      L. c. 1354     London March 24 1682                                       
      Letters from New Markett gives an Accot of a Dreadfull ffire on           
 Thursday evening in that Towne  under written will give you some pticulars     
      Severall young Lords of Kildare Kingsale Ossory & Willoughby being        
 in Compy a quarrell arose betweene them & appointment made to ffight but       
 a Gent whom some of them would have engaged to Second ye quarrell gave         
 such notice of their intent that they were Seized by the Guards brot           
 before the King who reconciled their Difference                                
      The Earle of Rochester is return'd from Newmarkett & twas said yt         
 ye Marquess Hallifax who has stayd in Towne all the Season design'd to         
 goe thether on Monday but the disaster of the ffire has prevented his          
 Journey his Matie comeing to Towne that day tho not intended till              
 Satturday 7 night.                                                             
      Our holland Letters give an Accot yt Van Buninghen makeing his            
 Report to the States of his Negotiation in England deliver'd their Ldpp        
 the Letters of Recredence he recd from his Matie and Royall highnesse          
 and as a token of their good will shew'd them a Rose of Diamonds wch was       
 presented him by his Matie and that in his Audience of Congee his Matie        
 tooke notice wthout doubt the Turk would vigorously attack ye Empire and       
 therefore since the peace was not concluded in Christendome twas Justly        
 to be Suspected that ffrance would break with the confederates to which        
 point his Matie was pleased to assure them that his good Offices should        
 not be wanting to hinder ffrance from attempting any thing against the         
 Allyes, but could wish that the States by their good Councell would            
 oblige Spaine to accept of his Arbitrge as ffrance had proposed that           
 then his Xtian Matie may be w[ithou?]tt pretence from disturbing ye            
 Peace of those Countrys                                                        
      Letters from ye Bavarian Court say that the Chancellor and Grand          
 Marshall of that Court were in Disgrace being dismist from their               
 employments through the influences of the ffrench which ffaction               
 prevailes  the former is above forbidd ye Councell the latter to               
 retire to Ingoldstadt                                                          
      They write from Madrid that ye Court makeing retrenchments in             
 diverse publick charges, the Citty of Tolledo wth severall others are in       
 an insurrection thereon which obliged the King to send the Regiments of        
 Guards wth other fforces to reduce them to their Duty.                         
      This day was advice brot upon ye Exchange that a considerable             
 Shipp was by Stress of Weather driven upon ye Goodwyn Sands & lost but         
 cannot discover her name only yt she was ffreighted wth Wine and Brandy.       
      Some uni[n]telligible Writers have amused [?] ye Country of a             
 greate ffight betw Sr Jo: Berry & 3 ffrenchmen of Warr relateing to            
 particlars wch is altogether fictious.                                         
      The East India Compas Auctions are this day at 160 L & 165 L.             
      The Ld Howard of Escreek was last night knocked downe in ye Streete       
 but ye person escaped.                                                         
      2 persons went some days since to Newmarkett to Sweare high Treason       
 agt the Earle of Clare, but are said to returne as not credited.               
      Letters from Vienna of ye 14th Say yt by express from Hungaria in         
 4 daies ye Turks have made a farther attack upon ye Island Lentz  the          
 particlars are too long to insert therefore shall only tell you the            
 result vizt                                                                    
      The Turks to ye number of 2000 & upwards found means to gett              
 againe into ye Island, Plundered a Village Seized 400 People, together         
 wth a greate head of Cattle & were retireing there wth but being               
 encountred wth 800 horse & Dragoons of ye Emperors they were put to            
 fflight and forced to leave their Prisoners & Booty behinde them  in           
 this Skirmish 140 Turks were killd, 37 taken Prisoners, One being ye Bassa     
 of Osseris sonne A rich Booty of ye Turks taken worth 80000 Guilders, &        
 300 Turks are sd to be drown'd passing ye Wavy & only [some digits             
 smeared] [Imp]erialists slaine besides wounded.                                
      Wee h[ave] it confirm'd on all hand[s] ye ffire at Newmarkett             
 begining at 9 in the Evening continuing most part of ye night, it broke        
 forth in a Stable said to belong to ye Earle of Sunderland & there being       
 noe water it most impetuously destroyd near 1/2 of ye Towne  one side of       
 ye Ways & ye most considerable Inns are consumed together wth ye Markett       
 place sevrall horses Coaches &c burnt & sevrall men sd to be killed but        
 his Mats house being on ye other Side of ye Way is untouched but his Maty      
 removed his Lodgings to Suffolk house, & tis said will be in London on         
 Monday, tis generally discoursed to have been kindled by one of ye black       
 Guard & is of Lamentable circumstances to that place.                          
      L. c. 1355      27th March 1683                                           
             [First two paragraphs below are badly faded.]                      
     Yesterday by 2 a clocke afternoone their Matys & Royall Highnesses         
return'd from Newmarkett by whose arrivall wee understand that ye late          
dreadfull fire has [about eight letters faded] consumed above 1/2 of            
[the structures?] especially the tradeing part  one of ye Dutchesses &          
other Nobillitys coaches & horses were burnt in the fflames the ffire           
being soe vehemently fire [?] the houses generally of thatch that it was        
in the space of an houre wholly consumed  his Matie was pleased before          
his departure to promise them  [about seven letters faded] and vissitt          
them again if they would use his security [?] kindly and some hundreds          
of Pounds [?] are gathered among the Courtiers [about twelve letters            
faded] to the poorest sort that consumd [?] Less [?] and were not ffired.       
     Yesterday the [about twelve letters faded] our Letters from                
Constantinople dated [one or two digits faded] Janry wch gives an accot         
that the Dutch Ambassador there is Dead that a greate [about six letters        
faded] was layd agst the Secretary upon pretence that some Turks were           
slaine by them in Dalmatia that ye Venetian Apollo [?] was seized & that        
4 ships [about ten letters faded] rectory [?] freighted [?] were forced         
to unload [?] to carry soldiers to Salonica but then left for Dutch Sally       
wch were taken up into that Citty for that horses were released on              
peticon of Mercy [?].                                                           
     Tis generally sd that ye Earle of Manchester who went into ffrance         
for his health sake after is Dead there;                                        
     Tho Dangerfeild the late Evidence has Marryed the daughter of Dr           
Ansloe the Nonconformist Preacher agst her Parents consent.                     
     Satturday last the Lady Herbert of Cherbery widow of the Elder             
Brother of ye now Lord of that Title was hurryed away in a Coach in             
like maner as the Lady Sinderfin and tis generally said by one of ye            
persons vizt Cap Sr [?] who was acting in her concerne that the Lady is         
since released & has been wth the Lord cheife Justice for a Warrant             
to apprehend the said persons                                                   
     I lately told you of a Duell fought betweene Capt Vaughan & Capt           
Sarsfield The former Engageing the latter in his Principalls absence            
wch was one Mr Stiles since wch such words were given out against the           
sd Mr Stiles as to the revenged of him, that ye sd Gent has poyson'd            
himselfe to prevent other disastrous ffate.                                     
     I lately inform'd you that advice was brot from Brussells of a             
League concluded betweene the King of Poland and Emperor of Germany wch         
wee have now confirm'd from severall other places of virtue of wch the          
Polanders are to Assist the Emperor wth 30000 Men by way of Mutuall defence.    
     The Bishop of Verona has Interdicted and forbidden the Jesuitts            
from preaching by reason they maintained that it is absolutely necessary        
at this Juncture to make a peace in ffrance Considering that these              
Subjects may be of Dangerous Consequence in Case ye Dyett doe not agree         
to ye ffrench proposalls.                                                       
     This morning ye Ld Mayor & Court of Aldermen congratulated his Mats        
& Royall highnesses Returne hence & were Readily recd.                          
     Yesterday ye Magistrate of ye Citty of Winchester Layd ye first            
stone of his Mats house there wch goes forward very Expeditiously.              
     This was day [sic] was brot ye unhappy news upon ye Exchange of ye         
losse of a ship of 300 tonns from Carolina & all save 3 drowned, and            
alsoe a ship blowne up upon ye Coast of Gurnsy Capt Greene Comandr              
haveing 120 Negroes on board.                                                   
     The East India Compas Auctions stand at 160 L  they designe to             
attend his Matie to know his pleasure & resolution concerning Bantam.           
     Advice from Norfolke says that ye Earle of Yarmths Corps was               
interred in a Vault at Durneed [?], the Pall was borne up by 6 Depty            
Lefts, & ye Corps carryed by 20 strong Men   his funerall sermon was            
preached by Dr Hilliard who sett forth his Discours herty [?] Loyalty &         
Learning wch sermon is desired to be printed.                                   
   L. c. 1356    [Handwriting changes here.]    London the 29 March 1683        
     To the end that yow may know ye Turkish Dialect [I] have sent yow a        
     true Coppy of A letter transmitted from the Bassa of Newwarden to          
     the City of ffriestadt In Hungary dated the 25 ffebruary last              
          I the mighty Hassan Bassa Ibrahim Begg Tyhaia Greete Yow              
+Yee Majestrates & Cittizens of ffriestadt (Impudent doggs worthy to be         
Impailed) whats the reason of your disobedience  (yee doggs) why did            
yow not send mee the money I demanded of yee  (yee doggs worthy to be           
impailed) I Comand yow to bring mee within the space of 4 dayes 4000            
Chequeens together with 10 Roules [?] of Hungarian Cloath & a Chest of          
Gunpowder  otherwise I sweare by ye faith of my Lord that I will Constrayne     
(yee doggs) to pay homage agt your Wills if yee Contemne my demands  I          
want [?] Imediatly yee Impudent doggs to sett your City on fire & Dragg         
yee away in Chaynes into ppetuall slavery when you may have Leisure to          
repent yo[u]r stubbornenesse                                                    
                      Signed Ibrahim Tyhaia the mighty Hassan Bassa             
+The Lord Castlehaven has given over his thoughts from goeing agt the           
Turks but sevrall of the young Nobility designe speedily to sett forward        
& Last night ye Ld Lansdowne the Earle of Balts Eldest sone Craved his          
Maties leave to accompany the rest of the Gentlemen wch was Granted             
     Yesterday sevrall Citizens were seized by the Writt Excomunicato           
Capiendo & hurryed to the Compter & there are many more of that trade           
abroad wch if they doe not forthwith make themselves (rectus in Curia)          
will Lay them Close for Nonconformity                                           
     Sr Henry Goodrick his Maties ambassadr at Madrid who at that Court         
has been much disgusted at not suffereing him to stay within the Kingdome       
is now returned thence & made Reporte to his Matie of his Negotiacon but        
we cannot yett Learne who shall succeed him.                                    
     Don Pedro Ronguillo the Spanish ambassadr here is prpareing for            
his departure home & will be succeeded by Don Emanuel de Lyra.                  
     I told yow in my Last that the Lady Herbert widdow of the now Ld           
Herbert of Cherburys Elder brother was by Capt Sarsfeild hurryed away           
in a Coach in like manner was the Late Madam Synderfin  the                     
Circumstances are that [the] said Lady being in A Hackney Coach the             
persons designeing this Adventure Cutt the traces & haveing one Sr John         
Parsons Coach ready behinde desired the said Lady since she mett with           
that disaster to take ye benefitt thereof wch the Lady Innocently               
doeing they hurryed her away into the Countrey & kept her all night &           
would have Obleiged her to Marriage wch she resolutely denyeing they            
returnd her back to London & sett her downe who Imediately gott the Ld          
Cheife Justice Warrant for Sr John Parsons sarsfeild &c                         
     Which the said Capt Sarsfeild understanding went to her Lodgeing           
& either dissembling Love or ffrenzy took forth A Penknife opening              
his brest slasht his Skin & then stabbed himselfe therewith at wch the          
blood Gushed out Extreamly before her presence  he was Carryed away but         
is not yet dead but tis thought he will scarce recover hee refuseing to         
have his wounds drest                                                           
     I lately told yow that 2 psons went to Newmarkett to sweare high           
Treason agt the Earle of Clare  I now find that one ffox a blacksmith           
his Ldpps [word of about nine letters faded] was ye accuser who relates an      
Improbable storey thereof as that his Ldpp would have hired him to Kill         
ye King giveing halfe a Crowne in earnest that his Ldpp was soe familliar       
with him to take him often into his Coach & [about ten letters faded]           
Lye at his house  the other Witnesse could only sweare that the Blacksmith      
told him the relacon & soe noe evidence in Treason  since ye Court returned     
from Newmarkett this fellow has been at Whitehall but there being noe           
proceed upon it we Conclude tis altogeather disbeleaved                         
     This day the King & R Highnesse went downe ye River intend a               
weeke after Easter for Windsor                                                  
     On Monday next the great affaire of refarming his Maties duty of           
Excise will be transacted in the Treasury Chamber & I am Credibly               
informd that a day will be assigned to heare & Consider of ye great             
proposalls made by the  Marquis Hallifax & others for farmeing his              
Maties whole Revenue of the Kingdome of England & Ireland 1700000 L             
being said to be offered for ye same together with a great advance of           
money by way of Security   Some of the Cheife of the E India Company            
have attended his Matie since his returne & I am assured that his               
Matie has promised Effectually to interest himselfe wth the states of           
Holland relateing to ye affaire  of ye seizeing of Bantam                       
+Yesterday Mr Sands Owner of ye E India Interloper prsented his Matie           
a peticon humbly to desire him to Ordr the Admiralty Court to stay yr           
proceedings agt him that he may pceed on his voyage setting forth that          
he is Cleared by ye Customehouse & at Gravesend & that being of the             
Muscovy Company There is an act of Pliament in his favour wch being             
read was referrd to Mr Attorney  & Solicitor Genrall to make reporte            
     L. c. 1357    London March 31st 1683                                       
     Yesterday sevrall trageck efforts noe less fatall then propence [?]        
were transacted among us  the first was an unhappy Duell between 2 young        
Gent Ensignes of his Matys Guard occasioned through some misunderstanding       
at Play, tho other wise Country Men and Intimate ffriends, the one Mrs          
Conway a Ladys Sonne the other Mr Griffeth a Gent of a Considerable             
ffamily in Wales, they fought behinde Montague house wth that Impornesse        
[?] that ye latter was killed on ye Spott and ye former soe desperately         
Wounded as to be carryed from ye place & since said to be Dead each             
haveing recd diverse Wounds                                                     
     At noone 4 Gent sallying out of a Coach at Temple Barr upon some           
Drovers of Cattle a ffray ensued wch before it could be Suppressed,             
some Mortall Wounds were given & ye Gents secured                               
     In ye after noone a Constable in ye Tower upon some slight words           
given him by one of his fellow Soldiers Shott him Dead wth his Musquett         
     In ye evening 3 sparks wth Naked swords valourously [?] killed an          
innocent Apprentice neare ye May Pole in the Strand upon litle or noe           
Provocations & were secured                                                     
     The Irish Testimony being Disbanded agt ffitz Gerards divests [?]          
himselfe in the Kings bench, Mr Dugdale tooke occasion to dye.  Eustace         
Commons makes application to ye Parish for Subsistance  Machnamarra & one       
Ivey have procured themselves a stone Doublett & ye rest non inventi Sunt       
     The Earle of Salisbury Continues under soe virulent an indisposition       
that his life is dispaired of                                                   
     The Gents who formerly had ye Grant of a Royall ffishery who mett          
wth misfortunes are now reentering upon that designe  Some whereof have         
already priscribed hereto but upon a more probable adventure.                   
     The Holland Letters say that upon advice of ye takeing of Bantam           
ye Auctions of their East India Company are somewhat advanced together          
wth the Comodity of Copper, but are since both abated  the Commonalty           
are extreamly concerned fearing it should occasion new differences              
betweene his Matie & States.                                                    
     The same Letters add that the Emperors and Spanish Minister                
resideing at ye Hague had delivered the state another Memoriall                 
wherein they reciprocally assure their Laprs [?] that their Ma[ste]rs           
would not make any Alliance but what should be by Common concern [?]            
of the Allies & that in Case any of them should be attacked the rest            
would Assist the Defendants and therefore prayed the states                     
resolution to joyne in the [?] undertakeing wth said [?] Memoriall was          
referred to the committee of forraigne Affaires to Examine and Reporte.         
      The States have at Length agreed to this Summers Guard to be 16           
Capitall shipps 8 of ym 1st [?] rate of 82 Guns the other[s] 2d Rate of         
74 Guns to be equipt wth all expedicon.                                         
     Monsr de Lorre Comdr of a french Man of Warr met wth 2 Algerines           
haveing 2 prizes & bearing upon one of them wth 400 [?] Turks & gave            
them such a broad side as forced for to back & become [about fifteen            
letters faded] soe damaged as that she was Constrayned to run ashoare           
on the Spanish Coast  and tooke 72 Turks wch he went [sent?] to Thoulon         
& himselfe lost 15 [?] Men.                                                     
     Letters from Constantinople say that ye Prime Vizier had sent              
to yr Cahier [?] late Governor of that Citty to make Proclamation that          
his Masr the Sultan was goeing wth a powerfull Army agt Hungaria,               
therefore if there were any Ambassador at that Court who pretended Amity        
to the Grand Seignior but should suffer their subjects in Fight agt him         
he would avenge himselfe upon their psons and Estates wch tis said was          
done to hinder the ffrench from Assisting the Emperor                           
     from Vienna tis wrote that the Emperor had sent an Ambassador wth a        
Secret Comission to Count Teckly to know [?] his Cathegoricall answer           
offering him Pardon to ye first of May.                                         
     Yesterday was heard before the Lord Cheife Justice Pemberton being         
transmitted by the Counsell the affaire of sweareing Treason agt the            
Earle of Clare by one foxx a Blacksmith his Tennant but I am Credibly           
informed that his Ldpp gave Little Creditt thereto.                             
     Yesterday the East India Compa in a Body went to Whitehall & told          
his Maty a Peticon setting forth ye late Action of ye Dutch in Assisting        
The young King of Bantam against his ffather whereby the English are            
driven out of that factory humbly beseeching his Matie to use Royall            
Authority to gett them reinstated therein wch said Peticon his Matie will       
speedily take into consideracon & I am credibly Assured that Orders are         
or will be sent to his Maties Resident in Holland to demand restitution         
since which the Auctions of ye Company are mightily advanced to 220 L           
     L. c. 1358     London the 3d Aprill 1683                                   
+Sonday last was Read in most of the churches in London the Bishops             
Letter or prcept being an Admonition for all persons above the age of 16        
yeares to receive the blessed Sacrament this Enseuing Easter & whereas          
sevrall Church wardens have been remiss in makeing prsentments of the           
defaulters the Minister is Required to signify unto the Bishops Court           
the names of all those under his Care that neglect to participate thereof       
to the End that such meanes may be used as may prvaile with them to be          
Conformable to yr duty                                                          
     And there is appointed a Sacrament on Good ffriday Easter day & the        
following Sonday                                                                
     Letters from Ratisbon of the 25th March advise that ye Brandenburgh        
agent at that dyett doe abate much of his former Earnestness of                 
accepting ye ffrench proposalls for settleing of the peace whereby tis          
beleived that his Ellectorall Highnesse [is?] not soe farr Engaged in           
the Allyance of ffrance but that he may be wrought upon to Espouse the          
Comon Interest which ye Emperor Understanding [is?] dispatching Count           
Stamburgh [?] to the Brandenburgh Court wth sevrall advantagious                
proposalls wch the Emperor has signifyed to Baron Swevin the Brandenburghs      
resident at Vienna & great hopes had therein.                                   
     Letters from Brussells [sic] tell us that last ffriday was held a          
Comon Councell in that City Sr John Churchill their new Record[er] prsent       
where the Question being put for the surrendering of their Charter or           
words to yt effect it was Carryed in the Negative by (6)                        
     Tis wrote from the Bavarian Court that that Elector has written to         
the states of ye Circle of Swabia that to prvent the danger wch threaten        
ye Empire as well from ye ffrench as the Turk it is indispensably               
necessary that all ye Members of ye Empire at this Juncture Joyne               
together in a Common defence & therefore proposes to them togeather with        
the Circle of franconia and upper Rhyne to enter into a strict Allyance         
with the Emperor wch if they think it Convenient and meete the 7 ditto          
at Anspurgh he will send a Minister thither to Consult with them on this        
Undertakeing.                                                                   
     Yesterday his Matie & the Lds of the Treasury assisted by ye Ld            
president Marquis Hallifax & with divers other of ye privey Councill            
heard & debated the great affaire of refarmeing his Maties duty of              
Excise wch tho Considerable offers were made more then those already in         
yt undertakeing his Matie was rather Enclyned to have the same Mannaged         
by Commisioners of his owne & thereupon noe determinacon as to the              
ffarmeing made thereon.                                                         
     Lres from Constantinople say yt the first of january a ffire happned       
in ye City wch Consumed about 300 houses wth 5 Pallaces one whereof was         
ye Tefterdars or Grand Treasurer of ye port founded by Bajazet &c               
     The shipp Diamond of about 300 tons Prtending to be victualled for         
Tangiere was discharged by ye Custome house & Gravesend but being               
discovered that she took in Capt Sandses Cargo & designed an E India            
Interloper the Lds of ye Admiralty sent an arrest after her to hinder           
her voyage whose officers Comeing on board ye Mr thereof [?]                    
notwithstanding psued his intent & would Certainly have Carryed those           
officers to India but upon yr Intreaty were sett on shoare in ye Hope           
& since we heare yt ye Admiralty have sent a Yaught after her to bring          
her back & great is ye Expectacon of the successe                               
     There has been a discourse on the Exchange of the old King retakeing       
of Bantam but I find noe foundation for yt Report being Judgd to be             
spread abroad to Cause ye Auctions of ye Company to advance wch they did        
to 220 & since abated to 180                                                    
     Yesterday his Matie sent for Capt Nicholson Comandr of the Amoy            
Merchant who came lately from India & had above an howers discourse wth         
him touching the Actions of ye Dutch upon Bantam together with the relacon      
of ye Scituation of yt Country with many other pticulers relateing thereto      
& I am Credibly informed that his Matie will send an Ambassadr to               
Holland on this pticuler subject                                                
+This day was held a speciall Court of Aldermen who resolved in a body          
to attend his Matie to morrow to be prsent at ye Rehearing of the Intended      
markett neare Clarendon house wch will bee debated in Councell whether          
ye same should goe forward or not.                                              
     L. c. 1359   [Handwriting changes here.]    London Aprill 5th 1683         
     Yesterday was heard before his Matie in Councill the Lord Major &          
Court of Aldermen being present the affaire of erecting a Beast Markett         
in Conduit ffields behinde Albemarle house wch was managed by Councill          
on both sides, Mr Attorney Mr Ward Mr North &c for ye Pattentees Sr Geo:        
Treby Mr Holt Mr Common Sergeant for ye Citty  ye Arguements are to             
prove [?] to rehear [?] the former pleadings that a strict and prod [?]         
Dominion [?] being executed by the party of ye Vicarage, they had given         
them A verdict that it was noe Damage that ye Place was comodious and           
that there being such contiguous buildings it was necessary for that end        
of ye Towne and for ye Western & Northern Roades and twas a penance [?]         
of a former grant from his Matie and that his Prerogative was greatly           
concerned wth diverse other Arguments.                                          
     To all wch Mr Recorder obviated all ye seeming Difficutye that by          
grant of ye 1st of Edward ye 3d wch was confirmed by Act of Parliament          
the Citty had ye sole right of holding a Markett and that none should be        
within 7 miles wthout their Licence that ye verdict of ye Jury upon and         
[?] your Dominion was Surreptitously obtained and must be of Damage that        
it would disable St Bartholomews hospitall who has the Property of ye           
Tolls together wth ye ffee ffarme Rent of 300 L P Ann wch the Sheriffes         
Pay to ye Crowne that it would obstruct the Water from the Conduits that        
his Maties Prerogative was as greate in maintaining what he had granted         
as in makeing of new that ye Offall stench of ye slaughter houses would         
much offend his Matie pallace and ye Blood and other nastinesse runn            
into St James Parke  after 3 houres Debate pro et Contra they wthdrew           
and his Matie will please to give his judgment in somme convenient time.        
     8 Comrs are nominated to Manage his Maties Duty of Excise and each         
to be allowed 800 L P Ann for their service, as not to be ffarmed as            
formerly but since there may be variation in the psons before ye Affaire        
be fully concluded shall forbeare to mention their names till I receive         
a certaine Accot.                                                               
     One Mr Poole a Gent who has been much employed in fforraigne Embassies     
stands fairest to succeed Mr Warwick lately decd to be Resident at ye           
Court of Sweden.                                                                
     A Declaracon sent by the Emperor of the Turks to the Emperor of            
Germany                                                                         
+Mahomett ye 4th[,] Sonne of Emperors and Sonne of ye famous and Renowned       
God Emperor of ye Turkes King of Greece, Macedonia, Moldavia, Samatia           
and Heglia [?] King of ye Greate and Lesser Egypt, King of all the              
inhabitants of ye Earth and Prince of ye Earthly Paradise acknowledged          
Prince and Sonne of Mahomett prserver of yt Citty of Hungaria, possessor        
of ye Sepulcher of your God Lord of all the Emperors of ye World from           
the Riseing of Sun to ye going downe thereof, King of all Kings, Lord of        
the Root [?] of Life, Conqueror of ye Mellonian horse and ye Citty of           
Prokema [?], the greate persecutor of ye Christians and all wicked              
people, Joy of ye fflourishing World Commander and Guardian of your             
Crucifyed God, Lord of ye multitudes of ye heathens Wee Command you to          
greete the Empr Leopold in Case he desire it, if you are a ffriend to           
our Matie whose power we will have extended very farr, you have for some        
time past acted to our prejudice and violated our ffreindship, tho' wee         
have not offended you either by Deed [?] or otherwise, yett you have            
taken Secrett advice [about ten letters faded] and your Councells how to        
shake of your Yoke [in that?] you have proceeded very indiscreetly and          
thereby you have exposed your People to feare and Danger, who have              
nothing to expect now but Death wch you have brot upon yourselves for I         
declare I will make my selfe your Masr & pursue you from ye East to ye          
West and extend [about twelve letters faded] of ye Earth in ye proceedure       
of all wch you shall finde my power exerted to your prejudice & shall           
feel the dreadfull effects of my Wrath and since you have put your hope         
in ye Strength of some Townes and Castles, I have given Comand to               
overthrow them and trample under my horses feete all that is delightfull        
to you, leaveing noe roome hereafter to make a freindship wth me or             
suffer you any fortifyed place to Remaine to put your trust in for I am         
resolved forthwith to destroy you and your people and to despoyl you of         
ye German Empire after my Will leaving ye Empire a remembrance of my            
Dreadfull swords that it may publickly appeare that I will Establish my         
Religion therein and pursue your Crucifyed God whose wrath I feare not          
nor his Comeing to defend or deliver you out of my hands but will               
condemn your sacred Preists to ye Plow and suffer the Breasts of your           
Wives to be sucked by Doggs and Beasts; you will doe well to forsake            
your Religion  otherwise I will give Order to Consume you wth ffire  this       
is enough to Lett you understand my Will if you will be soe wise as to          
know it.                                                                        
   L. c. 1360   [Handwriting changes here.]    London ye 7th Aprill 1683        
     That which administers soe much discourse of a Jesuite Landing att         
dover & had Confessed great matters before the king relateing to some           
french designe upon this Kingdome Centers in this that noe such Jesuit          
has as yett prsented himselfe att Whitehall more then one Morgan  a             
Jesuit lately discharged ye Country has given Informacon that in case           
his Matie will send him a Pardon hee will come over and make a discovery        
of considerable matters but has received for Answer that if hee will            
first discover [that?] which he shall be worthy a Pardon hee shall be           
assured thereof but it is thought Convenient to grant noe more Pardons          
before hand since which noe farther proceedings have been had thereon.          
     Yesterday about the hour of 4 in the morning broake forth a fire           
in the Bennetts Inn by Leaden Hall Markett to wch through the great             
assistance that was applyed thereto extended noe farther then some              
stableing and out houses thereof.                                               
     His Matie haveing heard Councill on both sides upon the Intended           
Markett in Conduit feilds as Intimated in my last has declared that             
soe long as his City of Lond shall Continue Loyall will deny them               
nothing and for that they have Chose good officers &c his Matie will            
Gratiously order a supersedeas upon the Pattent to stay the farther             
proceedings thereof.                                                            
     The Ld Salisbury remaines still extreame bad att his house in              
Hatfeild but yesterday Letters came that there was some hopes of his            
Recovery.                                                                       
     The East India Companys Auctions vary every day like the wind and          
being this day advanced againe from 180 to 220 some of the Members of           
the Company yesterday attended his Matie & am Credibly Informed that his        
Matie gave them assureance that there would use his Utmost endeavours to        
have them reinstated into the factory of Bantam                                 
     This day wee reced the Dutch Post by which wee see divers accompts         
ye most materiall of them are                                                   
     ffrom Collogne of ye 9th Instant which sayes that ye great                 
difference so long depending betweene the Prince of Leige & those               
Magistrates are in a likely hood of accomodacon being now agitateing            
ye project is that things remaine in ye Present Condicon for ye                 
Princes life but not to be brought in President for the future                  
     Monsr Virjus ye ffrench Ambr att ye dyett of Ratisbon has                  
declared that unless they speedily come to a conclusion his Master              
will be soe Impatient as to begin his Revnions.                                 
     The Paris Letters that his Matie has made knowne to ye Envoy               
of Genoa that hee was mightily surprized that that state was Augmenting         
their forces especially building of 7 new Gallies which if they did not         
Imediately desist there for in Lookeing upon it as against his Interest         
that hee would give order to his shipps to fight & seize any of theirs          
where ever hee meets them.                                                      
     Letters from Warsaw of the 26th say that a Turkish Chief being             
arrived had audience desireing passage for 50000 Tartars through their          
Country to Silesia that were answered that they were too great a body           
att this Juncture to be suffered in the heart of the Kingdome                   
     The Grand Seignor has appointed a Genrall Rendevous att Buda on            
ye 15 of next Moneth and ye Emperor much about that tyme and a dreadfull        
warr is expected betweene them.                                                 
     L. c. 1361     [Handwriting changes here.]   London Aprill 10 1683         
     We have had a weeks discourse yt Edward Whittacre who lies under a         
Conviction of the Kings bench tho not seized will to merit his pardon           
make a discovery of wt he knowes agt ye people called Whigs haveing             
already taken at Court as tis Judged upon yee accompt but I have made           
the straightest scrutiny possible into ye affair & Cannot discover any          
matter more than his endeavouring to purchase his pardon upon submission        
& and a promise never hereafter to concerne himself in State affaires           
     Sonday Last a fire broke out in Sackville Street in ye Picadelly           
but was happily extinguished  with the loss only of 3 houses & 2 damaged        
     Easter tearm now approacheing Goodenough the Attorney is                   
prepareing to take out writts the second time agt the Ld Mayor & Court          
of Aldermen since [about seven letters faded] Last serving of them  the         
last of their return was expired before he could obtain any appearances         
of them grounded upon ye writ of Mandamus to swear Mr Papillion &               
Dubois sheriffes in ordr to try ye Issue of yt affair                           
     Mr Attorney Generall is Prepareing a Learned Argument wch he               
intends to make the next Tearm before ye Court of Kings bench of the            
Citty have forfeited their Charter & Councellr Pollixfen is to                  
argue at the same pro & Contra                                                  
     Thursday next is to be consumated yt so long depending marriage            
between Sr Dudley North one of our sherifes & the daughter of Sr Robt           
Conn of Bristoll a young widow of extraodinary fortune                          
     Saturday Last at 3 oclock in the afternoon the Chamber [Charter?]          
of the Citty of Norwich was mett out of town by some hundreds of horse &        
with great pomp conducted therein one of the Late sherifes fflourishing         
it in the air in manner of an ensign & with multitudes of people to             
ecchoing through ye streets they marched to the marcat Cross where              
after the publication thereof haveing kindeled bonefires they had               
ringing of bells with other demonstracons of Joy it being sd to be              
granted as they desired viz yt neither Aldm Comon Councell men &c               
should be chosen but by the approbacon of the Court & Continue durante          
beneplacito & one Thomson a waterman to shew his loyalty affixed his            
boat & a frame of wheels wth full Canvas wch sailing over land in the           
place designed he Committed ye same to ye flames                                
     One Sr Clement Arunsger [?] a justice of peace for the County of           
Middsx who was Complained of by the rest of the justices for granting           
& compounding distresses agt Conventicles is left out of Comission              
     The East India Companies actions Containe at 200 L or thereabouts          
the Company has had Capt Brown Mr of the Joanna wch was cast away near          
Cape bona Esperanza under examinacon & discover yt the sd Capt took a           
Considerable sum of money upon bottom ree [?] whereby together with             
the evidence of severall of ye seamen yt escaped  they are strongly of          
opinion yt ye ship & Cargo were designedly Lost                                 
     On munday next the Company bring in their votes for the charge of          
a new governor in the room of Sr Josiah Child who is to be declared on          
tuesday following which [?] being done they bring in their votes on             
Wednesday & Thursday for the choice of a Deputy & 24 Comitteemen wch            
they declare on friday & none is admitted to vote unless they have              
500 L in the Company  Sr John Banks tis judged will be their Govr & Sr          
Jeremy Samburg their Deputy wch being over tis affirmed his Matie will          
send an Envoy to Holland & Sr John Sherdan a Native of ffrance but a            
Genll Naturalized & has been at India haveing a considerable stock in           
the Company is sd to be ye person designed to go over thither to Enquire        
of the States yt the Company is [?] reinstated in their factory at              
Bantam                                                                          
+His Matie & the Cort goes on Munday or saturday to Windsor                     
+The Duke of Monmouth is gone this day to Northampton a horseraceing            
+The Earl of Salisbury is fallen into a relapse & given over by his             
physicians                                                                      
     L. c. 1362     London Aprill 12 1683                                       
     The Arcania merchant being arrived from Guiney Atwill the Masr             
Landed 6000 L worth of ye Companyes Gold at Deale Leaveing it wth one           
Mr Wilson who be stept to London to consult how to trick [?] the                
Company in Order to Release himselfe from 900 L Mulct wch yt Company            
Factors in Barbados and upon him for contrary to his Capitulacon                
haveing [?] of ye Negroes those Islanders adviseing him to put himselfe         
wth the Gold into ye Kings Bench wch would oblige the Company to                
compound to him but being directed to returne wth the Gold aboard for           
otherwise it might be ffelony for breaking of Both wch he thinking to           
do the aforesaid Wilson mistrusted some ill designe refused to deliver          
him the Gold & imediatly sent the Company notice and this Atwell                
endeavouring to evade his designe the Company has arrested him in a             
considerable accon where he remains in the Compter to repent him of his         
unjust indiscretion                                                             
     Yesterday morning the hamborough Company together wth some                 
Interlopeing Traders Upon them were at Whitehall where they discust             
their Affaires p et Contra wch after a full hearing it was referred             
to a Comittee of Trade who is to consider and finde out a way to bring          
in or incorporate the Interlopers upon reasonable termes.                       
     Letters from Paris tell us that two eminent partners Bankers in            
that Citty were gone asside for above 600000 Crownes.                           
     Tuesday afternoone the purser of the shipp Golden ffleece from             
Scanderoone came to London and brought the East India Company                   
Letters wch they tooke in at Aleppo brought overland from Bossora               
in Persia written by one Mr Gibbs who gives an accompt that he had              
been according to the Companys Order at Moncha in the Red sea and               
settled a ffactory there & now was on his way to Gammeroone & then              
will proceed as his Mats Agent to the Emperor of Persia at his cheife           
seat at Ispahan                                                                 
     The said ship gives an Accompt of the mighty preparations of the           
Turke for Warr in that quarter that ye Bassa of Alleppo was gone wth            
above 20000 Soldiers for that Grand Seigniors Camp but had above 1000           
miles to march before he reached Hungaria                                       
    Yesterday the Portugall Merchts recd Letters from Lisbone wch gave          
an Accot that upon the Receipt of ye King of Englands Letter to that            
Prince wch was very Smart in behalfe of his subjects who were Imprisoned        
there upon pretence of carrying away the coyne of that Country & in             
greate danger of Looseing their Lives were forthwith discharged & ye            
decision of the matter left to the Engl Salavadore or Conservator               
whereby tis believed that all the money not properly of that product may        
be redelivered to them.                                                         
     Yesterday arrived one Capt Nichols Expresse to his Matie from              
Tangire who has been wth the Emperor of Morocco & brot from him a letter        
as alsoe from the late Morrocco Ambassador in Engl  the Latter gives            
Assurances that his Matie  will Ratify the Peace both by Sea & Land &           
that he is in as much favour as ever, but the Emperor is said to be of a        
different tenour in a stile strange and Arrogant that ye peace wch his          
Ambassador made at Land he is willing to confirme but had noe                   
Instructions from him to agree that by sea but for the sake of Colonll          
Kirke and his Wife Christendome should fare the better & talks of               
bringing Ships before the Towne as thick as fforests & such like                
     Mr Corby the English Merch was gone up the Country to the Emperor          
The difference betweene the Emperor and his Nephew is still on foote the        
Nephew keeping a pass at certaine Mountains wch he cannot be disposest          
off                                                                             
     L. c. 1363    London 14th Aprill 1683                                      
     Some unadvised Writers gave an Account that the shipp Diamond a            
designed Interloper to the East Indies wch passed forward notwithstanding       
the Admiralty officers came aboard below Gravesend to have obstructed           
her voyage was by 2 Men of Warr wch were sent after her overtaken &             
brought back into Portsmouth wch I am credibly assured is the contrary          
for the takeing her way Northwards is gott away as yett undiscovered.           
     Thursday last the Marryage which I intimated was on foote betweene         
Sr Dudly North and the Lady Gurney [?] Daughter of Sr Robt Cain of              
Bristoll was consumated at the Lord Keepers house wth a greate deale of         
Joy.                                                                            
     The 23rd Instant will be pformed upon the Water before Whitehall           
certaine ffireworks when his Matie will be present said to be beyond            
whatever were yett seen being prepared by a Siletian who desires to shew        
what strange things he can doe in that Art whereupon his Matie findes           
him Materialls to perfect the same.                                             
     I lately told you that one ffox a Gunsmith who swore Treason               
against the Earle of Clare and others of a designe to kill the King  I          
have to add that his Matie was soe Sensibly possest of the inconsistency        
thereof that he would not goe from Councell before he has done my Lord          
that Justice as to have a Warrant drawne and sealed to apprehend the            
said ffox who upon notice thereof disappeared but yesterday was taken           
thereon and Committed prisoner to the Marshalsea to be pceeded against          
wth the utmost vigour of the Law for designedly and falsely endeavouring        
to take away a Noble Peers Life.                                                
                   [Handwriting changes here.]                                  
     This Morning Early their Matys went for Windsor accompan[i]ed with         
the great Lords of the Courte                                                   
     I gave you an accompt in my last That an Express was arrived from          
Tangiere brought by one Capt Nicholas signifying that the Emperor of            
morocco was willing to ratify the peace att Land but not att sea                
     Since wch Letters are Come from Mr Onby the Barbary Mercht who             
accompanid the Ambassador ffrom here in ordr to endeavour to procure            
satisfaction for a shipp and goods taken by the P of Salley worth               
7000 L about 7 yeares ago notwithstanding the [sic] had the Emperors            
passporte who arriveing after 10 dayes Travill in ye Emperors Camp the          
Ambassador introduced him into ye Emperors presence and signifying how          
serviceable he had been to him when in England as that he was his               
Interpreter &c the Emperor gave Mr Onby the complement (that God                
Almighty had granted him what he desired) and that after the Emperor            
had an houres discourse with him about the Affaires of Tangiere & gave          
order that the value of his ship and cargo should bee redelivered to him        
wch accordingly was punctually performed and that 20 head of Oxen be            
given him to supply him wth provision in his way homeward  Whereupon Mr         
Onby sent them to Tangiere and was gon to Salley where he had bought him        
a shipp and was freighting her [?] with ye Country Commodities her and          
will Come forthwith for England.                                                
     The Ld Preston his maties Extraordinary Envoy att Paris is expected        
here the Middle of next weeke  Whether it is to bee wholy recalled or to        
bee instructed in some weighty Affaire I cannot say as yett                     
     Last night was a greate heareing before his Matie in Councill with         
Councellors on both sides between the two distinctions of men from out          
of Cumberland those people Tearmed Whiggs being accused of a Riotous            
proceeding in the Choyce of Conservator for the Estrayning of the Moss          
[?] Troopers or scotch Borderers wch were [?] to infest those parts but         
after a Long debate they were dismist without any appearance of Trouble         
or obstruction in the procedure of that choyce.                                 
+This day att a sessions held att Westminster an overseer of the poore          
appealed thereto being Convicted in 5 & distress made upon him for the          
Neglect of his duty pursuant to ye Conventicle Act where the Informers          
Wilton &c appeared against him but being fully opened to the Court by a         
Learned Councellor they declared itt in favour of the overseer                  
+Wee want 4 foreigne post whereby I cannot transmitt fresh newes from           
abroade  Only a Gentleman arriveing in a shipp from france declares that        
the french King to Gratify his Clergy has published a severer edict then        
ever hitherto viz that if any Hugenott goe about to perswade a Roman            
Catholique from his Religion or entertayne any that fall into a Relapse         
shall bee condemned to the Gallies and the Church of his society pulled         
downe in Case he doe not himselfe abjure his Religion.                          
   L. c. 1364   [Handwriting changes here.]   London the 17 Aprill 1683         
+Our fforraigne Advice brings A Certayne accompt from Warsaw of ye 2            
Aprill that ye Allyance betweene that Crowne & his Imperiall Matie was          
finally agreed to and signed by the King of Poland with full approbation        
of the Genrall dyett and forthwith dispatched to the Emperor to bee             
Ratifyed by wch his Imperiall Matie was obleidged to pay downe 120000           
Guilders promiseing to quitt the pretention which Queene Ellenor the            
Duke of Lorraines wife has upon salt [?] as pte of her dowry that the           
Emperor bring actually in the feild 60000 & relinquish some prtentions          
of places a long time in dispute in Compensation of wch & that King will        
rayse 40000 men wch shall be Employed as shall be Judgd to most annoy           
the Turke.                                                                      
     Ltrs from Vienna say that the Duke of Bavaria who is now wholy             
inclined to the Emperors Interest haveing discharged many of his great          
Officers who favoured the ffrench as alsoe purged his Guards & [?]              
Country of all yt nation will with severall other princes be present            
with the Emperor at the Genll Randevous wch is now appointed at                 
Presburgh the 3d of May & yt ye Imperiall Army will act offensively the         
Generall of Croatia with 15000 of his Nation being already Ordered to           
make an Inroade into the Turkish Territoryes to Ravage and dispoyle all         
they meete with the better to hinder ye Turks from findeing subsistance         
On the other hand tis wrote from Belgrade that this being ye greatest           
Turkish Expedition in some ages their Army will Consist of 260000 men           
that 300 Camells laden with the Baggage of the Court was arrived there          
and 40000 others Carrying powder fireworks & mettall to Cast Cannon &           
that ye Randevous will be at Offen the 15 then to be devided into 4             
Armyes to act sepately                                                          
     And Count Teckly not being able to Obteyne the Liberty to remaine          
Newtrall in the warr has Ordrd his Randevous the 20 at Espires & then           
Marches for Lenscham where he is to be Joyned with 12000 Turks & the            
Army to be Comanded by his Lieftent Peluosi & to make their first               
attaque upon Elick                                                              
     Letters from Madrid speak that his Matie has transmitted the               
Emperor to be Made use of to Expedite the present Campagne agt the Turks        
220000 Crownes & will soe Continue by every Ordinary till it amounts to A       
Million.                                                                        
     Letters from Sweeden intimate that the whole Country is apprehensive       
& prpareing as Certaine of warr with Denmarke animated & assisted by the        
ffrench King but relye upon the valour & Conduct of their prince who            
will mainteyne his Ground with arms.                                            
     The State of Genoa being Extreemely Jealous of the ffrench by              
reason of a late Memoriall to Order them to desist from recruiteing             
their forces & Gallies have sent to Spaine for Assistance who has               
promised to Equipp 25 sale to Cruise in the Medeteranean and succour            
them of Occations                                                               
     The ffrench Intendent of Province has sent a List of the shipps            
fitting as they gave out agt Argeires (vizt) 18 men of warr 12 Gallyes          
11 ffly boates 3 fire shipps 7 Galliots wch Carryes yee Bombes 9                
shallops to throw out stink potts & 6 shipps for Amunition & provision          
     The states of Holland Equipping a ffleete wch tis beleeved shall           
assist the King of sweeden if attaqued by ye Dane  the ffrench ambassador       
her[e] yesterday declared by way of Determent that the time the states          
ffleete put to sea his Master will advance with his Army in the Neather         
lands                                                                           
     Lres from Oxford tell us that sevrall of the schollers & townesmen         
being togeather the latter dranke the Duke of Monmouths health wch soe          
Enraged ye schollers that they fell by the Eares & some of them were            
since Comitted wch has occasioned noe little trouble among them                 
     To morrow A new Shipp at Debtford will be Launched of the 2d Rate          
& tis Judged his Matie will be prsent                                           
     His Matie will keepe St Georges day being ye 23d at Whitehall where        
a Chapter will be held & ye Guarter vacant by ye death of prince Rupert         
Conferrd on the Earle of Burford Madam Gwinns Eldest sonne or the Marquis       
Hallifax                                                                        
+This day ye East India Company declared ye votes for the Election of a         
Governor & Deputy wch according as I Guessed sometime since fell upon           
Sr John Banks & Sr Jeremy Sambrooke  some people talks that Mr Justice          
Dolbin of the Kings bench will receive a Quietus & Sr ffrancis Withins          
succeed in [his] place.                                                         
+yesterday at a session of peace at Guildhall the Grand Jury found A            
Bill of Indictment agt ye publisher of ye Observator as alsoe the               
paquett from Rome.                                                              
     L. c. 1365     London Aprill 19 1683                                       
     The Affaire of his Maties Duty of Excise wch expires to the                
ffarmers on Midsomer next is now fully determined to be managed by ye 7         
Comisioners formerly named vizt Sr David Achburnham Major Huntington            
Doctor Davenant Colonell ffreind Mr Carry Philiv [?] Colvert and Thomas         
Hornby  the 3 first present Comissionrs to decide controversy betw the          
King & the Subject the 2 next in the present ffarme Mr Philiv Colvert           
formerly concerned and this Last an able Goldsmith and the Pattent is           
now under the seales & they are to be allowed 700 L each P itin [?]             
     His Excellency the Dutch ambassador deld his Matie a Memoriall on          
ffriday last relateing to the affaires of Bantam complaining of the             
stoppage of Sevrall Dutch Letters from Bantam brot from thence by the           
Amoy Merchant whereby they were ignorant of the procedure of that affair        
& hopeing his Matie will not censure that Concerne in prejudice to them         
till he heard their defence or to that effect.                                  
     Bills of Indictment being found by the Grand Jury at Guild hall agt        
Joanna Broomes [?] Publisher of the Observator & Attwood of ye Paquett          
of advice from Rome, Robt Stephens Messenger of ye Press procured               
Warrants against them who being severally brot before a Magistrate gave         
each two Suretyes to abide a tryall for ye same.                                
     The discourse for some dayes haveing bin that Mr Justice Dolbin of         
the Kings Bench would receive a Writt of Quietus and Sr ffrancis Withins        
one of the Kings Councell advanced in his Roome upon the opening of the         
Tearme, I have made a strict enquiry into ye affaire and finde that tis         
very probable that twill centre therein by reason the latter has read           
a Writt to call him to ye Degree of a Serjeant Tho as yett Mr Justice           
Dolbin remaynes in his station.                                                 
     Since ye writeing of wch I have just now an accot that ye Lord             
Keeprs secretary delivered to Mr Justice Dolbyn a Writt of supersedeas          
to vacate his Pattent of a Judge and Mr ffrancis Withins has bespoke ye         
usuall rings given away upon his takeing the degree of a sergeant.              
     And I am credibly informed that ye Earle of Dunblayne who marryed          
Mrs hide als Emerton is now upon treaty wth Mr Emerton to compromise and        
agree that soe long depending Cause wch if ffame may be creditted to            
give the sd Gent 20000 L to quitt his pretensions to ye Lady and Estate         
wch otherwise will come to a Judgmt to morrow & considering that Mr             
Justice Dolbyn one of ye Comrs may peradventure not be in Court to              
morrow tis believed that Mr Emerton may embrace the aforesaid proposall         
wch then to make the Estate Sure to my Ld a Judgmt agreed to pass in his        
favour                                                                          
     Yesterday was a quarter session in Southwick for ye County of surry        
where many Dissenters were indicted upon ye sevrall Acts  most of them          
pleaded or promised conformity & were discharged and traversd till the          
next and Mr Vincent the Non Con Preachers being indicted upon ye 25 Eliz        
brot a Certiorari to remove the Tryall to ye Kings Bench wch after an           
houres debate wth Councell on both sides it was at length allowed.              
     The Sessions being likewise at hicks hall at same instant many             
dissenters were Convicted & ye names of 300 pclaimed to appeare the next        
sessions or answer ye Default of ye non attendance                              
     Yesterday and this day ye East India Compa brot in ye Votes for            
ye new Election of 24 Comittee Men to manage that businesse for ye              
yeare ensueing wch are to be Declared to morrow & tis generally said            
that all those termed Whiggs will be left out of that choyce.                   
     Letters of ye 14th from Copenhagen say that ye Danish fleete in            
Number 27 saile were already into ye Roade & will suddenly putt to sea          
that their land Army is to Randevous ye 26th and that Count de Roy a            
greate ffrench Comdr was arrived to be Generall of their fforces upon           
wch the Swedes are not in much less [?] forwardness  their Agent at the         
hague presents ye states speedy assistance & yr Envoy at Copenhagen has         
deld that King a Memoriall in very ffreindly tearmes intimating the             
necesity at this season to accomodate affaires and Assist ye Emperor            
against ye Turks wth their fforces but as yett wee know not the answer.         
     Capt Nicholls who brot the Express Tangiere is prepareing for his          
returne wth an answer to ye Emperor of Morocco till wch Arrives the             
Emperor has sent Orders to Sally and other his Ports not to attack any          
English shipp.                                                                  
     L. c. 1366    London 21 Aprill 1683                                        
     The East India Company haveing brot in their Votes for the choyce          
of 24 Committee Men on Wednesday and Thursday and they were yesterday           
declared by wch it appeares that the Alteration was leaveing out of 9           
and Supplying their Vacancys wth these following--                              
                             those left out                                     
The Earle of Worcester     Sr Sam: Barnadiston                                  
Sr Joshua Child            Sr Jo: Laurance                                      
Sr Bem Bathurst            Sr Jo: Banks                                         
Sr Hen: Johnson            Mr Hump Edwyn                                        
Mr Garrett                 Tho Papillon Esqr                                    
Mr Caleb Banks             Mr Jon: Mordea                                       
Mr Tho: Cooke              Mr Cudworth                                          
Mr Tho: Canham             Mr Mountery                                          
Mr Page                                                                         
Note that Sr John Banks and Sr Jeremy Sambrookes of the last Councell           
are left out as being pre Elected governr and Deputy and Sr Joshua              
Child their late Governor now Chosen of their Committee  their auctions         
are somewhat advanced being now worth 230 L                                     
     The Lords of the Admiralty have attended his Matie to render an            
accot of the stores wch they have in Banck for the Equipping of a Navy          
if occasion should require wch after they had signified together wth            
the Mony requested to furnish a Supply they were referred to the Lords          
of the Treary who will consigne them a present summe and that affaire           
will be further taken into Consideration.                                       
     The Duke of Grafton the 15th of May goes to sea in the Grafton             
ffriggt wth sevrall other Sayle appoynted to be equiped for a Summer            
Guard.                                                                          
     This day the sessions at hicks hall for ye County of Middx was             
concluded where diverse Inhabitant of ye Citty of London were convicted         
on ye Statute of ye 20 a month for not comeing to Church and there is           
such a confluence of businesse of that kind that ye Justices designe one        
day next Weeke to hold a petty Session on purpose to finish that worke          
when Mr Attorney Genrall will be present espetially Since sevrall of the        
Dissenters have deld in appeales wch will then be argued & this day was         
affixed at ye Sessions house Gate a ffresh list of 124 Psons of both            
sexes to give their appearancees this Easter Tearme to Writts taken out         
of ye Crowne Office against them  otherwise They will be proceded agt by        
Outla[w?]ry.                                                                    
     I gave you an Accot in my last that ye affaire betw Mrs Bridgett           
Hide at Dunblayne and Mr Emerton was upon ye poynt of being compromized         
& agreed wch accordingly tooke affect vizt that Mr Emerton would for            
ever acquitt his pretentions both to ye Lady and Estate and in                  
consideration thereof receive the Summe of 20000 Guinys together wth            
reasonable charge he has beene at in that Case wch tis said will Amount to      
5000 More and be indemenifyd from ye Devastation and ravage he has made         
by selling Timber upon the Estate & on thursday last had ye 20000 Guinys        
paid him wth security for ye rest and ye Judges Delegates meeting               
yesterday after a short stay is subscribed the Sentence who are Dukes of        
Ormond & Albemarle Lord Maynard Bishopps of Ely and Peterborow Judges           
Charlton and Raymond together wth Doctor Littleton & 2 other Civilians          
and entered the sentence in the name of Mrs Bridgett Hide to vacate ye          
Marryage takeing noe cognizance of ye Lord Dunblayne as not being before        
them.  But the Marquess Hallifax secretary Jenkins bishop of London Deans       
Stillingfleete and tillottson Baron Atkins & 3 other Civilians who were         
present refused to signe the said sentence.                                     
     Last night one Scrimpshaw a Banker in fleetstreet removed his              
effects into Alsatia or other strong hold and stands Debtor to sevrall          
Credittors abt 70000 L.                                                         
     The sevrall Merchts upon the Exchange have advice from abroade that        
ye ffrench ffleete given out to be designed agt Argiers will in all             
probability by the circumstances wch doe occur attack ye State of Genoa.        
     Sr ffrancis Withins is soe certaine to Succeed justice Dolbyn who          
has recd a quietus that his Robes are already prepareing for that Station.      
   L. c. 1367   [Handwriting changes here.]  London the 24 Aprill 1673          
+Sonday morneing in ye time of devine service one Lewis a plott                 
Evidencer haveing Knowledge that Arthur Jones a popish priest was to            
Officiate Mass at an Apothecaries in Long Acre procured A warrant from          
one Sr Tho Orbe & takeing the Assistance of A constable Beadle &c mett          
Jones in ye streete who being seized they Carryed him with them to              
search his Lodging but he took God to witnesse he did not live there            
as alsoe the people in ye house but being threatned to break upon the           
doores a woman opened ye same where the constable & Attendance repaireing       
to his study gathered his papers togather sealed them up & brought them         
with him before the sd Justice Sr Tho Orbe wch being p[er]used                  
     A letter subscribed wth 2 letters was found among them wch being           
read was of very dangerous high Treason not fitting to be published  only       
the scope thereof was that all things went as they would have them that         
the City was Comeing apace towards us  if ye ffanaticks rise they are           
ready for them if they Lye still the Lawes in Execucon agt them will be ye      
Ruine that their lives are not to pretious to loose in soe good a Cause         
Enclosed was a scheme of their intended proceedings wch was desired to          
be Carryed to P & A in the Tower  bee assured of our approaching                
Happines  Postscript if R L Libell be finished he let it be published           
for nothing can Contribute more to our future designes then the                 
rediculeing our last                                                            
+Which sd paper Jones denyed to have any knowledge off saying alsoe that        
some ye Company had shuffled it in among ye rest but the Constable being        
Examined swoare as alsoe ye Beadle & Watchman that that paper was taken         
among the others & thereupon the Justice tendred Jones the Oathes of            
Alleidgance & supremacy wch he refuseing to take made his Mittimus to ye        
Gate[house?]                                                                    
     Satturday last was held a Court of Leiuetenancy in ye City where it        
being motioned to save ye City the unnecessary Expense every night of           
keeping up the Trayned Bands it was soe far Ordred that when the white          
Regiment had finished their Course they should for the future desist            
every night goeing forth save only on Satturday night & Sonday following        
     Wee have an accot from the sessions at Hickses hall that Peter Kidd        
who Keeps ye Amsterdam Coffee house in Bartholomew Lane London was              
Convicted for not Comeing to Church upon the Statute of 20 L A Month &          
Divers others                                                                   
     And one John Mabley A Constable being sumoned to attend the                
Justices at Mile end Greene in ye prambulation agt Conventicles                 
disappeared & being sent for to shew reason replyed that in his opinion         
the Act agt Conventicles was agt the Lawes of Jesus Christ whereupon the        
Justices fined him 100 L & Committed him to New prison.                         
     And another Constable & overseer of the poore neglecting or                
refuseing to make a distress by breaking open of doores for 5 L their           
worshipps have fined them 50 L each                                             
     The Merchants yesterday received Letters from Holland that the             
Du[tch] East India Auctions were abated to 393 [?] [&?[ advise they had         
[sic] of the March of ye ffrench Army not knowing wch way designd.              
     Joanna Broome who publishes the Observator being indicted for ye           
same was this day to have been tryed at an Adjournd sessions of peace           
but twas removed by Certiorari into the Kings Bench                             
     Wee had yesterday A Genll Allarum that a great fire had hapned At          
Windsor wch Consumed most of peasnod [?] streete but upon a more                
Certaine advice it appeares altogeather groundlesse more then a Chimney         
on fire there  Noe Installation of Knight of ye Guarter was yesterday           
as Expected but in the Evening Extraordinary fireworks wch was very             
divertizeing                                                                    
+This day was held A Court of Aldermen where Sr John Shorter who was            
sometimes since suspended yt Court as Convicted for being prsent at A           
Conventicle appeared desireing to be Reinstated thereon but Mr Recorder         
had some time allowed him to Consider & make report of ye matter.               
     L. c. 1368     London the 26 Aprill 1683                                   
     Yow have lately had an accot that the Earle of Clare his steward           
&c were accused by one ffox a Blacksmith of high treason wch the ffreind        
of the Earle have soe Industriously searched into ye bussiness as to            
have discovered ye bottome of yt Intreague togeather with a knowledge of        
the sevrall psons who promoted & prompted the Blacksmith to ye                  
villanous Act yesterday Affidavitts being made before a Judge Relateing         
to yt affaire.                                                                  
     Sr ffrancis Withins the late steward of Westminster held his last          
Court on Monday last & was soe Generous upon his promotion to remitt all        
manner of ffines sett in ye Court yt day  the duke of Ormond who has the        
right of yt Grant has Conferred it on one Mr Bonisha a Grayes Inn Gentleman     
     Yesterday being the first of the Terme the late Justice Dolbin             
disappeared on the Kings Bench  noe transaccons of very remarkable note         
was moved at Barr  Sr ffrancis Withins in the Usuall manner with ye Coif        
on his head was Called to the degree of A serjeant & made his Motion at         
Comon Pleas Barr                                                                
     Afterwards treated ye Nobility Judges & other great Lawyers at a           
Most splendid Dinner at Serjeants Inne ffleetestreete  in ye afternoone         
was sworne at ye Ld Keepers one of the Judges of ye Kings bench but             
takes not his seate till Satturday or Monday                                    
     Tuesday next is appointed a further Argumt before ye Judges of the         
Kings Bench pro & Contra upon the Quo warranto brought agt the Charter          
of London Mannaged by Mr Attorney Genll for the King & Mr Pollexfen for         
the City.                                                                       
     Yesterday Jones the popish preist taken on Sonday was Examined             
before a Commee of Councell who stands in ye denyeing the Treasonable           
paper found in his Chamber to be anywayes his  afterwards Lewis who             
Caused him to be seized togeather with the Constable Beadle &c were             
alsoe under Examinacon & declares in ye affirmative.                            
     This day his Maties Comes from Windsor to Hampton Court where is           
held a great Councell                                                           
     Yesterday afternoone the Ld Major held A Court of Conservis for ye         
river of Thames at Westminster wch Occasioned most people to Judge that         
his goeing yt way was to Complaine at Whitehall of ye pceedings agt him         
in the City on Tuesday                                                          
     The Terme being approached Richard Goodenough an Attorney took out         
a second time writts agt the Ld Major & Court of Aldermen Grounded upon         
the Mandamus to sweare Mr Papillion & Dubois sheriffs &c wch being              
returnable yesterday Tuesday afternoone Mr Broome ye Coroner of the             
City to whome in such like Cases writts are directed Came to the Ld             
Majors house & acquainting him therewith refused to give appearance upon        
wch he arrested him & brought him prisonr to his house at Skinners hall         
being Clard [?] thereof                                                         
     Whereupon the Alarme being that the Ld Major was in Custody 7 of ye        
Aldrmen repaired Imediatly to see him wch when they were there Mr Broome        
arrested them alsoe and kept them above 4 houres                                
     Night approaching the Leiutenancy Imediatly satt and Considering           
that their Cheife Majestrate was in prison forthwith Ordrd A Redgiment          
of trayned Bands to be raised whose Drumers upon paine of death with            
powder Match & Bullet & put everybody to an affrightment  the Kings             
Guards both horse & foote drew neare to Assist if Occation should prsent        
     about the hower of 12 at night A sergeant Came from ye Compter and         
arrested Mr Broome and hurryed him therein upon suspition of debt who           
being gone & none left to secure the Ld Major & Court of Aldermen or            
take recognizances of them they each went to their owne homes.                  
     Next day Mr Broome being Bayled Came to the Ld Major to demand his         
prisonrs but the soldjers kept him from Comeing in                              
     This day Mr Broome ye Coroner haveing an affidavit On ye whole             
transaccon on tuesday moved ye Court [of] Kings bench by Mr Williams            
that ffletcher the serjeant who arrested him as alsoe ye City Marshall &        
others who the next day drew their swords upon him & thereby obstructed         
his Legall proceeding might by ye Court be brought up by an Attachmt as         
alsoe another affidavit by one Wilson a Mercht was read yt he being in          
Broomes house by his Ordr proffered to be Broomes Bayle was by ye Ld            
Major Comitted to ye Compter for being abroad at yt time of night & much        
Argument Was had thereon being defended by Sr Geo Jeoffreys who did not         
insist but yt A Ld Major might be arrested & alsoe that he sent his Ldpp        
word to give appearance but said Mr Broome proceeded very rudely & yt Mr        
Dubois had disclaymed his Consent to ye proceeding  in fine the Court           
made a Rule that ye affaire on both sides be heard on Tuesday next              
     This day Mr Sands the E India Interloper moved for a prohibition in        
Ordr to proceed with his shipp but the Court will take time to advise           
the rest of the Judges thereon.                                                 
    L. c. 1369   [Handwriting changes here.]   London 30th Aprill 1683          
     I gave you last Tuesday a transcript how one arthur Jones was              
seized and a treasonable Letter found in his Custody and by Sr Thomas           
Erbe Committed to ye Gatehouse since wch ye intrigue of that affaire is         
discovered to actuate in a Counterfeit sham reversing on Lewis ye discoverer    
and his Associate judged to be calculated either to Ridicule ye Popish          
Plott by insinuateing yt it might be of ye like dpendency or to create a        
disbeliefe of what ye papists might really practice upon us hereafter           
Let us first as ye discovery occurs in my knowledge take I fall [?]             
     Tho [?] Mansfeild a Romanist Sonne of ye Lady ancram [?] confedarateing    
wth aforesd Lewis deld him a Coppy of a treasonable paper of a Popish           
designe wth instructions to clear ye same to ye London Whiggs makeing           
them believe that it would suddainly be putt in execucon against them &         
that he was able to discover 12 Jesuitts newly arrived to Complott and          
arry on ye same evidence wch if he would seize Jones ye Preist in Long          
Acre he might assuredly finde ye Originall Letter in his Chamber wch            
according to ye Contrivance was efected but this Lewis tricks his               
comerade by carrying ye Paper Manfeild gave him to ye Secretarys Office         
wch being compared wth that found in Jones Chambers twas exactly the            
same word for word & hand Writing and thereupon Lewis discovers that            
Manfeild was ye authour who being seized has bin under examinacon & tis         
believed that all will prove farr worse than wee conceive.                      
     Since ye writeing of wch ye aforesd Manfeild has binn remitted             
over to be examined by ye Lord Cheife Justice Sandrs by him Comitted            
Prisoner to ye Kings bench                                                      
   Yesterday was a debate before ye Lord Keeper in Chancery moved by Mr         
Attorney Generall relateing to ye returne of a scire facias directed to         
ye Corporation of Nottingham in Order to reverse their new Charter that         
ye sd returne might be made by ye sheriffs of ye new Charter and not by         
those of ye Old butt his Ldpp would not declare his oppinion till some          
further time                                                                    
     The Earls of Sunderland and Peterborow are sworne at ye Chancery           
Barr ye first as secretary ye latter as Privy Councellor                        
     Little observable was transacted in ye Kings Bench  Jones a                
dissenting preacher was brot up by habeas Corpus being taken upon ye            
Writt Excomunicato Capiendo and his Councell moved that there was a             
defect in ye significavitt and thereupon desired to be discharged               
therefrom, upon which ye Court will further Search into that matter,            
and if ye Law be on his side shall reape ye benefit of ye same                  
     A Gent in ye Common Pleas moved for a new tryall for excess of             
damages haveing 1000 L value passed against him at Bedford Assizes for          
lying wth another Mans wife makeing his exception that all ye Jury              
were marryed Men, but ye Court affirmed ye Judgment.                            
     This day Sr francis Withins tooke his Seate as a judge of ye               
Kings bench but little of moment occurd  Thomas Player moved in arrest          
of judgmnt agt ye verdict obtained against him of 100 L by sheriffe             
Rich arguing ye bill of exceptions that they challenged the whole array         
as being returned by Sr Dudly North and thereby not a Compleate returne         
but ye Court gave then a Weeks time to heare farther presidents in ye Case.     
     Monday next is now appoynted to heare the farther argument upon ye         
Citty Charter  ye Kings Councell is very possitive that they shall cary         
ye poynt and ye other as much on tuesday senight  ye Citty Riottrs be a         
2d time brot to tryall.                                                         
     Yesterday wee had advice that ye shipp East India Merchant was             
arrived from Battavia into ye Downes setting sayle from thence on ye 5th        
of 9br last that Capt Conyers her Comdr dyed in ye Country  he has brot         
back all ye powder & Gunn wch she carryed for a present to ye King of           
Bantam the Dutch not sufffring her to Land any of them for feare of wch         
they convoyed her wth 2 Men of Warr 100 Leagues homeward, ye sd shipp           
brings back ye rest of ye Bantam ffactors together wth effects vizt 1500        
baggs of Paper tho she is but 1/2 ffreighted and give an accot that ye          
Dutch was still in possession of ye Castle & were fortyfying hemplines          
[?] stronger in Bantam where ye Young King remaines  ye Dutch sent 1000         
White Men from Battavia to their further assistance and made 2 attempts         
to beate ye Old King from ye port he maintaines but did not efect it            
     The auctions of ye East India Company are advanced to 250 L.               
   L. c. 1370   [Handwriting changes here.]   London the 1st of May 1683        
+Satturday last Capt Sarsfeild who was lately Engaged in the Attempt            
upon the Lady Herbert assisted therein by one Sr John Parsons his               
intimate acquaintance made a Challenge to Sr John tho upon a very slight        
Occation of not returning Back a writeing wch the said Capt Sarsfeild in        
the time of his being wounded gave him for his Indempnificacon & they           
faught without seconds behinde Mountague house  Sr John had ye advantage        
in the feild but they were both Carryed of soe dangerously wounded being        
each run thro ye body that their lives are both in danger.                      
     Yestrday Mr Sacherevelle & others of the Corporation of Nottingham         
putt in an Answere to the plea upon the Quo Warranto brought agt the old        
Charter of ye Corporation  notwithstanding they gave a new Charter              
     Yesterday was brought on the further Argumt Mannaged by Mr Attorney        
Genll agt the City Charter & was Continued therein from 8 of ye Clock in        
ye morning till past 2 in ye afternoone the length of wch tooke by the          
whole bussiness of yt day & tis Impossible to give yow a transcript more        
then in Genll tho he Endeavoured to answer sevrall matters affirmd by Mr        
Recorder in his Case [?] Argumt reciteing presidents that a Charter was         
forfeitable & then would pro[ve] that the City had forfeited theirs &           
that in ye most bold & dareing affronts agt his Matie & Governmt Especially     
Laying the greatest stress agt the Petition that it was taxing the Kings        
Justice in doubting his Mercy & insinuated him a Tyrant not fitt to             
Governe & then to rayse money by way of Marketts arbitrary & Illegall           
was such an Aggrivacon of their Guilt that it was high time to reduce           
you to obedience that his Matie did not designe this.in ye least to make A      
totall deprivacon of their privil[edge] but to amend them & was very            
sever[ely] agt Mr Recorder as to severall of his Argumts especially yt a        
Corporacon was [?] invisible wch Mr Attorney said was quite otherwise           
but it must be invisible to the Recorder he being ye mouth and not the          
eyes of A Corporacon & in ye Close of his discourse with all possible           
Rhetoric pressed the seizure of their liberty & that there was nothing soe      
playne to any Intelligent Pson as yt they had forfeited & lost them &           
then Excuseing the length of time Concluded ye same whereupon some in           
ye Court made a hum [?]                                                         
     The Ld Ch: Justice Saunders then stood up & replyed that indeed it         
was long but did not think it soe being pleased therewith & that he made        
A good Argumt & nothing of it could well be left out which being then           
late Mr Pollexfen was Ordrd to make his Argumt this morning & Contra            
     This morning Mr Pollexfen began his Argumt in defence of the City          
Charter reduceing ye same to 6 heads first alledging that ye Quo warranto       
was not well brought being agt a body politique when it should have been        
only agt ye pticular psons who were Culpable & yt those presidents              
Quoted by Mr Attorney of Cityes forfeiting yr Charters not ptinent to           
this matter for when this City Charter was taken away it was in the time        
of ye Barons wares & not wholy taken away either for that ye King               
appointed a Custos of the City instead of ye Major yet ye Aldrman were          
Continued  then Mr Pollexfen Endeavoured to Justify ye peticon setting          
forth ye danger of ye popish plott & yt Mr Attorney streyned the words          
of yt peticon to farr & set forth what Infinite Conveniencyes would             
follow the takeing away of the Charter for ye same might be done to all         
ye Corporations in England Adding he should be sorry to see the Governmt        
destroyed in his time for if so one pte of the Constitucon of the               
Governmt vizt the house of Comons might be intended & Concluded wth this        
that if what was alledged agt ye City was true it would not be a                
forteiture of their Charter wholy but in pte & that only where they were        
Culpable & said that as the Quo warranto was brought the Court could not        
give Judgmt against ye City.                                                    
+Then Mr Attorney prayed Imediate Judgmt but the Court said it was a            
weighty Cause & referrd it to be moved again the last day of ye Terme           
     The Complaint of ye City Coroner relateing to the Ld Major was put         
off till Thursday morning next.                                                 
                   [Handwriting changes here.]                                  
Sr I returne my humble acknowledgmt for yo[u]r Constant remitteing              
Quarterly of my Intelligence  under the Candour of yo[u]r goodness              
I take the Liberty to acquaint you that the sum [?] now due is not              
Come to hand as usuall & therefore presume that their is some mistake           
wch [?] I doe not tend in the Least to Misdoubt yo[u]r sincerity but            
truly to [about twelve letters illegible] to occation no misunderstanding       
betweene Sr yr must humble servt G H  Aprill 28th 83                            
     L. c. l37l    [Handwriting changes here.]   London    3d May 1683          
     Letters from an English shipp in the Streights say that the                
Algerines have built a new ffort upon their Mole and planted thereon 41         
Great Cannons and that they had 4 shipps upon ye stocks ready to Lanch          
to carry 36 & 40 Gunns each                                                     
   ffrom Vienna ye 25 of Aprill they write yt the Turkish Army began to         
move and prpare for some greate seige & ye Bassas of ye frontiers are           
joyning Count Teckly to prevent the Imperiall Army from falling on him,         
ye difference between ye Muscovite and Ye Turk still increases  ye Dyett        
of Poland was broken up ye 24 Aprill to great satisfaction, the Turkish         
Chiaux [?] is confined by reason ye Emperors ambassadr to ye Turk is            
undr restraynt and ye Agent from Teckly in Poland has a Guard of soldiers       
sett over him & not suffered to have any Communication wth the ffrench          
Nation  ye 25th ye Earle Borson [?] brot to Vienna ye Ratification of ye        
alliance betweene ye Court of Poland and ye king has summoned the               
Arierban of the Kingdome.  The Duke of Lorraine wth all ye head Officrs         
were come to Vienna and were going to ye Genrall Randezvous and ye              
Imperiallistes are execiseing the horse [?] of artillery to be made             
expert.                                                                         
   Hamburgh ye 4 of May the King of Denmark has ordered 4 daies of              
ffasting to be kept throughout his Country ye lst ye 8th [?] ye 2d ye           
14, & ye last on ye 21 and then intends to march his army his designe           
as yett unknowne                                                                
+The Magistrates of Bremen have recd 400 Lunenburghes into their Townes         
and pmitted 700 more undr their Walles the Populacy fearing to be               
Stratsburghised tooke Armes drove ye 400 therout seized upon ye                 
Magistrates & Demanded an Accot how they have expended ye publick               
Treasure haveing raysed more taxes ye last 20 yeares than 100 before            
   The Paris Lettres of same Date say that ye King was taken ill of a           
Vomitting wch at ye first ye Court was affraid that his Maty had been           
poysoned but since is somewt better.  The State of Genoa are soe far            
from desisting putting their Gallyes to sea upon ye Command of ye               
ffrench that they will doubl ye number and order of ye building of 10           
new ones and has made a League wth Spaine for mutuall defence and sent          
to other princes.  A Declaration is comeing out in ffrance forbidding           
all protestant Ministres from Marrying or Baptiseing.                           
   Sr Wm Smith a Justice of Peace of Middx sumoning a Church Warden in          
Stepny P[ar]ish before him demanding out of his hands certain summes of         
Mony being better able how to judge of ye distributing it to ye poore,          
which ye Church Warden refuseing to deliver him his Worpp comitted him          
to Goale who being freed by habeas corpus moved the Kings Bench against         
the Justice which upon a heareing before ye Judges it was looked upon           
Arbitrary and illegall whereupon Sr Wm asked ye Church Warden Pardon in         
ye fforce [?] of ye Court.                                                      
+The Charter of ye Citty of Norwich being brot up againe to be amended I        
have strictly enquired into the Defects & finde that one John ffawsett          
who was entrusted in ye management thereof gave a wrong information of          
ye Xtian Names of Sevrall who were inserted in ye Charter as alsoe ye           
Stewardes [about eight letters smeared]  neither was ye Earl of Yarmouth        
impowered to make a Deputy and some were put in who had not recd a              
sacrament for Common Councell Men upon wch tis judged that ye sd Charter        
must repass ye Seales again before it can be perfected                          
     The affaire of Broome ye Coronr against the Lord Mayor is farther          
deffered to be heard to morrow                                                  
   This day was a tryall at Kings Bench barr upon an action of Scandalum        
Magnatum brot by his Grace ye Duke of Ormond agst Wm Hetherington               
formerly much discoursed of as manager of ye Irish Evidencer & Mr               
Justice Warcup and Narrative Smith who has reassumed ye Secular habitt          
gave severally the Evidence that ye sd Hetherington declared, that his          
Grace was a Traytor and a Papist, & concerned in the Irish Popish Plott         
Hetherington brot some psons to Evade ye same and to declare that Mr            
Smith would have had them joyne in swearing of a Plott &c but the Jury          
without going from ye Barr deld their Verdict for ye Plt and gave him           
10000 damages whereupon Hetherington being in Court was turned over to          
ye Kings Bench in Execucon for the same.                                        
     L. c. l372     London May 5th l683                                         
   I haveing mett wth some farther Accot of Mr. Pollexfens Argument for         
the Charter of London send you some of ye heads vizt--                          
     That he affirmes yr Attorney Generall has not and cannot produce           
one single president that ever ye Charter had Judgment agst it to be            
totally void but only Quo Warranto ended richer either in ffines,               
Imprisonment or Noli Prosequi that Mr Attornys Presidents were obsolete         
in Richd ye 2d time when ye 2 houses of Yorke and Lancaster were in             
Warr, & such presidents were brot in ye time of Ship Mony, but pray             
Remember ye sadd Consequences even to the Judges themselves.                    
     Then Mr Pollexfen argued poyntes of Law that as if Quo Warranto            
was brot ye Court could not give Judgment on it [?]                             
     And then spoke to ye 2 benches [?] assigned Markett and Peticoning         
they being charged to oppress ye Kings subjects & tax [?] ye King of            
Injustice yett he does say that not one Markett Man or Woman ever yett          
complained but Mr Attorney Genll that before ye ffire they stood in ye          
open Streets where ye Sunshine and dust prejudiced their Meat and               
payed the Shopkeeper before whose Doores they stood and now pay not the         
Amount and have all pleasurable Conveniencyes and that they have a              
power to regulate Marketting by prescripcon.                                    
     Then Mr Attorny charges them by takeing Such unreasonable Tolles           
[?] to have actually forfeited ye Charter, and therefore since ye time          
of Common Councell being 7 yeares Since continue to act which is a              
usurpation  now then if by takeing ye Tolles [?] has forfeited their            
Charter, ye Peticon wch was but 2 yeares Since cannot affect ye Charter         
being as Mr. Attorny alleadges destroyed ye Citty are not Guilty of ye          
2d Act but ye psons who did usurp ye Citty Title & may be personally            
questiond, but otherwise ye Elections chuse their representatives to            
doe nothing but what is Lawfull, therefore if their representatives doe         
any thing contrary to Law as treason &c their Psons and Estates are             
lyable to punishment and forfeiture & that ye Charter wch is invisible          
and ye Common councell cannot doe any other Act to forfeit ye Charter,          
neither have they power of tho' will to Surrender it, upon wch Depends          
ye Revenue of ye Citty, ye Charters of pticlar Corporations Prisons and         
hospitalles, noe more than ye heads of ye Universityes and Colledges            
can doe any thing to forfeit or deliver up any of their Land or                 
Revenues  in like manner cannot ye Bishopes forfeit their Lands and             
Proffittes belonging to ye Sees, if they could I don't know what tricks         
in this Age might be found to bring all their Revenues into one hand.           
       The Cittys Peticon was in a time of a popish Plott just                  
after a prorogation, if a terme be prorogued either by ffire or                 
Plague has [?] an Interruption of Justice if ye Lords in ye Tower               
had petition'd them might they not call it soe one haveing had                  
Justice already & they not yett brot to in their Tryalls & [about six           
letters illegible] but hard to give Judgment agst ye Charter confirmed          
by many Actes of Parliament for ye Error of a Word.                             
     If ye Charter be forfeited all ye Acts of Parliament directing             
use of ye Corporations will Totally fall for they can noe wayes                 
affect a new Charter; The Charter is not an Estate for Life nor                 
to ye Heires of ye Body, but is granted to ye Cittizens & their                 
Successors whoever they be  therefore John haveing an Estate for Life           
and after [his?] Decease to Thomas how can any Act of Treason in John           
take away ye right of Thomas who has no right till Johns Death soe              
consequently ye Cittizens that are to come have not forfeited their             
their right altho' many of their Ancestores were hanged for Treason.            
     If ye Cittyes Charter be dissolved all their Lands and what they           
hold by Prescription will be Lost, and it would not only concerne               
London in pticlar but ye whole Kingdome in Generall, as all ye Colledges        
hospitalles & any Episcopal See & Dependency on ye prelacy soe ye Govrnmt       
it selfe would be subject to an Alteration.                                     
     ffor tho [?] one of ye Actes of this Realme Increase Ye House of           
Commons a 3d part of wch consists of ye members of Corporations and             
Barronyes & if in a new Charter no Magistrate or otherwise be Chosen but        
by approbation of ye Prince & his Successors, why then if in a 100              
yeares a Popish Prince should reigne, & would he d'yee think approve of         
any but papists & would such papists chuse any other Parliamt Men but           
papists and would Such Parliamt Men make any other Law but in favour            
of Papists to destroy ye protestants Religion for ye Prince makeing ye          
Lords 1/3 [?] of meanes [?] 2.3ds of ye House of Commons would not this         
make out my Assertions that if Judgment pass agt ye Charter twould tend         
to ye change of Govrmnt both in Church and State.                               
     But Mr Attorny foreseeing ye Mischeife would now have it farr lesse        
than is layed in ye Information not to make it Dead or wholly Anihilate         
it but only to seize their Libertyes and ffranchises and restore it againe      
tis wth ye Body Politique as wth ye Body Naturall  can I say of ye              
Body Naturall I want Law for [?] Man Dead God forbid, but only have his         
Meate, Drink, Sleep, and Aire he rather in [?] taken away  whats ye end         
of this but Death                                                               
+Soe Mr. Attorny would not have ye Parchmt undr ye Great Seale taken            
away but only his profittes & Priviledges  are not these ye Life of Body        
Politique as bread and Aire to ye Body Naturall  This is only a                 
Transcript of excellent Arguments on this Subject.                              
     L. c. 1373     [Handwriting changes here.]   London the 8 May l683         
     Yesterday ye Ld Chiefe Justice Saunders after 3 days of indisposicon       
Came into ye Court of Kings bench  dureing his absence little of remark         
Occurd being pticuler Tryalls at Barr & ye Complaint of Broome the              
Coroner agt the late proceedings of the Ld Major every day procrastinated       
that worthy of remark was that yesterday it being moved by ye Councell          
for ye severall psons of the Corporacon of Worcester who ye last Terme          
had a verdict agt them by Default upon a Quo Warranto  That they had            
attended the offices for A Record but could not obteyne it Soe prayed           
longer time but the Court finding that they had little to offer by way          
of Assigneing of Error Ordrd Judgmt to be Entered agt them wch tho              
Imediatly it does not affect ye Charter yet Consequently it will for            
those psons being disincorporated there will not be enough left to              
form a Court or proceed upon any City affaire                                   
     Capt Sands the East India Interloper wch has Occasiond much                
discourse about procureing a prohibition to stay proceedings in ye              
Admiralty Court & to bring it to Common Law whereby he by yt means by           
giveing Security might proceed on his voyage Came yesterday to be               
further argued but the Court findeing that he not haveing [?] laid              
his suggestion arright absolutely denied a prohibition there being noe          
Suite Comenced agt him by ye Company whereby he is now like to Lye by           
ye walls                                                                        
     Yesterday we had advise by a Ship from Jamaica wch brought ye              
Manifesto from yt Island that a Ship the Owners Respect Joshua                  
Spencer Master in her way to yt Island was met & attaqued by a ffrench          
privateere of 26 guns wch haveing killd ye boatswaine purser &c &               
wounded others made themselves Masters & Carryed her into Hispaniola            
where keeping her 2 Months & Rifleing her of all her Cargo worth neare          
20000 L they gave the Mr Liberty with his Shipp to depart who in 5 dayes        
afterwards arrived at Jamaica all wch transcripcon is at Large sent to          
his Matie                                                                       
     Yesterday we had ye Certaine Accot of the great News that a                
Match is fully Concluded between Prince George Brother to ye King of            
Denmark & The Lady his Royall Highnesses only unmarryed Daughter wch            
I am Credibly assured that his Matie signifyed to ye Councell the same &        
ffriday last propounded itt to the Lady & instruccons given to the King         
of Denmarkes Envoy to dispatch an express for his speedy Comeing over           
hither wch I am told will be Consummated in July & afterwards to reside         
for the most pte in his Kingdome  the Articles as yt not Come to my             
Knowledge                                                                       
     Our ffrench Letters Genelly say that his Maties preparations by sea        
are certainly designd to attaque the state of Genoa and that wch gives          
the most suspition thereof is that his Matie refused to read the Genoas         
Agents Letters & bad him to Depart ye Court.                                    
     Yesterday Sr Patients Ward pleaded to the Informacon of Perjury            
agt [him?] wch will be tryed some time this Terme                               
      5 small men of warr is orderd forthwith to be Equiped to Cruise           
agt Salley & releive Admirall Herbert now before yt Harbour the Emperor         
of Morocco refuseing to agree ye peace att sea  the Governor of Tangeire        
has dismised ye Jewes from thence findeing it disadvantious to suffer           
them in the City by reason of the Intelligence they hold with ye Moores         
     This Day was a great tryall at the Kings bench barr brought by the         
Unfree forraigine Merchts agt ye City of London by way of Quo Warranto          
upon the issue that they exacted a Duty Called water Balledge of them to        
ye value of 7 or 8000 L p Ann & had a Jury out of Kent there being              
10 Knights in ye panell wch after 5 howers pleading they gave a                 
verdict for the King on behalfe of ye Merchts agt ye City without               
stirring from ye Barr.                                                          
+This afternoone was brought on at Guild hall the Tryall agt the                
City Rioters upon the Choyce of the late Sheriffs wch after 5 howers            
Debate 14 of them were found Guilty viz the Ld Grey Pilkington                  
Shute Bethell Swinock Sr Tho player Jekell Cornish &c & the attorney            
Genll intendes to bring Informations agt Millcally [?]                          
     L. c. 1374     [Handwriting changes here.]     10th May 1683               
+What may be added to what I wrote you Thursday last relating to the            
verdict obteyned agt those Tearmed Whiggs for Committeing ye Ryott by           
Continuing togeather to Poll for Sherriffes after The Ld Major had              
adjourned them on ye 24 June last will have a great Influence on the            
the future Choyce of Sherriffes of London and Middx in case the Quo             
Warranto should not bee adjudgd agt the City Charter as also itt will           
much abate by the same proceedings [about ten words illegible] Mr               
Papillion and Dubois Sheriffs wch tis said mr Attorny Genll will pursue         
with all vigour haveing allready ordrd [about twenty words illegible]           
     The 2 late Sheriffs Mr Pilkington and Shute [?] Alderman Cornish the       
Ld Gray Sr Tho Player Mr Jenks Mr Jeckell Mr Key [?] Mr Goodenough and          
Attorny Mr Wickham Mr ffreeman Mr Deagle Mr Synock [?] the late Sheriff         
Bethell who will receive [?] the Jury the Close of the Tearm in case the Ld     
Cheife Justice refuses to signe their bill of exceptions and they do not        
obteyne an Arrest of Judgmt wch they intend tomorrow the Kings Bench            
Ba[rr?]                                                                         
     His Royall Highness has brought his action of Scandalum                    
Magnatum agt an Apothecary and other Scandalums all abroad on accompt           
of the Duke of Beauford wch tis said Mr Wilkes the late sheriffe [?]            
concluded therein but I have strictly Inquired & finde Errour that              
itt is agt one Sr Jerome Williams a late Member of Parliamt for                 
Monmuthshiere                                                                   
     The Match concluded betweene Prince George of Denmarke and the             
Lady wch I gave an account of in my last is soe nearly [?] concluded            
that there are sevrall yauches by wch to bring him over with Expedition         
and some specall Persons were a takeing Albemarle House for their               
Residence but have since pretend [?] upon Berkshiere house by St                
Jameses where they will live in great state and the Princes' made               
an English Duke the title said to bee either Cumberland or Glocester            
and that Booner Rayner [?] Quarter Title bee likewise conferred on him          
the Prince has no Present considerable Estates but by the Articles              
the King of Denmarke is to settle a valuable one upon him and his               
Royall Higness as much.                                                         
                     [Handwriting changes here.]                                
     Yesterday afternoon Lewis the Evidence whome you have lately               
heaard of for Seizing one James a preist upon a sham pretension                 
was tried before ye Lord cheife Justice at Westminister upon an                 
Information for laying and coomplotting a new invented Sham to bring            
his Maty into hatred of his Subjectes and affirming that he was a               
Papist and that ye Papres found in ye Earle of Shafteburys Closett              
was by direction put there in Order to take him off  the Evidence               
against him were those of his Owne Gang wch fform the Jew [?] Members           
and some others of that Crew who Deposed what Plotts and Contrivances           
they had together to gett Money but being turned out of his Matys               
fathers [?] Pay they declared how this [?] Lewis in Revenge resolved to         
ruine ye Court, but defend himselfe brot diverse Wittnesses to depose           
how and by whome they were Suborned to swear falsely in sevrall Relation        
they had given upon oathes that What zeale deposed relateing to ye burning      
of ye Navy was purely an invention of theirs when abedd together that           
what Mowbray swore at Oxford he owned to severall was false, that               
Faria a Jew being arrested for it [?] swore treason agt his Creditor            
Lewiss reputation  being inquired into twas proved that he forged Mens          
hande and bye sevrall summes of Mony and had twice stood in ye                  
Pillory  in fine there was such an impeaching one another for                   
Ragusives [?] that ye Ld Ch Justice Suming up ye Evidence, said that            
they were all such a pack of Villaines as the like number was not to            
be found on this side hell  the Jury wthdrew and tho ye Evidence were           
soe Naught yett a rogue might be best to detect a Rogue and he brot him         
in Guilty of ye Wordes.                                                         
     Our fforaigne Lettres say yt ye Duke of Brandenburgh has declared          
that in Case ye ffrench attacque any pte of ye Empire during ye Warr wth        
ye Turkes he will break his Neutralty wth him and join wth ye Emperor           
     L. c. 1375    [Handwriting changes here.]    London  May 12 1683           
     Yesterday the soe famed proceeding between Verdon the late Under           
Sheriffe of Norfolk and one Smith a Deputy to Topham Sergeant to the            
House of Commons was tryed at the Kings bench barre; the Lord Cheife            
Justice absent after haveing been heard already satt aside for excesse          
of Dammages and undue procedure of 2 verdicts of 500 at Cambridgeshire          
Assizes agt the Defendt the meritt of whose Cause in breife stands (vizt)       
That the aforesaid Smith haveing a Warrant from the Speakr to bring Mr          
Verdon to the House of Commons seized him on the 11th of January above 100      
miles from London And they being onwards their way heard in someplaces          
a report that the parlt was prorogued the 10th wch the Messenger not            
giveing Creditt unto continued to bring him for London, but when he was         
assured of the truth discharged him  The Queen [?] lay whether flyeing          
reports of persons and News papers were a Legall and Sufficient notice          
to have discharged him in the Country which if they had mistaken a              
prorogacon for an adjournment and he lett him goe; Then the Messenger           
would have been punished by the House of Commons for being remisse in           
his duty, And then secondly if Smith might have had a Sufficient assurance      
of the prorogacon Sooner upon the road, whether in such cases it ought          
not to be construed favourably for an Officer where it does appear it was       
not malitiously intended  And then thirdly what damages if any ought to         
be given for a days detainure for twas impossible at that distance to           
have notice of a prorogacon sooner than the poste could bring it; Many          
other arguments were had in the Cause to long to insert; So the Court           
directing the Jury in the points of Law they withdrew & brought in their        
Verdict this day for the pet[itioner] it [?] being a third                      
Cambridgeshire Jury.                                                            
     Yesterday morning were two Duells fought the one by Mr Talbot and          
Chudley two Officers of the Custome House on Tower-hill; The second by          
four Gentlemen Officers of Souldiers at Barne-Elmes and not one of the          
6 slaine though some dangerously and the rest sleightly wounded.                
     Yesterday one Mr Hugh Speake a Gentleman of Sommersett shire now           
in Towne gave bayle before one Justice Parry to answer an Indictment            
next Sessions being charged by a man and his wife for sayeing That              
ye words which the late Alderman Pilkington was found guilty of were            
true (viz) That the Duke of Y. was a papist & had a hand in burning the         
Citty &c.  But the Said Mr Speake affirmed that it is done purely out           
of malice & that he can certainly make it out soe.                              
     Yesterday afternoon the Lord Grey of Warke was Seized by two               
Sergeants at Armes and carried Prisoner before a Councill at Whitehall          
being accused as I am credibly informed for haveing a great quantity of         
ffire armes found upon search by the Deputy Lieutenants in a garrett of         
his House in the Charter=house Yard being 80 Musketts packed up in Matts        
To which his Lordship replyes That just after the breaking out of the           
Plott he bought them Designeing to furnish his Severall Seats in the            
Country but generally rejoiceing in Towne all the time since he forbore         
to send them and soe they remained as they were at first packed up.             
     And being examined by the Councill thereon declard that by an Act          
of Parlt. in Hen. 8 time every Peer was obliged to keep Sufficient              
Armes for 100 men and that they were bought after Christmas in 1678,            
produceing the Gunsmith who brought his booke which did ascertaine the          
time, & Likewise there was a vote in the House of Lords that all                
Protestants should be armed and that the severall parcells had particular       
direccons on them to be sent into the Countrey, which being considered          
of by the Councill, the Lord Privy Seale would have taken his Lordships         
word but some of the rest overruled That his Lordship entered into              
3000 L recognizance and the Lord Brandon his Security the like to               
appeare next Wednesday before the Councill at Hampton Court.                    
     This day by mocon it was ordered That Sr Patience Ward one of our          
Alderman should be brought to his Tryall upon the Informacon of Perjury         
agt him this day sennight at the Kings bench barre                              
     The proceedings of Broome the Coroner agt the Lord Mayor will be           
brought further on in the Kings bench the Lord Mayor and the rest of            
the Aldermen yesterday giveing in appearance to the Accon of Papillon           
and Dubois in order to laye the issue of that affaire.                          
     The Earle of Danby moved by Councell for a habeas Corpus to be             
brought to the Kings bench barre in order to endeavor to be bayled,             
Which was granted.                                                              
    On Thursday Sr John Jorden appointed to goe Envoy to Holland tooke          
his leave of the East India Company and has since departed to demand            
restitucon of the States for their Accon at Bantham his Instruccons             
being very sharp and positive to know whether they will owne that               
Concerne and how & what Satisfaccon they will make that his Matye may           
know what measures to take in that soe great affaire, being peticoned to        
by the East India Company.                                                      
     L. c. 1376     [Handwriting changes here.]   London May l5th l683          
     Yesterday Capt Sands the Designd Interloper to ye East Indies              
moved the Court of Kings Bench afresh haveing mended his Suggestion             
praying a Prohibition to bring ye meritt of the Cause betw him & the            
East India Company to be tryed at Common Law, & yt he giveing of bayle          
soe to doe to proceed on his intended voyage which after Some Debate ye         
Court allowed unless ye East India Company show Cause by Satturday next         
to the Contrary.                                                                
     A motion was made in favour of the late Citty Riotters that ye             
first proceeding against them wherein they challenged the whole array           
as not haveing a Knt on the Councill and was allowed might be Recorded          
wch ye Clarke refused to Enter, but ye Court considering that then ye           
last Judgment might be erroneous as there not being l5 dayes from the           
Teste [?] to ye Distringnam [?] soe would not Ordr but said if ye Clarke        
had not done the Duty there was a Remedy to be taken against him.               
     Satturday last Mr Samll Nearne Mess of the Stationrs Company               
after sevrall dayes indisposicon of a virulent feavour departed this            
Life wch he was very loath to leave at this Season because ye Whiggs he         
said would impute it a Judgment as being a zealous Prosecutor of them.          
+Yesterday one Millet a Life Guard man attended the Comeing through             
the Meuse [?] of One Wm Tindall a late Woolen Draper, whome he conceived        
the day before had affronted him in Order to force him to ffight wch the        
sd Mr Tindall declineing Miller drew Cutt & prickt him  then Mr Tindall         
in his owne defence unsheathed his Sword & at ye first home pass brot           
Miller Dead to ye Ground & then went to a Tapicer who upon hearing ye           
Circumstances admitted him to Bayle.                                            
     yesterday Mr Atty Genll Moved ye Court of Kings Bench for Judgment         
against the Citty Charter but Mr Pollexfen on behalfe of ye Citty               
prayed their Lopps to take a long day to Considr of it being an affaire         
of Mighty Consequence wch the Court likewise declared and yt it was not         
possible to doe any thing therein this Tearme soe assign'd the day on           
ye first Tuesday in Trinity Tearme being this day Month and within one          
of ye longest days in the yeare.                                                
     Yesterday alsoe Some psons keeping the possession of a house in            
Westminster Sevrall broake in upon them killed one & Wounded ye rest and        
were themselves Comitted to ye Gatehouse                                        
     Last night Some Councellors attended ye Lord Chancellr [?] on              
behalfe of ye Citty Riotters to endeavour to prevaile upon him to Signe         
their Bill of Exception but his Lopp would not then admitt them to him          
being taken ill.                                                                
     Our Lettres from Holland say yt Aldrm Backwell the late Bancker who        
had resided there Some Considerable time dyed ye midle of ye last weeke         
and we heare that Doctr Witchcott ye famous London Divine Left this             
World the Close of the same Weeke in ye Countrey near Cambridge.                
     This day wee had Lettres from Vi[enna] of the 7th instant wch Gives        
us ye Circum[stances] of ye Rendezvous of ye Imperial army on the 6th           
Ditto Some Miles from presbourg they being drawne up in Battalia                
Invaded above 2 English Miles and were [?] Mustered 50 odd Thousand             
Soldrs Effective wth a trayne of 95 peeces of Cannon.                           
     The Emperor accompayed with ye Duke of Bavaria and other Electors          
and Greate Personnages arrived at ye Camp on horsback at 10 of ye Clock         
in ye Morning where they heard Mass Some by the Arch Bishop of Grann            
who afterward published an Indulgence to Soldrs and then kneeling before        
ye army Gave them a Blessing 3 sevrall times wch they as often thanked          
him wth Vollyes of Shottes and when ye Emperor had Viewed the whole body        
Ordered a Months Pay and ye next day ye Duke of Lorraine as Generallissimo      
broake up ye army and Marched for Raab but dureing ye Randezvous Sevrall        
Turkes were Seized for Spyes  ffarther advice sayes that a Greate body          
of Turks and Tartars from Newhausell went on ye Scoute supposeing the           
Imperiallists were still at their Randezvous but were encountred by some        
German and hungarian Troops who killed above 700 Turks  Sevrall Regiments       
more are on their March to joyne ye head Army whereby the Emperor will be       
in a good posture of Defence & ye King of Poland is ready to depart for         
ye Hungarian ffrontier & will by ye last of June Comand ye army himselfe.       
     L. c. 1377     London May l7th l683                                        
     Yesterday was nothing transacted at ye Kings Bench Barr save only          
a long Tryall betweene ye King and some Relations on behalfe of one             
Mr Ayliffe of Wilts to prove whether he was Lunatic or not being a              
a Gent of 2200 L P Ann & by a Comission of Lunacy directed to Sevrall           
Gent of yt County found soe to be but ye Ld Grandison on behalfe of             
his Relations espoused ye Interest as to endeavour to vacate the said           
Comission, but upon ye Proofe yt was brot into Court it plainly                 
appeare[d] by ye Many extravagent actions he had Comitted that he was           
altogether out of his wits, whereupon ye Jury brot in their Verdict             
for ye King ye Estate to be managed by Sr Walter St John & Colonnel             
Strangewayes of Dorsettshire for ye use of his children & Mr Ayliffe            
only to have a certaine allowance who was at present confined in A              
house at Hogedon for ye Cure of his Distemper.                                  
     Letters from ffrance say yt ye ffrench ffleete has put to sea              
being above 70 sayle & will first goe before argire ye peace being in           
a maner concluded betw his Matty and that Governmt but dare [?] not be          
published for feare of ye Common People who have now scarce any Nations         
left to Prey upon, therefore by some of that Governmt are desired to            
come before that place, yt ye people then forseeing the Danger may              
be Contented to have it agreed and Satisfyed wch as soone as perfected          
ye ffleete will bend their Course agt ye State of Genoa haveing 10000           
Land Soldrs on board and they Write yt ye ffirst attaque will be at             
Savone, a port belonging to yt Republick.                                       
     Which that state being apprehensive of are at Work on ye                   
ffortifications at Savona and 2 Batteryes makeing at ye haven wch wth           
ye Castle is thought Sufficient to defend ye Same, the Italian German &         
Switzeres Companyes are recruiteing and all maner of preparation are            
makeing to Withstand and attacque whch that State is now assured will           
be made upon them by ye ffrench.                                                
     Letters from Warsaw of ye 29th of Aprill say that last ffryday ye          
Senatus Consilium broake up after haveing concluded Sevrall Weighty             
affaires and now ye Consilium Bellicum is assembled and continues with          
great Zeale to carry on ye Warr against ye Turk but tis thought that            
this yeare they cannot be able to act offensive, but send their fforces         
as a supply to ye Emperor in Hungaria and tis affirmed that ye king of          
Poland has treated wth ye Tartare for a considerable Summe not to take          
part wth ye Turkes but contrarywise have promised & Sworne to engage            
wth ye Poles against them as also ye Cossacke haveing recd what                 
Satisfaction from ye King they required have assured that they will             
assist ye Crowne of Poland against ye Turkes.                                   
     Great preparations are makeing to receive their Royall Highnesses          
at Oxford who goe thither the Close of this or beginning of ye next Weeke.      
     This being holy thursday nothing done at Westminster hall.                 
     Yesterday one Sr William [name of about four letters faded] of ye          
County of Surry and Mr Dorrington being in a Taverne a quarrell arose to        
that hight that they drew forth their Weapons & encountred each other  ye       
first was Slightly and ye latter mortally Wounded upon wch Sr William is        
Comitted to ye Gatehouse.                                                       
     Yesterday was held a Counsell at Hampton Court his Maty present            
where was brot a Great Complaint that one of ye Spanish ambassadrs              
retinue was arrested and put into ye Comptr of London by One Smith of ye        
New Exchange and prayd to be discharged but ye Counsell would order             
nothing more than that ye ambassador should take ye Remedy against Smith.       
     At ye Same time ye Lord Gray appeared upon ye bussinesse of ye             
armes found in his house of which I have given a former accot & upon            
heareing of ye whole his Lopp was acquitted from any intentionall design        
wth them.                                                                       
     But was ordered to enter into 10000 L Recognizance to keep 12              
Monthes the Kings Peace and 5000 L each his 2 Suretyes being Mr Ralph           
Gray his Brother and Mr. Nevell his Brother in Law but I doe not                
Learn that ye Musketts were ordered to be redelivered to him.                   
+The Ld Keeper on Tuesday was pleased to Reverse a Decree in                    
Chancery which ye late Ld Chancellor Sometime before his Death made in          
favour of Charles Howard for a Moyety of an Estate belonging to ye              
Duke of Norfolke his Brother the Ld Keepers opinion wth ye other judges         
being formerly of ye Same opinion as now reverst.                               
   L. c. 1378   [Handwriting changes here.]   London the 19 May 1683            
+Yesterday the Earle of Danby accompanied with Divers other Peeres was          
by Habeas Corpus brought into ye Court of Kings Bench wch after his             
Comittment with ye returned were read his Ldpp began to speak & offer           
new mater but the Court would then admitt of noe Debate declareing that         
they being to meet ye rest of ye Judges in ye vacation would Consider           
altogeather about it & that his Ldpp by a Rule of Court should attend           
them againe ye first of next Terme & then know their Determinate                
oppinions in ye Case.                                                           
     One Manfield who was lately Comitted for the Sham letter found             
in ye Custody of Jones the Popish priest seized by Louis the Evidencer          
pleaded not Guilty to an Informacon & will be tryed next Terme thereon          
A person being Convicted in 100 L last Wiltsheire Assizes for saying            
that they were other knaves of fools that addressed mooved in arrest of         
judgment but ye Court deferrd ye debate thereof till next Terme                 
     Thursday afternoone Mr Williams and Thomson Councellors for ye             
City Rioters attended ye Ld Ch: Justice Saunders he endeavord to gett           
ye Bill of Excepcons signed but could by noe means prevaile his Ldpp            
bidding them moove it in Court wch they refused saying they went in a           
due method then his Ldpp being in yt case only to be addrest to                 
     Upon refusal of wch they yesterday mooved in arrest of judgmt & Mr         
Atty opposed their Motion as to have it argued on Monday because then           
they might Evade sentence this Terme soe was Ordrd to be debated to day.        
     Yesterday the Spanish Ambassadrs Nephew who was deteyned prisoner          
in ye Comptor was discharged  Mrs Smith of ye Exchange who arrested him         
being taken up by one of ye Kings Messingers whereby shee was Obleidged         
to agree his Enlargmnt                                                          
     Lres from Paris say that the ffrench King was on last Wedensday to         
depart to his army wch they write will direct yr March towards Itally           
some great designe being on foote that his Matie takes wth him ye Genll         
& other officers of his Hospitall for wounded sol[d]iers which confirmes        
the discourse of some Considerable Effort for they never goe to ye Army         
unless in times of Eminent Action                                               
     The same Lres alsoe give an accot that the Doctors of ye Sorbon            
to whome the Censure of ye Bishop of Tirgonia were referrd are Come             
to a result in their opinion (Viz) that ye Pope is not infallible that          
his Holyness has not Jurisdiccon over a temporall prince that all ye            
usurpacon Contrary to ye gallican Church ought to be Condemned that ye          
Articles wch ye Assembly of ye Clergy a yeare since agreed to ought to          
be Embraced & mainteyned wth divers other heads the same being carryed          
by a great Majority for out of 171 wch Composed the number of ye sd             
Doctors (iii) voted in ye affirmative                                           
     Tis farther added that ye great disturbance & Insurreccon of ye            
Protectorats supposed to be in Langue dock protestants appeares only            
a small disturbance yt 5 Catholicks made by forcibly Comeing into one of        
ye protestants temples who takeing A suddain alaram feareing some designe       
put themselves in Armes but ye next day laid them downe againe but they         
write the ffrench King resents it ill & would not admitt yr Deputyes            
wch ye Protestants sent to give a true accot of the same to his Matie           
to come into his prsence.                                                       
     Last night broake forth a fire at Holbourne wch Consumed about 6           
houses before it could be Extinguished                                          
     Thursday next is appointed a Common Councell where tis thought some        
Considerable affaire relateing to ye Charter will be transacted                 
+This day was brought on ye tryall of sr Patients Ward in ye Court              
of Kings bench for perjury wch Continued from 9 in ye morning til               
3 in ye afternoone wch obstructed all other businesse  the wittnesses           
for ye King were sr Henry Tulse sr Wm Hooker & divers others who                
deposed that sr Patients swore that in ye discourse wch Alderman                
Pilkington made there was noe mention made of ye Duke of Yorke wch they         
declared there was divers witnesses alsoe appeared on his behalfe who           
declared yt sr Patients mentioned to ye best of his Memory & Mr Blaney a        
Barrister who took it in short hand gave upon Oath yt what he took in           
his book at Pilkingtons tryall was true wch being read was much in favor        
of sr Patients & Mr William Pollexfen Mr Recorder & mr Wallop his               
Councellor pleaded very strenuously in his case that it Could not were          
the words admitted possibly be interpreted a perjury as not soe designd         
but Mr Attorny Solicitor & sr Geo Jeoffreys were very sharpe upon him as        
yt Justice must be had & yt greater ye Psons soe bigger the offence  ye         
Ld Ch. Justice left it faire to ye Jury being all Gent of Middx [word of        
four letters illegible] give not in their verdict till Monday                   
     L.c. 1379     [Handwriting changes here.]    London 22th May l683          
     The Letters from Oxford Give an accompt that their Royall                  
Highnesses [&?] Lady Anne attended wth a numerous trayne arrived in             
Oxford fryday afternoone being mett by a Greate many Gentry of the              
County and conducted through the East Gate by the Mayor and Aldermen            
in their formalityes who presented the Duke wth a paire of Golde fringe         
Gloves and the Dutchess and Lady Anne wth 12 paire of Kidd and afterward        
the whole University attended them unto St Maryes where the Oratour             
deld a well accepted Speech and then conducted them to Christs Church           
Colledge where they Lodged that Evening & the next day went to ye Ld            
Clarendons at Cornebury house.  the Conduit of ye City run wth wine             
upon the inportunity of the Lord Norris tho' ye City a long time                
opposed it saying that it never did soe Before but upon a Coronation.           
     Yesterday being the last of ye Tearme these following remarks              
are chiefly to be transmitted vizt the jury impannelled to try ye               
Information of Perjury brought against Sr Patience Ward haveing on              
Satterday heard the Tryall wch lasted to 3 in the afternoone were               
2 houres afterwards considering their Verdict and gave it privately             
to one of ye judges and yesterday morning deld in open Court wch was            
Guilty and one ffoster of the jury shewd the Court a scandalous Letter          
sent him wch the Court was much incensed at  The Jury Mens Names are            
vizt                                                                            
  Henry Rynell    Richd Pagett     Tho Eglesfield     James Suple               
  Tho: Harryott   Nehemiah Arnold  Edwd Napesden [?]  Jn auger                  
  Tho Earle [?]   John ffoster     John Sharp         Richd ffisher             
+Sr Patients was not yesterday in Court but called for soe cannot be            
fined till next Tearme  it will be a Meanes to force him to lay downe           
his Aldermans Gowne if not absent.                                              
     Sevrall of the persons of the Corporation of Worcester who this            
Tearme had Judgement entered up against them upon the Quo Warranto for          
exerciseing Jurisdiction in the Citty appeared in the Court and will            
together wth the others under the Same Circumstances receive their              
sentence next Tearme.                                                           
     Sevrall Papists who were accused at ye breaking out of ye Plott and        
Since continued from time to time upon their Recognizances appeared and         
Mr attorney being asked what he had to say against them declared he had         
Nothing whereby they were all Discharged.                                       
     Capt Sands ye East India Interloper who had promise of a Prohibition       
in Case ye East India Company did not shew Cause by Satterday last to ye        
Contrary moved for ye same but ye Companyes Councell declared that they         
were surprised in the time and Soe obtained a favour of ye Court as to          
have Liberty to ye first Satterday in the next Tearme at wch Capt Sands         
expectation is quite frustrated.                                                
     A Bill of Exceptions being put in last Assizes in Herefordshire            
that ye Statute of 20 L a month for not comeing to Church extended to           
Papist Recusants & not to Protestant Dissenters  the Court over ruled           
the Same in judgement Ordered to be entered against Sevrall Dissenters          
convicted thereof and the Court would by noe means heare ye arguments           
which sevrall Councell declared they were ready to make to ye Contrary.         
     Sevrall of ye Citty Ry[otters?] as Alderman Cornish Mr Deagle              
Mr Jenks &c apeared in the court   ye Councell moved in arrest of               
Judgment but the Court not thinking it convenient to enter upon ye              
Debate as that it might be tedious tooke 500 L [?] Recognizance of              
those that were present to appeare ye first day of next Tearme and              
that a Proces of ye Court goe out for ye rest to appeare the same               
time When ye Court will Determine that Affaire either to Grant an               
arrest of Judgmt or proceed to give Sentence upon them.                         
     One Manfeild whome you have heard to be in Custody for the                 
Sham Letter left in Jones ye Preists Chamber yesterday was brot                 
into Court and pleaded Guilty to ye Information brought against him             
for ye the Same, whereupon ye Court fined him a 1000 L and to Give              
Security to be for 7 yeares of ye good behaviour and not to be                  
discharged till paid.  This day was held a Court of Common Councell             
but nothing Done as was expected relateing to ye charter  they passed           
an act for Devideing Bishop Gate Ward  afterward they Disclaimed                
ye last arresting of ye Lord Mayor by Papillion and Dubois, then                
enq[uir]ed into ye Misdemeanour of Broome ye Coroner alledging him not          
capable of his place appoynting a Commee of 4 Aldermen & Commnrs to             
examine and Reporte and referred to ye Same Comittee the rayseing               
of Mony to pay off some necessitated Orphans.  Lastly to search ye              
Acts of Common Councell in ye late Rebellious times and since that              
are fitt to be repealed by [?] City Businesse not Materiall.                    
   L.c. l380   [Handwriting changes here.]    Lond the 24th of May l683         
     Our Holland letters say that the gennerall Thanksgiving wch                
the States Appoynted on the 16th ditto through all the Domminions was           
religiously deserved their prayers Running to Returne the Allmighty             
thanks ffor the Mercy they have Received as Alsoe that he would be              
pleased to Continue the same to them in the preservation of the true            
protestant Religion and that he would moove the Hearts of Kings and             
Princes to give a free toleration in their Countryes                            
     The same Letters say that the Prince of Orange is Returned ffrom           
Antwerp whence he had some dayes Conference with ye Marquesse De                
Grana   The subject matter of the Debates were how to prserve their             
Countryes ffrom the Incroachment off ffrance wch they promise mutually          
to defend and imediatly to ffrance Leguir [?] neare Breda of 40000 men          
off Each other fforces and in Case the ffrench should seize any place by        
way of dependance or allarmes to oppose them with fforce  All wch the           
Prince promised to gett Confirmed by the States and fforthwith their            
Ratification                                                                    
     Sr John Jardin who his Matie was pleasd to send Envoy to Holland to        
demand Restitution of the States ffor the action of Bantam is their             
Arrived and had his Audience and Delivered the states at the Hague his          
ffirst Memoriall wherein he Demands a Speedy Answer as Alsoe Ascertaind         
The Letter [date blurred] Instant to the East India Company 300 Thousand        
pounds wch said memoriall was seconded by the agent of Denmark and are          
both Referrd to the Committee of fforraigne affaires to Examine and             
report                                                                          
     The States have Augmented the number of their shippes Togeather            
with severall ffi[about four letters blotted] wch will be Ready to              
saile the last of this month and Take their courses for the Sound               
     Yesterday Severall warrants of distresse were made upon one                
Jackson a pewterer in the old Jewry ffor the value of 320 L Being               
severall Times Convicted as Being an owner of a Conventicle in Crosby           
Square whereupon the Constable made a seizure of his shopp goods the            
loading Severall Carts therewith                                                
     The Same day severall Dissenters were seized upon the writt                
Excommunicato Capiendo ffor nonconformity and Committed Prisoner to             
the Compter                                                                     
     And severale writts are Issued [?] out of the Kings Exchequer to           
make distresse upon many dissenters of the Citty of Bristol wch tis             
discoursed will Amount to an Immense summe                                      
     Tuesday Morning the Ld Chiefe Justice Saundrs holding nisi Prius           
in the Courte of Kings Bench Affter the Tearme ffor the County of Midx          
was before halfe the Buisnesse perfected taken Sick with a Convulsion           
and carryed out of Court and since Continues undr the Malignancy of his         
Indisposition butt this day are some hopes of his Amendment                     
     Yesterday began our Sessions of Peace att Guild Hall and this day          
att the Old Baily and end Tommorrow att the former, Dangarfield was             
indicted for Wounded [sic] 2 Booksellers Apprentices, Pleaded Guilty            
& was onely ffined 6 s 8 d  att the Latter Mr Tyndale who killed lately         
one Miller a Life Guard man in the Male was Tryed and the Jury Brought          
in their verdict Se Defe[n]dendo                                                
     Sr Patiense Ward since the verdict of Guilty brought in against            
him Absents himselfe and some say gone for Holland                              
+Yesterday was a Great Hearing before the Ld Keeper Relateing to the Duke       
of Buckinghams Estate wch lyes undr Trustees Hands for the Payment of           
Debt Butt Came not to a Decision Butt his Ldshipp ordd his Grace to             
Receive 1000 for his Prsent supply, wee heare ffrom Windsor that the            
Emperor Dutch Spanish and other Ambassadrs delivered his Majte Memoriales       
to pray his Mediatorship betweene ym and the ffrench King that a Common         
Place might be assigned to negotiate a Gennerall Peace in order to settle       
the Tranquility in Europe  The Emperialists Army is Decamped from Raab          
and tis wrote that they design to besiege Gran a Turkish Garrison on the        
ffrontier and hope to Carry the same before they Can Advance with their         
Army to itts Releife, Advise ffrom fflandrs say that the ffrench is             
Building a Bridge over the Rhine near the weasell by wch tis feared             
they have some Design on Holland                                                
     L.c. 1381     [Handwriting changes here.]    London the 26 May l683        
+I gave you an accoumpt in my last that the Ld Cheife Justice                   
Saundrs was taken ill in ye Court at Westminster on Tuesday last with a         
paralyticke or some other Chronicall Distemper since which has continued        
under soe much Indisposicon as not to be able to Officiate at the               
Severall Sittings after the Tearme in Guild Hall London but Confind             
to his Bedd which I am told has brought a reflux of the Diabetes upon           
his Ldpp attended with virulent paines of the head but his Phisitians           
are not without hopes of Abateing ye Malady and once more Thro ye               
Devine assistance to recover his Ldpp from ye Malignancy of his                 
Infirmityes                                                                     
     Yesterday the Ld Lansdowne Eldest Sonne of the Earle of Bathe              
pursuant to his heroick inclination of Signalizing his valour in the            
Imperiall Campaigne agt the Enemy of Christianity the Turke sett forward        
on that Expedition being attended some Miles out of Towne with his Noble        
father ye Earle and other Relacons and ffriends wishing him and the             
Cause a Prosperous Event:                                                       
     Collonell W-- late ffarmer of the Generell Postoffice is at prsent         
soe far under the Displeasure of his Royall highness as that either an          
Action of Scandulum Magnatum will be Commenced agt him or some other            
Legall process but as yett the Occation is not Certainly knowne therefore       
shall forbeare conjectures.                                                     
     I am given to understand that the Magistracy of the City are               
Considering (if by law it may be effected) to reduce the Choyce of              
Major Sherriffs Chamberlayne & other City Officers to the Suffrages             
of A Common Councell and not as Usuall by a Comon hall which are composed       
of the Livery of the Severall Companies now far more numerous then at ye        
first Constitucon by reason 40 Companies were since comprised wch tis           
said if at all may be pformed by repealeing those acts of Comon Councell        
now in force for ye same & Enacteing others wch may settle the poynt            
     A writt ne Exeat Regno is taken out agt Sr. Patients Ward                  
     This day the Effigies of King Charles the first of blessed memory          
most richly Embellished with Gold was affixed wthin side of the Royall          
Exchange                                                                        
     Yesterday was spread abroad a Reporte that ye D of Albemarle was           
dead in ye Country but upon exact Enquiryes beleive ye contrary  Lres           
dated Wedensday last gave an accot yt his Grace was Imbarqued on a              
Yaught at Topsam in Devonshire in Ordr to returne home                          
     & it being Genllly sayd the King of Spaine was deceased I find             
in this dayes Lres from Madrid on ye l5 May otherwise  On the 5th               
his Matie at Aranjuez was seized wth a Tertian ague upon which his              
phisitians advised him to change ye aire and then upon ye l0th his              
Matie returned to Madrid and was let blood & tho he continued weak yet          
in all appearance perfectly out of Danger                                       
     The states of Holland were much alarmd at the Demand of ye                 
English relateing to Bantam have Ordrd their East India Company to              
meet them on ye 2l June touching the English memorialle in Ordr to              
consider of some Compensation.                                                  
     Yesterday one John Cullivant was seized & charged before Ld Major          
for handing a treasonable paper to the press Entitled the 2d part of the        
Growth of popery & his pocket being also searched there were found divers       
Unaccomptable papers whereupon his Ldpp committed him close prisoner to         
Newgate without haveing pen ink & paper                                         
     Tis wrote from Vienna of ye [date removed by seal] May yt 2 Polish         
ambassadrs will remaine there One at Court the other in ye army & the           
Persian ambassadr at Mosco had declared that his Master will joyne wth ye       
Emperor & Poland agt ye Turk provided they will do ye same & wth 200000         
men Imediately Lay Seidge to Babylon                                            
     This day the E India Company received lres by way of Alleppo from          
the E Indies wch sayes a shipp the Merchants Delight an Inloper to those        
pts Capt Alburson Comandr was Cast away but most of ye men saved                
     Further advise from Vienna Confirme ye designe of ye Imperialst            
Designeing to beseidge ye Gran & Berban 2 Turkish Garrisons the latter of       
wch if they Carry itt before ye body of Turks can releive itt they will         
cutt off ye Communicacon betweene Newhawsell & Budda wch will then              
mightily Contribute to yr prservation.                                          
     L. c. l382     [Handwriting changes here.]     London May ye 29 l683       
     I gave you some intimacon in my last as yt collonell Whittle late          
ffarmer of ye generall Post Office was undr his Royuall highnesses              
Displeasure & supposed yt a Scandalum Magnatum would be ye effect               
thereof but have strictly enquired thereon & find it to Centre in a             
Writt out of ye Excheqr to call ye said Collonell to a Retrospiccon of          
his Accompts relateing to ye Post House &c.                                     
     Our Lres from Holland say yt ye Dutch upon ye late demand of ye            
English Ambassidors for Restitucon of Bantam togeather wth the Damages          
they have reced thereby are in great Paine for a safe arrival of their          
E India ffleet now expected and therefore have ordered their men of             
Warr to meet them upon their way to convoy them home least they should          
be attacqued by England ffrance or Denmark by way of reprizeall for ye          
damage at Bantam.                                                               
     Sunday last one Colins an Anabaptist preacher at Shadwell was taken        
preaching in a Conventicle and Committed to Newgate                             
     In my last I told you yt one John Culliford was by my Ld Major             
committed for treason to Newgate for handing to ye Ruesse [?] a Booke           
intituled ye Second Part of Ye Growth of Popery since wch ye Printer            
is seized & Comitted for ye like Crimes to ye sd place and yt wch is            
observable ffrancis Smith Junior whoo a long season has published those         
sort of Bookes without Authorityes being able to find out ye Author is          
now become ye Evidence agt them and tis believed will impeach divers others.    
     Yesterday arrived 2 shipps from ye Straights aboard of whome is            
come Mr Oneby the Barbary Mercht from Tangeire who accompanyed ye late          
Morrocco Ambassidor thithr & directly took his way to Windsor Castle to         
give his Matie an Accot of ye posture of Affaire in that Garrison as alsoe      
that of ye Emperor wth pticulares I cannot transmit you till my next.           
     The Ld Preston his Maties extraordinary Envoy at ye ffrench Court          
haveing been sometime in England returns againe tomorrow on his Embassy         
     His Matie wee hear has laid asside his intentions of going to sea          
this Sumer                                                                      
     The E India Lres gives a furthr Accot yt a Second Interlopr being          
driven to Selene [?] belonging to the dutch was deserted by all her men         
save 2 & thereby incapable of makeing a voyage home                             
     Wee have an Accot from St Ives in Cornwall that about a weeke since        
there happened ye most dreadfullest Storme as evr they saw and those pts        
two of his Maties ffriggottes narrowly escaped shipwrack one haveing            
spent her maine Mast ye other forced from h[er] Anchors & Drove to              
sea  two Mercht men were quite lost & they observed afterwards a ffleet         
Sayling by ye Lands end wch was most insparably Shattered Scarce one            
of them without Some considerable Damage                                        
     Saturday being finished the Effigies of ye late King Charles ye            
inscription to satisfy ye curious is (Vizt)                                     
                        EIKON BASILIKH  [This line is in Greek letters,         
                 Serenissimi et religiosissimi    the only such letters         
                     Principis Caroli primi        in all the Newdigate         
               Anglia Scotia ffrancia & Hibernia               series.]         
                    Regiis fidie defensores [?]                                 
               Bies Martyries in Corpore & Effigie                              
                    Impies Rebellium Manibus                                    
               Ex Hoc Loco Deturbata et confracta                               
                         A:D:MDC:XLVIII                                         
                 Restituta & hic domum Collacata [?]                            
                         A:D:DC:LXXXIII                                         
     L. c. l383     London May 3l l683.                                         
     Yesterday ye Ld high Chamberlaine of England gave directions of ye         
Scaffolds in Westmr hall on wch was tryed ye late Ld Stafford forthwth          
to be taken down there being no prospect at prsent of any further               
pceeding in yt kind wch when ye same is cleared ye loyall Aprentices            
of Westmntr will be magnificiently treated therein                              
     The Duke of Albemarles alias Clarendon House built by ye Ld                
Chancellor adjacent to St Jameses in ye way to Hide Parke being sometime        
since sold to ffrith ye buildr for 32000 L whoe designes to make thereof        
a Square has been stopt from pceeding therein but ffriday last yt               
ffamous Structure began to be pull'd downe                                      
     Yesterday l0 of ye judges had a private meeting to consider to             
sevrall weighty affaires agt ye Approching  tearm As ye Argumt of               
ye Citty Charter ye bayleing of ye Earle of Danby &c but ye Ld Chief            
Justice and Cheif Baron were absent as both of them lyeing undr a               
severe indisposicon of health  ye result of their debates I cannot say          
     The Earle of Danby ye beginning of this weeke was taken very ill           
and his Physicones feare that he will scarce live to be brought to              
Westmr Hall                                                                     
     Our Holland Lres say yt Sr Wm Waller who is retyred from England           
to yt Country is in great likelyhood to Command a Redgemt in ye service         
of ye King of Sweeden                                                           
     The fflandrs Lres say yt ye Marquis De Grana being in some                 
Apprehention of a surprize by ye ffrench has shifted all his Garrisones         
& strengthned ye ffronteeres & sent a Strong Convoy of Provision and            
ammunicon into Luxenburgh wch allmost on all sides is blocked up by             
ye ffrench Troopes                                                              
                   [Handwriting changes here.]                                  
     Letters from Vienna by this days Post say that Count Tasse [?]             
redgemt wch was marching for hungary is Countermanded there being               
some Apprehention of ye french attacque upon ye Empror  Count Teckl[y]          
still keeps ye Emperor under suspence tretyes now offering to adhere            
& joine wth his Matie Provided ye Emperour will grant him full                  
Soveraine authority in hungary wth ye free Exercise of their Relidgon.          
     But tis farther advised yt ye Cham of Tartary is Arrived at                
Zouemburgh [?] wth 80000 to joyne yt Prince who both are March to offer         
whose Vizier has likewise 40000 Turks                                           
     The Emarke [?] in Gran Haveing Intelligence yt ye Imperiallist             
Designes to Beseidge ym have taken down all ye tops of ye houses to             
make defense against the Bombs.                                                 
     The Duke of Lorraine being decamped from Raab and Marched into ye          
Turks Territoryes has taken 150 villages into His Protection.                   
     The Bassaw of Caminecque [?] has sent to ye Great Turks for a              
supply to make Opposition against ye Poles 200 Turks Ravaging neare             
Lowinth [?] wherby ye Emperors forces Cut them to Peices.                       
     ffrom Lubeck tis Advised that a great quantety of Carts Spades             
Matocks &c were there prepared for Denmarke  16 of their Shippes already        
put to sea & are Night & Day Hard att Worke prparing Bombes and                 
ffireworks & have a traine of l8 Pei[ces?] of Cannon and about 30000            
land soldier[s] haveing pro[s]peckt of some great undertaking,                  
     ffrom Ratisbone tis advised yt ye Debates of ye Publique Security          
of ye Empire are at a Stand Nothing of Tempermt [?] being found Between         
ye 2 Colledges.                                                                 
     The East India Companyes sale wch was to Have bin this Day                 
supposing ye Surrat Shipps would have been Arrived wch Not Happening the        
same is farther adjourned till Michalmas next                                   
+Mr Onby ye Barbary Mercht who I acquainted you Last Post was arrived from      
Tangeire and Gon for Windsor is now Returned by whome is advised yt ye          
Emperor will make good ye Peace Agreed att Land but Not at sea without a        
New Treaty but has Promised that in Case our men of Warr will Not Attaque       
any of theres our Merchants shall be ffree from Mollestation untill an          
Express carryer Come from England, that Jonas the Renegado is in favor as       
alsoe ye Ambassador as much as Ever that the report of killing his Wife         
& Receiving 100 Blowes are altogether ffictious but Certaine that he            
was Tyed to a Mules Tayle to be Draged to peices but ye Emperors                
Displesur was cheifly agt him for Vissiting His Wife Befor he Came to           
ye Emperor yt ye Emperor is like to get ye Better of his Nephew Muly            
Ish Mall haveing bought of a great man of his party and beat some of his        
forces in a ffight                                                              
     L. c. l384     London 2d June l683                                         
     The Ld Ch: Justice Saundrs is so far Recovered as to admitt of a           
Removall to his Country House att Parsons Greene  ye Ld Ch: Barons              
distempr Centers onely into an Ague  Ye E: of Danby Continues his               
Violent indispicon and Ye E: of Salisbury is fallen into a Relapse.             
     Thursday night ye Dukes of Grafton and Albemarle Returnd from              
Devonsheire  ye first is Prparing to goe to sea to Comand a Squadron for        
ye Sumers Guard.                                                                
     The same Day their Royall hignesses Came from windsor dined wth ye         
E: of Kildare in ye afternoone Countenanced a new play wth their prsence        
and yesterday Morning Returned                                                  
     Capt Arnold of Monmouth Sheire who formerly was Barberously wounded        
has a declaration deliverd him upon an accon of Scandalum Magnatum              
brought by ye Duke of Beauford wch will be tryed this next terme.               
     Tis said Sr Robt Clayton will be proceeded againe by way of                
Extortion                                                                       
     Hilton ye Grand Informer has prferred many Informations in ye Crowne       
Office agt Divers Constables & Overseers of the Poore for Neglecting of         
thire Duty upon ye Conventicle Act.                                             
     Yesterday on[e] Bolton a Goldsmith & Quaker in Lumbard Street had          
his goods seized upon distresse upon divers Convictions of ye                   
Conventicle Act.                                                                
     The Scaffolds in Westmr Hall begin to be taken down in wch place           
will be ye greatest feast at some ages cannot paralel  forty stewards           
will be appointed ffoure Ranges of Tables from on[e] End to ye other            
affixed, most of ye Nobility and Gentery about Towne invited the loyal          
youth of ye outpts will participate thereof and be to agrandise ye              
Entertainmt  Ye Ld Mayor Alderman and Leiftenancy be desired to be              
prsent but ye time as yet not appointed.                                        
     In ye Artillery by Read Lyon feilds is prparing a great Number of          
Scaffoldes in wch place will be prformed scarce ever befor in England           
ye Spanish way of Worying of Bulls wth men on a Horse back and ffoote           
wch Pastime thy tell us will Continue for a ffortnight.                         
     Upon Mr Onbys accot of ye posture of affaires between ye garrison          
of tangeire and ye Emperour of Morrocco an Express is Ordered forthwith         
to be dispatched thither.                                                       
     Sr John Berry Comandr of his Maties shipp ye Heneretta is arrived          
in ye West from Cadis with Divers Mercht men under her Convoy.                  
     Thursday Night a Person Landing at Deptford Came to a House Praying        
ye woman to Lodge him yt season haveing suficent to pay her demands wch         
after some scruples granted Prcautiously advertising not to Discourse           
amongst her Nightbours of haveing a Lodger gave her Cause of suspiscion         
& when her Guist was in bead brought ye Constable who Rousing Him               
his Language was altered into Dutch, yt Night his Portmantua being              
secured he was yesterday befor Sr Wm Hickes a Justice of Peace in               
those parts  His portmantua being opened were found 37 Letters in               
divers Caractars but None Present Could understand a Line  a Dutchman           
his Interpreter said he was Not of theire Nation but believed ffrench           
upon wch Sr Wm Orderd Him to be kept safe and sent to Courte for                
Directions how farther to Proceede whither this will Prove sham or Not          
[sic]                                                                           
     Yesterday ye Duke of Monmouths Coachman being in a shoppe in ye            
strand & one Lane a Light Guard man accosted him wth How Long will              
you were yt Whigg Livery and upon Answr thereto declared ye Duke His            
Master to be a sonn of a W-- a Traytor & other foule Language wch the           
Coachman Resenting Returned him An Answr wch with his fist who Drawing          
his sword was Disappointed disarmed & Cryed pecanay [?] but ye Coachman         
Continuing still in ye shop was afterwards most grosly handled by               
Divers Persons said to be Officers who wth a Great Pare of Sheires gave         
him divers Blows with some Hurts wch ye being advertised of Imediatly           
Dispatched His page to Windsor to Give His Matie a full Account of this         
Proceeding & to pray justice thereon.                                           
+This day Came a forraigne male & advertises one from Holland yt 16             
ffrench men of Warr & 4 fire shipps were ffitting out at Brest being            
Designed to Join ye Danish ffleet, that King was Preparing a splendid           
Ambassy for England  ye french King Presses them not to suffer His Army         
to be Idle but to Renew His Pretenttions to Hamburrough & Bremen and            
Raise ye Antient Glory of ye Goths a[n]d Vandalls Not withstanding our          
late advises gave an account yt ye Duke of Brandenburg was Entred               
into New Engagmts wth ye french  I have it wrote ye contrary (Viz)              
yt His Highness has absolutly Refused ye Lodgmt of 10000 in his Contryes        
or so much to admit ym to Retreat therein wch Incenses ye french                
Letters from Vienna of ye 27th say yt ye Duke of Loraigne was Encamped          
at Romorra [?] and Not Entred any design till he Can be Certainly               
asshured of ye Posture of ye Enemy & ye Vizier of Offen has sent to             
him to be a Cessation for 14 Dayes which he refused                             
     ffrom Colloingne tis wrote yt ye Majestrates and Burghers being at         
Variance the Latter Demanded Enterance Into ye Towne hall but was denyed        
by ye souldiers whose officers orderd ym to fire upon ym Instead of             
which they threw Downe there Armes and Departed as not being willing to         
Ingage aganst ye Cittyzens upon which ye Burghers seized ye Officers            
and Committed ym to prison and Tooke ye Citty into There Possesion.             
     L. c. l385     [Handwriting changes here.]     London June 5 l683          
     I informed you lately that one Jackson a pewterer had 500 L                
worth of his goods seized by way of distresse being convicted severall          
times as the owner of a Conventicle since which Jackson arrested Sr             
James Smith the Justice before whome such Conviccon was made as also the        
severall persons who assisted in the Seizure; judging that they had done        
contrary to Law but upon what ground I cannot say; The said goods so            
seized were on Saturday night brought home and sett before his doore            
Which at first he scrupled to take in, but being better advised tooke           
possession of them.                                                             
     Tomorrow will be held a Common Councill when the affaire of Broome         
the Coroner will be reassumed with some other considerable matter.              
     'Tis generally said that the Lord Cheife Justices indisposicon will        
not admitt him to sitt upon the Bench the approaching Terme at leastwise        
the opening thereof.  Some pretend to know how the affaire of the Charter       
will be carried on this day Sennight, Sayeing that the Lord Cheife              
Justice will send his opinion in writeing And that in Case the Cort             
adjudge the Charter to be forfeited a Lord Mayor will the next Day be           
constituted by Commission but a weekes time will give us the result.            
     Yesterday morning the Earle of Salisbury departed this Life at his         
seate of St Albans                                                              
     The Earle of Danby continued his indisposicon which is soe prevalent       
upon him That his Life is in Danger, Sunday his Lpp was prayed for in           
most Churches in and about London.                                              
     Fryday last her Matie was in Towne and prsent at the Consecracon of        
her Chappell at St Jameses which was much defaced by the late ffire in          
the adjacent ffryery.                                                           
     The Royall ffishery which formerly received interrupcon by the             
ffrench seizeing their Busses under pretence that they were Dutch               
bottomes when he was at variance with those people is now established           
againe 20 persons haveing already subscribed 500 L each and the Company         
taken a great house in Arundell buildings where they dayly sitt to carry        
On that worke.                                                                  
     Yesterday was held 2 Corts of Aldermen The one in the fforenoone           
the latter in the affternoone.  At the former was a long dispute                
between Christs and St. Bartholomewes hospitall the latter demanding 500        
marks yearly from the other but could not make out the pretencon.  In the       
Afternoone the Cort heard a Controversy between the Steward and Bayliffe        
of Southwarke the said Bayliffe chargeing the Steward in diverse Articles       
in order to out him of his place, That he favoured the Whiggish party           
and thought to make himselfe popular in order to be chosen a Burgesse           
for the Burrough, but the Steward soe well acquitted himselfe from all          
objeccons, that the Cort will Scarce turne him out but have deferred it         
further till ffryday.                                                           
     A Writt, ne exeat regno, is Said to be taken out agt Sr Thomas             
Player our Chamberlaine.                                                        
     The Leiutenancy of the Citty have appointed Commissioners of their         
owne in diverse wards to assesse the Tax of Trophey money and not the           
Common Councillmen who usually performed that worke.                            
     Three Souldiers in St Jameses Parke [?] [endeavour?]ing to extort          
money from 3 Gentlemen there late were upon Complaint turned out of the         
Guards.                                                                         
     A noted Papist haveing since the time of Doctor Lloyds being               
Rector of St Martyns in the ffeild publiquely renounced the Romish              
ffaith but has now declar'd to Doctor Tenneson Minister of the said             
parrish that he is extreamly sorry for his Apostasy and therefore finds         
himselfe obliged to returne to his Mother Church the See of Rome upon           
which the Doctor has appointed one day next weeke to argue with him             
for the protestant Religion against that of the papists.                        
    Lres from Vienna of the 30th May advise that upon the March of the          
Emperors fforces the Turkish Peeres [?] have prayed Sanctuary with their        
good in Raab and Comorra.  Yesterday a Courier arrived here with advise         
That the Duke of Lorraine had invested Gran a Turkish garrison and was by       
this time playeing agt it with his Cannon and that the 4000 horse That          
Duke sent out had attaqued and carried the bridge of Eleck over the             
Danube and had 700 Turkes in that garrison.                                     
     Lres from Ratisbonne of 31st of May bring newes that the ffrench           
plenipotentiaries have declared to ye Deputyes of the Empire that they          
should sett forward & promote the Treaty of peace  otherwise their              
Master would be forced to take other measures, And the Lres from                
Brussells of the 6th of June say that the Chamber of Metz have declared         
great part of the Citty of Luxemburgh & some villages thereto belonging         
to appertaine to the ffrench King which does not a little disturb this          
Court who are resolved to preserve the Citty though with hazard of all.         
     L.c. 1386     [Handwriting changes here.]    Lond the 7th June l683        
+Yesterday the Ld Major held a Court of Common Councell in Guildhall            
where Considerable matter was Transacted Vizt                                   
     Affter the proceedings of the last Common Councell were read over,         
the Committee to whom the inspection of the Acts of Common Councell sett        
to be repeald as past in the Late time of usurpation made their Report          
Bringing in a List of Above 100 ffrom the yeare of forty to sixty               
     upon wch some Debates arose as yr ought to be Time to Consider             
whither some of ym might not to be of use  Butt in ffine the question was       
putt for all of ym in grosse and Carryed it in the Affirmetive  A gate          
demanded but no members going out twas Recorded pro Confesso Among those        
Acts is Repealed one that Tooke Away the Ld Majors and Court of Aldermens       
prerogatives in nominating Citty officers ffor the Choice of Chamberlain        
Bridgmaster &c.                                                                 
     Whereby those officers wch before were lately nominated & Elected          
by the Common Hall must now Be nominated by the Ld Major out of whom            
the Common Hall must Choose for those offices  Afterwards the Said              
Committee recomended to the Court how Essentially necessary it was to           
the prerogative of the Chaire that the Ld Major & Aldermen have a               
negative voyce vizt That they shall not be bound to putt a question             
wch they Conceive shall Tend to the discrace of the Citty Bringing the          
Hands of Divers Councells of Law given Sometime since vizt Sr ffrancis          
Pemberton Meynard Winnington Jeofferies wch being putt to the vote was          
Carryed in ye Affirmative.                                                      
    Then an explicatory Act to that in ye Marallty of Sr Robt duey in ye        
year 30 was read the first & second time being to Settle ye Choyce of           
one of ye Sheiriffs to prevent further ryotts and other disturbances in         
the Citty wch runs that the person dranke to by Lord Mayor at the Bridge        
house shall be in nominacon of one of the Sherriffs and soe confirmed by        
the Commons in Case any hands be for him                                        
     The same likewise admitted of Considerable debates but the question        
putt to whether itt should be past or recommitted a pole was demanded           
but carryed in the affirmative yeas 113 noes 78                                 
     Last of all the Comittee to whose managemt ye defense of ye Citty          
Charter was referred made their report but no debate arose to desire a          
noli prosequi or otherwise about itt but thanks returned to the Comittee        
for their care and dilligence of the prosecution of that affaire                
     Noe report made by the Comittee relateing to the Coroner                   
     The Earle of Danby continues his indisposition and his Phisitians          
have given itt under their hands that itt is necessary for his health           
to take ye Aire in order to incli[ne ye?] judges to admitt him liberty          
upon bai[l in the?] Terme begining to morrow which if [his Ld?]shipp            
succeeds in ye other lords in the Tower intend to move the Court upon ye        
same account.                                                                   
     The scaffolds in Westminster Hall are intirely taken downe and all         
the materialls cleaared away.                                                   
     Yesterday letters from Newcastle gave advice that 2 Scotchman being        
in a watermans boate in order to take shipping for Holland discoursed           
of some unwarrantable proceedings whereby the said waterman gave such           
notice as to have them secured wch as ye same was perfecting one of them        
flunge into ye water a wooden box wch being recovered & searched some           
by men wth [?] most dangerouse and treasonable papers were founde therein       
in order to carry on a rebellion in Scotland & itt is wrote that 2              
Commissions were allsoe inclosed one said to be directed to Capt Hamilton       
in Holland  the persons who headed ye ["persons" and "Rebells" come next        
but are cancelled] at Bothwell bridge upon which the 2 persons were             
comitted & itt is said will be brought up for London in order to search         
into the death of that [illegible word of seven letters]   Wee have a           
discourse that Mr Papillion & duboise since ye tryall of the Ryoters &          
the Common Councell disclaiming their accons upon the Ld Mayor would have       
discontinued ye same but I finde they have delivered their declaracons          
to the ld Mayor & Aldermen in order this Terme if they can to be the            
Issue of that Affaire.                                                          
     L.c. 1387     Handwriting changes here.]     London the 9 June 1683        
+Notwithstanding some unintelligible writers have declared that the             
Earle of Salisbury is not deceased as I intimated to yow yet without            
any scruple of doubt I am assured thereof & yt his Ldpp has                     
Constituted the Earles of Bedford & Essex togeather wth ye Lord                 
Ch Barron Mountague the Trustees of his Estate which he has bequeathed          
very bountifully among his children & his eldest sone of l7 yeares of           
age the Paternall Estate of 12000 L p Annu Cleare to 4 younger sonnes           
500 L p Annu each & his 5 daughters 10000 L sevrall in ready money at           
day of Marriage or 2l yeares of age & all his servants and benefactors          
Considerable Annuityes                                                          
     I Omitted to acquaint yow in my last that ye Ld Major on Thursday          
held the Bridghouse feaste & past ye Ceremony of ye Cupp & drank to             
Mr Aldrman Daniell whereby psuant to Wedensday proceedings of ye                
Common Councell he will be one of our Sheriffs                                  
     Little of Certainty haveing been lately knowne of the time of              
Comeing of Prince George from Denmarke I now am very Credibly advised           
that on Wedensday last 2 Buckes were Killd in St Jameses Parke wch are          
putting up with other Choyce provision to bee sent aboard of sevrall            
Yaughts wch within a day or 2 setts sayle for Gluestadt on ye River             
Elbe where they take on ye prince to transport him for England                  
     I am likewise by credible hands informed that ye ffrench Ambassdr          
has signifyed to his Matie that his Master designes to send a ffleete of        
shipps into ye Baltick sea now Equipping at Brest Craveing leave to             
sayle thro our Channell &c but I cannot undertake to inform yow of ye           
result                                                                          
     The Holland ffleete will in 10 days put to sea being most Capitall         
shippes & well furnished wth warlike provision & ye most ablest Comandrs        
they have who will likewise take yr Course for ye Sound wch in probability      
may occasion some Action                                                        
     Yesterday being ye first day of the Terme little of Moment occurrd         
by reason ye Ld Ch Justice Saunders & Mr Justice Raymond were absent            
from ye Kings bench ye former still Continuing his Indisposicon the             
latter afflicted wth violent ffitts of ye stone & the Ld Ch Baron               
Mountague of ye Exchange was alsoe absent being not fully recovered of          
his late feavour & ague                                                         
     Most of ye City Ryotters appeared psuant to yr Recognizances &             
involved againe in arrest of Judgmt wch by reason the Courts not being          
full that point was referrd to be argued next ffriday  in ye meantime           
they are to acquaint Mr Attorney Genll wth what heads they intend to            
debate that the King may know how to defend agt them                            
     A Country Rustick had an Informacon prferred agt him to which he           
pleaded not Guilty the Court takeing his owne Recognizance of 1000 L to         
appeare the words being that he should say that the people made ye Lawes        
& ye King was only to put them into Exec[ution] or to yt Effect                 
     Whereas mr Verdon the last Terme had a verdict of 46 [?] agst              
Tophams messengers of the house of Commons for a 3d Cambridgesheire             
jury and the said messengrs obtained a writt of Error and gave ye ptl           
notice yet ye said Verdon Contrary to practice posted to Norwich and            
upon a Market daye seized dispoiled and carryed away the said messengrs         
good[s] breaking their Loomes.                                                  
     Which Exhorbitante & Illegall proceedings being yesterday by               
Councill moved in ye Court of Kings Bench ye judges ordrd a rule of             
Court that ye said Goods Illegally taken away should forthwith be               
restored & mr Verdon together with ye Sheiriffe that made the seisure           
be sent for up to answere the Contempt.                                         
+The Ld Keeper has supseded the Statute of Bankrupt wch was lately              
taken out agt ye late Aldrman Backwell.                                         
+The Yaughts designed to fetch over prince George departed last night           
sevrall Noblemen on ye pte of ye King & R Highness are Ordrd to attend          
him hither & I heare yt 10000 L is remitted to our London Merchants for         
ye use of ye Prince & ye sport of Joquo de Tauro or ye fighting of Bulls        
proceeds the Millitary Ground being a prpareing for yt purpose                  
+Capt Sands the E India Interloper this daye againe involved by Councell        
for a prohibition which ye Court absolutely denyed whereupon he will            
bring his Cause into ye Comon Pleas to be tryed there  Yesterday was a          
further heareing by ye Court of Aldrmen by Councell on both sides between       
ye steward & Balliffe of Southwark Court for Irregularityes charged upon        
ye steward by ye balliffe wch after 5 howers debate the steward was by ye       
Court adjudgd to lose his place but not any nominated to succeed him            
     L.c. l388     [Handwriting changes here.]     London June 14 l683          
     Tuesday being ye time yt Judgemt was given agt ye Chartr of                
London I had well nigh finished my Lettr wn an ordr came from ye Ld             
Mayor into my house & seized all ye sd Lres togeathr wth myselfe & servt        
is [?] anything done but die & others besides wch prventd yt party              
transmitting you ye pceeds of ye Day wch you must excuse as alsoe this          
slendr informacion at prsent                                                    
     The subject Mattr of ye Judgemt agt ye Chartr was deliverd by Mr           
Justice Jones declareing yt he had attended ye Ld Ch: Justice wth his           
othr 2 Bretheren of ye bench & found him to agree in evry pticular wth          
ym Vizt                                                                         
     That a Corporacon might be seized & forfeited & yt ye levying may          
wthout legall authority was a [about five letters illegible] cause of           
forfeiture and alsoe ye scandalous petioning his Matie                          
     That these actes were ye actes of ye Corporacon & yt ye enjoyndr           
does not justify any of them & yt ye Informacon was well brought & yt           
upon ye whole judgmt ought to be given for ye King yt ye Cittys                 
libertyes [?] & ffranchises be seized into ye Kings hand but Mr Attorney        
Genll moved yt Judgment might not be entred till his Maties pleasure be         
furthr known                                                                    
     upon wch ye Ld Mayor held yestrday a Court of Aldrmen & this day a         
Court of Common Councill where Mr Recordr acquainted ym yt ye City              
Comtte had done wt End ym lay to defend ye Chartr but ye Judges had             
given Judgemt for ye King  nothing more therefore remaynes [but?] to            
implore his Maties grace & favor acknowledgeing to prserve ye Corpacon          
from being desolved wch ye Court immeadiately asserted to the King 6            
loyall Aldrmen and 12 Comonrs who forthwith drew up a very submissive           
consice & well worded peticon to cast themselves at his Maties ffeet &          
praying his Grace & favor preferring it to be deliverd by ye Ld Mayor           
and such othrs hee should nominate wn his Maties pleasure should [be?]          
knowne [about fifteen letters illegible]                                        
     L.c. 1389     [Handwriting changes here.]    London the l6 June l683       
     The Court of Kings bench haveing on Tuesday given Judgmt upon ye           
Quo Warranto that ye City Libertyes & ffranchises be seized into ye             
kings hands but suspended the Recording thereof till his Maties pleasure        
be further knowne  psuant thereto yesterdayes Comon Councell agreed a           
petitionary address wch as yet does not Come to hand but in substance           
that they acknowledge for some yeares past to have misgoverned ye City          
promiseing a future amendmt & in most humble manner left themselves at          
his Maties feete Imploreing his grace and favour wthout Expressing any          
pticuler request  the Ld Mayor wth whome els he shall think fitt to             
take wth him goes this day to Windsor the Common serjeant haveing been          
already there to know when his Matie will be attended therewith                 
     Severall on account of the City Ryoters moved the Ld Keeper for            
a writt out of Chancery to be directed to ye Court of King's bench to           
receive their Bill of Excepcons but it was oposed by Mr Attorney Genll          
alledgeing that if ye same should be Granted Noe Malefactor but would           
then Evade his Sentence.                                                        
     And the Ryoters appearering this day in Court twas Expected they           
should have been fined but by reason of ye Indisposicon of the Ld Ch            
Justice & Mr Justice Raymond both absent they were referrd till Tuesday         
next                                                                            
     Dr Darell Deane of Windsor dyed there on Sonday last & we are              
informed that Dr Turner one of his Royall Highnesses Chaplaines &               
Residentiary of St Pauls will succeed in yt promotion                           
     And this weeke the parish of Aldermanbury in this City made a              
Choyce of Dr Stratford Deane of Bangor to supply the vacancy of Dr              
Callamy who is removed to St Laurence upon ye death of Dr Whitchott             
     The yaughts appointed to fetch over Prince George from Gluestadt           
being fallen downe ye river the Lds Arran & Churchill togeather wth             
Collonel Sunderland & others yesterday followed after to accompany ye           
Prince Over a parlment being already prpared for him in Windsor Castle.         
     Severall of ye foraigne Ministers viz the Emperors Spaine Sweeden          
Holland &c have delivered at Windsor A 2d Memoriall to desire his Matie         
to take upon him ye Mediatorshipp to adjust & settle ye Tranquility of          
Europe now in Danger to be disturbed by ye ffrench                              
     One of ye persons Convicted last Terme upon ye Quo warranto                
brought for Exerciseing Majestracy in the City of Worcester appeareing in       
ye Court of Kings bench was only fined 6 s 8 d the rest being Ordrd to          
attend on Monday                                                                
     Lres from Holland say that Sr John Chardin his Maties Speciall             
Envoy to demand restitucon of the states for damage at Bantam has had           
Divers Conferences with the East India Company who Inclynes to repossess        
ye English in yt factory but as for ye money demanded for sattisfaccon          
they hope will not be insisted on.                                              
     This day ye Justices of peace of Middx most at Miles end Greene            
where after much debate among them wee are told agreed upon an Adress           
to be prsented to his Matie on behalfe of yt County that he would be            
Gratiously pleased to sepate ye County of Middx from yt of London & yt          
he would Nominate a Sheriffe for ym out of themselves As his Matie does         
in all other Countyes.                                                          
     The Ld Major has reced his Maties Ordr to be attended at Windsor           
wth ye City peticon on Monday whereupon his Ldpp has sent summons to            
most of ye Commee who drew up ye sd peticon to attend him thither very          
early wth ye same.                                                              
+Wee are Credibly Informed that his Matie inclynes to accept of ye              
Mediatorshipp beforemenconed wch if Continued then a Comon place will           
be ye next point agreed on to Compose ye prsent Misunderstanding betweene       
[ye] ffrench & his Neighbors                                                    
     L.c. l390     [Handwriting changes here.]     London June l9 l683          
     Yesterday morning early ye Ld Mayor accompanyed by Mr Recordr &            
most of ye Loyall Comtte of Aldremen & Comonrs who drew up ye Cittyes           
peticon in 10 Coaches repaired to Windsor where in a full Councill              
prsented the same upon yr knees wch being read ovr were ordrd to withdraw       
& after some short stay being called in were by ye Ld Kepr in his Maties        
name made acquainted yt his Matie expected an earlier peticon from them         
wch might have prvented ye prcedings agt yr Chartr to have come to a            
Judgemt yt his Matie tooke notice yre many Libells & pamphletts ye Citty        
suffered to goe abroad unpunished in Coffee houses &c but his Matie past        
by there indignities till they have such officrs as were not acceptable to      
him wch occasioned his Matie to have recourse to Law & yt Judgemt being         
now given for him he would make some use of it as yt                            
     Wee expected to have ye approbacon of ye Ld Mayor vizt yt after yr         
choise of him if his Matie did not aprove they should pceed to chuse a          
new & if ye 2d were not by his Matie approved then to nominate one himselfe     
as alsoe to approve of ye Sherriffs Recordr Common sergt Comon Cryr Towne       
Clerke Coronr & ye steward of ye Burrough of Southwarke & yt ye Court of        
Aldrmen have a powr to expell any one of these membrs upon due considracon      
had all wch they are to advise amongst themselves & which by reason of ye       
approaching choice of Sherriffs are on Sunday next his Matie expects to         
heare from ym on these points on Saturday  othrwise Mr Attorney Genll           
will have ordr to enter Judgemt agt them                                        
     They were afterwards most noblely entertained & about 5 in ye              
afternoone left Windsor & returned hither by 9                                  
     Saturday last was held a long Tryall agt one Mr Tromey [?] of ye           
Corporacon of Roy in Sussex by informacon out of ye Crowne office               
for a Ryott by disturbeing the Mayor de facto & not delivering him ye           
effigies of Authority when demanded the pticulars to long to incert but         
ye Jury yesterday gave yr verdict for ye King                                   
     A new Sett of Citty Ryottrs are brought on foot yesterday  a               
peremptory Rule was ordrd by ye Cort of Kings bench to plead today by           
wch pceeding yr tryalls will comence ye Sitting after ye Terme                  
     The prceedings of ye Quo Warranto agt ye City of Bristoll were             
argued & they ordrd to plead ye Close of ye Terme                               
     Yesterday 5 of ye prsons [of ye] corporacon of Worcester convic[t]ed       
last terme for exerciseing Magestracy wthout legall Authority was fined         
8 d each                                                                        
     This day ye Ld Mayor held a Cort of Aldrmen where they agreed yt a         
Comon Councell be called tomorrow to considr of ye aforesd peticons             
     The Ld Ch: Justice Saundrs lyes at ye point of death & Mr Justice          
Raymond tis feared will scarce recovr                                           
     This day was argued in ye Cort of Kings Bench by Councell on both          
Sides ye Affaire of ye City Ryotts wch tooke some houres whethr an              
arrest of Judgemt should be granted in yt Case but in Conclusion ye Court       
seemed to ovrrule ye same but deferred ye giveing of Judgemt till tomorrow      
     Noe fforreigne Mayle come                                                  
     The Ld C Justice Sanders departed [this life] this afternoone              
     L.c. 1391    London 2l June l683                                           
     Yesterday Mr Attorney Genll demanded Judgemt agt ye City Ryottrs but       
Mr Justice Jones hopeing yt he might have ye Assistance of Mr Justice           
Raymond by Monday deferred ye furthr sentenceing of ym to that time             
     Yestrday morning advise was brought yt ye Shipp Crowne Capt Dotrell        
Comandr an Interlopr from ye E: Indies was arrived and past ye Downes           
haveing on board her Mr Vincent & his ffamaly ye Companyes Cheife at            
Hensley up ye Rivr Gangis in wch place he has left Mr Hodges whome ye           
Company sent to take his place  And ye sd Interlopr bringes bad News That       
ye Lancaster Capt Goodlade Comandr one of ye Companyes Shipps was by            
Stresse of weathr upon ye breakeing up of Masoons at high watr marke            
drove on Shore by ye Bay of Bengall above a Mile into ye Land but ye men        
and goods saved                                                                 
     The said E: India Interlopr yesterday entered her ladeing at ye            
Egstrome horse [?] and is comeing up ye Rivr but some think shee will           
[illegible word of about twelve letters] be seized by ye Authority              
     Sevrall Shippes from Barbadoes yesterday arrived on board of one of        
wch is Sr Richard Dutton ye Govnour of yt Island whoe is come over to           
answr some Complaints agt ym at ye Councell board                               
     Yesterday ye Ld Mayor had a Common Councill to Considr upon his            
Maties prposalls to submitt to ye regulacons of eleccon of City Officrs         
wch before they met was published in their Sheets togeathr wth ye Citty         
peticon and ye Ld Keeprs report to ye Ld Mayor  At ye opening of ye Cort        
Mr Recordr gave an Accot of ye Pceedings agt ye Chartr as alsoe acquainted      
them of ye nature of ye prsent Judgemt and consequences thereof in case         
his Matie should enter it upon Record wch occasioned 4 houres debate p et       
contra ye one pty affirmeing yt it would be agt yr oathes to give any pt        
of yr Charter away.  The othr denying yt peticon for yt ye Law had given        
it away allready  therefore it was much bettr to save a Moiety then to          
lose all upon wch ye Question was put whether they should submitt to            
those Regulacons menconed in ye print & a Vote was demanded and carryed         
in ye Affirmative yeas (l04) Noes (86)                                          
     And ye Cort ordrd yt ye Ld Mayor and Cort of Aldrmen attend his            
Matie at Windsor to give Accot of yr pceedings                                  
     And considring yt Midsomr day was to neare ye Cort Voted yt ye             
Eleccon of Sherriffs for this yeare should be on ye Eighteenth July next        
     And Mr Common Serjt went this morning Early to Windsor to know his         
Maties pleasure when he will be attended wth all                                
     For these 2 dayes wee have bin allarmed wth a Treasonable Conspiracy       
agt ye King & Royall Brothr wch I am told is to this Effect yt on Palme         
Sunday Eve wn his Matie was supposed to returne from new markett this           
treason was to have been putt in Execucon in a narrow lane by Hodsdon a         
Cart being designed to be overturned wn ye Conspirator[s] wth divers            
Blundrbusses should ffire into his Maties coach and then with a certaine        
number Mastr ye Guards wch wn this treasonsable designe had been                
ppetrated then wth an Army to have seized ye Towr being headed wth great        
men and they tell us that there is pregnant and undenyable proof thereof        
by 4 Witnesses upon wch there are many Warrts a broad                           
     Mr Go[about seven letters frayed] Mr Worth Mr Holthrope [are]              
searched after and their paprs seized wch administrs ye subject of              
Discourse ye furthr discovry whereof wee must leave to tyme                     
     Capt Sands ye E: India Interloper this day moved in ye Cort of             
Common Pleas for a p[?]hibicon as formerly in ye Kings bench and ye             
Cort ordrd to be one Councill on both sides thereon on Monday                   
     L.c. l392     [Handwriting changes here.]     London June 23th 83          
     Lettrs from Vienna of ye l3th Instant advise yt ye Dk of Loraine ye        
6th & 7th haveing prepared his Batteryes agt Neuheusell the 8th & 9th           
plaid thereon wth his Cannon and Mortars wch destroyd most of their             
houses dureing wch tyme the Turks made a vigorous sally But were as             
Briskly repulsed wth the loss of l20 of their men and ye Imperialists 30        
among ym severall officrs sham [?] & Coll Hamburgh Adjutant to Generall         
Caprara was taken Prisoner by ye Turks and an Imperiall Gunner &                
Trooper rann to ye Enemy and instructed them bettr how to traverse their        
Cannon they shooting too high but on ye l0th a surprizeing express              
arrived in ye Campe bringing an Ordr written with ye Emprors owne hand          
to breake upp ye Seige wch ye Duke did wth much Regrett being advanced          
undr ye Enemyes Cannon and in greate prospect to be Mastrs thereof  The         
reason yt induced the Emperor to this designe is variously told  some           
write yt there are hopes of a prolongacon of ye Truce But others say, yt        
his Councill Judged itt to be a Worke of too long tyme to accomplish and        
yt the Ottoman Army was advanceing wth all Expedicon And yt ye Grand            
Seignior had Countermanded ye Tartars to act agst Poland as alsoe sent ye       
Bashaw of Caminieck a greate supply of Horse & foote together wth a large       
summ of money to Raise an Army of Cossacks to make Head agst ye Polish Army     
     The french Lettrs from Carcisin [?] in Languedock advise yt ye King        
hath ordred his forces to march towards Savoy wch they tell us are to           
assist ye Dk in his prsences to Genoa and from Brest they write yt Monsr        
Priully wth l6 men of warr 3 fireshipps & 6 flyboats was put to sea             
takeing his Cruise Northwards & was nott to open his Comission till hee         
had sailed 30 Leagues and att Thoulon and ordr was come to fitt out ll          
other shipps with ye greatest expedicon and att Marseills 60 Barques were       
getting ready to carry 60 men each the designe nott knowne                      
     Lettrs from Dover say that 20 french Shipps were discouvred off yt         
Port wch is believed are ye aforemenconed fleete from Brest                     
     From Amsterdam of ye 23th tis wrote yt ye Shipp Hollandia wch              
carryes ye Admiralls flagg was ye day before gott over ye Pampus where          
itt joyned most of ye fleete in the Texell wch are ready alsoe to put           
to sea                                                                          
     This day ye East India Interlopr wch lately arrived haveing Entered        
her Cargoe pd 3000 L for her Custom and will on Monday pay 2000 L more          
being extreamely rich & by reason ye Ld Lumbley & other Considerable            
persons are pte Owners therof she may escape from being seized wch              
Newes together wth ye Loss of ye East India Shipp Lancaster the                 
Auctions of ye Company doe abate being now but 220 L,                           
     Lettrs yesterday from Yorke tell yt ye ArchBishopp of yt place             
dyed ye beginning of this weeke                                                 
     This Weeke ye Company of Skinnrs who last yeare chos ye late Aldrman       
Pilkington their Master has now made a Reneme [?] by electing ye Loyall         
sr Wm Russell into yt Chaire.                                                   
     The treasonable Conspiracy lately discovered agst his Matie and            
Royall Highness every day since admitts of new discourse greate                 
pursuit being made agt those prsons said to bee Concerned wch are nott          
a few but most of them as yett abscond  But yestrday Mr West's                  
Clarke who is accused to bee one of them was undr examinacon and in             
Custody and diligent Search every where made and wee are told the Ports         
are all stopt and Instructions sent to ye Leiutenancys in diverrs parts         
to have their Militia in a readiness in case of danger and a List goes          
abroade of 30 names of Principalls therin and tis discoursed yt by the          
Evidences wch depose ye Circumstances therof itt apeares even to                
Ballance ye Popish Plott itt Self.                                              
+Since wch mr west has Surrendred himself in [?] to Sr George Jeffryes          
aftrwards transmitted to ye Councill held att hampton Court where tis sd        
hee has made a large Discovery of yr formall proceeds  But by next I may        
give you a Certain Acctt.                                                       
+The 2 Sheriffs on Thursday by ordr of the Ld Mayor attended his Matie          
att Windsor to rendr an acctt of ye Common Councills proceedings ye day         
before yt they agreed to submitt to his Maties proposalls for Regulacon         
of Citty Officrs Upon wch his Matie exprest his greate Satisfaction &           
afection for his Loyall Citty of London giveing imediate ordr to Mr             
Attorney Generall to enter a Noli prosequi to stop proceedings uppon ye         
Judgmt agt ye Charter as alsoe to draw upp an Instrument to settle yt           
greate worke of his Maties approbacon of ye Ld Mayor Sheriffe &c for ye         
future.                                                                         
     L.c. 1393    [no date]                                                     
     My Men haveing sent away yre Lettr before Capt Wallcott tryall was         
over I therfore send ym a 2d to acquaint ym ye proceeds therof wch tooke        
upp ye whole tyme  ye other 3 arraigned will bee brought on too morrow          
togethr wth some others the Grand Jurys haveing found 21 Indictmts of           
treason [vizt] agt ye Dk of Monmouth Ld Gray Sr Thomas Armstrong                
fferguson and ye rest of ye Conspirators.                                       
     The Capt Challenged Severall of the Jury 4 Substantiall Evidence           
(vizt) Coll Rumsey mr West Keiling & Bourne severally deposed his being         
prsent wth ym in divers menconed Consults for ye killing of ye King and         
Royall Highness wch appeared to bee very barbarous  mr West for 2 howers        
gave a whole Scheme of ye plott  ye Capt. Could nott deny his being in          
Company wth ym but sd yt itt was only uppon business &c  But 2 Lettrs           
undr his owne hand being produced was very positive & undeniable                
proofe agt him.                                                                 
     The 1st being wrote to mr Secretary Jenkins since ye discovery of          
ye plott to intrceed wth his Matie for a pardon & if his Matie would            
vouchsafe to suffer him to come privately to him & the Secretary hee            
would make such a discovery as should doe his Matie more service yn ye          
takeing away his Life would doe him & alsoe goe privately to holland            
where many of ye Conspirattrs were fledd & hold secrett Correspondence          
wth ym &c.                                                                      
     The other Lettr was to mr West to desire him to bee favourable in          
his Evidence agt him imploying itt agt others in ye Conspiracy Both wch         
hee denyed to bee his hand writeing But being proved ye charge was given        
& ye Jury wthdrew in a short tyme & brought him in guilty of high treason.      
     L. c. 1394    London June 26th 83                                          
     Every day discovers a great aspect [?] into ye treasonable                 
Conspiracy agt the life of his Matie & Royall Highness wch appeares soe         
villanously to bee perpetrated as scarse to bee deciphered being                
attended wth such proofe as not in ye least by any scrupulous prson to          
bee doubted  on Saturday mr West's Clarke being detected in concealeing         
of Armes was Comitted to Newgate among the aforesd Gent papers found a          
Journall of ye king's head Clubb from ye yeare l678 to this tyme wth ye         
Characters of men his Chests of Armes (vizt) 30 pr of pistolls and as           
many musquetoones were fetched from on Shippboard now in ye porters             
Lodge wch are told mr West ownes to have been bought for ye aforesd             
designe wch was to have been put in Execution from out of ye house of           
Romball ye Malster in Hogsdon  One menconed in ye proclamacon and ye            
bettr to Colour ye intended traiterous Conspiracy the Ruffians                  
Desperadoes where to have been habited in like manner as his Maties             
Guards in Redd Coates and yt ye sd mr West & Richard Goodenough were            
to have given Out ye Ordrs, uppon wch many other Warrtts went abroade           
And as ye Messengr was Searching for ye Conspirattrs found Sr Patient           
Ward in a garrett  But haveing noe Instructions agt him passed him by           
Mr West hath since been reexamined & Wee are told Confesed much since           
which Coll Rumsey who marryed the Lady Smith and late Collector of ye           
Custom in Bristoll  another menconed in the proclamacton On Sunday              
night Surrendred himself and was greate part of yesterday under                 
examinacon and wee are told has outdone mr West in his discovery &              
Impeached some Considerable prsons as Actors therin some wherof are             
seized & others sent for and tis beleived will bee fattall to many  Coll        
Algernon Sidney Second Brother to ye Earle of Leicester & was brought           
before ye Councill & Comitted to ye Tower for high Treason  Major Wildman       
was brought alsoe before them att present undr the Custody of a Messengr        
and last Night his Royall Highness returned from Windsor and this day his       
Matie intending to stay some tyme in Towne till a full enquiry bee made         
into this treasonable designe.                                                  
     The late Interlopr haveing pd his Custom is takeing upp his goods          
But this day ye East India Company Entered Accon agt most of her owners         
being resolved to try ye Issue by Law,                                          
     To morrow beginns ye first Essay of fighting wth Bulls on horse back       
on the military ground.                                                         
     This day ye Leiutenancy of the Citty take and had before ym divers         
prsons whom they inspected to bee ill affected to ye governmt & severall of     
ye Militia officrs went to many houses to search & see wt Armes they had.       
     This morning his Matie wth a Guard of 200 horse came to Whitehall          
after whose arrivall a Councill was called where Keiling the Pyleman [?]        
who first discovered ye Plott was examined before his Matie afterwards          
Mr West & Coll Rumsey  And Major Wildman was called in Severall tymes           
But ye Mattr nott yett determined abtt him therefore cannott send you ye        
Results till our next.                                                          
     This day Mr Attorney Generall demanded Judgment agts the Citty             
Ryottrs that they might bee largely fined acquainteing the Court that           
Goodenough one of the Cheif of ye Ryottrs was ye head of the Conspirators       
And tho Severall Councill pleaded on behalfe of ye Ryottrs yett ye court        
proceeded first.                                                                
        The Ld Gray  l000 marke     Deagle     400 marke                        
        Pilkington    500 L         Wickham    l00 marke                        
        Shute        l000 marke     Arran      300 marke                        
        Bethell      l000 marke     Jenkett    200 marke                        
        Cornish      l000 marke     Jenks      300 marke                        
        Sr Tho Playr  500 marke     Goodenough 500 marke                        
        Swynock       500 marke                                                 
                         Key l00 marke                                          
And comitted them all in Execution till ye same bee pd                          
     All being in Court save Ld Gray Pilkington Goodenough and Key              
       [Handwriting changes here for just the next paragraph.]                  
+Since ye writeing of wch ye Ld Russell is Committed yo ye Tower for high       
treason & others had before ye Councell                                         
     L.c. l395     London June 28th 83                                          
     Wee have every houre fresh Instances of ye late treasonable                
Conspiracy a Councill being held both fore and afternoone his Matie             
prsent to examine persons and papers and the Ld Keepr is soe industrious        
in pursueing the knowledge therof as for some dayes last past has not           
attended ye bussiness of ye Terme  The proceed of ye Councill is kept           
soe secret from us that I cannot give you a full Scheem of ye discove[ry]       
more then in generall yt ye Ld Russell on Tuesday being comitted to ye          
Tower for high treason warrtts were sent abroad for divers peeres &             
Commonrs and ye Ld Gray ye same Evening being brought before the Councill       
his Ldshipp was for ye same Crime Comitted to ye sd place & Serjeant            
Deerham ordred to guard his Ldshipp to ye Tower whom his Ldshipp was            
waiteing uppon to drink  they continued doeing the same till next morning       
early When Mr Deerham Called for a Hackney Coach drove to the Towr wthout       
any guard but himself  being there arrived Mr Deerham fast asleep his           
Ldshipp left him in ye Coach tooke water and escaped and is not since           
heard off.                                                                      
     Wch his Matie haveing notice was soe displeased att ye Negligence of       
ye officr yt hee caused him to bee Committed to ye Towr and wee are told        
is put in ye hole where hee may have leisure to repent his Indiscretion.        
     Major Wildman is undr the Custody of a messengr and the discourse          
now is of a new Discoverer yt is come in who speakes much  A great many         
[illegible seven-letter word] Armes were yesterday seized                       
     Yesterday was the last of the Terme but nothing of any Considerable        
moment passed  mr Tournay the late Mayor of Rye was found guilty of a           
Ryott & fined two hundred markes & pd the same.                                 
     Severall Citty Ryottrs fined last Tuesday some 1000 Markes paid the        
same and are at Liberty.                                                        
     One Hine a Joyner said to bee Colledges man menconed in the                
proclamacon wee heare is taken neare Cambridge haveing purposely gott           
himself into prison to avoid his being seized                                   
     Our forreigne Lettrs from Vienna say yt ye Duke of Loraine since           
his breakeing upp ye seige of Newheusell came to the Emperour Incognito         
they speake wth much Regrett abtt itt That itt will hindr the Emperour          
from acteing now effectively And ye Army is att Prsent put into ye Island       
of Schutz.  And ye Caravan [?] sent to Raab and Leopoldstadt                    
     Prince Lubomirska has Joyned tho' wth much difficul[ty] Generall           
Scultz 9000 Poles wherby they compose a body of 15000 and designe to            
hindr ye Tartr from entering Moravia  But Count Teckley would remaine           
Neutrall But ye Turks would nott grant itt                                      
     Three Scotch knights yesterday fledd from yt Country and being             
seized were carryed to Whitehall are very well knowne there and are undr        
examinacon                                                                      
+One Major Holmes was taken wth Lettrs from divers parts in Characters &        
the key therto found wch being read are of dangerous import and Hee             
secured                                                                         
+Greate Search is made after the Ld Gray and One Mr Meade a NonConformist       
Minister And this morning one Mr Trenchard a late Member of Parliament          
taken Out of his Lodging and undr Examinacon.                                   
+I am told yt a proclamacon is comeing forth for ye seizing of ye Duke of       
Monmonth Ld Gray Sr Thomas Armstrong & Mr ffergison a Scotch Nonconformist      
Minister wth a great reward to those [?] yt shall apprehend ym  I am told       
yt ye Bishopp of Rochester will succeed in the Arch Bishopprick of Yorke        
and Dr. Patrick in yt of Rochester.                                             
     L. c. 1396     London June 30th 83                                         
     Yesterday morning as I intimated in my Last was published a proclamacon    
for ye aprehending of James Duke of Monmouth fford [?] Ld Gray Sr Thomas        
Armestrong and Robert ffergrson uppon oath recd that they have traitorously     
Conspired together to Compass ye death & destruction of his Matie & Duke        
of yorke requireing them to render themselves to Justice Commanding all         
mayors Sheriffs &c to make Diligent search after ym & not harbour or            
Conceale any of ym uppon penalty to bee proceeded agt wth all severity          
and in ye Close thereof offers a reward of 500 L for ye apprehending any        
of ye sd persons                                                                
     Which and other Prceedings of ye discovered Conspiracy fille ye            
Towne wth horrour and Amazement & wee are told his Matie wth extreame           
sorrow expresses his resentment of this traitorous designe as nott              
deserving ye least [?] ill treatement from ye worst of his Subjects to          
endeavour to interrupt his goeing to ye grave in peace.                         
     This affaire where in soe many falsityes yt itt is some difficulty         
to transmitt you ye true proceeds which shall bee our diligent care to          
abjeure [?] thro' the Course thereof and find yt Major Wildman who since        
ye first discoverys has been undr ye Custody of a Messengr is now               
Comitted to ye Towr As alsoe Mr John Trenchard a late Member of Parliamt        
for Taunton agt whom we are told there is Considerable Evidence                 
     And Wee are Credibly informed yt severall of ye Conspiratrs will be        
tryed on Thursday by Comision of Oyer & Terminier att ye Old Bailey the         
denialls [?] being already draweing upp for yt end.                             
     Mr Blaney who usually tooke tryalls in Short hand hearing yt hee           
was accused surrendred himself and has since been examined and Confronted       
by Coll Rumsey and Confesses yt att a Certaine tyme in Company of ye Coll       
and severall others divers reflecting if nott treasonable discourses were       
then had But yt hee disapproved thereof publickly and was sorry hee had         
nott divulged them  hee was ordred to put ym in writeing wch being done         
hee was dismissed uppon security, and tis beleived that his Testimoney          
will bee made use of when ye tryalls Commence.                                  
     And Mr Shepphard a Considerable Merchant who usually returnd the Ld        
Shaftesburyes money into Holland and att whose house att Hackney [?] were       
Severall Consults was taken into Custody but since at Liberty uppon good        
security and Wee are told will give Evidence to yt he knowes.                   
     Wee are Alsoe Informed that Lettrs were Intercepted att the Posthouse      
from ffergison in Holland to severall Eminent persons in this Kingdom wth       
their answers therto relateing to some Alteration in ye Governmt                
     And in ye late Intercepted Lettrs of Major Holmes a greate deale of        
designe was diciphered there as appeares by the Key His Matie being             
exprest under the word Merchandize and when they spoke of any designe agt       
him itt was termed Cotten Woollen                                               
     Last Thursday night the Corps of the Late Ld Chief Justice Saundrs         
was interred in ye Temple Church  The Ld Keepr The Judges Serjeants at          
Law and ye gents of ye Inns of Court attended him thither.                      
     His Matie has ordred Mr Roger Lestrange to bee put into ye Comission       
of ye peace for ye County of Middlesex.                                         
     This day mr Umphrevill a Gent of Middlesex who formerly stood for          
knight of ye shire for that County was seized & since two others whose          
names I cannot yett Learne.                                                     
     Noe fforeigne Post come  This afternoon Hine ye Joynr mencioned in         
the first proclamacon was brought from Cambridge wth a Troop of horse &         
carryed to ye Councill  One Lee a Dyer accused to be in ye Conspiracy           
was in ye Citty seized  two feild peices found in ye house of Major             
Wildman wch are now in Whitehall yard                                           
     L. c. 1397     [Handwriting changes here.]     London July 3d 1683         
     All o[u]r discourse now is whoe are seized and whoe are comitted wch       
to of [?] pticularize would be too tedious  Hearne ye Joyner brought from       
Cambridge on Saturday has been undr divers examinacons & confesses the          
intreague of ye designe & and is remanded to Newgate                            
     Mr Humphrevile taken on Saturday since att Libtie upon security  Lee       
ye Dyer seized ye same day disburthens himselfe & impeaches divrs others        
whoe were fetched up & declares yt Goodenough had been sevrall times wth        
him at first discoursed him if he would assist in case of an invasion wch       
he pmissed but ye second time explained himselfe that their libertyes           
were invaded & required his and others Assistance                               
     A Barbr Razor Maker Brewr are since taken and undr examinacon              
Councellor West after reexaminacon was committed from the Messengrs hands       
to Newgate on Sunday night and we are told will be tryed wth the others         
next Wednesday Seavenight  Mrs Trenchard can't yet obtaine ye libtie of         
seeing her husband in ye Towr                                                   
     Advice from Chichester sayes yt a small vessell in a neighboring           
Creeke put to Sea wth 7 Passengrs some suppose ye Ld Gray and others            
     White Hall and ye Towr are doubly guarded in the lattr & all ye            
Cannon on ye Batterryes and Plattformes ready charged the D of Monmouthes       
Armes & Sr Tho: Armestrongs taken away their psones not yet heard on            
     Yesterday morning was held a Common Councill whoe considrd ye              
affaire of Broome ye Coronr abt ye arresting the Ld Mayor  ye two psons         
in his Warrt (vizt) Keeleing & Jefferyes appeared to be both in the             
Conspiracy ye lst whoe made ye discovery ye lattr seized for it                 
therefore supposed Broome alsoe an Actor therein  he pleaded he knew            
them not but were incerted by direccons of Goodenough  the Cort upon            
debate suspended him from being a membr of that Cort and yn from his            
place ordring ye Ld Mayor to appoint one to officiate in his Roome & yt         
Broome stand Comitted to be furthr exa[m]i[n]ed in yt mattr                     
     Afterwards they voted & drew up a Congratulatory Addresse to be            
prsented to his Matie for his happy deliverance from that Phanattick            
Conspiracy declareing yr abhorrence thereof as alsoe of all Assotiacons         
that he [they?] would stand by him wth their lives and fortunes                 
     And ordrs yt his Maties leave be desired to congratulate his Royall        
Highness alsoe and send the sword bearer to know when his Matie would be        
attended therewth whoe appointed 4 a Clock afternoone in the Banquetting        
house wth a whole Councill                                                      
     Whoe in 40 Coaches wth yr Gownes repaired thithr and ye Addresse           
read by Mr Common sergt                                                         
     His Matie thanked ye City for their Loyalty towards him & sd yt he         
would not be wanting at all times to expresse his kindnesses to them            
acknowledged yt he had escaped many dangrs but this surpassed them all          
for wch his Matie designed a Publicke thanksgiveing throughout ye season        
     His Royall Highnesse declared yt his endeavours should be allwaies         
to pmote yr good acquainted them yt not onely his Maties & his owne life        
were to be lost but ye Ld Mayors Sherriffs & most of ye loyall Citizenes        
besides                                                                         
    L. c. 1398    [Handwriting changes here.]    London the 5 July l683         
+Not a day scarce an houre but pduces new discovery of the late traytorous      
Conspiracy  One Mr Bateman A Chururgion at whose house in search after ye       
plotters was found Sr Patients Ward is seized & Charged wth high treason        
& comitted close prisoner to the Marshalsea & tis sd the late Earle of          
Shaftesbury Lodged at the said Mr Batemans house some Considerable time         
before he went for Holland & knowes much of ye plott                            
     Our Holland Lres say that ye Dutch ffleete were to sayle out of ye         
Texell as yesterday & bend yr course for ye sound                               
     Yesterday the Duke of Grafton went downe ye river of Thames in a           
yaught to goe aboard ye Grafton ffrigott to put to sea wth 6 or 7 other         
men of warr to cruise in ye Channell to secure those seas.                      
     Tis advised from Colchester that mr Mathew Mead a Nonconformist            
Minister with one Mr Bourne a Brewer & 4 other suspected persons were           
seized & Comitted to Chelmsford Goale.                                          
+Lres from Hamburgh say that 3 English yaughts wth divers noble psons on        
board of them were arrived at Gluckstadt to embarque Prince George of           
Denmarke for England who is lookt for in few dayes.                             
     Yesterday morning the house of one Mr Combes a coffee man in               
Bartholomew Lane was searched therein found Don Lewis late Clerke to Mr         
Secretary Pepys of the Admiralty who turned Renegado & Joyned himselfe          
with those de[s]parate villaines in the late Conspiracy as appeares by a        
letter sent from him to Justice Warcupp March last from Holland                 
Intimateing the great discovery should make of an Intended Design agt           
the Kings life provided he might first have his pardon wch said Letter          
was shewed to ye King but by reason of soe many shams already of yt             
kinde his Matie was not willing to grant any pardon without he first            
made a discovery to deserve itt  But this Lewis being since come over &         
now taken tis greatly hoped that further light into yt Conspiracy may be        
now detected.                                                                   
     The Ld Russell Coll Algernon Sidney Mr Trenchard & some say Mr West        
have notice given to prpare themselves for Tryall on Wedensday next             
     If fame may be Credited an Originall paper of an Altercation signed        
by above 200 Gent is in Authorityes hands.                                      
     Tis further discoursed that ffergison the Scotch nonconformist             
preacher made the first motion of Killing ye King & Royll Highnesse in          
Company of nigh 20 others wch tis said will be proved.                          
     This afternoonne Mr Mathew Mead wth those others taken wth him near        
Colchester were brought to Towne Guarded by one of the Earle of Oxfords         
troopes & are now before ye Councill Charged wth high treason                   
     And alsoe one Aaron Smith Colledges Solicitor who Sometime since           
was found Guilty upon an Informacon for delivering papers to Colledge           
was taken last night & is charged for haveing a hand in the plott               
     This day the Gent of the Temple prsented his Matie a Congratulatory        
Addresse signed by all the Benches in substance of yt wch the City              
delivered to declare agt all Associacons & abhorr ye traytorous designs         
now on foote by dissenting Conventicles  many psons are seized some             
discharged Others at this time before ye Councill                               
     L. c. 1399     London the 7 July l683                                      
+Yesterday the East India Company had ye newes of the arrivall of their         
Shipp the China Merchant Capt Uttbur Commandr in ye Downes departing            
with 2 other of ye Companyes shippes from ffort St George ye 20 of              
January last wch are alsoe daily expected & ye sd China merchant brings         
advise which before theire departure had received by shipp from                 
Chocheene that ye old King of Bantam wth the assistance of the Matran or        
Emperor of Java had retaken Bantam from his sonne & ye Dutch afterwards         
with a powerfull army had marched before and had laid seidge to                 
Battavia ye Cheife ffactory of ye Dutch in ye Indies wch news caused the        
auctions of ye Company wch were abated to 200 to advance to 250 but             
there are some other Merchts will not believe this news to be Authenick         
     Yesterday Mr Aaron Smith Colledges solicitor whome I told you in my        
last was taken after Examinacon was Comitted to ye Tower for upon score         
of ye plott                                                                     
     Mr Goodenoughs house has been researched & found between ye seiling        
and Tyles divers unwarrantable papers togeather wth a suite of Armour           
wch very much Confirmes the plott.                                              
     Advise from Exeter sayes that Rumball ye Maltster menconed in ye           
first proclamacon from whose house at Hodgdon the intended assassinateing       
the King & Royll highness was to have been perpetrated is supposed to be        
taken One being seized & in yt Goale haveing but one eye and ye other           
discriptions menconed in ye Gazette he be[ing] soe sullen as not to             
discover his name                                                               
     The sonne of Sr: Tho Baker & the daughter of one Sr Tho: Draper of         
Berksheire was brought before the Councell Yesterday Sr Thomas                  
Complaining that the Gent deteyned his daughter from him but ye young           
Lady declareing herselfe to be of age and yt she was marryed to him             
they were dismisst ye Boarde                                                    
     The Templers since ye delivery of their Congratulatory Address to          
his Matie have held another Pliamt and expelled yr society the sevrall          
Councellors as Mr West Trenchard and Wade accused to be in the Conspiracy       
togeather wth some others whome they suspect to be of the like principalls.     
     And made a motion in yr Pliamt to expell all yr members wch                
ffrequented the Kings Head Clubb but yt being overruld they sent to some        
of ym that were Whiggishly Inclyned to forbeare resorting to yt Clubb           
for ye future & some whereof doe publickly acknowledge yr Error & pmise         
Conformity & in ye Pliamt made a recantacon that they were brought up in        
Evill principles but would abandon them for ye future                           
     Two Gent of ye Inns of Court speaking to Mr Trenchard in ye Tower as       
he was looking out at a window were secured but discharged                      
     One Capt Black & his Leiuetenant late Commandr of one of his Maties        
ffriggo[tts] are seized & by sevrall Witnesses charged for high treason         
wch his Matie highly resents & they remaine yet in ye Custody of a              
Messenger                                                                       
     One Rous who was formerly acquitted by an Ignoramus Jury is againe         
in Custody and Confesses & Impeaches many                                       
     Mr Mead ye Nonconformist Minister wth those other taken in his             
Company is strictly confined in ye Messengrs hands  Bourne ye Brewer one        
of them has made a large discovery of sevrall things wch occurrd to his         
knowledge transacted in ye Caballs of ye Conspirators                           
     Don Lewis who some dayes agoe was seized is a writeing divers sheets       
of paper containing the whole scheme of ye plott the sevrall Branches           
that were to issue from itt & ye psons concerned wch tis thought will           
outdoe any discovery yett made.                                                 
+The Earle of Bedford has Petitioned his Matie relateing to some affaire        
of his sonne the Ld Russell who is to be tryed on Wedensday or Thursday         
next & has Mr Pollexfen Mr Holt & a 3rd as Councell assigned him in             
points of Law.                                                                  
+Mr Trenchard will be tryd afterwards  his Lady has procured admittance         
to him on Condicon she will be Contented to be Confined wth him wch she         
accepted                                                                        
     The Leiuetenancy of this City met and have Ordrd a congratulatory          
Address to be prsented to his Matie on Monday.                                  
      L. c. l400     the l0th July l683                                         
+Scarce an houre but affords surprizeing Instances of the discovered            
Conspiracy  the first provided since our last was the seizing 2 a Clock         
sonday morning in a private house in Kent Streete Lentgrove [?] & Capt          
Walcott menconed in the first proclamacon one of the psons in a former          
plott wch Blood who stole ye Crowne who being brought before his Matie          
in Councell & Demand made of him whether he was one of the designed             
Ruffians to kill ye King replyed he scornd to pforme such A Cowardly act        
but owned that he intended to attaque his Guards that had weapons in yr         
hands was after Examinacon Comitted to Newgate                                  
     Most of ye forraigne ambassadrs have Complimented his Matie for            
his happy deliverance from ye Conspiracy agt his pson & R highness              
declareing that they will write to yr Masters to apprehend any of the           
sd Traytors if they happen to come into yr Territoryes & the ffrench            
ambassdr informed his Matie that his Master had Ordrd a declaracon wth          
reward of 500 pistolls to any his subjects that should apprehend any ye         
4 menconed in ye last proclamacon                                               
     Yesterday morning the Ld Howard of Estrick was seized at his house         
in Knightsbridge & Comitted to ye Tower  in ye afternoone the Ld Brandon        
a sonne of the Earle Macclesfeild togeather wth one Hampden were Comitted       
to ye same place for high treason                                               
     A Confluence of Addresses were brought to Court yesterday one from         
the Justices of Middx wherein they pray that all dissenters may bee             
displaced from all manner of places of Trust  Mr Roger Le Estrange tooke        
his seate on ye Bench his first time  they have a Loyall Grand Jury &           
Matters of great Import are Expected from them                                  
     Divers Papers of Moment are Come into authorityes hands of dangerous       
Consequences one of them being a now scheme or Moddell of Governmt              
togeather wth ye names of a Commee wch were to manage ye affaires dureing       
the Inter Regnum or Intervall in the Governmt                                   
     Warrants are abroad in great abundance but the Councill pceeds wth         
yt Justice that divers being found Innocent are acquitted without ffees         
but ye Guilty will receave yr due punishmnt                                     
     Yesterday Mr Jenks a Lynnen draper & divers booksellers were before        
ye Councell but are acquitted                                                   
     The Earle of Essex has b[een?] under Examinacon great pte of this          
morning & Generally said to be Comitted to ye Tower.                            
     This day the Company of Salters made a rechoyce of all yr                  
assistance yeomandry Liverymen & one Mr Meriton Minister of St Swithins         
being lookt upon to be Whiggishly inclyned they chose Mr Bassett                
     L. c. 1401     London the l2th July l683                                   
+Yesterday Capt Durrell & Capt Pitty the first ye Commandr and the              
Latter the Supercargoe of ye Shipp Crowne [?] the late Interloper from          
ye East Indies appeared by summons in Councell where the Councell of            
the East India Company Charged them with very Sharpe allegations that           
they underhand held Correspondence with ye Dutch in India & sought as           
much as in them Lay to destroy the Companyes trade & designed to reduce         
the trade of ye River Gangis in like manner as that of Bantam that they         
Came in a Hostile manner ashoare with drums trumpets & 20 Armed men             
togeather with divers other Complaints especially agt Mr Vincent the late       
Companyes Cheife in those parts who brought home his estate in the said         
Interloper And that they had reported in India that ye Company was broak        
whereby they could not have Credit for 10000 Rupes to all which they made       
A negative Answere & Recharged ye Company with some Irregularityes but by       
reason Mr Vincent was absent they are Ordrd all to attend againe on             
ffriday with Councell on both sides & a Messinger sent to Tunbridge for         
ye said Mr Vincent                                                              
     The Ld Howard of Estrick is not wth ye other Lords Comitted to the         
Towre but remaines in Whitehall where Lodgings are prpareing for him and        
his Ldshpp is writeing a Large Discovery of what he knowes                      
     Yesterday divers were before ye Councell & Examined  One Mr ffreeke        
a Barrister taken at Tunbridge gave his Matie such sattisfaccon to those        
Questions he was asked as yt he was discharged as alsoe one Mr Percefull        
an Attorney who Lent Home ye Conspirator his horse to Cambridge he              
declareing that after he knew of his accusation was ye Cause of his             
apprehension.                                                                   
     But one Mr Gibbons the Duke of Monmouths Page being found as an            
Assistant to his Graces Escape was Comitted to ye Gatehouse                     
     Sr John Burlace was sevrall times Examined & as yet remaines in the        
Custody of a Messinger as alsoe Sr Robert Peyton from whome is Expected         
some discovery                                                                  
    Divers Gentlemen are sent for from Tunbridge & other parts and some         
ptyes of horse gon abroade as tis supposed to Conduct hither some of            
them being persons of Note whose names till ye Certainty appeares are not       
propper to incert                                                               
     Yesterday Mr West ye Councellrs Pardon was ordered to be sealed.           
     This morning the Ld Lovelace was brought from his seate In                 
Oxfordsheire & is now before ye Councell                                        
     Don Lewis has been reexamined before ye Councell & by reason his           
relacon found to be of noe validity was discharged wth Ordrs to depart          
the Kingdome                                                                    
     4 Companyes of his Maties Guards are on duty in smithfeild & 6             
Companyes of ye Trayned bands                                                   
     This day began A sessions a[t] the old Baly  in ye morning the Court       
pceeded to try ye Common ffellons while ye Grand Jury found Bills agt           
some of ye Conspirators & 4 were arraigned viz Capt Walcott Rous Home &         
one Capt Blake who are now upon yr tryalls & tis Judged will be all found       
Guilty.                                                                         
     To morrow the Ld Russell & others are to be tryed at the same place.       
     L. c. 1402    [Handwriting changes here.]    Lond the l4th July l683       
+Wee have the dreadfull newes ffrom Vienna as Can possibly be Expressed         
The Prime vizier and vizier off Offen with 20000 Each Besides a great           
Body of Hungarians Bore upon the Imperiall Army Caused them Aftter              
Divers skirmishes to Retreet had Besieged and Taken the outworks of Real        
Burnt and Destroyed all before them Divided themselves into 3 Bodyes one        
Marching Direct[l]y ffor Vienna and was Come within 4 miles Thereoff the        
other to Act in Croatia and the 3d to Invade the Emperours hereditary           
Countryes and tis wrote that Gennerall Scatti [?] and the 6000 Poles            
Marching Joyne the Imperiall Army were Intirely Routed by the Turkes            
That the Citty Edenburgh not ffarr ffrom Vienna Togeather with Presburgh        
has surrendred to Count Teckly  Generall Caprara with Coll Montecuculy          
was Come to Vienna Desireing the Emperour fforthwith to depart ffrom            
thence ffor in 3 Dayes The Turkes would Be before itt with 150000 men           
That they had Taken ye Imperiall Baggage and Cutt to peeces the                 
Dragoons that Guarded them that ye Emperour[s] ffoot could not Joine the        
horse Butt is in Danger to be Ruined by the Enemy  That the horses were         
now posted before Vienna and the Emperour Retreated to Lintz from               
whence he has sent to the Dukes of Saxony and Bavaria to send speedy            
Assistance as alsoe one to the King of Poland who tis said will Come in         
person with his Army with many other particulars too Long to Insert             
     Wee have no Lesse Tragecall and Astonishing Circumstances att Home         
with us since the Conviction of Captaine Wolcott ffor high treason on           
Thursday wch was done On as unquestionable and cleare proofe as Ever in         
the world wherein appeares the most Barbarous Villainy as Could Bee             
Invented  Affter the death of the King and R Highness the Kingdom made          
despoticall Sr John Moore to bee fflayd and his skinn hang in Guildhall         
And the Judges in Westminster Hall                                              
     Severall brought on yr Tryalls yesterday  The ffirst Hone the Joiner       
the Conspiracy made out Against him very Apparent and wch himselfe              
Confessed in part and the Rest Did but ffrivalously Evade, was found            
Guilty  Affterwards the Ld Russells Tryall Commenced Being brought from         
the Tower by a strong Guard wch tooke most part of the Day  His Ldshipp         
Returning [?] above 30 of the jury and yn his Councell argued some points       
in Law wch were over Ruled and twas a long time before his Ldshpp would         
plead but at Length The Jury being Impannelld 3 witnesses vizt the Ld           
Howard of Escreek Coll Rumsey and one Mr Sheapard a merchant deposed            
Against him that his Ldshpp was privy and Consenting to the project of          
Asserting the Grievances of the native and to have the same Redressed by        
Armes and was to ffurnish and head a considerable number of ym and that         
he was present at the Consult for seizing the Guards wch Mr Sheapard said       
he owned  Afterwards was a thinge as able and much other treasonable            
matter wch was Expedited by the Kings Councell  his Ldshipp Denyed the          
whole And brought divers worthy persons to testify his principles and           
behaviour  But the jury in the Affternoone brought him in Guilty of the         
treasonable Conspiracy & was carryed to Newgate wch being over the              
Cort proceeded To Try Rous ffor the Like Crime wch being very cloasely          
proceed upon was ffound Guilty, But Capt Blagg ffor went of state               
Evidence was Acquitted.                                                         
+yesterday his Matie and R Highness went to the Tower to inspect the            
ffortifications and while there the Earle of Essex who was committed            
thither on Tuesday for high treason, To the Astonishment of all Cut his         
owne throat with a Razour wch his man procured to Cutt his nailes and was       
Immediatly ffound dead weltring in his Blood and as [?] ye surmise of yt        
sad Occassion                                                                   
     The Ld Lovelace who was before the Councill was discharged upon            
Baile                                                                           
      [The next words do not seem to connect with any near them:]               
...suspected persons and Sr John Barlow without  in midx ye Deputy              
Lieftenants disarmed all                                                        
     This morning the Sessions proceeded upon yr ordinary buisnesse of          
the Goale when Mr Att Gennerall appeared and Demanded Judgment Against          
the Ld Russell Capt Wallcott Rous and Hone who were all Brought to the          
Barr and Affter an Excellent speech made by Mr Recorder they were               
sentenced to be hangd drawn & quarterd & yn Remanded to Newgate  In the         
Affternoone they ffinished the work of the time & then Adjournd till next       
Sessions                                                                        
   L. c. 1403    [Handwriting changes here.]    London July ye l7th 83          
     Satterday morning mr justice Raymond in the Kings Bench departed           
this Life after a long afflicted distemper of the Stone                         
     Thursday next is to bee a ffeast in Westminster Hall for above 400         
of the Loyall gentlemen of those parts, 20 Stewards appointed and many          
of the Nobility invited, his Majtie bestowing on them foure Brace of            
bucks to aggrandize the entertainement                                          
     Letters from Toulon and other parts of France say, that Monsr              
de Quesne wth his ffleete before Argieres, has soe successfully played          
his Bombes into that Cittie, and doe such considerable damage, that the         
Govermt hung out a white fflagg to treate of Peace, but ye Admirall             
returned answerr, that he would not discourse any thing aout itt till           
such tyme, they had sent aboard all the ffrench Slaves together with            
all other Nations taken in ffrench shipps, pursuant to which in 3 dayes         
they brought to the ffrench ffleete 542 slaves and they are now agreeing        
the Articles of Peace.                                                          
     On Sunday were brought to Towne 7 suspected Scots seized in                
Yorkshire, after examination 6 of them were acquitted, the seaventh being       
a preacher is detained; ye Person seized for Rumball ye Malster is              
discharged as being a mistake                                                   
     Monday morning ye East India Company received the good newes of the        
Arrivall of three of theire Shipps, vizt ye Barnadiscant the Resolution,        
and the Eagle, very richly laden from the Coast and Bay and expect others       
suddenly and they bring the Company the newes, that they have very greate       
effects there, more then shipps to bring them home, they doe not bring          
the Confirmation of the retakeing of Bantam, but have many Circumstances        
to inforce the beleife thereof, as that the old King and Emperour of            
Java joyned forces and were resolved to effect itt.                             
     A Person come from Holland credibly sayes; that hee saw the Duke of        
Monmonth, Sr Thomas Armstrong, and a third Person att Middleburg in Sealand,    
landing there Satterday was 7 night, and that they designed for Germany.        
     Itt is credibly said yt Captaine Wallcott Rouse and Hone will suffer       
for theire Traiterous Conspiracy att Tyborne on ffryday next, and Ld            
Russell Satterday morning in Lincolns Inn ffeild, his Matie being               
graciously pleased to remitt the severitie of his Sentence, and to grant        
him there to bee beheaded                                                       
     Yesterday afternoone was a greate hearing before his Matie and             
Councell betweene the East India Comapny and ye Interloper, the latter          
being charged wth severall misdemeanours, after the Councell on both            
sides had argued the Point, his Matie was pleased to express his                
ressentment against the Interloper, that they should presume to Treade          
to India contrary to his Maties Proclamation that the same was the              
Read[i?]est way to destroy the most flourishing Trade of England, and           
lett itt fall to the Dutch but his Matie was resolved to prevent itt,           
and pursue ye Law to the full against them, they beeing ordered to give         
3000 L security to Answerr the damage to the Company.                           
     Though many Reports said, the Dutchess of Monmonth had miscarryed,         
and since dead, yet the same appeares otherwise for yesterday morning           
shee was brought to bedd of a Daughterr in a hopefull Condition of health.      
     Severall Merchants yesterday petitioned his Matie to order some            
vessells agst the Rovers of Salley, they beeing abroad, and beginn to           
take our Shipps.                                                                
    His Matie designes within a weeke to goe againe for some time to            
windsorr                                                                        
    Itt is ffurther told, yt his Majestie intends to make a Regulation in       
ye officers of his howshold, some of them beeing whiggishly inclined and        
hath allready begunn wth his Cooks.                                             
      The young lord of Sallisbury was last weeke marryed to Mr Bennits         
Daughter of Buckinghamshire, beeing a Fortune of 3000 L per annum, and          
20000 L in money.                                                               
     Severall Loyall young Nobles and Gentlemen have offered his Matie,         
wch I am told will be accepted, to fforme themselves into a Troope of           
Horse, consisting of hundred and twenty besides double ye number of             
Servants, to bee att all times ready for his Maties service att theire          
owne Cost and Charges, Tenn of them each day to attend his Maties Person.       
+Satterday Mr Booth sonne of ye Ld De la mere, and yesterday Major Bremen       
of Chichester was committed to ye Tower.                                        
     This day was held a Common Councell who upon his Maties letters to         
them deferred the ffurther choice of Sherriffes, which should have been         
to morrow, till ye 5th of Septembr.                                             
     The Emperours Envoy this day received an Express, that part of ye          
Duke of Lorraines Army had encountred a greate body of Turkes and               
Tartars, putting them to flight, killing l6000.                                 
     L. c. 1404     London July l9th 83                                         
     Our french lettrs of ye l4th Confirme ye newes yt Monsr De Quesne          
had forced the Algireens to a Complyance haveing flung above 100 Banshees       
into yt Citty one of ym falling into a Court of Guards killed 78 Soldiers       
& hurt divers others wheruppon ye Government hath rendred [?] all yr            
slaves yett ye Admirall will nott make a peace wth ym before he sends to        
his Master to know his pleasure what Condicons he will require.                 
     The french King has nominated the Marquiss De Villadell Capt of his        
Switz guards to goe to England in quality of Envoy Extraordinary to             
Compliment or Congratulate ye King for his & ye Duke of Yorks happy             
deliverance from ye bloody Conspiracy of Desperate villains to take away        
their lives.  The french King hath published a Placart forbidding all           
Nacons Shipps except English to carry on board ym any effects [?] of            
Genoa being resolved to search their shipps for ye same and if any of yr        
goods bee found on board to Confiscate ym to his owne [?] use & lay a           
claime [?] uppon their vessells.                                                
     yesterday a Waterman was Comitted Close prisoner to Newgate for            
being Instrumentall in ye Conveying & carrying away ye Ld Gray                  
     Severall Cittizens were yesterday seized uppon accot of ye                 
Conspiracy and Comitted one Pettis [?] a Linnen draper one Noy of ye            
same trade & one of his men & divers others all undr examinacon.                
     Lettrs from Vienna of ye 8th wch tis feared will bee ye last from          
yt place gives various advices first that ye Prince Palatin of Hungary          
was there arrived only wth l9 men his whole Army of l4000 revolting to          
Count Teckely and yt severall strong holds were alsoe surrendred to him         
and yt ye prime Vizier would crowne ye Count in four dayes king of              
Hungary.  The Imperiall foote wch before were seperated have fought yr          
way thro' the Enemy and on ye l0th Joyned Lorraines horse and are               
encamped att Vienna  the duke sending a strong party abroade encountred a       
Considerable Body of Turkes and Tartars & entirely routed them.  The            
Turkish Army haveing beseiged Raab stormed itt twice but were repulsed          
wth ye loss of 2 or 3000 men and were retired from before itt and all of        
a full march for Vienna only halt for ye comeing upp of yr Cannon uppon         
wch ye Duke of Lorraine has himselfe set fire to ye Sub[u]rbs.  The Bores       
are all run away.  And the Burghers are forced to worke on ye fortifications.   
They had stoned to death some Jesuitts chargeing ym to be the Cause of yr       
misery.  The Emprour arrived att Lintz 80 Myles from Vienna ye 8th ditto        
but in such hast as was forced to leave all his Moveables behind him. The       
Tartars have sett all ye villages between Raab & Vienna on fire wch are         
above l50.  The Dukes of Bavaria Lunenburg & Saxony & some write Brandenburgh   
are forthwith sending a considerable force to ye Emperours relief.              
     To morrow ye 3 person Condemned for ye late traiterous Conspiracy          
suffer at ye Common place of Execution tho' some discourse yt they would        
have been executed in divers prts of ye Citty  a strong guard both of           
horse and foot besides ye County [?] Watch from ye severall hundreds will       
guard ym thither  Capt Walcott is writeing a long Narrative of what hee         
knowes  Rouse has sent to an Eminent Person to disburthen himself in            
pri[son?]  Hone ye Joynr does nott att all deny how full hee was                
concerned in ye Conspiracy & seems very reluctant                               
     Tis ye Genll discourse of ye Towne yt the Ld Russell has a months          
repreive all possible Sollicitacons being made on his behalfe  But              
I haveing strictly enquiry them find yt l4 Compa of foote & 200 horse           
are appointed to keep guard on Saturday in Lincolns Inn feilds wch wth          
other occurrent reasons induces mee to beleive ye formr discourse.              
Last night Prince George of Denmarke arrived att Woolwich & lay on              
board the yacht & this morning their Maties & R: Highness were in their         
Barges thither & 2 a Clock afternoon brought him upp wth ym to Whiteha[ll]      
being saluted in their passage with ye gunns of ye Tower Shipps &c.             
     L. c. 1405    [Handwriting changes here.]      London July 21 1683         
     After the Arrivall of Prince George on Thursday hee went and               
complemented the King and Queen in whose prsence a Chaire was placed            
in wch for some short time he sate downe afterwards went to St Jameses          
to performe the like to their Royall Highnesses and Lady Anne with whome        
he played at Cards discoursing in the ffrench Language; next day he             
dined with his Matie and is made extreamely welcome  And yesterday              
afternoon a new Danish Ambassdour had his Audience of ye King wherein           
the marriage wth the Lady Anne was proposed together wth the Settlement         
of a Considerable Estate which was assented to and I am told that the           
marriage will be consummated to morrow & they with the whole Court              
goe to Windsor on Monday or Tuesday where their stay will be some               
considerable time.                                                              
     The Widdow of the late executed Coleman out of some discontent             
hath cutt her owne throat, 'tis judged because her prsent Condicon did          
not equalize that of her former.                                                
     Our Letters from Scotland give us ye advice that one Airbin and            
John Guillan were arraigned and condemned for the murther of the Archbpp        
of St Andrews, the first only to be hanged on the 20th instant, the             
latter to have his right hand cutt off, afterwards to be hanged, then           
his hand and head fixed on a pole and sett on one of the Gates and              
his body to be hung in Chaines where the Murther was perpetrated.               
     The Discourse at Edinburgh was that the Lord Provost had recd order        
to make ready the Parliamt house for their speedy assembling and that the       
Earle of Perth is to be made Lord High Commissioner in the rooms of his         
Royall Highnesse                                                                
     The Archbpp of Glasgow is made one of his Maties most honourable           
privy Councill                                                                  
     Above twenty of the Officers of the Custome=house London are               
impeached for defrauding the King, holding in Combinacon for to suffer          
Shipps to be runn without payeing the Kings duty for which Sixteen are          
and a narrow Scrutiny made therein in order to bring them likewise to           
punishment.                                                                     
     Yesterday being appointed the Execucon of the 3 condemned persons          
for the Traiterous Conspiracy agt his Maties Life, (viz[)] Capt Walcot,         
Rous & Hone they accordingly were drawne by Nine in the morning the Capt        
on one Sledge and the 2 others on another to the Common place of Execucon,      
where after they had severally made theire speeches and performed their         
necessary devotion the Execuconer did his Office according to the tenure        
of their Sentence to be drawne hang'd and quartered. Evry one of them           
more or lesse confessed their ffault of being accessary in the Traiterous       
Conspiracy.  The Capt spake for above halfe an houre and bore hard upon         
some of the Witnesses in severall perticulars and that he did not actually      
know or design the killing of the King more than one of the witnesses           
told him of itt, that he was drawne in by Rumsey & West to assert the           
priviledges of the people, Rous extenuated some thing of his Charge             
though confessed himself to have been in the Consul[t] and knew of the          
carryeing on of the design  Hone positively declared that he was to have        
been one of the 80 to attaque the King comeing from Newmarkett; The 2           
first delivered papers to the Sherriffs, which as soone as published            
shall send you them.                                                            
     Yesterday afternoone the Earle of Bedford, the Lady Russell her Son        
wth other of the relacons went to Newgate, finding all hopes of repreive        
to be ineffectuall, and tooke their solemne & last ffarewell of the Lord        
Russell.                                                                        
      Afterwards Deane Tillotson and Doctr Burnet asssisted him wth their       
prayers, from whose hands his Lordshp tooke the Blessed Sacrament, and if       
ffame may be credited declared upon it that he never had any designe to         
kill the King or alter the Government.                                          
     And this morning in his owne Coach wth a strong Guard he was brought       
in to Lincolnes Inne ffeilds and mounted the Scaffold wth undaunted             
resolucon and unconcernednesse, walking some times about it, spake some         
few words that he came not there to make Speeches but say his Prayers for       
had left wth the 2 aforemenconed Doctors a paper of his last Declaracon         
wch was read on the Scaffold among them but wee cannot learne the Contents      
more than his disowning to have hand in designeing the Kings death went         
to his private prayers then arose and pull'd off his do[uble]t and without      
changing Countenance laid himselfe downe on the blocke giveing the Signe        
to the Execuconer who most unskillfully & barbarously used him giveing          
him one stroke not halfe through, then at the second mist the first wound       
& did not perfect it, upon which the body heaved and one person was             
forced to hold down his head while a third blow wth the Ax was given and        
then a knife made an end of the Worke Which was a dreadfull exit, his           
body immediatly was putt in a Coffin then conveyed into a Hearse and            
carryed home to his Lordshps house.                                             
      L. c. 1406     London July 24th 1683                                      
      ffryday last Sr Richard How one of our Aldermen was seized wth an         
Apopletick fitt wch continued so severe upon him notwithstanding all            
possible Applicacons  Sonday morning he departed this life.                     
     A Confluence of Addresses was brought up to White Hall from all ptes       
among ym one entituled an Adresse from ye dissenting Bretheren wch was          
rejected                                                                        
     The Earles of Maxfeild & Suffolke togeathr wth Sr Henry Capell             
brothr to ye unfortunate E; of Essex have kissed his Maties Hand & reced        
into ffavour                                                                    
     The Court continues in Towne a weeke longr & ye marriage wch was           
intended to have been consumated between Prince Geo. & Lady Anne on             
Sunday last is deferred till Thursday next  yestrday ye sd Prince went          
to a play                                                                       
     Satureday night was published a speech of ye deced Ld Russell by           
ordr of his Lady wch being p[er]used by Authority Dr Tillottson                 
& Dr. Burnet ye Divines whoe attended his Ldpp before & at ye place             
of Execucon was summoned to Councill & interrogated as to what                  
knowledge they had relateing thereto  ye formr di[d?] absolutely                
disclayme it  Dr Burnett gave his Matie accot of his Ldpps behaviour            
in his imprisonmt yt ye sd speech was wrote by himselfe yt he incerting         
nothing save onely he comended his Ldpp of speakeing something about ye         
Witnesses in ye Popish Plott  The Dr alsoe shewed ye sevrall notes he had       
taken by desire of ye Ld Russells Lady of ye discourse they had wth each        
othr in ye Prison as alsoe a Coppy of a speech wch his Ldpp intended to         
speake at his tryall but was diswaded therefrom by his Councill wch after       
an houres tyme they were dismissed                                              
     Collonell Russell Uncle to ye late executed Ld Russell delivred his        
Maties a lettr wch his Ldpp obleiged him to doe ye Contents unknowne            
     Admirall Herbert in one of Maties ffrigottes is arrived from Tangeir       
whoe has brought Lres of ye 26 June wch give an Accot yt ye Garrison is         
in a good Condicon yt ye Governor had an intrveiw at ye end of ye line          
wth ye Alcade of Alcazar & settled wth him divrs Agreemts of Comerse  ye        
same Lres add yt ye Empr of Morocco had by a Strattagem forced ye pass of       
ye Mountaines wch his nephew Mulyishmale kept agt him & defeated his            
fforces killing his Genll Alcade Echyacos & beseiged him in ye City             
Tamdent in the Latitude of 29 & tis added yt ye [illegible word of about        
four letters] Ambassidor here commanded ye Emperors forces & yt Jonas ye        
Runagade was killed in ye ffight                                                
     Lres from ye Groyne on ye Coast of Galitia say yt 5 Algeriene men          
of Warr ye 5th of this month seized 8 shipps laden wth Corne being              
Hamburgrs & Lubeckrs & landed on ye Coast & tooke away 20 of ye Country         
people                                                                          
     Satterday wee had severall fforeigne Mayles but noe ffreshe lres           
from Vienna yn those of ye llth wch causes apprhencon yt ye City is             
beseiged by ye Turkes ye same being advised from Ratisbonne of ye 19 yt         
ye Turkes have sett before itt wth 90000 & yt ye D: of Lorreigne did not        
thinke fit to engage ye Enemy till ye Succours of ye sevrall Princes have       
Joyned him  The Duke of Brandenburgh has dispatched l2000 undr Commands         
of Genll Dafling & othr Princes pportionable wch will amo[un]t to 60000         
ffresh men besides ye King of Poland has brought his Army as farr as            
Cracow & willl march directly to Hungary to ye Emprrs Releife                   
     The Empror dispatched a Coreir to ye ffrench King to pray his              
Assistance agt ye Turkes                                                        
     The States of Holland have wrote to ye Deputyes of ye Admiralty to         
augmt yr ffleet wth l2 other men of Warr [for?] ffeare there will be            
occasion to make use of them                                                    
     Lres from Madrid yt ye Inquisiticon of Tolledo & all other ptes of         
ye Kin[g]dome have declared agt ye 4 pposicones of ye ffre[n]ch Clergy          
yt they are Skismatticall mormons & tending to Heresy                           
     This morning ye Ld Mayr & Court of Aldreman went to White Hall &           
Complemented Prince George upon his arrivall to England                         
     This morning alsoe Monsr Tilladett Envoy Extraordinary from ye             
ffrench King had his audience from his Matie and Royall highnesse               
rendring ym ye Commplemt from his Mr from yt happy delivance from ye            
traitorous Conspiracy.  Ye same time alsoe ye Earles of Macklesfeild            
Suffolke & Kent togeathr with one Lacy Gower Esqr a late membr of               
Parliamt kissed his Royall Highnesses hand & were [sentence ends]               
[Note in another hand in left margin of first recto:]  Sr pray make a           
volume of this last Quarter                                                     
     L. c. 1407     [Handwriting changes here.]     London July 26 1683         
     Tuesday all ye fforeigne Ministeres Complemented Prince Geo: upon          
his arrivall except ye Spaniard designeing to pforme yt Ceremony another        
Season by reason he would not be prsent wth ye ffrench Ambassidor to            
occasion disputes                                                               
     Sr John Jardin his Maties Envoy to ye Stes of Holland upon ye              
affaire of ye E: India Company relateing to Bantam is returennd & given         
his Matie a pticular Accot of his negotiacon in yt mattr yt after divers        
Conferrences wth ye States they had in some measure Complyed to his             
Maties demands but yt his Instruccons not being full to agree any thing         
of a Rebate in yt Affaire at prsent stood wthout a Conclusion till his          
Maties pleasure be further knowne in yt Concerne                                
     Yesterday 3 Clipprs 4 Malefactors Condemned last Sessions were             
executed at Tyburne                                                             
     Yesterday Lres from Paris on ye 3l brought advise yt ye day before         
Maria Teresia of Austria Queene of ffrance dyed at Versales in ye 45            
yeare of her Age & 4 day of her Sicknes being an Imposthume or Boile in         
her Neck wch occasioned her physicones to lett her blood sevrall times,         
put a period to her life.                                                       
     The late arrived E India Interloper Tuesday & Wednesday began &            
ended ye Sale of yr goods wch mett wth a good Markett & was in Vallue           
neare l30000 L & his Matie bought all ye Salt Petr                              
     This day 7 night is appointed an Adje Sessions at ye Old Bayly at          
wch tyme ye Ld Ch: Justice Pemberton will returne from ye home Circuitt         
when divrs of ye Conspirators will be furthr brought up on yr Tryalls &         
alsoe those who are ffled will be pceeded agt to an Outlawry                    
     Lres from Calis informe yt Capt Clowdesly Shovell in his Maties            
ffriggott ye James Galley came to an Anchor in yt Roade and was by 12           
Spanish men of Warr ordered to salute wch ye Capt refused unlesse they          
would returne as many Gunnes upon wch they nott complying layd him on           
Board and shott through him killing some of his men wch then he was             
obliged to pforme but ye same comeing to his Maties Knowlege very much          
Resents ye indignity of ye Spaniards & will write to Madrid about it            
     By a Shipp passing by Argeires wee have an accot of Monsr De               
Quesne since ye receipt of all ye ffrench slaves  hee Comanded of yt            
Governmt l200000 Dollars to be given to his Mr as alsoe all ye Gunnes           
taken formerly at Gugiry to be restored wthout wch he cannot agree a            
peace but to alleviate ye Paymt of ye sd money he is contented to               
accept of all Christian slaves wth ym being about 5000 at l00 Dollars a         
head in pte of Paymt wch pointes they have taken time to considr                
     This day Prince George was marryed to Lady Anne And ye Ld Mayor and        
leiftennancy went to Complimt Prince George                                     
     The french King has returend Answr to ye Dyett of Rattisbone to            
forbeare his Prtentions dureing ye Warr wth ye Turke yt he will take his        
advantage publishing ye manefesto yt if ye Empror & Spaine doe not agree        
his demands by ye end of August he will carve out his owne.                     
     L. c. 1408     [Handwriting changes here.]    London July ye 23th 83       
     Our letters from Northampton give an Accompt, that ye Grand Jury for       
that County had presented 52 Gentl: of those [parts?] by name for               
Associating themselves in Clubbs and Caballs, tending to ye Diquiet of ye       
Govermt and for presenting formerly to ye Knights of the Shire an Address       
for altering the succession out of itts lineall Course of descent by            
disabling James Duke of Yorke from inheriting the Imperiall Crowne of           
this Realme                                                                     
     Which presentment is brought to Whitehall, and said will bee printed       
and seconded by ye grand Juryes of divers other Counties and ye said            
Towne of Northampton made A surrender of their Charter yesterday into ye        
hand of the King, as did some dayes agoe the Citizens of Newbury and            
sevrall other places.                                                           
     Yesterday his Grace ye Duke of Buckingham kissed his Maties and            
Royall Highnesses hand, and was received into Grace and favour, as did          
alsoe ye Lord Delamere with other Gentl:                                        
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     The Emprors Envoy heare has his advice yt ye Polish Army has taken         
ye Citty Caserta from Count Teckley & yt Count Teckley was himselfe             
wounded if not slaine in attempting to receive it and yt ye Poles are in        
a full march towards Vienna                                                     
     Sr extraordinary buisnes hath caused me to omitt you this lettr,           
for wch I crave yo[u]r pardon & doe assure you this is ye last I shall          
faile you off.                                                                  
     L. c. 1409    London July 31st 1683                                        
     The E: India Company has appointed a sale on ye 7 of August & will         
pay such bills as shall become due by ye 30 of 7br out of ye sd money           
     His Matie has made ye Ld Howard of Effingham Governour of Virginia         
in ye roome of ye Ld Culppr.                                                    
     On Saturday night Prince George was marryed to ye Lady Anne & his          
Matie was pleased to pforme ye Ceremoney of putting on ye Princes shirt         
and ye Queene ye Ladyes Shift just before they bedded                           
     The Prince continues covered in ye prsence & ye Danish Ambassidor          
has agreed ye Articles of marriage his Matie giveing ye Prince l0000 L          
p ann  & his Royall Highness as much & ye King of Denmarke double ye            
value & one way or othr he will be worth 50000 L p ann  And ye prince           
made his Lady a prsent of jewells worth 20000 L                                 
      Their Maties this day went for Windsor & tomorrow yr R Highnesses         
goe thither where ye Prince will be installed Knight of ye Garter & wee         
are told will be Created Duke of Glocestr or Cumberland & have ye place         
of Lord high Admirall of England Conferred on him                               
     Sonday last 2 Nonconformeing Ministers, ffrancklyn & Long being            
taken in a Conventicle were Committed to Newgate upon ye 5 mile Act             
     Yesterday ye Lds of ye Councill Complemented Prince George upon            
his Marriage wth Ye Lady Anne                                                   
     Its advised from Berlin yt ye D: of Brandenburgh has consented to          
a League wth ye Empror and relinquished yt of ffrance                           
     Paris Lres say yt ye ptestants of Langue docke meet 3 or 4000 in           
ye ffeilds to heare preaching &c & haveing sent to ye Chancellor had            
answere yt by this they declared a Warr & yt Gallowses should be erected        
to punish those Rebells yt sent them ordrs being dispatched to ye Intendt       
to take force & seized those Conventicles & send them to ye Gallyes             
     The Ld Mayor and Cort of Aldrmen went this day to White Hall to            
receive his Maties ordrs before he left ye Towne and Complemted Prince          
George upon his Marriage                                                        
     This day writts of ne exeat Regno were served on divers Merchts &          
Mastrs of Shippes who are Interloprs to ye Indies & gave 20000 L security       
but not to do yt [?] to ye Kingdome   Bills in Chancery as alsoe                
pceedings at Common Law & Accons in ye Crowne office being agt them for         
Tradeing to India contrary to ye Companyes Patent                               
     Lres from Passau [seal spoils about five letters] yt ye D: of              
Lorreigne had sent a ffishrman whoe swame into Vienna & returned safe to        
informe Count Starenburgh yt he would raise ye seige in less then a month       
ye Count engaged to defend it till then                                         
      Accordingly he estened [?] his souldrs wth money Bread & Wine to yr       
Satisfaccon & ye Turkes after 3 Stormes sumoned them to surrendr The            
Prime Vizier declareing yt if he tooke it by Assault he would not spare a       
Child in ye Cradle                                                              
     The Governour made answer yt he would not surrendr whatevr happened        
but agreed to a Cessacon to bury ye dead aftr wch ye Turkes played              
furiously wth yr Cannon ye Sultans sending ye Vizier either to take ye          
City or else be strangled whereupon ye Vizier sent to Offen & Gran to           
bring all necessaryes resolveing to make a Genll Storm before ye                
Imperiall supplyes arrived  Just now tis advised yt ?0000 [first digit          
blotted] Bavarians have joyned the Duke of Lorreigne  Genll Dunwalt has         
surprised 800 Tartars taken l4 Coulours & released 3000 Christian slaves        
     L. c. 1410     London August 2d 1683                                       
     Wee receive an Accot from ye Court of ye Elector of Brandenburgh yt        
upon his highnesses declareing a dispatch of 1000 souldrs for ye Emprors        
releife ye ffrench Ambassadour imediately repaired to him & would have          
disuaded ye D: therefrom but alsoe told him his Mr would resent ye              
Indignitye in being done contrary to league lately concluded for not            
aggrandizeing ye house of Austrea but ye Duke as smartly replyed as well        
by word of mouth as by writeing yt at evr[y] allyance he had made wth his       
Mr for not rayseing yt house to a highr pitch he was sure he had agreed         
nowe to bring it lowr & therefore being Sov[r]eigne in his owne Dominions       
his Mr must be satisfied in wt he had done for his desire was to expell         
ye Ottoman Army tho' there were some in Europe yt he thought were               
Instrumentall in bringing them in & now well pleased wth ye pgress they         
had made upon ye Empire                                                         
     Yesterday was brougt to ye Kings printing house & since printed ye         
State of ye late Traitorous Conspiracy agt ye King & Royall Highness            
being drawne up by ye Privy Councill give a Scheme wth ye names of many         
of ye psons menconed in yt Conspiracy togeathr wth an ordr for a genll          
Thankesgiveing for ye delivrance therefrom wch is appointed to be on ye 9       
of Septembr next & ye sd State to be read in all ye inslies [?] &               
Chappells ye Sunday before & at ye day of Publicke thankesgiveing               
     Tuesday last was pformed ye long Expected Joquo de Torme or                
ffighting wth bulls on horsebacke after ye Spanish mannr wch p[r]oved           
very ineffectuall & much disliked ye Spaniards useing all possible              
meanes of Gunpowder & othrwise to pvoke ye Cowes to ffight but could            
not wch soe much incensed ye spectators whoe gave some l8 & othrs 20 d          
for ye seates yt ye Booth was well nigh pulled downe to the Ground              
     The E: India Company have now prvailed wth his Matie to signe a            
Comicon wch before was obstructed to constitute Sr Jno Wetwang Admll & Sr       
Tho Grantam vice Admirll of a ffleet of ll saile of Shippes wch ye              
Company is sending to India Sr Jno on bord ye Royall James & Sr Tho in          
Charles ye 2d being ye Companyes shippes of 60 gunns a peice to carry 220       
men each besides souldrs & have ye Kings Jacke & will be ready to depart        
in 3 weekes for India ye Company designeing not only to ffight and seize        
ye Interloprs but to endeavor to take Banta[m] if it be not allready done       
& I am told intend to settle a Royall in India where they will determine        
affairs relateing to ye Company                                                 
     About 2 of ye Clocke this morning casually broake forth a dreadfull        
[fire] in yt range in ye Innr Temple of buildings adjacent to White             
ffryrs wch in some howers consumed 30 Apartmts & was of yt impetuosity yt       
divers Gent were burnt in yr bedds & one Sr Tho Robinson Treasurr of yt         
place & Prosecutr of ye Common pleas threw himselfe out of a window but         
was soe bruised yt an hower after he dyed  his place being worth 7000 L         
falls to ye Ld Ch: Justice Pembrton                                             
     The Sessions at ye old Bayly being adjd to this day ye Cort only           
pceeded to make pclamacon for those Conspirators who are fled to surrendr       
themselves will be [sic] pceeded agt to Outlawry & yn adjd to ye 29             
Instant when they intend to try those others in Custody                         
     L. c. 1411     [Handwriting changes here.]    Whitehall 2d August 83       
     His Matie has appointed the E of Dumbarton to goe on his pte and           
his Royall Highnesse has nominated Mr Nickolas from him to goe and wait         
uppon the ffrench King and condole with him uppon the losse of his late         
Queene                                                                          
     On ye 27th ye D: of Buckingham waited uppon his Maty and kissd his         
hand                                                                            
     The same day the Declaration of the late cursed Conspiracy was read        
in Councill and approved and ordered to be sent to the Presse  It is first      
to be read in all Churches uppon the 2d of 7br next that all his Matyes         
good Subjects being made sensible of the truth and horrour of it may            
prepare themselves and give God Thankes for his great deliverance on ye         
9th which will be observed throughout all ye Kingdome as a publick and          
solemne day of thankesgiveing                                                   
     Wee have not yett heard what is become of Sr Thomas Armstrong              
fferguson or any of the other traytors fled from Justice but Holland            
must noe more be a Receptacle for ym the States Genll haveing given ordr        
to seize any that should be soe hardy to goe thither and forbid all their       
subjects to give them ye least aid or comfort                                   
     The Dutch ffleet now goeing out is comanded by Admirall Bastvens [?]       
who has taken his leave of the States and is gone aboard  tis Apprehended       
by most that as when they shall meete the ffrench and Danish fleete they        
will be hardly able soe to deport themselves as not to give an occasion         
of a Rupture                                                                    
     The Marseilles lres dat July 23 say that a strict Guard is put uppon       
ye Slaves brought to Toulon from Algiers many of them being said to have        
brought plague sores with them  there gave not Mounsr d'Quesne his [?]          
action who they say has refused 500 peices of 8 and demands a farr greater      
summe.  Tis strange that they should soe easily be brought to such Termes       
(but it was ye affright at the Bombes to which they had not beene used [?]      
more than the hurt[)] soe tis well assured by lres from Algier that not         
above 7 houses were spoyled and 9 psons killed                                  
     On ye 28 in ye evening the Articles of marriage haveing been fully         
concluded George Prince of Denmarke and Princess Anne were married by the       
Lord Bishop of London at St James's  All that night the Bells &c loudly         
proclaimed the peoples joy and the next day the whole Court app[ear?]ed         
very splendid and the Nobility &c paid their Complements of congratulation      
     On the 28 the Queene went to Windsor and this day his Maty His             
Royall Highness Prince George and the Princess goe thither too morrow           
where they may cede [?] the Traditions [?] of yt place and the Prince           
be admitted into ye most happy order of the Garter on Thursday.                 
     It has beene ye Towne Talke that mr Bateman a Chirurgeon and Mr            
Noyes a Linnen Draper who are both Prisonrs on Acct of the Conspiracy           
were carried to Kingston to receive their tryalls which haveing gained          
genll beleife I thought fitt to give notice that it were a false Report         
     You had formrly accot of ye apprhending of Lock who transported the        
lord Gray to Middleburgh since which tis advised that 2 of the seamen who       
belonged then to him are seized at Yarmouth in ye Isle of Wight                 
     The Paris Lres dated Augu the ll tell us Mounsr de Quesne remaines         
before Algier till he has an answer to the Courier and knows whether            
besides l200 livres to the Merchants and 500 to the King he shall insist        
upon haveing one of their ports as an obligation uppon those Pirates to         
keep the peace  In ye meane time 60 of his shalloupes are employed              
to ply along the Coast and undr the very walls which receive all the            
Slaves of what Nation soever who can escape to them their Mastrs                
not dareing to grumble at it for feare of the Bombes                            
     The Spanish Armada consisting of l0 great shipps and 4 fire shipps         
sett saile July the l2th from Cadiz but by contrary winds were put into         
Rota 3 leagues from thence and as yet noe notice of their second setting        
out                                                                             
     On ye 30 one Weekes was brought in by arresting and discharged uppon       
2000 L baile  Mr Meade the great Non=conformist Preacher has gained his         
liberty uppon giveing 2000 L bond for himselfe and two suretyes each one        
of a l000 L to answer what shall be objected agt him at Terme and in the        
meane time to be of the good behaviour                                          
     On ye 3l of ye last a liberty was granted to the Spanish Cavalier          
to show the dexterity of his exercise agt the Bull.  The place for ye           
spectators had been sometime since erected and now ye Horses                    
haveing beene led about Streets like the Beares to draw in Company              
about 3 in ye afternoone they began the shew   the Cavalier appeared            
well mounted in a carelesse posture with a cloak about him and a short          
speare in his hande and then the bulle was let loose  the Bull not soe          
fierce as those in Spayne was yet sufficiently taught neglected the             
Don who thereuppon provoaked him Severall times with his speare  The            
Bulle did not yet turne to account and soe the Don with his speare              
gave little satisfaction but then Springes a nimble Portuguez who               
on foote attacques the Bulle vaults upon his back and bestrides him             
and the Bulle could not sooner acquitt himselfe of him then he was              
up againe and this indeed gave some Diversion  But this was not the             
thing the people lookt for  They thought to have seene at least an              
horse or a man sorely wounded if not killed outright but being bereft           
of their Expectation as haveing not mischeife enough for their money            
the rabble grew enraged and fell uppon pulling downe the scaffolding            
haveing destroyed a great part of itt Carried away ye Bulle and so the          
shewe ended                                                                     
     By the Marseilles lres dated July the 30 tis said that the Courier         
dispatcht from Mounsier d' Quesne embarqued at Toulon 3 dayes before            
uppon his returne they were fitting some men of War to goe before Salley        
who had ye Corsairs aboard and had lately taken some ffrench shipps  The        
Holland men of warr had beene at Tripoli where the[y] had cut off the           
late Kings head and made Peace with them on the same termes they did            
with Tunis  Those of Algiers have not complied with their promise in            
delivring up all their Captives and seeme to seeke a pretext to breake          
with them                                                                       
+There is nothing new from Vienna only an hope from their gallant               
deportmt that they will be yet able to maintayne it till succor come            
     Sr Phill Loyd one of the Che[if?] of his Matyes most Honrab                
Privy Councill is made secretary to Prince George  The Chapter for              
the Garter is putt off till Monday                                              
+This morning about 3 a fire broak out in ye Temple where ye Kings B.           
office was formerly kept and destroyed many houses  Sr Tho Robinson ye          
pothecary leapeing out of his window is since dead by his fall  Walcots         
head is sett up at Aldrsgate Rous's at Guild Hall and Hones at Aldrgate         
and these examples worke not uppon perverse men  There are yett some that       
frequent Conventicles of which one eminent one was this weeke disturbed         
and their Preacher sent to Newgate                                              
[Note in another hand on outside of letter:] 2 Aug: 83 Muddimans Letters.       
1 Caret [?]. to 20 Dec. inclusive                                               
     L. c. 1412    [Handwriting changes here.]     London Augt 4th 83           
     A Councill sitts every day at White Hall to make a further                 
inspection into the Plott there being someone or other continually              
before them but they proceed wth that Justice as to acquitt wthout              
ffees those they find innocent and yesterday divers were discharged             
    One Mr Johnson the late Ld Russells chaplaine being before them             
and charged to be the Author of divers unwarrantable books especially           
that of Julian the Apostate as alsoe a 2d part therof wch was printed           
and ready to bee published and since ye discovery of the plott remained         
from the press both wch bookes hee owned himself to bee authour of but          
would nott surrendr upp the lattr uppon which the printeres and                 
booksellers were discharged but he comitted to ye Gate house.                   
     Yesterday uppon some Informacons given of Rumball ye Arch Conspiratr       
in Bishopsgate Streete divers houses were broken open and the place besett      
wth Soldiers but he found money to escape for the prsent.                       
     The Late dreadful fire wch hapned Thursday morning in the inner            
Temple has done mighty damage for itt being ye Remembrance Office most          
of ye Records of Convicted papists and dissentrs were consumed but some         
think they may be recovered out of the pipe office  yesterday was found         
4000 L in ye Rubbish in an iron Chest ye money of ye deceased Sr Tho            
Robinson who leapt out of ye window and Mr Williams had ye misfortune to        
come yt Evening late out of ye Country who lodgeing in his Chamber was          
consumed in the flames  itts supposed to beginn thro the meanes of one Mr       
Glide in ye office who sitting upp all night to prepare bussiness for ye        
assizes might fall asleepe and his candle sett fire to his paprs hee            
being found alsoe burnt                                                         
     On Wednesday last two Execrable villaines convicted Last Hertford          
assizes for Ravishing Robbing and Murdering a mealmans wife of Barnett          
was there hanged in Chaines and while ye Executionr was busy in                 
fastning the Rope in ye Gibbett Bungg one of the malefactors unlooseing         
his hands wth his teeth tooke of the noose from his owne & dextrously           
putt itt over ye Executionrs head gott astride on the Gibbett thrust            
away the Laddr and had certainly hanged him had nott the Rope been              
somewhat entangled in part of his hatt wch occassioned him to dropp             
thro' and itt was well nigh an houre hee defending himselfe from                
yt assault before hee could bee gott downe & Executed.                          
     Advice from Oxford gives an Accompt that one ffrancis Charlton Esqr        
whose sonn marryed Sr Robt Chivestons daughter being a greate fortune           
was thro' ye means of the Bishopp of yt place seized there this weeke           
being menconed in his Maties declaracon published Thursday last for a           
generall day of Thanksgiveing on ye 9th of octob [?] and I am told is           
charged to have a deep hand in the Conspiracy as yt he was paymastr             
thereof & did actually give Mr West 8 L [?] to buy Armes wth  hee is a          
Gent of a [about four words cut off] & remarkeable as haveing                   
[paragraph ends]                                                                
+This weeke ye agents from new England were at Whitehall to acquaint yt         
a Quo Warrto is brought agt yt Charter directed to ye Gouvrnr &                 
Inhabitants & is delivered into ye hands of one Randall to carry thither        
in ordr to try yt affaire his Matie declareing he has noe designe of            
infringe[ing] their Libertys but yt they acknowledg him their Sovereigne        
expecting yr conformity for the future or els to abide ye due course of         
Law.                                                                            
     L. c. 1413    London Augt 7th 83                                           
     Lettrs from the Court of Brandenburgh of ye 29th of July say yt            
Monsr Rodenack ye french Ambassadr in a greate huff tooke his Audience of       
of Congere of yt Duke to returne home since his highness had publickly          
declared to adhere intirely to the Emperors interest the Duke nott only         
speeding away l2000 Veteran soldiers to the releife of Vienna but added         
6000 more and for a readier dispatch sent Away ye foote in Carts & Waggons.     
     ffom Dantzick tis advised that ye King of Poland has sent his ordrs        
thither to command away Monsr Vernay the french Envoy haveing finished          
his bussiness nott being willing to have a person soe dangerous to his          
State to remaine on his frontiers.                                              
     Our hamburgh Lettrs tell us of two plotts discovered in the Citty of       
Lubeck to put itt into the hands of ye King of Denmarke  ye one was an          
agreemt between the King and some of ye Burghers Masters  The latter            
that when they should have occassion to make use of their Cannon their          
Bulletts are made to Bigg which being advertized to ye Dukes of Lunenburgh      
and Zell they sent 5000 who lye in the Suburbs wch has hindred the              
projects and the Burghers have sworne to be true to ye Emperour  those of       
Colloigne have arrested the high Court of justice for being to partiall         
in the process of ye Sieur Mussleman but upon intercession and promise          
that they will expedite yt affaire are since att Liberty.                       
     The Dutch ffleete Lye now on ye Dogger Banks between England and           
Holland whence Bastianez ye Admirall is to open his Comission and to            
pursue ye intents  all are men of warr that are and can be gott ready           
are forthwth ordrd to sea undr conduct of some experienced Commander the        
designe nott as yett knowne                                                     
     Francis Charleton Esqr seized att Oxford was carryed to Windsor &          
brought here last night and remaines in ye hand of a messengr where hee         
is writeing what he knowes of the traiterous conspiracy to meritt his           
pardon.                                                                         
     The Ld Dartmouth is appointed Admirall to command ye Aforesd fleete.       
     this day Prince George was to have been installed knight of the            
Garter but tis deferred  the reason is sd to send itt to Denmarke ye            
Prince being of ye order of the Elephant wearing a Starr whither hee            
discontinue that to take uppon him yt order of England.                         
     Their Maties are in mourning for ye decease of the french Queen.           
     Yesterday one Mayne a linnen drapr was seized on acct of ye plott          
and will [be] carryed too morrow wth Mr Charlton to Hampton Court to be         
examined before ye Councill                                                     
    Wee want 2 Dutch posts But tis advised from fflandrs yt at Vienna ye        
Turks forbear assaulting but intend to mine and storme itt  The beseiged        
broke into & tooke an Aga who confesses yt ye Prime Vizier had nott             
attacqued Vienna had not Count Lerini assured him ye Citty might bee            
easily taken.  The Emperor gave a Gent a gold chaine for acquainting him        
ye Poles were on a full march to Joyne Lorrane                                  
     L. c. 1414    [Handwriting changes here.]    London August ye 9th 83       
     Tuesday and yesterday we have generall and grand Reports about             
Towne, the first that ye ffrench King beeing infected with ye plague (of        
which tis said his Queene dyed) was himself deceased, the latter, that          
one Mr. Alderman ffoote a merchant received in a postscript of a letter         
from Holland that on the 3lth ultima Vienna was surrendred to the Turkes,       
but for want of further confirmation I suspect ye truth of either.              
     Yesterday was held a Councell att Hampton Court where ye affaire           
betweene ye East India Company and the Interlopers was expected to bee          
debated by Councell on both sides but his Matie not comeing from Windsor,       
ye matter was differred, as alsoe some other buisinesse.                        
     The Lord Dartmouth who is appointed to command the ffleete now att         
Anchor att ye Spit head neare Portsmouth beeing made up 20 sayle and            
well manned came on Tuesday to Windsor from on board, beeing supposed           
for new orders, and is since returned to them and will putt to sea with         
all expedition, the designe is kept secret.                                     
     Our Scotch Letters of ye 3lth say, that Hammilton of Maikland,             
who was one of those seized att New Castle, goeing with letters to              
Holland in order to consult ye raising an insurrection in the Kingdome,         
beeing a branch of the Conspiracy detected here was upon full evidence          
of l4 witnesses some time since convicted and now sentenced to loose his        
head on the Markett Crosse his Estate reall and personall to bee forfeited      
to the Kings use, his armes reversed by sound of Trumpett and by the            
Herauld of Armes proclaimed Traytor; ye Kings Advocate has undertaken to        
make itt Treason for refuseing to take the Test, and divers will be tryed       
thereon.                                                                        
     This morning ye East India Company received good newes, that two           
Shipps vizt ye Samson, C[apt] Legon Commander and the ffan[seal spoils          
about three letters] Captaine Brestrigg Commander was arrived at ye             
Downes from Surat richly loaden, but brings no advise as to Bantam, or          
Accompt of divers others of the companyes shipps, wch were before them          
sett sayle for England, theire auction remaines att 245                         
     This afternoone sitts a Committee of Councell att Whitehall, where         
divers of ye Plottrs will bee examined.                                         
     One Starkey Clarke to Aaron Smith in ye Tower is committed to ye           
Gate house for that hee under the pretence of seizing Conspiractors take        
up persons without warrants                                                     
     One Sr Richard Corbett a late Member of Parliament is this weeke           
deceased, the Lord Convay is said to bee very ill, Collonell Birch              
another member sick if not dead.                                                
    The Court designes for Winchester towards ye end of this Moneth.            
     L. c. 1415     [Handwriting changes here.[     Whitehall 9 Aug 83          
     May it please ye Honor                                                     
     From Ireland they tell us dated July 25 of one Gideon Finch ye great       
Belle weather of Wexford who at ye Assizes ye weeke before was found guilty     
of Subornation and Perjury and fined 40 L  This was a great Mortification       
to ye Party that so eminent a leader should be found in soe foule a fault       
but the best of men have theire failings and this did not hinder but that       
on ye 24 he with some fellow labour[e]rs held forth in Dublin from 9 in         
ye morning till 4 afternoone Itt being kept as a day of humiliation among       
them wch wholly bodes mischeife this by fasting haveing as is well observed     
beene comonly made use of to whet their appetite to Rebellion  The best         
of it is ye Govrmt is well provided for them there and soe ye Danger ye         
lesse  The greatest care is taken that noe suspected pson should land in        
any port without being secured and none are to goe to Scotland or come          
from thence without Passes                                                      
     Mr Francis Charleton being lately discovered neare Oxford was              
apprhended and sent thither to be secured upon notice of which a                
Messenger was ordered hence with a Party of Horse to bring him up  He is        
one named in his Matyes late declaration of the Conspiracy and was so           
gratious in ye Eyes of Goodenough that upon pticular occasion hee made          
choice of him to be fforeman of a middlx jury  He is a man of 2000 L p          
ann and may be able to doe greate service by a Discovery being said to be       
Treas to the Conspiracy and who was to have laid downe the money for the        
Armes  With him was one who denyes [?] his Name is Walter Vaughan but           
being found in such Company he is duly suspected and therefore to be            
brought up with him to answer for himselfe                                      
     Mr Vaughan who was taken with Mr Charleton is discharged  Mr               
Charleton haveing on ye 5 been examined by his Maty in Councell was             
comitted to ye Custody of his Messengers and is now here with him.              
     And we are in hope suddenly to see an other of the Conspiracy              
mentioned in ye Declaration Casteen a Non conformist Teacher [sic] there        
being notice given yt ye Mayor of Tonderton [?] in Kent had taken one in        
custody upon that account who answrs those Charactrs  he acknowledgeth          
himself to be a Scotchman a servant [?] to hobbs [?] and well acquainted        
with fferguson but being askt what he knew of ye Conspiracy he said ye          
times were dangerous and must consider before he answred such questions         
     To these I may Joyne Ben Harris ye Pillory bookseller to whome his         
Matie upon promise of better behaviour remitted a fine which held him           
Prisonr in ye kings Bench  This ungratefull wretch makes this use of his        
Liberty that he carryes downe ye seditious Libells which he was shy in          
vending here to put them off at Bristoll ffaire  These were what he traded      
in but being askt for Animadversions on my Ld Russells speech he said he        
sold no such popish bookes  The magistrate of ye Citty carried out a            
warrant to apprhend him but these people haveing long eares and many            
spyes he gained notice and Escap'd  The villanous Pamphlets are seized as       
he may phaps himself suddenly haveing been seene since walking in               
disguise neare the Towne                                                        
     And of ye same Bunch are the obstinate Conventiclers who though they       
finde ye Conspiracy at ye Doores will still enter ye Meeting Houses of          
these same this weeke have been routed and ye speakers sent to Newgate  the     
Hearers indeed are mostly women and therefore not soe roughly handled But       
yet they are of great danger when [about twelve consecutive words               
illegible] are to be lookt uppon as those who have ye foule disease for         
besides that they spoyle most men that keep them Company  they generally        
taint their husbands  Twere better for them and ye whole Kingdome that          
they all would doe as about 40 or 50 did on ye 4 at Southampton sett            
Saile for Pensylvania  there they may finde those like themselves and           
exercise one with another with ye greatest freedome                             
     The Installation at Windsor is put off till further ordr  The Reason       
'tis said is for that Prince George wearing now ye Ordr of ye Elephant          
expects an answer to ye Complement He sent to the King his brother about        
takeing this of ye Garter                                                       
     Capt Bascall who hath remained sometime in ye messengrs hand for           
want of Bayle hath now his liberty upon giveing l000 L bond himselfe and        
2 suretyes bound each in 500 L that when called to it he shall answer all       
such Mattrs as shall be objected against him                                    
     Mr Johnson ye Author of Julian ye ["Apostate" is cancelled or smeared]     
haveing been formerly in Custody was discharged uppon Bayle but is now          
againe taken upp  Hee is not yett wred of the itch of scribbling and is         
said to be the Author of another as villanous a Libell as the former            
which goes under the name of Lucians Arts and that to have engrossed the        
whole impression to himselfe reserveing it as a dose only for ye use of         
the Bretheren whose Stomachs by often takeing poyson are prepared for it        
     Admll Herbert uppon his returne from ye Straights of was recd with         
all kindnesse by his Matie who a marke of the Satisfaction and good             
Esteeme he hath of his services hath been pleased to make him one of the        
Comissioners of the Admiralty                                                   
+The Coffee houses about Towne have for 2 or 3 dayes maintained a discourse     
that the ffrench king is dead though there is not the least Symptome of         
any distemper taken notice of in ye ffrench lres which might give Colour        
to such Report  It was phaps scattered abroad in favour of one Halsway          
who had printed this in a paper with many idle predictions and stands now       
bound in l000 L to answer for them at ye next Sessions                          
+Tis writ from Cowes dated the 6 that by a vessell arrived there from           
Bourdeaux in 6 daies 'tis advised that their vintage is likely to fall          
short this yeare by reason of Extraordinary Thunder and haile                   
     His Matie intends uppon ye 25 to goe to Winchester                         
+To what the Gazette of 2 [?] ultima I have only to adde that by some           
lres tis said that ye Poles doe not answer Expectacon in comeing downe          
early to ye releife of the ["Turks" is cancelled]] but however Count            
Naremburgh defends ye place with the greatest Courage although the Turks        
are said to have made their approaches with l0 waves of ye Counterscarpe        
The Bassa of Cadiz they say was killed and an Aga taken Prisonr in a            
sally with a losse of many Turks  however the D of Lorraine had by one          
who by swimming the River in ye night given ordr that they should make          
no more Sallyes                                                                 
     L. c. 1416     [Handwriting changes here.]     London August 11 l683       
     Yesterday two Holland Mayles brought Lres from Lintz of the 31             
ultimo and Passaw the lst instant That Vienna notwithstanding the report        
that they had surrendred still makes a Vigorous defence haveing suffered        
8 Severall Assaults upon evr'y Quarter of the City, the last being a            
generall Storme with all the Turkish fforce for 8 houres but were               
repulsed wth above 20000 losses many being drowned in the Grafh [?]             
     Notwithstanding which discouragemt the Prime Vizier whose life             
depends upon the Successe redoubled his fury, wrote a Letter to the             
Sultan for a further Supply with promise that he will continue the Seige        
yet 40 dayes longer and was reinforced with 60000 from Belgrade &c and          
then resummoned it but was as couragiously answered in the negative             
     Since which the Turkes brought their approaches within l0 paces of         
the Counterscarp, began to mine againe the Scotch and Newport Gates, made       
a Bridge to take it from the Dona=side and raised double lines agt the          
City which hindred all accesse thereinto.                                       
     Count Staremburgh with a Choise party of the beseiged, sallied and         
and ruined the Bridge afterwards beat the Turkes out and filled up their        
Trenches by the Counterscarp and prevented some of their Mines from             
takeing effect, the Cannon is heard to play day and night.                      
     A Souldier in the Imperiall Camp at Crombs undertooke to goe into          
Vienna which he effected and as a Signall thereof affixed a Lighted Torch       
on a Steeple and afterwards another that all was well therein, returned         
safe backe and had by the Duke of Lorraine l00 Rix Dollars as a reward,         
brought an account of the State of the City and that the Governour              
expected to be releived in l0 but l5 dayes at furthest  otherwise they          
should bee in danger.                                                           
     On the other hand the Auxiliary Troopes march day and night to reach       
the Imperiall Army, Some are already joyned  The Poles are impatiently          
expected which when they are come up the perticulars make l08000 effective.     
     Count Teckleys fforces are in a great Body and does much dammage in        
Silesia and Moravia and now make an Inrode into Poland have surprized,          
sacked the City of Budimiski cutt the Garrison into peeces, the Earle           
Budiani revolted from the Emperour and made great devastation in Steremarke     
but being mett by some Imperiall Regiments was entirely routed together         
with those Turks and MaleContents with him; The Tartars most miserably          
cutt off the hands noses and eares of those X[ti]ans they cannot carry          
away but some hundred of them being taken were served after the like kind.      
     His Maties fleet at the Spitthead setts Saile this day or to morrow        
with a Doctor of the Civile Law on [board] them to satisfye the Spaniards       
a[s to?] the right of Saluteing they haveing found one of our Ships to give     
9 Gunns and answered but wth 5 [?] when they should have given as many          
     Thursday Mr Sam Maynd was examined but nothing being found agt him         
only some words spoken some yeares since he was sett at Liberty upon ye         
Baile                                                                           
     Yesterday ffrancis Charleton Esqr was examined and not makeing an          
ingenious Confession was committed to the Tower for conspireing his             
Maties death &c                                                                 
     By a holland Mayle this morning wth Lers of 7 August wee are advised       
that the Turkes are now planting their heavy Cannon for Battery agt             
Vienna, but wanting provision and a high ffeaver being in their Army            
there's hopes of raising the Seige the Auxiliaries being now joyned and         
the 60000 Poles on their march to releive Vienna  The Duke of Lorraine          
has encountred Count Teckleys fforces and taken 300 waggons and killed a        
considerable number                                                             
[Note in another hand on outside of letter:] 2 ounces of the Syrupp of          
the 5 opening Pantry [?] wch my Lady had formerly                               
     L. c. 1417     London August l4 l683                                       
     Saturday last ye lord Conway Vicount Killingworth late Secretary of        
State after a Short indisposicon departed this life at his house in Towne       
leaveing a great Estate behind him both real and psonall most of which          
being 8 or 9000 L p ann he has left his wife a Lady not yet 20 yeares of        
age ye Daughter of one Sr ffrancis Stoell                                       
     The Managers of ye Kings Theater intend wthin Short time to pforme         
an Opera in like manner of yt of ffrance  Mr Batterton wth other Actors         
are gone ovr to fetch yt designe                                                
    Saturday night one Richards a Player in Company at a Taverne wth some       
Gentlemen told ym he might take his leave and last farewell for said I          
shall dye within halfe an houre which he accordingly went home and pformed      
     One Mr Addenby Clarke of the Peace [?] for Middx has bought of the         
Ld Cheife Justice Pemberton for 6000 ye place of Prothonitor of ye Common       
Pleas vacant by the death of Sr Thomas Robinson whoe was killed at ye           
late ffire at the Temple                                                        
     Saturday last a Gentleman receiveing some Hundreds of Guineas in           
Lombarde Street was way laid by divrs Pickpocketts which to effect yr           
designe one knocked him downe while another runne him through and a 3d          
tooke away his money but swift psuit being made after ym sevrall were           
taken and committed                                                             
     Yesterday was offered upon ye Spire of St Petrs Church in Cornehill        
a large guilded Key only an Embleme to reprsent ye Introduccon of ye            
Xstian Religon into this Country yt church being lst built as some say by       
ancient Records in England aftr Paganisme tho' some dissatisfied people         
thinke it an illusion to popery                                                 
     One Mr Westlocke being [?] of ye Templrs discribed in a late Gazett        
as concerned in ye Plott was seized neare Exeter attending yt Circuitt          
     Yesterday in an ordr of Councill published concerneing a Writt of          
Quo warranto agt ye Chartr of Massachusetts Bay in New England was              
signified yt his Matie declared yt he will only regulate yr Chartr for ye       
best [?] support of his Governmt wthout any prjudice to any in yt Colony        
in case of submicon and resignacon                                              
     Yesterday a fflandrs Mayle brought lres of ye 8 Instant from Passaw        
vizt That ye Turkes haveing on ye 3l July made a genll Storme & gott upon       
ye Ramparts ready to affix yr Standard thereon were repulsed by Count           
Staremburgh wth ye losse of l2000 Turkes & 300 of ye beseidged                  
     The King of Poland haveing wth his Army pted from Cracow ye 29             
ultimo is hoped will come in time as alsoe ye D of Brandenbrughs fforces        
to ye beseidgeds releife                                                        
     Count Serim [?] is found guilty of high Treason                            
[Words and names written in another hand on outside of letter:]                 
       Ox Close                                          Hamet                  
      Job Hampstd.                                       Randle                 
      Jo: Smith                                          her D                  
      Foster                                             y Nolmy [?]            
      Fr. Smith                                          her Daugh              
      her Daughter                                                              
      Alice Ringl                                                               
      Nan Watre [?]                                                             
     L. c. 1418     [Handwriting changes here.]    London August 10 1683        
     Lettrs from Scotland say yt on ye 7 Instant ye Privy Councill              
ordered a Proclamacon, that a Genll thankesgiveing throughout the Kingdome      
shall be on the same day, which is appointed in England, being the 9 of         
September to returne the Allmighty thankes for ye discovery of ye Hellish       
Conspiracy to take away his Matie and Royall Highness from life                 
     The Councill has given a Command to Collonell Graham Uquhart & some        
others empowereing them to make a strict inquiry of all disafected to his       
Maties Governmt in yt Kingdome of what degrees and quallityes soevr and         
report them to ye Councell whoe will immediately ordr ye Kings advocate         
to psecute ym                                                                   
     Wee are advised yt Castrs a Nonconformist Preacher menconed in his         
Maties late Declaracon concerned in ye Plott is seized in Company of            
two other Nonconformists at Tentenden in Kent                                   
     A Quo Warranto is ordrd agt ye City of Chestr                              
     One Mr Bartlett late Partner wth Mr Charles Dunkam the great               
banker in Lombard Street dyed at Empsome drinkeing those waters the             
close of last weeke                                                             
     The Scotch lettrs further say yt Justice Air is now wholly finished        
and yt ye Lords of ye Councill had examined their pceedings and approved        
them sending their thankes to the Lords of ye Justiciary for their great        
Services done, & declared that their ordr (which some had questioned)           
was to ye Clarke a Sufficient warrant for his Actinges                          
      Sr Patricke Lyon Judge of ye Court of Admiraltyes is made one of ye       
Lords of the Session, or Senators of ye Colledge Justice in Lord Mainnes        
place deceased and Sr David Norris advocate succeeds Sr Patricke                
     The Difference between the L high Chancellour and ye Earle of              
Lauderdale is agreed                                                            
     At ye Comeing away of these lettrs arrived from England at Edingburgh      
the Archbipp of St. Andrewes who tis said has brought an ordr wth him yt        
ye Common Prayr not yet read in that Kingdome shall be established in           
like mannr as yt in England                                                     
     Ltrs from ye English Consell at Marseiles of ye 9 of August give           
an accot retturneing home wthout effecting a [?] Peace of ye ffrench            
before Algieire ere ye Con Dey Major Morto [?] defying what they could          
doe unto them and to show yt greatr animossity tooke away ye ffrench            
Consull & tyeing him to ye Muzzle of ye Cannon that him [?] came away as        
they did alsoe five othr ffrenchmen they tooke in a Barque yt Governmt          
wch they disported [illegible word of about nine letters] ye ffrench had        
massacred divrs of ye agents [?] of Bassa Hassans wife ye former Dey to         
m[ake] her confesse where her husbands [illegible word of about eight           
letters] was hid wch shee not doeing they burnt her                             
     Our ffleet at ye Spitthead composed of 16 Men of Warr 12 ffire             
shippes and 10 Tendrs is againe put to Sea and they aboard them 2000            
Tunne of Lime sevrall Mortrs and Granadoes  Tis judged that the designe         
is when they arrive at Tangeire to attaque ye port of Salley wch has done       
o[u]r Mrtrs much damage and alsoe to take the opportunity of ye troubles        
in the Empire of Morocco to make a Cutt a Mile from Tangeire from ye            
Jewes River and thereby bring Tangeir into an Island for ye bettr               
security thereof                                                                
     Tis advised from Antwerpe yt ye Ld Grey wth a Gentlewoman and a 3d         
pson in Company was in yt Citty incognito but notice being given thereof        
to ye Marquis DeGrana has sent ordr to seize all ye English going out of        
ye Citty wth an intent to apprhend them                                         
     That country is in great apprhencons yt ye ffrench will attaque            
Luxemburgh and Mones of the [?] end of this month in case [?] ye Spaniards      
doe not in yt time agree to ye pposal wch tis beleived they will not            
     L. c. 1419     [Handwriting changes here.]     Whitehall 16 Aug 83         
     With his Maty goe down to Winchestr ye Queene his Royall Highnesse         
and ye Dutchesse Prince George and Princesse Anne  Some will have the day       
not till ye 27th and that they will stay there a fortnight if not 3             
weekes and then come to Whitehall.                                              
     They write from Portsmouth dated the 8 that ye Mary Rose and               
Bonadventure had joyned the fleete under Comand of the Lord Darmth and          
were in readyness to sett sayle                                                 
    Mr Wilkins a Linnen Draper in Friday Street was on ye l0th taken into       
Custody by a Messengr  Mr Meine the Linnen Draper is discharged on              
bayle  Mr Charleton is sent to ye Tower                                         
     The E of Conway dyed on ye llth about 9 in ye morning at St.               
James's Square                                                                  
     The Algerines hold still out agst ye ffrench and in revenge and            
defiance of their bombes shot Mounseiur Vacher a Jesuit and ffrench             
Consul from ye mouth of a Canon among them                                      
     The Conventicles findeing ye Magistrates resolute in their Suppression     
doe now moulder away and are dwindled almost to nothing  They doe not now       
meete in such great partyes but sulke and seeke out new places to nestle        
in and yet these are insecure for now the boyes as the lesser birds             
follow the owles and discover them by their noise  This new thankes [?]         
should be a faire warning as what does predict that if they continue the        
Stones of ye Street may shortly rise up in judgment against them                
     His Maty hath beene pleased to take into his Royall Consideration          
the service of Sr John More late Ld Mayor of ye Citty of London  He is          
a Gentl that held ye Chaire with the greatest Justice and Equity and            
maintained the sword with as much conduct and Courage  In his                   
Majoralty the Dissenters mustered theire legions in vaine  their                
mutinous Elections were defeited and in them ye measures and confidence         
of ye factions broken  Twas he that dared to make opposition to the             
then rampant party delivered the Governmt out of yre hands and restored         
the Citty to theire Soveraign  With regard to these such public and             
loyall services his Maty has Beene pleased to recomend him as an                
example to posterity and ordred that he shall bear on a Canton Gules one        
of ye Lyons of England as an Addition to his armes                              
     Tis writ from ye Streights that ye Spanish Armada were on ye 23 of         
ye last at Malaga where haveing taken aboard a Regiment of foot and some        
Provisions sett sayle the day following to the Levant  They require             
salutes from all they meete [?]                                                 
+The Pirates of Salle were all at home and had carried in 10 dutch              
Prizes  The Lisbon lres dated the 27th say the Queene of Portugall was          
soe ill of a consumption and feaver as that there was little hopes of her       
recovery                                                                        
     On ye 31 ye fleete under Comand of the Lord Dartmonth sett saile           
but ye wind blowing contrary they came to anchor ye same day in St              
Hellens Road where they have safe ryding                                        
     We may expect suddenly to have an acct of soe many of ye                   
Auxiliary fforces joyned to ye army of ye D. of Lorraine as may enable          
him to march to Vienna and if ye Turkes shall not be drawne of before           
to give to them battle and of these Auxiliaryes the Elector of                  
Brandenburgh is said to have sent a very Considerable Number  How               
farr these may be on theire way we cannot well tell but tis advised             
that ye ffrench Kings Minister has endeavoured to put a stop to them            
and roundly reminded [?] the Elector of Brandburgh of his obligations           
to his Master And that unlesse he shall withdraw his fforces from               
that Service that he must expect it will be highly resented and that            
his Master may send some of the fforces into ye Dutchy of Genoa [?] How         
farr hee may prevaile a little time may shew and very visable [?] it is         
that from ye state of Vienna the French King takes his measures and that        
though he has sett the Emperor and Empire a perimptory day, the last            
of this month to accept his proposalls yet if it shall please God in ye         
meane time to deliver that Citty soe that the Infidells shall be forced         
to returne with Reproach tis thought that he then may become more               
mercifull and not stand soe strictly on ye forfeiture of a day while he         
shall find them in a Conduct [?] off doeing him right [?]  The towne            
newes runs that ye Turkes had made a genrall assault and lost at least          
10m men uppon which they retreated a league and a halfe and turned their        
Seige into a Blocade but I find nothing of this in lres.                        
+He who I told you was apprehended in Kent proved to be ye same Casteen         
the non=conformist Teacher mentioned in ye Declaration and stands Comitted      
to a Messengr  the one eyed man taken at York proves not to be Rumbold          
though indeed more have beene saved by his Character but who are undr a         
violent suspition of being great villaines but is a sevt and is very            
sturdy in deneying his being at ye murdr of the Archbpp of St Andrewes          
and offers to produce wittnesses where he was at that time but was very         
tender in his answer about being at Bothwell Bridge                             
     Loyalty is now growne soe much in fashion that we have 2 addresses         
from one Towne  The Loyall Clergy the officers of the Militia and ye            
Gentry of ye Citty of Chester first presented one and among other hearty        
expressions of theire duty tooke notice with due respect and Submission         
of his Matyes writt of Quo Warrto agt their Charter and this was                
gratiously accepted by his Maty  This same daye after was followed by an        
other address from ye same Citty sent upp by Wm Williams speakr to the late     
house of Comons and offerred by him and his Matyes Servant Mr Tapham  to        
give it its due though it seemed [?] ye bussinesse [?] of ye Charter  the       
address was as full of good words as ye best Peticons in vox publica but        
ye other haveing already obtained place with his Maty there was noe             
roome for it and soe it was laid aside                                          
     This day the Ceremony of confirmeing ye Archbpp of York was pformed        
at Lambeth                                                                      
     L. c. 1420     [Handwriting changes here.]     London Augt 18th 83         
     Thursday night a fire broke out att ye Bell in a victualling               
house in Carter Lane and was happily extinguished wthout further damage         
to ye neighbourhood but ye family lost everything save yr Lives.                
    Casteen ye Non Conformist Preacher menconed in his Maties                   
declaracon as concernd in the plott being on Thursday brought to Towne          
was after examinacon comitted to Newgate and one Lobb of ye like faculty        
& crime being seized yesterday was alsoe sent to ye same place                  
     Thursday Last Dr Dolbin Bishopp of Rochester was wth a great               
Solemnity in ye Archbishop of Canterburyes Palace translated to ye Arch         
Bishoprick of York & afterwards gave a Splendid Entertainment                   
     A Constable undrstanding a discourse by some designeing people yt an       
aparition was seen abtt the house of ye late Ld Russell & being desirous        
to discover the intrigue afixed his Stands of Watchmen in ye Adjacent           
part accordingly  a Seeming white Ghost wth his hideous groanes approached      
neare one of the Watchmen who demanding in ye name of God what itt was          
replyed ye Ghost of ye Executed Ld Russell for could not bee att Rest           
till he had revealed yt ye Speech delivered on ye Scaffold was nott his         
owne but Dr Burnetts and draweing nearer ye watchman knockt ye Spiritt          
downe & calling to his followers to relate the exploit found itt to bee         
corporall and transferred into ye Shape of a neighbouring vintner att the       
point of death who tho' after hee had recovered his Spiritts would have         
made itt a jest but was nott farr from being a Corps to have frighted           
them in Earnest                                                                 
     The Scotch lettrs say yt Sr Wm Scott of Hardin is fined 3500 L for         
divers forfeitures his Lady has made in helping Conventicles tho' him           
self a  prisonr in Edinburgh Castle.                                            
     The East India Company have published a further ordr Resolved--            
     This Court doth declare yt they adjourne ye Eagles goods untill yr         
generall Sale wch is apointed to beginne ye l8th of 7ber next att which         
time they will alsoe sell ye goods unsold ye last sale & continue ye said       
Sale by adjournments untill they have sold what goods shall come on 2           
shipps expected from ye Coast and Bay and Such goods as shall come from         
China and Tongueen whenever they arrive Pepper excepted.                        
      The Company this weeke has received an additional Charter & undr ye       
broade Seale all oweing them great Immunityes that they shall carry in yr       
shipps ye Kings Jack and have power to seize all Intrloprs and to               
Constitute a Court of Admiralty in India where they shall proceed to            
Sentence and Confiscation and are further Impowered to make warr or peace       
wth any Indian Prince or Ki[ng]                                                 
     Pursuant to wch Sr Thomas Grantham wth ye kings Comision yesterday         
cleared all ye Customhouse & goes beforehand to India  ye rest of the           
Companys Shippes will speedily follow and have Authority to fight any           
nacons Subjects yt shall oppose the old King of Bantam and they are to          
cary abord ym 500 of his Maties Guards                                          
     Advice from fflandrs say that all ye french Conquests fill wth             
Soldiers & yt ordrs are come to Doway to prepare an Encampment for              
50000 men yt king declareing yt Country to belong to him in the right of        
the Dauphin as Duke of Burgundy & tis believed will endeavour to possess        
himself thereof.                                                                
+The Emperors Envoy here has desired his Maties assistance agt ye Turk          
but was advised att this Juncture to close wth ye proposalls of france          
who then promises to assist wth great force.                                    
+No Holland Post since this day 7 night with [?] not now and it [?] is          
not opened till Munday, it tells us, yt Vienna still makes a vigorous           
defence                                                                         
[Note in another hand on outside of letter:] 5 yds of Hard [?] of Robt          
Gill out at -- 13 - 4                                                           
     L. c. 1421     London August 21 1683                                       
     Wee haveing a recesse of Domesticke and a Confluence of fforreigne         
Intelligence shall pticularize ye lattr in what ye Gazette omitts               
beginning wth lres from ye Hague of ye 23d                                      
     That Don ffluen Mayor had audience of ye States and acquainted ym          
yt by expresses recei[v]ed advice yt ye ffrench King intended ye                
misdoing [?] of fflandrs for yt Monsr Villaroy Marshall De Campe genll          
was prpareing quartrs for l00 Companyes at Leisser ye like at Dornicke          
& Manbergh & yt ye 4 Guardes of ye Kings horse had togeathr wth ye              
Dragoone had ordrs to march this thitherwards & to begin his prtencon           
hee demanded ye Castellance [?] of Alost Gramant Ninova and Luxemburgh          
by way of dependence therefore desired ye States assistance as equally          
concerned Those places being within ye Burrow agreed to by Treaty of            
Nimeghen                                                                        
     ffrom Ratisbone of ye l8 is advice yt Monsr de Crequi ye ffrench           
Ambassadour has signified to ye Dyett vnles ye Emperor by ye end of this        
month did settle ye peace of ye Empire according to his Maties pposalls         
he had order to returne home & acquaint ym yt his Mastr would loose noe         
furthr measures                                                                 
     Monsr Campricht ye Emperors Envoy haveing desired ye States as by          
treaty to furnish his Mastr agt ye Turkes wth l0000 men has for answere         
yt should they speed them away they would come to late as alsoe ye              
Sultane would deprive them of ye trade in ye Levant especially yt of            
Smirna  therefore they would in lieu thereof Remit ye vallue in mony            
     The States fleet and Admirall Battinck have ordrs after they have          
conveyed ye E. India ffleet into Holland to stand for ye sound [?] and          
continue in those seas soe long as ye ffrench                                   
     Our last advice from Germany are from Passaw of ye l5 & ffrankffort        
of ye l8 wch say that 10000 Turkeish Waggons wth pvison and amunicon were       
arrivd in yt Campe but fforage was scarce, yt ye grand Seignior was             
sending a furthr supply of men yt they were still l50000 before Vienna          
and have raised l5 Batteryes & upon each planted 24 heavy Cannon wth wch        
they battr ye Citty day and night & throw in Bombes one of which had            
ruined ye Jesuits Church & Cloystr  yr they had made divers furious             
assaults and passed themselves of ye Counterscarps wch ye beseidged             
afterward blew up wth l500 Turkes therein but ye Enemy springing divrs          
Mines one did ye beseidged much damage as to overthrow a point of ye            
Raveling & to fill ye Graft wth Enough ovr wch ye beseidgrs made an             
Assault on ye very wall but were valiantly repulsed Count Staremburgh           
haveing taken an Iron from evry pticular window & Shot ym agt ye Enemy          
     Just as ye Papr was goeing away advice was brought yt both [?]             
in ye Danube being extreame course [?] ye Turkes had from ye [about             
eight words illegible] attaqued a Counterscarpe & Raveling neare ye Redd        
Gate And made themselves Masters thereof wch will put ye City in dangr of       
being lost if not releived in 8 or l0 dayes ye enemy being soe neare it         
on all sides yt Musquettes ffrom each othr doe execucon                         
     Upon wch ye Emperor himselfe in pson is comeing to ye Rendezvous at        
Crombes there to meet ye King of Poland on ye [about twelve letters             
illegible] resolved to ffight haveing before his departure from Poland          
made his will                                                                   
     The Brandenburgh fforces made a hault and would not march forwards         
unles ye Emperor would pmise to cease his psecuson of ye Ptestants in           
Siletia wch ye Popish Clergy diswaded him from saying all ye Judgemts           
came upon his Matie for not makeing a total distruccon of ym but since          
ye same was agreed to and ratified ye Brandenburgh Troopes on a march           
[sentence ends]                                                                 
     The Bipp of Worcestr is dead and ye Bipp of St Davids said will            
succeed him                                                                     
+Tomorrow 7 night ye King goes to Winchestr whoe resides about 3 weekes         
and aftr yt some time at New Markett  A Troope of ye new raised Granadeers      
have ordrs to accompany ye rest of ye Guards.                                   
+One Hoskeins a reteiner to ye E of Shaftsbury is brought to Towne in ye        
Custody of a Messengr as concerning ye Plott  ye sessions at ye Old             
Bayly wch begins ye 29 Instant will be furthr adjourned till ye Judges          
returne from ye Curcuitts                                                       
     L. c. 1422    [Handwriting changes here.]    Whitehall 23 Augt 83          
     ffrom Sussex wee have an acctt of the finding of Lobb the othr             
non conformist Preacher mentioned in the Declaracon  He was discoverd by        
Sr Henry Goring and taken in the house of a non-conner [?] in that              
County  they that will find a fox must goe to the Kenell and the sure           
place to find an arch=Reble is the house of Conventicles  Another being         
askt why he harboured Such ill men [?] he knew him not to be such  no           
doubt he had thought he had Entrtaind an Angle but if soe the Brothern          
that prtend soe much to the spirit have litle of that discerning els            
could not take him for a Good man who flying undr the Tenour of his             
Punishmt must carry the marke of Traytor in his face  But he went habitted      
gentlm like  tis true the Children like the fa. of Rebellion may Slide          
themselves into any shap[e] But for a Non con Teacher to turn Gentlm is         
noe way Suiteable though he acts for his life, he will betray himselfe          
instead of speakeing obleidgeingly  He fawns and flattrs when he would          
look pleasantly  he fleers in yo[u]r face and cannot make a legg wthout         
shewing his fa[ther's?] foote  He should have gone about him them a             
bedlam [?] for ranteing and raveing he was well versd in by his long            
practize that way in his Pulpits agt the Governmt  But the surest way had       
been to have had an Hoop and Shortsticke and some boxes that would have         
been soe naturall that none but the Devill could have discovred him for         
he has been all his lifelong a most Damnable Jugler  a writt of h[abe]as        
Corpus is sent for the bringing of him up hither.                               
    We have now notice of another taken uppon the late Conspiracy agt           
his matie and the Govrmt  one Mr Hoskins is said to be a very great             
confident if not some way related to the late Earle of Shaftsbury  He           
had betook himselfe to one Mr Hodges House in Norwich where a messenger         
by a Warrt from hence apprhended him and is bringeing him up hither to          
take his Examinacons                                                            
     On ye l9 in the morning the fleete undr Command of the Ld Dartmouth        
weig[h]ed from St Hellens and set sayle for Plymouth the wind being             
N:N:W to joyne the Shipps that waited of them there                             
     Tis writt from Germany that the Count D Evers discovrs his                 
resentmts for the Emperour  instead of giveing a positive answer to his         
memoriall of the 29 of this last wch gave tyme [?] till the end of this         
month for accepting the french proposalls hee onely said that he would          
come to Ratisbonne and confer wth ye Electr Princes and States of the           
Empire concerning theire genral security and considr of the best means          
how to defend themselves agt the Turkes and re-establish a peace with           
france and uppon this he was soe farr rendered [?] that he was makeing          
nearly to be gave [?] and said this was onely an artifice to prolong tyme       
and that after the Expiracon of the Terme his mat would Doe himselfe right      
     The Spanish Netherlands are not without theire apprhensions of             
trouble from the french motions and therefore have sent Express to the          
Spanish minister at the Hague to oblidge the States to furnish them wth         
supplyes according to theire Treaty being apprhensive that the french may       
Endeavour to make themselves Ma[ste]rs of the Chastellans of Alost Ninove       
and Gramond undr pretence of Dependencyes though wthin the Barreire             
Granted by the Peace of Nimeghen                                                
     His Maties Declaracon of the Conspiracy reached Ireland soe early          
that they tell us [illegible word of about five letters] the Declaracon         
will be read there the same Daye it will be read in England and ye              
Thanksgiveing kept at the same tyme and to prevent the seeds of Rebellion       
they are proceeding severely both in Towne and Contry agst Conventicles         
of which many are already Dissolved and the rest not likely to subsist          
long  onely in Ulster there may be some Difficulty that Countrey being          
possest by scots and the sturdiest [?] sort of Whiggs  some teachers were       
lately sent or at least heard out of Scotland who Comeing wthout passes         
are imprison'd till a good account can be taken of them                         
     On the 2l the Lords Comrs for Ecclesiasticall affaires sate and            
appointed Dr Spart [Sprat?] to succeed in the Deanery of Westmr                 
     They tell us from Winsor that the 29th stands the Da[ye?] set [?]          
for his Matyes removeall wth the Court to Winchester where they thinke          
he may spend away 3 weekes and after that say [?] to newmarkett and             
spend some tyme in the Divertmts of that place                                  
     Of late there has been sevral reportes againe about the Duke of            
monmouth and the Ld Gray  the Groome of the Towne talke [illegible word         
of about seven letters] Daye was of the Ld Grays being taken at Antwerpe        
others saye that the Duke of Monmouth and two others wth him were seen          
not long since to have gone Post from Paris and Certaine it is that the         
fingalhain a Contrey people in Ireland not farr from Dublin thought             
themselves soe sure of them both that they sent for a Party of horse to         
convey them but the Duke Proved an Uphouldstorer and the Ld Grey another        
sabby fellow of another Profession                                              
+Whilest the princes of germany are joyneing theire forces to the               
Imperiall Army the Elec of Brandenburg is said to have put a stopp to           
his and still to instance the converteing [?] of the tyme wth ffrance and       
though some give out that the Prince of Anhalt is gon to Passau to put          
the last hand to a Treaty lately made betwixt the Emperour and this             
Elector  Others will have his errand onely to use a farther pressing his        
formr Councells and that he will not send any succors till the Peace wth        
france be concluded And that then he will not accept the Dukedomes of           
Drigg Vigiule Olaw [?] and Jagernsdroff in Silesia to wch he prtends            
untill he put into his hand besides a good sume of money                        
+Which the Emperour Confers [?] are not at prsent able to furnish the           
advice of the Empr reconcileing himselfe to  france is said to be the           
buisness alsoe of the Count of Castell who is sent to Passau as Chiefe          
minister from the Electr Palatine  in the mean tyme noe thing is Don at         
Ratisbone where the Minstr of mayenne whose office it is to propose to          
the Diet the pointes on wch they ought to deliberate offers  only the           
memoriall lately put in by the french and the Directr of the Princes            
Colledge refuseth to doe anything in it untill the sevrall allyes shall         
have sent in theire instruccons lookeing upon the consequences of such          
a true Equal to a Treaty                                                        
      Wee have lres from fflandrs dated the 27th but noe more news but          
that after ye Turkes were beaten from ye Counsterscarp in wch action            
Count Starembregh was lightly wounded on ye Shoulder Count Souches on ye        
head and young Count Lesly killed the Governor sent 2 men whch from ye          
River to ye D. of Lorraine and desired him not to prciptate the Succors         
but that all the fforces might bee come up that ye Towne was in noe             
prsent Danger                                                                   
+On ye 20 ye Diamond Pearle and Swan sett saile from ye Downes and on           
ye 21 the Mermaid  The shipps at Plymth were ordered to be ready without        
ye harbour yt ye fleet might make noe stay                                      
     L. c. 1423     [Handwriting changes here.]     London Aug 25th 1683        
     Our Scotch Letters say that on ye 16th Instant ye Parliamt of yt           
kingdome was pclaimed att ye Markett Cross to be held on ye 6th next And        
that his Royall Highness is continued his Mats high Comrs that the same         
Members yt Composed ye former Parliamt doe continue in this                     
     His Matie has bin pleased as a marke of his favour to grant to Sr          
John Moore our Late Lord Mayor that the office of Heraldry affix in his         
Armes (a Lyon passant Guardint sol [?]) and that Lyon King of Armes             
incert in his Bookes the occasion of that Honor by withstanding a               
Multitude of factious Cittizens who endeavour'd to overthrow ye governmt        
     One Mr Wm Goldsborough Clerke of the House of Commons Rideing from         
the Waters on Wednesday last was seized wth an apoplectick Fitt and Fell        
from his horse and dyed forthwith and one Mr Goodrich a Sollicitor in           
Chancery is Since Sworne into his place.                                        
     Dr Owen a famous Nonconformist preacher departed this life                 
yesterday morning                                                               
     One Mr Murrell who was some yeares ago a very meane pson, but now a        
very wealthy merchant [?] dyed this weeke, left his whole estate to             
Charitable uses 1000 L towards ye building ye new Church in St Jameses &c       
+Last Night their Royall Highnesses, prince and princesses returned from        
Windsor, the Duke designes this afternoone to goe back, But the others          
intend to take the divertismts of Bartholomew ffaire                            
     Our Paris Letters of the 24th Aug say that 6 hoaggone [?] of money         
were dispatcht away for fflanders, where are alsoe sent much pvision &          
amunicon & Soldjers continually march into his Conquests In order to            
some considerable designes wch the Neighbourhood is very apprehensive of        
Espetially the Dutch who have Mustered their fforces and finde them to          
Compose 18 Regimts of ffoote 6 of Cavalry and 4 of Dragoone besides those       
in Garrisons And the States are Extraordinarily assembled to Consider of        
some Expedient Amicably to Compose the ffrench pretentions that he would        
not stand upon the time limitted [?] considering the troubles already in        
Christendome but oppose a Comon plott to treat of a Generall peace              
     The same letters tell us of a Deffeccon in diverse provinces of            
ffrance, where the protestants are in Some Numbers in Armes but a               
considerable number of them are routed by 400 Gentl  But those about            
Valence had taken the Castle Disse belonging to a Councillor of the             
Parliamt of Grinople & had appointed themselves a Capt And att the              
Markett att Buckery [?] some Protestants had bought 3000 Musketts powder        
&c soe that 6 Regimts are on their March to Joyne Monseir Bonfleiurs &          
Monseir De Rult [?] to disperse them                                            
+Last night arrived a Holland, & this day a fflandrs and ffrench post but       
relate a very different acct from Vienna, the first prtends to tell us          
the Circumstances of its being taken & the Garrison putt to the Sword           
Except some students on ye 20th  But the fflandrs the contrary that the         
Poles being joyned with the rest of the Auxiliaryes had defeated the            
Turkes and raised ye Seige  But the Duke of Lorraine slaine, both of wch        
I neither believe, by reason the ffrench Ambassador has noe Such advice,        
but on the contrary are still intent upon it, since the Generall Storme         
on the l6 made another on the l9th and after great disputes Lodged              
themselves in the Graft, tho att first 700 that enterd therein were all         
killed Except 5 [seal spoils about three letters] that Count Lesly was          
Slaine, and the Bur[rows?] begun to loose Courage, But Count Starenburgh        
has againe declared that lett him be Coll Soldjer or Burgher that shall         
speake of a Surrender shall be hanged, And has wrote the Emperour word          
that he will yet hold out l2 dayes if he can be assured off releife             
in that time, but the Turks have sent them in word once more to                 
Capitulate threatning them with ye consequences to the contrary, and            
that he will from ye 22th to the 29th make genrall assaults upon them           
ye first being the day before the Emperour has orderd a Humiliation,            
the latter the ffeast of ye Turks concerning the beheading of St John           
Baptist upon wch they usually shew [?] the Extent of their Courage, on          
the Same day Empr has ordered to raise the Seige The poles being now            
wthin l8 Hungarian Miles of ye Imperiall Campe                                  
   L. c. 1424   [Handwriting changes here.]   London the 28th Agust 1683        
     The scotch Lettrs of the 21 say that the Councell yt day sate upon         
ffresh Questions ffrom severall Persons some of wch taking the Test were        
discharged  Then the honorable Board, ordered 2 Letters to be written to        
his Majtie the ffirst Imparting yt his Majtie will be pleased to Allow          
time ffor the Commons to Come in to Take the Test the Second that those         
who had Taken the Test might not be molested for anything done att              
Bothwell Bridge                                                                 
     In the Affternoone the Lds of the Justiciary sate where they               
passed sentence of Death upon Alexander Gourden formerly mentiond to be         
Reprieved, his head to be severed ffrom his body the 29th of September          
for Conspiring the Death of the King and the Execution to be performd in        
the Markett at Edenburgh                                                        
     our sessions being Adjournd to the 29th Instant Commences to morrow        
but not the Tryalls of the state Criminalls as yett none of ym haveing          
notice to prepare ffor the same & tis Concluded that they will be               
deferred till Michelmas Terme                                                   
     Satturday one Starkey Aaron Smiths Clarke who was Comitted to the          
gate house for Robbing Sr Roger Hill & other Gentlemen under Colour of          
searching for Treasonable papers Broke thereinto [?] But was Affterwards        
taken & Recomitted and the gentlemen will prosecute him to the utmost           
     I omitted in my Last to informe you that Mr Hugh Speak Brother in          
Law to Mr John Trenchard in the Tower was seized and his Chamber sealed         
up to be searched into and since Examind some Correspondence of Lettrs          
being discovered betweene him and Mr Braden a Barester of the Temple who        
pretends to make it Appeare yt the Late unfortunate Earle of Essex did          
not Cutt his owne throat                                                        
     Lettrs ffrom Genoa of the l6th ffrom on board his Majties shipp the        
Tyger in 9 [?] dayes ffrom Argiers give Accompt that they had brought to        
yt government one Mr Rezub [?] a Consull for the English and Brought away       
mr Marlyn the other  The Lettrs add yt they Received him with great             
Respect and they would invirtably [?] Keepe the peace with us butt defye        
the ffrench for what they Can doe with yr Bombes they haveing as yett           
done noe Considerable Dammage and have sent Monsr De Quesne word that           
Every Bombe he shall farther shoot they will Returne to him a ffrench           
mans head                                                                       
     Coll Whitly late ffarmer of the Gennerall Post office who was              
under Disfavour at Court has kissed his Majtes & Royall Highnesses              
hand and was well Received                                                      
     Yesterday morning the Ld Major & Aldermen went to Windsor to               
Receive his Majtes orders during his stay att Winchester and Touching the       
new Charter wch will be signed in fowr dayes and yn they will proceed to        
the Choyce of sheriffes                                                         
     Satturday last was a farther hearing betweene the E India Comp[any]        
and Interlopers before his Majtie att Windsor where the Latter orderd to        
give in ffresh Beyle to Appeare next Michelmas Terme                            
     The Reports of the Death of Mr serjeant Maynard & Duke of Monmouth         
writing a Letter to his Majtie for Pardon and that the Ld Brandon Gerrard       
Endeavoured to Escape out of the Tower are Altogeather fictitious               
+noe forraigne Post yett Come Butt pasengers ffrom fflandrs say that the        
ffrench were on a full march and yt the Marquesse De Grana had orderd           
the Lower parts to be putt under water and the Dutch Assistance desired         
and a warr declared                                                             
+one Mr Grant a Brewer & How a [scri?]vener without Bishopsgate were both       
this day seized on Accompt of the plott                                         
   L. c. 1425   [Handwriting changes here.]   London August ye 30th= 83         
     We received Tuesday a ffrench and Holland male  the former confirmed       
that in Languedocke l4000 Protestants were in defection and fortifyed           
themselves in a Castle they tooke as alsoe in the Hills and increase            
every day                                                                       
     On the Second of September the King had a dangerous fall from his          
horse hunting of a stag but proved only a dislocation of his Arme which         
is the more remarkable for that Holwell in an Appendix to his Catastrophe       
mundi predicts the like misfortune to befall him                                
     A Gentleman leaving Paris three houres after the Post brings advice        
that Monsr Colbert that great Minister of State through whose hands the         
burthen of affaires passed after a short indisposition departed this life       
     In the latter by letters from Lintz of the 24th tell us that the           
Emperour was in his way for Krombs to meet there the King of Poland who         
in pson with 40000 was advanced to Amitz in Moravia, and from him the           
Emperour received expresse that the Turkes made two assaults on Vienna          
since the generall storme and were possessed of the Counterscarpe &             
Ravelin and other letters add that the beseiged had hung out a Signall of       
distresse that for two daies noe Cannon was heard to play whereby some          
feare the worst  The Turkes have quitted the Seige of Tolne [?] but             
continue that of Cloyster Newburgh  36000 Turkes have been slaine and the       
bloody fflux is in their Camp  The Garrison of Raab seized a Chiaux going       
from the Sultan to the Vizier and about him was found a Letter to command       
him to proceed to generall Assaults which if they proved unsuccessfull          
then to breake up the Seige  The Brandenburgh fforces doe not yet stirr,        
and those of Saxony near Passau refuse to march forwards for want of            
Provision which is since Ordered them                                           
     The Colledge Princes as well as those of Electors doe now incline to       
adhere to the ffrench Proposalls but want instructions and desire a             
prorogatio[n] of the time ye ffrench limited to treat thereon but have          
resolved to raise 60000 to secure the Empire and the Duke of Lorraine           
praies them in their Treatment with ffrance to bee restored to his              
Country  The Turks ffeast is approaching whereby tis hoped they will not        
act against Vienna during that time                                             
     Our fflanders letters speake of the Generall Consternation in yt           
Country upon the moving of ye ffrench being 60000 strong & marche in 3          
bodies having made a bridge over Scheld one taking their way towards            
Beaumont, the other towards Ghent & the third in the land of Ipres but          
declare that they will committ no Acts of hostility if they bee not             
opposed in possessing themselves of their pretensions                           
     But the Marquesse de Grana replied that these Provinces were put           
into his hands to defend & not to deliver up & thereupon is gathering           
his forces, sent a Regiment to reinforce the Garrison of Oudenard &             
other places nearest the Enemy & fortify Gaunt & by our next wee may            
probably informe you of some action which said newes soe Alarmes the            
Dutch that their East India auctions which some daies agoe were 390 are         
abated under 300                                                                
     L. c. 1426     [Handwriting changes here.]     Whitehall 30 Aug 83         
     On ye 23 Mr Grange who has for some time beene continued in Custody        
was sent for to ye Lords who granted him his Liberty uppon his owne bond        
of 2000 L and suretyes in each bound in l000 L for his appeare ye ffirst        
day of ye next Terme at ye Court of Kings Bench  The same day Mr Hessian        
[?] who was brought up by a Messengr from Norwich was discharged uppon          
giveing his owne bond of l000 L and suretyes bound each in 500 L  But I         
doe not yet hear that Lobb is brought up which makes me more than halfe         
afraid 'tis not ye Declaration Lobb [sic] and that they who took him for        
a Gentlm finde themselves undr a mistake                                        
     On ye 24 major Gladman Mr Hugh Speake and Mr Hawes a Scrivener in          
Bppsgate street were taken by a Messenger and examined by ye Lds Casteen        
was alsoe examined and remanded to ye Gatehouse                                 
     On ye 26 in ye afternoone a genll Councill was held at Windsor             
where a Proclamaccon was ordered for reviveing a former Proclamaccon            
made relateing to ye Matter of ye Generall Post Office  The bussinesse          
concerning the East India Company and ye Interloper was ordered be              
heard at the next Councell which shall be held in Michas Terme next             
     On ye 27th a 2 youngsters one Starkey and one Hartshorne were              
carried to ye Gatehouse  They were both tied [?] up toward ye Law  ye           
former undr Aaron Smyth who is prisoner in ye Tower and ye other Under          
Goodenough one in ye first Proclamacon  Those become now masterlesse            
more contriveing to scrap [?] for themselves and finde a ready way to           
gett money among other projects one payes wth [?] ye searching of houses        
and for this he produces a Precedent wch [?] advantage was made of it in        
ye time the Popish plott and that they might as well profit on account of       
ye Conspiracy  This they lookt uppon as was feasible and accordingly with       
p[r]offers of their Service made their application and being by their           
Conversation to be thought Such as might have a Competent knowledge of          
those who associated with their masters after some p[r]oofe given of            
their ability  that way they recvd [?] a warrt to search  By Virtue of          
ye Warrt they gott assurance of ye Lewtncy [?] and this was they had            
projected they mde use of to protect them in sevll enormityes  this             
foule practice of ye young Lawyer quickly come to Mr Secty Janekins eare        
who findeing they had procur'd a warrt and misused it to an high Degree         
sent a Messenger to apprhend them who took Starkey but Hartshorne hid           
Starkey after Examacon was comitted to ye Gatehouse where he was Sevll          
dayes dureing wch time continued Sollicitations were made to the Secrty         
for his enlargmt but without all hope of Effect  Dispair[ing] of any            
successe this way they bethought themselves of other meanes and by the          
help of a shee Confident who often visited him in ye Gatehouse slily            
conveyed him away  the Keepr of the Gatehouse missing his Prisoner made         
fresh pursuit and at last found out ye Ladyes Lodgings where he took him        
and his Partner [illegible word of about ten letters] and hath them now         
both in safe Custody                                                            
     Wee are told of severall psons tryed at ye Assizes of Somersett            
for treasonable cawses and Such as give more than Suspition that Some           
people there had been tamperd wth for an Insurection  One thing they give       
us as very remarkable that which these people were in Court uppon Tryall        
a peice of timber fell downe from ye Roofe of ye Hall and knockt ye             
Cheifest of them on ye head  He was carried off for dead and though there       
apped some small symptomes of life the Chirurgeons opinion was that he          
could not recover  I leave this to the Godly Party to make remarkes on          
     On the 22 in ye afternoone ye ffleet under Comand of ye Lord               
Dartmouth went into Plym and the wind being faire sett saile the 23 in          
the forenoone and on ye 24 in ye morning the Diamond Pearle and other           
two ffregots past by                                                            
     On ye 29th his Maty the Queene his Royal Highnessse &c removed             
from Windsor to Winchester                                                      
     A shipp lately arrived att Hull from the Sound  the Master reports         
that on ye l7th instant the Danish ffleete past for the Baltrick                
Consisting of 24 men of warr  The same day the ffrench ffleet of warr           
followed them  The admirall ran ashore and was forced to take out his           
Provisions and his guns in hopes to save his Shipp                              
+Since the Confirmation of the Archbpp of York a warrant is passed for          
Doctor Turner Deane of Windsor to be Bishopp of Rochester                       
+A Comission is now passing ye Seale for the Earle of Sunderland be Lord        
Leiut of the County of Warwick dureing the minority of the Earle of             
Northampton                                                                     
     L. c. 1427     [Handwriting changes here.]    London Sept 1st 83           
     The East India Shipps are now arrived in ye Downes ye defence and          
Society from ye Bay of Bengall the Nathaniell & Williamson from ye              
Coast and Bay ye Dragon from Suratt and ye Tonqueen Merchtt from ye             
South Sea  Capt Heath Commandr in ye first dyes in his passage  ye              
lattr in her way from Chinay touched att Bantam and brings advice               
yt the young king thro' ye assistance of ye Dutch had totally beaten            
ye old king his father and constrayned him to retire into ye remotest           
parts of the Country and had taken into his possession ye cheifest              
places especially those lyeing uppon the Sea & had therby fortifyed             
Bantam and yt ye Dutch were sole masters therof and told ye said                
Tonqueen Merchtt yt it should bee ye last tyme ye English should have           
any Traffique from thence & further sayes yt the Powder and Gunns his           
Matie had sent as a presnt to ye King of Bantam along wth those                 
Ambasadrs ye Dutch at Batavia had soe farr prevailed as yt they were            
delivered into the possession of the young King and made use of att             
Bantam  the Company expects divers other Shipps and they doe further            
say yt the Dutch had sent home this yeare 9 rich Shipps wch are now             
alsoe expected in Holland  Our Company's Auctions uppon ye first newes          
advanced to 300 But uppon ye lattr are abated 50 L                              
     Since my Last ye Earle of Pembrook is dead                                 
     Thursday Last Mr Bradford a Gent of Cliffords Inn killed a waterman        
att Barne Elms uppon some provocation & has made his escape                     
     His Matie has been pleased to grant ye King of Denmarke the Liberty        
of raiseing 3 English Regiments and yt ye Collonells are already                
appointed of wch one is Coll Macharty who had formerly a Regiment in            
ye french Service.                                                              
     Yesterday was held a councell At Whitehall where divers of the             
Plotters were examined but one How a Scrivener and Holman who was               
accused for harbouring Rumball the Arch Traytour were discharged                
     Lettrs from Ireland sayes that a proclamacon was published for a           
day of Thanksgiveing for his Maties deliverance from ye late Conspiracy         
on ye same tyme as in England                                                   
     Tis advised from Copenhagen yt the french Admirall as hee was              
passeing ye Sound wth ye Danish fleet runn ashore and tho' ye Gunns             
were taken out of her tis believed she cannott bee gott off                     
     Yesterday was held a Sessions of ye Peace where abtt twenty                
Quakers were tryed & Convicted  of a Ryott in holding a Conventicle in          
ye streets.                                                                     
     Last Thursday were seized in Wapping 500 of Seditious & treasonable        
Books entituled ye Earle of Argiles Case being each 2 quires of Paper           
consigned from Rotterdam uppon whch ye shippers was seized & after              
examinaccon was Comitted                                                        
     This day arrived a flandrs Mayle But wee want a Dutch & french  itt        
gave a large acctt of ye french procedure in those parts & ye alarum            
they were in but on a sudden ye french made a halt some say occasioned          
by an Espress from England tho' others concluded y[t] they will nott            
actually attempt any seizure before they heare ye success of Vienna             
     Lettrs of ye 25th from Passaw say yt Count Staremburgh was ill             
of the Bloody fflux That Vienna was yett safe that they made                    
twenty [?] 2000 weight of Gunpowdr in ye Citty that ye Vizier of Buda           
held Raab blocked upp to secure Turkish Convoys that ye Bassa                   
of Neuhassell & County Teckly were Commanded to quitt ye wagg [?] &             
reinforce ye Viziers Army before Vienna.  The King of Poland was wthin          
2 dayes march of ye Imperiall Campe & had sent before him a draught of          
ye marmen [?] hee intends for ye releife of Vienna.                             
     L. c. 1428     [Handwriting changes here.]    Lond the 4th Sept 1683       
     Yesterday Lettrs ffrom Lintz of the 28th by the Holland and fflandrs       
Post give an Accompt of 2 victories Christian successes obtained by the         
Imperialists that the Duke of Lorraine had intirely defeated a body of          
l5000 Turkes and Tartars who Endeavored to hinder the Conjunction of the        
Poles as Alsoe that the infidells on ye 25th [?] ultimo had made                
Consecutive Assaults on Vienna being as offten Repulsed with the Losse of       
above 20000 and 5000 on the part of ye besiegid with other ffavourable          
Advantages mentiond in the Gasett wch would bee of great Import should          
they be held Confirmed                                                          
     Butt Lettrs ffrom the Same place & date to Count Thuna the Emperours       
Extraordinary Envoy gives a Rebate thereto being noe mention of the             
6 Attaques not Certainly would have beene if the same had beene True            
and ye said Lettrs Add yt the King of Poland was not yett Joined                
Lorraine being soe Impeded as not to Arrive att Crombs till the 2d              
Instant and yn not with force as gennerally Reported But Accompanyed            
onely with 16000 Commanded Souldiers and followed with 10000 Gentlemen          
volantiers and yt it was Agreed his Polonian Mejte should Command in            
Chiefe yt ye Emperour was not departed from Lintz Expecting Every day ye        
delivery of the Empresse and there were prepared great numbers of               
vessells whose sides should be musquett proofe to be filled with                
souldiers to fface downe the Danube and thereby Endeavor the Reliefe of         
Vienna on ye side while the other Auxiliary Attaque the Turks in yr Campe       
     our Last Holland Lettrs tell us that they had Advice ffrom Arnhem in       
Guildersland yt the Duke of Monmonth with ffive other persons of Quality        
of the English nation new passed that place for Cleeves and soe forwards        
ffor Germany                                                                    
     ffrom Cologne of ye 3d 7ber give an Accompt that the Chapter of the        
head Church of munster had proceeded to the Election of A Bishopp and           
made Choyce of the Elector of Cologne to succeed in yt promotion to the         
great disapointmint of Prince Comt [?] of ffurstemburgh                         
     This weeke arrived a Polish Ambassdr who intends to take his way for       
Winchestr to Represent to his Majte the ill usage he Received ffrom the         
ffrench King in not admitting him to audience and other Bad Treatment           
     His Majte intends this weeke ffor Portsmouth and Take a small              
voyage by sea                                                                   
     Our Holland Lettrs say that the Dutch are still resolved to send 16        
shipps with 5000 souldiers to India to Reinforce those parts and yt the         
Company has obteined an order from the states to preserve their Trade and       
maintaine their Conquests by all Lawfull wayes whatever                         
     Yett our English East India Company are still Resolved notwithstanding     
the late ill newes ffrom Bantam that the old King was Routed by the young       
and the ffeeling fortifyed to speed away 9 shipps with souldiers into           
those parts as be sure [?] to gett thither sooner yn the Dutch and              
perfect their designes                                                          
     Tomorrow our Common Hall meets.  The Precepts to Assemble the Leavy        
[?] Runn to Confirme Peter Daniell Esqr whom the Ld major has elected one       
of the sheriffes of London by Ancient Custome and Act of Common Councell        
and to Choose Another                                                           
     The young Earle of Northumberland is gone beyond sea tis said into         
the ffrench Camp in fflandrs.  The sonn and Heir of the Duke of Somersett       
wch his Grace had by the Lady ogle his wife is deceased.  yesterday one         
Major Midleton arrived Expresse ffrom Holland & brought an Accompt that         
the siege att Vienna was Raised.  the Turks Routed their Baggage &c Taken       
wch tho' itt Runns for Current yett I disbelieve the whole.  And this           
Evening A Dutch Post arrived wch Confirmes the defeat of l5000 Turkes but       
Contradicts the Rest that the Turkes were Lodged in the ditch and               
possessed themselves of the Scotch Gate and blew up part of the Pallace         
But were forced to Retreat  The vizier has sworne to take the Citty or to       
Lay his or his Armys bones before it.  The ffrench in fflanders have put        
all undr Contribution demanding a great summ                                    
     L. c. 1429   [Handwriting changes here.]    London Septembr 6th 1683       
+Yesterday being apointed for the Election of our sherriffs & other Citty       
Officers at Guildhall, Peter Daniell Esqr was confirmed one of ye               
Sherriffs and Samll Dashwood Esqr was chose ye other and sent into ye           
Chamber of London 420 L as a ffine to be exempted from yt office but they       
would not give him a Receipt for it and this day ye Court of Aldermen           
Sate and would not receive ye ffine till his Majestys pleasure were first       
knowne therein                                                                  
     One Peter Aleworth Esqr was Elected Chamberlaine in ye roome of Sr         
Tho Player and one Mr Topham was made Bridge Master in ye vacancy of            
Deputy Sexton deceased.                                                         
     One Samll Packer (formerly in trouble for ye first part of ye              
growth of Popery and an Assistant to Richd Goodenough the Conspirator           
during his being under Sherriff of Midlesex, is seized and Committed to         
Newgate for high treason                                                        
     And one Turner Painter (accused by Mr Lee ye Dyer for Complotting          
wth him in ye late Conspiracy) was Committed to ye Marshallsea for ye           
like crime                                                                      
     Yesterday one Cullivant (Convicted last Sessions for printing ye           
2d part of ye growth of Popery) stood his first time in ye Pillory by           
Leadenhall Markett and to day at the Royll Exchange                             
     The house of Mr ffrancis Charleton at Totteridge was Searched and          
under Hay in a Stable a compleate Suite of Armes was found upon wch             
divers of his Servants were seized  The sd Charleton is now in ye Tower         
on acctt of ye late Plott                                                       
     This day wee have advice on ye Exchange yt two East India                  
Interlopers viztt the Susan & Rebeckah arrived in ye River of Thames            
     The Shipps in the Downes have all Sett Saile for ye East Indies            
except Charles the R of wch Captt Grantham is Commandr who Stayes for ye        
other Shipps yt are to goe thither along wth him                                
     This day arrived a fflanders Post wch sayes yt ye Poles doe not            
joyne the Duke of Lorraine till the 4th Instant; That Vienna is still           
closely Beseiged, but by a vigorous Sally drove ye Turkes out of ye             
Ditch and ruined their Galleries and other Defences whereby all ye              
Newes of the Seige being raised is a pfect Shamme                               
     Just now came advice from fflanders of ye proceedings of ye ffrench        
there being in divers Bodyes and plundered Severall Townes as Theilt,           
Intrenghen &c and drove away 9000 oxen and done ye like in 30 Parrishes         
of Alost and pillaged ye Cloysters of Elseghen & Vellex and are come to         
Bruges committing all manner of disorders; Many people flyeing from them        
were drowned in a River and ye ffrench have sent to ye County of Alost to       
take an Oath of ffealty to ye King as their Sovereigne and have brought         
their greate Cannon to Grinsburgh by which it is beleeved yt Montz or           
Bruxells will be Beseiged; The troops are on a march and only Stay for ye       
Dauphin who is now at Lisle & tis said will be declared Duke of Brabant;        
Marreshall H[er?]neers is wth 20000 at Lossines and hath sent a Detachment      
to pass ye River near Bruges; Couriers are sent to England & else where         
for assistance and the Dutch have ordered l5000 men to ye ffrontiers            
   L. c. 1430   [Handwriting changes here.]    Whitehall 6th 7bris 83           
     On ye 27th the Lady [space for about four letters left blank]              
eldest daughter to the Rt Honrbl ye E of Gainesborough was married to           
ye Rt Honrbl ye Lord Digby of Warwicksheire                                     
     On ye 29th about 6 in ye Evening theire Matyes reached Winchester          
They were met by that loyall Personage the E of Gainesborough Ld Leiut          
of ye County with a great Number of ye most Considerable Gentry of              
those partes 4 miles from ye Towne where afterwards they were recd by           
the Mayor and Aldrmn in their fformalityes who had the honour of their          
hands  His Maty hath taken a veiw of his new buildings and is very well         
pleased wth the forwardnesse of it                                              
    On 29 in ye morning dyed ye E of Pembrooke of a feavor haveing layne        
sick from ye saturday before                                                    
     The Diamond Pearle Mirmaid and Swan fregotts which were supposed to        
have past bye Plymo on ye 24 and the winde being contrary put in there          
The ffirst wch went out wth the Lord Dartmoutn tis said kept out at Sea         
     The Sessions at ye old Baily are now ended but none of ye Traytors         
uppon acct of ye Conspiracy brought to Tryall nor intended to be soe            
though some of our newer writers [?] had falsely spread it Abroad in ye         
Countrey that a Jury was sumoned to that purpose  the same Dithons [?] I        
prsume who forgd ye stay of the Ld Brandon in ye Tower and the D. of            
Monmouth's lrs to his Maty                                                      
     Major Gladman is discharged uppon l000 L bond and 2 Suretyes each          
in 500 L and Hawes uppon his bond of 200 L and [2?] Suretyes each l00 L         
Mr Hugh Speake is ordred his Liberty uppon his bond of 8000 L [?] and 2         
Suretyes each in 4000 L for his appance at ye Kings Bch ye first day of         
Terme  Sr Wm J Moore his Son and Mr fforbes his son in law and Mr               
Crawford who came from Holland with Sr Hugh Campbell uppon reexamon are         
remanded to ye Messengr in close custody as alsoe Mr Samuel Barkr               
Goodenough's Deputy and one Horne lately taken                                  
     They write from Portsmth that a master of a shipp arrived there the        
day before gave an acct that on ye 26 of ye last about 3 in ye afternoone       
he met the Ld Dartmth with ll shipps undr his Command about l5 leagues          
off Ushant and ye next day he met 5 other of his Maties shipps but did          
not speak wth them                                                              
     You were told of some of his Matyes ffregotts that Sett Saile from         
Plymo on ye 28 of ye last and though ye winde was contrary the Diamond          
Mirmaid and Swan gott off that night and the Pearle ye next day  the            
Luckin [?] and another ffregott were in ye harbour                              
     The Genova lres dat. Aug: 25 tell that Capt Alemore Comandr of ye          
Tyger being in that Port and hearing that the Spanish fffleet was seene         
off Crescia plying thither & though indeed they proved to be only the           
Spanish pticular Gallyes bound for harbr went thence before he intended         
on ye 20th to avoid giveing them a salute which they had expected from          
him before  This haughty and wayward Deportmnt of the Spanyards for they        
have not heretofore attempted to require a salute from a Man of Warr of         
England gives occasion [?] of much discource in those portes though say         
the lres they seeme to excuse ye Actions prtending they were mercts             
shipps or bound for Genoa and Legorne                                           
     The Bruxells lres dat the 5 make noe mention of any blow yet cract         
[?] though they say the ffrench Army goe round the Caps D'Alost and had         
taken many head of Chattle for ye use of the Campe though with p[r]omise        
of paymt.  Tis said the ffrench King's Demands now are of ye same places        
hee formrly claim'd and allieageth are reserved to him by ye Treaty of          
Nimeghen that Comrs on both sides met at Courtrey for ye adjusting them         
or granting an Equivalent Parted without any determination that he had          
thereuppon referred ye mattr to the Arbitrage of ye King of Engld which         
choyce [?] had not in all this time accepted and was therefore now              
resolved to doe himselfe right  The ffrench Army is soe powerfull that          
nothing but ruine can be expected by resistance soe that tis thought the        
Marquesse d'Grana may have ordrs to comply with them and rather parte           
with another share than hazard ye losse of yeres of ye Loafe                    
     Mr Cocker Goodenoughs Deputy and Noma [?] the Painter [?] who as I         
formerly acquainted you were taken into Custody are now disposd of the          
former to Newgate the other to the Marshalsea since which Lewis Butler to       
Mr Charleton in ye Tower and Hugh Baxter his Groome were taken into             
Custody and examined the former comitted to the Close Custody of a              
Messengr  In mr Charletons Stable was found a very compleat shute of            
Armour backlett yet [?] and Gauntlet lodged in a private place made for         
that purpose betwixt the Rack and the Manger                                    
     On ye 5 Culliford stood ye first time in ye Pillory and is to stand        
a second  His crime was for correcting and manageing ye printing of 2           
seditious and Treasonable Pamphlets the Second parte of ye growth of            
Popery and ye 2d parte of Ignoramus Justice for wch he is fined 200 L and       
to give Security for his behaviour for 2 yeares                                 
     Tis writ from Winchestr dat. 4 that his Maty intended early ye next        
morning for Southpton and thence to Portsmth where is to be a Tryall of         
sailing betwixt his Matyes Yatch and one that belongs to Coll Wyndham  It       
was not certaine whether his Maty before his returne would goe to ye Isle       
of Wight but it was said he intended to bee at Winchestr uppon Saturday         
     On the 5 was the choice of Officers for the Citty of London when           
accding to ordr the Ld Mayor put up two for the office of Chamberlaine          
lately held by Sr Thomas Player  The psons proposed were Deputy Aleworth        
and Mr Loades of whome ye former was chosen  Aldrm Daniel whome the Lord        
Mayor by [Illegible word of five letters] of drinking to made choice of         
as Sherriffe was unanimously then confirmed in Comon Hall and Sr Ben            
Newland Sr Wm Dodson and ffrancis Dashwood Esqr put up for ye other             
Sherriffe of whome ye last was chosen there as ye other officers of             
Bridgecrafters &c prop[o]sed by the Ld Mayor are Citizens of app[r]ovd          
loyalty and Integrity and were elected with the greatest decency and            
ordr                                                                            
     Mr Friend and Mr Bradon are brought up in ye Custody of Messengrs          
the former is of Taunton and was taken at Sherbourne  the other was by          
haes Corpus brought out of Salisbury Goale and is ye same Bradon who I          
formerly told you had caused ye story of ye bloudy Razor throwne out of         
ye E. of Essex his window in ye Tower and though undr vacq [?] Security         
to answer to an Indictmt for it this next Terme was found disprsing the         
paper to ye same purpose in ye Countreyes                                       
     The fflandrs lres confirme the D of Lorraines defeating 15 of the          
Enemy and a greate parte of ye Auxiliary fforces of ye Empire were              
passed ye Danube in Succor of Vienna                                            
     L. c. 1431   [Handwriting changes here.]   London September 8 1683         
     Yesterday arrived a Dutch Post & brought a Coppy of a 2d lettr             
from Count Staremburgh in Vienna to ye Duke of Lorraine dated ye 27             
August 83 wch by reason of its length only send you ye cheife heads vizt        
that since his last ye Enemy has sprung 6 or 7 Mines undr ye Raveling and       
wch aftrwards wee repaired ye Enemy gaineing but one Lodgemt uppon ye           
pointes [?] haveing given Aire to 3 of yr mines & sprung 2 more to good         
succes o[u]r Minrs being people got togeathr from all ptes  ye Deveil           
cant make ym reenter a mine wn once they heare ye Enemy at worke  I have        
sprung 3 mines in ye Countrscarpe But ye Pallisadoes being in some places       
reversed by last mine & o[u]r people maintaine ye Post wth sword in hand        
till they were amended  ye Enemy has made 2 descents into ye ditch but          
o[u]rs dislodged [&] unfilled yr workes burnt yr Galions & Galleryes            
     But my Ld tis time to succour us  wee loose more by ye bloody fflux        
then fury of ye Enemy 60 psons dying dayly of yt distempr  wee have noe         
more Granadoes left wch was o[u]r best defence in dislodgeing ye Enemy          
o[u]r Cannons are eithr most dismounted or burst through often fireing          
ye Mettle being bad and ye Enemy seeing that wth a few they cannot lodge        
in ye ditch  they make great Lodgemts in ye Counterscarpe to have a             
great mouth [?] to make an extraordinary Assault upon us speedily               
     Tis certaine ye Enemyes losse is great & ye Bloody fflux reignes wth       
them whereby they are not above 60000 Campes men & yr Campes soe distant        
from each othr that they may certainly be worsted by yo[u]r Highnesse           
before they can releeve each othr & wee impatiently expect yo[u]r comeing       
to o[u]r reliefe                                                                
     Postscript Just now my Minrs informe me yt they heare ye Enemy             
working undr ym  they have passed yee Ditch and undr ye Bastion wch is a        
time for aide.                                                                  
     And Letters from Lyntz of ye lst of Septembr say that ye Turkes made       
a furious assault upon Vienna ye 27 but ye succes not knowne  the beseidged     
hanged ye Sonn of an Itallian upon ye Ramparts discovering that he had 5        
times bin wth ye Enemy & acquainted them wth ye state of ye City  The           
King of Poland was not then Aryved but dayly expected                           
     The States Genll have after a long debate from 9 in the morning to 3       
afternoone voted that ye ffrench invasion is a breach of ye Peace and           
that they ought to assist them wth yr fforces as by agreemt                     
     The ffrench lres from ye Province of Daulphine say yt 800 Protestants      
whoe were in ye woods come in a body to heare preaching in an Interdicted       
Church but ye Sieur de Ruth wth a detachmt of Dragoones killed 200 upon         
ye spot & burnt above l00 yt were fled to a barne reserveing 5 makeing          
one hang ye othr 4 & lost but 20 Dragoones                                      
     Yesterday one Wm Thompson menconed in his Maties 1st Pclamacon as          
one of ye Conspirators lookeing out of a Garret window at Hamersmith            
was discovered and seized                                                       
     Thursday ye Court of Aldrmen called upon ye two elected Sherriffes &       
required ym to seale a Bond of l000 L to take upon ym yt Office before ye       
vigill of St Michael  Aldrman Viner [?] complied but Mr Dashwood obtained       
a weekes liberty for ye same and is since gone to Winchester to desire to       
be excused                                                                      
     The Dutch Ambassadour gave ye E: India Company a visit where they in       
private discoursed the Affaire of Bantam and I am Credibly assured yt ye        
Ambassadour pr[o]ffered to Joyne Comissionrs wth as many of yrs amicably        
to treat in London ye Composure of yt Affaire is since gone to Winchestr        
as likewise ye Spanish Ambassadour to sollisit assistance The ffrench           
being in all yr Dominions and have drove away above 30000 head of Cattle        
but as yet attaque noe walled Towne                                             
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