     L. c. 918     March 29th 1680                                              
  London March 27th 1680                                                        
+His Matye Continues In good health at Newmarket where he is Attended by        
many of the Nobility, Also by the E of Rothes Chancellor of scotland who        
tis said is made Knight of the Garter                                           
     It now Appeares that more was designed by the late Conspirators            
then our last mentioned & though it was to goe under the name of                
Apprentices yet wee are Credably Informed that the Popish Party were            
Engaged In it & tis beleeved there are not A Thousand Apprentices               
Concerned & those that be are most Papists                                      
     one Christopher A sword Culters man hath Confessed upon Oath that          
their Captain Alford Asked him if he Could furnish him with A                   
Considderable number of swords & said he should have 40000 to Assist him        
on the 29th may next  wee also hear that 30000 L hath been Recd from the        
Tower & Expended In the designe                                                 
     sr wm Waller hath now In all Recd 4 lists one of 14000 another of          
13000 another of 10000 & Another of 5000                                        
     This Evening Alford hath been Examined & promised pardon by the Ld         
Chancellor if he would make An Ingenious Confession but he Refused it &         
was Remanded                                                                    
     Last night mr Thompson who prints the Pamphletts Called the True           
domesticke was by sr wm Waller Comitted to the Gatehouse for misprision         
of Treason In Concealing the designes of Alford                                 
     The Citizens being sencible of the Imminent danger they are In have        
sent to the Ld Maior to desire A Comon Councill                                 
     The Ld President & Earles of Bridgwater & Essex being Appointed A          
secret Committee to Examine Into the Irish Plott Informed of by the E of        
shaftesbury did last Thursday Examine the same at the Ld Presidents             
house In Chelsey the Ld shaftesbury being prsent which their Lordships          
Reported yesterday to the Councell who sate againe thereupon this               
afternoon  the perticulers of this discovery are kept very secret but           
In generall tis said it was designed to deliver up Ireland to the               
ffrench K & some say they designed A massacre In Ireland at the same            
time that the Plott was put In Execution                                        
     The Councill have dispatched orders Into Ireland for A High Court of       
Justice for Tryall of the Earle of Tyrone the Lord Briles The Titular Ld        
Primate Patricke The Titular Archbishop of Dublin Talbott & have ordered        
Coll Talbott & others of Inferior quality to be Tryed at the Assizes            
     ffrom Paris they write that the ffrench K hath Countermanded all           
his Troops from Italy & Comanded them to march for fflanders & Alsatia          
& that he hath given orders to all his household to be Ready to march           
for he hath A greate & Long Journey which he is to begin at dunkerke            
     All their sea port townes from Dunkerke to Bayonne are filled with         
souldiers aswell horse as foot & there is not A place In Brittain or            
Guyen [?] where there are not layd up greate Magazeens &c  some suspect         
his designe is Agt Ireland                                                      
+mr speake hath given In his Answer to the Councill & is discharged             
   One mr Ld [?] Mair hath Confessed the whole Intregue Agt the duke of         
Bucke & one mrs Mary wright hath Confessed shee hath been proffered             
greate summes of money to swear A Rape Agt the d of Bucks but Refused           
      Yesterday wee had the ill newes of 3 ships more taken by the Turks        
vizt the Jacob from Jamaica The seaflower from the Canaries & the               
Valentine from Newfoundland  The 2 last made A good defence  The Captain        
of the seaflower is Killed & the other Captain lost A Legg                      
          They write from Amsterdam that by Reason of A present from the        
ffrench K to the Elector of Brandenburgh vallued at 70000 Crownes &c sr         
Robt southwells negotiation is much doubted & that tis feared after all         
the states will be necesitated to Embrace the new alliance with ffrance         
     L. c. 919     Aprill 1st 1680                                              
  London 30th March 1680                                                        
+The Informations Relateing more perticulerly to the Irish plott are not        
yet knowne  His Matye was pleased to Add the Archbishop of Canterbury &         
Bp of London to the secret Committee of Councill for the affaire  The said      
Committee prayed that blanke warrants might be sent Into Ireland for            
bringing persons over Into England to answere here but it was not agreed        
upon                                                                            
     The discovery seems to be greate & weighty & Causes his Matyes             
Returne to be prsent In Councill to morrow                                      
     The Report is that the Papists there had Conspired to make An              
Insurrection & Cut the Protestants Throats & In order thereunto there           
were ffrequent Caballs of the Popish Clergy who lately acquainted the           
Pope they were Ready to put their designes In Execution when ever he            
should Comand them                                                              
     Tis said this Plott In Ireland was In Conjunction with that of the         
Apprentices here                                                                
     mr Thompson was yesterday morning Removed from the Gatehouse to            
newgate by A New mittimus for High Treason  He hath In his this dayes           
Domestick printed his vindication wherein he doth much Asperse sr Wm            
Waller & hath also the Confidence to print A Notorious untruth Abt              
Margrett Clarke that was Executed for setting fire on her masters house         
In southwarke on purpose to Invalidate the Truth of her last words,             
There is An Information given In Agt him by one Dobson A Constable who          
Apprehended him Testifying upon Oath that he heard mr Thompson say as he        
was Carrying to the Gatehouse these words  Come Come  These things will         
soon be at An End  wee shall Ere long have new Lawes without Parliamts &        
there are witnesses to prove that the Apprentices had severall meetings         
at his house                                                                    
     Yesterday our Recorder Recd A Repreive for James Baker Alias Hoskins       
who was Accused of severall Crimes but Indicted & Convicted only as A           
preist                                                                          
     The Mayor of Bristoll & sr Jo: Knight are Reported to be Turned out        
for being deputy Liefts of that Citty for declining to take Informations        
Agt others for words                                                            
     Wee have here new projects on foot one by dr Berebones who hath            
taken A House neer the Exchange for An office of Ensurance upon houses a        
one p Cent for the Intrinsicke vallue for 12 months                             
     The other for Conveyance of all sorts of Papers of Buisness from           
any place within the lines of Communication to another under A pound            
weight for A peny & to this Effect A house is taken for An office               
     Letters from Amsterdam say they had letters from Prague which say          
the muscovites have Concluded A peace with the Turks for 4 years & that         
the Turks will bend all their force Agt Poland                                  
     They write from strasburgh that 6 waggon Load of money were Come to        
Brisacke where the only discourse is of the greate designes of the ffrench      
K, one day that he Aimes at England another that he Intends for Italy           
another that he designes for Germany & that this money is to gaine the          
good will & Neutrality of the princes that will sell for money  he hath         
prohibitted the Lorrainers upon paine of death for serveing any fforreign       
prince & hath taken Into his service the ffloure of the Emperours men &         
also of severall other princes & hath bought up the Rest Ease [?] In            
Germany  Also he hath Comanded that all officers of the Admiralty of            
what degree soever who are of the Reformed Religion shall forthwith             
quitt his service                                                               
     This day sr Robt Clayton our prsent Ld maior is Chosen Coll of the         
Orange Regemt In the Roome of sr Thomas Davies lately deceased                  
     L. c. 920     Aprill 3d 1680                                               
  London Aprill 1st 1680                                                        
+Yesterday afternoon his Matye sate In Councill at whitehall abt the            
Irish Plott In which much time is spent but the perticulers are Kept very       
secrett  The Atturney Genll & the Clerks In Attendance being Commanded          
to withdraw.  But many blanke warrants are dispatched for Apprehending          
severall persons there who are discovered to have A hand In it to bring         
them over Into England & his Matye was pleased to declare that since the        
E: of shaftesbury hath given himselfe soe much Trouble In his Matyes            
absence In makeing this discovery he will soe far honour his Lordshipp          
as to let him have the heareing of the Examinations, wee hear that the          
Posts are stopt going for Ireland till the Councill has made further            
Inspection Into this buisness                                                   
     Tis said the English & Irish Papists had agreed to deliver Ireland         
to the ffrench this summer for A summe of money                                 
     mr ffitzerald stopt at Bristoll is sent away for Ireland with 2            
Councill messengers who are to Land at Waterford & there to Comand A Troope     
of horse to guard them to the place where the Papers are Inclosed between       
2 walls which will further Confirme the Plott In England & Ireland of           
the latter  tis discoursed that persons of greate quality are accused &         
also that those of the Titular Clergy had ffrequent Consults & that the         
Popes nuncio was Amonge them  But A Reluctancy for the Blood to be spilt        
occasioned the diference Amonge them which gave occasion for the discovery      
which was made by some ffranciscan ffryars who are Enemies to the Jesuitts      
     The designe Called the Apprentices plott opens itselfe more & more         
& It appears it was first Mannaged by the Papists & by such Carryed on          
Tis said sr wm Waller hath Traced it to some persons In the Tower               
     His Matye hath Confirmed the Election made by the Lieutenancy of           
the Citty of sr Robt Clayton o[u]r prsent Ld maior to be Coll of the            
Orange Regemt                                                                   
   The Ld Mayor & Aldermen have this day set forth A declaration wherein        
they declare                                                                    
     That whereas it Appeares by severall Examinations that greate              
Endeavours have been used to Influence divers Apprentices &c to Enter           
Into A Combination Agt The peace of this Citty And that foreseeing the          
Danger & sad Consequences to Religion & Civill power that Ryottous              
Assemblies may Run us Into by the designes of the papists & others who          
shelter themselves In the suburbs of this Citty & are men of desperate          
ffortunes & worse principles by whome Ryottous Assemblies may be Improved       
to sad Consequences                                                             
     To prevent all which all Aldermen Comon Councill men & masters of          
ffamilies are Commanded to have Especiall Regard to their severall &            
Respective Charges & personally to see due watches Kept &c                      
     The Ld President hath moved that A proclamation might be published         
that if sr wm waller should miscarry all the Popish Preists should be           
Imediately Executed one of the discoverers haveing Informed that they           
did Intend to Carry his head In triumph through the Citty                       
     One mr Robt sexton at the sugar loafe [about five letters                  
smeared]mures street Covent garden victualler who hath taken the liberty        
to Call his drinke [?] by the name of Oates Bedlow &c where is A                
Randevouz of Papists of whome he is A ffaivourer was this day taken Into        
Custody for publickly discourseing that the Popish Plott was A [ffalse?]        
plott & the discoverers Rogues fitt for the whipping post &c Wondring           
that any should goe with sr Wm Waller to search for preists for that            
the said sr Wm went Rather to Robb then otherwise for which wee doubt           
he will be severely dealt with                                                  
+Wee hear from Newmarket that madam Guyn hath Recd much dammage from            
the fall of A horse                                                             
+Tis much discoursed that his Matye should say that the Parliamt should         
sit on the 25th Instant                                                         
     L. c. 921     Aprill 5th 1680                                              
  London Aprill 3d 1680                                                         
+Yesterday the Councill sate againe & were long In Examining further            
Into the Irish Plott which is Kept very secrett & though its the                
discourse of the Towne yet all is but uncertainty & Conjectures                 
     Tis said the Ld President is very zealous In searching Into the            
bottom of it & sayes he will see the bottom of it though it should Cost         
his life                                                                        
     Letters from ffrance say that Talbott & others are upon discovery          
of the Apprentices plott fled thither saying there hath not been A more         
probable plott to Benefit the Papists for these many yeares                     
     The witnesses that Came over about the Irish plott were last night         
taken Into A messengers Custome for fear of being Tampered with                 
     sr wm Waller is very Earnest In the pursuit of the Apprentices             
plott  last night he seized one Thomas Borkett A notorious Papist deeply        
Concerned therein & Committed him to the Gatehouse for High Treason In          
Levying warr Agt the King                                                       
     Tis said the d of Lauderdale is under greate discomposure of mind          
+The duke of Buckinghams buisness seemes now to be drawing towards some         
period for yesterday at Councill Le Marr & his mother some Chyrurgeons          
Appeared & were Examined  La Marr Averred that the duke had Buggered him        
twice & others proved the Condition of his body after it &c  La Marr also       
declared that since the dukes Instruments had Got him to prison they had        
made him Drinke & unwittingly to disowne the Truth upon the whole matter        
the Councill ordered the duke should be prosecuted according to Law &           
that La Marr be allowed 20 L p weeke for his support                            
     sr wm Waller was Called In & Checkt for the takeing of some                
Informations Relateing to the dukes buisness                                    
     The Councill made An order to prevent any Tumultuous Assemblies            
that noe bonefires be made on the 29th may next or at any other time            
without speciall order of the Majestrates                                       
     They write from Holland that there are 22 Algeir men of warr Abroade       
2 more going out & one Newly Come In which brought In An English Barbadoes      
ship  They also say that through the multitude of slaves they have taken        
they are sold there at A very Cheape Rate amonge themselves                     
     mr Le strange is made Justice of the quoram & hath 800 L p Ann settled     
upon him by his Matye till he shall be againe Impowered to lycence books        
     There will be double guards all over the Citty & suburbs In the            
Easter holy dayes for fear the Apprentices should Attempt to ffree their        
fellows being they Cannot be tryed before Easter                                
     Letters from Paris say there passed by Lyons 4 Battalions of ffoot         
for the Dauphinate where are already severall Troops quartered which are        
supposed to be designed for Cassall  The Councill have been of late             
altered there  the King hath declared he will make noe long Journey till        
July                                                                            
     Hague Aprill 6th  The states Genll have Agreed upon A Recesse untill       
Thursday next & after that untill the Approaching holy dayes be past            
     mr Bauldron being Returned from yorke last Councill day gave In A          
petition to his Matye & Councill showing that besides his wife he had           
above 20 witnesses to prove that severall of the Conspirators witnesses         
at sr Tho Gascoynes Tryall &c were subborned & hired to lessen the              
Credit & Evidence of him & mr Mowbray, Also mr Bauldron hath set forth          
this declaration to vindicate himselfe & his ffreind whereas there hath         
been A malicious & false Report that Robt Bauldron & Lawrence Mowbray           
are the Authors of A scurrillous & Blasphemous Pamphlett Entitled A ffull &     
ffinall discovery of the plott  the said Robt Bauldron doth declare that        
he is not the Author of the said Pamphlett nor did he Know anything of          
the said Pamphlett till he met with it In print But hath Reason to              
beleeve that Lemuell Bradley one of his Matyes messengers is or Can give        
account of the Author of the said Pamphlett for that the said Lemuell           
Bradley did Receive 6 guyneys for A Coppy of it from the publishers             
     They write from Amsterdam they say there that the prsent Parliamt          
In England is not like to sit but that the King Intends to Call another         
+To morrow wee shall Know whether the Parliamt will sit or be dissolved         
or longer prorogued                                                             
     L. c. 922     Aprill 8th 1680                                              
  London 6th Aprill 1680                                                        
+His Matye hath been pleased to order the drawing up of A Comission for         
the Ld Chancellor to prorogue the Parliamt till the 17th may next               
     His Matye goes againe after Easter for Newmarket for 4 or 5 dayes          
& then Returnes for windsor                                                     
     A ffew months since A letter was found at the Customhouse Importing        
A designe of the Papists for A Massacre & Burneing the Citty &c  some           
weeks since A 2d letter was left there Importing the same & last satureday      
A 3d letter was left there Informeing that the Authour writt the 2 former       
& this was to give notice that the like designe was now on ffoot &              
Intended to be put In Execution as last night & that the Ld shaftesbury         
sr Thomas Player &c would be Cutt off And that the ffires would begin           
In smithfeild long Lane & Bear Garden In southwarke, search being made In       
long Lane by the Ld shaftesburies order 3 or 4 suspitious persons were          
taken up  some looke upon the designe to Amuse us that when they                
Really Intend us mischeife wee should not take notice of it                     
     Yesterday was published A Booke price 6 d which gives the full             
discovery & manner of ffireing mr Delaneys house & the Examination of           
Margrett Clarke her behaivour In prison & at Execution by which Appeares        
A Hellish designe of ffireing by providence prevented                           
     mr Mowbray Came to London last satureday night & declares the same         
that mr Bauldron did mentioned In my last abt that scandalous Pamphlett         
Called A ffinall discovery of the Plott &c                                      
     Tis now said sr George Jeffries will be made Judge In the Roome of         
sr ffrancis Pemmerton & that mr Polixfen will be made Cheife Justice of         
Chester                                                                         
     mr dare of Taunton who delivered the somersetshire petition hath           
Appeared to the Information found Agt him by the grand Jury for words           
spoken & the Judge hath ffined him 500 L & to lye In prison till it be          
paid  some letters say that he Confessed the others that they were              
proved Agt him                                                                  
      The K of ffrance is meking ffresh Claimes & Incroaching dayly             
upon the princes of the Empire & laying new taxes upon them soe that            
tis said he hath Impoverished them more since the peace then he did             
In time of warr  he is also Raiseing more forces In severall places &           
tis Judged by Knowing men he hath In all parts 400000 men In Armes              
     mr sidney o[u]r Ambr In Holland is falne Into A Relapse but sr Robt        
southwell is Arrived at Hambrough                                               
     Whereas Its published In print by one sm[all?] & by mr Thompson            
that the E of Ossory being Informed that sr Wm Waller Intended to draw          
up Articles Agt him & Intended to Complaine to the King & Councill              
Councell was prevented by sr williams humble submission  The said Relation      
is utterly false & the discourse occasioned as followeth vizt  The Earle        
being Informed that sr wm had A prejudice Agt him & his ffather & was           
ffraimeing Articles Agt him &c sr wm Heareing thereof did let his               
Lordship know that it was nothing soe but being A Justice of peace he           
Could doe noe less then take any depositions offered before him as he           
had lately done on the Examinations of some of the Apprentices who              
had mentioned his Lordships name                                                
     mr Bedlow is gone Into Ireland to vissitt his ffather In Law               
where he is safely Arrived                                                      
     Wee hear from staffordshire that the Grandjury have found the              
bill Agt the Ld Aston & Its Returneing to London                                
+Wee hear the Lds In the Tower doe Intend to move the Judges this terme         
that bayle may be taken for them                                                
     Wee have Advice from Marselles that there are 2 squadrons of Turks         
men of warr 9 In Each out at sea & that one of them had mett our                
streights ffleet outwards bound & had Attacqued their Convoy & that about       
4000 shott was heard but what the Effect of it was they know not, The           
Truth of which wee Exspect to hear                                              
     L. c. 923     Aprill 10th 1680                                             
  London 8th Aprill 1680                                                        
+Yesterday mr Blood mr Christian & others Complained to the Councill Agt        
sr Wm Waller for undue practices In Examination of Witnesses Agt them In        
behalfe of the d of Bucks & perticulerly of one Higgie upon heareing of         
which his Matye gave order that sr Wm be put out of the Comission of            
peace which gives birth to much discourse & people take the liberty to          
talke very sharply thereon                                                      
     mr Barnsley being formerly put out abt the same affair yesterday           
petitioned his Matye In Councill to pray A heareing of the whole Matter         
for which he was Accused but had noe answer                                     
     Yesterday sr Wm Waller Committed to the Gatehouse one Major Uffington      
& one mr King for haveing Conspired to Levy warr Agt his Matye & throw          
the Popish Plott upon divers Lords & others of the Protestant Religion          
who are his Matyes loyall subjects                                              
     The dutchesse of Buckingham attended the Councill & gave In A              
petition Relateing to the dukes prsent Circumstances  the perticulers           
are not Knowne                                                                  
     It seemes there hath been many designes to Ensnare the Ld shaftesbury      
& make him an offender but such hath been his prudence & Caution that           
they all prove InEffectuall  Amongst others wee have letters which say          
that In the Northwest of England horses fit for service are bought up &         
the Buyers pretend they are for the said Lord & by his order which is           
Altogather false                                                                
     Another Attempt was made as tis thought by one Ephrington who              
lately Came from Ireland & Communicated to his Lordship An Account of A         
plott there Nameing to his Lordship persons & proceedings & begged his          
Lordships privacy & he would give him the perticulers of the whole              
designe To which his Ldpp Answered that he would not hear them being            
neither A privy Counceller nor A Judge but that he would Recomend him           
to them that were & Imediately Acquainted A privy Counceller therewith          
since which his Matye & Councell have been Informed the said Ephrington         
is A very ill man & hath been Convicted of Perjury In Ireland from whence       
he hath fled from Justice &c                                                    
     Notwithstanding which the Plott In Ireland is under prosecution            
upon other Evidence                                                             
     mr stephen dugdale is Returned from stafford Assizes where were            
Indicted the Ld Aston sr James symonds mr Howard mr Heveningham & some          
preists for High Treason  the grand jury found the bills which will be          
Returned to the Kings bench In order to their tryall next Terme                 
     The Last letters wee had from Germany say that the Boores In               
Bohemia are In Armes & In open Rebellion Agt the Emperour being as tis          
thought Influenced thereunto by ffrance  they seem fformidable & have           
with them many of the late disbanded officers In their Colours  they            
have this motto Venire ad Me qui Honorati Estis                                 
     Yesterday the Turkey Company mett & drew A petition humbly desireing       
his Matye to Assigne A time when they should Attend his Matye to nominate       
An Ambr to Constantinople In Roome of mr ffinch  The said petition was          
this morning prsented to his Matye by the Ld Berkley  his Matye Assigned        
them 6 A Clocke this afternoon & gave leave to Choose but Referred the          
Approbation to himselfe                                                         
+Yesterday the King sent A precept to the Ld Mayor to give order to             
the Constables to make strict search for popish preists                         
     L. c. 924     Aprill 12th 1680                                             
  London 10th Aprill 1680                                                       
+His Matye Intends for Newmarket on the 19th Instant & the same weeke           
goes for Windsor where tis said he Intends to stay till september by            
which tis Judged the Parliamt will not sit on the 17th may  It being            
also said that In the Comission for Prorogation it is Expressed that if         
his Matye shall find his Affaires Require their sitting the 17th may he         
will give notice by proclamation                                                
     Wee have had An Idle Report that the d of monmoth the E of Shaftesbury     
& others were summoned to Appear at the Councill to Answer some Complaints      
Agt them which hath not the least shadow of Truth, The E of Shaftesbury         
hath sent to Apprehend those In Herefordshire which have bought & are           
buying horses which they pretend are for his Lordships use of which he          
is wholly Ignorant                                                              
     Wee hear that te deum hath been sunge at some Popish Chappells             
here for Joy that sr wm Waller is dismist but tis said he is Resolved           
they shall not Rest much the quietter he Intending to be as Industrious         
In discovery & will procure warrants Agt them &c                                
     sr wm being Aspersed by severall Pamphletts Intends to print his           
vindication                                                                     
     Tis said sr Phill ffloyd will be made Justice of peace In his Roome        
others say mr Roger le Estrange the Truth of which wee shall know next          
wednesday at Westminster sessions                                               
     Yesterday the order of Councill to prevent Tumults by makeing              
bonefires was published also the Ld Mayors precept that the Comon Councill      
men Assist the Constables to watch                                              
     mr Thompson is bayled out of the Gatehouse & mr Redding who was            
Convicted of Endeavouring to subborn Capt Bedlow hath his ffine of              
1000 L Remitted & tis said his liberty will soon follow                         
     Wee hear from Ireland that the Treachery there was Almost Ready            
for action  the Jesuitts had Invited the ffrench to their Assistance but        
the dominicans were of Opinion that the Romish party there were of              
sufficient strengh to Accomplish the designe without fforreign Aide             
     By the peace Concluded at Nimeghien the dutch are obliged to deliver       
up Maastricht to the K of spaine which is Retarded & the Reasons urged          
that spaine is much Indebted to the states for severall greate summs &          
services perticulerly the streights fleet where they spent much money &         
lost their best seaman de Rutyer, In which matter the ffrench K doth            
Interest himself & tis said is drawing An Army of 45000 men to Lisle            
which are In the Naime of the K of spaine to demand Maestricht & take it        
if they Can which if got will doub[t]less be for his owne use                   
     other letters say the ffrench K hath againe Comanded his forces            
to advance towards Italy also that the K of denmarke & the dukes of             
Osnaburgh & Zell are Raiseing forces                                            
     The dutch gazett tells us his Matye of greate Brittain hath sent           
An Ambr to the Emperour to make A strict Alliance with him to keep the          
ffrench K within bounds & that he had private Audience                          
     Yesterday was published A booke of 9 sheets Entitled the Narrative         
of Coll Tho: Blood wherein is set forth how Coll Blood is Charged as A          
Conspirator with Maurice Higgie Phillip La Marr &c to subborne the              
Testimony of samuell Ryder & Phillemon Cullen [?] to swear Buggery Agt          
the d of Bucks on the bodyes of sarah Harwood & others which is published       
as mr Bloods owne writeing but he hath this day disowned it In print            
saying it hath been done without his privity Consent or Knowledg his            
Innocency wanting noe such lame vindication                                     
  Tis observable that Lamarr who accused the duke before the Councill           
of Buggery upon his owne body is made A party In the subbornation some          
say to take off his Evidence but the whole matter is soe perplext that          
it will be dificult worke for A Jury to detect it Aright                        
     The Ld Allington is made Coll of the Regemt of the Tower Hamletts          
     L. c. 925     Aprill 15th 1680                                             
  London 13th Aprill 1680                                                       
+Wee hear not of any disorder In the Citty neither yesterday nor to day         
& wee hope the strict Charge of the Ld Maior to Masters of ffamilies &c         
And the Trayned Bands & Constables will prevent any disturbance                 
     Yesterday A whole Oxe was designed to be Rosted at Islington as            
usually on Easter Munday & was accordingly began but the sheriffe of            
Middlesex prohibitted it & Comanded the people to disperse on paine of          
being proceeded Agt As Ryotters                                                 
     On sunday last it was Resolved by his Matye that there should be A         
new Call of sergeants next Terme  The persons already designed are sr           
George Jeffries sr Jo: Keeling sr ffran: Manly mr Bugby mr West sr Jo:          
Bainton all of the Inner Temple mr wright of Lincolns Inn & mr Bigland          
of Graies Inn  This Call is thought to be for the sake of sr George             
Jeffries who Its beleeved will In A short time Rise from being Cheife           
Justice of Chester to be Ld Cheife Justice of England                           
     Major Uffington mr King & mr Thompson brought their Habeas Corpus          
but Judge Dolben would not Allow it for that sr Wm Waller had Inserted          
the word Treason In their Comittments soe they are all 3 Remanded & mr          
Thompson is not at liberty as was said                                          
     Phillip La Marr is still a prisoner In the Marshalsea but is suddenly      
taken much Indisposed In his head Attended with A vomitt &c the simptons        
of Poyson which he suspects hath been given him                                 
     Yesterday the ship Loyall subject Arrived In the downes from East          
India                                                                           
     Wee hear our streights fleet are most of them Arrived at their             
severall ports without meeting any of the Algerines but they write from         
Paris they have A Report there that A very Rich English ship from smirna        
was taken & Carryed Into Algeirs                                                
     Last ffriday his Matye Touched above 500 persons for the Evill             
+The Marquess of winchester is gone Into ffrance for Recovery of his health     
     mr Christian Turner Eldest son to Baron Turner haveing Abused A            
person was on munday Morning Informed the Party was waiting with officers       
to Arrest him upon which he sent for 2 of his Comrades to Assist him            
who all 3 Comeing Into the street with their swords drawne made An              
Innocent Gentleman fly whome they pursued & sorely wounded & tis thought        
they would have killed him had they not been Informed that he Knew nothing      
of the matter                                                                   
     They write from Holland & fflanders that the ffrench K Continues to        
make new pretensions on some place or other In fflanders dayly & that           
In soe large A manner as to demand the whole Countrey to the very gates         
of Newport to which place & Ostend & Antwerpe he seemes to bend his             
designes Intending thereby to prevent the English at any time to give           
the dutch Assistance to his prejudice & wee have letters from Hamburgh          
which Intimate they are under Apprehensions of Being Attacqued by the           
joint forces of denmarke & ffrance  Thus the ffrench Continue to Allarme        
all Europe whilst the places he Intends are perhapps defenceless but            
tis probable the storme will fall first on fflanders next on Holland            
The former lookeing as if it were In his posession already  the newes           
this day on the Exchange is that he is falling with 40000 men Into the          
Countrey of Leige                                                               
     The dutch Ambr here hath Recd fresh letters from the states to             
treate here about the league whilst they treate with mr sidney in               
Holland & tis hoped It will be perfected In A short time                        
     The E of shaftesbury hath another person In his Custody who Can            
give A further Information of the Irish buisness & upon the newes that          
the Conspirators are taken in Ireland the person aforesaid will be              
brought before the Councill                                                     
     L. c. 926     Aprill 17th 1680                                             
  London Aprill 15th 1680                                                       
+This morning many of the members of both houses being mett the Lds sent        
for the Commons Into their house where the Ld Chancellor Read his Matyes        
Commission directed to him & others for Prorogueing the Parliamt till           
the 17th may next which was done accordingly                                    
     Yesterday the quartersessions began at Westminster where his Matyes        
Commission of Justices was Read In which sr Wm Waller was not Incerted          
haveing the day before Recd his quiettus, one mr Whittaker Called the           
d of Buckinghams sollicitor preferred A bill of Indictment Agt Phillip          
La Marr & his mother & one mr Longford A yonge gentleman lately married         
formerly servant to the E of Danby for subbornation  the grandjury have         
not yet found the bill Agt them                                                 
     The Apprentices have by petition desired they might be brought to          
their tryalls this sessions & tis said orders are given accordingly             
The Judges were yesterday ordered by the Councill to take some Effectuall       
way for suppressing the presse from Printing soe many Idle & scandalous         
Pamphletts as dayly Come forth                                                  
     sr Richard Deerham our Citty Remembrancer who was Knighted by his          
Matye last Thursday is makeing An Interest to be Chosen Ambr for                
Constantinople by the Turkey Company In Roome of mr ffinch  The                 
Company make their Election next Tuesday for which are many Candidates          
it being A place of Profit & honour                                             
     The papers of the Jesuitts being by order of his Matye Inspected           
they have found mr Irelands pockett booke Amonge them In which was              
found severall Considderable matters & some things writt with his owne          
hand which he denied at his death &c                                            
     Yesterday the dutchesse of yorke accompanied the Dutchesse of              
Modena to Hampton Court attended by A party of the guards where haveing         
dined they Returned againe at night                                             
     They write from stockholme that the K of sweden hath appointed the         
3d of may the 10th of June The 19th July & the 6th of August to be dayes        
of Thanksgiveing for the peace they now Enjoy                                   
     They write from Paris their Army is upon the brinke of some greate         
action & they had A Report that they were set downe before Hassell A            
Dutch Garrison 3 Leagues from Maestricht                                        
     That King hath Comanded the late order made to oblige all protestant       
oficers Either Civill or military to dispose of their places & withdraw         
out of his service to be Recalled                                               
     The d of Luxemburgh hath not yet been Tryed but is Kept Close              
prisoner                                                                        
     Tis discoursed at o[u]r Court that there are some letters Intercepted      
which give A stronge suspition that there is A strict Alliance between          
ffrance & spaine & that all fflanders is to be surrendred to the ffrench        
which if soe Holland will be necesitated to follow &c                           
     ships newly Come In give An account that they saw 18 Algerine ships        
In A body at sea  That the ffrench k hath promised them the use of his          
harbours & that severall English slaves are Turned Renegadoes & serve           
them In their ships Guydeing them In the English seas & that 400000 L           
will hardly purchase the ffreedome of all the English slaves, But the           
Commrs of the Admiralty have ordered out some fresh men of warr for             
scoureing the Channell & to Cruise between the Channell mouth & Ireland         
to secure our shipping & Curbe the Algerines                                    
+Tis Reported the E of Essex will be made Ld Lieutenant of Ireland              
    [Some figures appear in another hand on outside of letter.]                 
     L. c. 927     Aprill 19th 1680                                             
  London 17th Aprill 1680                                                       
+On Thursday last one Capt Jo: Arnold A Gent of above 1500 L p Ann &            
justice of peace for Monmothshire who hath been very vigorous In putting        
the Lawes In Execution Agt Papists seizing divers Preists & Jesuitts & one of   
their Colledges Called Combe but perticulerly one Called Capt Evans A Jesuite   
Executed last summer Assizes & one ffather Lewis who suffered In another        
place, Being In towne Concerning A buisness depending before the Councill       
betwixt him & one mr Herbert another Justice of peace there, was ordered        
to have A heareing on ffriday & being on Thursday night at the Devill           
Taverne about 10 of the Clocke went thence up Bell yard to acquaint his         
Councellers with the said order but as he passed by the Corner of               
Jack an Apes lane he was Assaulted by 3 villains  one of them Threw A           
Claoke over his head & then they Knocked him downe & made severall              
attempts to stabb him but he haveing A purce of quilted bodies their            
swords did not Enter farr upon which they Cryed Damn him he hath                
Armour on  Cut his throate & one of them Imediately Cut him from his ear        
to the Windpipe Cutting the Jugular veine Crying Damn you dogge Arnold          
Now pray for the soule of Capt Evans if you have breath & gave another          
Cut on his Throate But missing his Windpipe he Cryed out murther aswell         
as he Could & was heard by some who held Candles out at the Windows &           
A boy going for drinke with A Lighted Linke In his hand the villains            
fled & the Linke boy Cryed out for helpe & they Carryed him to his              
Lodgings at the blacke lyon neer Templegate where his wounds were               
searched & he was found Run Into the Belly & through his left arme &            
2 glanceing wounds In his sides with divers pricks In his Breast & the          
Before named Cutts on his Throate & much Bruised on his stomacke by             
their Treading on him yet the Phisitians & surgeons are In hopes that           
if he doe not fall Into A feaver his wounds may not prove mortall               
     One of the villains Aimeing at his Breast Run another of them through      
the Legg who Cryed damn mee you have Run mee through the Legg but this          
villain shall Pay for it                                                        
     His Matye & Councill are soe highly Incensed at it that an order           
of Councill is printed Requireing all Majestrates to make strict                
Enquiry after the villains & those that Employed them promieing 100 L to        
those that shall apprehend them & if any of the villains will Come In           
& discover the Rest he shall have his pardon & 100 L                            
     mr Herbert was sent for & accused with threatening speeches tending        
to the life of mr Arnold upon which he was Committed to newgate from            
whence he is since bayled                                                       
     Notwithstanding mr Arnolds being wounded the dispute between him           
& mr Herbert was heard yesterday before the Councill where were at least        
100 witnesses  mr Herbert quitted all his pretensions Agt mr Arnold soe         
the Buisness fell                                                               
     The grandjury of westminster have found the Bill Agt Phillip La marr       
& his mother but not Agt mr Langford  last night A note was put under           
Justice Warcupps door after they were all In Bed giveing A discription          
of the 3 villains that Assaulted mr Arnold & where there was A probability      
of takeing them upon which the said Justice went Early this morning to          
looke after them but wee doe not hear he hath mett with them                    
     His Matye hath Admitted the E of Ossory to be one of the Privy             
Councill who on wednesday last presented to his Matye Captain Dodson A          
woollen draper In st Paulls Church yard & Captain In the yellow Regemt          
whome his Matye Knighted                                                        
     Last night In Councill mr secretary Coventry delivered up the              
seales to his Matye who was pleased to deliver them to sr Lionell               
Jenkins who succeeds In the place of secretary of state & hath taken            
the usuall Oaths                                                                
+mr Arnold Rested very well last night soe the hopes of his Recovery            
Increases                                                                       
     L. c. 928     Aprill 29th 1680                                             
  London 27th Aprill 1680                                                       
+His Matye haveing taken Cold was somewhat Indisposed & last ffriday let        
blood since which he is well Recovered & yesterday Came to whitehall &          
went this morning to Newmarket Intending to Returne on ffriday & be at          
the Councell & next day goes to windsor Againe                                  
     Richard Cavenagh was yesterday Examined about mr Arnold & denied           
the fact but there appeared such Circumstances Agt him as Convinced             
them of his being Guilty soe he was Committed to Newgate                        
     The Next morning after mr Arnolds being Hurt 2 persons walkeing In         
Arrundell street were overheard to say God Damn if he Recover wee are           
undone  I Could Easyly have thorowly dispatched him  the other Answered         
him soe Could I  wee shall both be undone, one lookeing out At A window         
observed them to be In souldiers Habitt & that one of them had A wean           
on his Eye who proves to be one Gibbons A souldier In the ffoot Guards          
+There haveing been A Report that dr Cosens late Bishop of Durham had           
left A blacke box of writeings with sr Gilbert Gerrard which had been           
opened & did Containe A Contract of Marriage between his Matye & the            
d of monmoths mother & other matters of An High nature Relateing to the         
said duke & his mother all which was Imposed as truth though his Matye          
hath soe often declared that he was never married to any other then             
her prsent Matye                                                                
     His Matye being Highly Incensed thereatt & the ill Consequences            
of such Reports Commanded mr Duppa to goe Into yorkeshire & Returne             
with sr Gilbert who appeareing yesterday at the Councill board (the             
Judges upon that occasion being prsent) was Interogated thereupon who did       
depose & subscribed it with his owne hand that he Knew nothing of any           
such box or any such writeings or that Ever any such things ever Came           
Came Into his hands                                                             
     Wee have A stronge Report that the K of ffez is Come downe to              
Tangier with 60000 men & layes A fformall seige thereunto & that he hath        
many ffrench Pioneers In his service  Its also Reported that the English        
shipt In Ireland for the Reinforceing Tangier In their Passages mett            
with some Turks men of warr one of which they sunke & tooke another             
which they sent Into Waterford                                                  
     Wee hear from Carnarvonshire that A Turks man of war had set Ashoar        
many of his men & seized A Considderable number of Cattle which they            
shipt & Carryed off with them 13 or 14 of o[u]r men                             
     There is A Report another Justice of peace In monmothshire hath            
been Barbarously Attempted there  The Truth whereof is that one mr Tomkins      
A Justice of peace haveing at his Table some gentlemen one of them              
differing with him on some occasionall discourse which after dinner             
was Renewed In the garden the Gentlemen drew upon mr Tomkins & wounded          
him                                                                             
     This day A Custome house officer & A Constable Comeing to make A           
seizure of some prohibitted ffrench goods of A Considderable vallue In          
the house of A ffrench merchant mett with some opposition upon which            
they sent for A ffile of Musquetteers who forceing Entrance made the            
seizure of which notice being given to the Ld Mayor he Imediately               
Repaired to the place & sent the souldiers & also the officers to the           
Counter for dareing to send for Military aide to Execute the Civill             
power In which his Lordship & the sheriffs were Legally the Protectors          
In the Citty & his Lordship seized the said goods                               
     The Grandjury of Norfolke have subscribed A declaration Agt the            
Petitions for the Parliamts sitting & they pray that their Thanks may be        
Returned to his Matye for Recalling his R Highness from beyond sea              
     L. c. 929     May 1st 1680                                                 
  London 29th Aprill 1680                                                       
+Yesterday being the first day of the Terme the Lady Powis sr Robt              
Payton sr Jo: Gage & divers others who were at Large upon Bayle Appeared        
& stand bound till the last day of the Terme when they will be discharged       
if their Tryalls be not ordered before, sr James symonds mr Howard &            
others Agt Whome the Indictment of High Treason was found at stafford           
Assizes also Appeared & were Continued upon Bayle for want of the Record        
of the Proceedings at stafford Assizes                                          
     mr Blood & those Indicted with him for subbornation Agt the d: of          
Bucks Appeared & pleaded not Guilty & their Tryalls are appointed to            
be this Terme                                                                   
     There Appears nothing Agt Gibbons the souldier taken on suspition          
of Assaulting mr Arnold nor Agt mr O Bryan & mr Purcell that were               
seized In westminster hall but those 2 last are Remanded to prison for          
Refuseing the Oaths                                                             
     Two dayes before mr Arnold was Assaulted one mr Louis Barron was at        
Eleaven at night Attacqued In Little Lincolnes Inn feilds by 5 Ruffians         
who wounded him In divers places  some of them Cryed God Damn This is no        
the Man  others Repeating the same oaths said this is the man & Continuing      
their Attempts to murther him he fell as dead & they left him  The              
wounds put him Into A High ffeaver but he is now somewhat Recovered  The        
said mr Barron for likeness might Easyly be mistaken for mr Arnold              
     Yesterday dyed mr Morgan of Monmothshire of A ffeaver, A Gent of           
6000 L p Ann who Came up with mr Arnold as one of his witnesses                 
     mr Arnold is Every day more & more In A hopefull way of Recovery           
     This day sr Thomas stampe sr symon Lewis the Ld Mayor & sr Jo:             
ffredricke were prsented to the Court of Aldermen for Basing Hall ward          
sr Thomas stamp had most votes but Lewis was Chosen                             
     An Information is preferring Against sr Patience ward abt some ill         
words he spoke which may perhapps Incapasitate him for being the prsent         
Ld Mayor                                                                        
     The King Comes to Towne to morrow night & supps with sheriffe Raymond      
     The Ld Chancellor being very much Afflicted with the goute sr George       
Jeffries Attended on him at his house where he was sworne Cheife Justice        
of Chester & North wales                                                        
     Yesterday 9 of the persons Condemned last sessions were Executed at        
Tyburne one of which Confessed that being pursued last ffebruary he             
Threw 100 L Bags Into A ditch neer Islington upon which hundreds of             
people have been searching & some have found loose money & one A Bagg           
almost full                                                                     
     They write from Prague Aprill 20th that his Imperiall Matye hath           
delivered A Memoriall to mr shelton Envoy Extrary from the K: of Greate         
Brittain Containing his Answer & Resolution to the memoriall of the             
said mr shelton of the 22d March last The Emperor declareing also that          
he would forthwith dispatch one of his Minesters to the Court of England        
whose Integrity the said King Already well Knew                                 
      Our Paris letters say that the noyse of warr is wholly layd Aside         
there & the discourse is that their King will not make any this                 
year Notwithstanding which he will keepe all his men In Pay & In order          
to Keep them Exactly disciplined & Kept In action designes to divide            
them Into 4 Armies 2 for Germany & Lorraine & 2 for the Low Contries who        
are to [be] Imployed one part of the day In military discipline & the           
other In ffortifications to secure [?] them to Labour                           
+There are new discoveries In Ireland & 2000 foot are ordered to be             
Raised here & 2000 more In Ireland for the preservation of that Kingdome        
     L. c. 930     May 3d 1680                                                  
  London May 1st 1680                                                           
+Yesterday about noon his Matye Returned from Newmarket & was present In        
Councill where the Examinations of Nicholas Crouch mr O Bryan & mr              
Purcell were Read & nothing Appeareing positively Agt them they will be         
discharged                                                                      
     Also mr Justice Warcupp gave In the Informations of A Gentleman who        
lately Came out of Ireland which very much strengthens the Evidence of          
mr Mowbray & mr Bauldron as to the Plott Carryed on In the North by sr          
Tho: Gascoine the Lady Tempest &c soe the said Gentleman is ordered to          
Attend at the Tryall of the Lady Tempest                                        
     severall were also Examined about the Reports of the blacke box            
Relateing to the d of Munmoth but the Report Could not be fixt on any           
     The Board being Informed that one mr Musthamp Could prove that             
ffather Ireland did Answer by Payment A bill of Exchange In London about        
the 10th August all which month he did at his Tryall & Execution Averr          
he was In staffordshire  The said mr Irelands Pockett booke being In            
Custody of the Committee of Lds was brought In & Examined & it did              
Appear that from the 1st of August till the 8th & from the 16th to the          
19th he was In London & A letter was found In the said Pocket booke             
giveing Advice to pay A bill of Exchange neer the same date soe mr              
Musthampe is ordered to Attend next Councill with what he Can say as to         
the said bill of Exchange                                                       
     About 10 at night his Matye Came & supped with sr Jonathan Raymund         
at skinners hall after which his Matye Conferred the honour of Knighthood       
on Jemmett Raymund his Eldest son  The whole Entertainment was with greate      
Magnificence & plenty much to the satisfaction of his Matye &c                  
     About 2 A Clocke this morning A milke maide being Extraordinary            
Neately Clad & in her hand A milke Paile with A garland & Adorned very          
Rich with Plate & Jewells began A Countrey Dance In that Hall Court at          
his Matyes Returne (A Customary pride that sort of people take Every may        
day In this Citty) which when his Matye understood he seemed Exceedingly        
well pleased therewith & stayed to see the Dance out afterwards giveing         
her A peece of Gold as did also severall of the nobles                          
     The E of Thanet being dead without Ishue the honour descends to his        
Brother Capt Tufton of his Matyes Guards                                        
     yesterday mr Christian Major Orempton & mr Tho: King Committed by          
sr wm Waller for Treason were bayled & sr wm was severely Reflected on          
In Court, mrs Celliers was Arraigned to which shee pleaded not Guilty &         
desireing 14 dayes time her witnesses lyeing Remote the Tryall is               
Appointed the 13 Instant                                                        
     The Buisness for & Against the d: of Bucks Appeareing very much perplext   
It is In A manner Resolved that 2 Juries be Empanelld & mr Burnesley mr         
Todman & mr Whittaker be tryed first but the Jury not Give In their             
verdict nor to stirr out till they have heard the tryall of mr Blood &c         
Accused of subbornation Agt the duke that soe heareing the Evidence on          
all sides the Juries may be the better directed In their verdicts               
     letters yesterday from Holland say that on Munday sr Wm Waller             
Arrived at Amsterdam Also that An English ship from New England was             
Carried Into Algeirs the 22d march last haveing on board her 2000 peeces        
of 8 A greate quantity of sugars Campeach wood plate Bezar & 26 men             
     They write from Paris Aprill 9th that the Protestants In that              
Countrey are dayly more & more oppressed  one halfe of the Churches are         
suppressed & all those In provence are shutt up  Also its said that             
Mounsr du quesne Will Turne Papist  The Protestant midwives are all             
Excluded their office & the Popish midwives are ordered to bring the            
Children to the Preists to be Baptized which hath Caused some disorders         
In Poictu & 4 or 5 women being Ready to be delivered died with                  
Consternation  the Clergy are sumoned to st Germains to debate matters          
In Relation to the Protestants                                                  
+mr Dugdale haveing been of late much Indisposed not without stronge            
suspition of Poyson is now Dangerously ill In staffordshire                     
     L. c. 931     May 6th 1680                                                 
  London may 4th 1680                                                           
+mr Arnold is soe well Recovered that he was last sunday at st Dunstans         
Church & Recd the sacramt & goes now abroade, nothing hath Positively           
appeared Agt any of the persons In Custody on suspition of being guilty         
of the Attempt on him, A letter was left at his Lodgings Intimating he          
should be Carefull of him selfe for that 4 persons who had Already              
Mischeived him had Resolved to murther him soe soon as opportunity              
offered  In the letter was also mention that the ffrench K would land An        
Army suddenly In England  This letter mr Arnold delivered to the                
Committee of Councill who will suddenly Considder thereof                       
     mr Thompson one of the Domesticke Mongers who was Committed by sr          
William Waller & since bayled out hath printed himselfe Into trouble            
againe by his severe Reflecting on sr wm Waller & others & is bound to          
Answer it at the next sessions                                                  
     Tis said the dutch Ambr is A Complainer Agt him for printing that          
sr wm Waller was gone to learne Rebellion of the states                         
     mr sidney is Every day Exspected here to give an account of his            
Treaty with the states &c                                                       
     On the 18th is to be A greate tryall at the Crowne office of severall      
Countrey Gentlemen for disperseing the Bucks Ballad                             
     Our ffrench letters now speake of nothing more then warr this summer       
& that the ffrench K hath layd An Embargo on all ships & Comanded all           
officers to Repaire to their Respective Charges                                 
     They write from Rochelle that the Count de Estrees with 10 ships           
one of 60 guns & the Rest of between 30 & 40 guns was Ready to set saile        
& was ordered for sally to Joyne A squadron In those seas but hath now          
ffresh orders to stopp at Rochelle till further orders some other designe       
being In hand                                                                   
     They write from Paris that they had Advice from Barcelona that there       
Came on the shoar of that towne A sea monster & made A Horrible Noyse &         
was by the seamen after some dificulty Killed  it hath the head & face          
of A man with A Crowne thereon the Rest of the body is ffish which hath         
A large Moone on the Brest & that moone Environed with abundance of             
lesser moones  the Rest of the body is marked with the Exact Resemblances       
of Cannons musketts Pistolls Halberts swords Colours or standards with          
devices thereon                                                                 
     A draught of this Creature is sent to the ffrench K & many people          
make strange Prognostications thereon                                           
     The Protestants In the ffrench dominions are under greate disquiett        
being forced out of their Employments & discountenanced In all their            
Just & ffaithfull services which makes some Turne Catholicks & others           
sinke under the Calamities dayly growing over them                              
     The 4 Armies the ffrench K is drawing togather will Consist of Each        
18000 foot & 12 or 15 [?] Battalions of horse Compleate  The Citty of           
strasburgh is much allarmed & is ffortifying it selfe as also are the           
dutch In all their ffrontier places [crease spoils about three words]           
+Tis said that the E of Ossory goes over with the forces for Ireland            
& wee hear that mr Dugdale is dead In staffordshire  Also that dr Tonge         
sayes he Can give account of severall perticulers Relateing to the              
blacke box & that there is to be A new Review of the Justices of peace          
throughout England                                                              
+To morrow his Matye Comes hither from Windsor to the Councill & Returnes       
againe at night                                                                 
     L. c. 932     May 8th 1680                                                 
  London 6th May 1680                                                           
+Yesterday morning his Matye & his R Highness Came from Windsor to whitehall    
from whence his Matye Returned at night & his R Highness this day               
     Yesterday dr Oates was Called before the Councill & Examined Abt           
the blacke box Reported to be left with sr Gilbert Gerrard & what Reports       
he had heard thereupon & dr Tongue was ordered to be Indicted for               
Publishing A dialogue between 2 Mechanicks wherein one of them is made          
to speake somewhat In Relation to the said blacke box & the Reported            
Contents thereof Relateing to the duke of Monmoth                               
     A woman was ordered to be punished by whipping & Imprisonment for          
disperseing A scandalous Pamphlett Entituled the scotch Monster In which        
was severe Reflections on the duke of Lauderdale                                
     One Paris was yesterday taken Into Custody for disperseing A Paper         
of verses Called the dissolution who said he had it from one Hatter And         
Hatter said he had it from one Captain Monford for whome search being           
made he Could not be found but his deske & Papers are seized                    
     mr Dugdale being of late much Indisposed with simptoms of Poyson           
his head & body breakeing out as In such Cases is usuall hath occasioned        
A Report he was dead In staffordshire but wee have letters from Lichfeild       
dated the 3d Instant wherein he writes he is pretty well Recovered & hopes      
to be In London In A very few dayes                                             
     This day the bill Against the duke of Buckingham was brought to the        
Grand Jury at westminster & La Marr & 5 or 6 were sworne but upon               
Examination of the Evidence the Grandjury Returned the bill Ignoramus           
& wee are In greate Exspectation what will be the Issue of La Marrs tryall      
which Comes on upon the 18th Instant which doubtless will goe Agt him           
since the Bill Agt the d of Bucks falls                                         
     Yesterday mr ffrancis smith Appeared at the Kings bench barr to            
begg the faivour of the Court for printing Agt the ld Scroggs                   
     Also one dr Jellop of Norfolke was tryed for words spoken which            
being proved Against him he was ffined 100 marks                                
     Tis Thought Baron Heston will take the Law Against Counsellor              
Williams for some words he spoke to him yesterday at the Court of Exchequer     
     This Afternoon A letter was taken up In Guildhall Directed to the          
Lord Mayors owne hand & was delivered Accordingly Intimating the Greate         
danger that his Majesty & the Nation & the Citty lye under from the             
Papists to the Certain Knowledg of the writer who subscribes himselfe           
the Kings & the nations & the Citties ffreind Unkowne but when he sees          
these things beleived will discover himselfe & Intimates that one Nevill        
In the Kings Bench & the Lords In the Tower are the greate Instruments          
     The ffrench King hath given orders for all his Armies to March             
Intending to be at the head of that towards Germany which somewhat              
Abates the feares of Italy                                                      
+The Emperour hath ordered all his forces In pay to Appear In the feild         
& is going himselfe to take A view of them at their severall stations &         
the King of spaine hath Also ordered his forces to be drawne up & be In         
A Readiness                                                                     
     The wind Proveing Contrary our Greate fleet of merchantmen from            
Turkey & the streights that are Arrived In the west of England have not         
yet been able to make the Downes                                                
     L. c. 933     May 13th 1680                                                
  London 17 May 1680                                                            
+His Majesty & Royall Highness are Exspected here to morrow & tis said          
they will supp with sr symon Lewis the other sheriffe at ffishmongers hall      
     It was yesterday Exspected the Parliamt would be Prorogued till            
the 15th July but upon ffresh Advice from Holland tis said they will be         
Prorogued but till the 15th June & tis thought they will be Continued           
by short Prorogations till winter Partly that his Matye may have them           
within his Reach & partly because the dutch should not be Angry with            
the P: of Orange who Exspect that by his Interest he should procure             
their sitting, However some are soe posest of their being to be dissolved       
that they are already makeing their Interest to be Chose againe In              
severall Counties & places of England                                           
     To morrow the Buisness about the blacke box will be further                
Examined In the Councill  Also the Irish Plott will be determined  The          
Ld Lieftenent of Ireland hath sent over letters to his Matye Contayning         
A full account of all the proceedings In the discovery of the Plott             
     One mr Edgar haveing been found Guilty of speakeing scandalous words       
Against the King & duke of yorke vizt that the duke was A papist & the          
King little Better was this day ffined 500 Marks at the Kings Bench barr        
     There is An Information preferred Agt one of somersetshire for             
speakeing Contemptable words of his Matye which were that he was as able        
to Judge whether A Crow was blacke or white as the King                         
     Also this day sr Thomas Williams was brought to the Kings Bench            
barr & the Jury sworne for trying him for fforgery & Perjury but upon           
motion that his witnesses were not Ready it was put of till next Terme          
     Also sr ffrancis Ratcliffs son haveing been 18 months In the Tower         
Moved for bayle & it was ordered he should be bayled the last day of the        
Terme if noe Indictment Came before Agt him                                     
     The duke of Buckingham moved by Councill that the Tryall of the            
Conspirators Agt him might be put off till next Terme because 2 of them         
were fled & sr Wm Waller his most Materiall witnesse was In Holland  the        
Ld Cheife Justice scroggs was at first unwilling but at last the Court          
granted it                                                                      
      The sheriffe of Durham made A motion that he haveing 100 popish           
Prisoners In his Custody many of them had brought their Habeas Corpus           
& yet they would not bear the Charge of their bringing up & desired he          
might have till Michalmas Terme to Returne the Habeas Corpus which was          
Granted                                                                         
     Tis discoursed that the ld sunderland will be Ld Chamberlain mr            
sidney Godolphin secretary & mr Lawrence Hyde Treasurer                         
     Our letters from spaine say that the Hampshire & Adventure ffregotts       
being In Tangier had Advice there were 5 Algeir men of warr Cruiseing           
In the streights mouth whereupon the Hampshire went out first & was             
mistaken by An Algeir ship which Come up & shee saluted them with A             
broade side & tooke her being Called the Callabassa of 24 guns  after           
the Adventure Comeing In they stranded another Algerine of 33 guns &            
tooke out of her 50 Turks & 58 Christians that had been their slaves &          
sunke another of 30 guns but the other 2 Algerines Escaped  Also that           
the d: of Grafton was safely Arrived In Port st Mary, & that the Moores         
have Entrenched about Charles ffort & Cut off all Reliefe for Comeing to        
it from Tangier but they have 6 months provision & 130 men whome they hope      
will preserve it, That the new governour is Arrived & the old governour         
prepareing to Returne for England                                               
+They write from ffrance that the d: of Luxemburgh has Recd his Tryall          
from the Chamber for Tryall of the Poysoners & was acquitted but his            
secretary was Condemned to the gallies dureing life & his vallett de            
Chambre for 9 yeares & the midwife hath Recd sentence but they say not          
what it is                                                                      
     Our Ambrs In fforeign Parts have not only hindered the Promoteing          
the ffrench Interest but are In greate hopes of perfecting an union             
Against the ffrench King.                                                       
     L. c. 934     May 15th 1680                                                
  London may 13th 1680                                                          
+yesterday morning his Matye & R Highness Arrived from windsor & his            
Matye In Councill declared he would prorogue the Parliamt till the 1st          
July next  The Atturney Genll presented In Councill the draught of A            
proclamation Agt the printing of newes & newes Pamphletts which was             
Approved of & ordered to be printed  The Councill ordered that all such         
Pamphletts papers & Libells as shall be seized shall be delivered to            
Roger Le Estrange Esqr to Examine & Report to that board                        
     The Irish men were Examined but the Informations are Kept very             
secret only In Generall  Its said they have discovered very much & are          
very positive & Cleare In their Evidence                                        
     severall were Examined Abt the blacke box & his Matye finding it           
would be A worke of much time Trouble & dificulty to Examine all declared       
it A ffeigned story & will hear noe more of it                                  
     After the Councill Rose his Matye dined with the Ld Newport & his          
R Highnesse with sr Allen Apsley & then both Returned to windsor                
     Tis discoursed wee shall have A new Chancellor of the Exchequer            
& that sr John Earnley will be promoted to it                                   
     mr Arnold is gone Into the Countrey but Returnes the latter End of         
the Terme & tis said some were heard vowing his death                           
     Yesterday the 11 new sergeants at Law appeared at the Court of             
Chancery  The Ld scroggs told them they must be Carefull of their               
state & not Come 4 In A Hackney Coach to westminster for 12 d nor In A          
scullar for 3 d [?]                                                             
     Next satureday they are to goe to westminster In state to be               
Installed & afterwards treate the Judges &c at dinner soe the Tryall of         
Phillip La Marr & his mother Appointed that day is deferred A weeke             
longer                                                                          
     Also the Tryall of mrs Cellier of which is greate Exspectation &           
discourse Appointed for to morrow is Adjourned                                  
     A Gentleman haveing on Tuesday married the mistress of Another he          
was mett neer the savoy by his Rivall & Killed & hath left A virgin wife        
& widdow                                                                        
     Our ffrench letters say that the K of ffrance hath declared that           
unless the K: of spaine quitt the Title of duke of Burgundy by the 15th         
of June he will make use of force to Compell him to it                          
     Besides those Castles the ffrench have seized In Luxemburgh they           
have posessed themselves of 72 villages belongeing to the same                  
     A ffrench vessell Refuseing to strike saile to An English ship of          
Jersey was taken & the buisness Remitted hither                                 
     Last weeke mr ffowler An Apothecary In Cannon street Informed the          
Ld Bartlet that A late Patient of his had Confessed that he was Blunden         
the Preist mentioned In the Plott & had A hand In Justice Godfreys              
Murther & had paid 500 L to mr Prance for his share &c of which the Ld          
Bartlet acquainted the Councill & mr Blunden was sent for from Reading          
by A messenger & proves to be the son of one mr Blunden A good protestant       
In wiltshire & himselfe A protestant & but about 20 yeares of Age &             
Appeares to have noe hand In the death of sr Edm: Godfrey nor Concerned         
In the Plott soe was discharged & the matter Referred to the Ld scroggs         
who sent for ffowler to make good his Charge but he neglecting the same         
will be prosecuted at Law by mr Blunden for his false accusation                
     Tis said the Ld Mayor hath orders sent him by his Matye to suppresse       
seditious Conventicles  A Petition is brought from Lincolne by mr Bertie        
Brother to the E: of Lindsey declareing they will stand by his Matye            
& his Lawfull successors &c                                                     
     This night newes Comes to towne that the King haveing got A Cold           
by ffishing at Windsor had this morning A fitt of An Ague but those             
that Come from him this afternoon say he is well againe  The Ld                 
Chancellor &c and his docters are gone downe                                    
     L. c. 935     May 17th 1680                                                
  London 15th May 1680                                                          
+The Best account wee have of his Matyes Indisposition is That Comeing          
on Wednesday morning Early from Windsor to whitehall to Councill he was         
sencible of Receiveing some Cold which at Councill & afterwards by              
Intermissions Attended with An Aguish shivering held him backe to windsor       
where thinkeing to walke it out he went Into the Parke but had not been         
there long Ere he was taken soe violently ill that he was scarse able to        
stand upon which he was Conveyed to bed & Rested Indiferent well                
     Next morning he Rose about 11 & soon after was taken with the fitt         
of An Ague by violent & Dangerous Intermissions which were ffaint &             
ffeavourish  At night the Phisitians ordered A Glister which was Applied        
& his Matye was Relieved & slept moderately well                                
     Yesterday his Matyes Ague tooke him againe & by Intermitting ffitts        
held him 4 houres but not soe violently as the day before soe Its hoped         
the danger is over  Its said his Matye Eate Cherries very plentifully           
which lyeing Cold on his Stomacke vomitted them up which Contributed very       
much to the disorder of his body                                                
     The newes of his Matyes illness Caused the Councill Extraordinarily        
to Assemble where was debated the sending letters to the ld Lieftenants &c      
to take Care of the peace &c but nothing was done their Lordships being         
tender of giveing the people occasion to feare his Recovery                     
     The Examinations of the Irish men prove of very greate Consequence         
Tis said they demonstrate A plott In Ireland Carryed on by the Papists &        
ffrench &c  The designe was said to deliver up that Kingdome to the ffrench     
King to which End they had listed An Army of 50000 who were to posesse          
themselves of Waterford Kingsale Limericke & Gallway & deliver the said         
townes up to the ffrench who were to Joyne them with 30000 men to Attaine       
which they had gained the Popes Bull of Pardon to such as should be             
Instrumentall therein & to absolve the people from their Alleigance to          
his Matye, The said Consulters did send Comissioners to ffrance to Treate       
about it who brought backe the ffrench Kings acceptance thereof, one of         
the witnesses hath promised to produce his Comission for further satisfaction   
     The persons they unanimously accuse are all Irish Except two, The          
Councill are very well satisfied with the Account these men give                
     Yesterday the Tryall of mrs Celliers was put off untill the 1st day        
of the next Terme for that one of the witnesses vizt mr Jo: Gadbury was         
very ill & Could not Appear In Court to give Evidence  shee seemed              
mightily troubled that shee Could not have her tryall                           
     This day the 11 new sergeants appeared at westminster hall In their        
fformalities & the usuall Ceremonies being performed they were admitted         
In Court after which they Kept An open & splendid table at sergeants Inn        
     Last night wee had A Holland Post  A person of quality who Came In         
the Pacquett boate Reports that the states have made A league offensive         
& defensive with ffrance which few beleive In Regard Its A worke of time        
& Noyse In that Govermt to bring the severall provinces to A Consent In         
anything                                                                        
  Last night the Count de Aquinto Arrived here as Ambr Extrary from the         
K of spaine                                                                     
     The Bandits In the Kingdome of Naples doe dayly Increase & have lately     
taken 2 sons of the duke of donatos for the Ransom of which they demand         
30000 Livers                                                                    
     The Venetians feareing An Interuption [?] of the ffrench In Italy          
are ffortifying their ffrontier townes & have ordered the Raiseing of           
5000 foot & the Casting of 200 peeces of old Cannon  The Emperour hath          
appointed the Count de Thorne to Come for England In quality of Envoy           
Extraordinary  mr skelton hath ffrequent private Audience of the                
Emperour Concerning the present juncture of Affaires                            
+Wee hear that 2 persons more are Embarked from Ireland to make a further       
discovery                                                                       
     L. c. 936     Covent 20th May 1680                                         
  London 18th May 1680                                                          
+His Matye is pretty well Recovered of his illness & Comes to towne to the      
Councill to morrow  his last fitt was on satureday which was but A ffaint       
one his Matye haveing taken the Jesuitts powder twice to prevent it             
     Yesterday many of the members of both houses mett at westminster &         
were by the Ld Chancellor Prorogued till the 1st of July next by vertue         
of A Comission derected to him &c                                               
     On satureday sunday munday & this day wee have had strange & at this       
season unusuall Raines Attended with Thunder & Lightening the Raines            
violent & stronge The Thunder sometimes like vollies of small shott             
sometimes like broadesides at sea sometimes like single shott of whole          
Cannon  But most Remarkable was that this last night & morning About 11         
A Clocke when wee had such A fall of Haile stones as the like hath not          
Happened In the Memory of any man liveing or scarse to be Parralelled           
In History  The Manner Thus                                                     
     ffirst Thunder & Lightening Then such A Clattering In the Aire as if       
thousands of swords were In motion one Agt another when on A sudden fell        
A mighty showre of Hailestones which as they were of diferent Magnitudes        
were also of diferent shapes some Round some Ovall some semi=ovall some         
like A large Cloake Button &c, some were 7 some 9 nay some affirme some         
were 17 Inches about.  The same Continued neer A quarter of An houre filling    
most people with feare & Amazement, In which time besides the Consternaton      
of mind which was in most men severall Considderable mischeifs were done        
In the strand &c & divers persons In severall places were hurt vizt In st       
James Parke &c and severall of his Matyes birds & ffowles there were Knocked    
on the head  It hath also Endammaged many vessells on the Thames                
perticlerly it splitt A boate at the Temple staires                             
     The stones fell soe thicke that they have left few leaves on the           
Trees  Every houre brings new Relations of somewhat & Its Rationall to          
beleive wee shall have An Account of greate hurts done & Events more            
strange then are yet Come to hand                                               
     This day the Ld Aston sr James Lymonds Walter Heveningham & Robt           
Petre Esqrs were Arraigned at the Kings bench barr for High Treason &           
pleaded not Guilty & are to be tryed next Terme But mr Tasbrough haveing        
been formerly Arraigned is to be tryed to morrow                                
   mr stephen Dugdale is very well Recovered of his sickness & is Come          
to towne this day                                                               
     The K of spaine sent 100000 L Extrary over hither to buy Cloth to          
be worne at the solemnity of his marriage upon the setting of which the         
Clothiers bought up all the wooll they Could & made such A quantity of          
Cloth that it now lyes on their hands for want of such another market           
& is sold 4 d p yard Cheaper then formerly                                      
           They write from Prague that the Plague is broke out Againe           
In that Citty                                                                   
+A little boy going to schoole on satureday neer the Horse fferry In            
westminster fell Into A Pond but noe body seing him he lay till                 
yesterday & was found by meanes of A Carthorse who being newly shod &           
going to be watered strucke his foot Into him & brought him up                  
     yesterday wee had the good newes that sr Richard Munden with most          
Part of the streights fleet are safely Arrived In the downes                    
     The Proclamation Agt Printing newes is Come out forbidding it upon         
the utmost Penalties of the Law &c                                              
     L. c. 937     Cov: 22d may 1680                                            
  London 20th May 1680                                                          
+His Matye being In health Comes to towne next wednesday to the Councill        
& Returnes at night to windsor                                                  
     Letters from all parts give An account of greate ffloods occasioned        
by the late Raines & Haile & yesterday morning about 7 new houses at the        
End of st martins lane being shooke by the Thunder Lightening & Haile           
fell downe                                                                      
     Yesterday mr Tasbrough was tryed  there were 3 witnesses Agt him.          
The 1st swore that Comeing to see his brother who was servant to mr             
Tasbrough he saw A Chest full of Bulletts & 4 or 500 musquetts In mr            
Tasbroughs parlour                                                              
+The 2d swore he saw A waggon loade of Armes unladeing In mr Tasbroughs         
yard  The 3d swore that about 3 A Clocke one morning he saw 5 or 6              
musquetters Compleatly Armed neer mr Tasbroughs house                           
     As to the first mr Tasbrough proved by Labourers abt his house there       
were noe such things In the Parrlour A month before or after                    
     As to the 2d he proved the Waggon was loaded with householdstuffe          
& as to the 3d he Knew nothing of them soe the Jury acquitted him               
     severall persons were the same day to have been tryed touching the         
Buckingham Ballad Reflecting on severall persons of quality but by Reason       
of the Lengh of mr Tasbroughs tryall it was put off till the next               
Terme But La: Marrs tryall is to morrow                                         
     The Ld stafford had this day A Habeas Corpus granted to bring him          
to the Kings bench barr he hopeing to be bayled but tis thought he will         
be sent backe to the tower                                                      
     The Ld shandos is upon his departure for Constantinople                    
     There were 30000 Guyneys lately seized at Gravesend designed to be         
Transported to the East Indies                                                  
+ffine [?] mrs ffrazier one of the maides of honour is lately withdrawne        
from the Court & Coll villiers Daughter sworne In her place, mrs ffrazier       
ffancies her selfe Married to the Ld Mordant but his Lordship disownes it       
     ffrom Ireland wee hear that the Ld Lieftenant hath published A             
proclamation for A Reward to Any person that shall make A further discovery     
of the plott there & uses all dilligence for Apprehending the Conspirators      
     All our fforeign letters Confirme to us that the ffrench designe to        
Attacque strasburgh most of their Troops being marched that way                 
     The Imperiall diett have at last agreed that the Emperour shall            
Raise An Army of 20000 men to joyne with those he hath to put A stopp to        
the growing greatness of ffrance                                                
     Generall Montecuculy hath desired leave of his Matye by Reason of          
his greate age to Resigne his places & Imployments which the Emperour           
hath granted him but withall told him he must give account how he hath          
disposed the moneys he hath Recd dureing the time he acted as generall In       
the late warr which Amounts to A Considderable summe  Also the Count de         
Zinderdorfs ffreinds have offered the Emperour 6 millions of Livers             
provided he will Restore him to his place which summe of money will helpe       
to Levy the sayd 20000 men                                                      
     Our Brussells [letters?] say the marquess of Burgamerino late Ambr         
here from spaine declares he was soe well pleased with our English Court        
here [?] that he professes himselfe A perfect English man & Extreamly           
Applaudes his Matyes Resolutions & the measures his minesters are takeing       
In this Conjuncture as the only meanes to secure the peace of Christendom       
     The Elector of Brandenburghs son hath been here 4 or 5 dayes               
Incognito Its said to Court the Lady Ann the duke of yorks daughter             
     Tis discoursed that orders are sent for Recalling sr Robt southwell        
home  The ffrench King is sending A new Ambr hither                             
     L. c. 938     May 24th 1680                                                
  London 22d May 1680                                                           
+His Matye Continues very well & on holy Thursday made his offering In          
the Church of windsor Chappell According to the Ancient Custome  But his        
Phisitians have advised him to keep his Chamber till next Tuesday for           
fear of A Relapse                                                               
        Yesterday the Ld Stafford was brought by Habeas Corpus to the           
Kings bench barr & moved to have bayle Allowed for him which was not            
granted soe he was Remanded backe to the Tower                                  
     Phillip La: marr was tryed upon Three Indictments one for Blasphemy        
another for Perjury & Another for subbornation & was found Guilty of            
them all, His mother was also tryed upon subbornation whereof shee was          
Convicted which hath gained the duke of Bucks A mighty Point towards his        
justification                                                                   
     ffowle things appeared Agt the E: of danby In this tryall which tis        
thought were true & Its Beleived the Duke of Bucks will bring An Information    
Agt him & then all will be out.  The Ld Cheife Justice scroggs declared         
that if such things as those went on there was neither peer nor Commoner        
safe neither In his life nor Estate                                             
     This day mr William Gaven An Inhabitant In westminster formerly            
Committed by sr Wm Waller upon Oath of A woman who swore him to be A            
preist & that he married her was brought to his Tryall where by sufficient      
Testimony it did Appear the said woman was Married by Another person & at       
Another time & place, That which most Cleared mr Gavens Innocency was           
good proofe that the said womans former Husband was alive A year & halfe        
after the time mr Gaven was said to marry her  soe upon A full heareing         
of the Matter mr Gaven was Cleared                                              
     mr John O: Cullen taken at Minehead going for Ireland with his             
orders & Bull from the Pope for his spirituall jurisdiction there was           
also tryed  he Confest himselfe A preist but pleaded he was designed for        
Ireland but forced Into England by Contrary winds & seized within one           
houre after being on shoar  soe A speciall verdict by order of Court was        
found Agt him to be Argued by the judge next Terme                              
     sr Henery Tishburne mr Carrill mr Roper & mr Dormer were bayled out        
of prison                                                                       
     mrs price & mr Tasbrough formerly Convicted for Endeavouring to            
withdraw the Evidence of mr stephen Dugdale were ordered to be brought          
up next Munday to the Kings bench barr to Receive the judgment of the           
Court,                                                                          
     In Regard mr Dugdale is Relapsed Into A very weake Condition noe           
day is Assigned In the next Terme for tryall of those Agt whome he is           
the Materiall Evidence                                                          
     mr Arnold is not dead In the Countrey as hath been Reported But            
there is hopes there will be A discovery of the persons that Endeavoured        
formerly to Assasinate him within A few Dayes                                   
+mr Herbert is Come to Towne & was on wednesday Examined by the Councill        
     Last Thursday was Launched at Blackwall A new 3d Rate ffriggott            
Called the suffolke                                                             
     sr Wm Waller is Comeing over from Holland haveing Its said gone            
thither upon some private Affaires Rather then for fear of staying here         
     [Our letters?] from deale of the 21st Instant say that the Diamond         
ffreggot the sampson ffireship & the Ann yatcht sayled out of the downes        
that morning for Ireland to take In souldiers & thence to goe with them         
for Tangier & that the streights ffleet is sayled through the downes for        
the Thames                                                                      
     Coll Legg Governour of Portesmouth is gone with one of his Matyes          
Engineers to Jersey & Guernsey to view the ffortifications of those             
places & to see them In A good Condition to prevent any sudden surprize         
     The Councill is Adjourned till wednesday when his Matye will be prsent     
     L. c. 939     May 27th 1680                                                
  London May 25th 1680                                                          
+Yesterday being the Last day of the Terme the Lady Powis & sr Robt             
Payton are both discharged of their bayle & mrs Price & mr Tasbroughs           
brother were sentenced to pay the first 200 L the other 100 L &                 
Imprisonmt till paid & mr Harrinton who was 2 yeares since fined 1000 L         
& Imprisonmt for saying there were 3 Estates In England & if warr were          
made Agt one of them it was not Rebellion pleaded his Pardon & was              
discharged paying his fees, Also mr Blunden was Cleared                         
     sr Miles stapleton & mr Howard were Arraigned & will be tryed next         
Terme  Also the bill was found Agt the Ld Castlemaine Also Agt Rich Roper       
[?] formerly servant to sr Tho: Gascoine for Endeavouring to subborne mr        
Bauldron, Also Turner the Popish Bookseller was bayled & mr Harris moved        
by his wife that his fine might be Remitted which the Ld scroggs opposed        
& told her he deserved noe manner of faivour from that Court he had soe         
often Contemned & shee was told he had bragged he had 200 ffreinds that         
would stand by him & It was A wonder they did not make a purse for              
him  The Recorder of London Informed he was permitted to sell books in          
prison upon which mr Cooling marshall of the Kings bench was ordered to         
Confine him Close prisoner                                                      
     Wee hear from Paris that the ffrench King hath forbid o[u]r Ambr the       
Court because he said In discourse with one of the minesters of state           
that his master was as able to maintaine An Ambr In any princes Court as        
the K of ffrance                                                                
     Tho Toogood Esqr hath A patent for the makeing use for 14 yeares of        
An Engine of his owne Invention for the Grinding Polishing & Cutting glass      
     On sunday last Coll Dungan late deputy Governour of Tangier waited         
on his Matye & gave account that the Moores were 8000 stronge & made            
very Regular Approaches & have drawne A line soe deep & Broade that 3           
horsemen may march Abreast & not be discovered but the towne was well           
victualled & had Amunition for 6 months but Required his Matyes Care to         
secure it                                                                       
     since which his Matye hath ordered that out of the prsent standing         
forces there shall be 15 drawne out of Each Company & the said Companies        
are not to be filled up Againe) [?] to make up 14 Companies of foot             
whose Coll is to be one Capt sunderland                                         
     Also 15 out of Each troops of horse to be Comanded by Major                
Oglethorp & Its said the Ld Inchequin the prsent Governour will be              
Recalled & his Matye will give that Charge to the Ld Dumbarton Brother          
to duke Hamilton The sd Lord being A very Experienced Commander & not           
long since Come from ffrance & quitt the place of Lieft Genll there In          
obedeince to his Matyes Comands                                                 
     sr Jonathan Atkins governour of Barbadoes is Called home & Its             
said sr Richard Dutton Lieft of the Dukes life guard is to succeed him          
& sr Jo Lanier is to succeed sr Richard Dutton whose place of governour         
of Jersey is to be supplyed by sr Charles Littleton Coll of the Duke            
of yorks Regemt & Coll Churchill is to Command the said Regemt &                
governour of sherness & Coll Kerke is to be Lieft Coll of the Ld Cravens        
Regemt In place of sr James smith                                               
     On the 11th Instant 3 Turks ships sent out their boates to land            
about Kingsale In Ireland but the Countrey people perceiveing their             
Intent appeared on the shoar & made them forbear                                
     severall Informations are lately taken In Monmothshire & others            
taken In towne by mr Justice warcupp which tis said give A full                 
discovery of the persons who set the Assaulters of mr Arnold to worke           
which tis said was done In Revenge upon A private quarrell which had            
been long between him & mr Herbert which his Matye will have the heareing       
of to morrow In Councill                                                        
     An Information being Given to the Ld scroggs that some persons had         
given A Coppie of La Marrs tryall to be printed An order of Court was           
made that none should doe it without the Ld scroggs Leave  The Court            
[space for about ten letters smeared] of the Temple who usually takes           
notes was ordered to part with part [?] of them without his Leave which         
Its said prevents the duke of Bucks his designe to print the said tryall        
     Last satureday morning was scattered In the Exchange &c A                  
Considderable number of Libells abt the blacke box In which are Expressions     
of A very High Consequence In Relation to the succession of the Crowne          
at which his Matye & R Highness are very much Incenst Insomuch that Its         
said A proclamation will Come forth promiseing 1000 L to him that shall         
discover the Authour thereof & A declaration is Exspected for setling           
the succession                                                                  
     L. c. 940     May 29th 1680                                                
  London May 27th 1680                                                          
+Yesterday his Matye being In Councell Complaint was made of the Pamphletts     
abt the blacke box & the E: of st Albans & the Ld Gerrard E of Maxfeild         
were Called In & Examined what they heard or knew Concerning the Reported       
Contents thereof  To which the Ld Gerrard Replyed he was soe farr from          
knowing anything of the King being married to the d of Monmoths mother          
that It was his opinion that the Authours of such An Infaimous Report           
desired to have their Tongues Cut out which Expression was Entred Into          
the Councill Journall & an order made that all the proceedings &                
Informations taken In Councill Concerning the blacke box should be              
forthwith printed with the hands of the 4 Clerks of the Councill thereunto      
     mr Herbert was Examined & the severall ffresh Informations Reflecting      
on him were produced & it did appear mr Herbert & his brother In Law &          
Nephew being justices of peace did take the Common Bayle for John Giles         
whereupon the Councill ordered the misdemeanors of the justices therein         
to be Referred to the judges next Assizes                                       
     mr Cavanagh formerly mentioned In Custody on mr Arnolds account            
hath been Examined on ffresh Informations which Render him more suspitious      
then before vizt that being 2 houres on the day before at mr Justice            
Denyes he Endeavoured to subborne witnesses to swear he was there that          
night on which the Assault was made on mr Arnold, Also he was observed          
to be In A long Cloake at mr Justice Denyes, mr Arnold haveing sworne           
that one of the Assasinates had such A Cloake with which he was Cast &c         
     But Nothing Appeareing positively Agt mr Herbert he was not Committed      
     The E of Ossory offered his Matye his utmost service In the                
Expedition of Tangier                                                           
     His Matye dined at the Ld Arlingtons & their R Highnesses & the            
dutchesses of Portesmouth Richmond & southampton &c at the E of st Albans       
thence to the playhouse & then for windsor                                      
     There was yesterday at the sun Taverne behind the Royall Exchange          
A very greate dinner at which were the dukes of monmoth & Bucks the E of        
shaftesbury &c with about 60 of the H of Commons                                
+The duke of Bucks hath given notice to mr Heath Chaireman at the last          
quarter sessions In surrey where the Bills of Indictment were found Agt         
mr Barnesley mr Jenks mr Tedman & mr Whittaker his solicittor that the          
said mr heath doe forthwith give In bayle to the Action of scandala             
Magnata for words then spoken In derogation of his honour                       
     The duke is Also prepareing An Indictment Agt the E of danby & his         
Lady                                                                            
     mr Christian hath preferred An Indictment of Combination Agt the           
persons Concerned for the d: of Bucks                                           
     The Ld shandois lately Approved of for Ambr for Turkey Tis said            
hath talkt himselfe out of his Employ for that he In London disowned            
all that the Gazett Published of him though he spoke those words before         
the Ld sunderland mr Godolphin & severall persons of honour                     
     There was lately taken Just by whitehall stayres A very large              
sturgeon which was prsented to his Matye                                        
     sr Tho Doleman one of the Clerks of the Councill lyes very ill &           
Its thought will not Recover                                                    
     Our ffrench letters of the 31st Instant Advise that the Corsayres          
of Majorca have lately taken another ffrench ship worth 100000 Crownes          
but the ffrench Resolve to Repaire this losse & all other damages they          
have sustained by them by takeing all spanish ships they Can meet with          
     They have Advice that the spanish Gallies In the Mediterranean will        
now Certainly put to sea this summer which doth not A little Amuse the          
ffrench Their gallies being divided Into 2 squadrons & Consequently not         
In A Condition to oblige the spaniards who will be at Least 30 sayle to         
sinke [about four words smeared] Positive orders from their King                
+Coll sidney is Exspected Every day here from Holland haveing Given In          
his last memoriall to the states Concerning the union & unless they give        
him A satisfactory Answer he will Come for England to give An account           
of his Negotiation                                                              
     There was A greate Rumour yesterday all Abt whitehall that the             
ffrench K hath sent A letter to his Matye to Recall his Ambrs from the          
Northern Crownes which proves untrue                                            
     L. c. 941     May 31st 1680                                                
  London 29th May 1680                                                          
+The Cadiz ffleet is Come Into o[u]r River & yesterday was vast                 
quantities of Gold & silver In Carts brought Into Lombard street & more         
will be dayly brought from Aboard those ships                                   
     Wee had yesterday A Report that the Moores before Tangier have             
taken Charles & Henrietta fforts the truth of which wee Exspect by the          
next Cadiz letters or some ships direct from the place  Those who well          
know the Garrison say Its Imposible for the Moores to take the Castle if        
they should take the Towne the said Castle being built upon A Rocke &           
Comanding all Round to A wonder & would soon force An Enemy out of the          
Towne                                                                           
     soe dilligent & Carefull are those persons who are Employed for            
sending o[u]r forces to Tangier that severall of them were shipt last           
Thursday with greate quantities of Provision & Amunition & An Expresse          
went for Ireland to the d of Ormond to Hasten those succours he is to           
send thence                                                                     
     The spanish Ambr acquainted his Matye he durst undertake his master        
would Readily lend 1 or 2000 men which might be sooner Conveyed thence          
however his Matye might Command fforrage for his trrops for both which          
his Matye thanked him but makes noe use of the former                           
     Also abt 200 German Gent who served the Emperor In the late warrs          
Amongst which are severall Gent of the Teutonicke order have ofered to          
serve his Matye Gratis In Tangier but Its uncertain whether his Matye           
will accept of their service  The forces are drawing out hence but Its          
Comicall to see how those of the guards who bought their places In hopes        
to Enjoy Dureing their Lives without fighting A stroke are now willing          
to part with their places Againe both officers & others upon Easey              
Termes Rather then Hazzard themselves at Tangier                                
     La Marr was not tryed for Blasphemy till last Thursday when upon           
the Evidence of one witness he was found guilty                                 
     This weeke the sessions began & Ended at the old bayly where 15            
were Condemned to dye for severall murthers ffelonies & Burglaries              
     Their Matyes players have put out Bills that on munday next they           
will Act A new play vizt the ffemale Prelate or the History of Pope Joan        
     Last Thursday mr Thompson was found Guilty of Putting Into his             
Intelligence A scandalous Reflection on the parish of st Brids & is to          
be sentenced next Terme when he will be also tryed for Reflections on sr        
Wm Waller In his Intelligence                                                   
     Tis said the E of Rothes is to be made duke of ffife  The marquess         
of worcester to be made A duke of worcester The E of Burlington duke or         
Cumberland after P Ruperts decease, Robt Pierpont Esqr Now beyond sea to        
be duke of Dorchester after the Marquesses decease & mr Cheney of Chelsey       
to be made Baron of Chelsey & the Ld Chancellor to be made A duke  This         
is the Comon discourse but wee Cannot affirme it for truth                      
     Wee hear from windsor that the King & their R Highnesses are all           
very well but the queen is ill but In noe danger & the Lady Ann is not          
well but tis hoped that it will prove only A Cold                               
     The Palsie hath drawne the Ld Petres mouth Aside & the Phisitians          
beleeve he will suddenly dye In the Tower                                       
+There are Endeavours used to prvent if posible sr Patience ward for            
being Elected Ld Mayor to which End tis said he is Returned Into the            
Crowne office for being A Tub preacher                                          
     The fforts at Tangier make use of sr sam Morelands Trumpetts to            
acquaint the garrison with their state but some Renegado English Interpreting   
to the moores what was spoke they are forced to speake In Irish                 
     Our letters from fflanders of the 1st June say the short Prorogation       
of o[u]r Parl & his Matye dispatching soe many minesters to the severall        
Protestant Princes hath broken the ffrench measures & put the spaniards         
wholly out of fear of the ffrench meddling with them this summer                
     The ffrench K hath Convoked his Clergy to give him money & tis said        
he Intends to Advance the Jesuitts to A Capasity of being Created Popes,        
The Prince Palatine hath prsented A memoriall at Ratisbonne to let them         
know the ffrench have passed 2 sentences Agt him whereby he is Enjoyned         
not to acknowledg any other master then the ffrench K & Entreates the           
states of the Empire to let him Know how he shall Governe himselfe In           
this affaire                                                                    
     Tis said the E of Mulgrave will Comand the forces to Tangier & is          
prepareing for his Journey with all Expedition                                  
     L. c. 942     June 3d 1680                                                 
  London June 1st 1680                                                          
+His Matye Continues In Health but her Matye & the Lady Ann have been           
under some small Indisposition which is now Removed, The Countesse of           
Penelem [?] A Relation of the queenes & one of her Bedchamber to whome          
tis said shee paid 3000 L p Ann is lately dead at which the queen is much       
troubled                                                                        
     There are drawne out of the standing forces here 156 horse & 672           
foot for Tangier which with 600 from Ireland are the succours Intended          
who will be Comanded by the E of Mulgrave Attended by many persons of           
quality, many Comission officers of the d of monmoths Regemt who were           
beyond sea who have been allowed halfe pay Ever since did last weeke by         
the E of ffeversham offer their service to his Matye for Tangier which          
his Matye kindly accepted & tis thought they will goe & are to serve on         
Horsebacke & that horses will be provided for Them In Spaine                    
     Tis Reported the Alcade or Generall of the Moores before Tangier           
told Coll Dungan that he hath A Charge from his master the K: of Morocco        
not to stirr from that place till he hath made himselfe master of it            
upon fforfeiture of his head & that though he had but A small Army at           
prsent there yet he had 30 or 40000 at Comand if at any time he should          
stand In need of them                                                           
     Wee have account from Cadiz which say the Moores made A very sharpe        
Attempt upon Henrietta ffort & were beaten off with the loss of above           
60 men  A prisoner Informes they had Amongst them 13 ffrench voluntiers         
above 40 Messineuses neer 20 Turks from Algeir & 6 or 7 English who             
held A Correspondance with some people who supplied them with Powder &c,        
The fforts are In A very good Condition & not under any feare of being          
taken & by helpe of sr sam Morelands speakeing Trumpetts have Communication     
with the garrison which they performe In the Irish & welsh Language             
     They write from the Hague of June 7th that the Kings yatcht was            
then In the Maas to Attend Coll sidney the English Envoy who was to             
depart In 2 or 3 dayes  That the papists at Bassellduke haveing some            
time since Comitted some Insolencies & made Opposition Agt justice the          
states have Given order to the Governour of that place to proceed to            
Banishmt of the persons & the same to prosecute without the least               
Connivance, Also to Confiscate the popish Church & give An account to the       
states what Ornamts were found In the said Church Also to proceed Agt           
those that had made any Collection for the Preist                               
     John Giles that was mentioned In the Gazett as one of the Assasinates      
of mr Arnold hath been according to an order of the K & Councill been           
showne to mr Arnold who affirmes that he was the person that knoct him          
downe & he proves to have been A servant to mr Herbert soe that Its             
beleeved the designe of Assasinating mr Arnold will only prove A private        
quarrell between the 2 justices                                                 
     ffrom Ireland wee are Advised that the discoverers who Came over           
hither are Arrived there backe againe & that the Ld Lieftenant hath taken       
A proper Care that they may be Encouraged to proceed In giveing In              
Evidence Agt such as they Know lyable of being Charged                          
     There being A Complaint lately made Agt the Chancellor of Ireland          
Abt A decree of his made In Chancery there the K & Councill has ordered         
him to put In his Answer which is supposed will be next Councill day            
at which time the party Complaining is to make his Reply                        
     Wee hear that the Penall Lawes are put In full prosecution Agt             
nonconformists all over England Especially [In the west &?] tis said A          
greate many are Returned as Recusants according to the Statute In that          
Case made & that one knight hath Returned 1200 Into the Crowne office,          
wee also hear from scotland that their meetings there are not soe               
numerous as formerly                                                            
     All the Kings Evidence are to be In towne next Terme by Reason             
severall tryalls are then to be sat The E of Castlemaines the Ld Ashtons        
sr Phillip stapletons &c                                                        
     L. c. 943     June 5th 1680                                                
  London 3d June 1680                                                           
+The Councill sate yesterday his Matye & R Highness being prsent where A        
ffinall determination was put to the Affaire of the blacke box & both           
those declarations In which his Matye hath declared that he was never           
Married or Contracted to any one but the queen will be Printed &                
Published & on the 5th July all the Lds of the Councill are to Appear at        
the Chancery barr there to Attest & see those declarations ffiled &             
Recorded In that Court                                                          
     This morning his Matye & R Highness Came againe to towne & were In         
Councill from ten till one & then dyned with the E of Ossory & after            
Returned to the Councill & Continued till 4 when his Matye & R Highness         
tooke Coach In st James Parke for windsor                                       
     Yesterday the Horse guards were drawne up In hyde Parke & 120 of           
them drawne out for Tangier & tis said severall of them have offered their      
horses & Accoutrements to any that will goe In their Roome but there are        
abt 60 persons of quality that goe thither voluntiers                           
     Our fflanders letters of the 7th Instant advise that the duke de           
villa Hermosa governour of the spanish netherlands had Recd A letter from       
the ffrench K In which  he desired Liberty to march through those Countries     
with An Army of 40000 men pretending it is only to oblige the Hollanders        
to deliver up Mayserke & Hasselt to the Elector of Cologne & Maestricht         
to the spaniards which the dutch are obliged by the late Treaty at              
nimeghen to surrender up but now keep them upon pretence of money oweing        
to them by the said Princes                                                     
     The Plausible story of the ffrench K the governour absolutely Refused      
him without A positive order from spaine but as A Complement to him sent        
him word that if his Matye with his Troops of Guards would take the way         
for fflanders he should have ffree Liberty to passe                             
     Our ffrench letters yesterday brought us An Account that as the            
ffrench K was Hunting the Wild Boar in the fforest of ffountainbleau he had     
like to have been Killed by that fierce Creature his horse being wounded        
In 4 severall places  The Dauhpine who made Hast to his Rescue was              
throwne off his horse & Bruised very much  The ffrench Kings mistresse          
was over Turned In her Coach & one of the Glasses of her Coach breakeing        
wounded her In 5 severall places of her Belly                                   
     The ffrench K hath given A pension of 20000 L to Mounsr Chasteauneufe      
as principle secretary of state                                                 
     The K of spaine haveing demanded Assistance of the Emperour Agt the        
Turks hath Recd for Answer that his Imperiall Matye would willingly doe         
it but that he feares he shall noe sooner be Engaged In A warr Agt the          
Turks but that the ffrench will declare warr Agt him whereupon the K of         
Poland hath sent to the K of ffrance to desire his Matye to give it under       
his hand that he would not make warr upon the Emperour for 6 years which        
Its beleeved that King will not doe or if he doe it will not performe it        
     On Munday last the Kings players began to Act the new play Called          
Pope Joan & on Tuesday the d: of Norfolke was there to see it but on            
wednesday the dutchesse of Portesmouth to disoblige mr settle the Poet          
Carryed all the Court with her to the dukes house to see Mackbeth               
+The Woman that swore justice Barnesley Tampered with La Marr for which         
he lost his Comission hath Confessed that shee Recd severall Guyneys for        
sweareing, shee was yesterday Carryed before severall justices In southwarke    
but they all Refused to take her Examination, Then they brought her within      
the Liberty of the Ld Mayor of which more by the next                           
+It is now Reported by persons of very good Credit that the d: of Bucks         
hath Kissed his Matyes hand                                                     
     L. c. 944     June 7th 1680                                                
  London June 5th 1680                                                          
+One Thomas saunders An Apprentice to mr Colby A Blackwell-sailor [?]           
haveing had the Liberty of these holy dayes on Thursday night last              
went to see A stationers servant In Cliffords=Inn lane & after some             
discourse told him that he had unknowne to his master made use of               
300 L of his Money to buy Armes which were hid In A Celler In                   
salisbury Court That Captain Toms plott still went on & that they               
were to Cut off his Matye & put all to fire & sword that opposed                
them upon which A 3d person of their Acquaintance Comeing In he Repeated        
the words & much more & being asked why he did not discover the said            
designe Answered that if he did his ffather was the Ld staffords Tennant        
& would be undone, This discourse was the next day by the 2 younge men          
Imparted to others & sanders was seized & Examined by sr Jo: ffredericke        
& sr Patience ward before whome he denied he spoke the said words or any        
such like but that if he did it was through disorder of body haveing been       
that day In much Company at Bowleing &c but Knowes not of any plott or          
any such things, Notwithstanding which the said 2 persons have swore the        
said words Agt him & he is Comitted to Newgate but tis thought there is         
nothing more In it then the talke of An Idle foolish youth as he is             
knowne to be                                                                    
     mr Arnold is at his house In monmothshire but Remaines very weake          
haveing A violent Cough which by streining brings up blood & much               
Endangers his life for Remedy of which he is Advised to the Bath & the          
more In Regard of his Many Bruises besides wounds                               
     John Giles suspected to be one that Assaulted him is A papist &            
was fformerly servant to ffather Evans that was Executed                        
     sr Miles stapleton is ordered to be Tryed next Assizes at yorke            
+sargent Maynard being 77 yeares of Age was this weeke Married to dr            
vermudens Widdow of about 24 yeares of Age                                      
     Yesterday Capt Whyburne Arrived here from Tangier & tis said brings        
Newes that they had with their hand Granadoes forced the moores to Retire       
& Relieved the fforts but wee fear It is too good newes to be true              
     sr Phill Howard Goes Lieft Generall under the E of Mulgrave, The           
600 foot make 5 Companies to be Commanded by Coll sackville Capt ffaultry,      
Capt Kirke Capt Boar & Capt Tilmarsh  The horse are to be Commanded by          
Major Oglethorpe & Capt Lacy who are takeing their speediest passage Into       
spaine to buy horses for their men from whence they have but A short            
Passage for Tangier                                                             
     severall of the Nobility have asked his Matyes Leave to goe voluntiers     
The d: of Albermarle E of Ossory & E: of shrewsbury have been denied but        
there goes the E: of Plimouth Ld Lumley Ld Mordant &c                           
     The states of Holland have Chose the E: of Ossory one of their             
standing Lieft Generalls soe its beleeved he will make A step over Into         
Holland before he goes for Ireland                                              
     one Artist lately Come from Holland is gone for windsor to make            
proposalls to his Matye for Turneing sand Into Gold provided his Matye          
will furnish him with Materialls  mr Boyle hath seen the Experiment             
performed Probatum Est                                                          
     Phill Warricke Esqr Goes within 14 dayes for sweden, yesterday             
Phillip La Marr died                                                            
     sr Jo: Nelson Naturall son to the King by Nell Guyn is Reported to         
be dead at Paris                                                                
+Wee hear the d: of Monmoth is Indisposed but tis hoped without danger          
     L. c. 945     June 10th 1680                                               
  London June 8th 1680                                                          
+This night there is An Extrary Councill at windsor to debate abt the           
Parliamts sitting                                                               
     mr sidney hath been at windsor to give An Account of his Negotiation       
& the Committee of fforreign Affaires were sent for & An Extrary Councill       
Called there & it was debated whether the Triple League between England         
spaine & Holland should be Renewed but the debate is further Adjourned          
till to morrow when there is to be An Extrary Councill Abt it here his          
Matye prsent & after Councill the guards are to be drawne up before his         
Matye where he will draw out those officers he Intends for Tangier              
     To morrow the Rest of the forces Embarke & are to have their pay           
Advanced till the 1st July & the officers are to be Restored to their           
places when they Returne                                                        
     Last sunday severall Gunsmiths shops In the minories were open &           
all persons at worke for the more speedier supplying them with Armes            
     Wee hear the K of spaine hath sent severall hundreds of his owne           
subjects to Tangier to preserve it from the Moores & that o[u]r                 
Commissary at Tangier is found Guilty of selling some of the stoores            
of the Towne to the Jewes & they againe to the Moores for which he is           
to be sent hither to be tryed                                                   
    The men of warr sent out by the ffrench K Agt the Turks of Tripoly          
fell upon some of o[u]r English merchantmen & forced them Ashoar                
pretending they tooke them for Piratts of which Complaint was made to           
o[u]r Ambr In ffrance & noe satisfaction given                                  
      There is privately handed Abt A scurrillous Pamphlett to vindicate        
the English Papists for being guilty of the plott & to discover the             
Cheife untruths In Oates Narrative which Tis said was printed at st Omers       
     mrs Celliers is to be Tryed next ffriday & Coll Mansell is gone to         
ffetch sr Wm Waller haveing obtained leave from the Court of Kings              
bench that he shall Come & goe without Molestation soe it appeares              
that it was not the fear of being murthered by the Papists that                 
Affrighted him away but some other Reason                                       
     Wee hear from strasburgh that on the 5th June severall ffrench             
officers sumoned the Governour of Holdenborke In the Elector Palatines          
Countrey to deliver up that ffortresse to the ffrench K which if he Refused     
he & all his men should be hanged at the gate  To which the governour           
Replyed that there was A peace between the Elector & the K of ffrance &         
the said ffortresse had been In the posession of his master for above           
100 yeares & he haveing Recd noe order from the Elector to deliver it up        
would defend it                                                                 
     Upon this Refusall A Considderable number of ffrench forces & 30           
peeces of Cannon are marched that way as they pretend to beseige that           
place                                                                           
+All our letters from the west of England give An Account of the great          
Inundations there & that the Poor Countrey people are forced to drive           
their Cattle severall miles to feed upon the mountaines to preserve them        
from perishing by the waters                                                    
     Wee hear that the E of Rochester is very dangerously ill & is              
become soe sencible of & Penitent for the Errors he hath Committed that         
the divines who have been with him say It is Almost Imposible to declare        
how sorry he Appeares to be for his fore past life  his lady who sees           
his Penitence is Turned from being A Papist & hath Recd the Sacramt with        
him according to the Church of England  some say he is dead of which            
there is noe Certainty                                                          
+This day his Matyes declaration was published wherein he solemnly declares     
he was never Married or Contracted to any but the queen                         
     L. c. 946     June 12th 1680                                               
  London June 10th 1680                                                         
+Wee have account from Tangier that on the 12th May the Charles & Henrietta     
fforts perceiveing the Moores had brought their mines soe neer them as          
that it was Imposible to prevent being blowne up Resolved to force their        
Passage Into the Citty & haveing Layd Traynes to blow up the fforts &           
broke the guns &c they made A sally In the dead of the night Into the           
Enemies Trenches which were A pikes Lengh deep which they with greate           
dificulty & Hazzard Attempted to Climbe up but the whole Army of the            
Moores tooke the Allarme & made greate slaughter of the English for of          
180 that drew out of the fforts only 30 Escaped Into the Towne & most of        
them much wounded  The fforts blew up dureing the ffight                        
     The Garrison made A sally to Relieve if posible the said Gentlemen         
who were all voluntiers  there were greate numbers of the moores Killed         
     The next day the Alcade Cut off the heads of the English which he          
sent for A present to his King & sent word to the Towne they might bury         
their bodies which they accordingly did  Capt Trelawny who Commanded            
Charles ffort was Cut all In peeces  They say they will have the Towne          
In few dayes  Tis Reported they have got Amongst them some of the               
Engineers that beseiged Candia  The K: is very much Concerned & is              
Angry with the deputy governour for not building A ffort or two between         
the Towne & the fforts which might have hindered the Moores for breakeing       
ground there haveing been 2000 L p Ann paid for Inland ffortifications,         
orders are given for drawing out 10 more out of Each troope for Tangier         
     On Tuesday was An Extrary Councill at Windsor where mr sidney Gave         
account of the defensive league between England spaine & Holland to which       
the 2 latter have already Agreed & is In Effect the Renewall of the             
Triple league & on the same Conditions In all points as mr sidney Proposed      
soe that his Matye will Add thereto the ffirme of his Parliamt which as         
Reports say will for this Reason sit next month but of this there is            
noe Certainty                                                                   
     Yesterday his Matye was here In Councill & the account of mr sidneys       
Negotiation was Read & it was said that he had Managed that affaire with        
such greate prudence & Conduct that the Ld Chancellor had orders to             
Returne him thanks In the name of his Matye & the whole Councill                
     The E of Middlesex is to goe Envoy Extrary to the Emperours Court          
& mr skelton to be Recalled                                                     
     Upon A Complaint In Councill Agt mr slingsby Comtroller of the             
mint he is suspended his office                                                 
     The ffarmers of his Matyes duty upon the Law have delivered 300            
declarations Agt the Atturneys for not paying their Arreirs                     
     The ffrench K still pressing for the Title of duke of Burgundy             
gives occasion of much disquiett to spaine & also to Holland for that           
Anciently those provinces were under that dignity                               
       The Lds of the Admiralty mett at windsor to Considder of & Appoint       
what ships of warr should be manned out for Convoys & for the summers           
Guard In the Channell which will be forthwith put In Execution                  
     The Ld shandois that was like to be put by Going Ambr to Constantinople    
by Reason of his denying his Recantation of Petitioning for the Parliamts       
sitting mentioned In the Gazett is by his R Highness Intercession to            
Goe without makeing A 2d Recantation                                            
+Le Marr is not yet Buryed 5 Chyurgeons have viewed his body & upon             
Oath say he died of A Mortification  his ffundament Appeares Exceeding          
Wyde & Large  Hundreds of people goe out of Curiosity to view his Corps         
     Tis discoursed that the d of Monmoth is at Windsor Appeareing              
dayly before his Matye & that the K Intends to dyne with the d of Bucks         
at his house neer windsor                                                       
+mrs Cellier is to be tryed to morrow  sr wm Waller & Coll Mansell are          
Arrived from Holland                                                            
     L. c. 947     June 14th 1680                                               
  London 12th June 1680                                                         
+Wee have letters from Tangier dated 17th May which give this ffollowing        
account                                                                         
     That on the 13th at night Capt Trelawny Acquainted the Ld Inchequin        
In Irish by A speakeing Trumpett that they Could noe longer defend              
themselves & designed to make their Escape Into the Towne at 7 next             
morning  Henrietta ffort had Capitulated 2 or 3 dayes before which was to       
the Towne & Charles ffort unknowne & tis judged the Moores might from           
the Speakeing Trumpett have some notice of the designe of those at              
Charles ffort                                                                   
     The Ld Inchequin ordered A sally to be made to divert the Enemy &          
Clear the Trenches & on the 14th at 7 In the morning they quitted Charles       
ffort being 176 men & Capt Trelawnies little boy & got well over 2 or           
3 Trenches but that next the towne being 14 ffoot deep with water &             
durt In the Bottom only 39 Escaped over the Rest being Cut In peeces            
In the greate Trench save 14 & the little boy whome they tooke Alive            
the ffort blew up soon after they left it                                       
     Capt Trelawny brought up the Rear & tis said was killed helpeing           
up the little boy  There were 12 In st Giles ffort made prisoners of            
Warr & 30 In Henrietta ffort In all there were 123 slayne & 57 taken            
& Many of the scotch officers that made the sally out of the Towne are          
wounded & some mortally                                                         
     The Moores are now placeing their guns Agt Pooles ffort & have             
Already sent severall shotts through the walls  wee are useing all meanes       
Posible to Relieve Pooles ffort but tis Doubted it will be lost though          
soe neer the Gate & Norwoods Redoubt which will goe also if that goes           
     This morning May 18th Appeares to o[u]r sight A Battery on the Hill        
southwest of Pooles ffort which looks upon the Upper Castle & the               
governours house  They have placed one gun Already  2 or 3 dayes will           
shew us the Effect of this                                                      
     Wee fear it will not be Easy to hold any of the fforts & to all            
Appeareance the Towne is In Danger Except wee had men sufficient to             
make sallies Especially horse for want of which our men very much dread         
theirs                                                                          
     The K of Morocco hath also Beseiged Mororan A Portugall towne south        
of sally & have Almost starved them for want of provisions  one of o[u]r        
ffrigotts is gone to Convoy A small Portugall Carvell with Provisions           
thither                                                                         
     The Algeir men of warr are all within the streights  wee Exspect           
them not this way these 2 or 3 months                                           
     This morning the Judges mett In the Exchequer Chamber to settle the        
Approaching Circuitts which are as followeth                                    
Home Circuitt Ld scroggs Baron Weston                                           
Westerne Circuitt Ld North Justice Jones                                        
Norfolke Circuitt Ld Mountague Justice windham                                  
Northerne Circuitt Justice Dolben Baron Atkins                                  
Midland Circuitt Justice Ellis Justice Raymond                                  
Oxford Circuitt Baron Gregory Justice windham                                   
   But the dayes are not yet Appointed                                          
     Yesterday mrs Cellier Came to her tryall  first mr Gadbury was             
sworne who gave noe Punctuall Evidence  then mr Dangerfeild was Called &        
Excepted Agt by mrs Celliers as being outlawed for ffelony &c To which he       
pleaded his Matyes Pardon which being Produced the word ffelony was not         
Inserted soe he was declared An unfitt person to give In Evidence & the         
Ld scroggs Committed him to the Kings bench prison, The 3d witnesse was         
her maide who declared how Intimate mr Dangerfeild & her mrs had been &         
that one morning when her master was gone mr Dangerfeild supplied his           
place In bed with her mrs but mrs Cellier Asked sergeant Maynard whether        
that were High Treason by the Statute  upon the whole matter shee was quitt     
+Last weeke the E of Darbyes brother was set upon neer Westminster by 4         
mad blades because he would not let them have his Coach & is wounded soe        
that his Arme must be Cut off                                                   
     Coll Legg is made master of the Ordinance In Roome of the 4 Commrs         
most of the officers of the Tower were last Thursday very merry with            
drinkeing his health                                                            
     One Homett A moor who was brought over from Tangier & Rode In the          
E of Oxfords troope & Returned with the Ld Inchequin is Run away to the         
moores & much heartens them to take the Towne                                   
     L. c. 948     June 17th 1680                                               
  London June 15th 1680                                                         
  +The Project of A New League between England Spaine & Holland brought         
by mr sidney is said to be Assented to by his Matye & Thereupon the             
dutch Ambr here hath taken leave of his Matye & Togather with mr                
sidney Immediately Goes for Holland after which he goes for Germany             
to ffurther the same there which noe doubt will be Effected & tis               
Beleeved that Its Resolved on those Considderations that the Parliamt           
shall Certainly sit In october next if not sooner                               
     A League defensive between the Catholicke King & England is Ratifyed       
here by the Spanish Ambr & mutually Exchanged, The Spanish Ambr still           
putts In ffresh memorialls to o[u]r King Concerning fflanders & o[u]r           
King Answers he will preserve it  They write from fflanders they hope to        
have In those provinces by the End of August 35000 foot & 3500 horse &          
dragoons Compleate                                                              
     The Committee for Tangier sitts often & the K declares he will             
Recover what the Moores have taken whatever it Costs, 6 Companies of the        
Kings ffoot Guards In Ireland are ordered for Tangier & the E of Arran          
their Coll hath desired the whole Regemt may goe which tis thought will         
be granted                                                                      
     Letters from all hands give account of the Greate Civility of the          
Alcade or Generall of the Moores to the English telling them noe prince         
shall keep faith better then he & that he understood the K Could not helpe      
them without his Parliamt & therefore Advised them to yeild the Towne           
     mr Dangerfeild being brought to the Kings bench prison was very            
Rudely accosted by the Prisoners but more Especially by Knox & Lane 2           
persons who swore sodomy &c Agt dr Oates &c Agt whome he was A witnesse         
In that tryall who beate him very much soe that he was forced to lye In         
the Dungeon to save his life since which the Marshall hath put him on           
the Common side where he Remaines with much Chearfulnesse, severall             
Gentlemen at the Clubb have sent him 20 Guyneys &c & Advised him not to         
be discouraged at his Imprisonmt Assureing him he shall not want any            
thing & they would take Care for the future that he should not Receive          
any abuse at which he seemes to be much transported with joy                    
+Tis said he will to morrow Petition his Matye In Councell & afterwards         
bring his Habeas Corpus &c                                                      
     The Ld Chancellor hath declared that his Matye designed his Pardon         
full & Ample  sr wm Waller was In Towne but because mr Dangerfeild was          
not Admitted as An Evidence he did not Appear In Court As A witnesse            
     Notwithstanding the Ld scroggs severe Reflections on mr Dangerfeilds       
being Pilloryed at sarum mr Redding did yesterday make A motion at the          
Kings bench barr In Behalfe of the Ld Castlemain praying he might be            
tryed &c And this day the Ld Castlemaine was Arraigned there for                
High=Treason & is to be tryed on the 23d                                        
     This day sr Tho: Williams had A long tryall for Endeavouring to            
subborne dr Oates & this night the verdict is to be given, on the 22d           
the Ld Aston &c are to be tryed & on the 25th mr blood mr Christian &c          
for Conspireing Agt the d: of Bucks                                             
     On ffriday night mrs Celliers sent to the Ringers of st Clements           
parrish to Ring for Joy shee was Come home but the Churchwardens                
forbad them                                                                     
     This day the Lds of the Privy Councill Came to the Chancery barr           
& there deposed that his Matye did make severall declarations that he           
was never Marryed or Contracted to any but queen Katherine which                
depositions were Entred Amongst the Records of the Court                        
+There is A scandalous Paper Come forth pretending to Answer his Matyes         
declaration aforesaid                                                           
     Our letters from Paris of the 18th Instant say that the ffrench K          
hath ordered A declaration to be printed & Published Prohibitting any           
Protestant for beareing [?] any office Either Civill or military & hath         
layd A severe Penalty on any Protestant that shall turne Papist                 
+Capt ffloyd Comeing from windsor was yesterday at 6 In the morning set         
uppon by 10 ffoot padders & Killed & tis said 5 of them are since taken         
     L. c. 949     June 19th 1680                                               
  London 17th June 1680                                                         
+When the Lds of the Privy Councill Appeared at the Chancery barr Abt           
his Matyes declarations The Ld Chancellor spoke to this Effect                  
     Let Noe Man thinke this Court Can Add Either honour or Authority to        
what his Matye hath done, These declarations are only Enrolled here for         
safe Custody though I hope they will have A greater Register In the             
hearts & minds of good & Loyall subjects who always will keep A due             
vallue for his Matye who hath thus taken Care to quiett the minds of his        
subjects & secure peace to ffuture Generations by A Certainty In the            
succession, And May the Almighty long Continue to him the blessings he          
Enjoyes with An Addition of all such as he wants that his Reigne may be         
long & Prosperous over A Thankfull & obedient people                            
     Letters from scotland say that mr Hall mr Cargill & mr Cameron 3           
minesters who had been Concerned In the late Rebellion there were               
discover[ed?] at queens fferry & taken being Rescued by the People              
the governour of Blackness Came In with some Assistance & In the                
Encounter mr Hall & mr Cargill were mortally wounded the first dyeing           
before he Reached Edenbrough the latter Escapeing, mr Cameron Also              
Escaped but his Portmantle was seized & It A new Convenant obligeing all        
that take it to destroy Monarchy Especially the ffamily of the stewarts         
from the Earth Calling his Matye the devills vicegerent & all such as           
Adhere to him upholders of the Kingdome of sathan, The Privy Councill of        
scotland have seized 36 of the Inhabitants who made the Rescue who by           
the Law without the Kings mercy will dye for it                                 
     There is A Truce Concluded at Tangier for 4 months  The Alcade is          
Prepareing to defend himselfe Agt Muley Hamett K of sueeuz In Affrica           
who hath drawne downe his forces to set upon him                                
     The Garrison are obliged not to Repaire the ffortifications or Carry       
one ston towards the ffinisheing of the Mole dureing the Truce  Our             
Garrison were In A weake Condition & the walls were Ready to fall  The          
horse designed thither are Countermanded but the ffoot Embarkt  The             
Alcade Proposes to Continue A peace with the English on the same Termes         
the Portugalls held the Garrison vizt not to Encroach on their land             
which some Judge wee shall Agree to for the future                              
     The Ld Inchequin hath In A letter to his Matye Endeavoured to Clear        
himselfe of the Aspersions layd on him that he neglected the safety of          
Tangier In letting the Moores Intrench without fighting them Replying he        
durst not hazz[ard the?] Garrison Agt soe many thousands                        
     3 persons are sent for up from Bristoll for speakeing Dangerous            
words                                                                           
     Capt ffloyd is not dead as was Reported                                    
     The Spanish Ambr hath Proposed to his Matye that he would Raise            
10000 men & send them Into fflanders to preserve it from the ffrench &          
the spanish K will pay them  His Matye hath promised to Considder of it         
+There haveing been lately borne In somersetshire A Male Child with 2           
heads 2 bodies &c some persons Getting the ffather In drinke made him           
signe A Contract to part with the Child on Condition to allow him An            
8th part of the Proffitts Ariseing by shewing the Child & thereupon by          
[about six words smeared] the ffather who being A Poor man hath                 
Complained thereof to the Ld Cheife Justice who hath granted his warrant        
to ffetch up mr Phillips & mr Waldron 2 justices In that Countrey               
     The ffrench Gazett which hath once or twice told us the Exact time         
of the prorogation of o[u]r Parliamt sayth now that o[ulr Parliamt will         
sit next July                                                                   
     His Matye & R Highness will be here Next Councill day when its             
said it will be declared whether the Parliamt shall sit                         
+mrs Loveland Phill Le Marrs mother was ffined 5p & Recd Judgment to            
stand In the Pillory at the Royall Exchange which accordingly shee did          
& this day shee was Pelted with Eggs &c                                         
     L. c. 950     June 21st 1680                                               
  London June 19th 1680                                                         
+mr Redding formerly ffined & Pillor[i]ed for Endeavouring to suborne mr        
Bedloe haveing had his ffine of 1000 L Beggd off hath this Terme made           
divers motions at the Kings bench barr Amongst which one last wednesday for     
himselfe praying A writt of Errour might be granted him to Reverse the          
judgmt or Record Agt him which was Referred to the Atturney Genll to            
Examine &c                                                                      
     Yesterday mr Redding Comeing to the Kings bench barr & ffaling on          
his Knees demanded Justice Agt Judge Jones & Judge Dolben for breakeing         
their Oaths his Matyes Coronation Oath & Magna Charta  Then mr Williams mr      
Hall [?] sr George Jeffries demanded the Imediate Judgmt of the Court Agt       
him which was seconded by the unanimous Consent of the whole barr his           
Insolent & unpresidented Carriage putting the whole Court Into A disquiett      
which being appeased my Ld scroggs told him he deserved the Pillory but         
least he should Claime A Propriety by Custome he should have some other         
Punishment upon which the Court Caused forthwith his Gowne to be Pulled         
over his Eares ffined him 500 L & Imprisonment till it was paid & after         
that to Remaine 7 yeares A prisoner or give security for his good               
behaivour 7 yeares                                                              
     Yesterday mr Culpepper who had been Arraigned for Treason for              
Endeavouring to alter the Governour of Carolina was brought to tryall &         
quitt                                                                           
     Next Tuesday will be tryed the Ld Aston sr James symonds &c                
     Since the fforeigne Leagues are soe fforward & some of them                
Reciprocally Ratifyed the discourse of the Towne is that the Parliamt will      
meet the 1st July & then Adjourne for 14 dayes & then sit                       
     sr Richard Munden who Came lately In the st david Convoy to the            
Turkey & streights ffleet was well on wednesday at the Exchange on              
Thursday was taken ill & this morning dyed to the greate trouble of all         
that Knew him                                                                   
     They write from Brussells that at & abt doway Leige & Valenciennes         
they have had such showres of Haile & soe greate that they have spoyled         
more Corne then An Army of 80000 Could have done  don Pedro de Ronquillo        
the spanish Ambr here hath Transmitted A Coppie of the Articles of Peace        
that he hath signed In Behalfe of his Master between the spaniards &            
Hollanders & us to the Emperour to bring him Into the same Alliance &           
tis said that mr sidney late Ambr In Holland is ordered to goe for              
ffrance to acquaint that King that his Master being guarrantee to the           
spaniards at the Treaty at Nimeguen that those Articles made & agreed           
to there by the Crowne of ffrance should be performed by vertue of that         
Guarrantee  he is obliged to protect the Spanish netherlands & if the           
french should still Continue to make their Encroachments upon the               
Spaniards he must be obliged to take other measures                             
     Last night the sheriffe of Herefordshire brought up John Giles who         
is Comitted to Newgate  mr Arnold hath sworne him to be the man that lay        
on his Breast &c                                                                
     The Ld Mulgrave &c Embarked for Tangier on Tuesday last  The horse         
were Countermanded but are since ordered to Embarke & It was ordered            
yesterday at windsor that 1000 [?] ffoot & 600 horse be Immediately             
Raised & sent to Tangier  Tis said the Reasons which Induced the Moores         
to leave the seige were supposed to be from the season of the year which is     
their Harvest & the heate soe violent as is scarse to be Endured to which       
some Add An Intestine division Amongst them part being mercenary souldiers      
& Part voluntiers & such as they Call their Gentry                              
     ffrom Plimouth wee had Advice that the Ruby dartmouth & Phoenix            
ffreggotts were Arrived there & bound for Ireland to take In souldiers          
for Tangier & that the Happy Returne merchant being bound for New yorke         
mett between scilly & the Lands End A Turks man of war but being Clear &        
A good saylor Escaped Into Plimoth but saw him take another vessell             
after he had ffired 8 guns at her                                               
     L. c. 951     June 24th 1680                                               
  London 22th [sic] June 1680                                                   
+This day the Ld Aston mr Howard &c were brought to Westminster In order to be  
tryed but the Atturney Genll moved that it might be put off till ffriday        
next because he was Informed that the Jury & witnesses had been Tampered        
with perticulerly one ffox who had said In the Countrey he Could Accuse         
the Ld Aston of Heynous Crimes had his Charges bore up to Towne by the          
Ld Aston  Also mr Dugdale was soe Indisposed that he Could not Come then but    
will be soe well as to Appear on ffriday soe the Court Consented & tis          
thought if they are not then tryed they will be bayled                          
     Our letters from Turkey say the Grand=vizier hath layd An Imposition       
& Resolved none of o[u]r Merchants shall stirr till they have paid such         
summe of money which he pretends is due upon the Articles of Agreement          
though it hath not been demanded these 80 yeares  mr ffinch o[u]r Ambr          
there useth all meanes to get it taken off but his Endeavours have hitherto     
proved Ineffectuall  Tis said the Grand vizier desired o[u]r Ambr to let        
him see the Articles of Agreement which were In his Custody which he            
shewing him the Grandvizier seized them & will not Part with them               
Againe under 180000 Rix dollars upon Advice of which the Ld shandois            
is Hastning over thither to Accomodate the buisness his Ldpp being soe          
much In his Matyes faivour that he Carryed the sword last sunday before         
his Matye to Church                                                             
     Our letters that Come from Leghorne by way of ffrance Advise That          
2 of o[u]r Best merchantships In Leghorne Roade bound for smirna vizt           
Thomas & susan & the Hunter the greatest part of their ladeing being            
silver were takeing In more goods there but were taken thence by 4 Algeir       
men of warr who Came In with ffrench Colours who Carryed them off Clear         
      There hath been A Report about towne that the Emperour of Morocco         
should Imprison the Alcade for makeing such A disadvantageous Truce with        
Tangier & had sent downe Another Alcade with A vast Army to Reinvest it         
& had taken it                                                                  
      But [severall gent]lemen who Came this day from windsor doe all           
Affirme that there is not one word of An Expresse from Tangier since mr         
ffitzgerald Came from thence soe the Report of its being lost is                
altogather false                                                                
     Its uncertain whether wee shall beate for voluntiers for Tangier or        
whether they will for the more speedier dispatch draw the 4000 ffoot &          
600 horse out of his Matyes Guards & Garrisons  Its thought the latter          
will be ordered there being already 80 men ordered out of the Garrison          
of Plimouth                                                                     
     The d: of Bucks hath brought his action Agt severall of the Justices       
of the peace of Middlesex & An Action of scandalum magnatum Agt A               
gentleman who being at the Exchange was Asked why mrs Loveland Le Marrs         
mother stood In the Pillory said for speakeing the Truth  he Arrested           
her In An action of 10000 L for which shee lyes In prison                       
     On satureday last one of the workemen fell from off Paulls & with          
it was Killed                                                                   
     The ffrench K hath ordered A whole fforest to be Cut downe to build        
ships                                                                           
+The Act for the Additionall Excize Expireing at midsomer all the               
officers belongeing to that office have Recd orders to let the severall         
Collecters Know that they are to abate 9 d the Barrell of the former            
duty that they Collected                                                        
     This day the Grandjury of the County of middlesex mett at westminster      
where they prepared A Petition to deliver to that Court In which they           
desire the said Court to joyne with them to desire his Matye that the           
Parliamt may sit the 1st July but Its beleeved for all this they will           
not sit                                                                         
     To morrow both his Majesty & Royall Highnesse will be at Councill          
when some greate thinge is Exspected                                            
     L. c. 952     June 26th 1680                                               
  London 24th June 1680                                                         
+Yesterday his Matye & R: Highness Came hither to the Councill where his        
Matye Acquainted them that he had made A defensive Alliance with spaine &       
Holland & that he doubted not but divers other princes would Come Into          
the said Alliance for Preservation of the peace of Christendome                 
     His Matye also declared that for divers weighty Reasons he Resolved        
to Prorogue the Parliamt till the 22d July next                                 
     The state of Tangier was debated & it was Resolved to make the E of        
Ossory Governour of all the forces sent thither which are to be made            
1000 horse & 6000 ffoot Effective  His Matye also declared that noe             
officer or souldier shall have any Prefermt In any of his Matyes Guards         
or Garrisons that has not first actually been In the service of Tangier         
for some Considderable time                                                     
     His Matye hath Expressed his displeasure Agt the Petition of middlesex     
abt the Parliamt & heareing the like was Intended this day at Guildhall         
sent yesterday for the Ld Mayor to prevent it                                   
     This day being the usuall time for Chooseing sheriffs they unanimously     
Chose slingsby Bethell & Henery Cornish who Its thought will both hold          
Confirmed sr Tho Player Chamberlain & Chose Mathew shepard Bridgmaster          
     The Appearance at the Common Hall was greate & the more In Regard          
A Petition was prepared & delivered to one of the sheriffs for sitting          
of the Parliamt &c Although the Recorder of London & mr Common sergeant         
made 2 very good speeches setting forth how much the Citty had been             
obliged to the King & how good subjects they would shew themselves if           
they medled only with the Buisness of the day, The Cry of the Hall was          
Read  the Petition Read the Petition A Parliamt A Parliamt but the              
sheriffe put it Into his pockett & did not suffer it to be Read which           
is ill Resented by many                                                         
     Yesterday was prsented In Councill from Ireland 23 bills which the         
Councill there pray his Maty to Call A Parliamt to passe                        
     Yesterday the Ld Castlemaine was tryed & quitt                             
     Our letters from Berwicke say Cameron the Preacher who Escaped             
from queens fferry hath been since at Aire with some of his Accomplices         
who by force tooke out of Prison there 2 of their faction & that thereupon      
all the Militia are ordered to march Into those westerne Parts to prevent       
all ill designes those people have Agt the govermt                              
     wee hear from Bristoll that mr Bedloe hath been very ill the               
doctors beleeveing him Poysoned but now he mends againe                         
     They write from Paris that the ffrench Kings Revenues are let as           
ffolloweth  the Custome for 17300000 Livers  The Aides for 20450000             
Livers  the 5 greate ffarmes for 11780000 Livers which is 3780000 Livers        
more then they yeilded heretofore                                               
     The ffrench K hath demanded of the Clergye of that Kingdome 14             
millions of Livers which they have willingly assented to but pray his           
Matye will set forth severall Edicts Agt those of the Reformed Religion         
which they will draw up & prsent him with                                       
    They write from Turkey that o[u]r English Ambr Attending on the             
Grand vizier with the Originall Capitulations between the grand signior         
& his Matye In his hand Hereby demanding Justice to be done to some             
merchants who had been Injured Contrary to the Purport of the said              
Capitulations  The grand vizier demanded to see it which being delivered        
he deteyned the same since which with much dificulty & the Expence of           
neer 20000 Dollars it is Restored                                               
     They write from Holland that the marquess de Burgamerino hath              
succeeded soe well In his Embassy there that he hath obteyned of the            
states 14 Battalions of ffoot for secureing the spanish netherlands &           
they have also Assigned A flying Army to be alwayes Ready abt [crease           
spoils about five letters] all occasions                                        
  They write from Prague that the Plague is very Hott there there               
dyeing the last weeke 294 persons  Prince Montecuculi hath Retired from         
all Publicke affaires & ffather Emericke A Capuchin ffryar is at prsent         
the Emperours principle minester of state                                       
     All the Churches In Prague are Barrd up                                    
     The Colls of the 4 Regemts of ffoot designed for Tangier are sr            
Lionell Walden sr Charles Wheeler Coll Legg & the Ld Allington                  
     L. c. 953     June 28th 1680                                               
  London 26th June 1680                                                         
+Yesterday the Ld Aston sr James symonds mr Howard mr heneringham & mr Peters   
were brought to be tryed but the Atturney Genll declared he was not Ready       
to try them for that severall of the Kings witnesses had been Tampered          
with That the Ld Astons maids Considderable Evidence was Kept from them &       
that the Jury had been Tampered with & produced Affidavitts to prove all        
the said Reasons, The Ld scroggs told him that he must then In Justice          
suffer them to be bayled out & accordingly the Ld Aston was bayled out &        
the other 4 ordered to be brought to be bayled next wednesday                   
+Then they proceeded to the Tryall of the Conspirators Agt the duke of          
Bucks but Edward Christian Tho Blood Arthur O Bryan Thomas Curtis & Jane        
Bradley mistress of the House at Heaven who stood Indicted of                   
Conspireing Agt the said duke to Charge him with sodomy & Buggery with          
one sarah Whorwood & had Endeavoured to procure & subborne witnesses            
with severall Greate summs of money of which severall actually paid to          
Philemon Codden samuell Ruthen &c which tryall lasted from 9 In the             
morning till 3 afternoon the duke being all the time prsent many                
witnesses on both sides being Examined & the Councill on both sides             
fully heard  the jury Acquitted Jane Bradley & found the other 4 Guilty,        
when the tryall was over the d: of Bucks Ld shandois mr Jenks & dr Oates        
dined togather                                                                  
     There are 3 Grandjuries for Middlesex vizt one for Westminster another     
for the East Part & another for the west Part  That of westminster which        
had subscribed the Petition for sitting of the Parliamt was this day            
Attended upon by the Lds Earles of Huntington & shaftesbury & the Lds           
Gray North & Ld Howard of Estwicke with the Ld Russell Ld Cavendish &           
severall of the H of Commons with An Information Agt his R: Highness as         
being A Popish Recusant &c of which the judges haveing notice sent              
Imediately for the jury to whome mr Umfreville the fforeman prsented            
the Petition Abt the Parliamt which was Read & Answer given that it             
Concerned them not & being demanded whether they had any prsentments to         
make or Bills to prsent Answered they had A Bill under Considderation of        
An Extrary nature but that it was not at prsent Ready for prsentation           
upon which the Court told them they had noe further occasion for them           
this Terme & dismist them                                                       
     After which the Grandjury of the westerne Parts prsented A Paper           
disclaimeing the Petition prsented by the other jury which was Recorded         
     Yesterday morning Arrived here the Heer Zitters Ambr from the              
states of Holland                                                               
     The losse of the 2 shipps neer Leghorne is this day Confirmed with         
this Alteration vizt that the ship Danby 400 Tuns 30 Guns one Bass master       
& the ship Turkey ffregott 300 Tuns 30 guns William Thwaites master both        
bound from Alexandria mist their Convoy & makeing for Leghorne The Turkey       
ffrigott being the foremost ship was Attaqued In sight of Leghorne by 4         
Turks men of warr with ffrench Colours  The master made A very stout            
Resistance neer 2 houres but was forced to yeild                                
     Capt Basse In the Danby perceiveing the Danger deserted his ship           
& 15 more In the skiffe the Rest of the men Entring the Long boate using        
their U[t]most to get Into Leghorne which those In the skiffe did  those        
In the Long boate seeing noe hope to Escape Returned to their ship which        
they defended as long as they Could  the Turks Carryed them off both            
which is A greate losse                                                         
+Wee had letters last Post of the 12th Instant from Rostocke that the           
Goodly Citty of straelsondt In Pomerania was on ffire & this day wee have       
letters of the 13th from straelsond which say the ffire began In the            
ffrankstreet & Ran through all Monckestreet & ffishers street  most of          
the Citty & the stadthouse is In Ashes 40 persons Killed & 3 minesters          
who had Removed their Libraries under the stadthouse were there burned          
     Tis thought the Algerines would have Attempted something In Leghorne       
Roade if they had not discryed our 2 shipps at sea                              
+Just now wee have letters from Turkey which say the janisaries have            
Mutined & Murthered the Grand seignior                                          
     L. c. 954     [Handwriting changes here.]     Lond July 1st 1680           
     Another grand Jury being Chose for hostid [?] & apping yesterday in        
ye Hall were dischargd upon Intimation yt yey Designd to prosecute              
petioning &c were dischargd  Then Radley was brought into ye Hall & having      
stood in 3 of ye Co[ur]ts wth ye Pap [?] on his brest he was Carried            
into ye Cot of Edinbrough where having stood almost an hour ye Judges           
ordrd him to be taken away but being carryed into ye Ks bench Cot agn ye        
Judges of ye Cot ordrd him to be returned into ye Excheqr 3 saying yt           
he had not stood his hour out but ye Judges of ye Excheqr sd he had stood       
long enough & ordrd him to be taken away wch was accordingly don  Then          
many pop [?] prisoners were baild & dischargd after wch mr Carl yt              
writes yt ye Advice from Rome was brught in Cot & his tryall ordrd to           
morrow at Gield Hall.  Then one mr Holcroft an Independt min[ister?]            
movd for bail but was refused & returned to prison  Then mr Curtice was         
chargd to print no more of ye weekly advice from Rome  Then a Rule of           
Cot was made yt none of ye late tryalls should be printed                       
     Capt Bedlow came to Towne on Tuesday & is pretty well Recovd of his        
Distempr                                                                        
     The Councill satt on Tuesday & satt agn yesterday after noon               
whither ye Judges were sent for  yr proceedings are kept very close but         
variously guest at  ye Ld Mayor was also sent for to give an Acct of ye         
procedings at Guild hall on Thursday                                            
     Tuesday morn ye Ld Shaftesbury pre[se]nted ye K wth reasons for ye         
pr[ose]cuting ye d of Y.                                                        
     Mr. Cornish & Bethell ye 2 Sheriff yt were Chose Last Thursday will        
its sd stand & thereby disappt ye City of sevll 50 L fines that usd to          
be laid on those yt refused & Its discoursd as if evry livery man shall         
be obligd to take ye oaths & sacmt                                              
     Last night his Mate sent to sr Tho Armstrong for ye keep of his            
Lodgings in Whithall but sr Tho. refused to deliver ym saying he had ym         
from his mr ye D of M & would redeliver them to none else                       
     Oates allowance is retrenchd to 40 s a week from 5 [?]                     
     mr Thompson minr of Bristol hath drawn up a Cattechise on a sheet          
of pap wch he teacheth ye children in his Church in wch are those words         
Ques Have upon heard of ye Assemblys Cattechise?  A: Yes & who was it           
made by?  Answr A pack of Knaves of rogues                                      
     The D. of Bucks is bringing his action agt his adversarys upon ye          
statute of scandalum Magnatum but they reppt ye Intend to bring a writt         
of error & prove yr accusation agt him Pone [?] but Christian being             
yesterday to be found sentence upon ym is put off till next term.               
     This day ye Plmt mett where ye K intended to have been in his robes        
but changd his resolution so ye Ld Chancellr prorogud ym till ye 22d of         
this prsent July  The D. of Y & D of M were both pr[es]ent                      
     The K. having laid a Tax upon his Clergy of 20000 livres ye K of           
Portugall in imitation intends to raise 8000 livres upon his Clergy.            
     L. c. 955     [Handwriting changes here.]     July 1st 1680                
  London 29th June 1680                                                         
+This night his Matye Came to Towne & sitts with A Comittee of Councill         
Touching Purgeing of Corporations  his Matye stayes In Towne till               
Thursday being the day the Parliamt meets & Its thought by some A               
dissolution is then Intended by others that his Maty will Appear In the         
H of Lds & make A Chideing speech & soe Returne to Windsor by others            
that he will propose to them to Ratify & Encourage his New League with          
Spaine & Holland                                                                
     The presentment made last satureday to the Grandjury abt the d:            
of yorke was subscribed by 6 Lds & 9 of the H of Commons & there were           
neer 200 members followed those 9 that made the presentment                     
     This day the grandjury of one of the Hundreds of Middlesex offered         
A Petition to the judges of the Kings bench for the sitting of the              
Parliamt but they Refused it  the Ld scroggs was not on the bench when          
they prsented it  The fforeman of this jury was mr Cornish sheriffe             
Elect for the Citty of London                                                   
     The sheriffe of Middlesex hath been sent for by the Ld Chancellour         
& Reproved for Chooseing such factious men for the middlesex Grandjuries        
& wee hear all the Grandjuries of Middlesex are discharged & new ones are       
to be Chose Agt the sessions next weeke                                         
     There are 700 processes out Agt ffanaticks In Leicestershire & they        
will be all tryed this assizes upon the statute Agt Popish Recusants            
     This day mr Radley who spoke scandalous words Agt the Ld scroggs           
was sentenced to stand In the Pillory 3 times an houre at A time In             
Every Court In westminster with A Paper pinned before him Conveying his         
Crime  The words were Relateing to Wakemans tryall Radley saying to one         
of his ffreinds that if he wanted Money he should goe to the Ld Cheife          
Justices house for sr George wakeman had sent money Enough thither              
     There hath been lately Published A base Pernitious & scandalous            
Libell Entitled An Answer to the Kings declarations In vindication of           
the d of Monmoths mother, Greate Endeavours have been made to find              
out the Authour but hitherto without Effect but mr Everard the person           
that lay soe long In the Tower was Comitted to the same place for A             
disperser of it                                                                 
     The Alcade of Alcazar haveing drawne his forces from Tangier wrote         
A letter to sr Palmer ffairbone the deputy governour In which he tells          
him that as he is A Gentleman he hopes he will Exactly observe the              
Articles of the Cessation as on his Part he will be sure to doe & that          
at the Expiration of the 4 months he will Returne againe with such An           
Army as will not only be able to take the Towne but also to ffight              
ffairely In the feild with Any power the K of England shall send to             
preserve it                                                                     
     The d: of Bucks being Informed one mr Barry was Concerned In the           
Conspiracy with those Convicted hath Indicted him & he will be tryed at         
the old Bayly next weeke  O Bryan is taken & seized                             
     The ffrench Ambr at the Hague Assures the states his Master hath           
noe designe Either upon the spanish netherlands or any of their                 
dominions                                                                       
     Wee hear that Capt Kempthorne Comander of A 4th Rate ffregott is           
taken by the Turks but wee hope it will not be Confirmed                        
+His Matye hath given Capt Herbert A fflagg for his greate services             
haveing made him one of his admiralls.                                          
     L. c. 956     July 3d 1680                                                 
  London 1st July 1680                                                          
+On Tuesday morning the Ld shaftesbury prsented his Matye with Reasons          
for sitting of the Parliamt                                                     
     Another Grandjury being Chose for Westminster the E of shaftesbury         
yesterday prsented to them An Indictment Agt the duke of yorke &                
likewise desired them to prsent A Petition to the Court of Kings bench          
for sitting of the Parliamt but they had not Recd it long before they           
were sent for by the said Court & Immediately discharged & Its said             
the ld scroggs told the E: of Shaftesbury that he Could not but Know            
that the Alienating the minds of his Matyes subjects from him was               
Treason by Law & therefore would Advise all people to take heed how             
they Come within the danger of the statute                                      
      Yesterday dined at the sunn Taverne behind the Exchange the d:            
of monmoth & abt 60 greate Lds & Gentlemen  the Entertainment was soon          
over & mannaged with much silence                                               
             [Paragraph 4 of this letter is identical with                      
                      paragraph 6 of L. c. 954.]                                
     This day the 2 houses mett & by A Commission to the Ld Chancellor          
&c were Prorogued till the 22d July  The d: of yorke & d: of monmoth            
were there but not the E: of shaftesbury  There was but A small                 
Appearance of the Commons                                                       
     Yesterday his Matye sent for the judges & gave them A strict               
Charge to Prosecute In their severall Circuitts all Popish Recusants            
& to give the same In Charge to the grandjuries As also that the                
Lawes made Agt Popish Recusants are not to be Extended to Protestant            
dissenters &c Also hath ordered them to declare In their severall               
Circuitts that the Parliamt shall sit In winter & tis said he seemes            
to be Positive they shall sit the 15th Novembr next                             
     His Matye hath also sent for the Ld Mayor & told him he was Troubled       
to ffind soe many Restless & uneasy spiritts Endeavouring the disturbance       
of the Peace for Preserveing of which he Comanded him to use his utmost         
Care & vigilancy at all times & Especially now In his absence                   
+Tis said Every Livery now shall be Required to take the Oaths &                
Sacramt &c                                                                      
     This day the King & whole Court went to windsor                            
     Yesterday dr Oates & mr Bedloes pensions which were 10 L Apeece p          
weeke well Paid are now Reduced to 40 s p weeke & Dangerfeilds quite            
Cutt off                                                                        
     mr Bedloe being Pretty well Recovered Arrived here yesterday from          
Bristoll                                                                        
     Yesterday mr Christian mr Blood &c made An Arrest of judgment upon         
which they gave In bayle & the Court deferred it till next Terme, mr            
Redding was discharged after he had made submission & owned his Crime,          
mr Holcroft An Independant minester In prison upon An outlawry after            
Excommunication moved for bayle but was Remanded                                
     Yesterday John Giles was Examined In Councill & stifly denies all          
but his Matye & Councill are satisfied he is guilty & ordered him to            
be prosecuted according to Law                                                  
     dr LLoyd deane of Bangor & Rector of st Martins In the ffeilds is          
made Bp of st Asaph In place of dr Barrow deceased who was hardly               
perswaded to accept of it but that his Matyes Commands were absolute            
     The ffrench K In his Progresse Intends to be At Callis on the 11th         
Instant & his Matye hath Appointed the E: of Oxford to Complement him           
In his Matyes name thereupon                                                    
     Letters ffrom Paris say the Clergie of ffrance had A Conference            
with the Kings Comrs abt the Affaires of Religion which hath Produced           
A Proclamation wherein he fforbidds all his Subjects to quitt the               
Catholicke Religion on Paine of doing Pennance Confiscation of their            
Estates & perpetuall Banishment & the Protestant minesters & Elders are         
therein forbid to Receive any Catholicke Into their Churches on Paine           
of Being deprived the Exersize of their Religion In that place where A          
Catholicke Convert is Received                                                  
     The same letters say the Castle of ffalconbridge In the Palatinate         
is surrendred to Generall Monclar                                               
+Last night mr savile his Matyes Ambr In ffrance Arrived here with              
whome his Matye had A long Conference                                           
     L. c. 957     July 5th 1680                                                
  London July 3d 1680                                                           
+The Lds Comrs of the Treasury are Improveing by all legall wayes his           
Matyes Revenues & have ordered mr Burton their solicittor forthwith to          
prosecute all Recusants as Reside In or neer this Citty Contrary to his         
Matyes late Proclamations by which they fforfeit 100 L p month & the            
master of the house where they are 10 L p month which will be Recovered         
upon them severall being now under Prosecution & an Account of others           
     dr Oates & mr Bedloes Pensions are Reduced to 40 s p weeke Each &          
mr Dugdales of 5 L p weeke & mr Dangerfeilds of 40 s p weeke quite              
Cutt off                                                                        
     some Lds Intend to Appear next Councill day at the board In their          
behalfe & if the Councill will not Continue them A Competent allowance          
will pray leave that they may doe it without offence to the Govermt             
     Yesterday mr Henery Care Authour of the weekly Pacquett of Advice          
from Rome was tryed at Guildhall  his Councill were sr ffrancis winnington      
& mr Williams Recorder of Chester, he was found Guilty & will be                
sentenced next Terme                                                            
     That which lyes hardest on him is some Expressions In that Published       
the 1st August 1679 Immediately after sr George Wakemans tryall In which        
was Inserted                                                                    
     There is lately found out by An Experienced Phisitian A wonder             
workeing Plaister Truely Catholike In operation somewhat of kinn to the         
Jesuitts Powder but more Effectuall  The vertues of it are stronge &            
various  it will make Justice deafe aswell as blind & take out spotts           
of the deepest Treason more Cleaverly then Castle soape doth Comon              
staynes  It Miraculously Exalts & Purifies the Eye=sight & makes people         
behold nothing but Innocency In the Blackest malefactors  Its A mighty          
Cordiall for A declining Cause & stifles the Plott as Certainly as the          
Job is destroyed by Butter & Brimston In A word makes ffooles wisemen           
& wisemen ffooles & both Knaves  The Colour of this precious Balme is           
bright & dazling & being Applied Privately to the ffist Infallably              
performes all the said Cures & many others Probatum Est                         
     The Comrs of the Navy have ordered the fitting out of 16 men of            
warr some of which will Cruise In the Channell & some will goe for the          
streights under vice Admirall Herbert who hath A Commission to be               
admirall & to Carry his flagg on the Top mast head                              
     They write from Ireland that the Ld Dundalke & the Ld Charmicharl          
are Turned Protestants  one of the 26 bills Prepared for that Parliamt          
is to Raise 200000 L for his Matye                                              
     Cornish & Bethell not haveing Recd the sacramt within 12 months            
must fine for sheriffes but if they take the sacramt &c And be hereafter        
Chose & serve they are to have their fines Restored                             
     The Chamber of mentz have added 600 villages to the Crowne of              
ffrance & pretend to 4 Lordships neer strasburgh                                
     The ffrench K hath sent 6000 ffoot & Dragoons to Keep strasburgh           
bridge & blocke up the Towne upon which they are Prepareing for defense,        
The d of Lorraine is now willing to accept of the Conditions offered him        
at Nimeguen but the ffrench K will not now admitt of it                         
     Letters from Coppenhagen say the Heer Guildensterne sometimes              
Governour of schonen is dead  That the ffrench use their utmost with            
the sweds to Engage that Crowne Into A new Alliance but Its thought the         
2 northerne Crownes will neither of them meddle therein  The ffrench            
propose that the sweds should kep 20000 men on ffoot In the Bishopricke         
of Bremen one halfe to be ffrench but this is disliked  The K of sweden         
hath given orders for Building 6 Considderable ships at Rugen & severall        
more In Lifeland                                                                
     They write from Poland there hath been A Battle lately fought              
between the Turks & the muscovites In which the latter had the better &         
have since Pressed the Poles to declare In ffaivour of them Agt the Turks       
     L. c. 958      July 8th 1680                                               
  London 6th July 1680                                                          
+Last sunday Came An Expresse from scotland which hath occasioned Much          
discourse &c  The Best Account wee Can give is                                  
     That about 20 horse Came Into Rosemere A market towne there & set          
up A declaration In which they much Reflect upon his sacred Matye & ffamily     
& Cry up King Jesus & tis said to be the same declaration that was found        
In Camerons Portmantle that was seized at queens fferry                         
     Yesterday began the Middlesex sessions at Hicks hall where tis said        
some Lds &c Intending to bring An Indictment to the Grandjury Agt his R         
Highness have at prsent declined it In Regard that many of the Jury are         
his Matyes Immediate servants &c & Renders it Ineffectuall                      
     Its Reported that his R Highness is prepareing to goe for Ireland          
others say for fflanders & some say for scotland                                
     To morrow the sessions begin at the old Bayly where John Giles will        
be Indicted for the Assasination of mr Arnold  Capt Tom is ordered to           
be tryed this sessions                                                          
     The dutch have 7 East India ships Come home vallued at 1500000 L           
sterling                                                                        
     yesterday wee had Advice of the Arrivall of o[u]r East India ships         
from suratt vizt the Bengall merchant the London & the Ann being Indiferently   
Rich but by Reason of A Rebellion In the Mogulls Countrey they were             
disappointed of some Carmenia woolls 386220 peeces of Callicos & stuffe         
druggs & Pepper                                                                 
     There is A Report that at Mesopatom In India there hath been destroyed     
by A land fflood severall villages & 8000 people of which some English          
     Just now wee have Advice that the Mallaga & smirna ffleets are             
Arrived In the downes                                                           
     On ffriday last the Councill ordered the Atturney Genll to persue          
mr Gadbury for Perjury he haveing sworne at mrs Celliers Tryall Contrary        
to what he had sworne In the Councill                                           
    Tis discoursed as if the Atturney Genll would lay downe his Comission       
& the Report is Revived that the Ld Chancellor will Resigne to the Ld           
Chamberlaine  Tis said justice scroggs is made A Privy Councellor               
     Yesterday the judges & delegates In the Tryall between mr Emerton          
& mrs hyde sr Robt viners Daughter Agreed that the marriage was Lawfull         
& that mr Emerton ought to have his wife & sentenced that it should be          
soe & that he should have with her 4000 L In lands & 200000 L In money          
for which sr Robt Viner is to be accoumptable which is to the greate            
Griefe of sr Robt viner & the yonge lady who hath An Aversion to the man        
There hath been spent above 8000 L about it on both sides                       
     They write from Cologne That there Happened neer Marporge In               
Germany such A dreadfull storme that the like noe Record of time is able        
to match, all the Harvest neer it is utterly destroyed  The Hailestones         
were bigger then ordinary Hens Eggs  A Coach was blowne up & snatched           
Into the Aire   About 4000 Trees blowne up by the Roots Amongst which one       
Greate Tree was blowne Into the Aire & such deep pitts made In the Earth        
by the Earthquakes that the Inhabitants dare not yet venture to looke           
Into the depth of them                                                          
     [Our letters from Trier?] say that Count serini [?] is found Guilty        
of Conspiring the death of the Emperour who hath ordered 4000 horse to          
take posession of his Estate & to live upon it                                  
     Tis said the Grand Vizier is Torne In peeces at Constantinople by          
the people for Engageing In A warr with the muscovites which they never         
Cared for                                                                       
     The d: of Brandenburgh is made Generall of all the Emperours forces        
+Yesterday was Appointed by the ffrench K for fixing his Resolutions            
whether he will have peace or warr with Christendom                             
     L. c. 959     July 10th 1680                                               
  London 8th July 1680                                                          
+Yesterday his Matye & R Highness Came hither & was In Councill where A         
Petition was offered him In Behalfe of mrs Hyde sr Robt Viners Daughter         
that shee might have another heareing which was granted her                     
     There was A long debate Abt Tangier & the supplies which his Matye         
Resolved shall be sudden & Effectuall to which End they will be made up         
8000 & order is given for 600 to goe from scotland & 6 Companies more           
to be Raised here  The E of Ossory goes for Tangier about A month or            
5 weeks hence for the Better Conveniency of victualling that place  the         
Councill ordered it should be victualled from Ireland                           
     The Lds did not Attend the Councill as was Exspected In Behalfe of         
dr Oates & mr Bedloe &c but dr Oates prsented A Petition but it was not         
Read                                                                            
+His Matye & R Highness Returned to windsor this morning & will Returne         
on Munday & stay till wednesday or Thursday                                     
     Yesterday at the sessions In the old bayly Phillip Doughty Esqr            
was Convicted for Killing A Hackney Coachman & this day the Bayliffe of         
westminster seized his Estate & his house vallued at neer 10000 L  he           
was formerly Page to the Countesse of Shrewsbury & Gained his Estate if         
Reports be true by dishonourable wayes & meanes                                 
     This day John Giles was brought to the barr & mr Arnold & his              
witnesses Appeared but Giles prayed for longer time & the Court gave            
him till wednesday next till which time the sessions is Adjourned               
     mr Herbert Appeared & prayed to be discharged of his Bayle but             
2 women & A man who were some of mr Arnolds witnesses swore that mr             
Herbert did strike one of the said women that shee fell downe at the            
Blow & mr Herbert at the same time said you Bitch you are shee that             
discovered my ffreind Giles upon which the Court thought fitt to take           
ffresh security for his Appearance next Terme                                   
     mr Cornish lately Chose on of the Sheriffs hath Attended on the Ld         
Mayor & Aldermen offering them to seale A Bond to hold sheriffe provided        
they would declare him duely Elected he haveing not Recd the sacramt            
within 12 months untill since his Election upon which it is ordered that        
there be A Comon Hall next wednesday for A new Election where Its beleeved      
he will be A 2d time Chosen  slingsby Bethell the other sheriffe hath           
writt to the Ld Mayor that he is Comeing up to London In order to serve         
the Citty                                                                       
     Wee formerly mentioned that the Grand vizier had Imposed A new             
Tax on the English In Turkey  our letters that Arrived yesterday from           
thence say that it Cost the Turkey Company 40000 L before they Could            
get their ships discharged & as yet the diference is not Ended but Its          
hoped upon the Arrivall of the Ld Shandois he will End all matters In           
dispute there                                                                   
+The Corporation of Tiverton In devonshire haveing Neglected to qualify         
themselves According to the late act prsented A Petition that his               
Matye would grant them A Pardon & Confirme their Charter  his Matye             
told them he would grant his quo Warranto by which it should be Legally         
Enquired Into & then he would give his Resolution  mr Humfries is               
made deane of Bangor & mr ffeilding Residentary of salisbury both               
places being voyd by the Promotion of dr LLoyd to be bishop of st Asaph         
  Wee have account from Callice the ffrench K is Exspected there on             
sunday next & on Tuesday goes for Dunkerke, All the ffrench Kings               
Endeavours to make that A Haven will not doe for last Thursday A                
ship of about 60 guns Could not get Into the Haven before they had              
taken out the Guns  They write from Dover that some of o[u]r men of warr        
forced all the ffrench ships they mett In the Channell to strike                
their fflaggs                                                                   
     L. c. 960     July 12th 1680                                               
  London 10th July 1680                                                         
+Letters from scotland say that Cameron & about 40 more are Roveing             
about the Countries In Rebellion & that the Kings forces are In pursuite        
of them                                                                         
     On wednesday last Came An Expresse from Tangier giveing account of         
the Moores Continuing the Truce & that In the meane time they are takeing       
all necesary Care for ffortifying the Towne & had Already ordered 4 Greate      
Bastions to be built & 2 mounts to be made at Each End of the Towne That        
the Lds with the forces were Exspected to Arrive there on Munday sevenight      
being mett on their way by the Ld Inchequin                                     
     They are now beating up here for voluntiers for the E of Plimoths          
Regemt of ffoot which is to be 16 Companies  sr Jo Lernier is to Command        
the horse                                                                       
     mr stroude Bayliffe of Westminster haveing seized the house &              
ffurniture of mr Doughty In yorke Buildings Convicted of murther last           
week was Complained of to the Councill by the duke of savoyes Envoy who         
Averred the said house & goods were In his Posession by lease & after           
bought of the said Doughty & the Bayliffe had Turned his servants out of        
doores Contrary to the Law of nations soe the Councill sent the 14 [?]          
persons that Kept Posession for mr stroude to the Gatehouse & mr stroude        
himselfe to the Tower from whence he is this day Removed by Habeas Corpus       
The Issue time must determine                                                   
     Many persons of quality of this Citty are gone to see the ffrench          
court to Callice & dunkerke                                                     
     Our letters from Paris say that King had given orders for ffortifying      
Marselles & Enlargeing it Two thirds & that he hath some greate designe         
In hand haveing borrowed of the Ensurance Office the whole ffond which is       
9 millions                                                                      
+The diet now mett at Ratisborne to Consult how to preserve the Empire          
from the Encroachments of ffrance have thought fit to send An Ambr to the       
K of England to put him In mind that he being guarrantee of the Treaty at       
nimeguen is thereby obliged to see the ffrench performe the Articles thereof    
The Spanish Ambr presses the same thing In Behalfe of the King his master       
as In Truth doth most of the publicke minesters here                            
     The sieur Monclar since he tooke ffalkenburg hath sent to strasbourgh      
to let them Know that If they Entertaine any Imperiall Garrison they            
shall be Esteemed as Enemies to the Crowne of ffrance                           
     The ffrench Kings Progress Into fflanders have soe Allarmed Newport        
that they have sent for some of the Garrison of dixmude to Reinforce            
it  they are now In garrison In Newport 2500 ffighting men & dixmude            
have orders to Abandon that Garrison & Goe to Newport In Case Newport           
should be Attacqued which is much feared                                        
     There was An order prepared the last Councill day for granting             
letters of Reprizall to all merchants that have been Injured by the             
sally or Algerine men of warr but the Reading of it was deferred till           
next Councill day which will [be] on wednesday next                             
+Giles is to be tryed on wednesday & if that tryall take not up too             
much time Capt Tom will be then Tryed                                           
     Letters from madrid say the K of spaine named the P of Parma to be         
governour of the spanish netherlands & the P of the Vaudemont [?] to be         
governour of Milan [?]                                                          
+The Inquisition of Spaine have sentenced 400 persons to be burned for          
Hereticks                                                                       
     They write from Hungary that the Turks & Rebells are Joyned togather       
& that the Prince of Tralsilvania being dead the Turks have Chose In his        
stead Count Teckeley who is head of the Rebells In Hungary                      
     L. c. 961     July 15th 1680                                               
  London 13th July 1680                                                         
+This morning his Matye & R Highness Came to towne & were at Councill &         
after his Matye gave A vissitt to the dutchesse of Monmoth & his Matye          
supps to night with sheriffe Lewis                                              
     Last satureday the Ld Inchequin Came to windsor & Addressed first          
to the E of sunderland In order to being Conducted to his Matye but             
missing of him at his Lodgings went to find him & Happened Accedentally         
on the King to whome he Approached & fell on his Knee to have kist his          
hand but his Matye Turned from him saying he must first speake with             
him & have A Better account of his Managemt of Tangier                          
     The ffrench K Arrived on satureday at Callais with A guard of              
10000 horse  the E of Oxford is gone over from his Matye & the ffrench          
K hath sent over the duke de Crequi & the marquess de Anjou to Complement       
our King upon his Comeing thither, severall of the ffrench nobility will        
make A stepp hither to see the ffrench Ambr & our Court                         
     This day mr Bethell Appeared & Refused to signe the Bond for the           
same Reasons as mr Cornish did soe that to morrow wee shall have 2              
sheriffs to Choose & tis said Cornish & Bethell will be put up Againe           
& tis thought will be Chose & will serve haveing since their first              
Election taken the sacramt, sr George Jeffries was last night with mr           
Cornish to tell him that the King desired him not to stand to whome he          
Answered that he did not Beleeve he Came from the King he haveing last          
winter said In the Comon Hall that the King Assured him the Parliamt            
should sit if noe Petitions but there haveing been 5 Prorogations since         
he Beleeves it was sr Georges Invension  Cornish & Bethell if they              
serve will keep their sherivalty In one house & Retrench the greate             
Charges the sherives are usually at                                             
+This day the Wardmote of Uttery ward Elected mr Pilkinton & mr Cornish &       
prsented them to the Ld Mayor & Aldermen desireing one of them might be         
their Aldermen In Roome of sr ffrancis Chaplin deceased but the Court           
voted they were Insufficient & would have 2 other Putt up  The ward mote        
said it was in their Right to name 2 & those were fairely Chosen & if           
they are forced to make another Choyce they Resolve to Choose the same          
againe                                                                          
     Our letters from Ireland give An account that there lately Happened        
Neer London derry A Prodigious storme of Thunder & Lightening with Haile        
&c & It was soe violent that it tore up A mountaine & destroyed severall        
people the Relation of which is In print                                        
     Tis said Greate Interest is makeing to Gaine A Pardon for mr Doughty       
& as greate opposition Agt it  he hath A Repreive for 10 dayes                  
     At the Execution of the 400 Jewes & others sentenced by the                
Inquisition at madrid the duke de Medina Celi is to bear the standard           
of the Inquisition & many other Lords have Petitioned the Inquisition to        
have some Employ upon this occasion at which the K &c will be prsent            
     some Lincolnes Inn Gentlemen last satureday morning In A ffrollicke        
broke the Windars In Turne stile Alley & being opposed by 2 shoomakers          
they wounded them mortally  A boy that Attended them is taken & sayes           
the Gentlemen were mr Isam mr Hill mr Milton & mr Bridewell                     
     L. c. 962     July 17th 1680                                               
  London 15th July 1680                                                         
+Yesterday being Appointed for Chooseing sheriffs the Hall being Exceeding      
full & all places Adjoyning mightily Thronged The 2 prsent sheriffs &           
Recorder &c appeareing according to Custome the Recorder made A speech          
upon the occasion who was seconded by the Common sergt which being Ended        
they proceeded to the Elections  The Comon Sergt haveing A Paper of Names       
In his hand began as is usuall, All you that will have at which he was          
Interupted by the Major Part of the Electors who Cryed out who is In            
the Paper who is In the Paper & would not be satisfied till the Names           
were Read & finding neither Cornish nor Bethell there seemed much               
disquietted Crying out Put them In Put them In but the Recorder told            
them they Could not be put In for this yeares Choyce &c                         
     But the Hall Insisting vehemently to have them put In & first put          
up after much Contest on both sides they were first Put up & had Almost         
the whole Cry & hands In the hall.  Then was put up sr Wm Russell Mercer        
Ralph Box Grocer & mr Humfry Nicholson Merchant but none of them had hands      
to make Any doubt of the other 2 being Elected soe the sheriffs declared        
Bethell & Cornish duely Elected at which A Poll was demanded for mr Box         
& mr Nicholson which was granted but the Ld Mayor being to Attend at 2          
A Clocke at the sessions house Could not stay to take the Poll at which         
the Electors fell Into A greate disquiett & demanded A prsent Poll with         
such Passion & Crowdeing upon my Lord that he Could scarse stir  In fine        
it was agreed to take the Poll next day                                         
     About 2 In the afternoon the Recorder Waited upon his Matye then           
Just Ready to take Coach for windsor & gave account of the disorders            
Committed upon which his Matye Resolved to stay at whitehall till the           
Election should be determined & Immediately summoned A Councill to meet         
At 7 at night & sent to the Ld Mayor sheriffs &c to Attend which they           
did where the Recorder In A Speech acquainted his Matye & Councill with         
the force put upon the Ld Mayor &c Not suffering them to depart Keeping         
them blockt up that sheriffe Lewis was beaten & himselfe Highly villifyed       
& Affronted That such Actions at A Common Hall were unpresidented  That         
it was Highly dangerous to the Govermt &c and then withdrew and after           
Twice being Called In were acquainted that his Matye had directed A             
Comission of Oyer & Terminer for Tryall of mr Osborne the woollen Draper        
for strikeing mr Sheriffe Lewis & all such others that were guilty of           
any disturbance In Keeping the ld Mayor &c as Prisoners which Comission is      
to be Ishued In Sept next when the judges will be Returned                      
     The Poll hath Continued all this day & is Adjourned till 7 to morrow       
morning                                                                         
  Yesterday afternoon John Giles was Tryed & found Guilty of Assaulting         
mr Arnold & is to Recieve Judgment on satureday                                 
     Upon dr Oates his Petition to be Restored to his former Pention his        
Matye hath Added 20 s p weeke                                                   
     This morning the Marquess of Anjou Complemented their Matyes &             
R Highnesses from the ffrench K whose habitt was of greate vallue his buttons   
diamonds his buttons & Loops Hatband & sword Hilt Richly Adorned with the       
same                                                                            
     Coll Blood is Arrested In an action of 10000 L by the d of Bucks &         
Clapt Into the Gatehouse                                                        
+The Parliamt is to be prorogued till the 23d August                            
+There is An Information to be Exhibitted Agt the Mayor of Glocester for        
Imprisoning severall officers for searching & secureing ffrench goods In        
the shop of Alderman Jo: Webb there                                             
     L. c. 963     [Handwriting changes here.]     July 20 1680                 
     The K having been prvented by some aff[ai]r from dineing  with Sheriff     
Lewis this day 7 night came to town this morning & intends to do him ye         
honr this night & Sr Simon hath Invited most of ye Cot pticlarly ye             
Comrs of ye Treary                                                              
     Yesterday ye Poll was opend agn & Bethell gaind 16 upon Box & ye           
acct of ye whole poll is 2000 for Bethell for Cornish 2200 for Box 1200 & for   
Nichols 800 sr Wm Rusell having laid down last week sheriff Lewis yesterday     
ab 11 adjd the poll till Thursday morn & promised yn to close it & ye Ld        
Mayr hath Issued out a prcept to ye beadle of evry Company to bring             
in a list of yeir livery men & by Comparing ye name of those yt are poll        
wth ye list it will be discovd whether Any have polld yt are not livery         
man each man having given his name & Company to those yt Kept ye poll           
     They prosecute ye Fanaticks very much in ye west endeavring to             
hindr yr meetings.                                                              
     On fryday last a lre was brought to sr G Geffries by a porter ye           
purport whereof was a rogue a rascall of a papist & yt he should be provd       
so wn ye Plmt sat if 1000 witnesses would do it upon wch ye porter was          
Comted to Bridewell                                                             
     sr Tho: Wms who was latly tryd for subornation & perjury hath since        
had a quarrell wth Dr Oates & threaten to accuse ye Dr for speaking ill         
words but ye Dr knowing his Innocence values him not                            
     A Genll pdon is granted to 53 men & women this sessions  ye men are        
to go to Tangier & ye women to be dischargd.                                    
     mr Doughtys pdon cost 6000 L before it past all offices                    
     mr stroude ye Bayliffe of Westm hath turnd away his Deputy mr Farewell     
for erai[s]ing Jury mens names & putting in others & other such like            
crimes & put in mr Burleigh an honest Fellow.                                   
     Its sd ye D of Savoys Envoy intends to Indict ye Bayliff of Westm          
for seizing his goods in mr Doughtys house.                                     
     L. c. 964    [Handwriting changes here]   ye 22 [?] of July [1680]         
+The K haveing been treated att ffishmongers hall by Sr Simon Lewis on          
Tuesday night went bak very well sattisfied with ye Accompt given him           
of ye proceedings In ye Citey and oredred noe Indeavors should bee used to      
hinder bethell and Cornish from being sherriffs hopeing they will prove         
Hones[t] men and this morning ye pole was opend att Guild hall where            
after some few had poled ye Bookes were Closed and wee Expect next Com          
hall to have bethell and Cornish declared Sherriffs                             
+ye K haveing suspended mr Slingsby from being ma[ste]r of ye mint hee          
refused to resighne soe that this morn officers by order broke ope the          
house in ye Tower and tooke possestion dureing his suspence  ye office          
will bee Executed with 8 Comrs and next terme His majt will have a              
tryall with slingsby for 10000 L which hee is Chrged to owe his majt ye         
Revert[io]n of yt place is granted to mr Neale                                  
+Next Terme allsoe is to bee a tryall between ye mr of ye post office &         
ye mr of penny post office ye 5th [?] haveing Enterd an Acction Agt ye          
Last                                                                            
+ye Assizes att Kingston beginning Last munday nothing remarkable hapend        
[One?] Justice being soe ill that hee Come to London yesterday in wh[seal       
removes about three letters] Barron Weston satt in both Courts & sergant        
Jefferys pleading there [arose?] such a difference between them that ye         
barron [word of about ten letters illegible] to turne him [out of?] ye          
Court but since wee heare they are friends                                      
+an old man neare Epson haveing gott 3 Children by his owne daughter hee        
and shee by ye order of ye Eacleasiasticall did pennance In Epsome              
Church on sunday Last was 7 night and Last sunday att St mary overs [?]         
London and next sunday att Kingston Church                                      
+Ld hid[e] this week brought his h[ab]eas Corpus which was returnable before    
Judg Dolbin to ye bayliffe of westm whoe refused to goe wth him to ye Judg      
withoute a guard which blood would not Consent to and after desiere to          
goe before ye Ld C Justice att Kingston but ye bayliff would not goe            
withoute he would Lay downe 100 L Guineys for 50 horsmen to goe with them       
+ye Lord Gerrad of Irelond is newly come hither to Answer an Accusation         
Laid against him by Coll mancell which is that hee desighned to bring           
ye Ireish army over which hee was Genall downe towards ye north of Ireland      
to aide ye Scotch Rebbells  Coll mancell was formerly Coll under his            
Ld Ship where haveing afronted an Ensighne hee durst not Challeng ye            
Coll being hee was his Superior but Complained to his Lod Ship of him whoe      
decided it in favor of ye Ensighne and soone after Coll mancells Comiss         
was taken from him                                                              
+this day ye parliamt meet where about 42 Commonrs being meet after 2 or        
3 of them were sworne they were summond up to ye Lds house where ye Ld          
Chancelor Read ye Commiss for prorougeing them till ye 4th [?] Augst next       
+ye Duke of monmouth is gone to Esqr Thins [?] In Witsher ice [?] to yt         
Earl with his Duches for his health  Tis thought that doctor Tounge             
soone will make a further discovery of ye plot                                  
     L. c. 965     [Handwriting changes here.]     Lond July 24-80              
     The Ld Ch Just Scrogs haveing rested well on Wensday night found himself   
recovd his illnesse in ye Morn & taking Coach went forwards on ye Circuit       
     The woman yt discovd Giles in Monmothsh hath had 100 L pd her out of       
ye Excheqr & Giles standing on ye pillory hath been hitherto deferd on          
hopes he would discover his Acomplices but he still denys his being             
guilty  it was thought he would have stood this day on ye Pillory at            
Charing crosse but stood not  we cannot guesse ye reason of his standing        
his sentence being to stand at ye Maypole in ye strand                          
     mrs Celiers is printing her Case conteining many scandalous reflections    
on ye Ks evidence but tis thought it will be supressed by Authority             
     The D. of Monmoth went yesterday into Wilts accompanyd by Esqr             
Thinn & other psons of Quality & returns abt 2 moneths hence                    
     The D of Bucks hath had a tryall wth a Barbr of Bucks upon scandalum       
magnatum for his having spoke scandalous words & ye Jury have given ye          
D. 1000 L damage wch its thought will ruine ye Barber  The D hath also          
entred an accon upon ye same statue ag. one Just Forster & it will              
suddenly be tryd                                                                
     The Bayliff of Westm will be tryd for felony for forcibly taking away      
ye Embrs goods & upon ye return of ye Judges ye Comission for trying him        
will be granted him                                                             
     On Tuesday next yr will be a Comon Hall where ye Sheriffs will be          
declard & we hear yt upon Consideration mr Pilkington notwhtstanding the        
objection of his being a Plmtman is taken into ye Cot of Aldrmen in ye          
room of Sr F Chaplyn                                                            
     we evryday expect ye Eng Gent to arrive here from Calais                   
     The Cot begin to talk of coming from Windsor for all to gather             
     The Ld Incheqeen hath given ye Councill accot of his proceedings at        
Tangier                                                                         
     L. c. 966     Lond July 27. 80                                             
     On Saturday night ye E of Mulgrave arrived here from Tangier wth ye        
Ld Lumley & Ld Mordant & went imediatly to winsor & gave ye K an acct in        
writing of ye state of yt place wch is yt ye Truce continues but yt yey         
expect evry day yt ye Moors will break it & yt they are in great want of        
forces for yr defence                                                           
     The E of Ossory lies very sick of a feavr he having made proposalls        
to his Myte for settling a fund for paying of forces for Tangier wch its        
sd could not be lesse yn 8000 or 10000 men                                      
     Its sd yt ye E of Moulgrave will go Ld Lieut of Ireld & yt ye D. of        
Y will go & reside there this winter                                            
     They beat up still for Voluntiers for Tangier but sevll having run         
away after yey had listed ymselves they now carry ym down to Bridewell &        
secure ym wch very name of Bridewell frights sevll from listing ymselves        
     Last week sr Robt Peytons son wth 3 others going to swim in ye             
Thames near Kingstone mr Peyton wth 2 More were drowned                         
     yesterday Giles stood in ye Pillory in Lincolns Inne field & was           
so mauld yt ye blood ran down sevll places but having one smart blow            
upon ye leg he jumpt off ye Pillory before half ye hour was out & ran away      
to Newgate being guarded only by ye crowd ye officr running away for fear       
of being hurt by ye stones yt were thrown at him.  he stands to morrow          
at Grays Inne gate & on satterday at ye Maypole.                                
     The Feild [?] Cot [?] Baron weston & Sergt Geffries continues still        
they having hufft [?] one another at Horsham in Sussex & sr G Geffries &        
sr Fra: Withins tho ye Ks Councill are hardly able to make yr Pty good          
agt Baron Weston                                                                
     The K not coming to town this w[eeke y]re is an Extr [?] Councill          
this night at winsor [ye] Chancellr being sent for yesterday as also ye         
D. of Albemarle who its sd goes Genll of ye Tangier [forces]                    
     From Reading wee hear yt ye D. of Mon. &c lay there on fryday night        
being Gentilely Enterteind by ye mayr & on satterday he went for                
wiltshire                                                                       
     This day rept is made to ye Cot of Aldrmen of ye Poll for Sheriffs         
& ye exact acct is for Cornish 2483 for Bethell 2276 for Box 1428 for           
Nicholson [sic] & on Thursday ye 2 ret [?] will be declard Sheriff in ye        
Com. Hall & tis now certein yt mr Cornish succeeds sr Fra: Chaplyn              
     L. c. 967  [Handwriting changes here.]  London ye 29th of July l680        
     This day ye Court of Aldermen met together & sevll Livery men at           
Guild pcepts [?] haveing been given yesterday for ye appearance & mr            
Cornish & Bethell were declaird Sh for ye ensueing year                         
+The E of Ossory continues very sick haveing no motion in him last night        
ye Drs have given him [out?]  we have no certaine acct of ye E of               
Rochesters departing this life at Woodstock in Oxfordsh.                        
+On Fryday last a ffranciscan ffryer addrest himselfe to ye E of Radner         
president of ye Councell & hath acquainted him yt tho ye plot may seem          
to some people to be expireing yet it is carryd on as vigorous[ly] as           
ever & discoverd severll pticullers wch were taken in writing &                 
transmitted to ye K & Councell siting yesterday at windsor                      
+The tangier businesse was debated there yesterday & ye Comissionrs of          
ye treasury are ordrd to pay out sevll summs of money for advance money.        
+A famous Popish Preist in france who hath writ severll learned writes [?]      
agt ye Protestants is lately conformed (as we hear) to ye Protestant            
Religion.                                                                       
+The french K we hear is gone from Lile into ye heart of fflanders where        
he is veiwing his fortifications & giveing necesary directions                  
On tuseday last a soldier goeing through Whetstones Castle shot a woman         
wch would have invited him in for wch he was committed to newgate               
+mr Sidney intends sudainly for E haveing almost finisht ye Treaty.             
+A new Ambassador is expected from france who will its thought endeavour        
to break of ye Treaty.                                                          
+The 21 Inst appd at Lantgaurd fort a meteor like a Piller [?] wch              
contracting it self into a serpentine fforme was coverd wth a Cloud, its        
thought it would have been far more horrible had it appd in ye night.           
+Giles by reason of his bruises hath not stood in ye Pillory since              
monday  its hoped he will confesse.                                             
+His matye upon ye Petition of some merchants hath granted Letters of           
Reprisall to any yt request ym many merchts saying yt if they were              
impowred they will themselfes fight ye Algerins.                                
+Upon ye Declaration of ye Sherriffs to day a Peticon was prsented ye Ld        
Mayr excuseing ye Presenters from being consernd in any disturbances yt         
had happend in Guild Hall & desireing Ld mayr to pticon his matye yt ye         
Parliamt might sit to which his Ldship answerd yt he would reprsent yr          
sent[iment]s to his matie but petitioning was needlesse his matie haveing       
told him & ordrd ye Judges to declair yt ye Parliamt should sit in 9ber         
     L. c. 968     [Handwriting changes here.]     Lond Aug: 3d.80              
     The E of Ossory dying last fryday night ye E of Plimouth is made           
Genll of all ye forces for Tangier  The D of Albemarle lying vry sick           
otherwise its thought he would have been Genll                                  
     The Ds of mon: lies very sick not able to goe to ye waters of              
Bourbon in ffr as she intended  P Rupert also lies vry sick his life            
being much in danger                                                            
     One [sic] sunday night last her matie came to Town & went back to          
winser last night & his Mati comes this night to Town & intends to be to        
morrow in Councill a Comte being Layn [?] to sit to consider of raysing         
of money for maintaining ye Tangier forces                                      
     The E of ffeversham yesterday pformd ye Ceremony of handing ye Q           
to her Coach in ye E of Ossoryes place as Ld Chambrlein to ye Q  however        
its sd ye E of Chesterfield will be Ld Chambrlein to her matie                  
     Its sd ye E of Mougrave will be Genll of ye Eng forces in holld in         
ye room of ye E of Ossory                                                       
     Coll Blood is now at libty upon baile  Fro ye Assizes at Bristoll          
wee here yt one Ed fflower is fined 500 L for saying yt ye King of E: is        
unwise to govern by a Plmt & yt if he would raise an Army sevll Gent in         
somsetsh would assist him to his knowledge                                      
     yesterday we had advice yt ye rebells in Scotld having recd a genll        
defeat one of ye ArchBp of St Andrews murdrers was taken amongst ye             
prisoners & tyd to a horse Tayle & was dragd into Edingbr                       
     An Eng ffriggot meeting wth a ff: one on ye Enge Coasts commanded          
her to strike saile but after she had sometime refused at length                
condesended upon firing some Guns at her  Its sd ye ffr: K: resents this        
so highly yt he intends to complaine                                            
+At ye Assisizes at milton in Cant were condemned for felony one for            
felony & murder & is to be hangd at Gads hill & another for killing             
her basterd  ye Grand jury there have drawn up a papr to prese]nt to his        
Matie showing ye abhorrance of petio[n]ing for ye Parlims sitting               
     L. c. 969     [Handwriting changes here.]    London Aug: 5th 1680          
+from Devonshire we heare yt sevrall psons some of wch are of quality           
have subscribd a paper promissing to stand by one a nother in petitioning       
for ye plimt sitting wch is in the nature of ye assosiation in Q:               
Elizabeth days.                                                                 
     The King was yesterday in councell where [?] Tangiere bisness was          
debated  it was urgd yt ye E: of plimouth by reason of his small experience     
was not able to command in Cheife in ye Tangiers expedicon upon wch ye          
Ld: Allinton & ye E of Maxfield were mentiond as fit psons & its thought        
yt ye first will be made Generall he being sent post out of Cambridgshiere      
ye E: of Maxfield is thought fit to ancient; its said ye D: of Monmouth         
is comeing into great favour, & some think will goe to Tangier if ye Ld.        
Allinton goes not;                                                              
     Dr Burnett is writing an account of ye E of Rochesters penitent            
death                                                                           
     It hath been lately discourst yt Bethell would not hould, but its          
thought wth out ground he & Cornish being to Assign ye bonds this day,          
had not ye Cot of Aldermen adjd Bethell if he holds would willingly Keepe       
house wth Cornish, but Cornish refuses saying he got his Estate by his          
accquaintance & he will entertaine ym nobly this yeare;                         
     The D: of Lauderdale Lys Sick;                                             
+ffrom Spain we heare yt ye plague is very much there;                          
     The ff: K: hath given orders for demolishing sevrall Monasteryes &         
Abbyes                                                                          
     Yesterday ye Ld: Mayor wayted on his Maty to give him an account of        
ye Citizens peticon for ye pliament sitting, to wch his Maty answered yt        
ye first part of ye peticon yey had promissed to stand by him in defence        
of ye Protestant Religion but had not mentiond by law establishd, as to         
ye parliment sitting he had told him formerly yt yey should sit in              
November, & he would be as good as his word & yt it should be ye pliamts        
fault if care was not taken for securing ye lives libertyes & Estates           
against ye Growing power of ffrance;                                            
     Then ye K sayd he heard yt one of ye sheriffes would not hould, to         
wch his Ld: Sph: answerd he heard nothing of it but beleived yey would          
both hold if his Ld: sp: tooke his Leave, his Matye expressing himselfe         
well satisfyd at ye respectfullness of ye Citty; Dr Tongues sonne was           
calld in before ye councell & comitted for saying agt ye plot was framd         
by Dr Oates & his father & yt he would prove it; yn [?] one Mr Holdess a        
Marchant was calld in & comitted by a warant for high treason for               
furnishing ye Mors of Sally wth powder & other ammunition; Giles pleads         
his wounds still as an excuse from standing in ye pillory; After sr Miles       
Stapeltons tryall was adjd 2 new witnesses came in agt him & its said           
he now repents he was not tryed with ye Lady Tempest;                           
+We have news from sevrall Sea ports in England that Some ffrench shipps        
have been seen of our Coasts sounding ye Harbours;                              
     L. c. 970     [Handwriting changes here.]     Lond Augt 7 80               
     The manner of clearing ye Lady Tempest &c followes   6 of ye               
Jury being for bringing ym in guilty & 6 agt it they all agreed to refer        
it to sr John Risby ye foreman to give in a verdict for ym who tho at 1st       
prtended to be for finding ym guilty yet wn he came into Cot acquitted          
ym wch causes much wondr yt Yorksh men who are so cunning can put tricks        
on one an other  The next day after ye tryall a peticon was prsented by         
sevll psons of quality to ye grand Jury to sign for ye Plmt sitting but         
As they were Biginning it sr John King [?] came up wth abt 60 psons &           
tore yt peticon & prsented another to ye Cot abhorring ye former upon wch       
Judge Dolben stood up & sd yt he would reprsent ye sence of both ye             
peticons to his matie but ptclarly of sr Johns disorderly tearing ye            
peticoning [sic] coming wth such a multitude                                    
     Some of ye Judges have declard in ye Circuits yt ye K is resolvd yt        
ye plmt shall sit in 9ber pticlarly ye Ld Ch: J: North at winton but            
others omitted it but sevll Circumstances occur wch contribute to cause         
a belief yt yey will sit some of wch are ye prparacons yt sevll great           
papists make for going Beyond sea  pticlarly sr John Gage is endeavring         
to get a Passe & mr Cha: Bertie is going Envoy to ye D. of Bavaria              
hoping its believd by yt to avoid being calld to give acct of ye pensionrs      
& its sd yt ye Ld: Ch. J Scrogs is going & sr John Keeling is to succeed        
him & yt ye Ld Shaftsbury is to be Trear                                        
     sevll having listed ym selves for Tangier & being guarded from             
Bridewell to ye water side they took boat to go on ship board but abt           
16 being afraid leapt over board but being taken up half drowned they           
were carryd on board half drowned.                                              
     His matie hath given ordr to mr LeEstrange to forbear writing abt          
state or Relig it causing ill blood                                             
     Haxton one of ye cheif of ye Scotch rebells was on ye 6 of last            
month tortured wth ye boot at Edinbr [about four letters smeared] if he         
woud confesse his accomplices but he refuseing he was tryd on ye 29 where       
he denyd to plead saying yt he owned no authority but Jesus & those             
authorizd by him declaring ye K an usurper & yt he shoud shortly answer         
for all ye Innocent blood had been latly spilt to wch ye Judges bid him         
set his hand but he would not so they subscribed yr names as witnesses          
to wt he had sd & proceeded to sentence vizt That he should be drawn to         
ye place of execucon in a hurdle & have his hands Cut off yn hanged till        
half dead & lastly qrterd                                                       
     Dr Oates is to be Sheriff Bethells Chaplain.                               
     mr Arnold hath brought his acon agt mr Herbert for Scandalous words        
& it will be tryd next terme he having witnesses who are psons of Quality       
     The Bayliffe of westm is suing Judge Carlton for 500 L for refuseing       
him a h[ab]eas Corpus according to ye [about eight letters smeared]             
     mr Cha: Herbert (who was Sheriff of Monmothsh wn Judge Atkins ordrd        
ye young man be go baild who unhappily killd his father wch mr Herbert          
was agt) was knighted last sunday at winsor                                     
     L. c. 971     [Handwriting changes here.]     Augt 10th 1680               
+On satturday night arrived here an expresse from Tangier wch being             
immediately carryed to windsor gives an account yt yey every day expect         
ye moores comeing downe yt in ye meane time they make all posible hast          
wth ye fortifications & that They want more fforces.                            
     His matie being indisposed comes not to Towne this weeke but will          
send for ye Councell to meet at Windsor to morrow at wch time its thought       
it will be resolved yt ye Ld Allington shall goe Genll of ye Tangier            
fforces.                                                                        
     From warwick we hear yt some psons were indicted there for A Riot          
at ye Election of Kts of ye shire & being cast 12 L Dammages were               
given [about eight letters illegible]  those yt were cast indicted yr           
adversaries for a Riot commited at another time for wch yey being               
likewise found guilty 12 L Dammages was given also                              
     We hear that Dr Oates is about marying one of the Earle of                 
Shaftsberrys neeces                                                             
     About 10 of ye Clock last sunday morning a man & a woman comeing           
to a House on London Bridge desired ye maid to let them in saying that          
her master had invited them to Dinner, & that his Wife (meaneing the            
woman) being ill yey were forcd to come in then from Church but when            
they were in they Lockt ye Door, bound ye maid, & threatened to cut her         
throat, but upon her telling where ye money lay yey left her bound hand         
& foot & went for ye money, but in ye meane time ye maid wth her teeth          
untyd ye Knot & went up to ye top of ye house & Cryed out murther &             
Theeves wch gathering a great croud abt ye house ye man got downe open          
ye Rath [sic] by a Bucket Rope under ye Bridge where he calld for a Boat        
& at last some body tooke him up & carryd him wth ye woman before ye            
Lordmayor who commited them to Prison & said if ye maids master would           
not give her twenty Pounds for her good service his Lordsh would  a waterman    
since is commited to newgate being thought to be one of ye Gang of wch          
its said there is Nine [?].                                                     
+The Dutchesse of monmouth went last fryday to take leave of ye K at            
Windsor & goes for Bourbon next weeke.                                          
+The Algiriens have lately taken 2 E [?] vessels one of 12 & ye other of        
14 Gunns  On munday next ye K comes to towne & goes on Tuseday to Chatham       
to see a man of War launch't.                                                   
+There are 92 Dukes Lords Knights Esqrs Justices & Gent, joynd in the           
Commission for trying ye Bayliff of Westminster for seizing ye Duke of          
Savoys Envoys goods.                                                            
     L. c. 972     [Handwriting changes here.]     London August 12th 80        
+The Dutches of Monmouths where [sic] on Tuesday last shipt of at               
Greenwich ffor ffrance & her grace ye day following went down to                
gravesend to take shipping haveing for some private reasons alterd her          
intention of staying here till next weeke.                                      
+yesterday ye councill sate at Hampton Court wher ye K being present            
many buisnesses of moment where debated but ptcularly abt Tangier but           
yey fixt upon noe pson to goe Genll  this morning the Councill sate at          
whitehall & it was wholly left to ye king to Choose a Genll & yn adjd           
till september  ye K hath given ordr for sending for ye D: of Monmouth          
out of Wiltsh: wch gives further ground to ye report of his goeing into         
Tangier  ye Comissioners of ye Treasury were [?] adjd alsoe                     
     His Maty hath given ordr for adding 3 s [?] to Dr Oats his revenue         
wch was but 40 s a week                                                         
     Dr Tongues sonne hath been lately examind & ye K: askd him who let         
him on work but hee refuseing ye K sd hee should lye in prison till hee         
discoverd it                                                                    
     ffrom Vienna wee hear ye Turks are joyning wth ye Hungarian rebells        
for to fight ye Emperour wch is thought a ffrench designe to weaken ye          
Empire                                                                          
     Coll Dungan hath drawn up articles agt ye Ld Gr[seal removes about         
three letters] & sent ym hither from Tangier for his ill manageing ye           
government thereof upon ye perusall of which the K was very angry with him      
     On sunday last many paps were dropt abt ye town questioning ye D:          
of Yorks being heire to ye Crown & one of ym was sent seald up in a             
letter to ye D at windsor wch hee imp[ar?]ted to ye K who was very angry        
& tis thought proclamacon will come out with a reward for finding ye            
Author & dispersers.                                                            
     The Ld Dunblaine haveing had a quarrell with his mother went               
incognito into ffrance & returnd this week.                                     
     The Ld Cavendish went on Tuesday into ffrance to drink ye waters           
of Bourbon.                                                                     
     sr Richard Dutton is prepareing to goe to his government at Barbadoes.     
     Yesterday ye Ld Chamberlain prsented ye young E of Ossory to kisse         
ye kings hand                                                                   
     L. c. 973     London ye 17th of Augst 1680                                 
+The Alcade before Tangier hath made proposalls for Peace wth it for 21         
years and upon it all ye forces yt are gone over are ordrd to be sent           
to Ireld  [After "be" the word "disbanded" is written and canceled.]            
     On sunday last abt 12 of ye Clocke ye K pased by whithall                  
intending to reach Chattam yt night  he tooke 7 meales wth him & Intends        
to dine at Whithall on Thursday next to be at Councell wch is not adjd          
in ye afternoon to pr[o]rogue Parlimt till novembr.                             
     From scotland wee hear yt ye Privy Councell haveing given ordrs for        
raiseing an Army for suppresing ye Rebells had made ye 5 or 6 refusd [?]        
they were sent for before ye Councell & told if they did not give yr aid        
to raiseing ye forces aforesd they should be committed.                         
     Dr Byfeild [?] residentiary of st Pauls dyd lately.  The Alcade of         
Alcazar is comeing hither to visit ye King                                      
     Giles dyed in Prison yesterday of his wounds and a Barber liveing in       
Chancery Lane is taken up for throwing stones at him.                           
     Some of ye D of Lauderdales goods were shipt last sunday at Greenwich      
for Ct [?] whether ye D goes shortly.                                           
     Coll Dunbarton is recommended to ye P of Orange by his matie to            
command ye Engl & Holld [?]                                                     
     This day Sr Robt Clayton ye Present Ld mayor treated ye Orange             
Reigmt of wch he is Coll they mustering in moorfeilds                           
     On munday come 3 weeks ye K goes for Cambridge New market and Andley       
end.  Coll Blood is sick                                                        
     His matie was prsent on sunday at ye lanching a ffirst rate frygot         
at Chatham & named her ye great Brytaine & to day a Yacht is launchd            
there built by Sr Phynes Pett.                                                  
     The Protestants in France being much opprest by ye Papysts have            
sent to ye Ct [?] Protests here to pray for ym wch was accordingly done         
last sunday at ye Ct Churches here                                              
     The Propositions ye Alcade makes its said are for aiding ye K wth          
100000 men to goe agt Algeirs & profering him Tangier entire wth wt             
Ground his Matie can reasonably desire.                                         
     L. c. 974    [Handwriting changes here.]   London August ye 21 1680        
     The Ld Colchestr was one yt ye Ld Pembrook sent for who throwing           
money amongst ye watchmen wch yey scrambling for furtherd ye Escape             
& its sd yey are both gone into T  one of ye wounded men are dead & tis         
thought 2 more will dye                                                         
     Mrs Celiers got bayl wch being tendrd to ye councill ye[y] acceptd         
& shee told ye Councill yt shee will print her book let ym doe what yey         
can for shee knows ye worst on it [?]                                           
     Giles is upon his recovry & expects daily to come to his 2d exencon        
     Its sd ye Ld C J Scr. will goe into Germany to drink ye Spawnvalde         
for his health                                                                  
     Lord Hide is made viscount Killingworth                                    
     The Ldy Dacell is made Countess of Sheppg                                  
     Lrs from Bristoll give acct yt Capt Bedlow having ovrheated himself        
wth riding post from London dyd there on Wednesday last  upon his deathbed      
he sent for the Ld C J North hee being on yt Circute & made a further           
discovry wch hee intended to resecue [?] for ye Plmt in wch 2 great pson        
is concernd                                                                     
     Dr Oats hath upon his peticon ordrd to proceed agt Mr Tongue               
according to Law                                                                
     Tho tis discoursd ye Alcade is making proposalls for peace yet yey         
beat up dayly for voluntiers for Tangier wch makes us doubt ye truth of         
ye proposalls & Count Conningsmarks nephew is arrivd at Windsor & hath          
profferd his service to goe voluntier to Tangier                                
     Its sd yre are 24 articles ready to be prferd to ye plmt at ye             
sitting agt ye D. of Y.                                                         
     8 pdons are passd for some psons of Quallity                               
     The E of Ossorys body is Carrying to Irl                                   
     The Dutch of Mazarine goes away tomorrow L J Colld                         
     P Rupert is soe well to goe abroad                                         
     The d: of Y. is going beyond sea                                           
     His Electory Higness is every day expected.                                
     All Pensions & Sallarys are suspended in Irld pticularly ye Ld             
Chan:s agt whome complaint hath been made & a Justice who prosecuted ye         
Papists there was set upon & is come to give an acct of it  The comitty         
for Irish affayrs sate at whithall on Thursday before whome was a bill          
of 200000 L for subsiddy & in debate arising whethr yt plmt should sit          
in Ird suddenly & it was adjd till Tuesday & Sr John Shaw is ordrd to           
attend and give opinion abt Irld                                                
     L. c. 975     Lond August 24. 1680                                         
Wee have now a certain acct yt Cpt Bedlow dyd on Fryday in ye aftrnoon          
abt 2 a clock haveing made a very good end & to his last affirmd all his        
depositions to be true  he was buried in Bristoll on Sunday night most          
of ye town accompanying him to his grave  his wife wee hear was brought         
to bed ye Thursday before he dyd                                                
     Sr Hen: Goodrick is prpareing to Embarque from Spaine to Engld.            
     The K comes to town tomorrow & stays till ye 8th of ye next month          
     The P. Elector Palatine hath been verry kind[ly] recievd by his Mat        
at Windsor                                                                      
     One Harris of Dover goeing out as a privateer hath taken a Dutch           
vessell for wch its thought hee will be hangd at his return                     
     A glover liveing nere fleet ditch goeing of Nutting yestrday out of        
a frolick got upon a Colt wthout bridle or sadle wch being skittle threwe       
him down & beat his braine out                                                  
     yestrday ye Plmt met at westminst [(]ye smallest numbr in ye memory        
of man) & were prorogud to ye 21 of 8tober by comission                         
     The D. of Y. intends to visit ye Dutchs of Modena his mother in Law        
in Italy                                                                        
     The Ld Pembrook was observd to take boat on Fryday last at                 
whitefryer Stayrs & went for T:                                                 
     On ye 17 Inst ye assizes began at Chester where Sr Geo: Jeffrys            
made of some expression in a serm preachd before him vix: yt yre were           
conventicles as well as Conclaves & Cock boats went into Holld as well as       
pinaces to Rome & Chargd ym to bring in all dissenters promissing to            
show to none favour or affection                                                
+The K: dines tomorrow at ye E. of Clarendons house Calld Swallow feilds        
10 miles from Windsor                                                           
+Mr Jenison hath drawn up further depositions to be pr[ese]nted to ye           
Plmt & is retird into yorks                                                     
     L. c. 976     London August ye 26. 1680                                    
     This day ye Cot of Aldrmen sitt & Bethel & Cornish signe ye bonds          
for holding shiriffes for ye ensueing yeare                                     
     On Tuesday night a woman was comitted for Killing her basterd Child        
     Coll Blood dyd this day                                                    
     The proclamation for ye plmt sitting is drawn up by ye solicitor           
Genll & dd to ye secr: of State & will its thought be carryd this night         
to printing                                                                     
     Upon ye Ld Ch J Norths refuseing to let Capt Bedloes wife have a           
copy of his depositions ye Cot sent for Sr John Knt [?] & others of             
Bristoll to whom hee declard ye same agn  Mr Bedloes Cred[ito?]rs being         
abt to stop ye goods from being removd his wife Genrously offerd ym all         
ye goods agn except only ye Butcher & she promissd to pay him for his           
     The K: comes not to town till next week                                    
     Some psons of Quallity waited ye P Elector Palatine & showed him ye        
Raritys of ye Citty last Monday                                                 
     The Adventure frygot lately launching at Tangier brings acct yt ye         
Moores are beseiging it agn                                                     
     Ordrs are given for seizing Harris who took ye Duch shipp & proceeding     
agt him according to Law ye Dutch Ambr here haveing Complaind agt him           
for breach of truce                                                             
     The Spanish K. hath given ye F Ambr his last answr abt ye Ddome of         
Burgundy & in case ye F K will not quit his title hee will endeavour to         
gett all ye Princes in Xtendome to help him to defend it                        
     The Coroner sitting upon ye bodys of ye men killd a Turnd [?] Green        
had noe possitive proof ye E. of Pembrook did it but a boy standing in          
an Alehouse door saw ye Coach goe by in wch ye psons were & pursueing it        
ye Coach man drove into a Pond where he was taken & confessd it was ye          
Ld Pembrook  his maty hearing ye news sd hee was sorry he had pferd [?]         
him before & yt he shoud now stand to ye Law & sent ordrs to ye                 
Governour of Dover to secure him in ye Castle in case hee came there but        
lrs from Callis say he is arrivd there                                          
     Yesteday mr Bedloes private depositions were read in ye councill &         
mr Eldrington was Examined abt ye Irish plot                                    
     The Cot of Aldrmen at Bristoll have ordrd a gathering of 2000 [L?]         
to be made for Mrs Bedloe & 200 L to build him a Monumt                         
     On Tuesday ye Irish Comte met & it's referd to sr James stenn [?]          
& sr Wm Downing whether ye bills of subsidy shoud be prferd to ye plimt         
& yey are to make yr rept on sattureday to wch time ye Comte is adjd            
     L. c. 977     Lond Augst ye 28. 1680                                       
     On Thirsday Bethel & Cornish signd ye bonds & on ye sunday before          
Michalemas day yey are to be sworne Sheriffe of London.                         
     Coll Blood hath made 2 presbiterian psons his executors but it's sd        
yey will have little to dispose off                                             
     Capt Sackvile hath writt a lettr from Tangier yt it is in great            
dangr of being taken by ye Moors                                                
     The Ld Inchequeen hath peticon'd his Maty yt he was come to a tryal        
to vindecate himselfe yt ye asprsions lie [?] upon him & it's s'd his           
Maty is soe well satisfyd wth his Conduct yt he shall goe agn govrnour          
of Tangier                                                                      
     We hear yt Mr Everard who was kept in ye Tower 4 years is dead             
     Mr Savill Embr to F: arrivd here last Wednesday & went imediately          
to Windsor & rece'd audience & goes agn suddenly as Envoy to F:                 
     The Ld Allington hath sent provision to Newmarkett & goes thither on       
Monday to prpare for ye Ks recepcon                                             
     The D of Norfolk being ld [?] by recognizance to answr to his being        
accusd of popish infamy at ye next sessions at ye old Bayly is returned         
from F: to save his bayl & answr ye Charge                                      
     Mr Blood before his death declar'd he was not involved in ye               
conspiracy agt ye D of Bucks but coud not open so [?] others accused with       
him intimateing yt severall were concernd but mention'd not who yey were        
     The [illegible word of about five letters] &c who were prsent at ye        
takeing Bedloes depositions were sworn to secresy but his Maty has had          
acct of them                                                                    
     Sevrll papists have been to Congratulate ye Lds in ye tower on Mr          
Bedloes death                                                                   
     The Ld Rhanelagh is arriv'd here from Irld & his accts are to be           
Audited by ye Lds of ye Treasury here                                           
      The D of M is goeing from ye E of Shaftsburys to sr Wm Coventrys          
who [is] makeing great prparacon for him                                        
     L. c. 978     [Handwriting changes here.]   London August 31st 1680        
+On satterday last a pson applyd himselfe to Mr Bethell shiriff about           
acqting him yt ye papists had a design to Massacer ye prot great numbrs         
of ye papists being latley come hither from all pts of Engld upon wch           
Mr Bethell carried him to ye Ld: Mayor who Took his examinacon at large:        
     The K on satterday come 7 night leaves windsor for this yeare &            
staying heare 5 days goes to Newmarket:                                         
     From Carlille we heare yt Baron Atkins in his Charge to ye Grand           
Jury there told ym yt yey should not prosecute ye prot disentrs upon ye         
act designd only agt ye papists  one of ye Grand Jury made a mocon yt a         
peticon might be pr[ese]nted for ye plmt sitting but ye rest were agt it        
saying yey wou'd not prsume to direct ye K: in a buissiness he Knew bettr       
yn yey & at ye same time woud not Condemne other Grand Jury[s] yt had           
peticond beleiveing yey designd ye Nacons good & yn yey peticond ye Judges      
desiereing ym to peticon his Matie to put 3 honest Gentlemen into ye            
Comission of ye peace yt had lately been turnd out from being Justices;         
     The D: of Norfolk haveing last term Indicted on[e] Madam Alliot his        
naighbour in Arrundell buildings for throwing rubish on an arch wch             
falling down into a vault of ye Ds broaken arme of ye Imege of mercury &        
ye Jury giveing him 60 L dammages madam Alliot upon it Indicted ye D: &         
ye whole family for papists, & to morrow yey app: to ye Indictmt: at ye         
old Bayly  ye D: is to have Councill & will if it may be pmitted pled           
specially  a Comisson of Oyer & Terminer is granted pticlarly for this          
buisness,                                                                       
+40: families in ye north of Ireld: are removing to virginia fancying           
ymselfes not secuer from ye papists in Ireld:                                   
   Giles stands to morrow in ye Pillory before Grays Inne Gate & will           
have a garde if possible strong enough to secure him from being usd as          
formrly:                                                                        
   The K: comes to towne to morrow & will be in councill to consider abt        
Tangiers & returns at night.                                                    
+A pestilential fever rages at winsor both among men & beasts  b: of ye:        
Ks horses haveing dyd on ye road last monday when his Matie dind at ye          
E: of Clarendons                                                                
   The plague Increases in Spain                                                
   sr John Coriton membr of plmt: for a Borough in Cornwall dyd last week       
     L. c. 979     [Handwriting changes here.]    Lond Septembr 7. 80           
     On Satturday last Capt Parker arriv'd here from Tangier & went             
Imediately to Windsor wre he gave ye K an acct yt ye Moores had sent a          
resident into ye Town who veiwd ye fortificacons & if yey offer to make up      
any breach or fortify any weak place prsently gave an acct to ye Moores         
& s'd yt if yey did not desist ye Moores should Imediately fall upon ym         
& yt he beleived yey may take Tangier wn yey pleas in a 14 nights time          
unless 7 or 8000 men were sent ovr very suddenly soe yt ye place is             
thought in a dangerous condicon                                                 
     From Exeter wee hear yt ye D of M last wensday made a Splendid             
Entrance into ye town sevrll hundred men running before him in yr shirts        
& white drawers & svll thousd on horsback & on foot waited on him  one          
Majr Vale [?] a late justice there put ye horse & sr wm waller ye foot          
in ordr as he went by Topsham to Exeter having saluted wth gunns from all       
ye shipps in ye Harbour but neither Clergy nor Mayr at Exeter Complemted        
him  he lay at Exeter yt night & next morning pted for Lond (where hee          
is expected this night)  he was noe so[oner] [seal removes small word]          
but some psons meeting made bonfires & drank healths to ye D of Y. &            
Confusion to ye basterd & mem [?] to drink ye D of Ms health was beat           
very much                                                                       
     Mrs Bedloe comeing to town last week is ordrd to be at Councill On         
Thursday where ye K will be prsent he leaving windsor yn for this year          
     Last ffryday a great Concourse of people met in Spittlefeilds but          
soon dispersd ymselves  yr designe wee know not                                 
     Its sd ye E of Salisbury addressing himselfe to ye K yesterday for         
ye Garter his Maty told him he shou'd have ye Treasery state [?] & to           
begin at Michaelmas                                                             
     The E of Plymouths Regimt is almost compleated & wi[ll] be shipt           
off next week for Tangier                                                       
     They calld ye D of M ye prot D all ye way on his Journey & drank           
healths to him by yt name                                                       
     A warrt is issued out for aprhending Mrs Celier for printing her           
narrative                                                                       
     The Ld C J Scr. had last week a private Conference abt ye K at             
Windsor & afterwards with ye Dutch of Port[s] & yn returnd to Lond              
     Sevell groans being heard in st Saviours Churchyard Southwark              
search was made & a body lately buried was taken up much bruised & dead         
     The E of Carlisle governor of Jamaica who was thought to have been         
Cast away is arriv'd.                                                           
     L. c. 980     [Handwriting changes here.]     Lond Sept: 9th 1680          
     On Tuesday last Dr: Oates preachd before the salters Company               
at Lumbard street church were one Chr: Osborn of ye Temple being invited        
by his vir[tue?] Mr: Osborn Mr of ye Company having got fudled afronted         
ye Dr: both in his prayer & sermd swearing dredfully at him & calling him       
Rogue sevll times upon wch he was seizd & carry'd before ye Ld Mayre who        
bd him over to ye sessions.  this Gent hath been formerly often held [?]        
to be a very discreet man haveing marry'd Judge Pembrtons ladys sister          
who was daughter to Sr Jer: whitchert                                           
     The same day Mr Dangerfield observing a pson follow him closely            
abt ye Exchange asked him for wt he followed him, upon wch he went away         
but as Dangerfield was coming out he observed him agn upon wch he drew          
his sword & cut him twice or thrice over ye head wch gathering a crowd          
Dangerfield was had before ye Ld: Mayr who comted him but afterwrds took        
bail & bd him over to ye sessions;                                              
     The East India fleet arrived in ye Downs on satterday haveing made         
a good voyage & lost but few men; sevll virginia ships also arrivd but          
one of them was cast away after she had dd [?] all her later [?] to ye          
post to give an acct to yr owners of yr safe arrivall;                          
     Mr Whittaker ye D: of Bucks attorney being at ye Ba[r?] in some            
psons of Qualities companey is accusd to have spo[ke?] some dangerous           
words for wch they intend an Informacon on him                                  
     The D: of M: arriv'd here on Tuesday night; On Fryday at noon 2            
sea Captains fought in Exchange and [?] in Cornhill after haveing broke         
yr swords they were parte[d]                                                    
     His Matye came to towne this Afternoon & the Councell sits to              
morrow wre he will be pr[ese]nt                                                 
     Giles stood this day in ye Pillory at ye maypole & it being ye last        
time the people were resolvd to take yr leave of him by pelting him, but        
did him not great harm he being securd by arms & his leges rapt abt             
with straw & after an hour was recarry'd to Newgate in ye coach in wch          
he came being guarded backwards & forwards by a vast numbr of watchmen;         
     The P: of wales seat in ye chappell at winsor & Garter haveing             
being unbestowd ever since ye K: came in was given to ye E: of salisbury        
it being now concluded ye Q: will have no Children & his Matie hath             
promisd ye E: of Ossory ye D: of Ormonds garter upon his decease ye D:          
being very old & ye D: of ormond hath writ a letter to ye E: of Arlington       
telling him he understands his Grandson is come from ye univercity &            
desiers he may be sent back agn thither being to young to appere at             
Cot yett;                                                                       
     They talk of sr wm Jones to be Ld: Chanceler & the E: of Thanes to         
be Ld: Chambeleyn  Waller & Duglusto [?] of the Kings pages being               
discorsing yesterday about the D: of M: ye former being prfred to his           
place by yt D: stood up for his Intrest but the Later Call'd him                
Reabell & other harsh words upon which they fought  the first is                
Dangerously wounded and the later is fled;                                      
     L. c. 981     [Handwriting changes here.]     London sept 11 80            
     Mr Noon [?] being indited for the Ryatt at Lumberd street the Bill         
was found against him but his Tryall was put of by Cesii [?] till the           
next sessions                                                                   
     The man and woman that were concerned in the Robery on London              
Bridge are cast                                                                 
     2 [?] psons were indited for killing [?] Mr standley the E: of             
Darbys Brother at WestMr but were freed [?] there being noe proofe that         
they were the psons                                                             
     The D: of Monmouth went Ysterday in Burford in Oxenshire to be             
at a Race there and thence he goes into Northampton Shire and Lester            
Shire and returns in a ffortnight                                               
     A pson offering to make Affadavit that he saw Coll Blood alive             
since it was reported he was dead and sevrll others saying that he was          
seene since in London the Ld Cheife Justice granted a warrant for takeing       
upp of the body that was buried for him and uppon search it was found           
to be the reall Coll Blood  he was reburied                                     
     Two Inditments being pfred against Mrs seliers one for subernation         
the other for publishing her booke the bills were found upon which Sr           
Phill Mathews mooved that she might be taken upp prsently and accordingly a     
Constables diligence [sic]  she was seized ysterday at her owne house           
again [?]  She could have noticed that the Bills weare found and she was        
imediatly brought into ye old Bayly where she had notice that she was to be     
tryed today though Judg Dolbin was for having it put of till next sessions but  
the Ld Mayr telling Baron Weston that the Coach man (who mrs Selier saith       
in her Narative had declared to her that he was tortured and afterwards         
offered money to say he tooke upp sr Edmund bury Godfry in somerset house       
before Bedloes discoverie) had been with him and declared on oath the           
contrary and that she offered him money if he wold say soe and that he          
askeing her why she wold put that into her narative she answered because        
she had a mind [?] to it uppon which Baron Weston said that publishing          
her narative was an ducted [?] acct  she needed noe time and soe ordred         
her Tryall to com on this day at 2 aclock  the Constable is bound to            
prosecute her she haveing given him 2 of her books when he seized her           
     The E: of Fevershem is made Chamberlyn to ye Queen  The Prince of          
Orange is gone to the D: of Zell to Treate of Marage betwixt him & the          
Lady Anne.                                                                      
+On Wednesday in the afternoon the Prince Palatine entred Oxon where            
he was received by the Doctors in their scarlet robes The university            
Orator bidding him welcome with a most eloquent speech and by the rest          
of the schollars in theire different formalities  The next morning he           
went to visit the severall Colledges at every gate of which (except All         
Soules Colledge) he was received with learned speeches and after (by the        
vice chancellors order) the schollars met in the Theater where he was           
entertaind with Congratulatory verses upon his coming thither, and with         
many other such exercises fittest for that occasion.                            
    On Tuesday afternoon the Ld Chancellr Radnor sunderland Essex &             
Seir Jenkins wth ye Lds of ye Treary being in ye Treary Chambr sr James         
Shane informd ym yt ye sd [?] revenue had been ill managd in Ireld & laid       
down methods for ye Better Improvmt of it wch they so well approvd yt           
they thankd him & promisd to rept ym to his matie saying yt ye K would          
set a mark on ye Ld Ranelaugh                                                   
     The E of Ossory its sd gon to Irld to the [?] D of Ormond                  
     The K & Cot is adjd & enter into mourning for ye P Elector palatine        
who dyd latly [four letters blotted] as yey hear he is Interd                   
     The Ld Lumley [?] is made mr of ye hors to ye Q.                           
     On Thursday next yr maties goe to Newmarkt                                 
     On Thursday last ye bill agt mr smith for prmiting ye retrenchmt of        
Mayr & sheriffs expences was found Ignoramus                                    
     Coll Fitzpatrick Brother to ye d. of Ormond who is now on ye states        
service is latly turnd prot & discovd somthing of ye plot                       
     This week 9 of ye Ks life guard being in a boat quarrelling ye boat        
overturnd & 3 of ym were drownd                                                 
     L. c. 982     London 7ber 14th 80                                          
     mrs Celier haveing been yesterday sentenced by ye Recorder who came        
to towne but yt morn she stands on wedensd come 7 night at ye Maypole           
on Thursday at Chareing Cross & on satturday at Covent Garden her bookes        
being to be burnt before her & to stay in Prison till her 500 L fine be         
paid                                                                            
     The businesse of mr Osbornes affronting mr Oates is made up he             
beging ye Drs Pardon & acknowldged himselfe fuddled [?]                         
     The woman concernd in ye robery at Lond bridge upon pleading her           
Belly was repreived but ye time of her condemnation recorded wth                
assurance she shall be hang'd when her Tucal [?] monthes expire.                
     Last night happened a fire at ye D of Yorkes Lodgeings at whithall         
begining at ye tope of ye House noby knows how but was quenched in an           
hower not haveing done any one [?] 500 L harme                                  
     mr Kolder ye marcht was on fryday last dischargd out of newgate            
(where he was comted for selling Powder to ye moors) upon his peticon to        
ye Court sevll worthy Citysens passing ye word he meant no harme but            
had shipt his goods before the moors were our Enimies but was advisd            
to addr[ess?] himselfe to ye K's Councell to hinder farther prsecution          
     yesterday ye Lds of ye Treasury met & a long debate arising abt            
Ireland ye further debate was adjournd till morrow                              
     Yesterday 80 old men prsented a Peticon to ye K in st James's Parke        
informeing him yt they had served so long in Tangier yt yey were sent           
away for not being able to serve any longer & desird his matie to take          
care of ym which was accordingly ordrd.                                         
     mr Prance haveing given information agt one Guildon a Preist latley        
he was had before ye Ld Mayr & bayld but a bill was prsented agt him last       
fryday & his bayle are ordrd to pduce his Body agt next testimony               
     18 ships of Xtendomme were brought into Tripoly haveing been lately        
taken by ye Algierines                                                          
     The P Electr Palatine is makeing all speed away to his Patt [?]            
The F K at Versailes hath given a private audience to ye Dutch Ambr he          
haveing wo[rke?]d in ye ptence wch makes us think somewt more than              
ordinary is on foot between ye Holld & French                                   
+mrs Carl [?] (wife to ye Author of ye advice from Rome) was on Fryday          
clapt into ye bail dock for speaking ill words but afterward dischargd          
+mr shelton Embr from o[u]r K to ye Empr is returneing wth Count Chem           
[?] as Envoy from ye Emperor to our King.                                       
     L. c. 983     [Handwriting changes here.]     London sept 16th: 80         
     yesterday 6 Gentwomen presented a Petition to his matie to forgive         
mrs Celier ye Punishment of ye Pillory she haveing sd she had rather be         
hangd yn endure it but his matie gave no Answer  its sd ye E of                 
Shaftsberry intends to arrest her upon scandalum magnat & yt an Indictmt        
of high Treason is prpareing agt her agt next tearme & yt she hath a Coat       
of Armor makeing to defend her agt ye Injury of ye Pillory                      
+sr Lyo: Jenkins one of ye Delegates in Emertons cause hath given notice        
yt all psons consernd give yr attendance on [?] day of ye Ct:                   
+The D of Bucks being informd ye Capt Bury was sorry for his being              
concernd agt his Grace hath given ordrs for takeing of ye accord (upon          
wch he was arrested) of scandal magnatum ye Capt being very Poor.               
+The E of Danby is sick in ye Tower.  There haveing been a debate among         
ye members of marcht Taylors Compny whethr ye Artillery Company should dine     
at ye hall it was carryd in ye affirmative by one voice & accordingly           
they spendidly treated ye D of Y there yesterday.                               
+The K hath taken his leave of hunting for this year ye last haveing been       
on Tuseday at Enfeild Chase whither [?] he ran downe two Buck & was             
gentilely entertaind at dinner by ye late secretary Coventry & is gone          
today to Newmarket.                                                             
+The Comrs of ye Treasury sat yesterday abt ye Irish affrs, where sr            
James Shane turnd all yt ye Ld Renelaugh had given them in to                   
Rediate [?].                                                                    
+The K last night after he had conferd ye Garter on ye P Elector Pallatine      
Knighted 2 of his Freinds                                                       
+A Gentman lately come from Rome gives an acct yt among other Curiosities       
he saw ye Images of ye late executed Preists in a Church there & yt             
the Papists say they question not but in a short time to see their blood        
avengd on England.                                                              
     All o[u]r Expectations wait ye Plmt whose meeting will Influence           
all Europe                                                                      
+The Dchesse of Portsmoth went this morning to newmarket & tis sd ye K &        
Q & Court returne wthin 3 weeks.                                                
     L. c. 984     [Handwriting changes here.]     7ber 18: 80                  
     Mrs Cellier desiring to have her punishmt soon over stood this             
day on ye pillory at ye Maypole it being one a clock before she came            
on (ye usual time being 12) where having stood a while wth a blow from          
some of ye croud she fell down out of policy thinking yt by yt she              
might be pmitted to lye upon ye pillory her time out but upon ye cryes          
of ye people was raisd & stood abt half an hour after wch she was               
convey'd to Newgate in ye coach she came in ye people throwing at her all       
ye while.  sevll were seizd for throwing at her both on ye pillory & by         
ye way but ye multitude resin'd ym & ye undr Sheriff riding into st             
Clemts church yard after some yt threw wth his sword drawn had like to          
have spoild himself & hors wth ye stones yt lye for building ye church          
she was arm'd Cap-a-pie undr her cloaths & had a board in her hand made         
on purpose to defend her on ye pillory  wn ye officer went this mornd to        
fetch her out of newgate she out of dread cryd out she was in labr but it       
prvaild not.  one stone struck her hood off wn she was on ye pillory            
wch discovd her Iron cap covt wth leather & she had not wthstanding             
her prtended weaknesse ye courage to take up sevll stones thrown at her         
& put ym in her pocket as also her foot boy who stood undr ye pillory by        
her ordr did ye same to show some psons hoping by yt tis thought yt she         
may have ye 2 other standings forgiven but its believd this will not            
do & yt she will stand on Tuesday & thursday                                    
   Its sd ye K Intends to give mrs Bedlow 2000 L to pay her husbds deeds        
   The D. of Lauderdale hath laid down all his places he being indisposd        
& ye E. of Murray is to be made secr & Comr of Scotld                           
   Capt Bury hath offrd ye D. Bucks to confes ye whole contrivance agt          
him upon ye Ds being so kind as to remitt his acon                              
   mrs Cellier offrd in her peticon to ye K to discover sevll things wch        
woud conduce to ye safty if his matie woud forgive but yt woud not              
prvail                                                                          
   The Jury yesterday again brought in ignoramus upon ye bill agt mr            
Smith for printing ye method of retrenching ye charges of Mayrs &               
Sheriffs  however ye Ld Mayr bd him over till next sessions                     
   An Expresse came last night from Tangier wch Informs us yt they              
much want forces                                                                
   The Inner Temple haveing (as ye middle Temple sayth) incroach'd upon         
ye midle Temples grounds in ye new building ye cloyters on wensday last         
some psons broke down a pillar wch is like to cause a difference                
determinable only by law                                                        
     On Thursday night last ye back part of a hous in Holbor[n] in              
Lincolns Inne fields Fell down but hu[rt] no body 2 Gent yt used to lye         
in yt part lying o[ut] yt night                                                 
     on Tuesday last a young man marryd a wom[an] at Hampton Cot & wn           
yey were almost at home he desired her friends to leave em.  so yey went        
home alone & ye next morn she was found dead upon [wch] some neighbrs out       
of Curiosity desiring to see ye body from ye maid of ye hous who touching       
her she bled freshly upon wch ye maid is securd & is suspected to be            
concernd in her death she having had a mind to ye young man her self            
     On Wensday last at ye same place The man was killd yt usd to show          
hampton Cot by one of ye D: of Southtons servts who wth one blow broke          
his scull struck of his ear & turnd his neck awry  The man was alive            
last night but being in such a Condition coud not tell which of ym did          
it  ye Butler is suspected yre having been a grudg bet y[m]                     
     L. c. 985     Lond:  7ber 21:80                                            
+We every day expect ye wind to change wch will bring ye P of Parma             
hither as Embr from ye K: of Spain to negotiate wth ye K: as a method           
ffor depressing ye powr of F: & ye Oxford & ye 4th rate ffrigate are send       
wth to Joyne with ye P to Convoy him hither for feare ye Brandr fleet           
latly sent out should attack him yer haveing bene a quarrell bet Spain [&]      
ye D of Brandr                                                                  
     Its sd mrs Sellier wth standing her lye one [sic] ye pillary &             
being to stand agn on Wensday at Covent Garden & on Satterday at                
Charingcroste & is ritting agn in vindication are [sic] of her selfe &          
Books                                                                           
     The Ld Shaftsbury is sick of a agu                                         
     His Mat intends to come to towne a week sonner nac [sic] he intended       
upon advice of some new plote agt him                                           
     Sevrll of worth & estate hath latly dyd suddenly here pticlarly            
Deputy Dall & Deputy Aldworth ye 1st a Goldsmith & ye other a Mercer            
     Some are so bold as to say yt it will prove yt Prance was craikt [?]       
in newgate tho he at mrs Selliers Tryall denyd it utterly                       
     One Satterday ye D: of M entred oxon Being meat by ye Mayr Alderman        
&c of ye Town who made him & his retinue free of Oxford & treated him           
at dinner all ye Gates of ye Colledgs being in ye meantim shut save             
some [?[ membrs of ye university coming to congratulate him  from there he      
went to ye race wr Mr Thomas Wharton won ye plate & last night y D. of          
M arrived here                                                                  
     from Stanford we hear ye 2 psons Being latly Hangd for Clipping one        
of ym Confessd himselfe a Papist & yt he had bene offrd 5000 L to fiere         
a Towne near yt place  3 or 4 Clippers ar latly takin & Committed to newgate    
     Mr Smith is com frome Tangiery & brings acct yt ye time [?] is this        
day expird & yt yey expect ye Alcade to fall upon ym wth all his fforces        
& yt yr is no wth standing him without a considrable reinforcencemt [sic]       
of hors wch is thought will caus ye hors latly raisd who were disbanded         
to be raisd again                                                               
      L. c. 986     Lond 7ber 23  80                                            
+Sr Tho: Players is lying sick of ague  Prince Ruppart lys very sick            
+Mrs Cellier sent a peticion to his Mate wth som of ye biggest stoones          
yt were thrown at her desiring his Mate to for give her standing any mor        
in ye Pillory since she was in danger of her life but it prevailes not          
she having stood this day in Commongarden wher many stoones turnups &c          
wer thrown at her  she fell doune over [?] twice but being raised agn ye        
pillory was over turned & she & 2 men thrown doune but they afterwards          
setting it up she stood agn a qr of a hour & then was conveyed in ye            
coach thru Holburn to Newgate an empty coach going before her to hinder         
ye people from knowing wch coach she was in  2 or 3 turns Takin for             
Throwing at her but soon resond [?]  she stands agn on Monday at Charing        
Crosse                                                                          
     Sr Robt Southwell is orderd by a letter from his Mate to demand            
satisfaction of ye D of Brandr to whom he was sent Envoy for ye affront         
offrd by his subiects in seiling [?] English men & Goods in ye spaniard         
shipp & for Breaking ye peace of ye Brandinbh says [?] they seased ye           
ships becaus ye spaniards will not satisfie ye orders due to ym & ye            
spaniard says it is ye duch yt ought to pay it ym                               
     A proclamation is expected to banish ye papists 10 miles of Lond           
ye Plmt approving                                                               
     A captain hath confessed yt one of ye D. of southhamptons servants         
gave him 40 L to kill ye man yt rissd to [?] the Hampton court upon wch         
both of ym are secured                                                          
     Sallsburry & Taunton coaches wer this weeck robbed  4 psons robbed 18      
     A marchants man paying 200 L ye received [?] told ye Marchant he           
did not know what to doe wth ye Money it was so chipped upon wch ye             
Marchant examined his man of ye that [?] money of on[e?] Mr Markland            
late brewer in Rossmarry lane upon wch Markland & his famlie wer Apprehended    
+The Spanish K is so kind as to order 200 Germen Troppers to be ready at        
Call to be transported to Fomitons [?] when ever ye Gouvernour orders ym        
     His Mate is gone to my Ld Arlingtons hous at upton and stays till          
Monday                                                                          
     L. c. 987     [Handwriting changes here.]     Lond 7ber 25.80              
     The K comes to town on Satterday next Newmarket air being too              
sharp  on Thursday fryday & Satterday next ye cheif races will be run ye        
pticlars too tedious to mention                                                 
     mrs Cellier pleads her bruises agt standing next monday  however           
its thought she will stand yn  she hath by a freind offrd Aldrman Ellis         
(bayliff of ye Dutchy of Lancaster who is to have her fine) 300 in Gold         
in Composition for her 1000 but its thought hee is so honest a man yt he        
will not bate her a farthing                                                    
     A distempr rages so violently [in] Barbadoes yt its feard yt place         
will be depopulated                                                             
     Its sd yt ye E of Pembroke is like to be pardond & yt upon it he is        
coming for Engld                                                                
     Sevll papists abt Coven Garden have been latly taken up upon ye 20         
[mile?] act & will be prosecuted next sesion                                    
     The Coachmans wife is bringing an appeal agt mr Doughty so yt he           
is [in] danger of hanging for killing her husband                               
     On Thursday last was a tryall at Guild hall bet A Country Gent &           
a Gent of ye Temple ye Cast having lain wth ye Country Gents wife for           
wch ye Jury gave him 1100 L Damages but ye Gent of ye Temple intends to         
petion for a new writ of Enquiry rather yn pay so much  ye woman discovd        
it to her husband out of revenge becaus her Gallant being since marryd          
had a mind to Turn honest                                                       
     Yesterday Dr Tonge son &c were exmd before ye Councill where upon          
discovery of his Accomplices & ye whole continue agt Dr Oates  he was           
comted to stay till he makes good wt he hath said                               
     One Tasse a Soldier in F. in behalfe ye papists in Ireld being             
troubled wth remorse returned to Ireld to discover ye papists designs           
but some papists having noticed upon some prtence threw him into prison         
where he dyd wth hunger of wch Complt hath been made to ye Councill             
     The E of Tyrone is upon some new Informacon seizd in Ireld                 
     Marshall Bellefonds is coming hither from ye F K & mr Bernard hath         
sent horse to bring him hither                                                  
     A stone being one day this week thrown at Bernard howards groom as         
he was riding thro Covent Garden he turnd back & beat a boy who did not         
throw ye stone upon wch ye footboy run ye hors thro wch was worth abt 40 L.     
     P Rupert is pretty well agn                                                
     The D of Y is resolvd to stay in Engld                                     
     L. c. 988     [Handwriting changes here.]     Lond 7ber 28 80              
+Mrs Cellier having peticond ye Ld mayr yt she might not stand on               
Munday 2 able chyrurgions making affidt yt her bruises were so great yt her     
life was in dangerd if she went as yet abroad  her standing is respited         
till further ordr                                                               
+Mr ffarwell late Depty to ye Bayliffe of westminster is like to be             
bayliffe if Mr Stroud is turnd out                                              
+Sr Robert Southwell hath leave to return home from ye D of Brandr upon         
accquainting his Maty yt he had not his health in yt Country                    
+A popish priest adrsd [?] at ockland in yt County & made reaction [?] &        
promised to make a further discovery of ye plott                                
+Upton is come hither from Ireld whwth [?] yt being suspected by ye             
papists yt he would discover what he knew of ye plot he was upon in false       
allegation clapd in prison where having by corrupting ye Jaylor escapd          
he adressed himselfe to ye Ld Lieut telling him yt knowing himselfe             
innocent he would not fly wn his Ldp promised him protection but he             
fearing his C[aptors?]rs would be to hard for him fled hither                   
+The Reblls in Scotland having assembled on a Sunday yr chief preached a        
Sermon on ye 21 Ezekiell 25.26.27 verses afterwards excomunicated ye K          
ye D of Y ye D of M ye D of Laud Attorney Genll of Scotland with others         
+Sevll considerable papists of Ireld were gone thence some to England &         
some to ffrance                                                                 
+Coll Long coming lately from Jamaica appeard before ye Councill last           
ffriday an Information being Exhibited agt him for some misdeameaners           
committed in yt island of wch he was pmitted to take a Coppy & to               
attend de die in diem till ye Business is determined                            
+Majr John Bill ye Ks Printer deseased last week at his house at                
Hampstead                                                                       
     L. c. 989     [Handwriting changes here.]     London Sept 30/ 80           
+on Tuesday the two new sheriffs were sworne at Guild Hall and                  
yesterday after sr Patience Ward was unanimously chosen Lord Mayor for          
the Yeare in shrs [?] a Peticion was put up for removing the Recorder           
upon which sr: George jefferys stood up and said he wold justifie himselfe      
upon whatever he had done then  Sheriff Cornish went to dinner with             
Sheriff Lewise and Sheriff Bethel with Sheriff Raymond half the aldermen        
goeing with the first and halfe with the last  they were very mery at both      
places and drank healths plentifully but at sheriff Raymond[s one] of the       
aldermen haveing drest a health to ____ and being Sheriffs Bethells turn        
to drinke to sr Wm: Turner he tould him he never used to drinke healths         
and therefore desired to be excused saying here is to you Sr. Wm. turner        
of which littell notice was taken and both companys braking up they were        
all invited to supper by ye Ld Mayor Elect where sr George Jefferys was         
very briske and sr Backhurst brother in law to Sheriff Lewise began a           
health to ye D of Y: upon which halfe the Company coz [sic]                     
     This day the two new Sheriffs were sworne at the Exchequer Bar at          
Westminstr  one affterwards treated the Exchequer officers at dinner            
     We have advice from the Downes that our men of War haveing joyned          
the Spanish men of War which conveied the Prince of Parma was arived            
there who dispached one [?] Tangier to give his Maty thanks for his care        
of him and that they intended the first opertunity to convey the Prince of      
Parma to his Govermt of the Northern Lands                                      
     The Bishop of Chichester having struck his Chanclor in Chichester          
Church they were both sumond before the Ld arch Bpp of Canterbury where         
they had a hearing last mondy but the business left indetermind                 
     The King comes not to Towne till this day [se]ennight haveing a            
horse to rune next monday and most of the cheife races are put of till          
next weeke                                                                      
+The petion agt ye Recorder containes [?] ma[n]y crim[e]s of wch they           
accusd him;                                                                     
+The Ch: Baron of ye Excheqr at ye swearing ye Sheriffs sd. he did not          
know ym but hoped they wou'd proove honest men;                                 
+Pecking ye greatest City in China is overturnd by an EarthQuake upon           
wch ye Empr assembled his nobles & exhorted ym all to mend yr lives for         
Certainly God was angery with them:                                             
+A boy haveing lain wth his mothers maid & being sence marry'd he out           
of vexation last Sunday hanged himselfe,                                        
+On Tusday last a Coache run over on[e] Capt Blacket in Ks: street              
westmr of wch its thought he will dye;                                          
     L. c. 990     [Handwriting changes here.]     Lond 8ber 2d  80             
+The E: of pembroke being assurd of his Mat pdon is coming over & ye            
only thing yt may be Injurious agt him by ye wife to ye man whom he             
killd but she being Luniticke & ye K being guardian of all Luniticks his        
Ldp Hopes his Mate will grant him a double pardon  Mr fferris [?] & neal        
who went over wth his Ldp to Callis a[re] both sick there & Mr Cha:             
Macarty who went over since to Him is run made.                                 
     Its discoursd as if ye E of Shrewsbury in Tended to bring an Appeal        
agt ye D: of Bucks for Killing his father                                       
     Articles are drawning up to be pr[ese]nted to ye Cot of Aldrmen agt        
Sr G: Jeffries next Com Hall wch will be soon after ye Ld Mayrs day             
    Apson Having visited Mr Tongue in newgate Mr Tongue dat [?] him a pap       
containing ye discovry of ye whole contrivance agt Dr oates in wch is           
mentiond yt Mr Lestrange was concerned in it & upon notice of [about five       
letters smeared] likly to be discovered mr Lestrange sent a lre to Mr           
Tongue to remove all ye pap out of his Lodgings to Mr Elys.  This paps          
he having drawn up of his own accord  it was dd to ye Councill yesterday        
who sent Dr oates to Secr Bridgman to exm him further of wch they gave          
ye Councill an acct.                                                            
     The P Parma is gon for ostend                                              
     on Thursday ye P Electr Palatine & ye D. of Grafton were installed         
by ye Proxy & ye E of Salisbury was also Installed in pson                      
     The K being desguested at newmarkit in tends its sd to go no mor           
thither but to salisbury  Complt having ben made yt juryes being ye same        
in most causes might be apt to be bribed ordr is given for prvent ye sam        
for ye futture                                                                  
     Its repted yt 2 English ships laden wth Corne were latly taken in          
ye Channell by an Algerine                                                      
+A papist being taken at windsor preaching was sent up to newgate but           
staying wth ye men [?] yt guarded him to drink at ye savoy he was rescued yer   
      L. c. 991     Lond:  8ber 5-80                                            
+A minister preaching at Tutting in Surrey a pson accusd him of being           
a priest & yt his name was Evans upon wch he was apprnded but upon              
examination no profe appearing he was let go                                    
     Dr Tongue son hath upon further exacon confessed & it was contrived        
yt he should Hang his father wn he should be alone wth him in his Chamber       
& putt a note in his Pocket countrfeited [in] his fathers hand yt he had        
out of remorse of Conscience for Having falsly accusd ye papist Hanged          
himselfe  Mrs Cellier is also so fare concerned in his plot yt its              
thought it will afford Matter anough to frame a new Indictmt agt her            
     The Comrs of ye Customhouse are ordrd to send prcepts to all ye            
sevll Ports for offering ye oaths & to all strangers upon notice yt ye          
5 priests wer coming over                                                       
     Dr Tongues son wth all psons concerned in yt plot are ordrd to             
App[ear] before ye Councill                                                     
     P Electr palatine is arived at ye Hague & is gon thence homward            
     Mrs Cellier fell foul upon a Gentlewoman who came to se her This           
week in Newgate saying she was not to be made a shew of                         
                    [Handwriting changes here.]                                 
+One day this week on[e] of ye Ld Astons servants prswaded a man to fier        
ye house wre Dugdale lay in a Towne in Staffordshire of wch one yt over         
hard ym gave notice to Dugdale who sending for ye man yt was hierd, who         
confessd all; Dugdale came to towne last night and is sending for ye man        
up to be heard agt Plmt:                                                        
+This day ye Cot of Aldrmen sat & a mocon was made for taking order for         
returning good jurey men next sesions & order was given accordingly;            
+yesterday a bill was found at westminster agt a pop: prist for ravishing       
a Girle of 10 years ould, & ye Ld: Powis Butler was find 300 marke for          
speeking agt Dr oates & other ill words;                                        
     L. c. 992      [Handwriting changes here.]     Lond: 8ber--7--80           
+yesterday mrs Cellier & mr Lestrange Mrs Sharkey Mrs Tongue his                
father & Dr oates had a hearing before ye Councill wre sevll Materiall          
Things wer descovd & many hard words past bet Dr oates & Mr Tongue  Mrs         
Cellier faind her selfe sick & fell downe a swound in ye Councill               
Chamber but was soon descovd & reconveyd wth Mr Tongue to Newgate  ye           
further hearing of this Matter is ad[journe]d to friday                         
     The Constables in evry ward psuant to ye Ld Mayrs ordr go duly up          
& downe ye City takeing ye names of all Lodgers suspected to be papists         
& returne ym to ye sessions                                                     
     Last night ye Q come to towne & ye K comes to Morrow                       
     The States of holland have ordrd ye building 36 men of war have            
already bought ym [?]                                                           
     The Councill upon Dr oates desiring Lestrange might be Commtd              
ordrd Dr oates to bring a Bill agt him & if it was found he should be           
securd & Lestrange ownd yt Mr Tongue had been wth him but did not               
excommunicate any of his Plot to him                                            
     To Morrow Mrs Cellier stands in ye Pillory at Charing Crosse               
     The Councill have ordrd Mr Buck ye Irish descover to go back to            
Ireld to psecute his assassinates                                               
     The offycer [?] who adrssd himself to Bp of Durham is come thither         
wth on of ye Bp Gentleman & hath been wth ye E of Radnor & is suddenly          
to [be] exmd by ye Councill                                                     
     Mr Fanshaw is Embarqud for Portugall whether he goes Invoy                 
     L. c. 993     [Handwriting changes here.]     Lond 8ber--9--80             
+His mate & ye whole Court went to towne this afternoon                         
+ye Pop: Preist was tryd at Westmr for ravishing ye Gyrle under 10              
years old  its thought he will come of for ye rape haveing no way penetrated,   
but be find for ye assault upon ye Girle                                        
+mrs Cellier still pleads her bruises so yt her standing in ye Pillory          
is very uncertaine.                                                             
+The Lifeguardmen haveing made ye man satisfaction for fireing his Barne        
he hath petitiond yt They may be remitted into ye Guard                         
+The Officers yt conducted ye Pop Prisners yt were rescued in Lancastsh         
are come up hither to make ye Complaint agt a Justice who refusd to             
committ ye rescuers some of them being his Tennants yt lived near him           
+Severall Persons some being of Quallity are latly seizd in Ireland for         
designeing to feir Dubline Castle & sevll of ye Councell &c to have killd       
ye Ld Leiftenant.  On wedensday last order was sent to Ireland for              
bringing Planket hither & keeping ye E of Tyroane in Custody.  [Above           
the first eight words of this paragraph is written "is come over hither"        
in same hand.]                                                                  
+Last night ye D of m wth abt 16 Horse came to Towne  The Ds [?] & D of         
Yorke being indisposed ye formr hath been let blood & ye pretty well  yer       
distempr is ye new feavour  ye Ld Lumley & sect Coventry is sick of it          
ye Ld mountague of Boughton being dead mr Ra: mountegue Kt for                  
northamptonshr succeeds him                                                     
+Of 2 Companies of foot qrterd at Chilbury there is not above 20 well           
+Sevll fforreigne Ambassdrs & Gent are comeing hither.  Dr Oates observd        
himselfe dogd by 2 men in newgatestreet last night tooke sanctuary in           
a Shop.                                                                         
+The Dchesse of Modeina hath taken a large house at Brussells where             
she will stay all winter expecting her Daughter ye Dchesse of Y to come         
& see her.  Capt Farrill haveing raisd a Company in Yorksh as they were         
upon ye Road they understanding they were designd for Tangier a sergt           
wth maney of ye soldiers run away                                               
+new Bridwell is to be made for quartering ye Ld Cravens Reigmt                 
      L. c. 994     [Handwriting changes here.]     London 8ber--12--80         
+ Last night sevrll Lds adrsd ym selves to his Mate desiring him to             
retire from Whit hall into yt City therby to mend [?] ye designes of ye         
Papists who wre latly come in Great numbrs from beyond sea & sevrll             
places of England to westmr of wch his Matte promised to considr                
     yesterday began ye sessions of pece at Guild Hall wre ye Recodr made       
an Excellt [s]peech agt Popy to ye Grand jurey after wch a Pson was             
commited for a cheat induceing [?] said Childern to search [?] men only         
to get money out of ym & was sentencd to stand in ye Pillory twice once         
at Towr hill & once at ye Exchange  sevll other Psons wer Comitted for          
lying wth uther mens wifs                                                       
     A min[iste]r last week sealing a Pamphlet in a lre in a Book Seller        
shop in fleet street sent it to a carrier who was so curious as to open it      
& finding ye Title to be ye Plot baffled &c went to ye Book Sellers wth         
a Constable but as yey were [?] going before ye Justice ye Minnr came           
[seal spoils about four letters] yey caused to go along wth them wn he          
pleading yt he bought for Diversion of himselfe & freinds  his lre was          
produced wch he desird ye pson to whom he sent it to be cautious to whom        
he showd it upon wch ye Justice wod have Comted him but he producing 2          
Minnrs for baile he was only bound over to ye sessions                          
     One Sunday last ye Ld Mayr & ye new Sherriffs went to Whit hall wre        
ye Ld Mayr Kisd his Mates hand & gave him acct of ye Good Estate of ye          
City but ye Sherriffs wer not admitted tho it was Expected yey wod have         
been yn Knighted                                                                
     The D. of Bucks is very sick                                               
     on Satterday abt 10 clock a Strange Motion was seen in ye aire by          
seavll in & about ye City wch some thinke to be a large falling star            
     A Robbery was Comted last week in somsetsh in ye road to Cambrige          
& king on[e] of ye Robbers is Taken                                             
+Last week at ye Qrter sessions at northampton on[e] Lewis a Minnr was          
convicted of having sd yt Dr oates had forsworn himselfe 20 times for           
wch ye jurey gave ye Dr 1000 Damages                                            
     L. c. 995     Lond 8ber--16--80                                            
+mr Lestrange will its thought be put out of Comission upon ye late             
accusation agt him                                                              
     seavll Irish men have been latly tacken but upon showing yr Comissions     
from ye D: of ormond yey been releasd                                           
     2 or 3 pap priests have been Comted to the Gate house this week            
     The Grand Jurey has found ye bill agt ye E: of pembroke for killing        
ye man at Tennup [?] greene                                                     
     The Recodr on thursday last excepted agt ye Grand Jurey returnd by         
Mr Sheriff Bethell as if they pick one on purpose as men prswded agt            
him  however Sheriff Bethell refusd it  his Brother Cornish [is] to chus        
another Jurey for him agt next sessions  the [seal spoils about seven           
letters] right as adr [?] Sheriff                                               
     The D of Norfolk tho he producd witneses of his having taken ye oath       
& sacrt was on Thursday last find 200 L for not appearing to ye Indictmt        
last sessions                                                                   
     Mrs Cellier will be indicted next sessions upon some new paps found        
in her Custody                                                                  
     Its unanimously reportd about the D of ys departure but its Generally      
beleavd he will not begone between this & Thursday next which is the            
day of the Parlmt metting wher upon the Councill have debated it again          
and its said yey have psuaded his Mate to proroge the parlimt 10 dayes          
longer it being requisit as Matters [&?] Circumstances of affaires now          
stand                                                                           
+A Ship latly arrived at Cadis brings news at their Harbours and the            
great goons from Tangier were frequently heard which hath occasiond a           
beleafe at the Alcad have attaqued that place                                   
     L. c. 996     [Handwriting changes here.]     Lond: 8ber 19:80             
     The Ld Chancellr adrsd himselfe to ye K: & told him yt it was very         
requisite ye D: of Y: should dept & ye Ld Robts seconded him saying yt          
unlesse ye plmt sat ye K: & Kdome would suffer by it & 2 or 3 other Lds         
backd ym in wt they had sd upon wch ye K: sent ordrs to ye D: of y: yt he       
should retier & chuse his place upon wch ye D: & Dutchs of y: set forward       
to morrow for scotld by sea from whence its sd yey will goe to Brussells        
yer departure is kept from ye Q for fear she being at prent ill itt             
should further discompose her.                                                  
+The D of Bucks is now so well recovd its thought he will be in ye hous         
of Lds on Thursday & its sd abt 400 plmt: men are already come to               
towne                                                                           
+Mr Hickeringhill who formrly preachd ye searmen Calld Curse ye mercy           
agt ye fanatick hath now upon some disgust from some of ye Ch: of E:            
writ so severe a booke agt ye Bps calld ye 2 pt. of ye naked truth yt its       
thought he will be Clapt up for it                                              
+Its sd yt ye D: of Ormond hath signd an Instrumt for making one mr             
Ellis bayliffe of Westmr & hath sent it hither to be finishd by ye Dean         
& Chaplin of Westmr;                                                            
+Its variously discoursd who will be speaker but ye most leading men of         
ye plmt have fixt it betwen Mr: Boscowen, Paul foley & sergt Lile               
                     [Handwriting changes here.]                                
     3 yachts lye ready to attend ye D. of y                                    
     The F K hath made allyance wth ye Swed K & is to raise 1000 men to         
be qrterd at Pomeren                                                            
     The D. of Laud Dutch of Portsmoth & F Embr had a great conference          
on fryday last                                                                  
     16 of ye Councill were for ye D. of Ys going & 17 for his staying &        
ye D. hath recd 25000 L in Lumbard street.                                      
     The P. of Orange & D. of Zell is expected here suddenly                    
     Its discoursd of ye D. of Richmonds being Admll & ye office to be          
executed by a depty of ye E: of Essex being trea[sure]r & of ye D: of Ms        
coming in to great places & of ye E of Sundrlands being to be made a            
Marquesse & yt ye Lds in ye towr have prepard a petion to ye Hous of Lds for a  
speddy tryall but all this no certainty                                         
     L. c. 997   [Handwriting changes here.]   London 8ber the 21st 1680        
+yesterday their Royall highnisses were accompanied by his Maiesty to           
Errife where they deyned after which the Duke and Dutchesse Embarqued           
and his Maiesty returned to Whitehall  fifteene barges waited upon the          
Duke to Errife in which were many persons of Quality some of which goes         
alonge wth him to Scotland                                                      
     yesterday morninge his Matie ordered some bores to search about and        
under the parlyamt house to see if all was salfe which they accordingly         
did and gave the king an account at night that all was well                     
     yesterday the Dukes of Monmouth and Bucks wth severall Lods and            
about 130 plyment men dined at the Sunn taverne behind the Exchange             
     This day the Parlymt mett and after the Ceremony had sworne                
severall of their Members the usher of the Black rod sumoned them to the        
Lords house whither the Kinge came about 10: a Clock and tould them he          
[had] much to say and therefore read his speech the heads of which              
follow xx  [These x's and those below appear in the text.]                      
     My Lords & Gentlemen                                                       
The reason of the severall late progations was because wee were treating        
wth Spaine which allyance is now prsented & Tho it had beene better if          
Don sooner yett better now then not at all it xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                   
     I omit further [to] tell you that Tangier is in great dangr for            
the secureing of which I have much strained my [about five letters              
illegible] and now recomend it to yo[u]r Consideration since wee are            
divided [?] of what Importance preserveinge that place will bee to              
England xxx                                                                     
     I have taken all due care of the ptestant Religion and you may make        
what further p[ro]secution you thinke soe you hinder not the succession         
of The Crowne in the right Lyne xx                                              
     As for the plott its high tyme it should be thorowly searched into         
and am very willinge That all psons Concerned in itt should bee brought to      
a speedy tryall beinge sensible of The great Danger my selfe & The Kingdome     
are in from ill  the only Thinge wee are to feare is the difference             
amongst our selves wee being very secure from all foreign Enemyes xx            
     Then the Lord Chancellour ordered them to returne and Choose a             
speaker and prsent him to his Matie at 3 a Clock to morrow xxx                  
     Accordingly they returned and Choose Mr Williams for their speaker         
and the rest of this day will be spent in sweareing of Members                  
+Thirsday mr Charles Bertye went away Envoy to Bavaria                          
+At a Comon Councell since the sessions it was ordered that another pson        
should in stead of sr G Geffry go alonge wth the said Lord Mayor and            
Aldermen to invite the Kinge &c to diner on the said Mayors day and that        
Sr Robert Claytons good managemt of his Mayoralty should be recorded to         
Posterity                                                                       
     L. c. 998  8ber the 22d 1680                                               
     The Comons Meettinge aboutt 3 a Clock at 4 prsented their speaker          
to his Matie at the Lords house where he begd his Maiesty to confirme           
[sic] honnr on some other pson hee being unfitt for so great a place            
wth which the Lord Chancellr acquainted the Kinge  hee returnd & said           
that his Matie was very well pleased wth their choice & confirmed him           
speaker                                                                         
          1ly:  Mr Speaker desired that his Matie would grant him first         
                freedome of speech                                              
          2ly:  free accesse to his Matie                                       
          3:    priviledge of goeinge & Comeinge for their selves & their       
                servants.                                                       
                all which was granted & then they returned and adjourned        
                till to morrow Morninge                                         
                          Saturday 23d                                          
              This day sevrall of the Lords (whoe were expelld The Lds          
            house for not taking the oaths &c) haveing taken them               
            since tooke their seates in the house of Lords                      
     All this day was spent in swearing of membrs & subscribing of ye           
Test & yey being almost all sworn On Monday next yey will fall upon ye          
buisnesse of ye nacon & some think ye Lds will be brought to tryall             
wthin this week                                                                 
     The young Gent yt had 1100 L Damages given agt him for lyeing wth          
the Country Gentmans wife this day movd for a new writ of Enquiry into          
ye Cause wch its thought will be granted him  [Its discoursd as if mr           
Lestrange intends to go to Scotld to ye D of Y.  [Bracket before "Its"          
appears in letter.]                                                             
     Mr Care author of ye advice from Rome was this day in ye Ks bench          
Cot Expecting to be find but no mocon being made for it its thought             
it will be forgiven him                                                         
          I am well & yours RN.                                                 
     The Lords have ordered the Lords of the white staves to waite on           
the Kinge wth an addresse desireing him to Issue out his pclamation for         
the security of all wittnesses that shall come in to make discoveries of        
the plott  the Ld Lovelace brought in a bill this day to ye H of Lds for        
speedy trying ye Lds & yey have this day also petiond ye plmt for speedy        
tryall                                                                          
     The 2 sheriffes last night invited ye K to diner On ye Ld Mayrs day        
but its thought he will not go                                                  
+Mrs Cellier this day stood on the pillory at Charinge crosse & last            
night shee wrote a letter to the sherriff to take care of her for shee          
heard there were loads of stone and Brickbatts laide thereaboutts to bee        
thrown at her.                                                                  
+The Lord Aston wth other papists entred their appearance this day at           
The Kings bench bar & are still out upon baile  This day alsoe Dangrfeild       
seized one Attwood a preist in westmrhall & brought him into Court &            
tould the Lord Cheife Justice Scroggs that Dr oates knew him to bee a           
preist & desired he might bee comitted which accordingly ordered mr             
Dangerfeild offering to sweare that hee heard him say that at [seal             
spoils about twelve letters] at the Duke of Newburghs residts                   
     L. c. 999     Munday the 25th Octbr 1680                                   
     The Lords sent downe a Message by the two lords Cheife Justices            
Scroggs and North to acquaint the house that they prsented an adresse           
to his Matie to Issue out a pclamacon for pardon and security to                
all whoe should come within two Months and discover further of the              
plott and his Matie returned answer that they might allow what tyme             
they pleased in the proclamacon for any to come in the consideracon             
of which Message is adjournd till to morrow                                     
     A Committee of Exepcons appointed to sit this afternoone and mr            
Trebs to be chairman all that come to have voices                               
+A bill to explain the late act for burying in woollen ordered a 2d            
readinge                                                                        
     This day finished the swearing all the Members in towne and at             
three a clock they adjourned till to morrow                                     
     A Person addressed himself to the Lords offering to bring another          
would swear hee saw three of the Lords in The Tower sett their hands            
to a paper for encouraging any that should assist in carrying on The            
plott                                                                           
     A bagg of papers latley found in the Ballast of a Shipp inward             
bound was deliverd to the Lords which much Manifests the plott                  
     Prance and 2 others swore before the Lords that they had seene             
Mr Lestrange at Masse severall times upon which Lestrange was                   
ordered to attend the court to morrow                                           
     An order was issued out by the house of Lords to take up the Lord          
of Castlemain and others concerned in the plott whoe had bene lately            
discharged and bailed                                                           
          Tuesday 26                                                            
   This day mr Dangrfeild gave the house an account of his Case and             
he was ordered to draw it up in writeinge                                       
   Sr Henri Capell made an excellent speech openinge the state of the           
Nation and was backed by Sr francis Winington and the Lord Russell              
upon wch                                                                        
+Resolved Nemine Contradicente that this house will suppresse popery            
and prevent a popish successor                                                  
  The house doe not agree wth the Lords message about giveing pardon            
to any whoe shall come in within two Months & discover because that             
then the Lords in the Tower whoe are the Capitall offenders may come in         
therefore desire all may bee excepted whoe are already in hould                 
+Sr Robert Peyton was ordered to wthdraw and bee suspended the howse            
+The messenger ordered by the Lords to summon Mr Lestrange to appeare           
today reported to their Lordshipps that hee was withdrawn  the Lords            
sent downe a Message to the Commons toutching regulatinge printinge the         
Consideration of which adjourned  a new witnesse examined to day about          
the plott  adjourned till to morrow                                             
     It is refered to mr Hamden sr Thomas Clergis sr John Maynard and           
Sr francis Russell or any of them to draw up a bill for regulatinge             
Exepcon  a Clause to bee inserted for the party agreaved to have his            
Accon                                                                           
+Ordered that a Comittee draw up an addresse to be prsented to his Matie        
from this house for pardon to any who shall in two Months make any              
satisfactory Discovery                                                          
     Severall Petitions about exepcons [?] read and referd                      
     The woollen bill Comited                                                   
     L. c. 1000    [Handwriting changes here.]    Wednesday 8ber 25 1680        
     A bill for Importing Irish [five letters illegible] read and placed        
upon the table                                                                  
+Then Mr Dangrfeild being caled in prsented his narative which hee              
was ordered to signe to every sheete wth his owne hand & then some              
Justices yt Westmr ordered to goe out and take his oath upon the                
informacon                                                                      
     Then the house fell into debate about petitioninge and resolved            
     That it is the Undoubted right of the subjectt to parlimts sittinge        
to adresse greiveances                                                          
     That any Pson whoe shall call any such psons Tumultuous designes           
the alteracon of the govermnt & brings in an arbitrary governmt                 
     That a Comtee bee apointed to examin the [about six letters                
illegible] of any Psons accused and all Psons comes to voices [sic]             
     Then a pecon was brought in by three persons agt the Recorder of           
London & a Comtee appointed to Examin the Matter agt him                        
     Sr Francis Withers a member of this house ordered to attend to             
Morrow.                                                                         
     Resolved that an addresse bee presented to his Matie that this             
house will Indeavor to prserve the Ptestant Religion at home & abroad           
& his Maties Pson and governmt                                                  
     Ordered that Mr Dugdale and Mr prance attend to Morrow to give             
in their informacon to ye house                                                 
                    [Handwriting changes here.]                                 
               Thursday                                                         
     This afternoon ye H. waited on his mate wth ye adrsse for a pclacon        
for pdon to discoverers                                                         
     The Ld. Ch. Just North acqted ye H yt ye Lds had sent ym Capt              
Bedlows Informacon wch being read appd to be ye Originall being signed          
by ye Capt & his Ldp after ye Ld Ch J was dismist                               
     Then sr Robt Con membr was calld to ye bar for having sd to sr             
John Knt membr for ye same place yt no Jury of 12 men woud believe him          
God damn him for wch having recd a severe reprimand on his knees he took        
his place agn & yn being accusd of having sd yre was no pop but a prsbyt        
plot he was ordrd to ye Tower & to be expelld ye H                              
     Then Sr Fra: Withers was calld to ye bar & accusd of having calld          
ye late petions tumultuous to wch he sd he knew it was ye undoubted             
right of ye subjt to petion but thought it not seasonable but ye farther        
adjd till to morrow                                                             
     L. c. 1001     [Handwriting changes here.]     Tuesday 8ber 29 1680        
   Ordered that an addresse be prsented to his Matie to morrow to desire        
him to prmote doctor Tongue to the first benefice that shall be vacant          
     Then the house fell upon the debate about Sr francis Withers and           
upon hearing fully Evidence against him and his defence                         
     Resolved that it is the opinion of this house that sr francis              
Withers of the late paper hee prsented to his Majesty in wch hee                
abhorrs the petition for the parlymts sittinge and Calls them Tumultuous        
hath betraied the Liberty of the subject                                        
     ordered that Sr Francis Withers bee expeld the house and rece[ive]         
his sentence on his knees which was accordingly don                             
     Mr Francisco de Feraro late servant to the Portugall Embassadr             
attend the house to Morrow and give in his Informacon                           
     ordered that sr Robert yeamans be taken into Custody of the sergt          
     leave given [?] to bring in a bill for wearing woollen                     
     Mr Speaker accquainted the house yt his Matie had in Answer to the         
Adress for palamon said he woud not onely pdon [?] the Plott but ye             
papists                                                                         
     Mr. Herbert reported the Address for prserving the prtestant               
Religion and the King &c                                                        
     The Cheifest wittnesses against sr Francis Withers [about ten letters      
illegible] who sd he tould sr Fra: in the Lobby that hee hoped to see him       
notwithstanding his Kthood & all the abhorors of petitions hangd to which       
Sr Francis made answer that the Kings proclamacon ought to be observed &        
if he met wth that his pecon [?] he woud bring them to their Chambr & mr        
Aron smith being calld in sd that hee heard sr francis say that                 
petitioninge was the pawn of sedition & [nine letters illegible] & lookd        
like 41 [?] & beleaved it was not the prciples of an honest man                 
               Saturday 8ber the 30  1680                                       
     The petition of Hauer Grest [?] read and refed to the Comtee of            
Elecons                                                                         
     Ordered the members of this house attend his Matie at 3 this               
afternoon wth their addresse                                                    
     A message from his Matie accquaintinge the house that he had taken         
care for doctor Toungue and have him into further consideration                 
     The petition of Ianton Inhabitants to bee read at the barr of this         
house friday three weekes                                                       
+Mocon for printinge the votes caried in the afirmative  Starky Collins         
and Harris named to bee the printers.                                           
+Resolved that this house will forthwth heed Execheatts [?] to a full           
Examen of the popish plott in order to bring offendrs to justice                
+Resolved Nemine Contradicente that a Comtee bee apointed to Inspectt in        
the Journall of the 2 last parlymts concerning the plot and report them to      
the house                                                                       
   Resolved that an addresse bee made to his Matie that all papers and          
letter wth the privy Councell relating to the plott [be?] brought to the        
Comtee                                                                          
     Resolved that this Comtee doe sitt de die in diem and begin at 3           
this afternoon                                                                  
+Mr Francisco accquainted the house that hee was pferd 50000 peeces of 8        
by the Portugall Embassadr deceased to kill oates and Bedlowe & 200 L           
to kill a Countrye Gentl whoe hee beleeves was Mr Arnold by Gyles whoe          
went then by the name of wych and that the Ptugall Embassadr and Ld             
Cheife Justice Scroggs had sear [?] all conferences                             
+Thwing [?] the preist that was condemned in yorke sheer was hanged last        
Saturday  [Letter is addressed:] Sr Robert Parker/at Arbury near/Coventry       
     L. c. 1002    [Handwriting changes here.]    London 9ber 1st 1680          
+Secretary Jenkins aqt the house that his Mate had answd That the papers        
concerning ye plot were Transmitted by the Counsell to the Comtee of            
Lords  ordered that all Comtes be revived                                       
+The petition of Sr wal Earnly for the divizes & sr Edw: Huntington read        
& reffered to the Comtee of Elections, ordered that the Journalls of the        
house be Inspected & reported by the Comtee                                     
+Sr George Downeing brought in a bill for weareing of wooling wch was           
ordered a second Reading                                                        
+Mr Trenchard reports from the Comttee appointed to inqr into the               
abhorrors of petitioning, that the Lords aston sr Robt Maleverer sr             
Bryant Stapleton mr Turner & mr Tayler discoraged petitioning for a             
parlimt but the Comtee thought not fitt to proceed upon them being              
members wthout Instructions from the house                                      
+ordered that the Comtee bring information agt the Ld paston & all other        
Members who abhord petitioning                                                  
+Mr Speaker aqte the house that his Matie returned them thanks for there        
Address for prsarving himselfe & the prtestant religion & sd that not one       
[?] part should not beware ym [?] to prserve the ptestant religion both         
att home & abroade                                                              
+ordered that mr Treby report wt he reported to the last plmt about the         
plot                                                                            
+Seynior ffrancisco being called in gave in writeing wt he delivered on         
Satturday att the bar.                                                          
+upon Information given yt one mr Arnege a linin drap did yesterday att         
a Coffe house in henrietta Street, vilify Seynior ffrancisco ordered            
that he be taken into Custody                                                   
+Mr Dugdale gave in his Information in writing & acqt the H that the            
deputy of staffordsheere had sent the Lord Aston word he was coming to          
search that all things might be laid out of the way & that when he came         
hee wou'd not search but take my lords word, upon wch his Ldshpp prsented       
him with [a] paire of pistoles wch were his fathers                             
+ordered that this narrative be sealed up & delivered to ye prin [?] &          
that he bring in the remaineing pt on thurseday                                 
+Mr Pranse gave in his Evidence agt the Ld Bellasis Tho: Bedingfield mr         
Moore &c: for haveing comisions to carry on the Catholick cause & other         
things relating to sr Ed. Godfreys Murther                                      
+Sr francis winington made his report from ye Comtee appointed to search        
Journalls wch was ordered to be Entred into their Journalls & that the          
same Comte search the Lds Journalls.                                            
               Tuesday 2d 9ber 1680                                             
+The bill for phibiting Irish Cattle butter cheese & mutton ordered the         
second reading                                                                  
     ordered that Sr John knight hath Leave to go into the Country for          
his health                                                                      
+The Seriant att armes Informes the house that he hath taken mr Arnege          
into custody & was at the doore but seynior francisco not being there           
they were both ordered to appeare to morrow                                     
+Resolved that an humble addresse be mad to his Mate by the members of          
the privey counsell that his Majte will take mr Dugdale Dangerfield             
Pranse & francisco into his ptection & allow them somwht & dangerfield          
his pdon                                                                        
+sr ffrancis winington made his report from the Comte appointed to              
Inspect the Lords Journall  thus there may be a whole & pfect accompt           
thereof before the house                                                        
+Mr Treby made his report & read severall lettrs from francis [?]               
[B?]roome &c upon wch Resolved that the duke of yorke being a papist &          
the hopes of comeing such to the towne has given the greatest countenance       
& Incoragmt to popery and all the popish plots & Contrivances--                 
+That in the defence of the Kings pson & ptestant religio[n] This house         
will stand to his Mate wth there lives & fortunes & That in Case his            
Mate should come by any violent death this house will sevearely Revenge         
i[t] on the papists  a great debate following                                   
     Ordered that  a bill be brought in to disable the duke of york to          
Inheritt the Imperiall Crowne of these realmes                                  
     That the Comtee be appointed to bring itt in & that they sitt this         
after noone in the Speakers Chamb[er]  adiourned &c                             
     L. c. 1003     London Die Mercury 3d 9ber 1680                             
               A message from ye Lords By 2 of the Judges wth a bill for        
               bettr regulateing the tryall of the peeres                       
+A Petition of one Lyonell Andrson a priest and condemned for being such        
only prayes that he might be brought to the barr to aqt the house with          
somwt he hath to say                                                            
          ordered that mr Harbord mr Lucy mr Hamden & sr Robt Claighton         
do Imediatly repaire to newgate & take his Examinat                             
          The bill of the Lords was read pposeing that 51 Lords shal be         
sommoned of wch 35 shall come [?] & of wch the Peere tryed may Except           
agt 12 of them & this when no plimt is actually sitting                         
     ordered that the bill have a second reading on munday next  ordered        
that the Comtee Appointed to bring in a bill for regulating Ellections          
bring itt in too morrow                                                         
        Mr Arnege & francisco fferrea were Called in  Arnege owned the          
words said by him, but said that it was in rogery [?] beleiveing that           
this house had no rule for his Evidence                                         
     Ordered that mr Arnege be kept in the serjants hand dureing the            
pleasure of this house                                                          
     Ordered that Inspections into ye Impeachmts be referred to the             
Comte appointed to search the lords Journall                                    
     Ordered that the papers brought in by the Lord chiefe Justice north        
be sealed up & delivered to the Speaker                                         
     Ordered that leave be given to bring in a bill for the writeing [?]        
of all ptestant subiects                                                        
      ordered that Sr Tho: Whitegraite mr Samp Birch & ffrancis Ems be          
taken into Custody to answeare the Charges laid agt them by mr Dugdale          
      The Ireish bill read & Commited                                           
+ordered that sr Rich Temple have leave to bring in a bill for the              
Exportation of Leather                                                          
                   [Handwriting changes here.]                                  
               Die Jovis Novembr 4th 1680                                       
     A Bill for Exporting of Leather read ye first time                         
     mr Secr [?] Reports yt he had acquainted his Mate wth ye Address of        
this house & his Mate was pleased to say he would give order to ye              
Attorney Genll to draw up a Genll Pardon for Mr Dangerfeild & yt he             
would give him an Allowance for some time  That mr dugdale had an Allowance     
already  That mr Prance should have an Allowance & yt Seir: ffrancisco          
fforrea had an allowance by ye request of ye House of Lds                       
     That leave be given to bring in a Bill to phibit the bringing in           
of Scotch Cattle att Certaine times                                             
     The Woollen manufactor Bill read a 2d time & Pmitted That ye Comee         
have Instruccons to ad a Clause yt all Catches shall be loyned wth cloth        
     Mr Herboard Reports from ye Comee appointed to Examine Anderson in         
Newgate that ye said Anderson did by many Implicacons & deny ye knowledge       
of any Plott but said if there was a Plott itt was Contrived by ye              
Jesuitts & did Extinguish himselfe from them & Declared yt he durst not         
goe into ffrance Spaine or Itally for he is Certaine if he did he should        
be putt into ye Inquisicon for defending ye Oath of allegiance both at          
home & abroad being asked if ye plott had taken Effect whether ye               
Inquesicon would have been Established here wch he possitively Affirmed         
& declared some thing of a pson that came from Roome whom ye Comee              
thought not fitt to name                                                        
+Ord: That ye same Comee doe Examine ye pson & ye priest againe                 
+A Bill to disable ye D: of yorke to Inherrite the Imperiall Crowne             
of these Realmes &c read & ordd a 2d reading on Satterday next                  
+That A Comee be appointed to Inspect ye Lawes for maintenance of the           
Poore to bring in a Bill or Bills for Regulateing them & to prvent              
Debauchery Adjourned &c                                                         
     L. c. 1004     [Handwriting changes here.]     Lond 9ber 6: 80             
     The Recordr was yesterday before ye Comte & desird he might have           
a copy of ye petion agt him wch was granted & on Tuesday next ye Comte          
sits & he is yn to make his descovery                                           
+Ordered That a Comte be appointed to Inspect ye narrative of ye 5th of         
november & do take care that it be read in the Churches once a yeare &          
to find out the occasion why it hath been neglected these 20 yeares             
+That it is the oppinion of this house that the laws made in ye reigne          
of Queen Eliz & king James agt Papist recusants ought not to be Extended        
to ptestant dissenters                                                          
+Ordered That a Comte be appointed to bring in a bill to repeale pt or          
all of a statute now read made in ye 36th of Queen Eliz                         
      A bill for Incourageing the wooling Manufacture by Exporting of           
Cloth &c To Turkey read & ordered a second reading                              
      Mr Jenison was Called in & ordered to put his narrative in                
writeing & psent it to ye house on munday next                                  
      A Bill for disableing James Duke of yorke from Inheriting the             
Imperiall Crowne of this realme & Ireland & all places thereto belonging        
read a second time & commited to the Comte of the whole hous & as an            
Instruction that the Crowne may devolve to the next Protestant heire            
Ordered That the whole house resolve into a Comte of the whole hous on          
munday next by 10 of the clock --adjourned &c                                   
     L. c. 1005     [Handwriting changes here.]     Munday 9ber 8th 1680        
     A Petition read agt passing ye bill for weareing of wooling; till          
ye pet[itione]r be heard referred to ye Comte of Trade who may send for         
papers & records                                                                
     The petition of ye freeholdrs of Montgomery sheer Read & reiected          
for comeing to late ye yeas for reiecting it being 167 Noes 142                 
     Sr John Trevr reported to ye House ye Ireish bill wth impedmts [?]         
wch is to Commence from Candlemas day next to wch ye house agreed               
     Complt being made by a membr of a breach of Privacy agt him it was         
reffered to ye Comtee                                                           
     The house being informed yt one Pagit a Minestr Comeing into a Coffe       
house & there takeing up the voates of this house he writ over this             
vote that ye Duke of york being a Papist &c  this is a lye, & also over         
the order of the house yt the bill be brought in to disable ye Duke of          
york &c:  they voted al like roges wch being pared [?] by 2 wittnesses          
ordered yt he be taken into Custodye                                            
     A message from ye Lds by ye Ld Cheife Barron & barron Gregory              
to desire a Conference in ye painted Chamber about papers Toutching the         
Ireish plot to wch ye house Imediatly went [?] whence being returned            
ordered yt the Ireish papers be taken into Consideration to morrow &            
the Evidence to attend, Upon reading sr Robt Cons Petition ordered that         
he be discharged                                                                
     The house resolved into a grand Comte  ye Duke of yorks bill was           
read & a pviso added to ye bill Nem. Contrad. yt no other pson be               
disenherited from ye Crowne but James Duke of yorke & that dureing the          
life of the Duke, The Justices do give this act in Charge at ye assizes         
& sessions that it be read & the pson or vicar, in all Churches Chapples        
& Cathedrals on every Easter day & ye 25th of December Imediately after         
divine service in ye forenoone  the bil ordered to be Ingrosed                  
               Tuesday: 9ber 9th 80:                                            
+A petion from Merchts & others to have ye reasones heard agt ye bill           
ffor wearing wolling carry[d?] in ye affirmat                                   
     Mov'd: to have Cane Chairs phi[bi]te'd & put in this bill carry'd:         
in ye Negative;                                                                 
+A petion from other silke men as prejudicial to poore worke men referd         
to ye Comte of trade who are to give a spedy acct therof;                       
+Mr: Sergt a message from his Matye desiering to make hast wth ye bill          
for suprssing popy & ye plot & not to hindr ye succession of ye line            
+Mr Hamden repts yt ye Journalls were inspected  orderd yt yey be               
corrected;                                                                      
+Sr Ed: Deering compting of a breach of privledge in a late pamphlet            
ordrd yt ye printer be sent for in to Custody;                                  
+Mr Turberville was calld in & sd: sevll things relating to ye plot             
ordrd yt he be sworn by sume Justices & delivd his Narrative in writing--       
+Mr Jennison dd in his Narrative & was sworn                                    
+Mr Dangerfield desiring his prdon might be Inlarged, ordrd, that his           
Mate be desir'd to give a genll prdon to Mr Dangerfield & Turberville           
ordrd That all Informacons abt ye plot be entred into ye Journalls &            
printed                                                                         
+A Comte apted to draw up a bill to prserve ye Evidence of Mr Bedloe &          
others abt ye plot & to make yr report on Thirsday & yt mr Freby makes          
his rept: at ye same time;                                                      
+Ordrd That ye Comte do Inspect ye Journalls & make ye rept on Thirsday         
& yt Mr. Treby makes his rept at [ye] same time                                 
   Informacon being given yt one Thompson sd yere was a great talke             
about a pop plot but yre was nothing in it but yt it was a prsbyter             
plot as may be seen by ye carry [?] in one of ye late peticons wherby           
yey woud bring this K: to ye Blook as yey did his father;                       
     Ordrd that Thompson be taken into Custody;                                 
     L. c. 1006     [Handwriting changes here.]   Wensday 10th 9ber 1680        
     Mr Speaker desired to be prsent at a Tryall he is concerned in at          
ye Common pleas                                                                 
+The bill for regulateing Ellections ordered a 2d reading                       
     The Ingrossed Ireish bill read & pviso with blankes but ye pvisoe          
denyed a 2d reading.  Another pvisoe read that no Ireish Cattle                 
Imported before ye 5th of february next shall be forfeited wch was read         
ye 3d time  Thus yt such cattle wch are or shall be in England before ye        
2d of february shall not be forfieted                                           
     ordered yt ye pvisoe be Ingrossed & annexed to ye bill  The Ld             
chiefe barron & barron Gregory brought in a bill from ye lords house            
to free London & ye Court of Popish Inhabitants                                 
     A bill read to Confirme the Ireish additionall Act agt Ireish Cattle       
& to receive it, ye Debate of it adiourned                                      
     ordered that sr John Trevr carry up ye Ireish bill with ye Tallie          
[?] to ye lords house                                                           
     A message sent yesterday from his Mate was read againe in ye house         
     Ordered that an addresse be prsented his Mate to aqt him what this         
house is doing about Pop[about five letters blotted] Plot & that they           
will prceed to ye tryall of ye Lords [another five letters blotted]             
begin[ning] wth ye Ld Stafford                                                  
     ordered That sr William Joanes be added to ye Comte to Exa: ye plot        
& 3 to be a Quorum                                                              
     Mr Secretary reportes to ye house his mates answeare to thire              
address that he will give mr dangerfield a pdon for all Crimes & Mr             
Turberville his pdon also & consider of some allowance for him                  
     This after noone ye spannish Embasadr made a Splended Entry Thro:          
ye Citty to white hall                                                          
     Sr George Gefferyes hath been sevell times before ye Comte of              
Grievances & hath made a weak defence but upon heareing ye whole matter         
ye Comte have voted him a betrayr of ye liberty of ye people                    
                London ye 11th 9ber 1680                                        
     The petition of mr Harnage read & his discharge ordered paying his         
fee  Moved for new reading ye bill for phibiting Scotch Cattle [about           
fifteen letters illegible]                                                      
     Another bill for regulating Elections ordered a 2d reading on              
munday next                                                                     
     Mr Treby reported yt mr onslow & Dorrington are Duely Ellected for         
haslemere in surry to wch ye house agreed, he farther reported ye               
misdimr of ye bayliffe, ordered yt ye bayliffe be taken into Custody, &         
yt ye Clarke of ye Court Take of ye Double returne Mr Turbervill was            
called in & mended a mistake of time in his Inform  ordered yt the Evidence     
have leave to name thire printers to print thire Informations                   
     Mr Jennison desireing to have his pdon, ordered yt his mate be             
desired to grant it  Mr ffedrington the Ireish Evidence desired to              
have a Coppy out of ye Evidence mr Fitzgerald gave in writeing                  
     The Comte appointed to draw up ye address of thanks for his matyes         
Message ordered to report                                                       
+Ordered yt secretary Jenkens aqt his mate therewith [and?] when ye             
house shall attend him with it                                                  
     The Ingrosed bill to disable ye Duke of yorke &c was read  Ordered         
yt It be Carryed by my Ld Russell up to ye house of Lds accompanied wth         
ye whole house                                                                  
     All Comte Adiourned Till satturday                                         
     L. c. 1007     Satturday ye 13th 9ber 1680                                 
     The petition of Richd Whitehead Esqr read & reffered to ye Comte of        
Ellections                                                                      
+Janway being Called in said that simons & Lee Bookselrs were concerned         
with him in ye pamphelete in which Sr Ed: Deering is refflected of & yt         
Capt yaranton is ye Author, ordered yt they all attend on munday with           
theire wittnesses                                                               
     Secretary Jenkens reportes his Mates Message, yt he will be attended       
wth ye address at 3 this after noone, & he will give a genll pdon to mr         
Jennison & hath ordered a 100 L for defraying ye Charge of sending for          
wittnesses & all ye papers of Evidences are transmited to ye Comte of Lords     
& yt his mate will grant his pdon to all ye Ireish wittnesses                   
     A Comte appointed for repaireing ye streets about London & westmester      
& opening of passages regulating hackney Coaches                                
     Ordered yt ye sherriffe of Somerset bring in mr Dare, now in               
Custody, to give his Evidence in ye Case of Taunton wch is to be heard          
at ye bar of this house on fryday 7 night                                       
     Sr Robt yeomens being Called in Confest his affaire in pt, & on his        
knees at ye barr received ye Censure of ye house, ordered yt he be              
discharged paying his fees                                                      
     Mr Norris a Scotchman was Called in to give his Evidence about ye          
plot & his papers read & a Comte for Examination of wittnesses appointed        
to Enqr into ye popish plot & mr Norrises papers reffered to thire              
Consideration                                                                   
     The Lords sent downe ye bill for phibiting Ireish Cattle wthout any        
alteration                                                                      
     ordered yt ye Journalls of this house be read on Munday next               
     mr Trenchard reportes from ye Comte yt sr G: Gefferyes for Traduceing      
& hindering Petitioning is guilty of betrayeing ye Liberty of ye Subiects       
of England; the question being put whither ye house would agree wth ye          
Comte it was Carried in ye firmative Nem Contrad                                
+Resolved yt an address be prsented to his matie to put sr G: Gefferyes         
out of all publique Implymts & a Comte appointed to draw it up                  
     L. c. 1008     London 9ber 16th 1680                                       
+yesterday ye Lds satt till towards 10 at night  in ye morn there was a         
hot debate whether ye E of Peterborough should be sent to ye Tower for          
being Concerned in ye prsbyt plot but ye Comons bring up ye bill agt ye         
Duke of yorke  ye Debate abt ye E of Peterborough was adjd & they fell          
upon ye bill agt ye D of y ye king Dineing & Supping in ye house  after         
a Long Debate ye bill was Invived [?] out & ye Lds adjd till morning            
               His mates answeare to ye Cittyes address                         
     My Lord I am very sensible of ye affection of ye Citty of London but       
this way of petitioning shall not do with me, beyond any thing yt is            
Equitable I shall alwayes Labour to maineteyne ye ptestant religion as          
it is Established by Law  I am sattisfied my pson is in danger & am in          
as little Ease as you Can be till popery be beaten downe  my Ld I am an         
English man & above you all Concerned to maineteyne peace & Liberty             
but let ye Comon Counsell medle wth those things yt lye before them &           
this seemes rather to advise then petition, & my Ld mayor do not suffer         
your selfe to [be?] Inflamed by some men  it shall not be my fault if           
this plimt doth not make this a happy sessions & do those things wch may        
Conduce to ye kingdoms good, but my Ld I repeate it againe  have a care         
of those men yt would Inflame things & this is all ye advice I give you         
for prsent                                                                      
                Martis 9ber 16th 1680                                           
Secr Jenkens reportes yt a paper yt was left att Dr oates Chamber wch           
did Import yt 2 Ladies held a Correspondance wth Capt Tom who had 5000          
men to furnish him with wch papers was shewed to his mate who ordered mr        
Secr to bring it to this house                                                  
     The bayliffe of westmester & Clark of ye Crown being Called amended        
westmester returne                                                              
     L. c. 1009     London 9ber 18th 1680                                       
     Yesterday ye Comons were Long in Debate abt the Ld Hallifax & made         
sevll observations on a speech he made in ye hous of Lords agt passing ye       
bill agt ye D of y & att Last ordered an address to be made to his mate         
to remove his Ldship from all publique places and Imployments                   
     Last night being Q Elliz Birth day night ye Pope was Burnt, with 9         
pageants of monkes fryers Cardinalls Jesuites & Nuns & on one mr Lestrange      
playing on a fiddle  there were Extr[ordinary] fire workes & among ye           
rest a Jesuite made of fire workes wch takeing fire to soone had like to        
have fired ye Temple Leads but by care was prvented.  Thousands of              
people Crowded in ye street & all Cryed out no popery no D of y.                
               Thirseday 9ber 18th 1680                                         
     The rest of the Journalls of this house was read as also the Lords         
Journalls.                                                                      
     ordrd yt a message be sent to ye Lds for all paps before them              
relateing to ye plot                                                            
     The Ld Russell Declared he would stand for bedfordsh altho Chose: a        
member for a nother place                                                       
     ordered yt a new writ be Issued out for A member in hamsh                  
     Complt being made agt mr Burnet [?] of Stafford Sheere for breach          
of Priviledge ordered yt he be sent for Into Custody                            
     Mr Lewis a Live guard man was Called in who gave a large accompt of        
his being treated with by ye Ld Arundell to kill ye king &c: & sevll            
other things wch afterward he Delivrd in writeing & then was sworne in          
ye speakers Chamber                                                             
     ordered yt application be made to his mate for granting a genll            
pdon to mr Lewis & the like to the other Evidence & that it may Extend          
to this very time                                                               
     Mr Lewis had leave given him to print his narrative and to have ye         
benefit thereof                                                                 
+ordered yt application be made to his mate to take mr Lewis into his           
Care & to grant him some allowance                                              
     Mr Treby reportes yt ye Lds would deliver the papers before them to        
this house                                                                      
     Mr Offley being Called in gave Information of a health Dranke at ye        
Diville Taverne by a pson of quallity to the Confusion of those that            
voted for the Excludeing ye D: of Y:                                            
     ordered yt Greenaway the Drawer be sent for who aquainted mr               
Offley wth it                                                                   
     upon Information given agt one mr Crouch a scrivenr ordered yt his         
study be searched for papers by a Comte appointed for that purpose              
          yesterday ye house of Comons upon Consideration of his mates          
message abt Tangr ordered an addresse to be prsented to his mate to             
reprsent ye State of ye nation                                                  
     L. c. 1010     London Novembr 20th 1680                                    
+Yesterday ye E of Salisbury moved in ye house of Lds for progueing ye          
plimt for 2 or 3 dayes itt being ye only way to bring abt ye bill agt           
ye D. of Y: againe but not being seconded itt fell                              
     Lers from Tangier say yt mr Sheers surveyr of ye Mole is                   
Dangerously wounded by ye breaking of a Canon, wch was fired, and advise        
yt Tangier is in a good Condition                                               
     Mrs Celliers was on Tuesday arraigned for high Treason att ye kings        
bench bar att Westmr & will be tryed this day 7 night for haveing offred        
a man 1500 L to kill ye K & fire ye navey                                       
     Mr Brett of Staffordsh is ordered to be taken into Custody for             
saying they were all Rogues yt voted agt ye D of Y. & he hoped before           
Xmas to have a Commission from ye D: of Y: to pull 'em out by ye Ears           
     Itt was ye Ld Hunsdon who Dranke ye Confues[ion] to those yt voted         
agt ye D: of Y: att ye Devill Taverne.                                          
               Satturday 9ber 20th 1680                                         
     The bill for phibiting scotch Cattle upon the Question whither it          
should be now read yeas 104 noes 103  ordered yt Itt be Commited                
     Ordered that an addresse be made to his ma[tie] pdoning all                
wittnesses to the last time of thire Discovery                                  
     Complt being made agt one Ives [?] & from som other for breach of          
Priviledge, ordered that they be sent for Into Custody                          
     mr Trenchard reportes from ye Comte of abhorrors that they have            
found sevll guilty of Traduceing petitioning & to wch the house agreed          
     Mr Secretary reportes from his mate that he will pdon the wittnesses       
of all Crimes Exprssed in thire adresse & that he will take into                
Consideration to give mr Smith some Church prfermt & that the Treasurers        
shall supply the Ireish wittnesses wth mony                                     
+Mr Treby reportes that some popeish rarityes are brought to ye Comte           
+Articles are Drawne up agt Mr Seymr and he hath taken till thursday to         
answeare them                                                                   
+Coll Birch reportes from ye Comte that it is thire oppinion yt mr              
Elmes ought to be Discharged to wch the house agreed, & also they had           
Exa: [?] Sr Tho: Whitgraves & mr Birch who denyed that ever they said           
yt mr Dugdale was a perjurrd Rogue or any other of those things wch             
were proved agt them but alwayes took mr Dugdale to be a very honest            
man att wch time mr Dugdale Declared that he had no pticular Animosity          
agt them for what they had said agt him but for what ye Comte thought           
it did concerne ye publique he left it to thire Consideration                   
     L. c. 1011     London Novembr 23d 1680                                     
     Yesterday was an Extr. Councell Called to Debate ye Businesse abt          
Divorceing ye king from ye queen Itt haveing been Debated in the house          
of Lds last week but nothing was don in it yesterday                            
               Tuesday 9ber 23d 1680                                            
     Serjants holts petition for his Discharge being Taken into Custody         
for Traduceing petitioning read att ye bar of ye house & ordrd he be            
discharged paying his fees                                                      
     A bill to Continue ye Act agt Tobacco planting in England & to Export      
Beere Ale Mum &c: made in 22d & 23d of Carolo secundi ordered a 2d reading      
     Mr Secretary reportes that his mate made no answr to thire addresse        
for remitting Ben: Harrises fine, ordered yt another addresse be made           
for remiting Ben: Harrises fine and ye Comte appointed to draw it up to         
sitt at 3 this after noone                                                      
     A bill to repeale an act of ye 35th of Q Eliz about abjuration             
ordered a 2d reading                                                            
     The addresse for a fast reported [seal spoils about seven letters]         
ffrancis Russell Carryed it up to ye Lds for [their?] Concurrences              
     A petition of Capt Bedlows widdow read &c  his mate ordered to be          
addressed for maintenance for her                                               
     Mr Ware Clarke of ye peace for wells aqted ye house at ye bar who          
signed ye papers agt petitioning                                                
     Mr Attorny Genll desired to attend to morrow to give an accompt of         
ye proclaimeation agt petitioning                                               
     Mr Gerard being Called in said that he was one of the Grand Jury           
att westmr in Trinity Terme & two more of the same Jury said that before        
they had finished thire prsentmts they were discharged                          
     Sr ffrancis Russell reportes the Lords Concurrence to ye addresse          
for a fast                                                                      
     Resolved that to discharge grand Juryes before they have finished          
prsentmts is Illegall Arbitrary & tends to the subvertion of fundamentaltal     
Laws & is a violation to thire oath                                             
+A Comte appointed to Consider who are Criminalls                               
+some members orderd to attend the Treasurers for mony for ye Ireish            
Evidences  all Comtes revived                                                   
     L. c. 1012     Thiresday November 25th 1680                                
     Mr Treby reportes from ye Comte for prpareing Evidences for the Tryalls    
that they desire a Conference wth the Lds to adjust ye prliminaryes             
     A message sent to ye Lds to have a Comte of both houses for that           
purpose                                                                         
     A petition of Norfolke Inhabitants about ye abuse of the under             
Sherriffe wch is refferred to a Comte and to Consider of abuses off other       
undr Sherriffs.  also ordrd that mr Verdon the Sherriffe of Norfolke be         
taken Into Custody                                                              
     Mr Speaker aquaintes the house yt his mate will send an answr to           
thire addresse by a messenger of his owne                                       
     A petition of the grand Jury men of Deavon read & laid asside till         
a full hous a nother day                                                        
     The petition of mr Staples read & he being Called to the barr was          
discha[rged] paying his fees                                                    
     A message from ye Ld by Sr Timothy Baldwin & sr John Cowill for both       
houses to attend his mate in ye Banquetting house at 3 this after noone         
wth thire addresse about ye fast                                                
      mr Seymr gave in his answr to the Articles & made a long speech           
in his defence aquting ye house that he might plead the Act for Genn            
pdon to sevll things Charged agt him yett would not Insist upon it but          
Justice himselfe, & being ordered to wthdraw sr Gilberd Gerard & sevll          
members said they would prove the Charge agt him, After a long Debate           
the Question being put whither the farther Debate should be adjourned           
till to morrow Itt was Carryed in ye firmative                                  
     L. c. 1013     London 9ber 27th 1680                                       
     On Thirseday last ye Court of Aldermen sitting Summond sr George           
Gefferyes to resigne his recordership but he sending them word that he          
was Concerned in a great Cause for the King & Could not Come so they            
adjurned till next day in the after noone & ord a full [?] Court                
     mr Herbert sd on Thursday in ye house of Comons after mr Seymr had         
Ended his speech that there was but one Expedient, to save the nation &         
he hoped to see the Ld Staffords head off Shortly & then he would tell          
Itt them                                                                        
     The Ld Mayr & Sherriffes waiteing yesterday on his mate ye king            
told them they should nott pceed to Ellect a new Recorder Till he had           
noated one                                                                      
     The Citty of Norwich haveing Turned out mr Bacon Recordr of that           
Citty on Thursday a mandamus Came to the kings bench to reinstate him           
in ye said office                                                               
          Satturday 9ber 27th 1680                                              
     A bill to regulate marches of Wales ordrd a 2d Reading                     
     Mr Treby reportes yt mr Hall is duly Ellected for wells to wch ye          
H agreed & ye Clarks of ye Crowne ordrd to amend ye returne, mr Treby           
also reportes yt mr Bernard Jervas had much Illusterated & Corroberated         
the Evidence of ye plot                                                         
     ordrd yt an address be made to his mate for his pdon  Coll Birch           
reportes from ye Comte that sampson Birch an appothecary is guilty of           
the Information given in agt him, (vizt) that there was no plot but a           
prsbiter plot, to wch ye house agreed                                           
     A petition for Takeing away Cane Chaires read & ye question being          
put whither it should be refferd to ye Comte for wooling manufacture            
Noes 151 yeas 116                                                               
     ordrd that sevll membrs more be added to ye Comte for Regulateing          
Ellections                                                                      
     Sr Timothy Baldwin & sr Samll Parke brought a message from ye Lds          
That they had appointed a Comte of 5 Lds Shasbury Salisbury Alsbury             
Howard & Grey to meet at three this after noone in the Court of wards to        
adjust matters for ye Tryall of ye Ld stafford & a Comte was appointed          
to meet them                                                                    
+Mr Hamden reports ye addresse to his mate reprsenting ye state of ye           
kingdom in answr to ye kings message abt Tangier  upon ye question              
whither ye address should be recomitted Caryed in ye negative  upon ye          
question whither it should be read pagrame by pagrame Carryed in ye             
Negative  ordrd yt the membrs of ye privey Councell know when his               
matie will be attended on wth ye said addresse                                  
     L. c. 1014     London 9ber 30th 1680                                       
     mr Xtian was yesterday find 500 marke & to stand in the pillory for        
subornation agt ye D of Buck                                                    
     Dr Oates hath remitted mr Lewis fine of 1000 L & referd it to sr           
Tho Player to award wt mr Lewis shall pay him for Costs                         
     Madam Celliers Tryall is put of till next Terme                            
     The house being mett went in a Comte to ye Court where ye Ld Stafford      
being brought up pclaimation was made & then the Ld Chancellr Told ye Ld        
Stafford that he was accused of ye highest Treason to wch ye Ld Stafford        
pleaded not Guilty                                                              
+Then Sr John Minard sr ffrancis Winington & mr Treby successively              
opened ye plot in Genll & then pticularly to ye Lord Stafford (vizt) That       
his Ldship was present att a Consult att Tinall [?] where he offred a pson      
500 L to kill ye king, Told him he was bound in Conscience to do it, itt        
being ye only way to settle ye romish religion in England & that he             
should not be only paid but Canonized, That in July 78 his Ldship sent          
sevll Lrs to ye Jesuites by ye name of Ld Howard; not, Stafford & then          
he was made paymr of the Armey & That then phennick Told his Ldship that        
the king must be taken away that then his Ldship Told sevll Gent that           
assistance was Expected from france                                             
     Then his Ldship Desired to see ye wittnesses agt him face to face,         
Then the Ld high Steward ordrd ye wittnesses to be Called in to pare [?]        
ye plot in genll  Then mr Smith was Called in who Told ye Court yt ye           
priests had often told him that the popeish religion would Come in &            
that the plot was Strong &c:  That Cardinall Barberine Told him they had        
Converted ye D of yorke & sevll of the nobility were thire friends              
pticularly Danby                                                                
   That some of ye Lrs abt ye plot were found in ye Ld Staffords Custody,       
That some Priests said yt ye king was a good man but must be taken              
off because he stood in ye way  The Lord high Steward asked mr Smith            
whither he was a ptestant, who answrd yes but was a papist in 71  Then          
Dugdale Informed ye Court that he had been aquainted wth sevll Gent who         
had a designe to Kill ye king & had had gathered mony & armes agt he            
should be killed & he had Lrs by him to that purpose  The Ld Stafford           
asked wt summes were given, Dugdale said great sumes                            
     Then Pranse aquainted the Court that he had heard Singleton a              
priest say The popish religion must be Established here & he would as           
soone kill ye king as Eate his Diner, Then Dr oates said, that when             
Coleman was refused the Dissolution of ye Long plimt They were more             
firce to destroy ye king then Ever                                              
     Mr Dinis said he knew Dr Oates in Spaine & borrowed 4 peeces of 8          
of him there & Carryed a Lre for him to an Arch bishop that he said             
Dinis is a Dominican fryer & that Plunkett of Ireland is Deep in ye plot        
Then ye Court adjd till 10 to morrow, & ye Comons returned & adjd also          
      [Some figures appear in another hand on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1015     The Proceedings of ye Lds Decembr 1st 1680                  
     After pclaimation sr Wm Joanes Desired ye Ld Stafford might not be         
prompted wch was ordrd                                                          
   Then mr Treby farther opened ye plot & said yt ye Ld Stafford was            
Designed to kill ye king & raise an Armey &c: all wch mr Dugdale had            
sworn  then ye Ld Stafford Desired to see ye wittnesses face to face, &         
then ye Ld high Steward bid ye wittnesses goe on and first Dugdale accused      
ye Ld Stafford for Endeavring to the subversion of ye govermt killing           
ye K & many other Treasonable Designes most of wch are published in his         
Narratives                                                                      
     Then ye Ld Stafford Desired pen Inke & paper & had one under him           
that took notes.  Then ye Ld Stafford asked Dugdale how Long he knew of         
the plot  Dugdale answrd 15 yeares in Genll for bringing in ye popish           
religion, Then his Ldship Desired that Dugdale might name a pticular            
day when he offerd him 500 L to kill ye king the Latter End of August &         
beginning of September being a great Lattitude of time  Dugdale answrd          
he Could not remember Every day, but one pticularly was ye 20th or 21st         
of September 78.  Ld Stafford asked what time of ye Day  Dugdale answrd         
in ye morneing for his Ldship was Dressing, Then ye Ld Stafford said he         
would say no more to Dugdale till he had made his Defence                       
     Then Dr Oates was sworne againe and said he saw sevll Letters from         
ye Ld Stafford beyond sea abt ye plot & killing ye king & in 78 saw his         
Commision to be paymr of ye Armey, & said sevll things more wch alread[y]       
are published in his narrative                                                  
     Then Turbervill was sworne & Informed ye Court that ye Ld Stafford         
had offerd him mony to kill ye king & Called him a Coward for Refuesing         
to do itt but obleiged him to secrecy wch offer was made att Paris              
Then sr Wm Joanes said they would Call no more Wittnesses till his              
Ldship gave occasion by his reply, Then ye Ld Stafford said I owne ye           
house of Comons have Impeached me a heavey Loade f[or] my aged body &           
weake mind  Itt so afflicts me--That I know not what to do & then speake        
soe Low not to be heard, but att Last said that in ye prsence of Almighty       
God, Their Ldships & these Worthy Gent I hate ye Principles of king             
killing  I desire to Confrunt ye Wittnesses viva voce with what they            
have sworne, Then sr Wm Joanes said this was only to put of ye Tryall           
his Ldship not haveing Desired it in 3 plimts before                            
   Then Sr ffrancis Winington said he never knew a Coppy of an                  
Information Granted to any Prisoner Eaven at ye Kings Bench  neither            
was Itt Debitum Justicie                                                        
     Then ye Ld Stafford Desired ye Journalls of ye plimt and pticularly        
Dugdales & Turbervills affidavids, the Last haveing as his Ldship said          
sworne to his narrative one day & Corrected it ye next                          
     After sevll speeches the Lds went out to Debate whither his Ldship         
should see ye Journalls, & being returned, granted to his Ldship ye             
peruseall of ye Lds Journalls but not of ye Comons, & then after some           
speeches between my Ld Chancellr & Sr Wm Joanes [ye?] Lds returned to           
their house & sent a message to ye Comons, that his Ldships Tryall              
should Come on againe to morrow att 10 of ye Clock                              
        [Handwriting changes here for next thirteen lines.]                     
             The proceedings of ye Lds Dec: 2th 80.                             
+ After Proclamation ye Ld High steward sd my Ld this is ye time appointed      
for you to answer.  Then sr wm Jones sd he had brought Turbervills              
affidavit of wch his Ldship might make use  Ld Stafford said he desired         
to take his own method & then asked Turbervill sevll question & then            
desired to Know what statute he was indicted upon.  Ld high steward sd          
on ye statute of Edw: ye 3d & if his Ldship had any objection fitt for          
Councill they should be heard  Then ye Ld Stafford asked sevll questions        
of Dugdale to wch he redyly answered                                            
     The Lady winchester affirmed yt Dugdale said at wakemans Tryall yt         
my Ld Told him of ye Death of ye King in August  Dugdale answered he            
ownly said my Ld was then to come downe & [Earlier handwriting resumes.]        
Then ye Ld Stafford related where he was all August, & owned himselfe to        
be in Staffordsh on ye 21st of Septembr  Then Ld Stafford Desired the           
king['s] Evidence to wthdraw till his wittnesses were heard but ye Ld           
high steward said they must Confront one ye other, & then Tho: Bony &           
others of his Ldships wittnesses were Exa. who prtending to Contradict          
Dugdale were Trapd                                                              
     Then Dr oates was Confrunted who gave a punctuall acco of his              
LdShips haveing ye Comission in June &c                                         
+After a long argueing ye Ld Stafford appeald to ye Lds Comons & ye             
whole world & Calls for Dugdale againe & read his depositions sent              
from ye Justices in ye Country to ye Councell  Then Turbervill being            
asked by  my Ld whither he would owne his narrative in print, he answrd         
no but wt he swore before Sr Wm Poultney &c  Then two pson affirmed             
they were wth my Ld in france but never saw Turbervill there, Turbervills       
brother also spoak something agt him & then ye Court adjd till to morrow        
      [A list of five dates and figures in another hand appears on              
                         outside of letter.]                                    
     L. c. 1016     Munday Decembr 6th 1680                                     
     After pclaimation for silence the Ld high steward asked my Ld              
Stafford what he had farther to offer in Defence of himselfe; my Ld             
Stafford pduced sevll papers & read them wth a very Low voice & then            
according to his usuall manr appeald to ye Lds Comons & ye whole world          
ptesting his Innocencey of ye Crimes Laid agt him, In ye papers was             
Conteyned the same points of Law by him urged on Satturday pticularly           
of his Standing Impeached 3 plimts together, & not being brought to his         
Tryall                                                                          
     The Court haveing recd his prposealls ye Lds returned to their             
house to debate abt ye same  The Debate held Long & the Question being          
put whither they should returne to ye Court to give their verdict this          
night yeas 42 Noes 42  Then my Ld Chancellr Threw in his voate in ye            
neggative, Carried in ye Negative.  Then ye Comons returned to theire           
house & adjournd till to morrow                                                 
          Tuesday                                                               
     This day ye Speaker went up wth his Mate attended with ye whole            
house to Demand Judgemt of ye Lds who Comeing into ye Court sevlly gave         
ye following votes                                                              
Not Guilty--                    Guilty                                          
Ld Arundell of Trevice          Carew                                           
Ld buttler E. of Arran          Cornwallis                                      
Hollis Wootton & Lewis          Rockingham                                      
Ward Byron & Haston             Ashley & Lee                                    
Dericourt.Norris.Windsor        Howard of Escrick                               
Flowers Morley & Mowbray        Gray of Wark                                    
E: of Herbert of Clarendon      Brook & Shandois                                
Berkely Hallifax                North; Conjers Darcy                            
ffeversham Ailsbury             Wharton Ewers                                   
Craben Bath & Clarendon         Cromwell & Conway                               
St Albans & Thanet              Newport & falconbridge                          
E: of Canarvan & Pr Borough     E. of Macksfield                                
Denbigh Rutland, Arlington      Sussex & Guilford                               
Marques of Worcester            Shaftsbury Burlington                           
D. of New Castle                Carldslet [?] Coventry Essex                    
                                Scarsdale Sunderland                            
                                Chesterfield Winchester                         
                                Rivers Mulgrave Berksh                          
                                Manchester Westmrland                           
                                Bristoll Northhampton                           
                                Leicester Bridgewater                           
                                Salisbury Suffolke                              
                                Bedford huntingdon                              
                                Kent oxford monmouth                            
                                Albemarl Bucks                                  
                                Privey Seale                                    
                                Radnor Chancellr                                
                                Rupert                                          
after wch ye Ld Stafford recd his sentence to be Drawne hanged & Quartred,      
wch Its thought will be Changed into beheading, he being a peere                
     L. c. 1017     London December 9th 1680                                    
     Pickering is brought hither                                                
     Its said yt a Comte of Lds & Comons will go to ye Tower to Examine         
my Ld Stafford before he is Execut to se if he will make any Discovery          
     A Comte appointed to bring in a bill for regulateing the post office       
     A bill for Continuing the Act for Incoragmt of Coyning, wch is             
neere Expireation, ordrd a 2d reading                                           
     Sr Richd Corbert reports that Dean Goodwin Esqr is Duly Ellected for       
Rygate in surry & the Clarke ordrd to amend ye returne                          
   The bill for Exportation of Leather Comted  Coll Birch reportes ye           
usage one Norris recd by being made a prisoner as he was going over to          
france to fetch a priest who Could make a farther Discovery of ye plot          
& how he was Described by orders that he might be apprehended                   
     After Long Debate resolved that one Sherington & Day be sent for by        
ye serjant Att armes & Divers membrs went to serch their papers who being       
returned ordrd yt none go out                                                   
+ordrd yt all Comtes be revived & Tylers Case for breach of Priviledge          
referd to ye Comte                                                              
   Ordrd yt ye Lds Russell & Brandon be added to ye Comte for ye more           
Easy tryall of peeres & all yt shall Come to have voices                        
   Sr Wm Robarts reportes that he had seized all sheringtons papers             
who did question their Authority & said that these proceedings looked           
like ye late Rebelion  one pap seemed to Intimate as if it had suplyed          
Colemans place, & there were a Bundle of papers wch related to ye Ld            
Inchequeen & that notwithstanding they went Imediately away they found          
sombody had been before to give Notice for they saw one alight out of           
a Coach whome ye people att first Denyed but afterwards said it was one         
Come to vizit their mistresse  Then sherington was Called in, & asked           
whither one paper was his hand wch he denyed & sd he knew not how he            
Came by it nor whose hand it was  being asked where he was in 8ber              
Last answrd in London, where in 21st of 8ber answrd in York buildings,          
how long there abt 14 dayes whither he had any paps abt him of his owne         
hand answrd no  ye Comte shewed him two lines wch he owned  ordrd yt ye         
Serjant serch him before yt Comte & a pcell of paprs were found, wch wth ye     
others were Comted to ye Comtes & haveing read over those paps wch              
belonged to ye Ld Inchequeen ordrd yt they be returned the rest to be           
numbred & reported to morrow & that they be Delivered to mr Papilia  Then       
he was asked whither he read ye papar before Last night  he answrd he           
beleived he did, Though before Denyed it, some reflections were made on         
Secretary Jenkens Toutching norris from wch he Cleared himselfe, & ye Ld        
of Essex Confirmed it by a lettr to ye Chaire man wch was read, ordrd yt        
Sherringtons Lodgings be searched to morrow, & that Brunetto his Landlord       
attend ye house                                                                 
     L. c. 1018     Satturday Decembr 11th 1680                                 
     Mr Treby repted from ye Comte of Elections That upon heareing ye           
Cause of Coll Sidney & Sr Wm Drake both returned for amersham they had          
made ye Election voide  The question being put whither ye house should          
agree with ye Comte yeas who stand in 191 Noes who went out 83                  
     Then signr francisco was Called to ye Bar & Tells ye house that            
mr Brunetto abt may was 12 month said that if ye King was Cutt off &            
ye D Come to Reigne we should all be papists                                    
     Upon Information That There has been a Quarrell between Francisco          
& Brunetto & in Consideration That It was Kept so long Conceald The             
house lett fall ye farther Debate                                               
     Then Wilson was brought to ye bar abt a lettr he Copyd out because         
ye Stile pleasd him                                                             
     Then Sherringdons maide Phebe was Examined whither she recd Lettrs         
from Mr Sherringdon when he was in ye Country  she answrd she never recd        
any                                                                             
     Ordrd yt mr Day be Discharged & mr Sherringdon Continued in Custody        
   The mrchants owned their petition agt ye Affican Compa                       
     mr Playters bill for selling of lands to pay Debts read                    
+Mr Austine & Bryan Stapleton have leave to go into the Country                 
     Mr Ball a Wittness yt Lived att Shrewsbury ordrd to be Discharged          
A new writt ordrd for Amersham                                                  
+ordrd yt Great Marlow Eleccon be reported on Munday  Brunetto ownd             
Sheringdon lay at his house abt ye 4th of 8ber  Wilson ordrd to be taken        
Into Custody he owning he writt ye forementioned Lre but left itt behind        
him.                                                                            
+A Strange pson following ye King last night was securd being suspected         
to have a designe agt his Life                                                  
+Its sd Ld Stafford will be Executed on 30th Inst; there is much                
Discourse of a blazeing star yt appears nightly                                 
    L. c. 1019    [Handwriting changes here only for first paragraph.]          
                         Lond 10ber 14.80                                       
     The E: of Carlile hath been wth ye Ld Staffd & being his kinsman           
desird Leave for ye Bp of Lond & Dr Burnet to visit him  his Ldshp answd        
they might if yey pleasd  so ye Bp & Dr went but cannot get any Confession      
out of him nor reduce him from his pop. relig  ye day of his Execucion          
is uncertein but its thought will be wthin a week                               
     A bill for settling Sr Charles Haughtons Estate read  A rept was           
made yt ye Comte had sent for ye under Sherriffe of Norfollke That he           
reffusd to appeare that ye serjant Cant find him, that some of his              
friends had beat one of ye prosecutors                                          
+Ordrd yt ye Comte proceed to ye mattar of fact without his                     
appeareance & make their rept & yt ye pson yt beat ye prosecutor be             
sent for into Custody                                                           
     mr Speaker Informes that he had settled ye Business of mr Tyler to         
wch ye house agreed                                                             
     One Ferring being fled from Justice ordrd yt if he rendr not               
himselfe up by satturday this house will proceed agt him by way of bill         
     ordrd yt ye rept of ye bill for tryall of Peers be made on                 
Thirsday                                                                        
+Coll. Mansells petitioning to be heard before ye rept abt sr Robt              
Payton be made was Called in and said yt it was repted that Sr Robt             
went to Gadbury to know how he should be reconcild to ye D. of Y: &c            
Itt appearing by ye rept this Day made & by Sr Robt Peytons Confession          
that he hath had sevell Negotiations wth ye D. of Y: by means of ye             
E. of Peterborough Gadbury & Celliers att such time as they were                
turneing ye plot on ye protestants                                              
+ordrd yt Sr Robt Peyton be Expelld ye house & receive his Confuse [?]          
upon his Knees                                                                  
+The serjant att armes was sent for him but being gon ordrd yt he be            
taken Into Custody & brought to the bar                                         
+The D. of M yesterday Dind in ye Citty accompanyed wth many psons of           
Quallity & as he returned hundreds followed his Coach Crying God bless          
ye K & D of M                                                                   
     L. c. 1020     Thursday 10ber 16th 1680                                    
     A Petition of ye Quakers Comted & all that Come have voices                
     A Petition agt ye African Company read & Comited  A bill for trying        
of Peers read a 3d time & a Comte ordrd to bring in a Clause to repeal          
ye act for Scandalum Magnatum                                                   
     A Comprhencive Bill whoeverr ye protestants are obleiged to Signe          
ye 39 Articles Except ye 34th 35 36 & pt of ye 20th                             
     A bill yt all Laws made agt papists shall not Extend to ptestant           
Dissenters                                                                      
     The house agreed to ye Lds amendmts to the bill for repealing ye           
Act of 35th Q Eliz                                                              
     Ordrd yt marlborough Great marlow & Bury Elections be repted on            
Tuesday                                                                         
     Mr Baldrons Petition for leave to print the Popeish oath of                
secrecy of those that were Ingaged in ye plot & the Lettany of Intersesion      
They had made for England                                                       
     ordrd yt a Comte be appointed to Examine Sherridon & wilson &              
compare their lettrs & rept their oppinion & That Sheridons Close               
Confinemt be Taken off                                                          
     mr Trenchard repted ye Clause to Take away The Statute of Scandalum        
magnatum wch being agreed to was ordrd to be Engrossed wth ye amendmts          
& that mr Booth Carry it up to ye Lords                                         
     ordrd yt ye house be in a Grand Comte to morrow to Consider of ye          
state of ye nation                                                              
     A bill for banishing papists 20 miles from London & westmr ordrd a         
2d reading                                                                      
+A petition of ye Inhabitants of Magdalen Bermoncy in south wark                
Complaineing that they had been Imprisoned for refuseing to pay what            
was Imposed on them for building a new Church wch was refferd to a              
Comte & yt they Inspect & settle ye Bp Courts                                   
+Sevll membrs have leave to go into ye Country                                  
     The Ld Stafford will be Executed on Munday, The warrant being              
signed & ye Tower hamletts are ordrd to be raisd                                
     L. c. 1021     London 10ber 18th 1680                                      
     Sr Creswell Levins is like to Succeed Judge Ellis butt we Cannot           
yett Guisse who will succeed Sr Creswell in ye Attorney Genllship               
     mr Umphreville will stand for Knight for Midsx in Sr Robt Peytons          
place and an Interest is makeing for Sr Francis pembrton, who is sett           
up by ye Ld shaftsbury but Sr ffrancis saith he will not make any               
Interest however will stand if Chose                                            
     Sr Robt Atkens late Judge will also stand                                  
     The Ld Stafford was This day by his desire brought up to ye Lds            
house where in stead of Confession he Justified his Innocency but               
ownd ye D. of y. was a papist & yt sevll noble protestants had                  
Correspondance wth him, & his Ldship accusing ye Lds of unjustly                
Sentencing him, Put them upon debateing whither ye Rigr of being hangd          
Drawne & quartred should be remited him                                         
     A private bill read ye 1st time & ordrd a 2d reading  The Engrossed        
bill for Takeing way ye Court of ye Marshes of wales was read 3d time &         
past ye house                                                                   
+Sr ffrancis Winington aqtes ye house that he had notice ye Last                
night from Dr Burnet That he had been 3 times att ye Tower wth ye Ld            
Stafford & yt yesterday he Told him that he did desire that he might            
have leave to come to ye bar of this house & that he had something to           
say to this house yt did concerne ye King & Kingdom                             
     After some Debate of this mattar ye house being Informed that ye           
house of lords had sent for him fourthwth to their bar to Know wt he            
had to say to them The farther Debate abt this matter was att prsent            
Laid aside  Then ye house fell upon ye Debate of his mates speech to            
both houses on wensday last and after a long Debate The house came to           
this resolution --That a Comte be appointed to Draw up an humble                
addresse to his mate on ye Debate of ye house in answr to his sd speech         
& so adjd                                                                       
     L. c. 1022     Tuesday 10ber 21st 80                                       
     The bill repted concerning Naturealization wth amendmts to wch             
ye H: agreed                                                                    
     Another address in behalfe of Ben: Harris repted-----                      
     Complt being made agt one Carey a supposed priest, of Bristol for          
Conveying away ye 4 Ruffi[a]ns referd to a Comte                                
     Sr Humphrey Winch repted to be duly Elected for Marlow in Buckinghamsh     
     Sr Gilberd Gerard Carryed ye Articles agt mr Seymr up to ye Lords          
     Mr Hide aquaintes ye house that his mate will be attended wth ye           
Address abt 3 this after noone                                                  
     Mr Lightons Petition that he was twice Illegally committed by ye           
Councell Table Contrary to ye Habeas Corpus act who being Called in             
Justified his petition & was referd to ye Comte of grievances                   
     The bill for ye uniteing of Protestants read & Commited, Adjourned         
till to morrow att wch time they will go in a body to Church                    
     Sr Wm Jones made an Excellent Speech on Satterday showing yt this          
was ye only time for to have a bill pasd for prventing a pop Successr           
ye K having now askd ym wt they Expect-----                                     
     The Ld Staffords Execution will [be] to morrow 7 night tho he              
petiond he might be Executed last                                               
     Mr Pilkington is chose Aldrman of Faringdon ward in ye room of Sr          
Robt Hanson                                                                     
     L. c. 1023     Thursday 10ber 23d 80                                       
+Ordrd That Bern. [?] Dennis have leave to print his Narrat                     
     Sr Cha. Houghtons bill read a 2d time.                                     
     A bill for more easy Collecting of hearthmony ordrd a 2d read.             
Ordrd That Thanks be given Dr Burnet for his sermd yesterday & yt he            
be desird to print it & thankd for his histx of ye reformd & desird             
to print ye 2d pt                                                               
     That a bill (or bills) be brought in to prvent Atheisme Imorality          
Debauchry Blasphemy Swearing &c yt abounds so much in ye kdome                  
     A message from ye Lds yt yey agree to ye amendmts to ye burying            
in wollen bill                                                                  
     Another message yt ye Ldsps intended to adjourn till monday 7              
night                                                                           
+Ordrd yt a bill or bills be brought in for bettr observing ye                  
Lords day.  A petition from mr Sherridon was left upon ye Table                 
     A bill for banishing papists out of ye Kings Dominions ordrd a             
2d reading                                                                      
     A rept was made from ye Comte abt ye Judges That they had resolved         
as followeth                                                                    
     That ye Ld Chiefe Justice Scroggs Discharging of Juryes before             
they had finished Their prsentmts was Arbitrary illegall Contrary to            
publique Justice and a manefest violation of his oath & a means to              
subvert ye fundamentall Laws of this Kingdom and Introduce papy                 
     That ye Rule of Court forbiding mr Care Author of ye Advice from           
Rome from writeing any more was Illegal & Arbitrary The Court Thereby           
assuming to them selves a legislative power to ye Discoraging protestants       
& Countenaceing popery                                                          
     That ye Court of Kings bench in their Impositions of fines of late         
yeares have Acted ptially & Illegally and favoared papists & psons              
popishly affected to ye Excessive oppression of ye Kings protestant             
subjects                                                                        
+Then sevll Instances were repted of psons comted for Crimes Baylable           
by law.  That refuesing sufficient bayle in ye Cases aforsd was                 
Illegall & a breach of ye Liberty of the Subjects                               
     That Barron Westons Expresions in his Charge att ye Assizes att            
Guilford in surry were a scandall to ye reformation and Tended to raise         
Discord between his mate & his subjects & to ye subversion of ye Antient        
Constitution of plamts & Govermt of this Kingdom                                
     That granting Extravigant warrants for seizing of Books was Illegall       
& Arbitrary                                                                     
+upon other Mattars Toutching Ld Ch. Justice Scroggs speaking agt               
petitioning Agt mr Bedlow &c in relation to mr Langhorn & mr Dare of            
Taunton, & upon an Information of sr Robt Payton and mr Arnold in ye            
house &c:  Resolved. Nem Contrad That ye Ld Ch. J. Scroggs Judge Jones &        
Barron Weston bee Impeached and a Comte appointed to Draw up ye Impeachmts      
+upon A Motion from ye Sherriffe off Midlesex                                   
+Resolved That this house is Content That ye Sherriffs of London & Midlesex     
do Execute ye Late Lord Stafford by severing his head from his body only        
+A message from ye Lords wth mr Seymers answr to ye Articles.  ordrd yt         
mr Brown an Attorney who hath sufferd great hardships be restored to his        
places.  That ye prceeding repts & resolves be printed                          
+That a bill for uniting ptestant Subjects be read to morrow.  Coll             
Birch repts yt things as Scandalus as possible were proved agt mr               
Thompson minister of Bristoll, & ye same rept ordrd to be made againe           
to morrow                                                                       
     L. c. 1024     Fryday 10ber 24 1680                                        
     mr Cowdens bill Comted                                                     
+Ordrd That a bill be brought in to repeal ye act for regling Corporacons       
ye following 3 repts were made from ye Comtes of Elecon                         
     1st  yt sr Tho Haron & mr Jermin are duly elected for Bury in suffolk      
     2  That The Ld Bruce & mr Bennett were duly Elected for Marybone [?]       
     3  That mr Lee was & mr Ackland was not duley elected for Barnstaple       
to all wch ye H agreed & ordrd That ye Mayr of Barnstaple be sent for           
into Custody                                                                    
     The rept agt mr Thomson was read wch is yt he hath publ-- [sic]            
defamd his Mate preached sedition villifyd ye reform promoted popry by          
asserting pop. principles decrying ye pop & turning it on ye protsts            
endeavouring to subvert ye libty & ppty of ye subjt & ye rights &               
priviledges of ye plmts & is a scandl & reproach to his function.  Ordrd        
That he be Impeachd before ye Lds on this rept & yt it be printed & yt ye       
Comte yt draws up ye Impeachmt have powr to recieve any other Inform &          
yt ye sarjt have ordr to keep him Carfully.                                     
     mr Samson &c peting ye H to be further heard abt ye Irish plot             
were calld & ordrd to be exmd by ye Comte apted to recieve Conysl [?] of        
yt kind                                                                         
     The bill to banish papists out of ye K Domin Comted  Ordrd That mr         
Blundell be sent for to give evid abt ye pop plot                               
               Adjd till Thursday morn                                          
     On Thursday night Sheriff Bethell went to ye Ld Stafford to know           
if he had any direcons to give abt his Execution wch woud be on wensday         
next And his Ldp desird he might have a large stage yt it be hung wth           
black--yt he might be buryd in his clothes & yt yre might be no hollowing       
at his Execution  ye 3 1st ye Sheriff promisd him & yt he woud endavr ye        
last                                                                            
     Dr Tonge dyd this week & was buryd in woodstreet on Thursday night in      
woodstreet Church--he having sd it broke his heart----                          
     On ye 16 of next month will be ye Elecon of a knt for Midx  ye psons       
yt stand are sr Robt Atkins mr Urn [?] John neville & mr Midleton of ye         
new river but its thought ye first will Carry it Sr P. Whitchcot having         
laid down & resignd to him his Interst                                          
     Last night one Ed. Rawlins was taken up at Richards Coffee hous in         
fleetstreet for speaking slightingly & repchfully of ye plmt & Comted to        
woodstreet Counter by sr wm Turner till Thursday at wch time he will be         
sent to ye H of Comons                                                          
      L. c. 1025     Lond 10ber 28: 80                                          
      From Ireland we hear yt ye Ld Brettud (who being suspected to be          
in ye plot was some time since comted & afterwards baild) is fled &             
further yt one mr Mack-Kenne is securd for saying yt if ye Lds were             
executed he himself would kill ye K [?] & yt he is bringing over hither         
     Many of ye souldrs abt town are dead of this new distemper                 
     Coll Russell is also dangerously ill                                       
     The Ld Stafford petiond yt his Execucon might be respited til              
fryday but an ordr being already granted for his execution to Morrow &          
ye Scaffolds being built its certein yt to morrow putts a period to his         
life all hopes of his confessing any thing Materiall being now past             
     yesterday morn an Extr councill was held at whitehall & was adjd           
from morn to Afternoon yre being buisnesses of a high nature before ym          
As ye marriage of P Hanover wth ye Lady Anne & ye Compleating those             
Allyances wch are now on foot & making others for ye advantage of Engld         
     P Hanover was gratiously recd by his Mate On Sunday night & supd           
wth him                                                                         
     There is a discours yt sevll eminent men are like to be found Tardy        
in endeavring to get prfermt by undue practices wch if true you shall           
hear more of it by ye next for ye psons are of such a Quality yt yey            
might not to be mencond till ye Truth is confirmd                               
     L. c. 1026     London Decembr 30th 1680                                    
     Mr Sherridon demanded the Benifit of the Habeas Corpus bill, but           
Judge Raymond being Loath to Displease the house desired to Know their          
sence and the farther Debate is adjd till to morrow                             
     A Petition was prsented Complaineing of some Illegal & Arbitrary           
Practices of some Ecclesiasticall Courts wch was referd to a Comte              
already Concerned in mattr of that nature                                       
+A rept was made from ye Comte Toutching the Amendmts made in the bill          
for the Incouragmt of the woolen manufacture and the house agreed wth           
the Comte in their amendmts and the farther Debate adjourned till this day      
fortnight                                                                       
     Ordrd yt the Comte for the Examination of ye plot do looke into the        
Evidence against the 4 popish Lds in the Tower and do rept their oppinion       
in ordr to the Direction of ye house in their pceedings against them            
     Ordrd that an Humble Application be made to his mate for the               
Information & Evidence given by mr serjant and others in the case of Gawen      
and also all other Informations & Evidences (& Letters Intercepted) may         
be Communicated to this house                                                   
     Resolved that the writeings paps & proceedings Relateing to ye             
pentionrs in the Long plamt be produced to this house & Resolved that           
no member of this house, shall accept of any place or office of Proffit         
from ye Crowne During such time as he shall Continue a member of this           
house wthout the leave of it nor any promise of any such office or              
place from ye Crowne Carried Nem Contrad                                        
     Resolved that all offendrs agt this vote shall be Expelled the             
house.  Adjd &c                                                                 
+The Ld stafford had yesterday his head pted from his body on tower hill,       
but to his Dying houre prtested he Dyed Innocently, but prayd god to            
bless his mate & his psecuters & to forgive them all, Thousands of              
people Lined all places Round abt & adjacent to his Stage to see the sight      
     L. c. 1027     Dec 31st 1680                                               
                              The Answr of mr Seymr to the Articles off         
                              Impeachmt Exhibited Agt him                       
                              by the Comons assembled in plamt                  
+The said Edw: Seymr saveing to himselfe all advantage of Exception to          
the incertainety & insufficientcy of the said Impeachmt and all the Benifit     
wch by the laws or stattutes of this Kingdom he may have for his Defence        
agt the mattrs theirin Charged                                                  
     Humbly answeareth----& saith to the first Article that this                
Respondent being Treasurer of The Navey Did Receive of the monyes Raised        
by the Act of plamt mentioned in the first Article for building thirty          
shipps the sume of 498251 L--01 s--10 d and no more all wch this                
Respondent did apply to the use mentioned in the said Act as by this            
respondents accompts Ready to be produced to this Honble house Doth [?]         
more at Large appeare and this Respondent saith he did not send 90000 L         
or any other such pcell of the moneys Raised by the said Act to any pson        
wtsoever                                                                        
     To The Second Article this Respondent saith that he had 40000 L            
pcell of the moneys raise[d] by the Act mentioned in the Second Article         
in his hands att the time of the Treaty between the Commissrs of the            
Navey and the Eastland Mrchants Mentioned in the second Article but This        
Respondent Denyeth that he Ever promised The said merchts to pay them           
The said 40000 L or any pt of it And this Respondent farther saith that         
before the said Eastland Mechants did bring this Respondent any bills           
signed by the Commissrs of the Navey to be paid, This Respondent had            
paid the said 40000 L by vertue of severall ordrs signed upon him, to           
be paid for the use and according to the Direction of the said Act              
     To The Third Article This Respondent saith that he was speaker of          
the house of Comons before he was Treasurer of the Navey & that to support      
the Dignity of the place of speaker his mate was Gratiously pleased to          
grant unto this Respondent the yearely sallery of 3000 L wch to avoide          
the Charge & Trouble of the Exchequer was paid out of the mony Directed         
for Secret service wch this Respondent doth Acknowledge was paid as well        
Dureing the time of Prorogation as Dureing times of Sessions                    
     To The 4th Article this Respondent saith that the mattars theirin          
Charged are too Genll & uncertaine that this Respondent Can make no             
pticular Answeare to the same, But sure he is that he did not act Alone         
in any thing as a Commissr of the Prize but Joyntly wth others according        
to the Commission and Did never Commit any such fraude, as is Charged           
agt him in the said Articles, All wch he offers to the Consideration of         
this Honble House                                                               
                        Edw: Seymr                                              
     [L. c. 1027 continues:]     London Decembr 31st 1680                       
     A bill phibitng ye Importation of forraigne Guns read a 2d time but        
upon ye Debate of ye H past in ye negative                                      
     Ordrd that a bill be brought in for Regulating The abuses in makeing       
of Caskes barrells and other vessells as so in weights & measures, and          
ordrd that a Comte be appointed to peruse ye Laws relating to the               
afforsd: and rept their oppinions their in to the house                         
     Ordrd that a bill be brought in for a genll Naturalization of Alien        
Protestants and allowing them Liberty to Exercise their Trades in all           
Corporations                                                                    
     A bill for ye releise of ye Subject agt Arbitrary fines was read a         
2d time & Comited                                                               
     Mr Hide aqtes the house that his mate had ansrd as to their request,       
Concerning the Evidence and Informations Given into the Councell by             
mr serjant in ye Case of Gavan Executed for high Treason, were already          
Transmitted to ye house of Lords.  And then ye H adjd till munday               
     Its sd that ye D. of y sent a lettr to ye king Desireing him to pas        
ye bill agt him for his mates peace, since the D is sensible that if he         
Ever succeeds to ye Crowne of Eng he must Come in by force of Armes, And        
farther that he desires not to succeed himselfe only that his Children          
might not be bard of their right to ye Crowne                                   
+And on munday his mate goes in his Robes to the house of Lords and gives       
answr to the Comons address  And some Talke as if their would be a short        
prorogation                                                                     
     L. c. 1028     London January 4th 1680                                     
     Amersham Election to be heard on wensday 7 night                           
+Sr Wm Temple Delivered a Message from ye King--                                
+CR his mate recd the address of this house wth all wishes of Compliance        
they Could Desire but upon perusall he is sorry to find their Thoughts          
so wholly fixed upon ye bill of Exclusion, That all other remedyes for          
suppressing popery are Esteemed as ineffectuall                                 
+his mate is Confirmed in his oppinion agt yt bill by ye Judgemt of             
ye Lds who Reiected it, not to alter That Resolution but wt other meanse        
shall Come in plamt his mate will readily Comply wth, he therefore thinkes      
there remaines nothing more for him to say in answr to ye Address of this       
house But to recomend to them the Consideration of all other meanse for         
ye prservation of ye ptestant religion, to wch they have no reason to           
Doubt his Concurrence when they shall be presented in a plamentary way          
& that they would Consider the state of ye Kingdom as well as ye Condition      
of Christendom in such a man as they may Enable him to prserve Tangier,         
& secure his Alliances abroade & peace & settlemt at home                       
     A message from ye Lds that their Ldships had resolved that there           
hath been for divers years past & is still Carryed on in ye Kingdom of          
Ireland a Damnable popish plot, for the Massacrying of Protestants &            
subverting ye govermt                                                           
+The Lds have agreed to a private bill wthout Amendmts                          
+Ordrd that all Defaulters unexcused be taken into custody & not admited        
into the house wthout leave & paying fees  Resolved that all members yt         
do absent themselves wthout leave in this time of Emenent danger are to         
be reputed deserters of their Trust & neglecters of their Duty to this          
house and their Country                                                         
+Ordrd that mr Speaker write a letter on this vote to Each absent member,       
All Comtes Revived                                                              
     Mr Smith was yesterday before ye Lds & ye Attorney Genll ordrd to          
psecute him for printing a speech to be spoake by ye Ld shaftbury &             
added some speeches of Ill meaning more then his Ldship spoake & the            
speech was this day burned by ye hang man                                       
