     L. c. 1277     London ye 21th Septemb 1682                                 
     Letters from Oxford say that last Monday being the day the Electing        
a Major and two Bailiffs for that Corporacon they Chose Aldermen Townesend      
theire Major and Mr Houghton & Pinnet Bailiffs without comeing to a pole        
and that which is observeable the Major and one of the Bailiffs are two         
persons who they have Chose to mannage the Defence against the Quo warrto       
brought upon theire Charter.                                                    
     Wee have Little to add to what I gave you an accompt of on Tuesday         
relateing to our Choyce of Sheriffs only that on yesterday morning the          
Lord Major the Comon Serjeant and 5 Aldermen went to Whitehall where they       
Continued with his Matie att Mr Secretary Jenkins for 3 houres giveing an       
accompt of the aforementioned proceedings how his Lordshipp declared Mr         
Peter Rich a Timber Merchant the person to joyne with Mr North but the          
Sheriffs notwithstanding his Lordship had dissolved the Hall Continued to       
Poll for Papillion & Dubois hee likewise sending them word to forbeare          
which they did not and there were some persons who made affidavts against       
them especiall Bentooke a bookseller whereupon his Matie summoned a speciall    
Councell att 3 in the afternoone and Messengers were dispatched to Mr           
Pilkington & Shute our 2 Sheriffs att that tyme which being noised              
abroad there was Infinite rejoyceing by some people they all Concludeing        
that the Councell would send them a second tyme to the Tower & there            
were some wagers that it would be to a worse place the GateHouse that their     
Comitment would be for high Treason & what not.                                 
     The Councell being satt about 4 Clock His Matie prsent mr Pilkington       
& Shute attending they were called in & none suffered to be present but         
themselves  they were first as I am Credibly Informed acquainted by ye          
Chancellor of ye Informacons against them upon oath one being for words         
that Sheriff pilkington should speake, Ben Tooke demanding of him by            
what Authority hee continued the poll  twas alledged that hee should            
reply by the greatest Authority which the Sheriffs explained hee meant          
was by Authority of the Comon Hall which hee judged to be the greatest          
in that case.                                                                   
     And then began to give his Matie an accompt of ye whole proceedure of      
that affaire as did alsoe Sheriff Shute  then they were Interrogated as         
to divers points as who summoned the Comon Hall  they replyed the Ld            
Major  Then it was demanded of ym whether ye Ld Major had not an equall         
power in dissolveing ym wch they denyed [&?] replyed that what hee had done     
was not of their owne heads but by advice of the Councell Learned in ye         
Law who gave it under their hands that when the Ld Major had Convened the       
Hall it would not be dissolved till such tyme as the matter for which they      
were mett was dispatched & then not without Consent of the Comon Hall & they    
said some of these Councellors were att the Councell dore to give reasons       
for such theire advice  their names were demanded vizt Mr pollexfen             
Serjeant Leake Truder & Tompson but it was not Judged proper to call any        
of ym in.                                                                       
     They were likewise asked why they Continued the poll notwithstanding       
the Lord Major had forbidd them  they Answered that a poll being demanded       
& granted by ye Hall should they surcease they were Liable to every mans        
action & therefore they chose rather to lye att his Maties Clemency then        
to run the danger of ye Hall.                                                   
     Then they were demanded why they put such Questions to the Hall as         
were to take the Authority from the Lord Major & to place it on themselves      
they replyed that ye questions were given them in writing which they            
produced were not of their putting but the Hall which they would not            
deviate & there happened much other discourse to tedious to Insert  In          
fine they were ordered to withdraw & being called in againe were made           
acquainted of ye sence of the Councell of that Enormous Riott to continue       
a poll after the Lord Mayor had dissolved ye Hall & being asked what they       
would say why they should not goe to Goale they tendered bayle being            
a paper of 10 persons Sr John Mallett Mr Welsh Aldermen Lane &c which           
was accepted by ye Sheriffs bound in 1000 L apeece & 500 L each for             
suretyes to appeare ye first day of next Terme & the meane tyme to be           
att the good behaviour.                                                         
     L. c. 1278     [Handwriting changes here.]     London 23 7ber 1682         
     On Tewsday Last ye Eall of Sunderland was remitted and Sworne              
one of his Majts privey Councill and att ye same tyme wee are Credibly          
informed that his majtee was pleased to declare ye Eall of Midellton            
Coadjutor with the Eall of Murry in the great office of principall              
Secretary of ye Kingdome of Scottland they beeing to Governe affaires           
allternatively.                                                                 
     Yesterday wee Recd ye Surprizeing Newes that ye D of Monmouth was          
seizd at Lichfeild beeing at dynner with divers Gentlemen by a warrant          
from Whitehall and is Expected to bee brought up this afternoone & to           
sattisfie your Curiosity ye more have procurd a Coppy wch I here                
transmitt you.                                                                  
+Whereas his Maytee Reced Informatyons yt James D of Monmouth hath Lately       
appeard in severall pts of this Kingdome with Great Numbers of people in        
a Ryotus and an unlawfull maner to ye disturbance of ye publique peace          
and to ye Terror of his Majts Good Subjects.                                    
     These are therefore in his Majts name and by Spetiall Comand to will &     
Require you forthwith to repayre to any place where you shall undrstand ye said 
D of Monmouth to bee & him forthwith to apprhend & beeing in Safe Custody before
mee or any of ye Lds of his Majts privey Councill to answer to such things as   
on his Majts behalfe shall be objected to him ye said D of Monmouth &           
for doeing this shall be ye warrant and all Mayr bayleiffes Constables          
and other his Majts officers are hereby required to bee herein aydeing          
& assisteing to you as they will answer ye Contrary att yr perrell given        
att his Majts Court at Whitehall ye 18 day of 7ber 82                           
(To Jn Ramsey Eqr one of his Majts serjants att armes)   L. Jenckins            
     Wch Coppy beeing demanded of ye Serjant one of ye Dukes freinds Rode       
post to London & brought itt with him and yesterday afternoone procurd          
a habeas Corpus thereon from Judge Raymond wch said writt is sent after         
him to have him brought before a Judge to bee att Lyberty thereon some          
beleiveing yt ye same will Evade his goeing before ye Councill.                 
     On ye other hand I am Credibly Informed yt his Majtee has ordrd            
Commission to bee sent into Chesheire & other Countyes where his Grace          
has beene to Examen into and take account of all ye Ryotts yt have              
beene Committed and one person ffogg is much Complaynd of who preached          
before ye Duke for Incerteing in his prayer J D of Mon after ye King in         
stead of J D of yorke and forgetting also to pray for the Queene.               
+yesterday morneing ye Eall of Radnor Ld President of his Majts privey          
Councill beeing att Wthall reprsented to his Majtee his Greate age of 75        
yeares and therefore prayed to bee Eased from his prsidentshipp wch his         
Majtee was pleased to Grant him and I am told his Majtee is to receive a        
Considerable sume of mony but I Canott say whether ye same bee in Leiu          
of his place or some arreares of accompts and ye Marqwis Hallifax stands        
fayrest in his Majts Esteeme to bee advanced thereto.                           
     Mr Secretary Jencking hath Reced Information of some dangerous matter      
brought over by a ffrenchman sent his orders together with discriptions         
of ye pson to ye severall postmasters in Kent and wee heare yt hee was          
seized at Seavenore in that County with a Trunck but as yett I Canott           
discover ye pticulers of yt affayre.                                            
     Mr North and Mr Rich have declared that they will hold Sheriffes           
notwithstandeing all ye opposityon made agst them  ye former has taken          
Coopers hall and ye Latter is agreeing for ffishmongers & next Thursday         
is the time yt 2 psons are sworne Shereiffes att Guild hall wch is              
Likely to occatyon a great fewd & tis feared wee shall meet with the            
Like difficulltyes in ye Choyce of a Ld Mayr ye succeedeing day                 
+yesterday Letter arrived att Whitehall yt ye Turks & Imperallists had a        
batteel to ye advantage of ye Latter & they farther add yt Count Teckelly       
was proclaymed King of Hungary but I have noe advice of this as yett            
+This day ye D of Mon Came to towne and was brought by his habeas Corpus        
before Mr Just Dolben & te[nd]ered bayle but ye Judge tooke [some t]yme         
to Considr of itt as ye act allowes whereby ye D remaynes in Custody.           
     L. c. 1279     London 26 Septembr 1682                                     
+Our Last Left ye Duke of Monmouth before Judge Dollben who tooke 2             
dayes time to bayle him after wch Serjant Ramsey acqwaynted his Grace           
yt he must goe to Whitehall who refused answering that his hab Corpus           
had superseaded ye Secretaryes warrant but beeing told ye King him selfe        
sent for him ye Duke went where beeing Come Mr Secretary appeared & began       
to Examen ye Duke but his Grace would not discourse him and refuseing           
to give Securety to keepe ye peace Mr Secretary made a New warrant for          
his recommittmt  All Sunday the Duke remayned att the Serjants house and        
on Munday was brought before Judge Raymond by his hab Corpus and admitted       
to bayle but on 2 Recognizances ye one to appeare ye first day of next          
Tearme ye other to Keepe the peace in the meane tyme his Grace bound in         
10000 L each and his 5 Suretyes Wth ye Eall of Clare Ld Russell & Grey          
Levistone Goure Eqr & Mr Offly 2 Stafford Sheire Gentlemen in 2000 L            
Each ye bonds in all 40000 L.                                                   
     Satterday night arrived the Scipio Affrican from Bantum on ye East         
Indyes  Capt Cooke ye Master dyed at Battavya and in her voyage Lost 32         
Marryners  shee departed from Bantum ye 17 March & brings a dissmull acct       
that the day before 3000 howses were burnt in that Citty yt ye English          
ffectory was in great danger and this occatyoned thro a Rebellyon betweene      
ffather and sone the King thereof ye old Gentleman haveing designed his         
Government to his sone who notwithstandeing had some practice to destroy        
his ffather  thereupon ye ffather Indeavored to reasume itt againe & with       
his fforces burnt ye said Towne & beseiged his sone in ye Castle but ye         
Dutch with 17 men of warr were Come into ye River to assist the sones           
played with yr Canon and tis feared yt ye Dutch designed by this to beate       
us out of yt Trade                                                              
     Mr Dudly North sendeing to his Company ye Mercers to demand that           
beeing Shereiffe Ellect 16 of ye Court of assistance together with yr           
officers accompanyed him on Thursday to Guildhall in ordr to bee sworne         
upon which the Company mett yesterday putt itt to ye vote and Carryed it        
yt they should not attend him Chargeing all yr officers to doe ye same          
and Contrarywise yt they attend Mr Papillion ye same day to prsent him          
to bee sworne                                                                   
+Butt ye sadlers Company of wch Mr Peeter Rich Belonges to have voted to        
attend him.                                                                     
     Advice from jamayca sayes that in Port Royall one of his Mayts Shipps      
ye Norwich ffriggott was Cast away in that harbor but ye men & furniture        
saved.                                                                          
     Letters from Norwich sayes yt that Corporation have voated to              
d[eliver?] up theire Charter.                                                   
     This day ye Ld Mayr Came into Guildhall accompanied with many Cittizens    
and on ye hustings & made proclamatyon sanconing Mr Peeter Rich to Come         
in to seale his bond & Imedyately withdrew into ye Councell Chamber             
     Where a Court of Aldrmen beeing mett ye Cittizens againe renewed yr        
demands of haveing Mr papillyon & Duboyse sumoned Sharpely reprsenting ye       
Contrary to be a manifest breach of yr Trust and vyolation of yr oathes.        
     Butt reced from ye Court an answer of ye same tendency they had            
before some began to speak makeing espetyally one Mr Barber [?] a dyer          
who told ye Court these Like words followeing.                                  
     That Magna Charta & other yr great privaledges were not only given         
em by Charter but Confirmed by divers acts of pliamt & hee had read yt          
a heavy Judgemt was pronownced agst those who should Indeavor to make a         
breach upon yem yt accordeing to ye antyent usages of ye Citty they had         
Chosen Mr Papillyon & Duboyse for Shereiffs by Majority of voyces  therefore    
if any other psons were Imposed upon em to officyat yt office Came not          
in att ye dore but in at ye windowes as theives & Robbers & should be           
treated by them as such & thereupon ye Ld Mayr Comanded em away.                
    L. c. 1280   [Handwriting changes here.]  London ye 28th Septemb 1682       
     I omitted in my last to acquaint you that his Matie was soe displeased     
with the Duke of Monmouths proceedings before the Secretary &c that hee         
was pleased to order his Dutchess not to suffer him to come within her          
Lodgings the Cockpitt as alsoe Mr Savile vice Chamberlaine of his household     
to write the Duke a Letter to Command him not to presume to sett his            
foot in Whitehall or St James's parke for ever.                                 
     On Sunday last an express arrived to the Spanish Ambassador from           
Madrid relateing to the present Conjuncture of affaires who Imediately by       
a memoriall acquainted his Matie therewith and has reced an Answer and          
yesterday dispatched a Courier back to his Master  the affaire of Sr            
Henry Goodrick being ordered to depart from Madrid is likely to be Composed.    
     His Matie and the whole Court departs for Newmarkett on Monday next:       
     Letters from vienna sayes that they are hard att worke in Fortifyeing      
of that City not being without feare of the Turks  an Express was brought       
to the Emperor from Generall Caprara that the Towne of Willeck was              
surrendred to the Turks on the 16 instant but the Letters vary in the           
Circumstances.  some say that the Garrison within forced theire Commander       
to surrender on discretion others that it was taken by storme and all the       
men Cutt to peeces but the women and Children carried into slavery  the         
same Letters farther say that Lowintz and Newtra were since beseiged and        
in noe probability to hold out Long.                                            
     Letters from Strasburgh tell us that there is noe Certainty that           
the French will attaque some place in the Empire  All the kings forces          
from verdun Toul &c are on theire march  Cannon fire works Bombs Mortars        
are dayly Shipped off and the Governor of Phillipsburgh is soe apprehensive     
that the designe is against that City that hee is putting all things into       
a posture of defence by secureing ye passages and suffers noe vessells          
to passe the Rhyne but by his permission:                                       
     Letters from Rome say that Cardinall Stephano Braniachio is dead in        
the 63 years of his Age whereby that makes ye 14 vacancy the Consitory          
of divines which the pope ordered to examine the late declarations of           
the Clergy of ffrance togeather with the parliamts veryfying of them have       
declared them to be erroneous schismaticall and tended to herisy which          
if ye pope Confirme will probably widen ye breach betweene ye pope & ye         
ffrench king:                                                                   
     This day being Customary the tyme to sweare the Sheriffs Elect in          
Guildhall 2 Companyes of the Trained Bands were early in the yard where         
the Cittizens rejecting [?] & endeavouring to enter ye Hall were not            
pmitted by ye Soldiers but Mr Papillion & Dubois in Company with some           
Aldermen were lett in but the Mercers Company withall others denyed till        
the Lord Mayor with Mr North and Rich came into the Hall but Contrary to        
expectacon Leiftent Collonel Quiney with his Company kept the people from       
off the hustings att pikes en[d] and Muzzle of their Musketts suffering         
only some pticular psons to Goe before them.                                    
     The Lord Mayor retired into the Councell Chamber where Mr Papillion        
& Dubois followed him & there delivered a paper to tender themselves to         
be sworne but his Lordshipp would not take the Chaire and rejected the          
said paper.                                                                     
     Then went upon the hustings & Mr papillion & Dubois with much adoe         
gott there alsoe & Imediately Mr North & Rich being present the Comon           
Serjeant began to administer the oathes to them but Mr Papillion delivered      
his Lordshipp a pap following.                                                  
     wee doe present ourselves and doe offer and are ready to take upon         
us the office of Sheriffs of this Honble City & county of Middx for ye          
yeare ensueing which wee are Informed & wee are Chosen by ye Majority of        
Cittizens att ye Comon hall of this City & wee are here ready to tender         
ourselves to be admitted thereunto & to take such oathes as the Law             
requires and to performe what ever else the Law or ye Customes of this          
City require of us relateing to that office:  Tho: papill                       
                                              John Dubois                       
     And they laid their hands upon the booke but the Lord Mayor in the         
kings name commanded them away & to keepe the peace which they did & soe        
his Lordshipp went to sweare Mr North & Rich who were apparelled in their       
Gownes & Chaines and was Conducted by ye Lord Mayors betweene 4 Aldermen        
vizt Sr James Edwards Sr James Smith Sr Henry Tulse Sr Wm Prichard              
ffeasted att Draper hall in the afternoone sent to the Sheriffes to             
deliver over the Goales which they doe to night & wee are like to have          
great doings to choose a Lord Major.                                            
  L. c. 1281  [Handwriting changes here.]  London the 30th September 1682       
     yesterday being the Customary time to Choose a Ld Major for ye yeare       
Ensueing the Lord Major & Aldermen heard first a sermon at Bow preached         
by Dr Dove his Text Titus the 3d & ye first put them in minde to be             
subject to principalitys & powers to obey Majestrates wch being ended           
his Ldpp went to the hall after some time Came upon the hustings where          
the Recorder advanceing to ye front made a learned speech to the Livery         
men telling them the Execution of their assembly to Choose the greatest         
Officer in ye City viz a Lord Mayor who ought to be a pson Wealthy              
honest & Quallifyed to undertake the same exhorted them to moderation and       
Concluded with ye words of Dr Dove in the Close of his sermon that their        
proceedings might tend to ye Glory of God honor to the King & Creditt to        
ye City                                                                         
     After which the Ld Mayor and Aldermen retired into ye Councell Chamber     
leaveing ye 2 Sheriffs Mr North & Rich to mannage the proceedings who put       
in Nomination the servall Aldermen who had not passed ye Chaire & reduced       
the Choice to 4 viz Sr Wm Pritchard Sr henry Tulse Sr Tho Gould & Aldrman       
Cornish and the Sheriffs declared to the hall that by view the Majority         
fell upon Sr Wm Pritchard & Sr Tho Gould though many affirme that it was        
Evident that Gould and Cornish had the Majority by farr.                        
     Our Method is that the Comon hall Chooses & returned 2 to ye Court         
of Aldermen who takes which of them they please to be Ld Mayor  now if          
Sr Wm Pritchard be one of the 2 tis more then probable they will Elect          
him but a poll was demanded & granted for ye above mentioned 4 Aldermen         
for now but Aldrmen Can be in nomination but if the poll be Carryed in          
the Majority for Gould & Cornish then must the Court of Aldermen of             
necessity declare one of them                                                   
     But there be those people which say though they have ye Majority           
neither of them will be Ld Major but our prsent one Continued for after         
ye Choice hee goes to the Ld Chancellor for his Maties approbation who          
will not Consent thereto and thereupon the Barrons of the Exchequer             
refuse to sweare him on ye 29 October & not being sworne he Cannot              
Officiate whereupon the Ld Major in being must Continue that Office till        
the point in Law be determined whether the king has a Negative voice            
     In the afternoone the Sheriffs proceeded to poll but ye Ld Major Came      
& adjourned the farther determining of yt point till Monday 9 a Clock.          
     This day ye Ld Major Court of Aldrmen Mr Recordr with ye 2 new Sheriffs    
attended by sevrall of ye Companyes in yr Livery Gownes went by water to        
Westminster in yr Barges in Ordr to be prsented as usuall to ye Baron of        
ye Exchequer but the old Sheriffs would not accompany them but went             
before in their Coach  when arrived & Baron Crawley seated in ye Court the      
Ld Major Recordr & ye 2 new Sheriffs in a rank drew neare to ye Court           
Mr Recordr made a short speech signifying to the Bar[ons] that ye honoble       
Dudley North & Peter Rich Esqr were made & sworne sheriffs for London           
& Middx & doubted not but they would answere the ends for wch they were         
Chose  then the Ld Major prsented them                                          
     In answere to which ye Baron returned as short a speech that they          
being Loyall & worthy men here accepted of them to pform yt Office &            
in ye Close wished a happy union between his Matie & the Citty                  
     which being ended the Old Sheriffs were Called forth & appearing           
they were sworne to make a true accompt to ye King of all Issues & other        
pquisites belonging to his Matie as alsoe Mr Goodenough ye undersheriff         
then the Cryer Called ye Lds of sevrall mannrs to Come forth & pforme           
their service  otherwise yr psons & Libertyes should be seized to ye King.      
     upon which sr Wm Turner the Eldest Alderman stepped in Court on            
behalfe of ye City & with a sickle Cutt asunder servall Osyers afterwards       
told over 6 great horses hooves as alsoe about 35 Nayles being a Ceremony       
by wch ye City holds sevrall propertyes  then Mr Recordr Envited ye Baron       
to a dinner at Drapers hall & they returned & were salluted by sevrall          
great Guns planted on Southwark side on that Occation.  The 2 Old               
Sheriffs as Customary haveing invited the Ld Major & ye 2 new Sheriffs to       
dine with them as to morrow has sent them word to forbeare giveing for          
reason their arbitrary proceedings on Thursday by admitting ye Trayned          
Bands into ye hall to over awe them there.  yesterday Levetent Collonell        
Quiney who was officer in the hall was brought by warrant before Sr Robt        
Clayton & bound to ye sessions for assaulting Sr John Lowrance an Aldrman       
& forceing him from of the hustings.                                            
     L. c. 1282     London the 3d October 1682                                  
     yesterday morneing according to satturdayes adjournmt of ye poll for       
the Choyce of 2 psons to be prsented to the Court of Aldermen to Elect one      
of them for a Ld Major the 2 new Sheriffs proceeded on that work tho the        
same was mannaged by ye Ld Majors directions and the poll taken by his          
Officers but his Ldpp admitted supervisors of the Other party to oversee        
that there were faire Transaccon & they Continued without Intermission          
till 4 afternoone when the books for that time were closed & ye Comon           
Sergeant in the name of ye Ld Major adjourned the farther proceedure            
thereof till 2 a Clock this afternoone & then to keep the books open 2          
houres that those who have a right to poll not haveing pformd it already        
may give in their suffrages there & all possible Endeavor on each side to       
have ye Majority & some doe affirme that there is but little Odds in the        
Number & say that divers who are not Qualifyed have adventured to sett          
downe yr names out of pure zeale to ye Cause.                                   
     This morning early yr Maties R Highness & whole Court departed for         
Newmarkett intending to take the divertizemt of yt place 3 weeks if ye          
season will pmitt that opertunity.                                              
     This day began the sale at ye E India house  the Cheife Comodityes         
sett up were Coffee & Druggs  ye former sold for 10 L 10 s p Cent  to           
morrow they pceed to dispose of Calicoes Silks &c.                              
     This day Came to our hands the ffrench Kings memoriall of ye 27            
ultimo wch was deliverd ye ambassadr of ye Emperor & other princes of ye        
Empire at ye Conference at ffranckfort Intimateing his Maties great desire      
to Continue a peace but findeing such delay at the sd Conference of yr          
pceedings to advance ye same his Matie out of his great Justice for ye          
publique safety thinks it Convenient to make a quick despatch of that           
affaire  therefore if they doe not agree to those proposalls which hee          
has already offered by ye Last day of 9ber hee will not think himselfe          
Obliged to pforme them but take such measures as shall be most Conducive        
to his owne Intrest                                                             
     Which Memoriall puts ye Confedrates into noe little disquiett since        
ye affaires of Hungary stands soe high for they must either quitt that          
Countrey & agree likewise with ye Turks or on ye other hand make such a         
peace with ye ffrench as in ye end will prove a destruccon of ye Empire         
     This afternoone began the further poll for a Ld Major in Guild hall        
yard yr being all possible Endeavor used to Carry the Majority for Sr           
Wm Pritchard who is next in Succession & wee finde yt 3 times ye number         
were this afternoone poled for Sr Wm & Sr Hen Tulse then for Sr T[ho]           
Gould & Aldermen Cornish  about 100 Came from St Jameses & yt end of Towne      
& divers yt were of ye Livery from out of Kings bench prison whereby tis        
beleived that Sr Wm has ye Majority.  about 4 a Clock ye books were             
closed & proclamation made they would declare the pole to morrow 10 of          
ye Clock & are at prsent Casting them up  the Whiggs if they speak true         
say that a great many have poled this day that had noe right thereto but        
tis sd ye books will be Examined by each Roll of ye Companyes                   
     L. c. 1283     London the 5th October 1682                                 
     The poll for Election of 2 persons for the Choyce of Ld Mayor being        
on Monday Continued & then adjourned till Tuesday afternoone to Compleate       
yt worke  towards ye Evening of that day the books were Entirely Closed         
and proclamation made to declare the suffrages tenn of ye Clock Wedensday       
morning at wch time a great number of people assembled at Guild hall to         
heare ye determination of that soe much expected affaire & the rather for       
that it was Genrally said & beleived that Sr Wm Pritchard Exceeded in a         
great Majority                                                                  
    But contrarywise the books in prsence of ye Supervisors on both sides       
were Exactly Cast up  the Ld Major Came upon ye hustings where Mr Recordr       
declared that ye Majority Lay in Sr Tho Gould & Alderman Cornish the            
former Carrying it from Sr Wm Pritchard by (56) the latter by (25) that         
sevrall Citizens had desired a Scrutiny or inspection into the Suffrages        
which his Ldpp had granted & would Examine the votes by ye Rolls of ye          
Livery of ye respective Companyes & then signify a time to make a further       
declaration thereof                                                             
     The unexpected number for Gould & Cornish was the then subject of          
Discourse the Ld Majors Officers who took the poll Laying ye blame on           
one of their Clarks who did assure them Just before they Shutt up their         
bookes that hee Exceeded in number Gould & Cornish & they beleiveing his        
Reckoning found him Mistaken in a hundred by which it fell short & was          
Carryed the Contrary way  Otherwise tis thought that they had not Closed        
their books till they had gott ye Majority  The Suffrage for each Runs thus     
Sr Wm Pritchard 2233        Sr Tho Gould 2289                                   
Sr Hen Tulse---0236 [sic]   Alderman Cornish 2258                               
+Before his Matie left the Towne a letter Came to ye Ld Major signifying        
that whereas ye Annuall Custome was to prsent ye Ld Major elect before hee      
be sworne in ye Exchequer to the Ld Chancellor for his Maties approbation       
his Ldpp is now Comanded to waite upon ye Ld Chancellor who will appoint        
them a time when his Matie shall be attended himselfe with ye pson Elected      
     By wch tis beleived that if Sr Wm Pritchard be not declared his            
Matie will signify his refusall & leave them to ye Law whether he has not       
a Negative voyce wch if it soe happen our prsent Ld Major must Continue         
in Office till ye point be determined                                           
     A woman hawker was yesterday seized for crying & vending a paper           
intituled an accompt of the Irregular proceedings at Guild hall about           
the swearing ye 2 prtended Sheriffs mr North and Mr Rich but telling            
where shee had them was discharged.                                             
                     [Handwriting changes here.]                                
     The Poll Books are att prsant sealed upp and the Scrutiny thereof          
will scarce bee begun this week and wee Canot say how Long it may               
Continue  the Lord major has sent prcepts to each Company to send in            
exact Lists of ye Livery and wheras the usuall forme was in his owne            
his Lordshipp has now inserted itt in ye name of the king                       
     Sr James Edwards one of our aldermen is gon this day to Newmarkett         
to give his matie a true accompt of our proceedings that the whiggs have        
the majority since [?] tis beleived others gave his matie information of        
a Contrary Tennor the Torrys as they are Called certaynely believeing           
that they had Carryed the Boynt                                                 
     Sr Nicholas Buttler one of the Commissors of the Custome house being       
made one of the directors of his Royall highnesses Affaires has made such       
improvement of his Revenue & reduceing the forces unnecesary expences of        
his family tis Credibly reported that for his greate Abilitys he will           
bee advanced and Admitted one of his maties privey Councell                     
   L. c. 1284   [Handwriting changes here.]   London the 7th October 1682       
+The Duke of Monmouth some dayes since went out of Towne to his seate           
att Moore park where wee understand the Earle of Anglisea dined with him        
in few dayes his Grace designes to returne                                      
     alsoe the Earle of Shaftsbury in a Coach & Six horses left this City       
But tis not Certainely knowne where his Ldpp intends  some affirme that         
hee is already in Holland being gon thither to avoyd the fury of a second       
Attaque of high treason Especially since Mr North & Rich are sworne Sheriffs    
     yesterday ye supervisors of the poll for a Ld Major mett at ye Rhymer      
Taverne in queenestreete in Ordr to Scrutinize the poll & haveing the           
sevrall Companyes Rolls sent in unto them they proceeded in that worke as       
likewise this day & have soe put that affaire into a Method of Alphabetting     
them as likewise ye Libertyes of the Companyes that as much more time           
will probably Compleate the same if other difficultyes wch they doe not         
forsee Occurr not unto them                                                     
     yesterday the Sale of the East India Company broke of adjournd             
the farther progress of that worke till Tuesday next                            
     His Royall Highness Thursday night last Came post to St Jameses from       
newmarkett accompanied only by 3 Gentlemen upon the Occasion of ye              
princes Charlotta Maria his youngest daughter being take Extreamly sick         
in soe much that ye Babe had 24 Convulsion fitts in one day & night &           
last night departed this life                                                   
     This weeke was published a Narrative Intituled a Modest vindication        
of Titus Oates the Salamanca Doctor by Joseph Hindmarsh for ye author           
Adam Elliot Munster of Dukes place price 18 d wherein hee gives an accot        
of his being taken a Slave att Salley & whereas Dr Oates had made some          
depositions formerly agst him in ye court of Deligates on a tryall              
between the Lord North Cheife Justice Norths Elder brother & the Lady           
Gray the said Elliot has soe Grosly Reprsented Dr Oates to be forsworne         
& Calling him noething but the salamanca Devill as Cannot be here               
Exprest & alsoe has soe villifyed the aforesaid Ld North in a prtended          
Speech on a Tryall Last Westminster betweene Elliot & Dr Oates that his         
Ldpp has taken out a writt of Scandalu Magnatu agst the publisher &             
author to vindicate his honor Especially since Hindmarsh ye bookseller          
had the prsumption to deliver one of ye books to his Matie & another to         
his Royall Highness.                                                            
     Wee here from Lincolnsheire that ye Ld Castleton who was Knight of         
the Sheire from that county fought a Duell with one Batty a very Quarelsome     
pson & after some passes his Ldpp left him dead upon the place & since          
the Coronors Inquest found it Manslaughter                                      
     Tomsons Thursdayes Intelligence gave a long Narrative of the reception     
of the Morocco ambassadr with the Emperor his Master that 2 of his              
Retinue had accused him but were put to death as alsoe Jonas the Renegado       
haveing been hung 3 dayes on a Gibbott and afterwards boyled in Oyle all        
which wee are given to understand is a pfect fiction I haveing letters          
from Tangeire of a late date wch say ye ambassadr was not departed from         
yt Garrison & in point of time it Cannot be possibly true.                      
     L. c. 1285     London ye 10th October 1682                                 
     Yesterday the Turkey merchants received Letters from the Lord              
Shandois his Maties Ambassador att Constantinople that hee has not as           
yett beene able to obteyne his Audience though hee has beene there above        
a 12 Moneth by which the English affaires remaine in a very unsettled           
posture that his Ldpp had endeavoured what in [word of about five letters       
blotted] possibly lay to procure it but the Grand-vizier had made a demand      
by way of 4000 Chekeenes, each of them being the value of 0-09 s-06 d and       
therefore refused on those Tearmes signifying to his Matie and the Company      
the same praying theire directions in that point  his Lordshipp farther         
sayes that there are the greatest preparacons for War against Hungary att       
that Port as was ever knowne the Grand Signior giveing out that hee will        
take the Field himselfe next spring.                                            
     The Scrutineers who were on both sides appointed to Inspect the Poll       
for a Lord Mayor on Satturday adjourned to this day by reason sevrall of        
ye Companyes had not sent in a List of theire Livery, accordingly this          
morning they mett togeather againe and proceeded to finish the prelimanaries    
of that worke as reduceing them into Companyes &c & to morrow they begin        
to search into ye Qualificacon of ye suffrages                                  
     This day was a Court of Aldrmen where many Orphans and others petion'd     
for theire money from out of ye Chamber but reced noe other Answer then         
that they must have patience till the affaires of the City would be some        
way or other settled and a Comon Councell called to order that point.           
     To morrow our first sessions begins att the old Baily yt ushers in         
2 New Sheriffs Mr North and Rich where is expected some momentary affaire       
so[me] of the Felons in Newgate haveing procured Councell to draw them up       
a plea to ex[c?]ept against the Jury returned by the Sheriffs and tis           
said they intend to pray the Court to allow them Councell to debate that        
point and therefore twill be observeable to know what the Judges will           
determine in that case.                                                         
     Yesterday morning early Mr Duncombs servants a Banker in Lumberd           
Streete makeing a great number of serpents unhappily tooke fire blew            
open his windowes and had like to have scattered his Cash in the                
streets.                                                                        
     Sunday night last the Princesse Charlotte Maria his R H youngest           
daughter was Conveyed in a herse to Westminster Abby & there privatly           
Interrd.                                                                        
     Wee heare from Chester that a Comission of Oyer & Terminer being           
brought downe thither to try the Riotors occasioned [by?] his Grace the         
Duke of Monm in that Country a session was called and a great many              
Indicted but the Grand Jury returned most if not all Ignoramus  Sr George       
Jeoffryes was much incensed not one of them as wee can Learne being either      
fined or otherwise punished but the same affaire att Coventry is deferred       
for some Moneths                                                                
     Letters from Paris say that the King Queene Dauphin & Dauphiness           
were the 15 Instant returned to ffontainbleau from Chamber Intendant of         
Poitou pursuant to an order of the king of the 17 of June gave to ye            
Protestant ministers a List of all those they pretend to have Converted         
to the Romane faith since March 81 being 39864 To the end that if those         
ministers should endeavour to make them Relapse should Imediately be            
Interdicted & theire Churches demolished                                        
   L. c. 1286   [Handwriting changes here.]  London the 12th October 1682       
     Letters from Rome of ye 24 ultimo speak of a pleasant Observation          
viz that a Spaniard being Chosen Genrall of ye Jessuitts the great              
Expectation was whether Spanish or ffrench ambassador hee would pay a           
visset to first  latter is said to have mightily bribed him the former          
not thinkeing but that hee would doubtless pforme first to his native           
soveraigne  the Crafty father to please both in disguise went first to          
the ffrench then putting on his usuall habitt repaired to the Spanish           
ambassadr who knowing nothing of ye Cheate Gave his Reverence a Splendid        
Entertainement besides honor and reward beleiveing Especially upon the          
Genralls impricateing to heaven that hee had received the first vissett         
but his Excellency soone after discovering the abuse in Extreame Rage &         
passion said that Certainely there was noe faith in man & thereupon sent        
an Express to Madrid to signify to ye King this Transaction                     
     Which the Jessuits of ye prtended Spanish faction understanding to         
abate the ambassadrs displeasure Called their Genrall perfidious base           
Mercenary villain & the procurator Genrall Threatned to discarde him            
& twas thought it would have ended in a Mutiny or Ryott but the plott           
was alsoe detected that they prmeditated to give such Language to yr            
Genrall but not in earnest wch his Excellency being informed of alsoe           
sent for Cardinall Ladovisio & Casanata & told them that noe greater            
villainy was Certainely ever pformed by mankinde & that hee was resolved        
Imediatly to leave Rome &c vowed to God that if hee had knowne the              
Genrall had been afore with the ffrench ambassadr hee would have given          
his Reverence a Bloody reception for hee found ye whole Order to be             
villaines Rogues & Trators wch if those of their owne Religion use such         
epithites to them what words shall protestants discriminatt & discribe          
them by                                                                         
      yesterday ye Sessions of peace began att Guild hall where ye 2 new        
Sheriffs took their first places a new pannell of Jury men being returned       
the Court swore 19 of ye Grand Jury Mr percifull Gilburne a Druggest yr         
foreman & Equally some of both sorts  Mr Recordr gave a Charge but nothing      
in pticuler agst dissenters  little of remark Occurd save only they found       
a Bill agst Hilton the great Informer of Conventicles for strikeing one         
Mr St John a Constable &c                                                       
     A Bill being formerly found against one Mr Vine the Kings fishmonger       
for saying that ye presbiterians Killd Sr Edmd B Godfrey hee was tryed          
thereon pleaded not Guilty & his Councell made a plea that they ought to        
have the Record that hee was murdered & by whome but it being over Ruled        
the Jury brought him in Guilty but hee is not fined as yett                     
     Twas expected that an Indictmt should have been prferred agst Leiftent     
Collonell Quiney for assaulting of Sr John Lawrence an Alderman in Guild        
hall & haveing his Company there drawne up but they advised with Councell       
who told them that if they brought an Indictmt it would be in a manner          
owneing the Grand Jury Lawfully returned by prsent Sheriffs soe tis deferred    
     One Benjamin Leech being by the Ld Major Comitted for saying the           
Sheriffs ought not to be Obeyed for they were tooles sett up by ye Ld           
Mayor & one Tho Smith being bound to prosecute him his Ldpp sent for this       
Smith & acquainted him yt hee might Cease prosecucon for hee not only           
forgave him but the Sheriffs alsoe & some people bragg yt his Ldpp was          
affraid to Indict him for the same                                              
     the Scrutineers appointed to inspect the poll for a Ld Major are           
some what delatory in that worke adjourning yestrday & have not as yett         
began ye Scrutiny of ye Qualifications of ye Elector but this day               
proceeds to yt worke  But after a short sitting they adjournd their             
further meeting againe till Tuesday next they being dissattisfyed at the        
Returne of sevrall Companyes Rolls of ye Livery Objecteing yt some psons        
are incerted yt are not of the Livery & otherwise some left out & therefore     
they desire to have an Exact Duplicate of ye Companyes bookes                   
   The Court last night fined ye aforesaid Mr Wine fishmonger the summe         
of 40 L for saying ye presbiterians Killed Sr Edmd Bury Godfrey                 
     [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1287     London the 14 October 1682                                  
     Our Letters from newmarkett say that their Maties Continue in good         
health and designe to returne the Close of next weeke  sevrall horse            
races have there passed to many to incert save only that on Tuesday last        
that Collonell Astons Guard horse was beate by Teague and the next day          
Dragon beate Whynot  Dureing the time of ye Match sevrall men & horses were     
rid over  One of 2 horses had their necks broaken  Collonell Aston &            
Sr Robt Geare fell soe foule upon one another on a full Gallop that both        
men and horses were overturned  the Colonell for some time Lay dead upon        
ye Spott  Sr Robert had his shoulder slipt  they were afterwards lett           
blood & since pretty well  Mr Henningham of Henningham sold his horses &        
is resolved to forbeare that sport and hee now repaireing to Thetford           
whereby the new Charter Granted by his Matie upon that Corporations             
Surendering their Old hee is Constituted ye Major and to be apparrelled         
in a Scarlett Gowne                                                             
     There is an Ordr drawing up att mr Attorney Genralls which tis beleived    
will be published before the Tearme to suppress all printed Intelligences       
& other prints that may Tend to ye disturbance of ye Government                 
     Tis wrote from Oxford that at ye late Sessions of yt City the Ld           
Norrise propounded the Collecting a Summe of money to be prsented to            
Roger Le Estrange for his greate Care & paines in his dayly labour              
towards ye defending the Governmt & tis said his Ldpp gave 20 Ginneyes &        
other proportionable.                                                           
     Our fforraigne Letters from Vienna gave noe good accot of the              
affaires in Hungary that Genrall Caprara was to weake to Encountter the         
Enemy who were now very powerfull & made a great Conquest in soe much           
that ye Bas[sa?] of Buda had installed Count Teckley Prince of High             
Hungary under the Quality of Duke & a new Coyne is made with ye Effigies        
of Prince Teckley thereon                                                       
     from Stratsburgh tis wrote that 4 Redgmts of Cavalry were Marched          
from ffryburgh towares Saverne upon the Saar in Lorraigne & all ye Kings        
forces in Alsace are following ye same Ordrs whereby tis feared that now        
ye ffrench have a designe to take Tryers in Order to facilitate his             
Conquest of Luxemburgh there being noe likelyhood to adjust differences         
between him & ye Spaniard neither ye Conference at ffrankfort to Come           
to a determinacon                                                               
     Yesterday 2 Eminent Goldsmiths of this City were by ye Ld C Justice        
bound to answere an Indictmt the first day of the Tearme for vending            
plate under ye Standard.                                                        
     The Earle of Berkleyes Daughter being missing from her father & ye         
prints promising a reward of 200 L to any yt shall Discover or bring her        
back such intimacon hath been given to her father that the Ld Grey              
her sisters husband has her under his protection whereupon his Ldpp was         
Exam[ined] thereon Thursday last before [the] Ld C Justice who answered         
Dubiously whereupon his Ldpp gave security to appeare the next Tearme           
& last night was served with a writt ne Exaet Regno & gave 5000 L Bayle         
thereto & wee are further told that a 2d writt De Homme Replegiendo will        
be taken out agst his Ldpp for the Replyevying [?] of the Lady henrietta        
wch if Elongatus est be returned a Capias ad Necthernam [?] will be             
issued out agst his Ldpp upon the accompt                                       
     The Grand Jury of Middx have presented the late Peticon of yt              
County to the Ld Major to sweare Papillion & Dubois Sheriffs to be a            
Seditious unlawfull paper fitt to be punished                                   
+yesterday began & this day ended ye sessions at ye Old Baley where 11          
were sentenced to dye 7 women & 4 men but none were soe hardy as twas           
beleived to make Exceptions agst the Jury returnd by these sheriffs             
This day a bill being brought to the Grand Jury of a pson who spake agst        
the prceedings of ye Ld Major they found ye same  ye man Confessed the          
Indictmt & the Court fined him 20 Markes.                                       
     [A few figures appear in another hand on outside of letter.]               
     L. c. 1288     London the 17th October 1682                                
+I had not time on Satturday to trasmitt yow a pfect accot of ye                
proceedings at ye Old Baley relateing to the Courts fineing of a pson 20        
Mark for saying that ye 2 Sheriffs Ought not be Obeyed they being only          
tooles sett up by the Ld Major which I finde now to bee Benjamin Leech          
who ye Ld Mayor said hee forgave & noe Indictmt brought agst him at ye          
sessions of peace but on ffriday a Bill was prferrd to ye G Jury at ye          
Old Baley agst him who returnd it Billa vera whereupon Mr Leech advised         
with Councell & brought Mr Thomson satturday morneing who put in a plea         
to Justify ye words  the same began to be argued but there being none but       
Mr Justice Levens On the Bench looked upon it as a surprize being unwilling     
to have ye matter discussed without ye prsence of other ye Judges  mr           
Sheriff Rich told Mr Thomson that hee was Endeavouring to rid him from          
a Troublesome Office which mr Thomson replyed that hee needed not to have       
had it were hee not to officious  Mr Thomson began to read a statute            
on the prisonrs behalfe but the Court riseing to dinner gave Mr Leech           
time till they returned to mend his Plea but the Court being satt the           
prisonr still psisted in the Justification  Mr Justice Levins would have        
had some of ye other Judges sent for saying that tho it was a frivolous         
plea yett twas his Opinion that ye rest of ye Judges should be Consulted        
in wch Oppinion Mr Recordr Concurrd but Sr John Peakee said Overrule itt        
over Rule itt & twas seconded by Sr James Edwards & other of ye Aldrmen         
wch accordingly they did & fined Mr Leech as Nihil dicit 20 Marks &             
Comitted him to Newgate who Imediatly paid the money & is now bringing          
writts agst the Sheriffs directed to ye Coronor to sue them to know by          
what authority they received his money & for what                               
     yesterday was held a Court of Leifetenancy where they took under           
debate the late action of Lieftenent Colonell Quiney & Comeing into             
Guild hall with his Company keeping ye Livery men from of ye Hustings the       
time of swearing Mr North & Rich Sheriffes & they agreed to returne him         
thanks for pformeing of yt acceptable peice of service as alsoe yt they         
would stand by & beare him out from any Damage that might accrue to him         
in Mannageing that dayes worke.                                                 
     Wee heare from Hertfordsheire that ye Eminent & aged Sr Henry Bloont       
dyed last weeke being about 90 yeares of age haveing Enjoyed an Annuity         
of 1000 L p Annum these 40 yeares for 400 L a yeare being paid out of ye        
Estate of one Sr John Harper of Derbysheire:                                    
     This day satt a Court of Aldrmen whome of ye Inspectors of ye pole         
on ye parte of Sr Wm Pritchard made Complaint agst the Company of Glovers       
that they refused to them their bookes to inspect their Livery men who          
being sent for one of ye Aldermen made a Motion to send them to Newgate         
but they replyed they did not denye their looking into yr books but to          
deliver them into yr Custody wch they Conceived they were not bound to          
doe wch was att Length admitted them                                            
    Afterwards sevrall Motions were made in ye Court that the Haberdashers      
Company of wch Alderman Cornish is Master should deliver an accompt of          
the sevrall Livery men that were admitted within a 12 Month beleiveing yt       
many more then usuall were received upon the Clothing but that Motion was       
overruled that they should not be pticuler but Extend to every Company to       
bring in the aforesaid accompt                                                  
+This day ye Scrutineers on both sides haveing finished their sevrall           
Objections mett in Ordr to agree their Excepcons whereof they tell us           
that there is manifest fowle practize sevrall Apprentices haveing poled         
& divers psons sevrall times and the Clark of ye Company of Joyners left        
out 8 Livery men wch were in his books & incerted 2 wch were in his             
List who were not wch being Compared by ye bookes were found to be soe          
but ye Scrutineers proceeded this day to goe through but 2 Companyes &          
Cannot agree to each Objections alledging yt ye Court of Aldermen must          
Arbitrate ye differences whereby wee are in noe Likelyhood to know who          
shall be Ld Major sevrall dayes yett by ye poll and tis thought the             
matter is soe farr pplext that it will be difficult whereby to discover         
it at all                                                                       
     L. c. 1289     London the 19th October 1682                                
+This day being the Essoyne day before the approaching Tearme & the time        
appointed for our City of London to deliver yr Rejoynder to the Replication     
of ye Attorney Genrall accordingly ye City Attorney Carryed it unto ye          
Kings bench Office which Consists of above 200 sheets of paper wherein          
they have in answere to ye Citys peticon to his Matie which is Objected         
agst them sett forth the whole series of ye popish plott his Maties             
sevrall proclamations thereof with the sevrall votes of both houses of          
parliamt in yt affaire togeather with ye pcedure upon itt wch they              
think will sufficiently Justify them in what they have incerted in the          
aforesaid Peticon:                                                              
     I Omitted to acquainte you that Last Tuesday Mr Sheriff Rich               
Complained to the Court of Aldermen that Sr Tho player our Chamberlayne         
refused to pay him 100 L as Customary to the Sheriffs  hee was Called           
into Court & asked ye reason who answered that hee had not money to pay         
the Orphans & would not doe itt bidding him take his Course                     
     Letters from Bristoll tell us that Hellier the Towne Clark has againe      
gott himselfe to be sworne a Constable for the following yeare in Order         
to rout ye Whiggs  a great many Quakers Children being taken at yr meeting      
are Comitted to Newgate & Bills found agst them tho under age  There is a       
fewd betweene the Deane & prebends of ye Cathedrall & Dr Crosman for            
yt ye latter haveing ye Mannagemt of 700 L to beautify the Church they          
Complaine agst him for Altering ye Comunion Table in ye nature of an            
Alter as Glor[ious?] & exact they say as some in pop[ish] Countreyes            
whereof they have Complained to ye Bishop                                       
     yesterday a sessions of peace was held to pfect their business where       
Lieuetent Collonell Quiney noe Indictmt being prferrd agst him for              
entering Guild hall with his Company was discharged by proclamation &           
moved the Court that ye prosecutors Recognizance might be Escheated             
     The East India Company have finished their Sale at prsent wch amounts      
to 520000 L but have another ye 27 Instant  their Actions have fell from        
365 to 280 but begin againe to advance:                                         
     The Sessions for the County of Middx ended Tuesday where sevrall of        
the psons who subscribed the late peticon to the Ld Major to swear              
papillion & Dubois Sheriffs were Indicted but ye Court referred the             
farther prosecution of yt matter to next Sessions                               
     The new fortifications of the Tower are almost Compleated  sevrall         
New Batteries for Cannon are raised & port holes made thro the Walls            
underneath to shoote Levell  a new fflanker made agst the enterance of          
Tower Streete & agst yt of ye Minoryes & Guns [all?] round ye Tower for         
its better security if any enemy should ever attaque itt.                       
     Wee have a farther accompt from Hickes hall that ye Grand Jury have        
delivered the Justices a Peticon to Pray his Matie to disarme the               
dissenters as dangerous to the Govermnent  about 200 are prosecuted upon        
the Statute of 20 L a Month for not Comeing to Church.                          
     The Scrutineers of the Poll still Labour under that worke meeteing         
with many Objections which both parties Cannot agree upon but must referr       
it to the Decision of the Court of Aldrmen but they will run thro all ye        
Companys to night & next Tuesday when the Court of Aldermen meets againe        
wee may in probability know something of that affaire.                          
+This day ye Judges Deligates satt againe to determine the long depending       
Cause betweene Mr Emerton & Mrs Bridgett Hyde  they Continued in debates        
from 9 in ye morning till 7 at night when they put it to ye vote  haveing       
[numbers illegible] they were half of one side & half of [the o]ther            
whereby they adjournd the farther decision till this day 6 weeks  The           
Duke of Albemarle Earle of Craven &c being absent tis beleived when they        
meete againe they will give it agst Emerton.                                    
     L. c. 1290     London the 21st October 1682                                
+Tis advised from Turino that the Duke of Savoy had desired his mother          
Madam Royall to depart from him & leave him alone to his Govermt is soe &       
well since ye departure of ye Portugall ffleete that Imediatly he rode ae       
hunting tho in ye raine, for not being inclinable to pforme ye Marriage         
wth ye Infanta made himselfe sicker then he was                                 
     Letters from ffrankfort of the 14 October tell us that they are            
Extreamly busy about Considering ye ffrench proposalls together with the        
time limited being the last of November to pforme them  The Deputyes of         
the Empire have agreed the Subject of a letter together with a declaracon       
to be sent to Ratisbon with ye Approbation of ye Imperiall ambassadr which      
they had dispatched away & letters of ye 20 add that the Standen of ye          
Empire refuse to accept of the Condicons proposed by ye ffrench att             
ffrankfort  The ffrench troops in Alsace are makeing towards fflanders &        
intends to Winter in the Land of Julier along ye Rhyne                          
     The letters Mention from Vienna of ye 12 that there is advice from         
Raab that the Prime Vizier att Constantinople in few dayes designs for          
Belgrade whither ye Emperor will send the Baron Saphonara with a new            
project of peace  there is an Express arrived with advice that Collonell        
Dependall suffered 500 Turkish horse to pass ye Waag who with a greater         
body designd to Invade Moravia fell upon the[m] & but 20 Escaped  Genrall       
Teckley is with his army at ye holy Cross where a ffrench Agent is arrived      
with a great Summe of Money by way of Poland to pay ye army.  2 Hussars         
are arrived with Genrall Caprara from Count Teckley with a letter for ye        
Emperor to agree a Cessation wch the Genrall has sent to Vienna but             
deteyned ye Messingers  the Emperor has now dispatched Count Martinitz to       
ye pope to pray aide                                                            
     Our Paris letters say that 4000 men are Ordrd for Pignorall who with       
those already there will Compleate a body of 12000  att ye same time            
Monnsr de Mortimer is gon for the Gallyes to sayle for Genoa Haven              
prtending a right to Come into yt port alsoe with a designe as tis              
beleived to make themselves Masters of itt:                                     
     The great Cause between Mr Emerton & Mrs Bridgett Hyde wch was             
transacted on Thursday is the subject of discourse Especially since ye          
Judges were Equally devided & to meete againe that day 6 weeks  therefore       
to Sattisfy yo[u]r Curiosity shall incert their names pro & Contra.             
+the 7 first for him                                                            
Marquis Hallifax          Duke of Ormond                                        
Sr Leoline Jenkins        Bishop of Peterborough                                
Bishop of Lincolne        Bishop of Bristoll                                    
Deane Tilotson            Earle of Alisbu[ry?]                                  
Deane Stillingfleete      Judge Raymond                                         
Baron Atkins              Judge Charleton                                       
Dr Newton                 Dr ffalconbridge                                      
+The 3 other who are absent were the Duke of Albemarle E Craven & Bishop        
of St Asaph  when & where they meete againe that party yt Carryes itt           
must have 9 for ye Majority of 17 & likewise a Coram of 2 Bishops 2             
Temporall Lords & 2 Judges whereby Mr Emerton Cannot probably Carry itt         
by this Comission  the Lady May but if shee has but 8 the Comission will        
be dissolved & ye matter left as before                                         
     Yesterday Mr Baxter the Nonconformist preacher was seized by a warrt       
from Sr James Butler upon the Corporation Act & is Comitted to New prison       
3 other warrts from other Justices of Middx Came to seize his Goods being       
40 L each but Mr Baxter shewed them a writeing that all hee had was             
sold 7 yeares agoe to ye Lady Maynard upon which they forboare  One Mr          
James was alsoe taken & Comitted to ye same place & there are Warrts out        
to take all or most of those preachers in ye County                             
+The Scrutineers of ye pole have soe puzled that affaire that it growes         
an Intricate & troublesome work to adjust they haveing delivered each           
their Exceptions & now are makeing Excepcons agst those Excepcons & tis         
beleived that the Decision being referrd to ye Court of Aldrmen they will       
adjudge itt in favor to Sr Wm Pritchard & lett them take yr remedy.             
+The Ld Major has issued forth his prcepts to all the Companyes to              
attend ye pson that shall be Elected to Westminster Monday 7 night              
     This Evening yr Mats & R Highness returned from Newmarkett                 
     L. c. 1291     London the 24 October 1682                                  
+Satturday Last the whole Court returned from Newmarkett to Whitehall           
where as soone as arrived a Cabynett Councell was held in Mr Secretary          
Jenkings his Lodgings where Mr Rich Sheriff attended & was Called in On         
Sonday  the Lord Major attended with A Aldermen went to Whitehall to            
Congratulate his Maties returne & was some houres in private                    
     The Lord North brother to my Ld Cheife Justice North On Satturday          
last arrested Person Ellyott & Joseph Hindmarsh bookseller in an Action         
of 1000 L Scandalum Magnatum the former being the authour & ye latter ye        
publisher of a late 18 d booke which reflects Grosly on his Ldpps Honor         
     Yesterday being the first of the Tearme Mr Williams Mooved for a           
Mandamus to sweare Mr Mrs [sic] Papillion Sheriff of London & Mr Wallop         
mooved for ye same of Mr Dubois but ye Court made a Rule that the Ld Major      
& Aldermen Shew Cause by next Monday why a Mandamus is not Granted              
     The Duke of Monmouth appeared in Court attended by a great many psons      
of Honor  his appearance was Recorded  Mr Thompson mooved that hee might        
be discharged but Mr Attorney not being in Court his Grace is Continued         
on his Recognizance till Monday next                                            
     The Ld Grey alsoe appeared upon accompt of ye Earle of Berkleys            
Daughter where an Information being ready the Court made him plead which        
hee did Not Guilty & ye same being read it was most Terribly worded as          
if his Ldpp had Comitted Adultry with ye said Lady Henerita.                    
     Mr Pilkington & Shute our 2 late Sheriffs made alsoe yr appearance         
some Contest arrose about Recording it the Judge alledging that the             
matter did not appeare before them being only bound in a bond by ye             
Councell but however they att length discharged the Bond & took their           
owne & one more Recognizance to appeare de die in diem                          
     Mr ffaringdon of Chichester was brought to ye barr & arraigned for         
being accessary in ye Murder of Harbin [?] ye Informer  Sr Geo Jeoffreys        
mooved that hee might be Comitted but Mr ffaringdon produceing 4                
affidavitts wch being read it did not appeare that Mr ffarringdon had           
ye least Knowledge thereof & the Coronor informed the Court that this mr        
ffarringdon was Cleared by 2 Inquests tho afterwards a Bill was found           
against him at the Sessions of peace & Mr ffarringdon declared it was           
a malitious prosecucon by his owne Brother Sr John ffarringdon upon which       
ye Court accepted of Bayle One Mr Thomas fformine a wealthy Citizen with        
4 more being his Suretyes himselfe bound 1000 L & the Bayle in 500 L            
each & Mr Attorney to shew Cause on Monday why ye same be not tryed             
this tearme.                                                                    
                    [Handwriting changes here.]                                 
     this day in the Exchequer Court a Bill was prferred by Mr Atturney         
agt Aldermen Cornish Sr Rich Dullward and divers other Aldermen &               
Commoners for Misapplying a Million of pounds Collected upon ye bill            
But of less money [?] for Building of Churches And ye [seal spoils four         
letters] allowed 3 Weeks to returne an answear                                  
     this day Nett Thomson was brought to ye King bench barr and                
recommitted to prison his former sentence not being discharged the Court        
Complayning of the notorious Lies he Dayly published  alsoe they ordrd a        
tipstaff to fetch Harry Care and Mrs Curtis the publisher of the                
protestant intelligence.                                                        
     This Morning the Cort of Aldermen mett att Guildhall to whome the          
Scrutineers on both sides delivered the farther Adjustmt of the Poll            
agreeing in matter tho not in forme wch theire appeared--                       
Gould 2257           Defaulters being not free and out of Towne Poled           
Cornish 2227         Sr Wm Prichard 76 and thise Defaulters for Sr tho          
Wm Pritchard 2144    Gould 28 and 2 poled twice but the greate Exception        
Tulse---236          was of sevrall Glovers of the Livery of Glovers            
                     Merchantiles [?] fairiers against Sr tho Goulds            
side In number above 70 who had not taken ye Oathes When they Came and          
Livery wch poynt was by Counsell on both sides Argued before the Court of       
Aldermen Mr Thomson Alledging that they were all rightfull Electors for         
the Company dispersed therewith.  att length they were ordrd to withdraw        
and afterwards dismist and wee are told their will bee a Common hall to         
morrow where the poll will bee declared tis supposed for Sr Wm Pritchard        
the Court not allowing those that had not taken ye Oathes as duely for          
Electors.                                                                       
     L. c. 1292     London the 26 October 1682                                  
+Yesterday was little Transacted att the Kings bench save only that Mr          
Attorney mooved that Mr ffaringdons tryall should be had in ye Countrey         
but the Court told him that Sr George jeoffreys Mooved the day before           
that it should be att the Barr but Mr Attorney replyed that hee gave            
noe such Ordr wch Occasioned words betweene Mr Attorney & Sr George about       
itt but the Court said that they being possessed of ye Cause & findeing         
that there was much of heate in the prosecucon besides Irreguler practice       
was resolved to have it tryed before them but asked mr Attorney if his          
Matie gave pticuler Orders about itt wch hee Could not say soe  a Rule          
of Court was made to try him this Tearme at the Kings bench for being           
accessary to ye Murder of Habin ye Informer in Chichester                       
     Mr Richd Baxter ye Nonconformist preacher being seized by a warrt          
from Sr James Butler upon ye Corporation act & Oath being made by Dr Cox        
that it would Endanger his life to keepe him in prison being Extreamly          
sick his Matie has been pleased to Recall the said Warrt with the               
Expression that hee delighted not in the death of his Subjects                  
     The Prisoners Condemned last Sessions in Custody of our new Sheriffs       
& none of them being Executed did raise Conjectures in many that the            
sheriffs would not adventure to pforme itt but Contrarywise 2 men &             
one woman being Old Offenders were yesterday drawne to Tyburne & there          
finished their fatall Exite & some say ye sheriffs have the Judges              
Opinion in the affaire                                                          
     There is now Come to our veiw a List of about 50 of the Cheifest           
Sticklers in this City that were last sessions att hickses hall Indicted        
upon the Statute of ye 23th of Elizabeth being Charged sevrall Monthes          
for not Comeing to Church 20 L each Month as if they were Popish                
Recusants which if it holds good against them tis beleived that many            
others will be punished after the like manner:                                  
     The Scrutineers of the Poll haveing on both sides made their Report        
to the Court of Aldermen on Tuesday last whereby ye Majority lay on Sr          
Tho: Gould & Alderman Cornishes part by 114 but those for Sr Wm Pritchards      
makeing Exceptions against 90 Livery men of the Merchantalors Company 12        
of ye Glovers as not haveing taken the Oathes & alsoe Excepted against          
all the ffurriers being 14 as not a Legall Cloathing together with 9            
Inholders  the same was Controverted before the Court of Aldrmen who not        
only rejected them but took the Musitians on Sr Wm Pritchards side & soe        
Ordrd the Scrutineers to adjust the pole after that Method but those            
for Gould & Cornish refused to Joyne therein                                    
     Whereupon Yesterday morning a Comon Hall was Summoned  Sr Wm               
Pritchards Scrutineers made yr Report to ye Court of aldrmen  afterwards        
the Ld Major & some Aldrmen Came upon ye Hustings where Mr Recordr told         
the Livery that hee was Comanded by ye Ld Major & Aldrmen to acquaint ym        
that ye pole being reported stood thus viz Sr Wm Pritchard 2138 Gould 2124      
Cornish 2093 Tulse 236 whereby the Majority falling on ye first they            
ha[ve?] Elected Sr Wm pritchard & Mr Record[er] Declared him Ld Major Elect     
& hee had Imediatly a Gold Chayne hung about his Neck  Mr Jenks stopped         
upon the Hustings & told ye Ld Major that hee made a false Report  Our          
prsant Ld Major made a Saint like speech Calling God & his owne Conscience      
to Witness that hee designd them noe Injury wch if they thought hee had         
Comitted beggd their pardon  Sr Wm made alsoe a speech Expressing his           
Inability to pforme soe great a Trust reposed in him but however he             
would Endeavour to prserve ye Church & State in its Right Lyne &c  On           
Satturday the time of swearing is in ye City On Monday before ye Barons         
of the Excheqr  the skiners Company have voted not to accompany him in          
their Barge & some others will doe ye like but wee are told his Matie           
will dine with him on Monday                                                    
+Last Night his Matie Conferrd the privey Seale On Marquis Hallifax             
which tis said will red[ou]nd to ye dissattisfacon of Mr Seamor who is          
retired into ye Countrey.                                                       
     L. c. 1293     London the 28 October 1682                                  
+This day one Designy a Sloppseller who the sitting of last Terme was           
Convicted for Kidnapping alias Spiriting away of Children Especially            
one Turbett a Young man at Pauls Schoole whose father had just agreed           
with an Attorney for his Clarke appeared at the Kings Bench & was fined         
500 L & Comitted till hee pay ye same                                           
     Letters from Chichester say that Monday last being an Adjournd             
sessions for yt City one Masters a Coller maker Came into Court & openly        
declared that hee had been prvayled upon when In drink to sweare falsely        
agst persons for ye Lucre of 5 L with promise of a greater reward relateing     
to ye wounding the Bishopps horses for which being troubled in Conscience       
had brought ye said 5 L & flung it downe in Court & the Justices Comitted       
him to Goale & they speak that ye Subo[r]nors are those who prosecute           
mr ffarringdon for ye Murder of habin ye Informer                               
     yesterday the Goods of one Patridge A Nonconformist preacher in            
Middx was by hilton the Grand Informer seized upon wch Caused such a            
Rabble that 2 files of Musqueteers were forced to be sent for from White        
hall to prserve Quietness                                                       
     yesterday Mrs Curtis publisher of the Protestant Mercury was by a          
Tipstaff brought to ye Kings Bench Barr where being Charged with vending        
of sevrall seditious pamphletts shee pleaded that what shee vended was          
in Obedience to her husbands Comands who was gon into ye Country but for        
all that for want of Bayle the Court Comitted her to the Custody of the         
Marshall                                                                        
     Thursday Mr Recordr & sevrall Aldrmen with ye Ld Mayor Elect Attended      
the Ld Chancellor as Customary for his maties Approbation & when Come           
his Ldpp made a florid speach Expressing that a Corporation was a body          
without a Soule for without his Maties Grace & favor it was dead  his           
Ldpp acquainted them that his Maties pleasure was to be Attended himselfe       
in person & that the next day in the Morning                                    
     Accordingly they went to Whitehall where being introduced into his         
Maties Bedchamber Mr Recordr made a most Loyall Elegant and well                
accepted Speach to his Matie Recomending Sr Wm Pritchard Ld Mayor Elect         
as ye Charter Enjoynd for a Loyall discreete & able pson & knew how to          
Governe for yt hee first Learnt to Obey & as Merchants who brought their        
Treasure from afarr did Obteyne his Maties Stamp to make them Currant           
Soe this Elected Major was prsented to his Matie before hee Could Officiate     
for his Royall Approbation and brought with him 2 Considerable things that      
hee was Chosen in Succession & with ye Majority &c                              
     Whereupon his Matie returnd a Gratious Answere that hee was well           
accepted by him as any they Could bring & doubted not but hee would             
follow soe good an Example as his prdicessor or words to this effect &          
that his Matie would remember Sr John Moore & give him a speciall Mark of       
his favour                                                                      
     This day being the time of swearing the Ld Major Elect in Guild hall       
the sa[me] was accordingly pformed in its usual[l] Ceremony save only ye        
Chamberlayne was absent to deliver him the City purse                           
     On Thursday afternoone workmen began to make prparations in Guildhall      
for his Maties Reception On Monday but the time proveing to short the           
same is againe taken downe & his Matie does not dine in ye City & there         
being noe Common Councell money Could not bee Obteyned for yt use but           
Sr Wm Pritchard Major & his prdecessor dines at Grocers hall                    
     Yesterday the Mercers Company Considered whether to send their             
Barge or not & Concluded ye matter that those that would goe might or           
as they would themselves but it being a Custome to give that Sheriff            
that was of yr Company 100 L towards his Expences they voted not to give        
any Money to Mr Dudly North                                                     
+A Pattent is past the Seales to make Mr Roger North Brother to Mr Dudley       
North our Sheriff One of his Maties Learned Councell in ye Law                  
+This day ye Court of Kings Bench Ordred the Tryall of Mr ffaringdon to         
be the 16 of next Month at ye Barr of yt Court being Thursday Come              
fortnight                                                                       
     L. c. 1294     London the 31 October 1682                                  
+The Close of last weeke his Matie was under some Indisposicon of               
health but praised be God (being lett blood) is perfectly recovered &           
yesterday stood upon the Leads att Whitehall to view the Ld Major with          
ye Other Companyes Barges on their way to Westminster:                          
     Yesterday being the time of swearing the Ld Major before the               
Barons of the Exchequer Sr John Moore our late Ld Major & Sr Wm Pritchard       
our prsent one accompanied with 12 Aldermen of 26 togeather with Mr Recorder    
& the 2 Sheriffs took water about 11 but there appeared not halfe ye            
Companyes Barges & the Livery very Thyn when Landed att Westminster  they       
first went round the hall & saluted the sevrall Courts of Justice then          
sitting & then Came to the Excheqr Barr where Mr Recordr made a learned         
speech in Comendation of Sr John Moore & praise of Sr Wm Pritchard then         
Ld Major & went on very Rhetoricall Concludeing that hee hoped that ye          
Conduct of the Ld Major would Cause all Divisions in ye City to Cease           
that there may be noe Strife but who shall show most Loyalty Love &             
affection one to ye Other                                                       
     Which being ended Ld Cheife Baron made a second speech that by what        
Mr Recordr had signifyed hee did approve of Sr Wm Pritchard as a pson           
fitt to Governe the great City of London & that hee had a worthy Example        
to follow the Methods of Sr John Moore who had behaved himselfe with            
all Constancy & Loyalty in a Troublesome season & Concluded that hee            
might bee a meanes to Cherish vertue & Trade in the City but to punis[h]        
the Obstinate & Evill doers                                                     
     Then Sr Wm Pritchard had an Oath tendred to him to be true & faithfull     
in ye adminstration of his Office both towards his Matie & his Leidge           
people  After wch Sr John Moore was sworne to make a true accompt of all        
the profitts arrisen to his Matie dureing his Majoralty & then a second         
as the Kings Gager wch after some other Ceremony were dismist                   
     Who inviteing the Judges to dinner they returned but ye show was           
not great being noe Pagants & other ornaments for the day save only a           
great appearance of ye Artillery Company  they dined att Grocers hall           
where sevrall of the Nobility did accompany them                                
     yesterday the Ld Major and Aldermen being Ordered to shew Cause to         
the Court of Kings Bench why they should not grant a Mandamus to sweare         
Mr Papillion & Dubois Sheriffs of London & Middx A Motion was made for          
further time wch was Ordered to be On ffriday:                                  
     The same time ye affaire of the Ld Gray Came in debate & 3 other           
psons mentioned in the Indictmt being brought into Court they alsoe             
pleaded & afterwards Bayled & the Tryall thereof appointed to be this           
day 3 weeks:                                                                    
     This day Edwd Whitacre lately in the Tower was tryed at the Kings          
Bench barr for speaking of very Notorious base & wicked words about 3           
yeares since in a Coffee house in Bath vizt One Sr James Long with 2 other      
Gentlemen testifying agst him that hee speaking of a pliamt to be had once      
a yeare they replyed not such a one as that of (41) wch caused rebellion        
and murdered the late King  Whitacre replyed that hee knew of noe Rebellion     
they made for twas in Justification of their rights & that the King was not     
Murdered but taken of by a Legall Tryall which they all Testify twas the        
substance of his then words whereupon there being noe Councell to speak on      
his behalfe the Jury of which Sr John Smith was foreman being all of            
somersetsheire pronounced him Guilty but Whitacre was not in Court for          
absconds [?].                                                                   
+A Motion was made by Councell on ye behalfe of Mr Topham agst Verdon           
the undersheriff of Norfolke relateing to ye verdict of 500 L & Obteyned        
agst him last Cambridgsheire Assizes that the Jury were Transposed Contrary     
to ye Ordr of the Court wch being made appeare the said verdict was sett        
aside & verdon Ordred to shew Cause by ffriday being an Attorney of yt          
Court who pcured the same why hee should not be turned over ye Barr.            
     L. c. 1295     London the 2d November 1682                                 
+Wee have now published an Ordr of the late sessions being the last             
publick Act Sr John Moore our Quondam Ld Major has subscribed That whatsoever   
person keeping an Ale or Victualling house that shall not Constantly goe        
to Church but resort to a seditious Conventicle shall have noe Licence          
for the future granted them & tis recomended to each Aldrman not to grant       
a Certificate to ye Justices for any such pson to keepe an Alehouse             
&c unless they bring a Testemoniall from either ye Minister or Church           
wardens of such their Conformity:                                               
     Yesterday wee had an accompt of 6 psons in the parish of Cornehill         
that stand at prsant Excommunicated for either not Comeing to Church or         
neglecting to receive the Blessed Sacramt & tis said many other Citizens        
in sevrall parishes will participate of ye same.                                
     Letters from Dorchester say that Sonday morning last Sr Wm Waller          
Came to yt Towne & next day went to Weymouth where a small vessell Lay          
to Carry him to Holland.                                                        
     The same Letters speaks of a Dutch vessell of 40 Guns & 60 men             
aboarde of wch was a Spanish merchant haveing great store of Peices of 8        
with him was the last week Cast away in the West Bay neare Portland &           
26 men drownd togeather with the said Merchant.                                 
     Sr Thomas Player our Chamberlayne being retired to his Countrey Seate      
neare Brandford to avoyd the dayly Clamor of the Orphans for money when         
there at prsant is none to pay them A Messinger is sent to him from the         
Councell to appeare before his Matie on ffriday next but I could not            
possibly Learne what matter they have to Object agst him.                       
    Tuesday night Don Pedro de Ronquillio the Spanish ambassadr delivered       
his Matie a Certaine writeing being the Coppyes of Originall Letters            
Transaccons & paymts of money by the ffrench to bring in the Turk upon          
Christedome togeather with ye Articles to Assist the Hungarian Male             
Contents which ye Emperor had seized and his ambassadr in Poland demanding      
a publick audience of that King where all the fforraigne Ministers were         
prsent the Emperors ambassadr first asked his Matie what those psons were       
who would bring in the Turk upon Europe  the King replyed that Certainly        
none yt professed Christianity would doe ye same for otherwise they were        
Enemies to mankind upon wch the ambassadr drew forth the letters wch were       
the ffrench Residents owne hand writeing being an Abbott and Charged him        
therewith to his face who findeing hee was discovered Justifyed the same        
but the King Imediatly Conveyed him with a strong Guard to the ffrontiers       
& sent him packing home & twas much adoe to save him from being Torne           
in peices:                                                                      
     Our Paris Letters say that the ffrench King has bought the Dutchey         
of Mantua & that his forces will take possession thereof this winter            
     Mr Attorney Genrall has brought a Surr Rejoyndr to answere the late        
Rejoyndr of ye City to his Replicacon whereupon the City Comittee mett          
this day in Ordr to Consider of the farther proceeds whether to rebutt or       
Joyne issue but the Charter Cannot possibly Come to a Tryall this Tearme        
     The Dutch ambassadr presses with great Earnestness to have a Resolve       
upon the prsent Juncture of affaires & declares yr Unwillingness to enter       
into a warr with ffrance without the Conjuncture of England & therefore         
prayes an Answere of how farr his Matie will be Gratiously pleased to           
Interest himselfe in relacon to ye Treaty of Nimeghuen by entering into         
those Measures as may secure a lasting peace or a happy prosecucon of warr      
     L. c. 1296     London the 4th November 1682                                
+Mr Attorney Genrall haveing delivered in a Surrejoinder to the City            
Rejoynder therein Endeavours to mainteyne the 2 Breaches hee before             
Assigned first Whereas the City pleads that beyond the time of ye Memory        
of man wch they call prscription they used to hold Marketts & imposed a         
Reasonable Toll & thereby they have not Acted agt Law to forfitt yr Charter     
but Mr Attorney in his Surrejoynder denyes ye same wch being an issuable        
matter of fact must be tryed by a Jury whether it is or not soe, but it         
Cannot Comence this Terme and Whereas the City pleads & setts forth the         
popish plott togeather with his Maties speaches as alsoe the votes of both      
houses of parliamt to Justify their peticon which mr Attorney Assignes for      
ye 2d Breach Mr Attorney demurrs to the same thereby admitting the matter       
they sett forth to be true yett noe Justification which being a point of        
Law must be argued by councell & then it lyes before ye Judges whether          
to overrule itt or not wch affaire will admitt of great Consideracon            
     Thursday last his R Highness Attorney delivered in a Declaracon agst       
Alderman pilkington one of our late sheriffs upon ye Action of Scandalum        
Magnatum brought agst him some time since wherein hee declares in the           
Damage of 100000 L & setts forth ye words to this effect vizt That the          
Duke of york haveing already burnt the City is hee a Comeing now to cutt        
our Throates which Mr Pilkington affirmes hee did not say in those words        
as nameing the Duke of yorke but the papists but wee heare hee is               
Endeavouring to make his peace.                                                 
     yesterday Mrs Whitacre whose husband was the last weeke Convicted          
for speaking seditious base words prsented the Judges a peticon that her        
husband had not due notice of his Tryall &c but they rejected the same          
     Twas Expected that a great hearing should have Come on in ye Kings         
Bench relateing to ye Granting or not a Mandamus for swearing Mr Papillion      
& Dubois Sheriffs but the Court considering that the Argumt might bee of        
some length & they goeing to prick Sheriffs in the Exchequr Deferred            
the debate thereof till Tuesday next                                            
     Mr Verdon the late undersheriff of Norfolke being to show reason why       
hee should not be turnd over the Barr appeared & the Court demanding a          
reason of his foule Practice in the Case of Topham for Transposeing of ye       
Jury hee Endeavoured to revert the matter upon the Sheriff of Cambridgsheire    
but the Court was very sharp upon him & would have Comitted him but Mr          
Godfrey Woodward Attorney undertook to be his Bayle till Thursday next          
wch time hee is to bring in a Coppy of the venire with a reproofe that          
they would punish him if hee Could not make out the same who replyed            
that what hee did was out of Loyalty.                                           
     yesterday Sr Tho player according to his Sumons appeared before his        
Matie in Councell where my Ld Chancellor demanded of him what hee had           
d[one] with ye money hee received for redeeming the poore Captives from         
out of Argiere  Sr Tho shewed them discharges for about 26000 L & the           
remandr wch was 16000 L hee had at his Office keeping that Cash sepate          
from yt of ye Orphans whereupon hee was required Imediatly to pay ye same       
into ye Excheqr an Ordr of Councell being made for ye same wch hee              
promised to doe on Tuesday & would have done it soever but his servant          
who keeps the same was in ye Countrey                                           
     This afternoone Kidd the Amsterdam Coffee man with divers Others were      
tryed upon an informacon before the Ld C Justice in Guild hall for              
Riotously hee being a Constable with force & Armes Endeavoring to force         
into ye Royall Exchange under prtence of goeing his Rounds in Oposition         
to a Company of ye Trayned Bands then & there upon the Guard Capt Bloomer       
Comandr the Circumstances to long to incert but in fine the Jury brought        
in Kidd the Constable Guilty but acquitted the rest                             
[A few words and figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]          
     L. c. 1297     London 7th November 1682                                    
+The Ld Grey of Warke haveing some time synce beene arrested by a               
corutt [?] Repleniendo [?] and the Shereiff makeing his Returne Elongavit       
his Ldpp yesterday appeared in ye Kings Bench Court in ordr to discust          
that affayre with the Judges relateing to ye Lady Henecita Berkely whome        
his Ldpp is Charged to have in Keepeing but a motion beeing made by ye          
adverse Councill for a Capias ad withernum the Court findeing his Ldpp          
prsant to save ye trowble of a Capias Committed him to ye Custody of ye         
Marshall untill he shall bring forth the said Lady Berkeley.                    
     There haveing been an Indictmt found agst Sr Robt Atkings Recordr          
of Bristoll for a Ryott ye same beeing transferred by Certiorary to ye          
Kings Bench Sr Robt Came himselfe into Court and made above 2 howeres           
Argumt yt ye same was invaled in ordr to have it sett aside wch haveing         
taken up a great deale of ye Courts tyme they have ordred ye farther            
Argumt thereof to bee on Munday next.                                           
     yesterday 2 Gentlemen one Capt Godollphen Governr of Scilly &              
Liftent Duncomb of his Matys foote Guards haveing dyned together ye Latter      
often repeated some verses wch ye former thought reflected on his famely        
prayed him to desist wch not beeing done prsantly words arrose and a            
Challenge Ensued & they desperately fought & were verry much hurt &             
Capt Godollphen some howers after dyed of his wounds.                           
     The Eall of Maxfeild is returnd to London from out of ye Country and       
by him wee undrstand yt his Ldpp has arrested one Strange a supposed papist     
in Newcastle upon an Action of 3000 L Scandalum magnatum for sayeing his        
Ldpp was a Rogue Rascall & Traytor & none of ye name otherwise & wee heare      
hee is in Confinemt wanteing bayle                                              
     An ordr is given to all his Mats officers of the guards yt they            
abrayd noe man with the appellation of Whigg or Cawse any qwarrelling           
about yt affayre.                                                               
     Wee have had for some days A flyeing report yt ye Eall of Mullgrave        
was forbid ye Court wch I forboare to speak of till there was a Certainty       
& now I find that his Mayte & R Highness is much displeased with him            
relateing to a Letter Intercepted betweene his Ldpp and Lady Ann Intymateing    
to neare [?] to address to her for wch ye same beeing privately Considered      
of ye Lord Chamberlayne has ordrs Last night to bid his Ldpp provide other      
Lodgeing than in Whitehall & some saye all his places are taken from him        
but that as yett beeing noe Certanty shall forbear to mentyon.                  
     The Close of Last weeke ye Ld Viscount Cambden aged 71 yeares              
departed this Life at Exton in Ruttlandsheire and ye Eall of Exeter is          
made Recordr of Stamford in his pt.                                             
     2 men of warr are a fitting ou[t] and ye Genrall discourse Runs yt         
they are designed to ye East Indyes to looke after the Interlopers of           
yt Company to seize them as prize.                                              
     Satterday Last 3 Emenent Merchts ye Boneiles all of yem Brothers           
went from of ye Exchange in ye Nature of breakeing & tis said Left              
Incumbrances behind yem to ye vallew of 100000 L.                               
     yesterday 13 Turkey Shipps arrived from that Country & speake of ye        
great preperations everywhere makeing for warr against the spring to goe        
against hungary.                                                                
                     [Handwriting changes here.]                                
     Last night beeing kept for ye 8 [5?] of November many bonefires were       
Enkindled but the Rabbell began theire Customed Rudeness of Cryeing noe         
yorke but a Monmouth a Monmouth & were soe out Ragious in the Stocksmarkett     
yt they began to burne & pull downe a vinteners signes &c but ye soldiers       
dispatcht the most & seized sevrall who were Comitted to the Compter            
& Bridewell.                                                                    
+This day Mr Recordr began to show reason to ye Court of Kings Bench for        
theire not granteing A mandamus and was seconded by Sr Geo Jefferyes &c         
& made exceptions to ye directing of it as ye adverse Councill desyred          
(vizt) ye Ld Mayr & Aldrmen makeing a distinction betweene ye Ld Mayr &         
Court of Aldrmen & by reason there was noe prsident such a writt in the         
Like Case ye Judges tooke time till Munday next to Considr how to direct        
it a Right [?] yt afterwards they might not Come undr any senecure [?]          
for the same                                                                    
    L. c. 1298  [Handwriting changes here.]  London the 9th November 1682       
+It is now Certainly Confirmed that the Earle of Mulgrave has soe               
mightily Incurred his Maties & Royall Highnesses displeasure that his           
Ldpp is not only Banished Whitehall and St Jameses but alsoe displaced          
from his Great Offices and Comands his Governorshipp of Hull Conferred          
on the Ld Windsor his Ld Leivetentshipp of the East Rideing of yorksheire       
given to the Marquis hallifax his Cheife Comand of one of the Kings Redgmts     
of Guards bestowed on the Ld Chesterfeild and his Honoble Office of one         
of the Lords of his Maties Bedchamber granted to the Earle of ffeversham        
& tis thought that hee will be in ppetuall disfavour  some people talk          
very harsly of ye affaire reflecting Censoriously On ye Honor of ye Lady        
Anne but I am well assured that ye princess of her owne accord discovered       
his Ldpps intentions by Shewing a letter wch shee receid to her father his      
Royall Highness                                                                 
     yesterday the Company of Merchant Taylors who had 90 odd Livery men        
Shutt out of ye pole for the last Ld Major as haveing not taken the             
Oath formerly imposed by ye Company held a Court where sevrall speaches         
were made that ye Company Ought to Justify their Livery or otherwise            
returne each Member yr Money which they received of them when they              
admitted them on the Cloathing & above 60 of them were prsent to demand         
the same upon which ye Company voted that they would Endeavour to Justify       
them & Ordered a Comittee to have resorte to ye ablest Councell for advice      
& use all Lawfull wayes to the accomplishing of itt                             
     Monday night last being a kinde of Ryott or rout by a great Number         
of robustick rude fellows in the Stocks markett in soe much that the Lord       
Major and Trayned Bands were forced to Come & disperse them but every           
day since sevrall of them are found out & Comitted and wee are told that        
some will be arraigned for their lives for Opposeing the Guards being           
Charged for Levying Warr agt the King of which if they should happen to         
be Convicted tis beleived that they may suffer for Example sake.                
     yesterday Mr Justice Dolbin gave the Charge to ye Grand Jury for           
the County of Middx & among many of his reckonings bidd them prsent ye          
Coffee houses for suffering seditious pamphletts to be brought & read in        
yr houses                                                                       
     yesterday Sr Tho Player pursuant to the late Ordr of Councell paid         
into ye Excheqr most pte of the money remaineing In his hand for                
redemption of the poore Captives from out of Argiere & on ffriday will          
Compleate the whole togeather with ye accot of yt affaire & wee are told        
yt his Matie will forthwith dispatch away that money for ye Carrying on         
that Charitable worke                                                           
     Yesterday one Lobb a Nonconformist Preacher had all his Goods seized       
& sevrall others are served after the like treatmt for their Nonconformity.     
     This day ye affaire of Verdon the late undersheriff of Norfolke was        
further discussed at ye Kings bench barr where hee Endeavored to throw          
the fowle practise made use of to pcure a verdict of 500 L agt Topham On        
the sheriff of Cambridgsheire  att length the Court after a very severe         
reprmand sett ye verdict aside without paying of Costs & resolved to            
have a new Tryall before ym at ye Barr                                          
     Mr Attorney moved the Court for Liberty to incert some new matter          
in a Replicacon to a Quo warranto brought some yeares since agt the             
Island of Burmudos declareing that hee had speciall direccon for ye             
same but ye Court told him yt it would bee an ill prsident to Assigne           
new Breaches after ye Bringing ye former & absolutely refused telling           
him that if hee would doe ye same must enter a Noli prosequi & bring            
a New Quo warranto & then might signe as many Breaches as hee would.            
+the Sperituall Court is busy sending forth yr Citacons in Ordr to              
Excommunicate sevrall psons for not receiveing ye blessed Sacramt as            
alsoe for absenteing from yr parrish Church                                     
     L. c. 1299     London the 11th November 1682                               
+Mr John Emerton who sevrall yeares past has mainteyned a Chargable             
defence att Law for the right of Mrs Bridgett Hide to be his wife findeing      
the Deligates not to determine that affaire and feareing that it might          
be given against him the 30 instant has sent downe Workmen upon the             
Estate who has felled and Cutt downe a great Number of Trees and are            
Extreamly busy in Carrying them from of the prmisses to prvent wch the          
Ld Dumblayne who prtends to the Estate haveing lately Marryed her has           
putt in a Bill in Chancery setting forth that she is his wife & therefore       
by right ought to have her Lands and prayes upon it a stopp and hindrance       
of Cutting and Carrying any timber by another but yesterday Mr Emerton          
delivered his Answere That whereas John Osburne Esqr an Irish Lord by           
ye Title of Dunblayne falsly suggesting to that Court that hee had              
marryed Mrs Bridgett Hide  his Bill may be dismist for that hee by ye           
Law of ye Land was himselfe Marryed to her some yeares before That a            
verdict in Law passed for him in his Justificacon now upon Record & that        
afterwards a Comission of Deligates had given Judgmt for his Marriage by        
vertue of Which hee was intituled to the Estate & therefore hoped the           
Court would not hinder him from doeing what hee thought good with his           
owne for that Dunblayne had but a Clandestyne prtence to the same wch           
affaire will Cause more work for ye Lawyers.                                    
     yesterday was a great argumt in ye Kings bench Court upon a writt of       
 Error in a Judgmt Obteynd by Sr Tho Chargis agt one Mr Row in the Common       
 pleas for that the said Mr Row Called Sr Thomas papist being Justice of        
 peace & a privey Councellor in Ireland  their Argumt was whether the word      
 papist was or was not Actionable  the Ld C Justice seemed to be of the         
 Opinion that it was not Giveing for reason that then the papists had a         
 great advantage agt us for then wee dare not Call them such as they were       
 but Mr Justice Dolbin was of ye Contrary Opinion saying that ye people         
 had gott such a way that every honest Church of England man was branded        
 with the name of papists wch if it Could not be remedyed itt would Cause       
 great heats & disturbances  Judge Jones was absent  Judge Raymond did          
 not Argue soe tis deferred till next Tearme.                                   
      yesterday Mr Attorney Genrall mooved that the City of London might        
 forthwith rebutt to the Surrejoynder wch was accordingly Ordered On            
 Wedensday next wch if hee makes a Surrebutter then the Charter will Come       
 Speedily upon issue some sayes this Terme but that would prcipitate soe        
 great an affaire                                                               
      yesterday Sr Geo Jeoffreys mooved that the Duke of yorkes Action of       
 Scandalu magnatu agt Alderman pilkington might be not only tryed at Barr       
 but this Terme by a Harford Jury  the Ld C Justice would have had it           
 deferred till next Terme but a rule being read that by Consent it was to       
 be tryed this Terme it was soe ordered unless mr Pilkington shew Cause         
 to the Contrary.                                                               
      Sonday last sevrall Justices of peace at Theobolds Comeing to disturb     
 a Conventicle found the people gon upon wch they pulld downe ye pulpitt        
 & made a Bonfire therewith being Gunpowder treason day                         
      yesterday the Ld Major & aldrmen attended his Matie in Councell where     
 they gave an accot of the late Riotous proceedings on Monday last wch was      
 made out very Notorious  thereupon his Matie was pleased to Ordr that on       
 the 17 being ye aniversery of Queene Eliz: they Ordr a strong Guard of         
 Trayned bands & suffer noe bonfires to be made & neither pope nor other        
 Effigies to be burnt to prvent wch that the City Gates be kept shutt in        
 the Eveninge & all Assemblyes Disperst                                         
      L. c. 1300     London the 14 November 1682                                
 +Our fforaigne Letters from vienna of the first instant say that ye            
 Venetian ambassadr shewed the Emperor a letter hee receid from Constantinople  
 that it to plainely appeares that that Court is resolved to Carry on a         
 warr against Hungary & that the Grand Signor after the feast Bairam            
 intends for Adrianople & goe in pson himselfe                                  
      Genrall Caprara is Encamped between Newtra & Leopolstadt & sent ye        
 Emperor advice that Genrall Teckley has refused passage for ye 1200 which      
 he had sent for the Townes of the hills saying that he had given noe           
 Comission to his Agents at Vienna to declare that he had accepted of a         
 Cesation of Armes yet he suffers the Imperiall Officers to proceed in yr Mines 
 in the hills paying him 6000 Guilders a Month Contribution & tis farther       
 advised that Genrall Teckley refuseing what his Agents have agreed at          
 Vienna New Acts of Hostility begin on both sides to be Comitted & the          
 Male Contents have seized on the Towne of Benedictus & plundered the same      
      Letters from ffranckfort of the 4 Instant say that the Deputies of        
 the Empire being assembled the Ditto brake upp without agreeing anything       
 of those great Matters before them relateing to warr or peace.                 
      Our Paris Letters speake that his Matie has Ordered the Assembly of       
 his Clargy to meete on the 4 of Aprill next  the protestants have given        
 answere to the Intendant wherein they Lay downe the sevrall reasons for        
 their seperateing from ye Roman ffaith but declare a great deale of            
 respect & submission to yt King not forgetting to take notice of the           
 fallibity of ye pope declareing that they are ready to loose the last          
 dropp of yr blood for mainteyneing yr Religion                                 
      Advice from the Hague sayes that the States of Holland are                
 Extrordinarily surprized at the Duke of Brandeburghs seizeing of               
 Gratzeile Towne in ffriesland whereupon they have Ordered 4 Redgmts to         
 draw thitherwards & repossess themselves thereof wch tis feared will in        
 a Manner begin a warr  the States have Ordered 24 men of warr to be            
 imediatly Equipped & sent to sea & they are noe less Solicitous to             
 accomplish a Genrall peace in Europe doeing all they Can that a place          
 may be Nominated for that purpose more Especially since the determined         
 time of ye ffrench begins to approach                                          
      Last night a most unhappy accident befell the Royall Exchange  a          
 Shipp of 400 Tons & 30 Guns newly arrived from Scandaroone Rideing before      
 woolwich wch took fire & with great pte of her Ladeing was burnt to ye         
 waters edge to the great loss of the Turkey Merchants                          
      Last night Sr Geo waterman an Aged Alderman of this City departed         
 this life whereby there will be n[oe] little stirr to gett a Whigg or          
 Tory Alderman in his stead                                                     
      the Grand Jury of Middx being impanelled & sworne they have before        
 them sevrall Matters of Moment as alsoe divers late printed bookes viz         
 hunts postscript Plato Redivivus the 3 pts of noe protestant plott             
 with other pamphletts & tis beleived will make prsentmts upon them             
      Sr Walter St Johns being a late member of Pliamt being a Ld of a          
 Mannor is summoned together with 50 more into ye Crowne Office & to            
 plead & make out yr Titles in the Nature of a Quo warranto.                    
      This & yesterday being 2 long pticuler tryalls att Barr nothing           
 was moved about ye Mandamus but deferred as alsoe Sr Robt Atkins his           
 farther argumt upon his Indictmt putt of till Thursday morning.                
       This Morning Mr Recordr mooved att Side Barr for longer time to          
 deliver in yr rebutter to ye Attorney Genrlls surrejoynder & Mr Attorney       
 is to shew cause to morrow why it should not be Granted.                       
 +This day Councellor Sanders took ye Oaths at Chancery Barkas being made       
 one of his Maties Councell learned in the Law.                                 
 +Satturday last one Mr ffranklin a Nonconformist preacher was seized &         
 Comitted to new prison upon ye Corporation Act & Last night Mr Read            
 another of ye same had all his Goods seized upon at Stepney for 140 L          
 being Convicted for p[reac?]hing 7 times & the Constable had a warrt           
 for his person but he Escaped.                                                 
 +The Towne of Nottingham Notwithstanding they have a new Charter Choose        
 Major & Sheriffs pursuant to the Old Saying that it was not Legally            
 Surrendered where upon a Quo warranto is sent agt their Old one &              
 Satturday last Mr Sacheverill who Espouses the Cause gave an appearance        
 thereto in the Crowne office.                                                  
      L. c. 1301     London 18 November 1682                                    
 +Sr George Waterman Alderman of the Bridg ward being deceased there is         
 great partyes makeing for one Alderman in his place & the Candidates are       
 said to be Mr Shuite our late Sheriff Mr Papillion our supposed Sheriff        
 Mr Dudley North one of our prsent Sheriffs and Deputy Daniell the              
 Haberdasher upon the Bridge Sheriff of Surrey which when the funerall          
 of Sr George is over the Ld Major will issue forth his prcept for that         
 Election                                                                       
      ffriday next is appoynted the Tryall att Kings bench barr between         
 his Royall highness & Alderman Pilkington upon the Action of Scandalu          
 Magnatu and the Jury are returned already by the Sheriff of Harfordsheire      
 where the Duke has laid his Action                                             
      This morning the Lord Cheife Justice Called mr Saunders within side       
 of the Barr being made one of his Maties Councell learned in the Law and       
 wee are told that hee will be sudainly Knighted for his service to the         
 Crowne                                                                         
      Last night Sr John ffinch his Maties late ambassadr att Constantinople    
 and the Ld Chancellors Brother departed this life haveing sometime             
 Languished under ye distemper of A Consumption                                 
      yesterday Sr Robt Atkins his business about ye Ryott at Bristoll          
 was put of till next Tearme                                                    
      Monday next Comes on the Tryall of the Ld Grey by a Surrey Jury           
 who are sumoned to appeare then Sr Marmaduke Grassant foreman                  
      The Lady Berkley is not yet found but a Messinger who has been in         
 Quest of her above a Month sayes that hee narrowly Mist of her 4 or 5          
 times & laye[s out?] for her still                                             
      The sevrall Printers of Intelligences findeing themselves under           
 the lash of the Law for printing & publishing Scandalous papers of Newes       
 have agreed to Lay downe & print noe more On that subject soe that now         
 wee have only the Gazett & Observator and tis Credibly reported for a          
 truth that Tomson the printer of the Loyall Intelligence dyed on Thursday      
 last                                                                           
      Last Tuesday Sr Robt Cane Chancellor of ye Dutchess departed this         
 life & tis sd that Sr John Chickley has Kissed his Maties hand for yt          
 place of Honor & trust                                                         
      yesterday being Queen Eliz: Coronation day some prparations were          
 made by the Rabble to burne the pope  the Ld Major issued forth his            
 prcepts to ye Constables of ye sevrall wards to keep the Guard with a          
 double watch to prvent Bonfires & disorderly meeteings & 6 Companyes of        
 ye Trayned Bands were upon Duty at the same time & it soe hapned that          
 upon the prudent Conduct of the Ld Major & Carefullness of the Watch           
 ther was not the least disorder & the suburbs were Conformable thereto         
 tho twas said they would either drowne Or hang him but had not their           
 designe                                                                        
      L. c. 1302     London the 21st November 1682                              
 +By a letter from Collonel Kirke Governor of Tangiere wee understand           
 that the Morocco ambassadr who went from hence upon his arrivall att ffez      
 found that ye Emperor was gone sevrall miles up ye Country at the head of      
 his Army to Quell his Enemies who made head against him His Brother            
 Espouseing that Interest  the said ambassadr hereupon sent one of the          
 Cheifest of his retinue before him to give ye said Ambassadrs accot of         
 his Embassy in England who stateing the matter before ye Emperor &             
 relateing ye difference wch hapned between ye ambassadr & 2 of his             
 servants whilest in England the Emperor being incensed Ordered the             
 ambassadr & the said servants to be brought before him in Chaine in            
 which posture ye ambassador gave a pticuler accot of his whole Embassy for     
 wch the Emperor was Extreamly pleased but gave him a Check as representing     
 his person & not strikeing of his slaves heads upon yr offending him soe       
 far distant & then Knocked of his ffetters & embraceing him said that he       
 would inviolably observe the peace with England & for the greate service       
 that he had done in that affaire bid him ask what he would within his          
 dominions & it should be Granted to wch ye ambassadr readily answered          
 that he humbly begd but one thing that he would be pleased to pardon his       
 2 Enemies the Secretary of the Embassy & the Renegado which the                
 ambassadr did accordingly.                                                     
      Wee are told yt a seditious pamphlett was lately seized in the            
press handed thither by a bookseller who sayes that one Mr Stringer sent        
it to him  it Conteyns sevrall dangerous passages are to this purpose           
That it is the safety of the people of England to have the prince & the         
Lawes in their keepeing with other Tratorous passages of ye like nature         
for wch tis said Mr Stringer is Comitted to prison                              
      Last Satturday the Ld Cheife Baron Montague & Mr Justice Windham          
 Argued the Earle of Derbyes Case in the Excheqr Chamber wch 5 of the           
 Judges had done before & were of Opinion in behalfe of the said Earle          
 that his Ancestors had not power to alienate ye Lands held by them  Its        
 said that the whole Estate now depending wch the Earle sues for & will         
 recover is 5 or 6000 L p anm some of it now in ye possession of Sr Wm          
 Glynne & Sr Tho Trevors sone who apprehending yr Title was Questionable        
 Cutt up ye Woods on the Estates wch they Converted to Money  the 2 Ld C        
 Justices are to argue the Case last of all & then yr will be noe further       
 dispute about itt                                                              
      This day twas Expected that the Ld Greyes Tryall would have Come          
 but ye Attorney Genrall mooved th[at] it might be putt of till Thursday        
 by reason one Materiall Witness was absent & twas Consented to & tis           
 discoursed since yt ye business will be agreed by Consent of all ptyes         
      Capt Clifford & Saxfeild were Tryed for stealeing away Madam              
 Synderfin sometime since agt her Consent from of Hunslow heath & were          
 found Guilty but not sentenced                                                 
      Sonday night last about 10 a Dreadfull fire broak out at Waping           
 Dock  Various are ye discourses how it Came but it Continued till last         
 night at 6 insoemuch that noe less then 5 or 600 houses were laid in           
 Ashes & tis reported that neare 100 psons were Killed Dureing the              
 Disaster & one Sr Wm Warrens is said to be 1000 L p Anm but most pte           
 Ensured.                                                                       
      This day an alias Mandamus was granted                                    
      L. c. 1303     London 23 Novemr 1682                                      
 +There are armes brought to the horse Guards at whitehall to be placed         
 in the armory that is building there enough to furnish 1500 Men                
      By a Ship lately arrivd here from New England gives us accott of          
 a great ffire hath happened there ye latter end of this Sumer at a             
 Towne called Rhebe which hath burnd downe between 70 and 80 houses and         
 likewise hath destroyd a great quantity of goods being brought thither         
 to be Shiped for France.                                                       
      The Rushia ambassador haveing done his Errand departs for his own         
 Country the latter end of this weeke.                                          
      Satturday last a Comte sate to Regulate affaires in the Leward            
 Islands and Yesterday in ye afternoone a Comte sate about Tangire as           
 likewise a Comte of ye Ecclesiasticall Lords mett to Regulate some             
 affaires in the Church                                                         
      Tuesday last D. Hambleton was enstalled Kntt of ye most Noble order       
 of the Garter but his Matie was not there exspected.                           
      Yesterday severall Bayliffs entred the house of Coll Stroud the           
 present ffarmer of ye 4 1/2 p Cent in the Secretarys offices for about         
 50000 L  he is in arreers to his Matie for ye last ffarme and Continues        
 there in possession seeing his goods appraisd but its thought he will          
 rather pay ye money then they shall be carryed away                            
      This day ye Ld Gray came to his Tryall at ye Kings Be[nch] Barr           
 ther haveing been an Informacon exhibited against him some time since          
 for takeing away the Lady Berkly to prove which severall Honoble witnesses     
 were produced  But in regard it would be highly presumptuous for us to         
 add any thing reflecting on either of these Honoble ffamylyes much less        
 if it should prove false which by reason of ye present Distraction wch         
 were then in the Court wee cannot be possative in, wee shall only tell         
 you that ye Lady Heneretta Berkly appeared her selfe in person and while       
 the Ld C Justice was summoning up ye evidence for and against the Ld           
 Gray she openly declard in Court that she was Marryed to one Turner            
 upon this it was urged yt ye sd Turner was Married already and had 3           
 Children wch Createing a disturbance in the Court and his Lady was             
 ordered to Prison which he would have occasioned a Rescue by a great           
 appearence of people  But their words being taken away she was carryed         
 off by a Tipstaff with Mr Turner to prove ye Marriage and were Comitted        
 But the Ld Gray was Bailed by ye Ld Cavendish in 1200 L Security and           
 himselfe in 2400 L                                                             
      Yesterday came on the businss betweene his R Highness and Mr              
 Dockery att ye Kings Bench Barr where severall lrs were produced under         
 his hand that he sent lres into the Country to Collect lres and sent           
 them up by ye Carryer to be distributed by ye Penny Post upon wch ye           
 Jury gave the D. of Yorke 100 L damages                                        
      L. c. 1304     London 25 Novemb 1682                                      
 +Yesterday in the afternoone one Mr Glover a Greys Inn Gentleman meeting       
 one Mr Lashly a Scottchman in Covent Garden with whome hee had formerly        
 some differance words were exchanged between them and grew to such a           
 hight that they drew at each other and made severall passes upon wch           
 some Company seeing them Came and Interposed and Mr Glover Imedyately          
 flung down his sword but the Latter tooke the advantage in a Cowardly          
 manner and made a home thrust thro his back who prsently fell dead upon        
 the place whereon Mr Lashly was seized & Comitted.                             
      yesterday was ye great expected Tryall att Kings bench barr between       
 his R Highness and Shereiffe Pilkenton by a Jury of Harfordsheire  ye          
 words were Laid in the declaration severall wayes  ye substance was that       
 ther beeing a discourse toucheing an ordr of ye Court of Aldrmen for           
 divers of ye said Aldrmen to wayt upon his Maytie and Complemt him upon        
 his Returne from Newmarkett & after if his Maytie approoved of it to           
 Congratulate his Royall H Returne from Scottland                               
 +The defendant should say yt hee has burnt o[u]r Citty and is Come now to      
 Cutt o[u]r throates, ye words were prooved fully by Sr Wm Hooker and Sr        
 Hen Tulle (2 of ye Aldrmen) and on ye behalfe of Aldrman Pilkenton Sr          
 Patient Ward was examyned who would have turned it off, as if said of          
 the papist and one Hubbert yt suffered for beeing Concerned in great           
 fire of London and did upon his oath with very great attestations deny         
 ye saying of ye Latter words (vizt) & is now Come to Cutt o[u]r throates       
 the Jury went from ye barr and in a qwarter of an hower Came in againe         
 & found for the plaintiffe giveing him 100000 L damages beeing all ye          
 damage hee Layd in his writt                                                   
      The Ld Greyes tryall beeing on Thursday Last ye Lady Lucey and Lady       
 Arbella swore from ye Lds owne Confession a Long Intreague betwixt him         
 and his sister in Law ye Lady Heneritta Berkeley and yt one Charnock           
 formerly his Coache man but now his Gentleman was supposed to bee ye           
 pson yt Conveyed ye Lady away ye discreption of her Clothes giveing a          
 great suspition of itt by those wch observed ye habbitt shee wore and          
 that the Ld Grey helld Corrispondance with her dureing her absence from        
 her ffathers howse, wch my Ld said was occationed by some severityes           
 used towards her & yt shee had throwne her selfe upon him to whome hee         
 paconed [?] his word and honor not to betray her, the Lady was there in        
 Court and upon oath declared my Ld Grey Knew noething of her goeing away       
 yt Charnock was not ye man wch was Instrumentall in her Escape and was         
 undr a vow not to tell who it was.  When the Jury was gone from ye barr        
 ye Lord Berkely desyred hee might have her home but shee said shee was         
 married and would goe to none but her husband who was one Turner sonn to       
 Sr Wm Turner ye Civillian deceased who had severall wittnesses there to        
 proove ye marrage  a quarrell had Like to have beene about her wch to          
 prvent ye Ld Cheife Justice Committed Turner and his wife to ye                
 Marshallsea & yesterday ye Jury delivered in theire verdict yt all but         
 one in ye Indictmt were guillty Vizt ye Ld Grey Mr Charnock and one            
 more but ye Court have not as yett Sentenced them                              
 +Thursday Last was a tryall at Guildhall betweene Mr Hillton ye Grand          
 Informer plantiff and Sr Robt Cleyton defendt ye Latter refuseing to           
 grant him warrants for surpressing of Conventicles  In fine ye plantiff        
 was nonsuited & severall wittnesses swore very fowle things agst the           
 said Hilton.                                                                   
      L. c. 1305     London 28 Novembr 82                                       
 +yesterday a pacquett was sent to Mr Duboyse wherein was Inclosed 2 or 3       
 Treasonable Lybells wch having perused Comunicated them to the Ld Mayr         
 within a Little tyme after a pson Came to Mr Duboyse whether he had            
 received such a pacquett withall telling him that hee Looked upon him as       
 an honest man and would Intrust him with more papers of the same Nature &      
 beeing asked whither hee sent the said pacqwett owned it & was thereupon       
 Carryed before the Ld Mayr who examyned & Committed him.                       
      yesterday morneing about 4 of the Clock dyed his Highness Prince          
 Rupert of a Lingering distemper haveing beene a great while Indisposed         
 hee declared upon his death bed that hee was married to Mrs Hughes by          
 whome hee has Left one daughter haveing made a good provission for them        
 both & Constituted in his will the Eall of Craven for his Executor.            
      The 27 Instant Mr Thomson Councell for the Duke of Monmouth               
 mooved at the Kings Bench Barr yt the said Duke might bee discharged           
 from both his Recognizances which was Consented to.                            
 +The 28 Instant a motion was made for A mandamus to sweare Sr Tho Gould        
 or Aldrman Cornish Ld Mayr of ye City of London but ye Ld C Justice            
 would not soe much as Cowntinance the Motion as beeing a disjuntive and        
 without president.                                                             
      Last Wensday night the Master of the Revells of Grayes Inne beeing        
 Introduced into his Majests prsence had the honor of Knighthood Conferred      
 upon him by ye name of Sr Richd Gibbs.                                         
      This day was Acted a New play Called the Duke of Gwise by Mr Dryden       
 it was formerly forbid as Reflecting upon the D of Monmouth but by ye          
 application of the awthor its now allowed to bee Acted.                        
      Wee talke of severall Creations of Dignityes severall psons haveing       
 allready Kissed his Majestys hand thereupon and ye promise of their            
 advancements is for their Constant services rendred ye Crown  the best         
 account I have of them is as followeth--                                       
 1  the Marqwess of Worcester to bee Created Duke of Bewford.                   
 2  the Ld Herbert to bee advanced to ye Tytle of Eall of Worcester.            
 3  Eall of Burlington to bee Duke of Cumberland upon the death of Prince       
    Rupert.                                                                     
 4  Ld Hide viscount Killingsworth to be[e] Created Eall of Rochester.          
 5  the Ld Norris to bee Eall of Abbington.                                     
 6  the Ld viscount Cambden to be Earll of Cambden or stamford.                 
 7  Ld Townesend Barron of Lyme Regis to bee viscownt Townesend of              
    Raynham in Norfolke.                                                        
 8  Colloll Legg to bee Created Barron of Dartmouth or Tillbury.                
 9  Tho Thynn Barron of Longleet and viscount Tamworth.                         
 10 Sr John Bennetts Pattent is allready passed for Createing him Barron        
    of Ossellstone.                                                             
 11 Colloll Churchill to bee created Barron of Kirkehill in scottland.          
 12 D of Ormond to have precedencey as an English Duke by the same Tytle.       
 +Ld Arundell Governr of Windsor Castle ye D of Grafton to bee made vice        
 Admirall of England, and wee are Informed that there will be these             
 following allterations (Viz) ye Ld Ch Just North to be made Ld Keeper,         
 Sr Geo Jeffreys to succeed his Ldpp & Mr Roger North will be made Judge        
 of Chester In his Rome ye Ld Cheife Barron of ye Excheqr will Resigne          
 his place & yt ye Atto Genrall will succeed him.  ye Ld Chancellors            
 sonn will bee made Atto Genrall and Mr Sandrs solissiter Genrall in his        
 Rome.  Aldrman Pilkenmon has Laid downe his Gowne.                             
 +Tewsday Last a places [?] Capias was granted upon ye mandamus to Come         
 to Tryall for refuseing to sweare Mr Papillion & Duboyse Shereiffs of          
 London & Midsex.                                                               
 +The new stewards of ye Artillary Company are as followeth:                    
 D of Ormond          Ld ffocolkenbridg         Sr Rich Haddock                 
 Eall of Sunderland   she[riff] North           Sr Jho Buckworth                
 Eall of Aylesbury    Sr Nich Buttler                                           
      L. c. 1306     London the 28 November 82                                  
 +Yesterday one Mr Arasmith an Apothecary in Breadstreete was arrested          
 upon an Action of Scandalu Magnatu at the suite of his R Highness for          
 words of a high nature but the writt expresses only 1000 L but hee may         
 declare for as much as hee pleases as in ye Case of Pilkington                 
      Alderman Pilkington since the verdict of 100000 [sic] L agt him as        
 appraised [?] and disposed of all his Goods & merchandizes & hath secured      
 his other Estate as that it Cannot be taken from him:                          
      The Lady Henrietta Berkley being Comitted by ye Court of Kings            
 Bench to the Custody of the Marshall has since made her Escape in her          
 womans attire together with her husband Mr Wm Turner but tis suposed the       
 same was Conived att                                                           
      yesterday a person was sentenced to stand in the pillory before the       
 Mint in Southwerke & pay 20 L for being Concernd in a great Ryott in the       
 Mint acteing as a Ld Cheife Justice among those unruely people  A              
 Waterman was alsoe sentenced to stand in the pillory att Gravesend & att       
 Billingsgate for forgery                                                       
      Sevrall Pattents are passing ye Seales to Create some Noble men           
 Titles of Honor Marquis hallifax a Duke Ld Norris an Earle Ld Marquis of       
 Worcester a Duke Coll Churchwell a Scotch Lord Coll Legg a Barron:             
     Last Satturday satt a Comtee [?] of Ecclesiasticall Lords to dispose       
 of a Country Liveing voyd by simony                                            
      The Councell being mett ffriday last the Messingrs according to           
 Ordr gave in their Accompts of ye warrts they receid the day before to         
 watch att ambassadrs houses to seize all such psons as Came thither to         
 Mass & in them gave an accot of sevrall they had seized therein who            
 were Ordred to be Comitted                                                     
      Capt Clifford being fined 200 L the Lady Synderfin has laid 300 L         
 accon agt him to wch he must give bayle                                        
      A yorksheire Attorney was this day Comitted for setting the hands         
 of Councellors to sevrall declaracons without their Consent                    
      yesterday Mr Kidd ye Constable who after many severe Cheques was          
 fined 20 Nobles for his late affront to Capt Bloomer [sic].                    
      This day Mr shute & Pilkington the late sheriffs appeared at Kings        
 bench barr to answere to the Ryott sometime since Comitted att Guild           
 hall & were Continued upon yr Recognizance  the latter mooved that his         
 10000 L Bayle might be discharged wch was granted & hee Comitted on            
 that matter of his R Highnesses                                                
      This day his R Highness dyned at Merchant Taylors hall with the           
 Artiller[y] Company & was very splendidly entertained                          
      L. c. 1307     London the 2d December 1682                                
 +Yesterday Mr Emertons marriage was againe debated but some of the Lords       
 Comissionrs being absent the further debate was put of till Tuesday next       
      The Ld Chancellor continues much indiposed still & is said that if        
 the severity of his payne Continues to render him unfitt for business          
 that hee will desire a writt of Ease And then tis thought that the Ld          
 Cheife Justice North Or Sr Wm Coventry will succeede him in that great         
 Office & that there will be more remoovalls.                                   
      Prince Rupert was not Interred on Thursday night as many reported         
 but his body has been opened & these strange pticulers observed by ye          
 Chirurgeons that over his Brayne wch is Comonly Surrounded or lapt             
 about with a Skinn was a pfect bone & in his bladder was found a great         
 stone with a hole through the middle of itt through which the urine            
 passed for which reason hee was not sencible of the stone which others         
 Complayne of  In his fundament was observed sevrall little Teates &            
 in his heart A Grissly substance wch went through itt all wch are              
 Curiously observed by the Anatomists & dissectors                              
      Thursday last dyed the Earle of St Albans & by his death another          
 Garter is falen wch tis said will be given to the Marquis of Hallifax          
 & the other voyd by the death of P Rupert to the Earle of Northumberland       
 who is to have the Aditionall title of Duke of the same name:                  
      Its said that more Noblemen are to have Aditionall titles of Honor        
 as the Ld Windsor Earle of Houlderness and the Ld Darcy Earle of               
 Plymouth that the Earle of Cambden is to be Earle of Gainesburrough &          
 Sr Tho: Thynn viscount Warminstone wch 2 last were mistaken in my last         
 & that the Earle of Arundall is to be made Constable of Windsor.               
      Wee are told that Mr Arrasmith formerly menconed hath peticoned his       
 Royall Highness for forgiveness & received sattisfactory Answers that          
 the Accon should Cease provided that hee would be of good behavior             
      The Ld Prestons Secretary is newly arrived from ffrance with              
 matters of great Importance but the purport Cannot as yett tell yow            
      The Ld Mulgrave is goeing for ffrance                                     
      Sr Phillip Warwick lyes now much indisposed & tis thought will            
 not recover                                                                    
      Some people will still have their discourse in talking of a pliamt        
 in March & there being a Councell yesterday tis said writts will be            
 issued out in January                                                          
      Tis discoursed that the Earle of Rochester will be made Ld Treasurer:     
      L. c. 1308     London 5 Decemb 1682                                       
 +The doctors Commons are extreamely busy every day in sendeing forth           
 Citations to Above 1500 Citizens in order to excommunicate them for            
 either not repayreing to yr parish Church or neglecting to Receive ye          
 blessed Sacramt and ye Surrogate Dr Hinfold [?] have had divers Courts         
 where many of them have appeared and Reced admonition forthwith to             
 Conforme and yesterday in ffishstreet Tabernacle above 200 were prsent         
 and ordred by ye afforesaid Dr to Receive ye blessed Sacrament next            
 Sunday or be farther proceeded agst wch affayre has putt the people into       
 noe Lyttle perplexity, some have appeared to ye Court of Arches &              
 procured an Inhibition and served Dr Hinfold the Judge therewith.              
 +Butt Indeavors are useing to hindr others of ye Like benefitt  severall       
 have Craved tyme to answer and divers other methods they are workeing          
 upon and there be those who are soe hardy as to putt in a plea to ye           
 Juryesdicon of ye Court (Vizt)--                                               
      To the prsentmt made agst mee A B: parishoner of haveing perused ye       
 prsentment and advised thereon i doe for answer to the same say tis            
 uncertaine and Insufficyent in it selfe & such to which by Law I Cannot        
 answer and pray yt it may bee sett downe & Recorded--                          
      And make these previous demandes  I desyre a Coppy of ye prsentmt         
 I desire a Proctor may bee assignd mee  I desyre tyme to pleade accordeing     
 to advice of Councill  I desire to plead Spetially not Genrally.               
      The great expectation is whether these will bee allowed but               
 notwithstanding all which tis said that divers if not some hundreds will       
 bee Excomunicated by Xtmas which if it soe happen tis beleived that            
 there Votes will bee Rejected on St Thomas day upon ye Choyce of a New         
 Common Councill on which proceeding much depends at this Juncture.             
      And Indictmt is prpareing agst Sr pateint Ward for perjury wch wee        
 are told will bee prferd this weekes sessyons at ye old baily and they         
 talke of sufficyent proof agst him upon ye Evidence wch hee gave in            
 favor of Mr Pilkenton upon ye Tryall between him and his Royall Highness.      
      A Cookes wife in Bippsgate street beeing soe Indiscreet as to open        
 a Servant her selfe that dyed of the small pox and synce beateing a maid       
 that soone after dyed Contracted such an odium in ye Mobille yt for 3          
 dayes together the Close of Last weeke they Endeavored to pull the             
 house to the Grownd  ye trayned bands severall tymes dissipated them  on       
 sunday ye Ld mayr with a great strenght were forced to goe to the Rescue       
 who seized on about 8 or 10 & Comitted them for A Ryott.                       
      Last Thursday a Messenger was posted away into Holland by ordr of         
 Councill with a warrant to serve on Mr ffergison a Noncon preacher of          
 this Towne who is said to bee att the [seal spoils about three letters]        
 with the Eall of Shaftsbury and in Case hee refuse to obey wee are told        
 that hee will be demanded of the States pursuant to an Article in ye           
 Last Treaty to deliver up any of his Mayts subjects yt shall turne             
 Rebells  ye Eall is said to be Returned towards Brandenburgh.                  
      Last night some Constables with an Informer one Bragg seized ye           
 Goods of one Benjamen Antiognis [?] a Lynnen draper in Cheapeside              
 pursuant to ye Corporation Act hee beeing a Speaker among ye qwakers           
 but ye Mobile began soe to Increase yt Mr Informer was in feare of his         
 Life whereby hee made his Escape over ye houses & retyred without his          
 prey.                                                                          
      yesterday began ye Sessions of peace att Guild hall where a bill          
 was prferred & found by the Grand Jury agst Joshua Bowes for bringing          
 Scandalus and reflecting papers to John Duboyse Eqr in ordr to bring           
 him into a Premunire and people talke that there is a great depth and          
 Mistery in that affayre.                                                       
 +This day was held a Wardemote for ye Choyce of an Aldrman in ye Rome of       
 Sr George Waterman deceased  ye Ld Mayr appeared as Judge for the              
 bridgeward where Mr Papillion & Mr Shute were putt in Nomination on the        
 one pt and Mr Dudly North & deputy Daniell ye other & upon ye Voice [?]        
 his Ldpp declared ye Ellecon to fall on Mr Daniell and Mr Papillion  a         
 poll was demanded & they proceeded on yt worke but ye Ld Mayr Insisted         
 on giveing ye oathes of allegieince & supremecy to divers qwakers and          
 others wch begatt some dispute whereby his Ldpp adjourned ye farther           
 proceeding till this day 7 night.                                              
      L. c. 1309     London 7th Decembr 1682                                    
 +Mr John Emerton haveing Petioned the Ld Chancellor to grant him a new         
 Comission of adjunct since it was not only the first he required               
 anything of yt nature but also that at ye last meeting the Judges              
 Dellegated in that Comission came to noe determinacon being equally            
 devided upon wch and severall other Consideracons mentioned in his             
 Peticon his Ldpp was pleased to assigne him a new Comission wth ye             
 addition of 13 to those formerly declared as ye Judges as have not             
 already been in ye case viz Ld C Justice Dolbon Mr Justice Levins Barron       
 Gregory & Barron Street two Bpps Ely and Glasgow [?] Ld President of ye        
 Councill 4 Cevilians Dr oxendon Dr Littleton Dr Hedges Dr St Johns, and        
 that they heare and determine that soe long depending cause with all           
 possible expedicon.                                                            
      This day the Company of Stationers held a Genll Court to Consider         
 on ye most Effectuall way for Suppressings of all Printed Books and            
 papers for ye future that should have any reflecon or Tendancy towards         
 disturbing ye Govermt & came to a Conclusion by makeing a By Law that          
 all Printers or other members of their Company shall not for the future        
 publish any Print but wt they show first emole [?] the title thereof           
 together wth their name in their Companys booke to the end that if any         
 thing shall be found therein seditious scandalous or otherwise they may        
 know to whome to resort for sattisfacon upon the pennallty for every           
 default the sume of 20 L to the use of ye Company & that the same be           
 printed to give Cautionary advice.                                             
      Yesterday the Ld Herbert Eldest son to the Ld Marquiss of Worcester       
 who lately Married Sr Josiah Childs Daughter was made ffree of ye East         
 india Company upon the Resignacon of very Considerable accons of yt            
 Company wch Sr Josiah made unto his Ldpp by way of Dowry with his              
 Daughter wch at this present is vallued at 305 L for each Principle 100 L.     
      The merchants yesterday received the Confirmacon of ye Lamentable         
 Newes of 22 merchants Shipp which are taken by ye Rovers of ye Sally and       
 carried into that Port the goods disposed off and our men sold for             
 slaves to the Number of 200 and odd and a list of ye Shipps transmitted        
 wch for ye Curious shall incert vizt                                           
 Exchange Capt Gold, ffortune, Capt hatton Wm & Mary Capt Bowes, Olave          
 Capt Heckland Jn and Hannah, Capt: Riggland, Eliz: Capt Nowell Bohemia         
 mercht Capt Graves owners adventure, Capt White ffriends adventure Capt        
 Crew [?] Jn & Tho: Capt hallett Rose of Dartmouth, Capt Atwell Providence      
 Capt Bellamy Hopewell Capt Cheeke, Two Brothers, Capt Davis Dobell             
 Dogger Capt Green, Neptune Capt John Bull, John and Christoper, Capt           
 Pettibrigget Ship from Bilbo to malligo.                                       
      Last night P. Rupert was interrd in Henry the 7th Chappell  many of       
 ye nobillity and Clergy accompanied the Corps thither  his Image is            
 taken in wax and will be publickly exposd.                                     
      One Mr Jn Duff: Minister of Raile in Essex being Seized hearing of        
 a mass at one of ye fforreigne Embassadors was examined by ye Councill         
 and Comitted to a Messenger and since made his Escape upon wch the Board       
 writ yesterday an order to all ye Ports giveing discription of his             
 person and habitt haveing a Gray Chamblett Coat &c.                            
      To morrow is held a wardmote in St Dunstons Church for ye Choice          
 of an Aldm in the vacancy of Aldm Pilkington and the present Sherriffs         
 are to be put upon the one part and Mr Hawkins a Scrivenr on ye other.         
      The Drs Commons still proceeds through all ye parrishes of London         
 to send Citacons to those that come not to Church &c and there being 12        
 parrishes peculier to the Bpp of Canterbury seperrate from the Bpp of          
 London, they were this day Cited to ffoster Lane before Sr Richard             
 wiseman, and received admonition and old Dr owen Minister of Corne [?]         
 street presented above 3 fforths of his parrishoners in order to               
 excommunicate ym                                                               
      This day many Bills were found against Printers Booksellers, as           
 John Starky, Mrs Curtis, Smyth, Benkins, Joanna Broome for Le Estranges        
 observator and Mr stringer Late the Ld Shaftsburys servt for handing           
 some reflections to the Press                                                  
      L. c. 1310     London 9 Decembr 1682                                      
 +Yesterday was held a wardmote for ye Choice of an Aldm for ffaringdon         
 without in ye roome of Mr Pilkington one of our Late Sherriffs which           
 was performd in St Dunstons in ye west  great was the appearance of ye         
 Electors and the Candidates were the present Ld mayor & Sr Wm Turner on        
 ye part of ye aldm and the two present Sherriffs on ye part of ye              
 Commonalty on ye one side and Sr Robert Clayton and Sr Jn Lawrance on ye       
 part of ye Aldm and mr Dubois and mr Hawkins on ye part of ye Commonallty      
 on the other side and they being severally put up the Ld Mayor declared        
 the Election to fall between himselfe & Sr Robt Clayton for ye Aldm and        
 one Sheriffe North and mr Hawkins for the Commoners but there were those       
 yt gave a Contrary Judgmt that Dubois and Hawkins were much Superior in        
 number by ye view, A Poll was Demanded and granted but ye Lord mayor           
 Constitued 12 of the Inhabitants Comissioners to give the oathes of            
 allegiency and Supremacy to every person that prtends a right to the           
 Election  otherwise they will not accept or take their suffrages & they        
 proceeded in that affaire which by reason therof will prove a worke of         
 some time and difficulty to accomplish.                                        
      Wee are Credibly Informd yt Parson Duff minister of Raile in Essex        
 who in our last wee aquainted you had made an Escape from one of his           
 Maties messengers being Comitted to his Custoday by ye Councill for            
 being seized at Mass att one of ye fforraigne Ambassadors is since             
 retaken at Rochesr and yesterday examined before the Councill where ye         
 oathes of alleigiency and Supremacy being tendred him hee not only             
 refused the same but gave a great suspition that he is a Priest of the         
 Church of Rome upon wch he is recomitted to ye Gatehouse and we are told       
 that he being presented to his Liveing by ye Ld ffinch the Ld Chancellor       
 is very severe upon him being resolved to have him made an Example for         
 that Masquradeing villany in scandalizeing the Church of England.              
      Lres from Paris say the ye ffrench King has published an Edict wch        
 he hath gott verifyed in parliamt to seize all ye Estates of those of          
 his Subjects who have retired themselves out of his Kingdome in whose          
 possession soever they be found provided they were not sold a 12 Month         
 before their departure and this Edict is puting in Execucon all over his       
 dominions wch as ye officers intend to mannage itt will bring the King         
 an Immens Sume.                                                                
      Munday next the Penny Post for Conveyance of Lr[s &?] small percells      
 in and about the [seal spoils about three letters] of this City will be        
 againe revi[seal spoils about four letters] by ye former undertakers,          
 Nor[seal spoils about four letters] granted by Pattent to any but              
 ym[seal spoils about three letters] has taken itt himselfe and added           
 [it?] to the Genll Post office whose officers intend to mannage and            
 improve ye same, and mr Castleton has Kist his R: H[ighs] hand for ye          
 Controule thereof                                                              
      Yesterday the Sessions ended at the old Baily where 15 received           
 Sentance of Death one James Lashly Esqr for killing mr Glover in Covent        
 Garden, 6 highwaymen who were brought from Salsberry Goale, 4 ffoote           
 pads from Chelmsford Goale  13 received Bennifit of Clergy ordered to be       
 whipped and 7 [?] apprentices ffined and ordered to stand on ye Pillory        
 for a late Ryott in Stocks Markett at ye makeing of Bone fire and this         
 day they stood on ye Pillory in divers places of ye Citty, but many            
 people gave them money wine & orranges and notwithstanding their Punishmts     
 they would drinke the Kings and D. of Monmouths helth thereon.                 
      Sr Robt Atkins being at his Seat in Gloster hath wrote his Mate a         
 letter wch yesterday we are told was delivered by Barron Atkins to crave       
 leave to surrender up his Recordership of Bristoll.                            
      Joshua Bowes who was Bailed out of Prison for bringing scandalous         
 lres to Jn Dubois Esqr did not appeare according to his Recognizance           
 this sessions wh[en?] that affaire came to noe terminacon & his Baile          
 being searched after [seal spoils about nine letters]wise play least in        
 sight.                                                                         
      This day the Pole was Confirmed at St Dunstons each Elector being         
 first sworne received a Tickett from ye Comissioner and gave in their          
 suffrages  in the morning it generally went on ye part of the Ld Mayor         
 but this afternoone as much the Contrary  by Munday evening tis beleived       
 the books will be closed.                                                      
      L. c. 1311     London 12 Xber 82                                          
 +Sunday last severall papers signed Hinfold Judge of ye Doctors Comons         
 were affixed on divers Church Porches with ye names of a great many            
 parrishoners who neglected to appear before ye Judge pursuant to ye            
 Citatyons allowing them tyme till wensday next to give yr attendance           
 otherwise to bee Lyable to an Excomunicatyon.                                  
      And there passes not a day but ye afforesaid Judge sitts att              
 ffishstreet tabernacle where hee gives admonition alloweing yem Lyttle         
 tyme for prepareing to Receive the blessed sacramt some Requireing only        
 till Xtmas butt in most Churches ye Sacrament is appoynted every Sunday        
 and there are now above 2000 undr prossecutyon who are smartly Handled         
 they not beeing allowed (for expedityon) ye ordinary Meathods of yt Court      
 as to have tyme allowed hem with a Coppy of yr prsentmt and neither            
 Proctors or Councill dare be soe hardy as to take a fee to defend theire       
 Cawse  The qwakers seeme very Moross & Stubborne one telling ye Judge yt       
 Expelling him out of that Church hee never was in was a Contradictyon          
 Another said that hee neither pold for Lord Mayr nor shereffes and             
 therefore prayed to bee Excused at wch Dr Hinfold was Extreamely angrey        
 yt hee should suppose that this Christyan proceedings of theres had            
 reference to any thing of Poleing yt ye Church wardens haveing on yr           
 oathes Retained omnia bene & yt Court Constrayneing them to doe                
 otherwise was in a mannr to make them perjured and desyred to see his          
 annser but ye Rest gaine said the same Replyeing that ye divill was ye         
 accuser of ye Bretheren and they did not desyre to see his face.               
      Butt in fine divers are decreed for Excomunication but severall who       
 are not Regid dissenters have Confirmed many more rather then Live undr        
 the Lash of beeing sent to ye divill but its said that ye Coart Canott         
 possibly make Convictions of a Number before St Thomases day.                  
      yesterday one Addell and his ptner Howad [?] beeing Banckers in           
 Lumbard that went a side for a great summe & ye occation is attributed         
 to ye dissenters drawing away all yr mony from thence dureing this             
 troublesome season.                                                            
 +yesterday ye Creditors of Aldman Blackwell Bancker after severall             
 meetings agreed to take out a statute of Bankrupt agst him Each pson           
 payeing fower shillings for each 100 L debt towards defrayeing ye Charge.      
 +Sunday Last a great Ceremony was made in Lambeth Church thro bringing         
 into that Community 2 Qwakers & wee heare that in some other places            
 severall of those people have done the Like and att ye poll now                
 depending at St Dunstones for an Aldrman 4 qwakers have taken ye oath          
 of allegiance & Supremecey & many presbeters & other dissenters Last           
 Sunday tooke ye Sacrament in our Church.                                       
      The ffrench King haveing appointed a great Race neare Paris for a         
 plate of 1000 pistoles Envyteing any fforayners thereto divers English         
 Jockeyes are transporting yr horses thither to Endeavor to Wynn ye prize       
 and severall of our Noble men will bee prsent alsoe, but tis said that         
 the ff Kinges designe is to draw thither the best horses in England and        
 Elsewhere and then to purchase them at any Rate.                               
      Our Last Letter from Chichester sayes that the dissenters of that         
 place beeing also sharply proceeded agst Mayr Brenen sent for some of          
 ye Cheife and discoursed them yt ye Church of England agreed with yem in       
 fundamentalls and herein was sallvatyon shewed hem the danger that was         
 Like to befall them and theire famelyes unless they Confirmed upon which       
 and other Matters hee gave them the Last Sunday  320 in a body went all        
 to Church insoemuch that there was scarse Rome to Conteyne them.               
      A shipp of 40 Guns one Mr Sands super Cargoe beeing Equipped in ye        
 River with designe as tis thought to trade as an Interloper to the East        
 Indyes tho entred for ye Maderas  the East Indya Company soe reprsented        
 their affayre to his Majtee in Councill that an ordr of that board was         
 obteyned to obstruct her voyage without the owners give good securety          
 that shee will not goe to the East Indyes and served her therewith but         
 Last night She fell downe ye River as tho would Contem ye Councills order      
 and proceeded forwards if forceable meanes doe not Constrayne her to the       
 Contrary.                                                                      
 +In my 2 Last acqwaynted you that one Parson Duff made his Escape from         
 the Kings Messengr was synce retaken & Committed to the Gatehouse butt         
 further [?] Examynatyon find that the Councill transmitted him to the          
 Ld C Justice who tendred him the Oathes of allegiance & supremacey but         
 refused the same demanding what Religion hee was of (answered the              
 Christian) but his Ldpp askeing him what pt thereof Replyed that hee           
 beleived all the scripture from Geneses to the Revelatyons by which and        
 severall other qwestyons it did appear that he was a papist & thereupon        
 his Ldpp Committed him to the Kings Bench & wee are told that hee was          
 discovered by 2 of his Country parishoners who dogged him into Wild            
 house where hee putt of his parson & tooke on Cowntry habbitt & they           
 affirme that they saw him att high devotyon with beads & Mass booke but        
 not officiateing as some doe report                                            
      Wee have a Rhumer that his Majtee will bee pleased to Call a              
 Councill of ye Nobillity to advise him in ye prsent Juncture of affayres       
 & there will bee also summoned a Convocatyon of the Clergie but whether        
 one or both of these reports will hold Currant I Cannott assure.               
      L. c. 1312     London 14 Xber 1682                                        
 +The Poll for an Aldrman att Dunstones in the West in the vacansey             
 of ye Late Aldrman Pilkenton was successively Continued till yesterday         
 noone when ye Ld Mayor ordred the bookes to be Closed & to Cast up the         
 suffrages 3 of the Clock afternoone in prsence of ye Supervizers of each       
 pty and twas agreed that they stood Vizt--                                     
 Sr Wm Prittchard 966          Sr Robt Clayton--883                             
 Sr Wm Turner     903          Sr Jn Lawrance   811                             
 Dudly North Eqr  965          Richd Hawkings Eqr  851                          
 Peeter Rich Eqr  898          John Duboy Eqr  820                              
      Whereupon the Ld Mayr declared ye poll to fall on himselfe and Sr         
 Wm Turner on pt of ye Aldrmen and on the 2 Shereiffes for ye Commoners         
 but some psons desyred a Scrutiny alleadgeing yt many of ye White              
 ffryers alias Alsatia men were not qwallified Electors besydes others          
 but his Ldpp would not Intermedle in the affayre diverting them to ye          
 Court of Aldrmen if they had matter of Complaynt upon wch ye Bells Rang        
 for Joy.                                                                       
      The Constitution of yt Choyce is to Returne 2 Sitting Aldrmen & 2         
 Commoners to ye Court of Aldrmen & then they elect one Aldrman and one         
 Commoner wch Aldrman soe Elected has ye Liberty at his pleasure to             
 Change ye Ward hee is in posession of for that in dispute & if hee does        
 then a New hee will Keepe his owne warde  then that Commoner wch is            
 Elected by ye Aldrmen out of the 2 Returned is (Ipso facto) Aldrman of         
 ye Warde in dispute and in all probabillity ye Aldrmen will Elect ye Ld        
 Mayr who will Keepe his warde and tis more yen probable that mr Dudly          
 North will be ye pson of ye Commoners & thereby Aldrman of yt warde of         
 ffarringdon without.                                                           
      This day a Court of Aldrmen beeing satt severall of ye Whiggish           
 Electors of ffaringdon without deliverd ye Court a petityon ye substance       
 as before prayeing a scruteny of ye poll for yt in many was not Rightfull      
 Electors but ye Court Returned them theire petition beeing Indefective         
 as not Incerting Mr North and Rich to bee Shereiffes upon which the            
 petityoners not willing to bee deprived of ye Expectatyons for a word,         
 mended the said petityon Entituleing yem Shereiffs of London and Midsex        
 and then redelivered ye same to ye Court.                                      
      Who tooke yt affayre into debate there beeing much tyme spent pro         
 et Contra  at Lenght ye qwestyon was putt whether they should proceed          
 to ye Ellectyon of an Aldrman and it was Carryed in ye affirmative 14          
 agst 17.                                                                       
      And then they Chose a J supposed above ye Ld Mayr refused to Change       
 his Warde and thereupon they Ellecting Mr Dudly North Caled him in and         
 Swore him Aldrman accordeingly & that answer they gave to ye petytyoners.      
      This day ye Poll was Reasumed for an Aldrman also in ye Bridgward         
 where Commissyoners were Likewise appoynted to give ye oathes of               
 allegiance and supremacey  after ye poleing of about 200 they adjourned        
 till to morrow the Whiggs haveing 25 superior to ye other.                     
      The Ld Chancellr is not only extreamely afflicted with ye Gout but        
 is otherwise very much Indisposed insomuch yt his phisityans begin to          
 dispare that his Ldspp will scarse Recover this seveare Inflictyon.            
      yesterday 11 Mallefactors were Executed at Tyborne makeing a              
 dreadfull Execut [?] but Capten Lashly who Killd Mr Glover were repreived      
 att ye Intersessyon of his R Highness & D Hamillton.                           
      This night a project of Lights being 2 Socketts of Glass in forme         
 of a Lanthorne were sett up in Cornehill and is Intended to burne very         
 brightly all ye night which if aprooved of 2 psons will undrtake to            
 furnish the whole City over at 4 [?] a night.                                  
 +Letters of ye 4 Novemb Last from Salley gives an accownt from aforehand       
 yt ye Morocco Embassadr is fell agayne into high displeasure of ye             
 Emperor beeing ordred to be tyed to a horses tayle & dragged till his          
 Braynes dropp out but ye Emperor reversed that sentence & only ordred          
 him 100 blowes on his bare fflesh with a Cudgell  Its said that Jonas ye       
 English Renagadoe who is advanced as much as ever is his back frend [?]        
 to ye Emperor & they say that they accuse him for Lyeing with women in         
 England drinking of corne & standeing bare before ye King  The Emperor         
 has only agreed a truce at sea for 4 Monthes but att Land for 4 yeares         
 and Expects an Embassadr sent unto him  our 23 Shipps at Salley are            
 Condemd as prize                                                               
      [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]              
      L. c. 1313     London the 16 December 1682                                
 +I informed yow in Tuesdayes Intelligence that a Shipp of 40 Guns being        
 designd an Interloper to the East Indies was stopt from proceeding             
 Onwards her voyage by order of Councell But since has fell downe ye            
 river as though she would Contemne ye same prtending that she ought not        
 to give an accompt of her Intentions alsoe alledging that if the East          
 India company have not authority sufficient either to seize or hinder an       
 Interloper to unlade or sell her Comodityes when they are arrived from         
 ye Indies, much less can they Clayme a power to Obstruct an Intentionall       
 voyage before ye fact Comitted but she is not soe hardy as some Imagined       
 to pass beyond Gravesend the Customehouse refuseing a Cockett [?] But Mr       
 Sands one of her greatest owners is Createing work for ye Lawyers by           
 giveing trouble to those who obstructs her voyage & tis beleived has           
 been ye Agitator to make a seizure of sevrall shipps Lading of wine            
 Offering to proove to ye Comissionrs of the Customehouse that they are         
 of the ffrench product Contrary to the late prohibition Act which Causes       
 noe little Broyle upon the Coast                                               
      yesterday according to an Adjournmt the poll began againe to be           
 Carryed on for the Choice of an Alderman for the Bridgeward but after          
 some Consideracon the Ld Mayor made a further adjourment thereof till          
 Monday next in the Meane time granted an Inspection whether those that         
 had already poled were Qualifyed Electors  the Candidates are Mr Shute &       
 Papillion On the one side Sheriff Rich and Deputy Daniell on the other         
 the former have at prsent the Superiority                                      
      yesterday beeing the time for ye Choyce of a Master for ye Company        
 of haberdashers Deputy Daniell who stands Candidate for an Alderman was        
 put in Nomination but ye Company elected one Alderman Chandler by a            
 Considerable Majority                                                          
      George Robinson who the last sessions was fined 40 L & to stand in        
 the pillory on Tuesday for Counterfeiting 4 sevrall Bills directed to Mr       
 Manga a Gold smith for neare 300 L Obteyned a Warrt from the Attorney          
 Genrall for a writt of Error but made out his writt otherwise then his         
 warrt specifyed in which he beeing alsoe detected he this day stood in         
 the pillory psuant to his sentence:                                            
      Yesterday Mr Turney supposed Major of Rye was before ye Councell          
 upon Complaint that he refused to deliver up the Mace & other Ensignes         
 of the Majoralty to another Gentleman who Claymes the place and upon           
 hearing thereof he was Ordred to give in good security to answere that         
 Contempt the first day of next Tearme.                                         
      yesterday at Drs Commons sevrall Common Lawyers appeared & pleaded        
 the Case of Divers psons who were prsented for not Comeing to Church &         
 makeing Objection agt the prsentmt that they did not Obstinatly                
 denye the same Craveing time to answere as alsoe a Coppy of the said           
 prsentment with much other matter but Dr Pinfold Surrogate made noe            
 decree in yt matter save only he would answere them by his seale               
      I am Credibly informd that there will be a further promotion of           
 divers Gentlemen to the dignity of Barons viz Sr Stephen ffox Mr               
 Godolphin Sr Jn Earneley Sr Edwd Deering & Mr Griffin Cofferer                 
      yesterday divers warrts were brought to the Constables of the             
 parish of Stepney to make distress in sevrall houses for 1100 L upon ye        
 Conventicle Act  the first they paid a vissit to was Alderman Hocknell         
 late Candidate for sheriff of London & brought to their Assistance some        
 horse & foote  they first shewed him a warrt to search for a Conventicle       
 wch he suffered ym to doe but when they were within shewed him a 2d            
 warrt to make distress for 180 L 3 informing women haveing Convicted           
 him for holding a Conventicle in his house divers times but Mr Hocknell        
 haveing preknowledge thereof had remooved the best of his Moovables            
 whereby they only found the value of 50 L wch his daughter paid that           
 money for & the said Mr Hocknell Expecting their Company gott sevrall          
 Joynts of Meate to treate his Guest.                                           
      I gave yow an accot in my Last of the unwelcome Newes from Tangeire       
 that the late Morocco ambassadr was not only in great disfavor wth ye          
 Emperor but had receivd 100 blowes with a Cudgell wch sd newes is              
 Confirmed together with those Barbarians takeing & Confiscateing our           
 shipps haveing agreed only a Cessation at Sea for 4 Monthes 2 of wch           
 are already Expired wch gives his Matie a great dissatisfaccon                 
 insoemuch that a Comtee for Tangeire sitts every day to Consider of            
 sending suplyes both of men & money as alsoe some Light ffriggotts &           
 that Sr James Lashley forthwith goes thither to Endeavor to procure            
 better Tearmes                                                                 
      L. c. 1314     London 19 Xber 1682                                        
 +The Turkey Merchants have in theire Last Letters from Constantynoeple         
 Receid advice that the Grand Signr had Left that Citty but before              
 departure had ordred a warr to bee declared agst ye Emperor that att           
 Smyrna all ye Xtian Shipps were taken up to fetch Turkish soldiers out         
 Egipt whereby theres a prospect that a dreadfull warr will Ensue.              
      Itt will bee to tedious to Enumerate ye severall psons who in most        
 of our Churches in London Sunday Last were declar'd excommunicated  In         
 some 14 others proportionable severall a few Less divers 8 or 9  In many       
 45 & 6 whereby ye Totall amounted to neare 200 and ye same Meathod of          
 proceeding will bee Continually Carryed on till ye worke of Reformatyon        
 bee wrought                                                                    
      Satterday Last divers Comissions undr ye broade seale were directed       
 to Gentlemen in severall wardes of this Citty Constituteing and Impowering     
 them to Tendr the Oathes of Allegiance & supremecay to every Elector           
 thro out ye same in ordr to qwallifie themselves for Chooseing Common          
 Cowncill men on St Thomases day wch said worke is allready putt in             
 Execution                                                                      
      Yesterday morneing Earely his Majtee accompaned with his R                
 Highness & divers of ye great men of ye Court repayred to Windsor Castle       
 haveing taken a Long with them 5 Meales whereby they will Returne to           
 morrow  tis Genrally said that this goeing is to settle the Ld Arundell        
 in his new and great Command of Constable of ye Castle of Windsor &c           
      yesterday afternoone at 4 the Ld Chancellor departed this Life at         
 his house in greenestreet haveing ye day & night before Layne speachless       
 & ye Great seale of England is for the prsent Intrusted in the hands of        
 his Elldest sone now of Nottingham & the Genrall discourse is that the         
 Ld C Just North stands fayrest in his Majts Esteeme to succeed this Noble      
 Lord in that high & honorable place tho others say that Mr Secretary           
 Jenckings or Sr Wm Coventry may probably bee advanced thereto.                 
      Our Last Letters from the Hague sayz that the States have beene           
 extreamely busy in Consullting on the subject matter of his Majtee of          
 Englands Late memoryall delivered to them by Mr Chudly Relateing to ye         
 approoveing & accepting his Majts Medyatyon to desid the difference            
 betweene ffrance & Spaine in fflandrs but after much debate they have          
 not Consented thereto without ye same bee Conjunctly Includeing the            
 Emperor and other ye Confederates in ordr to aqwire a Genrall peace and        
 Minheer Zitters yr Embassdr is Comeing over hither with the States             
 Resolution thereon as also to Negotiate that weighty affaire.                  
      Wee have advice from Ireland that severall Companys of Soldiers           
 of yt Kingdome are Imedyately ordred away for Tangeire but ye Larke            
 ffriggott was most unhappily stranded on yt Coast but her men Gunns &          
 Rigging were saved                                                             
      The prossecuteing ye dissenters to Excommunication wch deprives           
 them from suing for theire debts makes a great attaque upon Lumbard            
 Street insoemuch that they are soe hastey Caleing in yr monyes Rowts           
 many of ye Banckers  4 of them yesterday Vizt Capell Killburne Belitha         
 & Willson were forced to qwitt ye field & divers others are expected to        
 bee vancqwished tho severall of them Endeavor to stand ye shock                
      Great have beene ye Endeavors to accomplish ye Election of an             
 Aldrman for ye Bridgwarde  the Loyall party Constrayneing many to Poll         
 tho undr dubious Circumstances as Mr Ivery & Sherlock ye 2 Minesters           
 wch yr Clerkes and this day was a select Court of Aldrmen before whome         
 3 on each side managed ye scrutine & to morrow ye Ld Mayr declares ye          
 Electyon wch will goe in favor of ye Loyallest as ye same is Carryed.          
      And afterwards there will be a Court of Aldrmen to Elect one of ye        
 2 Return'd wch in all probabillty will be Deputy Daniell.                      
      This day a Letter Came to ye Court of Aldrmen from the King &             
 Councill the purport thereof that whereas Sr Jno Shorter stood Convicted       
 for beeing at a Conventicle & that if by Law a Custome of ye City of           
 London they had power to displace him from his Aldrmanspp was recomended       
 to them to prforme ye same wch affayre was debated & referd to Mr Recdr        
 & Common serjant to search prsidents & Law in ye Case & to make report         
 And the said Sr John shorter was Lett owt of ye Comm[issio]n in his            
 warde for sweareing ye Inhabitants & Sr Geo Jefferyes in his Rome              
    L. c. 1315  [Handwriting changes here.] London the 21th December 1682       
 +Yesterday pursuant to what Intimated in my Last the Ld Major about 9          
 of the Clock Came to Maques [?] Church the poleing place for an Alderman       
 for ye Bridgward & there declared after the Scrutiny made before the           
 Court of Aldermen the day before ye Suffrages stood viz Mr shute 159           
 Deputy Daniell 158 Mr Papillion 153 and Sr Wm Russell Less whereby his         
 Ldpp declared the 2 former who being returned to the Court of Aldermen         
 then purposely sitting they declared Deputy Daniell a Haberdasher on the       
 Bridge now Sheriff of Surrey who being Called into ye Court was sworne         
 an Alderman and tooke his seate accordingly:                                   
      Then ye Court proceeded further to Consider on his Maties letter          
 to displace Sr John Shorter being Convicted for being at a Conventicle         
 Mr Recordr and Comon Serjeant makeing yr Reports touching presidents           
 and Law in the Case which tis said was in favor of Sr John but after           
 a long & tedious debate pro & Contra they Came to noe determinacon in          
 in the point more then that they prvailed upon Sr John to Consent for          
 some time to desist from acting as an Alderman appointing 2 Gentlemen          
 in his Ward to Officiate the work of this day in his stead:                    
      Tuesday afternoone Mynhere Zitters the Dutch ambassadr arrived from       
 Holland and tis said has brought with him the States resolution touching       
 the prsent Juncture of affaires being of great Importe and his Matie           
 returning last night from Windsor the ambassadr Imediatly desired              
 audience which was Granted                                                     
      Yesterday I received letters from a Great hand in Paris who gave          
 me an accompt that the ffrench King has some Notable designe to effect         
 next Campagne even [?] to the falling upon the Emperor on the one side         
 notwithstanding the Turk on the other that the King had been in sevrall        
 private Caballs with divers of his Greatest Military officers &                
 afterwards had given out secret Ordrs that they should gett ready              
 65000 men in 3 Armyes by the first day of ffebruary next & that one body       
 of them be along the River Soane where he would be at ye head of them          
 himselfe & then act as the posture of his affaires should require  tis         
 feared that if the difference between him and Spaine be not by that time       
 adjusted hee will Endeavor to make a Conquest of the remaineing part           
 in fflandrs but tis uncertaine on whome the storme may fall:                   
      His Matie returning yesterday afternoone from Windsor Sumoned a           
 Councell and sent for in pticuler the Ld Cheife Justice North and              
 Imediatly delivered to him the great Seale of England togeather with the       
 purse & Mace under the Honoble Title of Ld keeper thereof in ye vacancy        
 of the Right Honoble the Earle of Nottingham Late Ld Chancellor deceased.      
      But his Matie has not yett beene pleased to Conferr the Ld Cheife         
 Justices place of the Common Pleas on any sevrall being said to stand in       
 Competition for the same Especially Sr Wm Scroggs late Ld Cheife Justice       
 of the Kings bench                                                             
      Every day more Bankers in Lumbard streete makes a retreate.               
 yesterday 2 wch makes ye number 9  the reason is assignd first that the        
 East India Company takes up all the money they possibly cann giveing           
 now 5 & 6 p Cent they haveing some Extraordinary designe on foote &            
 then the prosecuteing the dissenters to Excomunicacon makes them Call          
 in yr Money whereby tis beleived that the Bankers Employ will be               
 totally Lost                                                                   
      This being the Annuall Customary day for the Choice of an Alderman        
 in the sevrall 26 wards of this City great have been the Endeavors as          
 much as ever on both ptyes to Elect psons of different Qualificacons to        
 favor one or the other side if it may be soe proper to asting [?] itt          
 but to transmitt an Exact accompt of pticulers would be impossible since       
 in divers places they are a poleing & will the same to morrow in some          
 Scrutinyes are demanded but in Genrall the affaire is accomplished viz         
 in Sheriff Norths Ward being ffarringdon without they have Chose all           
 New ones for the one pty & in Castle Baynard the like takeing in Mr            
 Masters who swore at Oxford agt Colledge & they have done much ye same         
 in Cheap Tower & other wards haveing laid aside Sr Tho Player But on           
 the Contrary in Cornhill Bridge Candlewick Cordwaynor Criplegate               
 Langhorne & divers others  The Whiggs have been Superior & upon a Modest       
 Impartiall Computacon as farr as at prsent Can be made is very little          
 Odds on either side wch by our next wee may more pticulerly informe you        
      L. c. 1316     London 23 Decemr 1682                                      
    Thursday night last his Maty was pleased to send for mr Edmond              
 Saunders one of his Matys Councell & delivered to him his intentions           
 of advanceing him to the dignity of Ld Cheife Justice of England,              
 for his constant Loyalty to the Crown, wch mr Saunders would modestly          
 have waved, declaring his inability to execute that great trust, but           
 since he knew that obedience is better than sacrifice, he would Joyfully       
 submit to the Commands of his Prince & there upon Kist his Matyes              
 hand in confirmacon of it, but must first have the degree of a serjeant        
 before he can take upon him, that high and Honrable station wch will be        
 pformed the first or 2d day of next Terme.                                     
      And his Maty was graciously pleased to ease & remove the Ld Ch            
 Justice Pemberton from the Court of Ks Bench to be Ld Ch Justice of the        
 Common Pleas in ye vacancy of the late Ld Ch Justice North now Ld Keeper       
 of the great seale being far superiour in Profitt tho less in Dignity,         
 wch to make up, his Maty was pleased last night to admit his Ldsp into         
 his Matys most Honble privy Councell who was sworne & took his seat at         
 the Board accordingly                                                          
      The Ld Keeper of the great seale haveing bin advanced to that             
 Honrable Title has taken the Ld Chancellors House in Queen Street of the       
 E of Nottingham intending the seat constantly there and Aldr Edm Saunder       
 Ld Ch Justice Elect hath taken Sr Robt Paytons House In Lincolns Inn           
 feilds to officiate in that great office                                       
      His Maty has bin pleased to confer the Honr of one of his Chaplaines      
 on Parson Jeffrys Sr Geo: Jeffrys Brothr who to morrow preaches his            
 first sermon before him in the Chapple at Whitehall                            
      I acquainted you sometime since of the Ship Expectacon wch is             
 designed an Inteloper to the East Indies, being by order of Councell           
 Stopped of her intended voyage through a process out of the Court of           
 Admiralty, But yesterday her owners peticon'd his Maty, yt he would be         
 graciously pleased to recall the order & leave them to defend                  
 themselves ag[t] the Company wch I am credibly informed his Maty hath          
 assured them, that the sd East India Company shall either Reimburse all        
 there charge they have bin at in Equipping her forth or otherwise they         
 shall be at Liberty but wee are told that the company will rather agree        
 the latter & lay their Action of 30 L p Cent damage for all the goods,         
 she lately brought from the Indies & try the Merits of the Charter wch         
 if they will do, the owners of her to give wt security they demand &           
 Joyne Issue as soon as possible therein, on wch affair much depends            
      The People of the Towne who have Lent great summs of Mony to the          
 East India Company do every day call in their Mony, which puts the             
 Company att at present to no little plunge, whereby they take in all           
 the money they can at 5 or 6 p Cent & give psonall security rather yn to       
 pay off & discharge the Clamorous People & they haveing bought a vast          
 quantity of Bullen to Transport to the Indies of many Goldsmiths upon          
 the companys Credit they are forced to send the said silver to the Tower       
 to be Coyned to pay the Necessitated Goldsmiths & Bankers wth their own        
 Coyne and the Actions of the Company are fallen from 320 to 240 to each        
 principall, 100 L whereby tis beleeved they cannot send 30 ships to            
 the Indies as they designed                                                    
      The E: of Danby has drew a p[aper?] wch he hath got signed, by a          
 great number of Peers to pray his Maty to find out some expedient to Bayle     
 him out of the Tower wch tis said will be presented next Councill day.         
      Sr John Bury in one of his Matys 3d rate ships departs on Munday          
 for Tangier to carry new orders to Admirall Herbert relating to Sally          
 As also to sevll officers & Soldiers to recruit the Garrison agt any           
 attempt of the Moors Since they have bin treacherous in their proceedings      
      What may be further added relating to the choice of Common Council        
 Men is yt yesterday some of the Ward of ffarringdon without complayned         
 to the Ld Maior that Alderman North refused a Pole whereby 16 were             
 carried on the Tories side (as they call them)  also they say Sr Thom:         
 Beckworth of Aldgate warde did the like whereby Mr Swinnock & mr               
 Hammond 2 Quo Warranto Committee Men are left out as also mr Papillion         
 hindred from comeing in                                                        
      This day Cripplegate Ward within poleing whereby mr Dubois &              
 othe[rs] of that Quallifacon are left out & most of all the Whiggs             
 spokesmen in some other Wards                                                  
      The Pole of Bishopsgate is put off till Thursday next Dowgate till        
 Tuesday & Coleman street till Wednesday.  But in the Totall the Whiggs         
 will have full one Moiety of the other party if not Superiour wch to           
 proceed in that affair at present                                              
      L. c. 1317     [Handwriting changes here.]   London 28th Xber 1682        
      I had yesterday transmitted mee by an English Merchant att                
 Constantynople who was a spectator the Gran Signior points [?] wch hee         
 made att ye Leaveing of that Citty on his way for Adrinople beeing on          
 Munday the 23d of October in ordr to bee at the head of 150000 Souldiers       
 which hee designes to Employ in a warr against ye Emperor of Germany           
 next Spring, wch said show Continued passing from 7 in ye morning to 4         
 in the afternoone, & In breife is thus--                                       
      ffirst 10000 Janizaries Richly habillimented & Armed Ranged the           
 way for severall Myles between whome 4000 of the Vizeires Guards on            
 horse back began ye march each Carrying a halfe pike att whose ends were       
 flaggs of divers Colloures.  after them followed ye Like Number of             
 Chiawses [?] of great and Lesser qwallityes arrayed in divers fashons.         
 Then 6000 young men in vest of cloth of Gowld who are psons trayned up         
 for ye Warrs & other Services.  Next to them Came 600 Cadets & Bashawess       
 of divers Cowntryes who were summoned in on this occation and each of          
 them had 10 pages after whome appeared 2000 Janizaries of the best Ranck       
 who marched 2 & 2 to Cleare the way for the Court wch Came in ye               
 following ordr--                                                               
      ffirst 40 Ledd horses of the prime Vizeires who were adorned with         
 pretious stones then the Vizeire himselfe on horseback with a Trayne           
 above 200 principall psons in vests of Cloth of Gowld and Sable ffurs.         
 Then 200 of the Grand Signors pages each of them with a Lawnce.  And           
 then followed (60[00?] Grey hownds Ledd by pages in Chaynes of Gould.          
 Then 100 Led horses of the Gran Signors whose Trayen and furniture were        
 Embost with Gould & pretious stones in many diffrent fashons.  After           
 wch the Grand Signr him selfe in a Triumphant Chariott in wowndrfull           
 Grandure haveing his vest Embroydred over with dyamonds & an                   
 Extraordinary Rich Retenue and the reare was brought up by 6000 of his         
 horse Gwards & thus ended ye Pompous Show                                      
 +The Ld Shandoys his Majts Embassadr there had nott yett obteyned his          
 awdyence and had Left that City resideing at Bell Grave by reason ye           
 plague begins to breake out there                                              
      I have also sent mee the Condityons on wch the Gran Signior will          
 agree a prolongatyon of ye Truce betweene him and the Emperor for 20           
 yeares                                                                         
 ffirst  That Cownt Teckely have the honor due unto a Prince of uppr            
         Hungary and to bee in ye same State as ye Prince of                    
         Transillvanya.                                                         
2ly      That Posen Presburgh Trenchen and Newtia bee surrendred                
         to Cownt Teckely.                                                      
3ly      That Leopollstad bee demollished beeing to neare his                   
         Garrison New Warren.                                                   
4ly      That there bee a free Exercise of Religion thro out ye Cowntry.        
5ly      That in Lower Hungary ye Turkes shall Continue to demand               
         Right of tribute as farr as Comonaha Jwaris Insenstard [?]             
         Trackarum Capruitz and Srack [?] and that the 2 Last places            
         bee surrendred  otherwise the Turck will destroy all with              
         fire and sword.                                                        
 The Emperors Answer/ That his Imperiall Majtee will grant yt Cownt             
 Teckley shall have ye Tytle of Prince of upper Hungary and the people          
 Enjoy those privaledges they had as in the yeare (52) besides the              
 free Exercise of Religion upon Condicon that Lattinarr ffilleck                
 & ffowchra be restored and the Turckes shall have ye Right of Tribute          
 soe as they demand noething on this side the Waag  But his Majtee Canott       
 agree to demollish Leopallstad nor surrendr any of ye Townes demanded          
 and therefore will rather hazard the Events of Warr.                           
      yesterday ye Pole for ye Warde of ffarringdon within was brought          
 to A Conclusyon they haveing pold man agst man whereby Capt Symonds            
 Craddock Capt Bloomer with some others they Call Toryes were satt asyde        
 & others of a Con[trary] qwallificatyon Chosen in yr stead                     
      This day wee had advice that severall Strayts Shipps were arrived         
 in ye downes who Confirme what I formerly wrote relateing to ye Ill            
 posture of affayres att Tangier and yt ye Morocco Embassadr had Recd           
 100 blowes with a Cudgell but was synce in ye Emperors favor againe.           
      They farthr add yt Admyrall Herbert had beene at Argeires afterwards      
 att Trippoly and Tunis to Confirme the peace with those Rovers and             
 was sayled for Malltha from whence hee designes to Returne home if             
 fresh ordrs from Whitehall doe not Retard his Intended voyage.                 
      Tewsday night Last 5 Lawyers Clerkes belongeing to severall               
 Cowncellors of ye Inns of Court were brought into Newgate beeing Charged       
 by ye Eall of Pembrookes Servants & others for Robbing of them upon            
 ye highway and tis thought twill goe hard with theire Lives.                   
 +The Plyament of Greenoble haveing adjudged ye Prince of Orange to             
 Loose ye princepallity of Orange in ffrance and given it to ye D of            
 Longevill ye said sentence is dispattched away to ye Hague signifyeing         
 that hee is also Condemned to pay ye vallue of ye Revenue hither to            
 Reced wch amounts to 6 Millions of ffloraynes besids Cost of suite wch         
 ye ffrench King demand of him and the same makes Noe Lytle Stirr in            
 Holland                                                                        
   L. c. 1318  [Handwriting changes here.] London the 30th December 1682        
 +Our Germayne Letters from all hands speake of the mighty preparations         
 of the Turkes agt the Emperor the next Spring & the small likelyhood           
 of bringing affaires to an accomodation whereby the Emperor is                 
 sending to all Christian princes & states for Assistance  The King of          
 Poland has begun that good worke assureing the Emperor that they will          
 furnish his Matie with 3000 of his Country horse & pay them himselfe           
 & a Curriere is arrived at Vienna from ye King of Sweeden with promise         
 to send his Matie early 4000 foote soljers & likewise pay them & the           
 Dukes of Brunswicke & Lunenburgh 6000 but not pay them & tis Expected          
 that other princes & states will follow their Example and the same             
 Letters mention that the ffrench King hath offered his Matie Assistance        
 of 20000 men for the same service wch the Emperor wholy rejected saying        
 that hee who was the Efficient cause of bringing them agt him would            
 most Certainly Joyne with or otherwise Assist those his Turkish Allyes         
 & Confederates                                                                 
      Thursday last an Express arrived with his Matie from the Govenor          
 of Tangeire wch brought a more favourable accompt of the posture of            
 those affaires then before they Transmitted That the late ambassadr here       
 was againe very much in his Emperors favour being better sattisfyed of         
 his Conduct & mannagemt of his Embassy then was reprsented of him & the        
 Emperor brought a letter to his Matie from ye said ambassadr and Lucas         
 his Secretary with assurance of an Amicable Correspondence & that the          
 Emperor had given Ordrs to restore sevrall of the English shipps taken         
 by ye Rovers of Salley but still press for an Ambassadr to be sent from        
 hence & there will be some further Consideracon on yt poynt but however        
 the Recruits are Ordered away                                                  
      Wee have a Genrall discourse that his Matie will Grant a writt of         
 Ease to ye Ld Cheife Baron Mountague and Advance Sr Robt Sawyer now            
 Attorney Genrall to yt promotion and supply Sr Roberts place with Sr           
 George Jeoffreys:                                                              
      Wedensday last the Corps of the late Ld Chancellor ffinch was             
 Attended out of Towne by his Sonne the Earle of Nottingham & 40 other          
 Gentlemen on Horsback in Ordr to be privately Interred at his Ldpps            
 Seate neare Daventry                                                           
      Wee are still busy in polling for Comon Councell men in Langburne         
 and Cripplegate within there being all possible Endeavors to Carry the         
 Candidates for one or the other party wch by our next wee may pticulerly       
 give you an accompt especially in whome lyes the Majority save only Sr         
 Jonathan Raymond Alderman of Bishopsgate Ward had adjournd ye farther          
 decision of that Pole to ye 24 of January next:                                
 +Letters this day from Holland gives us noe Pticuler newes save only           
 that the states are Extreamly busy considering the best meanes for their       
 Security & have accepted of the Prince of Oranges offer of Lending them        
 100000 L without Interest 7 yeares rather then his other proposall of          
 paying part of the Army himselfe & Impatiently waite for his Maties of         
 England Resolution In Answere to ye Memoriall delivered by their Ambassadr     
 Men heere Zitter  The Letters say nothing of the pr[ince] of Orange            
 Sickeness wch is Genrally discoursed & soe beleive itt a fiction               
      This day wee have advice upon the Exchange that ye late Tempestuous       
 weather had Cast away 4 shipps neare Yarmouth The Bilboa Merchant bound        
 to that place 2 Dutch Hoyes & a Scotch shipp bound for Rotchell & tis          
 much feared that wee shall heare of other Losses of yt kinde                   
      The East India Company holding a Genrall Court on 28 Instant came         
 to this Resolution (viz)                                                       
      The Company observeing that there is a Genrall & unparelled run           
 or demand of Money upon all the publique funds in ye City and pticulerly       
 in the Company who notwithstanding were never in soe good a condicon or        
 Estate both in England & India soe hereby declare that they Can pay noe        
 Bonds at Interest untill the 25 of March next & that then all the money        
 due & demanded upon Bond being then to be paid shall be discharged             
 forthwith for wch end the Company has appointed their Genrall Sale to          
 begin the 1st of March but all Creditors who have not Charged yr Bonds         
 shall be allowed Interest 5 L p Cent from ye 1st January next  Robert          
 Blackburn                                                                      
      L. c. 1319     London Janry 2th 82/83                                     
 +Yesterday being the first of this new year his maty was pleased to            
 make the accustomed offering At the Altar in his Chappell at White-hall,       
 afterward was attended by most of the Nobility of the Towne to wish his        
 Maty a happy new year makeing their usuall gifts where the Ld Maior &          
 Court of Aldermen attended & complemented his Maty on the like occasion        
 as also 40 Mathematicall Boyes belonging to Chr Church Hospitall whom          
 his Maty of his great Bounty allows 1000 L p Ann to Educate them in            
 that Science to fitt ym for Navigacon  The sevll psons pd their respect        
 afterwards to his Royall Highness & were kindly Recd                           
      And the young Students of ye Middle Temple haveing Chosen one             
 Thomas Montgomery for their Comptroller, The Govrmt of that Society            
 these Hollydayes being devolved upon them, They repaired to Whitehall          
 in Extraordinary Grandeur & State, attended by 40 Halberdeers in new           
 Liverys, which they cloathed being conducted thither in 18 Noble Mens          
 Coaches most wth 6 Horses & were very well recd, one of them delivring         
 himselfe to his Maty in a Speech expressing their abundant Loyallty            
 wishing his Maty a happy newyear wth the continuance of many others            
 wch Ceremony being pformed together wth his R Higness they made an             
 Invitation to most of the great Men to accompany them to dinner wch            
 the Dk of Ormond Marquess Hallifax wth divers others did them the              
 Honr to accept                                                                 
      Mr Langley Curtis publisher of the late Protestant Mercury for            
 near this 12 Months, has bin forced to abscond for fear of Authority           
 is now returned to his own dwelling at the Signe of Sr E B Godfrey             
 haveing made his peace upon Honrable Tearmes                                   
      This day wee had the bad news yt his Matys yatch the Katherine in         
 her passage from Rotterdam was by stress of weather cast away by               
 Yarmouth, A Rich Jew on board on her & a young Gentlewoman being drowned,      
 all the rest Saved some of whom were this day upon the Exchange & that         
 wch contribute farther matter of trouble above 60000 L in Gold & some          
 say double the value perished with her                                         
      Wee have farther advice yt a Canary ship named the Lady Sarah bound       
 for London was cast away near the Isle of Wight haveing 300 pipes of yt        
 wine aboard her & tis farther added that sevll are lost in the Goodwine        
 Sands but is yet no acct of them                                               
      Sevll mrchants this day Recd Lres from a Mrchant ship arrived at          
 Bristoll in 19 dayes from Cadiz that just as she came away from that           
 porte, advice was brot from Tangier that the Emperor of Morocco being          
 in feild wth an Army agt his Nephew & endeavouring to force a Castle wch       
 he had built was in the Encountr Slayne wch if it comes confirmed will         
 make a great alteracon in ye affaire of yt Empire & perticularly on            
 Tangier                                                                        
      I am credibly informed yt his Maty had dispatched away an answer to       
 ye States of Holland relateing to the Memoriall delivrd to him by their        
 Ambassadr Zitteers wch I am told is Catagoricall & positive  the               
 Substance I will forbear to mencon till I hear further                         
      Wee are wholely taken up at prsent in discoursing the Late shutting       
 up of the East India Company till ye 25th March wch admits of various          
 conjectures  however their Actions still continue at [seal spoils two          
 or three digits] and they have this day set upon the Exchange a                
 publicacon of a Genll Sale on the 1st of March, & to continue by sevll         
 Adjormts till their goods be Sold as also 6 ships wch they expect that         
 or ye next month from India                                                    
      Lres from Holland tell us yt the Prince of Orange had for some dayes      
 bin indisposed but very well recovered & yt he made a speech in ye Assembly    
 of ye States assuring them of his firm resolucon of maintaining the            
 protestant Religion & the true Interest of his Country agt any                 
 attempts upon it & yt if it should please the Almighty to call him             
 away from them he would leave them his Executors In the mean time would        
 contribute as much as in him lay to settle the Tranquillity & raise 8000       
 New fforces at his owne charge over and above ye 100000 L he lately            
 lent them for all wch they returned him thanks, & at this Juncture             
 accepted of those kindnesses he was pleased voluntary to offer them            
    L. c. 1320   [Handwriting changes here.]   London ye 4th Jann 1682/3        
      There are still Controverting Elections for the Choice of Comon           
 Councell men, the Ward of Farringdon within having beene some dayes            
 upon a scrutiny to make a true decision betweene one Mr Moreclark and          
 Captaine Bloomer, the former having the Majority of votes by 30.               
 therefore great endeavours to bring in the Captaine but after a tedious        
 enquiry on both sides Mr Moreclark stands superiour by 24 and is sworne        
 accordingly  two other Wards are not yett Compleated soe cannot give an        
 exact accompt of who and who is together but in fine ye odds will be           
 very few on either side and those wch some people call Toryes doe              
 genrally disclayme against the delivering up of the City Charter or            
 soe much as make a motion relateing thereto but Contrary wise say that         
 they will rather vote a Peticon to his Matie gratiously to be pleased to       
 recall his Quo warranto to cease ye further prosecution of that affaire        
      I sometyme since gave an accompt of 5 young Lawyers Clarks who were       
 Committed to Newgate for Robbing upon the highway since which 2 more of        
 the same Gang are brought into Custody and I am told that one of them          
 distrusting his cause has discovered to Captaine Richardson the names of       
 above 100 other young men who are unhappily drawne under those                 
 mischievious Circumstances:                                                    
      Tis Credibly advised mee from Holland that the Earle of Shaftsbury        
 remaines in the City of Amsterdam notwithstanding some unintelligible          
 writers say that hee is gone unto Dantzick  the English Resident there         
 discoursed the States relateing to him who declared that they gave             
 him noe Protection by makeing him a Burgher or otherwise & tooke noe           
 Cognizance of his being there or not but could not deny him the                
 Civility of yr Country as a Travellor or to that offer                         
      This day the Ward of Langburne Sr Robert Viner Alderman but managed       
 in his Absence by his Deputy Mr Wood made Conclusion of their Poll             
 shutting up their bookes this afternoone great endeavours being used to        
 bring in Mr Duncombe the Banker and others of that Qualificacon to which       
 end all the Post House officers to ye number of about 40 had the oathes        
 of Allegiance and Supremacy tendred them and voted accordingly yett some       
 thinke that ye suffrages will stand for the Contrary Party                     
      Tuesday last his Royall Highnesse rode a fox hunting in ye County         
 of Kent who being upon a speede [?] his horse in a plaine Roade makeing        
 a halfe tread came violently with his neck to the ground & fell upon ye        
 Duke who was in great danger of Looseing his Life but thro speedy              
 assistance with the Divine protection came to noe more hurt then the           
 bruising of his knee and being since Lett blood is wholy recovered.            
      Letters from Vienna say that many of the Rich Inhabitants of that         
 City are removeing theire substance from thence having divers Informations     
 that ye Turke will march directly to beseige it  they further say that         
 Count Teckely has Convoked the states of Hungary in his owne name to           
 assemble the 10 of January in order to carry on ye warr  Tis likewise          
 added that the Grand Seignour has absolutely rejected all farther              
 Proposalls of accomodacon                                                      
      Yesterday his Matie sent for the Comtee of ye East India Company          
 who being come to Whitehall his Matie was gratiously pleased to express        
 his [re]sentment and surprize of their delaying their payments till            
 March next since the same would redound much to his dishonor both att          
 home and abroad for that he valued them greatly and therefore wished           
 them to regaine the Imputacon of Looseing their Creditt by makeing just        
 payments the time they allotted and as his Matie has always protected          
 them, soe would for ye future against Interlope[r]s and others Continue        
 his kindnesse unto them pressing them very much to performe theire duty        
 In the Punctuall discharge of their Creditors which otherwise would            
 redound to his Matie & their great Detriment.                                  
      Sr Josia Child in behalfe of the Comtee made a long Harangue              
 giveing his Matie a full state and Condicon of yr Company both in              
 England and India setting forth that this unhappiness was noe wayes            
 occasioned thro any disability or defect of the Company but rather a           
 Combinacon of Persons to call away their money which though they had           
 much more in value yett wanting att prsent in specie was ye sole occasion      
 promiseing his Matie that they would hold a sale of yr goods & forthwith       
 discharge those Clamorous People  they were afterwards treated by Mr           
 Chiffnis & late in ye evening departed:                                        
      Some of ye heads of ye Company having Pawned the Companyes Jewells        
 which cost in India 33000 L for 15000 A Comtee was held this day who           
 after much debate Carried ye Majority for approving ye same for as             
 nothing of ye like nature be hereafter done without ye order of ye             
 Comtee.                                                                        
      L. c. 1321    [Handwriting changes here.]   London 6th Janry 82/3         
      Yesterday our fforaigne Lres brought many pticulars  shall begin          
 first wth those from Paris of the 1st of Janry, wch say that the K.            
 Intends his Army to consist this spring along the River Soan of 70000          
 & they to be commanded by the Dolphin as Genll  The Dauphiness is              
 agn wth Child  The Drums Beat up for Soldiers in all the Head Citys &          
 Townes in ffrance                                                              
      The Ambassadr of Savoy has recd his Audience of his Maty wherein          
 he gave notice yt his Master was intirely broke off from the Marriage          
 wth the infanta of Portugall & that the Dk was so well in health yt he         
 employes himselfe dayly in the affaires of Goverment & yt his R Higness        
 had Imprisoned the Marquis of Pioneza as also the Earle of Birmuda             
 being charged to make a difference between the Dk & his Mother &c              
      The Estates of the Kingdome of Portugall are at prsent under              
 Debt [?] to consider wth wt Prince to joyne in marriage the Infanta &          
 had before ym the prince of Tuscany & some others but the ffr King             
 Imediately dispatched an express prsenting to them the prince of Roch          
      The Germany Lres of ye 26 of Xbr say the Recruits are raising             
 all over ye Emprs Hereditary Countrys & yt all officers are commanded          
 to have their Regiments compleat by the end of ffebry  And the E of            
 Swartz wth others has offered to raise 4 Millions of mony in Condicon          
 the Dukedome of Lossher in Siletia be pawned to them                           
      The Empr has recalled his Ambr from the Turkish Court being without       
 any hope of accommodacon  The Empr Recd an Express the 20th ditto yt a         
 strong body of Turkes from Newhawsell attempted the Island Sciett [?]          
 but 2 Regmts of Greana & Castell attacqued them in passing the Dona &          
 put them to flight wth much slaughter  anothr party of a 1000 Turkes ye        
 next night got over the Dona but were so well recd by 50 Men in Asconce        
 yt they retired agn wth ye loss of 80 dead & 7 of the Imperiallists &          
 dayly there are some Encounters between each party                             
      The K of Poland hath offered & taken upon him the Mediacon between        
 the Empr & ffrance in case ye ffrench King is not agt it                       
      The Dk of Loraine is to Command the Army in Hungaria & to have an         
 unlimited Commission.                                                          
      Wee are wholey taken up in discourseing the proceedings of the E          
 India Company  The next day after they attended his Maty at Whitehall          
 to give an account of their delaying paymts till 25 March, they passed         
 a vote in the Comee yt ye next sale should be employed in discharging          
 yeir Loans, their Accons do not much abate for they say they doubt             
 not in the least but to recover their reputacon they owing but                 
 800000 L & hav the effects 20 ships being at India lading Commoditys           
 and 6 more in the Downes going thither & there next sale wth the 6             
 ships wch they expect in April will amount to all the money ye company         
 is indebted  at prsent they pay their running Cash & tis thought they          
 will be able to break thro their present difficulty                            
      Lres yesterday from New England gives an account yt a blazing starr       
 in the beginning of Novr was seen there in the Horrison for 14th dayes         
      Lres from the Colony of Carolina by a ship now arrived from thence        
 freighted with Cedar Wood, skins & other products of that Country gives        
 an account yt the Buckineers of ye West Indies had brot into their             
 Harbour a mighty rich Spanish ship wch they have taken valued it at            
 [about three digits blotted]0000 L                                             
      Yestrday ye Ward of Langburn[e] declared their pole wch                   
 notwithstanding the Post house officers poled, they did not Elect mr           
 Duncomb the Banker but chose 6 whiggs & 4 Torys as they call them & the        
 whiggish people have demanded a Scrutiny upon ye 4 Torys Supposing they        
 shall set aside the post house officers some not living in the Ward.           
      Mr Smith who was an Evidence in the Popish Plott & agt the Ld             
 Shaftsbury has a considrable Benifice bestowed on him among the Clergy         
 & has taken upon him their habit  mr Dugdale anothr of the Witnesses is        
 at prsent in Newgate on suspicon of debt as also Capt David ffitzGerald        
 in the Gatehouse upon the like suspicon                                        
      Tis wrote from the Streights yt Admirall Herbert riding before            
 Tripoly met wth sharpe weather being forced to slip & put to sea & ye          
 James Galley being not afterward heard of tis feared she is cast away          
   L. c. 1322   [Handwriting changes here.]  London the 9th january 1682        
 +Satturday last both ye Societyes of the Temple haveing dined                  
 togeather about 6 in the Evening Summoned their Guards & each pty devidd       
 to Collect & Gather in 5 s of every neighbouring house a Custome they          
 prtend for some hundreds of yeares & by reason the same had not been           
 pformed for some Considerable time the affaire was very Novell and             
 Surprizeing especially upon the Executeing thereof for their Guard being       
 Armed with Haulbert & halfe pike marched in a warlike posture driving          
 all before them and at what housesoever they had not Imediatly their           
 money they demanded  findeing the Doore shutt they first gave a Signall        
 by Blowing yr horne & then broke open the said house Levying their             
 pleasure & thus they Continued till 2 a Clock Sonday morning wch by            
 reason of that early time the people in their beds were mightily               
 affrighted some not knowing ye Occasion Cryed out Arme Arme & Constables       
 that Came to disturb them in this proceedure were by them seized & put         
 in ye Stocks & it looked like ye Embleme of a Massacre or the plundering       
 of a Conquered City sevrall opposeing them with Spitts & other weapons         
 & twas a great providence that little hurt was done & being Loaded with        
 money & booty they returned                                                    
 +The next Evening tho Sonday they held a great Mask or ball of danceing        
 wch Continued till Monday morning & thus our young Students Revells            
 the night & day tho many sober people are Extreamly agt itt                    
      Letters from Chichester tell us that last week 2 young fellowes of        
 that place were Comitted for high Treason Being accused for drinking a         
 health to ye Confusion & Damnation of the King & Duke of Yorke & will          
 be proceeded agt accordingly                                                   
      Sonday ye discourse was att Whitehall that ye Earle of Shaftsbury         
 was dead in Holland but yesterday Letters from thence Speaks ye Contrary       
 that for sometime he had been afflicted in ye Goute but well againe            
      His Royall Highness haveing receid a fall from his horse as Intimated     
 last weeke is now recovered of his hurt but ye next day ye horse dyed          
 haveing taken more then ordinary harme:                                        
      Yesterday ye sevrall Inquests of this City made their prsentmt to         
 the Court of Aldrmen & those belonging to the Ward of Algate prsented ye       
 Aldrman Sr Tho: Beckford for denying a pole upon ye Choice of Common           
 Councillmen & those of langburne prsented the Post house Officers for          
 poleing since many of them Lived in other Wards & pay not the poore &c         
      Lund 8 January 1682                                                       
 +Att a Parliamt held in ye Middle Temple:-- Whereas sevrall vexatious          
 suites are or are intended to be Comenced agt ye Gentlemen of this             
 Society for a prtended Ryotous Levying of Rents wch by antient Custome         
 time out of minde hath been Gathered at 12 day at night yearely when           
 they have kept a publique Xmas                                                 
      Resolved by ye sd Assembly in full Pliamt Assembled                       
 That what soever Concellor at Law Attorney or Soliciter shall or may           
 be Concernd in prosecuteing any of ye Gentlemen or servts of this              
 Society on accot of ye sd prtended Ryott shall be Judged & upon all            
 Occasions Treated as an Enemmy or betrayer of ye Honor & priv[ilege]           
 of ye Inns of Court & yt ye Concurrence of ye other Societyes of Law be        
 desired herein                                                                 
      And it is Ordered that noe Members of this Society doe frequent           
 deale or Correspond with any pson who is or shall be Concernd in               
 Opposeing or prosecuteing any of this Society for Levying the said             
 Rents                                                                          
      And yt ye Concurrence of the other Societyes of Law be desired            
 herein                            J Trevour                                    
 +This day advice Came upon ye Exchange that 5 of ye Turky Companyes            
 shipps were arrived in ye Downes from Cadiz that this stormy weather           
 Occationed more losses at sea  the Hope a shipp of the Royall Affrican         
 Company from Guiney is Cast away & all ye men lost neare Bristoll & a          
 Jamaca shipp from Island near St Ives.  A letter is sent from his Matie        
 & Councell to the Court of Aldrman further to Suppress Conventicles            
 especially those meeteing in ye Companyes halls &c The Masters of wch          
 places were this day before ye Court of Aldrmen & Ordrd to hindr ye            
 same  Otherwise ye penaltyes of ye Act shall be Levyed upon them & each        
 Aldrman is to take Care in his Ward that none be suffered therein              
      L. c. 1323     London the ii January 1682                                 
 +Our Spanish Letters from Madrid of the 24 of Xber give an accompt             
 that a Declaracon was now published to prohibit the weareing of all            
 fforraigne Clothes under very sharpe Inflictions or penaltyes & great          
 Encouragemt given to undertake those manufactures in their owne Country        
 Especially to the Nobility and Gentry whose Extractions might otherwise        
 render itt diminution to them which affaire Administers noe little             
 disquietude to many of our English Merchants                                   
      Likewise Letters from Paris of the 8th Instant say that his Matie         
 was by all possible wayes Encourageing a Manufacture of Cloth in his           
 Kingdome haveing Erected divers factoryes & Manufactoryes Especially           
 one at Charlemont & had forgiven the province of Languedock 300000             
 Livers to promote that worke which said Comodityes as blew Red Yellow          
 and Purple Cloth they send to Constantinople & other Levant Seas without       
 being beholden to strangers for them                                           
      I formerly acquainted yow of the Interloper Shipp Mr Sands one of         
 the Cheife Owners which was hindred of her voyage to the East Indies by        
 Ordr of Councell thro a process out of the Admiralty Court & not being         
 able to Obteyne her discharge the Owners Last Tuesday arrested Sr              
 Nicholas Crispe Mr Backwell togeather with 4 Searchers Officers of the         
 Custome house for refuseing to deliver her Cockett & other necessary           
 dispatches in Actions of 60 & 40000 L & had Bayle accordingly they             
 being resolved to try the meritts of their Cause by Law in Opposition          
 to the East India Company                                                      
      Letters from Bristoll last Post say that Tuesday being the day for        
 their Goale delivery Great Expectation there were how their new Recordr        
 Sr John Churchill would behave himselfe in this Juncture of Affaires           
 which by next Post I may be able to give yow the pticulers but in              
 Order thereto all those persons Common Councill men & others who               
 subscribed a peticon to ye Parliamt at Oxford on behalfe of Sr Robert          
 Atkins and Sr John Knight Justifying their Election have Bills of              
 Indictmt found against them and are to appeare at the Sessions                 
 accordingly                                                                    
      The 5 Turky shipps arrived in ye Downes have brought an Extraordinary     
 rich Cargo 1546 Bayles of Silke 1354 Sacks of Grogram Yarne & other            
 goods proportionable  they Came from Cadiz in 18 dayes and say that all        
 the Reporte was there of the Emperor of Moroccos being slayne in               
 Battayle against his Nephew which I hinted sometime since as Advice by         
 a shipp from Bristoll.                                                         
      Our discourse Genrally is that the Emperor has or is about to             
 Conclude A peace with ye ffrench King but haveing noe Advice beleived ye       
 Reporte arrises wholy thro the Imperiall Decree wch was delivered on           
 behalfe of ye Emperor to the Dyett of Rattisbon Just after ye opening          
 of that assembly wch being long Cannot Incert but ye Tendency thereof          
 is to Consult on some Effectuall meanes to settle and secure ye peace          
 of the Empire                                                                  
      The protestant Deputyes of Siletia have prsented an humble                
 declaracon of their Miserable Condicon Conteyneing ye [seal spoils             
 about six letters] of many Comanders by vertue of [an?] Edict ye 25 of         
 (Eliz) Contrary to the peace of Osnaburgh have shutt up 300 of their           
 Churches leaveing only 3 in being depriveing them of Choseing yr               
 Majestrates overturning their whole Religion prohibiting them of               
 Changeing their habitacons & praying releife                                   
      There being a Quarter Sessions for the County of Surrey at ye             
 Towne of Dorking yesterday mr vincent a Noncon: preacher was Indicted          
 there on the Statute 35 (Eliz) but Cannot give yow ye pticulers more           
 then that he was brought back & Comitted to ye Marshalsea                      
      This day was held a Court of Aldrmen wher ye sevrall members              
 delivered an accot what Conventicles were held in their Respective             
 Wards in Order to ye more Effectuall Suppressing of them.  The Ward            
 of Bishopsgate being under dispute of Chooseing yr Common Councellmen          
 those within peticoned to devide the Ward into 2 distinctions that             
 they may Chose by themselves but those without peticoned the Contrary          
 setting forth ye undue proceeedings of yt affaire but in Conclusion a          
 Comtee was Ordred to sitt to debate [&?] Consider those peticons to            
 morrow [& m?]ake yr Reporte next Court of Aldermen day.                        
      L. c. 1324     London the 13th January 1682                               
 +A pattent is passing the Seales to Create Colonel Stowell of                  
 Somersetsheire Baron Somerton & Divers other persons of Quality will be        
 advanced to that Honorble degree but their names not yett pfectly knowne.      
      The Judges Delegates togeather with theire new Comission of Adjuncs       
 appointed to heare and determine that soe long depending Cause betweene        
 Mr Emerton and Mrs Bridget Hide Being Ordered to sitt in ye Councell           
 Chamber for ye more Conveniency of those privey Councellors therein, The       
 Judges among them Deputed two of ye Robe to repaire to Whitehall to            
 pray that ye same might be heard in Serjeants Inn the usuall place             
 Offering sevrall reasons Especially that their sitting there would be          
 Comodious by reason they could performe sevrall other bussinesses              
 belonging to their stations which was accordingly Granted and they to          
 have the first heareing on Tuesday next and soe de die in diem till            
 that great affaire be brought to a Conclusion.                                 
      The advice wee received Last post from Spaine That that Court had         
 prohibited the weareing of all fforraigne Manufacture comes Confirmed          
 with these restrictions  That noe Nobleman of that Kingdome whatsoever         
 shall appeare in the Kings prsence but with their Clothes of their owne        
 product & shall be degraded otherwise from yr Titles  That all officers        
 of Justice & others shall be suspended their places  That all Clergymen        
 &c shall be deprived of yr functions & Benefices  That ye Commonalty           
 offending herein shall not be Capable of sueing for their debts &              
 benefitt of the Lawes which if the same be strictly observed itt will          
 accrue to a great disadvantage to England Considering what a Quantaty          
 of Bayse Serges & other of our stuffs they yearely Consume but some            
 Ingenious persons beleive that a summe of Money (which they want) will         
 buy of the same if they should put itt in force Judging that the               
 Spaniards are to proud Lazy and unskilfull to work their owne Clothes          
 Especially their wool Cannot possibly effect itt without a Comixture           
 of ours which is prohibited by Law                                             
      The Spanish King is likewise makeing retrenchmts in his Court and         
 Kingdome beginninge in ye first place to sett aside all officers for ye        
 receiveing of his Revenue which Costs an Immens summe That for ye              
 future every City Towne & Country shall yearely Choose Officers among          
 them who shall receive ye Kings Duties & afterwards by Bills or other          
 Convenencyes bring it into his Excheqr & be allowed only their necessary       
 Charges                                                                        
      I acqwainted yow last Post that Mr vincent ye Noncon preacher was         
 Convicted att ye Quarter Sessions in the Towe of Dorking wedensday last        
 upon ye statute of the 35 of Eliz whereby he must either Conforme in           
 that Method the Act prscribes or after the Expiracon of 3 Monthes              
 Imprisonmt abjure ye Realme or suffer the paines of death wch being an         
 Extraordinary Case shall informe yow Justly how it stands viz                  
      The Indictmt agt him was Laid for being absent from Church on             
 Sonday the 2d of Aprill & 3 Sonday afterwards & at wch sevrall seasons         
 was preaching in a Conventicle  Mr Vincent went not to disprove ye same        
 but offered a plea that the Indicmt was Invalid wch was argued by              
 Councell offering for reason that the time he was Indicted was but 21          
 dayes whenas ye Act directs a Month wch Could not possibly make a              
 Month but ye Court saw reason to overrule the same whereby he was              
 Convicted & Ordrd to stand Comitted to ye Marshalsea but before he             
 departed a 2d Indictmt was prferred agt him upon ye sd statute in full         
 force to wch he was made plead                                                 
      The Clergy of this City have been at Whitehall to give an accot of        
 their proceedings in yr respective parishes relateing to dissenters &          
 since the Ld Bishop of London has held a Conference with the Clergy            
 Thursday & this day but as yett keeps ye debates secrett their summons         
 runs thus                                                                      
      Yow are desired to meete at a Conference upon ye 114 Cannon to            
 Consider by what meanes we may best prvayle with ye people Comitted to         
 our Charge to observe ye Ordrs of the Church by 8 of the Clock in the          
 morning ye 13 January 82 London                                                
 +Last night ye Ld Mayor went to Whitehall we supose to give an accot of        
 his proceedings upon his Maties Letter relateing to ye hindering the           
 Assembly of Conventicles in Companys halls                                     
 +The Jamaica letters [say] that ye Assembly of that Island have out of         
 their abundunt Loyalty given his Matie a Considerable Duty on all              
 Imported Liquors for 7 years to his sole disposall                             
      L. c. 1325   [Handwriting changes here.]   Lond ye 16th Jann 82/3         
      Our Paris Letters of the 12th Instant advise that the French king         
 had given orders for the Equipping forthwith 35 great men of Warr upon         
 ye Intimacons hee has reced That the Rovers of Tripoly and Tunis have          
 declared warr against him in theire Governmts and had seized upon              
 severall of his Merchants shipps and that the Algerines have 14 Sayle          
 at sea who have also taken some late Prizes from his subjects.                 
      The Chamber of Inquisicon lately Erected to search into and               
 examine misdeamors Committed by Military officers and Treasurers have          
 Convicted Monsr Holomont for deteyning and keeping back money that             
 was allotted for Recruiting a foot Company which hee brought to accot          
 was Compleated and have sentenced him to perpetuall Imprisonmt.                
      Sunday night last about the houres of 7 and 8 was held a second           
 Ball or Masquerade by ye young students of the Middle Temple and had           
 extraordinary Resort of many great personages of both sexes but                
 notwithstanding they had before Closed theire Gates The Rabble began to        
 gett head upon them and a disturbance ensued but notice being given to         
 Whitehall some of his Maties Horse & foot guards were sent for theire          
 Releife who prevented any farther disorders.                                   
      This day was published by the Lord Mayor an order in pursuance of         
 a Letter from his Matie to put the Lawes in full execucon agat                 
 Conventicles which his Lordshipp with the advise of the Aldermen are           
 resolved to performe to which end they have caused this publique notice        
 to be given to admonish all persons from offending therein.                    
      Yesterday the Comtee of ye East India Company passed a vote to            
 this effect that whatever psons had bought any goods att the last sale         
 and had not yett fetched them away might doe the same forthwith bringing       
 any of the Companyes Bonds to the value wch they would take as paid in         
 ready money and that att the approaching sale the first of March any           
 Person might give the Companyes Bonds in payment for any Comodity that         
 should be bought of them which gives ye Company a great Reputacon att          
 this Juncture for that some Censorious Persons did asperse them that           
 they would not make good theire Paymts att the Limitted tyme the 25 of         
 March whereby their actions fall noe Lower att prsent then 240 L.              
      Mr Sands one of ye owners of the East India Interloper who is stopt       
 from proceeding on that voyage did yesterday make a further arrest on ye       
 Comissionrs of the Custome house Laying his pticular action for 7000 L         
 Damage and sayes that every one of the Proprietors Concerned will also         
 lay theire Actions but in a sevrall way  In case some of them shall be         
 nonsuited the rest may hold & Sr Josiah Child and Alderman Sedgwick            
 were their Bayle.                                                              
      This day was held the first Court of our new Common Councell who          
 mett about 9 in ye morning and Concluded by 2 in ye afternoone which           
 when they had finished theire Preliminaryes they proceeded upon                
 businesse and made a motion to returne thanks to Sr John Moore our             
 late Ld Mayor which was put to ye Question.                                    
      whether Sr John Moore Should have ye Thanks of this Court for ye          
 great service hee had done his Matie and this City in his Adminstracon         
 of affaires in his Majoralty which was carried in ye affirmative Yeas          
 (119) Noes (82),                                                               
      The Court then proceeded to consider of a fitt person for a Judge         
 of the Sheriffs Court vacant by the death of Judge Richardson and the          
 Question was put whether Mr Thompson the Councellr should be put in            
 nominacon and it was carried in ye negative Noes (118) Yeas (83).              
      Then the Chocye was reduced to 2 vizt Sr Thomas Hanmer and Mr Lane        
 the Controller  the Question was put for which [of] the 2  Sr Thomas           
 Hanmere had (155) Mr L[ane] [seal spoils two or three digits]                  
      Then ye Court Considered of nominateing Comtees principally that          
 for defending City Charter and Concluded to continue all those Persons         
 therein who were formerly Elected but 4 of them being left out of this         
 Common Councell they Chose 4 others of the like Qualificacons in theire        
 Roomes Tearmed Whiggs vizt Mr Shute our late Sheriff Mr Paul Mr Leo:           
 Robinson and Mr Peter Hubland and gave them as ample power as before.          
      The Ward of Langburne were not admitted by reason they were not           
 duly returned which is the whole proceede of this day the Loyall Party         
 being superiour over the Whiggs in every Question                              
   L. c. 1326  [Handwriting changes here.]  London January 23th [?] 1682        
 +fforreigne Letters from divers parts of Europe doe give more then             
 probable Conjecture yt ye necessity of affairs will obliege ye                 
 Christian Intersted Parties to Center in a generall peace tho upon such        
 disadvantagious terms as promise [?] ye ffrench please to ascertaine &         
 Conclude  for ye Electorall Colledge has sent ye emperor a Letter of ye        
 8 Instant laying down before his imperiall matie ye urgancy of a peace         
 at this Juncture to Close with ffrance upon yt ffoot wch he at present         
 layes downe vizt to keep strasburgh with divers towns in Alsatia &c            
 wch otherwise might prove a far greater disadvantage since ye grand            
 enemy the Turke was with a powefull army advanceing to his hereditary          
 Countries & therefore twas almost morally [?] impossible for him to            
 resist 2 such powerfull enemies as ye Turke & ye ffrench to wch ye             
 emperor soe far enemies [?] as to dispatch a[n] embassadr to ye States         
 of Holland thereupon who are all this time Consulting ye affair of a           
 general good  ye Spaniard also is extreamly busy in fflanders in               
 advising their safety since ye Limited time ye ffrench give them is            
 expired a fornight since & wee expect with great impatience next Post          
 ye result of their debates.                                                    
 +Mr Willmore who was formerly Convicted for spir[i]ting kidnapping a           
 young man to Jamaica had a writt de homini repligiendo taken out               
 against him & upon yt a Capias ad Withernum to bring back ye young man         
 but he since [?] abroade  ye beginning of this week ye youth arrived           
 from Jamaica and yesterday was had before Justice Dolben & made                
 affidavit in favour of mr Willmore whereby ye next Terme Mr Willmore           
 will get himselfe discharged                                                   
      Tuesday last Mr Humphrey Mackworth counsellor of ye inner Temple who      
 on behalfe of those young students made a speech to his Matie this Xmas        
 was sent for to Whitehall & by ye Lord Arran introduced into his Maties        
 presence who Conferd ye honour of Knight on him being extreamly                
 satisfied with his Loyallty notwithstanding there were suggestions yt ye       
 Gent ffather was one of ye enemies of King Charles ye first of Blessed         
 memory One Mr Tho Hunt Counsell of ye temple haveing published a booke         
 intituled a defence of ye Charter wherein he speaks extraordinaryly            
 plain and bold ye same give great offence at Whitehall & last night            
 many of them were seized at Baldwins ye publisher & this day debated in        
 Counsell But as yet I heare noe further proceed                                
 +Tuesday last his Royall Highness dined with ye Royall Affrican Company        
 in Leadenhall being their governor where he was present at ye Choice of        
 a deputy governor and treasurer vizt Sr Benjamin Bathurst for ye former        
 & Sheriff North ye Latter.                                                     
      Saturday sevennight his Matie goes for newmarket where he intends         
 to take ye divertisement of yt place for some dayes                            
      Tuesday last ye Judges delegates appointed to heare and determine         
 ye gr[eat?] Cause between Mr John Emerton & Mrs Bridget Hide sat ye            
 first time but by reason some of ye Judges were absent & Considering           
 ye approaching terme when ye Judges will be busy they have adjournd            
 ye further hearing til ye monday after ye terme                                
      The East India Company haveing preferd Bills in chancery against          
 ye severall interlopers trading to yt Country especially against her yt        
 is at present stopt from proceeding in yt voyage ye new Lord Keeper            
 granted an injunction to stay all proceedings at Common Law til ye             
 matter was in chancery determined ye sayd injunction running thus              
      That it was his Majtyes undoubted Prerogative to grant Charters to        
 any of his subjects exclusive of the rest to trade to any Infidels             
 Countrey                                                                       
      But this day ye Interlopers have Liberty given them to shew Cause         
 why ye same should not pass & great is ye expectation of ye event              
    L. c. 1327   [Handwriting changes here.]   London the 29 January 1682       
    yesterday was acted at the Theatre Royall the first of a new play           
 Entituled the City politiques the Novelty of wch drew a Confluence of          
 Spectators under both Qualificacons of Whigg and Tory to heare and             
 behold a Ld Major Sheriffs & some Aldermen with their wives in yr usuall       
 formalityes buffoond & Reviled a great Lawyer with his young Lady              
 Jeared and Intreagued Dr Oates pfectly reprsented berogued & beslaved          
 the papist plott Egregiously Rediculd the irish Testemonyes Contradictorily    
 disprooved & befoold the Whiggs Totally vanquished & undon Law &               
 property men oreruld & there wanted nothing of Artifice in behaviour           
 and discourse to render all these obnoxious & dispised  in fine such a         
 Medly of Occurences intervend that twas a Question whether more of             
 Loyalty designe or Rhetorique prvailed but there were mighty Clashings         
 [?] among the people of both partyes in Expressing either their                
 sattisfaccon or displeasure                                                    
      One Buck an Informer of Conventicles being Indicted yesterday att         
 ye Sessions at Westminster for breaking open a house under Colour of           
 searching for a Conventicle the said Bill was prferrd to the Grand Jury        
 wch though there were 3 wittnesses to proove the same yett the Grand           
 Jury saw Cause to returne the Bill Ignoramus                                   
      Robert Stephens Messinger of the press prsented & Indicted att            
 Hickses hall for ye County of Middx a great many Citizens & others             
 under the notion of popish Recusants & most of them prooveing themselves       
 to be Constant and Reguler Church of England men they made their               
 Complaint to ye Justices that ye same was a Malitious prosecucon who           
 Imedeatly granted a Bench warrant to apprehend the said Stephens to            
 answere the same before their worshipps                                        
      I acquainted yow last post of the East India Companys Intention to        
 procure an Injunction agt ye Shipp Commerce a supposed Interloper to the       
 East Indies but when Councell on both sides were Come to ye Ld Keepers         
 the East India Company withdrew their prsent proceeding being advised          
 that they had not Laid their project arright as that an Injunction             
 should be Granted to hinder ye said Interloper to trade to ye East             
 Indies without the plaintiffs Licence till the meritts of ye Cause &           
 validity of ye plaintiffs Charter & the Kings prrogative of granting           
 Charters Exclusive of all others to trade with Infidells be determined         
 in yt Court & that in ye meane time the Defendts may be Enjoyned to            
 stay all proceedings att Law:                                                  
      Which the Lawyers say is a Contradiction The Court of Chancery            
 being not a place to determine any such poynt but ye Common Law either         
 at Kings Bench or Common pleas where upon yesterday Mr Sands Mr Dockura        
 Mr Griffith Mr Carbonell & Mr Congreave Merchts Concernd in ye                 
 Interloper demanded hi[s] dispatch of ye Comissions wch they Deny              
 againe soe they Intend to Lay other Actions agt them then what they            
 ha[ve] done already                                                            
      His Matie has given Ordrs to Sr Christopher Wren Surveyer Generall        
 to begin the building of a stately Edifice for his Matie at ye City of         
 Winchester the next spring which when finished his Matie intends to            
 reside there some time yearely.                                                
      Little Transaccons att Councell of publique remarke have Occurrd          
 this week Only a heareing of A Complaint from the Towne of yarmouth            
 that one Mr England a 2 parliament Bill of Exclusion man was Chosen a          
 Justice of peace for that Towne who have the proper Choice thereof             
 notwitstanding he was left out of Comission in ye County & one Sr John         
 Meadowes was his great opponent but ye matter being referred to his            
 Maties pleasure he was pleased to Continue Mr England no imputeing the         
 former Allegacons agt him                                                      
      A great fforraigne Mountebank holding a publique Stage in Lincolnes       
 Inn feilds to give his spectators divertizemt made himselfe a State            
 Quak & had a pson who reprsented the Earle of Shaftsbury Intimateing           
 [sic] his Gestures Language & designes but ye Burthen of the Comedy was        
 that hee was greatly in hast to goe into Holland & other Countreys to          
 practise his Intreagues there alsoe  This day the Constables in the            
 Burrough of Southwark mett to Consider how they shall to morrow make a         
 Totall suppression of all Conventicles there & to morrow there will be         
 sevrall Companyes on the Guard to pforme the like service in this City         
      L. c. 1328     London the 23d January 1682                                
      Satturday last being ye Essoyne day before the Terme wch should           
 have Concluded the Revelling of the young students in ye Temple of             
 both societyes the Middle Temple youthes acquiessed but ye Inner house         
 Continued yr accustomed Gameing whereby on ye Benches the Grave seniors        
 of yt Inn accompanyed with Mr Attorney & Soliciter Genrall went to ye          
 hall desired them to Cleare ye house for that their time was Expired           
 Ordring some servts to obey yr Comands wch they pforming were prvented         
 by ye young men & Mr Attorney Genrall with his followers driven away           
 with a Hollow                                                                  
      whereupon they returned to their sporte & put all those servants          
 into ye Tower alias ye stocks for obeying ye Benchers where they               
 Continued all night & the next morning being Sonday they discharged            
 them thereout burning them alsoe in the hand wch they soe call pouring         
 water into yr sleeve till such times as it runs out of yr shoes & were         
 resolved to hold a Ball on Sonday haveing provided all necessaryes             
      But ye Ld Cheife Justice Pemmerton haveing knowledge of ye same           
 Came from his Dinner wth ye Benchers & demanded entrance into ye hall or       
 Garrison wch some of the Guard mistrusting yr Cause gave him Admittance        
 who Imediatly Comanded ye Controller to surrendr his Staff & be discharged     
 togeather with his Guard & that all the Chayres sett ready for a Ball          
 be turned out & the usuall tables sett up wch was done & the Benchers          
 putt into possession & sent for yr dinner & dined therein                      
      And Mr Attorney haveing wrote a letter to Court of those                  
 proceedings had an Answere thereto from Mr Secretary Jenkins that his          
 Matie gave noe Continuance to ye same haveing given Ordr that none of          
 the Court doe Come to their Ball on Sonday Leaveing the Matter wholly          
 to ye Decision of ye Benchers who were at prsent Governors of yt               
 Society & this ended their Christmas Gambolls.                                 
      Mr Hunt who published the late booke Entituled ye defence of the          
 Charter being on Satturday in the Royll Coffee house was there                 
 assaulted by one Mr Vaughan of ye Guards beate downe ye Staires but            
 with leaveing his hatt behind Escaped                                          
      The Grand Jury for the City of Westminster prsented ye said               
 booke as a dangerous & Seditious Libell & since divers Constables &c           
 have been abroad to seize his pson                                             
      To morrow the Earle of Sunderland will at ye Councell be readmitted       
 into His former place of princepall Secretary of State in the roome of         
 the Earle of Conway who will be advanced into some other promotion.            
      Mrs ffuller the Vintner of the palsgrave head Taverne who was the         
 Close of last week found Guilty of Murder for Killing her servant with a       
 Tobaccoe pipe wch peirced his Brayne yesterday obteyned a pardon of his        
 Matie A warrant of wch was sent to him [sic] to Newgate accordingly.           
      Advice from Cadiz say that ye Lumly Castle a Shipp of 400 Guns            
 from this porte had taken aboard in yt Harbor 3 hundred Thousand peices        
 of 8 & was designd as an Interloper to ye East Indies                          
      yesterday was an Adjournd sessions of peace in Guild hall where a         
 hawk[er] woman was Indicted & found Guilty [of] selling a paper                
 Entituled the Illegall proceedings in ye Choyce of ye 2 prtended Sheriffs      
 Mr Dudley North & Mr peter Rich & was fined 20 L:                              
      The Ld Maynard Controller of his Maties household will in few             
 dayes resigne yt honoble place to Sr Phillip Howard upon a valuable            
 Consideracon                                                                   
      The East India Company has prferrd a Bill in Chancery agt ye              
 sevrall Interlopers who have formerly brought goods from yt Country            
 demand 30 p Cent for yr property & alsoe agt the Shipp Commerce now            
 designd for India & this day the proprietors [?] Concernd pleaded to           
 pte demurrd to Other pte & answered to ye rest                                 
      This day Mr Sandrs the Councellor being by writt Calld to be a            
 Serjeant the treasurer of ye Temple accompanied with many of the Gowne         
 men sent for him into yr hall & gave him a purse of 10 L the usuall            
 method & made a speech yt they were Extreamly Sorry to leave him & Mr          
 Sandrs returnd a Complemt in such like words & afterwards they                 
 accompanied him to Westminster where attending him at Common pleas barr        
 he had ye Coife & other Ornamts belonging yt Degree put upon him &             
 made a Motion as Serjeant at ye Barr & then was sent for by ye Ld Keeper       
 into the Kings Bench where his Ldpp made an Excelent Speech relateing to       
 his Maties Calling him to be Ld Cheife Justice of England & ordrd him to       
 take his place accordingly wch being done Ld C Justice made alsoe a well       
 pleasing speech upon the Occasion & there the Court proceeded upon             
 bussiness  the most materiall was a Motion by the Attorney Genrall that        
 the City of London Joyne in a Demurr wch is to be to morrow & the Ld           
 Keeper took his seate in Chancery Ld C Justice Pemmerton yt of ye Common       
 pleas & began very briskly Comitting a Sheriff for makeing a false             
 Returne.                                                                       
      [A few figures in another hand appear on outside of letter.]              
      L. c. 1329     London the 25 January 1682                                 
 +Yesterday ye Ld Cheife Justice Sanders Came not to ye Court of                
 Kings bench whereby little bussiness was Transacted  Mr Sands one of ye        
 Owners of the Shipps Commerce which is stopt by process out of the             
 Admiralty from goeing an Interloper to the East Indies made a Motion for       
 a prohibition to bring yt affaire to be tryed at Common Law & the Court        
 ordrd the East India Company to shew Cause by Monday why a prohibition         
 should not be Granted                                                          
      The proceedings agt the Charter of Worcester haveing gon through          
 all the formes of law whereby ye same is ready for a Tryall A Motion was       
 made yesterday that ye pannell of the Jury returnd should be altered but       
 after some debate the Court told them that if they could make any Legall       
 Exception agt any of them when it was brought upon issue the same should       
 be amended.                                                                    
      yesterday ye new Ld Keeper made a Decree in Chancery of 16000 L           
 against ye Royll Affrican Company upon an accompt of that Companyes            
 former Incorporation being a Debt wch they were obliedged to pay to some       
 Merchants they prooveing that they had effects in yr hands sufficient          
 for ye same                                                                    
       Our Holland Letters say that on the 25 the Earle of Shaftsbury had       
 formerly entered & made himselfe a Burgher of the Great Burgher shipp of       
 Amsterdam which Cost him 500 florins by vertue of which he is Capicited        
 to attaine their Majestracy & be fully protected & the Majestracy had          
 Complemented him thereon declareing that if his Ldpp would goe to ye           
 English Church they would take Care to Assigne & prpare him a seate            
 suteable to his Quality  Sr Wm Waller was likewise made a Burgher and          
 protected as ye Earle                                                          
      Mounsr Camprich ye Emperors Resident att ye Hague has prsented            
 ye States a second Memoriall by wch he remonstrates that he understood         
 there was a Reporte which some of ye States gave Credit to that the            
 Emperor resolved to agree to what propositions the most Christian King         
 had Layd downe & to treate upon them severally which he desired out of         
 yr Ldpps wisdomes to give noe Creditt thereto assureing them that his          
 Imperiall Matie was resolved to psist in his former resolution to Treate       
 Joyntly with them & ye Crowne of Spaine in a Certeyne place and never          
 without them                                                                   
      Which Memoriall was delivered to the Commee of fforraigne affaires        
 to Examine takeing ye advise of ye prince of Orange & thereon to make          
 Reporte with all Expedition                                                    
      The Earle of Sunderland was yesterday readmitted principall               
 Secretary of State in ye Roome of the Earle of Conway & sworne of his          
 Maties privey Councell.                                                        
      The Dutch & Spanish ambassadrs yesterday received advise that there       
 was a prospect that a peace might be Concerted betweene the Emperor            
 Count Teckly & the Turk the Count haveing proposed 5 heads or new              
 Articles wch have been Transmitted to ye Emperor & afterwards by Count         
 Tecklys secretary dispatched away to ye prime Vizier at Belgrade wch           
 are these viz                                                                  
 1st  That the Hungarians Enjoy all ye Rights and priveledges together          
 with Religion in ye yeare 47                                                   
 2ly  That Count Teckly be made a Prince of the Empire & have an                
 hereditary Estate to mainteyne yt Dignity                                      
 3ly  That ye Tribute wch ye Hungarians usually paid to ye Turk might be        
 yearly raised out of ye popish Clergy                                          
 4ly  that Leopolstadt be demolished.                                           
 5ly  That ye Emperor raise a Considerable sume of money pte of wch may         
 be given to ye Prime Vizier the rest to his Master the great Turk to           
 induce him to withdraw his forces                                              
      yesterday according to the Court of Kings benches Ordr the City of        
 London Joyned in Demurr wth the Attorney Genrall whereby an Argment wil        
 be had upon the Charter this Terme tho Cannot Come to an Issue till            
 afterwards                                                                     
      yesterday the prsent Ld Mayor & Aldrmen to whome ye writt of              
 Mandamus was directed to sweare Mr papillion and Divers Sheriffs made          
 a Returne that they were not Elected whereby an Action of the Case will        
 be brought to try ye Meritts of that affaire  This Tearme sevrall              
 declaracons were entred agt Sr John Moore our late Ld Mayor upon accons        
 that was brought agt him for betraying the Rights of the Citizens as           
 they alledge  Alsoe Ben Leech a Bricklayer has declared agt ye Sheriffs        
 to try by what right the[y] received the ffine of 20 Marks at the old          
 Baly for declareing they were noe Sheriffs                                     
 +yesterday one Mr Carr arrived from Holland & brought with him from ye         
 Prince of Orange for Compleateing all the English Redgmts in the States        
 service                                                                        
    This week have been heard at ye Treasury Chamber a great affaire            
 relateing to the Hearth money that ye same has been underlett to his           
 Maties detriment 60000 L the Marquis hallifax Espouseing ye prooveing          
 thereof agt the Earle of Rochester wch people say has Occationed an            
 unhappy difference between those 2 great psons insomuch that tis               
 discoursed that there will be Considerable Remoovalls thereon.                 
 [Note on outside of letter in another hand:]  Jan 27 1682/3 Enquire for        
 Mr Palmer featherseller [?] at Mrs Pitmans [?] a Milliner at the Golden        
 Gent in Cheapside                                                              
      L. c. 1330     London the 27 January 1682                                 
      The East India Company have been for some dayes under some                
 disquietness Mr Chen their Treasurer not giveing his Attendance whereby        
 some surmise that he has either A private Ordr to withdraw upon a              
 Deficiency of some of their Members or that he is behinde in his Cash          
 but yesterday one of the Securityes appeared & declared that ye affaire        
 related to the latter Clause Mr Chen haveing made use of 5000 L to buy         
 Actions for himselfe which remaines still at 240 L or thereabouts              
      The unhappy difference betweene the Marquis Hallifax & Earle of           
 Rochester Occasioned thro a summe of about 60000 L which the Marquis           
 discovers to his Matie to have been dammaged in ye underletting of the         
 Hearth Money is Composed the King useing his Authority to reconcile            
 those 2 great men whereby the discourse of some Remoovalls thereon is          
 laid aside                                                                     
      yesterday the new Ld Cheife Justice Sanders Came in his Robes upon        
 the Kings bench Transacting the bussiness of yt Court  A Motion was            
 made in behalfe of the City for time till next Terme to Argue the              
 Demurr upon ye Charter but after much debate pro & Contra the Court            
 Ordrd the same to be Argued the Last wedensday in the Terme                    
      yesterday the Duke of Monmouth with divers Lords Gentlemen &              
 Citizens Dined att the Salutation Taverne in Lumbard streete where they        
 had a Certeyne accompt brought them of the Earle of Shaftsburys death          
 in Amsterdam                                                                   
      Which wee have Certainly Confirmd by one of his Ldpps servants who        
 yesterday morning arrived as Express to his Lady in London giveing an          
 accot of the whole pticulers thereof wch as farr as wee Can Learne             
 are viz                                                                        
      That since his Ldpps arrivall into Amsterdam have been much               
 afflicted with the Goute & other Cronicall distempers wch has more             
 then Ordinary impaired his health tho sometimes meeteing with an               
 Intervall of Temperature but the unnaturall disposition of yt watry            
 Clymatt made to rigid a seasure on his Vitalls driveing his distemper          
 upwards to his heart where haveing found its Center Imediatly on Sonday        
 afternoone put a period to his life tho it did not deprive his Ldpp            
 of any of his senses till ye last Moment Giveing Order for ye                  
 Interment of his Corps att St Gileses in Dorsetsheire disposeing of            
 his Reall & personall Estate as he had before determined with many             
 other Circumstances wch time must better informe us of                         
      yesterday Mr Willmores Servant for whome he was Convicted for             
 Kidnapping alias spiriting away for Jamaica appeared in Court declareing       
 that he voluntarily went from hence & had beene well used in his               
 service &c whereby Mr Willmores Councell mooved that he might be               
 discharged from ye Capias ad Withernum but ye Court told him he must           
 make a further provision for ye Lad in 10 dayes time & then he might           
 moove againe thereon  in the meane time he was deliverd to his Mother          
      Yesterday was a great hearing before his Matie in Councell being          
 Certenye propositions that a pson made that ye office of Green wax             
 with other affaires relateing to ye Law might be mightily more                 
 Improved to his Maties advantage then at prsent it was  most of ye             
 Judges were Called to be Assistant herein & ye said pson had Come to           
 Argue on his behalfe but in Conclusion his Matie found yt ye same would        
 be Infinitly Burthensome to his subjects Especially that Branch of             
 distreyning the forfeiture of all Issues of Juryes  his Matie was              
 Gratiously pleased to Dismiss ye same as Inconvenient whereby the              
 projector has lost all hopes of Advantage                                      
      This day little bussiness was Transacted at Westminster hall the          
 Court of Kings bench being Cheifely taken up in heareing of private            
 Arguments but a Motion was that a returne being made to ye Mandamus            
 for swearing of Mr Papillion & Dubois Sheriffs that they were not duely        
 Elected without any pticuler name more then by ye Mayor & Aldrmen  they        
 desired that the same might be ye Contrary but ye Court was of opinion         
 yt ye same was of validity sufficient.                                         
      Capt Clifford with others who were Convicted last Terme for               
 hurrying away maddam Synderfin to ffrance appeard in Court but by              
 reason one of the Crew was absent the Court deferrd ye sentenceing of          
 them till Monday 7 night                                                       
   L. c. 1331   [Handwriting changes here.]  London ye 30th Jann 1682/3         
      The subscripcons for a publique Banke of Creditt promoted by Dr           
 Chamberlaine and Robt Winrey is nigh brought to perfection and the same        
 is esteemed to be of such Genrall good & pticulerly for the benefitt of        
 the Chamber of London enabling the City better to pay their Orphans            
 Porcons That the Lord Mayor the 23 instant with the Aldermen in full           
 Court subscribed to the same recommending to all the Aldermen their            
 Deputyes & Common Councell men with others to promote that good worke          
      And the undertakers designe to have one of the like nature in every       
 County of Engld for the remitting moneys and all the propertyes that may       
 be usefull to the People.                                                      
      Satturday night last one knowles A nonconformist Preacher was             
 taken out of his Bedd [?] at Westminster & Committed.                          
      One Robinson an Attorney who lately stood in the Pillory for Cheating     
 a Goldsmith by counterfeit Letters the summe of 500 L was cast in              
 a Tryall in Guildhall for the money before the Lord Cheife Justice             
 Sannders whereby the Goldsmith will recover the same the said Attorney         
 lately marrying a wife of 1500 L.                                              
      Satturday last the East India Company haveing preferred a Bill in         
 Chancery against Mr Sands the designed Interloper to ye East Indies            
 wherein the Company setts forth the meritts of their cause praying an          
 injunction to stopp ye ship Commerce and the proceding att Law which           
 the said Mr Sands had made against the Custome house officers came to a        
 heareing before the Lord keeper which after strenuous debates on both          
 sides his Ldpp was pleased to dismiss the Bill refuseing to grant an           
 Injunction but directing an issue att Law to confess a value & then try ye     
 meritts of their Charter thereon.                                              
      And yesterday the E India Company being to shew cause in the Kings        
 Bench why a Prohibicon should not be granted to stay and bring the             
 proceedings against the Shipp Commerce out of the Admiralty Court which        
 [?] desired by Councell a weeks time longer but Mr Sands declareing            
 that hee was every day att a great charge in his Shipp the Court ordered       
 time to be given only till Thursday & tis beleeved the Interloper will         
 gett the better of the Company.                                                
      Mr Sands ffryday last gott himselfe a Member of the Muscovy Company       
 which has a Pattent Confirmed by Act of Parliamt to Trayde in to Persia        
 and the Company has given a Licence soe to doe though part of ye E:            
 Indies in opposicon to ye East India Company.                                  
      Yesterday was a great argument in the kings Bench being an arrest         
 of 100 L Judgmt one of ye Comon Pleas obteyned by Sr Thomas Clargis            
 against Mr Row for calling him Papist att the Election of Members of           
 Parliamt, some houres were spent in argueing by Councell pro & con and         
 all ye Judges seemed to bee of opinion that it was but deferred giveing        
 yr Judgmt in ye case till last of ye Terme.                                    
      The Ld Grey who was Convicted last Terme for takeing away the Earle       
 of Berkleys daughter has agreed that affaire with his ffather in Law           
 the Earle whereby a noli prosequi is brought into ye Crowne office to          
 stay farther proceedings.                                                      
      The king haveing joyned issue with the City of Lond upon ye Points        
 of ye Marketts whereby that breach should have beene tryed [seal spoils        
 about five letters] but haveing a Prerogative to wave his plea time            
 obteyned [?] though joyned.  The  King has since demurrd upon ye same          
 whereby that whole cause of ye City Charter will be decided by ye              
 Judges only & next Wednesday come 7 night ye argumt the argumt is held         
 thereon.                                                                       
      Yesterday a mocon was made in ye kings Bench for Leave to file an         
 Informacon agat the late Mayor of Nottingham for takeing away the seale        
 of that Corporacon Illegally out of ye City Chest affixing it to an            
 Instrumt Importing a Surrender of their Charter they being denyed that         
 benefitt by ye Clarke of ye Crowne who being called upon said that hee         
 had orders from Mr Attorney not to receive any such Informacon but the         
 Court made noe order in the affaire more then that they must attend Mr         
 Attorney themselves to know his pleasure.                                      
      The great business of the Hearth money which has occasioned some          
 difference att Court is referred to the Lord keeper to heare examine &         
 to make Report to ye Councell wth all expedicon & on satturday his             
 Lordshipp sumoned ye ffarmers before him & searched in ye Concerne &           
 will Report it next Councell day whereby tis judged that notwithstanding       
 ye Mannagers of ye Hearth money bought ye surplusage of that Revenue           
 more then what they were bound to make good to his Matie for 10000 L           
 yett they will be brought to accompt for ye full value which will accrue       
 to his Matie 50 or 60000 L advantage  yesterday a speciall Court of            
 Aldermen was held to Consider of the best methods for the Totall               
 suppressing of all Conventicles & agreed upon sevrall Points which they        
 Intend effectually to put in Execucon.                                         
   L. c. 1332  [Handwriting changes here.] London the 1st ffebruary 1682        
 +yesterday was brought on in the Kings bench Court a tryall betweene           
 the King & divers of ye persons in Authority in the City of Worcester          
 by way of Quo warranto and Information for Exerciseing without haveing         
 Majestracy in yt Corporation subscribed a declaracon as ye Act of Pliamt       
 Enjoynes for regulateing of Corporations                                       
      The Councell for ye Defendts especially Sr ffrancis Winington made        
 noe defence as to matter of fact urgeing that they had not time                
 sufficient to prpare yr Evidence they haveing moved ye Court before &          
 refused them                                                                   
      And therefore insisted on some points of Law Challenging ye whole         
 Array as that the returne of ye Evidence by one of ye Coronrs where            
 there were two & ought to have Joyned in ye said returne wch he refused        
 was not sufficient in Law                                                      
      But the Court finding both the names of ye Coronors on ye venire          
 over Ruled the same that noe averment was made agt ye Record                   
      After wch the Defendts Councell Challenged the pole that they were        
 not ffreholders of the County & City of worcester as by ye Law they ought      
      Which the Court took into Consideracon & being not altogeather            
 sattisfyed in that objection sent Mr Justice Raymond to the Court of           
 Common pleas to state and bring back ye Oppinion of those Judges therein       
      Who after an houres stay returned & reported that those Judges were       
 of Opinion that tho ye Jury were not ffreholdrs in a Corporation yett          
 they might be Legally Jurymen  otherwise there might be a failure of           
 Justice where few ffreholdrs were:                                             
      Thereupon the Court adhereing to their opinion Overruled that             
 point alsoe whereby ye Councell for the Defendt put in a Bill of               
 Excepcons which was allowed:                                                   
      however the Jury being sworne the Court proceeded to take their           
 verdict there being noe Evidence agt Gave it for ye King                       
      But before the Court Gives Judgmt upon itt the Excepcons must be          
 Argued & the same does not Imediatly affect the takeing away ye Charter        
 but the Turning out of those psons mentioned in ye Information tho             
 Consequently itt may for then ye remainder will in probability deliver         
 it up                                                                          
      The Great affaire of ye hearth money being referrd to the Ld              
 Keeper his Ldpp heard it on satturday & on Monday made his reporte             
 thereof to his Matie wch I understand was in favour of the Ld Rochester        
 his Matie afterwards Confirming his Grant for ye surplusage of ye              
 hearth money wch Capt Gonne bought of the Lds of the Treasury for              
 17500 L tho the Marquis Hallifax thro ye discovery of Capt Shales had          
 made out that ye same was of a farr greater vallue but Mr Trant one of         
 the Mannagers declared that ye sd Grant to Mr Gonne was made in trust          
 for him & that since his Matie had beene soe Graciously pleased to             
 Confirme the pattent he would be soe Ingenious as to open his books to         
 his Matie that he might Certainly know what proffitt was made thereof          
 & would submitt to what his Maties pleasure should Order in the affaire        
      yesterday one powell a Blasphemous Muggletonian fellow was                
 sentenced to stand in the pillory before ye pallace Gate on Monday next        
 & to pay 200 Marks to the King & to give security for his Good behaviour       
 for the future but as soone as sentence was past he very strangly gott         
 out of Court & made his Escape from all ye Marshalls.                          
      Mr ffarringdon of Chichester who was the last Terme acquitall of ye       
 Murder of Habin the Informer of yt place Moved ye Court of Kings bench         
 for a Copy of his Indictmt and acquitall in ordr to prosecute the Law          
 agt all those psons who had Concerne agt him wch ye Court allowed              
 declareing that it was the most Malitious & barberous designe agt a            
 Gentlemans life ever heard of whereupon Mr ffaringdon is fileing               
 Informacons of subornation of perjury agt some & takeing out writts of         
 Conspiracy against others.                                                     
 +This day being apointed for ye E India Company to shew Cause why a            
 prohibition should not be Granted in the affaire of Mr Sands ye East           
 India Interloper the Company argued by Councell the merritts of their          
 Charter wch was sufficient to hinder others tradeing thither but               
 themselves  In fine the Court made noe Rule in ye affaire but took time        
 to Consider whether his Matie had a prrogative to grant a Licence to           
 some psons to trade with Infidells Exclusive of others  in ye meane            
 time the Interloper Cannot proceed                                             
 +This day Mr Goodenough ye Attorney Came to ye Court of Aldrmen & sent         
 in a Message to give ym Notice to put in baile to ye returne of ye             
 Mandamus wch they made yt Papillion & Dubois was not duely Elected in          
 Ordr to try ye issue of yt affaire  some members of ye Court were for          
 Comitting him for his Insolency but yt being waved they answered they          
 would Consider of itt.                                                         
      L. c. 1333     London the 3d ffebruary 1682                               
 +Our advise from Lisbon in portugall gives a most surprizeing accot            
 that 4 English shipps in yt port freighting Comodityes of their product        
 & takeing silver aboard ye Coyne of yt Country wch by their Law are            
 prohibited upon ye penaltyes of death & Confiscacon of shipps and goods        
 were taken in ye fact wch yt Goverment understanding sent a Considerable       
 strength & seized ye Masters seamen &c who are all Comitted to prison &        
 the shipps arrested which affaire administers noe little disquiett to          
 sevrall of our Merchts feareing yt they will persue the full intents           
 of ye Law agt them tho ye same has been rarely put in Execucon.                
      Some dayes since 2 fellows formrly Dr Oates servants repaired to          
 the Ld Mayor & there proffered to give yr oaths agt their Quondam Master       
 for Comitting Sodomy with them the one positively yt the Dr forced him         
 butt the other yt he onely attempted him & his Ldpp: was soe discreet in       
 an affaire yt nature as to examine ym strictly thereon who declared yt         
 the same was perpetrated above 6 months since & his Ldpp asked why they        
 did not Complayn thereof sooner  they replyed yt they had been since           
 beyond Sea, Whereupon his Ldpp: advised them to Consider well thereof          
 upon his pillow refuseing to take their Information without they               
 disgeted [?] itt in writeing themselves                                        
      Wch affaire Creates no little talk Butt the Dr Laughs att the same        
 saying yt hee doubts not to prove butt yt they are subornd thereto             
      The Duke of monmouth designing to goe to Chichester Tuseday next          
 the Bishp of yt place has signifyed to his Matie What prparations are          
 makeing for his reception viz 200 White wastecoates a makeing for young        
 men to meet him alsoe much other matter of yt Tendency with some fear of       
 disturbance Whereupon the High Sheriff is sent to take all possible Care       
 to hinder anything of the like Nature                                          
      Mr Richrd Goodanough an Attorney haveing last Thursday sent in a          
 Note to the Ld Mayor & Court of Aldrmen to desire an appearance in his         
 Maties Court of Kings Bench & Comon Bayle to be ffyled at the suite of         
 Thomas Papillion & the like att the suite of John Dubois Esqrs & the           
 Court returning no positive answer in the affair                               
      The said Richrd Goodanough this day sealed writts agt the Ld mayor        
 & 17 of the Aldrmen Grounded upon the Return the Court of Aldrmen made         
 Papillion & Dubois were not elected                                            
      This day wee have advise that the Woolwch ffriggot was arrived from       
 Tangier & brought letters wch Contradicts the former Report the Emperor        
 of Morocco was slayn                                                           
      Giveing an acct that the Comptor & his nephew Mule Ismael faced           
 each other with an army severall dayes to incounter in a battle butt a         
 parley being made between them they Consented to Chose 30 Cheifs on each       
 side to treat at Alcason who att length agreed the affair without              
 effusion of blood viz: that Mule hamett the Comptor shall retayn the           
 Title over the Contrys of ffez & Morocco & Muli Ismael to bee king of          
 Bass [?] a large Teritory reaching to Guiney upon wch their Armyes were        
 disbanded & the Governor of Alcasar has sent a message to Tangier that         
 he would put himself under their protection & treat with them there in         
 person                                                                         
      Yesterday the Governor of ye Temple Invited the Great Lds: of             
 [seal spoils about four letters] together with the Ld: Keeper to dinner        
 where afterwards they were entertayned with variety of song & a play           
 was Acted before them Called the Chances by the Kings players                  
      The discourse is about Towne yt at Nottingham one Sr John Parsons         
 is Killed by Sr Scroop How                                                     
      This day the Earl of Danby moved for a habeas Corpus  some Argumts        
 was held thereon the Councell saying that there were other Circumstances       
 to offer but Judge Dolben said the law was the same now as then & by           
 reason the Ld; C Justice was absent orderd them to move again when the         
 Court was ffinall [?]                                                          
      Our holland Lrs of the 4th of ffebry advise yt mounsr Camprich the        
 Comptors Ambassador had delivered the states a Memoriall wherein he            
 give their ldpp: an acct of what Stepps the Emperor his Master had made        
 in order for a Treaty of peace with ffrance wch the states have put into       
 the hands of ye Comissioners for fforraigne affaires  And from Ratisbon        
 wee have an acct of the 2d ultimo yt the Dyet had a long time been             
 Consulting of the security of the Empire but were mightily different           
 what Methods should be taken in the prosecution thereof insomuch that          
 they were nigh breaking up their Assembly without agreeing any thinge          
 to effect but att length the difficulty was removed & they Came to             
 resolve in what manner to begin a Treaty of accomodation with ffrance          
 Conjunctly with other the Confederates of the Empire & orderd that the         
 same be Imediately Signifyed to the ffrench Ambassadr who returnd answer       
 yt he Coud not of himselfe in soe important affaire give his assent            
 thereto without first acquainting his Master thereof wch hee would doe         
 with all expedition                                                            
      L. c. 1334     London the 6 ffebruary 1682                                
 +Sonday last ye Conventicles in & about Towne were disturbed &                 
 hindred from meeting psuant to a Second Resolution the Court of                
 Aldermen have taken to make a Totall suppression of them assigneing            
 those Aldermen who have noe Conventicles in yr Ward to be assistant to         
 others that have, pticulerly mentioning ye psons & they sett a Guard at        
 each meeteing house who obstructed their Entrance:                             
      Sonday last in ye afternoone One Abercromby who had been a Jessuit        
 for this 16 yeares last past made a publique recantacon or abjuracon of        
 the Roman ffaith in ffosterlane Church in prsence of A Numerous Auditory       
      Yesterday at ye Court of Delegates in Serjeants Inn was determined        
 a long depending Cause betweene 2 Ministers of this City viz Dr Hutchinson     
 & Dr Puller for ye parsonage of St Mary Le Bow the former Enjoying             
 the same psuant to the Act of Pliamt for vinteing of parishes since ye         
 fire of London the Minister of Hony lane being dead but the Arch Bishop        
 of Canterbury looking upon it as a peculier to him Instituted Dr Puller        
 since which they have for some yeares been Tugging at ye Law & the             
 Act of Pliament being deficient in Expressing their full meaneing in           
 one sentence ye Court have given it for Dr Puller.                             
      The Ryott formerly mentioned to have been Comitted in the City of         
 Midsummer day at ye Election of Sheriffs for London & Middx is now             
 revived the prosecucon thereof being Carryed on withall dilligence &           
 satturday last new writts were served on divers Citizens for ye same           
 pticulerly Aldrman Lane Aldrman Hayes Sr Tho Player & others &c                
      The Writts I mentioned in my Last to have be sealed agt ye Ld             
 Major & Court of Aldermen were delivered into ye hands of Mr Broome ye         
 Coroner of this City to arrest them at ye suite of Tho Papillion & John        
 Dubois psuant to wch ye Coronor acquainted the Ld Major thereof who            
 answered that he would give obedience to ye Law & yt he might take him         
 into Custody if he thought good but Mr Broome told his Ldpp that he            
 would first advise thereof & attend him againe:                                
      Yesterday a 2d Motion was made in the Kings bench to file an              
 Informacon agt the Major of Nottingham for takeing away ye City Seale          
 out of their Chest  A Great debate was had thereof by Mr Attorney & ye         
 Court but Mr Sacheverell who espouses yt affaire declared himselfe ye          
 prosecuter That he would sweare he knewe most pte of ye Informacon to          
 be true & yt the rest he beleived to be soe & thereupon they will              
 admitt ye receiveing thereof                                                   
      Capt Arnold who was lately arrested in an Action of Scandal               
 Magnat at the suite of ye Marquis of Worcester made a Motion for an            
 Attachmt agt the Sheriff of Herrifordsheire for deteyning him in               
 Custody  after he had taken Bayle of him the Court Ordrd ye Sheriff to         
 attend this Terme to answere ye same  Otherwise an Attachmt should Lye         
 agt him.                                                                       
      A Great debate was had for longer time for ye City of Oxford to           
 plead to ye Quo Warranto brought agt them  at length twas Ordrd that           
 they plead ye Monday after Easter weeke                                        
      This day the Earl Danby moved a 2d tyme for a habeas Corpus to            
 be [sent?] up to the Kings bench Barr, The Judges were pleased to say          
 that they Could doe nothing in the ould Matter since they have given yr        
 opinions already in the affair  But his Counsell insisting yt his Ldshpp:      
 had some thing to offer a new Whereupon the Court granted yr motion but        
 he will not be brought up till Thursday to morrow being the day appointed      
 to hear the 1st Argumts on the Citty Charter                                   
      This day Mr Sands the E India Interloper haveing yesterday given          
 the Court yr Suggestions moved a ffresh for a prohibition to bring his         
 Cause now depending in ye Admiralty to be tryed at Comon law  some             
 opposition was made agt him but the Court declared That their not              
 granting a prohibition would be to determine the Cause & otherwise would       
 bring itt a foot whereby the validity of the Companyes Charter by yt           
 means would come upon Issue thereupon orderd a prohibition to lye              
 unlesse Cause be showne to the Contrary by Saturday wch tis thought the        
 Company cannot doe & then the Ship Comerce will bee it liberty to persue       
 her voyage as an Interloper the Owners giveing in Security to abide a          
 tryall with the Company thereon                                                
      L. c. 1335   [Handwriting changes here.]    London 8th ffebry 1682        
 +Yesterday was brought on in the Kings bench Court, that soe famed             
 & long expected Argumt on the two demurrs made upon the Citty Charter          
 before the ffour Justices of yt Court wch after some preliminaries were        
 adjusted began to be debated in the first place by the Sollicitr               
 Generall ffinch on behalf of the King who for an hours time most               
 Elegantly set forth the severall Concessions or Grants of the severall         
 Kings of England by prrogative Royall the history of the transactions          
 pticuler to this affair the severall misusers & abusers of prvilidges          
 &c with the Kings power in those Cases & then brought it down to the           
 prsent time insisting cheifly on the two Assignd breaches  The Petition        
 & levying money on the subject by way of the Markets & made the                
 aggrivation extraordinary great as to the former by taxing the King of         
 obstructing of Justice by prorogueing the Parliamt yt being one of his         
 Maties cheifest branches of his prrogative who haveing finished his            
 discourse Mr Recorder Treby Carryed on the Argumt pro Contra for 2 hours       
 & a half Grounded upon theese 3 heads, vizt, Whether a Corporation Can         
 be forfeited by an Act 2dly Whether the Quo Warto be well brought being        
 agt the Corporation by yt name yet denying them to be a Corporation or         
 Whether it ought to have been brought agt pticuler persons usurping            
 yt Title 3dly whether the facts laid in the Information amount to a            
 forfeiture                                                                     
      To all wch Sr George made as fflorrid & learned an acct: as               
 possibly by man Could be Expresst in an affair of yt Tendency Which is         
 of such length yt tis not possible to give you a transcript more then          
 yt His Argumts seemed of great weight yt a Corporation Could nott Comitt       
 Treason much lesse any lower Crime (yt being if any such were to be            
 Charged on pticuler persons That the point of the Markets were set forth       
 to be very prejudiciall to ye Kings subjects though there were not one         
 person appeared to be aggreived & in the Close of his discourse                
 Challenged all the Lawyers in England to Instance one Case yt Judgmt was       
 had upon any Charter thro the processe of a Quo wartto  In fine the            
 discourse was so learned on both sides yt itt would be extreem injury to       
 them to endeavour to signifye the least branch thereof  Therefore shall        
 onely ad: yt the Ld Cheif Justice Saunders gave them applause though           
 with different sentiments And thereupon the Court adjournd the ffurther        
 Argumts thereon till the first ffryday in the next Terme When Mr               
 Attorney Generall on behalf of the King & Mr Pollexfen of the Citty            
 Continue the ffurther progresse thereof butt the Issue Cannot                  
 Conclusively be prejudged on either side                                       
 +Letters from Chichester say yt on Saturday last the high Sheriff of           
 yt County assisted by the Mayor made Proclamation yt no person goe out         
 of yt Towne to meet ye Duke of Monmth as alsoe none Accompany him              
 besides his retinue & the deputy Lutz: with severall other psons Rode          
 out of ye Towne on Munday last & mett his Grace some Miles distant             
 Where they halted & lett him go forward no Ceremony passing on either          
 side  abou[t] 5 of the Clock his Grace Came to yt Towne Where the              
 people would expresse his wellcome & Imediatly repaired to his Inne            
      On Saturday 2 a Clock in ye afternoone the Ld North & Grey to[ok]         
 his Action of Scanda magn agt Pars[on] Elliot of Rickes place for              
 publishing a booke agt Dr Oats Wherein the Parson most egregiously             
 scandalizes his Ldpp & by reason his Ldpps brother is one of the               
 sheriffs of London  the Jury is returnd by the Coroner who hath orderd         
 all the Comon Counsell men of Breadstreet Ward &c                              
      The Ld: Dunblayn haveing preferrd a bill in Chancery seting forth         
 yt he being Maryed to Mrs Bridget Hyde one Mr John Emerton Cutts down          
 Wood on his Ladyes Estate & makes other devastations & therefore               
 prays his Ldpp to grant an inJunction to stop his farther proceeding           
 therein but Mr Emerton instead of answering the sd Bill pleads yt the          
 sd Mrs Hyde is his wife haveing not onely obtaind a verdict at law for         
 the same but a sentence of the Court of delegts & upon the hearing of          
 wch the Ld Keeper has allowed his plea agt the Ld Dunblayns bill Whereby       
 Mr Emerton is left at liberty to persue his pleasure upon the estate           
 +The Court of Kgs: bench haveing granted ye E India Interloper a               
 prohibition unlesse the Company shew Cause by Saturday to the Contrary         
 Whereupon the Company This day Came into Court & had a long Argumt             
 upon yt point offering by way of Expedient yt they will give the               
 interlopers what security they pleased to stand to the damage they             
 should sustain by their demurrage & upon Condition yt upon tryal of ye         
 meritts of their Charter itt should be in favour of ym Insisting much          
 of the Kings prrogative to give Lysence to some to trade to India              
 exclusive of others And the going away of the interloper would be of           
 great damage to them                                                           
   L. c. 1336  [Handwriting changes here.] London the 10th ffebruary 168        
 +Thursday last about the hower of 4 in ye morning it was full sea or           
 high tide at London bridge wch in its Ordinary Course was pinch or             
 ebbing water for ye space of an hower when on a sodaine ye Thames most         
 surprizeingly made A reflux Contrary to the usuall Custome of Continueing      
 upon ye Ebb 8 howers and wth a most Impetuous torrent Encreased                
 flowing till 8 following & swelled much higher then its accustomed             
 bounds whereby great Dammage was susteyned by the overflowing of               
 Meadowes Banks &c scarce ever before knowne in the memory of man  the          
 Lawyers were Carryed on mens shoulders over ye pallace yard Westminster        
 wch soe sodaine Interrupcon of the tides administers the subject of            
 discourse the more Especially since ye Moone was in her decrease or            
 Wayne wch Causes the neepe or falling of ye tides when as being at or          
 neare ye full Influences the Spring or highest water & that wch                
 Contributs matter of ye greater remarke is that ye North East winde wch        
 in tempestuous weather will something obstruct & Cause an Alteracon            
 the winde was shifted North west & by west blowing only a Gentle Breath        
 or gale.                                                                       
      The Ryott formerly mentioned to have been Comitted on Midsummer           
 day upon ye Choyce of our Sheriffs is appoynted to be tryed agt sevrall        
 Eminent Citizens of London on Wedensday next before the Ld Ch. Justice         
 Saundrs in Guild hall by way of Informacon out of ye Crowne office             
 whereby ye right or not of the Ld Majors Adjourning the Common hall &          
 ye pole will be argued whether the Ld Major or sheriffs be the                 
 properest officer in yt place.                                                 
      And yesterday a Motion was made at ye Kings bench barr that ye            
 Venire wch was made to ye Coronor for ye returne of a Jury might bee           
 altered to yt of ye prsent sheriffs & after some debate ye Court made          
 a Rule for ye same.                                                            
      Likewise a Motion was made that ye Coronor being appointed to             
 returne ye Jury in the Case of the Ld North & Gray agt Elliott One             
 of the sheriffs being his brother  the same might be alterd & Pformed          
 by sheriff Rich wch ye Court saying one sheriff Could not make A               
 Compleate returne they rejected the motion to stand as it was                  
      This day being apointed to determine the affaire between the              
 Interloper and the East India Company in Ordr for ye Granting or not           
 of a prohibition great was ye Expectacon what the Success should have          
 been but soe soone as Councell began to Moove in ye affaire the Ld Ch          
 Justice Saunders stood up not pmitting any further Argument said that          
 it was a poynt of Extraordinary weight wherein the Kings prrogative was        
 Concernd  therefore he would take time till next Terme to Consult ye           
 rest of the Judges therein whether he would determine the Granting of          
 a prohibition.                                                                 
      The Bill of Excepcons put upon the Tryall of ye Quo warranto              
 brought agt ye City of Worcester w[ch] began to be debated but the             
 Court Ordrd yt the Excepcons be mended by Monday next.                         
                  [Handwriting changes here.]                                   
 +Sr Wm Cooper one of the Earle of Shaftsburys Trustees has sent a              
 letter to Mr Strimmer in Holland to Land the deceased Earls Corps at           
 Poole in order for intermt at St Gyleses  wee understand yt 8000 L p           
 ann his Ldpp has left to his sonne the Remainder both of Real & personal       
 estate has made a deed of trust bequeathing a Considerable value to his        
 Grandson about 12 years old & left all his servts annuities for yr             
 Lives the value they Recd of him when alive                                    
      This afternoon Came on yr tryall between the Ld North & Parson            
 Elliot being an action of Scandalu Magnatu  his Ldpps evidence was the         
 printer of ye Books who deposed yt Elliot handed itt to ye presse &            
 Corrected there & Sr Geo Jeffryes endeavourd to defend it for ye Parson        
 but Mr North made a motion if the Parson would acknowledge his offence         
 in Court hee was Confident his brother would pardon him Elliot hearing         
 the same Imediatly on his knees Craved his Ldpps pardon who quickly            
 forgave him paying ye Costs & yn Hindmarsh the publisher prayed for            
 the like & was remitted                                                        
    L. c. 1337   [Handwriting changes here.]   London 13 ffebruary 1682         
 +Advice from great Yarmouth this Post says on sunday last when ye              
 tide here made a reflux it soe rapidly flowed upon ye towne yt together        
 with ye parts adjacent was Coverd over with ye fface of an Inundacon           
 especially ye plot of ground designd for ye building of new Troy and           
 yt which Contributed to ye inhabitants greater amazement; The Spire of         
 a Steeple altho built with masty timber & Covered with Lead was at that        
 time on a flame of ffire they suppose was Lightning, and ye same letters       
 adds yt ye earle of yt Title lay dangerously sick of a Dropsie and             
 Lethargy wch was feard would prove mortall                                     
      I omitted in my last to say yt ye Court of Kings bench gave               
 Judgment upon Capt Clifford and his Crew for hurrying away Madam               
 Synderfin vizt ye Capt to pay 1000 L his Comrade 500 L and ye servants         
 100 L and each a 12 mo imprisonmt and security 7 yeares to be of good          
 behaviour.                                                                     
      Saturday night last one Justice Balch Throwster in Spittle ffeilds        
 haveing reckned with & payd his servants as he was sitting in a Chair          
 suddenly died  The Whiggs believe a Judgment upon him for designing to         
 be sharpe upon ye meeting but he was a fatt Corpulent man and this             
 disaster might be naturally incident to him wch God Deliver us all from        
      Major Putt an officer of ye White Regiment dyed the next evening          
 after a Languishing distemper.                                                 
      The Conventicles in and about London on sunday last were generally        
 disturbed and a great many had before ye Lord Major amongst them some          
 of ye Rabble for affronting ye Traind bands and were Committed                 
 +Sunday last about 11 of Clock a parcell of hectoring damme debauchers         
 drew upon each other in Cheapside pretending to fight whilst others of         
 their gang ran downe ye adjacent streets and Lanes Crying murder theives       
 ffire Lights for ye Lords sake wch put ye whole neighbourhood into a soe       
 affrightment but some of them were afterwards seized one Lying on ye           
 ground for dead tho noe hurt recd & were secured And Sr Wm Turner              
 yesterday morning recommitted them to ye Counter but the design they           
 will not discover more than a ffrolick                                         
      One mr Henry Starkey a soliciter was found guilty for assaulting          
 esqr Pullford Cause whigg and Tory wch distinctions are of mischievous         
 Circumstances amongst us                                                       
      The Burrough of Saltarsh this week surrenderd their Charter to            
 his Matie                                                                      
      yesterday being ye last of ye terme severall matters were transacted      
 those of publick remark are vizt a scire ffacias brought against ye            
 Corporacon of Wells  exceptions were made upon it wch are to be argued         
 next terme                                                                     
     Mr Vincent ye nonconformist minister lately Convicted a Darkin [?]         
 ye Justices of Peace for ye County of Surrey upon ye statute of 35 of          
 Eliz was brought into & cast by habeas Corpus where his Case was long          
 time argued they excepting against ye Power of ye Justices in yt Case          
 also yt ye indictment was invalid  somthing was sayd Contra whereby ye         
 Court would not Bayle him but allowed him a Writt of error                     
      yesterday a great many Writts de excommunicato capiendo were sealed       
 in order to seize and imprison divers persons who were lately prosecuted       
 by ye spiritual Court for not Comeing to Church & refusing to Conforme         
 +Our Paris Letters of ye 14th advise yt his Matie has given order for          
 his fforces to be on ye march ye next thursday their 25 Instant haveing        
 sent them secret Commissions for some extraordinary interprize and             
 disignes to be at ye head of them himselfe being now incamped on ye            
 River Soan and divided into 4 Batalions or armies                              
      And those yt pretend to be skilled in discerning his designes say         
 yt by all appearance he will march for and attack fflanders and they           
 name 4 principall places he may besiege together vizt Luxemburgh Namur         
 Mons and Charleroy whereof a short time will tell us ye Certainty              
 +This afternoon was a further hearing before his Matie & Counsell              
 relateing to ye surplusage of ye hearth money some transaction of yt           
 management being discovered more than before whereby yt affair wch was         
 generally believed to have been Composd now begins to be agitated              
 afresh Capt shales and others offering very Considerable advance in yt         
 Concerne & we are Credibly informed yt one great man in ye Court in            
 Conjunction with others make a proffer to farme his Maties whole               
 Revenue of England for 1500000 L P Annu and to advance 6 or 70000 L            
 takeing onely 6 p Ct for ye summe and we are told yt ye marquess               
 Hallifax will signe noe privey seales for above yt value Interest              
    L. c. 1338   [Handwriting changes here.]    London Feb: 15th 1682/3         
      The Paris Letters of the 16: advise that his Matie having assembled       
 the Doctors of the Sorbon to debate and consider about the censure wch         
 the Bishop of Strigonia had passd upon the resolutions and declaracons         
 of this kingdome touching Religion, when they had their first meeting they     
 appointed a Committee of 15 doctors of their order to examine the said         
 censure, and to make report thereof which we hear will be performd on the      
 20th  And tis divulged that they have agreed that one of the said Bishops      
 Propositions is down right heresie; as insisting that the Pope alone           
 hath Power to decide and order matters of Faith, and will dissent from         
 the aforesaid Bpp in each the rest.  The French King hath put of his           
 going to the Army till the beginning of March.                                 
 +Yesterday being appointed for the great tryall in the City on the point       
 of a Riot said to be Committed on Midsunmer day, the late Sheriffs             
 continuing the Pole for two others in their rooms after the Lord Mayor         
 had adjournd: the Court but a Motion being made to the Attorn: Generall        
 the same is deferrd till tomorrow.                                             
 +And at the same time another tryall will be had against Sr Tho Player,        
 brought On by Sheriff Rich for 100 L of the late fine of Mr Ralph Box,         
 which according to ye Custome of the City becomes his due, the point           
 therefore will come upon Issue whether the said mr Box was duely elected       
 and by vertue thereof paid his Fine and whether the said mr Rich be            
 quallifyd to demand and receive it, which affair is the Subject of our         
 discourse in both which cases the Jury is returnd by the Sheriffs, which       
 some say is unequall it being almost their own case.                           
 +Dr: Owen the Minister of St Swithins being dead some time since, there        
 are mighty endeavours used by the Parsons about town to procure his            
 Living, and the same being in the gift of the Saltors Company, they            
 mett yesterday in order to the disposall thereof but were prevented by         
 a Letter from Mr Secretary J: the Company dissolving themselves upon it,       
 the Contents are said to be not to signifye to them who they shall chuse       
 but who they shall not Naming Mr Johnson who lately writt the Book of          
 Julian the Apostate, and one Mr Hall who talkes sometimes Whiggishly.          
 +The Begining of this week the Lord Mayor Paid a visit to mr Pilkington        
 in the Kings Bench, Promising to Use his uttmost endeavour to procure          
 his release, but he is charged in Execution for the 100000 L obtaind           
 against him by his Royall Highness:                                            
 +Mrs Bridgett Hide this Week moved the Lord Keeper for a 1000 L of the         
 Estate but his Lordpp would not grant the same more then should be for         
 her necessary expences of 20 L p week                                          
 +On Monday the Judges Delegates b[egin?] to sitt to hear and determine         
 that so long depending cause                                                   
 +This day his Matie Royall Highness & most of the Court went to Banstead       
 Downs where they will be divertized wth sevrall Races                          
 +And this day is that so much discoursd horse Racing at Paris, where           
 many English Gentlemen are repaired, the first Course is run for 700           
 Pistoles another for 200 & a third for 100, and the French King wth his        
 whole Court will be present, and there are great Wagers that the D: of         
 Monmouths horse will win the Feild.                                            
 +Letters are come to White hall from Dantzich which say the the Diet of        
 Polland will suddenly be assembled, and that the Counsell of the               
 Kingdome, by way of Anticipation have agreed to assist the Emperor with        
 20000 horse persuant to a League made between them in Case the Turk            
 enter Hungarie.                                                                
 +Tuesday last was a great hearing before his Matie and Counsell between        
 the Royall Affrican Company and the Planters of Jamaica relating to the        
 furnishing that Island with a sufficient Number of Negroes, which was          
 Concluded in Favour of the Island ye Compa being obliged to deliver them       
 at 18 L p head and a Certain Number of them.  His Matie having heard           
 some arguments in the affair of the surplusage of the Hearth mony hath         
 orderd to have a full hearing thereof in the Treasury chambr Saturday          
 next, where Counsell will be admitted on both sides.                           
    L. c. 1339   [Handwriting changes here.]   London February 17 1682/3        
 +Thursday last in the afternoon Madam Synderfin had a tryall before the        
 Ld Ch: Justice agt Capt Clifford for her pticuler damages and the Jury         
 brought in their verdict 1500 L whereby he will be wholy at her mercy.         
 +I formerly told you of an Informacon of Perjury designd to be brought         
 agt Sr Patience Ward for ye Evidence he gave in Pilkingtons Case, I can        
 certainly Inform you that the said Informacon was this week filed agt          
 him and will be tryd next term                                                 
 +The Lord Mayor in sevrall of the Wards of this City where Conventicles        
 are most frequently held, hath sent a Precept that they appoint a              
 certain Number of Persons to watch from 7: in the morning till that            
 time at night every day.                                                       
 +The Court is making Preparacons for the Country the begining of March.        
 +Yesterday the so famd proceedings relating to the Riot said to be             
 Committed on Midsumer day came on foot before the Ld Ch: J: Saunders by        
 Nisi Prius in Guild Hall, in Order to a tryall.                                
 +The Court being sett, the Informacon was opened and read agt Mr               
 Pilkington & Shute the 2 last Sheriffs, Ld Gray Sr Tho: Armstrong &            
 diverse others in the Usuall form                                              
 +Whereupon the Councill for the Defts viz Mr Williams, Sr Fra: Winington       
 Mr Wallop &c deliverd the Court a Peremptory Challenge in writing of           
 the whole array insisting yt the Lord Gray being a Peer in Parl: ought         
 either to be tryd by his Peers or at Least Wise to have a Knight returnd       
 upon ye Venire.                                                                
 +upon wch the Ld Ch: J: gave his Judgmt that as to the first point a           
 Peer was not to be tryd by his Peers but in Capitall Cases but Inclind         
 to adjudge that a Knt upon the Pannell was absolutely necessary.               
 mr Attorney and Sr Geo: Jeffereyes finding that Omission like to prove         
 fatall upon them made some argumts to divert it, but his Ldpp would            
 not dissent them  mr Attorn: moved yt he would Immediately enter a Noli        
 Prosequi upon the Lord Gray and proceed upon tryall of the rest                
 +To wch his Ldpp replyd that the Court by Nisi prius not a Proper place        
 to receive such an Entry, but the Court above, for here they could not         
 pass Judgmt, having only a Powr to take a verdict and that the Lord            
 Gray could not be sett aside without the others seeing the distringer          
 [?] as was seald agst them all                                                 
 +Whereupon it was Proposed to the Deftes Councill to Wave their                
 Challenge and proceed to tryall wch they refused, then Sr: Geo: mightyly       
 insisted to respite the same a day or two Nay so[me] hours to produce          
 other Argumts  In fine the Attorn: Generall had a weeks time allowd him        
 to consider whether he would yeild to the Challenge or demurr to it,           
 however it cannot come to tryall till next term.                               
 +After wch was brought on the Proceedings of Sherif Rich agt Sr Tho:           
 Player, for 100 L of Mr Boxes fine.                                            
 +The Councill for Sr Tho: Challengd the Array also, as that the venire         
 was returnd by the name only of Mr Dudley North which was not a Legall         
 return without both Sheriffs joyn in it.                                       
 +The Ld Ch: Justice seemd to overrule that Challenge, as that the              
 court of Kings Bench had orderd a Rule for the same so they Proceeded          
 upon tryall.  Mr Common Serjeant swore that mr Rich was Elected and            
 that the Custome of the City was that when any fined off, the Next that        
 is chosen hath 100 L of his fine, then Mr Box provd the paymt of 400 L         
 after wch an order of the Court of Aldermen was Produced that Mr Rich          
 being Sheriff they directed Sr: Tho: to pay ye mony but the Defts              
 Councill made no defence but let a verdict goe by default resolving to         
 abide by the Point of Law, Putting in their Bill of exceptions, which          
 before Judgmt can be obteyned, must be argud by the Judges whether             
 their Challenge be sufficient in Law                                           
      L. c. 1340     London 20 Febr: 1682/3                                     
 +yesterday one Russell an Apothecary wth another of his Neighbours in          
 Pudding lane was seized by the Writt Excomunicato capiendo & committed         
 prissoners to Newgate & there are above 100 other Writts abroad of that        
 kind to take up those who were lately excomunicated for not comming to         
 Church &c                                                                      
      Yesterday his Matie went down the river to Deptford to see a New          
 East India Mercht ship of 700 tuns lancht built by Mr Castle  his Matie        
 was entertaind there at Dinner by the East India Compa & was pleasd to         
 name the said ship the Royall Charles, as being himselfe part owner,           
 Capt Grantham is designd to goe her Commander.                                 
 +Yesterday the Judges Delegates with their new Commission of adjuncts          
 mett their first time in Serjeants Inn in Fleetstreet where after some         
 Preliminaryes were dispatchd began to rehear 3 depositions to prove Mr         
 Emmerton marryd to Mrs Bridgett Hide & made a considerable progress in         
 that cause, ajourning themselves till this day & intend to sitt de die         
 in diem till they have determind this so long depending suite                  
 +The East India Compas accons since the late procrastinating a                 
 Prohibition desired by Capt for his ship Commerce are somwhat risen            
 being at 250 L  the Compa profferd Capt Sands 10 p cent for his ship           
 & disbursmts to take him of by that way of expedient but ye Capt               
 demands 2000 L for his losses of time & expences he hath put himselfe          
 to for his intended voyage & the demurrage of his ships, since the time        
 he hath been hinderd from departing but the Compa is averse to that            
 proposall.                                                                     
 +Our Scotch Letters say that on ye 9th of this Month the Parl: wch was         
 to have mett the first of March was further prorogued till the 10 of           
 July, very smart dealings are had agt all those rebells any way concernd       
 in the actions at Bothwell bridge, many are fledd the Country some             
 brought to their tryalls & sentenced to be executed.                           
 +Wee have recd two Dutch Posts by wch I shall give you the most                
 remarkable intelligence from them viz--                                        
 That the French begin to move in their New Conquests in Flanders, and          
 have again forbidden the carrying of Provisions to Luxemburg & demand          
 double mony for all corn that is carryd out of that Province & begin to        
 make an Incampmt at Philip-ville                                               
 +From Antwerp tis wrote that at Dinant many French both horse & foot           
 are observed to come and form a legure ye design not known.                    
 +Upon wch the Spaniards are every where allarumd & the Marquess de             
 Grana is very apprehensive that ye storm will fall upon him for wch            
 reason his Excellencye hath comanded all officers upon pain of death to        
 be in their Garrisons the 25 ditto.                                            
 +And hath sent to the States of Holl[and] for their assistance, who are        
 now ve[ry] bussy raising 15000 men, also his excellency hath sent to           
 sevrall Princes to be assistant to him when attackd by the French.             
 +Paris Letters say the King takes not the ffeild till the 13 of March          
 but such preparacons are making in Campaign that some Millitary                
 expedition is certainly beleived will be undertaken, tho: tis given out        
 only to hunt                                                                   
      The Regimt of young Gentry Not exceeding the Age of 16: years is          
 forming under the Name of the Duke of Burgundie.                               
 +Most of the fforreign Ministers are much allarumd at the Kings Journey        
 to Campaign, since tis said that if the King receives no satisfaction          
 from Spain a considerable place will be beseiged in six weeks.                 
 +The Brandenburg agent at Vienna hath recd Instructions from his Master        
 to dispose the Emperor either to accept the French proposalls or a             
 Cessation of arms for 6 years.                                                 
 +A new Proposall is sent from the Emperor, (approvd by Count Teckley)          
 to his Ambassadr at Adrianople to incline the Turks to peace.  13 Imperiall    
 Waggons wth provission for Zendreo, were mett & cutt to peices by a great      
 Number of Turks:  Collogn Letters say yt the Magistrates have at length        
 consented to all the demands of the Burgers containing 82 pticulars, wch tis   
 beleived will end their differences                                            
      L. c. 1341   [Handwriting changes here.]     22th ffebry 1682             
 +I wanted a Certain Information to transmit you Tusday last of what            
 was transacted the Night before in the Treasury Chamber relating to the        
 surplusage of the hearth money since the same was privately heard wch          
 now I finde to stand vizt                                                      
 His Matie was pleased to be prsent among the Commissioners of the              
 Treasury, who called the Lords of the Councell to be assistant therein         
 where both ptyes were admitted Counsell  the 2 heads they were to debate       
 were first whether or how much the Surplusage of the hearth money did          
 amount to more then the Patenttees gave for itt  And then 2dly whether         
 the sd Patent granted to Capt Gonne in Trust for Trant & others of the         
 Managers of that Revenue was ffraudulently & sureptitiously obtaind            
 from his Matie: Whereby it might be revoaked & disannulld yt his Matie         
 might Receive the full proffitts thereof                                       
      The Counsell to maintain the Patent were Mr Attorney & Soliciter          
 Generall Sr George Jeffereys Mr Holt: Which Concern if any did relate          
 to the Ld: Rochester  those on the other side were Serjt Mainyard Mr           
 Williams Mr Pollexfen Mr Wallop &c being on the pt of Capt Shales who          
 endeavourd to make a discovery thereof  the Ld: Hallifax Espoused yt           
 affair & both the Counsells calling themselves the Kings Counsell              
      They debated pro et Contra for above 3 hours diverse Wittnesses           
 being Calld in on both sides  Tis said yt tho the Capt made a very probable    
 proofe that the surplusage was worth 12000 L  Though the Patentees gave        
 but 4000 L yet it Could not be found out that the Pattent was illegally        
 obtaind by reason at that Tyme the Comissioners sent to the old ffarmers       
 who told them yt it was not worth more  alsoe they advanced the King           
 40000 L at 6 L p Cent Intrest when his Maties affairs Specially                
 required it besides the 17500 L they gave itt.  In ffine the Counsell          
 were dismist & then the Lds: of his Maties Privy Counsell debated the          
 subject Matter opened before them & all of them except one, were of            
 opinion to Confirm the Pattent to wch his Matie Concurrd & calling in          
 the Pattentees his Matie gave them Joy of yr bargain promiseing that itt       
 shall be ffinall upon them wch affair admitts the subject of discourse.        
      Our letters yesterday from Paris of the 27th say yt on the 25th           
 the King Queen accompanied wth Monsr & Madm the Dauphin & Dauhpinesse          
 together with all the Court after havinge dined in yr Tents upon the           
 plain of Achere near St Germains took the divertisement of seeing yt           
 soe famd horse Raceing the King giveing the Winner 1000 pistols wch            
 Course was pformd by 7 horses  among them was the Duke of Monmouths            
 being Rid by one of his Gentlemen  They Ran 3 heates  in Conclusion            
 the Duke of Monmouths horse Came first to the Barriers by a Considerable       
 Space & the Rider had the sd 1000 pistols given him by the Kings own           
 hands who prsented his Matie with the said horse & no doubt but the            
 Duke will alsoe have a Noble prsent for the same.                              
 +Yesterday wee had the ill News yt another Great Banker & ptner was            
 gone aside for above 100000 L being one Mr Temple & tis discourst yt           
 the occasion was thro the E: of Mulgrave being to hasty in drawing away        
 a Considerable Summe from them                                                 
      The Judges Delegates in the affair of Emerton Satt yesterday as           
 alsoe this day & heard Councell on both sides & say yt they will               
 determine the Cause the begining of next week                                  
      On Tuesday began the Sessions at Hicks hall where the Grand Jury          
 were sworne but none admitted of the Pannell they Call Whigs                   
      yesterday the Sessions began att Guildhall whither was brought one        
 Joshua Bowes formerly Mentioned to have sent designeing papers to Mr           
 papillion & Dubois & was Indicted thereon pleaded not guilty & is to be        
 tryed next Sessions if not hangd before the Court Comitting him to             
 Newgate for yt an indictment of fellony was found agt him                      
      I omitted in my last to say yt his Matie at the Launching of ye E         
 India mercht was pleasd to confer the hons of Knthood on Capt Grantham         
 & one Mr Ward an E: India Mercht & last night his Matie Conferd the            
 same honour on one Mr Dellval another of the E India Company                   
 +This day 6 writts de excommunicato Capiendo were served on divers             
 Cittizens for nonconformity                                                    
 +The Paris letters of the 27th say yt the King will Certainly Attaque          
 fflanders they refuseing the Mediation of England to adjust the                
 differences in Controversie                                                    
    Letters from Poland of the 29 Janry say yt the Generall dyet of yt          
 Kingdome was opened the 27th  the Deputyes of the Provinces Elected Le         
 Kreitsi Treasurer of the Crowne for yr Marshall Conducting him to the          
 King sitting on his throne in the Senate where he had the honour to            
 Kiss his hand & stood Confirmd after wch the Secretary Read yt                 
 Privelidge & Constitutions  And yn the Chancellour made a speech to the        
 deputies of the Kingdome aquainting them with the Kings desires one            
 whereof was to assist the Emperor agt ye Turk                                  
      Then the Vice Chancellr gave accts of the vacansies since the last        
 Assembly                                                                       
      Count Walstin Ambassadr for the Emperor was arrived there as alsoe        
 a ffrench Ambassadr upon wch the great affair depends as who will make         
 most Interest with the dyet to promote or hinder their intentions for          
 or agt the Emperor                                                             
   L. c. 1342   [Handwriting changes here.]   London ye 24th Febr: 1682         
      Thursday morning early, a servt maid of the Globe Taverne in Fleete       
 streete ariseing to prepare necessaryes for an Intended feast found one        
 part of the said Taverne on a light fire burning extreamely feirce in 3        
 Roomes which thro speedy assistance it was Providentially extinguished         
 any farther mischiefe [sic].                                                   
      The same day the Company of Salters who has the disposall of a            
 minister for the Parish of St Swethin mett a second time in order to           
 come to a Choice and hold divers Petions from a great many Clergy-men          
 but this being the first that ever they prsented since the same came           
 into theire power a question was made whether it ought to be performed         
 by ye Court of assistance or the Livery men of the Company or otherwise        
 by every Individuall member thereof whereby they come to noe determinacon      
 but Resolve to advise with Learned Councell in the Law touching those          
 Points.                                                                        
      Sevrall of the Commissionrs of the Treasury are agreeing with one         
 Mr Vanaker to purchase of him a tract of Land neere Debtford whereon           
 to make a very Large wett Dock sufficient to Conteyne 60 or 70 Sayle           
 of his Maties men of Warr in order not only to have that number out of         
 all danger of a surprize by an Enimy but alsoe to be neere att hand and        
 kept from the worme which in the salt water they are to much subject to        
 and twill have a great Charge in theire Moorage &c.                            
      The Lord Chiefe Justice Sandrs for this 2 dayes lyes under a              
 virulent distemper of the diabetes or a continuall disposicon to make          
 water and likewise afflicted with appopletick or stagnateing the blood         
 togeather with sevrall other Complicated diseases which tis very much          
 feared will prove fatall to him.                                               
      Yesterday ye Judges Delegates in the Cause of Mr Emerton heard            
 Councell on both sides which were very briske in theire arguments, Mr          
 Williams Concludeing the discourse for Mr Emerton who endeavoured to           
 obviate all the oponents objection agt the marriage telling the Court          
 that instead of a plea for her that shee was married to the Lord               
 Dunblayne It was ye Highest aggravacon of guilt Imaginable and the             
 boldest affront to that a supreame Court that ever before was offered          
 and therefore hoped theire Lordshipps would take it such and Confirme          
 the sentence which that Court had before determined,                           
      And being ordered to wthdraw the Judges were 2 houres in debate           
 whereby twas verily beleeved that they would have proceeded to give            
 sentence but for some reason best knowne to themselves they Adjourned          
 the Decision thereof till the 20th of Aprill after the Judges are              
 returned from the Circuits.                                                    
      Wednesday last his Matie & R H went for Windsor and last night            
 returnd & Imediately sent for ye Heads of the East India Company ordering      
 them to put none of their Salt Petre to sale for hee should have               
 occasion for it himselfe togeather with what their next shipping will          
 bring  they acquainted his Matie yt the Quantity would be 2000 Tuns or         
 value 100000 L yett his Matie Replyed hee had use for that & more.             
      Letters from Madrid of the 30 Ultimo say that the king of Spaine          
 hath de[teynd?] the Genrall of the Jesuits (who is a Native of Spaine          
 an Enemy to his Crowne[)] Commanding all his ministers & subjects not to       
 Converse or any way Correspond with him by reason hee most treacherously       
 gave the ffrench Ambassadour att Rome the first visitt though hee tooke        
 God Almighty to witnesse to ye Contrary when afterwards the Cheat was          
 detected.                                                                      
      The Turks Merchants this day reced advise that divers of their            
 Shipps att the Port of Allexandria were fired [forced?] by ye Turks to         
 unlade & to stand for Egypt to Transport Soldiers from them to Salonica        
 in order to be employed in the Warr against Hungaria.                          
      Thursday began & this day ended the Sessions att the old Bayly 3          
 only Condemned to suffer.  Joshua Bowes was tryed for bringing &               
 [t]rapaning Papers to Mr Dubois & found Guilty--And afterwards                 
 arraigned upon a second Indictment of ffelony & found guilty alsoe             
 for stealeing of books  hee reced sentence for ye first to stand 3             
 dayes in the Pillory & fined 100 L to ye king for ye Latter  hee               
 Craved Transportacon but being found to be burnt in the hand before a          
 great Consultacon was had in Court about him who att Last granted his          
 request  Afterwards one Mr John Bamfeild was brought in to Court               
 being taken praying in a Conventicle  they Tendred the oaths of                
 Allegiance & supremacy which declineing to take ye Court Committed him         
 to Newgate.  Two Bills of Indictment were found att Hickess hall against       
 Hilton ye Grand Informer & Complaint made against him that neither the         
 King n[or] the Poore could gett [?] their Moyety of distresses out of          
 his hands.                                                                     
    L. c. 1343   [Handwriting changes here.]   London 27th ffebry 1682          
 +Sr Josiah Child the E India Mercht has given his Matie an acct in             
 writeing of the prsent state & Condition of the E: India Company both          
 at home & abroad stateing yr Accompts Makeing yr obligations not to            
 exceed 800 M L And yt they have sufficient effects here & att India to         
 Ballance all yr: debts & to make yr stock worth Clear of all Charges 18        
 hundred Thousand pounds besides ye proffitt yt will Accrue thereby             
      The East India Company findeing that the late goeing aside of a           
 great Banker might incomode yr approaching sayle on the first of March         
 have thought it Convenient to make an adjournemt thereof till tomorrow         
 Seven night                                                                    
      Mr Sands the cheif owner of the E: India Interloper who is stopt          
 from goeing his intended voyage haveing made himself a member of the           
 Muscovy Company who have a power to trade to Persia is now Endeavouring by     
 reEntering his ship to yt place to get Clear of the Custome house though       
 by many tis beleived notwithstanding yt they will refuse to deliver him        
 Cocketts for her dispatch without security be first given not to bring         
 home E: India Comodityes                                                       
      Yesterday morneing about the hour of two a fire broke forth in Boswell    
 Court without Temple Barr in a Laundresse house who used to wash her           
 Linnen on Sundayes her servant being Carelesse of her Candle  tis              
 supposed to have ffired the same but extinguished with the losse of two        
 houses & the Laundresse who was burnt                                          
      Sonday last the Conventicles in & about Towne were prvented &             
 disturbed one Griffith taken preaching & Carryed before the Ld: Mayor          
 this being the 3d time his Ldpp after Exammination & Exhortation tendred       
 him the Oaths Mentioned in the Corporation Act & gave him an hours time        
 to Consider to take itt hee refuseing was sent prisoner to Newgate             
      The Quakers are extream stubborne their meeting house in Grace            
 Church street being kept shutt they in great Numbers resorted thither          
 in the streets bringing fforms Chairs &c: & one begining to speak hee          
 was taken away either by the Constables or Soulgiers butt Imediatly            
 his Roome was Supplyed by another & soe successively & some were               
 Comitted                                                                       
      An Order is Come from Wthall to pull downe on Tower hill a Range          
 of Buildings wch tis Judged Might Impede that Garrison in Case of              
 Occasion & tis further said theres a great Number of Stables will bee          
 Built for some horse                                                           
      I told you in my last that 2 Indictmts were found at Hicks hall           
 agt Hilton the Informer wch I shall now explain for what                       
 +A Justice of peace Sr C: A: Granting warrts for distresses upon               
 Conventicles they afterwards Compounded the same the Justice withdrawing       
 his warrt without Certifyeing any of his proceeding to the Sessions &          
 a Constable haveing by the said Justices wrrt Seized 50 L worth of             
 goods of a dissenter the sd Hillton Compounding the same for half              
 value & sending his Noat to the Constable to deliver the person both his       
 warrant & Goods wch hee pformeing the Constable is since troubled for          
 the same & this Hilton denyes his hand whereupon the Bench being               
 displeased at his proceedings had Hilton brought into Court & holds him        
 to Bayle to answer itt the next Sessions & the aforesaid Justice was his       
 bayle  But the Court have drawn up a writeing agt him to prsent the            
 whole Matter to the Ld Keeper in order to have the Justice sett aside          
      This day the Court of Aldrmen heard the report touching Sr John           
 Shorter whether he Could be dismissed from his Aldrmanshipp for being          
 att a Conventicle  Sr John Made Answer to this Charge as yt ye same was        
 his ffreehold & Could not be taken from him without due Comish [?] of          
 law for otherwise there was scarce a member in yt Court but might be           
 deprived therefrom as haveing offended agt some of the penall Statutes  But    
 in fine they voted him to stand suspend[ed] till Mr Recorder Returned          
 from the Circuits  yesterday sevrall of ye Judges went yr Cercuits &           
 some to day but tis much feared that the Ld Ch: Justice Sanders will           
 not be able to pforme Languishing under ye severity of his distemper           
 but is somewhat better then the latter pte of the weeke his Diabetes           
 falling off                                                                    
 +This day Joshua Bowes who I told yow in Last was Convicted for bringing       
 his tranpaning papers to Mr Dubois stood his first time in the pillory         
 before the Exchange & was Extreamly pelted with Rotten egges &c                
 +This day sevrall Hawking women were seized for dispersing Tomsons             
 Intelligence & sent to Bridewell & both ye secretaryes have sent to            
 him to forbeare wch he disobeys.                                               
      2 Bankers more in Lumbard streete (viz) Mr Row & Mr Ben Hinton            
 make a halt in yr payment  to morrow the Bancker Temple acquaints his          
 Creditors of his Condicon & Proposalls                                         
      L. c. 1344     London the 1st March 1682                                  
 +Wee have for severall dayes been buzd with a discourse of a ffresh            
 discovery that the ffrench has a designe to attaque the Kingdome of            
 Ireland  I have been Curious to make a strict scrutiny into the Report         
 before I would Comunicate anything of that Tendency & finde that one           
 Capt Kelly aldr Sheldon an Irishman arriveing from ffrance sent hither         
 by the Ld Preston he refuseing to take his Deposicons  there has been          
 at White hall declareing some Circumstances places and names but of what       
 Credit & probability he brings along with him I cannot determine or            
 heare that there is anything of weight given to his Declaracon but rather      
 beleived some intreague to be mannaged to the Nations disadvantage.            
    The Justices of peace of Middx haveing at their last sessions               
 discovered some undue practises by Sr Cl: Ar: one of the Justices in           
 Conjunction with Hilton the Grand Informer to the Scandall of his Office       
 by granting Warrts for distresses upon Conventicles & Compounding them         
 without Certifieing the proceedings to the sessions have drawne up the         
 matter & prsented it to the Ld Keeper yesterday who has promised to            
 put the said Justice out of Comission for ye same                              
      Yesterday arrived one Mr Barton who was sent Minister to the              
 English ffactory of Port O Port in Portugall as by Capitulacons were           
 agreed that Governmt not suffering him to remaine among them but               
 Ordering him away being Extreamly displeased at the English since they         
 have discovered them transporting their Coyne from Lisbon & has                
 declared the late seizure of the English shipps in that Port to be a           
 Lawfull Act ripping them up & are makeing process agt the Merchts they         
 have in Custody  his Matie & the Queene have wrote letters in yr favour        
 together wth the ambassadr and Sr John Berry in the Henrietta is               
 sayled to that port Carrying Duplicates of the letters in Order to             
 Compose that affaire                                                           
      I acquainted yow the last weeke that the great Banker Mr Temple &         
 his partner in Lumbard streete were gone off appointing yesterday              
 afternoone at an adjacent taverne to make proposalls to their Creditors        
 A great number of them mett & were given to understand that their              
 Creditt was 100 and one Thousand pound and their debts 4000 above that         
 summe and offered 10 s in the pound 15 Monthes hence & the other Moyety        
 the Expiracon of that Terme after without preposeing any security wch          
 greatly offended them whereupon the Creditors have Ordered sevrall to          
 discourse him to morrow who talkes to them out of a window in his house        
 & to meete againe on ffriday.                                                  
      Benjamine Hinton who made A Halt or stopp of paymt is reinforced          
 appearing upon the Exchange Sr John Moore being his Bayle for 30000 L          
 but Mr Row will scarce recover & there are others who are feared will          
 fall under the like ill Circumstances                                          
      And the same has had an Influence on divers Cittizens for yesterday       
 one Deputy Long A fflaxman in Breadstreete is said to be wounded               
 togeather with noe lesse then 5 other Considerable traders who at              
 prsent playes least in sight:                                                  
      Yesterday the Ld Major Aldrmen & Sheriffs Attended his Matie in           
 Councell in Order to defend themselves against a Markett to sell               
 Cattle &c Granted to the Earle of Clarendon & Councell were admitted on        
 both sides who fo[ur?] howers argued pro & Contra but noe Determinacon         
 had in the affaire & this day the Court of Aldermen have resolved on A         
 peticon to be prsented to his Matie to morrow to stopp the proceeding          
 thereof.                                                                       
      The Ld Cheife Justice sanders Continues still under his                   
 Indisposicon of which it is feared he will scarce recover.                     
      This day the Kings Carriages departed for newmarkett the Court            
 intending to follow on satturday                                               
      Last night arrived a ffrench post wch gives us only the news that         
 his Matie & ye Court departed on the 4 March for Campagne but give noe         
 pticuler of his Intentions  the Marquis de Grana feareing an Attaque on        
 the Spanish Netherlands has pvided all the ffrontiere townes with              
 Considerable Garrisons reserveing A good body of men to give an enemy          
 some Enterta[in]ment.                                                          
 +Letters from Cadiz say that an English Shipp arriveing from Argeires in       
 5 dayes reporte that those Rovers had brought into their port sevrall          
 french shipps one of 18 Guns & 100 men that they had launched 2 new            
 shipps & would suddenly 4 more & Expecting the ffrench to visit them in        
 ye Tower had built a ffloate of timber whereon they have planted sevrall       
 Great Guns to Endeavour to hinder the ffrench Bombes from being throwne        
 into yr City.                                                                  
      L. c. 1345     London the 3d March 1682                                   
 +Yesterday morneing betweene the howers of 5 and 6 A fire broke forth          
 in one ffitzgerrards Tavern the signe of the Queens head by Temple Barr        
 wch putt the whole neighbourhood into a Consternation by reason that           
 it could not possibly have Enkindled in a more dangerous place about           
 Towne being all Timber or paper buildings & many to narrow passages not        
 to be come att by Engines but through the great Industry of Dr Barebones       
 insurance firemen the same was wonderfully Extinguished without any            
 more damage then the back part thereof though unhappily 2 men were             
 killed with the fall of a stack of Chimmneys and some wounded                  
      Thursday night one Mr Herne A young Gentleman was run through by          
 one of his Associates att the Morrocco Taverne in the Strand and a Young       
 Scholler of Westminster killed one of his Schoole fellowes the same day:       
      The late Lady Ogle now the Dutchesse of Somerset was Thursday             
 Evening last to the great Joy of yt ffamily deliverd of an heir or Earl of     
 Hartford wch by the Capitulations of Marriage is to assume the Name of         
 Peircy instead of Seamore                                                      
      The late Earl of Shaftsbury being one of the Governors of Sutton          
 alias Charter house hospitall vacant by his death a New Election was           
 held this weeke in Wt hall where the Candidates were the Marquis Hallifax      
 the Earl of Rochester To wch Choice the Duke of Buckingham obtained            
 leave to be prsented  the Majority fell upon the Marquis                       
      The Earl of Conway the late Secretary of state on Thursday last           
 treated his Matie Royall Highnesse & most of the Court at a sumptuous          
 dinner butt the Marquis Hallifax was either not Invited or his                 
 occasions [not?] pmitting him to be prsent                                     
      This morneing Early his Matie & Royall Highnesse & Duke of Grafton        
 In one Coach went for newmarket  the Queen with her Ladyes followed &          
 intend to stay till Easter                                                     
      Yesterday those Creditors appointed to discourse Mr Temple made yr        
 report to ye Rest that hee will pay the whole summe 101000 L upon ye           
 severall paymts 26 s [?] in the L [?] each 4 Months & to bee allowed           
 6 d [?] every 20 s [?] wch most have accepted  Mr Row another Bankers          
 Estate wil but make 14 s [?] p pound                                           
      The East India Company Actions are ffalne to 231 L  they have             
 desired his maties Liberty to dispose of 40 or 50 to[n?] of yr Salt            
 peter but not one Bagg thereof cannot be allowed on for his Matie has          
 occasion for the whole quantity                                                
      Capt Kelly of whom I told you had made a discovery of the ffrench         
 Kings intentions to seize the Kingdome of Ireland proves to bee an Irish       
 ffiction for the sd: pson being in ffrance & makeing ym beleive yt hee         
 was of a great ffamily was advanced to yt Comand of a Capt but they            
 understanding yt hee was onely a Runagate footman Turned him out of            
 Comission & thereupon though to be revenged wch upon his Information           
 to the Counsell was found in many falcetyes Improbabilityes &                  
 Contradictions the Duke of ormond knowinge many things different from          
 what he related them whereby hee Came of wth reproch [?]                       
      Wee have Recd 2 Holland [mails?] most remarkable shall transmit           
 ym viz That the Dutch hath reassumed the debate of raising 15000 men &         
 Imediatly orderd Breda Naerden & all places on yt side to be mightily          
 fortifyed praying the Prince to see them forward yt work & has appointed       
 Mynn here Hensaims to goe Ambassador to the ffrench king in Conjunction        
 with Mounsieur Hunenburg already there not onely upon the affair of the        
 principalty of Orange but alsoe to endeavour to induce the King to agree       
 a generall peace & not Imbrue Christendome any more in Bloud                   
      Letters from Vienna say that the ffrench Ambassadr has declared           
 yt at the request of the Duke of Brandenburg hee is Contented to               
 reassume the negotiation of peace at Ratisbon to cease in the time his         
 reunions [?] u[n]till matters be brought to some Issue  the Emperor is         
 dayly in Consultation for Carrying on the warr & intends to act offensively    
 with the Turks  6 Bashawes are Come to Belgrade & more summond where the       
 Turks hold a great counsell of warr & sent for the Mufti or Chief Judge        
 and orderd an encampment for 2240000 men  Count Tekeley seems to encline to    
 apeare to wch end has released 200 prisoners ransome ffree together with       
 Collonell Cohairs & Carl Haberstein & pmits the Emperor to fortifye his        
 Townes in Hungary & to supply them with provisions paying for them             
      L. c. 1346     London 6th March 1682                                      
      Letters from Tangier of the 2d Ultimo say yt the Emperor of Morocco       
 & his Nephew haveing Come to an agreement without engageing their forces       
 that Garrison was in great expectation that the Emperor would ratifye          
 the peace Concluded by his Ambassador here some overtures being made in        
 this affair Though the Moores Keep in their trenches & forts before itt        
 not suffering any fortifications to be repaired  neither has the Mole          
 been in the least forwarded since the late warr &c                             
      And the same letters add that the Spaniards being possessed of            
 Centa A Garrison in the Moroccoes Countray not far from Tangier 3 Soul-        
 giers therein had promised to betray the same for a Certain reward to          
 the Alcade of Alcasor who sending a Considerable strength att the time         
 appointed to surprize the same, found two of the said 3 persons hanging        
 upon the Walls one of them haveing discovered the designe whereby              
 meeting with disappointment they were forced to retire without effect          
      Sr Edward Cartwright usher of the Black Rod is lately deceased in         
 the Island of Jersey where he was vice Comer for his life  the aforesaid       
 place is bestowd on Mr Thomas Duppa the Kings Gent. Usher & mr Henry           
 Bulstrode is made Gent Usher                                                   
   yesterday morneing the Dutchesse of yorke Accompanied with the Lady          
 Anne went for newmarket the formers Indisposition not pmitting her to          
 goe on saturday                                                                
   Saturday Night last one King a notorious highwayman in the late              
 proclamation was brought into Newgate                                          
      The Assizes at Croyden for the County of Surrey are over where 12         
 were Condemned to suffer death  little of remarke passed relatinge to          
 dissenters the Ld Ch: Justice Pemberton being very moderate in that Case       
      The ship Greyhound of 300 Tons Capt Blake Comander being by Mr            
 Salway & the rest of her owners ffreighted with a designe as tis               
 beleived for an Interloper to Guiney & to Carry Negroes to the Spanish         
 west Indias, & haveing procured her Cockets for her dispatch was fallen        
 downe to Graves end but a Warrant from the Court of Admiralty Attached         
 her from psueing her voyage by especiall Comand from his Matie, & the          
 Court has orderd her sayles to be taken from the yards                         
 +yesterday Sr Wm Warrens ship wch Escaped the late fire at Shadwell            
 being about 700 Tons & designd for the E: Indies was Launched of his           
 dock & Named the loyall James & Sr James Wettwang goes her Comander            
      This day began the E: India Company saile for the goods wch Came          
 in the last 5 ships & the 1st Comodity they putt up was peper wch sold         
 at a great rate vizt 7 1/2 7 3/4 & 8 d to the value of 80000 L & the           
 Company makes good yr promise of takeing yr Bonds wch are become due           
 instead of ready Cash & they proceed now to the selling of Druggs Silks        
 & Calicoes.                                                                    
      Roger Le estrange alias observator the Close of last weeke was            
 taken with an Appoplectick fitt in Sams Coffee house and was Imediatly         
 lett Bloud & since remains under an Indisposition whereby his booke was        
 not published these 3 dayes                                                    
      The Irish Testimonies are all discharged from further Attendance &        
 sallaryes & David ffitz Gerrard the Capt of them has got himself into          
 the Kings Bench & there like a true Irishman begins to Raile agt: the          
 Goverment Att wch Authority is much offended                                   
 +Wee have had for some dayes a great discourse as that there was granted       
 by his Matie a relaxation or superseeding as upon the severall Writts of       
 Excomunicato Capiendo that all processe of yt Nature should be stayed          
 agt dissenters but upon enquiry into yt affair find that the Ld: Keeper        
 granted a super seede as onely upon 4 upon a Motion that some proceedings      
 in that Matter was defective but denyed the same upon severall others          
 +The Duke of Grafton vice Admirall of England goes himself to Sea with         
 a ffleet of some light ships appointed for a summer Guard.                     
    L. c. 1347   [Handwriting changes here.]    London the 8 March 1682         
 +The Company of Salters who have the Right of prsentation of St                
 Sweethins parish mett on Tuesday last & the Master Wardens & Assistants        
 declareing that Councell learned in the Law had given it under their           
 hands that the Election Lay in them & not either in the Livery or              
 ffreemen.  Conjunctly they Extendeing the rest haveing the Peticons of         
 14 Ministers before them proceeded to the Choyce & the Majority fell upon      
 one Mr Meriton Minister of Old fish streete but the rest of the body of        
 the Company have entred A Caveat in the Bishops Court that the said Mr         
 Meriton be not admitted till such time the Right of that Election be           
 determined by Law.                                                             
      The Ld Major has promised to hold A Common Councell to morrow in          
 Case the East India Companyes sale doe not impeede severall Members from       
 Attending                                                                      
      There haveing been a great Cause Depending in Chancery betweene his       
 Grace the Duke of Buckingham & Sr Robert Cleyton Major Wildman and other       
 Trustees Mortgagees and Creditors relateing to the title of the Dukes          
 Estate of 28000 L P Ann which is infinitly intreagued into soe many            
 Branches of Variation that I cannot possibly in this paper render A            
 State of the Case but yesterday the Ld Keeper came to A decree that            
 each Creditor shall have his propriety the same being to be sold haveing       
 Ordered 2 masters of Chancery to take receive & state their severall           
 accompts & then will make a ffinall Decree as to pticulers & the Duke          
 overplus but tis thought that by reason such vast Summes have been             
 taken up upon the Estate very little will accrue unto his Lordshipp:           
      Our fforraigne Letters from Vienna of the 28 ffebruary say that A         
 Considerable body of Turks had found meanes to gett into ye Island Stutz       
 and burnt 4 villages killing all the Old men Carrying away above 300           
 young persons & pformed this soe suddenly that they made their retreate        
 to new Hawsell before the Emperors forces could be in A Capicity to            
 repell them                                                                    
      The same Letters Mention that the Emperor received A Letter from          
 his Ambassador the Count Caprara now arrived at Adrianople that he had         
 Audience of the Prime vizier upon accompt of prolonging the truce but          
 the Turks Demandes were soe Extravagant that twas not in the least             
 possible to come to an accomodation without a warr the said ambassadr          
 telling the vizier that he had not Instruccons to agree such unreasonable      
 things whereupon the Vizier replyed that then they would with their            
 swords in their hands Carve out their owne sattisfaccon whereby though         
 Count Teckley offers his further mediation yett in all appearance it           
 will come to A Rupture                                                         
      Letters from Ratisbon informe us that the Curriere sent by Marquis        
 Crequi to the ffrench King was returned with the Answere that his Matie        
 gave him Orders to psue the Treaty with ye Emper[ors] Empire without           
 Limitacon of time till he receives advise to ye Contrary upon wch the          
 Spaniards are in some apprehension that ye Emperor would agree seperatly       
 wth ffrance & desired Audience of the Emperor upon this subject who            
 replyed that whoever of his Councell did but Motion such A Matter to him       
 he would banish him his prsence forever & tooke God to Witnesse of his         
 promise that he would never conclude a peace with ffrance without all          
 his Allyes be included.                                                        
      The King of Denmark haveing receid some slight from the ffrench           
 King is about deserting his Allyance and is said will Confederate with         
 the house of Lunenburgh & other Princes of ye Empire which the ffrench         
 understanding has assured the King by his ambassadr that his Master will       
 Annually pay him 600000 Crownes for ever provided he will be firme to          
 his Masters intrest  The East India Companyes sale Continues still & to        
 morrow ends in ye disposall [of] 700000 L worth of goods all but               
 Druggs & Calicoes to Considerable advantage.                                   
      This day Mr Val: Duncombe brother to mr Charles Duncomb the great         
 Banker stopt his paymts alias went aside for a Considerable sume of            
 Money & tis beleived will not be ye Last  This Morning early the Earle         
 of Yarmouth Ld Leiftent of the County of Norfolke departed this life           
 after Languishing distempers of the Leathergy & Dropsey & tis Genrally         
 reported that his Matie will Conferr yt Leivetenancy vacant by his             
 death on the Earle of Arundell Governor of Windsor Castle.                     
      L. c. 1348     London the 10th March 1682                                 
 +The East India Company have Carryed on their Sale till Thursday               
 then adjournd to Compleate that worke on Monday next when they dispose         
 of their Diamonds  they discount for their Bonds which are become due &        
 pay some of their Obligacons in Money have sold noe Salt peeter the            
 King haveing Occasion for ye whole quantaty which they are to be payd          
 for out of ye Customes arriseing due upon them.                                
      Mr Sands the Owner of the East India Interloper wch by ye Court of        
 Admiralty is retarded her voyage has made a reentry of the Shipp               
 Commerce to Persia by vertue of his being one of the Muscovy Company who       
 has full power to trade in that sea & thereupon the Custome house              
 Officers have signed him Cocketts for her dispatch but the great Expectacon    
 is whether the Admiralty Court will further Concerne themselves                
 under the prsant Circumstances or quiettly suffer her to depart                
      The Ld Major on ffriday designd to have Called A Common Councell          
 but for some reason wch did Occurr has deferred ye same till Tuesday           
 when Considerable matters are Expected to be transacted relateing to           
 the Charter &c.                                                                
 +yesterday the Ld Major had an Adjournd sessions at ye Old Baly where          
 48 Condemned Prisonrs whereof Mr Lashly who Killed Mr Glover Mr ffowler        
 the Vintner who Killed his servant with A Tobacco pipe &c pleaded his          
 Maties Gratious pardon wch being read they all Kneeled in the Court            
 dureing the time it was allowed & they discharged                              
      One Mr Lumbard A Merchant who returnd much money from Ireland this        
 weeke went aside for A Considerable summe which Mr Valentine Duncombe          
 Banker in Lumbard streete sayes was the Occasion of his pforming the           
 like & discourses are of the same nature upon others but till it               
 appeares a Certainty not proper to relate                                      
      Thursday morning the Earle of Yarmouth departed this life & the           
 same time George Dashwood Esqr one of the prsent ffarmers of his Maties        
 Revenue of Excise in wch kinde of business he has been Concernd for 20         
 yeares pforming his Contracts ffaithfully yett acquired A greate Estate        
 of above 200000 L                                                              
      And the next day Mr Mountney the late receiver & treasurer of ye          
 Custom house Came to ye same fate dyeing Extreamly wealthy                     
      Alsoe Mr Baron Crawley of the Excheqr departed this Life & his            
 place is succeeded by Sr Richd May Recorder of Chichester                      
      The ffrench King has Conferrd the honor of ye Ordr of the wholy           
 Ghost on Mr Bernard Howard who lately went into ffrance with his race          
 horses with other marks of his Esteeme & has taken his sonne to be his         
 page  One Mr ffrancis Howard A Brother of that family wee heare is dead        
 in fflandrs                                                                    
      Holland Letters of the 12 March say that there is advise that ye          
 Assembly which was held at Soest is broken up A League being concluded         
 between the King of Denmark Electors of Brandenburgh Cullogne Mettz &          
 Triar Togeather with the Bishop of Munster for the Conservacon of each         
 others Countryes agt any that shall molest or disquiett them                   
      Alsoe Letters from the ffrench Conquest speak that the Kings              
 designe to attacque Leige but the Spaniards are great[ly] apprehensive         
 that he will visit them the rather for that his Matie has appointed            
 his forces to forme 3 Armyes One to be Comanded by the Dauphine Marshall       
 Schomburgh the Leiftent Genrall & the 2d by the Duke of Orleans Duke of        
 Luxemburgh the Leiftent the 3d by the Duke of Engyne [?] and Marshall          
 Lorge the Leiftent besides A fflying Army wch the King they say will           
 Comand himselfe                                                                
      The Chancellor of Polands sonne has had audience of the ffrench           
 King & in the name of his Master offers his Mediation betweene the             
 Emperor & his Matie  the King returned him A kinde but noe positive            
 Answere.                                                                       
 +Wee heare that ye Grand Jury for ye County of Essex have delivered the        
 Ld Ch: Justice Pemberton A peticon to be prsented to his Matie wherein         
 they desire the Lawes may not only be put in full execucon agt dissenters      
 but alsoe cause them to be disarmd as dangerous to ye Governmt                 
    Wee have a great discourse that the ffrench ambassadr delivered his         
 Matie A Memoriall wherein he Claymes the factory of Hudsons Bay in the         
 West Indies neare his Collony of Canada to belong of right to his Master       
 as the first d[isc]overer thereof but I have strictly Enquired into ye         
 truth & finde that the same was only dis[cours]ed by the ffrench               
 ambassadr but however it be it hath Caused Actions of yt Company wch           
 were advanced to 500 L to abate from that to 230 L but some of the             
 Company have repaired to his R Highness who was Chosen their last              
 Governor to interest himselfe in this affaire                                  
      The Actions of the East India Company were this morning notwth            
 standing their sale sold for 220 L & by reason they Cannot possibly            
 make A Dividend will abate much lesse                                          
    L. c. 1349   [Handwriting changes here.]   London ye 13th March 1682        
      A councell is appointed to meete to morrow att Whitehall where            
 Robert Stephens messenger of the Press is sumoned to attend to Answere         
 to sevrall Complaints exhibited against him by Mr Mearne master of the         
 Stationrs Company.                                                             
      Alsoe Nathaniell Thompson is orderd to give an accompt for Publishing     
 his Intelligence there being false & scandalous newes Inserted therein.        
      Yesterday the E: India Company pursuant to theire late Adjournmt          
 proceeded to the selling of silke and Diamonds  the Latter was put up          
 att 30 p Cent less than formerly but some advanced very brisk  Lotts           
 which were put up att 700 L sold for 1100 and one entire stone was sold        
 for 1750 L amounting in all to 24000 L and 120 Bayles of Silke to 9000         
 & odd hundred pounds  the Totall of the sale was 340 & odd thousand            
 pounds which Concluded that worke and then adjournd to the second of May       
 following.                                                                     
      Mrs Bridgett Hide alias Emerton alias Dunblayne who has given soe         
 often occasion to be mentioned by reason of the long depending cause           
 before the Delegates as yett undetermined was on Satterday last brought        
 to bedd of a sonn which administers the subject of discourse by reason         
 it admitts of various Interpretacons as to the nature of the thing in          
 case the Judges Delegates on ye 30 of next moneth give sentence for Mr         
 Emerton & ye Learned in the Law sayes that then Mr Emerton notwithstanding     
 tis apparent to be ye Child of the Ld Dunblayne must ffather the same          
 will thereby become Tenant by ye Curtesy:                                      
      The Bishopp of Eley is not dead as some unintelligible Persons have       
 wrote  ye Duke of Somersett who lately married the Lady Ogle is very           
 sick as alsoe the Earle of Bath.                                               
      yesterday arrived a dutch Male from which I shall touch att the           
 cheife Remarkes transmitted by ye same vizt---                                 
      That Monsr de Avaux the French Ambassadour haveing reced an Express       
 from his Master had a long Conferrence with the Prince of Orange assureing     
 his Highness that his Matie had noe designe to attaque any Part of the         
 Spanish Netherlands nor ye Empire but was ready to agree as speedily as        
 hee could desire to ye Conservacon of ye Peace of Xtendome &c.                 
      To which end the Dutch has sent an Ambassadour to Ratisbon & wee          
 have an accompt of his Arriveall.                                              
 +This day was held a Common Councell but nothing relateing to ye Charter       
 Transacted as was expected  theire first business was to nominate &            
 appoint sevrall Comittees.                                                     
      Afterwards a mocon being made that Sheriff Rich should 400 L [sic]        
 which hee formerly gave as a fine for that office being Customary to           
 them that hold which was agreed too.                                           
      Then a Bill for regulateing & asserting ye number of hackney              
 Coaches was read the third tyme & Past  there to be 400 & upon any other       
 then shall be by the Court Lycenced that enters the City shall pay 40 s        
 each tyme.                                                                     
      They proceded to debate ye divideing ye Ward of Bishopsgate which         
 was ordered that a bill shall be brought in for that purpose.                  
      The Court was in an houres debate to have laid aside one Mr Hackshaw      
 from being a Member as that hee could not sufficiently prove his being         
 baptized but lett it fall.                                                     
      Last of all they Considered his Maties late Gracious Concession in        
 not suffering the Pattent to pass for a beast markett by 3 Aldermen & 6        
 Commoners vizt Sr Willm Turner Sr James Edwards & Sr John Moore Sr             
 Benjamin Newland Sr Wm Dodson Mr Charleton Deputy Langham Mr Hawes & Mr        
 Paravicino which said Address was formed & agreed to & will be carried         
 away to morrow.                                                                
      L. c. 1350     London ye 15th March 1682/3                                
      Yesterday Nath: Thompson who lately stood in ye Pillory for               
 Publishing his Lying & Impudent Shamm's Insinuateing yt Sr Edmd-Bury-          
 Godfrey was not murthered by ye Papists but felo dese appeared before          
 ye Councell yn sitting in White hall where was charged upon in his new         
 edition of Intelligences yt hee not only Published false & Scandalous          
 newes agat ye Governmt but alsoe many other scurrilous & reflecting paps       
 especially one entituled 24 Articles agat ye Dutchess of Portsmouth all        
 or most of wch being proved upon him yr Lordshipps Committed him               
 Prisoner to ye Gatehouse.                                                      
      Robert Stephens the Messenger of the Press being likewise summoned        
 upon some Complaint of the Master of Stationers Company appeared but           
 the Master not attending Stephens was dismist to a further opertunity.         
      The Court continues att Newmarkett but his Matie being extreamely         
 displeased wth the Countrey people not only for some Indignity offered         
 but alsoe that the Game of partridge hare &c is quite destroyed that           
 tis sd his Matie will returned there from next weeke and not soe               
 frequently goe thither as usuall and has turned out his Game keeper for        
 being soe negligent in his office as that his Matie was forced to              
 returne sevrall tymes without when as formerly it was in as much Plenty        
 as most places besides:  This morning early the 3 Aldermen & 6 Commonrs        
 appointed by the Court of Common Councell to attend his Matie with an          
 Address of thanks for his Gracious Concessions in not suffering a              
 markett for Cattle & 2 faires yearely by Clarendon house to goe forward        
 which otherwise would redound much to the Prejudice of the City sett           
 forwards in sevrall [sic]                                                      
      Mr Calvert Turner & some other Persons have made proposealls to           
 the Lords of the Treasury to give 530000 L p ann to ffarme his Maties          
 Revenue of Excize now expireing wth the old ffarmers att Midsomer & to         
 advance 150000 L att 6 p Cent which is 50000 L p ann more then those now       
 in the Farme have anually paid which said proposealls was hearkned too         
 with some dilligence and the Ld Rochester gon to Newmarkett upon ye same       
 togeather with some of the Proposrs wch tis beleeved will be accepted.         
      The Letters from India left ye City of Bantum in Ashes ye king of         
 yt Country & his sonn being in Warr the Father setting ye same on fire         
 & beseiged his sonn in the Castle.                                             
      And this day arriveing the Amoy Merchant Captaine Nicholson               
 Comandr from that Country brings ye East India Company dreadfull newes         
 from thence vizt:                                                              
      That ye young king has sent for the Dutch to his assistance who           
 with 8 or 10 men of warr well Provided Anchored before Bantum & Landing        
 yr men became Master of ye Place & Drove ye old Gentleman from thence          
 who retired to his Fortress att Taltiassa.                                     
      And ye Dutch haveing freed ye sonn from ye danger of his Father           
 they began to fall upon ye English Factory the young king being of             
 a revengefull nature would have destroyed ym all but ye Dutch by noe           
 meanes pmitted ye same Transpo[rted] yr Persons & goods to Battavia.           
      The sd Amoy Merchant sayleing a long with them from Bantum & then         
 tooke most of her Ladeing in att Battavia which is Pepper China silke          
 300 Chests of Copper &c.                                                       
      And Mr Griffith ye second of ye Factory of Bantum with some others        
 are come home.  That Factory for ye future being entirely lost to ye           
 English.                                                                       
      Which said newes this day caused ye pepper that was sold last sale        
 to advance 50 L in a lott more yn yesterday & ye Auctions of ye Company        
 are extreamely abated being sold this afternoone for only 185 L.               
      And this bad newes is not come alone but accompanyed with the said        
 disaster of ye Companyes shipp ye Joanna Capt Browne Commander which           
 was cast away goeing to India last May makeing the Cape bona esperanza         
 3 Leagues from Cape De Gull value 100000 L & 7 men drowned  those that         
 escaped Travelled sevrall dayes without victualls & were stript by ye          
 Natives  Att Length arriveing to ye Cape where is a Dutch Factory they         
 Transporting them to Battavia from which place Capt Browne & 10 of his         
 seamen came home in ye shipp now arrived which disaster causes noe             
 Little Consternacon in ye Company  It could never have arrived att a           
 more unlucky season                                                            
    L. c. 1351   [Handwriting changes here.]    London the 17 March 1682        
 +Thursday and ffriday were 2 Duells successively fought the one with the       
 sword and pistoll on horse back the latter on foote for the first              
 severall Gentlemen as one  Capt Sarsfeild of Ireland Mr Stiles whose           
 brother was lately Killd in a Taverne Capt Vaughan & Kirke of the Guards       
 being in Company a Quarell arose betweene the 2 first  some blowes ensud       
 & then appointmt made to fight over the water on horse back  Mr Vaughan        
 became second to Mr Stiles & Kirke to Sarsfeild                                
      Three of the said Gentlemen being come by what accident I Cannot          
 say Mr Stiles one of the principalls disapeared whereupon disreputable         
 words falling from Capt Sarsfeild Capt vaughan Mr Stiles his second            
 fought him instead & Mr Kirke the other second withdrew                        
      Their horses came upon the full Carriere  they each discharged their      
 pistolls one at the other  Capt Vaughans Bullett past thro the Brim &          
 Crowne of Sarsfeilds hatt & Sarsfeild fastned a dangerous wound thro           
 Vaughans shoulder  they drew forth their second Pistolls & Capt Sarsfeild      
 received A wound in his side but Mr Vaughans horse being shott in the          
 head fell & then they prpareing to use their swords Capt Kirke came in &       
 made them forbeare.                                                            
      The next day the Ld Lumley and one Mr Condam A yorkesheire Gentleman      
 fought in high parke upon Occasion of some difference relateing to             
 his Ldpps Kindswoman  the second to his Lordshipp was Collonel Rumsey--        
 and to the latter one Mr Skipwith  principalls & seconds fought all at         
 a time Mr Skipwith disarming the Collonel then forced the Lord Lumley to       
 deliver his sword there being then 2 against one which ended the ffray         
 without much Effusion of blood.                                                
      One Mr Verdon the late undersherriffe of Norfolk was tryed at             
 Thetford Assizes upon an appeale of Murder by the widdow of the deceased       
 person but the Jury brought him in Not Guilty                                  
      Our Holland Letters of the 18th say that the states Genrall were          
 Extraordinarily assembled  the Prince of Orange prsent & were Considering      
 upon weighty affaires the Brandenburgh & Danish Ministers haveing had          
 a long Conference with them & they write as if they had some disposicon        
 to Espouse the Common Interest  Monsr van Binningham was arived & made         
 his reporte of his negotiation in England for wch the states returned          
 him thanks                                                                     
      The states were debateing how hardly the Protestants were used            
 in Popish Countrys therefore think to make some Order to hold the              
 Papists with them to some harder restriccons                                   
      Our fflanders Letters bring the great Newes wch we hope may Come          
 Confirmd from other places that a League was actually Concluded betweene       
 the King of Poland & ye Emperor Confirmd by the Dyett by vertue of wch         
 the Polandrs are obleiged to breake with ye Turks in Case they invade          
 Hungary                                                                        
      And I have Letters from A great hand in Germany that the Turk             
 begins to be apprehensive the ffrench Intreagues upon them for his             
 advantage being [seal spoils five letters] that they have offered              
 ye Emperor to assist him with 50000 men in Case of a peace as to retaine       
 Stratsburgh & 12 Townes in Alsatia and thereby brought him in only to          
 work his owne designes upon wch Consideracon there is some prospect of         
 peace with the Emperor and Turk wch the ffrench being apprehensive of          
 houlds togeather a body of 40000 men on the Soan to make head agt ye           
 Emperor in case a peace be Concluded betweene the Germans & Turks well         
 knowing the Emperors forces would then directly March for Alsace.              
      The Emperor has appointed Rendevouze of his forces the 28 ditto &         
 Ordered Raad to be better fortifyed & has receid advice from Croatia           
 that 10000 of those people were on ye March  the Pope has remitted to          
 ye Emperor 100000 Ducketts & the King of Spaine has sent word he will          
 remitt 375000 Ryalls  Count Teckley has received Ordrs from the Vizier         
 to prepare his troopes for a march & the Turkish forces in Asia are            
 Comeing for Hungary                                                            
      I have to add to what I [wr]ote Last of the takeing of Bantam in          
 the East Indies by the Dutch that the old King thinkeing his strength          
 sufficient suffered them to Land but the Dutch soe vigorously                  
 Attaqued him in his first post as made him retire & then the young King        
 opening the Castle Gates the Dutch entred in & Imediatly broug[ht] out         
 Dutch Colours & keeps the young King out  the young King would have            
 Murtherd the English but the Dutch prvailed to give them 2 dayes time          
 to part up & be gon as alsoe ye ffrench Agent & took away all yr powder        
 & Amunition  2 days after the old King had a fight with a pty of the Duch      
 & Killd about 1000 White men & is with an Army of 20000 Invoyes not far        
 from Bantam  the young King has given the towne & Castle to the Dutch &        
 the Old King has sent dispatches to England & they say in the Country          
 that he will give it to ye King of England wch if he s[e]nd shipping he        
 will with his Army Attaque them by Land at the same time to reGaine the        
 place                                                                          
     L. c. 1352     London the 20th March 1682                                  
 +The Ld Cheife Justice Saunders is soe well recovered of his late              
 sicknesse as on Sonday Last to goe to his pish Church where thanks were        
 returned to the Almighty for his wonderfull recovery.                          
      Thomson the Intelligencer who Continues still in ye Gatehouse was         
 on Satturday Last brought before the Lord Cheife Justice by habeas             
 Corpus in Order to be bayled But his Ldpp was pleased to remand him as         
 that his Bayle was insufficient & gave him many hard words.                    
      Thursday last the 9 Gentlemen appointed by ye Court of Common             
 Councell to attend his Matie wth the City addresse of thanks for giveing       
 A stop to ye forwarding of A Markett went to newmarkett & on Satturday         
 night returned by whome we have an accot that they arrived there               
 ffriday 10 of ye Clock & stayed some howers for his Matie who receid           
 them withall possible demonstracon of Grace & favour & was pleased to          
 tell them that he alwayes lookt upon his City of London as the most            
 Considerablest & best among them were truely Loyall & that he should           
 not be wanting at all times to shew his kindnesse to them & whereas            
 there had been a discourse at London of an Intended Indulgence to              
 dissenters did assure them the Contrary for as he would himselfe               
 governe by Law soe the Lawes should be put in full Execucon against            
 them Ordering them to be Dilligent in that point & then referrd them to        
 Sr Stephen ffox &c to entertaine which he did very Splendidly  they            
 returnd pte of yr way that evening & arrived in London as above                
      One Mr Wallestone of the Guards and Mr Gardner who keeps the Prince       
 of Oranges head neare St Jameses Quarrelled togeather at newmarkett            
 appointed to fight on horseback & dischargeing yr pistolls at each other       
 Mr Wollestones bullet took place in Gardners head who imediatly fell           
 to the Ground  ye other Escaped                                                
      One Bennet A Jessuit who yow have been formerly told was seized by        
 the Ld Beaumont wth his papers & Trinketts was this Darby Assizes upon         
 full evidence Convicted of high Treason but since repreived  among the         
 many evidence brought agt him was Mr Busbyes book ye Jessuits procurator       
 wherein he was pticulerly menconed in divers Circumstances & summes of         
 money.                                                                         
      yesterday the Corps of the Earle of yarmouth & one Sr John Pintler        
 was attended out of Towne wth A Numerous Trayne of Coaches in Ordr to          
 be deterred [sic] the former in the County of Norfolke & the latter in         
 Hartfordsheire                                                                 
      Letters from Bristoll tell us that Last week Sr John Churchill            
 their new Recordr held A Goale Delivery for that City & was very               
 moderate towards the many dissenters under prosecucon                          
      The Ld Bishop of London has sent his Ordr to sevrall pishes in the        
 out parts some whereof were read last sonday in the Churches that all          
 psons from the age of 16 to 60 pcipitate of ye blessed Sacramt of the          
 Lds Supper this Ensueing Easter                                                
      Wee have a farther accot from the East Indies that A shipp the            
 Elephant being a Coaster vallue 20000 L was Cast away in those seas            
 but the freight was not Imediatly belonging to the Company but the             
 ffactors & Natives sent in accot to the King of 5 sheets of paper of           
 the whole pticuler of the takeing of Bantam  the Actions of the Company        
 since the last Post rather advance being this day sold for 150 L               
      L. c. 1353     London the 22th March 1682                                 
 +The 3 Aldermen & 6 Comoners being returnd from Newmarkett the former          
 have made their Reporte to the Court of Aldermen of the delivery of ye         
 City addresse togeather wth his Maties Answere especially that pte of          
 it that he designes noe Indulgence to dissenters as was industriously          
 spread abroad  his Matie would but that the Lawes be put in full               
 Execucon against them                                                          
      Upon which the Court of Aldermen Tuesday held a long debate how to        
 accomplish a totall supression of ye Conventicles in and about London &        
 came to A result as to the forming of a new warrant which they Ordered         
 to be printed in Order to be distributed among ye severall Aldermen to         
 deliver to the Constables & others Concernd in yt worke                        
      The City began this day to Licence Hackney Coachmen psuant to their       
 late Act of Common Councell to pmitt only 400 And to Lay a forfeiture          
 of 40 s upon any other that shall stand and take up ffares in ye City          
 for which they have Mr Recorder Mr Pollexfen & divers other Learned            
 Councellors in the Law hands that they may restrayne & fine those who          
 shall be Contemners thereof                                                    
      The Gentlemen who went to newmarket with advantagious proposalls to       
 farme his Maties Revenue of Excise from Midsomer next are returned his         
 Matie telling them his pleasure not to make any bargaines there but            
 referrd them to his Comeing to towne when there shall be faire & equall        
 proceedings on both sides in the Treasury Chamber                              
      Letters from Norwich say that the Last Monday the Weavers & other         
 handicraft trades men were in a great body in an uproare Occasioned by         
 ye ffrench Protestants who Came from Ipswich to settle there which             
 disorder was Carryed to that height that the Posse Comitatus was forced        
 to be raised upon them Constreyning them to depart with little hurt tho        
 they threaten to pforme the like or worse if the Cause be not prvented         
      Our Bristoll Letters say that A Guard of horse was arrived in yt          
 City to Convoy his Maties money received upon the Customes &c being            
 above 20000 L to his Excheqr at London wch is the rather taken notice          
 of by reason they alwayes before remitted the same by Bills of Exchange        
      Sr John Churchill their new Recorder discharged 120 dissenters            
 from out of Newgate who had a long time been Imprisoned paying only            
 5 s a head                                                                     
      Yesterday the Bishop of London & Sr Leoline Jenkins were looking          
 upon a peice of ground whereon to build A Nursery for Navigators               
 designeing ye same for ye Children of those parents who have lost their        
 lives in his Maties service & to be founded upon ye benevolence of             
 Divers worthy Benefactors who have & will give subscripcons thereto            
 whereof his Ldpp has made ye first Example                                     
      They alsoe were Considering that the parish of Stepney being of an        
 Imens bigness 50000 Comunicants Comprized therein soe the Church not           
 sufficient to Conteyne them to build 2 new Chapells of Ease the one in         
 or about Spittle feilds where lately are Erected many buildings as also        
 in the Well Close & that the same be Carried on by subscriptions alsoe         
      yesterday a Councell sett at Whitehall & took notice how Natt             
 Thomson Continued to publish his print & Ordrd yt ye same should be            
 stopt from Comeing out to day & before he be discharged yt he give             
 good security not to publish it for the future                                 
      The Actions of ye E India Company were sold to day for 155 L              
 yesterday the Commee of that Company voted that they will make noe             
 Dividend till after Michas & not then if all yr Obligacons be not paid         
 or at least the psons intressed desire a Continuance of yr Bonds               
      This day Warrts for distress of twice 80 L was brought agt Jno            
 & James Bolton Goldsmiths in Lumbard streete for nonconformity but             
 they foreknowing thereof hurryed all things of vallue out of the way           
 whereby not a Quarter of the summe was Leavyed.                                
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