=t= of ye Tower
being then in ye House had directions not to sett them at       #
liberty
without an order from ye House.
   By this time it was twoe of ye clock and ye House of Lords
<P 26>
had adjourned for an hour or two whose example in yt particular
ye House of Commons thought fitt to follow, And while ye        #
Speaker
was at dinner the Sergeant hired three coaches at Westminster
Hall Gate pretending to carrye his prisoners through ye Citty   #
to
ye tower, being then informed that ye black rod lay in waite    #
for
him in a house neare ye Pallace Yard gate, But he went          #
discreetlyer
to worke, for he carryed his prisoners through Sir John         #
Cotton's
house and tooke bote at his garden stairs and by water          #
delivered
them safe into Sir John Robinson's hands, to whom in three      #
minutes
the black-rod came to demand the Prisoners, but the Lieut.      #
positively
refused to deliver them. As soone as the House mett they
agreed upon the enclosed Reasons in answere to ye Paper         #
delivered
ye day before by ye Lords at a Conference and sent up a message
for a Conference on ye subject matter of ye late Conference, to
wch ye Lords replyed that they would send up an answere by
messengers of their owne. But their black rodd being returned
from ye tower and giving them an acct that ye Lieu=t= of ye     #
tower
refused to deliver ye Prisoners, they voted a second addresse   #
to
his Ma=tie= by ye white-staves that ye Lieu=tnt= of ye tower    #
should be
removed and a new one appoynted in his stead; to wch his        #
Ma=tie=
then answered that he would consider of it and give them an     #
answere
this day by 5 in ye afternoone. When the House of Commons met
this morning, they found their Sergent was changed, and while
they were debating on it with some warmth Mr Secretary Coventry
came in and from his Ma=tie= told us that it was his Ma=ties=   #
pleasure
wee should immediately adjourne till 4 of ye clock in ye        #
afternoon,
when it was his pleasure we should attend him in ye             #
bankquetting
House, and that his Ma=tie= had sent the same message to ye     #
Lords.
   Accordingly we mett when his Mat=ie= made us ye enclosed     #
gracious
speech after wch the Speaker returning to ye House we voted ye
enclosed votes and adjourned ye debate of our Sergeant till     #
Munday
morning.
   The Lords after mett and the white-staves reporting to their
lordships that his Mat=ie= had considered of their addresse     #
concerning
ye removal of ye Lieu=t= of ye tower, bur sawe no reason for    #
it.
Upon wch their Lord=sps= adjourned till Munday. My paper only   #
now
<P 27>
allowes mee roome to beg your Exc=eyes= pardon for this         #
tedious narrative
wch is ye true state of matters of fact betweene both Houses.

I am my Lord
Yr Excy=s= most humble servant
Fran Aungier

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<P I,54>
[} [\XXXIX. COMMISSIONERS OF CUSTOMS TO LORD CLIFFORD.\] }]

Feb. 10, 1672/3.

   May it please your Lop.

   In pursuance of your Lop. reference signifyed to us by S=r=  #
Rob=t=
Howard, wee have considered of y=e= Letter of his Excellency    #
y=e= Lord
L=t= of Ireland & y=e= Paper annent to it; and having fully     #
weigh'd
y=e= matters therein contained, wee doe humbly present your     #
Lop. w=th=
y=e= following state thereof.
   The severall Plantac~ons in America having been first        #
Planted
from this Kingdome of England w=th= the losse of y=e= Lives of  #
many
men, & a vast Expence of Treasure, the trade therefore of those
plantac~ons hath been by severall Lawes & Acts of Parliam=t=    #
appropriated
to England alone. And this is also y=e= practice of other
Nations to keep their plantac~ons enter'd to themselves. 
   That w=ch= is now proposed on behalfe of y=e= Irish nation,  #
That
they may have Liberty for a certain number of ships during the
present warre or his Ma=ts= Pleasure to trade to y=e=           #
Plantac~ons and
unlade in Ireland, paying his Ma=tie= there the halfe penny p~  #
pound,
notw=th=standing y=e= Lawes in force to y=e= contrary, because  #
of y=e=
want of trade in that kingdome by reason of y=e= warrs, wilbe   #
very
prejudiciall to y=e= trade & interest of this nation.
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   For by such an allowance y=e= Kingdome of Ireland will have
y=e= oportunity of vending not only their owne manufactures,
but those also of other parts of Europe in y=e= Plantac~ons,    #
where
only those of England were before sold. And their navigating
cheaper then y=e= English because of their plenty of            #
Provisions will
at least put them in a condition to undersell y=e= English,     #
and so y=e=
manufacture of England must necessarily ly upon their hands,    #
and
y=e= navigation thereof be much obstructed.
   This will unavoydably create y=e= setting up of Ireland in   #
Trade
and Wealth on y=e= basis of y=e= Ruine of this nation w=th=out  #
any increas
of Revenue or advantage to his Ma=tie=, but very much y=e=      #
contrary.
For all traders to y=e= Plantac~ons will more readily goe for   #
Ireland
where they may expect better advantages by Bills of Store &
otherwise from y=e= farmers of y=e= Revenue there, then y=e=    #
Constituc~on
of y=e= present management of y=e= Customes in England will     #
allow of,
& consequently will much lessen his Ma=ts= Customes heer in     #
Linnen,
Brandyes & other Comodityes w=ch= pay great duty in             #
importac~on,
& are hence exported to y=e= Plantac~ons, & make Ireland y=e=   #
staple
of all Plantac~on Comodityes.
   As to what is alledged on behalfe of y=e= sd~ Kingdome of    #
Ireland
in relac~on to y=e= present warre, as an argum=t= for granting  #
them y=e=
Liberty desired during y=e= Warre, will easily be answered      #
when it
is considered that the whole burden of y=e= warre lyes on y=e=  #
Kingdome
of England, & that it partakes more of y=e= effects of y=e=     #
warre
by hindrance of trade than Ireland can doe.
   The danger w=ch= is intimated in y=e= paper, of ships        #
coming from
y=e= plantac~ons to Ireland, and from thence hither according   #
as they
are obliged by their bonds, being chiefly attested on account   #
of
Privateers infesting y=e= Irish Coast, wee doe for that matter
matter humbly present to your Lop. That no Ship goeing from
England to y=e= Plantac~on, or coming from thence, can be any   #
wayes
directly bound for Ireland w=th=out absolute forfeiture of      #
their bonds,
& therefore it may be supposed that no ship puts into Ireland   #
but
upon some extrordinary necessity, or in expectac~on of more     #
then
ordinary advantages.
<P I,56>
   Besides all this, If y=e= Liberty of twenty ships should be  #
granted
w=ch= is insinuated as ships of small Burden, they would        #
easily be
furnish=t= w=th= ships of Greater Burden from y=e= New England  #
men,
& others who have found y=e= encouragem=t= from y=e= farm=rs=   #
of Ireland
to y=e= ruin of y=e= fair Trader here. Nor can it be duly kept  #
to a
Limited number of Ships considering y=e= convenience & number   #
of
their Ports, but it would in time amount to a gen=ll= Liberty.  #
At
least y=e= charge of collecting y=e= halfe-penny per pound in   #
Ireland
will neer ballance y=e= Revenue that will arise to his Ma=tie=  #
thereby,
and will certainly be a great losse in y=e= Customes heer.

   All w=ch= w=e= humbly submit to your Lo=p=.

Rich. Temple. Will. Thomson.

W=m=. Garway. F. Millington.

John Ipton.

Custome House, London,
10 February, 1672.



